Roleplay Let’s Play: XCOM Terror From the Deep

Choices

  • Veteran

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Genius

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Northeast Pacific

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    3
  • Poll closed .
Intro

DarthOne

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The year is 2040.
Thirty years have passed since the top-secret multinational military force known as XCOM defeated the alien invaders in a pitched battle at their Cydonia base on the planet Mars.
Much has changed since then. Economic turmoil and poverty has gripped the planet. Resulting in the rise of new nations and the growth of megacooperations. As well as the birth of a new religion that worships aliens, known as the Cult of Sirus.
Now a new extraterrestrial threat has emerged. One comes not from the inky blackness of space, but the depths of Earth’s own oceans.
Will XCOM rise to the occasion and successfully defend humanity once more? Or will this new, yet ancient alien threat succeed where their forerunners in 1990’s failed?

Well, second times the charm…

This will be an un-modded play-through of XCOM: Terror from the Deep on OpenXcom.

As for why I’m putting this Let’s Play here instead of the Gaming forum, I figured it was a better fit, given that I’ll be giving people the option to vote on various decisions we’ll be making during this game. Also, I’m pretty sure that this sub-forum gets more traffic then the gaming one.

As for why that’s important…as much as I would like to host this LP here on the Sietch, if I don’t get enough people (say at least about ten), I’ll have to switch onto Spacebattles instead. As I feel having the same five or so people reincarnate over and over again would not make the game as interesting or very XCOM.

This will be an Ironman game. There is no going back. The dead are dead and the living will move on. If we fail, it'll be with glory.

XCOM Recruit Form:
  • Name:
  • Preferred Role [optional-pick one]: Pistol (medical/capture), Assault (rank and file), Heavy (the big guns)
  • General Personality traits and background information [optional-one paragraph or less]:

Difficulty level
  • Experienced
  • Veteran
  • Genius
I’m not picking Superhuman unless a LOT of people want me to do it, because I still want the game to be an enjoyable challange. Or to put it in simple terms- we're still going to die horribly, but it'll be fun.

Also because even if it is the OpenXCom version, this is still Terror from the goddamn Deep. Plus, I haven’t played XCOM for about two years, so I’m a bit out of practice.

Possible Base locations
  • The South China Sea
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • The central Mediterranean
  • The northeast Pacific
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PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
I would say Gulf of Mexico would be good first base, right next to Cydonia.

Do the recruits need to be us, or can we come up with various, totally not silly/dirty names?
 

DarthOne

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I would say Gulf of Mexico would be good first base, right next to Cydonia.

Do the recruits need to be us, or can we come up with various, totally not silly/dirty names?
Cydonia is on Mars....

They can be either you or a made up name. Though I do request that you don't go NSFW.
 

PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
Oh right, Terror from the Deep had something similar to R'Leth

Recruit
Gerhardt Schweinfresser
Heavy
Former paratrooper in Bundeswehr (Panzerfaust 5 specialist) and later construction diver, Gerhardt joined the X-COM when series of underwater attacks led to cancelations of most of underwater construction projects, rendering him jobless. Fortunately X-COM was looking for underwater specialists at the same time and idea of blowing up stuff underwater appeals to him.
 

DarthOne

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Oh right, Terror from the Deep had something similar to R'Leth

Recruit
Gerhardt Schweinfresser
Heavy
Former paratrooper in Bundeswehr (Panzerfaust 5 specialist) and later construction diver, Gerhardt joined the X-COM when series of underwater attacks led to cancelations of most of underwater construction projects, rendering him jobless. Fortunately X-COM was looking for underwater specialists at the same time and idea of blowing up stuff underwater appeals to him.
Okay so given the lack of interest, I’ve decided to put the LP over on Spacebattles. However, if you’d be okay with it, I would be more then happy to still include your character there.
 

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