ADVENT couldn't kill her, so they tried to contain her.

And then that didn't work either, because she wasn't the drop from a "bust somebody out" mission, she just appeared in the starting roster. :)

--G.
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For now and henceforth, I hope, I am Void Random.
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

He wouldn't be Jon if he didn't have shitty luck. :)

(That figure didn't reflect his real contribution; he did a lot of softening up guys with more than 3 health in those missions, but someone else got most of the kills. He'd set 'em up, Rei or DJ would knock 'em down.)

Also, I will note that in the missions since that screenshot was taken, Shinji has proven to be absolutely lethal in clutch situations... with his sidearm. Boy's a god damn gunslinger. You move anywhere anyone in the squad can see you while he's on pistol overwatch, you die. In one mission he critted a full-health Sectoid from a rooftop half a block away. It was friggin' beautiful.

It's a toss-up, in my current play so far, which has been the most satisfying single moment: that one, the one where the Stun Lancer learned too late that maybe charging a man with a chaingun wasn't a great plan, or the time Asuka wiped out an entire reinforcement squad she couldn't see with a blind grenade throw on their in-turn, because they hadn't bothered to move from where the transport dropped them in the cutscene.

"Man alive, these things are stupid."
-Light cruiser Tenryū

--G.
When she threw the grenade, Asuka shouted, "Hier! Fangen Sie!" - which I think is a very polite way of saying, "Here! Catch!" Nice touch.
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Pistols are hilariously awesome. My main sharpshooter and her hand cannon has the highest kill rate of the entire game (As I approach what I suspect is the endgame, she's got over a hundred kills). This includes entire squads taken out by crit hits and her 'shoot everything in sight' power, and one especially memorable case where she soloed a Sectopod.

And as a side bonus, the mass effect camo pattern mod I got means her plasma pistol has fancy Quarian scrollwork on it too.

>It's a toss-up, in my current play so far, which has been the most
>satisfying single moment: that one, the one where the Stun Lancer learned
>too late that maybe charging a man with a chaingun wasn't a great plan,

I remember a Stun Lancer that charged at my main Ranger. Who auto-attacks anyone that gets in melee range. That went very differently to what the ADVENT mook was expecting :)

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

Also, just saying for Gryphon's benefit: Bluescreen rounds on your pistol Sharpshooter is very much the way forward. You can fire five pistol shots in one turn. Against a Sectopod that's a minimum of 15 damage. Minimum. And that's only if you don't bother to shred the thing's armour with an Acid Bomb or a Grenadier with Shredder and Holo-Targeting. =]

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Please, they'd need to last long enough for my Ranger to get in close to them. Mutons... did not cover themselves in glory on my current play-through.

>Also, just saying for Gryphon's benefit: Bluescreen rounds on your
>pistol Sharpshooter is very much the way forward. You can fire five
>pistol shots in one turn. Against a Sectopod that's a minimum of 15
>damage. Minimum. And that's only if you don't bother to shred
>the thing's armour with an Acid Bomb or a Grenadier with Shredder and
>Holo-Targeting. =]

Becky's carrying AP ammo, actually. Great for both Sectopods and Gatekeepers. Don't bother shredding the armour, just ignore it and kill what's hiding behind it.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

One of my favorite moments was when a Stun Lancer charged my Ranger (Duncan "Highlander" MacLeod) who promptly not only struck first, but stunned the guy.
and then did it AGAIN to the Andromedon who charged in from his flank.

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"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

"There can be only two!"

--G.
What, I remember the episode that had Connor in it...
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"Why was Ellison voted MVP for the last mission? He didn't get a single kill."

"He did what he always does. Look at the film. Setting up the Sectoid with a psibolt, and *BAM!* Ayanami takes it down. Draws the Ethereal's attention, and *POW!* One more for Langley. He may not show a high score, but he has more assists than any two of his teammates."

Peter Eng
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"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

"Love you too, Dad." Shinji chimed back to the Avenger.

"No one appreciates the classics anymore." San mock-grumped.

"San, that was never a classic."

I used to be a Sharpshooter like you. Then I took a mag round in the knee.

--G.
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Heh, which tangentially reminds me of:

"God, this is like Enemy at the Gates. 'One man has the rifle. One man has the bullets.'"
- one of the guys running the Yogscast UFO: Enemy Unknown let's-play, remarking on the psychotic ammunition micromanagement required in the original game, and how it can occasionally lead to logistical cock-ups on the Skyranger

>Amy, perhaps unsurprisingly, decided that the life of a Heavy was the
>life for her. I keep hearing Karen Gillian shouting "Cry some more!"
>in her Inverness accent.

"Get ready for a li'l surprise!"

(OK, so that's something Grenadiers say in XCOM 2, but still. :)

--G.
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Yeah. Just picked it up last week(ish) myself cause between used and 2 I was able to get a copy for like $10. 90% sure I'm at the endgame myself even though I haven't officially finished it yet because all thats left to do is * redacted just in case someone somewhere somehow might get spoiled * Only reason I haven't is because I'm trying to farm enough meld for the few remaining achievements. (like fielding a fully genmod'd trooper or a fully upgraded MEC)

>The rooftop sniper duel was
>especially telling, even after all of his available cover was removed
>by a grenade.
>

Achievement unlocked: "G'Day Mate!" ;D

But I was surprised by the level of customization one had even in 1. Most often I didnt customize them that much till I had something like a hook.
Like Farrah "Faucet" Kohler, Marvin "Martian" Barnes, or Lilly "Boots" Hill. The Towel (Dont panic when people start dieing) or Ducken (+Def in cover) and so on

In the original and Terror From The Deep, when my group of friends first discovered the games, the initial player was experiencing some serious losses in his squads. On a lark, he began customizing the names, removing anything resembling an actual name and replacing it with something descriptive and less-than-flattering. Imagine his surprise when Deadmeat, Bugbait, Bodybag, etc., all began coming home with no losses.

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."