XCOM General - /xcg/

Only a few more weeks to go

>>128508441
>All I know about the yuuzhan vong is a little bit about them from wookiepedia. was that part of the EU any good

The only pertinent bits it did was clearing out a vast amount of the Jedi and political cast of characters, kill off the third Solo kid and Chewbacca, and set the stage for the other two Solo kids to go darkside, although only one of them became Kylo Ren

It was nowhere near as good as the Jedi Prince series

First for remove ayy and ayy collaborators

>>128508696
>killed chewie
dropped permanently

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Now that it has been shown on a Beagle stream, what is your opinion on the fact that soldiers panicking can throw grenades?

>>128508868
Seems fair.

>>128508792
It's why I was so surprised it was Han and not Chewie that died in the new movie

>>128508868

if it means we can panic advent officers and make them frag their buddies i'm okay with it

>>128508868
Commander, please advise the men to use restraint when employing explosives on the battlefield.

Book fucking where?
I can't find a good torrent.

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>>128508713
>>First for remove ayy and ayy accessories.

Fixed that for you.

>>128508775
>Assault Ayynus

>>128508868
well I don't think I'll be playing with 42 soldiers so I think I'll be okay

>>128508792
You can thank R.A. Salvatore for that one. He was adamant about killing one of the main cast. Lucas finally caved and said he could kill the family dog. I'm still pissed to this day.

>>128508868
It makes me wonder what else soldiers can use when they panic. Swords, flamethrowers, all varieties of grenades, just imagine.

>>128509175
it's just stupid ass shock value

now I know why disney declared all that bullshit not canon

>>128509010
>not having a platoon of XCOM duke it out with a platoon of ayylmaos

>>128509448

>ranger panics
>runs straight at a Muton
>cuts it down with a critical
>mission accomplished, Commander

>>128509518
>>128509010
>>128508868
I hope its possible to easily mod in new research/tactic school things to purchase. Being able to start with say 4 troopers and slowly research yourself to 8-12 would be pretty neat.

so you guys think its possible to mod the parcel sizes or parcels included in levels so you have massive city sized maps so company sized battles are possible?

>>128509823
I expect most ideas to be possible, it's just whether people will put in the effort.

>>128509823
Are specific parcels locked to map types?
Like can I get a town map with a huge ravine running through it?

>>128510151
I'd bet that the plots and parcels are keyed to each of the environment types we've been shown, so you have city center plots and parcels, slum plots and parcels, wilderness plots and parcels, etc. By default, you couldn't get a wilderness parcel in a city center map, but I doubt there'd be much stopping you from copying a wilderness parcel and reclassifying it as a city center parcel. It wouldn't look nice, but it'd be doable.

I don't know why, but I love hearing the angry Advent noises the troopers and captains make.

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>>128509006

>>128510803
>TR8R

>wanted to watch a more "professional" XCOM 2 preview as i'm having a Baglememe overload
>Friend says to check out ChristopherOdd
>Start up his Avenger Gameplay video cause some footage i've not seen yet
>Instantly greeted by some nasally weeny nerd voice
>soldiers themed after Witcher characters
>tries to be funny, isn't.
>tries to explain perks and skills, gives like a retard version of what it does "eheee shoots all guys in front of you!"
>absolutely dogshit at strategy, just does whatever without any regard for tactics or intelligence
>triggers reaper without any prior damage done to a target
>lets a Stun Lancer get free reign in amongst his troops for whatever reason
>leaves soldiers in range of Zombies

nahh fuck this guy. I feel like he's the kind of sperg that savescums and edits the ini so he has over 1000 will.

>>128512482
Nice marketing Chris

>>128512482

still better than northernlion.

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>>128513378

What about the 3COM dude?

>>128513378
I've never seen him make a bad move.
Then again I've never been able to watch more than three minutes of him because he is so boring.

I want to have a threesome with the codex and the viper.

>>128436475
breddy gud

>Darkest Dungeon Release Date
>February 3, 2015
fug, I was looking forward to playing it in a more complete state before xcom 2 came out

>>128514695
I want three way with Vahlen and Shen Jr. with mind control chips

>>128515518
wrong thread bud

>>128515518
Where did you get that? It's still 19 Jan from official channels.

>>128508792
>dropped permanently
>implying having a moon dropped on you and becoming a god of your race isnt the best possible end

The last character you played is now playing I/I LW. At what point does he/she/it quit?

For christmas my brother got the XCOM board game, and we played it and it was really fun, so I got the XCOM franchise pack, and started playing today. I'm 3 hours in and it's so much fun. One of my original squaddies, Sgt. McIntyre get wrecked and I quit playing for a bit because I couldn't handle losing any more of my bros. I have these 3 guys that are super geared out that I use as my squad, and then I normally just have another random rookie as cannon fodder for the weird stealth tentacle robots. This game is so fun holy shit.

Looks like XCOM2 is on sale on cdkeys for pretty cheap. It says it includes the Reinforcement pack too, can anyone confirm?

>Watching northernlion play xcum
JESUS CHRIST THIS IS PAINFUL
DSP WASN'T THIS FUCKING BAD

>>128518001
Since you're already watching it, explain to us who aren't.

XCOM TERROR ATTACK IN INDONESIA
FUCKING XENOPHOBIC SCUM

>>128518124
>takes below 40% shots with dudes in the open
>leaves his highest level ranger to die after popping a pod with slash ON HIS LAST TURN
>SAID RANGER HAD SIDE STEP TO REKT AN OVERWATCH WHICH THE GREN TOOK INSTEAD AND BAILED ON THE MISSION

Anyone else going full autism with themed squads?
Knights of camelot; all code-names being named after the knights and they all have english accents.
Hurrah.

>>128518124
Not him, but a few episodes ago he sent his ranger out away from the squad by a fair margin into unexplored territory to use his melee attack.

After he popped like three pods and got grabbed by a snek, he retreated.

In the latest episode he seemed to have completely forgotten about the fact that enemies can use full cover as he tried (very badly) to kill a viper.
He had also taken shots with literally everyone on this viper in the same turn. Apparently a 35% accuracy with his sniper didn't ring any warning bells about seeing whether or not the viper was in cover or not.

Also in general, NL alternates between two tactics
>turtling so fucking hard and never ever taking yellow moves ever, even when there are no enemies on the map and wasting entire turns standing still and reloading
or
>doing all of that and then making a yellow move with a unit towards uncleared territory as the last move of the turn

Other things include not using a medkit carried by the currently selected sniper right next to the dying unit, all the while constantly lamenting not having a medikit.

Some of that was from his Enemy Within series but yeah, you get the picture.
He also seems to really struggle with understanding flanking shots and line of sight.

>>128518649
This man sounds infuriating.
I genuinely can't understand how dense some people are.

>>128518717
he's so bad anon its funny
BOI rotted his brain

>>128518760
>BOI
I'm assuming this isn't referring to lithe men with feminine features.

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>>128518394
>>128518649

You can't be serious.

>>128518883
binding of isaac indeed anon

>>128518760
>>128518760
The funniest thing about it is that he still has sudden lapses of extreme retardation in isaac, too (especially shocking considering he's put so many fucking hours into the game that he should know most every mechanic and item inside out)

Like trying to get a bomb to access coins and giving up despite the fact that all of them are accessible via shootable red-poop.

He also seems to have developed some strange eyesight problems because he hasn't acknowledged or picked up a fuck tonne of trinkets in BoI recently.
>>128518883
Binding of Isaac, anon. He's put in fuck knows how many hours into Rebirth and the original game.

>>128518950
>he said he was good at siege
>gets obliterated over and over
good times

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>playing enemy within for the first time
>xcom base defense mission
>my asshole when

>>128518950
>>128512482
a decent lper is actually perfidious pete
he's relatively underground and he's decent at long war and he plays blood bowl

>>128519081
He's never said he was good at Siege once in his life. Ya, the guy's bad at video games, but he's real charming and he's easy to listen to. What's with you guys and bullying anyone who isn't Beagle.

>>128519302
how to become a good lper other than be good at the games you play?

>>128519590
of course thats why I watch his sub optimal plays
seriously I can't see the giant ass E on an eye chart without my glasses and I never set my dudes out in the open

>>128519590
It is one thing to be bad at the game and make mistakes.

It is another thing entirely to not learn from your mistakes or even recognize that you've made them.

>>128519687
dank memes

>>128519590
>now we're on the tactical game something I am much more experienced in and can talk more comfortably
>proceeds to move a soldier in a flankable spot because enemy doesn't have LOS on it

>>128508792
>>128509175

You know, he recieved death threats for that

>>128519726
>It is another thing entirely to not learn from your mistakes or even recognize that you've made them.
The guy knows full well he's bad. He even says it multiple times and goes to say he tries to learn from Beaglerush. This kinda uninformed bashing can hurt someone's youtube career. Why ya doin it?

>>128519927
Then why does he keep doing stupid moves?

>>128519927
>This kinda uninformed bashing can hurt someone's youtube career.
Oh no, someone on 4chan's badmouthing the poor "youtube content creators" who happen to be utter shit at their """"""""""job"""""""""". Someone take pity on them.

Had an idea that I wanted to run by you guys before I forget

Since I think naming and modeling soldiers after favorite video game characters is kinda old, I thought it would be neat to still keep that sentiment going but do it with weapons instead, like if you like halo, customize an assault rifle to be green and orange and name it 'the chief'


Also when you write your own soldier bios, I thought it would be cool to come up with some epic conflict based on current events and all or most of your soldiers would be veterans from that conflict, and to sort of eek and tease out details of that war through their bios. Idk like it's completely uncovered that the US is funding ISIS so China and Russia spearhead some kind of political movement or military assault to remove western influence from the Middle East, would be a neat way to give a lot of your potential soldiers good bios, from all sorts of countries; from turkey to Israel to the UK, and even a fictional country like the United Arab Republic/People's Republic of Arabia or some shit who would be allied/bankrolled by the Chinese or Russians

I'm not normally a very creative person at all, but I came up with that and wanted to share it with you guys

>>128520509
Bios take to long and are mostly boring outside of humorous ones like Mr. Exalt

>>128520606
Wouldn't have to be long, just something like a soldier from Pakistan and you could write in that he was part of the 3rd airborne during operation blablabla or some shit

Meanwhile on an /xcg/ without Beagle...

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>>128519927
>650k subscribers
>some anon on 4chan is going to ruin his career

>>128518760
>BOI
What? What boy?

>>128512482
Say what you will of his voice, but he isn't as horrible a player as you make him out to be. He definitely isn't at Beagle's level, but he usually knows what he's doing.

(Also, he's a much better speaker when he's got a script, like with the class overview videos.)

>>128521684
People forget about beagles earlier videos and streams where he used to make really dumb mistakes and youd be screaming at him. Noone is immune to mistakes in XCOM and I'm not sure why anyone would compare to beagle when he has so many hours under his belt now.

>>128518001
>>128518394
>>128518649
>>128518717

Two words:
>Dark VIP

(Someone make a gif for this, it's *so* going to become a meme fast.)

>>128521996
What.

>>128519927
Fun fact, he has as he claimed in one of his videos "over 200 hours in X-com". Despite that he still can't grasp basic concepts of the game.

That's not even casual tier, that's being flat out dense like hell.

>>128521996
a gif for what?

>>128522304
life must be so much more pleasant for people who are stupid

>>128522304
desu 200 hours of long war would fix anyones issues with tactical play.

>tfw kinda want to do some youtubing because it seems like it'd be fun
>not as good as beagle, not even close
>not as funny as beagle
>literally only draw would be being a gril but not like I'd be face camming XCom 2
Oh well

>>128522468
Ignorance is bliss.

>>128522560
The funny part is you'd probably still draw more viewers than Jamball.

>>128522560
SAME
Except I could come up with some hilarious sight gags
Maybe one day.

How much modding do you think it would take to make the holo soldier made by the meme bacon actually able to shoot and fight?

>>128522560

Dress up in an EXALT cosplay and run your voice through about 10 static filters.

>>128522726
Holy shit, that's brilliant.

Even if she sucks, she can play it off as being a canon EXALT commander.

>>128522726
Fuck yes, and wear a tacticool EXALT bandanna/balaclava (I know how hard it is to keep a bandanna on your face), this would be hotter than any typical titfest grill streamer

>>128522560
>>128522690

Just do it I'd watch.

>>128522593
Cruel but possibly true. I'm not even sure what she plays

>>128522690
I could probably be vaguely entertaining I guess, but not standout funny

>>128522726

...okay this is tempting as all fuck right now

>>128522552
He also played Long War, got utterly and absolutely destroyed tho.

>>128522828

Where would they get a bandana that looks exactly like EXALT's? I've looked up a few and they're all either the wrong colors or there's too many stripes.

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>>128522560
>>128522690
what is your level of play

Anyone got a webm of the vietcom overwatch?

>>128523114
I only ever play on impossible or classic, I only ever play Long Dong.
I do alright, I've yet to ever complete a campaign, and my memorial wall looks like the credits list of a modern summer blockbuster.

im not great, but I try

>3 more weeks

what the hell am i supposed to do until then

>>128522560
I had an idea of just doing a voiceless highlights reel similar to something like Criken. Maybe in my second LW campaign or XCOM 2 campaign but not in this one.

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>>128523187

>>128523396
It's just not the same without sound.

>>128523396

welcome_to_earth.webm

>>128523005
I actually think it would be more hilarious if she tied a shitty Repp style tie (that's the style with the wide diagonal alternating colors) around her face and rolled with it with no comment.

>>128522850
>>128523114
Classic Ironman / Brutal LW. Could probably run vanilla I/I (don't have enough experience in LW) would just have to have a lucky start and not be such a fucking alcoholic when I'm playing. Probably better than these shitter streamers you're watching, but ironman mode makes fools of us all.

I literally just moved house today. Maybe I will stream before XCOM 2 comes out if you guys are bored enough to watch.

>>128522593
I hope beagle and jamball don't read this, but honestly the biggest thing that annoys me about her is her voice. I cannot fucking stand the female accent/dialect that ends a sentence on a high note like they're asking a question.

>fresh LW run got fucked last one had to restart
>No ayylien reduction SW options enabled nor ini edits
>4 ayys on landed ship

Um, what?

>>128523536
That's LW, baby!?

>>128523492
>I hope beagle and jamball don't read this,
Beagle reads everything about him, or so he claimed during the Open X-Com stream.

E V E R Y T H I N G.

>>128523660
I should make a comment on some gay porno video calling Beagle a intellectually challenged person of dark colour.

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>>128523396
THEY'RE COMING OUT OF THE FUCKING WALLS MAN

>>128523431
>>128523473
>>128523745

miss_jamball/v/34562251?t=03h08m52s

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>>128523365

Keep playing Xenoblade X.

>>128523860
>miss_jamball/v/34562251?t=03h08m52s
>dat t pose
>beagle's laughter
>"fortunate son" song
B A S E D
A
S
E
D

Why do australian/british accents sound so sexy to americans?

>>128524262
Because we're exotic to you I guess

>>128524262
I don't know. It's honestly annoying.

>>128524345
>different and exotic
Is the American Newscaster accent exotic and sexy to you then?

>>128524354
Why annoying?

>>128524469
>Is the American Newscaster accent exotic and sexy to you then?

No because so many movies and media are all in that accent.

>>128524469
Sort of, but at the same time we're inundated with American accents all day err day in popular culture so I guess a lot of the more 'generic' ones lose their charm?
I'm really not sure.

Would exalt stream even work with a British accent, hadn't even thought about that

>>128524469
When you're foreign and you speak to Americans, any accent that is even remotely similar but not British sounds sexy to them.
>>128524578
This too.

>>128523347
>>128523492
You want to stream, tube or both

>>128524469
I'm slavscum and I think auscunt/bong accents are far more pleasant to listen to than clapistani.

>>128524615

EXALT bankers are probably like 99% Wall Street traders turned terrorists, so do your best Micheal Douglas impersonation.

>>128524810
which clapistan dialect? we have about 15

>>128524925
The ones I've been exposed to.
The worst one was whatever southerner accent it was Hartmann had in Full Metal Jacket, it was too unintelligible to understand without subtitiles.

>>128524578
>>128524615
>>128524673
So my voice is going to be unremarkable
SIGHT GAGS IT IS THEN

>>128524615
I feel like it would, but I'm the amerifag so I don't know. That is how the evil Empire was cast in the english version of Star Wars, so I assume so, but I don't know how it was dubbed in other countries.

>>128524793
Whatever I find is more rewarding to me personally. I have zero desire to ever make an income from streaming; I have a full time job that more than pays the bills.

>>128524793
I'd just want to tube. I doubt I'd ever get anywhere near enough of a following to want to stream. Plus my up speed isn't that great, so it'd be infeasible.

>>128524892
Shit good point. Maybe it would work after all

>>128523492
Straight up am trying to find a bandana for it now. If nothin else I could cosplay egg salt at the next convention here

>>128525084

You're probably best off using one of those sites that lets you design your own. Thick yellow bands and small red stripes.

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Helpful sneks!

>>128525223
Yeah, looking that way I guess. Sheeit

>>128525223
>not buying a bit of cloth and making it yourself

>>128525450

I wonder how hard it would be to hide something that plays MP3s, and everytime you press it it makes one of the EXALT radio chatter sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CYIu8Bc9sY

>>128525556
Shouldn't be that hard actually, could just get it on my phone if nothing else

>>128525509
>not buying a bit of cloth and making it yourself
pls, are you going to tell me you not only know how to sew, but to make a 3d model of your bandanna?

please. try, before you criticize.

>Guile hair confirmed
>Monocle
>mfw i can make Stroheim

>>128525628
>not owning a sewing machine
dear god, anon

>>128525690
GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD

phantom rangers, shadowstrike or shadowstep?

>>128525385
She appears to be trying to seduce me on the battlefield. I sure hope that's after we killed all the Advent.

>>128525690
>>128525743
>tfw when i can't decide on doing either an ISIS run or anime/vidya characters removing ayy lmaos for my first run

>>128525690

>secret hero unit:
>Classic Rookie
>Rooke with Guile hair, default jumpsuit from UFO Defense
>10 Aim, 10 Will, 3 HP
>Can never be promoted
>Only hero unit that doesn't disable achievements.

So no Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Indian voices?

>>128525894

>You can have up to 6 Classic Rookies at a time, and are allowed to make more when one of them dies.

>>128525957
>Indian

DESIGNATED

XCOM 2/TF2 hat crossover when?

>>128526104
Never. Why would you want such a thing?

>>128526142
Hats

>>128526142
It happened with EU, you got the classic hairstyle, a Sectoid head and a badge for TF2.

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>>128526104

>not wanting a bradford sweater item

>>128526231
That comic is prety gud

>>128526231
kek

Do you think Archons will be able to take falling damage?

>>128526231

What's the difference between a male and female muton?

One has a dick, the other has a bigger dick

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>>128526231
>They doubled the Berzerkers movement points to counter that shit

>>128526231
Needs one more panel of him trying to shank the zerk with his tooth pick machete due to bladestorm

>>128526604
I assume that they have a perk that will automatically activate their jets or they will be permanently floating

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>>128525039
>>128525084

You're talking at length about this so I figure you guys have an interest in playing on YT/Stream but haven't got confidence/experience enough to feel comfortable with it.

If you'd like help with this, add CentralOfficer on Skype. Assuming you're keen enough to try but don't know where to start, I have a lot of experience both technically and practically and I'm certain I can help you get used to the idea. YT/Twitch isn't hard to do but it can be frightening and intimidating to start, particularly if you actually want to do anything with it more than a hobby which is it's own kettle of fish. Either way, the core is exactly the same, though.

Same goes for anyone else in here looking for help. I know there's always one or two guys who are talking about how they wish they could start streaming/YTing but don't know how/aren't funny enough/blah blah, etc. Add me on the same account and I'll give you all the help I can, time willing.

>>128526620
Humans are basically the same though.

what's you personal worst streak of bad luck?

For me, missing two 93% shots and then two 85% shots on the same target with like 3HP.

>>128526231

I forsee that Berserker's face having a bright future as a reaction image in /xcg/.

>>128526723
Got any general tips you feel like sharing here?

>>128526984
I could probably come up with some shit but a) I'm about to step out for a little bit and b) I feel like it's really important who you are to properly advise how you should go about it. It's hard to do cold turkey blanket advice apart from Be Funny, Respect your Audience, Respect their Time, and realise anything you're not currently good at including the above is something you can learn to be good at.

Quite simply, remove the ideas of "I'm starting so small!" or "I'll never be as big as <x>!" or "No-one will even want to watch me!" because they're all useless and instead look for your strengths. Why might people watch you? In many ways, it's the things we find entertaining about ourselves that are keys to what others will find entertaining about us.

Healthy self-respect and honesty is important to have an honest view of how you should go about things.

>>128526231
Does anyone still have Close Combat Specialist or an equivalent perk? Gutting zerks was so easy with baiting one onto a CCS Assault.

How do I make a namelist for separate genders?

>>128527434
rangers get bladestorm, which is sword ccs

>>128527673
>6 bladestorm rangers
>Right on the reinforcement drop of ADVENT
>ADVENT drops in
>RULES OF NATURE

Does anyone know how things like incendiary grenades or dragon's breath ammo work? Do you only get one when you roll them in the equipment slot machine?
Because I want to have a team of six grenadiers with four incendiary grenades, a flamethrower and dragon's breath ammo each.

>>128528107
Apparently one per.

I like how the grenades in 2 actually explode like real grenades. ie, mostly a big dust cloud and no hollywood fireball.

>>128528107
>>128528132
No, I'm pretty sure it's a research topic that's like "Experimental Ammo/Nade". You randomly unlock one type which you can produce infinitely.

>>128526231
i need berserker-soldier lewds rn

>>128528224
I thought I saw Beagle get an experimental grenade or ammo type twice when he tried it.

>>128527127
What if one of those things is not being good at XCOM? :^)
For me if I was going to do anything youtube related I would leave myself at the door and inject all my personality and humor into my editing. I might still do it and it's been hanging on my mind for a while but I'm pretty terrible at staying dedicated to something.

Cmon dudes if you aren't trolling you should know that the factor "being a grill" is more than enough to get viewers. Just smile in the cam.

Has OpenXCOM started working on TFTD yet? That feels like the one that's in much, much direr need of fixing.

>>128528196
Yeah, and they sound a lot better. Besides that I don't like the tile system.

>>128528680
What tile system?

>>128528680

Eh, I prefer it over playing brain surgery and spending 5 minutes to line it up just right with the grenades in 1.

>>128528212
Feel free.

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>>128528743
You can't vary the explosion radius anymore, I don't know but something about this really bugs me. Also, the explosion isn't a circle anymore, but angular

>>128529138
But that was really fun, now grenades are just wort a short look instead if something that could safe your ass in impossible situations, because you can get some nice trick shot off.

>>128529406
You could vary the explosion radius? How?

So is skull mining the new interrogation?

And why does it work on the hack skill? I get the logic but rangers or assaults get much closer than specs.

>>128529406
>>128529138
Also, how does it even work on flying aliens if they aren't located on the ground? In EU/EW you could throw the grenade on the edge of a roof and it would have hit the flying drone next to it.

Sure, it's unrealistic to have a bunch of air jordans in your squad but that doesn't change the fun and strategical variation it brought.

>>128529484
I meant your center of explosion wasn't limited to the center of a tile.

>>128529616
Did someone actually show how the brain thing works? Can you give me a link?

>>128529484
He means grenade placement has been simplified.
In XCOM you could choose the exact point your grenade would land, allowing you to choose exactly what you damaged (or fuck up your throw on a piece of terrain).
In XCOM 2 grenades land in the center of a tile, so they're slightly more reliable but considerably less useful if you used to take your time with them.

>tfw xcom is making my entire motherboard melt

why? i can run pretty much anything on high settings but this game is giving me like 60+ celsius

>>128529173
Sent, hit me up in your own time.
I'll probably hit the sack soon.

>>128529971
blame consoles

>>128523396
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwwpiuSoCRg

>>128520179
>>128519927

He's a youtuber, it doesn't matter if he is bad just that he keeps uploading.

>>128530136
nobody else is having this problem?

what graphics setting does everyone use?

>>128529825
>CLOSE RANGE?!

>>128529971
>>128530136

Games like MGS V show what proper optimization can do, game developers and hardware sales have been fucking us over for years.

>>128529971
>>128530304

No actually, Xcom is relatively low on requirements. How is your graphics card?

>>128530304
The highest and I only have a 7870 and i5 on a cheapo asus board.

>>128530304
Try turning off vsync and antialiasing and look at changes.

any recommended mods for the original X-com(I don't know of any for apocalypse or TFTD or even aftelight althought it would be kind of hard to call that one x-com)?

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Gremlin will be seen by everyone, even when healing your buddies.

The best of intentions
can turn a good situation
Ugly

>>128526723
I will very much be adding you when I get onto my desktop in a bit then

>>128528601
That's the thing anon, if that is gonna be all I had going for me, I wouldn't want to do it.
If I'm gonna do this it'll be for the love of the vidya.

>>128530875

OpenXCOM + Final mod pack
http://openxcom.org/
http://www.openxcom.com/mod/final-mod-pack

>>128530445
gtx 780 it runs mostly everything just fine

>>128531276
Ok, thanks

>>128530304
Got an i5 3550p and a radeon 7950 and obviously the game runs like butter on highest settings.

The only fps drop I get is when I'm streaming in full hd.

>>128530136
>Tfw xcom eu uses unreal engine 3 and looks like fucking sims 1.

Fuck consoles.

>>128530218
Was 480p the best quality in the mega link?

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>>128529971
>case front is filtered mesh
>case back has a vent
>case side is one gigantic went
>stock Intel cooler because i couldnt fit the one i bought due to above.
>everything is so clean i could eat from it
>my 6year old i5 gets to 95+ on fucking anything.

I should reapply thermal pate, but fuck taking off that cooler.

>>128530338
https://a.uguu.se/fgzaoh_closerangesound.webm

Wait, girls actually play and like XCOM?

>>128532073
Some might. Girls are people too anon.

>>128532073
No

>>128532091
HahHAhAhahAahAHaHAHAhAhahAAA

>>128532073

Yes
Or am I actually a faceless. You'll never know

>>128532131
I have to wonder what kind of fucked up childhood you people had.

why does jamball ruin everything

>>128532178
>Didn't have a fucked up childhood
>Still ended on 4chin

So much setup and you're still a failure

>>128532236
I just enjoy shitposting :^)

>>128532091
why do you care?

the rule of hardcore gaming is that, by population:

men > trannies > biological women

>>128532306
I fail to see your point. The OP asked if girls liked and played xcom. You don't have to be good at the game to enjoy playing it.

>>128532362
i said 'by population'

>>128529971
>60 Celsius
>hot
Who /laptopgaming/ here?

>>128532362
Yeah you do, losing troops left and right is depressing and save scumming leaves you with a vacuous feeling

>>128532386
...Yes?
I still fail to see your point, what are you arguing?
Even if the amount of girls who play xcom are few they still exist.

>>128532362

He means that xcom is not a casual appeal game, and thus the market is split towards guys disproportionately.

When's the best moment to research Elerium in LW?

>>128532434
I never said otherwise. Just that it's not impossible for girls to enjoy it as well.

>>128532503

Yeah exactly, and he never said girls didnt like xcom. Just that the numbers are lower than men

>>128532440
Right before the temple ship assault

>>128532236
While I disagree with the other person for basically calling rape over a meme I wouldn't say /vg/ is like any other board. Sure fucked up people such as furries and snekfuckers are in here and the amount of racists is way to high, but in the end it is a pretty neat halfway live discussion about a game eveyone loves.

>>128532581
>not using elerium jelly for lids

>>128532584
Have you ever gone somewhere else than /xcg/

>>128532605
>Flamethrower that can only be use twice a mission
>FIST can be used up to twice in one turn, one-shots all but 3 or 4 ayys, and grants +3 mobility

>>128532665
lids always bunch up on busting the pod and it causes panic even on i/i

>>128532629
In /vg/ I used to visit
>War thunder general
>World of tanks general
>Sc2 general
>Path of exile general
>Grand strategy games general

On this fucking website
>/r9k/ before it turned into a pile of horseshit right after the robot died
>/lit/
>/vp/

On the internet
>Forums that are good to discuss single topics in the long run

>>128532870
you forgot reddit and tumblr

>>128532870

>world of tanks

Are you the world of tanks guy that convinced JL on the nexus to make some shitty changes.

>>128532870
It's weird that fucking /r9k/ of all boards used to be good.

>>128532935
wel, everyone that uses the internet visits those sites, so it went without saying

>>128532870
>lit
What could you possibly go there for. That's like going to /sci/ for to discuss a paper.

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>>128532158

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Has anyone ever played XCOM: Interceptor? I'm just generally curious, never played it myself because Wing Commander was my god at the time. Now of course the game is a redheaded stepchild, but i've heard that if you can look past the XCOM faceslap it's actually a pretty neat sort of game. Any truth to that?

>>128532158
Faceless don't know they are faceless til they get activated like cylons. We could all be faceless.

>>128532993
I've never been to either beyond the occasional drawfag razia.
I've got enough autism here as is.

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>>128533130

Your mistrust is wise. Anyone and anything could be a faceless. ANYONE.

Even other Faceless

>>128533223
Why don't they run from aliens, then? Does this mean that an above-average interest in or attraction to extraterrestrials is an indicator that you might be one?

"We're providing a tool for Steam that anyone who buys the game will be able to get," McFall said at Firaxicon. "It works kind of like the mod tools for Civilization." The nuts and bolts: XCOM 2 players will not only have access to a Visual Studio isolated shell app for building mod projects, they will also have access to the Unreal editor Firaxis used to build the game as well as the script source code and roughly 50 GB of game assets.

A response to a fan question even confirmed that the possibility for a modder-created co-op mode is there, with tools “robust” enough to make it happen as long as players provide their own matchmaking server.

You know, they haven't shown the new chryssalids at all in footage. Which I think might be a reason to worry.

>>128533173
Yeah,fuck sectoids.
Get 'em off the damm lawn,them cities and the God damm Rap studio.

>>128533408
The frenchies leaked their stats and abilities. I don't have a link on me, though.

>>128533390
Looks like I'm making a jagged alliance mod.

>>128532935
For 2 reasons I never used reddit
>Interface
>Faggotery
I used to browse the beginner general on /ic/ and it was pretty great, but I stoped drawing for 16 months and tried to get back into it. My first idea was to browse /ic/'s beginner threads again.
I don't know what happened, but everything was a horrible mess of insults and meme spouting, it was like /pol/ and /b/ got an even more retarded kid that tried to browse /s4s/ but endet up in /ic/.

But I really needed help with my drawings so I tried to migrate to reddit's draw or art subboard or whatever it is called.

You have no idea how bad this place is. The tipping in there is unbearable.

>>128532584

As far as I can tell, the only true badposters that visit /xcg/ is that one guy who spams BREAK LOS and that paranoid Gamergater who has some bizarre, deep-seated grudge against Valkyria Chronicles.

Yeah there's ADVENTposter and snekposters, but that's just banter.

>>128533332
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>>128533332

>>128533597
You forgot the ayylum types guy.

>>128533223

Has a dev actually confirmed this? I thought Faceless always know they're a faceless, they're just excellent actors.

>yfw faceless are actually modified thin men to be even better infiltrators.

>>128533517
Being edgy is what all the kids do now when they discover internet free from parental guidance.

>>128533597
Dont forget the guy thats paranoid about the /pol/ boogeyman

>>128533597
>that paranoid Gamergater who has some bizarre, deep-seated grudge against Valkyria Chronicles.

Wasn't it because he hated one of the game's artists or something retarded like that?

>>128533696
Nah I just like the idea that they could be sleeper agents and your regular joe has human DNA entangled with deactivated faceless DNA meaning he has no clue until it happens. They have deep seeded instinctual changes causing them to not fear ayys.

>>128533696
Anon, Vipers are unmodified thin mints.

>>128533863

Yeah. Apparently one of the artists draws NTR.
And we all know how upset /pol/ get about ntr.

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>>128533332

>>128508868
My opinion is that the first mod I download for XCOM 2 will be one that makes soldiers always hunker when they panic. Long War did it right. I hope that there's something in the .ini files I can change to make that happen so I don't have to wait.

Panicking is completely out of my control and having my soldiers go full retard and run into shit cover, or shoot or grenade their teammates isn't fair, fun, or in any way a good gameplay mechanic. Losing a soldier should always be my fault. The game shouldn't be able to take people from me even if I did nothing wrong.

>>128533092
>/sci/
As far as I can tell the only people there with an IQ over 100 are the mathematicians.

>>128532960
Lol

>>128533863
I've never seen him in /xcg/ since I'm here on and off but I do that the day I witnessed that guy shitposting I was blown away by the autism. He was samefagging posts after post of shit for I don't know how long, it was impressive in its own right, and he was doing it simultaneously on /a/ and /v/ too.

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>>128533946
/pol/? Sounds more like /h/. NTR general is always a touchy thing.

>/pol/ is behind everything
>mfw

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>>128533863

It's funny in a kind of fucked up way when you can kind of tell the artist of some Japanese game draws lewd stuff, because it just has that certain look.

Like Monster Rancher 4. I don't know about any manga/hentai artists at all, but my gut reaction to seeing the characters for the first time was like

>mfw
"There is no way the lead artist on this game doesn't draw hentai."

When XCOM 2 finally comes out, are you guys gonna hit new game and jump right in, or do any other shit first?

First thing I'm going to do before I even start the game is dig around in all the .ini files just to see what all can be tweaked. Second, I'll probably spend like an hour or two just making characters for the pool.

>>128532981
The biggest myth on the internet.

>>128533946
Afaik it's not technically ntr with the way it is presented. With the pov used I think it's technically closer to netori (which is different from netorare) but since in any case there's no buildup or fallout which is the defining characteristic of both it's basically just a pass at it and doesn't qualify as either.
That's mostly based from panda threads so don't take my word for it though.

I can't deal with the hype.. but i've exhausted Open XCOM and EW

Fuck it, i'm going to install one of the UFO games

>>128533946
Yeah, I mean come on guys, it's the current year. Sometimes women just want to humiliate their partners while having sex with other men! If you're not ok with that, then you're just a bigot!

>>128534453

With all the awful porn genres I've been made aware of, NTR doesn't even make it in the top 25.

>>128534343
Going to be making a shitton of characters first.

>>128534343
I don't think i'll be tweaking anything, but making characters into the pool and generally just checking out all of the possible customizations is going to take a few good hours.

>>128534343

Don't have a computer that can run XCOM2, so I'll have to meditate on the mysteries of UFO Defense until I get one.

>>128534453
Don't you mean some men want to watch women do that? Because let's be real here, that's what it's about.

when will beagle split twitch from hamball

>>128534343
I wish they'd release the character creator first.

>>128534868
it would be datamined to all fuck, and making a clean, standalone version is more work that im glad they spent on the game proper.

release when

>>128535374

22 days

>>128535440
fuck

>>128535501

it's only 3.14 weeks, just spin the hologlobe and hope you don't get any ufo contacts

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Why do i keep getting such shitty rookies...

>>128535501
Just play long war til then.

>>128535601
>most intelligent
>still cannot comprehend a toilet

yeah ur fukt m8

>>128535601
I see 4 decent ones.

>>128535665
fucking kek

>>128535667
Which ones? The ones with high aim? I already have 5 snipers and i didn't even research lasers.

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>>128535601
>Couple of polacks, a bunch of darkies, a frog and a fucking aussie shitposter
kek

I don't think the council of nations thinks very highly of you

>>128535906
>Polacks

Neither your mom it seems.

Hint.
wrong flag

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Uh so why do Vipers have feminine features such as hands, breasts, hips, legs, overall body figure, distinct curves etc? Not that I'm complaining, but I'm trying to understand the reason behind such a design decision.

>>128535952

It's called sex anon.

>>128535938
Oh right. Those fucking countryball strips and their upside down poland.

>>128535952
>Viper body pillows

>>128535952
>Not knowing what marketing is.

>>128535665
That's why his health is on the low end. It's all that poor sanitation.

>>128535952
It's a more interesting look than just a "snake man"

And unsettling too, which might be part of the reason.

>>128535150
They released a demo last time.
Does anyone remember how many days before release that was?

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Real snek.

>>128535952
The designer didn't want to make a snake MAN.

He used Medusa and Cleopatra as references.

Do Sneks have vaginas?

>>128536296
I believe it was the 29th of September. With the game released at October 9th (and 12th)

>>128536390
Cloacas

It's a hole that works like your throat. It has an internal flap for swapping between sex and defecating

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>>128536390

>>128535952
Same reason Sectoids became Pectoids I reckon. Human DNA was introduced and this is how it manifests in female thinmints.

However I don't see what the purpose is. Pectoids boast increased psionics, but thinmints were as capable as vipers are now from what we have seen (surely the tongue grab and the hug of death isn't something acquired from humans).

>>128536585

except that vipers are thin mints without human DNA

>>128536585
Isn't the Viper the true form of thin mints? They had just been.. compressed to take on the humanoid form to work as infiltrators last time around.

>>128536624
>>128536662

So... it's a completely unrelated being that just happens to have boobs, hips etc?

I admit I was wrong but that is just stupid.

>>128536624
Vipers are snakeman with human DNA you just never got to see snakemen in EU.

>>128536713
Well they have a reptilian skeletal structure, so essentially they could take on any form.

as said >>128536081
it's unsettling and attention catching. People are constantly talking about them, aren't they? I mean, when you got the cadre of aliens that you do, an essentially "just" a big snake wouldn't be much of an eyebrow raiser. But the sneklady? Jesus Christ what is that thing

>>128536713
I think it's a deliberate change to their unseen base form in the same vein as the new floaters, to deliberately invoke fetish appeal and make them look less threatening so they don't freak people the fuck out while the ayys are pretending to be benevolent.

>>128535952

Consider.
If you're trying to get the human populace to accent your angry snake soldiers, do you want them to look like the large snake creatures that people are already likely to be scared of on this planet....

...or are you gonna make them look like hentai?

>>128508452
So help me god, I am starting and finishing an I/I LW campaign before X2 drops. Wish me luck lads.


Any rookie name ideas?

>>128535952

Maybe they were altered to survive on earth? It seems like everything related to advent or the aliens in 2 is somehow intermingled with human DNA.

Then again, they're aliens. Maybe they have a freaky second throat that their you climbs into where there is a poach and breast nipple for them. It turns out they have breasts but they point in rather than out like a snake kangaroo. We don't know.

I wonder how aliens got so good at sociology, propaganda etc. I bet they are still getting help from the traitor nation(s)

>>128537253
Well obviously. Promise a "leading" position, money and a cushy life, and you got a lot of people drinking the kool-aid.

>"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."

>>128537253
I'll imagine a bunch of people - hell, probably a vast majority - would sell out in that way for a bit more comfort under a totalitarian regime. And with the power the aliens have in X2, what with the gene therapy and all that shit, the carrots for being an informant/consultant etc would be huge.

I've always wondered what living under a world government would be like, though I get the feeling we're all going to find out during our lifetime. There's no way we're going to survive to the space age without global legislation against all the dumb shit we're doing right now.

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Reminder that if ADVENT ruled the planet, people like David Bowie would still be alive.

Do the right thing and turn in any XCOM terrorists.

>>128537345
>>128537253

Skull mining?

Hey lads, what's that great SweetFX config which gets thrown around a bunch? Formatted hard drive to install Windows 8 so I've lost everything

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>>128537452

And Alan Rickman.

>>128537539
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>128537452
Also Alan Rickman apparently.

>>128537539
Who?

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>Sequel to the Hit Strategy Game XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2, have mentioned in a Q&A panel that the game will have extensive Mod support. Most notably of the functions present is the ability to provide Co-Op gameplay if players are "able to provide their own servers".

>According to lead designer, Jake Solomon, XCOM 2 will have real Mod Support unlike the last incarnation and players will have access to the same tools that the developers had while making the game. This includes an editor and around 50gb of game assets to play with

>co-op
>50gb of ass and pussy

>>128537604

Fraid so.
One hell of a shitty week.

>>128537236
How long do you play per day? 10 hours?

>>128537539
holy shit what.
I had no idea, what a shitty year this has been so far.

>>128537717
For this campaign I'm enabling permanent motion trackers, so I can be ultra-aggressive and skip most of the congalining. Saves so much time, but I'll probably have to buff ayy research progression to even things out.

>>128537632
Snape

>>128537646
muh dick

>>128537508
Nevermind I found it. Here it is if anyone else ends up wanting it, should be put in OP considering how often it's been posted

https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/1020/

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>>128537539
what a shitty year

>hunkered down behind full cover
>thin mint still hits me
oh well at least he didn't di-
>next thin mint shoots at my other soldier
>misses but destroys the wall
>third thin mint shoots and crits him
FUCKING AYYS

>>128537895
Thanks anon, but how the hell do you install stuff like that?

>>128537986
THINMINTS HAVE ONLY ONE MODE

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>>128535952
Lore reason: Humans respond better to things with human features

Design reason: pic related

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>>128537986

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post comfy snakelady i want more

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Huh.
Do you maybe have something to tell us, americlaps?

>>128539137
Nope, dunno what you're talking about.
t. hinman

>>128535585
I hate PI.
It makes circles into triangles. I don't like that.

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>"Hilfe, HILFE!"
>Bradford: "What is he saying, Doctor?"
>Dr. Vahlen: "He's saying "help me"."

>>128539482
"WHAT, IS IT, DOCTOR?"

>>128539482
Wir hatten hier Spaß, nicht?

>>128539653
nein uezs

>>128537539
he also died at 69 and of cancer

>>128539653
>>128539769
Aliens welcome?

Fuck, kill, marry:

Vahlen, Baby Shen and Snek

>>128540035
>We'll be dropping you in Cologne for this one

>>128540127
I'd swap vahlen and snek desu