[CommanderDJ]

Only 1 kill?
You're not using me to my full potential....

It's been one mission, dude. Take it easy.

[Ravenholme]

Only 1 kill?
You're not using me to my full potential....

Attempting to do that tends to get you killed, but in the next batch that I have to write up you do get to use Stun Rockets and get us our first Live capture (And the only one that is a non-commander that counts for anything).

[NGTM-1R]

This reminds me: is the english as bad as I remember?

[Ravenholme]

This reminds me: is the english as bad as I remember?

Not that I've really noticed. Maybe they fixed it for the Gold re-release?

[NGTM-1R]

Probably. The original, which I foolishly let Matrix Games gouge me for, had some pretty dodgy English and spelling at points. The opening cutscene line reads were awful too.

[DireWolf]

*Is late for yet another (Not)X-Com LP

I missed the first and was sidelined in the second. I must die gloriously at least once!
Volunteering for Redshirt duty, and if possible in later missions, a stunner.

[Scourge of Ages]

*cksssschk*
This is your captain speaking! Welcome aboard Red Raider airlines, we are currently cruising at 5000 meters above lovely Ilyria North. On the port side you'll see some farmland of some sort, probably.

Um, I suppose this is a good time to go over safety information. If you'll turn your attention to the flight attendant, you'll notice we don't have flight attendants, because this is a military dropship, sillies.

Let's see, safety... Emergency exits are non-existant. There's only one exit, same as the entrance. If there's an emergency, just hope we have parachutes. We do not have parachutes. I mean, I do, but you all don't.

In case of an emergency water landing, your seat cushions can be used as flotation devices, as well as any of your partners who may have not been very lucky. I suppose there's a raft too.
In case of an emergency land landing, please exit the dropship and secure the immediate area from aliens. This ship is more expensive than your combined salaries for the year. Just sayin', it's expensive, and probably your only ride home.

Just sit tight, we should arrive at the crash site in about 3 hours. The flight attendant will be by shortly with complementary peanuts and beer.

Yeah... that should do it. Captain Scourge out.
*ckshssssk*

[Ravenholme]

*Is late for yet another (Not)X-Com LP

I missed the first and was sidelined in the second. I must die gloriously at least once!
Volunteering for Redshirt duty, and if possible in later missions, a stunner.

Stunning is done with grenades and rockets in this game. And the Marques we have just now are awful.

Scourge, that was beautiful

[jr2]

...NGTM-1R gets his first kill, spraying it down on full Auto...  ...NGTM-1R endures the rest of the mission coughing up blood and will definitely need hospital time when we get back...

like a Baws?BOSS!

[NGTM-1R]

The heck with that, have you ever tried aiming a rifle when you coughed blood on the sights? This chemical warfare crap is for the birds. Why didn't somebody anticipate the need for sealed armor, dammit? These are aliens, they could have virulent diseases or god knows what, and we don't have any goddamn sealed armor in the 2100s!

Dammit Command.

[jr2]

Hmm, well your choices are 1) sealed with O2 supply (then you have to lug around extra weight, and you've got the equivalent of a small bomb on your back, try youtube: oxygen tank concrete wall, first link, mythbusters) or 2) not sealed, and hope that you can filter everything out.  Of course, the other side's job is to try to make it get through your filter anyways.    Any damage to the suit would bypass the filter, so let's hope the suit can re-seal itself pretty fast.

EDIT: actually, O2 tank and bullet play chicken, O2 tank says 'you wouldn't like me when I'm angry..'  |  Mythbusters O2 tank vs wall  |  EDIT2: O2 tank for teh lulz

EDIT3: Holy friggin crap (patience, watch it all, it's worth it).

From the comments of EDIT3: (read after watching, I should probably make a thread for this)

Spoiler:

Hows this for a theory
Fresh aluminum when exposed to air or O2 almost instantly grows an oxide film. This is an oxidation reaction that produces heat.
The bottle had about 3000 psi trying to push out the valve. Attempting to remove the valve with 3000 or so lbs friction force on the threads exposes fresh aluminum which will then go through an exothermic reaction with the pure oxygen. Reaction rate doubles with every 10 c increase in temp which may have caused thermal runaway .
Just a theory.

[Ravenholme]

The heck with that, have you ever tried aiming a rifle when you coughed blood on the sights? This chemical warfare crap is for the birds. Why didn't somebody anticipate the need for sealed armor, dammit? These are aliens, they could have virulent diseases or god knows what, and we don't have any goddamn sealed armor in the 2100s!

Dammit Command.

I'll write up my next post later, but I think the fact that Scotty and Dragon missed those first UFO interceptions has screwed us over. Because our next suit of armour is sealed, and you get it from researching a Scout UFO, Craft Armour (Unlocked after the Scout), and one of the floating pods (Larva) - It basically renders Larva a null threat (And it has the amusing name of Beekeeper). The Scout Research takes a long time and we're severely behind the tech curve.

[Spoon]

Make way, make way. Spoonzer elite coming through.


Now in X-COM tanks didn't gained any experienced, hows that handled in this game?

[Ravenholme]

Make way, make way. Spoonzer elite coming through.


Now in X-COM tanks didn't gained any experienced, hows that handled in this game?

Same way. Which strikes me as a tad daft since they obviously have drivers this time around, but that's the game mechanic *shrug*

[NGTM-1R]

At least until you get ED-209.

[FireSpawn]

YOU HAVE NINE SECONDS TO COMPL-*DAKKA-DAKKA-DAKKA*

[NGTM-1R]

Now in X-COM tanks didn't gained any experienced, hows that handled in this game?

We'd have to play UFO Afterlight for experienced tanks, and it's kinda **** when it comes to dramatic tension because you can't rename or afford to lose people.

[TrashMan]

Next report pls!

[Ravenholme]

Next report pls!

Just away to write it up, although it's a precursor to having to restart. I ballsed up. Not downing a Scout UFO in the first month has killed us.

Edit: Belay that, Imgur is derping and this post will be image heavy.

[Ravenholme]

With NGTM-1R in hospital, he's sitting out the raid on the Fighter class UFO we downed.



Whilst Scourge is cruising Raider #1 over Southern Ilyria towards the crashsite, NGTM-1R is busy coughing up his lungs whilst the medics do their best to save him, Deathfun takes his slot for the mission.



The crashsite turns out to be in the town of Prosperity Wells, and the town is eerily silent, besides the damage from the crash there appears to be some damage due to battle. Scourge sets the team down at the edge of a park around a block from the crash site, and the Spoonzer disembarks to check the immediate area.



The team follows up behind the Spoonzer, Deathfun fitting naturally into their M.O., and with Trashman advancing alongside the tank to provide heavy fire pointed forward.



They advance to contact around the nearby building, which turns out to be a Police Station. Trashman finds the first alien, one of the pods having moved to check out the landing dropship.



The Spoonzer takes it out, as Deathfun moves up to support the forward advance, and LHN91 and CommanderDJ cover the flanks and the rear.



Advancing around the Police Station to the downed UFO, with LHN91 clearing the interior (no contacts) is a simple affair, encountering another couple of the pod-aliens, which the Spoonzer promptly dispatched, and we end up at the crashsite, and the soldiers and tank form a perimeter at the doors to prepare to breach it.



Deathfun kills a gas-pod flanking around the side of the UFO as Spoon, CommanderDJ and Trashman breach it.



There is movement in the room to the south of the UFO, and Trashman uses a stun rocket on it, saving CommanderDJ's life from a snakelike alien hiding in the room.



With the Snake Alien stunned, the mission ends.



pt.2 coming soon