X-COM THINK TANK (Out of Character Discussion about X-COM and the Series)

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PrismaCube

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I never understood why it takes a laser weapon almost two hits on a sectoid to kill it on impossibe but zhang goes and pulls this shit...

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It's the pistol from halo
 

MarineAvenger

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And then they give him the one class that can't use pistols.
I know I wish they had made it where you could choose the class he could be instead of making him the one class you always have to much of. I once had a game where out of 30 troops, 22 were heavies, 4 were assaults, 3 supports and 1 sniper it sucked.
 

PrismaCube

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I know I wish they had made it where you could choose the class he could be instead of making him the one class you always have to much of. I once had a game where out of 30 troops, 22 were heavies, 4 were assaults, 3 supports and 1 sniper it sucked.

Yeah there is always enough of what you do not need and a struggle on what you do need.
 

Taxor_the_First

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I once had a game where out of 30 troops, 22 were heavies, 4 were assaults, 3 supports and 1 sniper it sucked.
I had the opposite on my last Classic Ironman runthrough. I had an excess of Snipers, and in my desperation for other classes, I took 3 Rookies on a mission to try and get a Support. Then this happened:
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The reward for the mission complete was a Captain level Sniper. You could consider me annoyed.
Mind you, Zhang, O'Carrol and Mansoor went on to the Temple Ship, and I almost brought Ghaffar too.
And in posting this I only just noticed the mission name. That concept will not leave my head.
 

Adrammalech

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I've seen some Long War w/ Enemy Within videos popping up around my suggestions, does anyone who follows it diligently know if it's stable enough for a potential season now? I'm itching for more writing challenges. :3

Also, anyone else watching the International? Competition is wonderfully tight this year.
 

MarineAvenger

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I've seen some Long War w/ Enemy Within videos popping up around my suggestions, does anyone who follows it diligently know if it's stable enough for a potential season now? I'm itching for more writing challenges. :3

Also, anyone else watching the International? Competition is wonderfully tight this year.
From the lets plays I have seen the mod looks pretty stable though keep in mind that mods come with bugs but no major game breakers from what i have seen
 

Dahlexpert

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So I've been thinking about the long war mod and season 5,since the long war mod adds six soldiers right off the bat, and will later on get a wimping twelve later in the game.
I was thinking, do we get to make multiple characters. Since the long war mod adds so many soldiers, can we make two soldiers a soldier engineer,and so on also I need to mention this last season I asked Odd can we make characters that work in the med bay, and he liked the idea so assuming he remembers it we might get to make doctor characters.
 

Suryce

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Given the huge number of people who wanted to join the previous seasons, two characters for one person seems like an obvious no-no to me.
 

Dahlexpert

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Given the huge number of people who wanted to join the previous seasons, two characters for one person seems like an obvious no-no to me.

Yes, we do get a lot of people that sigh up for each season, but even though we get a lot of people that sign up about a quarter of them actually do the roleplaying.
 

Gahlo

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Hell yeah, I've been cheering on EG and I'm really glad to see them make it into the top two.
To daisy chain onto the conversation- Not really, I'm only watching the TL and C9 games. I'm a league guy personally, but I've been a TL fan since Brood War and a C9 fan since the organization's inception, so I figured why not at least root for them and watch the fireworks.

Proud of TL for getting as far as they did.

Yes, we do get a lot of people that sigh up for each season, but even though we get a lot of people that sign up about a quarter of them actually do the roleplaying.
And usually for various legit reasons.
 

Suryce

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What "various legit reasons"? Plenty of people with a solid application were not taken for season 4, and let's not forget about the lack of activity that season had after only a few weeks in. Lowering the number of roleplayers instead of increasing it would be absurd and counterproductive.
 
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