OpenXCOM thread

Decision Time Edition

>What the fuck is this?
This is OpenXCOM, an open source port of X-COM, UFO Defense (Or, UFO: Enemy Unknown, for you folks in EU)

>Difficulty
Superhuman Ironman
>Mods
- "UFOextender_Psionic_Line_Of_Fire ver: 1.0"
- "XcomUtil_Improved_Heavy_Laser ver: 1.0"
- "Terrain Pack v4.0 ver: 4.0"
- "darkened-ufo-vanilla-variants ver: 1.0"
- MAYBE MORE... IMAGINE...

Last time:
We get our shit slapped by idiocy in both a Terror Mission and a Downed Snakemen Terror Ship, both losing a ton of heavy plasma, Plasma Rifles, and a ton of soldiers.

Its April. I am slowly losing hope for this war.

Shall we go?

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This is a thing though.

make sure to give blaster launchers to rookies. Its not fun if you don't get squad wiped from a mind controlled rookie with explosives

Oh. Hi.

I thought you lot were later. Like.. July later.

>We get our shit slapped by idiocy in both a Terror Mission and a Downed Snakemen Terror Ship, both losing a ton of heavy plasma, Plasma Rifles, and a ton of soldiers.
Damnit, I missed all the good stuff.

Excellent!

Does it have women soldiers?

Yes it does.

Some may or may not be traps though.

Commander please tell me Popuko is still alive

Still alive, safely stowed in the base for logisitcal reasons.

Clearly not going ANYWHERE near this UFO

Is it time to play spot the Muton?

I think its time to play spot the muton

Disgusting
Shit game then

Can you spot the Muton in this picture?

Oh hey, that one's unconscious.

Had I been smart, and brought pistols, I could have trained for turns on end on this guy.

He's uh, top right?

if he wasn't facing the camera, he'd be invisible

Even then, they can be difficult to spot, but if you know what you are looking for..

Why do the Mutons wear green spandex?

What a small fuckin map

Why not?

Only four of them? Thats unnerving.

Five, I was wrong, still. some decent kills, and a Live one to.. uh..

Interrogate..

Not even a promotion? Lame.

>and a Live one to.. uh.. Interrogate..

Why do you have to be weird like that? Now it sounds like you want to get at his goose and skittle his bits.

Do you hear that?

Thats the sound of death in the morning.

>skittle his bits

need to use that

By interrogate, I mean by slaughtering them mindlessly

>Now it sounds like you want to get at his goose and skittle his bits

What the fuck am I reading?

You also hear that lads?

Its.. a familiar song.
youtube.com/watch?v=ON-7v4qnHP8

Jack gets a well deserved upgrade.

give us more soldiers to name

There's four here.

And the eight back at The Wall.

Blaster Launcher Master

We also need to decide a place and a name for a new base.

Hopefully in SSA to cover some ground there.

Dr. Piccolo

Hugh Mann

How about here for a base?

go lil bit farther down

Put base in designated shitting street

Hereish looks good, I still want to cover most of Japan, and I'll build a radar base up in the Arctic later.

...

Moothouse

...

Oh sweet it's back on again.

Oh hi.

>floater
ez money

Unfortunate.

Time to start working on my own UFO's..

Or perhaps, a more durable upgrade.

Uh oh.

If you can name one seymore pussy

Nice.
Now we can take TWO hits

What does Alien Retaliation mean again.
Base defense?

They want to destroy the Wall.

I HAVENT EVEN OUTFITTED IT WITH NAMES OR GOOD EQUIPMENT YET.

Protesters are out early to destroy it.

Yeah. they are looking for it.

Sure, its just floaters, but fuckin hell

At least come after TRUMP HQ.

Hey Commander I've recently started playing OpenXcom thank to your threads and I've been wondering. How the fuck do you deal with UFOs that go faster than 2100? They keep outrunning me.

That's even more discouraging.

You don't.

You just hope, and pray.

And then start researching UFO construction ASAP.

Okay, who the fuck do these guys think they are?

Probably China.

... You know what I find funny about this? I was reading an X-COM fanfic that was made in 2001-2002. It had China defect first.. then USA.

Yeah, if China doesn't defect, I'll be surprised.

In that case how do I get better guns for Interceptors? These Avalanche missiles don't do shit against large UFOs

Also, this is a thing. You ready? Landed Mutons.

Plasma Rifles or Heavy Plasma, will unlock Plasma Cannons for your aircraft. "Infinite" Ammo, longer range than an Avalanche, stronger too.

Only requires 15 Elerium to make, never have to make ammo for it.

Oh boy.

I find it funny, I landed in Bejing, yet I get farms.

Ching took a hit, I'll get him healed up quickly, but yeah.. OW.

>tfw I invested into Laser weapons
FUCK

deploy more smoke grenades to simulate the smog

While not enough TU's to heal him fully, its better now than the 3 fatal wounds.
No, thats good, get Laser Rifles quick, as they are easy to produce, then research Plasma.

You will thank me later.

DOOR CLACKING INTENSIFIES

I knew it!

Man these guys are durable.

What does the color coded numbers mean exactly? health, time units...?

Friendly bump

From top to bottom.

Time Units.
Energy
Health
Morale

Also, Launch, Y/N?

DO IT

So, would you like to see the results?

Its very scary.

Fuck barns, you did the right thing

alien status: removed
barn status: removed
orchard status: removed

Speaking of barns. Modpack puts in a buncha new ones.

I just realized, I didn't let you guys name this one. Shame on me!

Dildo Saggins shall be his name

No barn left unexposed.

This is concerning.

Not a single sound from the UFO.

Aren't the doors usually on one of those two visible side?

Still quiet.

UFO mod.

I saw an Ayy in there. Blowing it.

And here I thought that was the last one. My mistake.

Probably one final one in the UFO

I stand corrected..

Were they all outside in the first place?

Good work team.

Still no promotions.

>No one died
Something's not right commander

Just wait until he gets to that large UFO

It fucked off.

Not this shit again.

Dare I even try again?

Have a repeat of last time?

Well, at least this is complete.

You can engage UFOs with 2 interceptors at once?

Up to four at once. Yeah.

How do you organise the simultaneous attack?

You send more than one Interceptor out, then when one arrives, you hit the Window button at the top left to "Minimize" the window, this will allow you to make time continue, allowing two things:

1. a second interceptor/Skyranger to arrive.
2. Allow you to "Move" A UFO over land.. or sea, if you like.

The only requirement is you must be on Standoff mode and not actively engaging it.

Neat, I'll be sure to try that out