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Let's Play: X-COM - UFO Defense

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Old 01-11-2013, 06:06 PM
Egarwaen Egarwaen is offline
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Jesus christ, I get near the highest amount of kills and I'm still a damn squaddie?
You're clearly not very good at the behind-the-desk work required for a promotion.

If you know what I mean.
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Old 01-11-2013, 06:10 PM
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Aw, I was hoping that I would survive the final mission. Oh well, I somehow have the highest kill count out of all the dead X-COM units, which is pretty awesome!

Nicely done LP, Eddie! I eagerly await your next one.
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Old 01-11-2013, 06:21 PM
Mogri Mogri is online now
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Jesus christ, I get near the highest amount of kills and I'm still a damn squaddie?
And I thought I had been underpromoted!

I'm happy I survived my tour of duty (to say nothing of tying for #1 on kills). Good job making sure I was psi-resistant, Eddie.
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Old 01-11-2013, 06:28 PM
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I lived! How surprising and awesome! I was expecting to die a horrible death and set off a chain of game ruining panic. Between XCOM 2012 and this I'm even more prepared to jump into a game of my own sometime soon. Excellent job.
  #395  
Old 01-11-2013, 06:35 PM
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I knew I'd live and I knew I'd make it to Mars!

I was really just along for the trip
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Old 01-11-2013, 06:45 PM
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My shambling corpse survived! Granted, even combined my number of kills was pretty sad. Good LP Eddie, I look forward to your eventual next one.
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Old 01-11-2013, 08:47 PM
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21 combined kills! Death seemed to improve my psi ability.
  #398  
Old 01-11-2013, 10:53 PM
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Darn... The unnatural abomination that was Torzelbaum II spent too much time on the DL and in psi-training so he/she/it wasn't able to do much. I really wanted to give those aliens a piece of my mind!
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Old 01-11-2013, 10:54 PM
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Earth is saved! Hooray! And hot damn, I got the final shot on the alien brain! I'm sure I'll make millions from my future memoirs and have a long career as a minor celebrity and war hero. At least until the PTSD causes me to go crazy...

Good job kicking alien ass, Eddie, and thanks for sharing it with us!
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Old 01-12-2013, 12:33 AM
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Aww, an inglorious end to Colonel CaptBlasto! At least a got a bunch of kills on the last set of missions! Great LP Eddie, I enjoyed reading it a lot!
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Old 01-12-2013, 02:27 AM
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Very much enjoyed this Eddie!

Is it a common occurence to only see Sectopods in the last mission?
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Old 01-12-2013, 03:18 AM
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Hooray, great work! You showed that brain who's the boss!
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Old 01-12-2013, 03:30 AM
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I humbly accept my role of final mission rearguard/moral support. Someone's got to watch that elevator and prepare victory snacks for the heroes!

Great job on the LP, Eddie!
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Old 01-12-2013, 04:06 AM
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What's that? Everyone's going to Mars? Oh, well, don't mind me. I'll just stay home and watch the fort, maybe do some light grumbling about how my amazing kill ratio will forever be overshadowed by a couple of jerks who decided to do the whole "blaze of glory" thing on their first and only mission, and how kids these days just keep playing with their psionics and don't appreciate a good heavy plasma, etc. etc.
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Old 01-12-2013, 08:35 AM
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Is it a common occurence to only see Sectopods in the last mission?
Nope, you can see them in Ethereal Terror missions, battleships, and base missions too. I just wasn't interested in fighting more Ethereals than I needed to (SOP for the endgame is just to shoot everything but battleships down; why risk doing otherwise?). I'll post the research for the Sectopod in a bonus update.
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Old 01-12-2013, 11:37 AM
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Jesus christ, I get near the highest amount of kills and I'm still a damn squaddie?
At least you lived through more than 4 missions, twice! More promotions means more chance for death, so be greatful.

Great LP, Eddie. Look forward to more.
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Old 01-12-2013, 12:30 PM
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I'm dead already? I keep dying in peoples' X-Com games.
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