XCOM General - /xcg/

>>130467875
They aren't. They're just remote-controlled bodies for sectoid commanders.

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I WANT XCOM 2 AND I WANT IT NOW

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WE WUZ KINGS N SHIT

Second for VIGILO CONFIDO, DEATH TO AYY, DEATH TO ADVENT, DEATH TO SNEKFUCKERS, XCOM ACKBAR.

>>130468169
>Quotation needed

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AAAAH.

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Is it tomorrow that the NDA lifts? I'm going to have to cloister myself to avoid spoilers, and that's just going to make the wait harder.

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>>130468596
Yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqlkHrp-FA0

>tfw didnt realize until now that Independence day is the closest we'll get to an XCOM movie

>>130468596
>tfw can't decide if I should watch Beagles inevitable 5 day stream or wait till release

I'm down for some more multiplayer games.
Does anyone want to play with me?

Vahlen is a mindbroken muton sex slave right??

>>130468596
Yea, it's going to be a hell of a battle avoiding /xcg/ and other places starting monday. I'll probably check out a review or two but leave it at that

>>130468596
http://opencritic.com/game/1776/xcom-2

14 hours

>>130468849
>>130468596
I'll just watch it on youtube, i'll probably spend the rest of the week on here and i'm pretty sure some people will just spoil it because they're autists.

>>130468849
Did Bagel really say he was going to start streaming as soon as the NDA was lifted? Damn, now I'm excited.

>>130469071
>Vahlen has mindbroken muton sex slaves right??
ftfy

>>130469071
She must be like 60 at this point.

>>130468596
I'm running for the hills

Statistically, at least one of us is going to die before Friday

>>130469071
Nope, She went full supervillain and had a vllain lair in a volcano near antartica where she kept some "live samples"

>>130469329
I hope I die so i can miss the disappointment that this game will be......

>>130469329
Well if I kill one of you then I can be sure it's not me.

>>130469329
I hope it's him

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>trying to win impossible ironman vanilla game before xcom 2
>won normal long war before, Think it will go okay
>getting raped hard
any tips?

>>130469335
>Tfw Vahlen is singularly responsible for snektits.

>>130469329
I don't know about that

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>>130469402
>>130469409
We should totally meet up.

>>130468798
Independence Ayy

In the novel there were some 1st gen ayys that were cryogenically stored or something, and they got activated as a security system of the Avenger when XCOM tried to secure it and killed off plenty of characters from the story

Wasn't there still more locked chambers in the beginning of XCOM 2 though?

>>130470039
Active it.

>>130470289
What

>>130470039
No, just ones filled with alien debris and stuff that makes them unusable for anything, they're not locked.

>>130470039
Maybe, but it seems silly that the crew would fall for it again.

>>130470523
>Fall for it.
It wasn't so much as them fucking up, but the ship's AI realising it was being hijacked and released the ayy's when it would do most damage.

>>130470493
Oh. That sucks.

>>130470523
DLC making those rooms functional with recruitable Gen 1 ayys when

>>130468798
>>tfw didnt realize until now that Independence day is the closest we'll get to an XCOM movie
Colony is literally ADVENT:THE SERIES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxglHSaRuKo

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>>130471337

>bomb disposal on butcher map
>4 pods of floaters
>okaynoproblem
>find bomb and deactivate
>had soldiers all spread out to anticipate thinmints
>they all spawn on the bomb building's roof
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>130471572
I liked the futbol mutons

I will miss them

>>130471861
DAY

ONE

MOD

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>>130471416
Glorious.

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>>130472108

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I can't sleep because it's only 3 days and 23 hours left now

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>>130467736
while I played the original Dawn of War a bit I never really got into many of the expansions or DoW 2.

...they are collecting digital dust in my steam library though.

>>130472306
>I never really got into many of the expansions or DoW 2.
You're missing out.

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>>130472108
They even have similar color patterns on their uniforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpU8w27YB3c&feature=share

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>>130472306
I loved Dark Crusade, but that's because I'm filthy xenos scum. Tau Empire scum no less.

>>130470746
Because they let the AI turn on. They later cut it off from everything else.

So I doubt they'll fall for it's tricks again. Or accidentally awaken anything without triple-checking what they're waking

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>>130472220
So if i were to lie in bed for a whole day tomorrow then it's like tomorrow almost

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>>130472791
Tau fit nicely with the ADVENT design scheme.

>>130472791
Shas'la here fuck the imperium of man

>>130471416
>it's 3 episodes
Anybody watched it?

All the EU/EW models have already been extracted right? All we'd have to do is remake the anims

>>130473231
I watched it, and some parts are decent, like resistance killing off its wounded members to prevent them from being captured.

friday when

>>130473458
never

>>130473458
Stop making up words.

>>130469513
Get a MEC the first month, roll easy afterwards.

>>130473231
It's ok so far, though can't put my finger on why but i feel it's headed for some wayward pines level of story idiocy

Rip Cpt. Margareet Meer, taken down by a double Cyberdisc double crit.

No one could have survived that.

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why the fuck does this shit release on Friday instead of Tuesday like every other fucking video game?

>>130474262
because it's not like every other video game

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why is there ufo wreckage in this truck? who sent it? who's getting it?

>>130474457
You found an EXALT truck anon. Quick, capture it

>>130474262
Friday release actually makes sense for people who aren't filthy NEETs.

>>130474262
because the faggots who bought the physical copy don't get stocked till friday.
It's all their fault.

>>130474249
>No-one

Nobody without Resilience you mean.

>>130474583
She was just a poor Support in Carapace armor, she was doomed.

>>130474519
Fuck off with your memes you stupid nigger I'm not a NEET and I would much rather have the game on Tuesday.

300+ hours on this game and I still can't finish long war

at least vanilla xcom 2 will feel like a walk in the park

>>130474725
Okay, kid, calm down.

comic when

nauta confirming on twitter you can set a line in the ini file for games to either make all your recruits purely random, draw purely from your character pool (defaults to random once it's gone through the whole pool), or a mix of both (default setting)

>>130474725
>doesnt have a job to worry about
>calls people niggers
>wanting a release on one of the two days a week you can not worry about work the day after means you're memeing
>somehow expects us to believe you're not a neckbearded neet fuck

Not that guy but c'mon

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>250 hours of EW in my native language
>No bugs at all
>Switch to english because of memes
>Countless game ruining bugs in the first 20 hours

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less than 5 days

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>>130475247
it's what you deserve for wanting to be part of the meme culture

can't wait to have a squad of sneks on my side

>>130475451

Less than four days rather, spessman

>>130474779
nope, I started playing vanilla after long war and thin men seem to hit way more often, like they don't even have a vague chance of missing now.

>>130475834
Five in relevant parts of the world.

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>>130475834
awww shitttttttttttttttttttt

>>130476341
>North America
>South America
>Relevant

>>130473231
It has some good potential, we'll have to see if it takes off or flounders. I can't help but agree with >>130473834

>>130475131
I was wondering about that. It does make me sad though. Now that I know I can pull purely from the character pool I will have to spend my first two days with the game doing nothing but filling out the character pool.

Is the NDA gone now?

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>>130477385
Will be gone in roughly 13 hours.

>>130477385
13 hours from now.

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>>130472627

Pretty Brotherhood of Nod right there.


Actually, now that I think about it, Tiberian Dawn mod when?

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How did I never notice the EU Ethereal here? I didn't think they'd be so... public.

>>130477385
http://opencritic.com/game/1776/xcom-2

>>130471416
Is Colony any good?

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>>130468596
Thats bullshit, it should release on release day what the fuck.

>>130478254
Usually games that have an NDA to release day are the ones that are shit, and don't want reviews out before the game is on sale.

>>130478013
Holy shit I missed this too, I either didn't even notice it or thought it was a podium or something.

>>130476891
Yeah it reminds me of Revolution and Falling Skies. Both start really strong and good but then they turn. Falling Skies at least made it through the first season before turning terrible.

Hype trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P3rj0v8Vfc

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Approximately 100 hours to go depending on timezone

>>130478490
that song got real old real fast back in 2013 or something

>>130478254
Keeping your NDA to the day of release or after that is like the biggest red flag that your game is shit and you want nobody to find out.

>>130478513
I'm pretty sure it is going to release everywhere at the exact same time. Unless you are one of those weirdos that believe in the timecube.

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>>130478490
>dat sync

>>130478490
As soon as it started, I got really excited, but the audio mixing needs work. There's crossfading in the middle of verses, for pete's sake.

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>Muton / Floater talk last thread.

Uber ethereal quotes

Floater:
The new one faces a great foe, and an equally great… disappointment. When their organic form failed to evolve… it was given the strength of a machine, creating this… merciless, fearless, killer… A fate worse than death.

Muton:
Now… The New One confronts a greater threat - a rare strength, found in an easily controlled breed. And yet, they are incapable of brilliance, of independence… they will never be more than primitive warriors… serving only to fight, and die, as did those who came before them.


>When their organic form failed to evolve
>'failed'
It sounds like floaters were the mutons whose bodies couldn't adapt to the ayy genemods.

It would also give a more practical reason for the ayy to make the new floaters in the rough shape of humans rather than just for muh PR.

>And yet, they are incapable of brilliance, of independence
This seems at odds with what we know of mutons in general since they are at least on par with your soldiers in both bureau and XCOM , but it could be that they simply take orders from whoever they see as top dog and hierarchy amongst them is based on who can kick the most ass.

It would handily explain why they work for the zudjari in the bureau, since all it would take would be a show of force from mosaic and they'd go along willingly, while also explaining how the ethereals so easily brought them under control.

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>>130478726
Not exactly. Beyond Earth had a staggered release.

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armor (and dodge in 2) seem like better mechanics for making enemies tougher rather than giving them arbitrary defense boosts thus putting more emphasis on the binary hit/miss. why didn't LW put more DR on enemies instead of defense boosts?

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>>130477525
>>130477580
>>130478014

yes. Yes. YES

>>130461596
>And on that note, what do you think of Tiberium Essence?
It has its moments, but I didn't like the general idea of it being Tiberian Sun HD. If I wanted to play TS, I'd play TS.

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>>130478490
AWW YEAH SON

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XCOM 2 from CDKeys or GMG?

CDKeys so far seems legit and is around 35$
GMG has that 27% coupon but i am not sure how much that shit translates to.

Help

>That is, the SMG falls in between an Assault Rifle and a Shotgun in terms of the to-hit bonus/penalty granted based on range.
>At short range, an SMG gets better to-hit bonuses (up to +27) than an Assault Rifle (up to +20), but worse than a Shotgun (up to +40).
>At long range, an SMG has to-hit penalties (down to -8) that are worse than the Assault Rifle's (0), but not as penalizing as the Shotgun's to-hit modifiers (down to -30).

More information about the Long War SMG mod.

GMG has in British pound sterling for me, which amounted to about 45 dollars for the deluxe edition, and 30-something for the normal one.

>>130479369
Does the CDKeys one get you the preorder bonuses?

>>130479581
Yeah.

>>130479581
>CDKeys one get you the preorder bonuses?
It seems so, its there in the page.

>>130478013
>>130478431
To be fair, they and the thin men are the most appealing looking of the ay, so it makes sense for one to be present in order to put the populace at ease with the idea of multiple xeno that look different, not to mention establishing their view in the public eye as behind the scenes 'advisors' by having the thinman take the lead position.

>>130479698
reinforcement pack = preorder bonus

anything else is just one DLC

>>130479369
CDKeys is far sketchier and you probably won't get keys until release day but it's obviously cheaper.
GMG is far more legit since they're directly partnered with 2K and the chance of getting keys a few days early for preload are very high. The 27% off deal puts the base game at about $45 and the DD at $55, roughly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpU8w27YB3c&feature=share

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>>130479903
Sold.

>>130479945
is the same as
>>130478490

what

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Leaked Ayy

>>130479976
Why is this man so based?

I'm going to make sure every single one of my mother fuckers is an expert at melee combat. That fucking swing is too goddamn epic to give up.

THERES FUCKING VIDEOS OF SLICING A LIGHTPOLE IN HALF WHILE CHUNKING THROUGH A SECTOID

Why can't I promote van Doorn to officer in LW? His name is greyed out in the selection screen.

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>>130480094

>>130480263
Really? I need to see this.

Zandatsu mod fucking when?

>>130480274
He needs more missions.

>>130480274
has he been on 5 missions? Did you psychic or mec him?

So how many of you are planning to get the hell out of here once the embargo lifts?

>>130480373
>>130480402
No psychic or MEC. Guess he just hasn't been on enough missions. Could have sworn he's done 5 but I guess not!

>>130480508
Embargo?

>>130478994
>And yet, they are incapable of brilliance, of independence… they will never be more than primitive warriors

You know that doesn't mean they are stupid. Given what their goals were brilliance almost certainly means psionic potential rather than actual intelligence. They would probably consider a Predator nothing but a primitive warrior too despite being a race capable of space-flight.

>>130480508
I'm just gonna watch it on youtube and then come back here. I probably won't be able to resist coming here for a full week and i'd rather see it on youtube then from some fag on here who spoils it.

>>130480508
Not me, friend. Spoilers don't really bother me and I just need some more XCOM in my veins.

>>130480627
Review embargo
Reviewers have gotten their early copies but can't upload content untill the embargo clears, wich is in like 12 hours.

>>130480861
Not just that, people who got full copies already and know much more than what's been released so far(ex: Beagle) will be putting that info out once the time is done

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Reminder that ADVENT helmets look silly.

>>130480861
Isnt the content limited to 3 months?

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>terror mission
>oh sure whatever this'll be fine
>every fucking pod is a cyberdisc
>except for two crhyssalids that stayed on the far side of the map breeding with the civies
>the first one ran away, then I killed two, figuring I got it after it repaired
>turned out to be five of the fuckers

God fuckin damnit. This isn't Long War.

>>130480508
>>130480861
>>130481028
Shit, thanks for reminding me.
Better fuck off the internet for a while. I wanna make this as magical as possible.

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>>130481226
That was earlier in the month. Full game review code went out about a week ago.

>>130481106
Needs a side by side for maximum mental association

>psionics is its own class now

Goddamn, I wanted a pscionic blade ranger

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>come up on pod on 6 seekers
>5 go into stealth
>put 5 guys into overwatch
>they all overkill the first one to decloak
>the other four decloak and start up their buttfucking everyone

>mfw

>>130481603
X C O M 2
C
O
M
2

>>130481226
Those where preview builds that where giving to streamers and youtubers to promote the game.

Review copies are giving to news sites and youtube reviewers so that they can create game reviews.

>>130481249
>Zhang

>>130479581
Some anon said he messaged them and they said no, so you should probably confirm with them before buying

>>130481904
I was just asking.
I preordered with GMG a long time ago

>>130481603
You may have heard that this will be resolved in 2 since overwatch procs sequentially rather than simultaneously.

>>130478490
>not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v05ycGUNIo0
stay pleb

>>130480667
They also referred to the Sectoids as possessing 'brilliance', even though intellectually, they seem more gremlin-ey.

>>130481249
>>130481784
>Zhang not a MEC.

>>130481602
From what I've seen, psi-amps look kinda silly.

>>130484425
Probably something along the lines of cunning, ingenuity or technical accomplishment.

>>130484624
The psi-amps should be on the back with some tubing or something that sticks into the arm.

Would look much cooler visually and make for better animations.

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In which anon finds out he can't draw horses

>>130484821
Your horses are fine. Better than mine at least.
Also what does that UFO say? "We do not want (?)"

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Reminder that if you Genetically Modify or MEC Enhance your troops, you aren't qualified to save Humanity - You already lost it before the war even started.

>>130485004
t. ayy back in the EW universe

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>>130481106

>>130485004
Oh anon, the only difference between the ayylmaos and us is that we win at the end.

>>130484821
>ayys are moonspeaking egyptians based in pyramids
WHAT A TWIST

>>130485004
>Purityfags
Supremacy all the way.

>>130485004
>Implying that MEChanization and genemodding aren't the next step of human evolution that our society shortcircuited.

>>130484764
Considering that both previously known Psi-enhancing pieces of equipment are things that are worn, not wielded, yeah.

>>130484425
Looking at the quotes it seems like "brilliance" and "the gift" are interchangeable. They explicitly mention intelligence in the thin mint dialogue but only refer to the sectoids psi abilities as a "certain brilliance".

>Sectoid
>The New One faces the earliest effort of the Ethereal Ones, the first… failure. Though possessed of a certain… brilliance… they are marred by their cowardice and frailty… which made them cruel… and ultimately useless.

>>130484998
咖啡

>>130484998
Coffee

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>>130485261
They are doing a call back to the original x-coms in which you held the psi amp, so I know what they are going for, but it just doesn't look good.

The old games didn't have to worry about animations or too much about how the sprites work, it just doesn't translate well to x2.

>>130485172
You won - But at what cost?

>>130485261
Can't you see what the enemy has become?

Those mangled abominations, those bionic robots, twisted hulks of flesh and metal - can we still call that life?

Look at the enemy, Anon. If that's our future, I want no part of it.

>>130471416
I want a mod where you play as ADVENT special forces, rooting out X-COM operatives and stopping plots.

>>130485310
The meat-thereals sort of give me the impression that they're some sorta 'above it all' dealio, whereupon their methods are beyond reproach because of their goal.

Their goal involved pushing humankind and providing them the tools to produce the Volunteer. Then the Volunteer styled all over 'em with their 3-5 backup dancers.

In XCOM 2 however, humankind either didn't get that far, or made the Volunteer then said Volunteer got killed. The Ethereals probably would've taken humankind to be another failure, just taken the fuck over the planet and gone off to find another race to fuck with.

Question IS, what their goal was.

>>130485858
>Health Bonus: 0
>MEC Troopers wear their cybernetic base augments when not in combat
>The arms and legs lack the flexibility for use in the field; hence their removal when the MEC Trooper interfaces with a MEC cybersuit
>Ideally, they will permit MEC Troopers to resume normal lives should XCOM defeat the invaders

They knew what they signed up for, and we've done all we can to let them live their lives normally once they're no longer needed.

>>130484764
Ideally it would just be a gauntlet with two extendable prongs to create the psi-orb from which the Psi-Ops uses to amp their powers up. The tech level of the Psi-Amp should have made it smaller and smaller until it was just a gauntlet. Starting with the huge unwieldy Psi-Amp then moving to something pistol sized and finally the gauntlet.

>>130485858
Whilst we're at it we should abandon medicine because it prolongs our lifespan unnaturally, and abandon agriculture because it provides us with more food than nature intended, and why not just abandon instrumentality altogether and go back to picking berries off bushes.

>>130486079
>>130486342
Vahlen pls

>>130486079
I don't think the Ethereals consider humans a failure. Otherwise the Avatar project wouldn't be a thing. It's just that instead of them seeing the Volunteer and finding out human potential fast they had to go the long way around which is finally coming to a head 20 years after.

>>130471416
Definitely got into the series because it feels like the premise is the ADVENT:Rises from XCOM2 taking us from 2015 to 2035
>>130473834
>>130476891
I have the same feeling, and from the second episode it was the buddy cop, the over acting of suspicion, and the poor stunt work.
Still hopeful.

>>130486342
Don't bother trying to convince him.
Some people will do anything to remain in their black-and-white pretend world of moral absolutes.
Shit, this might very well be the most fedora post I have ever typed.

>>130486523
Well, the initial 'push 'em until it works' plan being a failure.

Once that fails they just sorta sigh and get onto fucking with them directly like all the other races.

Also a related question. Cyberdiscs. They mention that they were two creatures combined together. So what the fuck were they?

>>130486698
Not gonna lie, that's practically Reddit-tier.

>>130480094
Great and memorable. Let's cruise and rock out
>>130480298
Can I get the MiB in here with their strobe

>>130485004
>>130485858
Shut up, Shen.

Xcom 2 can't be here soon enough.

>>130486869
They mention that they were two creatures combined together.
No they didn't. They were referring to drones.

>>130481317
>>130481693
Im out, see you in 2 weeks.

>>130486079
>They knew what they signed up for, and we've done all we can to let them live their lives normally once they're no longer needed.

You are retarded if you think they are ever living a normal life or will ever be allowed off-base/a government lab. That goes double for the gene-modded soldiers and 90 times harder for the psi soldiers. Every country is going to want to use them for their own goals and nobody is going to let them be used.

The fact that psionic soldiers exist would make every government shit a massive brick and cause near infinite amounts of paranoia. Because now there are people on the planet who can for a fact control minds and do all kinds of psychic shit that they can't even comprehend.

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>>130467461

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>>130487252

I love you, anon.

>>130487252
hissssss

>>130487252
>>130487317
THEY ARE FALLING BACK
ADVANCE

>>130487252
>>130487317
Which one do I believe?

>>130487252
>>130487317
Amazing

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>>130487252
>>130487317

>>130487252
>>130487317
I'VE LOST CONTROL OF THE SITUTION

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>>130486247
It would have been cooler if it was just a collar flamed slightly purple. More powerful the rank/ability the larger the flame.

It'd be cool right.
XCOM might be the baddies

>>130487029
Don't you have some Mutons to stick your hands in, Doctor Vahlen?

>>130487317
>>130487323
I would've gotten away with it too...
If it wasn't for ADVENT and their meddling Faceless!

>>130484998
UFO says "We don't have coffee"

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>>130487475
Yes, thank you for reminding me. Off to do some real work now while you tinker with your toys.

>>130487061
The drones are just robots. Uber says...

"Another attempt, this one inspired. Two subjects, each with a glaring weakness – brought together in the hopes of a symbiotic strength. And yet, this newfound power left them devoid of higher thought. Lacking in comprehension. Another… useless effort."

'newfound power left them devoid of higher thought' implies they HAD higher thought, then lost it. Also, killing either has no effect on the other.

>>130487178
Dude, there's no fucking secret anymore by the end of XCOM. Aliens exist, the whole world knows, and it's too far gone for XCOM to supress it like they did in the 60s. Even after winning the world would be a massively changed place.

>>130487252
>>130487317
fug

>>130487432
>tfw you can't be snek

>>130487617
Excuse me, I've never seen the troops running around capturing and shooting X-Rays using the blueprints that your "real work" has given us.

>>130487317
>>130487252
>Snek hate the Faceless for taking their job.

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>>130487850
>mfw

>>130481603
One rocket would have solved those problems

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>>130487617
>>130487850
Shen's all for MEC which makes you both wrong. The Ying Yang side to their relationship has to do with machinery tech vs. bio-tech, not morality.

And Bradford is here to punch some faces in using both

Post well-written character bios for an /xcg/ character pool.

One from earlier:

>Jedediah McKinnly still remembers the day he woke up to find an alien battleship hovering over his small Pennsylvania farm. His Amish community gathered in prayer against the "demons", but they couldn't stop what was to come. After the ADVENT Coalition was formed, his land was repossessed and Amish practices and philosophies as a whole were "discouraged." While his family was quick to roll over and accept the new order for the sake of stability, Jedediah refused to compromise. He joined an "off-the-grid" settlement the moment the opportunity presented itself, taking with him nothing but the clothes on his back and his trusty bible. When XCOM presented the opportunity to fight back against the demons that had stolen the prospect of a simple, virtuous life away from him, he was more than willing to help.

>>130484624
yeah, it looked way more badass when psi soldiers could use their powers without any apparatus

>>130478490
Am I the only guy from the street in here that thinks this is a horrible sync of the video with the music not to mention lyrical tempo?!

>>130488174
DAY

ONE

MOD

I hope.

This is like giving all genemodded soldiers the shittest looking armor in existence. Stop it, Firaxis. Just stop.

>>130485228
>Supremacyfag call out Purityfag calling out Supremacyfag
And now we're knee deep in Harmony. Good on you, jobbers

>need materials to further my research
>don't feel like grinding endlessly and progressing to sectopods and shit wit plasma rifles and titan armor but no ghost, archangel, or plasma special weapons
>go do the ayy base raid
>game crashes because its "out of video memory"

They seriously didn't fix that from EU?

>>130488112
>Bradford
>ever doing shit

lol no.

>>130488378
WE DON'T NEED NO DAMN SLEEVES

sadly, animation mods usually take forever

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>>130488251
No your not. That's because there was a better version and its right here:
>>130479945

>>130488621
I guess your just going to ignore base defense and xcom2 huh? Its more about his attitude anyway

>>130488174
psi power seems to be pulled from a void of sorts in 2, like the orb in the temple ship, and when sectoids in 2 use powers a portal opens above them.

>>130485741
They look like Apoc Psi-amps to be honest. Or at least that's what it looked like to me when I first saw them

>>130488772
>base defense
>take out pistol
>kill no one because it's ballistic instead of the dope weapons they have

>almost everyone in the hologlobe dies
>Shen and Vahlen along with the engineering and research teams unscathed, proving they can stand their ground

but they don't have the attitude

>>130488861
Yeah, when i said "x-coms" I just meant the fact that they are hand held almost like normal weapons, not specifically how they looked.

The apoc psi-amp "mind bender" is smaller but just looks so bizarre. Not like the other is much better, I have no idea why it has that purple fluid in it.

>>130489098
>Implying that's not Bradford's special pistola.

>>130489145
Mini-void portal probably. I do like the way the new amps act as a lighting source over the shoulders of the respective soldiers. Also since I'm constantly looking over their shoulders it's distinctive that I instantly know that it's not my specialist or ranger that I'm looking at. Heck it's nice they all have their own visual profiles in some way.

>>130487178
>gene-modded soldiers

Governments would demand they be sterilized after the war, if Vahlen didn't already do it as part of the treatment.

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>>130489098
>"pistols are useless" memery

GET OUT pistols/handguns are useful is an infinitely superior and quality meme

>>130489483
Yep, and that's why it should stay right on their back where it belongs.

>>130487317
>>130487252
GAS BOTH

ITS THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE

VIGILO CONFIDO

>>130489567
Why? I doubt the gene therapy passes the germ line.

>>130489098
>>130489598
Pistols are useful when executing Carter

https://a.pomf.cat/yeauqb.webm

>>130489567
Genetic modification probably isn't hereditary, you shmuck.

>>130488251
>from the street
fucking hobos

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>>130489818

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>Dark Event
>Rapid Incubation
>Chryssalid Cocoon's have 1 point of armor and give birth to 3 fully developed Chryssalids

>>130489915
Maybe not for female soldiers, but it certainly could be for men.

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>>130489567
The government wouldn't sterilize them after war. They need them to finally make alien-human hybrids

>>130489567
It is called gene-modding, but it is more like bio-augmentation since it attaches tissues without the rejection chance.

>>130489993
You would recommend that
>Menace 3-1, execute that rookie with extreme prejudice.

>>130489915
>>130489834
>genetic modification isn't hereditary

What the fuck? They're genes. That's the point.

If anything, altering genes would produce results ONLY in the offspring since the soldiers are already fully grown.

>>130478490
Alright visual edition.
Shit video quality and audio sync, use the other version instead.

3/10 try again.

>>130478490
>>130490267
This version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRJ7eCiWY7M&ab_channel=Ledgy

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>>130489598
>mfw I'm in a meme

>>130490094
gene modding in xcom is altering the somatic cells to produce a new effect or putting in something new. Genetic information you pass on to your offspring is part of the germline, gametes that are made when you are still in the womb.

>>130490094
A large amount of the genemods are actually surgical in nature. Plus, even if it did pass on, then it'd be highly likely to miscarriage the baby or just end up as a horrifying mutant due to the genes being designed to grow to maturity in like, 10 days or some shit rather than over a proper development cycle.

Not to mention, a child is a mix of genes, so who's to say that 'has two hearts' will actually get passed on?

Even if both parents were soldiers modded in the same way, the female one would still have non-genemodded eggs so it'd be the same as if she were unmodded.

>>130490452
Are you my other pistol bro? Got to stick together mate

>>130478490
>>130479945
Seriously, they are poor video edits.
You can take Gamespot's XCOM2 Brutal Kills and sync up the song and it feels better because the visual tempo is 4/4. Marching : On-beat, Shooting : On-beat, Killing : On-beat. There's only one moment that those abominations even approach something worthwhile and that's because they have the Michael Bay explosion added into the mix.

>>130490629
I'm the Lightning hands - pistols are finally useful anon so yes

XCOM2 - mods will finally be useful

I wonder how long it'll take before someone does a full conversion mod of XCOM 2 to EW or the Bureau

>>130489915
>>130490094
"Genetic Modification" is such a massive blanket term, it's hard to really deduce anything solid from it.
But, by looking at what the "modifications" physically do, we could reasonably assume that the ones where new parts are implanted/force-grown (definitely Second Heart, probably Mimetic Skin, possibly others) are likely non-hereditiary, whereas the other, "simpler" ones like the eye mods might be, depending on how much, if at all, the change in those organs' local DNA is (comprehensibly) reflected in the half-strand DNA used in reproduction.

>>130490715
http://www.youdubber.com/index.php?video=PhBrQoOi-9o&video_start=0&audio=cRJ7eCiWY7M&audio_start=0

pretty gud

>>130491204
NoirCOM? Yes pls

I wrote that snek noir piece kek I don't even like snek

>>130491252
The main aspect of the genetic modification isn't the actual implantation of the abilities but the acclimation of the body to prevent the reject of the Meld substances which powers the surgical implants. This is the reason why soldiers are encased inside of full body surgical tubes and have multiple injection points.
The rejection of alien technology from such invasive implants would be a tragic and detrimental downside for both life expectancy and to combat effectiveness.
How such effects would affect sexual or reproductive activities would be unknown.

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So am I going to have to avoid /xcg/ come tomorrow, and then continue to ignore you guys until I finish the campaign?

Feels bad man. i know you ADVENT spoiler scum lurk amongst us

>>130491204
My dream mod would be a very long one where it starts off with the Bureau's story, then progresses to EU/EW. After destroying the temple ship, the ayys show up with their full army and the story goes to XCOM 2's.

>>130491445
>I wrote that snek noir piece kek I don't even like snek
A literary masterpiece like that comes from the heart, Anon. Don't deny your true nature.

>>130491628
FUND IT

>>130491628
>200 hour campaign

>>130491445

>give soldiers Eggsalt attire
>add black/white filter toggle
>Chinatown/Mad Men/Godfather music
>shitty one liners from Sin City
>reskin laser rifle to laser Tommy gun

Would be cute

>have to go a literal week
>without xcg
>without Beagle
>without any xcom news period

This week will be the true test of patience

>>130491252
>depending on how much, if at all, the change in those organs' local DNA is (comprehensibly) reflected in the half-strand DNA used in reproduction.

The DNA used in sexual reproduction has nothing to do with the DNA in the rest of your body, besides that in early development they are identical. God damn, is all people learned in highschool bio that the Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?

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>>130491618
You don't want to hang around for fun times? Sounds like a secretive somebody
>>130491445
>>130491204
Machinima probably before full mod
> (Grey Filter Intro, Cue Music) On a rainy night like this, she would slither into my office. A snek only slides on way into a dress like that, with murder on her mind.

>>130491930
>councilman sounds like The Godfather and background music theme plays.

>>130491945
>>130491618
It'll just be 4 and a half days. We can make it

>>130491945
I can't do it, I'll just have to cop spoilers on the chin.

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>>130491745
>>130491628
Neat. Should brainstorm a bit so I can submit the idea to that one guy on plebbit who is collecting ideas.


So Act I = Bureau. Not much to change, except of course flesh out the classes a bit more.

Act II = EU/EW. Again, not much to change either. Perhaps part of the new mechanic would be to figure out what has been redacted, and doing so would give you research credit or even some old toys to fuck the ayys with. Lightning gun was a fucking masterpiece in the Bureau.

Act III = XCOM 2. XCOM gets fucked but Commander is back for round 2. Once again, have to start from scratch but you can explore and uncover old XCOM bases like they do in the novel. Perhaps even old shit from the Bureau's time period would still be useful in desperate times. Find a Venn Gate? Well hello Zudjari. Find some ex-EXALT? Try to persuade a few to fight for you in their classy clothes.

FIRST TIME EVER PRE ORDERING A GAME

{spoiler] If it let's me down I will kill myself [/spoiler]

>watching NL's finale of his first Classic run
>doesn't know how to use archangel armor
>has laser pistols
>stands out in no cover
>makes horrible moving decisions
>blocks pathways with a soldier

Holy shit, I love this guy's commentary but how does someone play a game this much without knowing that basic stuff like stabilizing units?

I think the only reason he made it this far is because Zhang, Humanity's Saviour, and Loki are carrying his run out.

>>130492319
Pre ordered everything & the bonus shit on Steam.

I live in Calfornia. Will I be able to download and start playing at 12:01AM PST?

>>130492817
There will be a preload, friend.

i wonder if beagle will upload as soon as the embargo breaks in 11 hours... would be nice to wake up to a new video

>>130492976
I find that Sneks die real good when I put the barrel of my gun against their dirty xeno face.

>>130492007
Yeah, that's kinda what I was getting at.
Could have worded that better.

>>130492976
Furfags get more and more reckless

>>130491382
This would be better if it was the song itself without the xcom shit in the background for no reason, then it'd actually kinda fit

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>>130493218
I find placing the barrel of my gun against their CLOACA is far more effective

>>130492976
Anon, did you mean 'erogenous zone' ?

>>130494420
Sounds painful.

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>>130494670
yes, I feel ashamed now, but I slip into a sea of anonymity, free of all social obligations of embarrassment

So there was a stream about mods yesterday, was there one today as well?

>>130494727
She's a big snek.

>>130495062
By your standards, perhaps.

>>130494962
It's okay Anon, we all make mistakes. Perhaps its for the best to make them while anonymous.

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Would a Child Soldier mod fly on Workshop, or would I have to put that shit on Nexus?

>>130495714
both would probably reject it

>>130495714
Just call them really short soldiers.

>>130495807
Nexus hosts mods for fucking kids and animals. I'm not expecting any trouble from them.

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What if eventually an online multiplayer Squad vs Squad mode came out?

It could be a 1v1 matchup of Squads being 5-on-5 or 10-on-10, or could even have 10 players together in Squads of 2 or even a FFA.

Thoughts?

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That's XCOM, baby!

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>>130496428
>2 HP squad member
>in full cover
>not breaking LOS

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sneks are pretty qt3.14 desu senpai

>>130496791
It was still a six-damage critical ya nignog.

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>>130496995

>>130492286
>You are playing as Asaru throughout all three games
>Asaru is the true protagonist of XCOM

Complete fucking noob here.

How will I be able to "work on mods"? Will there be some kind of mod editor once X-Com 2 is released - or is it some kind of stand alone application?

And I guess modding means its just a giant community of people sharing shit left and right?

>>130497064
Do you even know what breaking LOS means? The sectoid was activated and at long range in good cover, all you had to do was break LOS rookie.

>>130496791
not my webm anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>130497395
There's a full mod studio. Watch this for more information, I think it's about thirty minutes past the timestamp: twitch tv/pax2/v/38694034?t=2h17m30s

>>130497485
The point is that it having 2hp was fucking irrelevant, ya twit.

>>130497395
They're release the source development kit, meaning you'll have the same tools for making content that they do (minus licensed software like their 3D modeler and animations but you can get those for free)

>>130497395
There will be an SDK (like Civ V) released on day one. They said we have access to all 50 GB (I think) of assets used to make the game. It'll be a separate 50 GB download iirc.

>>130497591
The sectoid wouldn't have critted them if LOS was broken

>>130496362
>4 on 4
>each player controls a pod of 2-3
>can choose to start concealed or not
>concealed units can't be seen until revealed but have lower movement
>unconcealed pods get a free move upon tripping an enemy pod
cud b gud

>>130497758
Your memery ill-becomes you.

>>130497758
It's actually irrelevant whether he moved or not. It was the sectoids first action and if he had moved the sectoid would have merely killed someone else after moving.

It was a six health crit. Someone was going to die regardless.

>>130498119
Yes, the seed determined the sectoid's next hit would crit, but moving the wounded out of LOS would change the outcome, and possibly save another life

>>130498286
You can't argue that way. You don't know the outcome beforehand and had he moved the very same outcome could have occurred. In fact we have to consider this from the point that it WOULD have happened because we don't know anything other than the fact he the next action was a crit.

Which means that it doesn't matter what he did because the next hit was going to kill someone. It doesn't matter if moving MAY have changed the outcome because no outcome is known other than what transpired. So unless he was able to get everyone out of the LOS which was impossible then there was nothing he could do to save the life of whichever soldier the sectoid shot at.

>>130496428
Squaddies, not hunkering. That's a fail.

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I gotta say...

I really hope we get more DJ and Stheno once XCOM 2 hits.

I'm just here in my hanger, with my brand new Skyranger.

But you know what I like MORE than my Skyranger?

Knowledge.

That's why I have these one thousand laboratories, I build one lab a day.

>>130498816
>>130498286
>>130498119
>>130497959
>>130497758
The only LOS for that map is on approach from the sides or when the door is closed. That provides full cover and close distance.
Other approaches on that map do not have good LOS options. With squaddies or rookies you need to hunker the front lines with an approach or retreat to bait out enemies into Overwatch traps.

>>130499395
I've more or less accepted that there will be a flood of new snek content once the game is released, and that this general will be hit pretty hard by it.

>arguing about LOS

How many shitters do we have from /v/ because we are so close to release?

>>130499395
>That snake.
Nice. Google doesn't give any results.

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8 and a half hours to embargo lifting.

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>>130499395
Ahhh, I miss those two.

for anyone that missed out, start with this image and then read these:

http://pastebin.com/3KQuqCKx
http://pastebin.com/V4j1dMrg
http://pastebin.com/nfGME7Yv
http://pastebin.com/4eyKaK1i

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>>130499859
Bad copy, over. It's 9 hours and a half hours. Get rid of time zones along with the air game.

>>130499395
Yeah, me too.

Anyone want to play xcom multiplayer?
I'll stream it for the rest of you to watch if somebody does.

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Still have no idea what I'm doing.

>>130501140
The emperor's work.

Imagine a gunslinger sharpshooter with a bolt pistol.

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WHAT A LOVELY DAY

>>130499678
...FurAffinity...

>>130501776
Long War's Gauss Autopistol is pretty close, given its oversized gauge.

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>>130496362
I've never liked free for all because free for all just means allies until the last two stand, but I suppose some enjoy being bullied.

I do like multiple team versus multiple team but I also prefer more unique co-op like experiences. For example two people controlling one squad, or two people controlling one squad one controls movement and the other abilities and shooting. Or one controls the squad and the other is more of a support sending in air strikes or controlling robots or providing Intel.

>>130496362
holy shit.

what if they mixed up the pve and pvp elements together?

you can have squad vs squad or FFAs if you want, BUT WITH FUCKING SECTOIDS AND FACELESS GUYS ALL OVER YOU TOO!

Man this game has so much potential.... online gameplay would literally make this game explode

>>130502775
>online gameplay has even better, more futuristic weapons and mech shit
>when a member of your squad dies in this pve/pvp match, and you cant get the loot the gear back, its gone forever

would BTFO diablo thats for sure

>>130501892
Whatcha thinking about, bro?

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>agonizingly long download
>preload finally complete
>months of waiting and the final week over
>finally game comes out
>unbearable wait as the game unpacks
>necessary installation 99%
>game boots up and logos appear
>crash to desktop

yfw

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>>130503021
Don't even joke about that anon

>>130502320
Laser gun on my officer, Gausspistol on my sniper...
Sometimes your people get attached to things just like you get attached to them.