There is as series of these on Twitter - a bunch of the Team Fortress 2 voice actors are just being silly, going to small towns, looking for a sandwich for the Heavy:
https://twitter.com/johnpatricklowr/status/1571629882572148736
Found out that a) the Sniper and the Administrator (announcer) actors are married to each other and b) she is not only the Administrator, but also GLaDOS from Portal. Pretty legendary.
Its such a great idea, xcom is one of tne best games of all time, how can Xcom with Nintendo characters be bad?
I think thats the lowest metacritic rated DLC theyve ever produced. I keep them off, especially when playing WotC
Beat the final boss on normal difficulty yesterday after 10-15 tries. Absolutely loved this game, Iāve always wanted to play a game that made you feel like you were in a kung fu movie and this is the closest Iāve ever gotten. I decided to try master difficulty and got absolutely wrecked by the first boss, though, to the point that Iām not sure Iāll be attempting it further.
Agreed that the mega bosses are kind of BS but you can beat them if you approach things just right. Get all you guys but one just barely out of line of sight and take your invis person and scout the boss. Then, all on the same turn, overwatch all the out of sight people and pop your cloak to drag the boss through all your overwatches. That doesnāt count as actions so it wonāt get a response each time. Then if you hit enough itāll try to escape and you can take a shot or two as it runs. You definitely canāt fight it conventionally without taking some serious pain.
@TJ_Eckleburg12 Halo Worlds this weekend. You still watching? Not sure how anyone beats Optic the way they played last LAN.
I have to work a bunch this weekend so I wonāt get to watch it live, but Iām definitely looking forward to it.
If I were handicapping, Iād make Optic like a -120 favorite, Cloud9 +150, Sentinels +280, and Iād give the field +500.
Optic just has such a great balance with their team. Lucidās the MVP, Formal does a good bit of main-slaying, but I love watching how APG and Trippy do stuff that helps get wins, like get assists and rotate the ball and stuff.
this is one of those titles that will get me to buy a PS5 just to play this game and this game alone
eta: which is apparently in like 3 fucking weeks, fuck, whatās the easiest way to get a PS5 without paying a 100% markup scalper fee?
Huh, I was about to start playing XCOM 2, too, although to me, XCOM 2 is still Tales from the Deep. I played the ever living shit out of the original original. On the one hand, losing your whole squad feels like a rite of passage, but on the other, losing to an OP boss doesnāt sound all that fun. May just go without the add-on.
just shamelessly save scum and blame rng, trust me, way more fun that way
I was like 40 hours into an iron man play through or whatever itās called and got deeper into the game than I ever had before, and ran into one of those enormous AT-AT looking things, and it stopped and did this laser scanning thing that I stupidly thought was an overwatch and hid my uber-elite crack squad that had been streamrolling every single thing the game had thrown at me so far. well, I hid them right in front of it, and that wasnāt an overwatch, it was a building-shattering massive nuclear bomb that one shot my entire team and I havenāt played again.
Request an invite on Amazon or get into a PS Direct queue. Not sure if there are requirements for each but I know 2 people who got it from the PS Direct method.
also you guys donāt know your older game references - the new mario game isnāt xcom for mario!
turn-based grid style soft rpgās have been around for a while, final fantasy tactics came out in 1997 (unbelievable game, dont play the bastardized handheld versions, go rom yourself up an original playstation copy) and even before that was the super mario rpg, which this new game is probably a spiritual successor of.
mario rpg mightāve been the first, idk, probably some weird pc games I never heard about did it. Iām guessing this was close to the first to do it because mario rpg is one of the very first console titles to utilize 3d graphics:
speaking of which, they need to remake advance wars - that series was the shit
eta: i was mistaken, i mixed mario rpg up with some other title, mario rpg was just jrpg style, final fantasy tactics way predated xcom though, and contains very similar elements like trainable soldiers that can permadeath
fuck, i thought it came out in like 2000, nm im dumb
ff tactics > xcom though
XCom UFO Defense doesnāt get enough credit for how insanely detailed that game was for itās time
Good thing I can touch type, because I just got blinded by that take.
This forum isnāt really the demographic for this, but in case you have kids or whatever, Sims 4 is now free to play. Have to buy DLC, but the base game is free.
Also, Humble Bundle has a $20 bundle for Payday 2 and tons of DLC, or just the game for $1.
Oh, and Fallout 3 GOTY will be the free game of the week on Epic in about an hour.
Iām still working my way through the XCOM2 - Long War of the Chosen mod. I havenāt played through it completely - I get far, and then stop playing for a few months, and then restart it.
With the mod, you at least know which missions the Alien Kings will show up on (maybe thatās the case in the base game, Iāve only ever played the mod). The Viper King isnāt too bad, but once the second and third start showing up, Iāll only attempt that mission if my best guys and best equipment are all available. Otherwise, just skip the missing, the mod is based on not attempting all missions.
Itās absolutely nuts how much gameplay they put into that game and made it work seamlessly. How many games have tried to recreate the original and failed?
Fwiw, playing vanilla isny really required befofe WotC. That is basically just new game + and improves on the original in almost every way. Its kinda like somebody saying they have to play vanilla Civ Iv before playing with any expanisions and its like, yeah, no not really
I believe the alien leaders are known even before the Shadow Chamber is up. I canāt remember the terminology, but there are mission modifiers like Large Map, High Alert (enemies have larger detection ranges), High Explosives (lots of explosives on the map) - vanilla might have those, too, and the Alien Rulers are a part of that. So youāll see the mission parameters, and itāll say Viper King or whatever.
There arenāt a lot of missions with them - thereās a type of mission where I think Advent is moving reinforcements into the area, and I believe thatās the only mission type that will have them. However, those are also really valuable missions as you get to keep corpses/loot, so itās unfortunate whenever they need to be skipped.