XCOM General - /xcg/

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Will Ronny and Saul be able to coexist peacefully?

Can friendship bloom on the battlefield?

Can you reset your soldier's skills?

I might regret making my ranger a swordsman

handguns are useful

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Jane Kelly best waifu she survived the tutorial and helped me retake my command.

Did anybody bother to watch Beagle's whole stream? How far did he get with his ini edits?

>>130968061
AWC has retraining, IIRC.

>>130968061
Pretty sure there's a facility for that, yeah.

>>130968085
>not trashing scripted characters on the spot
I bet you used Zhang unironically as well.

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>>130967607

I don't have an autoloader yet, but I have +9% aim implant, +10% aim scope and +1 magazine size. I am also playing on Ironman Legendary.

I wish I could retrain him as a Ranger. This motherfucker is a beast.

I feel I need a better nickname to do him justice.

>Avocado Officers Free Marking+Crit Shooting my troops in full cover

Why is this allowed

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/CRASHBROS/ report in

Can't even get through tutorial.

FIRAXIS QUALITY ASSURANCE

Is turn limits the ultimate casual filter/revealer? The only people that complain about it are casual shitters that want to sit in one spot.

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XCum 2 - Timer Wars

Experience thrilling gameplay as the retards who made this try to capture the call of duty audience by making every single fucking mission require you to sprint sprint sprint because every fucking mission has a fucking timer.

Want to work your sniper into a position where she can take advantage of her squad oversight? No fuck you, sprint towards the mission objective or you will fail.

good job firashit

6/12 Avatar Project in April

Do I restart?

>>130968181
Forcing to launch in windowed mode fixed it for me.

>>130968061
I think the AWC can sort that out - if not instantly, then later on. See >>130968095

>>130968065
Yes. It does not fully make up for snipers being gimped by the turn pressure, but it helps.

>>130968085
Jane Kelly is confirmed to be bro tier. She saved the commander and doesn't afraid of anything except for when the Faceless punched her face in, she panicked, ran away, blasted the fucker from halfway across the map, and came out of the mission with PTSD and the nickname "Iron Maiden". I'll fix it, Jane, I swear.

>>130968158
Troubleshooter

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How do I mod Xcom 2? I know it has modding tools included but I can't find them.

>have to run the game at lower settings
>game manages to look WORSE than eu/EW
FIRAXIS

>English
>French
>German
>Italian
>Spanish
Welp, looks like I'm going to have a soldier speak one of each for my squad. I love this feature, too bad there aren't more languages

>>130968061

Yes. You can completely retrain your soldier in 10 days.

>>130968189
>having trouble with the timers

Bruh. They're not that strict.

>>130968061
Unfortunately sword need some love with their perks. For one boosting blademaster so that it gives +2 damage AND +10% to hit +20% to crit. Phantom is OP regardless though Rangers are the best scouts ever for my snipeys.

Is Firaxis the WORST company when it comes to ensuring quality at launch?

I can't think of any other contender except maybe Bethesda

>>130968184
>>130968189
Ha.

>>130968205
They aren't included in the game itself. They're listed under tools in the library column.

>>130968184
>>130968189
Amazing.

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>>130968184
>>130968189

>>130968184

xcom was never about rushing fuckface

does it still have the same flaws as the XCOM EU/EW

Shit like enemies spawning after the mission already started behind your lines or snipers being useless or movement being in blocks instead of TU

>>130968153
Zhangs son in my current campaign though, does this mad you?

>>130968313
>snipers being useless
u wot m80

>>130968252
My thoughts exactly. I am actually enjoying getting my shit pushed in as I have to now deal with a sense of urgency. I am no longer the meticulous defender, I am the hunted gorilla force.

>>130968283
Welcome to a new style of gameplay, I suppose. Adapt and overcome. What I mean, is, git gud.

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>TFW poorfag

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Played some multiplayer. Seemed to work fine once I actually got into a match. Really not that much more different than xcom1, I didn't notice any big glitches, ovearl experience was pretty smooth.

Also:Gatekeepers are bs gg

>>130968189
I'm actually loving the timers.

It fits the theme of oh shit hit and run attack!!!11!

the one thing that breaks it though is that once the objective has been achieved it switches to "Eliminate all enemies" DA FUQ.

It should be me hacking that computer and then black hawk downing it the fuck away from there, not me achieving the objective and then clear the area, it's not like im gonna build another base there.

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>/v/ getting booty bombarded by turn limit

>>130968369
The really long delay between turns is gone, then?

>>130968184
I'm fine with it. Makes non timed missions a treat and makes it feel like most ops are insane as it should.

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Post your favorite randomly generated soldiers. Be honest.

>>130968369
have you tried snipers plus phantom rangers

>>130968271
Thanks mate.

>>130968404
My favorite is Crash the Crasher, he crashes my game

>>130968404
I got the exact same guy

>>130968189
Maybe uninstall and go back to farmville where the timers are hours long.

>>130968357
Um pirate it? I used to pirate everything and pour money into hardware before I got a savings going.

>>130968340
when I tried to use the vision of squadmates to shoot from my sniper's further position, I still took an insane hit chance decrease, to the point where I wondered why snipers existed if they weren't for long range

shooting out of the sniper's vision just seemed like a waste of time due to how low the chance was

>>130968397
The delay is like 30s. I don't know, it didn't feel like watching the terrible preview match at all, much better.

>>130968427
No not yet. Its was just one match before going back to campaign. On a side note gunslinger snipers are not that great in pvp since you rarely have tons of targets and ammo isn't an issue. Also, armor crushes your soul.

The turn limit shit is retarded, though.

Is there already mod to remove it?

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>tfw wanted xcom 2 to be somehow better than EW

deep down I always knew newcom peaked in EW...

I'm on the first mission and for some reason I can't hack the converter. Is it because it's on fire and is setting my hacker on fire?

>>130968535
I think you're the retard.

Holy shit people are bad at games, all they want to do is camp for hours in one spot.

>>130968184
I'm not about to cry about them but time limits being standard aren't fun and run counter to playing methodical and tactical.

It feels like a wild overreaction to people using conga-lines and overwatch traps to get through all of XCOM1.

Psionics really isn't worth it is it?

You have to get it early game to train it and that means delaying all the actual good buildings and research

>>130968569
Units on fire can't use abilities, so that might be it.

I'm in the tutorial and it told me to pick up the "unconscious/dead" body of the guy I rescued from the alien tank.

Soon as I tried to do that everything crashed so hard I had to manually shut down my PC.

>>130968535
>Let me just break the entire game
Rest assured, you will get what you want. In fact, you may be able to go into the ini and do it yourself.

>>130967993
Considering all those dank memes around, Firaxis really did make a good call with the freedom fighter campaign.

>>130968189
You are shit. You like maybe need to sprint on the first turn and that's it. I've been playing normally with no issues with running out of time.

Turn limits fits the game, you're all retards.

>xcom is about rushing and time limits

cowadoody newshits everywhere

>Subduing a VIP takes 2 moves
u wot m8

>>130968497

If you're talking about snipers in the first game, you're a lying sack of shit.

Otherwise yeah, long range penalties on snipers in 2 is just silly.

>Female unit panics
>HEAVY FEMININE BREATHING INTENSIFIES

>>130968561
WE NEED AN EVAC /v/ has arrived.

>>130968642
This new one is, stop living in the past.

>>130968189
>>130968283
>>130968535
>>130968593
>>130968642
Go back to editing the ini, Beagle.

>>130968593
I would argue the opposite, it makes the player have to play more methodical and tactical. With having to make every turn count, you have to make the upmost use of the limited actions you get. It requires you to master the concealment phase so you can close the gap quickly to the objective and clear out as many ayys as you can.

I like timers. Stops camping and beagle strats of taking an hour to do one mission. Puts the pressure on in a good way. When non timed missions come along it feels good like a mission where everythings by the numbers.


>>130968175
yum

> Guile hair not available on the in-game character editor.
> It is if I'm on the main menu version though.

Great.
Guess I gotta make all my characters first, then play the game.
Gonna spend all fucking day making characters instead of playing the game.

>>130968404
>>130968495
These aren't randoms, but pregenerated soldiers from your default pool.

Protip: After you made a sizeable pool, delete your Default pool file and rename your exported pool to "Default".

>>130968594
>Psionics really isn't worth it is it?
Because psi dudes level in the facility rather than in combat you can get it mid game and just leave two rookies in there until you get psioperatives with all the good skills

>>130968818
It's likely one of the customisation options that unlocks for characters when they hit a certain rank.

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>>130968659
I'm not a lying piece of shit, even with no obstructions, if I was shooting an ayy at twice my vision range, I had like 50% chance to hit

Maybe it gets better further down the game but I couldn't be fucked with it

where can I find/download the developer tools from??

>>130968818
Were the soldiers you were customizing sergeants? The game says you unlock more options after they reach sergeant.

>>130968642
>XCOM is about sitting out of LoS spamming overwatch.

No John, you are the casuals.

>>130968946
look under the tools section of your library.

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Why is this a flank? It's not the first weird spot I've encountered

>>130969014
awesome!! Thanks anon!

>Nanofibre vest gives 1 HP.

Jesus christ, it was barely useful in EU.

>>130968990
>there is only rushing and camping no middle ground

and you are a literal retard

Would making the time limit a bit longer make everyone feel better? I like the time limits but I would like if they were a bit more forgiving.

>>130968184
I was annoyed with it at first but I've gotten used to it.
It wouldn't hurt to add like another 1-2 turns to timers on average though. Unless you get godlike RNG then you need to be almost perfect just to WIN the mission and take no more than two turns per squad of enemies.

>>130969050
Nothing I've seen it happen to ayys aswell. As far as I could tell it still gave you cover bonus.

>>130969050
was that guy standing behind that soldier recently knocked out of mind control? It takes an action be either party for the flank notification to reset.

>>130968153
i bet you suck big floppy donkey dicks for fun and pleasure as well.

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Where the fucking hell did my sniper learn to aim pistols?

>>130969067
It already is the middle ground. You are still whining.

>>130968943

Snipers have no mechanical penalty shooting with squadsight. Any poor aim is a result of a sniper being low level, them trying to hit targets in high cover, and/or having shit stats.

>>130969050

because firashit releases buggy games and doesn't care

>>130969069
That's probably an option in an ini somewhere.

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Only 1 was a faceless

>>130969067
Thats why the terror missions are there, they are literally the middle ground.

If you complain about the timers, why not just edit them out? You're so shit just cheat the whole thing.

>>130969121
Same school the adventure trooper learned to aim his rifle. :^)

>>130969181
Better grenade them all to be certain.

What are the odds of Firaxis putting out a hotfix patch today that helps with crashes during the tutorial?

>>130969061
Does it take a slot?

>>130969121

is this borderlands 3?

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>EU/EW had a gorillion helmets
>its all dishrags and silly hats in 2
M-Maybe we'll get more after the DLC.

>>130969139
found the guy who disrespects other people because he has low self esteem and no other reason.

It's ok anon. I'm sure your parents will get back together.

>>130968201
my Jane was killed outright from 1 Faceless swipe.
r.i.p Kelly, you were ace.

>>130969237
It's sub-armor clothing, so yeah.

>>130969069
No I like the tension, I almost squadwiped after having to abandon two troopers. The tension is good and I actually have to be smart instead of camping each pod.

>>130969176
Do faceless attack on the turn they shapeshift?

>>130969272
Oh shit son, critical eh? Rooks are so squishy.

>>130969310
When spotted, they shapeshift, run, and swipe in one turn, yeah.

>>130969310

Nyet

>>130969259
The literal irony in your shitpost.

>>130969272
Why did you not protect??????

>>130968818
Customisation options unlock as you level up

You have to earn the right to be a badass

>>130969258
>he wasn't around for EU release customization

It was extremely limited. Fuck, you couldn't even change the color for a while.

>>130969258

>no full metal helmet badass squad

I used to always reward my squad with helmets once they earned colonel rank to show their badassery.

Now i feel like i'm running a circus.

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>PC exclusive AAA
>bugs out the ass
>runs like shit

thanks firaxis, more diversity and niggers in games, thats all what matters! It's 2016!

>>130969362
So many noobs its like a terror mission.

>>130969310
On your turn, no.
On their turn, yes.

>>130969357
>The literal sadness of your life

>>130969067
The time limit is the middle ground. Jesus Christ how slow are you? There's plenty of time in most of the missions to set up good ambushes, or move about to favorable terrain.

>>130969350
It seems like rookies die a lot more frequently in the beginning now.

>>130969357
I did my best anon, I even had 2 overwatches just in case the civvy turned out to be a faceless.

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I really hope a relationship mod gets made.
>have a assault troops, make them brothers
>they always go on missions together, fuck shit up
>avenger gets shot down, everything goes to shit
>one of the brothers goes down, bleeding out
>race to carry him back to the evac zone
>dies in his brothers arms one last dash away
I was praying he'd get shaken will, it would have been so damn good

any of you fellas had issues with dialogue not working?

>>130969448
>The literal shit in your posts reeks of a very sad person

I feel sorry for you almost

>>130968239
>6 rangers with the left side of the tree
>unstoppable rape squad

Ranger: Scout>Sword
Specialist: Combat>Medic
Sniper: Long range>pistol
Grenadier: Take from both because pure grenades has some shit abilities


That sound about right? I want to like pistol and sword but they fall off really quickly

>>130969473
why do they look so german

>>130968642
is this the start of an epin new meme?

>>130969530
Correct, can confirm this is what I'm doing and having a good time on Commander.

>timers
>in xcom
>every fucking mission

I honestly don't know what Firaxis were thinking. 5 hours in and I'm not having fun. And I loved EU+EW more than the original.

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>>130969412
>I used to always reward my squad with helmets once they earned colonel rank to show their badassery.
BROTHERRRRRRR

Sometimes I did the opposite though and gave all Corporals and below standardized helmets and colours, and when they hit sarge they got their own unique shit/removed the helm entirely.
Really reinforced the "grunt" aspect of things.

>>130969495
>>The literal shit in your posts reeks of a very sad person

Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing about you. Must be sad knowing that the best part of you ran down the crack of your mothers ass and left a stain on the mattress that only served to remind your father of why he left in the first place.

>>130969530

I disagree about the sniper. Pistols are great, especially when you equip inferno ammo or something.

>>130969601
I've done more without timers than with

And timers are fun, you have to play incredibly slowly on your opening turns to be at real risk of failure

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What an awful mission.
If you don't upgrade your weapons before this point, you could be fucked.

>>130969619
I suppose it could boil down to pistols on timer missions and long range on non-timer

My problem with pistols is that they never really seem to offer much that a ranger doesn't already do better

>>130969554
cuz murica a melding pot bruh

>>130969706
You could always just not do that mission right

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>All these Overwatch babbies get BTFO

>>130969415
Don't worry anon, the game will come to your console soon!

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>timer apologists

Enemy Within more or less fixed overwatch camping. Now they want you to play a turn based Call of Duty with a Xcom skin.

>>130969706
tfw I couldnt get the defense matrix up in time

>>130969756
Yeah you can, but unless you're like me and just started scanning, the UFO spawns right on you.

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>>130969815
>EW fixed overwatch camping

>>130969838
I meant countering the Dark Event that causes the UFO to spawn in the first place.

>>130968214
Seriously, why no Asian?

Just to confirm that yes the optimization is horrible?

yeah it sucks very much, 0 strategy involved now just zergrushing

>>130969905
post achievements faggot

>>130969815
Hardly. Meld was optional. You could get by with barely any unless you were going to field a full MEC/Gene mod squad.

>>130969874
Is that a Dark Event? I don't know since there is a hidden effect up right now.

>>130969905
Okay mate you post your legendary save with no deaths then if it's that simple

>>130969880
Localization stuff probably lies with the publisher, so who knows.

>>130969815
>beagle
>EW fixed overwatch camping

No, it didn't.

There's no bonuses to building things next to each other in XCOM 2 is there?

When do you get to change your soldier's nickame and attitude?

>>130969897
>Just to confirm that yes the optimization is horrible?

Put it this way: I am seeing fps ranges from 15 to 110 depending on what part of the game I'm in.

Something is fucking wack about what this game is doing under the hood.

Just a heads up, my PC isn't top of the line but XCom 2 runs just fine on it. It's not that the game is demanding, it's shitty optimization.

2k games, if you're in here, get on top of that.

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>Xfags in love with Xcum: call of bradford :black guerilla ops 2

the average age in this general is probably below 20

>>130969897
Yeah, it's pretty bad. What the hell is going on in the misson debriefing scene that makes the game go from 60 fps to 3 fps to 30 fps and back to 60 fps.

>/xcg/ still takes bait this easily after EW literally had a game mechanic about learning to avoid bait

>Remember watching an interview with Garth
>This Nigerian rookie has an accent, all soldiers have accents now!
>Only American, British and Australian
filthy liar

>>130969897
Yep it's pretty poor. Turn AA off.

>>130970051
I'm 30 and I'm enjoying it so far

>>130970058
Probably in the DLC. There's less (non english) languages this time for some reason

>>130970051

With all the people like you posting, you'd probably be right.

>>130970026
>>130970052
>>130970067
I was wondering why my meme 970 was chugging at 20fps on high 1080p in a fucking xcom game

>>130970136
I prefer accents over foreign languages. Every should know english by then.

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>>130970051

>>130969997
Try to have a workshop in a center location as when you have a engi in there they can put drones in adjacent rooms that give engi bonuses.

>>130970051
I remember X-com vets saying this when XCOM came out.

So what does the resistance pack offer beyond that 5 extra kevlar-tier customization options?

I cannot find Engineers im fucked.

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>>130970209

>>130970251
facepaint, hats, ski mask.

>>130970136
The languages in EW were a bonus feature tacked on because they already had the localizations done and it was to easy to add in. I'm guessing Russia/Poland weren't very profitable regions for EU/EW so they didn't bother to give them dubs for 2. The only voices I think they explicitly added for customization's sake were the UK and Australian accents now.

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>>130970209

>>130970136
Some people with decent mics will probably release voice pack mods in future for other languages

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>Advent Burgers

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>>130970051
I would play a shooter called Call of Bradford...

>>130970353
Everyone on Earth has been taught Adventese and XCOM soldiers are equipped with flawless Adventese->English translators.

>>130970303
>>130970353

It would make sense. Hard to run a global resistance without a common language.

>>130970398

well you are xcum 2 target audience so yeah I'm sure you would

>>130970051
>>130969815

Oh this is delicious. It's the 2012 release all over again, except this time the babbys who were too young to remember X-com get to have their shit pushed in.

>>130970246
>>130970051
To be fair it probably is a bit too much for 40 year old dads to grasp the idea of moving forward

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>>130970412
>>130970443

>in the game universe

Oh. Never mind then, I'm an idiot. Yeah, makes sense.

Anyone else slightly annoyed that you have to move everyone to the Evac before the timer?

Its just so tedious...

>>130970525
I guess only their wives did.

>>130970052
Loading.

Did anybody else managed to complete first blacksite with no reloads and full squad on the very first try?
Feels like I got some super lucky sub 50% shots and that mech walked into a 3 man overwatch ambush dying before firing a single shell.
Codex felt like a small bossfight though.

>>130970051
I'm more in love with ur mom lol

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>>130970572

Heard something about there being secret characters like Van Doorn and Vahlen if you named the soldiers something special

Any truth to that

Maybe it's because it's been over 2 years since I played vanilla EW but tech seems so fast this time around on sub-Legendary difficulties. I'm going to get mag weapons by mid April on Commander.

>>130968245
Obsidian.

>>130970559
>tedious
>too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous.

You mean without the timers its an overwatch camping game about RNG and savecumming til you can tell everyone you beat Impossible! That's tedious.

>>130970649
there are three
sid meier, van doorn, beaglerush

>>130970597
the mission i got codex on i'd already lost 2 of my squad to some unlucky crits and panics, and my ranger was on 2 health and my grenadier at 3 when i finally managed to run up and brainjack the officer. The moment the codex popped out I had my first Xcom 2 "NO THATS BULLSHIT" moment. It'll be a fond memory.

>>130970171
That's not the 970 mate, unless you've accidentally turned up MSAA or something because I'm not getting 20fps on mine

>>130967993
>/xcg/ defending timer and shitty optimization

Not surprising.

Why do I always get that weird "follow the last soldier in third person view right behind their shoulder" thing?

Why does it only do it for the last soldier during my turn? Why not all?

>>130970679

No, its just tedious moving your whole damn squad when there are no enemies for 3 turns to make them stand in a perfect square.

>>130970750
Works that way for everyone.

Why are the animations so fucking slow? I dearly miss alt-f9 from LW

>>130970745

Yeah. It's just an echo chamber in here defending time limits and saying there's nothing wrong with the optimization.

Are you high?

>>130970734
I mean, i get 20fps at worst when it's a terror mission. I average about 45-50 in missions but like 38-40 on the avenger. it's still way lower then it should be

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>>130970745
>/v/ IS REQUESTING IMMEDIATE EVAC

>>130968153
>not using Zhang

why would you do this

Punished Bradford is growing on me desu fami

>>130970889

>Beagle so burnt out on the game all he can do is come to xcg and shit on the things that nerf his tactics.

>>130970745
>being mad his overwatch leapfrog is kill
>implying anybody is defending the shitty optimization

>>130970942

>I getting used to this shit character because I have no other choice

>>130970745
Nobodies is defending shitty optimisation.
Only babbies cry that their overwatch strats are obsolete.

>an enemy gets a lucky hit past hard cover
>SUDDENLY TIME FOR TRIPLE FUCKING PANIC

Random panics are the dumbest fucking bullshit. It is literally the RNG fucking the entire mission at will. It does not matter how good your positioning is, there is no counter or justification to this bullshit.

If the little info message says "X was killed" you can't bring their body back can you?

Can I still get Resistance Warrior Pack if I buy deluxe edition now? If not I'll just wait for sale. I don't want to pay the same for less.

>>130971087
pretty sure you can

>>130971039
>EU characters being memorable for anything but hilariously cheesy shit dialogue
you seem upset desu

>>130970986
I can't really blame him, this has literally happened to him like eight fucking times before and some of them weren't even hideously broken.

>>130971087
If they had custom gear on them, you have to carry them back to keep it if you have to evac at the end of the mission. Wouldn't want to lose that acid grenade or exo suit from your dead grenedier

>>130971130
>mangles the game on day 1 into some hideously unbalanced LW monstrosity where he just fights troopers and Sectoids with rookies for 8 hours
No I think you can blame him.

>>130970806
Well but why?
Why does it only follow the last soldier? It'd be more interesting if it followed random soldiers or something.

Or none at all unless they break through a window/door

>>130971124

meanwhile bradford 2 is not memorable for anything

>>130970745

well /xcg/ is pretty much reddit so thats not a suprise

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>>130971071
Wouldn't be so bad if they did it like LW where they just hunker instead of sprinting out of cover, possibly running an overwatch and missing a shot

Hacking early game is pretty dumb early game for non-save scummers isn't it?

>>130971408
Unless you're basically done with the mission and grabbing some free reinforcements to farm, yeah it's weak.

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Welp, it didn't take long after those first armored enemies started appearing that I got my first squad wiped. Then I started to run out of capable troops and thought taking 4 rookies and a sniper to a moderate difficulty mission was a good idea.
I guess I'll restart on Veteran so I have a chance to win without savescumming.

>>130971408
Yes, you should focus on having only one hacker focus spec. and try to stack up the free stat boosts from the objective hacks.

Is there any consequences to running through detection towers when you are already revealed?

>>130971276
I did like some of his lines.

>This new uniform is alright, but sometimes I miss that damn sweater...

>Extract VIP
>It's on the 3rd platform area of a building
>Right outside the fucking building
>There's a sectoid camping there
>Grenade it
>The grenade takes out 3 fucking floors
>Evac's been compromised here's your new Evac faggot
>It's fucking 2 entire blocks away
>Only got 3 turns left
>Cannot make it
>Lose my entire fucking team because of it.
>Playing on Ironman

FUCK. YOU. FIRAXIS. PUT A GODDAMN WARNING MESSAGE ON THAT SHIT

I'm kinda noob at XCOM

Veteran or Commander?

>>130971497
>Ever taking rookies without babysitters

It's like asking for a squad wipe anon.

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Is there any way to speed the game up? The delays on the animations are horrid

>>130971665
commander, commander

>>130971497
>those first armored

I just had my first one show up on an extract the ADVENT VIP mission. Luckily I have squad size at 5 and took him out on the first turn before he could cause any trouble. You know how great it is having 2 snipers? Probably as great as having 6 rangers would be.

>>130971665
Veteran

>>130971652
Should I just restart? I'm only 5 hours in. I wouldn't care if I got squad wiped due to being outplayed but that was just highway fucking robbery.

>>130971497
You should only take 1-2 rookies max.

>>130971736
>>130971697
hmmm

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>do first 6 missions on commander/ironmen flawlessly
>7th mission my experienced 5 man wiped because I meet stunsword troops

Lesson learned, stealth ambushing these fucks from a mile away next time.

>>130971396
The worst incident I ever had with panic was in a VIP mission in Enemy Unknown.

A soldier got poisoned by a thin mint, panicked, and then SHOT THE FUCKING VIP.

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Jesus christ. Why is everyone so damn ugly in this game?

>Female:

>Race 0 Female = Ugly inbred "white"
>Face A = Eldery woman
>Face B = Ugly jewish girl? Weird features. Big nose and bat ears.
>Face C = Sub-human rat face.
>Face D = Pig face with fat negro lips
>Face E = THE ONLY GOOD FACE IN THE WHOLE FUCKING GAME
>Face F = Albino African

>Race 1 Female = Extremely hideous and cartoonish blacks

>Race 2 Female = Asians
>Face A = Typical pancake face 5/10 Asian girl
>Face B = is this even human? looks like a fucking alien
>Face C = Elderly version of face B
>Face D, E, and F = Ugly, ugly, ugly

>Race 3 = Arabs and Indians
>Face A = giant nose
>Face B and C = Ugly, ugly
>Face D = gorilla woman
>Face E = meh 4/10
>Face F = Elderly Arab woman

And then it gets even worse for the males.

>Race 0 Male = Whites?
>All faces are ugly and have crazy out of proportion features, either huge noses, weak chins, weak jawlines, or rat faces.

>Race 1 Male = Ugly black people again

>Race 2 Male= Chubby asian men and a few with uncharacteristically strong chins for an asian. Looks funny.

>Race 3 Male = Ugly Arabs and Indians

Anyone grab the soundtrack/OST files yet?

>"Easy" mission
>Huge turrets sniping me across the map
>Enemy immediately brings in reinforcements
>Map has 5,000 enemies

This game does not fuck around on higher difficulties.

Where do you assign spare scientists in this game?

Anyone tried JLs mods yet?

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DR VAHLEN

Does anyone managed to use the SDK ? It doesn't fucking want to launch here.

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>>130971939

because it's the current year and firaxis is a progressive, resposible game company.

they don't want to represent women idealized and promote unrealistic beauty standards.

get over it.

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Daily reminder that XCOM 2 ending is LITERALLY TALKING hinting about TFTD and commander is confirmed asaru by overpowering FOUR(4) ETHEREALS AT ONCE

>>130972023
>1st real mission on Commander
>12 enemies, most clustered together
>2 Stun Lancers 1 captain reinforcement behind me as I'm chasing two Sectoids
JUST

>>130971934
Better than this shit>>130971652 I was starting to meet MEC's too.

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>start guerilla op mission
>run into sectoid/viper pair
>kill it
>MEC and two advanced troopers walk around corner
>kill all of them

>game immediately drops reinforcements consisting of two troopers, a stun lancer, a MEC

>also a pod of two sectoids and a codex
>and another pod of two advanced troopers

Nope, fuck this shit. Alt F4. I'm out. I'll play later when I'm not really fucking mad.

>>130972023

turtle turtle win great xp.

on that note: can a soldier get promoted twice in a mission or does the xp cap when it gets promoted?

tfw zombies can now climb ladders and pipes

>>130972181
5 rookies vs 1 burrowlid or 1 tentaculat?

>>130972273

they could always do that.

>>130972285
Something glowing LITERALLY TALKING coming from the deep

>>130971936
>playing X-COM for the first time
>starting to get the hang of the game
>bring rocket launchers along, they were fun to use, there's no way this could possibly go wrong
>things start going to shit after a bit of bad luck
>rocket launcher guys go berserk
>ENTIRE FUCKING SQUAD GETS LEVELED BY ROCKETS

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>>THE SURVIVOR IS FROM THE FUCKING KIRYU-KAI DISASTER
>>THE SURVIVOR IS FROM THE FUCKING KIRYU-KAI DISASTER
>>THE SURVIVOR IS FROM THE FUCKING KIRYU-KAI DISASTER

THAT MEANS THAT THIS:
http://lparchive.org/X-COM-UFO-Defense/Update%2029/
CANONICALLY HAPPENED
IT CANONICALLY HAPPENED.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT BASED FIRAXIS

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The aliens plan can be summed up by that song in Billy and Mandy with the green meteor. That's pretty cool.

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>>130971939
>Art Director: Greg Foertsch

I think he modeled the ingame faces off his own face.

>soldiers can spawn with EU armor
>can't equip it in character pool
This bothers me more than it should

ayy lmao

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I have no hope, do I?

>>130972603
lol

>>130971665
Veteran's harder than normal was last game

I'd do that for your first run, especially if you don't want to have to build optimally

>>130972495
You need to equip the dlc armour variant then go to the "body" option and it should be one of those options.

>>130971939
The black race has some pretty good faces actually

> Tfw your best soldier survives a mission, but during it was mind controlled and killed one of your other good soldiers.

R.I.P Biggs Guy. Killed by a friendly blade. It musta been extremely painful.

>>130968095
>>130968140
>>130968201
Can you change a soldier's spec? Like from ranger to grenadier?

Is it possible to make new faces with the modding tools or is it just for making new maps and shit like that?

>game refuses to run
>try every fix under the sun
>still nothing
>try backup craptop and it won't fucking connect to the internet for no discernable reason
>somehow managed to break my mouse in the process of this
>can't refund because reasons, goyim
>have now wasted three days on nothing
well you guys have fun i'm gonna go blow my fucking head off now

>>130971820
No, you have to keep going. Shit happens, and its up to you as the commander to make it right.

>>130972746

No.

>>130972645
This took me a while to figure out, too. I really like the resistance skins for early game though.

>>130972734
Was getting mind controlled part of your plan?

>>130972760
The hardest part would be to actually make the faces.

>>130971652

And what have we learned about grenades anon?

>>130972832
Thanks, Commander.

wtf is up with all these 90+% missed fuck this, I need a break

>>130972439
>that feel when the speaker is the canadian prime minister

Way to go mapleniggers.

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Recommended Iron Man settings for someone replaying XCOM 1 again?

Only played about halfway when it came out and I save scummed like a bitch so now I want to play the game right.

Spoiler me:

Where is Dr Vahlen?

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we escape from new york now

>>130973136
DUDE

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>>130970716
Codex are the biggest bs. They are beyond the realm of unfairness.

I decided to run for it after the second time it cloned and barely made it out.

Pic of my last guy carrying another to safety.
(there were 0 movement tiles to spare)

>>130973180
MELD

>>130972734
That happened to me, except she killed the entire fucking squad.

I had to annotate that in both her biography, and their epitaphs.

>>130973178
I heard he was dead.

>>130973173
Not in the game, looks like.

>>130973178
He has to have a meme beacon

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RIP.

I like how this completely counteracts how I'd play XCOM EW, I'm finding it a pretty big challenge to get a game fucking started, let alone make some decent progress.
I don't want to drop from Commander difficulty like the filthy casual I am, though.

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START POSTING THOSE MEMORIAL WALLS, I KNOW EVERYONE IS GETTING FUCKED IN THE ASS!

THATS XCOM BABY

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>Blow out cover
>Squad misses every single shot on exposed enemies.

>>130972731
Male or female? I'm looking at the males right now and they're pretty goofy. Face A looks like his features were smashed together and made all tiny, Face B looks like Bill Cosby with fetal alcohol syndrome, Face C is weirdly effeminate and almost Asiatic, Face D and E look like they suffer from gigantism, and Face F is like a young and kind of feminine version of D and E.

Looking at the females now and A looks ugly but kind of normal for a black woman. B looks like a human prairie dog, C looks like a WE WUZ KANGS black nubian, D looks like a dark skinned arab mother, and F has an enormous chin.

>>130973320
Ouch, at least it was a Rookie

>>130973353
bane mod when?

>tfw no Japanese language
>no Russian
>no Chinese

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>Avenger defense
>On a ledge
>Set up an overwatch crossfire
>A lone pectoid jumps up
>5 missed overwatch shots, one hit
>All overwatch spent
>Next up comes two funlancers who just waltz in and pop two guys unconscious, which in turn makes a third panic
>mfw

Anyone else has some really shitty glitches like Overwatch triggering through 3 walls and enemies "glitch-teleport" nearby?

>>130968184
It'd be fine if they made a small change:

>Timer only starts once the enemy first becomes aware of you

It could be less time than there currently is and I wouldn't mind.

>>130973407
Russian is the glaring oversight but those others would be nice too.

>>130973320
You MAY get him back on a rescue mission in future, but you'll probably want to train someone else in his stead because he'll need to catch up by the time you rescue him

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>finish downloading Dev Tools
>can't open due to missing file
>have to validate
>Disk Usage: 6.7MB/s
>ETA: 2 hours 32 minutes
Why the fuck is this shit so SLOOOOOWWWWWWWWW??!

>>130973219
A FUCKING MELD CANISTER

>>130954802
That didn't work. Thanks for trying though.

>>130973495
Oh shit, you too? I can't get the dev tools to start either; apparently when they released yesterday it was showing as an old version and wouldn't start then either.

>>130973219
LMAO

>>130973495
Yeah, I couldn't open it because it said missing file too. Reinstalling them should fix it right?

>Unlock blast padding
>On Sniper

>>130973552
Yeah. Kept telling me I'm missing some application that comes with the tool. Currently validating.
>>130973609
My disk usage just jumped 50+ MB/s so now the ETA is 15 minutes. Just validate it and hope your Hard Drive & Steam get out of the gutter.

>>130973528
For anybody else wondering how to get rid of debug mode and redscreens, put this in the command line of your shortcut "-noRedScreens -review"

I've never really played games of this type much in the past, is there any shame on playing on easy for this, a friend of mine has game shared with me and he is going away for some work, so I'll have access to this for a while and it does seem interesting.

I have played a fair bit of the previous game, but I never got that far, guess am a bit shit at turned based stuff.

>>130973651
Slightly redeeming if he's gunslinger
Take a shot if he's sniper

Is there going to be a Long War 2 kind of thing for this game ?

Holy shit, having 5 squad members instead of 4 makes way more of a difference than it ever did in EW.

>>130973717
JL already started doing some modding(SMGs, leader classes and advanced Mutons in the Workshop) but nothing confirmed yet

>>130973723
Thats cause mindcontrol and shit really turns the tide

>>130973712
Go ahead and start on easy to get the feel for it, learn how the game works.

After that you need to boost up the difficulty and put it on ironman. Otherwise you will get no respect here.

>>130973717

probably not, there will be alot of many shitty mods not one go-to mod

>>130973717
Let's hope not. Let's instead hope that good modders get to making overhaul mods and balance patches.

>>130971939
>Jesus christ. Why is everyone so damn ugly in this game?
We want the Oblivion audience.

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>Game keeps crashing on launch

It would seem the filthy Ayys are try to end this war before it's begun

>>130973651
dude free armor

it might save your sharpshooter on a mission gone awry

>current year
>first two ranks are still rookie and squadie

It's like they dont realize everyone changes those to military ranks. They could have just saved everyone the trouble

>>130973812

>alot of many

I need to sleep, but the download is finishing...

>>130973774

isn' JL working on his own game?

Day 1 and the casuals are already crying. I love this game.

>Soldier A gets mind controlled
>Soldier B gets panicked
>B crits A to death

That's XCOM, baby! :^)

How to expand squad size (without ini edits) in xcom 2?

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>>130973717
>Long Dong 2: A Good Day To Dong

Why is tongue lash such bullshit attack?

>>130973687
Just finished verifying, same issue. Might just redownload the whole thing in case, since I have fast internet.

>>130973902

Casual here. I enjoy my tears.

>>130973712
There's no shame in learning the game on easy, or enjoying it on easy. The only shame is acting like your soldiers are doing anything exceptional, or that you're playing really well.

And do keep in mind half the game's fun is dealing with loss, managing the consequences for your failures and preparing for the scary prospect of losing someone you've been relying on. None of this ever happens on easier difficulties.

>>130973934
Guerrilla tactics school.

>>130973967
that's xcom baby

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The picture that the Nazis used to represent "sub-humans" is more attractive than the faces in this game.

How did they fuck this up so badly that the fucking untermensch guy looks like a male model in comparison to the male characters in xcom?

>>130973902

actually almostno one is crying, I was just trolling using posts from steam reviews/ forum

xcom is casual btw

>>130973874
Try forcing it to start in windowed mode, had the same problem.

How do I know at what point the tutorial is over?

>>130969880
Where is asia?
What is "asia"?

>Start game
>Every single soldier on my team and in the barracks is female

>>130974070
Reminder than XCOM is staffed almost entirely by millenials

>>130973887
Go back to work Lump

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I'm spending far too much time dressing up troops before missions

>>130974034
I know on the previous game I did crank it to ironman once and hol-lee-fuck, I was bombed out of the water faster than the Tirpitz, I learnt to deal with loss quickly, followed by loss of game state.

Is it impossible to get rickety wrecked on lower difficulties, as you are talking to a special kind of turned base player here/

>>130974263
Standardised soldier outfit mod when?

>>130974279
>I was bombed out of the water faster than the Tirpitz
so, over 4 whole years then?