silencer_pl Posted February 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Good missile - but there are better and earlier. I have no idea what it does. And another one sorted out Meh. I am pondering is Portals OS a reference to MS Windows ? Another month comes to an end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 I've forgot to mention about finished alien message 3. What? Doomsday ? Why it always must be doomsday ? Why cannot it be free beer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Yeah, these aliens don't have the first damn clue what is good. You're up to five bases already. Does base building have anything in common with X-COM1'n'2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 No. Base cost round 4.5kk +/- current tech. It's time consuming something round 20-25 days. The base you build contains: Hangar, personal quarters, download link (best), store, shields (best), sensors (best), probe luncher, communication device (it allows to send missions through that base and order your interceptors in flight). 2x beam weapons (best) and 1 missile pod (best). Things that you can add. 2 more hangars, tractor beam, 2 more DL links, ECM device, repair module, training module, medical module, store module. Number of defences count as - 2 per hangar mount + 2 per wing + 3 on the bottom that is 15 defence pods total. You're up to five bases already. Six and seventh being built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 We begin new year with base attack Poor defence really. On paper this gun should be powerfull More raiding And you thought Etherals are pain. It's a very fast missile - 4 rack luncher... medium damage... It is noted as one of top 3 missiles with permator and enveloping fusion torpedo. Best shields are best. Not in this difficulty. Yeah - what they say. Bullshit - it doesn't out-gun us. It's true that it is deadly and their pilots are even deadlier. Truth be told they are only nightmare because they have cheating accuracy. If game would allow 10 of them in single combat - player would be screwed royally. I think it goes to my special weapon - if not then I don't know what it does. Another transmission I think after this I should research Doppelg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Another base for taking \ But they send defence force We get the body of Ethereal. Another base Hmm wonder how OS will look like in 66 years Yeah More raiding. But this time something new. They look scarier without those orange cloaks And their intel is so big I need two shots Let's see what they are transporting now. Whatever Dangerous No no no... I think I am in reach of their destination and I can intercept any transport thus aliens should never finish their project but it's getting boring so I will try to finish quickly The last outpost well at least I didn't find others Also here is the message $4 I guess their leaders are very pissed I could start donating in charity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Maybe you could donate something to Ninsoft. You know, so they finish their OS and get off our hair with their juvenile excuses already... :: Also, I hadn't realised Ethereals spoke in such virile tone, and in english, no less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted February 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 The english was GSC translated voice over. Check message 3 for "proper" language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted February 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 We attack another base (one of the infinite) Looks good right ? This one is better Well this gun would be good if it wouldn't eat your energy so much. On beginner / experienced you can kill 1 ufo with 100% use of energy. And we have this thingy Let's prepare for assault to alien dimension https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Iq2auVl9...02-23-01-38.jpg And this is the ultimate baby Another transmission I though I could raise this rookie to commander - but well I guess she could use some training before someone else takes the glory https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zk6LaQvS...02-24-41-50.jpg And another base And another convoy They last effort of scaring me So much for their OS And another convoy And battle It would be good weapon if actual damage was worth it. But it ain't So much for february Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted February 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 We know how to get to them Also alien message #5. A little explanation here - the game crashed all the time when playing this movie - don't know why - I've converted bink file to avi - the black part is the part when you see the star map where the black hole is. Because it is always random you can't see it in generic video file. You have to imagine the location ( I know where it is). Another frigate And this - the most powerful weapon in the entire universe.... Just watch how beautiful it is. Also this movie is so awsome it is the best movie in game Do you feel the excitement already ? That was my last research - at this point I just prepared everything and stopped taking pictures - just the new end last month report Above news is actually part of very interesting story. It tells a story of old probe that found out really old interstellar war that our current aliens fought with someone. I think this was a sign of x-com genesis ? Also there was a sign of first class Avenger ships that was lost when Mars was captured. You can read all the news stories on ufopaedia. Ok so without further delays - I present you the final battle in Interceptor Lost of reloads lost of swearing but I finally got the lucky roll There are 3 type of endings. 1.Total Victory which I achieved in above video. Note that I used a nice glitch. When I was fooling around on beginner / experienced way back then I noticed that Nova Bomb travels with you from stage 1 to stage 2 so all you had to do is after the battle in stage 1 lunch the bomb wait a bit and go for stage 2 - after a few seconds you should get mission complete. Without it achieving this kind of victory on genius / superhuman is not possible. 2. Sad Victory. Either you or MacArthur are destroyed after nova bomb reaches full velocity. I actually think that final mission was hastened. The player uses all of his cards so on stage 1 I should be able to use 10 pilots and after the battle 5 of them if any survived should go to stage 2 REARMED and REPAIRED. This is bullcrap for superhuman - you face 4 wraiths, 4 specters, 3 phantasms and 3 shades.... This is normal that you wil use all of your missiles - not to mention you are fighting near black hole and your pilots love black holes. 3. Total failure And don't forget credits. Very funny so I encourage you to watch it So there you have it. X-Com - making universe safe - one dead alien at time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted February 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 MISSING / CUT CONTENT Yes folks... there is such a thing like in all x-com games. I one day listened to all the WAV files in sound folder. There are few things that I noticed. 1. Reinforcements - yes there was some kind of reinforcements system. You could call them in battle and they either were available or not. Probably if you were fighting against very hard opponents and your wingman were out you could just wait a few minutes and guys from other base would come to help you. If you have installed Interceptor (steam version for example) go to SoundFX/chatter/ComputerVoice - files Comp22.wav and Comp23.wavOr in chatter there are pilots voices - for example XPilotx57.wav - where X = F/M (female/male) and x = 1-5 (voice number) 2. Scripted missions This one is found in news.txt file in Text folder @SM-6_WIN@headline=GSC Observatory Destroyed in Supernova@text=The Galactic Science Corps observatory in the [sYSTEMNAME] system was lost when the star its crew was monitoring prematurely went supernova last week. Evacuation of the station's scientists and crew was hampered by a surprise alien raid, but was ultimately successful thanks to the assistance of X-COM forces. @SM-4_WIN@headline=GSC Praises X-COM for Daring Rescue@text=The Galactic Science Corps released a statement praising the daring rescue of the crew of the "GSC Schwartzkopf" which had been damaged and trapped an alien minefield in the Frontier. "X-COM risked everything to make sure those scientists got out alive," said Dr. William J. Burton, president of the GSC council. "We owe them a great debt." @SM-10_WIN_TOTAL@headline=X-COM Assists in Rescue of Tourists@text=The evacuation of the passengers and crew of the "Galactic Empress" would not have been possible if not for the timely intervention of X-COM forces. The North Star Lines passenger vessel became trapped when it strayed too close to the [sYSTEMNAME] black hole. Rescue efforts were hampered by the intervention of an alien fighter squadron, which X-COM was able to dispatch. As a result of this near-disaster, Sams of Southampton, insurer of the North Star cruise ships, is insisting on the cancellation of the cruise line's popular "Black Hole Bonanza" sightseeing package. There are numerous missions they are tagged as: ;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------;PLAYER-SPECIFIC REPORTS;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------; These reports appear as the result of something the player actually does; in the game - specifically, when he/she fails or wins in a mission, scripted; or otherwise.;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They never shows... Only such different missions are: 1. Pirates2. Arms Dealer3. Rogue Frigate. There are no voices for those missing actions so they probably never went to development plan. Too bad because it would add something special to the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Very good coverage there, silencer. Thanks for going through all that trouble in explaining things, what with different endings, extras and all. :: And now we know why cattle was being mutilated - cows are just too dangerous a threat to leave be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Great AAR, Silencer! I'm buying cereals more often from now on, who knows when a nice alien artifact shows up in them?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted February 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Don't forget that Elvis is Alive It would be very funny easter egg in XCOM FPS if there was mentioning about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriminal99 Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 btw there is another way to kill ships in superhuman. Only take one pilot, and the longest range weapon you can find and then fly backwards at full speed. Let them get close to in range of your weapons, then start firing. The game will act like you are at shorter range than it says and they are at longer range because you are both in motion. (Try not to think about the physics of light/em based weapons) If they get close enough to start hitting you just turn around or hit the afterburner for a bit. They will heal but if you do it right they won't heal fast enough to prevent you from killing them eventually. This takes a while, but you can kill all 9 ships in one mission with a single pilot on superhuman. But if you are not playing superhuman, this works quickly. I never send more than one guy on a mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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