XCOM: 40K | Ben Saves The World #12

[@kinesta]

46:30 - "Kyron what do you want to do?" "FOR THE EMPEROR!" steps out of shadows and instantly dies >.

[@Bouncing_Ogre_Tit]

what a hero

[@ch0arrim]

I just love these! Always such a blast having this one while you work or just chill :D

[@dbouya]

I know there was an episode 13 on twitch, but the vod became more than 2 months old, so I can't finish watching it. Any chance it will show up here? please?

[@TheOriginalElkstone]

4 years since Lewis was on this

[@Mremeralddragon]

Tau are safe from one quarter of chaos. Tzeentch doesnt bother with them because they already have fish hands.

[@funtagekill1e]

can definilty understand the frustration just hope your rimworld playthrough will be uploaded aswell :D

[@shanadir]

Is this uploaded out of order again??

[@varituschetwynd4833]

Seems to be. Definitely missing some footage since the last one I watched.

[@ekis3]

18 aug to 11 sept. Almost a month

[@CaseChronicles69]

Waiting room for Lewis and Ben's return to SAVING THE WORLD!

[@Toad22484]

Taking some of the sub mods this game has and using them to make a less grindy experience would be a good idea. I 100% get the frustration this mod brings, some of the sub mods can lessen enemies, corruption amongst many other things.

[@u4ea126]

Oh no, was this the last VOD? :(

[@VodGobo]

Oh lord, we doing the time warp again.

[@josgretf2800]

I can't play with the submod because every fucking unit in this game is a crysilid basically. no matter what no matter how far. its really frustrating.

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

Im down for some Rimworld! I was constantly facepalming trying to watch your original playthrough. Looking forward to seeing how you've improved since.

[@ZacharyChesky]

Knowing what you know I'd like to see an entire restart of the inquisitior version of xcom 40k

[@JohnnyNatrium]

This modpack just seems to be another example of hardcore fans with too much time on their hands making the experience into an absolute grindfest of tedium though. I don't see that knowing what he knows will stop the eventual power creep making each mission a slog of an hour or more against completely overpowered versions of bulletsponge enemies. Ben doesn't like X-Com EU's Long War mod because of the immersion breaking grind and amount of time sunk into just going up against a design that relies on making things unfair to satisfy people who like to spend every second of free time to play something over and over and find the way to min-max an unfair experience rather than rely on even a large amount of experience plus strategic skill, to make for an immersive and fun playthrough. I loved this modpack for the first.. 7 sessions? I'm not having as much fun looking at guardsmen tanking three lascannon shots to the chest, and then killing the Space marine shooting at them in one reaction shot. Or a map with 30 Russian Doll sisters that are at least 3-in-1 enemies, will corrupt your own soldiers, and all the other crap thrown in. All he'd probably end up having to do is play every mission ridiculously slowly which is boring af to play and watch.

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

​@@JohnnyNatriumit's even worse playing as the guard. You need to play very slowly and tactically, taking cover at all times, popping out to take A shot, then hiding again. Using the sidestep feature to prevent reaction fire. Proper two-man heavy weapon teams. Smoke cover. Relying on vehicles to deal with most immediate enemies before dismounting. Even with all that you'll still lose at least 1/4th of your dudes, and you'll spend 30-60 minutes on each mission as even small craft are like clown cars with 30 bads inside.

[@MsArchitectschannel]

@@Sp4rt4nSl4ya you must SUCK at this modpack if you thing guard is poping in and out over cover faction. you WILL lose 1/4 or even 1/2 of your guys on difficult missions, but plenty of missions i take 0 losses as guard. I'm playing with the brutal AI version of xcom which makes it more difficult and i took out 3 ork bases and a landed very large nurgle ship with only 3 losses and they were complete chumps. guardsmen are expendable chumps untill they are veteran officers with personal shields, then they can survive and seriously shred on the battlefield. end game guard ship has 50 guys in it, he really needs lewis to keep up playing it enough and staying sane.

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

@@MsArchitectschannel maybe I do suck, maybe I've got bad luck, or maybe it's Maybelline. Anyone can take out ork bases with no losses, most can only do it with save scumming. Seeing as you offer no insight or tips and just talk down on me while touting your own accomplishments you have me suspecting you're the latter. I'm aware veteran guardsman with personal shields can survive a lot, the problem is getting to that point. When you start off with 24 chumps wearing paper and your first UFO is a clown car full of Rubric marines that right there is enough to be a full wipe immediately without careful planning and luck, hence the popping in and out of cover with krak. Trying to rush that, especially early on is just asking for a full squad wipe and saying goodbye to your starting craft.

[@CoreTendency]

XCOOOOOOOM!

[@witoldgrabowskiwatcher]

I think playing as imperial guard would've been better, this faction seems... unfinished or underpowered/overpowered depending solely on RNG or what enemy you come into. Also, the "1 mission is game wipe" or "craft shot time warp" is boring to watch and frustrating for Ben. Hell, I think even giga-grind of x-com files is better as I am playing it myself, at least enemies die when I shoot them (aside from zorro hat man of course)

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

Trust me when I say it's even worse playing as the guard. You need to play very slowly and tactically, taking cover at all times, popping out to take A shot, then hiding again. Using the sidestep feature to prevent reaction fire. Proper two-man heavy weapon teams. Smoke cover. Relying on vehicles to deal with most immediate enemies before dismounting. Even with all that you'll still lose at least 1/4th of your dudes, and you'll spend 30-60 minutes on each mission as even small craft are like clown cars with 30 bads inside. I'm a very patient person but even I got fed up with it and went back to my old xcom files run I never finished. Ben has very little patience and would lose a whole platoon of guardsmen in 5 turns.

[@dinner870]

Just sayin assault marines seem like they would be O'l Benny boys jam. mobility plus unit availability. that or a sisters play through as they get a bunch of strong wacky stuff. my 2c i like anything bens playing

[@MsArchitectschannel]

Love these videos A LOT but this is the worst faction in this modpack. Novices are the most fun followed by guard IMO