Let's Play X-COM Enemy Unknown. With CDN characters (Warning, screenshots)

Let's Play X-COM Enemy Unknown, CDN Edition.
(Classic Ironman Run)



Episode 1: <Think of catchy title later>




Right, well, haven't actually done this right before, and I have no clue why they put me in

charge of this ragtag bunch of misfits, but it seems like we're dealing with an invasion of

aliens. I have one rule as leader of XCOM. Aliens are to be killed.

Here's a picture of what we're dealing with:



See? Hideous looking things. Like they took my childhood viewing of ET and decided to just

carve up that memory.

Luckily I have the best team of advisors in our Underground Base.



That's Central Intelligence Bradford. He's responsible for getting all the tactical

information to you numbnuts so you don't die.



This German Scientist is the head of our research department. Make sure you stop by and thank

her for researching whatever you find.




This is Dr. Shen, our head of engineering. He'll be making all of your equipment.



In fact, they just made this medpack for you all. One of you will have to bring it with you

on the mission.


Speaking of missions, we had one mission already. It ended better than I expected from you

rookies, but we still lost one.

And now the three survivors are demanding reconstructive facial surgery. And name changes.

...

I'm too nice a commander, I'll give it to them.


Squaddie Samuel Barnham, Welcome to X-COM. You performed admirably on your first mission and

killing that one alien. I'm not sure why your government sent you to represent Japan, but

we'll figure that out later.

I've noticed you have a specialization with heavy weapons. There's a rocket launcher waiting

for you in the armory. Don't blow things up in the base.




Squaddie William Lanning... I've noticed your eye for detail and accuracy. You have what

it takees to be a Sniper. Here, take the rifle and make sure you shoot for the head.




And.... Squaddie Aleksander Harris... Your profile says you're British.... why are you wearing an American Flag? Ah, yes... family there, I see. You're our Medic. You get to use the medkit.




And we hired a batch of rookies... people to take your place if you happen to kick the bucket. Or get injured.

Nikolai Aleksanders.



Alex Fenn.



Juhani Alavirta

... who apparently did not show up for his identification picture, that will be there in the next entry, I'll make sure of it.

Jesse Wyatt



Haseri Uldir



Everett Maliszewski



and Icarus Belraus



If we weren't receiving funding from a number of countries, I'd say that having a single woman in our team is affrimative action. We will get more female soldiers when we have the funds to hire them.


Let's take a quick look at the base.



We have side view cameras that let us see from this angle... Wait... how much funding is our project receiving per month? 90 credits. What the heck is a credit? It must be some unit of measurement. 90 per month. Oh, one hundred per month but we're spending ten on maintenance.

That's okay we're under budget.... but we need more funds.


Okay, I'll head to Mission Control... and wait.





Now all we do is wait for something to happen.....





ALERT!




Alien abductions! If I weren't in charge of a secret multinational organization charged with keeping the alien threat away from places, I wouldn't be believing this!

Bradford: "Commander, there are three sites reporting simultaneous abductions. India, Canada, and Egypt."

Okay. So let's send teams to all three places and deal with the problem!


Bradford: "There's an issue with that, Commander. We only have the one Skyranger. So we have to go to only one of these places."

We don't have to go anywhere Bradford.

Bradford: "India is offering 200 credits of funding if we complete the mission there, Canada is offering-"

Wait, money? I like money. We're going to India. Well, we aren't going. Barnham, Lanning, Harris, and Aleksanders are going.




See? Going. Money.


Brief them on their way, Bradford.




Oh hey... the Skyranger has one of those cameras..

Bradford: We also have satellite imagery on the Abduction site. You will be able to give your tactical advice over communications.


Okay. So the mission's in India. And people are being abducted by aliens. So we're expecting the AO to be in a place where lots of people gather. Like a market... a mall, a town center....





.... A graveyard. A cemetery. Who are they abducting? The dead people?

Right, people, get to cover, this is going to be potentially silly.

Barnham, Lanning, go into Overwatch. You see movement, you shoot it.


Harris, advance... and...




You two missed. How could you miss?


Aleksanders, get to cover.

Now throw a grenade at that x-ray over there.



And the aliens are counter attacking.


Aleksanders, are you alright? (He was shot)

Harris, go heal him up. (He did)

Barnham, you use your grenade on that alien over there.




Nice shot there... but it's still up. Guess that's what you get for using a pistol, Lanning.


Barnham, it looks like that alien's linking his mind to someone else... kill him.



Nice shooting.

Okay... we're not done here... yet....

Lanning move forward and grenade that building.

Okay... now we're done.



Good job, you all made it through that alive, now come on home.


Bradford: "Sir, you should look at the Situation Room."

Right... I'm not sure what you want me to see....




Oh. Canada's not happy. At all.... and we're only being funded by Japan?

Bradford: "Sir, that is where we're based. And we have a satellite here."


Right. We're making more satellites. Pronto.

Right, so I'm going to be needing to be recruiting some more rookies soon, so sign up to fight the alien menace while you can!


I need several things from you when you join, for your Dossier, of course.


First Name:
Last Name:
Nickname:
Race: (White, Black, Asian, Hispanic)
Face (1-6)
Gender:
Hairstyle: (Pick a number 1-16 [1-12 and 16 are hairstyles, the others are helmets)
Hair Color
And for men: Facial hair (Pick a number 1-20)

We'll discover what you're good at and assign you a weapon. I do warn you... There is an extreme chance of death.


Thank you for applying to the X-COM project.

First Name: Peraxus
Last Name: Valant
Nickname: Sentinel/Grumpy
Race: Doesn't matter
Face: Ditto
Gender: Male
Hairstyle: Doesn't matter
Hair Colour: Ditto
Facial hair: None

First Name: Alex
Last Name: Parker
Nickname: Emo
Race: White
Face: Doesn't matter
Gender: Male
Hairstyle: There's one that looks a little Alistair-ish I noticed. But it doesn't matter.
Hair Colour: Black
Facial hair: None

Preferably, you would rename a Support dude to Peraxus and an Assault dude to Alex once they reach Squaddie, but otherwise that's fine.

First Name: Bintar
Last Name: Ranak
Nickname: 4Eyes
Race: Hispanic
Face : random
Gender: male
Hairstyle: Bald, if there are, if not helmet
Hair Color : well, bald, if possible
And for men: 1

First Name:Leon
Last Name:Douglas
Nickname:Hammerhead
Race: White
Face 3
Gender:M
Hairstyle: 10 or 15
Hair Color: white/grey (23 I think)
Facial hair: 4

Also had him at voice 4 and armor deco 2 if you got 'em. Would be good as Assault, but whatever the game gives is good too.

First Name: Kaleb
Last Name: Archer
Nickname: Arrow
Race: White
Face 5
Gender:M
Hairstyle:4
Hair Color: Black
Facial hair:6

Had him at voice 8. Good as a medic.

First name: Jen
Last name: Kreider
Nickname: Spider
Race: White
Face: 3
Gender: Female
Hairstyle: 11 or 12
Hair Color: Dark blonde, whichever number that is.
Also armor: Deco 1 Color 32

Damn, if there's one country close to breaking just after the first mission you're going to need to put just about every resource you have into getting satellites in orbit.

First Name: Marcus
Last Name: Lyons
Nickname: Lionheart
Race: White
Face 4
Gender: Male
Hairstyle: 4
Hair Color: Black
Facial Hair: 20

First Name: Addy
Last Name: Galeax
Nickname: Slick
Race: Asian
Face I have no idea
Gender: Female
Hairstyle: Anything that's not a helmet
Hair Color: black

Right, working on the next three episodes. (Gonna make each episode a mission)

I took 208 screens for the thing, and I want to make use of as many as possible, unless the mods tell me not to.

Posting as ProPom for this as Starlet'll be the one posting the actual episodes.

First name: Avera
Last name: Oscaius
Nickname: Grayeye
Race: Asian
Face: 1
Gender: Female
Hairstyle: 5
Hair color: Black

First name: Ekarn
Last name: Gaelak
Nickname: Deacon
Race: Black
Face: 3
Gender: Male
Hairstyle: 1
Hair color: Black
Facial hair: 7

First name: Raeta
Last name: Iral
Nickname: Sunrise
Race: Caucasian
Face 1
Gender: Female
Hairstyle: 3
Hair color: Red

Let’s Play X-COM Enemy Unknown

Episode 2: Operation Forgotten Vengeance



Hong Kong, China... yet our only satellite is over Japan. This does not make things good. Well, on the plus side, we’re working on two satellites, which we should be able to launch before the end of the month. That’s a good thing.

Time to wait for some more activity.



Hooray, done with Alien Materials.... Now, work on the weapon fragments.... More waiting....

ALERT!



Bradford! Send an Interceptor... I don’t care who has to pilot it, bring that ship down!

Bradford: “Aye-aye, Commander”



Bring it up on screen, I want to see how it’s doing.



Would you look at that? It shot it down! Good job, Pilot, you’ve earned a drink!

Right, there’s movement at the crash site. Harris, Barnham, Lanning, Alavirta, you’re on.



Tactical visuals on-screen... the Skyranger is landing.


Okay, so it crashed in the woods. Sun’s still up, you guys be careful.




Everyone, move into cover and go into Overwatch, if something’s moving out there, I want you to kill it. Understand?



Barnham: “There’s something out there... not human.”

No shit, Barnham, be careful.
Barnham move over to that cover....



Shit, be careful.... see if you can take them down.

Four of them over there, three you can see...





Everyone else, into Overwatch, let’s see what they’re doing.



No! Barnham! Okay, he’s still alive... Harris... see if you can make it over to heal him.



Harris: “That’s a negative, sir. He’s too far for me to heal him before the x-rays shoot me.”
Right, then shoot the alien you see.




It’s still up? What’s it wearing?

Alavirta, try to take it down!

Alavirta: “Damnit, I missed!”

Right. Harris, go stabilize Barnham.

Harris: Right, I-



Damnit. Harris is down.

Alavirta, Lanning, it’s up to you two. Let’s clear out the rest of the aliens so you can get home.



... Is that their ship?



Alavirta, take out that x-ray.



Wait.... What the hell is that thing?



Don’t go inside, you’ll be heading into a trap, lure it out.



Damn. Lanning, grenade.



Alavirta, finish it off.



Good job people, come on home.





Congratulations on your promotion to squaddie, Alavirta. Hopefully you’ll make a good sniper.

Right, let’s sell some of this crap on the gray market. Can’t research damaged goods.



And now a moment to honor the lost....



Hopefully our next mission will go better...

[End of Episode 2]

I think the phrase rhymes with "clucking bell".

You sacrificed your life for Sam Barnham, Serp, how do you feel?

First Name: Lyra
Last Name: Palmer
Nickname: Ripcord
Race: Hispanic
Face 2
Gender: Female
Hairstyle: 13
Hair Color: RED


First Name: Hailot
Last Name: Garrard
Nickname: Doctor
Race: Black
Face 4
Gender: Male
Hairstyle: 5
Hair Color: Black
And for men: Facial hair: 5

First Name: Raik
Last Name: Impera
Nickname: Emissary
Race: Asian
Face 6
Gender: Male
Hairstyle: 16
Hair Color: White
And for men: Facial hair 1

I'll take a guess at 'immensely disappointed'. :P

Anyways:

Name: [REDACTED]
Class: Shiv (any type)
....I'm unsure anything else is relevant, honestly. They're not exactly big on customization options.

Sadly, Shivs can't be renamed from what they are, nor can they be customized.

But Boy howdy are the useful.

We may be screwed... but I'm going to keep going until the Earth is saved or the Earth is lost. More episodes of CDN XCOM upcoming.

Also. I heard Dr. Vahlen is working on a cloning machine. Perhaps when we have exhausted all of our new recruits, we will be able to clone the good people.

Pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick...
*see Harris's body*
Ho you know what? It's your call really.