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[@AnAardvark]

Mechs on high ground can't see enemies below them due to a design flaw. Their necks don't bend, and if they lean over enough to see below them they fall over.

[@jonpickens3965]

And therein lies a great meme opportunity...

[@Wolfeson28]

I'm sensing a close design relationship with ED-209.

[@classicfrog80]

For how old this game is, they really did great animation for the water. Always liked this mission for visuals.

[@damionjones8092]

Back when most devs cared

[@chasethecw]

I'm going to be so sad when this series ends. I have been waking up every morning at 6 and getting to watch this has been such a pleasure. It's a perfect series that I have been so invested in. I care about the troops, the story of all the crazy fights and close calls, the devastating losses. It will be a missing part of my mornings when it's gone.

[@Myomer104]

Fortunately, it'll be quickly replaced by XCOM 2.

[@GionnyTheGreat]

@@Myomer104 i cant wait to see what kind of modlist the new season of xcom 2 will have.

[@HillHomeGaming]

Mellioria looking JACKED in this episode haha

[@Ghost0fTheNavigator]

Bro, the longest sniper shot in existence landed for 23 damage! That's viciously good! Really happy to see this mission was in hand; there's been a few tough ones recently. I'm sure you can't be too far away from the next alien power spike, thankfully, Titan armour is just a day away - you'll be needing it when the Sectopods arrive.

[@jonpickens3965]

Re: Deluge: Super run. You ARE the Deluge. ((Ha! Hitting a sectoid with a particle beam never gets old.)) Re: Plasma Cannon: I would never criticize your decision here. Your war, your fight--that's why you get the big bucks (and the biggest buck stops with you). You're just responsible for the fate of humanity. No pressure. From the _Advanced Armchair General Guide to Critiques_ : "Once for info, once for emphasis; the rest is ragging. Bad form to rag." Favorite book. Re: Exalt Op: Given the rest of your team, I think you would have little trouble with two Squaddies along, if you match your Deluge play. (Personally I like the upcoming map.) Have fun! Re: Sectoids/Thin Men: You will continue to get these on missions, in numbers--the devs give you lots of fodder for those aerial buffs (though they are somewhat stingy with cyberdiscs). You probably scored two Aims and two Dodges here. Also enough Meld to fill two canisters. And they spot you a psionic, as well. ((She's probably scripted to be your Chosen One. Without scripting, her raw odds are about 30%, but she's never missed for me, as I recall.)) Re: Durant Build: Suppression is an interesting choice. Once you realize how useful it is, I expect you will be constantly torn between using that and using psionics to build up those abilities (sort of like sticking an arc thrower on a Support when you are in hunting mode and need the Smoke). So you might consider starting another Suppression specialist sometime soon. Re: Blackbird: Nice build. Wouldn't worry about lack of healing. Just assign a minder with an arc thrower and it'll be OK (well...probably). Re: Aircraft ((the straight dope, Impossible Difficulty)) Raven Spd 1500 Tac Sp 10 HP 2500 Armor 6 Pen 0 Cost $40 +$20/mo Firestorm Spd 3500 Tac Sp 15 HP 6500 Armor 25 Pen 16 Cost 200 +$10/mo UFO (low end) Spd 1500 Tac Sp 17 HP 800 Armor 0 Pen 0 UFO (high end) Spd 3500 Tac Sp 60 HP 2900 Armor 64 Pen 25 Deploy Time: Raven 3 days/Firestorm 14 days Ravens are ordered in continent Hanger and build in an empty slot there. Firestorms build in Home base Hangar in an empty slot. No slot, no build. Firestorms get to other bases via transfer (Hanger). Transfer Time: 3 days all Repair Time: 7 days all ReEquip Time: 24 hrs all INTERCEPTOR WEAPONS Avalanche Cost $0 Hit 70% Rng 100 Slow Fire Dmg 400 Pen 0 Phoenix Cost $35 Hit 95% Rng 85 Rapid Fire Dmg 350 Pen 6 Laser Cannon Cost $35 Hit 85% Rng 85 Rapid Fire Dmg 400 Pen 28 Plasma Cannon Cost $100 Hit 85% Rng 100 Med Fire Dmg 700 Pen 33 EMP Cannon Cost $200 Hit 100% Rng 85 Med Fire Dmg 1200 Pen 44 Fusion Lance Cost $150 Hit 90% Rng 100 Slow Fire Dmg 1400 Pen 44 Alloys required each: Laser 25, Plasma 20, EMP 30, Fusion 30; others none Elerium required each: Plasma/EMP/Fusion 20; others none Fusion Lance Research requires a Fusion Core MODULES Aim Cost $10 Needs 3 Sectoid Avail Mo 1 (March) Dodge Cost $50 Needs 3 Floater Avail Mo 2 (April) Boost Cost $20 Needs 2 Cyberdisc Avail Mo 4 (June) ((end of straight dope))

[@LackOfHarmony]

The gun Blackbird is using is what caused that overwatch confusion on the Mectoid. When firing in overwatch, it sometimes deals the damage before the animation finishes. I’ve seen it before.

[@Wolfeson28]

Ya, the shot that hit was Wilson, 100%. Hide had already taken and missed his overwatch.

[@Zifferony]

It's very nice that you named one of the medals after 'Baby'. She might be long dead, but her memory lives on through the medal 🙂

[@nicholasleclair995]

Mimetic skin+ gunslinger with half cover is full = crazy scout who can dash across the map and snag every meld

[@suggestiveartefacts3956]

Writers' and roleplayers' logs are compiled at: docs.google.com/document/d/1WpKFCy6kCWAOOjlFWC9y7hZ0h9ARhL0k3Sv6ptMIHPM/edit?usp=sharing

[@ausSwiffer]

Emela 'Herald' Winds, Personal Log #26 August 9, 0700 This feels more like it. Less than a day after the last mission, the Council woke everyone up in the early hours of the morning, wanting us to secure an unknown weapon that the aliens were very keen to get their hands on. The truck carrying the weapon had been stopped on a dam outside of Paris due to sustained attacks and when the team landed, it was already in a pretty bad way. It looked in a worse state than our base, though to be fair, the technicians have been working night and day to get things fixed. It was not the easiest of scenarios to work through as a team, especially in our reduced state. There were numerous burnt out wrecks scattered across the dam as well as more than a few that hadn't yet blown up for us to be wary of; I have seen enough soldiers rushed to medbay after standing too close to unexploded cars. We did our best to navigate the team through the mess and, in all honesty, Hide really helped by blowing up most of the remaining cars long before our people ever got close to them. The weapon turned out to be a living, breathing person. I have no idea why Exalt had her locked in the back of a truck, but judging by the fact the Commander sent her immediately to the newly built Psi lab to join Zhang, we suspect Exalt saw promise in her. I do not even know, realistically, what the Psi labs will let our soldiers do but I assume it will be helpful. Actually, I should make note to find that out; the sooner we as strategists know what they can do, the sooner we can start working on how to best utilise them. That's what leaders do, right? Well, leaders who have time, I assume. No sooner had the Skyranger touched down than we got word that Ibrahim needed to be pulled out. Leigh, Hide, Mellioria, Durant and one of our newer supports, Penton, turned right back around and got back on board. By the time they were strapped in, Cindy had arrived to join them, refreshed after her stay in the medbay. It felt strange to be on the flight deck waving goodbye to the team, rather than welcoming them home. They should be touching down in the next few minutes. This has already been a long morning. I hope Exalt haven't really woken up yet; with the Council disrespecting my desire to get proper rest with their early wakeup call I really don't want two mentally challenging missions in a row. -E

[@Vognee]

Not much people still writing. Thank you for continuing the tradition

[@jasonexplosion154]

2:05 "-we're gonna need to move quickly-" my PTSD is kicking in.

[@huntermad5668]

There is no map in XCOM 1 require u to rush... In fact, rushing is a terrible idea as it would spawn more enemies than normal. But Odd is a returnee...😂

[@markusr.1513]

Mr. Odd: "I need to feed kills to my sniper" Also Mr. Odd, 30sec later: "Let's ignore all the 1-hit-wonders and aim for the enemy that needs a crit but can be 1-shotted by the Mech" Classic 😁🥰 You gotta love this :)

[@mrman1088]

The map this mission was really cool!

[@WanoReborn]

Now we have a psionic operative, nice! I hope next mission won't be another hacker attack of EXALT at Odd's computer =) Good luck!

[@exequielgaleano9947]

I love how you rediscover and freshly relive many moments of the game! The way you enjoy everything is one of the things that got me hooked to your content in general. Many thanks for all the work you do and for keeping that fresh style of yours!!! 😁

[@HDBO261]

That map of the damn with the water rushing past looks great! Its a shame this map isnt in the normal rotation (as far as I am aware of anyways). Great mission!

[@spiritsoldier4475]

Interceptor PIlot, Log #34 - Aren Locke Turns out, the cargo from that French convoy... was a woman. A civilian. One that likely has psionic powers. Who made implications that many others got kidnapped, some of them killed. It's clear that more is going on with all that. So Command decided to take her back to base, so they can get more intel out of her; and along with that, they also equipped her and make her part of the ground team, at her request. She's also being tested for any latent psionic abilities, after the little show that was put on at the dam. Honestly, having a kidnap civvie become a X-com soldier doesn't sound like the brightest idea, but civilians has been recruited before. She could prove herself capable. And as soon as Skyranger brought the team back to base, Ibrahim made the call for extraction. The same team is being sent out, only with Blackbird being switched out for Martinez, our other support. It's EXALT, so the mission shouldn't be too difficult, if at all. Locke out.

[@Vognee]

Kidnapped civvie cracked me up

[@kevinyuan1535]

Annette is a Heavy? Why do I remember her also will be a support in the game?

[@IamfromHungary]

She's a support in my campaign as well, but her class is probably decided by RNG

[@jamesdino1388]

​@@IamfromHungaryUnlike Zhang, Annette's class is indeed not set. That being said heavy is her best class and thankfully wasn't a sniper here.

[@gamingnscience]

@@jamesdino1388 As long as she gets to kill some aliens...

[@huntermad5668]

Her aim is terrible and HP Is low so Heavy is the best.

[@omerkursadnarinoglu3818]

Seriously after earliest capture I would be searching for plasma pistols and light plasma rifles. They are better than laser equipment and you don't pour money into laser equipment either and they get you plasma weapon credit (if I'm not wrong) reducing plasma weapon research times. You could equip multiple zappers and hunt for weapons (I never used mimetic skin now I see how strong it is) I am seriously planning on a new campaign now.

[@0o0ification]

Never Mind the Exalt, Here's the Annette Mission IMHO This is such a great level design, with tension and reward amped to the max, as well as a visual feast for the player.

[@diamondnickaxe]

Can’t wait for blackbird to get the grenade launcher on the MEC-2 it’s gonna be insane

[@Yamatification]

Amazing performance from Blackbird can't believe he still has even more potential. Great performance commander, see you in the next one!

[@DepredalorD]

Mechs doesnt lean like soldiers to take a shot

[@prcervi]

Personal Log of Micky “Frosty” Caldwell August 9th Small mix up on info for that council mission, no living EXALT were on location at the dam. Decent variety of aliens willing to drop in on a failing dam though. Also that “weapon” that was to be retrieved is looking a lot more like a college student with supernatural abilities than anything else. She’s willing to work with XCOM, though we’ve also been asked to help recover her friends still held by the aliens. Annette’s off for psi testing, though I’m pretty sure we already know what that outcome will be. Still don’t entirely know what that’ll mean for them, sectoids have shown off a few psi tricks and if that’s it then I guess it’s still going to be pretty impactful. Not a moments rest today either, covert op is due for a pickup and an EXALT cell is due for execution. And it’s at a bank, how ironic. Again best of luck to the squad, and for real this time give EXALT hell!

[@Vognee]

It’s like a 2nd diss of Annette from the crew this time. Loving it

[@Threeve703]

You inspired me to reinstall EW and WOTC. Pumped!

[@siiiimmo]

This series is so good. I love me some xcom content.

[@R.J.Perry8641]

Love this series and its place on the channel

[@amca68]

Loving the series, mate. 👍

[@Powerhauz]

Also Collux... 93 AIM AT LT???? Holy crap. Highest aim by anyone at that level all campaign. Actually he has held the aim record so far at all ranks. The newest recruit currently named Won Shik Hong has currently pulled ahead of Collux at the SQ rank with an aim stat of 81 out of the gate. Collux had 78 aim at Squaddie.

[@Pexcer]

The particle cannon the mechs carry have a weird animation, especially in slow motion where the damage is applied before the animation finishes, so sometimes it looks like someone else shot the target.

[@skylar9046]

So the reason the Sectoids drop in is because they're supposed to support the Mechtoids. It sorta sucks that they're supported by a weak cast, but hey, Cyberdiscs are also supported by their little Drone buddies. Logistics Tactical Officer "Ruby" Log 35. Date: August 9, 2015. I'm not sure what I was expecting to be on that French dam. A transport, hit by strafing alien ship fire, that survived the bombardment, and EXALT bodies littering that road along with aliens. What a right mess. We couldn't stay long, either - that dam was breaking beneath the soldiers' feet quite literally. Thankfully, they moved fast enough to secure the package... okay, no, that's a bad word for what we're talking about. The "package" was a woman - Annette Durand. I couldn't find any records on her, but I don't know what her deal is. What I do know is that she's clearly got some sort of latent power. Perhaps it's related to these "Psionic" abilities - enough to make them all flinch with a singular stare. That's... terrifying. I can only hope she'll be okay with us. All I know is that we should treat her like a human, and not an alien. Who are we to argue if she wants to fight back against the aliens as well? So, that's led to a lot of questions. Ones that we won't likely get answers to as we attempt to hunt down the EXALT cell that stole a lump sum of our monthly funding from under our noses... they're not far, either. Argentina. Bold move, but the proximity likely meant that was why they were able to tap in. It's also troubling. They're a thorn, and one that we need to deal with fast. That's up next - we need to find out where they're holed up at, and fast. Let's hope we can do that.

[@TheLordSarek]

Sniping from downtown always feels good!!!

[@myronmancan]

When you stun a muton, a heavy gets its wings.

[@jppauley9969]

Well played sir! I think the still drop sectoids to eat up overwatch shots.

[@fatkorn]

them sky was dull an hypothetical an falls one cloud at a time. Enjoying the game, most special when it all goes wackadoo.

[@montecarlocars]

If you are thrower the mectoid, do you get a heavy plasma you can use on your own mecs or heavies?

[@Xorgrim]

Please use the 100 from the mission reward to buy Iron Will ASAP.

[@coolcomments156]

I forgot how good this game is

[@TheBestPirateDrake]

If the exalt has plasma weapons they might be possible to obtain them like the others.

[@Dvnstrt]

Mellioria hitting some insane shots this mission.

[@Vognee]

If it continues like that he should be better than Hugo

[@hellothere2744]

XCom's very own Big Black... Bird

[@darkokat]

A bigger... blacker... bird

[@jodhweijoundica3453]

i would build an extra satellite in case one of yours gets shot down because you can't handle the bigger ufos yet.

[@hobnobrev9570]

Chris, dunno if you see this or its too late for you. Exalt never get plasma tech because they don't oppose the aliens. You get two categories of Exalt troops: Normals, and Elites. Normals are just normal dudes with conventional weapons. Elites have gene mods and laser weaponry So, you don't need to worry about plasma with exalt. Which means that rookies with plasma and some careful moves means free XP and promotions.

[@Deadput]

Date: 2015/08/09-2015/08/09 Name: Jayko “Deadput” Joyeuse, Rank: Base Security Senior Officer Subject Log: Operation RED RAIN and the mysterious recruit. That transport vehicle might of been operated by Exalt but only Aliens were found on site…well living ones anyways, Thin Man on the ground while it rained Mutons, Sectoids and Mechtoids all-round the squad but their expertise at this point turned the Xenos-into-Benos here anymore…hmmm eh not a good pun. Well point is that the squad had plenty of time to spare to retrieve the “weapon” or rather the person that Exalt was transporting, got out in the nick of time too before that Dam erupted. So now Strike-1 plus this civilian are on their way back to base, stay tuned for more details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ So this woman, this Annette Durand who I was put in charge of her temporary detainment with my Security Detail while the egg-heads asked their questions and yadda-yadda confidential stuff. Being around her I felt both anger and pity for whatever reason…I’m not sure honestly I’ve always had weird feelings here and there about the people I’ve met in my life, like an intuition into either their character or their past circumstances, just gut-feelings you know? She’s not exactly forthcoming but she was also in Exalt captivity so I don’t blame her, still attempts at conversation were made…I even caught on to her attempts to be sly by covering some of her words with French, being from Canada I’m somewhat familiar with the language during some time in Quebec although there were words I didn’t catch onto. As I speak Strike-1 is going to deal with another Exalt cell, after those scum-bags took our funds it’s something I know several are itching to pay them back for. I sure hope Exalt likes plasma, grenades and rockets after this much time getting fed those by Strike-1 eh? This is Senior Officer Jayko signing out, Vigilo Confido.

[@michaelray3865]

Those are the three Chosen from 2.they get alienized and weaponized.

[@Powerhauz]

Wow. Blackbird and RaiD never aimed less than 100% all mission. Out of 18 shots taken, 14 were at 100%

[@douglastengler564]

dang it now i gotta wait another day for the next

[@N1ghtwalk3r]

Annette always used to be a support on your channel, seeing her as a heavy just feels weird... And about exalt having plasma rifles, it just will never happen, they won't scale abover lasers and lieutenant-like units

[@gcode1986]

I think he should be trying to capture sectoids so he doesn't have to worry about buying plasma pistols. Definitely would help out using his money elsewhere

[@HighlanderBR]

If you read this in time, remove Annette from the psi lab. Test others soldier before her, since the chances are relatate with the number of psi soldiers you already have. Since she will be 100% psi, she will reduce the chances of the other soldiers if you test her before.

[@Kingwensel]

I was playing through my own campaign (Just finished a few days ago,) but I did this mission... and immediately got her killed VERY shortly into her first mission... ughhh

[@nils-peterwihlney8732]

I do not remember but can you stun mectoids and mechanical enemies?

[@tafa_matai3184]

Nope

[@allanpeter7700]

I believe the answer is no

[@Myomer104]

With a Foundry project, you can use it to hack Drones, but otherwise no.

[@jonpickens3965]

Not at all, but you can use the advanced arc thrower to hack/control drones.

[@huntermad5668]

Mechanical units, ur MEC or alien mechs, couldn't be mentally affected

[@vetgirig4209]

Put medkit on newbie support and give heavy something else.

[@silverams480]

Executioner was the worst choice odd could have ever made for melliora

[@edgarrobinson1474]

The Weapon...

[@ktkace]

Ｄude i see 2 kinetic strike chances and u went for shots... am i missing something?

[@duncanstephenson5077]

did a lil research and turns out that exalt will never reach psionics or plasma

[@shayliakara]

EXALT never got plasma in my game, and I covered every single country with "check for EXALT." So, is this an IMPOSSIBLE thing that they may get plasma? Cause, I just never saw it.

[@Deadput]

Exalt can't get Plasma in base Enemy Within, I recall either the Long War mod or Long War Rebalance giving it to them though.

[@CharlieFleed]

Is it normal to be shouting "Grenade!" at your computer?

[@piotrrashman6487]

certainly! if you're not on a plane, at least...

[@MaiAolei]

If it occurs during the situation with the two sectoids and the thin man, then yes, quite normal.

[@stevenwright366]

Exalt never get plasma, they only ever get lasers

[@yunchunsa]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuries

[@jackyiv]

07

[@nightworg]

Since you did include this mission from the start of the campaign, having the PSI being rare is irrelevant really. Exalt don't get plasma weapons. Would make the game too easy, because you could just use their weapon and never buy any plasma your self. Good luck commander.

[@srellison561]

Odd, you need to pay more attention to your loadouts. You have a heavy with a medkit, and a support without one. I don't think heavies can revive with a medkit.