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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 02, 2014, 09:08:14 pm

Quote from: kj1225 on February 02, 2014, 09:07:07 pm

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If she isn't as annoying as she sounds.

Come on, kj. Kyle's used his libido for his own amusement; can't he just once use it to save the world?

Quote from: ragnarok97071 on February 02, 2014, 09:07:40 pm

Also, Gold, you should probably do something with FMG sometime.

With what?

the First Magic Girls :/ did you already forget your own game?

Oh, that FMG.

Yeah, I don't really know where to go with that. Maybe if it had like half the characters, and they weren't scattered over the entire Tokyo area and then some.

Ah.

All I knew was that I was making the wall glow orange.

Yes she will. I will make it happen.

...Somehow, that gives me an idea.
Kyle must try and seduce the angel.

She went to Miami to get the other person.

Ah. And rag fixed the geographical screwup, so it makes sense now.
Althoughit would be more southwest than west.

Also, GWG, Yomiko and Sen are waiting for you to talk to them.

Didn't we go over this? I'm not checking this thread 24/7.

((What did my magic do?))

Rest. Attempt to stop nose bleeding. Prepare healing spell.

<It was a building, not an area of jungle. Shush, Will. Read the news properly.>

<I'm getting only thirdhand reports, which made it sound like all of Brazil was destroyed.>

<And speaking of reports, there's something fishy going on. Through Server 0002, I'm monitoring a few satellites from governments with incredibly poor security, and there are some highly anomalous signatures. Either North Korea is detonating a line of small nukes across South America or someone's using atomic blasts to fly from Brazil to...well, with our luck, probably here.>

So...all my time trying to get soldiers on both sides of enemies was for nothing?

GWG's III
Part III: Never Gonna Let This Down

Operation Spectral Priest...What are we on now, hexux?
We advance. Ruiz discovers a xeno on turn 2, eating a reaction shot. She gives better than she gets, dealing three damage to the xeno's one. Owusu strides out into an uncovered position to deal a miss. The xeno's buddy gives him a boosy, helping him crit Owusu into oblivion. Hudson finishes the alien, Ruiz advances, missing the first alien's companion. That xeno kills Ruiz, panicking Hall (the farthest away), who shoots (and misses) Hudson. You know, I'm starting to wonder if there isn't a differential rate of panic results based on difficulty. On Easy, no one ever shot a friend and shooting enemies was frequent; here, it seems like every third or fourth panicker shoots at a buddy. Hudson spots a trio of advancing xenos and misses the reaction shot; the shot xeno returns the favor more accurately, with a Panic-Plas^TM shot that panics Hudson despite only dealing one damage. He shoots back in panic, a miss. Hall advances, killing that xeno but triggering a squad of three more. Hall complains about a single xeno flanking his position seconds before getting plasma-pasted all over the road. Hudson advances, takes a scratch from a reaction shot, and empties his assault rifle at a xeno...who clings to life with one hit point. Hudson avoids fire, circles the car he's hiding behind, and chucks his grenade at two xenos. He promptly gets killed.

Operation Spectral Priest Heptux
I try a hybrid advance; one person on each side does the cautious, Overwatching advance I normally do, but Owusu and Hudson do a dashing aggressive advance. Also, the squad clusters together a bit more. A xeno runs forward, not triggering Overwatch but yes killing Owusu in one shot. Its buddy kills Hudson, panicking Hall,  The two bastards are a bit out of grenade range, so Ruiz shoots one...dealing one damage. The other one gets buffed and kills Ruiz in one shot.
Hall advances, dodges a reaction shot, and discovers is foe (the aforementioned wounded sectoid) is again just out of grenade range. So he shoots it. Lethally. Another one, glowy-headed, blows up the chunky little thing Hall was using for cover (note the past tense). Hall advances to a nearby car and drops the buffed bastard to one health. The xeno, no longer glowy-headed, advances, shooting Hall for one damage and panicking him. It gets re-buffed, and shoots for another one damage. Hall Socks the now-2-hp bastard...for one damage.
(For those who have forgotten, Socks was the nickname of Anastasia Smirnova, my best Assault in my first playthrough. Verbing it means I'm moving a soldier adjacent to an enemy and shooting it.)
The xeno gets buffed back to two health (DAMMIT THAT'S CHEATING!), five others move into view, and the one Hall nearly killed runs past him before dealing a lethal shot.

I think I have a good reason to stick to Easy.

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Unless you have aiming angles turned on the full defense bonus from cover is always applied except in cases where you're flanking them. So there are poor firing positions, and flanked. Using explosives to destroy their cover is a reliable way to get good shots.

What is flanking, anyways? I've done it sometimes, but I haven't figured out exactly how to flank.

Distance is important in aim. Even if you're in full cover, that Sectoid two tiles away can still kill you with ease.

Well duh. But I've advanced often, only to discover that the hit-chance is exactly the same.