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The Exquisite Corps

The Exquisite Corps: XCOM: Enemy Within - Part 18

It's time for Commander Ryckert to take it to the alien base but only one side is going to walk out alive...

Our team has to pass their save files to one another as each them attempt to successively complete their mission.

Feb. 5 2018

Cast: Vinny, Dan

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

XCOM: Enemy Within

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Dan's in charge - better buckle up.

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Edited By bathala

Will Dan destroy this team or will he prevail

EDIT: Dan luck carried him through this mission

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5 minutes in and I'm already screaming at my monitor.

This is promising.

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Beastcast might have put my expectation for this episode too high :)

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@catlicker: Right there with you. I still love the series despite how painful it can be to watch.

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Dan, I think you just didn't click on the power generator when you were going to build it. That's why it seemed like you didn't have enough power.

Also, you're a damn loose cannon Ryckert.

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Looks like this is gonna be a new record for shortest time from video start to XCOM fans exploding.

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Oh dear lord, he's dismissing soldiers.

I can't watch.

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Oh no!

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This just gets worse and worse with each passing moment.

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Well, Gita Jackson, secret agent extraordinaire and pistol expert.... had a good run before being fired unceremoniously because her commanding officer messed up on the paper work.

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15 minutes in and I can't watch, READ DAN, READ!

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I am not sure if this is funny.

The lack of Dan's attention makes a mockery of the entire series.

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Wow... Dan and Vinny really not paying attention there. Let's just dismiss a few soldiers rather than clearing the unit. It's almost funny. Almost...

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Two casualties before the mission even starts.

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'where is my sniper that can move and shoot?'

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Oh my fuck. The mission hasn't even started and things are already fucked! #dismissryckert

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Power generators that cost power to build. Nope, nothing seems odd about that! Also frustrated that neither noticed they had a better reactor available. Only an hour and 15 minutes to go!

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They spoiled in the latest Beastcast that everything goes well for Dan, yet again. Dave Ryckert will eventually die under Dan's command and it will be so satisfying.

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I usually watch this feature as I'm getting ready for work in the mornings. I'm guessing I'm going to have a few more razor nicks on my face than usual today...

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oh god

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That intro... Alex, you crack me up!

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For anyone who is dying inside watching this like me, just FYI, Waypoint is doing a similar playthrough but for XCOM 2 over on their twitch. Not trying to divert traffic but the only thing keeping me going on this run is knowing Austin and Rob are actually being tactical, and you know, reading as they play.

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Wow that was really.... bold?

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No time for reading, this is a video game.

Vinny - "interesting tactics"

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Vinnyyyyyy

dont pat dan on the back for moving each dude individually~~~

setting him up to fail XD

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2 HP per turn is not actually that much

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Heartbreaking.

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At this rate I'm not sure the aliens will bother putting the commander in a stasis suit.

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oh man that early dismissal got me busting up- this is gonna be fucking GREAT!

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A minute in and Alex with a snazzy Simpsons reference.

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Donna retired and went undercover in the sewers fight the aliens

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Maaaaan, they got so lucky. Why did the mind controlled mec not take a shot when it was the aliens turn? I was expecting the overwatch to kill their own mec tbh haha.

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The worst part is Dan probably walked away from this thinking “I nailed that, I’m the best!” and is going to be killed in the comments for those first ten minutes. Not sure if it will change his play style but maybe it will at least get Vinny to slow him down when clicking Accept.

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Sign me up to whatever black magic cult Giant Bomb joined that gives them infinite luck in every game. Even normal difficulty isn't that lenient, when my soldier got mind-controlled they immediately ran around and started shooting up my squad. This campaign put half a dozen mutons and berserkers in the same room as the sectoid commander and still basically handed the win to them on a silver platter.

Secret highlight is actually right at the end, when Dan proclaims himself to be Mister Offence when choosing the weaker of two purely offence-based upgrades and then immediately chooses a support upgrade for the MEC trooper that they designated as the combat unit instead of an upgrade that would give exactly the same benefit as the one he just picked for Zhang while proclaiming himself to be Mister Offence.

Prediction for next episode: with almost every good soldier out of commission, Commander Russell takes a fresh-faced squad into the next mission (probably the EXALT extraction) and promptly gets them all killed.

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Well you'd think after being a fan of Dan's exploits for what? 8+ years now? You'd think I'd better remember that Dan is the living avatar of the goddess of fortune and the need to clench up while watching this stuff is typically unfounded. Maybe that's how luck works, maybe he draws power from the clench.

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I am SO glad that Alex was the one that got to say "Panic in Mendozaaaaa!"

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@bb4lake said:

For anyone who is dying inside watching this like me, just FYI, Waypoint is doing a similar playthrough but for XCOM 2 over on their twitch. Not trying to divert traffic but the only thing keeping me going on this run is knowing Austin and Rob are actually being tactical, and you know, reading as they play.

It really is the same and the opposite of this. Rob and Austin are so analytical it's mesmerizing to see them play. Exquisite Corps is fun, but I really like to have the Waypoint team playing as a counterpoint.

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5 minutes it took. 5 minutes and I was shaking my monitor. Dan you were supposed to be the one good at base building, and you were looking at the requirement for the lab instead of the power generator, and on top of that you didn't cancel the useless workshop but the satellite uplink. God i hope the rest of the episode goes better

edit: and you rebuilt the same uplink wasting money and time for no reason whatsoever; put the grenade launcher on the melee/fast running mech and dismissed dona tello and gita, and i'm not even 12 minutes in. Vinny, for the love of everything that is holy, please find a few minutes to go study the basics before the episodes to stop the madness

Thanks the gods of every pantheon existing for saving hero Swery...

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I don't care what happens in the rest of this episode, Alex' intro has already made this one a winner.

VERY QUICK EDIT: Nooooooooo! You do NOT require power to build power. You were hovering over the gosh darn laboratory! The power station was LIT UP indicating you could build it!

I just.. Had to get that out, I apologize.

But also, you could have just built the better Elerium power station and saved space and money.

Second Edit: I give up.. I just.. No, I give up on everything. You dismissed your soldiers, removing them entirely from your game rather than simply not sending them on the mission.

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this episode is maximum ryckert and i'm loving every second.

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It's quite apparent the team doesn't know "Yellow" shield icon meaning you are being flanked.

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lmfao dan god bless you for existing

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I am amazed that my head did not literally explode during the first 15 minutes of this. That was a hell of a thing.

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He's a loose cannon but goddammit he gets results!

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MENDOZAAAAAAAAA!