I think half of your problem is you're running everywhere. If you walk, you'll have more time to respond to the motion sensor. Also remember to "deactivate" suppression fire when you move away.
He seems to be terrified of "boring" his audience, which I don't get. Half the content on his channel is rather slow and turn-based. His subscribers love thoughtful, strategic gameplay. I wish he'd just take his time.
I like that. It's certainly correct, but will they always hit, or do Marines have a chance to dodge an attack? I'm just saying that the movies had plenty of close calls as well.
Leaves 1 soldier alone rummaging through a box while the rest are sent over 150 mtrs away to look at another instead of waiting together. Wonders why it all went wrong so fast.
To be fair, he's suffering from UA-camr mentality, where taking too long to make a move creates dead space on a video where viewers might stop watching. It tends to promote making impulsive decisions for interesting content. Not that I'm complaining 😁
@teelee9133 Yep. I'm certain this is playing into it. Also why he's pushed further than he strictly should have a couple times. Going back to base or resting too often is dead time. And I'm sure he wants to avoid that.
There really aren't many opportunities for cover, and you can only crouch when in cover. It's a really tricky system that makes advancing really hard. At least those are my observations from my time playing
On the other hand, Alien Isloation would be a cake walk for a squad of marines. A single alien for almost the entire game and you've got weapons that can blow it to pieces? Game's over right away.
This is why the calm moments are so tense and the enemy so terrifying, in both the films and the game - when things go bad they go _really_ bad, _really_ fast. Overconfidence may be a slow and insidious killer, but the xenos are lightning quick and right up in your face. And then suddenly it's quiet again, with the shell-shocked survivors trying to relax and recover knowing that every moment is just one small mistake away from total disaster. It's total hell, bro. I guess that's why they don't say 'war is like a Sunday picnic'.
You finally got punished for leaving a single marine behind checking crates and stuff. You really need to be more careful. Always keep the team together.
At 31:35 the tracker warns of an enemy infront of you and you just keep walking right into it. My dude, either avoid it or retreat and set up a kill zone instead of waiting to be rushed and then scrambling to set up suppressing fire or flamethrowers.
A Loot Goblin would be sneakier, they're clever little buggers. Facepalmed when he split the party again and again, felt like he wanted to feed the aliens
"Look here, Xenomorphs! I am alone! Abduct me!" ... And what is one of the horror movie rules? Don't. Split. Up. Aaaand... Don't say "I'll be back." - You'll die.
yeah that splitting up to save a few seconds and not deploying sentry guns when the motion tracker clearly screams at you with 3+ contacts is a bit mind boggling ngl
Your Dark Descent playthrough is the ONLY one that I watch due to your comprehensive XCOM experience and courage to play Hard difficulty right off the bat. 😄 You genuinely try to grasp everything, even the tutorial, and learn from your mistakes while exploring everything else if possible. Loving this series! ❤
Also, if you get spotted, don't deploy the Sentry turret as it reduces the firepower of your squad and is why that rookie died. Other than that, you're doing great man 😅
The rookie died because h chose to use an infested area as a bottle neck but what ended up happening is that one of his marined was grabbed by a Xeno and instantly dragged into a hole so there was no way to save the grabbed marine. Terrible spot to set up a perimeter really
Pretty certain you're supposed to set-up the sentry before getting into an engagement and not try to run into the xenomorphs unless you got some heavy firepower.
when i did the mines, i head 3 turrets and i set them up facing any motion signature, taking them back down and moving them as required. usually they would kill the alien when i was out of sight, preventing detection/hunted being triggered. remember, every time the aliens see you the Onslaught starts ticking closer, as does the difficulty level.
@@BernardLanghamamen to that, I didn't handle the mines the best my first run, ended up having to pull out with one marine nearly dead half way through. But I had set up a good sensor web across the section I had been at before hand
You always do this thing... sending a person far for loot, often into unknown space. You lost a dude cause of this, then not even 10 minutes later you repeat almost 100% exact thing :) And look at what happened just before the episode cut, again same exact thing :)
i wouldn't have set foot in the mine with the hive on Medium awareness and my entire squad ready to level. go back to the ship, level up, buy better weapons with the resources you harvested last episode, come back, profit.
@@BernardLangham Yep, mine feels like almost a new level, not just "another floor" of the same level + its just 2 objectives left, obviously its the last zone so better be prepared. On the other hand it wont be fun if Odd didnt lose anyone, right? :) So far Aliens feel a bit underpowered tbh, in the movies a single alien was extremly dangerous. It is a game so they cant do aliens as powerful as they are, but still feels a bit strange. But perhaps its just at first, in Xcom aliens are also easier at first and very easy closer to the end, guess we see what midgame looks like in Aliens. :)
@@BernardLangham On my run I collected so much ammo that it felt like a waste to extract. On one hand it helped me deal with neverending horde after defeating the Queen, on the other hand I had pushed the hive aggression to max and caught 3 levels of stress for that sweet instant trauma on my now highest level marines.
You need to use all your doctors each day. You can assign multiple doctors to the same guy to get them out early. You could have had your Gunner available for this Mission if you would have used your last doctor on him instead of just leave them in the medbay
I'm tuning in for this series odd its really fun I don't think ill get this game myself but watching you play this has been great. You got a way different playstyle than a lot of people playing this and im sure it will be a fun series. So far I'd say 9/10
Watching all of this gameplay makes it so much easier to stay focused. I started watching because this guy feels like the regular player. Picking up everything, making mistakes, being curious about mechanics. It’s the same way I would play, I really appreciate this style of gameplay.
When you run, it just makes the detection line go faster, so you really aren't farther ahead running. You need to keep your team together and plan your engagements. You need to treat every movement ping like your life depends on it, because it does. You need to set traps for the aliens and lure them into it. Even better is to do it without using your soldiers as it won't raise the threat meter. That means using sentry guns, mines, drones, fires, APC, etc. to kill aliens while hiding safely away with your team. FYI, sentry guns can be repaired over and over and over again, so there is literally no drawback to using them as the frontline and putting them in harms way. Overlapping fields of fire with sentry guns is amazing. Best is if you can get them literally facing each other from opposite sides. Your use of flares is really, really good. Keep that up. If you are engaging in face to face fights constantly, you aren't going to last long at all.
Wow. I have never found myself shouting at someone play a game before (I didn't actually shout out loud, but still), examples include: "Idiot! Don't use suppression fire at close range, use the shotgun!" "Idiot! Use the flamer." "Why dude, why? Why didn't you set up the sentries BEFORE the horde came. I felt like I wasn't very good at the game, but you made me feel like a master. But most importantly, your incompetence was highly, highly entertaining. You have earned a sub. Thankyou for the laughs I had.😅
Run's a single soldier over to loot a chest next to a patrolling drone while splitting the rest of the team off in the other direction... "It happened so QUICK!" 🤣
One thing I loved about the original is that we were t expecting the chest popper. When the first person had a facehugger, they brought it into the med bay, and saw that the facehugger would strangle the host if someone was trying to remove it. When it fell off on its own, they thought the threat was over. I think this could be in the game in some really neat ways. Getting caught by a facehugger would incapacitate the marine. Trying to remove the facehugger had a high (not 100%) chance of killing the marine. You could unlock tech to try removing it in the field and back at base There also could be ambiguity if a marine is carrying a xeno. (Until you unlock the tech). It would be terrifying if a marine collapsed mid mission to a chest popper. Or losing base staff to a chest popper at home.
Can't stop playing this game. Been wanting something like this for years. Every time I play, the tension to get back to the apc and avoid xeno's is real.
Yeah Odd that was a terrible set of misplays that caused your first marine loss. Sentry turrets need to be placed ahead of time, they take too much time to place in the heat of battle. And then you backed into a corner that was also an alien nest, so as soon as Nimble was vunerable they abducted the marine and moved and inch to the nest to despawn preventing rescue.
Odd, I'm absolutely loving this series! Keep up the good work man! Just some helpful tips though for you: 1. Meds can be used to heal both heath AND stress. Click on the Marine and there's an option to give them pills. Uses a med kit but drops stress by 100 so super helpful in a pinch. 2. You can click and drag the flamethrower, painting an area with fire. Use this to block doorways/hallways/choke points and force all the Aliens into the flames as they rush at you. 3. Spend the 30 resources to buy upgrades for your guys, especially the ones with roles! They get really strong upgrades (example, you can make the recon sniper rifle silenced) Hope you see these and can't wait to watch me!
Hey Odd! Cool series! You were wandering if your marine got abducted, he was. You’re getting in the habit of spreading your team to go loot boxes. It’s really not worth it. Run the whole team to the loot and loot once you’re sure no ambush is coming. Could you check the available upgrades on your troops even if you don’t buy them? Would like to see what’s available.
Another tip Commander..... in the medical quarters , you only had 2 injured Marines , but 3 intensive care Doctors available and you only used 2 of them, you can give the same Marine as many doctors you want up to the total number of Doctors you have , so in this example you could have done 2 and 1 = 3 , you did 1 and 1 = 2. Each Doctor removes 1 a day , so not using them is delaying your Marines getting back in action sooner :)
I'm lurking here until a certain part of the early game. As I can see Part 6 should have the one I want. This is going to be brutal, ehhm, fun, this is going to be fun.
12:40 VERY smart marines AI, the person that is assigned to do suppressive fire is also ordered to set up turret. And three other are just standing there, wtf.
Bro casually walks down a hallway with an entrance to the hive, a xenomorph picks up a marine and drags him into there, and then wonders what happened to him
Also constantly running everywhere ling distances with the camera away from his marines not watching them and wondering how he keeps getting spotted into a hunt.
I hated these mines! I was freaking out and my wife thought something terrible had happened. Very tense introduction to the game but I learnt a whole lot. I only just escaped. One good thing is the use of the mobile turrets is that when they fire, they don't alert any enemies so I ended up using them quite often.
Good stuff. Ok mate, we have to talk about two of your major mistakes so you can learn from them. 1. You don;t have a good control of your squad. Before issuing a loot order make sure your entire squad is in the vicinity of the loot object. Also you often give sprint commands and not follow your squad. There is a bindable key which focuses your camera on the squad leader (default Home). Gotta keep a better eye on your squad, mate. 2. You never use the tracker's distract noise. Trackers are basically free devices which only cost command points so you can pepper these throughout the levels. When you get detected, simply choose a tracker that is far away from your squad and engage the distraction noise. This way you can potentially send a few of the drones to the tracker leaving fewer drones to deal with.
I really think that this game makes human so OP with that motion tracker. It basically wall hack. Nothing can surprise you coz you know location of every enemy around you. And yet, Odd still manage to get the squad beaten up by just ignore this god power the game give him.
I found shotguns overwhelmingly more useful than grenades when shits about to hit the fan at those ranges. Sucks your guy got immediately grabbed and taken down that hole though
It'd be cool if it made a special boss alien. Like a pretorian or something out of a marine class human. Maybe even a dogtag for cinematic effect, not logical but cool factor.
@@davidevans7477I mean, Xenos are parasites that take their hosts DNA, why not have the tags snagged in a xenos teeth as it births? Also would be interesting to have the special xeno have a unique special trait.
@@davidevans7477 with how the alien lifecycle works it probably won't happen, but they could maybe instead have them turn into cultists? Potential to even save them from brainwashing maybe, but with the amount of non-lethal options we have available that might not be possible lol
The motion tracker is your eyes my friend, abuse what is given to you, or you will suffer. Also love you saying that about command points at the end and yet you burn through all of em so quickly in engagements, oh, also you can drag the flamethrowers reticule to make a wall of fire.
I noticed this game takes the conventional tropes of this genre and uses it against the player. Trope 1: move fast. You want to move fast because this is Aliens and they can come from anywhere. Reducing time on ground makes sense but the game do not throw random alien swarms and you know where the lone random aliens are from your scanner. You are more likely to trigger swarms while running around plus you can't fire while running plus the aliens moves alot faster than your marines. Solution: move normally. Trope 2: search every box and body. You need supplies plus this is standard gameplay. The spin is a random marine searches the boxes BUT the rest do not accompany the marine to the box. As comments below and I have noticed, you can have a marine run to a faraway box to search while the rest of the marines take a smoke break. Problem ... well this video shows how bad things can get as the lone marine triggers an ambush and the others are too far away to help. Solution: take the extra click to accompany your marine and try to search only one box at a time. Trope 3: Reactonary gameplay. Swarm attacks are not random so player can always prep for attack rather than react to an attack. The sentry gun is a great example ... it's free to setup and dismantle but it takes time and useless in CQB. Setting up a sentry gun when the swarm attacks is suicide as the swarm closes too quickly. By the time, the sentry gun is setup, the Aliens are on top of the squad and inside the sentry gun's dead zone. What is worse is you lose a marine's pulse rifle attack to setup what is a useless sentry gun. You are better off using suppressive fire, grenade launcher and shotgun close-in during those "surprise but not really surprise" swarm attacks. Solution: Always setup a defensible sentry gun position to fall back on just in case.
I'm just watching these now. It is stressing me out BADLY when you don't evac and take care of your poor Marines. You're not on a time limit (yet), level them up!
Loving the game, it's my goty. music, the way they make fan comments, but not too cringe like in other games, the difficulty, the weldings, the sounds, the gameplay, the stress of loosing marines on a bad call, and in the otherside if you are prepared you just crush the xenos, the cinematics, the univers. it's overall well rounded and only 30euros..! it's nice to see another point of view after doing the missions keep up 👍
Odd, watching you play is such a twist for me, because I love your commentary, but want to scream when you forget about things. Loving the play through, it's helping me prepare for my own when I can spare the money. Soldier Name: Damian Gerard
More motion sensors everywhere! They cost only one command point and can be used to create distractions around the map. I use motion sensors quite activelly to draw enemies away from where I am exploring, everything I can to avoid increasing the aggressiveness of the hive needlessly.
The game is not that tough but he is rushing it so it dose look tough when you just run threw levels . In this type of game you need to keep it slow , in cover , hide from the xenomorphs and only engage when it's in your favour and don't split your marines ..that was quite dumb . I don't judge the way he plays , everyone is free to play as they want to but like i said , this game is not that tough if you play it correctly
Hi been following ,ya gameplay I have just finished were you are here very tricky down below in mines troop died a few times , I like how you got to really think on ,troop as once gone there gone .but it tests you over careful drags to fast more risk but I love it keep in there ya awesome marine player
You can also use medkits to destress by clicking on your individual marines! Useful in places like the mines where you have no safe spaces. Drug up buttercup.
The save system seems kind of odd for this type of game. If you lose a squad member to a fight, what is stopping you from just running the rest of your squad to their deaths and restarting at that save?
You can't start a new map with a 'medium" threat level, you will die fast. Has nothing to do woth you running, and everything with the xeno's already being on alert to your presence.
Odd can i just say i appreciate the effort youre doing in making these videos entertaining. While yes this is not the "optimal way to play" the situations your marines get into are classsic horror movie tropes with alien thematics too it. You're literally checking every box in a horror film 😂😂
Odd your soldier was in fact abducted. I had to slow it down to see but they really scooped him up and walked away its sad but also a really cool feature 🤣
Love the dialog “they fought them with shovels that’s insane” other marine “ may as well shoots themselves”……if they had guns…..why would they need shovels?? Lol
I really liked when in the Aliens movie the aircraft was unfolding it's wings with rocket pads. Here it just flies all folded up and then shows up in the next scene in combat ready stance. Awfully wasted opportunity to make it look like absolute badass deployment scene.
I love it, splits the group, gets a marine killed, goes back and immediately splits them again to loot a body 🤣
I think half of your problem is you're running everywhere. If you walk, you'll have more time to respond to the motion sensor. Also remember to "deactivate" suppression fire when you move away.
He seems to be terrified of "boring" his audience, which I don't get. Half the content on his channel is rather slow and turn-based. His subscribers love thoughtful, strategic gameplay. I wish he'd just take his time.
@@MrPuch82 I HOPE Odd sees this comment!!!! 👆
I do like how squishy your marines are and that they cant just magically tank hits from a xenomorph
Yes. Makes it feel more faithful to the franchise and sticks more closer to the survival horror element I feel.
I like that. It's certainly correct, but will they always hit, or do Marines have a chance to dodge an attack? I'm just saying that the movies had plenty of close calls as well.
@psychobeam99 well so far as I've seen in my own playthrough, only those largely telegraphed lunges and charges, no close quarters attacks
@@benben3277 Ah. Gotcha. Good to know
Leaves 1 soldier alone rummaging through a box while the rest are sent over 150 mtrs away to look at another instead of waiting together. Wonders why it all went wrong so fast.
to be fair, it's horror film trope #1, so i guess... it's fine?
@@BernardLangham But..NEVER SPLIT THE PARTY- except if you wanna get rid of an annoying partymember
Yeah you see that in movies as well.
@@jjr5233sounds like a famous d&d session lol
This..... Why why why. Loot rummaging and panning around. Was so avoidable
Odd, you're too impatient when it comes to sneaking, TAKE your time to avoid unnecessary fights to have better chances of your squad staying alive.
He forgets that he is playing as the human, essentially the underdog in any Alien movie.
exactly
To be fair, he's suffering from UA-camr mentality, where taking too long to make a move creates dead space on a video where viewers might stop watching. It tends to promote making impulsive decisions for interesting content. Not that I'm complaining 😁
@teelee9133 Yep. I'm certain this is playing into it. Also why he's pushed further than he strictly should have a couple times. Going back to base or resting too often is dead time. And I'm sure he wants to avoid that.
@@teelee9133 I don't mind if Odd takes his time. This game seems to lean heavily on taking time to do things carefully than going in gun blazing.
You can assign more than one physician to a marine if you want to prioritise their recovery.
I came here to say this :p
Huh thats nice to know thanks I've just bought the game so can't wait to play
Odd, remember to CROUCH as you walk past Xenomorphs to avoid future conflicts. Oh, and use cover too 😅
There really aren't many opportunities for cover, and you can only crouch when in cover. It's a really tricky system that makes advancing really hard. At least those are my observations from my time playing
my man is sprinting everywhere, stealth isn't in the agenda here.
Wait what? The tutorial only showed crouch working behind cover. Does it work while moving too?
Team leader: (whispers) “Get away, it can see us!”
Team leader 3 seconds later: (screams) Double time!
These guys would be f$@&ed in Alien Isolation!
I turned off the movement dialogue on my playthrough
On the other hand, Alien Isloation would be a cake walk for a squad of marines. A single alien for almost the entire game and you've got weapons that can blow it to pieces? Game's over right away.
This is why the calm moments are so tense and the enemy so terrifying, in both the films and the game - when things go bad they go _really_ bad, _really_ fast. Overconfidence may be a slow and insidious killer, but the xenos are lightning quick and right up in your face. And then suddenly it's quiet again, with the shell-shocked survivors trying to relax and recover knowing that every moment is just one small mistake away from total disaster. It's total hell, bro. I guess that's why they don't say 'war is like a Sunday picnic'.
Gives a flamethrower to the Marine marked "clumsy" lol. Love it 🤣
You finally got punished for leaving a single marine behind checking crates and stuff. You really need to be more careful. Always keep the team together.
It wasn't a crate...
That would be the second time you got mauled for blindly sprinting through an infested area.
Respect for not just reloading after that loss, it makes the game so much more exciting to watch.
At 31:35 the tracker warns of an enemy infront of you and you just keep walking right into it. My dude, either avoid it or retreat and set up a kill zone instead of waiting to be rushed and then scrambling to set up suppressing fire or flamethrowers.
i know right he ignores the tracker like 80% of the time bloody tunnel vision
It gets frustrating to see it. Looking forward to him making more optimal plays instead of blundering all the time.
@@Lamadon_Pyreus Agree hope he has learned on the future episodes
Being a loot goblin is the number 1 cause of death in thos game from what I have seen so far.
Also try to always keep an eye on the onslaught timer.
I fucking love the term "Loot Goblin".
A Loot Goblin would be sneakier, they're clever little buggers. Facepalmed when he split the party again and again, felt like he wanted to feed the aliens
"Look here, Xenomorphs! I am alone! Abduct me!" ... And what is one of the horror movie rules? Don't. Split. Up. Aaaand... Don't say "I'll be back." - You'll die.
yeah that splitting up to save a few seconds and not deploying sentry guns when the motion tracker clearly screams at you with 3+ contacts is a bit mind boggling ngl
Your Dark Descent playthrough is the ONLY one that I watch due to your comprehensive XCOM experience and courage to play Hard difficulty right off the bat. 😄
You genuinely try to grasp everything, even the tutorial, and learn from your mistakes while exploring everything else if possible.
Loving this series! ❤
Also, if you get spotted, don't deploy the Sentry turret as it reduces the firepower of your squad and is why that rookie died. Other than that, you're doing great man 😅
The rookie died because h chose to use an infested area as a bottle neck but what ended up happening is that one of his marined was grabbed by a Xeno and instantly dragged into a hole so there was no way to save the grabbed marine. Terrible spot to set up a perimeter really
Pretty certain you're supposed to set-up the sentry before getting into an engagement and not try to run into the xenomorphs unless you got some heavy firepower.
when i did the mines, i head 3 turrets and i set them up facing any motion signature, taking them back down and moving them as required. usually they would kill the alien when i was out of sight, preventing detection/hunted being triggered. remember, every time the aliens see you the Onslaught starts ticking closer, as does the difficulty level.
@@BernardLanghamamen to that, I didn't handle the mines the best my first run, ended up having to pull out with one marine nearly dead half way through. But I had set up a good sensor web across the section I had been at before hand
You always do this thing... sending a person far for loot, often into unknown space. You lost a dude cause of this, then not even 10 minutes later you repeat almost 100% exact thing :) And look at what happened just before the episode cut, again same exact thing :)
i wouldn't have set foot in the mine with the hive on Medium awareness and my entire squad ready to level. go back to the ship, level up, buy better weapons with the resources you harvested last episode, come back, profit.
@@BernardLangham Yep, mine feels like almost a new level, not just "another floor" of the same level + its just 2 objectives left, obviously its the last zone so better be prepared. On the other hand it wont be fun if Odd didnt lose anyone, right? :) So far Aliens feel a bit underpowered tbh, in the movies a single alien was extremly dangerous. It is a game so they cant do aliens as powerful as they are, but still feels a bit strange. But perhaps its just at first, in Xcom aliens are also easier at first and very easy closer to the end, guess we see what midgame looks like in Aliens. :)
@@BernardLangham On my run I collected so much ammo that it felt like a waste to extract. On one hand it helped me deal with neverending horde after defeating the Queen, on the other hand I had pushed the hive aggression to max and caught 3 levels of stress for that sweet instant trauma on my now highest level marines.
You need to use all your doctors each day. You can assign multiple doctors to the same guy to get them out early. You could have had your Gunner available for this Mission if you would have used your last doctor on him instead of just leave them in the medbay
EXACTLY! As soon as I saw him not do that, I was like "What? What? WHATTT?"
Odd, remember to HAVE fun when playing games, as you are. Excellent job out there
I'm tuning in for this series odd its really fun I don't think ill get this game myself but watching you play this has been great. You got a way different playstyle than a lot of people playing this and im sure it will be a fun series. So far I'd say 9/10
Just looked back. Ya boy Nimble is alive. He got snatched in the back 😂😭😂😭
You can use multiple physicians on one wounded if you have extras, each cuts one day of healing.
Sending a marine ALONE to get a box toward a xeno is pretty questionable. You should really keep your squad together and avoid contact.
One of your marines was taken by the aliens
Good to know what im getting into
And because he was standing right beside the hive entrance he was abducted immediately without a chance to react
I lost one of my highest level marines because he was abducted, I went back to a previous save because all my marines died so know he’s back
This game, the more I play it, so damn good
Watching all of this gameplay makes it so much easier to stay focused. I started watching because this guy feels like the regular player. Picking up everything, making mistakes, being curious about mechanics. It’s the same way I would play, I really appreciate this style of gameplay.
Anyone else constantly hearing "Hurry up, you sluts!" - Or maybe I'm just damaged.
When you run, it just makes the detection line go faster, so you really aren't farther ahead running. You need to keep your team together and plan your engagements. You need to treat every movement ping like your life depends on it, because it does.
You need to set traps for the aliens and lure them into it. Even better is to do it without using your soldiers as it won't raise the threat meter. That means using sentry guns, mines, drones, fires, APC, etc. to kill aliens while hiding safely away with your team. FYI, sentry guns can be repaired over and over and over again, so there is literally no drawback to using them as the frontline and putting them in harms way. Overlapping fields of fire with sentry guns is amazing. Best is if you can get them literally facing each other from opposite sides.
Your use of flares is really, really good. Keep that up.
If you are engaging in face to face fights constantly, you aren't going to last long at all.
Wow. I have never found myself shouting at someone play a game before (I didn't actually shout out loud, but still), examples include:
"Idiot! Don't use suppression fire at close range, use the shotgun!"
"Idiot! Use the flamer."
"Why dude, why? Why didn't you set up the sentries BEFORE the horde came.
I felt like I wasn't very good at the game, but you made me feel like a master. But most importantly, your incompetence was highly, highly entertaining. You have earned a sub. Thankyou for the laughs I had.😅
Run's a single soldier over to loot a chest next to a patrolling drone while splitting the rest of the team off in the other direction...
"It happened so QUICK!"
🤣
One thing I loved about the original is that we were t expecting the chest popper. When the first person had a facehugger, they brought it into the med bay, and saw that the facehugger would strangle the host if someone was trying to remove it. When it fell off on its own, they thought the threat was over.
I think this could be in the game in some really neat ways.
Getting caught by a facehugger would incapacitate the marine. Trying to remove the facehugger had a high (not 100%) chance of killing the marine.
You could unlock tech to try removing it in the field and back at base
There also could be ambiguity if a marine is carrying a xeno. (Until you unlock the tech). It would be terrifying if a marine collapsed mid mission to a chest popper. Or losing base staff to a chest popper at home.
Can't stop playing this game. Been wanting something like this for years. Every time I play, the tension to get back to the apc and avoid xeno's is real.
Winni and I have ADHD. Probably why he was lolligagging behind at the beginning of the episode lol
And thanks for carrying me home to heal haha
Yeah Odd that was a terrible set of misplays that caused your first marine loss. Sentry turrets need to be placed ahead of time, they take too much time to place in the heat of battle. And then you backed into a corner that was also an alien nest, so as soon as Nimble was vunerable they abducted the marine and moved and inch to the nest to despawn preventing rescue.
Odd, I'm absolutely loving this series! Keep up the good work man!
Just some helpful tips though for you:
1. Meds can be used to heal both heath AND stress. Click on the Marine and there's an option to give them pills. Uses a med kit but drops stress by 100 so super helpful in a pinch.
2. You can click and drag the flamethrower, painting an area with fire. Use this to block doorways/hallways/choke points and force all the Aliens into the flames as they rush at you.
3. Spend the 30 resources to buy upgrades for your guys, especially the ones with roles! They get really strong upgrades (example, you can make the recon sniper rifle silenced)
Hope you see these and can't wait to watch me!
Hey Odd! Cool series!
You were wandering if your marine got abducted, he was.
You’re getting in the habit of spreading your team to go loot boxes. It’s really not worth it. Run the whole team to the loot and loot once you’re sure no ambush is coming.
Could you check the available upgrades on your troops even if you don’t buy them? Would like to see what’s available.
Think positive! At least it was a rookie (meatshield) lol
Another tip Commander..... in the medical quarters , you only had 2 injured Marines , but 3 intensive care Doctors available and you only used 2 of them, you can give the same Marine as many doctors you want up to the total number of Doctors you have , so in this example you could have done 2 and 1 = 3 , you did 1 and 1 = 2. Each Doctor removes 1 a day , so not using them is delaying your Marines getting back in action sooner :)
Don't take cover near the xeno holes. that's why nimble got instantly abducted.
I'm lurking here until a certain part of the early game. As I can see Part 6 should have the one I want. This is going to be brutal, ehhm, fun, this is going to be fun.
Sooo much fun!
I love this channel so much! All rts and tbs tactical game coverage and let's plays.
12:40 VERY smart marines AI, the person that is assigned to do suppressive fire is also ordered to set up turret. And three other are just standing there, wtf.
Bro casually walks down a hallway with an entrance to the hive, a xenomorph picks up a marine and drags him into there, and then wonders what happened to him
Also constantly running everywhere ling distances with the camera away from his marines not watching them and wondering how he keeps getting spotted into a hunt.
If you do find that missing marine, chances are he has an embryo in him 😂
I hated these mines! I was freaking out and my wife thought something terrible had happened. Very tense introduction to the game but I learnt a whole lot. I only just escaped. One good thing is the use of the mobile turrets is that when they fire, they don't alert any enemies so I ended up using them quite often.
Oh looks like when they get you, they really get you. As it probably should be.
Good stuff. Ok mate, we have to talk about two of your major mistakes so you can learn from them.
1. You don;t have a good control of your squad. Before issuing a loot order make sure your entire squad is in the vicinity of the loot object. Also you often give sprint commands and not follow your squad. There is a bindable key which focuses your camera on the squad leader (default Home). Gotta keep a better eye on your squad, mate.
2. You never use the tracker's distract noise. Trackers are basically free devices which only cost command points so you can pepper these throughout the levels. When you get detected, simply choose a tracker that is far away from your squad and engage the distraction noise. This way you can potentially send a few of the drones to the tracker leaving fewer drones to deal with.
I really think that this game makes human so OP with that motion tracker. It basically wall hack. Nothing can surprise you coz you know location of every enemy around you.
And yet, Odd still manage to get the squad beaten up by just ignore this god power the game give him.
*Rampage* *Xenomorph* - wear a hardhat
love how he runs away from the sentry vision cone lol
25:41 maybe want to rethink that, stealth is a good way to keep the difficulty down
27:42 hands the rookie characterised as 'clumsy' an incinerator! Yep that'll was a good choice!
I found shotguns overwhelmingly more useful than grenades when shits about to hit the fan at those ranges. Sucks your guy got immediately grabbed and taken down that hole though
It'd be cool if it made a special boss alien. Like a pretorian or something out of a marine class human. Maybe even a dogtag for cinematic effect, not logical but cool factor.
@@davidevans7477I mean, Xenos are parasites that take their hosts DNA, why not have the tags snagged in a xenos teeth as it births? Also would be interesting to have the special xeno have a unique special trait.
@@davidevans7477 with how the alien lifecycle works it probably won't happen, but they could maybe instead have them turn into cultists? Potential to even save them from brainwashing maybe, but with the amount of non-lethal options we have available that might not be possible lol
The motion tracker is your eyes my friend, abuse what is given to you, or you will suffer. Also love you saying that about command points at the end and yet you burn through all of em so quickly in engagements, oh, also you can drag the flamethrowers reticule to make a wall of fire.
Shoulda evac'd the squad before entering the mines!! Downloading this game now... Love your gameplays lately Mr. Odd!
Should be an 8 shot revolver like what is offered currently by many companies.
I noticed this game takes the conventional tropes of this genre and uses it against the player.
Trope 1: move fast. You want to move fast because this is Aliens and they can come from anywhere. Reducing time on ground makes sense but the game do not throw random alien swarms and you know where the lone random aliens are from your scanner. You are more likely to trigger swarms while running around plus you can't fire while running plus the aliens moves alot faster than your marines. Solution: move normally.
Trope 2: search every box and body. You need supplies plus this is standard gameplay. The spin is a random marine searches the boxes BUT the rest do not accompany the marine to the box. As comments below and I have noticed, you can have a marine run to a faraway box to search while the rest of the marines take a smoke break. Problem ... well this video shows how bad things can get as the lone marine triggers an ambush and the others are too far away to help. Solution: take the extra click to accompany your marine and try to search only one box at a time.
Trope 3: Reactonary gameplay. Swarm attacks are not random so player can always prep for attack rather than react to an attack. The sentry gun is a great example ... it's free to setup and dismantle but it takes time and useless in CQB. Setting up a sentry gun when the swarm attacks is suicide as the swarm closes too quickly. By the time, the sentry gun is setup, the Aliens are on top of the squad and inside the sentry gun's dead zone. What is worse is you lose a marine's pulse rifle attack to setup what is a useless sentry gun. You are better off using suppressive fire, grenade launcher and shotgun close-in during those "surprise but not really surprise" swarm attacks. Solution: Always setup a defensible sentry gun position to fall back on just in case.
I'm just watching these now. It is stressing me out BADLY when you don't evac and take care of your poor Marines. You're not on a time limit (yet), level them up!
Colonial marine Arctic Rivers reporting for duty sir!
Take a shot every time you hear Slugs
Loving the game, it's my goty. music, the way they make fan comments, but not too cringe like in other games, the difficulty, the weldings, the sounds, the gameplay, the stress of loosing marines on a bad call, and in the otherside if you are prepared you just crush the xenos, the cinematics, the univers. it's overall well rounded and only 30euros..! it's nice to see another point of view after doing the missions keep up 👍
Odd, watching you play is such a twist for me, because I love your commentary, but want to scream when you forget about things. Loving the play through, it's helping me prepare for my own when I can spare the money.
Soldier Name: Damian Gerard
More motion sensors everywhere! They cost only one command point and can be used to create distractions around the map. I use motion sensors quite activelly to draw enemies away from where I am exploring, everything I can to avoid increasing the aggressiveness of the hive needlessly.
I went back and rewatched the first fire fight and it shows Nimble being abducted, not killed. But they might as well be dead.
One word "facehugger"
Probably sent to the nest and infested. Won't be seeing them again.
This game looks tough, but really interesting.
The game is not that tough but he is rushing it so it dose look tough when you just run threw levels . In this type of game you need to keep it slow , in cover , hide from the xenomorphs and only engage when it's in your favour and don't split your marines ..that was quite dumb . I don't judge the way he plays , everyone is free to play as they want to but like i said , this game is not that tough if you play it correctly
'Once they get to you, you're toast' lol Aliens, man. You ain't Sigourney Weaver!
Cadet William "Strange" Times reporting Sir!
When a game gives Odd a flamethrower, it's time to break out the popcorn.
It happened so quick! “Nimble.”
Damn, really wanted you to extract before the mines, squad was a little beat up lol
Makes for great watching, keep up the work dude
33:40 "Hehe, giggity" -Odd, 2023
Hi been following ,ya gameplay I have just finished were you are here very tricky down below in mines troop died a few times , I like how you got to really think on ,troop as once gone there gone .but it tests you over careful drags to fast more risk but I love it keep in there ya awesome marine player
So many times when 0dd should have moved sow to sneak pass starts run like mad man.
No wonder every patrol gets interested.
Atleast all he lost was a rookie
You can also use medkits to destress by clicking on your individual marines! Useful in places like the mines where you have no safe spaces. Drug up buttercup.
Thanks so much for doing this. Been following your xcom stuff for ages. Great to watch this lets play
imagine if Odd was your platoon commander in a real war......Game over man game over!🤣
The save system seems kind of odd for this type of game. If you lose a squad member to a fight, what is stopping you from just running the rest of your squad to their deaths and restarting at that save?
Weird how the ARC doesn't trigger a hunt considering the loud gunfire.
You can't start a new map with a 'medium" threat level, you will die fast. Has nothing to do woth you running, and everything with the xeno's already being on alert to your presence.
Odd can i just say i appreciate the effort youre doing in making these videos entertaining. While yes this is not the "optimal way to play" the situations your marines get into are classsic horror movie tropes with alien thematics too it. You're literally checking every box in a horror film 😂😂
Odd your soldier was in fact abducted. I had to slow it down to see but they really scooped him up and walked away its sad but also a really cool feature 🤣
Love the dialog “they fought them with shovels that’s insane” other marine “ may as well shoots themselves”……if they had guns…..why would they need shovels?? Lol
42:00 Poor Deadput 😄
I really liked when in the Aliens movie the aircraft was unfolding it's wings with rocket pads. Here it just flies all folded up and then shows up in the next scene in combat ready stance. Awfully wasted opportunity to make it look like absolute badass deployment scene.
Also if this was xcoms on your insane runs with with extra nasty hostiles you would be more cautious. Makes a great watch mind ;)
33:40 heh, giggity.. 😂
Meds can also be used to reduce stress. Very useful when there's no safe rooms around.
Thats a great series already, more please!!!
Don't just rush through a hive did you ever watch the movies 😅 also love your content buddy
Love your work as always Mr. Odd. Loving this series so far =D
12:50 Abducted😳
Frick. Famous last words.
you used grenade launcher which causes a knockback - however it went off behind them, leapfrogging them forwards towards your squad
exactly my experience when I first entered the mines lol
One guy straight up got abducted mid combat right to the hive that was intense
Hah Nice... Finaly Xcom kind game :)
Sign me up Commander Cristoper sir. Im Lt Just Hakiro ready on Duty Sir😎
One marine got abducted. Well that's not good.