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“The Burgers of Alfons Van Der Akker” SW Beijing, East Asia District 1317 Local; 30 May, 2038 New Dawn Bar & Grill (Franchise No. 2143), Yímínzhèn The New Dawn Bar & Grill was a rather popular locale among the local ADVENT soldiers - at least the human ones, though occasionally a curious Viper...

“The Daze of Our Lives” Ruins of Bel-Air, West Coast District 1623 Local Time; January 3, 2036 The Crown Princes’ Base The serene tune of a soundscape filtered through the small maintenance hall, through the small collection of technicals, smaller vehicles, and a couple of big rigs being torn...

“Scarred Face, Scarred Past” Tijuana, New Mexico District 1234 Local; 25 May, 2038 Plaza Real, Ciudad De Olores José sighed as he finished off his meager meal in the small plaza that marked the center of the district he called home. He found it nice to get out from the cramped quarters of...

Name: José María de Miguel Nuñez III Role: Ambusher, Part-Time Engineer Sex: Male Age: 24 DoB: October 11th, 2014 PoB: Tijuana, Mexico Race: Mexican Nationality: Mexican Height: 171 cm Weight: 62 kg Hair Color: Dark Brown Hair Style: Wild, Loose, Curtained Eye Color: Brown Immediate Family...

Name: Alfons Van Der Akker Role: ADVENT Lord-Commander, Psi-Operative Sex: Male Age: 47 DoB: January 4th, 1991 PoB: Waco, Texas Race: Dutch Nationality: American Height: 191 cm Weight: 87 kg Hair Color: Blonde Hair Style: Military Cut Eye Color: Dark Green Immediate Family: Bernard (Father)...

Name: Giorgos Megalos Role: Chief of XCOM Maintenance Sex: Male Age: 42 DoB: November 13th, 1995 PoB: Miami, Florida, USA Race: Greek Nationality: American Height: 182 cm Weight: 90 kg Hair Color: Brown, Greying Hair Style: Short, with beard Eye Color: Brown Immediate Family: Petros (Father)...

One, I think you posted this in the wrong thread. Two, my counterargument -

True, but sometimes those kind of abstractions are necessary for the sake of processing power - it takes a lot of cycles to simulate that loose bit of shrapnel from that grenade that exploded down the street that punches through your soldier's eye and then makes them a permanent right brain...

You probably wouldn't see that kind of mod for quite some time. You'd either have to compromise and put them on their rear hooves or completely redo the models, skeletons, animations, and maybe even the dynamic camera to work with it. And that's not even counting making the models and adding...

And then he got iced.

I would much rather have basic environmental awareness rather than 'awesome' - or as I like to call it 'the reason nobody ever tells me it's possible to do nigh-on-impossible things'.

I tried playing Dark Souls once. After eight hours of head-bashing, I managed to beat the first boss with the broken sword. Then I noticed the door to the left that would have taken me down the rest of the tutorial. I have concluded that these are not my type of games.

"ADVENT sent us to hell, but we're going even deeper. Take back everything we lost!"

So, while I was browsing the web earlier today trying to ignore impending responsibilities, I ran across the little site called I Write Like - which takes samples of your writings and determines what kind of famous writer you are most similar to. (Here's a link for you guys to try it out: iwl.me...

Things that are not allowed at XCOM #1731 - Soldiers are no longer allowed to yell 'WITNESS ME' when the Commander is addressing the troops. Stroking their ego is exactly why we're in this mess.

Man, if that story didn't technically violate copyright law, I'd ask when it's gonna hit the shelves. On that note, when is the serial-numbers-filed-off version hitting the shelves? :p

We've been given too much power:

Some say that he can steal thoughts, and the reason Vipers don't put out is they want him. All we know is that he's called the Lord-Cmdr.

Well, the review copy that was released has a few bugs that the final version doesn't, so that's probably been fixed by now.