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onto meeting the reapers. which was a bit of a long mission so ill probably break for some dinner in between


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Ew put it back on
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Nice. Ranger seems cool. Surprised I lived this long.
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Star Reaper and Conti were flawless through the lost. As was Error and PaRappa. Learning from previous mistakes (namely grenades are never worth it vs them) made that half much easier.

Assassin seems to have gotten better starting perks. She already has immune to melee and her weakness is getting hit 3 times in 1 turn, whereas in my first run it was close ranged attacks. But again, knowing the mission made it really easy. RNG selected mufferaw to be the victim of her daze attack, then i made her flee with the last soldier, and the lost spawned on top of me. The took mox down to 2 hp, and error took a hit, but no fatalities. Parappa is a grenadier and mufferaw another ranger. While error and star reaper make corporal. Error will go for long range while reaper will be the pistol guy.



Also parappa is the only soldier with 2 9.0+ compatibility, with error at 9.3 and conti at 9.2. Even in the digital world parappas swag cant be matched
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I Like Toast posted...

Popcorn_Fairy

Aww hell yeah!

I Like Toast posted...

Popcorn failed his hack but still became a corporal.

So badass he fails and still gets the promotion.

Getting eastern US connected, but first the first retaliation mission.



Going with Popcorn, leana, mernardi and iosifsvoboda, back with her helmet on


Popcorn got shot for 4 damage rushing off to save a civ and then getting a faceless and 3 civilians were killed.


iosifsvoboda became yet another sharpshooter, Merandi and leana became corporal going melee and stealth respectively. Popcorn Sergeant and continuing down being a medic

Probably do one more before attempting sleep.
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I Like Toast posted...

@Kisai

Perfect. Except for the nickname, and that little addition to the bio. ¬_¬
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I think I might download this stuff. I own XCOM 2 but... have yet to play it.
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and our first negative trait. Is popcorn might start P A N I C K I N G if he misses a shot.



and first month completes, +228 simoleons.


First potential dark events will be +armor or +intel cost. Hopefully im able to stop the armor one, since that will be much harder right now with starter weapons.


Sent merandi and iosifsvoboda to find mox

Guerilla Tactic school finished, so instantly upgraded squad size to 5.

Eastern US contacted, won't do the mission for a bit since no point in rushing it.

Starting magnetic weapons research and building an infirmary

Covert op was successful and they're now bonded.


so let's go get our boy back on the slightly annoying stealth mission


and with previous experience, in and out without firing a shot


Starreaper and the reaper are now also bonded as their names were fated to be, while conti is corporal and also going the blade path.


want to play more but need a decent night of sleep D:


Error1355 posted...

I think I might download this stuff. I own XCOM 2 but... have yet to play it.

It's pretty fun, I obviously like the genre and the genre isn't for everyone. But I feel xcom does a good job of balancing being friendly (beyond RNG) and having depth. You can go further with something like Xenonauts thats a lot more depth. And Xcom 2s mods make it pretty flexible, the long war mod almost changes it into a new game, but that's by far the most overhauling mod out there. Then theres also just a lot of fun mods, like being able to bring in mass effect, star wars, overwatch, etc characters into your squad. Though a lot of those broke with the expac since they did a big overhaul on the engine.

Games like massive chalice and banner saga are other recent games that are similar and pretty frequently on sale for cheap.
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I Like Toast posted...

and our first negative trait. Is popcorn might start P A N I C K I N G if he misses a shot.

An inspiration to us all. So devoted to the cause he panics when he misses.

I Like Toast posted...

@Parappa09

that's so fucking cool toast

i look awesome, especially with those pants lol
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Popcorn_Fairy posted...

I Like Toast posted...

and our first negative trait. Is popcorn might start P A N I C K I N G if he misses a shot.

An inspiration to us all. So devoted to the cause he panics when he misses.

I panic irl when I miss because the laws of XCOM demand that it hits something it absolutely shouldn't.
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all right, social obligations completed.

Let's XCOM. Doing the Guerilla Op to get rid of the potential Armor dark event. Giving Virus and Kisai their first action.



For all the good luck of yesterday, was gone today. probably missed 4 70%+ shots. Kisai was crit'd for 4 damage, so no deaths at least. Virus is a specialist, Kisai a Grenadier. The reaper and Star Reaper became Sergeants.


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An engineer from the world map and Avatar progress started finally. Starting the resistance ring construction. Which caps my current power limit until I get to the 4th floor.

Started scanning for a soldier, got a supply raid mission.



Vipers made their first appearance. And assassin came to annoy as well. But she didnt even get an attack off. Flawless mission. Maybe I should have bumped above default difficulty...Parapa and melon to Corporal, Merandi to Sergeant.



Britain and Canada have bonded



Got some random Grenadier from the scan. Little annoyed its not from the char pool.


Month end, some more simoleons. Potential dark event of 50% supply drop next time seems the most threatening




Sending Merlandi and ios to find the templars. And give merlandi +1 movement

While the reapers offering a mission that adds another engineer




annnnd I forgot purifiers explode on death when RNG wills. Leana meleed one, took 5 damage, gremlin healed her for 4, then she got viper hooked for 3, and finally after a triple reinforcement drop she got flanked and killed making the first casualty of the Campaign. RIP in pieces. PaRappa the gentlemen carried her corpse back to the evac so she can be given a proper burial. In brighter news, Parappa and conti became Sergeants as well, and Error and Popcorn are bonded.




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Are these images being made by you or does the game do this itself?
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The "propaganda" posters are mostly auto-generated, you get the option to adjust them. For most of them I just change the location and sometimes the angle. It's a new feature for the expansion. They released that piece as a stand alone demo as well.
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I should totally get into this game.
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Spent the 75 credits to grab Blue, GeneralKenobi, and dark ninja. And got the Black Market which I used to purchase another Engineer. 4 Engineers this early might mean I dont need the engineering bay, which frees up a base slot. Also helping excavating times a lot.


Infirmary is now finished. So I can remove Conti's negative trait and get 100% faster healing.

Magnetic weapons finished, immediately bought the 4 weapon upgrades that unlocks and a sniper rifle breakthrough available.

Resistance ring also finished, so we can do more ops.

Level 3 room dog out, 10 more days for a power coil room then I can resume base expansion.

Next guerilla ops, which unfortunately doesn't have the reduced supply drop, so going for the one that gives a scientist. will take Blue on his first mission.



Pretty harmless mission as it went flawless, blue racked up 3 kills and became a ranger. Though the kill hogging meant no other promotions.

And your propaganda posters will show up in game as well.




Covert action came back a success. Sending them back out to get supplies, but mostly to get merandi +8 dodge.

Sniper research done, now starting plated armor.

covert op finished, which gave ios a promoation. Sending error and popcorn to reduce avatar progres, but more so to give popcorn some

And after scanning for intel got one to increase resistance contacts. Which was interrupted by a retaliation mission.

And since blue had 10 compatibility with a random, introducing @V-E-G-Y- @ssj3vegeta @ssj3vegeta2 @ssj3vegeta_


who will be going on the retaliation mission


First Mutons of this run. Overall a rather annoying mission. Resistance forces stealing a lot of kills. Vegy became another sharpshooter. Blue a corporal. Melon and error a Sergeant.

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I'm glad my guy is doing so well.
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Merandi and ios are ready for bond lvl 2, but need that power relay before i can build training center.

Scanned out the contact, which was only +1. And as the double scan time dark event triggers, got one for + power :\ Sending Kenobi to GTS to become a ranger than will send darkninja to be a specialust

Going to do the story mission blacksite now.


Assassin showed up again. Was a little more annoying, but still dealt with. Melon panicked when conti got flanked and shot. Beyond that routine. Conti and merandi made Lieutenant. ios and the templar sergeant.



and melon is S H O O K and developed the obsessive reloader trait.


Getting started on the power relay and the UFO is now hunting us.

Another month finished. Always miss overwatch looks annoying but will go for the supplies if available.



Sendind pocporn and error to hunt the assassin op.

Relay finished, so starting proving ground and training center. Upgraded Covert ups which i guess was a mistake to do now, since cant utilize the upgrade until the month is over. But the previous was successful, now sending Conti on a 4 day mission that will promote him.

Plated Armor finally finished and got a sword breakthrough, which is yay since rangers are best. Bought the predator armor so everyone lives a bit longer. And upgraded the sword with the Armor research, so i'm broke until i pick up the supply drop.

And UFO found us. Not going to deal with this tonight, so, stay tuned next time.

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Head: short brown fade
Eye color: green
Sleeves: yes
Color 1: dark green
Color 2: lighter green
Gun color: silver
Nationality: canada
Gender: Male
Scars: no
Tattoos: no
Biography: weeb
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Cool
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iosifsvoboda posted...

Cool

We're apparently good buds lol
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I started replaying, waiting for a PS4 DLC release. Never really played through the DLC before. I'm loving it. I have my three squad rotation system set up and all the armor. I just need to finish off my avenger and set up networks in the Americas. I keep waiting on the edge of the Avatar timer, though.

The one thing I wish they would have added to the new DLC is a legitamite way to define and call up squads. I have always made groups of units that work together and are usually color coded (Alpha/Bravo/Charlie or Red/Blue/Green), but it's a pain keeping track of all of them and calling them up and switching over equipment every time. I've always used that system to avoid over-levling/under-leveling and so that if someone was injured I wasn't screwed, but with the additional fatigue system and the bond system they implemented, it seems like it would actually be a very advisable tactic that should be supported.

This is on Normal, right?

Also, how does fatigue work in this? I'm familiar with how it worked in Long War for EU/EW, but I wonder if it's any different here.
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yeah default difficulty. Fatigue seems to just make them more likely to panic. Melon was fatigued when a brought him, so he panicked when someone else got shot, and now needs 2 weeks of rest and developed the negative trait.
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I just need some time off. No big deal.
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Back to defending th avenger. Vegy quickly got critted and berskers are here. And errybody wanted to attack vegy. who eventually bleed out and died on the avenger deck. What i get for not unequipping the medipack on the covert op :S Though beryond that, 38 dead advent. So errybody gets a promotion.




also...this was autogenerated and i lol'd given the name @bluezero


Conti came back from his op so he's now our first captain, so we now have max squad size, sending him back out for a quick major.

Guerilla Ops started, going to eliminate the 50% supply drop and get a scientist, double nice.


End result a straightforward flawless mission. Virus a Corporal. Blue a Lieutenant. Popcorn a captain.

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Proving grounds finishes so building a quick experimental ammo first. Sword breakthrough finished, now a inspired data cache so its just a few days. making contact with Mexico. Gauss Weapons expired, so taking that now. Buying an engineer from black market.

Parappa and Contis covert op was ez pz, sending melon and the templar on a mission to increase income. Conti is now a major.

Training center finally finished, so ios and merandi are becoming bond 2. and spending all those sweet sweet ability points.

Experimental ammo ended up talon rounds, which improves crit chance and damage.

Got a landed UFO mission now. Sending Kenobi on his first mission. Gave parappa the ammo since i already had a laser scope on him.



First Spectre now, which I believe is a new unit. Virus got critted for 8 and died after a double spawn from opening a door :\ No promotions




Starting our Spark.


Gauss weapons finished, so Sharpshooters and Grenadiers are now better. and im broke again. Data Cache is still inspired, so getting some more intel.

Melon and the templar became bonded


Contact has been completed in Mexico. Merandi and ios finished their bond training so now goes parappa and
conti. Starting Alien encryption research.

Month end report


And a council mission to get a scientist. Warlock appeared. He exploded a zombie on parappa but otherwise seemed easier than assassin. Merandi and ios promoted.


Starting a resistance comms.

Our spark finished, so here's CEjus


Expanding to brazil. Resistance comm research complete, starting an inspired psionics.

Gorilla Op, going to stop +2 avatar progress since its already above half.


but first a lunch break
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Damn my dude is going places.
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So spectres have their own version of mind control. But still flawless. Parappa got the only promotion, bringing him to captain.



Skulljack built and brazil contact made. Psionics researched.

Now a retaliation mission already in brazil. Hunter showed up to round out the final chosen. At least for the first appearance he was by far the easiest. Didn't help that he ran into a resistance group and took 8 free damage. Took some damage and the resistance killed a berserker that dropped loot i couldn't get to in time :( CEjus promoted, so hes a walking full coverage wall now. and the templar got a promotion as well. Mernardi is now afraid of mutons.



Error and Popcorn getting bond 2 training. Medkit upgraded. Sending blue and ninja to reduce avatar progress on covert op.

Month End


And council mission, just intel and credits this time


Which brings our first appearance of archons. Did the skulljack, forgot about the codex spawn. Took more damage than I should, but dark vip extracted. Melon made captain.


Upgraded the Infirmary and removing Mernardi's negative trait. The star reaper and the reaper are bond 2 training. Completed an experimental weapon for a flamethrower.

Guerilla Ops, none seems particularly bad, so just going for the one that rewards supplies so i get some more buildings up.



Mernardi jinxed himself, started to bleed out but had a specialist to revive. So he'll be healing for a bit. Though he did make Major. EnragedSlot to corporal.



Got dragon rounds from experimental ammo. Putting that onto a sniper. Got our engineer from covert op. Sending Melon, Blue, and the templar to find the assassin. Making contact in Chile. Parappa and Conti are going for bond 3. Which lets them do a no action dual attack, giggity. And got an acid grenade from experimental, now for plasma grenades which i should have done first, but what if rng was cooler.

Now a supply raid with Lost in the area.


Took a little damage, but nothing to worry about. Racked up 37 kills. which resulted in everyone but star reaper getting a promotion. Popcorn to major. Ios and the reaper to captain. Kenobi to Sergeant. Mech to knight, so he gets to punch people now.


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Head: helmet/hat or hair style and color. Helmet
Eye color: brown
Sleeves: yes
Color 1Black
Color 2:grey
Gun color:orange
Nationality:Spanish
Gender: male
Scars: yes
Tattoos: no
Biography:Just want to hunt me some aliens.
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Those propaganda posters are neat
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Covert op finished, sending Blue and templar back out to reduce avatar progress. Plasma Grenades finished. Monthly report came in just before i could finish scanning chile :(



Potential dark events are nothing too terrible, just annoyances like usual. Am able to instant build experimental ammo though, so thats cool. Built a handful of them. And Melon became OCD



Templars giving a mission that will give a scientist and some non cemen soldiers.


Assassin showed up. and that mission went to shit. Engaged a advent pod, which popped lost pods. Then when going to melee down an advent, popped another pod resulting in me getting attacked in 3 directions. Unable to get to mernardi after he was knocked out by the assassin, she captured him and ran. One of the soldiers i was rescuing was chosen to be a sacrifice to mutons, though he bled out and was able to be taken back to base. The silver lining, Conti became our first colonel....but is now afraid of the chosen





@mach25687 can be the recently recruited ranger who is already a captain


now for another food break

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Those propaganda posters are neat

yeah, it's tempting to devote a lot of time to getting them better, the defaults come out pretty well.
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I Like Toast posted...

Covert op finished, sending Blue and templar back out to reduce avatar progress. Plasma Grenades finished. Monthly report came in just before i could finish scanning chile :(



Potential dark events are nothing too terrible, just annoyances like usual. Am able to instant build experimental ammo though, so thats cool. Built a handful of them. And Melon became OCD



Templars giving a mission that will give a scientist and some non cemen soldiers.


Assassin showed up. and that mission went to shit. Engaged a advent pod, which popped lost pods. Then when going to melee down an advent, popped another pod resulting in me getting attacked in 3 directions. Unable to get to mernardi after he was knocked out by the assassin, she captured him and ran. One of the soldiers i was rescuing was chosen to be a sacrifice to mutons, though he bled out and was able to be taken back to base. The silver lining, Conti became our first colonel....but is now afraid of the chosen





@mach25687 can be the recently recruited ranger who is already a captain


now for another food break

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Those propaganda posters are neat

yeah, it's tempting to devote a lot of time to getting them better, the defaults come out pretty well.

Awesome.
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Elrium done so starting plasma rifles now. And got a shredder from experimental. Puttin up comm stations in Eastern US and Chile to get the NA and SA continent bonuses.

Guirella Ops popped up, doing advent progress since I need to stop neglecting the plot >_>


Mission was uneventful, flawless finish. And the hack gave me 4 weeks of faster scans, so nice. Starreaper, Kenobi, and Kisai all got promotions.



Sending Popcorn, Mox, and Elena to find the assassin stronghold. having conti remove his fear of chosen. Chile comm station up, so now weapon upgrades are better. Avatar dooms day clock started. But a supply raid first >_>




Which brought our first Andromedon and an all around rough mission, but no deaths. Mech and enragedslit got promotions.

Month End


and with Plasma weapons researched, lets go take down a avatar facality



annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd berserker ruler, which wasn't too terrible thanks to an acid grenade from parappa. it escaped with 10 or so hp. Beyond that, it was just a facality mission, in and out with no other problems. no promotions.



Which will be it for tonight, tomorrow I'll do the Assassin stronghold.
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This is going well!
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Getting power relay #2 up and the shadow chamber. sending blue, ninja. and slit for part 2 of finding the warlock. Was hoping for 1 more day to heal up a couple soldiers, but retaliation mission.



Warlock appeared. oh boy cryslaids. Popcorn got knocked unconscious by a berserker and mox got stabbed by a chyslaid. Melon and Parappa promotions to major.



Now a couple day heal and onto the assassin stronghold.



That mission started off really easy, but then you have to kill her twice, with addons spawning. Melon who was near full hp, got an acid grenade lobbed on him and died to acid burn before my turn :(




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I Like Toast posted...

@Virus731

He looks better than I could have imagined... now to go through the rest of the topic to see if he's still alive.

Edit: This is a 10/10 topic
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;_;

RIP sweet Melon.
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and now quickly a Guerilla op, will go for getting an engineer which will prevent advent from getting armor.


Which brought our first gatekeeper, killed it before it could attack though. Mox took some damage, but otherwise fairly easy. And Mox was the only one to get promoted.



Going to spend dat ap again, since ignored it for a couple months. Giving starreaper Ever Vigilant, so now he can sprint and get automatic overwatch. Popcorn gets Haywire so he can hack and long range heal. Parappa gets blast padding since he likes getting shot at so much >_> ios hail of bullets, guaranteed hit from sniper for extra ammo. Mack got implaceable so I can it and bladestorm. Gave error hail of bullets and lighting strike. Still got 20 xcom ap, but want to wait for some more colonels.

Making contact with the aussies. Power relay built. Shadow chamber built. Error and Popcorn finished bond 3 training. Aussies contacted, now indonesia.

And now a council mission.



Sectopod T.T But thanks to hacking the camera thingies, got +33% crit chance. Took a little too much damage to a codex 2x spectre pod, but still went okay. Kenobi and Error got promoted.



using the supplies to get a psilab built. Finally starting the research to use the Assassins weapons as well.

Month end report.


Indonesia added. Blue promoted to captain from an op, and finally got an op to get back mernardi, so doing that with blue and mox. Assassin weapons finished, so doing the blacksite vial now. Building a relay station for the continent bonus for a chance that advent will switch sides in a mission.

Unlocked the save mernardi mission. So lets do that with Conti having the assassin gear equipped.


but first L U N C H
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Damn it. Had a bunch written, misclicked and lost it all D:

the tl;dr, mernardi was rescued, did a guerilla op that went okay. Psilab finished and recruited trout paste and hes a psionic now. Scanned for another guirrala op, which was fubar. A sectopod spawned on the device to protect and there was no way to get there in time, and since it was a device mission all the pods concetrated there and this happened



So i evaced out without taking damage.

Now a reaper rescue mission against the lost



Flawless mission. especially since i have any hit on the lost is a kill. The templar made Major



And mack and the templar are bond 1 now


might be it for tonight, prob gunna do some netflix and got a FF draft
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Decided to play a bit more. Error finished his op and he's up to Major. Sending blue and Trout to start finding the hunter.

Month Report


Finished contact in west africa. Finished power armor and sold some corpses so now our gear is better. and got inspired for beam weapons.

Guerilla ops, going to counter viper ammo.


Outside of taking a grenade, no damage. CEjus promoted to vanguard.



Finished beam research, but I need alloys to build the upgrades. So I scanned for some and got the spark upgrade. Need a bit more for the grenadiers upgrade. But I did build a wraith suit and gave it to conti.

as is tradition, month report about a half a day before adding east africa.



Blue should be getting pretty strong as hes getting almost all the op perks. But first a retaliation mission...tomorrow.
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And back to xcom. A bunch of chryssalid and warlock. chryssalid aren't too bad now that i have plasma and can get them in one hit. CEjus took a coule hits because i moved to far in overdrive, otherwise only 2 civs lost.



Advent timer triggered again, so going to take out another alien facility since i still need 2 more territories before i can do the blacksite mission.



archon king showed up, who is annoying as fuck. He knocked parappa unconscious, but I carried him out. I barely tickled him before he got to escape. After that, used the wraith ability for ez access.



Got a gorilla op almost immediately after. Doing one that will prevent their detection radius from increasing and will give me another scientist.



Which was a rather annoying mission with too many double pods. downside to rangers >_> but they're so much fun. Star reaper got to Colonel though. Dark ninja to sergeant. And parappa is afraid of psionics.


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South africa added. Blue made colonel. Started Psi training since i forgot that's how they level >_> And month end



Now a council mission.



Berserker queen showed up, so shes dead now. i extracted the VIP but said he died...so...*shrug*



Added a comm relay to africa so future monthly drops will now be instant pick ups. Guerilla op just before i could finish scanning for alloys, and the avatar timer is ticking again.

Hunter chosen showed up. Would be flawless but i walked through fire >_>


time for a break for a bit now
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I'd like to try XCOM 2 out one of these days, I just don't want to have to play it on console.
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I love the monocle.
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Is there a trait where soldiers are terrified of chryssalids? Because my friend requested I make him a soldier with that to reflect his real life fear of spiders.
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lost what i was typing again so meh >_> here's some pics, no one should die from this point until the final mission at least as I've got max upgrades. I've killled the Berseker queen and Archon king. Took down the warlock so just Hunter left. Did a defend attack from the hunter, which is like when the avenger gets attacked but with a gun shooting at it. Did the foundry and codex brain research. And got a bunch of colonels.

CEjus got a new head, might be in previous pics, not sure


new bonds



the clown make up still makes me giggle


before mentioned big gun


which went flawless


and just a neat sectopod shot


bluezero posted...

I love the monocle.

i use you for most of the ops, so you're getting pretty op.


Conti for reference


If I switched armors you'd have evasion of 50(or just bought another one). Between the ops and playing on standard difficulty I can near indefinitely stall avatar progress. It's tempting to see how high I can go but starting to focus on the story missions as the the missions are less fun as they lose their challenge.

SGT_Conti posted...

Is there a trait where soldiers are terrified of chryssalids? Because my friend requested I make him a soldier with that to reflect his real life fear of spiders.

I dont think you can give negative traits, but i'd assume there is one. I've gotten fear of mutons, chosen, psionics, missed shots, and the chronic reloader that i remember.

given my preference to rangers, bladestorm makes them non factors outside of retaliation missions.
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