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Title: [FINISHED] Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on June 30, 2016, 11:13:31 am: TFTD - The Ironman Stupid campaign

Quick link to the latest video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWwnk44xa0)

(https://i.imgur.com/GJaEt5n.jpg)
"Heroic" death!

(https://i.imgur.com/zps81XB.jpg)
Splendid designs!

(https://i.imgur.com/3nYp5mq.jpg)
TERRIBLE weaponry!

(https://i.imgur.com/CnnJsSm.jpg)
Explosions!

Fight the alien/cthulhu/what-the-hell-is-this menace! Enlist to X-Com today! (Post in this thread to get named)

Hello,
Speaking English feels like R'lyehian, and TFTD in superhuman is brutal. Let's do both! In a more serious tone, I want to train my speech and record some X-Piratez so this ironman campaign will provide some experience while it lasts.

The videos
- The play list is here : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvS62d4_g6NvKHe2e_E60ue3VlzvMZap8
- And here's the channel I created just for this : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyQ65P08983sIT3dLAomAfA

Individual links
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvuG3ypP_Cg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIPjofCe6tA (Volume warning at 11:30)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cQ6FBhtNE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neJrVbt2eEI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Fwz0Wrjz4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-hfJlltGdw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O42LAOY5iwg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWwnk44xa0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eym1ryuIujA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD2FMVGERwY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgnLmfzR3dk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hqg5Twea8w
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob7Ck2_ngQU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75VlLvoFeV8
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfwFieA_ofA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOomDMapzFw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcvIfjlpbCk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D167T4Q20ac
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwgsjxDvKdw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6U3Xp8dutY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38NVvi5SxZU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHZaSpCb-UY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDti3Yobuwk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqzSvi1buYE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkBQj5t8nzA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOOmUCfMfsk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSZ1oipXgC0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3IsjsYrLVg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOWNWhw9hj8
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H39FwbI_VYY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo7J78wzRTg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qIbRJxGJOY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0p9TrBNIc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw_rV4RU5Yo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFm_NalabRQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz5XRExMPhM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ThZe41nFw8

Mods Used
- Gifty's soundtrack : https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=3879.0
- PSX Sound effects : https://www.openxcom.com/mod/tftd-psx-sound-effects
- Enhanced gauss (bundled with OpenXcom)
- Starter defensive base (bundled with OpenXcom)

Bonus
- TFTD attempt #1 (https://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70414.msg6631160#msg6631160)
- TFTD attempt #2 (https://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=151935.msg6723547#msg6723547)
- TFTD attempt #3 (https://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=151935.msg6752117#msg6752117)
- So yeah, fourth time's a charm.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 04, 2016, 07:17:59 pm: New video, I completed the first terror mission like a coward and only got a slap on the wrist.

I realized that I could do this everytime.

Edit: Reuploaded without the ear splitting click.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: harre on July 05, 2016, 12:56:50 am: you're having better luck than me. I usually just end up with all my guys dead on superhuman ironman ;)
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 11, 2016, 01:00:44 am: Quote from: harre on July 05, 2016, 12:56:50 am
you're having better luck than me. I usually just end up with all my guys dead on superhuman ironman ;)

And here comes the night terror mission!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Fwz0Wrjz4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-hfJlltGdw
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 18, 2016, 10:52:16 am: And another night terror mission, and you get a first raging explosion.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O42LAOY5iwg
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: harre on July 18, 2016, 04:16:37 pm: I'm still on #3, kids are keeping me occupied for most of the time ;D

But I find your clips entertaining and the french accent is also a nice touch
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 20, 2016, 10:34:59 pm: Quote from: harre on July 18, 2016, 04:16:37 pm
I'm still on #3, kids are keeping me occupied for most of the time ;D

But I find your clips entertaining and the french accent is also a nice touch

Thank you, I'm glad that you like it.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 23, 2016, 02:09:19 am: New video, I finally meet THEM (and reacted accordingly). Also, the game painted a big 'apply explosives here' target just for me. Thank you, game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWwnk44xa0
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 31, 2016, 12:03:19 am: New video, bravely facing the enemy with tactical retreat.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eym1ryuIujA
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on August 04, 2016, 01:09:58 am: And we get on a boat to get killed like idiots.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD2FMVGERwY

Which bring an interesting info. The x-com wiki tells that Deep Ones cannot reaction fire, I lost quite a few aquanauts to them reacting in their face. I guess that's a trade off to the actually working dye grenades.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Starving Poet on August 04, 2016, 05:44:39 pm: Yeah, the Ufopaedia is wrong on many counts. I'm doing a playthrough now and deep ones are surprisingly deadly, even in Mag Ion armor.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on August 13, 2016, 06:00:37 pm: Speaking of deep ones, there is plenty more in the second half of the ship mission.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgnLmfzR3dk

Damn, that was long and tedious.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on August 21, 2016, 11:01:17 pm: Let's stop running away from lobstermen and fight them as we should. 14 vs 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hqg5Twea8w
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on August 27, 2016, 09:18:21 am: Now we get new characters, directly from Reddit. I made sure to mispronounce all of them.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob7Ck2_ngQU
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on September 28, 2016, 11:14:33 pm: You know what's funnier than lobstermen? Lobstermen with disruptor pulse launcher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75VlLvoFeV8&index=14&list=PLvS62d4_g6NvKHe2e_E60ue3VlzvMZap8
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: niculinux on October 08, 2016, 02:54:44 pm: Hey Boltgun, you should have used the [Mega-Mod TFTD] My_TFTD_Mod v.1.02 (https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,4931.0.html). How about another playthroug, so differences with a vanilla game may be shown off for maniacs sake, like me? ;D
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on October 24, 2016, 11:03:06 pm: New video, more dead gillmen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfwFieA_ofA
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on December 18, 2016, 08:24:06 pm: Breaking the hiatus, and nearly everyone died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOomDMapzFw

I was thinking that meeting Tasoths would make things easier, I'm getting steamrolled.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on December 31, 2016, 12:37:24 am: Trying to save the awful score from the previous video:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcvIfjlpbCk
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on January 30, 2017, 10:36:06 pm: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D167T4Q20ac

I regret playing this on superhuman. The best move seems to be attacking the same ship over and over until unlocking the best tier. Trying anything else nearly led me to a squad wipe so far.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on February 15, 2017, 01:06:44 am: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwgsjxDvKdw

Artifact site, this time it complete the first part successfully but during the second part I meet a bunch of everything and I get super salty.

Bah.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on February 22, 2017, 07:03:33 pm: I'm not sure what to do with this campaign. So far I only caught small ships... when they didn't outrun the interceptors. For a change, I tried a medium one and got obliterated by mind control. It was probably packed with Tasoth leaders for some reason. This made so angry that listening to my recording of the next video make me sick.

This is frustrating. My only winning move now is to not attempt anything fun and wait for some MC testing, which will take 1,5 more months of game time, quite a hassle.

So my question is: Am I far from unlocking T'leth?
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: snicmtl on February 27, 2017, 09:18:02 pm: Love a good TFTD let's play! The accent is great too ;) you wouldn't be in Montreal per chance?

Cheers
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on March 01, 2017, 03:57:29 pm: Quote from: snicmtl on February 27, 2017, 09:18:02 pm
Love a good TFTD let's play! The accent is great too ;) you wouldn't be in Montreal per chance?

Cheers

Thank you! I'm live in Paris.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Starving Poet on March 04, 2017, 01:52:55 am: I just caught up with the last video - and one thing I found helpful was to equip soldiers who I knew were weak MC-wise with gauss pistols and stun rods. That way they could not hurt anyone in mag-ion armor, but still do some damage to most enemies. They actually wound up being super useful all around.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on March 07, 2017, 10:31:18 am: Quote from: Starving Poet on March 04, 2017, 01:52:55 am
I just caught up with the last video - and one thing I found helpful was to equip soldiers who I knew were weak MC-wise with gauss pistols and stun rods. That way they could not hurt anyone in mag-ion armor, but still do some damage to most enemies. They actually wound up being super useful all around.

Yep, that's the plan. I need to survive one more month until this will happen.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on May 22, 2017, 10:44:56 pm: Tried a Tasoth medium USO, ended very badly.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6U3Xp8dutY
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Starving Poet on May 24, 2017, 04:17:22 am: huzzah!
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on June 05, 2017, 11:13:26 pm: Next one, I cannot wait until I get the MC working because seriously this is unplayable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38NVvi5SxZU
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 06, 2017, 12:30:38 am: And we got more large ship, but luckily they had Gillmen in them. We finally assaulted a large ship with only a few casualties.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHZaSpCb-UY
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 09, 2017, 11:41:45 pm: Another Gillman ship destroyed by rookies!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDti3Yobuwk
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 19, 2017, 12:22:58 am: And here goes thinking that this month was the last of the campaign. We get a score, it's a number alright.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqzSvi1buYE

But I have a problem. I do not have a MC reader so my hopes of MCing the game to death vanished. Is there a better to wait for it to drop besides praying the RNG gods for a tiny ship?
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on July 24, 2017, 06:34:53 pm: Nice series! It's great to find an active let's play for once. I'll be keeping up with this series!

Can I get a soldier named after me?

Quote from: Boltgun on July 19, 2017, 12:22:58 am
But I have a problem. I do not have a MC reader so my hopes of MCing the game to death vanished. Is there a better to wait for it to drop besides praying the RNG gods for a tiny ship?
I'm not sure how it is for TFTD, but I know in the first game it was the large scouts that had the best chance to drop mind probes, and the only chance in late game I think. The equipment sets vary by the map/UFO/USO so one map can set MC Readers to be equipped on everyone that holds a sonic pistol while other maps might not have MC Reader available at all ever. Try USO types you haven't assaulted in the past.

I'll look into it further and get back to you on that later today.

edit:
You can find MC Reader on rank 3 (at tech level 1) and rank 4 (at tech level 2) aliens on Battleship USO, any terror site, or alien base assault. In alien base assaults, at tech level 2, you can find MC Reader on both rank 3 and rank 4.
Aquatoid rank 3 is Technician and rank 4 is Squad Leader.
Gill Men Squad Leaders are rank 2 and 3, and soldiers are rank 4 and 5.
Lobsterman rank 3 is Squad Leader, while rank 2 and 4 are Technician.
Tasoth ranks 0, 1, 3, and 4 are Squad Leader.
In Mixed Crew 1, rank 3 is Aquatoid Soldier and rank 4 is Tasoth Squad Leader.
In Mixed Crew 2, rank 3 is Aquatoid Soldier and rank 4 is Lobsterman Squad Leader.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 25, 2017, 12:05:16 am: Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on July 24, 2017, 06:34:53 pm
Nice series! It's great to find an active let's play for once. I'll be keeping up with this series!

Can I get a soldier named after me?

I'm not sure how it is for TFTD, but I know in the first game it was the large scouts that had the best chance to drop mind probes, and the only chance in late game I think. The equipment sets vary by the map/UFO/USO so one map can set MC Readers to be equipped on everyone that holds a sonic pistol while other maps might not have MC Reader available at all ever. Try USO types you haven't assaulted in the past.

I'll look into it further and get back to you on that later today.

edit:
You can find MC Reader on rank 3 (at tech level 1) and rank 4 (at tech level 2) aliens on Battleship USO, any terror site, or alien base assault. In alien base assaults, at tech level 2, you can find MC Reader on both rank 3 and rank 4.
Aquatoid rank 3 is Technician and rank 4 is Squad Leader.
Gill Men Squad Leaders are rank 2 and 3, and soldiers are rank 4 and 5.
Lobsterman rank 3 is Squad Leader, while rank 2 and 4 are Technician.
Tasoth ranks 0, 1, 3, and 4 are Squad Leader.
In Mixed Crew 1, rank 3 is Aquatoid Soldier and rank 4 is Tasoth Squad Leader.
In Mixed Crew 2, rank 3 is Aquatoid Soldier and rank 4 is Lobsterman Squad Leader.

Thanks, I did a hunt for small ships and it's good to know I can equip my interceptors with sonic cannons and blast away.

I added you for the next episode after this one.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkBQj5t8nzA
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on August 02, 2017, 12:13:17 am: Oh no, base defense!

I hired a TON of rookies right before the attack. The aquatoids had no chance.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOOmUCfMfsk
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on August 02, 2017, 09:57:19 pm: I can't believe you let that calcinite live! The whole time you were moving around it I was screaming in my head noo get the calcinite! Man, you almost had a perfect base defense.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on August 11, 2017, 10:26:12 pm: Okay so two episodes, in one I get very salty and in the other I get very happy.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFgY3J8fqCM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiYY9h2UMbc

I get a crazy high score and a money bonus. I'm not even sure where this came from.

Now the MC labs are starting to see results. Once I get enough soldiers with psy strong (for DPL) and weak (for nothing but smoke grenades) stats, I tackle one of the three bases of the map. Getting a MC reader at this point should be easy.

Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on August 02, 2017, 09:57:19 pm
I can't believe you let that calcinite live! The whole time you were moving around it I was screaming in my head noo get the calcinite! Man, you almost had a perfect base defense.

I couldn't believe I did not see it either. I was too focused on the last aquatoid up in the lift.

I play late at night too so my mental ability varies very wildly (as seen in those two videos).
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on August 14, 2017, 03:20:36 pm: It seems like all you manage to find are tasoths and lobstermen. I think the game hates you. You got a pretty cool run against that gill man ship though.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on August 14, 2017, 06:54:16 pm: Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on August 14, 2017, 03:20:36 pm
It seems like all you manage to find are tasoths and lobstermen. I think the game hates you. You got a pretty cool run against that gill man ship though.

Yes, the game want me dead. But seemingly I am doing very well, despite the sea turning red from the blood of rookies.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on August 15, 2017, 05:01:13 am: Then let's add more rookies blood to the ocean!
Signing up: Yataka Shimaoka. Role: decoy, ready to die
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on October 26, 2017, 04:45:40 pm: I should have posted the latest batch no?

There you go:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RptwMgcqTso
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IreqFLyoFxw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JObL80X_K0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8f35oURCqg

Unlocking the MC disruptor is taking age but at least I lose nearly no soldiers to aquatoids and gillmen.

I may try fighting Tasoths or Lobstermen for !!FUN!! or give one of the bases a go now I got at least a few identified psy-weak soldiers to serve as decoys.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: NKF on October 27, 2017, 07:36:35 am: Quote from: Boltgun on August 04, 2016, 01:09:58 am
Which bring an interesting info. The x-com wiki tells that Deep Ones cannot reaction fire, I lost quite a few aquanauts to them reacting in their face. I guess that's a trade off to the actually working dye grenades.

I've only just started reading this thread so this is a belated response to the above:

I noticed this as well while watching another OpenXcom LP I've been following where a Celatid started to react to a soldier walking nearby. This is unique to OpenXcom and isn't in the original game. So the wiki is correct but the info only applies to the original game.

The thing that was wrong on the Deep One wiki article for a very-very long time was that we had the incorrect weapon assigned to it. :-[
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on October 30, 2017, 04:37:20 am: You got in some really good victories! I'm seeing way more of that shiny armor!

I haven't seen me or Yataka be taken out on any missions yet. :( Are we going to get to shoot some aliens soon?
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on November 10, 2017, 09:20:28 pm: Yep you are going to see action soon, because I unlocked the MC disruptor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSZ1oipXgC0

Now we need to get psy skill up and the campaign should be sailing towards victory.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on November 14, 2017, 11:43:07 pm: And now, we MC the lobstermen to hell and back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3IsjsYrLVg
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on November 16, 2017, 08:36:51 pm: I'm so happy we're getting some experience! It's neat that I'm a psi-wizard and Yataka is a super gunner.

I have just one suggestion: could you maybe give Yataka a gauss rifle and then mind control a lobsterman for him to do point-blank target practice? He has a good starting accuracy but he'll need a bunch of training to become really super.

Also letting an unarmed tasoth soldier run amuck surrounded by a square of soldiers with dart guns makes good reactions practice.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on November 16, 2017, 09:06:35 pm: Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on November 16, 2017, 08:36:51 pm
I'm so happy we're getting some experience! It's neat that I'm a psi-wizard and Yataka is a super gunner.

I have just one suggestion: could you maybe give Yataka a gauss rifle and then mind control a lobsterman for him to do point-blank target practice? He has a good starting accuracy but he'll need a bunch of training to become really super.

Also letting an unarmed tasoth soldier run amuck surrounded by a square of soldiers with dart guns makes good reactions practice.

There will be some training while the wizards get their powers, I very rarely do such tactics so that should be interesting.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on November 17, 2017, 03:09:16 am: Wow! I'm a gunner? Nice! Give me the rapid firing weapons ASAP!! But for reaction training, its best to have a lobster walking around with no guns, with everyone using dart pistol, or maybe gauss one, since it makes no difference to the tough shell of the lobied
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on November 17, 2017, 09:56:00 pm: Nah you don't want a lobster. You could do dart gun with tasoth, but a lobsterman unarmed can still kill you easily. In superhuman, a tasoth has 60 armor. With TFTD damage model, you could use a 40 power weapon and never deal any damage to it.

I wouldn't recommend a gauss pistol because they have an absolutely terrible snap shot. Dart pistol snap shot has quite low accuracy but also a low time unit cost. That's best for reactions training. Jet harpoon can work well for accuracy training if you shoot the tasoth or lobsterman with auto shots at point blank range. Or a gauss rifle works for either, and still kills them eventually, so you can just bring it to every mission until he gets better.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on November 27, 2017, 11:01:36 pm: Well, I just recorded and lost almost all of you in a map dickery: the exit of artifact sites are one tile narrower than their room.

I need a drink.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on November 29, 2017, 12:10:34 am: Dang, that sucks. Well let's all get shitfaced and watch the fireworks!
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on November 30, 2017, 11:35:51 pm: Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on November 29, 2017, 12:10:34 am
Dang, that sucks. Well let's all get shitfaced and watch the fireworks!

And here's the disaster, enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOWNWhw9hj8

I'll bring you and Sebastien Tellier back, but in compliance with ironman so that'll be done by renaming other psionic soldiers.

Here's a bonus, this is what happened right afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al73skckPig
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on December 02, 2017, 12:21:20 am: That sort of stuff is why I don't play on Ironman. I prefer Honorman, in which I only re-load to a previous save when I feel a loss was unfair. There used to be tons of reasons to do that in the original game, but OpenXcom has greatly reduced the terrain, AI, and other dickery. (I've heard recently we can thank Volutar for a good portion of that.) But even in OpenXcom there's reasons to re-load. I don't play Ironman on other games, either, because I can't trust the game designers to only kill me with my own mistakes.

I love that quad-barrel shotgun but I don't understand how he holds four of them at once and doesn't have to re-load them all. Also that life-draining blaster is really OP, you had over 3000 life at once point!
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on December 13, 2017, 12:38:35 am: Russian Overkill and OP are synonymous, there is no balance (or common sense) in this mod and that's why it's so good.

So I have a good and a bad news.
- The good news is that I am now on the golden path to finish the game. I attacked a colony and it went hilariously well.
- The bad news is that I don't think it can get any better, what we have right here is the campaign at peak performance.

Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vikovvR3chQ
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on December 13, 2017, 08:07:43 am: How is that bad news? I'm enjoying the beatdown! It is well deserved!

That mission with the 2 commanders was probably the most exciting mission in the series!
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on December 13, 2017, 09:21:17 pm: Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on December 13, 2017, 08:07:43 am
How is that bad news? I'm enjoying the beatdown! It is well deserved!

That mission with the 2 commanders was probably the most exciting mission in the series!

Yes, that was the best mission so far. Not only in what I gained but also in pacing.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on December 21, 2017, 11:00:26 pm: New video, nothing special. I set up a new team of rookies and research the first commander.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H39FwbI_VYY
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on December 26, 2017, 10:57:01 pm: Me and Sebastien are having extra trouble with mind control when we're so far away from the targets. The range reduces the effectiveness of the psi attacks.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on January 19, 2018, 08:27:49 pm: Back from vacation.

Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on December 26, 2017, 10:57:01 pm
Me and Sebastien are having extra trouble with mind control when we're so far away from the targets. The range reduces the effectiveness of the psi attacks.

I did not knew that distance reduce the effectiveness. Are you using the UFO extended distance accuracy?

Anyway, I pushed the clock forward to allow completing research, I started the Leviathan but got a Tasoth base defense.
It was as fun as expected (aka. not fun).

- www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo7J78wzRTg
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on January 20, 2018, 02:00:31 am: Quote from: Boltgun on January 19, 2018, 08:27:49 pm
I did not knew that distance reduce the effectiveness. Are you using the UFO extended distance accuracy?
This was in vanilla TFTD.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on February 25, 2018, 09:09:24 pm: I get beat up by a band of aquatoids with shock bombs!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qIbRJxGJOY

So I grab a few quick missions for points.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0p9TrBNIc

The final mission is unlocked, so after taking out the port attack we'll set foot on T'leth.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on February 26, 2018, 02:26:34 am: Let me have the honour on destroying one of the power cells of the great Dreamer. My final mission is at hand as my death lies ahead
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on February 26, 2018, 06:37:10 pm: Quote from: Yataka Shimaoka on February 26, 2018, 02:26:34 am
Let me have the honour on destroying one of the power cells of the great Dreamer. My final mission is at hand as my death lies ahead

Perfect, I needed a volunteer to have the honor to bring a bag full of sonic pulsors.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on February 27, 2018, 01:24:36 am: I was about to say it should be Reaver, then again, I forgot he was MIA in one mission
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on February 27, 2018, 12:06:17 pm: Nah, he got better (I renamed another soldier to 'bring him back') but he might be busy MCing everything.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on February 27, 2018, 04:38:04 pm: Grab a commander level troop and rename it to yourself. This will make your popularity as a commander bolster as you fight the final fight to save mankind
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on March 03, 2018, 10:11:38 pm: Quote from: Yataka Shimaoka on February 27, 2018, 04:38:04 pm
Grab a commander level troop and rename it to yourself. This will make your popularity as a commander bolster as you fight the final fight to save mankind

Heh, why not. After all the trouble I might as well go in with a DPL in each hand.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on March 04, 2018, 04:37:51 am: Dual weilding DPLs is op, yup, hit them hard and twice! I want to see the whole map go kabooom
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on March 05, 2018, 01:57:49 pm: Quote from: Yataka Shimaoka on March 04, 2018, 04:37:51 am
Dual weilding DPLs is op, yup, hit them hard and twice! I want to see the whole map go kabooom

Putting something else like a shock launcher in the offhand would be better but let's get logic in our way.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on March 10, 2018, 09:13:40 am: As long as you're dual-wielding DPLs, howabout putting a loaded one in the backpack, and then having a manservant carry 3 more loaded ones right behind you? That way you can toss them on the ground instead of reloading them.

I wonder if you should maybe arm your soldiers with a backup gauss rifle, good for any time you fight aquatoids or gill men?
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on April 02, 2018, 10:51:52 pm: Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on March 10, 2018, 09:13:40 am
As long as you're dual-wielding DPLs, howabout putting a loaded one in the backpack, and then having a manservant carry 3 more loaded ones right behind you? That way you can toss them on the ground instead of reloading them.

I wonder if you should maybe arm your soldiers with a backup gauss rifle, good for any time you fight aquatoids or gill men?

Done and done, I found myself something appropriate.

Done that terror mission and equipped the team for the final assault Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/Kw_rV4RU5Yo
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on April 04, 2018, 12:42:40 pm: dis gon' be gud
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: ohartenstein23 on April 04, 2018, 03:35:25 pm: By the way, the MC'ing large units bug was fixed in OXC, you get full control of 2x2 units when you MC them so they don't reaction fire themselves.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on April 04, 2018, 08:55:44 pm: Quote from: ohartenstein23 on April 04, 2018, 03:35:25 pm
By the way, the MC'ing large units bug was fixed in OXC, you get full control of 2x2 units when you MC them so they don't reaction fire themselves.

Nice to know. Many units in TFTD cannot be MCed but if a mod open up possibilities I'd love to know what a controlled Hallucinoid can do.

Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on April 04, 2018, 12:42:40 pm
dis gon' be gud

I cannot wait, we're going to blow up Cthulhu into pieces.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on April 06, 2018, 01:48:01 pm: They can be MCed, you just need a very high psionic attack score.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Solarius Scorch on April 06, 2018, 03:24:00 pm: My memory may play tricks on me, but I seem to remember (in the OG) having MC'd only one segment of a 2x2 unit... So it saw the remaining three parts of it as hostile.
It was cool and intriguing.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on April 06, 2018, 10:37:59 pm: Yes, that is what happened. You could MC a sectopod as an easy way to kill it. Interestingly enough, it did not react to its own movement. But you could have the controlled segment shoot another segment, and the other segment would reaction fire back, until it was dead. As the sectopod's weapon was laser and they are weak to laser, this works even on Superhuman. It's almost as if they did it that way on purpose.

Another trick you could do with a cyberdisc or sectopod was MC it, use up its time units, MC another quadrant, repeat. You could use up the unit's TUs four times per turn if you had the ability to keep MCing them.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on April 30, 2018, 11:00:46 am: Spring is delaying the end a little bit with a pollen allergy. But don't worry T'leth is going to fall anytime soon.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on May 25, 2018, 08:50:19 pm: Aaaaaaaand we're in !

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFm_NalabRQ

Of course, I forget a tank but with some careful line of sight dickery we made through level one.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on June 02, 2018, 05:56:05 am: The only thing harder than beating T'leth is my...er...desire to see these aliens ~~raped~~ beaten.

Cthulhu you're goin' down!
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deathbattlefanon/images/e/e5/Godzilla_VS_Cthulu.png)
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on June 11, 2018, 10:15:54 pm: T'leth level two ! We use DPLs, a lot of them, to take down this part. And I gotta say that the layout was draining. What a terrible place.

Sadly not everyone made it to part three.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz5XRExMPhM
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Starving Poet on June 13, 2018, 05:45:20 pm: Level 2 is rough, level 3 should, hopefully, just be tedious!
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on June 14, 2018, 08:12:16 am: IIRC Level 3 isn't even tedious. There's a bit of maziness and then you get to the main chamber.

R.I.P. Simon Neeesal, killed by a deep one.
R.I.P. Ni Lei, killed by a deep one.
R.I.P. *xcomcmdr, killed by a tentaculat.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Starving Poet on June 15, 2018, 07:46:13 am: Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on June 14, 2018, 08:12:16 am
IIRC Level 3 isn't even tedious. There's a bit of maziness and then you get to the main chamber.

R.I.P. Simon Neeesal, killed by a deep one.
R.I.P. Ni Lei, killed by a deep one.
R.I.P. *xcomcmdr, killed by a tentaculat.

It's just tedious in the sense that you get an initial wave of enemies, then 20 turns of running out of energy as you wind around a large and empty map, then one more turn of enemies near the end.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on June 15, 2018, 10:53:36 am: That's what PWT launchers are for tho. ._.

Every wall is destructible. It's just a matter of how determined you are to not go around.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on June 15, 2018, 01:06:20 pm: I did not research PWT and lost my only sonic tank. We will have to walk but I'll try to push forward since the level is linear and I do not have to be careful anymore.

Quote from: The Reaver of Darkness on June 14, 2018, 08:12:16 am
IIRC Level 3 isn't even tedious. There's a bit of maziness and then you get to the main chamber.

R.I.P. Simon Neeesal, killed by a deep one.
R.I.P. Ni Lei, killed by a deep one.
R.I.P. *xcomcmdr, killed by a tentaculat.

I hoped the tentaculat would go for the mind controlled aliens but nope.

By the way, it's hilarious that I got the worst soldier who panic at any moment.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on June 15, 2018, 01:26:41 pm: Oh I meant the DPL. My mistake.
But you're low on DPL ammo so it might not work.

I did want to mention, however, that you could have gotten through some of those walls easier with a bit more perseverance. When the wall breaks and still blocks you, it just means you have to shoot it again. The alien reanimation (blue pods containing aquatoids) can be destroyed in 4 shots, because they take up 2 spaces.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on June 26, 2018, 01:11:58 am: I just finished recording, all that is left is to cut it properly.

I am drained but not as drained as Cthulhu's tomb.
Title: Re: Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on June 30, 2018, 02:05:41 am: Cthulhu status: DEAD!

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ThZe41nFw8&list=PLvS62d4_g6NvKHe2e_E60ue3VlzvMZap8&index=44

And this is the end of this long campaign. Thank you for watching, commenting and all. I hope it was nice and that my English was not completely terrible.

Stats : https://imgur.com/a/DDClYNr
Title: Re: [FINISHED] Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on June 30, 2018, 08:24:08 pm: I thought your French accent was cool, and it was one of the reasons I enjoyed watching this, both because you had a funny way of saying things and because it was fun to listen to you strive to speak English more clearly. You're also very good at this game. There were a few points where I felt I could have done better, but also times when you clearly did better than I could have, and certainly times when I would have save-scummed a bit but you did not. I refuse to play Ironman, so props to you for that. I consider myself very good at the game, and I'd say you're about as good as I am if not better.

Cthulhu status: SPANKED
Title: Re: [FINISHED] Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: Boltgun on July 05, 2018, 01:30:27 pm: Always glad to hear that the accent is okay, it's particularly difficult to speak in English because there is a lot in common that is not quite the same. For example, I'm really struggling to say "grenade" because it's the same word in French.

What is really good about x-com that it allows you to "fail forward" as you may not complete the battlescape objective but still progress in the global strategy. That why even if we have some missions going badly, you can go on. That's why ironman feels right.

Quite frankly the only thing I did not like in TFTD was the copious amount of psy attacks from the aliens (and the obtuse research but that's because there is no clue anywhere in the game). I would guess going into the advanced options and activating "Psy requires line of sight" would make it a lot better. Otherwise, I appreciate that it tried to not make weapons and aliens all upgrades of each other and added variety to the approach to combat. The game looks a lot better than UFO Defense too.

That said, now I know the game inside out and I feel that there is little more for me to do. With the exception of mods like X-Piratez, I feel that I've seen it all now for both UFO and TFTD.
Title: Re: [FINISHED] Let's play TFTD Ironman with a french guy
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on July 06, 2018, 09:06:26 pm: I'm struggling with my French accent. The two languages share so many words yet use way different accents. It's nice to hear your French accent as a way of learning how to speak French.

I do love how X-Com allows you to exist past a fail state. I hate games that force you to re-load every 5 seconds because you didn't mash buttons in the exact right pattern or fast enough. Quick-time events are one of the worst forms of gaming; X-Com is up there with the best of them. I still don't like Ironman because every once in a while the buggy battlescape physics causes me problems. I'm getting really good at expecting them before I walk into the problem headfirst, but still sometimes soldiers can't hit a target because of a quirk of their position relative to the target, or the hitbox is extremely different from the graphic, etc.

I hate the psi attacks too. It was so much worse in UFO with the ethereals. In TFTD it's nice that the strongest psi aliens are weaker, but sucks that they are also more common. In UFO you can choose to assault bases that don't have ethereals, but in TFTD every base has tasoths. I always liked being able to psi-control through walls, and psi line of fire just doesn't seem right to me, so instead in my mod I reduced "memory" attribute of psi aliens to 0. There's a bug in which 0 counts as 1, but basically how it works is if the aliens control your soldier, they can attempt control the next turn. But if they don't see the soldier for a whole turn, they can no longer attempt control until they can see that soldier again. It's only fair, right? We have to see them again every turn, but in vanilla they only have to see us once.

If you're interested in taking on something a bit new, I've been trying to get someone to do a let's play of my own mod. It's almost like a total conversion; it feels a lot like the original game and all of the things should be familiar and intuitive to you, however there's lots of new content and it's all rebalanced in a way that makes a lot more sense from a gameplay perspective. I've done plenty of playtesting myself so I know it's very playable, but there can be bugs I won't notice until someone else tries it out. I bet my mod would be less frustrating to play on ironman than the original game is.