Roleplay Let’s Play: XCOM Terror From the Deep

[DarthOne]

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