Let's Play X-Com UFO Defense Again 07: Month One Over

[HiroYumasaki]

Love it when the alien uses the stun launcher at point blank range and knocks itself out.

[ReadmanJ]

Is there any particular rhyme or reason for the names?

[Amainville93]

@ReadmanJ Most of them are from LPs he's done.

[pteroid11]

No Sigourney Weaver, dude? C'mon, the reference was practically spelled out for you. XD

[Azxs0424]

@martinyearly there's no reason it's just so if you ever need it you have it.

[Disasterrify]

Oh wow, that mission ending. Hahaha! I just lost a campaign because I couldn't get any Elerium.

[BrawnX]

@Disasterrify

Ouch. I almost had that happen but I desided to reighn in my Elerium usage by using laser rifles. The only elirium I used was in the flight suits I built. Thank goodness that plasma beams don't expend Elerium... They work wonders against everything exept very large ships but tend to destroy Elerium pods in ships...

[Megatyrant]

@BrawnX Is that so? Well, if need be, here is a little exploit for you:

Let's say that you want to manufacture some Plasme Beams for your fighters. You know the usual procedure, of course. but for this to work, start with assigning 0 Engineers to produce 0 units, and start the production. Now, like this, nothing willl be produced, of cource. This is the point where you click on the assigned task again, and order whatever number of Engineers you have to produce 1 unit, no more.

[Megatyrant]

@Megatyrant If done right, you will produce 1 Plasma Beam, but will have spent absolutely NO rescources, be it money or Elerium or whatnot. Yes, it might be cheating, but if you're in dire need of Elerium, this tip might be what you need. And it is an absolute godsend when manufacturing the Avenger. :)

[martinyearly]

Hey I'm new to this game, why do you save one of everything you sell?

[PwnZoneification]

Yep, because all that matters is Bravery.

I wouldn't dare take firing accuracy, reactions, strength, health or really any other stat in mind myself.

[KILLRAIN42]

@Kikoskia So, I take it that medkits and laser weapons should go before things like heavy plasmas and clips? Or is there another way that Master Kiko would suggest?

[imperialus]

@KILLRAIN42 I always research lasers before plasma. Plasma clips are a limited resource, and cost elirium to produce so if you burn through the ones you find in the early/mid game you run out of elerium later on. Lasers are cheap, don't require ammo and can be sold for a healthy profit so they are always priority number 1 for me.

Medkits don't matter so much until you have personal armour though. No one is going to survive getting shot in their jumpsuits anyhow.

[PwnZoneification]

@imperialus I've never understood how ANYONE can run out of plasma clips.

For pistols maybe, rifles (not that I use them but still I don't really get it) and for heavy plasmas, I get at least 5 clips a mission and use maybe 1 or 2 at most as there is so much in a heavy plasma.

[Josh44Tube]

Sigourney Homburger haha

[MrLastlived]

I played X-com and died in X-COM while you were playing X-com and dieing alot. Meanwhile I was laughing at you. And with you.

[sisko197]

Quite the commander!!!!

[zombutchielol]

i hope sometime you name one JC Denton :D!

[Dragonwing5]

who is sparkle?

[Pentdad]

that base was ripe for about 5 grenades all at once, would have been so sweet to see that.

[Nebulatus]

Julius : "Time to shoot some aliens , my dear." Kiko : "...My dear?"

[318i]

LOL! I cannot believe that Alien PUNKED itself. LOL!

[RedneckYachtClubber]

I remember thinking to myself "Why would anyone buy Sectoid corpses?"

Then I looked at my McDonald's burger and shivered.

[LouisdeFuines]

I want Gaston back on duty! *revive!!

[cubeface21]

China is always so negative XD

[Yomarson]

Please bring back Hugo. He was a short-lived legend last time, but a legend nonetheless.

[Templayer]

Also make a N00B SAIBOT, the spectre the Original Sub-Zero becomes after dying and rebirthing!

[cedaxful]

Kiko, do you know the feature of UFO intercepting with two interceptors per encounter? This can help to destroy large UFOs at the first stages of the game.

[LouisdeFuines]

@cedaxful Yeah, but can mean the loss of all interceptors at once :-)

[cedaxful]

@LouisdeFuines

Maybe. Or maybe not.

It's not so terrible. First of all, because of the interceptor cost. Not more expensive then tank, for example.

And the risk becomes absolutly comprehensible, if we speak about possibility to strike down terror ship.

Result: more time for preparation. Time is money )))

[xcomcmdr]

@cedaxful you can go up to 4 interceptors. It helps with very large UFOs (providing they all have nothing but Avalanche missiles).

tgdb.net/pc/faq/9597/X-Com-Ufo­_Defense-page5.html

[cedaxful]

@xcomcmdr

How about problems with actions coordination of 4 interceptors at once?

[xcomcmdr]

@cedaxful Well, you just have to be fast while attacking. ;-)

I usually make them all attack aggressively (wich spams Avalanche missiles on the [very] large UFO) with the mouse. Sometimes I screw up with the mouse, so they do not attack all at once and some of them or all of them get blown up, but it can be done.

Because, the real problem is to get the [very] large UFO _before_ it gets your interceptors...

This is why I spam Avalanche missiles.

[cedaxful]

@xcomcmdr

Yeap, Avalanche's range is awesome.

[HouseInVisus]

Loopy's cousin Goopy McLoopin should join up with X-com.

[JreengusOccured]

Love it when aliens knock themselves out, saving you the work.

[Thisismyfirstopinion]

Wow Yvel seems to be redeeming himself. Malkil may very well be the captain who leads these soldiers to victory. On a side note barry has yet to die which astonishes me. And I think Jutah should be higher on the ranking tree as 5 kills plus is a rarity in these videos.

[Skrik85]

hey kiko plese make some more x-com vids i cant wait ;) by the way your vids are great and i am enyoing it to watch

[iamzombieman]

bring back sub zero as noob saibot thats how it works in MK

[546klo546]

thanks for all you're hard work

[Carnevour1]

Man just bought the game today from steam it freaking lags on Win7. Love this game but the lag is too much.

[Multimorten]

@Carnevour1 fortunately, it runs on dosbox, so you can increase the cycles dedicated, I think its ctrl + F12, not 100% sure its that combo

[JfLSpawny]

quality mate, thanks for re-playing this i have just bought it off steam and will be watching your lets play for tips

[m14g]

Also i HATE SECTOIDS they mind control me every time >:(

[disembowell]

where did you get this game?

[VincentPrice111]

I also bought X-com on steam so I could play it. Being familiar with the game doesn't damage the enjoyment of this Let's Play either, and I get to play one of the single best games ever made. Win-Win. Ultra win.

[gawreluck]

make razz next

[abcdpup399]

Obviously Kiko needs to put an immediate halt to all current LPs to do a Beauty and the Beast LP so we can have 40 Gaston clones.

[VincentPrice111]

@abcdpup399 A halt on his X-com, which is his best LP? hopefully not.

[dorgodorato]

You really need to capture a sectoid engineer or better to get you some PSI going on!

[flyingerasehead]

Of course everybody survived that mission. You had a Sub Zero in a snowy environment.

[colin8696908]

i actually bought xcom on stream so i could play, along side you.

[m14g]

I noticed that you game is laggy i know how to fix that.

Go to steam/steamapps/common/xcom ufo defense

Then open the dosbox config with notepad and change cycles=auto 8000 limited to cycles=auto 8000

[IHateOutside]

Wait, since when has nigeria and egypt been world powers?

[ningunrecords]

@IHateOutside nigeria and egypt are strong economies of the Africa continent

[Multimorten]

@IHateOutside 4000 BC.......don't look at me like that Q_Q

[Snyperwolf91]

lol kiko , did u realize that bacatta looks more like guile from SF2 ? he should better use his sonic booms instead of gun ! =P

5:45

[Bishop38f8]

@thedragonb0y Aftermath was good I would say, the other two were crap, if you mean these new UFOs.

[ElMariachi99]

Btw Kiko, why no high explosives so far? Usually the best way to end a terror mission soon is to blow up the entire neighborhood.

[keithktam]

you will always be known as the LOL guy!! and what happened at the end?? they all died??

[SkyFeline]

What does bravery even do anyways D:

*totally has to watch the older series of this*

[EmanuelHoogeveen]

@SkyFeline Keeps them from panicking (or worse, going berserk) when morale gets low. Doesn't help against mind control however, but we can't see what their mental defenses are like yet.

[Bishop38f8]

@EmanuelHoogeveen Not exactly. High bravery does lower the chances of soldier being mind controled, not that significantly as psi strength, but a soldier with 10 PS and bravery 70 would have some chance of resisting beeing mid raped. Because aliens succes depends on PS and morale. The higher the bravery is, the lesser morale you lose when everybody around you dies. Have you noticed, that soldiers with high PS, when paniced will get MC on first or secound try?

[Demon0n]

@Bishop38f8

That's not true. Bravery does not lowering chances to "mind control attack" success, only effect of psi panic attack. Psi chance formulas does not include bravery in any form (not control, not panic), however morale after successful psi panic attack dropping according: NewMoraleUnit=OldMoraleUnit+Br­averyUnit-110, where 110 is constant volume.

Anything else is pure speculations. Check the distance to psi attacking alien. Probably distance is the source of сoincidences.

[CapitolTee]

Please! Barry is doing to well! GASTON CLONES!

[predcon1]

So the alien knocked himself out, and so you automatically get a "Live Alien Capture"?

[predcon1]

Naturally, Jutah's Bravery has gone up. I know MY Bravery would increase if I took down a bunch of Pinky analogues with only a pistol.

[Morgius87]

They already carry heavy friggin plasma guns. Combat armor will be of little use I am afraid.

[3Angry1nches]

I keep expecting Kiko to pull out Ceramic Arms Angel or Jim Power.

[Theianguy]

I vote for pipo and raz.

[XarboyMkII]

Kiko, what kind of computer do you use for this? The Steam website doesn't say whether it works on Windows 7 and I wanted to buy it.

[Multimorten]

I have been waiting for another x-com video for 18 hours, Kiiiiiikooooooo!! where art thou? sad face

[Kamfrenchie]

So far, low bravery didn't cause you that much trouble. Does it have other effects than occasionnal berserk? how does it work?

[Kamfrenchie]

@Kaeldorn

no raz in your list ?

[Kamfrenchie]

@Kaeldorn

no raz ?

[Kamfrenchie]

@Kaeldorn

no raz ?

[Kamfrenchie]

@Kaeldorn

no raz ?

[Kodsification]

Id like it if next time you name a soldier "Rocket Jockey Mc.Gee" and have him use a rocket launcher loaded with incendiary rockets! Mc.Gee is probably one of my Fav characters from your lets plays and it would be nice to see him make a comback!

Also remember to pick a soldier with high strength so that they can actually move around.

[killershinobi86]

This would seriously make an awesome movie....

[Kaeldorn]

I once played a demo of this and hated it.. the whole management part wasn't in it. But this LP is actually rather fun.

Also, one more vote for a Gaston clone. Your accidental guy was comedy gold :p

R.I.P. Zanthia. I wanted her to survive. Oh well :/

[LouisdeFuines]

Watching videos of that game is like watching an interesting movie. Even alone the music makes it.

[kaatokannu]

Hmm... can't you open doors with a soldier facing the door and then click the right mouse button behind the door to open it without charging in and let aliens get reaction shots at you?

[Demon0n]

@kaatokannu "can't you open doors with a soldier facing the door and then click the right mouse button..."

In DOS version it's not possible (only in TFTD), don't know about CE/win version.

[Valbruch]

I can't wait for Hugo to come back :-)

[Ordian7]

is anyone else waiting for the return of "Zombai?"

[Demon0n]

@Ordian7

Yep. It's gonna be great.

[Icychocobo]

@Ordian7 I certainly am. I loved Zombai?

[xanatoszzzz]

@Ordian7

Zombai??

Zombai??

Nope no Zombai..

Martian?? Martian?? YUP LOTS OF MARTIANS

[TheKabor]

Watching Kikoskia playing these xcom games is really fun. Even when he dont really play my favorite which is x-com apocalypse. I was really glad to see kiko playing this game again. :P

[fuandon]

Is there going to be a Iolo on your team eventually?

[Arieta01]

Nice to see you doing this LP again Kiko =D Let's hope you beat the game this time

[FateJHedgehog]

Yvel is unconscious!

Bacatta is unconscious!

Yvel is unconscious!

Bacatta is unconscious!

The alien is unconscious!

[LPwatcher]

if you want a tank, make a tank/lasor

[Antagon]

I would love to see Raz and Pipo this time around.

[OOZ662]

Sergent Barry...wat.

[canebro1]

Wow, when I saw part one I wasn't too impressed, but now I'm tempted to buy the game myself. Awesome job Kikoskia!

[DefendinMyBase]

This game TOTALLY got ripped off by FunOrb. Ironic, I used to love playing that reskin, who knew it was just a dumbed down version of this with better graphics, animations, and...easyness....

[EdMan6623]

It's amazing how many kills Jutah has managed in spite of his abysmal accuracy (5 aliens and Gaston as of 3 minutes into this video)

[corebore100]

There is no better way to end that video then to have no casualties, great job Kiko.

[AnubusStar]

So I'm thinking of getting this game, and X-Com without any expansions is around $5 on Steam... Is it worth paying $15 for it plus all its expansions, or is the vanilla game worth playing without them?

[azzavarrok]

@AnubusStar I recommend just the vanilla game.

[AnubusStar]

@azzavarrok Alright, that's what I'll get then.  Thanks.

[Introbulus]

Sergeant Barry?

Has..has the world come crashing down?! O.O

[EdMan6623]

@Introbulus He was also a sergeant in Kiko's Terror from the Deep, and one of his longest surviving soldiers too!

[Introbulus]

@EdMan6623 Oh right. I forgot about Terror from the Deep.

[knives254]

You should name one, Zap Rowsdower!

[firebornliger]

One thing that's handy later on: If you hit that little window in the top-left corner of the interceptor screen, you'll minimize the interception and basically enter pursuit mode. This'll also let you get multiple fighters in on the interception.

Later on, that's about the only way to sink anything if you haven't managed an advanced interceptor.  It'll also let you avoid downing things over the ocean.

[sp0nge1337]

WAIT. Doesn't a live sectoid give you PSIONICS?

[azzavarrok]

@sp0nge1337 only a sectoid leader, which is needed to beat the game anyway.

[Makornak]

Next person you get with good throwing should be named 'Yeti' in honor of your many deaths during your Spelunky play through from being thrown by those hairy bastards.

[Sithno]

hey Kiko Glad your replaying this and not doing the SH challange i could stand to see so many Barry clones dying again :P anyways question have you head of the new 2011 Xcom game comming out ..was wondering if your gonna check it out ((no not asking if you'll do a LP of it))

[Degorth]

Kiko, you gotta stop always using Auto Shot, you're missing so much because of it.

[kk4chan]

Don't plan on capturing any aliens anytime soon?

[MagikGimp]

Aliens really need to lock their doors.

[ElledarBlackraven]

Please Kiko, do rename Bacatta properly : his name's actually BacCata, with two C's and one T.

The funniest deceased four-armed mage needs some respect.

[MindstormXL]

China are dicks anyway they are always unhappy.

[GoldNCase]

JC DENTON

[MaxKnight1010101]

I started shouting "Florentine!" when you were renaming Claude... >_>

[RPGLoony]

So much Kiko today... 2 PQ vids... 7 X-Com vids... Not to mention the X-com game is going to be a serious playthrough. Today is a good day.

[MultiInsaniac]

@RPGLoony

Unless It's a farm.

[F1RES0UL]

good stuff! :)

[faerielance]

Excellent job for your first month! Hope to see Malkil progress even higher in the ranks!

[Phleg]

If you ever get another crappy guy Kiko, you should make him a Gaston clone in honor of the completely embarrasing failure :P

[Sithno]

@Phleg Yes Yes ...use the Gaston Clones to Keep Barry alive!

[Rithelgo]

We need Raz clones.

[YukaTakeuchiFan]

@Rithelgo Totally agreed. After all, he's actually quite familiar with the procedure.

[Bormac]

Great job! Thats a pretty good month..also funny intercepting with the sky ranger and winning, technically. ; } That's a first.

[Yomarson]

Lol, "Sub Zero Jr"...sounds like the newest mini-dessert being sold at a Dairy Queen.

[emilysong2000]

I don't know how often this LP is gonna be updated (once a week? once in a while?), but you can bet I'll be checking out every new video and cheering on your X-Com squad until the very end!

[ameno21]

Will Iolo (from Ultima) join X-com???

[Gutshotjak]

kiko what do you think about the new x com trailer that came out a while back

[Merik2013]

you should run a sweep of China. probably a base there.

[reklamomand]

I know that the second x-com game was basically a mod of this game.

But it would have been cool if they had just made mod´s as a mean of making expansion sets.

I thought it would be cool if they had puplished the same game, just that you played the aliens, and that you had to kill as many civilians and anal probe as many cows as possible.

Or making a mod in which the aliens have won and you have to make a resistance against the aliens, stealing their weapons and UFO´s and killing them.

[KuunLan87]

@reklamomand The 3rd option was done in UFO:Aftermath. It had better graphics, but was more focused on combat, rather than on micro-management. PLus, you only had one team of 7 people and had no control over your bases, other than assigning them specific roles and lauching fighters. Research and production was also very simplified.

[LPwatcher]

@reklamomand the seccound game was a metric fuckton harder, the ai was fantastic (to our shigrin) missions are exxedinly longer (you need to beat two maps to finnish some terrors) and everything you know and love has been nurfed to hell and is almost worthless

[Icychocobo]

@LPwatcher And the hilariously unfortunate part that made it that way? People complained the first game was too easy. But, there's a reason.

THE DIFFICULTY WAS BUGGED.

Only the first mission would be at the chosen difficulty. After that, it went to the lowest difficulty for the rest of that campaign. The producers got a tone of complaints, and made Superhuman the LOWEST difficulty in the sequel.

The sequel? Yeah... Its difficulty worked like it was supposed to. Cue Ragequits.

[EdMan6623]

@LPwatcher I'm sorry but you are dead wrong on the AI. The AI in Terror from the Deep was either horrible or completely nonexistant. The most aliens would do beyond sitting in the same spot for literally the entire mission was patrol back and forth; in UFO the aliens actually move around the map and look for you, I even had a battleship commander and his squad bum-rush my Skyranger once.

So yeah, the difficulty in the sequel/mod was just plain artificial.

[JayXdbX]

@reklamomand little hard to do that with no internet.

Xcom was made around 1993

[grafleinsdorf]

@reklamomand

Look for "UFO: The Two Sides" -- it might be what you are looking for, and it is freeware.

[LouisdeFuines]

@reklamomand Yeah, the anal probe of the cows would be a nice mod ;)

[Zylo587]

@reklamomand It would be sweet if cops, military forces and terrorists could fight alongside you...

Until they sign a pact with the aliens; Then you have to fight them.

[bughunter801]

i think it's only fitting for jutah to be your grenadier

[IrenicusFTW]

Excellent!

[Jbcski]

Should name the low ones Red shirt X# hehe.

[kar1os81]

Become a Youtube partner!!! If you haven't looked into it already you get so many views and have been going for ages!

[LouisdeFuines]

I love that ice-areas. Ok, no cover at all, but nevertheless a clear path to wherever you want to go.

[fkwk2y]

i heard kiko next lets play will be half life 1 ? is it true ?

[Rider339]

Kiko, I find those alien stun launchers very useful. I normally have 2 people in the group with them and the rest with usall guns (rifles, laser rifle, heavy plasmas). They do very good stun damage, on a lot of things I've brought aliens down in 1 hit, it doesn't matter if civilians get caught up in it since it only knocks things unconcious and because it's explosive, low accuracy people ar eokay with them. I've brought nasty aliens like crysallids in 1 hit with them.

[Seveleniumus]

You need navigation and power sources to build alien crafts.

[brycelancer]

Kikoskia, have you tried Dwarf Fortress already?

[EdMan6623]

@brycelancer Damn would I love a Kiko LP of Dwarf Fortress. Not sure if he'd be able to handle DF in all its !!FUN!! though...

[brycelancer]

@EdMan6623 Haha. Yeah.The learning of it... I think it'll take a while. :b

[Sohtaraz]

I believe you should tell Yve to stand infront of Sub zero since shes immune to heavy plasma damage. Direct hit on no armor? No damage? Also im curious did you sell those stun bombs on purpose for small launcher or was that just your way of saying your just going to capture the leaders and ignore medics and other semihigh value targets? Also good job getting the sectoid navigator(? Hope so atleast!) alive!

[Mizmaaa]

@Sohtaraz

Given that it was standing in the power source room and handling small lanucher I'd say it was an engineer. Never seen a navigator with a small launcher, I only played on superhuman though. Maybe it differs on other difficulty levels.

[Sohtaraz]

@Mizmaaa Yeah your right I for some reason had mixed the eguipments of engineers and navigators switched in my memory. Oh well atleast its an ufo class research still and not just a soldier :P

[heavytrike]

oh. my. god. x-com again. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. hopefully you'll get to the end this time ^_^

[bocobobaguy]

again kiko 

[Miroslav740]

NICE LP.NICE Game