#xcom terminal

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

i refuse to accept a world without terminal snake shenanigans

[enkisstories]

Only now discovered they each have a little intro videos on Steam.

[ket-shee]

SPARKY!!!

Been thinking about XCOM lately and played some yesterday and this morning, I got development done on SPARKs which means that I got to make SPARKY T-100. I hear good things about SPARK units. And 11 HP with 1 Armor is incredibly strong at level 1. I know some of their abilities are really useful and iirc they're fully immune to psionics, fire and poison damage.

I did my second retaliation mission also and those dark events are a pain in my ass but y'know what. I'm kinda a fan of how this games difficulty goes. I'm doing some development and research before I do the first blacksite mission. I think that'll maybe delay the AVATAR progress. Which is currently sitting at about 5? A little scary, would be scarier if I didn't double the length of it lol

[factorialsotherfandoms]

Fanfic Masterlist - Desconjuração

Below the cut is a list of my fanfic for the thirs season of Ordem Paranormal, Desconjuração. They are listed by episode. Once you have finished the related episode, there are no longer spoilers for you.

This is where we start getting long and into multi-season AUs. At least one might be getting it's own post, we'll see. Gotta finish these first.

AOP [Link!] OSNF [Link!] OPD [YOU ARE HERE] OPC (part 1) [Link!] OSNI [coming soon] SDOL [coming soon] OPQ [coming soon] OPNM [coming soon]

Episode 1

Darkness Flies, All Is Light (Canon-Adjacent) Between seasons, Arthur has nightmares and joins Cesar about it. A Christmas gift. Characters: Arthur Cevero, Cesar Oliveira Cohen Rating: T Words: 471 Warnings: Nightmares Summary:

A few weeks after Santo Berço, Arthur finds himself drifting towards Cesar's room.

Gifts (Canon-Adjacent) Arthur and Agatha conspire to wish Veríssimo a happy birthday Characters: Agatha Volkomenn, Arthur Cevero, Senhor Veríssimo Rating: G Words: 617 Warnings: N/A Summary:

September 11th, and Veríssimo works in his office.

And The Only Things Left Are The Stars (Canon-Adjacent) Erin character study. Characters: Erin Parker, Jonathan Parker Rating: G Words: 382 Warnings: referenced backstory character death, grief Summary:

The stars are the stars, and the Parkers have always loved them

Tea and Consequences (xcom au) Shenanigans in an au I've written nothing else for yet Characters: Arthur Cevero, Joui Jouki Rating: G Words: 727 Warnings: referenced injury Summary:

Yesterday, Arthur, Liz, Kaiser, and Thiago conspired to make sure Joui did not go on a specific mission. Now, as the only one who had both been on the mission and has escaped the infirmary, Arthur must smooth over the consequences. (near future sci-fi-ish paranormal invasion au based heavily on xcom2, but hopefully makes enough sense alone)

Episode 2

Forget Me No More (Canon Adjacent) Joui dreams of losing everything all over again. Characters: Joui Jouki, Arthur Cevero, Kaiser Rating: NR Words: 2,137 Warnings: dysfunctional family relationships, gore, violence, nightmare character death Summary:

A nightmare, and a phonecall.

Episode 3

N/A

Episode 4

Of You, At My Side (Canon-Adjacent) Little Luciano study, set pre-OPD. Written for the prompt: ritual Characters: Luciano Carvalho, Leonardo Gomes Rating: M Words: 947 Warnings: hospital, terminal illness Summary:

Luciano makes a choice

Episode 5

N/A

Episode 6

To Hold Your Hand (Canon-Adjacent) Liz, and Thiago, at the end of all things. Characters: Elizabeth Webber, Thiago Fritz Rating: T Words: 300 Warnings: Choose Not To Warn Summary:

3 drabbles about death, and what comes after.

The Last Snowfall (Canon-Adjacent) Nina and her bullies. Written for prompt: Snow Characters: Nina, Henri, Gal, Nubi Rating: M Words: 250 Warnings: Major Character Death, Violence Against Children Summary:

Nina has never seen snow before.

Episode 7

Intercession (Canon-Adjacent) Johnny and Rubens, immediately following the end of episode 7. This one is a favourite of mine. Characters: Johnny Tabasco, Rubens Naluti Rating: NR Words: 3,229 Warnings: Major injuries, hospitals, broken bones, electrical injuries Summary:

Leaving Erin and Fernando to their investigation, Rubens and Johnny discuss what comes next Alternatively Johnny does the responsible thing, and drags Rubens (and himself) to a hospital

Cleaning Up (Canon-Adjacent) So the whole numbers written on people is deeply invasive and squicky, right? Especially the eyelids. Characters: Rubens Naluti, Johnny Tabasco Rating: T Words: 991 Warnings: hospitals, mild eye squick Summary:

Early November, and the numbers are still on Rubens' eyes.

Sychronise (Canon-Adjacent) Two weirdos does not an easy friendship make. Sometime pre-canon, they had to work for it. Characters: Johnny Tabasco, Rubens Naluti Rating: T Words: 3,466 Warnings: Miscommunication Summary:

Making friends with someone unfortunately requires a combination of time, mutual effort, and the ability to even comprehend where their level is. (Alternatively - 3 weeks into working together, Johnny and Rubens have yet to work out how to make their situation viable. The fact that Johnny is recovering from an injury isn't helping things, either.)

Pink, White, and Black (Canon-Adjacent) About Johnny's coffee preferences, via prankage Characters: Johnny Tabasco, Rubens Naluti Rating: T Words: 1,772 Warnings: crimes against coffee Summary:

Johnny, Rubens, an all-night research session, and coffee.

Trembling Fear (Canon-Adjacent) Rubens' greatest fear is drowning, right...? Characters: Rubens Naluti, Johnny Tabasco Rating: T Words: 1,146 Warnings: Drowning, Major Injury, Vomitting Summary:

Rubens, trapped on a bridge, surrounded, and unable to swim.

Sand (Canon-Adjacent) A fragment of Rubens and Johnny camping while on a mission Characters: Johnny Tabasco, Rubens Naluti Rating: G Words: 529 Warnings: N/A Summary:

Johnny heats soup, and Rubens tries to upgrade a radio

Don't Ask For Much (Canon-Adjacent) Mission mornings back when anonymity was paramount. Characters: Johnny Tabasco Rating: T Words: 340 Warnings: N/A Summary:

Four in the morning, some time in 2005

Nine O'Clock On A Saturday (Canon-Adjacent) Sometime years ago, Johnny does paperwork in a hotel bar Characters: Johnny Tabasco Rating: T Words: 918 Warnings: N/A Summary:

Johnny Tabasco and a hotel common room, sometime between then and now.

Episode 8

Heed No Call To Die (Canon-Adjacent) Erin and her grandmother, a little before canon, written for the prompt signal. Characters: Erin Parker Rating: G Words: 100 Warnings: None Summary:

Erin comes home from a mission to find her grandfather's radio turned on.

Episode 9

N/A

Episode 10

Dandelion and I ( @becauseplot 's Cyber!AU) A much later part of curly's cyber!au, the first part of which is found here. Cute Erin/Joui stuff, with background Joui/Cesar (he is bi and confused) Characters: Joui Jouki, Erin Parker Rating: G Words: 673 Warnings: dehumanisation Summary:

"Joui" finds an incorrect flower in Miss Beatrice's garden, and reports the anomaly to Miss Erin.

Episode 11

My Best Friend (Canon-Divergent) Erin, Luciano, and grief. Divergent only because I wrote it half way through this episode Characters: Erin Parker, Luciano Carvalho Rating: T Words: 600 Warnings: Discussion of character death Summary:

Erin and Luciano talk after Tristan's death.

Episode 12

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Episode 13

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Episode 14

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Episode 15

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Episode 16

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Episode 17

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Episode 18

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Episode 19

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Episode 20

Lights, Take Me Home (Canon-Divergent) #### Lives AU, pt1. The rest of the au has OPC spoilers. Characters: Arthur Cevero, Ivete Beicur, Kaiser Rating: T Words: 3,472 Warnings: Grief, Panic Summary:

Hours after events at the Orphanage, Arthur finds something unexpected on his doorstep.

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (Canon-Divergent) Disconnected canon-divergent au where Kaiser and Joui and Arthur all get out. Characters: Arthur Cevero, Joui Jouki, Kaiser Rating: G Words: 400 Warnings: N/A Summary:

Kaiser gets home late, and checks on his family.

He Comes To Make His Blessings Flow (Canon-Adjacent) Arnaldo Fritz as the orphanage's gift fairy Characters: Arnaldo Fritz, Gal Rating: G Words: 615 Warnings: N/A Summary:

Senhor Fritz delivers a gift to the orphanage for Gal's birthday.

Tit for Tat (Canon-Adjacent) Teenage Gal/Dante Characters: Dante, Gal Rating: T Words: 293 Warnings: N/A Summary:

When Dante was still Gaspar, making arrangements with Gal was second nature to them both.

Maybe This Time (Canon-Adjacent) Danarthur unhealthy work habits ship fic. Characters: Dante, Arthur Cevero Rating: G Words: 390 Warnings: N/A Summary:

Dante promised to take an evening away from his work. Arthur catches him with his notes regardless.

Revelando

Put On Your Doll Faces (Canon-Adjacent) If you don't care for the revelando, episode 7. Eva van Gloss childhood character study (yes, the archaeologist from osnf). Prompt: Orphanage Characters: Eva van Gloss, Johnny Tabasco Rating: M Words: 1,190 Warnings: Child Abuse Summary:

Eva, a boy, and some bandages she stole in the name of thanking him for a rescue.

[samueldays]

Mmmyeah Phoenix Point combat is definitely feeling like it's too focused on cheesing the AP system. There's a bunch of abilities like Dash and Quick Aim which discount an action by 1AP, and they're repeatable, so the 4AP character can fire the 3AP sniper rifle twice in one turn. There is no minimum, so 1AP Pistols with Quick Aim can be fired as a free action as long as you have WP to keep casting Quick Aim. (you regain WP from killing enemies)

But the really game-breaking thing is the "Terminator" build from the wiki, which goes something like this: get a dual-class Assault/Berserker character with

background Heavy Weapons proficiency (highest damage, usually takes 3AP to fire),

the Assault class capstone (for one turn, regain 2AP when you kill an enemy),

the Assault class skill to reload for 0AP

the Berserker class capstone (for one turn, all weapon attacks cost 1AP, you are then Dazed and lose your next turn)

the Armored Head mutation (immunity to being Dazed)

the Speed stat maxed for movement

and then move up to nearest enemy for 1AP, enjoy accuracy bonus from proximity, magdump machinegun headshots to kill enemy for 1AP, regain 2AP, repeat. reloading machinegun is free. Very similar things can be done with Assault/Sniper, using the Sniper skill to reduce cost of a shot by 1AP.

If you get bad RNG and lose your killstreak, you can regain it with a support character who knows Onslaught: caster transfers 2AP to target.

I say "caster" because somewhere along the way, this XCOM clone turned into a Fantasy RPG where you assemble a motley party of Fighter, Thief, Ranger, Monk and Magic-User; I mean Heavy, Assault/Berserker, Assault/Sniper, Priest and Technician to slay monsters and ruleslawyer and take quests to build rep with factions so they'll give you magic items, emphasised by the fact weapons don't get better, but characters do. High-level characters get more attacks per turn than low-level characters, even before you do any stupid combo shenanigans. The "willpower" stat is blue, it could be renamed "magic points" and sit fine next to "hit points".

[dirtreally]

Tactical breach aizards thots:

The writing isnt That reddit its literally just the main character who sucks like that and also the narrator. The rest of the dialogue is fine. Good, even!

This game is soooo fucking ugly fuckkkkk. The way the characters are modelled seriously feels like a phone game ad. Some of the tilesets are also like weirdly coloured so its hard to tell which tiles are being highlighted in some levels. That being said the one reason why im still sticking with this shit is bc i think this is the first time ever ive seen the Military But They Have Magic In Modern Day aesthetjc done with any juice at all its just implemented in the most swagless way possible

The actual grid strategy thing is really compelling. Its like xcom but you actually have to sweat a little to puzzle everything out and even though the none of the level layouts are autogenerated you get the impression that the system has enough to it that youd still be forced to come up with smart solutions to everything even if the levels were autogen.

Honestly its fine lol i just wish it was made with a dedicated art team and also that the story wasnt written by someone with terminal amerikkkabrain lmoaoa

[kerri-the-skunk]

MISSION: UFO LANDING SITE, SPANISH COUNTRYSIDE, JAN 2nd, 1999

Hostile UFO landed in an abandoned farm in the Andalusia region of southern Spain. Hostiles, designated by our troops in the field as "Floaters" were quickly subdued by small-arms fire, and the site was secured within minutes. AO was clear of civilians.

HOSTILES TERMINATED: 4

HOSTILE CORPSES RECOVERED: 4 "Floaters"

ARTIFACTS RECOVERED: 4 weapons

UFO COMPONENTS RECOVERED: 1 power source, 2 navigation systems, 12 units of unknown alloy, 50 units of element 115

XCOM OPERATIVES KIA: 0

COMMANDER'S NOTE: Quick, clean, and efficient. Let's hope the rest of our ops go this smoothly.

[williamcarter-gaming]

L'album de Xcom Declassified, mon TPS solo préféré avec cette ambiance 60's délectable sur fond d'invasion extra-terrestre. Je ne me lasse pas de le terminer et William Carter a trop la classe!

[hydralisk98]

Content study list for my 16^12 paracosm, for myself and you all sweet, sweet mutuals!

Inspirations

Halo Reach, Tron Legacy, Reverse 1999, Helluva Boss, Wolfenstein The New Order, The New Order / "TNO" (Hearts of Iron 4 total conversion mod), Civilization 5 Complete Edition, Civilization Beyond Earth Rising Tide, Stellaris, Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, Spiderverse?, 300, 300 Rise of an Empire, Marathon Infinity, The Legend of Zelda 1, Quake 1, Pokemon Black & White, Wakfu, A Bag Full of Apples, Rammstein, Sabaton, Powerwolf, Daft Punk, Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk RED, Solarpunk (aesthetic optimism genre), Kaiserreich (Hearts of Iron 4 total conversion mod), GURPS, Pathfinder 2E, D&D 5E SRD (under the one offered Creative Commons license), OSR, FKR, XCOM Enemy Within, The Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall, Hypnospace Outlaw, Counter-Strike Global Offensive, SimCity 4, The Sims 2, Citizen of Rome Dynasty Ascendant, Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, Pathfinder Kingmaker, Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Tyranny, Spore, Alpha Centauri, Total Annihilation, Half-Life 1, Portal 2, Cortex Command, The Anacrusis, Tacoma, Zachtronics, Ion Fury, INFRA, Factorio, Terraria, Portal Stories Mel, SOMA, Choice of Alexandria, Choice of Robots, Prince of Persia Sands of Time, The Stanley Parable (demo & full game), The Beginner's Guide, Logic World, MineTest, Superliminal, Tentlan, Paradise Lost, The Witness, Secret Little Haven, Wargroove...

Tools of the Trade (essentially much of the KDE Plasma 5.27 desktop environment and a couple more utils)

GIMP, Krita, Blender, Inkscape, OpenStreetMap, SweetHome3D, LibreOffice Suite, Fish (command-line shell), Es (command-line shell), Karbon, , QGIS, GPlates, GProjector, QOwnNotes, KdenLive, Kate, LabPlot, Qt Creator, Buildroot, Debian, Devuan, Celestia, Cosmonium, KDE Plasma, KDE Liquidshell, custom KDE Plasmoids, ZealOS, Parade, Left, Ronin, Dotgrid, Pilot, Orca, GNU Common Lisp, LibertyEiffel, GNU CMake, GNU CoreUtils, OpenMPT, FastTracker, Furnace Tracker, Bintracker, Kitty (terminal emulator), , KDE Plasma Mobile, KDE Kirigami, Marble, Alpaka, Glaxnimate, KAlgebra, Kalm, Klevernotes, Licentia, Kalendar, Discover, Thunderbird, Peruse, Vail, KTechlab, KUIViewer, Francis, Kommit, KGeoTag, Rolistream RPG Client, Choqok (Mastodon, Jami & the Fediverse?), Arianna, RKWard, Konqueror, KMPlayer, Plan, Tokodon, PlasmaTube, KDiff3, Keysmith, Alligator, ghostwriter, Kontrast, AudioTube, youtube-dl?, Weather, digiKam, KLettres, Picmi, KTurtle, Parley, Kolf, Minuet, Okteta, Subtitle Composer, KJots, Skrooge, KEXI, Tellico, KFloppy, K3B, Kaffeine, ISO Image Writer, KMyMoney, Calligra Suite, KStars, Kid3, Haruna Media Player, Krusader, Telly Skout, KRename, Kongress, Kasts, KDE itinerary, Artikulate, Rocs, Kig, Step, KNights, KMPlot, KMouth, Umbrello, KAppTemplate, Cervisia, KNotes, Clazy, KWordQuiz, Kwave, DragonPlayer, KAddressBook, Cantor, Kontact, Skanpage, KTouch, KOrganizer, KBackup, Timeshift, Falkon, KMag, KMail, KImageMapEditor, Akregator, KGeography, Elisa, Krfb, Konversation, KMix, KDevelop, KDebugSettings, Kleopatra, KTorrent, KRuler, Kompare, Sweeper, KRDC, Lokalize, KCharSelect, Skanlite, KDE Partition Manager, KGpg, Yakuake, KColorChooser, KFind, Filelight, KWalletManager, KCalc, Gwenview, SPectacle, KDE Connect, Konsole, Kdenlive, HakuNeko, Kavita, GeoHub, Back Of Your Hand, locus, OwnTracks, darktable, Pixelmator, Procreate, Clip Studio Paint EX, OpenToonz (also its Morevna Edition), enve, Firefox, LibreWolf, Synfig Studio, Pencil2D, Storyboarder, TupiTube, BountySource, SourceHut, Gitea, GitPrep, digiKam, RawTherapee;

[doolallymagpie]

torque, terminal, and zephyr are girlfriends

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

More fun snek girl facts: Torque can use her tongue pull ability on allies as well as enemies, which can make for some very useful mobility. Terminal in particular loves it; she'll shout "Wheeeee, again!" While, you know, in the middle of a raid against heavily armed organized criminals.

"snake woman can pull ppl around with her tongue including allies" is not something I expected to read and for sure wasn't expecting the "im gonna be dead soon like my family lol gonna go out fighting" medic gal to treat the mid-combat tongue yoinking like a carnival ride.

That's so cute tho. Local venomous snek girl also gives tongue hugs <3 deadly or otherwise <3 <3

[enkisstories]

"Hello, my name is Connor, the android sent by the Momentum Foundation to help investigate the Sacred Coil cases!"

(I couldn't resist.)

[snimbusjavy]

“ Nobody dies! You'll throw off my average...!“

It is arte time once again even if my laptop where I usually draw in is off on the war and hasn’t returned yet

Look, it’s XCOM: Chimera Squad art for once! :D I love this game way too much. In particular, the characters.

Here’s Terminal! The best character in the game, don’t @ me

[padzi]

I decided, that Verge should pass the driving license exam. This is the result.

[chimerathesquad]

Welcome to the Chimera squad HQ! :D Make yourselves at ease and follow the shenanigans! ;)

Questions are welcome, don’t hesitate to ask the squad anything! :D

For those of you that come from the good old days of CommanderPlease, welcome back! :D It’s good to see you again! We will have a few of the old folk show up again, don’t you worry! ;) This blog takes place in the same universe. As ever, my askbox is open for any question! :D And I hear in the grapevine that we might have other ghosts come back to the land of the living soon~! ;)