Let's Play X-Com UFO Defense Again 38: Spunty's Return

[legendmacho]

PIPO is so helpful

[Hereticalrein]

Proving you don't have to be in power armor to kick ass

[BahamutXER]

actually, terror ships have 4 engines, and you get 50 elerium for each intact engine, that's200

[BrawnX]

@BahamutXER

It doesn't have to be a terror ship. I've got 200 from capturing the ship that has Alien Sergury gear on it, an Abductor, I think.

[SpraxIAKS]

You know what's worse? Chryssalid on a battle ship. :|

[MrNiconiconico]

@SpraxIAKS Chryssalid: U mad?

[SpraxIAKS]

@MrNiconiconico Yes, I was very mad!

[MrNiconiconico]

@SpraxIAKS Chrysslad: DEAL WITH IT

[emmaloveryt]

wow the rookies are doing great

[SkyFeline]

"Jakel you have no armor, hide behind this highly fragile and explosive glowing orb."

"Pipo, hide behind the sturdy comfort of the wall."

[PsamtikI]

That Muton at 3:25 must have had a powered armour codpiece.

[Dalxien]

Spunty's skull: cousin of Murray the demonic talking skull.

[LordMelkayar]

05:37 You lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky bastard xD

[mortheis5]

I like how Kiko says "They're quite rubbish. They practically BREATHE on you and say 'I am a horrible gelatinous cube!' And then you shoot it in the face" and mere MINUTES later says "OH GOD!" when he sees one. Well.. Which is it?!

[Kerenceious]

@mortheis5 The Celatid can actually be pretty dangerous. They do 140 damage (and since it's acid +60% on unarmored targets, +10% personal armor) and high accuracy, it also has plenty of Time Units and is small, making it harder to hit. The positive thing is that they have quite low range (they fire in an arc) and bad armor, usually it only takes one shot to kill.

[Kerenceious]

@mortheis5 Kikoskia might be confusing it with the other Muton companion terror unit, the Silacoid, which is pretty much the least dangerous enemy in the game, with low amounts of Time Units and only having a melee attack (they also burn the ground when they move, making them easy to track).

[FateJHedgehog]

Spunty's Skull. What's next? Dracula's Rib?

[YogDodoth]

@FateJHedgehog in the beginning, Spunty was a skull... ;)

[Theianguy]

Kneel before Zod!

[Taranchule]

Did that Muton just kneel before Zod?

[Dreadborn]

Lazer acupuncture for mutons is a good idea.

[GodOfPlague]

nobody will be kneeling before that accuracy Zod.

[Quixikat]

I'm just sitting here the whole time going, Kiko, don't make us all call out "Pipo!"

[patricpelto]

Is it just me or is the X-com soldiers shooting the mutons in the jewels?

[pckables]

wait... who's spunty?

[azzavarrok]

@pckables Watch kiko's lets play of deus ex

[Jawf94]

Barry has been alive so long......He hasn't even died once.

[SuperPaperMetroid]

Spunty is dead. But! In this skull, and in my heart, HE LIVES ON AS A PART OF ME!!!

[Trusseck]

13:18 "Okay boys, we got 'em surrounded! Let i'rip!"

[Shadow9808]

@ukey111 You could have tried "Ah ha, even aliens kneel before Zod!"

[Greatdictator]

''Look at all that elirium....look at that dude ''

Yep Kiko you can never have soo much good withouth a little bad at least protecting it

[McCrawwmac]

6:37 Headshot the ballshot, poor beast.

[MagikGimp]

I'm sorry but I just can't believe that this isn't on Easy.

[EdMan6623]

@MagikGimp It is, in fact, on Easy

[forcepsfortte]

@EdMan6623 He is playing on Veteran, which would be Normal difficulty.

[CDR892]

@forcepsfortte He set it to veteran but X Com has a bug where it resets the difficulty to the easiest setting. There's a fix you can download but I don't think it works with 64 bit operating systems. At least I haven't been able to get it to work.

[MagikGimp]

@EdMan6623 How do you know? If you're referring to the bug, he's using the Steam version which is patched already I'm pretty sure. Is there some indication on the settings screen or something I'm missing?

[Baliou5]

@MagikGimp They never patched fix the bug. There are mods out there that do fix it though such as xcomutil and xcomextender i think the name is. They quite easy to get with a little searching and fix more bugs and can make it easier or harder depending what you pick.

[Bajamamut]

Excellent Mission, Kiko! ^_^

By the way, talking about skulls - perhaps you could get Murray from Monkey Island or Morte from Planescape Torment into the frey :P?

[ESFAndy011]

@Bajamamut Speaking of which, I think he had a Guybrush in TFTD? I might have dreamt it though...

[wishcraft4u2]

Doesnt that sitting on either side of a doorway tactic lead to friendly fire?

[godsavant]

@wishcraft4u2 Yes.

[snovatf2]

@wishcraft4u2

I've used it a lot myself and never suffered friendly fire from it. Theyre at really close range so pretty much no chance of missing.

[Degorth]

@wishcraft4u2 perhaps but it doubles the chance of a reaction shot.

[EdMan6623]

@wishcraft4u2 Never happened once in my experience

[azzavarrok]

@wishcraft4u2 Actually, no

Reactions fire is a bunch of snap shots, so they will stop as soon as the alien is dead, and at that range the alien blocks all possible shots that could hit the other soldier, meaning its perfect safe to do.

[wishcraft4u2]

@azzavarrok Oh I see... I was under the impression they might autofire... It's been a while since I played this.

[degurkin]

@wishcraft4u2

It does,but the next guy can get in faster which may leads to victory :-3

[MrNiconiconico]

@wishcraft4u2 Yeah, it does :l

[emilysong2000]

Kiko's X-Com vidoes are the best ones ever made, don't you think?

[shrelock]

@emilysong2000 i enjoy the gentleman gamers LP of terror from the deep tbh

[MrSerpentface]

How I enjoy this series