Solfius Posted October 12, 2002 Report Share Posted October 12, 2002 I know who steven segal is, but who is Kurt Russel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidBoot Posted October 12, 2002 Report Share Posted October 12, 2002 Ha!! I have a Sigourney Weaver too!! Living up to the Ripley character as well. She is at the top of the kill board with 31 kills on 14 missions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidBoot Posted October 12, 2002 Report Share Posted October 12, 2002 Kurt Russel: An Actor Big Trouble in Little ChinaSoldierBreakdownVanilla Sky (as the shrink) Other films too, but that covers my faves that I can remember without expending the slightest effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmodai Posted October 12, 2002 Report Share Posted October 12, 2002 LOL u don't know who Kurt Russell is? He's WAAAAY 80's hahahaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted October 12, 2002 Report Share Posted October 12, 2002 MY guys all have the original names... Now can someone ezplain why they are all Japanese? In England... :hmmm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snikers Posted October 12, 2002 Report Share Posted October 12, 2002 Oh, and why are all the girls blond? No dark-haired, green-eyed beauties in the lot! I am not blond! :hmmm:Nit-picky time! My favourite time of the day! While female soldiers with only Kevlar/Personal Armour in XCOM all have blond sprites, check their equipment screen, when you take the granade off of their soldier. There are different bodies with different hair colours, for males and females! There are blond women, yes, but also brown-haired women, black-haired women, and many, many more (A whole one more) ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammy Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 Well, I know, but it's still annoying when they're out in the field. :hmmm: Anyway, I know it's not a big deal--just complainin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos the Jackal Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 The later at night (or earlier in the morning ) I play X-COM the stranger the names get. Like the time i had the idea to rename the commander SHODAN and call all the rest cyborg 87-Y3 or somesuch varient. the second best got called Edward Diego. Oh, and of course i almost always name a femal soldier 'Sygorney Weaver' I even go so far as to team her up with "Ellen Ripley" once they all got Aliens SE names. hehe, the black guy called Apone even got promoted to Sarge, would you believe it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 And that's how we distinguish the real world of XCom from the Sci fi movies of the world... The black guy doesn't die! He gets promoted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos the Jackal Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 True, of course, take it into consideration that in UFO, Apone is allowed to shoot back with a gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snikers Posted October 14, 2002 Report Share Posted October 14, 2002 Pfft. I can just imagine XCOM Command telling your regular sergeant not to use guns... XCOM: Okay, no using the bullet rifles!Igor Zhandovich (your sergeant): What're we supposed to use, harsh language?XCOM: Just use the flame units...Zhandovich: But we don't have flame throwers!XCOM: Oh...well, use your stun rods!Zhan: We don't have them! We could only fit eighty things on the ship...XCOM: ...Zhan: Help! Command! Come in! I can't move unless you order me to!XCOM: ....how much harge language do you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted October 14, 2002 Report Share Posted October 14, 2002 *Sigh* how literal. :hmmm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos the Jackal Posted October 14, 2002 Report Share Posted October 14, 2002 heh, just going off on a tangent here, but watch Full Metal Jacket to see *just* how much harsh language a sergernt knows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted October 14, 2002 Report Share Posted October 14, 2002 Kurt Russell has done a fair bit of action Big Trouble in Little ChinaThe Thing Escape From New York..and a hijack movie, Executive Decision or something So XCOM seems a logical career move. Reincarnated the name, he's now alongside Samuel L Jackson. Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs) is there too, but in a high-risk position. Most soldiers still have their original names. I've always meant to try the Aliens:SE names, but then their fates would seem a little pre-destined. I've renamed a few female soldiers, but with the exception of Ellen Ripley, they get named after FHM totty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
destroyteenangst Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 I name them after my friends. Although I give them middle-name nicknames too if they do something crazy or stupid. I once nicknamed a trooper "Legless" after he _somehow_ survived having the floor blown out from under him and falling through, which I didn't think was possible. Does anyone else ever shoot their own troopers when they do something unforgivably stupid or panic far too often? Heh, I often end up using the Starship Troopers creed: "If you don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself." Perhaps I'm just plain mean, but hell, I can't stand it when they panic. Death to wusses! My best mate names troops after his friends as an incentive to minimise casualties, as whenever someone dies he's like "Daniel?! NOOOOOO!" Ah, the melodrama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted October 17, 2002 Report Share Posted October 17, 2002 You shot everyone who panics? :devil: How crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snikers Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 Survived having the floor blown out from under him? Heh, I did that once, my Commandergot the Alien Brain with a blaster. The (admittedly damaged) ground underneath him gotdestroyed from halfway across the room, he ended up on the ground underneath, withlike 12 health and four fatal wounds I'll admit, but c'mon he wasn't even wearing armour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 Yeah, don't shoot the cowards! The armour is expensive! For some reason you can't just recover it off the corpses. There's nothing to bring a dubious look to the face of a rookie like re-issued armour with a plasma hole clean through the chest and back plate. :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
destroyteenangst Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 Oh, of course I don't shoot EVERYONE who panics, just the multiple re-offenders. The ones who put everyone else at risk! I don't think I'm totally heartless, I just can't stand it when someone drops their weapon and whimpers for like the fifth time in a week. Ha yeah, I usually pick up the armour from corpses and hand it on to incoming rookies. True, you could just manufacture newies, but I prefer imagining the look on the face of the rookie who is told that his armour previously belonged to an unfortunate former trooper who had his brains sucked out from his skull. Ah okay... I didn't think it was possible to survive a fall through a floor, because all my other guys who fell died regardless of strength, armour or shields. I thought the survivor might have been a slight program glitch, although he was so badly injured I just had him drop everything and run off the map, rather than take the four medikits and sizable length of time it would've taken to heal him. Plus, hell.. he deserved an exit after that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snikers Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 Are you talking about XCOM Apocalypse now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
destroyteenangst Posted October 18, 2002 Report Share Posted October 18, 2002 Oh, whoops yeah I am. The "Do You Name Your Troops" thread was moved here apparently so that there wasn't like four different ones about the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Cobbweb Posted October 22, 2002 Report Share Posted October 22, 2002 My wife thinks this is the dumbest naming system, and she can't stand it. I put a lot of thought into the naming of my soldiers. Criteria includes all the basic stats, but I also look at sex, skin color, and hair color. From there I go to the internet movie data base and select a movie star or character that fits that soldiers description. For example. One soldier I had was male, strong, and much endurance so I named him "The Rock". Another example is the fine dark-skinned dark-haired female with excellent accuracy and movement. Her name "Lara Croft", and she packs two laser pistols... Other soldiers names are Puff Daddy, The Incredible Hulk, Seargent Slaughter, Pink, John Wayne, and one of my personal favs Vin Diesel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted October 22, 2002 Report Share Posted October 22, 2002 Vin Diesel...Yeah, just saw xXx last night. Someone get that guy a heavy plasma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirage Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 mine are a lot like ya'lls Medic (high time units and stamina)<power suitStormtooper (seargant with 70+ firing accuracy)<power suitPsi trooper (usually a promoted stormtrooper)<power suitChunks (heavy weapons)<power suitImperial Guard (those out of this world super dudes) usually only 1 or 2.. they are the lucky ones with flying suits. everybody else has personal armor, but I fire the ones with less than 60 firing accuracy..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solfius Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 Imperial Guard, superhuman? my understanding of Imperial Guard is they are barley worth the equipment given to them, and even thats bad quality, if anything Imperial Guard would be my cannon fodder soldiers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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