[url=#user_comment_220622]@DeadHerald[/url]: Meta-trolling much?

"We have discovered that, when panicked, humans will turn on each other violently. It is essential for troops to understand how to cause panic by the following methods:
1. Wound a human soldier.
2. Shoot at a human soldier.
3. Kill any human soldier within a 1,000 yard radius of the enemy squad.

Absolutely awesome... And true to XCOM

[url=#user_comment_220622]@DeadHerald[/url]: So much MATURITY! Oh man!

@=____=: I wouldn't say the main problem was them being lazy, so much as them making weird decisions. Why can't I move after shooting until I get promoted 3(?) times (even then, I need to be the assault class)?
I hope the game is a financial success, still--even if it lacks the original's tone.

[url=#user_comment_220516]@Bindal[/url]: Seems someone was illiterate when they played the original X-COM. [url=#user_comment_220584] @Adahn[/url]: Yup. Hope the mod community can sort this out. [url=#user_comment_220540] @Zacsi[/url]: Seems two people were illiterate when they played X-Com.

[url=#user_comment_220622]@DeadHerald[/url]: Oh, like we haven't heard THAT before.

[url=#user_comment_220622]@@DeadHerald[/url]: It's bronies all the way down! We're doomed!

You realize the creator of this comic is a brony right? I mean it's not exactly like he's made it a secret.

O-(-'.'!): They didn't evolve beyond clothes,they just didn't want to spend the money for clothes for clones so they just made them without genitals.

@=____=: Dude, if you assume a priori that the devs are lazy, then everything will be evidence of their laziness to you.

Relevant picture: funtasti.com/pdata/t/l-3739.jpg

Relevant article: eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-05-the-re-making-of-xcom

Also: rockpapershotgun.com/tag/jake-solomon/

THAT'S X-COM, BABY!

[url=#user_comment_220516]@Bindal[/url]: It was classic ^^; [url=#user_comment_220540] @Zacsi[/url]: Well, that makes sense, but then why make a story if its sooo bad? I still think that devs are lazy and didnt want to make mars/retaliation missions and stuff.

[url=#user_comment_220622]@DeadHerald[/url]: i love it how you can make everything into brony-ruined garbage something tells me you're into conspiracy's

Normally, I'd be all up for enjoying a good X-Com comic. Unfortunately, the mere fact that another reader might possibly be a brony and enjoying the comic makes my blood run cold. Fucking bronies ruin everything.

See, I thought the X-Com aliens had culturally evolved beyond the need for clothes which is why they inexplicitly run around naked, but here's one wearing a lab coat. Are you ashamed of your shoulders, bro? All the other gray catz be chillin' au naturale, so why you got to set them back a decade?

It is possible for the aliens to win even if they lose every encounter by continuously staging abduction missions.

Since the new system only allows response to one mission at a time, eventually more than 8 council countries will reach critical panic level.

[url=#user_comment_220526]@Ninj77[/url] I might also, but they slaughtered a bunch of my guys so NO MERCY!

What most people don't seem to understand is that Xcom is mostly based on alien invasion B-movie trope logic.
It's supposed to be retartedly trashy.

THATS THE JOKE.

We'll bludgeon you with our brain-cases if we must, remember that! Alien!

HUMANITY, FUCK YEAH!

I can't believe I'm saying this...but I kinda feel sorry for those alien guys.

@=____=: And that he died first turn has NOTHING to do with that but more with playing on a low difficulty. Try it on higher difficulty and you will need several rounds to kill him - if you can even reach that bastard.

@=____=:
Well, they wanted to make sure it was the right species, which they only knew when the Volunteer was discovered (which in return leads instantly to the finale). And considering how pissed humanity was, I highly doubt they gonna choose "ally" over "wipe'em out" after what happened.

re alien tactics: My only real complaint is that a reverse engineered fighter (Firestorm) equipped with reverse engineered weapons (Fusion Lance) is magically able to one-shot battleships?

The rest is consistent with their "shape humanity into useful assets" explanation.

[url=#user_comment_220428]@Bindal[/url]: The Ethereal One died before he had his 1st turn, so its a little too much of "not as planned" thing. Also why didnt they try to ally or retreat the moment they found the species? However you look at it its hard to find logic there. And I didnt mind first UFO where aliens were "on budget"

Why wouldn't we put up a good fight? fighting is what we do all the time!

Hey. dont you dare mock my lighting reflexes!! i Love that skill. :D

LOVE IT

[url=#user_comment_220437]@█████[/url]: It's The Red Bar of Evil! RUN! [/Schlock ref]

(Another fan theory: that XCOM EU and Mass Effect are in the same universe, and the boogieman the Etherials are scared of is the Reapers.)

[url=#user_comment_220428]@Bindal[/url] - and a fan theory is that the Council itself was aliens, running the /entire thing/ as a...it's 7am and I forget the term for that sort of structure/scam. But it makes some sense, after all, you never see "We" who are watching, do you...

Personally, just as they did with Civilization 5, 2K cut out too much:
Skills and stats no longer get better with use.
No more alien ranks. (Aliens are all the same now)
Only 1 alien base.
No more alien infiltration, supply, harvest, research or retaliation missions, just abduction and terror.

Sounds like a job for the IMPENETRABLE SCARLET DEFENSE!

[url=#user_comment_220270]@MeowMix[/url]: the good thing about living in an RPG world is everytime we're down someone can come and revive you with Phoenix Down. Unless you're in the X-Com world. You're screwed.

Now we need XT-Fortress-Com comics.

They never almost annihilated humanity. We did that by trying to blow up the mothership. The aliens mostly abducted us to conduct experiment and fought us on the ground to test our soldiers. The story did make sense.

@=____=: Honestly, if you actually bother with the story, it is pretty good. And beats the original one "Hur Dur, Aliens Evil!" where the Aliens attack WITHOUT ANY REASON OR GOAL!

@=____=: Well, that they get blown up was obviously not planned, but the Ethereals had one: Either humanity is the species they were looking for against what will be coming or they were not and got wiped out.
Turns out they were. It just worked a bit too well against the Ethereals themselves.

[url=#user_comment_220405]@Bindal[/url]: And what did they achieve? Lost a mothership, almost annihilated the planet with species they were so desperate to find? Not like humanity wont annihilate itself with rogue psychers running around. Anyway story made no sense, it sucks, the devs were lazy (very).

Well, actually - they (Ethereals) don't consider us as primitive but as probably THE species with the most potential. All others are 'failed' ones trying to get to the next stage of evolution - including they themselves.
And yes, their tactics were that way to TEST us.

since i dont know XCOM(yet!). give me a sitrep

[url=#user_comment_220396]@Saint[/url]: That is why most of the little kids in Skyrim are dicks

If I could choose, I would be born in a Bethesda RPG. That way, I would be invincible as a little kid.

hehe, that's pretty accurate.

Always did want to play XCOM (or the old X-Com) from the alien point of view. Even a modicum of intelligence could steamroll the human defences given the force that *should* be arrayed against them.

So,basically,we're Sayjins? No,I don't care how it's spelled. [url=#user_comment_220326] @Cassandra[/url]: Tits or GTFO!

[url=#user_comment_220269]@Erzengel[/url]: It will one we replace them with these cybernetic arms and legs. With built in guns in the forearm and shins.

[url=#user_comment_220325]@OMG[/url]: Trolls I like. I am Female Troll. May be you not troll. Troll sad.

So many x-com comics. More TF2 or I'll never read again!!!1!1!

[url=#user_comment_220269]@Erzengel[/url]: Just wait until they develop better prostetics...

[url=#user_comment_220278]@Dz34[/url] You say that now but wait until they break out the mods.

All of these monstrous abilities and they still die if a sectoid gets a lucky shot with his laser pointer gun.

dat pelvic area. Jo should stick to drawing porn.

@MeowMixI would love to be a kid in a RPG game. Don't you know the law. A children shall not be harm or die in a game.

So sign me up but make sure I don't age.

I am living proof that what does not kill you can leave you crippled for life.

That which does not kill us makes for tasty barbeque.

Don't live in a RPG game!

You'll be born as a lvl 1 baby!

And you'll grind too slow to defeat a lvl 13 bully, or even a lvl 40 street thug!

And don't even get me started on those lvl 90 soldiers!

[url=#user_comment_220263]@Lucifer[/url]: Come here and let me amputate your arms and legs. I promise you'll survive. I'm sure it will only make you stronger.

Made me think of Fallout 3.

Nietzsche said it best "That which does not kill us makes us stronger"