Questionable Floaters, Questionable Tactics // XCOM Enemy Within // Impossible Difficulty

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[@ChristopherOdd]

Sorry we're an hour late! Scheduled for the wrong day let the deaths continue 😅

[@imy356]

Odd at this rate of deaths you could make a long death montage. 💀

[@busybard]

@@imy356 Put that to Another one bites the dust Another one bites the dust And another one gone, and another one gone Another one bites the dust (yeah) Hey, I'm gonna get you too Another one bites the dust

[@too_s0ber910]

@@busybard I need this in my life.

[@RatoInsano]

Odd: I hate to kinda waste a big rocket like this, but if I'm gonna kill 3 of them I'm gonna do it. Me: You and I have very different definitions for the word "waste".

[@theredknight3736]

if not big boom then it's a waste

[@indigorune]

Odd, I have been subscribed to your YT for over 7 years now (I checked--March 2017!) and this is the first time I have had the honor of watching an XCOM series as it comes out. I'm loving it. Thanks for all the great playthroughs over the years

[@BigBoss-rw4mn]

He is already married 😢 sorry

[@MrLeicon]

​@@BigBoss-rw4mn lol

[@ChristopherOdd]

Happy to have you along for this one!

[@indigorune]

@@BigBoss-rw4mn so am i.

[@MADMAX-rw7jx]

@@BigBoss-rw4mn What Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@Wolfeson28]

--- EW Season Scoreboard #2 --- A day late, but here it is. A series of *Heavy* casualties have dramatically rearranged the leaderboards. Ginger "Stargazer" Robinson continues her absolute dominance, as her stellar performance today reclaimed the lead for DPM, which now gives her a clean sweep of the top spot in all five major stats. A challenge is arising, however, in the form of new top sniper Juuso "Jube" Laitinen, who has moved up onto all five lists, and is now a close second on KPM, DPM, and Total Damage. Halia "Tita" Kainoa lives on for the moment at 5th place for Total Damage and tied for 2nd on Total Kills, despite...um...setting a new record for damage taken in one mission a few days ago. Likewise, Samuel "Powerhauz" Cray's leading mark of 16 total damage taken will go no higher, due to the after-effects of setting said record. Perhaps the most hilarious part of the leaderboard is the Accuracy column, where Eloysious "Skaarphy" von Norpendrock appears in 5th place with only 37.50% accuracy...because the current roster has only 9 living soldiers, and 4 of them are somehow even worse! One of von Norpendrock's made shots, however, did go for a record-setting 11 damage...so quality over quantity, apparently. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NC8Tt2uOBY6nadgMeyNPVkzpLivjmAlBhYKLjDZXvyE/edit?usp=sharing

[@Coder6719]

I feel the radar mod is taking away some of the suspense that your videos normally possess.

[@too_s0ber910]

I mean... that surprise Thin Man pod would like to know your location.

[@mitchellwhelan2053]

Having it tell you the distance does seem a bit like cheating

[@Koettnylle]

I admire your willingness to accept and let go of dead soldiers. When I play X-COM I treat them like my babies.

[@imperiallarch7610]

Woooow, maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like we are super behind on tech to be taking on the Gangplank mission. Good luck, commander!

[@absentialucci]

Interceptor Pilot, Claudia Seamus Log 5 Upon landing in Canada, I was greeted by someone who knew Locke by name and rank. He said he was under orders to assist me. Seeing as Locke is my superior... even though I'm away without leave, I let him help me. If he's a friend of Locke's, he should be trustworthy. He was able to provide a ride. Nothing big, just a pickup truck. He carried a shotgun with him. Luckily I did think to bring my carbine with me. Figured I'd assemble it in the truck as he drove me to the remnants of the village. It looked like one of those wastelands inside of those post-apocalyptic movies and games. Not the same though... it hits a bit differently when you realize this was a normal, breathing village not even a month ago. We advanced carefully, but the whole place was dead. Not a soul in sight. I vaguely remembered the area that the operation took place. Figured if we made it there, we could comb the ruins methodically. Just like my little brother showed me back in the day when he was a boy scout. Leave no trace, he always said. Sorry bro. Little hard when you bomb a place into almost nonexistence... ... ... Log 6 A few days have passed. My... friend... still refuses to tell me his name. So I'm going to call him Navy. He carries himself like a Navy boy. ... Air Force and Navy haven't always seen eye to eye in the past. I never understood the rivalry personally. Maybe it has to do with our branches having separate air forces. I certainly never learned how to land on an aircraft carrier. I wonder what the Navies of the world are doing... I can only assume they're dealing with their own threats at sea. God... that's an unpleasant thought. If these aliens are at sea, then that means they may have been here for much longer than we initially anticipated. Maybe that's why it was so easy for them to dismantle our response. Xcom may very well be the last coordinated force defending Earth. ... That's a chilling thought. That we may be the last line of defense against this threat. I hope to God that I'm wrong about that. ... ... Log 7 We managed to find some success here. I remember that Kainoa succumbed to poison... Which means that she didn't... walk around. ... Like Baby. We were very cautious about our approach to the Chryssalids' 'hive' but it's been quiet thus far. Much as I'm loathe to admit it, I appreciate Navy's steady support. Even if our relations are merely cordial. He's clearly here for Locke only. Nevertheless, he's a stabilizing element. I don't know if I'd be able to approach the hive alone. About the hive though, nothing remained. It seems like Central's idea worked. Anything that was still in it, died with the village. The ship is surprisingly still mostly intact. But thus far... no sign of Kainoa's remains. ... ... Log 8 We found some evidence of Xcom being here. Hidden amongst the wreckage of the ship, we found one of our early laser rifles. Thing's busted up and is far from recoverable. But this means we're on the right track. We've taken to making camp near the Skyranger's initial landing zone. I just... can't... sleep anywhere closer. Not after what I heard on the comms. Not after I heard Baby's comms blip back to live, broadcasting groans and growls. Then there was a sickening squelch, and crunch before the comms went dead again. ... Comms... I have a working theory. I may be able to rig up something that could be used to triangulate the position of Xcom's body camms and closed loop on site communications kit. It's worth trying at least. It's the best chance I got to find these tags. I'm not leaving until I find them. End Log.

[@evilbob840]

Well, you wanted alloys, here comes a whole battleship full of them.

[@JadeOfNight]

Odd, the silver lining of getting so many engineers is that each additional engineer makes just about everything cost less money, alloys, and elerium.

[@ausSwiffer]

Emela 'Herald' Winds, Personal Log #11 18 May, 0200 China went off without a hitch and, as suspected, even our CO was exhausted. We risked leaving the debrief until the following day because we were all exhausted from the back to back missions that kept us up for the better part of two days. I still went to see the Skyranger arrive before I crashed and it was nice to see the team returning in an upbeat mood. I will never forget about Cray, but it did remind me that there is still hope and while there is still hope, I need to keep pressing forward. I have read that, back in World War 1 and 2, communities would organise food and drink for returning soldiers; I wonder if the mess hall would consider that a little much for our soldiers? I had to be roused by a collegue to attend the debrief the following day and honestly, if they had not arrived and dragged me out of bed (and thus helped me avoid *another* serve from my CO, thank you!) I may well have slept for another day. Strategy work is tiring as it is, demanding a great deal of concentration, lateral and parallel thinking and extended focus. Throwing grief on top of that is...rough. I had given it no thought when I moved into this career, thinking it was the kind of job that left you detached from the consequences. Were it not for the alien invasion, it may well have been that way. Laitinen seems to have developed some sort of sixth sense for the aliens that we are facing. I am not sure how, but, when allowed to focus, he can tell where enemies are idling or creeping up from. It is difficult to say whether he knows *which* enemies are lying in wait but over the last two missions, he has been surprisingly accurate in his assertions. I do not know if this is some new innovation out of the foundry or some kind of sense that only those with the keen eye required to fire from such long distances can develop, but it has been an invaluable. If you know whats coming, it becomes so much easier to strategize on the fly to keep our people safe. It even helped the new ego get a kill; I am sure he will be insufferable now, though the Commander *does* have a sense of humour as he was promoted into the support ranks. Ha! As I write this, Laitinen and his team (as he has a few squaddies to keep an eye on) are on their way to their next mission and I am required in the Command Center. This came directly from the council and we all remember what happened last time they handed us a mission. I am not a religious woman, but I really hope this is another quiet one. We have our doubts, though. -E

[@Ploon72]

Passive sonar, aka “listening”.

[@InCiDeR2]

Well played, Commander! You have a pretty challenging map ahead, so I wish you the best of luck! Maybe that passive sonar is a bit too strong. A free action every turn to see where the nearest enemies are. It kind of takes away one of the main mechanisms of the game, the element of surprise. It would be more balanced if you could use it one or two times per map or if it had a cooldown. But that is probably just me. I like my games to be hard, unpredictable and painful.

[@srellison561]

Yeah, I'm not crazy about that. If you're playing on a high difficulty, it feels like cheating. Just play at a lower difficulty or savescum if you're going to do that.

[@Myomer104]

Granted, as seen, it isn't perfect. But I agree that a cooldown would probably help balance it.

[@jijlaitinen]

Log 7 Date: 16 May, 2015 Name: Juuso “Jube” Laitinen Episode: Questionable Floaters, Questionable Tactics Log start Just got back from the mission. Started with a solar scan for thin men. Zang woke them up somehow. Robinson blasted them all with a rocket, good riddance. Then I scanned for floaters, but those jerks wouldn't budge, even when we tried to bait them. Suddenly, thin men were all over us. Two pushed forward, but Robinson and Zang took them down - though not quite. Valentino wasted one with a grenade, and Leigh took out another. The last one was persistent, but Robinson finished him off. Scanned for floaters again. Guess what? Invisible aliens showed up again. One went for Zang, and Robinson missed. The rookie landed a hit, but Leigh missed. Zang got strangled by the alien. I wasted no time putting the alien down. Another one appeared near Leigh, but Robinson took care of it a little. I finished it The floaters finally decided to move. Zang missed a shot, then went crazy with a rocket, taking out one floater and exposing another. Leigh rushed in, but the floater's aim was terrible, hitting a pole instead. Leigh missed her shot back. Robinson threw a grenade, damaging the floater but not finishing it. One floater missed flanking us, but the other one went straight for Leigh's face and got itself killed. Zang blasted another floater with a rocket, but it wasn't enough. Skaarphy somehow ended up under the thing and squashed it. Before the mission, I was at the shooting range, paying my respects to Cray. Talked to Bob and Jef again. They felt bad for me, tried to cheer me up. Saw Herald again, and no wonder she was crying. Losing a friend must be awful. Made a little memorial for Cray in my room - sounds weird, I know, but he was the first guy I really connected with here. Well, gotta go now. Peace out. Log end.

[@Powerhauz]

😢😭

[@DerAva]

Base assault happens after you take down the alien base, so no threat of that just yet.

[@busybard]

I've only ever played the LW version of EW. It's amazing how much the two are different. In LW the aliens kick down your door before you come for their base. I know, because I was too afraid to attack the alien base and I had to deal with the aliens being all like "In ur base, killing ur doodz" 😂

[@too_s0ber910]

@@busybard Oh God... that is actually terrifying! I always wait till I have plasma snipers to do that. Yikes!

[@alexpage4355]

@@too_s0ber910 It actually gets worse! Not only can base defense missions trigger early in LW... they can trigger repeatedly. Over the course of my one LW campaign, I had to defend my base at least 3 different times, each time facing increasingly overpowered enemies. Combined with the way LW likes to throw increasing numbers of insane bullet-sponge enemies at you, and the last one was an absolute nightmare!

[@mauriciomusso96]

Supports with +3 mobility can be OP with the 100% critical on flank shots

[@gamingnscience]

Good luck with Gangplank. It‘s a toughie for sure. Also be aware, that the map has a Cyberdisc already active. It gets to act on the reveal turn, waiting behind a door. That is the biggest concern imo. It can literally devastate your team if not prepared. Otherwise just be aware of a million reinforcements spawning outside of your visual range. So they will be incoming hot as well.

[@too_s0ber910]

This. The goddamn thing jump scared the hell out of me recently. I was convinced it was gonna be on the far side of the hall... NOPE! That mofo came BARRELING through into my entire squad, ate all of the overwatch shots while I was actually yelling "NO! MISS! MISS, MISS, MISS! FOR ONCE WHEN I WANT YOU TO, PLEASE FREAKING MISS!!!!" They did not miss, and I took 30 damage between all of my squad, which also resulted in the death of my ONLY MEDIC........ Still beat the mission, but oh my God that was a keyboard break moment...

[@virgo293]

an xcom vid before bed 🤞🏽 perfect timing sir 🫡🫡

[@prcervi]

Personal Log of Micky “Frosty” Caldwell May 16th - May 18th A deathless mission is a good mission at this point, no meld and not much in the way of other materials though. Zhang, the ex triad guy, is a bit banged up from tangling with a seeker but he’ll be fine in a few days, maybe even sooner but the doc is pretty particular about throat injuries. Annoying rookie has also been upgraded to annoying support, I’m not even sure he noticed that his title changed though, dude is something of an airhead on top of obnoxious. Foundry tech completed! All soldier uniforms and armors now come with an extra pocket. That feels a lot less fancy then the project name implied but weight distribution and ease of reach is important. Council called up in the middle of the night again, train mission results brought a big ship down to land and it’s go time to raid it. Oh please bring back some working flight computers and power cells, alloys too! Vahlen’s been looking a bit bored waiting on materials and I’m scared what she’ll make if left to her own devices.

[@WanoReborn]

Thank you for the fix, Commander! I can live another day ;) Big ship assault is gonna be challenging, good luck!

[@Boredperson360]

waiting for new vids to watch each day man! such a great series! you might say im on... overwatch :O

[@absentialucci]

Never underestimate the usefulness of a flashbang... Could shut down one of your shots in this difficult mission. Rockets with HEAT ammo, sniper with reaper rounds and also disabling shot, you have options. AS LONG AS YOU'RE CAREFUL A flashbang would be one more case of shot denial. They give a negative 50 shot percentage, and also cause enemies to have 50% movement.

[@too_s0ber910]

I don't know if this is accurate or not, but I also feel that being flashbanged makes enemies act eratically.

[@exequielgaleano9947]

A little bit of extra salt in the beggining gives the video just the right amount of spicy flavor, haha. Can´t wait to see how things get at the end of the month in game. Wherever things are going I'm definitly here for the ride! Lots of thanks for all the alien fighting action, Odd!!! 😁

[@0o0ification]

You can get more flank opportunities by activating as many enemies as possible simultaneously. Then, the aliens are more likely to run out of available cover :3

[@KingVasuki]

I don't see faults in this logic

[@JeredtheShy]

Considering that this is "impossible" difficulty, I'd venture that things are going well. The ugly truth about actual war is just bodies into a meatgrinder, where every military objective gets purchased with lives, and you're lucky if it's only one or two, instead of one or two thousand. But in games you can do things just right so that everyone lives through every firefight, and that ain't how war works. Maybe that's what this difficulty setting is about.

[@DepredalorD]

Low profile thats why u see full cover

[@darkokat]

The trigger for the base defense mission is the alien base assault that you need the skelton key for. Not Gangplank

[@ShingamiRei]

Watching your videos game me an itch to play it as well. And because i finished normal games before, i'll gonna try Long War this time. :)

[@blacknatey2284]

Man im addicted to this run man, i want moooore ! Double uploads maybe ?😅 keep it up Odd

[@irbaboon1979]

Ooh Gangplank next, I remember that one…make sure to bring a lot of damage, cyberdisc coming up… Lots of deaths this run Commander, time to start turning the tables or you’ll drop too far behind the curve…

[@skylar9046]

Good luck on Gangplank. You're likely gonna need it. Logistics Tactical Officer "Ruby" Log 16. Date: May 18, 2015 So the aliens chose to strike before we could even get that battleship into position for a boarding party. Another group of abductions across the continents. Makes sense why we chose China - that should hopefully clear up the area a little bit and give us a better chance at capturing this alien battleship. Not much to speak of on that mission, most things went according to plan. One thing I am concerned about, however, is the lack of resources we've obtained through exploding most aliens we see. Although their weapons self-destruct on the operator's death, the fragments are still salvageable. Such is not the case when we blow them up - something the science team is none too happy about, I'm pretty sure. Survival is paramount, though. Zhang took some bruises from one of those Seekers catching and strangling him for a moment, but nothing severe. He's tough, I'll give him that - that man might be one of the toughest soldiers in our barracks right now. Big fish is on the line today, though. We have to reel this one in. If not, we might not have a chance to survive. We're sending our best to try and take control of it, and I can only hope it works.

[@fakeshemp7037]

I started an impossible run in honor of your campaign (lost really quickly). I had this map pop up pretty early on and ended up restaging the Alamo behind that truck on the right.

[@mr.amontar7098]

Hey Odd, the lone wulf thing where your sniper gets bonus aim when he/she is more than 7 tiles away from the your team is really not that far away just check your Grid. You always put the sniper about 20-30 tiles away from the rest of your team :)

[@joshsavage8620]

I’ll pile on. Sonar is wayyyy OP. Kinda ruins fog of war. No cooldown, unlimited, and tells type with exact distance? Real bummer TBH

[@Muskelbiber007]

No research is really hurting you by now, yet it is what it is. Grinding your way through. Hope you'll find the fusion core up on the slopes, maybe just go straight into plasma then. If even possible i don't know tbh. Best of luck, though the train was a tough one, but the mothership with "recruit" equip... Sounds like fun

[@LiorRotberg]

If I remember correctly, base assault only happens after you assault the alien's base

[@miguelsacramento4416]

HQ defense only triggers after you assault the alien base, min 14 days max 21 days after.

[@Andrew.gribbin]

I have a really bad habit of checking quickly if anyone dies whilst starting to watch.. (Sorry) loving this playthrough :)

[@ErickAFerrer]

I think it's better to let the countries you want to save get higher on panic if you are planning on deploying satellites either way. You can lower the panic on the countries you are not keeping with missions and you can maybe deploy satellites after you secure the bonuses you are looking for. This was the perfect mission to go to the usa

[@suggestiveartefacts3956]

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

[@busybard]

That rocket though... When the car "diagonally next to" Zhang lit up I had a baaaad feeling, but apparently cars only damage the tiles right next to them and above and below, but not in the diagonal. 😬 Gangplank: it's a long mission, bring med kits, plenty of them. Give them to the medics who have the 3 in 1 skill. You only need to disable the nodes, the mission ends there. Disable means turn off with a click, or blow them up with grenades. And I guess it's guaranteed you'll run into a cyberdisc, so... Good luck, Commander! If you pull this off it'll pretty much solve all your resource issues. Also, at the top of the world map, is that EW's doom clock? You're at 4, losing 2 countries this month puts you at 6 out of 8. The only way to get this down is to conquer an alien base, right? And we're still carrying ballistic guns in the squad... Time to put the popcorn into the microwave.

[@drakanion]

ngl Mr. Odd - I'm not a fan of the Radar mod - you've had it for ~2 episodes, and you proc it every 5 seconds; it would be fine if it's something that procs at mission start just to give you a location of the first pod - but as it stand now, it totally defeats the X-Com experience; the game is called "enemy unknown" not "enemy position and count precisely determined" 😋 It completely removes any form of moment-to-moment awareness and response to unforeseen circumstances that may happen. Definitely kills some of the vibes.

[@wilshireanasurimbor3068]

I think in EU, you get about 1 extra day after a mission pops, so you can go with "not now" and spin the clock a bit if you're close on something finishing - research, buildings, rigging, etc.

[@Deadput]

Gangplank here we come! This is a very much make or break mission too! (Link to my google doc with logs for Jayko and Ricarmine below as a reply to this comment.)

[@Deadput]

docs.google.com/document/d/1VMEci7EeudXbe4a8GB14bUvt_mOLLJ4bPjGXMYq2ny4/edit?usp=sharing

[@Deadput]

Date: 2015/05/16-2015/05/18 Name: Jayko Joyeuse, Rank: Base Security Junior Officer Subject Log: Operation DARK FUTURE and walking the plank. Simple mission but as always, it could of gotten dicey but the only wounds was to Zhang who’s by far our most sturdy operative so far…his…experience must of hardened him up I suppose, I’ve spoken to him at length and he’s rather not talk about his time with the Triad which is fair. But he’s got some interesting hobbies I wouldn’t have expected out of him, he can apparently paint decently well although he doesn’t quite have the resources to demonstrate those talents. Laitinen has been using this scouting device on missions I think not sure if it’s the device alone or it pairs up with some great senses but he’s been tracking enemies before we even see them. It’s been a help I suppose? Not sure of its long term impact though. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ So…that Battleship I mentioned recently that the train op was about? Council is saying it’s go time but man I don’t know if Strike-1 is prepared…they’ll give it their best shot, the Commander too but I’m worried, that looks fortified. I hope Big Sky can land himself in there with the Skyranger but he’s our best pilot, that’s why he gets the Skyranger in the first place…he can do it. Laitinen commands once more, Robinson supporting as our only heavy, Norpendrock, Leigh, Cutter and that loudmouthed Valentino are up as well. The latter has been put in his place a bit by Bradford, although he’s still Valentino so even a tame version of him is still an egotistical snob, eh at least he’s focusing on his battlefield accomplishments right now. Whatever helps him work alongside the team and fight for Earth. Time for Strike-1 to go take out that ship, Junior Officer Jayko signing out, Vigilo Confido!

[@Deadput]

Date: 2015/05/16-2015/05/18 Name: Ricarmine Valentino, Rank: Field Operative, Rookie. Subject Log: Log 4, finally a good day. Woo baby woo! I got to blow up a guy, shoot another guy! I got a kill, I survived, I contributed to this victory! You see that Commander? That’s what happens when you actually let me do things eh? EH?! You see that grenade toss? THAT is why I was a world-class champion back in the day, I would’ve been an awesome rocketeer that’s for sure. As for my squad, even the known junk-food consumer actually kept up somewhat, got the final kill with one of those laser guns, man I gotta get me one of those. The Asian ex-criminal guy got wounded by one of those flying robotic death shrimp, surprised there aren’t many Asians on the roster in general. Those countries have a history with some of the fiercest warriors, and some of the most talented players I’ve ever seen during my football days, they can be quite mean. Commander Odder decided to go the ironic route and promote me into the support class…was it my words towards the dead? Looks like I gotta support the people who get boo-boos or are not in proper cover, I ain’t a medic so I don’t wanna hear anybody complain that it hurts or I suck at the job got it Xchums? Eh I can throw some smoke pretty well though if I’m allowed to use it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Going on another mission, to save China from a battleship! Cool! As one of the few who aren’t wounded…or dead, I’m on the mission to ‘support’ my team…cool! Let’s go raid a spaceship, do some flips, snap the bad guys necks and save the day! Some of us are packing way more gear thanks to some Engineering nerds, got a little more to work with now. Rookie Valentino logging out and boarding on that ship! You better be taking notes Little Birdie Blueshirt! Author note: He’s less prickish because he’s in a good mood and got to participate in the mission more directly and because he’s about to go on a “world saving” operation…lets see how that goes for the last of the current redshirts in the roster, as we all know both Enko and Cray have fallen to the trope.

[@CJKhaos]

I vote save uk. Completely unbiased 🇬🇧

[@shyguy778]

lmao

[@jorgmeltzer9234]

What? Are you no supporter of the Xxit? The aliens promised way better healthcare. Revolutionary gene therapies!

[@CJKhaos]

@@jorgmeltzer9234 but the burgers. What’s in the burgers 😱

[@jorgmeltzer9234]

@@CJKhaos Has this ever been revealed? I'd vote for Solyent Green.

[@CJKhaos]

@@jorgmeltzer9234 😱

[@LandofMert76]

At the beginning was that Scout Sense from minimod? You moved a soldier and it showed you the direction of the thin men

[@AleFaza]

Such a banging campaign 🎉

[@allanpeter7700]

It seems like the seekers give leave you alone for a least one turn

[@newCrysis]

Good luck Commander.

[@drumsofberk]

Edit: Okay, that is what I get for posting as I watch. You did what I asked. Watching further answered my question. I posted a comment and I dont know where it went. Could rockets be aimed a level higher for the bottom of the AOE to clip the floaters? Or is that just XCOM 2?

[@busybard]

"Let's get our rookie a kill!" *flashback* WotC CI mod, first mission, sectoid panics a rookie, rookie pulls the pin on his grenade and drops it right between his buddy and himself. He got a kill, alright!

[@Myomer104]

Or Odd's XCOM 2 Season 4, where a rookie on the first mission panicked and blew up two squadmates.

[@SingleLupus]

Good luck, Commander Odd.

[@connorbaker6372]

I think the base assault doesn’t happen until you’ve been to the underground alien base first.

[@BroadMeadowLuck2]

😊😊😊❤🎉 Let's Go!!

[@too_s0ber910]

Oooooooh boy, Gangplank! Yikes. Well, it's a hard mission for sure, but at least there's no timer unlike the train mission. So there's that!

[@LameytheClown]

According to the wiki reaper rounds double the aim penalty for shotguns at long range, sniper rifles at short range. Normal rifles and LMGs have a range bonus at short range and no penalty at long range, so it has no downsides for those weapons. (probably a design oversight honestly)

[@svennoire]

@ChristopherOdd A " Sniper only Run" as beautyful challenge would be great to see from u. U ever considered something like that? Love to read/hear your thoughts about that.

[@Ghost0fTheNavigator]

Questionable Floaters indeed... but hey, take what you can get! Good luck with the next mission. Just take it slow, overwatch crawl as much as you like, and stick to high ground as much as you can. Hopefully, you'll come out the other side with plenty of materials for research!

[@jodhweijoundica3453]

Base assault mission will NOT come until you go to their base which is a base game mission, after arc throwing stuff. Which btw, do you have containment yet? You can still gather plasma guns with the arc thrower even if no containment

[@blackeyefatlip7045]

Here we go, Gangplank. Best of luck to ya on this one. Try to focus on the power nodes first since they're the requirement for the mission, not enemy kills.

[@nightworg]

Yeah base assault come much later - Don't worry about that. Please keep the alloys you get from that fight Mr. odd, and good luck. I just did the base attack in my game and I only had 4 elite + 5 small dudes with 4 health against 37 aliens. That was so stressening. I did have my best sniper and my Mec, who was doing the heavy lifting.

[@DrownedInExile]

Ah damn, pity Zhang got wounded. He should be assaulting that alien battleship, seeing up close what he sacrificed everything for.

[@srellison561]

I started a new game, and on my 2nd mission I got a bomb in a train yard, with 4 squaddies. Fortunately, there was only 1 thin man and 2 or 3 sectoids, and after the bomb was disarmed, 2 more thin men dropped in. But that seems really early for a bomb mission.

[@mattdespard6576]

I think you should be using scopes on your laser rifle assaults for Gangplank. Engagement distances are pretty long. If you haven't played the mission yet considering selling all your Elerium to make sure your soldiers are as strong as possible. You'll get literal hundreds of alloys and elerium if you complete the mission successfully. Also, in vanilla EW Ashes and Temples only procs after you raid an alien base.

[@stevennicholas5472]

Where did Passive Sonar come from, I didn't see it get awarded in the previous episode?

[@tristanswain7107]

Your sniper has low cover, which makes half cover full

[@armelior4610]

I feel like the campaign is going relatively well in missions but that he's losing the arms' race with still no sniper, shotgun & heavy lasers and being always broke. The next mission will probably make or break the campaign since it's hard but gives tons of loot - IF he doesn't destroy the whole battleship, with that many grenades 😄

[@TheRockzone03]

Gen lab and you make your one of your soldier invisible this will help you survive campaign

[@PanchoTheSneaky]

Gankplank is such a difficult mission to get so early in the campaign. And that's the main reason I don't ever play this game with the operations active. I just prefer the random council missions.

[@Gornejo]

is it me or not created equal severely affects the health?

[@spiritsoldier4475]

Out of curiosity, if you somehow lose this campaign, do you plan on heading straight to X-com 2 or doing a second campaign of Enemy Within? If the former, do you plan on alternating between the two games? I don't think you're gonna lose this campaign honestly, even with the losses of soldiers and council nations; but I'm curious all the same. Also, no, the base attack doesn't happen after Gangplank. It's another assault mission that triggers the attack, the one that's part of the main storyline.

[@alexanderdevyatkin5109]

With a knowledge of where the enemies are it was too much precautious and slow. 38 tiles away with 18 tiles detection - why not to dash?!..

[@TheRockzone03]

I think on next mission have over 20-30 enemies I don't remember exactly. Was playing like 6 months ago.

[@johnmidland5042]

Letsa go 😅

[@CorvusABray]

Weapons cannot be recovered from the aliens without the containment facility built. They call count as corpses and weapon fragments at mission end.

[@syncmonism]

The Asia continent bonus honestly isn't all that important. Earlier in the campaign, sometimes the mission rewards are more valuable than making sure that you preserve a continent bonus. Maximizing long-term income from countries is also generally not that important. I'm doing a playthrough right now and I have way more money income than what I actually need. As long as you survive to the point where you have 8 or 9 countries with satelites, you're going to have enough income no matter what, especially on impossible difficulty, because the extra enemies mean that you have more stuff you can sell, meaning you're basically always going to be able to raise enough money as long as you're winning most of your missions and maintaining a sufficient number of experienced and elite soldiers and not losing too many over the course of the campaign. Maintaining sufficiently fast research progress is an important aspect of keeping your soldier's combat power at a sufficient level!

[@jorgmeltzer9234]

Who needs meld anyway?

[@ChristopherOdd]

I’m mostly concerned about making it to the point where I can even use meld 😅

[@pageboysam]

REAPER ROUNDS ONLY WORK ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS. Not laser weapons. Not plasma weapons. (Read the description again.)

[@allanpeter7700]

10:30 technically can’t you just though the grenade out of vision but with no cover or I that too risky?

[@tobiaskilroy]

Questionable floaters heh! Yes, I am also a child 😂

[@lthastings8800]

Darn Enemy Within has a special map for China, complete with hieroglyphs and even Chinese police cars! yet it's never used and China drops take place on generic US layout

[@VampierFH]

Why not build Scopes ? +10 Aim with tactical rigging is no joke. Cheers!

[@thedarkerknight2188]

Float On by Modest Mouse

[@kolokiohfdtiog]

I understand you being cautious and using your rockets often, which you should, but may I suggest not using your rocket as the first resort? Try a few shots before "wasting" it, you may be lucky and save the rocket, or at least get some extra fragments.

[@MikeBirr]

I ❤ Skaarpy

[@SandaiTheThird]

It seems the game is intending for odd to only have one sniper at a time.

[@HWMForever]

Didn`t get any meld! Again😁

[@Tiramizur]

I would prefer Odd to not use passive sonar mode anymore. Knowing alien types in the pod and exact distance to it in advance should be considered a kind of cheating.

[@spiritsoldier4475]

Interceptor Pilot, Log #15 - Aren Locke Another standard mission, no surprises, no hiccups. Zhang got strangled, but that's it. The Red-shirt managed to get a promotion this time, and got upgraded to a support; probably to keep him from going out there gun-blazing. But now the UK and America is in full-blown panic mode, along with Germany; and with only one satellite that'll be available for deployment... (Sigh) Claudia is still out there, looking for the bodies of Ryan and Kainoa; which means she doesn't know about Cray and Chapman yet. Will prepare to tell her about those losses, once she comes back. At the very least, we were able to recover both of their bodies. And again, no rest for us. The battleship is vulnerable now, so the ground team need to strike now. Air support will be on stand-by, in case anything crazy happens; but the goal will be to disable the ship without damaging it. In theory, should be an easier mission than our last two council ones, since their won't be much of a time crunch... but in practice, we'll have to see. Locke out.

[@suddenlysarablog]

"I can't go to the US, because that's a waste of time." Ironically, this is also true in your XCOM game!

[@gergelysimko9614]

As an accountant I find this video offensive 🤣

[@cainednd]

Bring a lot of medkits. You'll thank me later. 😉

[@bamatrucker31]

I wonder if anybody has ever played this game in real time? Never scanning just let it play in real time.

[@huntermad5668]

U can mod to make the arc equippable in pistol slot The ship boarding not that bad, just go slow Hmm, support is better with arc. 3 tiles extra is good

[@jackyiv]

07

[@Wordgoblin]

There wasn't much sense in complaining about all those heavies you got when it seems 90% of the time its 'rocket first, ask questions never'.

[@Vulture2k]

i know your entire community might revolt when you play it, because i assume the community is not weebfriendly, but if you like turn based stuff privately, i would suggest you give troubleshooters a go, it might be for you, its imho a great xcom-like game with many many interesting game mechanics :)

[@vgamedude12]

Im seeing people mention this game everywhere when I look for xcom-likes, is it really that good? Some negatives I saw mention it being very grindy and tedious

[@Vulture2k]

@@vgamedude12 it is grindy and tedious but that's also part of what makes it interesting. Since your characters are premade, the campaign is basically endless and their gear and skills are insanely customizeable. So if you play XCOM more like a RPG caring about your soldiers and enjoying the RPG aspects it's great for that because it goes a loot deeper into those aspects. But yes.. it is Korean and Koreans sure love their grind.

[@vgamedude12]

​@@Vulture2khmm. I like progression but usually when it's done in bite sized bits on a scale of a campaign or something not sure it's for me if it's like most Korean games.

[@Vulture2k]

@@vgamedude12 it's 8 bucks at sale. I'd say it's with it for that even if you onlyttu it a few hours. Tbf I haven't played it myself in a long time and they patch it a lot.

[@vgamedude12]

​​@@Vulture2kI might give it a try. One of the best xcom likes I've played was anime (valkyria Chronicles) But that was japanese and I tend to prefer japanese games much more

[@applessquaredp2398]

Day 4 of saying suppression stops overwatch in enemy within

[@alexmachan3255]

I'm not really a fan of the sniper ability. It gives too much extra information for free and removes a lot of the danger of advancing. It's like having a weaker but infinite use battle scanner for no action points.

[@oldcodgerplaysgames9610]

Hate to be picky but Zhang is pronounced Jang. Zh in Chinese is a J sound. Otherwise awesome playthrough.

[@vgamedude12]

Even central calls him "Zang" lol