Symphony D.
Deity
Link to video.
Table of Contents
MARCH, 2015
• SETUP
• MISSION 01: CRIMSON SHROUD
• Intermission 01
• Intermission 02
• MISSION 02: LAZY PARAMOUR
• Intermission 03
• MISSION 03: DEFIANT HAMMER
• Intermission 04
• MISSION 04: TWISTED HEART
• Intermission 05
• MISSION 05: SECRET GRAVE
• Intermission 06
• MISSION 06: BANISHED STAR
• Intermission 07
APRIL, 2015
• Intermission 08
• MISSION 07: BLACK HYMN
• Intermission 09
• MISSION 08: SWIFT GIANT
• Intermission 10
• MISSION 09: FROZEN TEARS
• Intermission 11
• MISSION 10: VENGEFUL THRONE
• Intermission 12
• MISSION 11: FINAL HERO
• Intermission 13
• MISSION 12: LAZY JESTER
• Intermission 14
• MISSION 13: DYING MOON
• Intermission 15
• MISSION 14: SILENT SHROUD
• Intermission 16
MAY, 2015
• Intermission 17
• MISSION 15: LOST DAWN
• Intermission 18
• MISSION 16: CURSED EMPIRE
• Intermission 19
• MISSION 17: BURNING HAMMER
• Intermission 20
• MISSION 18: DRIVING SWORD
• Intermission 21
• MISSION 19: BROKEN GOD
• Intermission 22
• MISSION 20: LONE FALL
• Intermission 23
• MISSION 21: BLACK PRIEST
• Intermission 24
• MISSION 22: FIRST HERO
• Intermission 25
• MISSION 23: CURSED CRONE
• Intermission 26
• MISSION 24: DEVIL'S STROKE
• Intermission 27
Questions and Answers
Q: What is this?
A: This is XCOM: Enemy Within using the Long War 3 Beta 9a modification and a custom generated name list, as presented through screenshots. It's sort of an excuse for me to play with Beta 9, since I left off on Beta 6, and I tend to just reroll starts in Ironman.
Q: What settings are you playing on?
A: I'll be playing on Normal, Long War's lowest difficulty setting, with the Slingshot and Progeny DLC turned off, Ironman and Reduced Beginner VO on, and the Strict Screening, World Diversity, and Liberators Second Wave options turned on. It'll still be fairly hard. I'm fairly okay at playing the game by now but you should still anticipate dying horribly. I won't be trying to get anyone deliberately killed.
Q: Hey, hasn't this been done bef—
A: Kinda, yes, sometimes.
Q: Can I customize my soldier?
A: I'll humor visual customization requests, but I can't change a soldier's gender or nationality. Anyone who doesn't request anything I'll customize as I normally do. I will not be taking loadout or perk tree suggestions simply because they tend to be pretty clear-cut and your supraclass will be picked at random by the game.
Q: I didn't opt-in!
A: You can however opt-out, in which case if you appear I will personally kick you out of XCOM. Think of it as maximally inclusive.
Q: What if I want to play my own campaign?
A: All the links you need were in the response to the first question. Disregard all of the information pertaining to how to install the mod in its description and simply run the installer. The game will probably crash the first time afterwards, that just happens. Long War will then be automatically loaded. To uninstall, verify the integrity of the game through Steam.
Q: What about the story and tips and—
A: You should watch The Definitive X-Com Commanders Guide by JadeStar and GuavaMoment (the thread for which you may or may not be able to see) for play in vanilla Enemy Within Classic (+Not Created Equally and Hidden Potential) and Beaglerush's XCOM: Ironman Impossible, Seasons 1 and 2 of which are played in vanilla Enemy Unknown, and Season 3 of which is played in EW:LW3. Beaglerush also hosts Thursday Night XCOM weekly on the Twitch.tv stream he shares with his girlfriend, and there are several videos in the history you can watch. I will entertain discussion or mechanics questions but generally these sources will answer a lot of your questions. This is less an informative LP and more about watching something bearing your name kill and die. I'll also tolerate discussion of these resources, and if you want to do fanart or stories or something that's cool too.
Q: What is the update schedule?
A: Whenever I feel like it. No promises.