The Official Game Status Update Thread

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Look at them. Look at this team of absolute killers as they just dominate the hidden underground alien base.
From left to right you have "Atlas" Anakinexi, "Mama Bear" Laevilium, "Stalker" Adwest, "Buster" Blacaria and "Scarecrow" Epsilon.
(Not pictured is "Cobra" Jamzor, who's still on the rope above)

I've kind of been spamming the chat with snippets of stories, so you'll probably know that I've been playing an XCOM: Enemy Within game using a custom name list of people from Eternity/Oracia/Caprecia. It's been a great fun absolutely slaughtering ayy all day with a troupe of absolute badasses, which makes me believe it's time to up the difficulty, but hey...it's my first EW run, so I was feeling like I needed to learn first. Besides, I already accidentally got King (remember him?) killed through of mix of over aggressiveness and plain bad luck, so it's not like my decision was completely unjustified.

At the start, anyway. I had a slow start because I like giving the enemy a chance hate wasting time and resources to move facilities around the base, and so waste time and resources digging to where I'm going to place them. Despite that, it's now June, only 3 months into the campaign and we've yet to lose any nations from the council. Actually, with the exception of a couple countries, the world's pretty calm about the whole "aliens are terrorizing our planet" thing.

Anyway, pictures! They're much more fun!

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I don't know what faces everyone's making. Deck's making a great face; someone meme it.
From left to right: Blac (behind Deck), Deck, Adwest, & Battlion

This was the start of what was to be the first real test, a terror mission in Berlin. The aliens have gotten tired of just abducting people, and wanted to send the message of "resist and you will be destroyed," so of course XCOM had to come in and save the day.

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Well...uh...is that it? I mean, I was kind of expecting something more; even on normal, I could have sworn my first terror mission in my first game was much more...uh...substantial. Oh well, time to continue onward.

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I love watching the dismount scenes, every single time.
Left to right: Adwest, Blac (in the back), Mestra, & Jam

The aliens really never had a chance with this crew. When the chips are down, Fal never fails to miss a headshot when it's needed most. Deck came out of the gate with those clutch kills, and I believe he still holds the highest kills per mission ratio. Blac's always there to support with rockets and suppressive LMG fire, but often steps into danger to clear entire rooms of enemies on his own, earning him the most total kills (if I remember correctly). I really abuse my assaults, so Jam and Batt are often in the medical ward, but they're both instrumental to braving enemy fire to get in close and murderize those that absolutely need to die.

Lots of people in the roster have pulled their weight. Truly, the game just feels so much better when you play with names you know.

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This one's for Blac.

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You finally get a good view of Jam in the back there, in red. I've been using him as my primo covert operative ("Cobra" Commando ) in missions to infiltrate and take down the traitors known as EXALT. I can't count the number of times I thought I'd lost him, but he somehow keeps surviving...so I gave him the Lightning Reflexes ability. Now he runs directly into swarms of ayys without a care in the world. \o/

I like carapace armor, it just looks like you're ready to get down to business. Sadly it'll be outclassed soon.

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XCOM's Ayy Team, suited up and ready to deploy. Truly the finest Earth has to offer.

Really, everyone's on the names list, it's just that the game hasn't seen fit to give me many people we know. Countries and genders are randomly assigned, so sorry if the game's selection offends you in whatever way somehow.

That's about it, I guess. Yeah.