Woolie spitting the hard truths. We have limited time, energy, and talent. You have to weigh the costs and benefits of shit you do, because you can't do it all.
The Elders and ADVENT guide humanity to a better future in the galaxy. Woolie saw the right ways of being a loyalist. Traitors are those who dare to defy the greatest moment in our history. Congratulations with 20th anniversary of Unification Day!
I love how the story is XCOM is back so they let the world know by blowing up the statue. The humans who hate ADVENT cheer all over the world. Immediately XCOM shits the bed and rolls around in the shit bed for months as the resistance around them burns to the ground.
“Commander, the enemy has rendered the Sun invisible. Since we have recently run out of ammunition, I suggest we begin erratically screaming at the skies to combat this new threat.”
This is still by far my favorite playthrough of theirs. The gradual transition from cautious optimism to blind panic to crippling, existential despair, all backed up by Literal Race Traitor Woolie, is just fucking hilarious and amazing.
I played the first one, and even there on easier settings I feel like the hit percentage on shots is an outright lie and the actual percentage is about 75% the shown percentage.
Logan Wright Playing XCOM on higher difficulties is like playing against a the D'Arby brothers combined. One side plays the video game while the other probably has debug controls.
I'm a big enough fan that I went through all the original videos, averaged all the hit percentages that the game reported to Pat, and then compared them to his actual hit percentage. Believe it or not, he actually hit a few percentage points higher than the game told him he would (like 72% vs. 70%). XCom has this big psychological effect because it creates so much anxiety and raises the stakes so high that you feel like you're owed every 70% shot, because that's "probably" going to hit. But if every 70% shot hit, it'd be 100%. Nearly 1 out of 3 have to miss for that stat to be accurate. But everyone feels cheated when that one shot misses.
Everyone on the mission dies and the objective wasn't completed. "That could have gone WAY worse!" Pat, there was literally no way in which it could have gone worse.
@@chandlerh2408Honestly, losses in games where it drags on and on and gives you false hope before you realize a game has stolen like an hour of your time and you made no progress? That's a true loss
36:00 Like, what must this sectoid be thinking? The first human runs up to a window, fires through the glass without breaking it, and misses. The second human runs right up, literally jamming her barrel into its mouth, and also misses.
I swear I've watched every compilation on this channel at least twice but this one, goddamn this one... this is easily the seventh time I just love this and keep coming back. Thank you for this..
It's amazing how much of this playthrough boiled down to going like Pat: "Well this is only like a 50% shot but it's the best I can get" Liam: "Wait wouldn't it be way better if you went here and did this and got a better shot AND were in better cover?" Pat: "Yeah, well, I uhhhh, *does his original plan anyways and fails* Oh wow this game is just too hard"
56:40 i just love the thought processes of the aliens here. Elder: so..... we're like 8 days from creating god units that have the power to crush planets and the enemy hasnt done shit for a month.... i think we win guys. Elder 2: NO! we must be absolutely sure! we must make even our weakest units stronger in case they have been secretely pulling resources into an almighty invasion. Elder: okay.... what do you suggest? Elder 2: you know those animals on earth similar to the Sneke's but small? Elder: ...... yeeaaaahhhh? Elder 2: well........ *cut to XCOM main base* Commander Pat: oh great! they're putting viper poison into their guns! oh awesome! that's just great....
56:25: "Commander, theses gloves have fingertips that work with your iPhone." Fucking SENDS me every single time. This is genuinely my favourite LP of all time, Christ.
My favorite part of this LP is how Woolie thinks that he'll be one of the guys to get cool shit instead of being sent to the furnace. It's like the Aliens are going like "YO WE GOT ALL THIS COOL SHIT BETTER GIVE IT TO UA-camRS"
'I've forgotten how to drink!' Naw, they didn't forget how to drink. What's far more likely is that they tipped the water bottle up towards their lips, and at the last second they jerked the bottle to the left and poured water all over themselves.
I started watching and heard that humanity somehow lost the war in the last game, I was wondering how. Then I saw the rest of the vide and went ‘...oh.’
Every time I feel I am getting too overconfident in XCOM2, I revisit this video remind myself of how total my failure can be. Also, sometimes I come here to laugh my ass off.
The irony is that humanity can only surpass the Elders and reach their ideals when they resist the Aliens. So this total subjugation is not just a failure for humanity, but also for the Aliens.
No. It isn't. This is what the Aliens wanted. That was the point. All the other races and aliens you fight are races they subjugated and tested to see if they could resist. They WANTED humanity to have something to compete against and strive to overcome, to force them to evolve.
Alexei Strife Uh... yes... that was what I said. Thanks for repeating? The only way that humanity reaches that next level is by defeating the other subjugated races. Ironically at that point humans are too strong to get controlled by the Elders. So their (the Elder's) ideal can't be reached if humanity doesn't resist and loses. And when the ideal is reached they get kicked off our planet anyway. My point was that Woolie the race traitor actually cheered for the failure of the Aliens in a way.
Yourson Isold ...No. It wasn't what you said. At all. " So this total subjugation is not just a failure for humanity, but also for the Ailiens." 'JUST A FAILURE.' Except it wasn't a failure.
Alexei Strife It was. Their goal wasn't to subjugate another useless race to enlist them into their army. The events that play out here are the same as for all those other failure races that are now just fodder for their army. What the Elders needed was for humans to "win". So this was one big failure. You don't seem to understand what I am saying and that you just paraphrased it.
Woolie's xenosympathy could be curbed pretty easily if anyone gave him almost any information about the aliens. "What if they gave us powers?" Yeah Woolie, you get the power of tastiness. When they reduce you into a nutritious slurry.
For REAL though, like if the deal was "people are turned into monsters" dude that's fine who cares make me 6 feet tall and turn me into a bug monster if I'm still mostly me and can use my gross bug flippers to use alien internet I don't give a shit, but that's NOT WHAT'S HAPPENING! PEOPLE ARE GETTING JUICED AND THEN THE JUICE IS USED TO GROW MONSTERS. THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT DEAL
That hard cut from Jackson and Jawahir managing to kill an ADVENT Trooper and Viper to the defeat screen with them both KIA was priceless. Things were finally looking up for XCOM then bam
Man, I'm not going to pretend Pat did anywhere near an excellent job in this series, but god damn it the game fucked him over really hard with all those bugs and shit hit percentages at point blank.
Ok, I'm reeeaaaally interested in this game. I'd flippin' love to play it, but I'm getting the same feeling I had watching Dark souls gameplay for the first time. I know there's a way to do it, I just can't see it.
dude, get it Its REALLY not as hard as pat makes it out to be, specially if you are playing on normal or easy and savescumming IS a viable strategy, even recommended for first timers who are having a particularly hard time with stuff. there are 2 awesome dlc for it (well, 2 dlc that matter, there is a third one that is only cosmetic stuff that is... not that good) and has an expansion coming that will add TONS of stuff there is no better time to get it.
Zachary Doyle I was playing Hard too, but those chrysalids can fuck you up man. And I love it, cause I get to use all the stupid shit I've invested on, like jet pack rockets.
Stand Name: Diamond Stank Destructive Power: A Speed: A Range: D Durability: B Precision: B Developmental Potential: C Description: Just Crazy Diamond, but really really stinky.
Gordinaus Lupenington de Loccia Sweden is bigger and older, thought. Even owned Norway until 1905. It became a country on the 7 of June 1905. Also compare Sweden's GDP ranking compared to Norway's.
For people in the comments who have an impression that the game is unfair - it's really not. Pat just made a bunch of bad decisions, and then switched to high-risk strategies that predictably failed. If you want to have a better impression of what the game is, check out Beagle or literally anyone who isn't Pat. Yeah, sometimes you'll miss that 90% shot. The key to winning in XCOM is that you have to be prepared for that. And the game gives you a bunch of ways to do that.
kugelblitz1918 I'd say it's extremely rough to go in blind though, or to play distracted, like they seem to be doing. This is definitely a game you can just hop in, press buttons and not get decimated
Don't forget this is the most unforgiving difficulty and mode they could have chosen. This makes even veterans second-guess every move they make. And Pat is just Pat, so...
Weren't there a couple of glitches that ended up having major consequences during the LP. Those are probably fixed and all and Pat is terrible. All the points made by kugelblitz are valid but still.....
There are a few things about the game that really are a bit unfair. The randomiser for shot percentages is often misleading at best (seriously, if you're at point blank range, literally one space away from an enemy, gun barrel pressed into their forehead, you should never, EVER miss), and there were points in this video where the game just didn't process properly. Not to absolve General Pattron here of all responsibility for his 'tactical genius', but in fairness, at least SOME of the clusterfucks weren't entirely self-inflicted.
Ah, I remember this catastrophe. To me, the most amusing part of this run is that Pat thinks he can extend the campaign by completing the Black Site. True, it would reduce Avatar Project Progress by 1 pip, but it would max out again very shortly afterward, and there would be no further accessible avenues to stop the countdown. This campaign was probably past the point of being salvageable by the end of March.
I just tried playing through LW2 and oh man is it ever a departure for vanilla XCOM2. You're absolutely right, by comparison the vanilla game is almost insultingly shallow. I know its kind've just a pipe dream but I would pay good money for them to give it a shot. Watching these guys fail so completely was just so goddamn funny and I think they even realized it. They were definitely having just as much fun laughing at themselves as we were.
long war? are you insane? Look at this playthrough. They cannot flank for shit and positioning means nothing. LW2 would be short and even more disappointing than this.
You found this playthrough disappointing? Different strokes I guess but I feel they are at their funniest when they just don't give a shit and are getting absolutely mashed by this game. And judging from the feedback, I feel a lot of people really enjoyed this playthrough. I'll grant you that if they play on Ironman it would be a very short playthrough, but I think it would be so entertaining watching them fail so completely all over again.
To be fair there WAS a glitch that was fucking with them. Hence the whole shitshow with Greta having a 45% chance at POINT BLANK WITH A GUN IN THE ALIEN'S FACE. Of course that also got fixed months ago, but whatever. We can still hope.
The current DLC is pretty meh anyway. We all know the real time for a proper XCOM 2 let's play is three years later after the expansion has come out and everyone's forgotten Woolie is a race traitor so he can do it again.
Woolie keeps asking about these cool things fromt eh aliens. Woolie, you would be KILLED, you don't become and Advent, the Advent are aliens transformed into super humans.
It's five years old and over an hour long and I've seen it start to finish a dozen times already and will see it a dozen more before the next new year, I love this collage of failure so fucking much
When this LP first came out, I watched the first episode and then dropped it. It was only after Pat mentioned the avalanche of mission failures and how they all compounded to create a brilliant Bad End that I picked it back up. Loved every second of it. XD
Woolie seems absolutely in love with this game's mechanics and gameplay, I don't blame him. It was like the most exciting board game I've ever played when I first tried it.
"xcom 1 didn't happen" ACTUALLY, the ending to xcom 2 confirms that it did happen, just that they said "fuck it, just send more" and i guess we couldn't handle more
"I got halfway through." No Pat you actually didn't. Once you grab the vial you have to face at least two additional waves of reinforcements but the game does not count them towards the total until they drop. The actual number of enemies at the blacksite is closer to twenty five.
This is easily one of my favorite LP'S from sbfp. After already being in an unwinnable situation with the odds HEAVILY against him, hearing Pat exclaim "oh great! They're putting viper poison into their guns!" Always makes me laugh uncontrollably.
I just finished this game and was wondering if they ever did a lp of this. thank you for this vid. Pat's panic Liam's subtle jabs and woolies betrayal and insane laughter are music to my ears
We really should tell Woolie to finish Xcom 2 on his stream. He never actually found out a lot about the Aliens goals and what really happens with Humanity based on that plan.
To be fair to Pat, while he did do some improper stuff, this game was totally fucked with bugs. There is no way point-blank shots could miss like that.
You guys are fucking hilarious I'm so glad my UA-cam autoplayed to find your videos while I was asleep. Waking up to 'That's too high end, im not able to grasp thar joke' was great
What have you got to say for yourself Commander?
-I tried super hard guys.
-Pat
"Losing means you shouldn't have tried" I actually spit out my coffee. Sometimes, Woolie hits the freaking bullseye
The lesson is never try
@@abyssalwolf "Never try, never fail." -Crank, Robots.
Woolie spitting the hard truths. We have limited time, energy, and talent. You have to weigh the costs and benefits of shit you do, because you can't do it all.
This coming from the dude that plays fighting games
Woolie the Collaborator Stole My Planet.
*NO NOT MY PLANET MADE ENTIRELY OF PIES!*
*as Woolie polishes the speakers human-leather boots with his tongue*
Woolie providing technology innovations was fucking gold.
"Commander, the gloves let you keep your hands warn while you play on your Ipad."
I love hearing Woolie's gradual heel-turn into a literal race traitor
The Elders and ADVENT guide humanity to a better future in the galaxy. Woolie saw the right ways of being a loyalist. Traitors are those who dare to defy the greatest moment in our history. Congratulations with 20th anniversary of Unification Day!
What the hell do you mean by "gradual?" Woolie was a turncoat from the start.
Xenosympathizer Woolie stole my blood.
What do you mean gradual? Less than 8 minutes into the video Woolie was talking about, "better humans".
Flames Baldwin i mean i would too with a commander like pat.
I love how the story is XCOM is back so they let the world know by blowing up the statue. The humans who hate ADVENT cheer all over the world. Immediately XCOM shits the bed and rolls around in the shit bed for months as the resistance around them burns to the ground.
and then Advent rebuilds the statue as a final fuck you
@@KaptinScuzgob no, they mind-control Xcom and make you rebuild it.
@@KaptinScuzgob just a foot taller and in gold this time
@@treefingers6572 with a giant sign saying "we take those".
@@bearandthebull2372 And then they force XCOM to blow up the little human statue next to it.
I love the sound of despair when Pat keeps getting events but can't respond due to no soldiers. It's so perfect.
"Commander, they have harnessed THE SUN itself. The Sun itself is now a unit that they can send into battle. I suggest we start shooting at the Sun."
Commander, we ran out of live rounds to use on the sun, but I did find this stapler in my desk drawer.
Commander, the terrain here appears to have been mirrored improperly, perhaps we have a way to overcome the enemy sun.
“Commander, the enemy has rendered the Sun invisible. Since we have recently run out of ammunition, I suggest we begin erratically screaming at the skies to combat this new threat.”
Commander, we appreciate that you tried Super Hard, but everybody is dead. We have nobody to actually fire the guns at the sun. We must do better.
I almost couldn't breathe from how hilarious this whole thread was.
This is still by far my favorite playthrough of theirs. The gradual transition from cautious optimism to blind panic to crippling, existential despair, all backed up by Literal Race Traitor Woolie, is just fucking hilarious and amazing.
Oh god you don't even get seven minutes in before Woolie's xenosympathy kicks in.
Yeah I forgot how annoying that was. SELL OUT THE HUMANS FOR ALIENS.
But Jetpacks.
If the aliens give me cool shit, I dont care if they raze a dozen cities in the process.
- Woolie Madden
Woolie knows a winner when he sees one.
vlad stronsy
Woolie would totally become a Cyberman if given the chance
I love how for operation winter slap you showed them doing well and being optimistic, then cut right to the mission failure screen
Literal Race Traitor Woolie is the best goddamn thing
Here's what I know about the X-com games:
"This game HATES you, it's AI has consciousness and despises YOU"
The second game punishes you even harder than the previous for your mistakes.
I played the first one, and even there on easier settings I feel like the hit percentage on shots is an outright lie and the actual percentage is about 75% the shown percentage.
Sounds like Darkest Dungeon.
Logan Wright
Playing XCOM on higher difficulties is like playing against a the D'Arby brothers combined. One side plays the video game while the other probably has debug controls.
I'm a big enough fan that I went through all the original videos, averaged all the hit percentages that the game reported to Pat, and then compared them to his actual hit percentage. Believe it or not, he actually hit a few percentage points higher than the game told him he would (like 72% vs. 70%). XCom has this big psychological effect because it creates so much anxiety and raises the stakes so high that you feel like you're owed every 70% shot, because that's "probably" going to hit. But if every 70% shot hit, it'd be 100%. Nearly 1 out of 3 have to miss for that stat to be accurate. But everyone feels cheated when that one shot misses.
"moderate to highly skilled commander" mkay Pat
A good commander always blames his troops for failed missions, right?
First mission. Turn 3. "We've been spotted!"
Everyone on the mission dies and the objective wasn't completed. "That could have gone WAY worse!"
Pat, there was literally no way in which it could have gone worse.
Goblin Rat they could have won and given pat false hope
at least the ship got back to base...
Let the man cope, dude!
It could’ve taken longer, that’s really all I got
@@chandlerh2408Honestly, losses in games where it drags on and on and gives you false hope before you realize a game has stolen like an hour of your time and you made no progress? That's a true loss
36:00 Like, what must this sectoid be thinking? The first human runs up to a window, fires through the glass without breaking it, and misses. The second human runs right up, literally jamming her barrel into its mouth, and also misses.
Senator Painis "This is why you lost" Im thinking...
He thinks: "Are you kidding me? Are you THAT terrible at shots!?"
"We could replace our army with cardboard cut outs and you'd still manage to miss and get yourself killed."
"It's free real estate."
"No point in trying to make her shoot herself I guess."
I think its telling that most of the kills were achieved by soldiers that were panicked, aka not under pat's direction
Woolie reveals his species traitor ways, going even further than his original Zeon apologist terms, to full on alien sycophant.
Don't trust Woolie the Xenosympathizer. He will lie to you constantly.
and steal your earth-pies for his alien overlords.
but snek, though
I swear I've watched every compilation on this channel at least twice but this one, goddamn this one... this is easily the seventh time I just love this and keep coming back. Thank you for this..
I really appreciate that, thank you.
This isn't be any means my favourite LP, but I do think this is one of the better-compiled compilation. You did a great job, thanks!
"That is the most ridiculous miss I have ever seen."
Gretta: "Hold my beer."
It's amazing how much of this playthrough boiled down to going like
Pat: "Well this is only like a 50% shot but it's the best I can get"
Liam: "Wait wouldn't it be way better if you went here and did this and got a better shot AND were in better cover?"
Pat: "Yeah, well, I uhhhh, *does his original plan anyways and fails* Oh wow this game is just too hard"
That was the slowest, messiest and most deliberate train crash I've ever seen.
After everyone has died horribly, Pat says, "this could have gone wayyy worse."
They could have wiped in one turn FEWER than they did.
Current mood: Woolie laughing and crying, saying "What, pray tell, is a DARK EVENT?!"
STAY INDOORS.
to be fair, brutal cascading failure makes for better commentary.
Pat: "NO NO NO NO NOOO..." the LP
11:38
56:40 i just love the thought processes of the aliens here.
Elder: so..... we're like 8 days from creating god units that have the power to crush planets and the enemy hasnt done shit for a month.... i think we win guys.
Elder 2: NO! we must be absolutely sure! we must make even our weakest units stronger in case they have been secretely pulling resources into an almighty invasion.
Elder: okay.... what do you suggest?
Elder 2: you know those animals on earth similar to the Sneke's but small?
Elder: ...... yeeaaaahhhh?
Elder 2: well........
*cut to XCOM main base*
Commander Pat: oh great! they're putting viper poison into their guns! oh awesome! that's just great....
commander pat hasn't come out of his room for 3 weeks.
Informer Woolie is rolling on the floor laughing hysterically while Engineer Liam just shakes his head in disbelief.
11:00 "Everybody's overwatching."
Pat predicts the future.
AND IT SUCKS!
and mercy is bad now as well as competitive being a joke
Jerry McGhoulberry As does your opinion but that don't make it a fact sonny boy.
Nowadays, most are HaterWatching . . .
. . . im funny i swear.
I still find it amazing how fast i went from loving to loathing that game.
"Im getting a berserker type vibe from this" -Woolie on the Faceless
Oh man you dont even KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
56:25: "Commander, theses gloves have fingertips that work with your iPhone." Fucking SENDS me every single time. This is genuinely my favourite LP of all time, Christ.
“But only if you press *REALLY* hard on your screen”
Pat's mega failure did inspire me to buy a copy. Damn this game makes me nervous...
How did it go?
Please tell me you breezed through it with pure incredulity
I watched this then realized I got it for free months ago
My favorite part of this LP is how Woolie thinks that he'll be one of the guys to get cool shit instead of being sent to the furnace.
It's like the Aliens are going like "YO WE GOT ALL THIS COOL SHIT BETTER GIVE IT TO UA-camRS"
“Before we start this video, I wanna give a quick shout out to our sponsor, Advent!”
Something about "They're putting Viper poison into their guns!" is the funniest fuckin' thing to me.
'I've forgotten how to drink!'
Naw, they didn't forget how to drink. What's far more likely is that they tipped the water bottle up towards their lips, and at the last second they jerked the bottle to the left and poured water all over themselves.
The Race Wars started here.
I started watching and heard that humanity somehow lost the war in the last game, I was wondering how.
Then I saw the rest of the vide and went ‘...oh.’
I mean, losing a war against a foe with technological superiority in every field isnt much a surprise.
No matter how hard I wish, that final run to the vial never changes
Every time I feel I am getting too overconfident in XCOM2, I revisit this video remind myself of how total my failure can be. Also, sometimes I come here to laugh my ass off.
Greta may not have been to be the first to try, but she was definitely the first to die
X-Com.
The only game franchise where "I *only* have 95% chance of hitting" will be uttered.
Turns out, guaranteed shots absolutely exist
“Commander we no longer have to lace our boots, we have velcro now” 👨🏼🔬🧑🔬
The irony is that humanity can only surpass the Elders and reach their ideals when they resist the Aliens. So this total subjugation is not just a failure for humanity, but also for the Aliens.
No. It isn't. This is what the Aliens wanted. That was the point. All the other races and aliens you fight are races they subjugated and tested to see if they could resist. They WANTED humanity to have something to compete against and strive to overcome, to force them to evolve.
Alexei Strife
Uh... yes... that was what I said. Thanks for repeating?
The only way that humanity reaches that next level is by defeating the other subjugated races. Ironically at that point humans are too strong to get controlled by the Elders. So their (the Elder's) ideal can't be reached if humanity doesn't resist and loses. And when the ideal is reached they get kicked off our planet anyway.
My point was that Woolie the race traitor actually cheered for the failure of the Aliens in a way.
Yourson Isold ...No. It wasn't what you said. At all.
" So this total subjugation is not just a failure for humanity, but also for the Ailiens."
'JUST A FAILURE.'
Except it wasn't a failure.
Alexei Strife
It was. Their goal wasn't to subjugate another useless race to enlist them into their army. The events that play out here are the same as for all those other failure races that are now just fodder for their army.
What the Elders needed was for humans to "win". So this was one big failure.
You don't seem to understand what I am saying and that you just paraphrased it.
That is a plot point that was added after humans failed.
49:05 just cracks me up everytime, woolie's laugh is amazing
Woolie's xenosympathy could be curbed pretty easily if anyone gave him almost any information about the aliens.
"What if they gave us powers?"
Yeah Woolie, you get the power of tastiness. When they reduce you into a nutritious slurry.
For REAL though, like if the deal was "people are turned into monsters" dude that's fine who cares make me 6 feet tall and turn me into a bug monster if I'm still mostly me and can use my gross bug flippers to use alien internet I don't give a shit, but that's NOT WHAT'S HAPPENING! PEOPLE ARE GETTING JUICED AND THEN THE JUICE IS USED TO GROW MONSTERS. THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT DEAL
That hard cut from Jackson and Jawahir managing to kill an ADVENT Trooper and Viper to the defeat screen with them both KIA was priceless. Things were finally looking up for XCOM then bam
Man Pat and Liam had really good chemistry together honestly. Especially in the MGSV LP. Sucks the "troubles" occurred lol
Man, I'm not going to pretend Pat did anywhere near an excellent job in this series, but god damn it the game fucked him over really hard with all those bugs and shit hit percentages at point blank.
Melee hits through the fucking walls too.
He only encountered one actual bug as far as I could tell, and his RNG was actually pretty damn good at times, especially in that final mission.
But it was TERRIBLE most other times. To the point of I don't even see how it's possible to have completed some of these missions.
Ok, I'm reeeaaaally interested in this game. I'd flippin' love to play it, but I'm getting the same feeling I had watching Dark souls gameplay for the first time. I know there's a way to do it, I just can't see it.
dude, get it
Its REALLY not as hard as pat makes it out to be, specially if you are playing on normal or easy
and savescumming IS a viable strategy, even recommended for first timers who are having a particularly hard time with stuff.
there are 2 awesome dlc for it (well, 2 dlc that matter, there is a third one that is only cosmetic stuff that is... not that good)
and has an expansion coming that will add TONS of stuff
there is no better time to get it.
It's thanks to this playthrough that I even tried Xcom Enemy Unknown.
Probably one of the best motherfucking strategy games I've ever played. No joke.
Zachary Doyle
The chrysalid level was so good I was savescumming 90% of the time.
+Purvdragon-sensei I was playing Normal. I tried Hard. Kinda stopped enjoying the game.
Zachary Doyle
I was playing Hard too, but those chrysalids can fuck you up man. And I love it, cause I get to use all the stupid shit I've invested on, like jet pack rockets.
+Purvdragon-sensei Higher difficulties just broke my immersion is all. Don't think about it too much.
FUCKING INSECTS EVERYWHERE
It's been a while since I've played XCOM 2, and I COMPLETELY forgot that "stank" was a potential word in the randomly generated mission names
34:24 Operation Diamond Stank
Stand Name: Diamond Stank
Destructive Power: A
Speed: A
Range: D
Durability: B
Precision: B
Developmental Potential: C
Description: Just Crazy Diamond, but really really stinky.
36:25 Ok, now I'm convinced that the game is cheating so it won't lose to Pat.
Nah Pat was just
Really really bad lol
Norway and Sweden are the same country, confirmed by Liam.
The kids call it "Noju"
Gordinaus Lupenington de Loccia Sweden is bigger and older, thought. Even owned Norway until 1905. It became a country on the 7 of June 1905. Also compare Sweden's GDP ranking compared to Norway's.
I remember when Liam said that the dutch stage in tekken tag 2 is swedish. He's not really good at this.
Joakim People make geographical mistakes all the time.
A lot of people still say that Brazilians speak Spanish, so...
For people in the comments who have an impression that the game is unfair - it's really not. Pat just made a bunch of bad decisions, and then switched to high-risk strategies that predictably failed. If you want to have a better impression of what the game is, check out Beagle or literally anyone who isn't Pat. Yeah, sometimes you'll miss that 90% shot. The key to winning in XCOM is that you have to be prepared for that. And the game gives you a bunch of ways to do that.
kugelblitz1918 I'd say it's extremely rough to go in blind though, or to play distracted, like they seem to be doing. This is definitely a game you can just hop in, press buttons and not get decimated
Don't forget this is the most unforgiving difficulty and mode they could have chosen. This makes even veterans second-guess every move they make. And Pat is just Pat, so...
Weren't there a couple of glitches that ended up having major consequences during the LP. Those are probably fixed and all and Pat is terrible. All the points made by kugelblitz are valid but still.....
There are a few things about the game that really are a bit unfair. The randomiser for shot percentages is often misleading at best (seriously, if you're at point blank range, literally one space away from an enemy, gun barrel pressed into their forehead, you should never, EVER miss), and there were points in this video where the game just didn't process properly.
Not to absolve General Pattron here of all responsibility for his 'tactical genius', but in fairness, at least SOME of the clusterfucks weren't entirely self-inflicted.
This is basically just a "watch Pat play a game like a stupid asshole" LP.
Ah, I remember this catastrophe. To me, the most amusing part of this run is that Pat thinks he can extend the campaign by completing the Black Site. True, it would reduce Avatar Project Progress by 1 pip, but it would max out again very shortly afterward, and there would be no further accessible avenues to stop the countdown. This campaign was probably past the point of being salvageable by the end of March.
...I think I've come back to watch this at least once a month since it came out. Nice work, Mr. President.
Same here. I was flying across the country and i downloaded this video just so i could watch it on the plane.
Watching this and crying that we’ll never get LPs like this again.
Funniest part is when he says "Highly skilled commander"
36:25: humans DESERVE to go extinct after that
This is by far the best compilation. Just an hour of pure, unadulterated, concentrated cascade failure.
They need, NEED to take another crack at XCOM 2; preferably with Long War 2. This was honestly one of their funniest playthroughs in a long time.
I just tried playing through LW2 and oh man is it ever a departure for vanilla XCOM2. You're absolutely right, by comparison the vanilla game is almost insultingly shallow.
I know its kind've just a pipe dream but I would pay good money for them to give it a shot. Watching these guys fail so completely was just so goddamn funny and I think they even realized it. They were definitely having just as much fun laughing at themselves as we were.
This was suffering.
long war? are you insane? Look at this playthrough. They cannot flank for shit and positioning means nothing. LW2 would be short and even more disappointing than this.
They should play the easiest difficulty of LW1. I think if they apply themselves, they can do it.
You found this playthrough disappointing? Different strokes I guess but I feel they are at their funniest when they just don't give a shit and are getting absolutely mashed by this game.
And judging from the feedback, I feel a lot of people really enjoyed this playthrough.
I'll grant you that if they play on Ironman it would be a very short playthrough, but I think it would be so entertaining watching them fail so completely all over again.
X-COM 2 has two new DLCs.
Restart of the Super Best Freinds lets play when?
Bother Pat on Twitter. I think he was waiting for a patch that worked on the percentages for attacks.
That's some hilarious salt right there
"I think he was waiting for a patch that worked on the percentages for attacks."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh Christ... My sides... The salt is real.
To be fair there WAS a glitch that was fucking with them. Hence the whole shitshow with Greta having a 45% chance at POINT BLANK WITH A GUN IN THE ALIEN'S FACE.
Of course that also got fixed months ago, but whatever. We can still hope.
The current DLC is pretty meh anyway. We all know the real time for a proper XCOM 2 let's play is three years later after the expansion has come out and everyone's forgotten Woolie is a race traitor so he can do it again.
Holy shit 100K views! Thanks to all of you for continuing to enjoy this compilation and sharing it with your friends.
And here I am, watching it for the 3rd time because I love this LP so much.
Thank YOU for making this compilation!
Woolie keeps asking about these cool things fromt eh aliens.
Woolie, you would be KILLED, you don't become and Advent, the Advent are aliens transformed into super humans.
you're missing the point he would rat so hard they'd reward him.
@@kurtking8046 jesus that's even worse lmao
Woolie seems like the kinda person who would fall to tau propaganda
Gavin Semple Honestly, they could come right out and say "we want to fuck humanity over, literally and figuratively", and he'd still be on board.
for the greater good we will conquer the woolie hole
Gavin Semple The Eye of Terror?
@@Reqqqqqs Only if they offer him a jetpack.
Better than falling for Imperial propaganda I guess.
Pat only succeeded in vandalizing a statue. Mankind's last hope was just Bart Simpson.
12:25 It didn't bug out (well, visually it did, but not in gameplay). Pat threw a grenade and didn't check to see if it would actually hit anyone.
This LP really encapsulates the mood of 2020, despite having taken place years prior to it.
Rewatching this video I adore how much fun Woolie sounds like he's having.
I love how deliciously garbage pat is at this game
It doesn't help his passive is "Worst Luck"
Is he just as bad as DSP in XCOM 1?
Now that's unfair.
he's worse
It's five years old and over an hour long and I've seen it start to finish a dozen times already and will see it a dozen more before the next new year, I love this collage of failure so fucking much
Honestly, this LP, the LA Noire LP, and God of War, it has kept me sane and with good humor all of this 2020.
When this LP first came out, I watched the first episode and then dropped it. It was only after Pat mentioned the avalanche of mission failures and how they all compounded to create a brilliant Bad End that I picked it back up.
Loved every second of it. XD
Woolie seems absolutely in love with this game's mechanics and gameplay, I don't blame him. It was like the most exciting board game I've ever played when I first tried it.
I want to protect Woolie laugh its too pure for this world
2020, and I remember Babatunde like it was yesterday
This is one of the few games where losing can be as fun as winning
The entire world is currently stuck in Dark Events damn they predicted the future lol
Oh no. The space invaders are gonna summon gods and take over the world.
The thing to remember about Snek? Those are poison glands.
*I have realised my mistake.*
But that poison could fill a D-cup though...
Ahhh that makes more sense now
I think this had the most potential as an lp. Only seven episodes but it had me in tears of laughter
The compilation sums up the experience perfectly
Oh my god. Oh my god it's been SO LONG since i've watched their old stuff that I didn't recognize Liam's voice for a second.
He appears a few times in Matt's channel nowadays.
I come back to this video like once a month. Truly a gift from the Xeno crew.
"xcom 1 didn't happen" ACTUALLY, the ending to xcom 2 confirms that it did happen, just that they said "fuck it, just send more" and i guess we couldn't handle more
My favorite headcanon is every xcom 1 run ever is just another simulation in the commanders brain
"I got halfway through."
No Pat you actually didn't. Once you grab the vial you have to face at least two additional waves of reinforcements but the game does not count them towards the total until they drop. The actual number of enemies at the blacksite is closer to twenty five.
Such a wonderful failure
This is easily one of my favorite LP'S from sbfp. After already being in an unwinnable situation with the odds HEAVILY against him, hearing Pat exclaim "oh great! They're putting viper poison into their guns!" Always makes me laugh uncontrollably.
I just finished this game and was wondering if they ever did a lp of this. thank you for this vid. Pat's panic Liam's subtle jabs and woolies betrayal and insane laughter are music to my ears
This is by far one of their best LPs ever
"Tactically Naked"
lol
Man, Woolie is makinge angry in this one. You don't get a jetpack, wallrun, psionics, superjump or anything. You get turned into Soulent Green.
His video is also known as Pat's "This is the worst possible scenario" simulator
_XCOM soldier loses 1 hp to a paper cut:_ *GRAVELY WOUNDED OMG WHAT EVEN??!!!1!!1!!!!!!!!!*
52:50 funniest part is the whole "human instrumentality" thing actually has some relevance in game
The fact that the "cascade failure" starts with the fucking title card is the best.
Fun fact. Iron man or no, no matter the difficulty, the enemy WILL pursue you on the Blacksite, even when you are in stealth.
We really should tell Woolie to finish Xcom 2 on his stream. He never actually found out a lot about the Aliens goals and what really happens with Humanity based on that plan.
This game really made me want to buy a copy of XCom 2 just to not fail and actually see how the story develops. This game looks awesome.
Every time I have a bad day I replay "Greta's Day Out" and feel better about life.
To be fair to Pat, while he did do some improper stuff, this game was totally fucked with bugs. There is no way point-blank shots could miss like that.
It depends exactly how far you are, because technically speaking, there's a certain range from which getting closer actually makes it harder to aim.
Did Pat ever learn how flanking works?
You guys are fucking hilarious I'm so glad my UA-cam autoplayed to find your videos while I was asleep. Waking up to 'That's too high end, im not able to grasp thar joke' was great