[crizza]

Poor me^^
But it is interesting to read

[TrashMan]

Piltos technicly dont' have stats (yet, as far as I know), so oyu cna "survive"...I can just repalce you with another crizza..no one will ever know.


alternatively...CLONES

[crizza]

I would prefer to be the lucky guy who ejected at the last possibility and thus survived...always

[Colonol Dekker]

What's the verdict doc?

[Retsof]

I see TrashMan knows my strengths better than I do.  Headshots FTW!
Poor Headdie.

[TrashMan]

then we'll make it so!

EDIT:
I'm playing on Standard Difficulty..the only modification (aside from more guns) is setting mroe starting soldiers (so I had a big enough selection to create the motly crew that properly represents you guys)
And hte game is BRUTAL.

I have several save files (one for a "perfect" playtrough), so just for kicks I loaded before the stadium fiascio and averted it and auto'd the next several missions (all victories, the auto is very player biased) and Asia HATES us. In jsut 24 hours it's desposition dropped by 6 stages.. SIX. I sold 4 ufo in a row to them (giving you +1 relationship increase) but it keeps droping back to "Giving Up". Maybe it's a bug. Or maybe the aliens are gangbanging their Chairman - I can't tell since we dont' have radar coverage there.

So this is probably what awaits us in the future (when we resume hte LP from the regular save). With our economy in the crapper already, this doesn't look good.

And we're getting ripped off everywhere. A plasma pistol sells for about as much (of not less) as an asasult rifle....
You can't make money sellign alein stuff with these rates.
Just making a most basic base (activation + command center, powerplant, storage, living quarters)  costs almost 400 000. That's without a landing pad, dropship or anything else.....

I'm contemplating editing hte sell rates for alien stuff, as this is downrgiht redicolous....

[TrashMan]

What's the verdict doc?

You'll live. You and sparda had 70% health left after the nade.

question is - reload before stadium or not? New character for headdie or not?

[headdie]

Went out in style at least

Feel free to recruit Headdie II be interesting to see if they last as long lol.

As for the sales, that is strange, Im sure you always used to be able to sustain yourself quite well on salvage

[Colonol Dekker]

I for one wouldn't object to a little temporal displacement, going back to before Headdie died.... Maybe with a few...........winning lottery numbers to aid our coffers?

[TrashMan]

ATM the situation is as follows - I currenlty have 6 saves.

2 are before the stadium frakup
1 is right after
--
1 is re-loaded (stadium mission didn't appear) and now 3 missions later (LASER OPERATION just researched, no one dead, Skydancer 2 not lost)
1 is 3 missios later after the fiasco (LASER OPERATION research done, Headdie dead, Headdie 2 recruited, Skydancer 2 lost)

In both cases Asia hates our guts and financially we are barely making it. (power plant, living quarters and storage for Area 51 base eat 80% of the funds)
We are basicly down to roughly 20.000 $.


I can pick up from any of the two saves.
So you vote guys.


Research-wise, this is the situation:

Note that the money on the screenshot is BEFORE invensting into the second base.
Altough I have 4 labs (this, 40 scientists cna work), i hired all availalbe ones. The countrues aren't forking out enough scientists....


Thought on wht we should research?

[Colonol Dekker]

Counterfeiting money?

[Rodo]

If you research base defence laser turret you can place some SAM silos over Asia loaded with those which will deal a good punch.

[headdie]

Given your loss of an expensive interceptor I would reload

[SpardaSon21]

And mod the prices for alien salvage while you're at it.  Seems like alien tech should be worth a ton of money considering how advanced and hard-to-obtain it is.

[TrashMan]

Small correction - the "perfect" save is 8 days later, the "noraml2 sve is 3 days later.

The interceptor itself is Stilleto (20.000) + targeting computer, ECM( around 16000) + all weapons (3 shivas at 5000 each + ammo) ..so about 60,000 $ loss total. More than a Command Center

A plasma pistol sells for 2000$ b.t.w. and I have already been selling a few.


That said, during hte "normal" playtrough, the aliens found our base and launched an attack. A rag-tage team of underequipped (no amor) and wounded defenders fought them off without losses!

[Patriot]

I vote for the no-loss save, and mod the sell-rates for alien-tech, it ought to be a money-maker to salvage things, like in the X-Com UFO Defense game, where i could sell a few Plasma Pistols and have a few 100K in the pocket, including selling a few clips of ammo.

Also, do i have the EM Gun already, seeing as Headdie has the Nade Launcher(or did he have one earlier and i didn't notice?)

[TrashMan]

Maybe it's best we live with the loss. It's war. Also, Headdie 2 seems to be doing well.I will mod the prices..maybe add my old super-interceptor in

[TrashMan]

Alrighty...

Continuing with our less fortunate. I'm drawn to re-loading, but I said this will be a Iron Man let's play...soo...
The highest ranking and most wouned were pulled out for some R&R, and the new blood was put in the team.
Anywhoo, 2 short mission - 1 auto-resolved, the other went swimmingly, but due to a frakup, no screenies.

However, the 3'rd one was an alien assault. Tehy detected our base and attacked. And since equipment is tied to those in the dropship, we were left with the wounded and chillaxin soldiers, with only the left-overs from the armory.
There's was only one combat vest available....

Even worse, the first base is auto-generated (you don't place buildings) and it fraked us up, reeeeal good. Both the Power Plant and the Command Center (critical buildings) right next to the entrance, the living quarters (where we started) on the other side of the base. With a large inacessible area in between.
If the aliens had any brains (and proper explosives) this would have been a game over.

This is the entrance
By comparing it with the above screenshot, you can see just how bad it was.

Still, miracolously, all 6 alien invaders were killed with only 1 injury on our side (Vixen). Scope (our first sniper gurl who was in sickbay) downed 3, Vixen 1, Firespawn 1..altough in general there were bullets flying everywhere, so there were assists involved...probably.






Not short after we detect another UFO - visually it's a fighter-class. The same that took out Skydancer 2 (but the pilot survived..until we buy a new interceptor, he can pilot a dropship).
Mongoose is itching for revenge and I give an all clear, despite the risks. And it pays off. Mongoose shoots down another boogie and the team goes straight in.



3 aliens are spotted immediately. Ravenholme tests out the EM rifle on it - 2 shots, 2 hits, 1 dead alien.
the other is still far out, so we move to position ourselves better. Scourge runs into the the broken stables, and we discover another alien in the barn to our left.

The upper alien start chasing a civilian, and a while barrage of reaction fire ensues from our side. Everyone misses...except for Scourge, who ironicly has the weapon with the shortest range.

The other aliens ignore us and go after the civilians. Except the alien in the barn who attempts a pot-shot or two, but most off his shot didn't even leave the barn.


The upper alien chases a civilian in the house, but Scourge blasts him away trough a hole in the wall
Retsof and Dekker take out the alien in the barn. Two left.



Sparda puts the leftmost one out of it's misery with a well placed burst. I attempt suppresion fire on the last one, but end up killing it despite the distance.

The Dream Team strikes again!


EDIT:
Firespawn was also wounded on hte base attack, so I left him in the hospital. But fear not, you'll soon have this to play with:

And our flyboys will get this (later)






EDIT:
Is it just me, or did Rodo's and Pre'd redshirt application go past me without me noticing? Crapola.... Sorry guys. Dunno how I forgot about you two. End of the month is nears, so new recruits coming. you got any preferences regarding weaponry?

[Mongoose]

Damn, wish I could fly this well in FS.

[Scourge of Ages]

Hoo yeah! That was for Headdie Sr., you alien scum!