Hey people. Let's play some XCOM, the 1994 classic from Microprose. I'll need YOUR advice on all matters tactical, strategic, and naming wise. Let's kill the ayyliens!
Friday XCOM
Jason Evans
William Rivera
Alright, difficulty. My brain has shrunk significantly as I've already entered the "video game" board, V, so I'll only be playing on 4/5 difficulty. For reference, 2 would be "Normal" difficulty by today's standards.
Adrian Young
I struggled to beat the game on the bugged easiest difficulty looking forward to this
Luke Ramirez
Now we need to choose our base location. What place (above land) on mother earth would be the ideal site, gentlemen?
Colton Adams
israel
Jayden Gray
Australia
Josiah Jackson
Here you are, but now we've got to come up with a name. An ingenious name that will reflect the best qualities of the XCOM project.
Michael Hughes
your moms asshole
Owen Hill
Okay, had to shorten it a bit and remove the spaces for it to get in, but we're here.
First come, first serve. Give me your best one at a time, everyone!
Sebastian Price
Buy rocket tanks autocanons with explosive rounds and proximity grenades. Research Laser Pistols and psionics ASAP. Arm interceptors with short range missiles.
Jason Wood
Best names, specifically. Eight names for our valorous soldiers. We'll have more coming soon, of course. Here's what the base looks like right now, aswell.
Armored vehicles make the game far too easy, psionics aswell. The most I'll use this game is the Mind Probe (an item that lets you see an alien's health, energy, etc, no offensive capabilities)
Josiah Powell
Psycho Esther
Good luck commander
Elijah Nguyen
Max Force
Jack Perez
Alright, I've put these names in, and looking at how slow the thread is I'll need you all to contribute a couple of names each. Six left.
Meanwhile, we've already detected our first UFO. Three and a half hours after the XCOM project initiated. This is a really bad omen. So give me those names quick, people!
Hudson Morgan
>So give me those names quick, people!
Dick Justice.
Brandon Thompson
Unfortunately, the UFO is going too fast to intercept. The starting Interceptor we have can only travel at 2100. It escaped off to the west, presumably crossing the atlantic. We'll stay on watch, though!
In the meantime, I'm adjusting the base. When aliens raid an XCOM base, they come in through the hangers (the big ones housing planes) and the access lift (that red circle). We'll build two new hangars on the top, and when they're complete destroy the two ones at the bottom so we can funnel the aliens more effectively.
Jason Hall
The Bagger 288
Jackson Butler
Yo OP, on the off-chance you're interested there's a general over on /vg/ that includes XCOM, in case this thread gets bumped off you can continue there
Brayden Rivera
Samuel Sullivan
bump
Lincoln Kelly
Right... so we haven't gotten any more names. We still have space for five... unless the unnamed all die in this mission. Oh well.
The UFO came back a few days later and actually landed extremely close to our base, just in the middle of Libya. Our eight troops begin landing procedures, and their fame begins...
Kayden Harris
fuck xeno scum
Ethan Thompson
Max Force is our first to get off the ship. He steps off, spots an alien some distance away. Immediately crouching, preparing to fire... and the alien immediately fires, hitting him.
Miraculously, despite being hit with a plasma pistol shot, he is alive. Though, his wounds will slowly bleed him to death- nobody thought to bring some gauze in the dropship.
Jose Williams
Name the one with the highest strength Jim Ratter
Benjamin Phillips
Put me in coach
I'll be Gronch "CIA" Bronch
Carson Rivera
Damn you, he'll make it!