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I'm starting to think that Pocket Dragoon tazing Dear Leader in every mission is actually a secret plot to usurp his position as commander of XCOM, also are the aliens Weeabos or why the fuck are they going back to fucking japan?
Let's Sperg Let's Play XCOM Terror From The Deep (Completed) - This is gonna hurt
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Well feel free to throw me back in if you need more names, at least I got to bathe the aliens with my gibs this time
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I want in the name pool, The way to beat X-com in my experience is wave tactics and overwhelming numbers
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My new me's MC Strength is 82! I might not be so useless after all.
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I died as I lived, screaming and being a hindrance to the mission.
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And with at least one alien probe up your ass.
one of those recruits who hasn’t discovered his true name yet is at a whopping 98 MC. That’s insane.
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Once you get a strength over about 70 or so the details kind of stop mattering, and of course even someone with a full 100 can still be panicked or mind controlled if their morale takes a dive from a bunch of their buddies getting killed or if they're wounded in battle.
Also lol at @tuscangarder having almost perfect psionic strength. The Shark Trip recruits will not recieve proper names because I only expect them to engage in combat once if they ever do at all. The defense force at the second base in the previous thread didn't see any action either.
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I'm sure i'll get cloned sooner or later! I need my revenge against these delicious non-clam bastards!
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Fuck, I'm a lady now?
Now the tentacle boys are gonna focus on me!
Now the tentacle boys are gonna focus on me!
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11. Slow and Steady
Let's get this shit over with.
At no point does it occur to me in setting up this mission that I may be trying to experiment with too many new things at once. One of my marines is carrying a Blaster Bomb and therefore useless for general combat, two of my marines are carrying the new and barely tested MC Disruptor and also too important to send to do gruntwork anyway, and a whopping eight of my marines have been replaced with a pair of flimsy drones.
The torpedoes on the Coelacanth are predictably almost useless against armored targets such as Tasoths.
Pocket Dragoon can only use his MC Disruptor twice per turn instead of Dear Leader's three, but he seems to have better luck with the device as he scores his first alien mind control only a few turns in. Not too bad for a weapon he's using for the first time.
Its becoming rather abundantly clear to me at this point that the Coelacanths are practically useless. It takes two torpedoes at best to take down a Tasoth, and not every shot is accurate either. Unless I get some boots on the seafloor fast they'll both be out of ammo and therefore useless before I can even get to the next stage!
Things quickly devolve, as they tend to do in this game, into a grenade juggling match. A Tasoth that panicked and dropped his weapon grows a new set of balls by the next turn and rams a grenade right down the first Coelacanth's throat.
That's one drone down already. Dear Leader and Pocket Dragoon tell Considered HARMful and Furture Phyiscal Violence to get out there and earn their ranks, which they reluctantly do. The Coelacanth may look impressive but in reality its a fragile piece of junk so the pair are basically operating on their own with no backup. Also despite the number of panicking Tasoths neither Dear Leader or Pocket Dragoon can get another mind control off.
Considered HARMful is a solid trooper through and through and Future Physical Violence is a natural so they make a pretty good team, especially once I order the Coelacanth to pull back so I can conserve its ammo.
ChucklesTheMummer is forced to back up the pair when they end up spread too thin. These stage one maps are relatively small but there's only so much ground two people can handle.
Then, just as it appears victory is at hand, @Future Physical Violence is shot and killed by a lone Tasoth.
The same Tasoth also manages to hunt down @ChucklesTheJester and kill him as well. Considered HARMful outflanks the enemy on his own with no backup and avenges his fellow officers.
It was the last enemy too! God damnit.
We don't even have enough troops to block up the second lift. Its basically Willy and HARMful on their own since Dear Leader, Pocket Dragoon and the stupid Coelacanth are at the other lift. Dragoon manages to get a lucky mind control on a random Tasoth, but there's not a whole lot I can do with it other than scout around.
No less than three Tentaculats come out of the woodwork and swarm around our scout, who is rather messily torn apart.
Well shit, you don't think I'm going to pass up an opportunity like that do you?
The casualties I hear amongst the death cries are at least one Tasoth (their cries tend to blend into each other so its hard to tell if you've killed more than one at once), one Aquatoid and all three Tentaculats.
I decide to try a trick from ye olden days of XCOM. All explosives deal splash damage, and because of the way floors work in this game even a tough floor may not absorb an explosion all the way. The control room has the Synomium Device placed in an area that overhangs the citadel-like hallway surrounding it, which means you can fire a DPL around the staircase and up into the floor directly beneath where the Synomium Device is located. This takes some patience as you have to seek using the target box and look for the little animation in the silhouette, which is a massive pain in the ass.
Of course I can't just simply fire the DPL up through the lift, because Terror From the Deep has two kinds of lifts. Square ones that function like the grav lifts in the previous games, and circular portal-like ones that block sight, projectiles and DPL bombs. Because fuck you, player.
Torpedo away. Its a hit on almost the precise spot, but the Synomium Device isn't taken out. I hear a bunch of Aquatoid death cries and two more Tentaculats go though, so it definitely did some damage. I weight the option of wasting one of the few torpedoes I have left on trying again, but I decide I'm probably better off if I wait and use them to take out any aliens between the Coelacanth and the control room.
Its quite literally all up to considered HARMful now. He's the only marine left on the ground, the Coelacanth is nearly dry on ammo, and Willy has at best two more torpedoes. My plan is to clear a path to the control room and have HARMful make a flat suicide run to it. Fuck it, anything is worth getting this mission over with. There are always more recruits.
I fire blind at a hallway HARMful glimpsed a Tentaculat going into. It kills it and an Aquatoid that was apparently hiding with it. I can't bomb the staircase directly as the stairs can actually be destroyed, making the fucking mission unwinnable unless you have flying suits. This fucking game.
Even worse is the news that all of the equipment has vanished for some reason, so Willy has exactly one more torpedo left before he's out and HARMful is on his own on the ground with no support except for the flimsy robot.
HARMful invokes the spirit of Peasant and makes a mad dash for the control room, encounting only a lone Aquatoid on his way. The Coelacanth has like two shots left and one hit on its armor already. I have it hang back to keep an escape route for HARMful clear if he's somehow lucky enough not to get tentacle raped.
The grenade throw goes off without a hitch, and HARMful is already out of the elevator and down the stairs before it even goes off. You can see in the second screenshot that the DPL hit did damage the floors heavily, so its possible a second torpedo might have been all we needed. At least this way we can be sure though.
Great, let's get the Hell out of here.
Considered HARMful and event the Coelacanth make it back to the retreat zone without even spotting an alien. Considering how utterly we massacred them I suppose that's not as surprising as I thought it would be. Irritatingly if you leave a drone behind the game apparently does count it as if you left a marine behind and penalizes harshly for it, which makes utterly no sense. These things are completely useless.
With two of our Lieutenants dead Hiram and NerdShamer are promoted up to replace them.
We find another Alien Colony, though oddly enough not where all of those supply ships have been landing. Instead its more out near Hawaii. Research completes on the flying suit, but right now we don't have the spare funds to begin manufacturing them even though we have an abundance of resources.
At the moment we should concentrate on these smaller mission so Dear Leader and Dragoon can train up their psionic skills.
Which means this update is about to get more than a little samey.
Dragoon seems to be a natural at using psionics. Though he still lacks the Time Unit pool to do three attacks in one turn.
The team proves irritatingly unable to land even a single hit on this lone enemy.
Fuck it.
Aaand of course the damn thing is still alive.
Another one hiding in the sand drifts somewhere manages to snipe @NerdShamer .
We do manage to retaliate though, finally our troops can actually hit something.
During the firefight @Pissmaster is picked off. Most of our boots on the seafloor right now have high ranks but an acute lack of experience.
@R00T is killed attempting to advance on the USO.
Some of the new recruits move up to deal with the last Lobsterman.
The loss of three troops no matter how inexperienced shows that psionics are not a silver bullet at the moment. Not only do we only have two marines capable of using them right now, they are untrained and its harder to score a mind control on the enemy in this game.
Research completes on the PWT craft weapon, which is useless for our purposes but will lead to the powerful PWT defenses that we'll have to build in order to keep the bases from getting constantly raided.
It looks like the Lobstermen are still intent on infiltrating Japan. We down two of their escorts in short succession.
Hopefully I'll be less careless this time.
Things start off normal.
This time I have the rookies keep their distance and just chip away at the enemy. Advancing too fast was almost undoubtedly the problem last time.
This strategy makes for a rather unexciting battle though, particularly against Lobstermen.
@Jordi El Nino Polla is ambushed by a Lobsterman suicide bomber and blown up. Which is a shame, as he was quite a capable marksman for a rookie.
Eventually we hunt the bomber down.
But not before he gets another grenade off, killing @Allakazam223.
The aliens are making us pay for every mission, but if humans are good at anything its winning by attrition.
On to the next meatgrinder.
I'm not thrilled to see a coral reef on a small map but at least it offers us some cover.
So far the only kill we've managed is one enemy and that's because it was mind controlled to get it to stand still. Marines are ordered to kill mind controlled enemies as quickly as they can because our team is not yet strong enough to regain control of an enemy two turns in a row.
A Lobsterman armed with a melee weapon rushes @Considered HARMful and saws him in half despite his reaction fire being on target. Some surprisingly good shooting from rookie A Clockwork Soybean avenges his death.
It seems that with our experienced officers dead its the rookies' time to shine. Soybean gets another kill on a mind controlled Lobsterman while AssManWaitingInTheSkies takes the crashed USO.
The mission ends abruptly when I mind control the last Lobsterman. Our psionic duo is getting better with all of this practice, at least.
Despite shooting down the scouts the Alien Infiltration mission to Japan hasn't been delayed any. You'll notice that despite being a Battleship this vessel isn't Very Large. That's because this ship is more the equivalent of the Terror Ship from the previous game, while this game's Battleship has been renamed to the Dreadnought.
The Battleship's profile somewhat resembles that of the LPL Flying Submarine, a proposed Russian project in WW2 that never went anywhere. With pretty good reason, as it looks quite ridiculous.
Much like last game, the Barracuda is perfectly capable of intercepting and destroying a Battleship when armed with dual Sonic Oscilators.
We also get lucky as the ScubaJace happens to be hovering right over the area where a very fast Fleet Supply Cruiser was planning on landing. We intercept and down that as well. Hopefully that should delay the infiltration of Japan by at least another month.
Next Time: Two bigass USO recoveries. Probably new recruits too, I can smell the casualties already.
Let's get this shit over with.
At no point does it occur to me in setting up this mission that I may be trying to experiment with too many new things at once. One of my marines is carrying a Blaster Bomb and therefore useless for general combat, two of my marines are carrying the new and barely tested MC Disruptor and also too important to send to do gruntwork anyway, and a whopping eight of my marines have been replaced with a pair of flimsy drones.
The torpedoes on the Coelacanth are predictably almost useless against armored targets such as Tasoths.
Pocket Dragoon can only use his MC Disruptor twice per turn instead of Dear Leader's three, but he seems to have better luck with the device as he scores his first alien mind control only a few turns in. Not too bad for a weapon he's using for the first time.
Its becoming rather abundantly clear to me at this point that the Coelacanths are practically useless. It takes two torpedoes at best to take down a Tasoth, and not every shot is accurate either. Unless I get some boots on the seafloor fast they'll both be out of ammo and therefore useless before I can even get to the next stage!
Things quickly devolve, as they tend to do in this game, into a grenade juggling match. A Tasoth that panicked and dropped his weapon grows a new set of balls by the next turn and rams a grenade right down the first Coelacanth's throat.
That's one drone down already. Dear Leader and Pocket Dragoon tell Considered HARMful and Furture Phyiscal Violence to get out there and earn their ranks, which they reluctantly do. The Coelacanth may look impressive but in reality its a fragile piece of junk so the pair are basically operating on their own with no backup. Also despite the number of panicking Tasoths neither Dear Leader or Pocket Dragoon can get another mind control off.
Considered HARMful is a solid trooper through and through and Future Physical Violence is a natural so they make a pretty good team, especially once I order the Coelacanth to pull back so I can conserve its ammo.
ChucklesTheMummer is forced to back up the pair when they end up spread too thin. These stage one maps are relatively small but there's only so much ground two people can handle.
Then, just as it appears victory is at hand, @Future Physical Violence is shot and killed by a lone Tasoth.
The same Tasoth also manages to hunt down @ChucklesTheJester and kill him as well. Considered HARMful outflanks the enemy on his own with no backup and avenges his fellow officers.
It was the last enemy too! God damnit.
We don't even have enough troops to block up the second lift. Its basically Willy and HARMful on their own since Dear Leader, Pocket Dragoon and the stupid Coelacanth are at the other lift. Dragoon manages to get a lucky mind control on a random Tasoth, but there's not a whole lot I can do with it other than scout around.
No less than three Tentaculats come out of the woodwork and swarm around our scout, who is rather messily torn apart.
Well shit, you don't think I'm going to pass up an opportunity like that do you?
The casualties I hear amongst the death cries are at least one Tasoth (their cries tend to blend into each other so its hard to tell if you've killed more than one at once), one Aquatoid and all three Tentaculats.
I decide to try a trick from ye olden days of XCOM. All explosives deal splash damage, and because of the way floors work in this game even a tough floor may not absorb an explosion all the way. The control room has the Synomium Device placed in an area that overhangs the citadel-like hallway surrounding it, which means you can fire a DPL around the staircase and up into the floor directly beneath where the Synomium Device is located. This takes some patience as you have to seek using the target box and look for the little animation in the silhouette, which is a massive pain in the ass.
Of course I can't just simply fire the DPL up through the lift, because Terror From the Deep has two kinds of lifts. Square ones that function like the grav lifts in the previous games, and circular portal-like ones that block sight, projectiles and DPL bombs. Because fuck you, player.
Torpedo away. Its a hit on almost the precise spot, but the Synomium Device isn't taken out. I hear a bunch of Aquatoid death cries and two more Tentaculats go though, so it definitely did some damage. I weight the option of wasting one of the few torpedoes I have left on trying again, but I decide I'm probably better off if I wait and use them to take out any aliens between the Coelacanth and the control room.
Its quite literally all up to considered HARMful now. He's the only marine left on the ground, the Coelacanth is nearly dry on ammo, and Willy has at best two more torpedoes. My plan is to clear a path to the control room and have HARMful make a flat suicide run to it. Fuck it, anything is worth getting this mission over with. There are always more recruits.
I fire blind at a hallway HARMful glimpsed a Tentaculat going into. It kills it and an Aquatoid that was apparently hiding with it. I can't bomb the staircase directly as the stairs can actually be destroyed, making the fucking mission unwinnable unless you have flying suits. This fucking game.
Even worse is the news that all of the equipment has vanished for some reason, so Willy has exactly one more torpedo left before he's out and HARMful is on his own on the ground with no support except for the flimsy robot.
HARMful invokes the spirit of Peasant and makes a mad dash for the control room, encounting only a lone Aquatoid on his way. The Coelacanth has like two shots left and one hit on its armor already. I have it hang back to keep an escape route for HARMful clear if he's somehow lucky enough not to get tentacle raped.
The grenade throw goes off without a hitch, and HARMful is already out of the elevator and down the stairs before it even goes off. You can see in the second screenshot that the DPL hit did damage the floors heavily, so its possible a second torpedo might have been all we needed. At least this way we can be sure though.
Great, let's get the Hell out of here.
Considered HARMful and event the Coelacanth make it back to the retreat zone without even spotting an alien. Considering how utterly we massacred them I suppose that's not as surprising as I thought it would be. Irritatingly if you leave a drone behind the game apparently does count it as if you left a marine behind and penalizes harshly for it, which makes utterly no sense. These things are completely useless.
With two of our Lieutenants dead Hiram and NerdShamer are promoted up to replace them.
We find another Alien Colony, though oddly enough not where all of those supply ships have been landing. Instead its more out near Hawaii. Research completes on the flying suit, but right now we don't have the spare funds to begin manufacturing them even though we have an abundance of resources.
At the moment we should concentrate on these smaller mission so Dear Leader and Dragoon can train up their psionic skills.
Which means this update is about to get more than a little samey.
Dragoon seems to be a natural at using psionics. Though he still lacks the Time Unit pool to do three attacks in one turn.
The team proves irritatingly unable to land even a single hit on this lone enemy.
Fuck it.
Aaand of course the damn thing is still alive.
Another one hiding in the sand drifts somewhere manages to snipe @NerdShamer .
We do manage to retaliate though, finally our troops can actually hit something.
During the firefight @Pissmaster is picked off. Most of our boots on the seafloor right now have high ranks but an acute lack of experience.
@R00T is killed attempting to advance on the USO.
Some of the new recruits move up to deal with the last Lobsterman.
The loss of three troops no matter how inexperienced shows that psionics are not a silver bullet at the moment. Not only do we only have two marines capable of using them right now, they are untrained and its harder to score a mind control on the enemy in this game.
Research completes on the PWT craft weapon, which is useless for our purposes but will lead to the powerful PWT defenses that we'll have to build in order to keep the bases from getting constantly raided.
It looks like the Lobstermen are still intent on infiltrating Japan. We down two of their escorts in short succession.
Hopefully I'll be less careless this time.
Things start off normal.
This time I have the rookies keep their distance and just chip away at the enemy. Advancing too fast was almost undoubtedly the problem last time.
This strategy makes for a rather unexciting battle though, particularly against Lobstermen.
@Jordi El Nino Polla is ambushed by a Lobsterman suicide bomber and blown up. Which is a shame, as he was quite a capable marksman for a rookie.
Eventually we hunt the bomber down.
But not before he gets another grenade off, killing @Allakazam223.
The aliens are making us pay for every mission, but if humans are good at anything its winning by attrition.
On to the next meatgrinder.
I'm not thrilled to see a coral reef on a small map but at least it offers us some cover.
So far the only kill we've managed is one enemy and that's because it was mind controlled to get it to stand still. Marines are ordered to kill mind controlled enemies as quickly as they can because our team is not yet strong enough to regain control of an enemy two turns in a row.
A Lobsterman armed with a melee weapon rushes @Considered HARMful and saws him in half despite his reaction fire being on target. Some surprisingly good shooting from rookie A Clockwork Soybean avenges his death.
It seems that with our experienced officers dead its the rookies' time to shine. Soybean gets another kill on a mind controlled Lobsterman while AssManWaitingInTheSkies takes the crashed USO.
The mission ends abruptly when I mind control the last Lobsterman. Our psionic duo is getting better with all of this practice, at least.
Despite shooting down the scouts the Alien Infiltration mission to Japan hasn't been delayed any. You'll notice that despite being a Battleship this vessel isn't Very Large. That's because this ship is more the equivalent of the Terror Ship from the previous game, while this game's Battleship has been renamed to the Dreadnought.
The Battleship's profile somewhat resembles that of the LPL Flying Submarine, a proposed Russian project in WW2 that never went anywhere. With pretty good reason, as it looks quite ridiculous.
Much like last game, the Barracuda is perfectly capable of intercepting and destroying a Battleship when armed with dual Sonic Oscilators.
We also get lucky as the ScubaJace happens to be hovering right over the area where a very fast Fleet Supply Cruiser was planning on landing. We intercept and down that as well. Hopefully that should delay the infiltration of Japan by at least another month.
Next Time: Two bigass USO recoveries. Probably new recruits too, I can smell the casualties already.
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>update is called slow and steady
>still die.
I wasn’t made for war. Maybe my cousin St3m would do better.
>still die.
I wasn’t made for war. Maybe my cousin St3m would do better.
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The Coelacanth has always been shit, yeah. I've had good luck with the Gauss version and the Sonic Displacer, though. Sure, they aren't full of AOE "fuck you and everybody around you", but they have a punchy gun, can snapshot three times in a turn, and the displacer in particular is great at drawing fire and drawing aliens out in the open.
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Killed like a horror movie character. Well always next time
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I'm assuming that to gain stats after a mission, you need to kill an enemy. which means so far for the two missions i've been on, I've not been putting my throwing skills to much effective use.
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Techinically all you need to do in order to gain stats is move around, pick things up, throw grenades, and generally get the computer to believe the soldier is actually doing something. Taking shots at the enemy gives the largest stat gains, regardless of whether or not you score a kill.
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'Twas the second time I was eviscerated by an oversided lobster.
@L50LasPak
If you happen to run out of cannon fodder, put my disgraced cousin - Considered COMEFROM - to the service. He's a retarded shithead though, so maybe he should just mop (ocean) floors.
@L50LasPak
If you happen to run out of cannon fodder, put my disgraced cousin - Considered COMEFROM - to the service. He's a retarded shithead though, so maybe he should just mop (ocean) floors.
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12. A Harsh Mistress
We'll take on the Battleship first. I noticed that both Willy and Hiram have completed the first round of psionic training, so I immediately have them taken off grunt duty and issued MC Disruptors. The entire command staff is transfered to the rear of the Triton where they can hone their psionic skills with minimal threat to their lives. The newly promoted Johan Schmidt is issued the DPL.
Well that's a hell of a lot of enemies.
We may have four troops using psionics but with the possible exception of Dragoon they are all amateurs. Willy and Hiram are still incapable of launching more than two attacks per turn. Thus we still need to rely on explosives to deal with large groups of enemies.
It seems like almost every time Dragoon makes a psionic attack I'm bound to get a successful mind control. I'm not really sure why this is, Dear Leader and Dragoon should hypothetically have the same psionic training and practice. Perhaps getting a few early successes is all it takes to leap ahead.
That first assault has their defensive lines in disarray. I don't think they were expecting to be disrupted so violently right out of the gate.
A Clockwork Soybean is one of our star rookies. Excellent throwing accuracy, excellent marksmanship, and even impressive reaction fire such as what you see here.
Two mind controls later...
Rookie RSU 1741 adavances in preparation to breach the USO. Two grenades go off inside, splattering the Tentaculat waiting above the doorway and killing one of the Lobstermen who threw it.
Shit, have we seen Lobstermen panic yet in this game?
A Tentaculat gets the drop on @RSU 1741 before he can actually set foot inside the USO.
I have wtfNeedSignUp burst the zombie and then somewhat recklessly fire on the two Tentaculats with a DPL. The blast is so powerful it kills @wtfNeedSignUp along with them. In retrospect I should have just used a regular Sonic Pulser.
The last Lobsterman is mind controlled after a short firefight.
Overall, could have gone worse. Our psionics allowed us to spot most of the Tentaculats early and take them down before they became a serious problem.
The team is ready to rock and roll again in short order.
Looks like we're right on top of them this time.
Already three Lobstermen have taken cover in this patch of coral which I have utterly no time for.
A mix of psionic attacks and some impressive marksmanship from A-Z0-9 and Disc clear out two of them. The third is left wounded and vanishes into the silt. I figure it will bleed out or be mopped up by my advance.
A Clockwork Soybean and Rack of CDs make short work of a Lobsterman that walks out the main doors, with reaction fire no less.
We're not the only ones with a DPL launcher though. @A-Z0-9 is obliterated by a direct DPL hit.
While I'm distracted looking for the DPL Lobsterman to the north, the survivor from the coral patch turns out to still be alive. It opens the door to the Triton and blasts @AssManWaitingInTheSkies before quickly being shot to pieces by the rest of the submarine. Somehow nobody hits anyone else with reaction fire.
I make an attempt to get rid of this Lobsterman with a stun launcher by having him bomb an oil pipeline he's standing next to. The explosions not only fail to kill him, but also shroud him in a cloud of silt allowing him to slink off.
I take a chance and have Disc climb on to a hill so he can get a look at the roof. Sure enough there's a Lobsterman armed with a DPL launcher up there. I have HiramTheGrift seize control of it.
I proceed to waste all of the Lobsterman's ammo bombing the top deck over the next three turns.
After disposing of the DPL Lobsterman I get tangled up in a battle between three Lobstermen in various hard to reach locations that I keep mind controlling intermittently.
The Lobsterman Squad Leader from earlier reappears and stuns one of his mind controlled comrades. Then the next turn stuns himself trying to shoot at another one.
What these screenshots don't show you is me wasting about five turns waiting for these two dipshits to finally score a hit on each other so I can kill the winner.
The last enemy is found hiding in a corner on the decimated third floor. Its mind controlled without incident.
A bunch of the rookies get promoted, while the new golden boy A Clockwork Soybean rises to the rank of Lieutenant.
After selling off a bunch of shit I finally have the cash to invest in equipping Shark Trip with a Transmission Resolver.
We continue chipping away at the research for the Ultimate Craft.
Another round of new recruits arrive as well.
Newcomers: @StraightShooter2, @Neo-Holstien
Clones/Resurrections: @Thomas Highway, @Plant Aqua Mammal @Just_Somebody, @L50LasPak, @Mary the Goldsmith, @Kane Lives, @LullerDerbyRollin, @Forever Sunrise
Shit, the Dreadnought headed for Japan appears on our scope but we lose it before anything can intercept. XCOM has almost certainly lost Japan.
Or not. It turns out the aliens weren't targeting Japan at all, and have instead infiltrated the minor funding naiton of Federated Korea. For some reason the state of New Mexico is particularly unhappy with us this month, even though all of the other countries in its zone are increasing our funding.
Another Alien Colony is added to our pile of shit to deal with.
Research on the Pulse Wave defenses complete and I order construction of three of them at Vulcania, the most we can afford without breaking the bank right now.
Ugh.
Hopefully with our abundance of psionics this battle will go a bit better than last time.
In the original XCOM, psioncs feel insanely broken once you train a squad up to full strength with them. Particularly if you don't have the restraint I did and train up 8-10 psionic soldiers. In Terror From The Deep, psionics merely feel like you're finally leveling the playing field against the enemy's bullshit.
Few things in life as a satisfying as watching these annoying fucks kill each other.
The next 15 or so screenshots in my folder are alien panic messages, no exaggeration.
At this point the battle is just a matter of mopping up.
Out of nowhere, @Rack Of CDs is killed by a Sonic Pulser, no doubt thrown by a Tasoth that dropped its weapon earlier. I'm forced to send our more troops to resweep the battlefield.
I left @Penne Dreadful outside the Triton to keep watch, thinking it was mostly safe, but that turned out to be a bad idea.
Another alien grenade claims @Disc.
A bunch more aliens get blown up.
Just when I think I've gotten the last of the Tasoths, a sharpshooter picks off @A Clockwork Soybean from beyond visual range.
About five more turns of almost nothing happening follow as I track down the last two random aliens remaining on the map.
Thank god this is almost over.
I don't even have the troops I need to keep the lifts protected, but psionics help me fill in the gaps in my defenses.
We're able to pick off most of the enemies but this Tentaculat in one of these corner areas gives us some trouble.
Its overkill but the only way to be sure. The DPL takes out the alien, but in a stunning turn of bullshit kills @Overcast along with it. The silt from the explosion doesn't even spread anywhere near where Overcast is standing! Also for some reason Ample Apricots who was right next to him isn't harmed at all.
Super Sad Smile is ordered to form a team with an alien of all things, mind controlled by the rest of the team. In retrospect I should have sent a second marine along, but there just weren't anymore to spare that close by at the moment. I expected the Tasoth to be killed on the way there anyway.
Super Sad Smile makes it to the control room with his odd bodyguard.
Now that we've taken care of that, we can get the fuck out of this shithole.
For some reason this Tasoth completely defies convention when it doesn't panic after the lull in mind controls. Instead it gets reaction fire and ambushes @Super Sad Smile before he can make it down the stairs.
Whatever, I don't care anymore.
This stupid mission literally cost us every promising new recruit we'd built up over the last three missions. The ocean is a harsh mistress indeed.
Next time: More of the same I expect. Probably another round of recruits at this rate.
We'll take on the Battleship first. I noticed that both Willy and Hiram have completed the first round of psionic training, so I immediately have them taken off grunt duty and issued MC Disruptors. The entire command staff is transfered to the rear of the Triton where they can hone their psionic skills with minimal threat to their lives. The newly promoted Johan Schmidt is issued the DPL.
Well that's a hell of a lot of enemies.
We may have four troops using psionics but with the possible exception of Dragoon they are all amateurs. Willy and Hiram are still incapable of launching more than two attacks per turn. Thus we still need to rely on explosives to deal with large groups of enemies.
It seems like almost every time Dragoon makes a psionic attack I'm bound to get a successful mind control. I'm not really sure why this is, Dear Leader and Dragoon should hypothetically have the same psionic training and practice. Perhaps getting a few early successes is all it takes to leap ahead.
That first assault has their defensive lines in disarray. I don't think they were expecting to be disrupted so violently right out of the gate.
A Clockwork Soybean is one of our star rookies. Excellent throwing accuracy, excellent marksmanship, and even impressive reaction fire such as what you see here.
Two mind controls later...
Rookie RSU 1741 adavances in preparation to breach the USO. Two grenades go off inside, splattering the Tentaculat waiting above the doorway and killing one of the Lobstermen who threw it.
Shit, have we seen Lobstermen panic yet in this game?
A Tentaculat gets the drop on @RSU 1741 before he can actually set foot inside the USO.
I have wtfNeedSignUp burst the zombie and then somewhat recklessly fire on the two Tentaculats with a DPL. The blast is so powerful it kills @wtfNeedSignUp along with them. In retrospect I should have just used a regular Sonic Pulser.
The last Lobsterman is mind controlled after a short firefight.
Overall, could have gone worse. Our psionics allowed us to spot most of the Tentaculats early and take them down before they became a serious problem.
The team is ready to rock and roll again in short order.
Looks like we're right on top of them this time.
Already three Lobstermen have taken cover in this patch of coral which I have utterly no time for.
A mix of psionic attacks and some impressive marksmanship from A-Z0-9 and Disc clear out two of them. The third is left wounded and vanishes into the silt. I figure it will bleed out or be mopped up by my advance.
A Clockwork Soybean and Rack of CDs make short work of a Lobsterman that walks out the main doors, with reaction fire no less.
We're not the only ones with a DPL launcher though. @A-Z0-9 is obliterated by a direct DPL hit.
While I'm distracted looking for the DPL Lobsterman to the north, the survivor from the coral patch turns out to still be alive. It opens the door to the Triton and blasts @AssManWaitingInTheSkies before quickly being shot to pieces by the rest of the submarine. Somehow nobody hits anyone else with reaction fire.
I make an attempt to get rid of this Lobsterman with a stun launcher by having him bomb an oil pipeline he's standing next to. The explosions not only fail to kill him, but also shroud him in a cloud of silt allowing him to slink off.
I take a chance and have Disc climb on to a hill so he can get a look at the roof. Sure enough there's a Lobsterman armed with a DPL launcher up there. I have HiramTheGrift seize control of it.
I proceed to waste all of the Lobsterman's ammo bombing the top deck over the next three turns.
After disposing of the DPL Lobsterman I get tangled up in a battle between three Lobstermen in various hard to reach locations that I keep mind controlling intermittently.
The Lobsterman Squad Leader from earlier reappears and stuns one of his mind controlled comrades. Then the next turn stuns himself trying to shoot at another one.
What these screenshots don't show you is me wasting about five turns waiting for these two dipshits to finally score a hit on each other so I can kill the winner.
The last enemy is found hiding in a corner on the decimated third floor. Its mind controlled without incident.
A bunch of the rookies get promoted, while the new golden boy A Clockwork Soybean rises to the rank of Lieutenant.
After selling off a bunch of shit I finally have the cash to invest in equipping Shark Trip with a Transmission Resolver.
We continue chipping away at the research for the Ultimate Craft.
Another round of new recruits arrive as well.
Newcomers: @StraightShooter2, @Neo-Holstien
Clones/Resurrections: @Thomas Highway, @Plant Aqua Mammal @Just_Somebody, @L50LasPak, @Mary the Goldsmith, @Kane Lives, @LullerDerbyRollin, @Forever Sunrise
Shit, the Dreadnought headed for Japan appears on our scope but we lose it before anything can intercept. XCOM has almost certainly lost Japan.
Or not. It turns out the aliens weren't targeting Japan at all, and have instead infiltrated the minor funding naiton of Federated Korea. For some reason the state of New Mexico is particularly unhappy with us this month, even though all of the other countries in its zone are increasing our funding.
Another Alien Colony is added to our pile of shit to deal with.
Research on the Pulse Wave defenses complete and I order construction of three of them at Vulcania, the most we can afford without breaking the bank right now.
Ugh.
Hopefully with our abundance of psionics this battle will go a bit better than last time.
In the original XCOM, psioncs feel insanely broken once you train a squad up to full strength with them. Particularly if you don't have the restraint I did and train up 8-10 psionic soldiers. In Terror From The Deep, psionics merely feel like you're finally leveling the playing field against the enemy's bullshit.
Few things in life as a satisfying as watching these annoying fucks kill each other.
The next 15 or so screenshots in my folder are alien panic messages, no exaggeration.
At this point the battle is just a matter of mopping up.
Out of nowhere, @Rack Of CDs is killed by a Sonic Pulser, no doubt thrown by a Tasoth that dropped its weapon earlier. I'm forced to send our more troops to resweep the battlefield.
I left @Penne Dreadful outside the Triton to keep watch, thinking it was mostly safe, but that turned out to be a bad idea.
Another alien grenade claims @Disc.
A bunch more aliens get blown up.
Just when I think I've gotten the last of the Tasoths, a sharpshooter picks off @A Clockwork Soybean from beyond visual range.
About five more turns of almost nothing happening follow as I track down the last two random aliens remaining on the map.
Thank god this is almost over.
I don't even have the troops I need to keep the lifts protected, but psionics help me fill in the gaps in my defenses.
We're able to pick off most of the enemies but this Tentaculat in one of these corner areas gives us some trouble.
Its overkill but the only way to be sure. The DPL takes out the alien, but in a stunning turn of bullshit kills @Overcast along with it. The silt from the explosion doesn't even spread anywhere near where Overcast is standing! Also for some reason Ample Apricots who was right next to him isn't harmed at all.
Super Sad Smile is ordered to form a team with an alien of all things, mind controlled by the rest of the team. In retrospect I should have sent a second marine along, but there just weren't anymore to spare that close by at the moment. I expected the Tasoth to be killed on the way there anyway.
Super Sad Smile makes it to the control room with his odd bodyguard.
Now that we've taken care of that, we can get the fuck out of this shithole.
For some reason this Tasoth completely defies convention when it doesn't panic after the lull in mind controls. Instead it gets reaction fire and ambushes @Super Sad Smile before he can make it down the stairs.
Whatever, I don't care anymore.
This stupid mission literally cost us every promising new recruit we'd built up over the last three missions. The ocean is a harsh mistress indeed.
Next time: More of the same I expect. Probably another round of recruits at this rate.
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And I was just going to write a smug comment about how I wasn't doing so bad after all. That'll teach me to get overconfident.