XCOM General - /xcg/

Beagles mutons: 8 HP 1 Armor
Feraxis mutons: 9 HP 2 Armor

Fresh bagels when?

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3 weeks

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Alien allies soon with mods!

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I have a question.. Do you guys thing that these beautiful creatures could swallow a 5'9 relatively skinny male whole? I wouldn't struggle so you don't have to account for any resistance when you answer.

Also do we have any information on their reproductive organs? How intelligent are they? Is the snek able to learn human language? Does it have the necessary organs to speak?

But the most important question is: Is she able to dislocate her jaw enough to let me rest in her belly, while she lies naked on the bed carresing her newly enlarged stomach after a long sensual session of sex where I start around her hips and work my way up towards her perky scaly breasts before carefully kissing her and letting her swallow me whole.

Please I need this.

>>128564646
This bait.

DUDE GOT FUCKED BY A MUTON

>Mutons buffed to 9 health 2 armor
Thank fuck

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So who is you're favorite aLiEn?

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WILL THERE BE FRE$H BAGELS TODAY?

>>128564646
>pretending to be this pathetic

>>128564839
the whole art book online yet?

>>128564646
>guys do you think these totally fictious creatures made for a video game with almost no back story will be able to do X?

just use your headcanon, virgin

>>128564847
Well, not really surprised. Still kind of disappointed.

That Muton has sick dodge skills

I miss the futboll mutons.

[Xcom Baby intensifies]

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>16 point crit on an enemy with 1 hp

>>128564320
>sniper has missed every single shot exceot the one he took with his pistol

pistols are useful

>>128563712
>>128563845
There was this Q&A steam that was made where they read someone asking if they could "marry the snake".

I couldn't find a link to it if my life depended on it.

>>128564646
submitting this to /r/4chan, thanks for the easy karma fag

Jake's leaving, has to go vomit in the urinal.

Jake is so based

I wish I could have a couple of beers with him

>>128565363
I remember that one, it's one of the really early ones. Like, just after E3.

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WHERE DID THE TURRET GO

>WEAPON DISABLED ACROSS THE ENTIRE TEAM

CANT_WAKE_UP

>>128564847
122aina is me, I didn't even noticed they answered me

Damn do I feel stupid

>Codex can teleport and then do an action

What is this bullshit.
That's like if the floaters could fly across the map behind you and then shoot you

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>Codex teleports behind everyone and disables their weapon

Jesus fucking CHRIST

>>128565684
>>128565687

*teleprots behind u*
*disbales ur weapns*

nothing personnel kid..

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>teleport into cover
>AoE weapon disable

>>128565684
>>128565687
Johnny Lump is a faceless and he has successfully infiltrated Firaxis

You heard first on /xcg/ f a m

>>128565684
Never used floaters in MP, huh?

>CLONE

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ENEMY

MAKE IT STOP

THEY MULTIPLY

THEY FUCKING MULTIPLY

at least when the Codex copies, its not at full health

>>128565861
it also split her health with the clone

My own clone!

Now neither of us will be virgins!

>>128566006
CODEX FUCKING ITSELF

NOW

>Plant C4 to destroy ADVENT facility!

It's already all fucked

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This dude needs to do some serious improving on his game.

>Bladestorm

Literally GALEFORCE

>>128566149
You mean X4. The 'X' makes it sound more futuristic.

>>128566168
>doesn't use superior psi hit attacks when he can
>runs his team into the open
>puts them a tile away from a muton
>groups half of them together

>>128566168
pete isnt great.

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>>128566140

>>128566286
Now i need a CS:GO mod

>>128566296
Dude is obviously nervous as fuck

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I think the codex may be an ethereal possessing a human. Outsiders didn't have psi powers.

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Valkyria Chronicles mod NEVER ;_;

If you yellow move into an evac zone with your last move of the turn does it auto end the turn or does it wait for you to evac?

>>128566551

You can evac after dashing to extraction, one of the previewers tested it.

>>128566551
In XCOM 2? Waits for you to evac

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what is garth doing this week? what surprises are we in for? Will he be knocking on my door soon?

>>128566428
They're more like holograms than organic beings though.

>that random black guy in the room

in case people were wondering and didn't catch the start that mission took place in mid-June, so looks like Archons, the Codex, Shieldbearers and all-alien pods are introduced around then.

pete even cheated with max level Psi soldiers and still fucked up a lot

>>128566710
ayy holler where am i this aint mcdonalds

Wow, that stream was amazing.
>Archon with his abilities
>Codex with her abilities
>Muton close combat
>Lot of snek +mindcontroled one
>Sniper who nothing hit anything
>Psi-Operates

Very well done. I don't want to see playing good and kill anything on sight, i want to see some cool stuff.

>>128566551

I think not, because you do something in that evac-zone.

>>128566812
It was also on legendary

>>128566819
you mean kfc

>>128566812
that archon had like 15-20 hp?

>>128566864
shut the fuck up pete

>>128566812
>and still fucked up a lot
In fairness that was because he ran in and activated pods early like twice.

>>128566997

He was bad, you could see that want to show us some abilities from enemies. He could shot the archon all day, but he didn't, because i bet that we can see his rockets.

>>128567136
Dude if english is this difficult for you just run your shit through google translator, what the fuck kind of pleb are you?

>>128567336
settle down their boy.

>>128567336

I'm tired, i don't speak english and i write very fast without checking my spelling.

I think Archons rockets are weak. You can always run away from it, or kill the archon instead, it's more a supression unit what make you run away from your cover, or shoot at him, instead at other units.

>>128567480
Thx

desu I kinda believe they have a "next shot will be a hit/miss" dev button

>>128566225
Huh?

>>128567526
and jake was holding the miss button on petes turn?

>>128566225
What are you talking about?

>>128567072
>>and still fucked up a lot
>In fairness that was because he fucket up a lot
I don't get it?

Alright boys,

I'm gonna play this for the very first time. Which difficulty settings should I choose if I like very rough buttfucking but do not want to be impaled all the way to my skull?

>>128566542
People hated the game for a reason thats why it sold so badly.

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"Vladimir good at shooting, but don't know how operate strange magnet gun. Give me Drugunov, i wills how you"

>>128568270
Classic Ironman

>>128568270
Classic but probably not ironman. And take the "not created equally" and "hidden potential" second wave options.

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I made a thing.

But I can't think of a joke.

>>128568406
Those were always my favourite second wave options. Makes every soldier feel unique.

>>128568446
not bad anon...

>>128568347
I want an option to have vintage weapons like AKs and FALs.

>>128568446
You forgot the speech from the alien in the bottom right

>>128568446
Neat

>>128568406
>>128568492

Is the uniqueness the reason for those second wave options? Or is there some other reason?

>>128568672
That's the joke I can't think of.

>>128568672
I think that's what he meant.

>>128568654
Human Armory DLC

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>>128568654

Don't worry

>>128568729
"Ayy lmao" always works

>>128568446
Now I'm tempted to add X-Slut to my pool.

>>128568717
Both of those options give soldiers random starting stats and random stat gain.

You can end up with silly situations like a soldier with ridiculously high aim but fuck all will.

>>128568357
>>128568406
>>128568883

Alright, thanks guys. I'm gonna go with Classic Ironman plus those second wave options then. Wish me luck.

>>128569654
Just remember to build more satellites and you'll probably be fine.

beagles when

>>128569654
Remember to post screenshots here of your progress.

>>128569754
>>128569768

Got it! Time to smack some ayys.

>>128568446
>Sign me out

Because they are holding signs? Comedy is hard

It's thursday night - no Beags tonight?

I wonder how successful the Commander was in canon before he and XCOM got BTFO in the first one. I think someone mentioned we only shot down two UFOs.

Can you guys post the comic about how useless rookies are, the one with the gray.

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>>128570586
XCOM was making good progress and making breakthroughs but with heavy losses

Then the council just bailed on them out of the blue and gave the HQ co-ords to the ayys

>>128564646
not again.
anon, please go away

>>128570819
>no PTSD image of CLOSE RANGE

>>128570819
I wonder if it was multiple or just one council member that sold us out. They will be punished if the truth is ever found. We will salt their nation.

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>>128570708
This one?

>>128570579
his usual streaming time is 3 hours from now

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>>128564580

>>128570586
I was wondering this as well, did XCOM ever fought with EXALT according to this lore? I need to know so I can adjust my head canon

>>128571083

Yes! Thank you kind Anon!

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>>128571123
She'll take up arms for you!

>>128568446
wait, you are the artist?

>>128571157
No, EXALT never made their move before Xcom lost.

>>128571157
You'd think he would have been somewhat successful if XCOM took the time to bust you out of that pod ADVENT has had you in. They think you are a savior yet you couldn't beat the ayyys the first time? Something doesn't add up.

>>128571157
No, Exalt only begin appearing in May and we lose before then.

>>128571083
>grays are gone
Feels bad man.

>>128571261
more like she'll infiltrate you and bring you down from the inside

>>128571356
EXALT became ADVENT

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>>128571083
Another old one.

>>128571465
I'm sure there will be a mod to bring back the EU and EW aliens as well.

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>>128571470
>more like she'll infiltrate you and bring you down from the inside

Oh baby

>>128571261
>people get turned on by this

>>128570586
>>128571157

It kinda feels like XCOM should have lost a little later than they did, for story purposes. There should have been enough time for The Commander to show his quality, and for XCOM to prove itself as a worthy line of defense. Enough time for EXALT to reveal themselves, as well, if only so you could allude to them in the sequel.

>>128571356
>>128571456
Nice. Thanks anon.

>>128571418
Well, we lost because we got sold out.

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>>128568526
>>128568672
>>128568831
>>128570483
WAIT, I'VE GOT IT

>>128571321
As in, the original Onion artist?
No way. It's just an edit like all the others.

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>>128570982
It's implied that some followed the other Nations under the reasoning "Live to fuck up your enemy from the inside"

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>>128571642
Damn right

>>128570819
CLOSE RANGE?!

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>>128571503
Nope. EXALT are anti-alien

>>128571781
Noife.

>>128571781
Nice~

>>128571836
pathetic but not surprising. You can slap a pair of tits on anything and teenagers would jerk off to it.

>>128571889
>EXALT got hit the same time as XCOM
>After hearing that XCOM is back, EXALT soldiers that survived are trying to make contact with the resistance so they can enlist

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>>128572048
Snek is great wife material!

>>128571889
Well, more like Anti-Alien control. They want to rule the world, not serve the aliens. They are more then ok with doing heavy gene modding to create super humans. There is evidence that EXALT was particularly fractured and suffered from in fighting though. So I imagine that EXALT split in two, those that wanted to get rid of the aliens by any means and those that believed that joining the aliens for the short term would lead them to the power they desired.

>>128571781
confidorks looks better

>>128572152
good lord, at least get some better fanfiction

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>>128571781

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>>128571503
Bullshit.
EXALT became XCOM.
XCOM became ADVENT- the earth govs gave up quick so that they could stay in power. The aliens would have wanted a solid power base and a pre-established network of law enforcement & civilian control, so they'd take the weakling governments (and their soldiers) under their wing.
All of a sudden there's no need for EXALT- the earth govs have taken over their role much better than they ever could.
And I'm pretty sure the AYYs wouldn't have a use for a shadowy jewish banking consortium, so if the kikes ever got in their way the ayys would just get rid of them.
Ipso-presto, EXALT is XCOM.

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>>128572312
Snek is a princess!

>>128572314
if a society can't notice millions being abducted they pretty much deserve to be absorbed into a higher collective.

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>>128572506

>>128571889
Holy shit I knew it. Called this shit MONTHS ago.

>>128572506
>mlp tier

>>128571625
esuccubus.com/sites/esuccubus.com/files/recordings/Serpent's%20Gaze.mp3.zip

>>128572515
I think that means they DON'T deserve.

scalefags are worse than furfags

>>128572452
yeah thats a nice theory and all but explain bradford and shen

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>>128572452

Punished Bradford approves.

He'd also like to know when he will be modded into the game already.

I want a mod that lets me send Bradford on missions

>>128572921
I don't know nigga, let's say they were xenophobes & the remnants of EXALT used what resources they still had to find some of the die-hard XCOM vets that'd gone into the boonies.

>>128572921
That is not that hard to explain anon. EXALT made contact with them after capitulation day and led them to the Avenger.

EXALT
XCOM

X-ALT

They are alternate xcom, same goal of defeating the ayy, but using alternate methods.

They fuck with us to a) steal our tech and resources and b) prevent us from killing the ay as fast so they have more time to reverse engineer shit.

Exalt are slow as fuck and never tech above lasers or genemods.

>>128572452

That's more of a game of musical chairs where the organizations changed roles.

>>128573204
You play as him on the tutorial

Promoting rookies is
10% luck
20% skill
15% grenading every bit of cover in sight
5% flanking
50% mints
And a hundred percent reason to remember the names

F

>>128573642
>dedicating time to remembering anyone name until they get a nickname
F

>>128562926
>Tygan gets told xcom dont wear scarfs.

>>128572452

I think this happen:
Xcom lost end of april, but the first EXALT mission would happen in may.
So Xcom never knew something about EXALT, beside of one single guy you must evac, but thats it.
After the war, EXALT got raided by aliens too, and the EXALT guys scattered around the world.

EXALT was always about to gain power, foremost with alien technology and Xcom make this possible. So the remaining EXALT forces join Xcom to get acess to the alien stuff. And because Xcom don't know who EXALT really is
they don't care about the Bandana.

Other theory:
EXALT fought against the aliens and people saw that. Their Bandana are now a sign of the resistance, and people who wear it never knew what EXALT really was.

>fountain map on swarming abduction, first month of I/I campaign in LW

Campaign over, RIP these six rookies

>>128573642
It's at least 40% grenades and 60% missing 60% shots.

>>128564580
why is her tongue coming out of her nose

>>128573385

I think you're trying too hard to play with phonetics. EXALT are post-humanist supremacists, they're quite literally turning themselves into a genetically altered "Master Race" to exalt themselves as the rulers of humanity.

Compare this to X-COM's goals, which are to counter and/or defeat the alien invasion using any means necessary. X-COM is a formal military organization whereas EXALT are quite clearly a private organization.

Notice that the Council of Nations are very shady in the game. They go out of their way to cover up the existence of X-COM and their activities. There's some real conspiracy theory illuminati shit going on behind the curtain, which leads me to believe that EXALT are some form of conspiracy by the global financial elite, whereas X-COM is a failsafe measure instituted by world governments.

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Need snek edit of this, ASAP

>>128568276

>sold over a million units worldwide
>bad

It's not triple A, but it's a jap meme game.

That's pretty good.

>>128573853
>And because Xcom don't know who EXALT really is they don't care about the Bandana.
Basically this.
They're probably people who were in EXALT and got stomped by the ayys later on and they see XCOM as the next best way to rule the world.
Because lets face it, after XCOM got betrayed by the world governments while trying to save the very same governments would XCOM do anything other than be the ruling leadership after they save the world?
XCOM isn't really secretive anymore with open operations and trying to gain human support.
Or would they really reactive the exact same governments that stabbed them in the back?

>>128573853
I don't think EXALT would come to/join XCOM.

EXALT can get *hit*, but they LIVE in the shadows. They get hit, they just cut losses and retreat and start building again.

XCOM on the other hand was a government organization. If their government pulls the rug out from under them, they get hit, they don't have any fallback positions or backup resources to tap into. They get *hit* and they'll fall down like a stack of bricks.

They both get hit, XCOM would scatter to the wind or be consumed, while EXALT would take the hit and keep on trucking, picking up the pieces of XCOM once they had stable footing again (like an alien transport ship).

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>>128565363
>"fuck i overslept and missed the stream"
>"free signed artbook"
HOW ABOUT YOU SHIP ME THE ONE I ALREADY ORDERED, HUH?

FEBRUARY 20?! THAT IS LITERALLY 8 DAYS AFTER THE DAY YOU SAID IT WOULD BE RELEASED

>>128573642
Fuck, i've read it in Shinodas voice.

>>128570586

I imagine they went as far as to attack the alien underground base to capture an alien commander and the beacon.

When they ayys saw XCOM was the big deal, they stopped playing around and stormed the base.

>>128575073
you're gonna scan it right

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>>128574242

just for you, snek fucker.

>>128574454
The councilmen would take over the world, not Xcom.

>>128574505
But why can Xcom soldiers wear EXALT Bandanas ? I think in the future, there is no EXALT organisation left. Only some people who fight for Xcom as mercenaries.

Xcom wasn't really shattered, they didn't get the staff, except the commander.
EXALT on the other side was the military arm of some rich people, after you beat the EXALT HQ, you didn't even know their instigators.
I think after the aliens hit EXALT, the instigators dropped EXALT and joined ADVENT.

>>128575279
>But why can Xcom soldiers wear EXALT Bandanas?

It's just a continuity nod for crying out loud. Same as why the classic XCOM uniform is only a pre-order bonus.

>>128575279
There is no EXALT organization left in the future, they folded into the generic resistance movements. You can recruit soldiers from the resistance. And those resistance troops could be former EXALT. Bam, exalt troops are part of xcom.

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>>128574454
>>128574505
>>128575279

The big orange light in this image is not a mistake. It is symbolic. Mark my words: EXALT will be back.

EXALT is not XCOM.
XCOM is not ADVENT.

You guys are reading too much into it.
It's simply a case that some EXALT (which no longer exists) members joined the XCOM resistance to carry on their fight.

Their bandannas are simply there as a reminder/left overs from a previous war.

>>128575552
This is exaclty what i said.

>>128575497
This is the true reason, like the "blowout" hairstyle only a fanservice for fans of the older games.

>>128575279
>The councilmen would take over the world, not Xcom.
There isn't a Council anymore.
The Council's spokeperson from XCOM becomes The Informant, 20 years later during XCOM2. He helps XCOM with all of it's secret operatives, but he doesn't hold any real power anymore.

>>128575707
THIS

Requesting Bradford story between games
Novel-anon, help

>>128576078
drinks, lots of drinks

>>128575279
>>128575707

It's more likely that a rich EXALT instigator (benefactor) wouldn't drop the program entirely, or would come back to the program, than anyone in XCOM could wizard enough money out of their anus to keep existing (even after being ousted & turned on by those who knew EVERYTHING about them).

I see no way for XCOM to have survived TOTAL ANNIHILATION except in scattered little pockets subsisting off the grid.

EXALT would have survived so long as they had a rich benefactor. And not even XCOM learned who that was in the last game.

>>128576078
lighterfluid tier warm alcohol, depression, survivors syndrome, anger, and a bit of an obsession over the commander

He was also a jackass to people during his time out there alone

Fuck I just finished my playthrough

What the fuck do I do now to kill time

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>>128576387
Did you beat the old one(s)?

>>128576387
openxcom

>>128576317

I have serious problems seeing Bradford as anything but a mild-mannered, highly competent everyman in a cuddly jumper.

>>128576256
XCOM still has some backers from the council days

When the rest folded some just went along with it so they could be on the inside when the time to strike back is right

>>128575171
you should have changed sports illustrated to sneks illustrated

>>128576256
>the mysterious bald man of poorly-lit rooms was EXALT's benefactor all along
>he was playing both sides to have two options to defeat the aliens

>>128575936

Yeah not anymore, but we don't know his new name... maybe resistancemen ?

>>128576256
Xcom was about idealism, EXALT only about money and power. You cannot kill idealism, but if you don't give merc no money, they will leave.
EXALT instigators saw a new way to keep their power: Join ADVENT. For them, not much changed, only the mercs had problems and scattered.

Xcom on the other side had good personal too so they get the Avenger and try to build up a resistance, because they want free the humankind.

>>128571781
toppest kek

>>128575160
No_
:^)

>>128576317
>>128576136
T-thanks, but i counting on novel-anon's huge spoilered text like he did with Shen

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>>128576461

Not to piss on the originals, but that interface looks less than intuitive.

>>128576461
>health: unused
lost it

>>128576721
Is there a list of things about Shen/Vahlen that the novel anon has mentioned? That's all I'm interested in.

>>128573385
>>128576650
I like this idea.

>>128576721
You won't get one - Bradford literally shows up in the prologue and the epilogue only. He has maybe two pages during which he's being a drunk layabout.

>>128576740
1994 had a decidedly terrible UI. But you get the hang of it pretty quickly and you end up using the keyboard shortcuts anyway (i.e. Play OpenXCom)

>>128576651

>le epik exalt is advent theory

Spoilers: Advent are genetically engineered human/sectoid hybrids grown in a lab and fitted with armor so that nobody can tell they've got big bug-eyes under their helmets.

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>>128576589
new and improved

>>128576740

You need to remember anon that the UI has evolved as the games you've played have. It seems shitty at first, but think of it as a worthy education in old skool gaming.

So download UFO/OpenXcom and have fun already, /xcg/ will be here to help/insult you (as appropriate) as you go.

>>128576583
I'm highly skeptical- I doubt the council would have been more secretive than the jewish illuminati. And the AYYs were mind-controlling them in the game-over screen.
If any of them knew anything about anyone else, they would have been found out and their brains picked.

>>128576650
Wouldn't be surprised. But then EXALT would be deader'n'doornails too, since bald-man got MC'd

>>128576651
Remember how EXALT liked to kill themselves instead of being captured?
There was more there than just money & power.

And besides, I don't think EXALT would be completely hounded down. Meanwhile their members were probably all rich fucks, so the mercs would still get money. They'd probably shrink in size, but they'd have enough resources to keep on doing things.

If EXALT personnel weren't good enough they could just hire the veteran XCOM members they tracked down. Shit those guys would probably work for free, double-bonus.

Why is Bradford white now?

>>128576740
They didn't exactly have the means to produce a super streamlined UI back in '94.

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I'm ready for XCOM 2, are you?

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>>128577209

Bradford's always been white you dumb fuck.

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>>128573909
Never in my fucking life has a specialist carried as hard on a bullshit mission as Thunderovich Thunderovski just did, thank you to the guy who suggested that name. Would've been three more casualties if the guy wasn't fucking unstoppable

>>128577202
I'm just referencing what was said in the book for how XCOM might be getting it's funding

>>128577159
das it

>>128577385
He's kind of look like bill cosby if he was black/

>>128577385
That is not white

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How do you go from this

>>128577590
this

whites are all cucks anyways, bradford is too good for that.

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>>128577635
To this?

>>128577635
>>128577850
>failing to wall jump

>>128577850
the Codex design is honestly bizarre. it looks like a hastily reused test model or something, with the black head going down to yellow body. like something that would have been cut in the alpha and then discovered by modders digging through the files later. it doesn't help that the darkness SFX they use on the hair bugs out like it does on the psi zombies, turning into ugly black squares

>>128577385
>that
>white

>>128577202

Maybe, but i think we will never know, it's all headcannon now. I think they get rid of EXALT, because it wouldn't fit in their now story, where the aliens rule all.

>>128577328
I'm wondering how Van Doorn got his hair back.
Maybe ADVENT gene-therapy ?

>>128577385
He looks Hispanic to me.

>>128577635
>>128577850
Aliens use the outsiders to hack and go into humans computers. They found such big amount of porn that got forced to change into naked woman.

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I personally like that they expanded the idea of hacking in X-com 2.

Those small things man.

>>128576529
20 years of hiding in the shadows getting drunk and nursing a grudge over losing the last war due to getting betrayed by the politicians and having aliens take over the Earth changes a man.

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>>128567753
>>128568114

Are you telling me no one in the Xcom general played Fire Emblem 13 ?

>>128578739
>levelling heavy game with no cover and loads of dlc
Rather just play wesnoth desu

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>>128577850
>>128577635
I like it

>>128577850
Killer Queen?

>>128578739
>knows Awakening is so shit he uses the number so people will have a less visceral reaction.

>>128579174
Shit nigga you got a vivid imagination, i just played them all so i know them by number

>>128577850
>>128578947
>Giving it a face

IT'S SHIT

PART OF ITS CHARM IS IT'S FACELESS

THIS IS LIKE GIVING THE WARFRAMES A FACE

>>128578995
Dynamite?
With a laser beam?

>>128579410
2nd one is like, a third of a face.

>>128578302
How to improve an already perfect game?
By taking care of the small things.

So I started my first ever playthrough on Classic Ironman.

>lose a soldier on that tutorial mission when I got a rocket launcher
>alright, I get it now, take cover or die
>during my first real mission, while recovering meld, two of my guys get obliterekt
>one of them had that first armor I bought for him
>should've bought 3 more, dumb fucknugget
>somehow make it through that mission
>wounded guy is gone for 2 weeks
>hmm why do I get so much money for my satellite in the USA? whatever, I take it
>"Sir, we got no defense set up for that satellite, so it'll be fucked up by aliens eazy peazy."

Mmh, yes. Just the right amount of pepper for my tastes.

>>128579631
It's the worst part, it's the mouth which can clearly emote.

The Codex has nothing but emotionless white eyes.

I really hope /v/ flooding this general on release doesn't hurt too bad. Reading xcom threads on /v/ is painful.

>>128576721
So, what happened to Shen and Vahlen?

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>>128579872
>EU/EW
>perfect

>>128580321
Reading /v/ threads for anything is painful

But god is it bad if the game has any RNG. And then if you recommend an RNGless alternative they hate it too

/xcg/ will survive any hardship. Throughout snekposting, salty bagels and complete news drought we have maintained a fairly decent quality of posts. I have more faith in this general than any other one, we're just too fucking stubborn to die.

>>128580341

Shen died of old age and stress from getting that behemoth of a ship the Avenger running

Vahlen is MIA at the moment presumed alive and in hiding after the volcano lair was attacked and her and a bunch of her crew escaped on either a sub or a ship

>>128580825
We won't rest while there is a single xeno still on earth

>>128580825
Meant to quote >>128580321

I think the shitposter is gone for good

>>128581014
There`s always someone to shipost

>>128581178
I'll shitpost if you guys want.

>>128581332
ok

>>128581014
That sure clears it up. What shitposting?

If I've beaten ew on normal should I play classic before trying long war? If not what difficulty for long war?

>>128581014
There's like 3 of them: xcom 2 will suck dude, long war bait poster and the /pol/ shitposter who really hates it if Valkyria Chronicles is mentioned

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So in the event of an ayy invasion, how is /xcg/ going to link up to remove xenos?

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>continent bonuses are randomized
Neat

Anyone seen any?

I'd honestly say play X2 before Long War. I don't doubt X2 is going to be a better game, but it won't have the width of options you get accustomed to with Long War.

>>128581886
I'd recommend the opposite desu, looks like it's gonna be hard to go back after x2

I think we should meet in Japan, Asia has best continent bonus for I/I and I think Japan has the most dosh out of them

>>128582001

And you can mod Xcom 2 into some kind of LW light with squadsize, podsize and HP increase.

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>>128581857
>>128582012
God damn I keep forgetting to quote because I am sleep deprived as all fuck

Goodnight /xcg/

>>128582012

>dying alongside an island of tsundere nips

>the last words you hear is piggu go home!

>>128582012
Yeah but they were probably the first to submit to the offer of snek sex

>>128582012
Japan would be one of the first nations to suck ayy cock willingly.

>>128582192
>no helmet on MEC

Are thou pleb?

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>>128582192

Night lad :3

>>128581857
Stuttgart.

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>>128533642
>porn when
Now.

>>128582896
>not shooping Vahlen's face on everything
I could have fapped to this.

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>>128579876
>going for meld

>>128581882
can remember two off the top of my head
>Weapon attachments and PCS's can be reused
>Rookies cost $10
There's been more revealed in random streams and videos I can't remember, they said there's more bonuses than continents now so you get different ones each game.

>>128579965
sorry i couldn't draw it properly, i only had like half of a jpeg artifact from a video to go on as reference

>2 hours from TNX
>no word from Beagle
no XCOM 2 access confirmed

>>128583389
>Weapon attachments and PCS's can be reused
Do you mean that before you get that bonus, if you remove an attachment it's gone?

I just started XCOM after getting it from the winter sale and just ran into the Starship Trooper bugs that kill in one hit and zombifiy your team. How much more fucked do these aliens get?

>>128583787
Yes. They'll carry over to the new tier of guns when you upgrade to magnetic or so on

>>128583106
There are no images of Valhen shouting like that, tho.

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>>128582314
MECs with berets are 1000% cooler than other MECs, fite me 6v6 secoids on multiplayer you coward

OLÉ

FACE ME

>>128583945
Biotics not much more
Mechs oh fucking hell fuck

>>128584153
>Nagasaki
ayyyyyyy

>>128584153
>being able to play multiplayer
>not having the game modded to fuck so it doesn't work
p l e b

bagels soon

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>>128584290
You the guy who dropped the name? Top engineer that fucking guy, think I went tandem with him and he went on to kill virtually every alien who ever lived

>>128584153
>nagasaki
>not rocketeer

XCOM 2?
More like, SHIT 2!
(this game will suck)

the prices for shit on the grey market are pretty ludicrously low when you think about it

>>128584153
I reverified recently so I could play some vanilla, I'd 1v1 you

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>>128584424
>not noticing there is a sectoid on the screenshot meaning i obviously play lw
>not having to installations on two different harddrives
>backing away from my challenge like an advent cuck

Hey guys, check out this rookie

>>128584697
An Xcom credit could be 10 million dollars for all we know

>>128584765
to be fair i'm not the same guy, i'm actually just sad that i never got to play xcom multiplayer other than ufo2000

>>128584771
>300 million dollars for soldiers that can't hit shit at point blank

>>128584153
What enemy is he granading?
Wtf?

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>>128584715
We should do this and stream it for /xcg/ anon, for real. Decide once and for all whether or not berets are cool.
I can't do it right now cause late as all hell here and as I said I'm sleep deprived to shit but if you'll add me on steam I'm 100% down tomorrow-ish

/122aina

>>128585334
I buy it. These fuckers are all on the constant verge of losing their shit over the slightest thing and going into a panic

Jesus Christ that guy sitting next to Jake in the stream today was super cute.

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fucking Oglaf always relevant

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>>128585379
Four mutons, how is that not obvious?

>>128584697
>Take this alien computer which can run Crisis 7 at one million frames for 40$
>Solar power panel for thousands of dollars? Have unlimited UFO power for 75$!

>>128585519
sent ;^)

I have the adam jensen pic

>>128585593
see >>128566997

>>128584771
I estimate it to be about 1 million dollars, seeing as buying an aircraft is a little cheaper than what it would take to make an F-35 in real life which I think is about accurate for the rest of the world wanting to live.

>>128585334
They're actually random hobos/people who got lost on their way to the market. What you're paying is the cost of brainwashing and bribing the family and autorities to stop looking for them.

>>128585680
I don't get it.

>>128581857
I'd rather just fuck a snek.

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>>128585806
Dope, I'll write you tomorrow my man

>>128586127
In XCOM 2 you can blow holes in roofs/ceilings.

>>128586341
Terrain destruction makes me hard.

>>128586341
It doesn't make much sense, really.

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>>128568347
>Gauss gun is good, yes, but consider, Komandir:
>What if you put artifact in it?

>>128585886
1mil makes a bit of sense for the equipment but then you recruit troopers at 15 credits
so 15 million for a trooper is still a HUGE stretch even if they were special forces soldiers , even with all of their training.
I think Brad in Gen Kill says each Force Recon is worth about $1mil in training, and thats dive school, mountain warfare school, ranger school on top of just boot and courses you take for your MOS.
I don't think a rookie can stack up to a FR Marine, and they aren't even the best I would imagine SFOD or SEALs push around five mil, but then again rookies do come with their own gear so maybe thats figured into the expense as well on top of supplies needed like food and board.

>>128572121
>XCOM mission going to hell with ADVENT closing in on all sides
>Suddenly
>[STATIC BATTLECRY]
>Rocket zooms in and blows half of the soldiers away
>EXALT pod comes out
>They're using EW classes

>>128586784
It's always possible that the credits are actually just an abstraction representing the desire for for other organizations to carry your shit for you, so finding 10 top-notch ayy-hunting recruits who have top-level security clearance and all this shit is almost as obnoxious as sending you a Gen 5 fighter.

>>128586570
When you step out of skyranger, don't let the do0or hit you.

BEAGLE STREAM

WHEN
H
E
N

>>128587139
no stream tonight

>>128577635
holy shit they are big as fuck
in game i thought they were skinny

>>128587375
REEEEEEEEEEEE

When are his new times? I haven't watched him regularly in months

how do i strafe and "sprint" in openxcom? HOlding shift or control does nothing and i pretty sure i checked the relevant things.

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>>128577635
>The Outsiders could have had a legit backstory that explains their presence in EU/EW
>All we got were generic Mass Effect ayys

fug

>>128587527
You need to enable advance movement in the advanced options.
Then you hold CTRL for strafe, shift for sprint

>>128586784
What you've got to remember is that rookies are far more competent than they seem during gameplay. Turnbased format means we see them peeking out of cover and having time to take aim before squeezing the trigger, whereas in reality they're probably poking their heads up and barely getting a few shots off before desperately ducking back in cover to avoid the ionized jets of plasma whizzing around all over the damn place, as a real soldier would if faced with that kind of firepower. I've zero doubrs they're humanity's finest even at rookie, before they get used to killing ayys for a living

>>128587662
autism

>>128587493
Tuesday morning (1 PM EST or so) he does Open XCOM

Thursday night XCOM is on hold until 2 releases because he's completely burnt out on LW, he either doesn't stream or just plays random games he's playing at the time

>>128587946
I checked his youtube and it seems like he just dropped that huge campaign he's been doing?

Is it because he messed up or is he just burned up like you say?

>>128587946
There is no way he's ever finishing LnI, is there?

>>128588151
Probably knows he wont get done with it before 2.

>>128588151
>>128588228
He'll finish LnI when he finishes I/I: never. He's totally burnt out from playing 3-4 different LW campaigns all at once and has said as much.

>>128587805
Discussing the proportions of a gameplay currency is autistic right from the get-go, retard

>>128587805
You are in a general. Deal with it.

>>128586784
In XCOM insurance is paid to the families when they enlist. Plus the troopers don't get paid.

>>128588737
>>128589063
autism

>>128586784
It should also be noted that your troops get no monthly salary, so that is mostly likely paid in advance when recruiting

>>128589242
>in a thread with snekfuckers but this is where it crosses the autism line for me

>>128589115
>In XCOM insurance is paid to the families when they enlist. Plus the troopers don't get paid.
I always imagined that troopers got paid by the countries they were originally recruited from and that most expenses were paid by the 16 Council countries, not counting expenses like Interceptors, satellites and other stuff.

>>128585334
These are people cleared and evaluated to be good at keeping classified info where it's at. They're probably not the best shots.

>>128589296
fun fact: there's an unimplemented Monthly Salary listing in EU

>>128589534
Then how come a soldat from a country that defects is still free of upkeep?

>>128585593
are you a gril

>>128589534
The hard part of finding troopers for XCOM is probably finding people who won't blab or abandon the project, moreso than finding people who are skilled. After all, if you were given a laser rifle worth possibly billions of dollars for the tech if spread to the right people would you just use it like a regular gun and not think about it?

>>128589663
Maybe it's compensated by the other council members?

Should I skip a terror mission if the remaining two countries in the continent will most likely drop out at the end of the month anyways? I have an egg salt mission hours after.

>>128589603
>locked up in base 24/7
>the only time they're let out into the wild is on missions

sure is worth that 300 millions to keep their mouths shut

>>128589865
Probably, but you're losing an entire continent.

>>128590018
I mean, there's nothing I can do about it. Month is ending in days anyways. I kind of gave up on the continent a while ago, I'm surprised it pulled in this long.

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>>128589786
Why does XCOM keep tech to themselves?

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>>128587375

NOWAI

>>128564580
>take me in, tender woman

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>>128578995
BITES ZA DUST

>>128589984
>Get satphone
>Call black market buyer and tell him youre going on a mission in mumbai in five hours
>Sell classified info and extraterrestrial tech for mad bank
>anyone try to stop you use extraterrestrial weapons tech on them