#13 Field Commander / Lost Mayhem (Syken & TapCat Let's Play Xcom2)

[@erichobbs4042]

It's missions like this that make me really appreciate the "between the eyes" reaper resistance order. It makes the lost a lot more manageable.

[@TapCat]

Agreed, it would have been a huge boost for me in this early part of the campaign.

[@nikkizerocool9101]

*On the Skyranger* Wei: 🤔 Marina: "What are you thinking about?" Wei: "Something is bothering me about that last mission" Marina: "Is it the fact we had to stay and keep fighting after killing the General?" Wei: "Nah, I already know that" Marina: "You do? Tell me please" Wei: "They need to extract his chip for the Intel, but also Shen likes collecting the helmets for the wall" 🪖 Marina: 😧 *Marina realizes why they have a trophy wall* Marina: "Well then were you wondering what Heather was saying while you were on fire?" 🔥 Wei: "No West told me" Marina: "He did? Then why was she saying your name?" Wei: "She wasn't saying my name 'Wei Wu' she was saying 'Wee Whoo' like a fire truck siren to gets Wests attention during the firefight so he could put me out" Marina: "Ohhhh" 😲 *Wei still in thought* Marina: "Is it the Advent Chisen agents follwing us on every mission?" Wei: "Nope, Central was pretty clear that they are hunting us." *Marina then begins to get a little impatient* Marina: "So what is bothering you?" Wei: "I guess I can trust you" *Wei gets close* Wei: "So remember when we were back to back fighting off wave after wave of Lost" Marina: "Yeah, it was pretty intense but-" Wei: "-So you saw what I saw right?!" Marina: "I mean maybe-" Wei: "-After so many fights together one thing should be clear to both of us" *Wei gets even closer* Marina: 😳 Wei: "Just like the Sectoids, The Lost don't wear pants either, but the real question is why?" Marina: "What?!" Wei: "Maybe the Commander knows" 🤔 Marina: "Suddenly your Standard combat intelligence score makes so much more sense" 😑 *Remember folks, if you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough* (Side note: Call back to Ep 5 on Sectiods not having pants) I would think that you would get the option to extract the Generals body to self extract since you killed him first, but way to hang in there after our guys missed SO MANY shots against the Lost in front of Advent, I definitely get a little triggered in those moments because its like "Of all the times to miss my 80 & 70 percenters back to back" but the important thing is we survived 😁

[@TapCat]

Why do I get the sense that Wei moving closer to Marina in at least two "episodes" carries more than one meaning? The misses were a little rough. I believe there was one time when I followed up a 91% miss with an 87%. Painful to say the least.

[@nikkizerocool9101]

@@TapCat Well I did notice that they both go on a lot a missions together and just happened to be looking for bonds 😉 It is a special type of frustration to see consecutive high percentage shots miss

[@jimulatt7215]

Bradford being Bradford again. Can't let that dead general get to the evac! Maybe he thought since there are so many lost, the general would become one and still run to evac!

[@TapCat]

Yeah, that made no sense to me at all. Was kind of a bummer because I was more than ready to evac after he was killed and wasn't going to stress about the enemies we would have been leaving behind. Would have saved us a ton of grief, but it was not to be.

[@Lena_Hansen_Jonsson]

"No respite for the dead" as Bradford says! Maybe he was counting on one of Sectoids resurrecting the Field Commander so he could limp to the evac zone? Just a theory :D

[@endersender350]

17:15 reminds of the scene from I am Legend where Will Smith goes into a dark house to find his dog and he sees all these zombies just standing in a circle jerk doing god knows what 😂

[@bigego503]

You have my empathy. That was REAL tough. Hopefully, missions that are that ridiculously aggravating come with a hidden benefit, like shortening your time in purgatory or something. Good vid

[@TapCat]

What was just jaw-dropping to me was how painless it was to get to the field commander and seemingly "finish" the mission only to get thrown into a meat grinder as our reward.

[@Avatrum]

Tap "Lost Attractor" Cat back on the job!

[@TapCat]

You got that right!

[@SykenPlays]

I feel for you, that was a tough one, plus it is the third time that the lost showed up -.-

[@TapCat]

This was such a funny mission. Watching the video yesterday so it would be fresh in my mind and there were moments where I would be so happy with some choice that I'd made and then other times where I wanted to scream "Nooooo" at the monitor. But at least we got through without losing anyone and got a bunch of promotions so it was all in a good cause.

[@simonburling3762]

Unfortunately you paid 10 elerium crystals to prevent wounded troops not captured troops.

[@dubious1488]

This will be interesting to see. Low chance means 25 %, yes?

[@antonzhernosek5552]

There's no way the Templar won't be captured if we're judging by Tapcat's rng so far :D

[@TapCat]

I saw that yesterday when I was watching the video. I was so worn out by the mission that I completely missed that while recording. I definitely wouldn't have paid the elerium if I had realized it, and I'm not sure I would have taken the mission at all. But what's done is done and we'll just have to hope that my missed shots in this mission appeased RNGesus enough to bring Hogbite home safely!

[@LivingArtifice]

This mission is a perfect example of why positioning is so important, and why enemies that reposition you can cause so many knock-on difficulties!

[@TapCat]

I agree. This was a mission where positioning choices were critical. I was very happy with some of my choices and very unhappy with others. I'm convinced I could have avoided most of the damage if I had done a better job of that, although it would have made the video longer and probably less entertaining (if more informative).

[@mrmcbaldspot]

"This is awkward" - understatement of the year

[@TapCat]

Indeed!

[@Cba409]

Dude i just love watching you Play this game.

[@TapCat]

Thank you, glad to hear it!

[@mikeblitz89]

these videos have given me the strength to go back to this game and face my fears with great mentorship from both you guys! keep up the good work!!!!!

[@TapCat]

Thank you and good luck on your campaign!

[@paulholroyd8515]

Thank you for that, a tough mission for sure. Good to see that mag weapons are up and you made the right call with gauss weapons as inspired. Looking forward to next episode

[@TapCat]

It's funny, I saw Syken saying in yesterday's video how I could do the other research that would only take a couple of days and that had totally been my intent. But yeah, I couldn't pass up getting the gauss research sped up.

[@micahchurch5733]

how woulda thought bradford was a comedian

[@SIUNIT06]

Unlucky that you were 1 day away from mag weapons, which would have made so many problems in this mission a non-issue. When I saw the field commander go down I was like all "oh this looks like an easy mission", then I saw there were still 50 minutes left in the video...

[@TapCat]

That was exactly how I felt when I was playing. He went down and for one golden moment I thought we were home free and had just completed one of those rare missions that ends up being a romp. Alas, it was not to be...

[@zengrkildja]

I'm starting to feel bad for your luck on these lost missions. I'm sure the tables will turn, and it'll be Sykens turn. All things considered, 18 days for the worst of it isn't terrible. I think one of the mods is helping there. I feel like in vanilla that would have been 30 days or so. As you stated, certainly not your best tactically, but everyone is alive to fight another day, and the promotions make it worthwhile in the long run. I appreciate you being your own worst critic, and offer a kindly reminder (to us viewers) that this IS XCOM, and no player is infallible, not even you and Syken. Still rooting for you guys, so dont take it so hard (not that you guys need to hear that from me or anyone else). I'm looking forward to when those tables have turned and Syken gets these awkward missions and you get the 20 minute "in-and-outs" (not likely with this mod pack, but I'll hope anyway). I'll go tactically retreat behind that full cover like button, which I'm sure XCOM will magically reduce to half cover. Cheers. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

[@TapCat]

Thanks, I get annoyed with myself in the moment when I know that I've made a bone-headed play but I don't usually let it stay with me for long. Regarding the lost... I don't want to spoil anything but make sure you watch the end of Syken's next mission to see what I end up with... it's pretty killer.

[@lwo7736]

Lost really do make this game duuull

[@garyjohnson806]

Syken was already making contact with West Africa and now you are making contact with Eastern Europe. Not really a problem with your intel levels.

[@TapCat]

As with the vast majority of decisions in the campaign, I didn't know what he had done. I looked at the map and couldn't see that he had been in the middle of anything so I started the next thing that made the most sense to me. I did watch his video yesterday and saw what he did but it was a little late to do me much good!

[@sortehuse]

Syken was scanning for making contact to West Africa

[@TapCat]

I saw that when I watched his video yesterday but didn't know that when I was recording this episode.

[@sortehuse]

@@TapCat In his video he talked about that you probably wanted the continent bonus.

[@TapCat]

@@sortehuseI saw him speculating about that and while I do love that particular bonus, the reality was that I was just trying to open up a path to the alien facility to give us another tool to keep the avatar project under control.

[@sortehuse]

@@TapCat The bonus is really good but not loosing the game because of the avatar project is even better 🙂

[@martindesantiago6508]

Wait so lore-wise does xcom not want advent to recover the body because of those chip things all advent have?

[@TapCat]

Assuming that the developers put any thought into it beyond simply not wanting you to complete a mission without killing all the enemies, that would be the most likely explanation.

[@craigrussell7542]

You seem a bit down, man. You okay?

[@TapCat]

It's funny you say that because I was watching this video yesterday so that it would be fresh in my memory and I noticed that my energy level was a bit low. Don't think I was down about anything, was probably just a bit tired that day but thanks for asking!

[@craigrussell7542]

Take care of yourself!

[@christianhowe979]

Promo>SM 😑