XCOM: Enemy Unknown

[Trixie]

XD

The feels man. Those feels.

[Nanoha Takamachi]

I'm so sorry Greg, but Samus just died a very heroic death after killing two sectoids (mind meld) that had her buddies pinned down, when another squad of sectoids patrolled into range, activated, and flanked her.

[Nanoha Takamachi]

I just had the best terror mission I have ever had. Killed everything, no damage taken, 2 civs lost.

wow

[Nanoha Takamachi]

Seems like bad like is the thing that's getting me every time. Just had a full squad wiped out after they ALL panicked...

From one person taking 2 damage. Panic chain ftl

[Omni]

The noise they make when they panic makes me rage even more. I want to go down and slap them all across the face. Get a goddamn grip, soldier!

[Nanoha Takamachi]

I just can't believe 6 hardened soldiers all panicked from one person taking 2 damage

da fuq?

[Omni]

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! OH GOD! OH GOD!

*everyone stands up and starts unloading bullets into each other, because that's what trained soldiers do*

[Nanoha Takamachi]

Yeah 2 died from friendly fire, one ran into the open and got gunned down by a thin man on overwatch, and the other 3 couldn't do anything for a turn so the aliens just all charged up and flanked them.

[Sarah_Kerrigan]

The worst is if you happen to have the console version and you have to deal with the more prominent glitches in say the terrain. I've had soldiers have a perfectly clear shot at aliens, only, for them to try and fire by turning into say a truck, or, a building and shoot it instead of leaning around the other way to fire.

[Nanoha Takamachi]

Worse still is getting crit while hunkered down in hard cover

[Nanoha Takamachi]

Going into a 'very hard' abduction mission with 3 rookies and a squadsight sniper.

I'm either boned, or my sniper is getting so many kills.

[Omni]

First casualty, my rookie who had gotten promoted and who I was intending to make Ganondorf, one-shotted from behind high cover. No major loss. But now I'm going into a Very Difficult mission in Germany. Let's see how Ganon candidate #2 fares.

[Omni]

So, first terror mission. Garona (my highest level, tied with Samus) and two rookies dead. Samus critically injured. Only Nanoha and the dude I'm about to make Link (he's an assault, I feel it fits him better than Ganon) survived. On the plus side, 16/18 civvies saved.

[Omni]

Link, Ganon and Whirda have joined the crew as my new assault, heavy and sniper, respectively. New armor equals less deaths? Guess we'll see. Last mission had no injuries sustained. Hurray for grenades!

[Omni]

The squad, as it currently stands: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/SKZ7nnq.jpg">http://i.imgur.com/SKZ7nnq.jpg</a><!-- m -->

Those were the good days. The days where it seemed we were on top of the world. Where nothing could go wrong.

We shot down a UFO over Egypt. We went to investigate. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://i.imgur.com/6LJYKYN.jpg">http://i.imgur.com/6LJYKYN.jpg</a><!-- m -->

What happened next, well ...

[Nanoha Takamachi]

DId you get everyone killed?

That's what happened in my best playthrough yet. Was doing fine in a UFO mission until I had 3 groups patrol onto me at once. It was just too much.

[Sarah_Kerrigan]

After I lost three fully customized squads in one hardcore play through . . . I just well, uh, stopped naming everyone and went with their defaults.

[Nanoha Takamachi]

I only name people after they get a class. Too many rookies later on die on the first mission for me to do that.

A part of me wants to stop naming them at all, but then I remember that the emotional connection with a bunch of random video game characters is part of the charm for me and do it anyway.

[Nanoha Takamachi]

I just made a new file and got the map with all the trucks. I walk one squddie up to a truck corner, and right around the side of the truck is BOTH spawns of aliens.

I ended up killing 4 with one grenade and cleaned the other two up with some good flank shots.

[Omni]

Yeah I ended up the same in my first game, Kairi. This is my second rodeo so I'm hoping it'll count for something.