HI and welcome to my FMP LP. I decided to do this LP to enhance my experience with the game. To give a little brief about my Xcom history, I played this game for the first time around 1996, playing a terror mission demo from a PC magazine wich name I don´t remember. I cost me a lot to successfully finish this demo, but I was 10 years in that moment. I like strategy games in general, but I have to recognize I´m kind of inclined to the cheat side frequently. I have never finished a superhuman run, only finished the game once circa 2005 in Veteran.
I played FMP for the first time in 2014, it was great!. I forgot about it until last December (2016). Actually I have like two weeks before start working again, but I will try to play and update weekly after that.
Those are the rules of the LP:
- Hardest difficult. Superhuman.
- FMP 1.9.6c. If some new version get out, I will think about upgrading or not. I had some other mods added, lightly modified for they to work. This is not balanced, but they are interesting for me and I will use it anyways. Even with this, I will try to see if they get too OP and rid of those options. But for the curiosity of it, I will leave them activated.
- Smoke grenade are allowed. Smoke curtain will be used. I will try not to abuse, because I know a lot of people don´t like them, and consider them cheaty.
- Pre primed grenades only on hand. No pre primed on inventory. I think this is a good compromise.
- I know this is polemical too, but I will sometimes wait for the first turn, sometimes no. In general, I will try to play the first turn without standing still, but sometimes (Like in terror missions), I will just do that.
- I can use the hot potato - grenade trick. Another one that is don´t liked too much. Again, will try not to abuse. I use it seldom normally, so I think it is not going to be a problem.
- I will let myself three reloads per month. If something went blatantly wrong in a mission, I will repeat it. The reloads are on the end of a turn or pre-mission only. But three for month, and that´s it. So, surely I will use it in some early terror mission
. Oh, I´m using save scumming. I know this is going to cause lot of "you should be ashame" reactions, but at least I´m trying to give myself a limit. Yes, it is shabby tactic, but I need a breath
, I´m frustrated enough in Real Life
TM. I can think restricting this more or eliminate completely. Let´s see what happens.
- I´m using OXCE+ 3.6. I like the options. And to experiment.
This is not mainly video based, but I will make some. I´m deeply ashamed of my spoken English (And don´t have a good mic BTW). One idea that I have is to record the game and then have some cuts with scripted commentaries with a good pronunciation practised beforehand, or written annotations. Let´s see how this develop.
I want to thanks all the OXC contributors (SupSuper and Warboy have the most commits, but there are 114 contributors listed, thanks to you all.), Solarius Scorch and Human Ktulu for the FMP (And all the other contributors), Yankes and Meridian for OXCE and OXCE+, Dioxine, Hellrazor and Hobbes for their mega mods, all the modders out there, and all the OpenXcom Forum comunity (This forum is pretty cool). I know a lot of people is missing (ivandogovich, luke, oh, tons and tons), but you know, the post is already very long.
The next post. General strategy guidelines, and the first mission.
Ah. one last thing. If you wish, you can have one or several soldiers with your name, as tradition dictate. It make things very interesting.
To close, here are the images of my configuration.
The extra mods are:
Veterancy by Firaa
Advanced MediKit by Hellrazor
FMP High Quality Sounds by Daedalus
Iron Man Super Suit by SimonBelmont (Very unbalancing, but very lategame)
Personal Armor variant and scout armor variant by harald_gray (FMP have LOT´s of armor, those are redundant, and unbalanced for the mod, but I like to try).
I´m thinking about using HWP - Xcom Enforcer mod by MickTheMage, but it have a weird glitch with OXCE+ 3.6 and I don´t want to bother anyone with this.
Oh. I want to say that my main inspiration for this LP are Lion66six with his Hardmode Expansion LP and Meridian with... well, mainly the FMP one but all in general.
I promise smaller photos the next time
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INDEX:
I. Configuration:
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5259.msg78585.html#msg78585Part 1.a. General Strategy and first steps.
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5259.msg78587.html#msg78587Part 1.b. First Mission. Happy rocket.
https://youtu.be/ka-vEbh43KcPart 2.a Some updates.
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,5259.msg78683.html#msg78683Part 2.b UFO down.
https://youtu.be/ZPja21ksv9Q
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