[Rodo]

Throwing grenades through the UFO entrance? YOU BOLD MAN!

[TrashMan]

Patriot, Rodo and Headdie have been transfered to lead team 2 and watch over base 2. Two of team 2 soldiers have been transferred to us (callsigns Barbie and Scope).

Since anyone can re-transfer at any time, if anyone wants to switch to somewhere else, say so.
And those in command of base 2 get to give names to the second team scrubs. Let's hear suggestions.


Sparda, once the US base is operational (approx next monthŽ) I take it you want commend there?

[Rodo]

Can we call one of our grunts Jean-Luc?

[SpardaSon21]

Yeah, I'll take command of the Area 51 base.

[LordMelvin]

I'll volunteer for a transfer to whichever base is closest to a tropical beach.

[TrashMan]

Tropical? That's Red Sun base.

B.t.w. - Red Sun has become our main production center. That's right..all of our advanced Laz0r rfiles and armors..will be made in China!!!!

[FireSpawn]

I request a female scrub be called Laporte (Space lesbians ALWAYS win), and a male sniper called Garrus (He never misses).

[TrashMan]

I demand to know where the first name is referenced from...purely for reasearch purposes of course!

[SpardaSon21]

Have you not played Blue Planet 2: War in Heaven?

[TrashMan]

Two downed ufo's two missions. One for each team.

Team 2 at this point only has Patriot and Headdie in it, the rest are scrubs. But they kick ass non the less.
Armed with a lot of sniper and assult rifles, they drilled the alines full of holes.

Team 1 takes a detour to handle a terror mission in an industrial area.

Melvin takes out the bloke on the roof, Sparda and our new sniper gurl take out another.
Firespawn enters a close-range (about 3-5 squares distance) shoot-out with an alien armed with a plasma pistol (damn civilians are guilty of the alien getting a jump on him). Miracolously he survives, altough barely. The alien does not.


So after that the team proceeds to the crash site

Standard stuff. Our new sniper girl (Scope) and Melvin got 1 kill each, and the last alien was gunned down by dekker and ravenholme.


we head back and....

Sunova*****!


Anywhoo a construction site

And altough it looks like there are multiple entrances to the pipe system, there's actually only one. Naturally, we lost a few turns to find that out.


So we mosey to the sewer/pipe entrance...Sparda and firespawn kill the alien at the entrance...the passageis 2 blocks wide, so only 2 soldiers can shoot.I move the snipers forwards and they take out another alien.

And shortly after another...turns out all the aliens here are armed with only plasma grenades. Putting the snipers on the front was a amazing stroke of luck. If those aliens got close enough...game over man.. game over.


We corner and shoot the last one. Booyah.



LAZ0R RIFLE RESEARCH COMPLETE!!!!!!!

[TrashMan]

Have you not played Blue Planet 2: War in Heaven?

What's that got to do with space lesbians? I was hoping he was refferencing some perverted anime or movie...for research purposes of course!

[SpardaSon21]

It has plenty to do with space lesbians.  The player character in War in Heaven, Noemi Laporte, gets into a same-sex relationship with her commanding officer, Lorna Simms, near the end of the campaign.

[FireSpawn]

It has plenty to do with space lesbians.  The player character in War in Heaven, Noemi Laporte, gets into a same-sex relationship with her commanding officer, Lorna Simms, near the end of the campaign.

Here I was, getting a long-arse explanation ready and you just come along and do the same thing with two sentences. 

Also...

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE LESBIAAAAAAAAAANS 

[TrashMan]

Short report on a few missions. I autoed a few. Was trying to move things with the research forward a bit. The F12 is iffy and it sometimes doesn't take a screenshot..so this report list is gonna be shorter.

Team 1 killing aliens on a farm.

Quick and simple - snipers and assault rifles did most of the work.

Firespawn and Sparda got the last one in CC.

terror mission


again team 1.
Kablamis (black dude with missile laucher) almost got killed.

Constant missions are taking a toll. This is WITH all the medikits:



The aliens also attacked Rising Sun base. Luckily Team 2 was there to defend



All aliens came running down the main entrance ramp.. into tight corridors where we could butcher them.
 Teh fools. Teh Imbeciles!


Two snipers at one junction (Melvin + rookie), Patriot, Headdie(bazooka), Rodo(flamer) +2 rookes(grenade laucher, assault rifle) on another.


There were two hiding up top so we had to chase em a bit.


As you can see, Rising Sun has grown quite a bit. Right now it's chugging out laz0r rifles and power cells



By now we're intercepting smaller UFO's on a regular basis and selling them for profit. I deliberately intercept some over the sea when I can. Jsut don't want to deal with more missions.
Our HQ has got another small hangar and Area 51 base is slowly getting into shape.

And here the last (two) terror mission of the day:


This one was full of nothing but bloodspiders.

The entire team was taking pot shots, and pretty much waiting for them to come closer. We had to hunt down the last one.

And here, on the last mission, we see Ravenhole testing out our new LAZ0R RIFLE!

[Rodo]

I like that Kablamis guy, he's bleeding out yet still smiling.
Perfect attitude for an alien hunter!

[BengalTiger]

So I've DL'd the game, and now I could write a little review...

The good:
-Generally the gameplay is fun. While it's turn based and appears rather slow, I did run into situations where my MG switches to pistol and shoots because it takes less TU's than aiming the big and bulky machine gun. Same thing when someone runs out of ammo in the middle of a firefight- sometimes the secondary ends the battle.
-While the story in the intro sucks a bit, the creators put lots of effort into the details about the aliens, weapons and equipment.
-The aliens themselves are pretty alien, and their weapons differ a lot from what the humans use. This allows some variety in terms of tactics.
-The game is pretty intuitive, some of the hints are helpful.
-The AI is done pretty neatly, except for one ugly thing. Aliens sometimes take the high ground, sometimes they flank, sometimes they ambush or sneak around, and sometimes they just rush massively against a sole defender.
-I wonder when the aliens get their own heavy power armor, rocket launchers, heavy machine guns and snipers....

The bad:
-If one of your soldiers is behind a fence, wall or any other obstacle that reaches to their chest, they will most likely shoot the obstacle, firing from the hip, instead of taking aim and putting the barrel above it. This is a brilliant way to get rid of your rocket launcher dude if he/she is an @$$#*(&.
-The accuracy of guns is generally a bit too low. It makes sense to charge across an open field to get an alien within range of the 'nade thrower (and the shots that bounce reach rather far). This alone turns down the amount of planing needed to defeat the enemy. Snipers also seem to miss aimed shots rather often from as little as 50-100 meters, which pretty much forces to charge and get the team close to the aliens.

The ugly:
-If you have any injured soldiers, feel free to take them on the next mission. Just keep them out of the gunfire until they cure each other using the endlessly healing medkits.
-Keeping the injured soldiers in the hospital only causes them to be out of action for a while.
-Aliens don't seem to seek cover unless they panic. Even when I have 5 soldiers firing at them they just stand there and try to shoot back.

[Patriot]

Any word on the bundling thing?

[TrashMan]

Lots of action for both teams.

I did auto some battles, but here's a brief rundown:

TEAM2
fihting on that old glitched map

Jean-Luc was spawned next to the UFO and it took 3 turns for everyone else to catch up. Enemeis were bloodspiders and Taman.

Thankfully, the sniper(Melvin, Garrus) and assault rifle(Patriot, Jean-Luc) fire did manage to soften or kill some.
Rodo and Lapponte finished the rest (flamer + grenade launcher)


As you cna see, there was plenty of action, with both teams out on the field at the same time.



And at this point I succumb to my weakness and retry the mission. Why?

Because Headdie, the ever popular plasma magnet, go killed. Again. Why he got killed? Because he was very wounded from a previous battle and I forgot about it. Under normal circumstances, he would have survived the battle.

And Headdie almsot got killed again. The aliens were gunning for him.

Fortunately, there was only 3 of them against a team of 8 badasses.

Headde and Scope take 1 enemy each. The last one fell to reaction fire.


And MORE activity:


Aaaand....Rising sun under attack! Team 2 is full of wounded by this point, but we still fight


aliens check in...but they dont' check out:


The narrow coridor and all aliens attempting to use the main entrance works to our advantage.
4 dead aliens litter the floor and we press forward. But this is when our first real casualty of this war happens


As we move towards the base exist, a shot comes from behind, hitting Garrus. We turn around to find an alein sneakely waiting. Melvins shots doesn't kill it. Garrus, wounded, atempts his luck, but the alien returns fire....the already injured Garrus succumbs

Patriot riddels the alien in revenge.
Alas, poor Garrus, we knew him not very well. But his brother Barrus is eager to take his place.



The Saracen attmpted to intercept the alien fighter alone, bu was outmatched. Still, Mongoose managed to evade the alien long enough to bring the interceptor back home, altough criticly damaged. The damaged alein craft was finished off by the bases missile defences. Team 2 moves in to secure it.



Headdie takes one out with his missile launcher.

The next two aliens are weakend by reaction fire and finished off by Laponte. We got our own injuries at this point.

The final alien is coooked by Rodo.




Now for hte good news:
- we have several Laser Rifles now and ammo for it.
- research on Alein light armor is done, and this opens our researhc of Nanocomposite armor
- Taman autopsy done
- research on alien materials almsot done.



What to research next? Hmm...better supply you with a screenshot...

[TrashMan]

Any word on the bundling thing?

wut?

[Rodo]

Jean-Luc is a bald man, jumping from the dropship and close to the Harvester!
...  I mean bold man! bold.