Serious Enemy Within

Happy New Year!  Which also means... Steam had their usual Christmas sale.

But I was good this year and only bought 1 thing.  And it was an expansion, AND it was half off...

That's right!

Fired it up, and it felt like putting on an old shoe.  I thought I'd just continue off the old game, but actually no.  You start have to start all over again.  Which is fine.  But, for this "Second Wave" I'm not going to get too invested in it, just fire and forget.  Actually, I've already gotten more soldiers killed than promoted.  Ooops.

Support Class FTW

Guess what else I played over the break?

The ultimate in retro FPS

Again, fire and forget.  I didn't pick it up this Christmas.  I was just reminded I bought it waaay back when.  So I installed it and was pleasantly surprised it's still being updated.  Nice!

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Make that 2 things I bought.  I cracked on Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition.

XCOM, LoL

I did it!  I finished XCOM.  Checkout my unlocked achievement.

Humanity's saviour

I started playing over Christmas at my in-laws cause we were visiting and I had buckets of time.  I was power levelling at the end cause I thought the last level was going to be stupid hard.  That, and there would be 2 or 3 diffident squads assaulting select parts of the ship (as opposed to just 1).  After all that grinding, apparently for no good reason, my soldiers beat the game in a blow out.  A little anticlimactic, but I am satisfied.  Here's a snapshot of our heroes:

The team that accomplished the mission

vs.

Team Valkyrie that I wanted to end the game with.

Wait.  They're all...how come they all have the same colour...

ARMOUR!  Yes, good question.  I am too cheap to pay for the Elite Soldier Pack and did not expect enough of the game to pre-order it, which again, would have given me the same thing.  Um, as of writing, I just remembered my brother customizing his XCOM squad with flamboyant colours  You know what?  Never mind.  Moot point now.

So what's next?  I'm not going to play the Slingshot expansion pack right away.  I'm going to play the next StarCraft 2 episode.  But, seeing as how there are still a couple weeks before Heart of the Swarm, I'm jumping in and out of some sweet League of Legends.  Check out my primary and secondary champions:

Wukong and Lux

I really had no idea the Monkey King was going to be one of the champions, but I was scrolling sawhimERMAGHED!!INSTABUY!!so here he is.  Lux is little more of a different story.  It was a toss up between her and Fiora what with the fencing and the sword.  But really, when I considered it a little more carefully,  2 melee charters may get kinda old kinda quick.  Therefore, I elected to go with a ranged support glass mage.  Very low HP.  Very squishy.  =(