Lets Play: X-Com

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  1. Empty

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    X-Com - Enemy Unknown

    EXIT THE DROPSHIP BACKWARDS
    I SAID EXIT BACKWARDS

    WE'RE NOT IN THE UFO YET
    WE'RE NOT IN YET


    You sign up here, in this format:

    Name: Whatever name you want, I'd prefer this to be either your forum screenname, or if you use some other one (like emp_recruit is simon.)

    Class: Self explanatory, same as empires, Engy, Scout, Rofl, or Gren. Their stats will be revealed below.

    Preferred Main Stat: Time Units, Stamina, Health, Reaction, Firearms, Thrown, Strength
    I'll try and pick a suitable recruit with a high value for that.

    How a recruit is chosen:
    Any recruit who comes into my office with 10 bravery is getting the boot, straight away.
    Between 20 and 50, they are assigned the name emp_recruit and serve only as cannon fodder, I scout with them, they take shots for you guys, and they're basically expendable.
    50 and up, is useable material, I give them the name of the person who is first on the list. If you die, you may reapply on the list and you will be placed on the bottom, there may be significant delay between getting in, as I won't be buying shitloads of troops, and you'll only get in if someone dies and a recruit turns up with 50+ bravery.

    Classes:
    There are 4 classes.
    Riflemen
    I need lots of these guys, they do the heavy work, and carry, you guessed it, rifles, pistols, and grenades. These are the front line boys, so don't expect a huge survival rate, all emp_recruits will be riflemen. You'll get updated weaponry as we go on (lasers, etc) but I won't be giving you specialised kit, you're a foot soldier, you get standard issue gear. You're also first in line for armor. Riflemen may get booted up to the top of the list if a high bravery recruit appears with stats not highly suited for grenadier or scout.

    Engineer
    Support mainly, you may get a rifle or a pistol, but you won't be getting heavy weapons. You guys get access to medkits, detpacks, and grenades as your main tools. You guys are useful, but I won't be giving you priority over riflemen for rifles. If it comes to it, I'll simply issue you a pistol.

    Grenadier
    Heavy weapons guy, the downside is, I'll only make a character with 50 bravery, high strength and high stamina into a Grenadier, since they carry such heavy shit. Depending on the situation, you're most likely to get an autocannon or some other heavy general use support gun, or a rocket/missile launcher. You're also more likely to get armor, as I want heavy weapons to stay alive during a mission.

    Scout
    Finally, the scout, you're a highly specialist class, you get primarily pistols (so you can carry other special gear) and the occasionally long ranged gun (are there long range guns in this game? Like I said, I'm new.) You get access to all the fun tools as well, experimental grenades and such.

    This is my first time playing the game, I played for about an horu today to get familiar with the controls and gameplay, but I'm essentially a green commander. As such, I have no idea what to research, what to build, where to be, and how to play. As such, you guys can influence the game a little bit, and at the end of each "day" (not actually a day, I'll just be posting the events which occur over about a 1 hour or so of gameplay, with videos on the combat and some other stuff) at the end of each day, you'll be able to vote on a certain subject. Should we research lasers? Should we buy a tank? Should we make a second base? Etc. It'll be a yes no poll and ANYONE can vote, dead, alive or on the list. The minimum requirement is that you are involved, you can't just wander in and vote however.

    Saving Protocol
    I will only save before a battle, and at regular intervals in Geo-Mode.
    If we lose more than 2 named soldiers, I will reload. Any number of emp_recruit losses is acceptable.
    I will reload if we lose the main base to an assault, or we lose our dropship/interceptor.

    List:

    Waiting on a Recruit
    1. Varbles, Rifle/Tank (Can you name tanks? I should buy one.), Health
    2. pickled_heretic, Rifle, Str/Throwing (Prefers nades)
    3. Sprayer, Rifle, Weapons
    4. LordDz, Rifle, TUs
    5. Angry, who knows
    6. Aeoneth, Engy, HP
    7. Grantrithor, Tank?
    8. Blizzerd, Rifle
    9. Kamber, Gren
    10. Mash, Rifle

    Suggestion Forum Squad:
    Mahtipakarat - Squaddie - Rifle
    Mageknight - Rookie - Engineer

    Black Hole Squad:

    Gigabacon - Squaddie - Rifle
    Vess - Squaddie - Scout
    Foxy - Sergeant - Rifle
    Cloud - Rookie - Scout

    The first days vote.
    Where do we set up our main base, and what shall we call it?

    We can start a base in any land position on earth.

    Final Notes:
    I still haven't found an effective recording program, so I'll only be working with screenshots until someone links me a recorder that works with Xcom for XP.
    I tried hyperCam, and it resulted in glitchy video ingame, I'll keep trying with it, but it's not looking good.
    I don't have a registered version of fraps, but it does record Xcom absolutely fine, the downside is, I can only record 30 second clips, so it's not highly useful for recording anything.

    When I do finally get a recorder, I'll only be recording battles (plus witty commentary), base maintenance will be shown via screenshots.

    We start in 24 hours, might change if we get more or less signups. Ideally I'd like to start with 4-8 people on the list.
     
  2. blizzerd

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    Name: Blizzobnoxious

    Class: Gren

    Preferred Main Stat: Bravery
     
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  3. Foxy

    Foxy I lied, def a Forum Troll

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    2nd post

    Name: Foxy!
    Class: Rifleman
    Skill: reaction
     
  4. Empty

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    Answerz?
     
  5. blizzerd

    blizzerd Member

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    in africa or south pacific, call it blizzopia
     
  6. Foxy

    Foxy I lied, def a Forum Troll

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    New Zealand.

    Call it 'notasecretgovbase'.
    It'll trick the aliens!
     
  7. Varbles

    Varbles Simply Maptastic. Staff Member

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    varbles, gren, health

    Ive never played xcom but imma say go for kamchatka (eastern russia) like in risk ;)
     
  8. Jessiah

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    Call it the 'Empire of Rage'
    Or something to imply our Ragtacular community.

    Jekotia, scout, Reaction
     
  9. Vulkanis

    Vulkanis Banned

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    MY CLASS: SCOUT Preffered specilization : PSI when avalible, Dual laser pistols when not avalible

    Also we should start our base in the middle of Antarctica, the maps we can get there when we shoot down a UFO in that area are small and human favored. BASE NAME : GlACiate
    (Secret Acronym!?)
    Global
    Aegis
    Coalition

    Also Empty please practice a round before doing the recording. (Save before you go somewhere to kill aliens or investigate crash sights)

    THE LIFE OF THE EMP_RECRUIT IS NOT EQUAL TO THE LIVES OF THE MANY PEOPLE THAT CAN USE THE NAME OPTION!
     
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  10. Kane

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    Gimme the same, just set name as Kane
     
  11. Jessiah

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    Name one Jesus, random class and stat.
     
  12. Grantrithor

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    Grantrithor, Grenadier, reactions.

    Country: somewhere deserty and arid and full of nuthin(like africa).
    base: Santiago.

    I´m geussin that this would require one to play the game, so in that case I wont be on until the 27th and over(because i´m in Argentina).
     
  13. Jessiah

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    Empty is basing units after our requests, we don't play.
     
  14. Vulkanis

    Vulkanis Banned

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    You really can't copy me entirely, theirs only a 1 PSI soldier limit.
     
  15. Nattaboy

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    How bout mah house? You can use my ICBM silo.

    Also,
    Name:Gigabacon
    Class: Rifleman
    Preferred Main Stat: Firearms
     
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  16. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    Name: / \
    ....... .. |

    Class: Gren

    Preferred Main Stat: Health
     
  17. Vulkanis

    Vulkanis Banned

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    Lol, You cant really get that specifically, you kinda just ask for your weapon like PSI or the Rocket launcher.

    Health stats improve after rank up and well no way to make custom charecters unless Empty knows how to use Xcomutil
     
  18. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    don't blame me, i randomly selected from what empty said i availible
    i have no exp with x-com series whatsoever
     
  19. Vulkanis

    Vulkanis Banned

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    :rolleyes:
    Heres the short story, Aliens are attacking Earth, Humans dont have any idea why, and form a coalition to figure it out, X:COM is recieving funding from all the major countries in the world, and have mentioned that they will reduce funding if X:com doesnt deliver its share of the job and figure out why theirs aliens attaking, where their from, and more importantly to aquire their tech.


    So basically were a trans-planet peace keeper station.
     
  20. Empty

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    We shoot aliens.
    NZ got two votes, plus there were a few locations of similar distance.
    No name got double up, so I'm simply going to call our first base: XCOM-BHS
    XCOM.
    Black Hole Squad

    So lets embark!
    TALLY HO
    Adding people to the list.
     

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