XCOM Enemy within

BRAVERY 10, let's do this!

So I bought this game a few weeks ago. It's ok, once you install the long war mod and aren't ridiculously limited any more and the aliens are actually good. After getting recked the first game (because I immediately went on iron-man + hardest difficulty) I am now making a take 2 on it and I need your help.

Just like the first game I'm looking for victims volunteers. You get your choice of race, gender, nationality, weapon armour, primary and secondary utility item and your sidearm. If any of you has played this you can choose what you look like as well, but I can't go into detail with others as there are far too many options for me to show. As the game will progress and I unlock gene manipulation (yes I'm not going the mec way, because we are Clan warriors and I probably won't be able to go both ways).

These are your choices:

DISCLAIMER: I can't change the gender, nationality or class once it has been assigned. I also can't predict which of the two classes a specific solder will get assigned or what class gets assigned after I press randomly assign class button. If you want a specific combination you may need to wait a long time.

NEW RULE: Due to the fact that I can't change nationality and that the chance of getting a correct Nationality + class combo are very improbably I'll be enforcing the rule that you can choose EITHER Class OR nationality, but not both. You can still tell me the class preference if you have chosen nationality and hope oyu get what you wished for.

Abolished as I figured out the complexity of commanders choice option. I can now select your class.

Gender:
Male
Female
Nationality

HQ_BASE_POWER=45;	United States
HQ_BASE_POWER=25;	Russia
HQ_BASE_POWER=25;	China
HQ_BASE_POWER=25;	United Kingdom
HQ_BASE_POWER=25;	Germany
HQ_BASE_POWER=25;	France
HQ_BASE_POWER=25;	Japan
HQ_BASE_POWER=25;	India
HQ_BASE_POWER=20;	Australia
HQ_BASE_POWER=15;	Italy
HQ_BASE_POWER=18;	South Korea
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Turkey
HQ_BASE_POWER=20;	Indonesia
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Spain
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Pakistan
HQ_BASE_POWER=18;	Canada
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Iran
HQ_BASE_POWER=12;	Israel
HQ_BASE_POWER=18;	Egypt
HQ_BASE_POWER=25;	Brazil
HQ_BASE_POWER=12;	Argentina
HQ_BASE_POWER=15;	Mexico
HQ_BASE_POWER=20;	South Africa
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Poland
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Ukraine
HQ_BASE_POWER=20;	Nigeria
HQ_BASE_POWER=3	;	Venezuela
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Greece
HQ_BASE_POWER=4	;	Colombia
HQ_BASE_POWER=8 ;	Portugal
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Sweden
HQ_BASE_POWER=15;	Ireland
HQ_BASE_POWER=15;	Scotland
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Norway
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Netherlands
HQ_BASE_POWER=10;	Belgium
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Bosnia and Herzegovina
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Honduras
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Algeria
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Ethiopia
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Kenya
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Morocco
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Tanzania
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Zimbabwe
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Bangladesh
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Kazakhstan
HQ_BASE_POWER=8	;	Malaysia
HQ_BASE_POWER=3	;	New Zealand
HQ_BASE_POWER=3	;	Philippines
HQ_BASE_POWER=5	;	Saudi Arabia
HQ_BASE_POWER=4	;	Taiwan
HQ_BASE_POWER=8	;	Thailand
HQ_BASE_POWER=6	;	Vietnam
HQ_BASE_POWER=4	;	Austria
HQ_BASE_POWER=5	;	Czech Republic
HQ_BASE_POWER=4	;	Denmark
HQ_BASE_POWER=5	;	Finland
HQ_BASE_POWER=3	;	Hungary
HQ_BASE_POWER=3	;	Romania
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Cuba
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Guatemala
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Panama
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Chile
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Ecuador
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Peru
HQ_BASE_POWER=0	;	United Nations
HQ_BASE_POWER=0	;	XCOM
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Bolivia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Nicaragua
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Bulgaria
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Croatia
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Serbia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Slovakia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Switzerland
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Angola
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Ghana
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Iraq
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Jordan
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Syria
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Mongolia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Costa Rica
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	El Salvador
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Paraguay
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Uruguay
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Albania
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Belarus
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Estonia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Iceland
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Kosovo
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Latvia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Lithuania
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Macedonia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Moldova
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Montenegro
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Slovenia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Botswana
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Cameroon
HQ_BASE_POWER=1 ;	Congo
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Gabon
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Ivory Coast
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Libya
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Mozambique
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Namibia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Senegal
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Sudan
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Tunisia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Zambia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Afghanistan
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Armenia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Azerbaijan
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Georgia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Kuwait
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Lebanon
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Oman
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Palestine
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Qatar
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	United Arab Emirates
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Yemen
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Cambodia
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Kyrgyzstan
HQ_BASE_POWER=2	;	Laos
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Myanmar
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Nepal
HQ_BASE_POWER=3 ;	Singapore
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Sri Lanka
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Tajikistan
HQ_BASE_POWER=1	;	Uzbekistan

NOTE: The numbers next to HQ_BASE_POWER tell you what the chance is to get a recruit from that country.

CLASS
Whatever life gives me
Infantry (Medium range fighter)
Assault (Short range fighter)
Sniper (Long range fighter)
Scout (great dodge, good mobility)
Gunner (Has a machinegun)
Rocketeer (Has a rocket launcher)
Medic (Good with medpacks, support class)
Engineer (Good with grenades)

RANK
-Recruit (you get into the game earlier, but you may not get you class of choice)
-Squaddie (you get your class of choice, but you may need to wait a while).

ARMOUR
-Tac Armour (+1 mobility, +2 HP)
-Tac Vest (+3 mobility, +1 HP)

PRIMARY WEAPONS
- SMG (2-4 Damage, 2 shots per reload, 0% Crit, 4-5 Crit damage, +3 mobility).
- Assault rifle (3-5 Damage, 3 shots per reload, 8% Crit, 5-7 Crit damage, no other bonuses)
- Assault Carbine (2-4 Damage, 3 shots per reload, 8% Crit, 5-7 Crit damage, +1 mobility, +6 accuracy)
- Shotgun (4-8 Damage, 4 shots per reload, 16% Crit, 8-11 Crit damage, cannot be used by recruits, snipers, gunners or rocketeers).
- Sniper Rifle (4-6 Damage, 5 shots per reload, 20% Crit, 6-9 Crit damage, -1 Mobility, Cannot move and fire, Only usable by snipers)
- SAW (4-6 Damage, 6 shots per reload, 0% Crit, 6-9 Crit damage, -1 Mobility, Only usable by Gunners)
- Marksmans Rifle (4-6 Damage, 5 shots per reload, 12% Crit, 6-9 Crit damage, Only usable by snipers and scouts)
- Battle Rifle (4-6 Damage, 3 shots per reload, 8% Crit, 6-9 Crit damage, -1 Mobility, Moving reduces accuracy, Only usable by Infantry, Scouts, assault, Medic and Engineer)
- LMG (4-8 Damage, 8 shots per reload, 0% Crit, 6-9 Crit damage, -2 Mobility, Cannot move and fire, Grants squad sight. Only usable by Gunners)

SECONDARY WEAPONS
-Machine pistol (2-4 Damage, 2 shots per reload, 0% Crit, 4-6 Crit damage, -1 Mobility, -8 Accuracy when drawn)
-Pistol (1-3 Damage, 2 shots per reload, 0% Crit, 3-4 Crit damage)
-Sawed-off shotgun (4-8 Damage, 1 shot per reload, 4% Crit, 8-11 Crit damage, -1 Mobility, Usable by Infantry, Scouts, assault, Medic and Engineer)

Utility Items (choose 2)
- Alien trophy (Grants Steadfast: Prevents panic when wounded, ally is killed, ally panics and when alien roars).
- Battle scanner (Grenade that reveals an area, Only usable by Scouts and Engineers)
- Ceramic plating (+1 HP)
- AP Grenade (02-06 Damage, doesn't penetrate cover, destroys alien equipment)
- Flashbang (Reduces movement and aim of enemies caught within for one turn. Psionics and robotic enemies are immune)
- Smoke Grenade (Confers defence bonus to everyone within radius)
- HE Grenade (01-05 Damage, penetrates and destroys cover)
- Laser Sight (+4 accuracy)
- Medikit (Restores 3 health, stops allies bleeding out, neutralises acid, confers partial immunity to acid).
- Rocket (Allows rocketeers to fire and additional rocket)
- Shreder Rocket (Allows rocketeers to fire and additional rocket, rocket deals DOT damage)
- Drumm ammo (+2 ammo, -4 accuracy, Only usable by Infantry, Scouts, assault, Medic and Engineer)
- Motion Tracker (Scans 5 tiles around soldier illuminating plasma bombs, melded humans, civilians and meld chanisters. 3 charges, reaches beyond LOS).

Note You will also need to give me you first and last name. I don't know all of you by your full names. Should you not want to disclose that, then just give me a fake one that I can put in. You will get your proper nicknames if when you achieve a high enough rank.

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Casualties:

20 unimportant agents.







Waiting list:

Riviera - (Jim Willfixit)
Yalk
Tor-Eilif "IceVamp" Hargaut
Deathbane
Tuomo "Erkkituo" Erkkilä

Wishlist:

Deathbane - Medic
Ensalus - Scout, Tactical vest, SMG, Regular pistol, 15 base movement
eRkkituo - Engineer or Rocketeer
Yalk - Probably assault, Carbine, HE Grenade, Will give him sawed-off shotgun as secondary, Either US or German.
Ice Vamp - Something with shotgun, best armour, Norwegian/Nordic without Sweden.
Riviera - Wants to be a MEC. Can't promise that.

Current recruits:

Sam "Gouty" Cottrell



Tom "Trunham" Runham



Matthew "Deathbane" Robson



Tuomo "Erkkituo" Erkkilä



Robert "Ensalus" Fried



Tor-Eilif "IceVamp" Hargaut

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Our base is situated in Europe in Germany, but our initial founding country is Great Britain. X-Com project was recommended by an old SAS General giving all our soldiers +3 Accuracy.

I'm debating whether I make this some form or RP as well. Obviously you guys wouldn't be able to control your characters, but you would be able to write Logs and talk to each other after missions. Hmm. That will take a lot of my time and I'm not sure I have that much.

SCREENSHOTS

Current situation (Updated 26.7.2015)



Current base extensions



RP And RP related things go here.

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Edited 44 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2015 07:23PM by Zweistein000.

Groat Mcscroat.. How do Floaters float!?


Awesome sauce cant wait to reprimanded for collateral damage ten killed in the next mission.

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Tuomo "eRkkituo" Erkkilä. As long as my character gets to blow everything up, I'm happy.

Right. I'll start this tomorrow.

The invitation stands. Anyone can join even after I started.

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Right. I'm going to attempt to RP this in some fashion. Check the thread for this.

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Make Yalk terminator 2.0 Dierson pyre



Same options I picked last time in the other game

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"SORRY, I couldn't hear you over the sound of my tits! what were you saying?"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/2015 03:38AM by Yalk.

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Yalk
Make Yalk terminator 2.0 Dierson pyre



Same options I picked last time in the other game

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Yalk
Not sure of purpose, but if you are asking for recruits to command (ie, your playing a game and want to use us as characters) then sign me up


Human
Male
Carbine? Rifle etc (not sure of applicable weapons)
Commando, physical close combat
Standard or flying (I do like me some jets)
Pistol, C4 (relavent explosives) grenades



Dierson basically

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Ok. Some updated have been done. 2 new people have been put off the waiting list and can now RP in their fullest form.

Also Erkk, if oyu want I can put you on the waiting list again. Your guy will be out for a long time.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/01/2015 12:59PM by Zweistein000.

Please do.

Gah, seems Sam is sniper jesus.
I'll be Shotgun McKillthingsupclose since nobody seems to have that.

Tor-Eilif "IceVamp" Hargaut
Norwegian or any nordic country besides Sweden.
Shotty, best armour.

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-I would if I could, but I can't so I won't.

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IceVamp
Gah, seems Sam is sniper jesus.
I'll be Shotgun McKillthingsupclose since nobody seems to have that.

Tor-Eilif "IceVamp" Hargaut
Norwegian or any nordic country besides Sweden.
Shotty, best armour.

This made me lol

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"SORRY, I couldn't hear you over the sound of my tits! what were you saying?"

You say that you want to be up close blaming everything up in your face.. bu then you say then when 10 chrisilids appear and proceed to wrench your jaw open and spit alien baby's down your throat that then take you over turning you into a fleshy mindless husk that then bursts into another chrisilid upon deat ( or would do in the original)

But dont worry I will be there with a big ass machine gun to brap brap brap then blow their ass down.

Amusing we all live that long of course.

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I'll me playing this again tomorrow or Sunday. Sry it takes so long between sessions, but with me also trying to write up an interesting story it takes about 3 hours per hour of gameplay to get everything sorted.

And my dad got me back into MWO.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/03/2015 04:29PM by Zweistein000.

Fair play man just take your time there's no rush

By the by with "commanders choice" you CAN choose your class.. when the scrubs get promoted rather than doing it at debrief, leave it for the barracks instead and use the next/previous soldier buttons to change class.

Also fuck crisilids.. they where horrible before but with this mod they are just please no...

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Interesting. When I use those buttons my game crashes.

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Have you tried doing it while ability selection is up?

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Yes. It crashes.

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Another mission. Some very difficult choices. The American guy I was hoping to transform into Dierson died. Horribly. I also gut a scour on a Norwegian character. After long and careful consideration I'll be giving this one to Ice Vamp. sorry Ensalus. I know you were first, but IceVamp specifically requested a Nordic character and this is the only Nordic character I got. There will certainly be another scout in the future, but this combination is very rare.

Also Yalk. I have an Irish assault for you. Either that or you can wait and hope that my only remaining US guy gets promoted to the correct class.

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Have you tried doing it while ability selection is up?

I finally figured out how it works. Basically what you need to do is the following:

1. Have your solder get enough XP to get promoted.
2. NOT promote him in the debrief screen
3. Go to barracks, select he solder to be promoted
4. Enter ability screen and THEN press shift/tab or next/previous soldier buttons to select a class.


If you do you promotion in the debriefing screen you will not be able to select the class. You also cannot change the class once your solders have already been promoted. Sadly this means that IceVamp you must either remain a Scout or be put on a waiting list and hole that one of the 3 soldiers I have hired will come from a Nordic country.

Having finally figured this out luckily means that wait times will be a lot sorter unless you want to specify your nationality and that I no longer need to enforce the nationality vs class rule.

Edit: I also have dev console turned on. That means I can edit the second wave options. I'm thinking about enabling wear and tear now that there is an option that repairs only cost time.

Also here's what I learned. The difficulty I'm playing on is meant more as a how long can you last challenge and it's actually not expected of the player to win here. Do I go and reduce difficulty or enable bronzeman mode (in bronzeman mode I'll be able to restart failed missions) or do we go balls deep and die a horrible, horrible, slow and painful death?

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/05/2015 01:19PM by Zweistein000.

Balls Deep

Some of the missions man are just......


Painful doesn't begin to describe it.

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Some of the missions man are just......


Painful doesn't begin to describe it.

Was just about to link this: [www.youtube.com]

This explains exactly why new X-COM isn't a difficult game and what it needed to do to be one.

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I mean that in a good way.. Long War is what the game should of been.. some parts of it are a little janky but that's more the games base development and the mods development moulded around the base game mechanics.

Like I said some missions I had to do where just painful in a "Fuck that was hard!" and half of my best guys are dead or wounded for 4 months"

Example being ever now and then you get a "Council" mission witch can be good as you get a chase reward and often enough lower panic in said country/continent. One such mission is bomb disposal where aliens have set up a big bomb and you need to find it and deactivate it in a limited amount of turns and there are power nodes dotted about that give you more time.

Generally considering half the time with how many aliens there are and how often your guys miss and you only initially have 4 or 5 turns the missions are damn near IMPOSSIBLE!

But in the default game there where a handful of Thin Men that where squishy as fuck and you could rush in and stop the bomb in moments.

But not this mission oohh noo.. Starts out thing are going smoothly and a small pack of weak sectoids are dead and a couple of power nodes deactivated and bought me some time...

The map was one long street littered with cars and trucks and the like and was stormy as fuck. Moving further up the road a little ways and there's a fucking legion of Mutons! and they all had HEAVY PLASMA RIFLES!

8 MEN! I went in there with 8 veterans and only ONE of them made it back with only 2 health remaining. (poor sod I had to sacrifice to shut down the bomb as I only had one turn remaining)

That one remaining guy was promoted about 4 times but man the price for that victory was fucking heavy.

And the campaign now is getting pretty shit hot. its good though that now I have tech that's on par with the aliens and my soldiers dont outright die in one go.. even scrubs have a high chance of survival and why unless I cant help it I take 2 medics with me.


BUT that is why Long War is a fantastic mod and definably worth getting to play the new XCOM the way it should of been but wasn't thanks to filthy casual consoles

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Mutons... Squad broken...

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Remember shoot or die!

Dont worry Zwei as you going for the cannon ending you know the one where XCOM lost because Firaxsis cant be bothered to attempt underwater maps or rendering Gilmen and Deep Ones in full 3D in the Unreal-3 engine.

And of course this way they dont have to.. all they need to do is just re-texture the existing assets and add some angry triangles onto vehicles and you have the sequel

And our Sectoid friends above lead by the beat poppin Mr G-Money will be there to happily steal.. sorry take all our money for the revolution...

PEACE!

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Been playing this mod and literally played almost 9 hours this one weekend, which for me is quite a lot these days.

What i like most is how it feels like the aliens actually have a strategy and are trying to execute it.. rather than just responding to you.

It feels ALOT more dynamic.

Oh yeah, It adds like 200% more content and alien assets including the odd appearance of what seem to be "Hero" units.

Like I had a Mechtoid that had 50hp and did insane amounts of damage. It did like 20 damage a shot and oneshot half my squad, it was the one time I had to GTFO and abandon a mission as I was just losing too many guys to the damn thing and I was only doing like 3 damage to him as he had insane DR.

One thing I have not happen yet is base assault.

In the default EW (Enemy Within) the base defence happens at a set point in the "story" but with Long War I thin it will happen randomly depending on how aggressive you have been with the aliens to the point where they get pissed off and try to full force you

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Yeah thats how it works from what ive been reading.

So glad i have one girl with the auto CQC perk. If it wasnt for that, i wouldnt have a chance in this terror mission im half way through.

Killed about 12 chrysalids in two turns as they just keep swarming me starcraft style. If it wasnt for the shotgun reaction fire theyd have murdered me.

Yup just pick a corner use a scout or a due with super mobility to lure them all in then spam overwatch and shoot more on your turn and hope they dont get close enough.

Though sometimes their AI does durp out in that they will move next to one of your guys but rather than using that chance to kill or badly hurt them they will instead then move again next to another dude and you just go err wut!? then just gun them down.

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Speaking about this game. Last time everyone died. SQUAD BROKEN!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/13/2015 07:45PM by Zweistein000.

it fine you have our genetic material on file you can just bring us back when you have the means to do so. or just transfer our conciousness into a mechanical husk.

And just a tip yes you can heal a MEC with medkits you dont need to do it with a arc-thrower.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/13/2015 10:08PM by Trunham.

I did some more updates yesterday and today in the RP thread. Still haven completely caught up with the game timeline, but instead of RP being 3 mission behind it's only 1 mission behind now. I'll probably do this tomorrow and then play some more.

Aliens right now:

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Ok. RP is all caught up.

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Man that was brutal

I was. gotta do some more if I find the time. I'm kinda focusing on my bachelor now.

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