[Mika]

Dying words: "Was that the best you can do, you pansies?"

As for the memorial, I think I have an idea...

[Gortef]

Damn I looked good in that new armor.


And +1 for better arc throwers, those things look like they suck big time. They even look horrible.

[Hobbie]

Soon.

[TrashMan]

I'm still alive.
That's surprising.

I'm usually dead or up to TrashMan Mk3 by this point.

[deathfun]

Damn I looked good in that new armor.


And +1 for better arc throwers, those things look like they suck big time. They even look horrible.

I actually got too fed up with it that I just save scummed until I captured the ****ing Muton this coming mission. I had had enough of it

Soon.

Soon. I might consider just bringing back only the dead as MECs

I'm still alive.
That's surprising.

I'm usually dead or up to TrashMan Mk3 by this point.

I do what I can to keep people alive

Dammit, I was going to buy a Porsche

There's time enough to just build one with elerium powering it. Imagine that, an elerium powered car, fuel of the future!

I like the sound of that... get engineering on the line, I want this done

Transport class UFO has landed in South America, prepping team for deployment

"Waking me up for this? God dammit"
"It's a risk we need to take"
"Yeah yeah, war is more important than losing a few people"
"I will laugh in the face of death! These mother****ers won't know what hit them!"
"I WILL TAKE THEM ALL ON. ALL OF THEM"





"Once again I find myself outside one of these things..."
"How are we going to approach this one?"
"Head right, we'll enter through the cargo hold"



"Look alive people"
"Die mother****er!"




"Moving up"







"That's a good start if ever I've seen one"
"Let's keep it up then"




"No big game hunt, but I'll take it"





"Where's the disk thing at?"
"I'll have eyes in a moment"


"It's on the move"





"Damn shrapnel, pain in my ass"
"I think there's a shard literally, in your ass"
"I'll recon up ahead"


"Look at that, few nasties inside there"
"Half of you to the top, we'll take the bottom"






"Muton is retreating"
"Taking fire over here!"


"Alright, nice and easy"



"God dammit"
"There's still another"




"He's limping"
"Move in to stun, this one is definitely ours"
"He's running away"
"God dammit, after him!"



"He didn't get far"
"Moving in to stun this prick" ^{And after a couple annoying saves later, I mean, this one Muton survived 4 stuns. Four! It's almost like it's 55% chance to succeed never. 45% chance to fail all the time}



"I've taken a big hit here, could use some first aid"
"On our way"





"All better now"
"I feel that, damn that's some good ****"



"God dammit! Taking some hits over here"


"...Well I really wish I didn't move now"
"Are those... Mutons?"



"They aren't carrying any guns"
"Time to flash them then"



"****, he's coming towards me!"
"Use that to our advantage"




"DANCE PUPPET DANCE"


"****, missed"
"The one time to miss is definitely *not* right now"


"**** me"


"U...g... my... e....everr.....y...thing...."
"How the **** are you not dead"



"I've got you Lepanto, hold on"







"Not bad not bad"
"Someone kill that Muton already"
"Die cloaking mother****er!"



"Muton down"
"Try stunning the other"


"OF COURSE IT FAILED WHY WOULDN'T IT"




"Medic!"







"I love this grapple technology"
"Won't lie, pretty handy"




"You're done mother****er"



"New contacts, ****, it's the big fellow"




"He's shielding him!"
"Brace yourselves people"
"I AM BRACED"


"He just went through the wall!"
"OH **** ME"


"Rheyah! RHEYAH!"
"She's ****ing dead! God dammit I hate transport deployments"









"It's still ****ing standing!"
"****!"
"Brace yourselves!"
^{One alien activity later}
"It didn't shoot anyone"
"I... moved seven feet"




"Dead and gone... Rheyah with it..."



"Chryss' up ahead"
"We'll get to them eventually, let's mop up here"



"Regroup and reload"
"They're circling around that area"
"Let them come to us then"


"Here we go people!"







"We're green to go"
"Just the pilots now"




"Dash in, we're almost done with this damned place"




"Thought I saw him move over there"
"Get eyes, now!"






"Dammit, big guy found me!"



"Make it rain"






"I've got this mother****er flanked"


"Get better aim mother****er!"






"Nearly done here fellas"




"That's a wrap"
"Lost a good soldier today..."
"She'll be back... they'll all be back"

[Gortef]

Oh dear. That was a big loss.

[TrashMan]

I'm still alive?
And at 49 kills?

Something isn't right here... is it opposite day?

[deathfun]

You also have the lowest base health at three points
This is why I always put you in the field with Carapace armour

The 49 kills can be explained by virtue of the fact you can shoot twice in a turn which makes you ideal for finishing and dealing large amounts of hurt

Sort of delayed with continuing this at the current moment for obvious reasons, but I'll get on it by the weekend

[deathfun]

That is to say I wasn't entirely specific as to *which* weekend, but here we go

Prepare the team for captures, we've got to take the opportunities while we can

"Oh man oh man it's time to kill, TIME TO MURDER"
"I think his meds aren't working anymore"
"The man has a point, we'll be shooting many a joint"
"I really hope that they just daaare to shoot me, man it's been too long"
"Scotty, how does my hair look?"
"It's frigging fine stop ****ing asking me"





"Helluva traffic jam down there"
"I wonder why it doesn't go back to the tunnel..."
"Invisible walls man, INVISIBLE WAAAALLS"




"Easy pickings down there"
"Let's get it done"





"Hey jr2, you fit in with all the construction stuff"
"I like yellow sue me"






"Looks like they're running scared here"
"Are you sure they even have that ability?"






"See about whittling down that last guy"
"On it"



"****"
"Screw that thin man, everyone get to cover!"





"Armour is holding..."
"Do your thing Scotty"





"Move in closer, we've got some prime candidates here"



"Dammit, that's a no go on that stun"



"One up top is on the move..."


"She's hit!"
"Come on, show me some vitals..."
"She's gone man, ****"
"We all know the risks for these missions"



"Disabling shot is a no go"
"Kill it"


"Hardly what I'd say being worth it"
"It's going to happen far more often"
"Thanks for that thought..."

[Gortef]

Oh man that one alien really surprised us. It was not pretty... and I don't like it.

[Mika]

For some reason I'm starting to form an opinion that this game hates beautiful women. Or somehow their deaths are more memorable.

I do recall a couple of ****-ups of my own, where a gene-modded scout was stealthed next to full cover in a building wall that had a window. Well, the aliens were visible through that window and I didn't realize that the missed overwatch shots by the others could destroy that wall completely, revealing the woman scout to a berserker...

Or the campaign where I took a taser to a terror mission and tried to capture a heavy floater from the first pod. Bad idea, and it resulted in the only death in that campaign - and several grave injuries in the subsequent "let's fix what we can" mode. RIP "Cookie".  Lessons learned: never try to capture an alien from the first pod, nor should you attempt that in a terror mission. And if you try to capture one, make sure there's no other even close by.

The final memorable mission was the first time I played an alien terror mission on Normal difficulty. Nobody told me that zombies could climb the rain pipes; they punched one of my soldiers down from the roof. He landed three floors down on top of the boxes, critically injured, and none of the remaining two soldiers had a med pack. They had to shoot a bunch of clustering zombies like it was a survival horror game, all the while their squad-mate was bleeding to death in front of them. His final words were "Don't let it end like this! Aaargh!" The two survivors of that mission were probably traumatized for the rest of their lives.

[deathfun]

Right now I'm having troubles with an annoying ass glitch on large transport missions. Basically, someone gets hit, goes down critically wounded, and there is no way that I can save them because apparently the circle of life is nowhere to be found to prompt the stabilize function on my medkits

I have no problems losing soldiers, I just hate losing them to glitches. There was one time that MP=Ryan panicked and ran into the unexplored area

Little did I know that results in instant death

[deathfun]

Well Commander, I've got good news and some bad news

As far as I'm concerned the world is going to **** therefore *everything* is bad news

Uh... well... okay

The good news is that we've finished the Elerium research. The bad news is that we are unable to manufacture it

However Commander, Engineering would like to report that we now have the funds to be able to build the Cybernetics Lab

YES MECHANIZED INFANTRY UNITS BADASS OH YES

^{And since I screwed up on placement, no adjacency bonuses because I decided to put the Alien Containment somewhere stupid}

Oh, and Dr. Vahlen, I believe it's time we tapped into the heads of our friends in Containment. Begin interrogation as soon as your team is ready

"Four man team? This is going to have to be quick"
"Mission parameters are set, priority is to provide cover to operative and extract asap"
"Let's kill some mother****ers. Even brought some extra toys!"



"Japan... didn't they back out of funding us a while back?"
"Looks like that doesn't stop us from having to go in to save their asses. Damn mother****ers better be happy"

This is Big Sky, team has been deployed. Heavy enemy troop movement is inbound, let's not stick around too long folks

"Affirmative Big Sky. Deploying standard defense perimeter"
"Contact! Three of them to the East!"






"Two confirmed kills"
"More from the West!"



"This is Viktor, moving to Relay"
"We'll try to keep them off you as best as we can, but we can't get to you just yet!"




"Blargher, seems like they want to see some of your toys"
"Oh I love giving mother****ers what they want"



"Tango incoming"
"Explosive ordnance detected"


"Integrity holding"
"Looks like the guy back here is coming back"


"This is Viktor, I'm getting surrounded over here!"


"Hit that relay and get to the next one, should buy us some time"


"Allen here, looks like they're bringing out the big guys!"


"Our time is running short here"
"Eat high explosives mother****ers!"




"Big guy isn't so tough now"


"Shot wide by two-six degrees, recalculating"


"Shouldn't of been hiding behind that truck"
"Not like we care"
"Damn there's a lot of them!"



"Relay is hit! I'm booking it to you guys now"
"Better move it soldier, we can't stay here long"


"Screw you mother****er"



"Viktor! Get your ass in gear!"
"I'm in!"
"Extract immediately"
"Holding us up here Blargher!"

[deathfun]

I have not forgot about this, but right now a large UFO mission is completely kicking my ass again

Some serious bull**** and all that. Not only that, but what the hell is with the map that makes critically wounded soldiers unable to be stabilized? It's starting to really get on my nerves (no I did not run out of medkits)

[deathfun]

The creature expired, but not without giving us some pretty cool images and ****

Exactly. I want inside that things head

But we've already got one and it turns out it isn't a head

Shush, these cutscenes don't make sense if that already happened

So where to from here?

I need to begin interrogation of all the other aliens we've captured thus far

We've got an incoming contact blah blah, whatever, shoot it down etc

Those laser cannons are certainly effective

We've got another contact inbound, large one

Get the crew ready and pack medical supplies, this is going to be a heavy one

^{Some of the usual pictures have gone missing because I don't know, my bad}

"How much you all want to bet that there's some guys just to our right, our front, and our left?"
"Are you saying we're ****ed jr2?"
"No, I'm just saying that we've entered... the dangerzone"



"Pack over here, could use some of those alien grenades"
"Crizza is here, and he has EXPLOSIONS"









"Beautiful work people"
"Like shooting fish in a barrel that rolls towards you"
"Save the jinxing for later Lepanto"
"We've got another one!"


"Don't ****ing miss Gortina"


"With features like this I don't miss a thing"
"Hold fast... I hear something up ahead"


"From our side! From our side!"



"We've woken up a hornet's nest here"
"****, hold your ground and give no quarter!"


"Come at me you ****er"



"Yeah, that's right"




"He's down for the count"
"Incoming Mechtoids!"







"Look at him blow"
"I thought I saw another, keep your eyes peeled"
"Anyone see that sectoid? He seemed different"






"Holy ****"
"You are one lucky bastard"






"Solid kill there Crizza"
"I will consume his soul"
"I've got incoming here"




"I haven't been **** yet, this is really disappointing"
"Yes, we know you want to get off on it but this isn't the place"
"This is ALWAYS the place"
"Whatever Mongoose"




"Here come the alien frisbee"








"This thing just won't die"
"Tentacle porn incoming!"




"Holotargeting should help you guys out... *cough*"



"No rest quite yet folks, two floaters up high!"
"Taking fire here!"


"Behind us! We've got a squad of sectoids behind us!"
"Ah they're just sec- wait who the hell is that big red one?"


"I don't like the look of him, support, get the **** over here"





"Direwolf is inbound, he'll be scrap in no time"
"But he's flesh..."




"Zap zap! Zap! Zap goes the grey little men! Zap!"




"My armour is close to being in shambles over here"
"God he has a stiffy for you"
"Mental image, no... just no"



"Wolf!"
"I'm hit but okay, jesus it's burning through!"




"Payback is a ***** isn't it"




"What the **** is wrong with you you alien piece of ****!"
"Yari, how many hits are you going to take?"
"TOO DAMNED MANY"


"I got him, don't worry"
"You should've had him ages ago"
"Lets get a move on here"


"Floaters coming up on our flank!"



"Good show snipers"
"Hey, we've got another one of those red sectoids"


"What's he doing?"


"Taco salad... why did I just say that?"




"Jesus, someone go finish it off"
"This is Scotty, I've got this"



"Clear in here, but I've got something going on outside"
"Checking out front..."


"...Sort of wish I didn't"





"He's got a hold of one of ours!"
"****, not on my watch"



"What's the count on that?"
"I think we only have the one left"
"Are you sure?"
"No"


"Beserker movement outside!"





"After you Scotty"
"With pleasure"


"Moving up"


"****!"
"You good?"
"****, got right through my armour"



"Man, we could've really used one of those alive"
"You ****ing kidding me?"


"Oh, so there was another one"


"Look like things are all quiet here"
"We've still got the bridge to clear"
"Take it easy"




"Get those two doors covered"


"Breach"





"Shotgun coming through"









"See ya ****er"


"We're clear, we're bloody clear"
"God damn that was a long one"
"Seems like it'll only be getting worse"

[crizza]

These suckers got no chance against me. And I got my own song!
*Hums Geronimo*

[Scourge of Ages]

Basically, someone gets hit, goes down critically wounded, and there is no way that I can save them because apparently the circle of life is nowhere to be found to prompt the stabilize function on my medkits

I've encountered that bug a few times, and not just on transport missions. If you save and reload, the wounded soldier will show up where they should be.

Spoiler:

It's a bit gruesome: You load the game, and then the soldier drops out of the sky and flops on the ground. But you can save 'em.

[Gortef]

Well for once we kind of raped them.

And it was beautiful.

[deathfun]

I've encountered that bug a few times, and not just on transport missions. If you save and reload, the wounded soldier will show up where they should be.

Spoiler:

It's a bit gruesome: You load the game, and then the soldier drops out of the sky and flops on the ground. But you can save 'em.

That's actually incredibly useful information to know, cheers myte!

So once again I have returned on an entirely haphazard updating process!
You thought I was stopping at fifty didn't you? Ha! Never! I will actually beat this Long War! (Eventually)

Ooooo this looks pretty

And these just look downright useful

Oh yeah, look at that scaaaary face. He's death glaring you Doctor. He wants to murder you

I believe it's more accurate to say 'it'

UWULR HUWURR UWAARRRLARLRRLWAAA!

Well would you look at that, they've delayed the research by a day. How long was that research going to take anyhow?

A day

We've got another large one on our scopes Commander

Again? God damn, haven't these aliens learned anything yet? Alert the Barracks

"I find myself all blue, it's a shame I can't sue!"
"Hey Walker... you run much?"
"Ah haaaa **** you"
"HEY GUYS YOU SEE THE TECH THEY HAVE?! THERE WILL BE PUNCHY PUNCHY WITH THE MECS! OH GOD THE GLOOOOORY!"
"I would love to be a test for that"
"Mongoose... that'd break every bone in your body"
"Yeah, ****ing awesome"





"Let's move it people!"
"We've got Sectoids! One o'clock!"
"****ing walked right into this!"


"Red one heading our way!"






"One on the roof!"
"Wildchild here, I've got it"


"Down for the count"
"Movement, second one up top"
"HE'S MIIIIIIIIINE"


"I'll check up ahead"


"Nope nope nope"
"Get back here, everyone move into overwatch... let's wait for them"










"**** me that was a bad idea, just as much as it was getting ikea!"



"Did no one else decide it was a good idea to bloody shoot?"
"Oh whatever it's just a little plasma in your face. You'll be fine"



"Can we move yet? Jesus"
"Seems clear enough, push up to the bridge"



"Did a Beserker just run straight through our lines?"
"Yup"






"Alright then"
"Push up to the next wall, keep the sides covered"






"One left"
"He'll make his move"


"Hentai aliens! Look at them all!"


"Bunch up with the close quarter specialists"








"Get this thing off me!"



"Bloody hate those things"
"Pfft, right. I saw you in the bunker Lepanto, you certainly have a thing for your... toys..."
"..."
"Humour synapse shows signs of being broken. Would you like medical aid Lepanto?"
"See? Even Droid found that funny"


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Currently on pause because my net decided to go poof midstream and stuff

Will get part two up later

[deathfun]

Continuing!

"Someone scout ahead"


"What was that?"
"Chryssalids inbound, time to turn around!"
"Defensive positions!"
"Eleven o'clock!"
"I see him"



"Robots incoming!"
"****"












"That's it for the bugs"
"Still got the frisby to deal with"
"Set up overwatch, lets see what they do"




"EXPLOSSSIOOOOOOOOOOOOOONS"
"I've got the big one in my sights, I'll keep him down for you folks"



"Armour integrity holding"
"Get soooome"





"This **** is just bouncing off the alloy!"
"Keep firing!"




"This... this doesn't look good"


"Man down!"
"Not ****ing again"



"Where did they come from?"
"Get him off Trash!"


"Seems like... you've lost grasp... of the situation!"
"I hate you"







"I've got this mother****er for you Lepanto!"


"DIE YOU BLOODY FRISBY!"


"We've got an incoming floater down the corridor"
"Odin shall protect you"



"You are not programmed to die soldier"


"Lets move up people"


"Split, each group to a door"
"We've got a problem here; I'd rather not be near!"



"Running and gunning!"



"One down below!"





"Not liking these shots whizzing by my face here"



"Bring the hurt!"








"Moving away from this, I sure hope they miss!" ^{I entirely forgot about the overwatch}


"She's hit!"
"God dammit!"


"Little help here people!"








"We've lost a good soldier today"
"It was a bad call"
"We cannot afford bad ****ing calls right now"