#xcom eu

[mellonhead58]

Is it really savescumming if your favoritest little angel got eviscerated by an enemy who quantum leapt halfway across the map?

[queerercaora]

long war rebalance apparently adds fucking paradox-style random events where dr vahlen asks to pleeaaase pleaaase put the alien sunkist into your soldier's bodies in Ethically Dubious ways and she killed my will to survive gunner corporal. huh. good mod

[fsaxjack]

Fuck, Marry, Kill (XCOM Edition)

UFO Defense Chryssalid, EU Chryssalid, XCOM 2 Chryssalid Rules:

Assume free will and sapience

Assume hole

Will not use psionics on you non-consensually

They will find a way to please you if that's what you want + It won't try and lay eggs inside of you

[xcommatriarch]

🛏️ The Commander

Oh, the bittersweet dream... It's a rare occasion nowadays, yet it still leaves her with this... longing feeling.

She dreams of a small house in the middle of nowhere. A garden full of vegetables, flower beds along the house, an apple tree in the corner of the yard with a chair underneath it. She sees herself tending to her crops, or reading a book in the shade of the apple tree, or just sitting on a porch with a cup of tea. She doesn't see anyone else in those dreams, but she certainly hears a lot of things - distant barking, someone chopping wood for the fire... Children laughing, and running around, and playing.

"Mom, look!" is usually the last thing she hears before waking up. No matter how hard she tries, she never gets to go back to that dream.

[heljay]

You ever just crank out three OC refs in two weeks because the hyperfocus is so strong

Granted I have five XCOM OCs at this point but one of them dies with just the standard in-game design and more importantly these are the three I'm hoping to get ArtFight attacks for lmao

So! Bond, I've drawn her a lot. Cargo, not as much, but I've finally gotten the hang of her combat uniform so that helps. Less so her X2 design which is barely different from the in-game Warden Armor but eh fight me

Echi is, as you can see, very different from the canon Berserker. The idea for Echidna is that she was captured during EU/EW, by Cargo, back when Berserkers weren't sent out into combat naked. Moreover, Echi is the first of the alien captives to choose to trust and aid humans, and is the whole reason Cargo escapes HQ with her life; and drags Bond, along with those two other OCs, out with her. So once X2 rolls around Echi gets unique armour taking reference from the Warden Armor, the original EU/EW Berserker armour, and a bit of the Elite Muton armour. Her scarring comes from while she was still on the invaders' side.

Also by the time X2 rolls around, Cargo and Echi are married

[rollforrandom]

I know the "Canon" is that XCOM failed in the first 1-2 months of the invasion, but does anyone else feel that's not -quite- the case? Hear me out:

The ADVENT mechs look very similar in design to the MEC trooper from EW, minus the actual person in it. This could just be standard mech design/reused assets, but it makes sense if the Elders found that humans had made something useful with MELD, they would take it for their own purposes.

The ADVENT troopers use magnetic weapons, which while not fully Canon to EU/EW (the main one was the railgun for MEC troopers), are rather prominent in Long war, a mod that helped inspire aspects of XCOM 2 and whose development worked with/for the actual game studio when XCOM2 was developed. But why would ADVENT use a weapon like that if they have plasma? Cause XCOM already designed it. It was cheaper, designed for humans, by humans, and coopted by aliens

Bradford's forces are too well organized at the start of XCOM 2. They have a WHOL ALIEN SHIP, with a launchable drops hip? That's not something that just "goes missing" without repercussions. Especially if we get stomped into the dirt with no resistance in 2 months. This feels like an opportunity was taken while the world was still in turmoil, fighting was going on, and XCOM grabbed what it could while the aliens were suppressing major dissonance across the globe. Something that according to the elder, didn't happen. And we all know we can trust them /s

This is all just theory and hypothetical. But I am really into that rn, especially other theories like "The commander/player is actually the Ethereal from the Bureau" level of theory. Tell me if you agree/disagree/want to hear more rambling.

[kiwi1281]

i opened xcom eu for the first time in a while and there were save files from 2015......

that can't be right that wasn't 10 years ago right??

[sigilerator]

part 2 i guess i'm thinking something to the level of xcom eu mec troopers? the default bot body is completely bio-mechanical (probably like signalis replikas), except Robots In The Wars swap out limbs for their weapon of choice, to varying extents i like the idea that hypno-disc is unusual for basically being a full-body fighter (yes i want to give her airachnid tfone's legs), where bots like apollo and firestorm either have crazy high-power plates to bash you with or are otherwise unmodified and use enhancements to fight more conventionally... unsure what this style means for bots like pussycat. are thor and terrorhurtz just throwing around big axes and hammers? unsure

[v1leblood]

its crazy how good xcom EU/EW and xcom 2 are

[hewn-city-couriers-den]

might fuck around and restart my pinkerlocke so it makes more sense in the context of my general 'clan' lore

though I still want to write it after Moriva has disappeared, which would make this twenty year gap adjacent, if I'm going vaugely by reboot xcom's timeline (eu/ew -> 20 years -> x2wotc)

what I'm saying is needs moar alien

[kerri-the-skunk]

I think I'm gonna stop posting after every mission in XCOM EU, lmao. There's only so many ways to write about "good guys shoot bad guys, good guys win" without it getting boring. Plus, I don't want to reach my post limit with the XCOM stuff. Of course, I'll still post XCOM stuff when something important happens (or when I flip out at how the kobold troopers look in their powered armor equivalent, lol).

[fsaxjack]

Fuck, Marry, Kill (XCOM Edition)

UFO Defense Muton, EU Muton, XCOM 2 Muton

Rules:

Assume free will and sapience

Assume hole

Will not use psionics on you non-consensually

They will find a way to please you if that's what you want

[xcommatriarch]

[Welcome back, Commander]

Xcom-themed blog is now up and running! Main blog: @korbensoi

[TAG Navigation]

[Media] Art | Writing | Misc | Reblogs

[Timelines] Xcom: EU | Xcom 2 | OC!AU

[Relationships] (EU/Xcom 2) Zhang x Anton | (EU) Commander x Bradford (Xcom 2) Commander x Tygan | (Xcom 2) Bradford x Volk (Xcom 2) Elena Dragunova x Pratal Mox (Xcom 2) Victor x Resistance Radio DJ

[Character Masterlist]

[Senior XCOM Staff]

[OC] Ensoi Lesnaya | Tag: Ensoi Lesnaya Callsigns: (XCOM) Commander / (undercover) Chit-Chat / (chosen) Matriarch Role: The XCOM Commander

[Canon] John Bradford | Tag: John Bradford Callsign: (XCOM) Central Role: Operations officer, (previous) Avenger's Pilot

[Canon] Dr. Richard Tygan | Tag: Richard Tygan Callsign: (XCOM) Hamburgler Role: Chief Science Officer, (previous) ADVENT gene therapy clinic employee

[Canon] An-Yi Shen | Tag: Lily Shen Callsign: (XCOM) Lily Role: Chief Engineering Officer

[Canon|MIA] Dr. Moira Vahlen | Tag: Moira Vahlen Callsign: - Role: (Previous) Chief Science Officer

[XCOM Troops]

[Canon] Shaojie Zhang | Tag: Shaojie Zhang Callsign: (XCOM) Chilong Role: (EU/LWR) Assault | (XCOM 2) Ranger

[OC] Anton Smits | Tag: Anton Smits Callsing: (EXALT / XCOM) Vector Role: (EU/LWR) Medic | (XCOM 2) Specialist

[Canon/OC] David Jones | Tag: David Jones Callsing: (XCOM) Big Sky Role: (EU/LWR) Skyranger Pilot | (XCOM 2) Avenger Pilot/Specialist

[OC] Stepan Kononov | Tag: Stepan Kononov Callsign: (XCOM) Wombat Role: (XCOM 2) Specialist

[OC] Lucinda Del Rosa | Tag: Lucinda Del Rosa Callsign: (XCOM) Heavens Spear Role: (XCOM 2) Templar

[Canon] Elena Dragunova | Tag: Elena Dragunova Callsign: (XCOM/Reapers) Outrider Role: (XCOM 2) Reaper

[Canon] Pratal Mox | Tag: Pratal Mox Callsign: Mox Role: (XCOM 2) Skirmisher

[Resistance]

[Canon] Konstantin Volikov | Tag: Konstantin Volikov Callsing: (XCOM/Reapers) Volk Role: Reaper faction leader

[Canon/OC] Jake Levy | Tag: Jake Levy Callsign: (XCOM) The DJ Role: Resistance Radio Host

[Aliens]

[Canon/OC] Victor | Tag: Victor Lesnoy Callsign: (ADVENT) The Speaker Role: (EU) Infiltration Unit | (XCOM 2) ADVENT Speaker / Resistance Radio Co-host | (Post XCOM 2) Actor

[Canon] Chosen Assassin | Tag: Assassin

[Canon] Chosen Hunter | Tag: Hunter

[Canon] Chosen Warlock | Tag: Warlock

[heljay]

Doodles Miracle because while I don't blab about her much, she makes a fun little side character in my brain

(For those not following my main: She was an XCOM HQ rookie guard who tanked a Mechoid blast to the face, lived, and proceeded to kick ass for the rest of the base defense mission of one of my EU playthroughs. I decided to immortalize her as a Templar, whose psionics help with the mobility issues that would otherwise come with severe plasma scarring lol)

[intrepid-interloper]

go play XCOM 2 right now!!!!! (And XCOM EU too)

when the snake women in xcom grab your lady soldiers and force them down on their knees while constricting them with their tails it's kinda

[maximuswolf]

Games with "downtime" between missions. Maybe with basebuilding or team management. Like Midnight Sons Xcom EU/ 2 Xmen Legends.

Games with "downtime" between missions. Maybe with basebuilding or team management. Like Midnight Sons, Xcom EU/ 2, Xmen Legends. https://ift.tt/jLxCw8P Submitted April 16, 2025 at 07:50AM by Comfortable_Fox_8552 https://ift.tt/O3VqwnR via /r/gaming