Typical Xcom Terror from the Deep mission (featuring named followers/followed) · 11:15pm Feb 3rd, 2021
As I don't know how to upload videos to YouTube, I decided to record this mission on a blog. I've skipped the boring details. It was a night mission, so there was bad visibility. This was inspired by let's plays of classic XCOM by YouTuber aulddragon
- Rosa (not a person I renamed) is shot by an Aquatoid carrying a sonic pulser and is killed (alien turn)
(Aquatoids look like this; https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Aquatoid)
- Imzebrony kills the Aquatoid that killed Rosa using a harpoon rifle
- An Aquatoid leaves the Alien submarine
- Texas Style Brony tries to fire but has no time to do so (not enough time units)
- Pencil Melody fires her gauss pistol at the alien, but fails to kill it
- Amethyst Dawn fires at the alien and misses
- Texas Style Brony is killed by the Aquatoid (alien turn)
- Amethyst Dawn fires again, this time killing the Aquatoid
- An alien fires at Antiquarian, but misses; an explosion occurs near Antiquarian's position, but he is out of the blast radius
- Galaxina the Unicorn sees the alien and fires a rocket at it, blowing it up
- An Aquatoid opens the door to the alien sub and kills Melanie (not a person I renamed), but is killed by overwatch fire from Summer Dancer (alien turn)
- Summer Dancer enters the alien sub and finds an Aquatoid; she fires six times but misses it
- Galaxina fires at the alien sub, hoping to open a hole into it, but this fails
- Summer Dancer is killed by the Aquatoid she missed (alien turn)
- Pencil Melody enters the sub and shoots the Aquatoid that killed Summer Dancer in the back of the head, killing it
- Jade Dawn enters the sub and kills an alien with a harpoon rifle
- Amethyst Dawn is killed by an Aquatoid
- GodslittlePrincess enters the room where Amethyst Dawn was killed and kills the alien
Mission ends; Godslittleprincess is the only one who receives a promotion from the game (despite others getting kills and surviving)
8 aliens and 5 XCOM aquanauts were counted as killed; Alien sub and artifacts recovered.
I apologize if any of you find this offensive, and I definitely don't want any of you dead.
Man oh man, X-COM: TFTD really takes me back.
Uploading vids to Youtube is simple, but time-consuming, depending on your ISP's upload speed.
First, go to your user page and click 'Create.' Then drag and drop the video to the middle of the page. After you answer the questions about the tags, pick a thumbnail. One is picked already by default, but the engine gives you the choice to pick your own. After that, start the upload process. Depending on the size of the video, it can take anywhere from a few hours to a day or so, again, depending on your ISP. There you go!
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Okay, maybe I misspoke. I don't know how to film it in the first place. Sadly, somethings on Steam that normally work with most games (such as shift-tab for a Steam menu and f12 to take a screenshot) don't work, so I couldn't even broadcast it. I'd have to download something, and my current computer doesn't let me insert disks (because it doesn't have a port for those).
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One thing I don't like about both XCOM 1994 and XCOM TFTD is that countries can defect and there's nothing you can do to stop it (at least in the first). On my first ever game for the former, the US noped out after 3-4 months, and since then, my budget goes negative every time a monthly report comes up; current $600,000 + in the hole, and the game will probably end in defeat due to debt. And this happened on easy. Of course, I think I made mistakes, like building four bases in the 5-6 month time period of the game (including start base), as well as wasting time on bad or long research. The irony is that I have level 2 armor and heavy plasma, roughly equivalent to aliens, and my MONEY will be what kills me.
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Those games were a whole ‘nother level of hard. Even on easy. I wish I could say I ever got very far, but I didn’t. Yet the gameplay stayed compelling, even as it pummeled your face.
Maybe someday I’ll try the modern ones. I’ve heard they’re still hard, but I bet they’re not as downright impossible as the oldies.
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Download Fraps. It's the video game movie creator I use on all my uploads.
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Have you considered mass producing equipment to sell it?
Mass producing Laser Rifles and selling them when you aren't in need of producing other equipment can buff your economy early to mid game, enough to soften the blow of some nation withdrawals if you put enough of your 'downtime' into it.
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Yeah I restarted. 3rd month in and produced a bunch of laser pistols to sell. Will probably do the same with laser rifles now.