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I'm on a steady diet of Maine lobster and UltraMale Vitality, those lobstermen don't stand a chance.
Let's Sperg Let's Play XCOM Terror From The Deep (Completed) - This is gonna hurt
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Fill me up, fren.
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I don't think last meals & "supplements" are present in recombinated extrusions; the abuse potential would be catastrophic.
It's a lot easier to administer corrective training in the field, when those in need of it volunteer.
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You do realize that's what they want you to think? Considering that they didn't develop ninja decapitation powers until now?
You're next on their snipping list.
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Neo-Schleswig will make the ultimate sacrifice
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I was going to suggest the route of naming yourself Neo-New Schleswig if you get cloned, it worked in Yugioh.
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noice Neo-New Schleswig it is
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Apoc is the perfect game for RP mode tbh. No Toxin C, no dual wielding disruptors and the game actually poses something of a challenge.
Sometimes.
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15. The Stars Are Right
It seems these days one can never be too superstitious. It is the impression of even the most rational of XCOM's staff, that the stars are almost right, and something terrible will befall the world soon.
Dear Leader, Pocket Dragoon and Willy confer over stacks of battle reports mixed haphazardly with copies of ancient texts and works once thought blasphemous or outright fictional. If the science team can't make sense of this shit, what chance do they have?
Getting your lobster boiled, how they say, Texas Style, will make you say a lot of weird things, but the black speech that the translator spit out after the Lobsterman started babbling still needs to be decoded. The entire science staff complains of sleepless nights and waking nightmares when they nod off. The base is mostly a collection of lexorin junkies at this point. Even Command's booze cabinent is starting to run a bit dry. The science team says they need only one more step though.
Deep in the bowels of Vulcania the Technicians still work feverishly on the hull of the Leviathan. It ain't gonna be pretty, but it will get XCOM to the deepest part of the ocean. Nobody thinks to ask them about getting back though, so its unclear if they've built it with that in mind or not.
The ScubaJace and ScubaTyce pilots still find mild distraction. But even alien activity has decreased somewhat recently, at least where we can see it.
Might as well give the rookies something to do.
Ah, this is a nice surprise. Another terrain type: Volcanic. Realistically speaking being this close to an underwater magma vent would instantly cook you alive even if it didn't melt your suit, but hey it looks pretty at least.
Mostly just a bunch of wandering around and mind controlling enemies. Willy is still out of commission but Hiram and Dear Leader are more than capable of taking up the slack at this point.
Everybody can't help but feel time is running out.
This is it, we have the location of an alien city, in the Sigsbee Deep, Gulf of Mexico, some 14,000 meters below the surface. This is only a stone's throw from the massive Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico, where the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is said to have struck. We now know the truth, that it was T'leth that struck our planet rather than a random meteor. And that apparently it bounced.
A supreme being lying asleep in an underwater city, and when he awakes the world will be terrible? Where have I heard this story before?
Final research is divided between the various live aliens and alien corpses we still have, just for the hell of it.
Command agrees with the officers that the recruits should be given some busywork while we await the completion of the Leviathan. A Hunter class USO is shot down in the North Pacific, it will be XCOMs next target.
Hunters were the craft with the small entryway I thought were Fleet Supply Cruisers earlier, if you recall.
Well that's entertaining. We don't even do anything on the first turn and a Tasoth loses it and nukes his buddy. Even the aliens seem to be living in fear of what's coming next for this planet.
Getting to the submarine is uneventful, but when we actually get there its a different story. Gezkill is immediately mind controlled and runs out the door. I think I've forgotten to mention this entire time that you can't use psonics to take control of your own troops back in either game. LullerDerbyRollin is ordered to try and stay inside the Hunter and wait out Gezkill's mind control rather than try to taze him and risk getting shot.
I figure that's the end of it when we take over a Tasoth Squad Leader hiding on the upper level. I have it kill its buddy and then let LullerDerby waste it.
Seems I spoke too soon though, and Gezkill is controlled by another Squad Leader. He bombs @LullerDerbyRollin in the back.
@Gezkill is understandably horrified when he comes back to himself, and runs screaming into the ship where he's shot and killed by the very same alien that had taken him over moments ago.
Fougaro is sent up to find Gezkill's killer and manages to find the alien crouched on the very edge of the outside of the USO, where Gezkill couldn't see it. In the process of mind controlling it we detect one more alien outside which also falls quickly to mind control.
Disturbingly, the two aliens we take into custody seem to be almost passive, as if they are fine with being sheltered in XCOM's containment cells.
More target practice while we wait for the damn Leviathan to finish up.
Some random research completes in the mean time.
Finally. The sub isn't quite ready to go right away though, a few Medikits need to be manufactured first, some tazers need to be ordered, and Dear Leader agrees to wait a week or so for TerribleIdeasTM's psionic training to complete since he's otherwise so close to being able to use an MC Disruptor.
USO activity is almost at a standstill. The aliens might be preparing a retaliation. Or worse.
Some more miscellaneous research completes. The Gillman is of course a reference to the Creature From The Black Lagoon.
Oddly enough, after the two deaths we had on the preivous mission we have exactly 26 marines to fill the Leviathan to capacity. I had ordered ten more but not named them yet. Thus, there will be no last call for marine names, as we have all that we need already. The final loadout will be at the end of this update.
If you missed out, once again, have faith that this won't be the last XCOM LP I do.
More research. Note the Tentaculat's entry actually uses the word "Lovecraftian" to describe it.
The month has to end before TerribleIdeasTM's training can complete. The Council of Funding Nations wishes us luck.
Can't help but feel I'm forgetting something.
Ah yes, I haven't named the Leviathan yet.
Final Loadout:
Next time: The reckoning awaits.
It seems these days one can never be too superstitious. It is the impression of even the most rational of XCOM's staff, that the stars are almost right, and something terrible will befall the world soon.
Dear Leader, Pocket Dragoon and Willy confer over stacks of battle reports mixed haphazardly with copies of ancient texts and works once thought blasphemous or outright fictional. If the science team can't make sense of this shit, what chance do they have?
Getting your lobster boiled, how they say, Texas Style, will make you say a lot of weird things, but the black speech that the translator spit out after the Lobsterman started babbling still needs to be decoded. The entire science staff complains of sleepless nights and waking nightmares when they nod off. The base is mostly a collection of lexorin junkies at this point. Even Command's booze cabinent is starting to run a bit dry. The science team says they need only one more step though.
Deep in the bowels of Vulcania the Technicians still work feverishly on the hull of the Leviathan. It ain't gonna be pretty, but it will get XCOM to the deepest part of the ocean. Nobody thinks to ask them about getting back though, so its unclear if they've built it with that in mind or not.
The ScubaJace and ScubaTyce pilots still find mild distraction. But even alien activity has decreased somewhat recently, at least where we can see it.
Might as well give the rookies something to do.
Ah, this is a nice surprise. Another terrain type: Volcanic. Realistically speaking being this close to an underwater magma vent would instantly cook you alive even if it didn't melt your suit, but hey it looks pretty at least.
Mostly just a bunch of wandering around and mind controlling enemies. Willy is still out of commission but Hiram and Dear Leader are more than capable of taking up the slack at this point.
This is it, we have the location of an alien city, in the Sigsbee Deep, Gulf of Mexico, some 14,000 meters below the surface. This is only a stone's throw from the massive Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico, where the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is said to have struck. We now know the truth, that it was T'leth that struck our planet rather than a random meteor. And that apparently it bounced.
A supreme being lying asleep in an underwater city, and when he awakes the world will be terrible? Where have I heard this story before?
Final research is divided between the various live aliens and alien corpses we still have, just for the hell of it.
Command agrees with the officers that the recruits should be given some busywork while we await the completion of the Leviathan. A Hunter class USO is shot down in the North Pacific, it will be XCOMs next target.
Hunters were the craft with the small entryway I thought were Fleet Supply Cruisers earlier, if you recall.
Well that's entertaining. We don't even do anything on the first turn and a Tasoth loses it and nukes his buddy. Even the aliens seem to be living in fear of what's coming next for this planet.
Getting to the submarine is uneventful, but when we actually get there its a different story. Gezkill is immediately mind controlled and runs out the door. I think I've forgotten to mention this entire time that you can't use psonics to take control of your own troops back in either game. LullerDerbyRollin is ordered to try and stay inside the Hunter and wait out Gezkill's mind control rather than try to taze him and risk getting shot.
I figure that's the end of it when we take over a Tasoth Squad Leader hiding on the upper level. I have it kill its buddy and then let LullerDerby waste it.
Seems I spoke too soon though, and Gezkill is controlled by another Squad Leader. He bombs @LullerDerbyRollin in the back.
@Gezkill is understandably horrified when he comes back to himself, and runs screaming into the ship where he's shot and killed by the very same alien that had taken him over moments ago.
Fougaro is sent up to find Gezkill's killer and manages to find the alien crouched on the very edge of the outside of the USO, where Gezkill couldn't see it. In the process of mind controlling it we detect one more alien outside which also falls quickly to mind control.
Disturbingly, the two aliens we take into custody seem to be almost passive, as if they are fine with being sheltered in XCOM's containment cells.
More target practice while we wait for the damn Leviathan to finish up.
Some random research completes in the mean time.
Finally. The sub isn't quite ready to go right away though, a few Medikits need to be manufactured first, some tazers need to be ordered, and Dear Leader agrees to wait a week or so for TerribleIdeasTM's psionic training to complete since he's otherwise so close to being able to use an MC Disruptor.
USO activity is almost at a standstill. The aliens might be preparing a retaliation. Or worse.
Some more miscellaneous research completes. The Gillman is of course a reference to the Creature From The Black Lagoon.
Oddly enough, after the two deaths we had on the preivous mission we have exactly 26 marines to fill the Leviathan to capacity. I had ordered ten more but not named them yet. Thus, there will be no last call for marine names, as we have all that we need already. The final loadout will be at the end of this update.
If you missed out, once again, have faith that this won't be the last XCOM LP I do.
More research. Note the Tentaculat's entry actually uses the word "Lovecraftian" to describe it.
The month has to end before TerribleIdeasTM's training can complete. The Council of Funding Nations wishes us luck.
Can't help but feel I'm forgetting something.
Ah yes, I haven't named the Leviathan yet.
Final Loadout:
Psionics/Scanner Team:
Captain Dear Leader
Commander Pocket Dragoon
Commander not william stenchever
Lieutenant HiramTheGrift
Lieutenant AwfulConceptsTM (TerribleIdeasTM)
Ordnance Team:
Lieutenant Shady Edea (Dark Edea)
Seaman Friend Computer 002 (friend Computer)
The Farmers:
Seaman Kane Lives A Third Time (Kane Lives)
Seaman Fougaro
Seaman Shadfan777xxx111 (Shadfan666xxx000)
Seaman BerserkWombat (RabidWombat)
Seaman dragggs (draggs)
Seaman RIPRRongoRongo (RIPRhongoBongo)
Seaman Genichiro the 3rd (Genichiro)
Seaman ditdatdotdut (ditdatdot)
Seaman McMitch6kf (McMitch4kf)
Seaman Corn Pops (Corn Flakes)
Seaman Purity of Essence (Precious Bodily Fluids)
Seaman Booble Meng (Mooger Meng)
Seaman Serf (Peasant)
Seaman Some DICK (Some JERK)
Seaman Liechtenstein57 (Swiss46)
Seaman Spookmancer (Niggermancer)
Seaman ChingleChangle (JongleJingle)
Seaman Catgirls are Harmony (Catgirls are Love)
Seaman BeyondtheBareBasalt (SailingTheSaltySeas)
Captain Dear Leader
Commander Pocket Dragoon
Commander not william stenchever
Lieutenant HiramTheGrift
Lieutenant AwfulConceptsTM (TerribleIdeasTM)
Ordnance Team:
Lieutenant Shady Edea (Dark Edea)
Seaman Friend Computer 002 (friend Computer)
The Farmers:
Seaman Kane Lives A Third Time (Kane Lives)
Seaman Fougaro
Seaman Shadfan777xxx111 (Shadfan666xxx000)
Seaman BerserkWombat (RabidWombat)
Seaman dragggs (draggs)
Seaman RIPRRongoRongo (RIPRhongoBongo)
Seaman Genichiro the 3rd (Genichiro)
Seaman ditdatdotdut (ditdatdot)
Seaman McMitch6kf (McMitch4kf)
Seaman Corn Pops (Corn Flakes)
Seaman Purity of Essence (Precious Bodily Fluids)
Seaman Booble Meng (Mooger Meng)
Seaman Serf (Peasant)
Seaman Some DICK (Some JERK)
Seaman Liechtenstein57 (Swiss46)
Seaman Spookmancer (Niggermancer)
Seaman ChingleChangle (JongleJingle)
Seaman Catgirls are Harmony (Catgirls are Love)
Seaman BeyondtheBareBasalt (SailingTheSaltySeas)
Next time: The reckoning awaits.
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oh fuck everyone clear out here come the motherfuckin lobstermen BAH GAWD
Fitting that they pruned the roster enough that you can just fill up ourdeathtrap deep sea coffin swiggity swaggity swimmer, eh?
Fitting that they pruned the roster enough that you can just fill up our
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Together we are strong.
Weakness is our strength!
Weakness is our strength!
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"GUNT".Perfect name to cap off this LP. Also I actually get to be in the final mission for a change.
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I got robbed of my Leviathan seat by a mind control, but of course. If that is my fate, I must simply laugh.
Good luck, we all die if y'all fail!
Good luck, we all die if y'all fail!
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16. Ocean Hunters
Thank God its almost over.
Much like last time, launching the final mission requires confirmation.
There's a little cutscene of T'leth rising from the ocean floor. This won't occur until you launch the final mission. The analog version is once again just stills from the cutscene with some added flavor text, included here just for completeness.
Unlike the previous game there is no original art for failing the mission, just more cutscene stills; this time from the defeat cutscene you can watch in the OP.
(Ween - Ocean Man)
The Gunt has landed.
In a game that has been so unfair, so brutal, so miserable in its open hatred of the player, what kind of nightmare could the final level possibly be?
The only possible thing it could be just to piss the player off one final time: an anticlimax. The final mission is three levels long, and in all three of them the map is cranked up to its absolute maximum size, filled with tons of rooms, and barely any aliens. The overwhelming majority of your time is spent just wandering around waiting for something to fucking happen.
Two of our troops fall under alien mind control and get grenaded, but the Mag-Ion armor shrugs the blow off completely.
A DPL shot flies straight into the center of a formation, but only @draggs is killed, by no less than a direct hit.
Of course every single alien soldier on this level is armed with a fucking DPL launcher.
The amount of resistance we encounter is quite pitiful honestly.
There are something like 100 screenshots of just this. My marines being moved around from place to place, exploring annoying out of the way rooms to track down every last alien. If you dislike the song Ocean Man, I had to listen to it for about thrity minutes straight since minimizing the screen to turn it off would fuck up my resolution. Because this final mission just wouldn't be complete without some kind of technical glitch.
Does anyone else find this song kind of depressing?
Like it just sounds so mournful.
Just me, I guess.
(Blue Oyster Cult - Subhuman)
This section is just a waste of fucking time.
To begin with, @SailingtheSaltySeas is executed by his fellow marines, as an encounter with the Aquatoid Commander afflicted him with a creeping curse that will cast doom upon the entire mission if he is allowed to live.
(Sailing ended the last mission technically under the control of an alien, which seems to have fucked up how the game handles him on this section. I can click on him and access his inventory, but if I try to move him all of the pointers disappear, none of the controls respond, and essentially I had to reload my save about three times before I figured out what the Hell was happening. I probably didn't have to kill him, but I wanted to be sure the problem was solved for good.)
@Niggermancer gets impregnated by a Tentaculat.
The walls of this fucking maze are paper-thin, but not quite enough to be shot through in one blow in some circumstances, which allows for an infinite amount of ways for the game to waste your time. Fortunately our armor affords us protection against the insane range of the DPL, so we can just obliterate whole sections of this level if they become too treacherous.
An infuriating amount of turns will be spent on blasting away at walls because finding a door would take forever.
For some reason, despite being tight as an asshole this level has 4x4 Terror Units spawn in certain locations. There are very few double doors though, and because this game is brilliantly programmed the Terror Units don't even spawn anywhere they can access them, meaning they're stuck waiting around for you to come along and execute them.
This creature is a Xarquid, a Gillman Terror Unit that, like the Hallucinoid, used to appear on land missions despite being a creature that can only function in water. Rather than being a freezing jellyfish, its a giant nautilus that shoots lasers. It takes only two Sonic Cannon hits to bring down.
Stand clear!
Look at this bullshit. What game designer would ever think this is a good idea, especially in a game where you can just blow holes in the wall and bypass it completely?
Any alien I find with a DPL I just have nuke the room its standing in so I don't have to deal with maneuvering around in tight corridors.
At least we've finally found some fucking aliens on this level.
The louder you scream the slower it goes.
I'm gonna be honest with you guys, this is the worst part of the game right here. Even in levels where my troops were getting absolutely butchered at least something was happening. Even if I wasn't using any psionics at all (and I'm mostly just using them minimally) this level wouldn't be any harder, it would just be a bunch of blind ambushes.
Like that. A Lobsterman peels @Fougaro's armor open like a tin can and eviscerates him.
On and on it goes.
After about ten entire turns of waiting around for a hint of where the aliens are, I blow open a section in the center that has no apparent door that I can find and see a Hallucinoid inside of it. Fitting that its hilariously pathetic water splash death cry is the last thing I hear on this section.
(Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea)
This is it, this is the level the entire game has been building up to.
This is all that awaits you at the end: one very long, dark hallway, with less than a handful of enemies. It takes me a few minutes to realize I should probably turn night vision off and play this level as it was intended.
They say if you stare into the abyss, the abyss will stare back at you. But when you stare into Terror From The Deep, nothing looks back at you, because there really is nothing there in the end.
A Deep One, of all things, rushes @RabidWombat and unloads everything it has into him, managing to punch through his armor and kill him.
Its little more than a bump in the road. I'm even able to stack up all of my troops like you see in these screenshots because of the protection their armor affords them and also the lack of good angles for the aliens to throw grenades from. I don't even really have to use psionics from this point on. But otherwise, that's all this last section is. Just a calm stroll down a gloomy hallway.
Somewhere, beyond the sea, somewhere, waitin for me; my lover stands on golden sands and watches the ships. That go sailin.
Somewhere, beyond the sea, she's there watchin for me. If I could fly like birds on high, then straight to her arms, I'd go sailin.
Its far, beyond a star, its near, beyond the moon. I know, beyond a doubt, my heart will lead me there soon!
We'll meet, beyond the shore; we'll kiss just as before. Happy we'll be beyond the sea and never again, I'll go sailing.
I know, beyond a doubt, my heart will lead me there soon.
We'll meet, I know we'll meet, beyond the shore; we'll kiss, just as before.
This is, the ultimate alien. And yeah, its literally Cthulhu himself. Before you cringe, remember this game came out in 1995 when this kind of overt Lovecraft reference wasn't quite as widespread as its become today.
It just a matter of destroying those glass tube structures. Most of them are within grenade range of each other, but you can shoot them as well if you really want to. I have Shadfan, Swiss46 and Hongobongo arm enough Sonic Pulsers to level the room.
Happy we'll be, beyond the sea.
And never again, I'll go sailin.
No more sailin. So long sailin.
Bye-bye sailin.
Move on out, Captain,
Next Up: Post-Mortem
Thank God its almost over.
Much like last time, launching the final mission requires confirmation.
There's a little cutscene of T'leth rising from the ocean floor. This won't occur until you launch the final mission. The analog version is once again just stills from the cutscene with some added flavor text, included here just for completeness.
Unlike the previous game there is no original art for failing the mission, just more cutscene stills; this time from the defeat cutscene you can watch in the OP.
(Ween - Ocean Man)
The Gunt has landed.
In a game that has been so unfair, so brutal, so miserable in its open hatred of the player, what kind of nightmare could the final level possibly be?
The only possible thing it could be just to piss the player off one final time: an anticlimax. The final mission is three levels long, and in all three of them the map is cranked up to its absolute maximum size, filled with tons of rooms, and barely any aliens. The overwhelming majority of your time is spent just wandering around waiting for something to fucking happen.
Two of our troops fall under alien mind control and get grenaded, but the Mag-Ion armor shrugs the blow off completely.
A DPL shot flies straight into the center of a formation, but only @draggs is killed, by no less than a direct hit.
Of course every single alien soldier on this level is armed with a fucking DPL launcher.
The amount of resistance we encounter is quite pitiful honestly.
There are something like 100 screenshots of just this. My marines being moved around from place to place, exploring annoying out of the way rooms to track down every last alien. If you dislike the song Ocean Man, I had to listen to it for about thrity minutes straight since minimizing the screen to turn it off would fuck up my resolution. Because this final mission just wouldn't be complete without some kind of technical glitch.
Does anyone else find this song kind of depressing?
Like it just sounds so mournful.
Just me, I guess.
(Blue Oyster Cult - Subhuman)
This section is just a waste of fucking time.
To begin with, @SailingtheSaltySeas is executed by his fellow marines, as an encounter with the Aquatoid Commander afflicted him with a creeping curse that will cast doom upon the entire mission if he is allowed to live.
(Sailing ended the last mission technically under the control of an alien, which seems to have fucked up how the game handles him on this section. I can click on him and access his inventory, but if I try to move him all of the pointers disappear, none of the controls respond, and essentially I had to reload my save about three times before I figured out what the Hell was happening. I probably didn't have to kill him, but I wanted to be sure the problem was solved for good.)
@Niggermancer gets impregnated by a Tentaculat.
The walls of this fucking maze are paper-thin, but not quite enough to be shot through in one blow in some circumstances, which allows for an infinite amount of ways for the game to waste your time. Fortunately our armor affords us protection against the insane range of the DPL, so we can just obliterate whole sections of this level if they become too treacherous.
An infuriating amount of turns will be spent on blasting away at walls because finding a door would take forever.
For some reason, despite being tight as an asshole this level has 4x4 Terror Units spawn in certain locations. There are very few double doors though, and because this game is brilliantly programmed the Terror Units don't even spawn anywhere they can access them, meaning they're stuck waiting around for you to come along and execute them.
This creature is a Xarquid, a Gillman Terror Unit that, like the Hallucinoid, used to appear on land missions despite being a creature that can only function in water. Rather than being a freezing jellyfish, its a giant nautilus that shoots lasers. It takes only two Sonic Cannon hits to bring down.
Stand clear!
Look at this bullshit. What game designer would ever think this is a good idea, especially in a game where you can just blow holes in the wall and bypass it completely?
Any alien I find with a DPL I just have nuke the room its standing in so I don't have to deal with maneuvering around in tight corridors.
At least we've finally found some fucking aliens on this level.
The louder you scream the slower it goes.
I'm gonna be honest with you guys, this is the worst part of the game right here. Even in levels where my troops were getting absolutely butchered at least something was happening. Even if I wasn't using any psionics at all (and I'm mostly just using them minimally) this level wouldn't be any harder, it would just be a bunch of blind ambushes.
Like that. A Lobsterman peels @Fougaro's armor open like a tin can and eviscerates him.
On and on it goes.
After about ten entire turns of waiting around for a hint of where the aliens are, I blow open a section in the center that has no apparent door that I can find and see a Hallucinoid inside of it. Fitting that its hilariously pathetic water splash death cry is the last thing I hear on this section.
(Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea)
This is it, this is the level the entire game has been building up to.
This is all that awaits you at the end: one very long, dark hallway, with less than a handful of enemies. It takes me a few minutes to realize I should probably turn night vision off and play this level as it was intended.
They say if you stare into the abyss, the abyss will stare back at you. But when you stare into Terror From The Deep, nothing looks back at you, because there really is nothing there in the end.
A Deep One, of all things, rushes @RabidWombat and unloads everything it has into him, managing to punch through his armor and kill him.
Its little more than a bump in the road. I'm even able to stack up all of my troops like you see in these screenshots because of the protection their armor affords them and also the lack of good angles for the aliens to throw grenades from. I don't even really have to use psionics from this point on. But otherwise, that's all this last section is. Just a calm stroll down a gloomy hallway.
Somewhere, beyond the sea, somewhere, waitin for me; my lover stands on golden sands and watches the ships. That go sailin.
Somewhere, beyond the sea, she's there watchin for me. If I could fly like birds on high, then straight to her arms, I'd go sailin.
Its far, beyond a star, its near, beyond the moon. I know, beyond a doubt, my heart will lead me there soon!
We'll meet, beyond the shore; we'll kiss just as before. Happy we'll be beyond the sea and never again, I'll go sailing.
I know, beyond a doubt, my heart will lead me there soon.
We'll meet, I know we'll meet, beyond the shore; we'll kiss, just as before.
This is, the ultimate alien. And yeah, its literally Cthulhu himself. Before you cringe, remember this game came out in 1995 when this kind of overt Lovecraft reference wasn't quite as widespread as its become today.
It just a matter of destroying those glass tube structures. Most of them are within grenade range of each other, but you can shoot them as well if you really want to. I have Shadfan, Swiss46 and Hongobongo arm enough Sonic Pulsers to level the room.
Happy we'll be, beyond the sea.
And never again, I'll go sailin.
No more sailin. So long sailin.
Bye-bye sailin.
Move on out, Captain,
Next Up: Post-Mortem
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Way down
Below the ocean
Where I wanna be, she may be
Way down
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Where I wanna be, she may be
Way down
Below the ocean
Where I wanna be, she may be
My antediluvian baby
Below the ocean
Where I wanna be, she may be
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Where I wanna be, she may be
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Where I wanna be, she may be
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So to cap it all off everybody dies at the end in the final explosion?
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That was also my assumption, but it seems like there is a post game and I bet everyone alive at the end of the final mission will be available.
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Post Mortem
(Aqua Nox - Ambient Track)
Well. That wasn't worth it.
This sucked to play, sucked to edit, and it even sucked to put together because I had some strange glitch where the screenshots of the stat screens would save as PNG files with limited color palettes. Meaning I had to hand convert them all to bitmaps to free up the color palettes, then paste the little faces in and save them all over again. Almost everything in this LP took an extra step that the previous one didn't, just because of the nature of this game.
Little things like that happened constantly throughout this. A lot of that you guys don't see because it happened all on my end. I normally wouldn't bitch about it, but seriously this game is cursed. If you're thinking about trying XCOM for yourself, I wouldn't reccomend playing this one until you've played the first game a few times. And played some mods. And done all your chores, maybe reorganize your closets and storage bins, call the folks, essentially do literally anything else with your time and put this piece of shit off as long as possible.
Putting emphasis on Beyond the Sea isn't just something I did because its one of my favorite songs; I am never playing this game again.
Anyway, statistics:
And the list of casualties, once again not counting those who died on the final mission:
And the survivor stats, once again not including faces:
You said there'd be double casualties from last time.
Whatever. This game killed just over as many people as last time in only 16 updates and 38 missions versus the 20 updates and 59 missions of the last one. I think either way you can see why this game is so hated amongst its fanbase. And not the fun kind of hatred like Dwarf Fortress gets.
What were those melee weapons you never identified?
Ah yes, the Vibro Blade and Thermic weapons, which are touted to be the main way to fight Lobstermen but in practice psionics is really the way to go. For some reason you need to capture a live Calcinite, a ridiculously weak and useless Aquatoid Terror Unit, and research it in order to unlock the Vibro Blade research, at which point you can research the other two weapons if you acquire specimens of them. The Vibro Blade is actually insanely useful, being able to perform attacks for like 5 Time Units a pop, meaning a marine could potentially perform like 12 attacks in one turn.
You'd think since these things look like power tools they'd be useful for cutting through walls, but actually they can't do that. All melee weapons in this game are technically reskins of the Stun Rod/Thermal Tazer just with altered stat types to make them kill. Therefore, they can't just target nothing, and trying to do this results in a "There is no one there!" message.
What's next for the thread?
Proofreading and putting together a table of contents, which should not take me three weeks like it did last time on account of all of the screenshots having a set of standardized picture sizes. I can do that in a day. Edit: Done.
What will you play next?
I said Xpiratez, but I'm not sure if I want to leap into another game right away. I do have one idea for something different, but I'll need a bit to see if it'll work properly and screenshot okay.
We'll see how it works out.
(Aqua Nox - Ambient Track)
Well. That wasn't worth it.
This sucked to play, sucked to edit, and it even sucked to put together because I had some strange glitch where the screenshots of the stat screens would save as PNG files with limited color palettes. Meaning I had to hand convert them all to bitmaps to free up the color palettes, then paste the little faces in and save them all over again. Almost everything in this LP took an extra step that the previous one didn't, just because of the nature of this game.
Little things like that happened constantly throughout this. A lot of that you guys don't see because it happened all on my end. I normally wouldn't bitch about it, but seriously this game is cursed. If you're thinking about trying XCOM for yourself, I wouldn't reccomend playing this one until you've played the first game a few times. And played some mods. And done all your chores, maybe reorganize your closets and storage bins, call the folks, essentially do literally anything else with your time and put this piece of shit off as long as possible.
Putting emphasis on Beyond the Sea isn't just something I did because its one of my favorite songs; I am never playing this game again.
Anyway, statistics:
And the list of casualties, once again not counting those who died on the final mission:
And the survivor stats, once again not including faces:
You said there'd be double casualties from last time.
Whatever. This game killed just over as many people as last time in only 16 updates and 38 missions versus the 20 updates and 59 missions of the last one. I think either way you can see why this game is so hated amongst its fanbase. And not the fun kind of hatred like Dwarf Fortress gets.
What were those melee weapons you never identified?
Ah yes, the Vibro Blade and Thermic weapons, which are touted to be the main way to fight Lobstermen but in practice psionics is really the way to go. For some reason you need to capture a live Calcinite, a ridiculously weak and useless Aquatoid Terror Unit, and research it in order to unlock the Vibro Blade research, at which point you can research the other two weapons if you acquire specimens of them. The Vibro Blade is actually insanely useful, being able to perform attacks for like 5 Time Units a pop, meaning a marine could potentially perform like 12 attacks in one turn.
You'd think since these things look like power tools they'd be useful for cutting through walls, but actually they can't do that. All melee weapons in this game are technically reskins of the Stun Rod/Thermal Tazer just with altered stat types to make them kill. Therefore, they can't just target nothing, and trying to do this results in a "There is no one there!" message.
Yes. Canonically T'leth explodes, kills everyone sent on the mission, and fucks up Earth's environment, which is the lead-up to XCOM: Apocalypse.
What's next for the thread?
Proofreading and putting together a table of contents, which should not take me three weeks like it did last time on account of all of the screenshots having a set of standardized picture sizes. I can do that in a day. Edit: Done.
What will you play next?
I said Xpiratez, but I'm not sure if I want to leap into another game right away. I do have one idea for something different, but I'll need a bit to see if it'll work properly and screenshot okay.
We'll see how it works out.
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