The Biggest Disaster Mission Ever! XCOM TFTD | Yogscast Lewis and Ben Save the World Highlight

[@cattusvakarian6182]

"We need to come back with better grenades" - Lewis His obsession with explosives started earlier than I thought

[@PerfectAlibi1]

When in doubt, C4 ^^

[@TopHatHat]

This is my future example of why the XCOM reboot games, whilst amazing in their own right, don’t fully capture XCOM. I’ve had whole XCOM 2 games where nobody dies, then you play the originals and it’s Omaha beach all over again!

[@korenn9381]

Yes, the new xcom games are not in the same category. But the Long War overhauls get as close as the modern games can be, and in my opinion are the best turned based strategy has to offer. It has the sleekness of the new games approach but the (occasional) difficulty flavour of the old games. I love the old games, but Xcom 2 Long War is even better.

[@jonathan2847]

Tbf in the original xcoms it hurts much less to loose people. In the reboots on the hardest difficulty if you loose your best squad you loose the game.

[@jasam01]

Yeah, they are very different in style. Losing a single member in the new ones hurts (which really made modern XCom 2 feel thematically better then modern 1!). While in the original... Losing a half dozern of your strongest soliders might have the same impact? Or losing all your equipment from bad mission.

[@Michael-bn1oi]

​@@korenn9381 ehhhh...I'm not sure. Long War is just it's own thing. Mostly just a grind to get through. Doesn't scratch that same itch.

[@Rhamirezz85]

The two original games are on another level. New ones are not for me, I like BIG squads!! not 4 people :/

[@bierrollerful]

"These two idiots ... with no preparation." Lewis & Ben in a nutshell

[@ThatPsdude]

These are making me want to go back and rewatch all their x-com runs again lol

[@Kalakakku_]

Funny cos the reason I make these is so that I dont have to watch all the videos to see the really funny parts. But you still should these are the best playtroughs on youtube!

[@itssupermandoe2434]

I've already started cause of the yorkshire farmer one. This feels like the future of let's plays

[@Oskiirrr]

I oblygt hade like 10 videos left of the final mod pack now, I had to see it after the Yorkshire Farmer video

[@xan1613]

I've watched every xcom video at least 4 times by now. They are good. These videos are perfectly timed after I finished my last watchthrough.

[@thomass3945]

Funny cos that's exactly what I'm doing

[@UnclePutte]

This game, was my first X-Com. In the form of a CD in the sleeve of PC Gamer, first, then loaned from the kid next door. In those days I learned of loss and defeat.

[@mungobaggins8197]

So much chump death in tftd. So many restarts. I think that game was the birth of the chump’s prayer.

[@Kalakakku_]

It was

[@marinnens4227]

Ive never played Terror from the deep but holy shit that looks absolutely frighteningly hard to deal with

[@mattroscoe1359]

For reference, the game was pumped out by a small team at Microprose barely a year after UFO Defense was released. As a result the game is in many ways a reskin of its predecessor, but with the enemies and campaign length both beefed up considerably to make things harder. tl;dr tftd is a nightmare

[@kingkuma4112]

If it helps, with imagining what a pain in the ass tentaculats are, imagine classic xcom cryssalids (aka they oneshot literally any xcom soldier and instantly make a new cryssalid out of them) that can fly. That's them.

[@daddysempaichan]

@@mattroscoe1359 Not only that, but people complained that X-Com was too easy, even on Superhuman, due to a then unknown bug that, after the first ground mission, cause the difficulty to revert back to Beginner. Upon hearing this, Microprose made the game harder, to where Beginner in TftD is equivalent to Superhuman in X-Com, or something like that.

[@guillemsaldo]

Oh you sweet summer child. The cruise ship terror missions are where horror really lives

[@kingkuma4112]

@@guillemsaldo those are the xcom equivalent to those doom maps with monsters ambushung you from secret doors everywhere. Drill those walls.

[@ioanhouse4873]

Honestly, any compilation of Lewis and ben save the World will be a good compilation :) Maybe one of Lewis and Ben raiding Terror from the Deep bases? They do it a lot and each is nailing bitingly close

[@TheBlackwolf5011]

definitely the fastest wipe I've ever seen.

[@marcocoelhohome]

Both the SaGa games and TFTD have teach me humbleness. You may think you are ready for it, but in fact, you are far from ready. You're ready only when you know how much you may lose.

[@nickgaurd]

The Ben Face(tm) moment at 6:32 is perfect

[@Damnatty]

We need that werewolf terror mission too with the bunch of them in that small building 😂

[@angusrobertson6398]

Yes pleas do this mission it was so funny

[@Damnatty]

Vid was called “Spear and pancake”, 2 hours into the vod Took a while to find

[@Kalakakku_]

@zeedeveel _ Thanks for the info!

[@WizardBrandon]

god that mission was so bad. they tried to use an AT mine as a shield

[@hannabelphaege3774]

No wonder my memories of this whole playthrough are 90% scorched earth policy

[@stalhein62]

Can I request a highlight from the X-COM files series, when you get to it? There was one early mission that had swarms of bees that annihilated the chumps, and then bees never appeared the rest of the playthrough.

[@irregularassassin6380]

Ah yes, that mission resulted in the "break glass in case of bees" flamethrower that neither Lewis, nor Ben, ever wanted to actually use even when it might have proven useful.

[@kingkuma4112]

@@irregularassassin6380 Also has the best comment on any lewis and ben video, imo. "An FBI van rolls up, 4 dudes with guns jump out, one gets stung to death by a swarm of bees, the other 3 then proceed to beat the swarm into submission with sticks and then scoop up the unconscious bees with their bare hands before 2 more of them get stung to death by an even larger swarm of bees, causing the last dude to jump back in the car and drive off in terror, leaving behind a bunch of guns and corpses. American tax dollars at work."

[@irregularassassin6380]

@@kingkuma4112 LMAOOOO!!!!! You're right, that is the best comment ever!! XD Edit: What's the title of the video? I'd love to go back and watch that mission again.

[@kingkuma4112]

@@irregularassassin6380 Xcom files episode 3 - bees!

[@irregularassassin6380]

@@kingkuma4112 Thank you!!

[@tim-mer]

These videos are amazing, keep up the good work

[@spedicstreams8386]

Some of my favorite content on youtube right now, good work!

[@TheOriginalElkstone]

I'm assuming it was downhill before this clip, but the way this is framed makes it look like the campaign went from All Ok to Entirely Fucked in under 10 minutes

[@TheAlexDivision]

I love these! thank you so much

[@johnarnold8485]

Welcome to old xcom, where the rate of xcom operatives to aliens dead is 2:1 and that's not even including the 40 dead civilians. Prior to the mission they actually label a disaster. XD

[@korenn9381]

Absolutely amazing work making these. I've restarted the Xcom Files campaign playlist and am playing the game again as well because of your videos.

[@angusrobertson6398]

Was really hoping you would do this mission so cheers !

[@FireBurn256]

>tftd >mostly gauss >no good armor >no tanks >holding stuff in second hands with two handed guns >Alien base assault For brave of heart we sell coffins with discount!

[@ham_slam_wich]

My video pitch is for the impossibly long-living Porkchop from the FMP videos.

[@Vattghern_]

I loved this game as a kid, I was totally terrified to play it. When UFO Enemy Unknown came out, my friends and I were talking about how horrifying and mysterious that game was and how they won't be able to replicate the suspense and the fear of the unknown... then X-COM: Terror from the Deep came out

[@doctorlegs1234]

Doing the lord's work going through these vods. I don't have the strength to go through them all lol

[@j-mc2144]

Funny, I was just looking through the Lewis and Ben playlist.

[@Tomanecicacenek]

There goes another PTSD

[@aramaxes4802]

This is exactly how brutal this game is near the end game. I remember spending days loading back my previous save multiple times to get a different outcome and every time the ennemy was wiping my whole team in so little time it always made me feel hopeless.

[@aramaxes4802]

Best advice for this game... keep your save files dont overwrite those by saving over. You will have to re-do missions often.

[@randallwong7196]

Mind control + a small swarm of sea chryssalids.

[@savvapn]

Make one on the mission on the cruise ship, when they saw the big dragons for the first time I think. That was fun

[@raytracer5726]

90's games were brutal.

[@CyborG73rus]

That went way better then i expected. I thought they will eat an explosive and wipe on the first turn.

[@ApeBoy1787]

Last time I played a lobsterman threw a grenade in the middle of my squad and killed 9 of my guys instantly.

[@cz1589]

I remember times i simply used a few unarmed suicide soldiers. They ran outside on turn 1 to scout a big area. When surviving the first walk, they also would be the primary moleculair control victims as far as i recall. But without arms, no big issue. Meanwhile i would use the long range waypoint missiles to wipe out spotted aliens and suspicious areas. Just dont take out the area to enter the next level XD As long no one with a missile launcher gets under MC youre fine... so send in the expendables first.

[@Lazy-Hero]

Lewis and Ben go on worst mission in XCOM history, lose campaign instantly

[@IceifritGaming]

The new XCom just isn't the same as the old. It lost something.

[@svenrio8521]

I wish they would play more XCOM, or even Xenonauts or Terra Invicta

[@kermit32dll]

I see so many people totally ignoring tanks. And that is why there is such a massacre. As I remember playing this 20 yrs ago, completing both series with the same tactics... 1) build up 3 top tanks 2) use them for all the combat, 3 tanks in a platoon literally destroy whatever they see 3) there is place for 2 crew member in the dropship. these just sit inside and gain free experience while not doing anything in the combat. 4) Once these two gain enough experience (and it rockets as game thinks that these 2 did all the job), you just put another 2 and boost them. After few missions, you have many strong soldiers, that are immune to psy attacks (if you were training them at the base, of course). One tank can be dropped then, and you end up with 2 tanks and 6 terminators with blaster launchers that are eliminating everyone without even leaving the dropship. The main part is using tanks - they are immune to mind control and can eliminate any alien very fast due their accuracy and cost per shot.

[@octopusexperiment1931]

I want a tftd remake so bad. The new games just arent the same when you arent getting your ass tentacle violated so much that you have to create human shields (and sponges) to take the punishment.

[@samuelcox9656]

Have lewis and ben ever actually saved the world? 😅

[@karlomendoza2102]

Has the world ended? No! So thank them. Throw a pray to Thor for no Ice Giants while you are at it.

[@peterharrison7205]

I can recall them getting to Mars once. Not sure if they beat the mission or not though

[@jasam01]

2 or 3 times iirc~ Or at elast thats how meny times they reached the final mission

[@kingkuma4112]

@@peterharrison7205 They beat the xcom files, which was fittingly the last big series. I was there for it live, it was glorious. (Also they did beat tftd on superhuman.)

[@TheJayhawk301]

Does anyone know of a more long form version of the quick cut of their xcom series? I would love to watch an 8 hour compressed version of their series'!

[@theseer656]

Oof. And I thought Long war was hard. LMAO 😅

[@alexanderlindner8296]

Early game colonies are near impossible you need 6-8 torpedo launcher and like destroy the base in the first round to avoid mindcrap Then for the second level it's, against more brain monsters and lobsterman so you need way more firepower then crappy gauss guns I like TFTD more then Enemy unknown if it's, about the difficulty

[@nyk2000m]

Just use mod to change yr soldiers Time Unit to 255, change alien weapon damage to 1.

[@maestrolodahl8681]

Psssstttt ;-] Could Ye' Perhaps give the name of that mod plz?;)

[@wowsnav]

lol "the alien base attacks are almost impossible without molecular control" these guys are bad at classic xcom. For the surface mission, just ensure you have sonic weapons. Armor doesn't really matter because you shouldn't be getting hit. Do not bring any grenades whatsoever and ensure all soldiers drop their weapons on the ground turn 1. This means anyone who does get mind controlled can't do anything. Now, you camp the sub doors for ~30-some turns, and the enemies will all come to you. If you have big iron balls you can try throwing particle disturbance grenades outside of the sub door to blow up anything coming after you, but anyone who is mind controlled WILL throw one inside the sub and kill everyone. You must pick them up from the ground and throw them outside that way, nobody can carry them. This will handle the vast majority of the surface mission. When you get inside the base, there is no more MC to worry about, and it's just a matter of slowly killing everything in there with sonic weapons, and ensuring you always have TU's for reaction fire. It's even more embarrassing since Yogscast came from SomethingAwful (Ye Olde Goone Squade) who have a community of classic x-com experts on the gaming forum who taught people how to be good at those games because one of them was also an OpenXcom developer. Sad!

[@Bogwedgle]

I mean, yeah, you can play it like that, it's definitely optimal to do so if your only goal is to win. This is a stream. Do you think 30 turns of door camping would be an entertaining stream to watch? "Hey guys welcome back to our 20th 4 hour stream of us hiding in a box"

[@wowsnav]

@@Bogwedgle "Do you think 30 turns of door camping would be an entertaining stream to watch?" I'm not a mindbroken zoomer NPC that watches streamers or e-celebs, but I can tell you that one where people are winning the game will always be better than one where people are fantastically losing. I don't care about watching losers.

[@Bogwedgle]

​@@wowsnav So what you're saying, if I'm getting this right, is you're not a mindbroken zoomer npc who watches streamers or E-celebs, you just come to watch videos of highlights of their streams and complain about how bad they are at the games? Your entire skin in this game is being a smug killjoy? Other people are mindbroken npcs but you, you're the enlightened protagonist of reality because you don't watch the people you came here to watch and know how to boringly cheese a thirty year old strategy game and, for some reason, seem to tie up a sense of pride in that? You think you know what kind of streams are better, despite definitely not watching streams, and your idea of better is hiding in a corner playing silly doors abusing enemy pathing until you basically win by default? You look at a difficult game and rather than actually facing how challenging it is you would rather hide behind a door the enemies cannot open and pretend that makes you good at the game. It doesn't. These guys beat TFTD on ironman superhuman without hiding in a box for every challenging mission and yeah, it did take them 3 or 4 tries, but they did it, have you? Because if you need to use that kind of "strategy" to beat this game, you're bad at classic Xcom.

[@wowsnav]

@@Bogwedgle Wow, that's a lot of words. Too bad I'm not reading 'em, commie!

[@213ka]

@@Bogwedgle haha youre mad