Tactical Tuesdays (XCOM) Thread: Rob & Austin Save The Earth ... Hopefully

anon67449456 · January 11, 2018, 11:19am

This is the thread to comment on, appreciate, flame, enjoy, or armchair quarterback (please don’t actually armchair quarterback) our very own anti-fascist revolutionaries, Rob Zacny and Austin Walker, and their quest to liberate the Earth from the occupying forces of ADVENT.
Episodes

If you don’t care about Twitch chat playback (you monster!), there’s a Youtube playlist of the series, but it’s not always up to date (Update: some of the Twitch links have died, actually, so you’ll need youtube for those.)

Pilot: Hangin’ out in the AM and playin’ XCOM
Twitch (dead link)

Series Premiere / Episode 1: 2017 GOTYcast - and beginning of the Ironman run
Twitch

Episode 2: Tactical Tuesday, January 9, 2018
AUSTIN AND ROB ARE GONNA FIGHT SOME ALIENS BECAUSE IT’S TACTICAL TUESDAY & IT’S TIME FOR MORE XCOM 2: WAR OF THE CHOSEN
Twitch

Episode 3: Tactical Tuesday, January 16 2018
Austin and Rob Continue Their Liberation of Earth in XCOM 2
Twitch

Episode 4: Tactical Tuesday, January 23, 2018
XCOM2 War of the Chosen with Austin Walker and Rob Zacny (and William Gordon, Son of Odin)
Twitch

Episode 5: Tactical Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Tactical Tuesday Is Here Again! Time for More XCOM 2: War of the Chosen with Rob and Austin
Twitch

Episode 6: Tactical Tuesday, February 6, 2018
XCOM 2 Tactical Tuesdays Continues as Austin and Rob Head into A Blacksite
Twitch

Episode 7: Tactical Tuesday, February 13, 2018
TACTICAL TUESDAYS: Rob and Austin are Back To Save The Earth
Twitch

Episode 8: Tactical Tuesday, February 27, 2018
TACTICAL TUESDAYS ARE BACK: Rob and Austin lick their wounds and try to pick up the pieces in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
Twitch

Episode 9: Tactical Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Tactical Tuesdays: Rob and Austin Play XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
Twitch

Episode 10: Tactical Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Twitch

Episode 11: Tactical Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Twitch

Episode 12: Tactical Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Twitch

Episode 13: Tactical Tuesday, April 10 2018
Twitch

Episode 14: Tactical Tuesday, April 17 2018
Twitch

Episode 15: Tactical Tuesday, May 1 2018
Twitch

Episode 16: Tactical Tuesday, May 8 2018
(no twitch link available)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdP_s5DHr-U

Episode 17: Tactical Tuesday, May 22 2018
Twitch

Episode 18: Tactical Tuesday, May 29 2018
Twitch

Episode 19 Part 1: Tactical Tuesday, June 5 2018
Twitch

Episode 19 Part 2
Twitch

(E3 happened)

Episode 20: Tactical Tuesday, July 10 2018
Twitch

Episode 21: Tactical Tuesday, July 31 2018
Twitch

Episode 22: Tactical Tuesday, August 22 2018
Twitch

Episode 23: Tactical Thursday(!?), August 24 2018
Twitch

Episode 24: A Double-Length Super Show, Twactical Twednesday, August 29 2018
Twitch

Episode 25: Tactical Tuesday is Back, Sep 4 2018
Twitch

Episode 26: Tactical Tuesday, Sep 18 2018
Twitch

Episode 27: Tactical Tuesday, Sep 25 2018
Twitch

anon67449456 · January 11, 2018, 11:20am

I just think this is a great series and we should have a chat thread about it and Tuesdays in 2018 are going to be awesome. r.i.p. min ji lee

Shivers · January 11, 2018, 1:29pm

Super excited for this to be a weekly series. Can’t wait for more!

sputnik · January 11, 2018, 4:10pm

I really enjoyed watching you guys play this game. It might be the only Xcom playthrough that needs a footnote section to keep track of the literary references being thrown around.

anon67449456 · January 16, 2018, 6:45pm

New episode up.

Devour · January 16, 2018, 6:49pm

I’m loving this series so far, where we have punk boys vs alien centrists.

VHGS · January 16, 2018, 7:05pm

In XCOM 2, the Avatar project is ADVENT’s win condition. After completing it, the elders want to take care of some kind of psionic monster (or something) at the bottom of the ocean.

In the real world, Avatar is a movie directed by James Cameron. After he made it, he spent a lot of time on his hobby: using small submarines to explore the bottom of the ocean.

I think the kabbalistic implications here speak for themselves.

austin_walker · January 20, 2018, 8:23am

Oh dang, just saw this thread! Glad it exists. Would love some input on a new nickname for Will, son of Odin!

Petrak · January 20, 2018, 11:37am

Shotgungnir, with Gungnir being the name of Odin’s sphere for a terrible portmanteau.

But to go down the rabbit hole of mythological Norse weapons, Skofnung is pretty fucked and fits Shotgun Bill’s m.o. of wrecking shit up.

it was renowned for supernatural sharpness and hardness, as well as for being imbued with the spirits of the king’s 12 faithful berserker bodyguards. A cut by the Skofnung sword spreads until it rips the person apart.

Tyrfing is also so so good but it may be a bad omen to name somebody after a cursed sword.

sputnik · January 20, 2018, 2:32pm

(from Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke)
“When he was a child in Faerie the Sidhe had called him a word in their own language which, we are told, meant “Starling”, but he had already abandoned that name by the time he entered England. Later he took to calling himself by his father’s name John d’Uskglass but in the early part of his reign he was known simply by one of the many titles his friends or enemies gave him: the King; the Raven King; the Black King; the King in the North”
(pic is from the BBC show, which portrayed him kinda looking like the Undertaker)

munderwood · January 20, 2018, 3:49pm

Possible nicknames for Will:

Vertigo (for the 90s comics)
Aesir (natch)
Schattenjäger (“Shadow Hunter” - ala Gabriel Knight)
Changeling (b/c he’s been placed here from Faerie)

Jonny_Anonymous · January 20, 2018, 4:01pm

@austin_walker

VHGS · January 20, 2018, 4:09pm

Heimdallr, one of the sons of Odin, is known as ‘world-brightener,’ and carries the Gjallarhorn, which means ‘loud-sounding horn.’ A shotgun is horn-like, and certainly has a loud sound to it. Firing it could be said to brighten the world, or at least a very, very specific part of the world.

The introductory prose to the poem Rígsþula says that “people say in the old stories” that Heimdallr, described as a god among the Æsir, once fared on a journey. Heimdallr wandered along a seashore, and referred to himself as Rígr.

Just as Heimdallr is anglicized as Heimdal, Rígr can be written as Rig.

Big Rig.

You should call him Big Rig.

anon67449456 · January 20, 2018, 5:59pm

I can’t imagine a better idea or back story for an appropriate nickname than this.

Devour · January 20, 2018, 9:53pm

Just like to propose that the ravens themselves are Huginn and Muninn, informants of Odin.

anon67449456 · January 23, 2018, 6:40pm

New episode! (in OP).

Edit/update (I missed the livestream): Rob has cruelly and unreasonably vetoed “Big Rig”. Discourse dot zone will remember this.

Jonny_Anonymous · January 23, 2018, 6:46pm

Aw yeah, they chose my name!

Flitcraft · January 23, 2018, 7:40pm

See that you do.

sputnik · January 23, 2018, 7:48pm

Poor William.
Lying in his sickbed, wondering why he suddenly chose to run out of cover.
The ‘imp of the perverse’ must have took control for a moment there.
No wonder the poor guy has demonophobia.

Wazanator · January 25, 2018, 8:23am

Loving the series so far but I feel the need to point out that Austin and Rob don’t need to worry about losing their weapon mods. When you upgrade weapon tech the game updates all your modified weapons to the newest tech level (unless that is something that was changed in WotC).

So feel free to stick those goodies on all your gear!

Edit: Also consider doing the first mission for the Alien Rulers so you get those sick throwing axes I swear watching your solider chunk that thing into the face of an enemy to finish them off never gets old.