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X-Men Legends
by Jamesman
Publication date 2009
Publisher Let's Play Archive
In the fall of 2004, Activision released the Raven Software-developed X-Men Legends on multiple platforms.
An interesting take on the "comic book game" genre, XML is an action RPG, in which you create 4-person teams from the 14 playable characters, and earn experience and money to increase their abilities.
Storywise, the game's focus is on "new" character Alison Crestmere, who is of interest to both the Brotherhood of Mutants and the X-Men. She's mostly just an excuse to shoehorn character backstories into the game with some groan-worthy writing, and you're rarely (if ever) required to use her in missions.
Speaking of missions, they can get quite long. I'm doing my best to have efficient playthroughs of each mission, and I also intend to have updates consist of multiple videos covering each mission. Because of this, updates may not be too frequent.
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okay I'm about to finalize my team here
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with uh Emma Frost but I wanted to show
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off her
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little uh animation
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here Emma Frost that
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is something else let me tell
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you okay so you've seen Rogan storm
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before you haven't seen Rogan quite a
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while but we got Gambit and White Queen
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here for the first time
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so let's just kind of go down the list
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here okay as I said it's been quite a
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while since we've used Rogue so we got
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some points all stored up to use on her
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going to load up her strike a couple
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points into focus and some into the body
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don't really need too much for Focus cuz
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she's just very straightforward with the
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physical but sometimes you need a mutant
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ability especially since I'm going to be
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doing a little bit of flying around in
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this area strike she's actually the
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strongest character I have at the moment
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which is kind of
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Bonkers uh Southern strike I'm going to
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power up to Southern smash for a good
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chunk of damage there some good
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knockback ability drain I'm still not
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ready for it basically I don't know if I
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went over this or not but it's main
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appeal heal is that you
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steal abilities from other
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characters it doesn't really have too
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much of a point with uh like regular
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humans but when you come across things
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like the Brotherhood or the acolytes or
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even some of the bosses you'll end up
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stealing one of their powers which you
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know is is kind of cool but doesn't
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really have too much of a
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purpose um
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bulletproof haven't really
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not sure if I'm really ready for that
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right now I want to put a point into
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flight at least that way she can fly
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around and
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um I could
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do I might as well just put it into
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bulletproof I'm probably not going to
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use it but you know might come in handy
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because it just reduces damage that you
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take uh muscle accelerator I actually
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got some improved
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updated things like there used to be the
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basic muscle accelerator now I have a
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regular one which increases attack and
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run speed by 20% as opposed to
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10% it's pretty much how things go like
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there's basically the basic the regular
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the super things like that and they all
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do the same thing just to different
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degrees she's a fighter so strike and
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pop one of those nanofiber babies
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honor and next up we have Gambit now
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this is a new person for us here as you
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can see he's got a pretty high focus
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compared to the rest of his basic
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stats um I'm going to put a couple
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points into
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strike one into agility some into
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body and then quite a few
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into focus
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[Music]
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and that looks
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good and now he's really the kind of
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person that is better when you're
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controlling them yourself as opposed to
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letting the computer do it because so
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many of his things kind of revolve
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around choosing multiple actions which
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the AI isn't really that capable
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of charged card he throws out cards just
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like Magma's fire thingy and Iceman's
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ice thingy and Jubilee's firework
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thingies and in this case
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though I might actually put some points
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into that down the line just because
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it's good to have a little bit of uh
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range
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attack in his case it's just kind of
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like you
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know it's it's a possibility but I
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actually like staff slam a lot more it's
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an area effect attack hits within a
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radius has a pretty strong knockback not
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a whole lot of damage but it's good for
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crowd control kinetic boost and kinetic
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amplification That's Where It's At
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kinetic kinetic boost gives you a little
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energy damage add-on for temporary time
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but when you get to
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amplification it increases the movement
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speed of you and all nearby teammates as
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well as adding that energy damage it's
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really pretty cool pretty handy kinetic
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strike adds kinetic damage to melee
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attacks and Staffmaster adds it to staff
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attacks so this is for like regular
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fighting and this is for staff attacks
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cuz in his combos he sometimes uses his
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staff so I'll pop some onto that and
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I'll pop some onto this just kind of
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round that out and he already has an
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agility enhancer on here I'm going to
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switch that out for a
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body and power enhancer and a nanofiber
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armor we have storm we've seen quite a
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bit of
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her she's already kind of got a lot of
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focus there so I'm just going to put a
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couple points into
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body
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and just add another little point to
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chain lightning and she's already decked
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out super DNA generator generates energy
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75% more quickly it's really awesome
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Focus
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nanofiber it's all good in the hood now
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White Queen you would think that you
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know she's a psychic mutant she's kind
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of a support you you know not like a
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direct damage thing but
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no I'm loading up Focus I'm loading up
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strike and a couple points into agility
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and body because you would be very
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surprised uh she has some crowd control
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stuff
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confuse uh you know kind of stuns
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enemies and when you get to command you
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can convert them but you know if they're
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fighting each other they're taking
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experience away from you if they kill
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each other
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so it's not really too good an idea to
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use that I might put points into it
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later for crowd control I might not fear
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is also good for crowd control it just
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causes enemies to run
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away but right now I'm going for the
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psychic shell and Diamond shell cuz that
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is a damage reduction beam damage
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reduction pain reduction it's uh pretty
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cool pretty uh
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important and then we have hardness
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which reflects physical damage back at
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enemies you know it's uh pretty good
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shellite is also very good it's kind of
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like magma Mite with her magma form for
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magma and the Magness of it all yeah you
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get a melee damage increase and
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destruction
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bonus and that comes in quite
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handy and then uh the psionic strike is
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good too for the melee
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there we are so 40% chance to reflect up
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to 100
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damage and some psionic Fury there some
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good chunk of mental
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damage it's uh pretty good pretty good
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if you ask me and then we'll just throw
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on
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uh some of that and then let's
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just fix
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those actually I'm going to give him
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kinetic
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amplification and I believe we're all
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set I can sense them
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nearby search the grounds and I'll mark
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the ones closest to
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us okay and that's the gist of this
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fight I'll show off what's going on here
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in a cut
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scene almost missed him
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see when you get close to enemies
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they'll decloak and get to fight them
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now here's a new enemy the infiltration
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drones they are not supposed to be weak
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to or they're not supposed to be
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physical resistant but they can be kind
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of hard to take down a lot harder take
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down than the gerso soldiers
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here as long as they stop blocking there
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we go
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okay so you basically run around and
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when you get nearby they will decl cloak
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at least in theory uh there's quite a
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few times where you can run around an
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area over and over and nothing will
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freaking
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[Music]
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happen even though they're supposed to
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show
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up so yeah this is pretty
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straightforward you have to kill 10 of
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the
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soldiers and then you go to the next
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area and kill
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12 and the hard part is just getting
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them to decloak
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so you run around or
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fly and when you get close to one there
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you
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go then you call your buddies in to give
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you a
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hand then you level up because you're
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that awesome I like this that little
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pink stuff is the kinetic amplification
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so they run faster now and I kind of got
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out of luck there because I was too
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far
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away one punch him Green Lantern
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style and you know you've seen Rogue
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before so let's uh show off a little bit
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of Gambit as you saw he has the ktic
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amplification which makes everybody run
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around a little bit faster adds energy
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damage to their
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attacks and uh he's got his charge card
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like that nothing special staff slam is
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pretty good
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though once I find somebody to use it on
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I said once I find somebody to use it
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on come on Garo soldiers here's one
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there we are okay bam okay see how far
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that guy went flying it's good times
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good times and now with his melee attack
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you can see if you do combos you can get
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him to use his staff which is good for
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some good damage especially with
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the uh the skill bonus I gave
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him
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and see pretty much all his combos are
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finished off by
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using well almost all of them are
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finished off by using
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that here's
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one and Rogue uh just kind of kills
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everybody before I really have a chance
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to do anything with anybody else which
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is fine by me because God damn now we've
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killed everybody here and it's time to
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go to the front yard as a
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[Applause]
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hurricane now they're nice enough to
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give you a little uh recharge station
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here some potions or packs or whatever
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you want to call them think you're bad
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Beauty and uh fortunately I don't really
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need them so if I kind of get myself
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into a pinch I can got them all sitting
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there waiting for
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me combo vampiric slam that's uh
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interesting that's that's actually
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really interesting
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because she doesn't have her drain thing
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she just
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has I don't know why it said vampiric
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cuz I that's that the vampiric thing
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should be for her ability drain skill
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which I don't have oh so that's uh
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confusing As You Wish anyway here's Emma
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Frost White
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Queen don't have too much to say about
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her just kind of going to show her off a
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little bit her Diamond form doesn't
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actually change her appearance she just
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gets a little Aura effect but she
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becomes stronger she takes less
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damage she becomes almost as strong as
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uh everybody else for melee look at that
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see look at
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that just I need but we'll have a chance
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to talk about her pretty soon in another
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mission meanwhile let's talk a little
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bit about Gambit he's a former Thief His
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his ability is he touches things and
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puts kinetic energy into them to make
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them
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explode and he tends to do this with
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playing cards and that's awesome a lot
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of people either love or hate Gambit or
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they think he's
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okay I've always kind of liked Gambit in
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part because of the cartoon the X-Men
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cartoon as opposed to you know the uh
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Scooby-Doo cartoon you know I mean he
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sucked in that but I just I always like
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that the swaave
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approach look at this up these
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trees take that trees that's what you
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get for being
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nature yeah but I mean I always kind of
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liked that portrayal I don't know too
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much about him outside of the the
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cartoon but I mean that was my exposure
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to him and I always liked that Gambit
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you know that the smooth guy that would
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just like get any Chick he wanted and
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then like blow up her vagina when he was
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done with her and go about his way with
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his little long ass coat and his Cajun
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accent
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just I mean nobody with
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Gambit except sometimes Wolverine
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and it's um you know there's always been
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uh the little history between him and
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Rogue in my understanding well that's
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all of them good job
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guys and we finished already there's
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that little drone just kind of chilling
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screw him now if one of you would be so
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kind as to gather the communication gear
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from one of these gentlemen it could
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prove most
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beneficial like I said it's a pretty
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straightforward Mission pretty simple so
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we finished
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hooray those gerso soldiers had some of
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the most advanced gear I've ever seen
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and they fought as if they were
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specifically trained to battle
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mutants yes this is most
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disconcerting okay Beast you got the
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gear now tell us where their home base
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is so we can clean it
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out just one moment all I have to do is
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reconfigure the transmitter and
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triangulate the beacon signal voila now
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we can ascertain who our invisible
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friends were communicating
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with
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Canada
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intriguing now if I narrow the
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search V is D I do not know this
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place that facility once belonged to the
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Canadian government it's where the
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weapon x project was carried out many
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years
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ago professor Professor wasn't Logan a
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victim of weapon
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x indeed which is precisely why Logan
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has already
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left okay so as you saw there there's um
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a the weapon x facility is where some
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shit's going
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down and uh Wolverine's already left for
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it but before we do anything about that
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let's go have a chat with Jean Gray I
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can't talk for long for getting ready to
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leave for the astral
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plane why are you going to the astral
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plane Professor Xavier wants a group of
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us to go he said he'd explain why at the
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mission
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briefing what's the astral
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plane the astral plane is a realm of the
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Mind where thoughts become reality but
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it works entirely on metaphor kind of
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like in
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dreams oh so like people who feel
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trapped or in Chains and stuff like that
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exactly can non psychic people go to the
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astral
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plane I've heard of a few very rare
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cases but non- psychics have very little
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impact there psychics on the other hand
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can reshape the astrop plane to match
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their state of
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mind good luck on your mission thanks
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Allison I'm sure we'll be perfectly
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safe famous Last Words
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ah so yeah there's nothing else to do
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after you talk to Jean Gray so you can
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go start another mission but what's this
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the astral plane or the weapon x have
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Wolverine going to Weapon X and uh
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Cyclops is going away for a little bit
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and the astral plane is where all the
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psychics are going to hang
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out so what's going to happen here
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