Let's discover X-Com's fate in Superhuman TFTD - Update #52

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I'm pretty much useless in this LP at this point, so I might as well help bump it to the next page.

EDIT: Or not. My uselessness is complete.

I apologize for the delay in updates, but as Darth Roxor mentioned a few times the last mission is long, especially when one has to move twenty units across several maps.

Just break through the walls with sonic cannonfire to get to the lift faster

UPDATE 49 - Alien City

When we last left off, the order to launch an assault on the dreaded alien city, T'Leth, was given.
Armed with our best weapons and most protective armors, will our aquanauts be able to save earth from the alien menace ?



As the Leviathan approaches the deepest parts of the ocean, the city comes into view.



Only to find it began moving ! We've launched just in the nick of time, any delay would have proven fatal.



And it goes up at an astonishing speed, forgoing any safety precautions due to pressure differences.
Our Leviathan manages to keep up, but any mere Triton or Hammerhead would have been destroyed by the rapid ascension.



The alien city is massive, taking it down will be no easy task.
Yet, from records of the Cydonia operation forty years ago, we can assume a central brain of some kind is controlling all the aliens. If we could just find it...



The alien city makes it to the surface before our team is close enough.



This is it, there will be no second chances. We won't have any time to launch another operation.



Finally, the Leviathan boards the alien city through an unoccupied sub pen, one of the many we destroyed.



This architecture is reminiscent of artifact sites. Maybe those were parts of the alien city that fell off during atmosphere entry ?



Tanks are sent first to scout out the area. The corridors are mostly empty, but contain vast amount of sarcophagi.



Shepard stumbles upon an alien as he explores west. It's an aquatoid.



It proves particularly resistant to molecular control attempts. Banelion had to use his three attempts until he finally took over.



Making it turn around, he spots another alien through his puppet's eyes.



Time for some suicide fire.



Both aquatoids are down, and Shepard and Mal will be able to fetch their tempting Disruptor Pulse Launchers.



Another alien is seen to the south. Still no shot fired.



Our tank reestablishes contact, and Banelion has no problem making the alien suicide again.



Another one is right here, but Banelion has used up all his attempts, and our other controllers can't do a thing.
The Displacer uses the last of its TUs to hide around the corner.



toastboy spotter finds an alien to the east.



He misses his shot, but Juggernaut manages to hit it squarely, saving the lives of the five soldiers nearby.



Another aquatoid lurks near Shepard and Mal.



And Black IV finds one checking out a sarcophagus.



Banelion makes it suicide.



Shepard grabs some goodies.



And our tanks keep exploring. They come across a large elevator, this is promising.



Pope Amole checks some upper level rooms for aliens, and finds disturbing machinery.



An alien was found, and Banelion made it fire its torpedo at a nearby wall yet again.



The large elevator leads to the exit area. Now we just have to move the rest of our troops to it.



Mal finds the alien lurking near him and Shepard.



This time, Banelion's help is not requested, as Mal fires his freshly gotten DPL and kills the alien.



Shepard finds another one.



And does pretty much the same.



There was an alien in the elevator waiting for us ! Good thing it didn't shoot.



Our Displacer has no trouble shooting it at this close a range.



Shepard, as he was ready to check a room on the upper level, suddenly falls unconscious.
No explosion or shot was heard, the team can but wonder about what happened.



There he is. Was he shot from above ?



Mal grabs the soldier on his shoulder and begins lugging him to a medic, but Shepard dies the following turn.
He was probably shot by a Sonic Cannon... but it's strange that we didn't hear any gunfire.
RIP Shepard , we'll never know what hit you.



Mal finds an alien as he goes back for his dropped DPL.



He takes cold and precise revenge for his fallen comrade.



An aquatoid tried a series of M.C. attacks on Mal. It failed to drop his bravery a single point.



Meanwhile, soldiers are slowly but regularly piling up in the elevator area.



And soon, all of them make it.



Time to embark for the unknown.



And our team makes it down to the second level of the alien city. So far, the mission has gone almost perfectly.

Nuuuuuuu Shepard......

moar...

For Mankind

You make it look too easy

Great going!

So far - so good. I hope that Banelion will live to see the free earth.

BTW, can you intentionally die once so we can see the bad ending (if there is one)?

Very awesome LP, a shame I didn't catch up with this early enough to be a valiant meatshield for mother Earth. Regardless, to the soldiers that braved horrible alien abominations and the fire of our own commissars to purge the alien menace.

It looks like it really was a suicide mission for Shepard

Shepard dies for your sins.

COMMAND MANY COCKS AND GRAB PLENTY OF COLLARS FOR OUR LORD OF THE FOURTH REICH COMMANDER SHEPARD!!!!!

Shepard was standing on an elevator. Something must have shot him from above, although that wouldn't make much sense, since you can't fire DPLs like that, afaik, and iirc all aquatoids on the first level carry DPLs.

Regardless, FOR MANKIND

Yay, I'm kicking butt! Hopefully not kicking bucket.

That's probably because so far, it has been very easy, much easier than artefact sites or alien colonies.

Sure thing, I'll post it when the LP is finished.


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UPDATE 50 - Shortcut

At the end of the last update, the team was delving deeper into the alien city.



The elevator eventually leads to a part much different in style. This time, it looks like the interior of an alien colony.



Azira went a bit ahead of everyone, and spots a Hallucinoid in the shadows.



He shoots it, but it's not enough to kill.



Stereotypical Villain blows up part of the wall to let some of best snipers take a shot.



Oscar brings the beast down.



Golgepapaz scouts a small room to the east, containing some strange pods.



Time to take a shortcut. aRyan programs a torpedo to explode on the upper level, near a wall.



It blows up and reveals a path.



One Displacer is sent scouting, and finds a Lobsterman.



No problem for Banelion.



He makes the puppet scout a bit, and spots another one at the far end.



Banelion takes control of it too and makes it come back closer to the first one.
The squad leader is first weakened by a Displacer shot.



Then stunned by a suicidal thermal shok fire.



Now, our aquanauts can move in.



A torpedo is aimed, to blow up more of the weak walls.



It travels along its path without issues, and opens the way to a large area.



A pulser is used to deal with the two stunned lobstermen.



BayBee finds a Deep One hiding in a small room. We haven't seen them in ages.



It falls easily to the power of the Thermic Lance.



Our tank is now stuck, as it can't pass through one tile doors. It starts shooting at the wall and reveals a Tentaculat.



The following shots are aimed at the floating brain, and it falls down in a splat.



Some more torpedoes are used to shorten the trip each soldier has to make.



We can now bypass two large rooms to the north.



Juggernaut moves ahead and spots a Xarquid. We remember how much damage it did to our heavily armored tank, so he slowly prepares a pulser.



toastboy moves in to assist, but checks behind him before opening the doors.
A good thing he did, for a Tentaculat was hiding in the corner.



BayBee brings it down with a couple Thermic Lance stabs.



The first pulser blows up, but doesn't kill the Xarquid.



toastboy spotter uses his, but it's still not enough, and now the doors are blown and Juggernaut is exposed.



He is shot once.



Then a second time.



But our soldier fires back, and kills the seashell.



This armor is certainly tough, Juggernaut is unharmed.



The elevator is in view, guarded by a Lobsterman.



Banelion takes control of it, and has it move closer to the stairs.
BayBee kills it the following turn.



The elevator is small, too small. We'll have to leave one Displacer to defend our rear.



And with this, the team goes on to the third and final level of the alien city.

TFTD seems to have an inverted difficulty curve, with possibly some "rollercoasters" along the way down, and this thread attests to it, considering how casualty rates diminished in the later updates and were far greater in the first ones.

Onwards, to glory!!!

We kick ass so far.

So far.

X-Com

Almost done.