XCOM general - /xcg/

pistols are useful

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I don't know why the bump limit keeps sneaking up on me, I haven't noticed us passing it the past three or four threads.

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How you fellows doing

>>164323376
>muffled Can't Hold Us from the headphones

>>164323376
Pretty good, squads pulling off flawless missions left and right.

>>164325134
nice currently have a good run myself

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>>164323376

Still Sleepy...

>Ranged with a repeater insta-kills Archon King in my first encounter with it

Holy fuck, is there a better feeling?

>>164325918
Scientists have concluded through extensive investigation and testing that there is not.

>>164325918
Ranger*

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>>164325918
i have yet to have such luck with repeaters

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;_;

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R8 my operator chick, no bully pls.

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I kind of like

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>>164327860

Very Metal Gear.

ey, does this general deal with classic xcom?

I'm playing openxcom with the final mod pack right now, and am curious about squad composition strategies

>>164328403
Yeah any xcom title and probably any "x-com like" game is good as well.

>>164327860
noice

>>164328403
>and am curious about squad composition strategies
What part of the game are you in? Early, mid, late? What's your tech and squad size?

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And there burnt my monitor I've had for years. Ah well, that 27'' bastard had a good run, he even visted Dreamhack with me a couple of time.

Here's to gear come and gone!

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Is this salvageable? Or should I just start a new game?

>>164335089
What difficulty? What month?

>>164335609
Classic, second month. Its my first time playing.

>>164332101
I feel it's time to retire my MX518, the mouse wheel doesn't work anymore.

Other than that it's still in prime condition, god knows how this little shit lasted like 10 years

>>164335901
>>164335089

Rush Satellites first and Laser Weapons second. You can go from there.

>>164335901
You can recover, though it won't be easy on classic. Make sure you are grabbing as many engineers as possible.

I've been eying xcox 2 for a good while and i have the money to grab it on the last day of the sale, but now the reviews are saying "don't it's buggy now"

is it LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE or is it scarce issues

>>164337693
those steam reviews are bullshit
it does have some issues but its far from unplayable

>>164337693
Reinstalled it yesterday and have been playing, no signs of issues beyond the usual customization lag with lots of mods(which is to be expected).

>>164338015
>>164338162
alright thanks lads

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Well I'd be damned, there is a good armor in the ruler pack

>>164340648
Meh I still think pretty much every armor design in the game is pretty bad. I mean most of it looked pretty good in EU . The ADVENT designs look cool, but why does the second tier stuff and the helmets look so bad? Kevlar and is passable but I can't imagine playing now without mods.

Is it just me, or is the workshop seemingly pointless? I can buy new engineers for $190 each and then I don't have to pay a maintenance fee on them every month and they don't take up precious power like the workshop does. The workshop only gives you two more engineers, costs $125, three power, $35 every month, and however long to build. I don't think that's really worth it, do you?

>>164341051
Any good armor mods you recommend with high quality? Most of the stuff out there seems to be ports from other games and fairly low poly with low grainy texture resolutions.

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>>164342403
Halo Customizable Armors is pretty good for tier 2 and above in terms of quality, alongside Stenchfury's and capn bubs stuff. I use Modern Warfare for my operator Tier 1 guys, not the best quality but I overlook that because it's the most tacticool looking body gear and looks great so long as not zoomed right in, the helmets are meh.

What do you guys think about Grimy's Loot Mod? Any good? Thinking about using it in a new year campaign.

Can you sell weapons and other loot you don't want or need at the black market? If not, it would suck to have an ever-expanding inventory to manage.

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>>164342949

Halo mods are nice all around.

Is it actually possible to beat LW? Has anyone here best it?

>>164351071
I haven't , but Iv gotten pretty far
On normal and classic it's 100% possible, veteran and commander difficulty, no. It becomes statisticly impossible

>>164351071
Yes
Actually in some ways it's still more fair then Xcom 2

Using the alt-launcher, how does one access the dev console?

>Replaying X2 with mods
>June 30th
>Just Oneshot Archon King
These guys ended up way easier than I expected, but I can't imagine the kind of nightmare they would be on Ironman. I'm also about to get laser pulse weapons and Avatar is halfway done, game feels easy but I also feel behind somehow. Should I restart?

I want to have a legendary run, but it's just impossible to get started. Gatecrasher and the first few months are impossible for me on highest difficulty, but then it gets easy as shit every time

>>164352981
You need turn them on on the stream launch options same for the altlauncher

>>164352981
>>164353857

alt what?

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>>164325918

Yes, actually fighting him and winning against all odds.

>>164353857
I added the launch parameters in steam. puush/t8lbS.png then I open the alt-launcher from the pastebin. When I press `/~ it does not seem to open up anything in the game.

>>164343428

Yes you can, and i think it's fun. You'll need lots of "suffering is fun" mods to counterbalance though.

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Whatever happened to this guy? Did he died?

>>164354856
in my alt launcher i have -allowconsole -log -autodebug -noRedScreens -review

in steam i have actually have it blank try this see if it works if not tell me

>>164355465
He crashed his plane with no survivors

Other than Beags is there any other good youtubers/streamers to watch play XCOM 2?

>>164355585
I got the console to open, thanks

>>164357175
yeah man np

>>164354284
alternate mod launcher look it up its pretty handy for finding conflicts and organizing your mods

>>164337693
The issues are easily fixable by loading a previous save and the game saves every turn.

Besides, he issues hardly ever turn up, I only ever had it crash twice

>>164355465
He was nowhere to be found on Skyranger's crash site. He's probably fucking Vahlen somewhere

>>164335089
Vanilla is only hard at the start, so don't worry about it too much. As the other already have said, rush sats next time.

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>that feel when you still haven't put on your armor and mission starts in 5

>>164361718
>tell my comrades to wake me up 30 minutes before ETA so I can put my armor on
>they wake me up 5 minutes before and put my hand in warm water so i piss myself
Why the fuck are officers such dicks to us rookies

>>164336384
I had the exact same model, truly a god amongst mice. I was sad when it stopped working.

>>164355465
He managed to save Dr. Vahlen and a some other XCOM personnel from capture by the ayys.

After crashlanding, he joined up with the local resistance cell where they gave him a functioning fighter jet.

How else can the resistance manage to ground a UFO for you to deploy to? It's big Sky looking out for you.

Is there any mod that lets me stay naked despite having higher tier armor for xcom 2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a85Xdmk_WIA

>>164354943
>You'll need lots of "suffering is fun" mods to counterbalance though.
Any suggestions for mods to balance the loot mod?

>>164327860
Meryl?

Is there a mod to make all weapon attachments actually desirable and available to SPARK weapons? 5% chance to instantly kill or get a free action is pretty useless when you could get a guaranteed aim or other bonus.

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Your best unit falls into a snek nest

Would they survive?

>>164363956
If the best unit in the question is Bradford, yes

>>164363956
No, the sneks would not survive.

>>164362719

You can try something relatively minor, like grenade damage falloff.

Or go ham with ABA2, gorilla mission types and whatsnot.

>>164363093
Free action is mostly useless on sparks but repeaters are not. In particular, stock works with repeater so you can give up on hitting shit with your spark and just go for volume of fire that misses but still kills stuff for no reason.

your chance to kill _anything_ in 1 turn with 15% repeater on a spark with 1 dmg stock is about

(15 + 0.85*15 + 0.85*(-0.85*15))% or something, or "somewhere just below 40")

And that's if you miss every time.

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>>164365859
PISTOLS ARE USEFUL

>autistically can't enjoy XCOM 2 because Bradford's new voice triggers me
Fuck me, I don' t get why they thought changing the voice of a recurring character was a good idea

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>>164368396
>no over the top finnish bradford
why live

>>164365856
I thought repeaters no longer proc off stock damage.

>>164370238
I think they patched it activating from dots, but it still works with stock. Can't confirm myself though, I never use stocks

>>164365856
>>164363093
I was also asking about a mod that makes attachments more desirable overall, not just about SPARK weapons. To me the vanilla weapon attachments are poorly balanced, half of them I never even want to use.

Will there be more DLCs or patches for XCOM2?
I played it a bit on release and decided to wait for permance improvements and all the DLCs to come out.
Is the game "done" now?

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>>164368132

Word.

>>164370751
No it's not done.

>>164370751
There may or may not be a large expansion on its way, but that is unconfirmed and at least half a year away.

So I want to mod my game to make stealth a valid thing. So due to it's slow nature I got Reinforcement Missions (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=766511505) where you can turn off timers and the main threat now is ever growing reinforcements. I then got classes and items to help with muh stealth.

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=736191350
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=699011611
maybe https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=618036260

Problem is that Reinforcements works that if you get detected a wave a of reinforcements come and keep coming with set timings. With these classes I can kill in stealth but some how activates the waves.

I also fixed the issue of no bodies with http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=766512413. So I can kill in stealth and still get my loot.

But as I said the reinforcement mod does not play nice. So what mod/mods would give me what I want?

I want no timers but still a threat if I get caught or things go down.

>>164371038
I can literally metal gear it up somewhat. Kill enemies in stealth, fulton bodies, and there is a suspicion meter so every silenced kill increases my chance of getting detected.

>new game
>rookie looks exactly like stallone but is french
>assigned grenadier class
>nickname him rambeaux and build him as a demo/shredder
did i do good

>>164371325
But will he survive the campaign?

>>164371436
ive had him since mission one in march and hes stuck around so far, currently in june
shame hes only a lieutenant, he usually either doesnt get kills or gets injured

>>164371694
Well tell us how his story ends. I find that sometimes some of my grenadiers don't rank up as fast because they are busy clearing cover for the rest of the squad.

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I was thinking of writing a lewdfic about Lily going undercover as an orderly in an ADVENT gene therapy clinic, only to end up the abusepet of an ayylmao disguised as a humie nurse girl. Anal probing involved. Thoughts?

>>164372654
She never lived in the cities
your idea a shit
reeee

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>>164372724
>She never lived in the cities
>"going undercover"
reading comprehension, nigga.

>>164370756
dont put bullets in your mouth its no good for you

>>164371086
>>164371038
Anyone have any mods that remove timers and replace the threat with something else? Guerrilla War mod works the best but has a few issues.

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bets on this shot?
if i miss my flanked marksman will most likely die

>>164374770
run and gun for a better shot maybe

>>164375269
cant
if i move to flank him ill flank myself, theres a heavy officer and a codex in that room that he cant see

>>164374770
That grenade would take him out if it's a plasma I think

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>>164375497
it didnt have to

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>>164375563
>clutch ranger crits through cover
Literally the best thing.

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>>164375627
not as funny as vipers killing themselves by pulling a bladestorm ranger

How do you initiate combat?
You've done your Recon, you've positioned your team, your battle plan is laid out. How do you let them know you're there?

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>>164363956
>best unit in run is Shinobi
>mods mean that speccing them for recon or melee is a waste since they'll end up being an inferior version of dedicated classes
>spec them into heavy duty flanking instead
>Low Profile, Hunter's Instinct, Death From Above, high priority on Speed PCSs, top priority on Spider/Wraith suits
>top ranger is a guy named Clutch who several times wiped out entire pods thanks to having the high ground
>he earned his name to say the least
>gun has scope/autoloader/extended mag
>sending him against a bunch of baby sneks

>>164376894

Proximity mines

>>164376894
With a grenade, either a anything lethal or a flashbang depending on the pod(s) I'm facing.

how i do get the custom soldiers that ive made in the character pool to show up as rookies?

Quick guys name the guns you wish were in the game

>SMGs
Hellrieger
Sten

>Assault Rifles/DMRs
Stg44
Mondragon
Howa Type 89

>Shotguns
I don't know my shotguns

>Pistols
Kolibri
Howdah
C96
More fucking revolvers

>Sniper Rifles
SMLE 3
Springfield 1903
Crossbow
Martini Henri

>Machine Guns
Benet Mercie
Lewis Gun


>>164377671
I recommend Character Pool only over Randoms. It should be when you start a new campaign

>>164377745
>real, contemporary guns in post-invasion 2035.

>>164377818
Mods will put them in

>>164377745
That's a whole lot of shitty ill-fitting guns, senpai.
Pancor Jackhammer is the only one I wanted and I already got it.

>>164377920
I've been playing too much BF1 lately

Then again I'm the guy who gave AK47s to my Halo squaddies and Halo weapons to my Mass Effect characters

Ill-fitting and mix-and-match are my doctrines

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>>164376894
Proxy Mines activated by a critical sniper shot

>Be Advent Shield Bearer 112946A
>Standing outside of a research lab taking a break from patrolling
>Officer is telling us to be ready for XCOM mecs
>Suddenly there is a soft thud and then beeping coming from my feet
>Just as suddenly my officers's head explodes
>Painful as fuck neural feed back from my implant
>Attempt to stumble into cover with my fellow Trooper
>World explodes into flames and shrapnel
>Flung into half cover
>Armour is shredded to fuck and missing a leg
>Trooper is laying death and you notice his eyes are blue because one blew over there and the other blew other there
>Activate shields, hope it stops the bleeding, and lug you gun into firing position
>There are still four more XCOM soldiers with actions left
>tfw

>>164377745
a top-loading lmg like the type-99
six-9 shotgun
only guns that fit and still look cool

>figure someone's already made or ported some 40k gear into the game
>search for Warhammer and Imperial Guard on the workshop
>50 flag """mods""", one voicepack and that's it
wow

>>164377745
Funny enough most of the guns that I really want were already modded in

>SMGs
UMP45
MP40
MP7
a proper Vector

>Assault Raifus/DMRs
CZ 805 BREN
STG44
AN94

>Shotguns
AA12
KS23
M1897

>Pistols
S&W Model 500

>Sniper Raifus
Hecate II

>Machine Guns
MG34

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>>164378259
fuck i meant six-12

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>>164378389
Oh yeah, forgot this son of a bitch.

i want to inside firebrand

>>164378573
Is the KSG a good shotgun? Thinking I need a shotgun in my life for home defense and fucking around at the range and innawoods. My AR is great, but not really ideal for home defense when the rounds would go clean through an invader and through my walls.

>>164380009
>buying shotguns for self-defense
People really do that?

t. noguns

>>164378379

Total conversion mods are hard.

>>164378389
>CZ 805 BREN
my nigga

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>2 snipers with faceoff and plasma pistol

>>164382419
That gun is criminally underrated. The only game that I played where it wasn't added by a mod was fucking Payday 2.

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WHAT'S THAT COMING OVER THE HILL
IS IT A MONSTER
>It's a monster

>>164363956
>Faceoff Ability Intensifies.
Oh baby...

>>164381114
some people live in shitty neighborhoods its not unheard of

>>164382763
my A-Team's max damage out put a turn (not including crits) was about 110,that thing is half of their DPT alone.

flash bang in and run anon

>>164383084
dont forget these lids can do 5hp worth of poison damage

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>Ranger with a light axe

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>>164381114
Really it's just an excuse for convincing myself I need a shotgun. I want one is all.

My every day carry Glock sits on my desk when I'm not out and about, so that doubles as home defense even though I'm 99.99% sure I'll never need it for home defense.

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I like this mission already

>>164386554
>recover item from resistance haven
What mod is that and is it good?

>>164373220
Anyone have any good mods? I want to remove timers but still have a challenge. I already got the ai mod so the enemy is not dumb at least.

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>>164386972
That's a vanilla item retrieval mission.

>>164387261
>I want to remove timers but still have a challenge
Literally impossible.

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>>164388373

Not that guy but timers really grind my gears

>>164388373
>t.anon with no imagineation

is there a mod that lets you pick your own classes for soldiers

>>164362424
>Big sky

For you

>>164389521
Yes.

>>164389521
Commander's choice

>>164389594
>>164389745
thank you. all i could find on the workshop was custom crap classes

Is there a mod that lets me have longer gun names? I tried checking the workshop but I saw nothing

Playable aliens mod is way too over powered, especially when their VIP rescue mission glitches and they can fight during it.

>>164388373
>>164387261
Well earlier I said I was running Guerilla War mod. In stead of a threat of a count down, its never ending waves that will eventualy overwhelm you. But as I said earlier, does not really play well with stealth classes I installed. What happens is that if you don't break stealth no reinforcements. My modded classes and gear allow me to kill in concealment without breaking it. But even with concealment still active they still send reinforcement. What i think happens code wise is that the soldier shoots, for a micro second is revealed, then put back into concealment? What I could do is put timers back. Then use the "True Concealment" mod which does not activate the turns untill after concealment is broken.

Why only 4 difficulties? Civ games come with like a million difficulties, why didn't Jake learn anything from Sid?

>>164386554
>Operation Bone Mother
Well if you say so

>>164376894
Overwatch trap
>be sure all your guys have eyes on the aliens
>over watch all but one with best hit chance
>fire
>aliens get alerted and run for cover
>aliens get BTFO by overwatch fire

>>164385484
>tfw when Canadian and too autistic to get gun license
feelsbadman

>>164394334
Because civ can give small incremental bonuses, xcom cannot. 1 hp matters a lot in xcom.

Who dident Bradford fight during the downed avenger mission?
Speaking of
Is there a way to avoid getting caught by the UFO or is it an automatic yes or no?
Some campaigns I avoid it and in others it's impossible to avoid

>>164395993
Might be wrong but I think the UFO getting you depends how the mission that dark event bases off of goes
>beat the mission
>UFO attack prevented
>do a different mission and/or lose the mission to prevent it
>UFO attacks

>>164396448
He doesn't mean triggering the Hunter UFO, he means getting caught by it as it's flying around.

>>164395993
I think I found a bug in that. When I saw an UFO come near me, I go to the places I can't be interrupted, like Black Market. This way it doesn't even start the chase

>>164382730
It was in CoD Ghosts and Battlefield 4 too. And ArmA I guess.

>>164382419
>>164378389
I do want it there as well.
Still hoping for E3245 to add it.

>>164395993
It's random 50/50, you can't avoid it if it's scripted to shoot you down

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help

>>164399381
Shit's fucked.

>>164400978
p-pls

>>164401150
Verify game cache and try installing the mods again, one by one, and check if it works after each mod. This way you can identify which mod is breaking your game.

>>164401318
>Verify game cache
I am not using steam

>>164401465
Buy Jake's game you fucking cunt.

>>164401465
Reinstall, then. Basically the same thing. Oh and make sure you have all the updates.

>>164401465
pirates btfo, this wouldn't happen if you bought it.

>>164394861
>Overwatch trapping on your turn

For what purpose? Your aim is worse than if you had just taken the shot yourself and you can't choose targets. The entire point of overwatch is that it can damage and enemy on their turn effectively giving you a free shot

>find out about xcom like few days ago
>pirate the game, love it
>decide to buy it
>my account balance after holidays is literally 0
I am currently at my mom's house wondering how the fuck am I going to get back to uni, considering hitchhiking lads.
(surviving the two or so weeks will be easier, I still have plenty of ramen stored there)

guess that's another months of playing it without most of the mods

Is beagle just done with XCOM?

>>164406685
I have no idea how he's not, really.

I'm sad that maybe he feels like he has to put out XCOM to please his audience.

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What nickname should I give this guy?

>>164406971
Sword of Islam

Why does your ranger have a rifle?

>>164407064
He's a Shinobi from the Perk Pack, I use him as a scout and already had a shotgun guy on the last mission.

>>164406752
Honestly, I don't mind that he's moved on to other things. I do mind that he doesn't do YT videos of a game he knows a lot about like he did with XCOM, his streams are in the middle of the night for me.

>>164406971
Prophet.

>page 10 only 20 minutes after last bump
Is /vg/ being more active than normal or am I just imagining things?

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>>164409725
no anon, this general is just on its last breath
but worry not, expansion info soon

>>164409891
It's not the amount of posts we're getting but the amount of posts other threads are getting. I believe I've seen xcg be on page 8/9 even over an hour after last message.

>>164372816
She still never lived in the cities, not like facts have ever gotten in the way of fanfics.

>>164406685
He's putting in work for a modded Guerilla/Beagle War XCOM 2 Youtube campaign. He showed a sneak peak on the end of one of his streams, so I think it's happening.

>>164406971
OpFor

Give him the Arabic Voice from the Modern Warfare voice pack

>>164382502
Gunkata class when?

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Dear /xcg/.

Are there any bodysuit themed custom armors for Xcom 2?

I wont lie, I would love to dress up my female crew in various bodysuits, but I only found two that fits (both Starcraft themed) on Workshop. Maybe Im looking the wrong way.

Sorry for such question (I know thread supposed to be about tactics/gameplay discussion and such) and thanks for replies.

>>164413769
there is the mgs frogsuit

>>164414449

Good, added.

Anything else?

There were two Mass Effect related ones, but they are kinda messed up.

>>164414719
i think one of the halo packs has techsuits also that sneaksuit that was recently added

jesus christ xcom is shit
tried tutorial
>cutscene after cutscene, after cutscene for two hours and there is no end, quit tutorial
>start the game
>constantly bombarded with messages because I blow up aliens with grenades
>commander to here, commander to there
just fuck off already

>>164415220

Tutorial is literal handholding, so everyone sane plays it a bit to learn absolute basics and then start new game without it.

>>164414719

Cool, found it. Thanks.

I cant help it, Im too much into skintight bodysuits for girls...

Also, how does "custom weapons" work? Just skins or actually different separated weapons? Aside from that "smg pack" ones, of course.

>>164415609

That was for >>164414925, sorry.

>>164404249
Bum a ride from your mom

>>164415609
most of them are just new skins but remember alot of them have separate upgrade costs

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>>164377745

For Grenadiers.

>>164417148
i want to meet the man who deviced this weapon and ask him "what the fuck"

>>164380009
>>My AR is great, but not really ideal for home defense when the rounds would go clean through an invader and through my walls.

Really? No trolling, legitimately curious.

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>>164417413

You, me, k/ and the whole worl pal.

I even remember reading somewhere in the initial concepts that they wanted to develop both a sidearm variant and a 2-man support gun.

>>164323027
>>164323027

Hey guys getting into xcom EW long war after enjoying XCOM2 for a while.

Quick question how do you check out aliens' info? I managed to do it once but I wasn't lucky enough to find how.(I mean the window you get when pressing f1 to view soldier info)

>>164417421
not him

an invader with a hole in his gut will run away, he's not there to fight, he's there to steal

but the round might penetrate him, your walls and injure someone outside

plus a shotgun is easier to handle in closed spaces like a home

t. noguns

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>>164406971
Fuck he just died :(

>>164417651
>>164417148
>>164417413
i think in concept if it all works it would be pretty nuts EVERYBODY having 25mm airburst whenever the needed it could be pretty fucking sweet

Dear /xcg/.

At the start of campaign in Xcom 2, I got location of Advent base. When should I do this mission to avoid making unnessesary difficulty spikes?

Im at like third month or something, first armor upgrade and magentic assault and sniper rifles.

>>164417743
It's the same thing, you just target the alien and press F1. However, full details on aliens are locked until you do their autopsy.

>>164418741
RIGHT NOW

>>164418864

Thanks

>>164419178

I screwed up, didnt I?

>>164419483
Not really. I just leave that mission until the Doom ticker fills up and I don't have a facility to knock out.

>>164419727

Oh. Mine is filled in like 2/3 or a little above half.

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>only 3 troops alive
>accidentally set of sectoid pod at end f turn
>mech pod walks in as well
>second sectoid pod joins in on the next turn
thank fuck rangers always come in for the clutch

>>164420825
snake skin shotgun how fitting

>>164423512
>you will never have an ADVENT squad drop down from the chimney

>>164419794
After the bar fills up you still have 20 days to do something, just wait until you have 10 or so days left and do it

>>164417793

Interesting stuff to know.

>>164415220
Advanced options
Reduced beginner VO

>>164424931
>they drop from the chimney on a home
>little girl appears from a door, looking sleepy
>"s-santa?"
>"MOR BALATEN"

>>164425298
>After the bar fills up you still have 20 days to do something
Only if you play on bitch difficulties, I'm pretty sure. The first countdown was always 10 days for me.

>>164332101
I bought this one for $350 to replace a 27" and am pretty happy with it, though it definitely required an adjustment period to get used to an ultrawide monitor for web browsing:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BMES072/
Think I'm going to get a wall mount so I can experiment with turning it vertically or horizontally.

>>164336384
>>164362374
I had the G400 but it stopped working too and am now using some wireless piece of shit. What did you replace it with?

>>164427824
I haven't replaced it with anything yet.

I'm using a shitty laptop mouse if i need to use the mousewheel

i feel tactical as fuck with two mice

>>164426808
>Commander is a bitch difficulty

No u

>>164428389
It's not. I usually play on Commander and I don't remember seeing 20 days on the doomclock.

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WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT DO I DO

>>164428982
Bluescreen rounds.

>>164372654
Do it.

>>164380009
Just fyi, shotgun rounds will go clean through multiple walls as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C29mEJFFIvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXOIQgfvVlE

>>164381114
Yeah, it's the most common recommendation.

>>164428982
GRENADIERS

WHY ISN'T YOUR SQUAD ALL GRENADIERS YET?

WHY AREN'T YOU SUPRESSING, HOLOTARGETING, SHREDDING AND SALVOING EVERYTHING IN YOUR WAY YET?

WHAT ARE YOU SOME SORT OF NON-META KEK?

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>>164429474
THIS

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>>164429474

But I like pretending my ranger is Raiden fighting metal gears

>>164431010
Sectopods blow up on death, it's a bad idea man.

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rip

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>>164431458
rip2

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>>164431841
would this count

>>164428507
>>164428982
>Blue screen snipers w/ QuickDraw, lightning hands, fan fire

Pssh, nothing personnel kid

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>>164376894
Flamethrowers desu.
Nothing feels better than making a pack of mutons panic like little girls.

>>164376894
Salvo Grenade.

Rupture if there's something that definitely needs to get dead like a Sectopod.

>>164323027
Is Enemy Unknown still worth playing if you started with 2?

>>164435829
I uh
kinda? I guess?

Vanilla is pretty much alike.

It'd be worth it for Long Schlong, mostly.

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Attack dog alien raptors when?

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>>164436626

>>164436626
>>164443473
Reminds me of this old stupid idea I had once

>XCom gets attack dogs
>tier 1 is tacticool dogs
>tier 2 is cyborg dogs
>tier 3 is Bladewolf

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>>164444385
This is the kind of stupid stuff that would be undeniably fun.

>>164428982
rapid fire assaults with superior laser sights

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>skulljack ADVENT Kommissar
>gets skulljacked, uses return fire, then dies

>>164445982
why the fuck would you give a dog a knife

like
holy fucking shit FUCK that's FUCKING RETARDED

FUCK
WHY

I alt-f4 out of ironman games I don't like the result of. mainly because jake soloman decided that the "german" way of playing xcom was not fun even though the opposite is true.

I also don't want multiple save games.

>>164447708
I did it twice today, but only for what I see as justified reasons because the LOS fucked up and I got shot by enemies I couldn't see. Other than that I fail missions if it's legit, it just makes it more fun if you can lose.

>>164447708
Do you want sympathy, or a (you), or something?
>"german"
What does that mean?

>>164447401
He's a well trained pupper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QJQObeFlTY

>>164448407
He's talking hinting at Jake's white supremacist ways.

>>164448407
BUT HE HAS HIS FUCKING TEETH

WHAT DOES HE NEED A KNIFE FOR

>>164447708
>the german way of playing xcom was not fun

well of course

if you had fun, it wouldn't be german

>>164448537
Will Jake disavow?

>>164448590
For slicing people duh. You can only chew people with teeth.

>>164448405
I've lost a healthy amount of missions and soldiers. Honestly it's comparable to murder. If you do it one or two times you have no issue doing it more.

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>>164448537

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Thought my game was fucked but I pulled victory from defeat Gurren Lagann style
>be half way though
>advent calander is only half but I only have 4 a-team guys and dozens of rookies vs andromedens and achrons
>so if they get wipe it's pretty much over
>retrieve data mission
>send my A-team
>all is well untill I move forward one space to many and every pod in the map gets activated all at once like it's fucking war
>achrons, an andromdan, 2 codex, several groups of advent and more because fuck you
>A-team guys getting hurt and out of med packs and many aliens still standing
>it's all ogre
>my specialist hacks a andromedan with 15% chance (a mis-click funny enough)
>my new andromedian ahulla ackbar posion bombs the group of ayys
>they are acid poisoned and only attack him
>my guys pick them off from behind
>he takes most of them out and he gets taken out with 2 hp left
>tfw

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Iv had ideas for a decent Xcom story or even show that have been floating around my head, nothing concrete but amusing ideas
>starts with a main character in an advent city
>everything is great , no mention of Xcom untill then actually show up
>life is great and perfect under advent protection
>everything is super clean kinda like the city in mirrors edge
>people are happy
>diseases is no more
>technology skyrockets
>social issues are almost non-existent
>things are TOO perfect in a kinda uncanny valley BNW kinda way
Then somehow the character gets gets wrangled into Xcom or
>ends up bumbling into a Xcom resistance camp just as advent is raiding it and gets wrangled into Xcom somewhere
>Xcom and the avenger is dirty , unorganized , people squabble
>people also drink together , are friends , have sex , and other things you don't touch under advent oddly
I had some smaller ideas too
>advent uses lids on mass by dumping a shitload close to the enemy and running away, as lids are very hard to control and are usually cleaned up with some kinda nuclear extermination of the surrounding area
>faceless are like attack dogs
>there could be a bit about telling apart faceless from real people , like they move funny or are too dumb to speak, kinda like human cylons, mabey are characters dies off screen and is replaced by a faceless while we're not looking
Events happen similar to the game
>it's found out advent is more fucked up then previous known
>eventually the rebellion grows to big to be contained with propaganda and raids and so on

>>164428982
I just did the get shot down mission for the first time. I revealed this cocksucker with a single spec moving to the emp tower thing. Sectopod stomps around and kills tower. hack sectopod and haul ass. Sectopod two turns later comes after my spec. Spec in overwatch. Fires reaction shot. Executes full health sectopod.
>fucking what

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>tfw finally got a half decent Avenger Defense screenshot

Just had a shit retaliation mission, lost 2 guys when I ran into a muton and mech pod at the end of my turn. Someone post something to cheer me up please.

>>164451974
ive been a fan of the whole everything is perfect society but always on the news some new bombing some where or shootout on the outskirts, that draws a character from their comfort zone and makes them start asking the hard questions

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>>164452317
Here's a fantasy rendition of one of your squaddies

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>>164452317
Here's a future rendition of your other squaddie

>>164452505
>>164452630
thx

>>164452317

>>164451974
i would be down with a story like that

>>164452259
looking good

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>>164452898
>>164452317
oops

>>164403867
Late answer but I'm sure if you do it when you break concealment you don't get the aim penalty, IIRC the tutorial teaches you about this. I don't use it either but still

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>>164452259

Quite nice stuff.

How did the defense go?

>>164435829
I still play XCOM EW. About 25% LW and 75% XCOM 2.
They're different enough for XCOM to feel like a different game rather than inferior XCOM 2, at least with Long War.

>>164453347
Really god damn well.

Had some bad luck with pod placement and both my guys with Phantom got spotted right away. Fucking flanking moves and a drone making a beeline to the ramp.

Couple guys and a SPARK lightly wounded but most of the team unscathed. 41 dead ADVENT and promotions all around.

>>164451974
Id read it
Though as a show it may be too similar to their one jar jar abrahams show

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>>164417880
>>EVERYBODY having 25mm airburst

That be absolutely crazy. No wonder why they cancelled it as it would have been too nice for this world.

>>164453508

Good grinding.

>>164455110
well at least we still may get xm25s i hope anyway those things are cool

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>>164455687
>>164455110
also this thing they liked the 25mm

>>164455110
>EVERYBODY having 25mm airburst
Welcome to BF2142

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/2016_top_sellers/
Sneaking into the top lads

>>164452630

>Imperial Guardsman, i'm Tyranid Swarm
>uuuuh, you don't get to bring space marines

>>164456209

>no man's sky

WEW

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>>164456209
>no man's sky

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>>164456331
They're not my friends

>>164456209
Hey that's pretty good. Not releasing back in November probably helped alot too, much less competition in February, and it came out before DS3 and Doom

>>164363956
Survive? They would procreate

Are there any mods that make ADVENT not sound like they're gurgling mouthwash? Like a voicepack that makes them speak in english?

>>164457634
You gonna get TOUCAN SAFARI'd.

>>164403867
Not him, but I do it because then they don't have a chance to get to cover, which offsets the overwatch aim penalty

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Don't you just love the troops RNG gives you sometimes

>>164459187

I don't think Bradford is in charge of recruiting anymore.

How many soldiers do you lose on avarage on a legend campaign?

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tfw advanced warfare gives you something useful

>>164463520
arguable, since it makes your overwatch worse at suppressing movement, and it doesn't ignore cover

what are the best weapon upgrades per class, assuming you have both mod slots available
i never really bothered with using them and dont want to waste good upgrades

>>164382502
Its High Noon Encore.

>>164464894
Laser sights and extended mags for Rangers.
Repeaters and extended mags for Specialists.
Scopes and extended mags for Grenadiers.
Nothing for Snipers because they're useless.

>>164466738
I thought laser sights increased crit chance the farther away you're from the target?

>>164466873
It's literally the opposite, dummy. Besides, no one else can really stack crit chance.

In EW eventually you get to a point where you can more or less sail through any mission just fine.
Will LW prevent that completely or will it eventually get to the point where there's no real threat to me anymore?

>>164467393
The missions never become entirely safe due to bosses and other curveballs, but eventually you build a very robust roster where it will take complete wipes to put your campaign on the back foot.

>>164467583
Yeah I thought that would be the same way more or less. Unless I actively mess up then I'm more or less okay.

How about XCOM2 with mods? Haven't any of the DLC, though.

>>164467393
Also the aliens themselves constantly upgrade their units. Where lategame EW missions are easy because your colonels can each solo an ethereal in a turn, in LW the easy missions are the ones where the ayys don't have resources and so deploy extra seekers and floaters instead of filling the map with mutons.

>>164467707
>XCOM2
End-game is a breeze.

>with mods
Nightmare mode unless you install cheats.

>>164462254
I still play commander (or whatever the classic difficulty is called) ironman because legendary is too much for me even if I savescum.

>>164468214
Legend is only impossibly bad in the first months. After you get through those, you'll be unstoppable.

>>164435829
I honestly cannot get back into it because of all the QOL updates, even though LW is an overall better game.

>>164469976
>>164468214
As long as we're talking about legendary, I want to know if any of /xcg/ made it through with the long war packs. I am literally on restart 122 because if I don't make it through the first 5 missions with the same guys ranking up then there is no point to go on, if even one dies.

>>164406752
>tfw only ever liked him for shacktac arma vids

>>164452630
I wish the Psi-gates mission was like this, a tyranid invasion amount of lids ending with a lid queens (not a giant lid but a new unit) crawling through the portal

>>164472476
A sort of reverse Avenger Defence.

>>164472084
t. ET

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Resposting best beagle

https://is.4chan.org/wsg/1483459454802.webm

Do people actually play XCOM2 on Insane and Ironmode for fun? I just can't imagine how anyone can do it.

>>164477180
Doing it right now ;^)

>>164477345

You're so hardcore, bro. Tell me your secrets.

>>164477180
Do you mean Legendary and Ironman? What the hell is insane?

>>164477706

Yes, how is it possible to beat the first VIP mission to get the first scientist when it's 4 squaddies versus 8+ aliens when Sectoids 100% mind control your guys and you can't kill those infantry guys with one grenade anymore?

>>164477914
Sectoids Mindfray inflicts a random psi-debuff, it's not always MC.

Don't have a squad full of squaddies.

Use more grenades.

>>164477914
>it's 4 squaddies
Can't speak for others but I don't think I ever played vanilla Legendary desu. By the time I got to it I already had ABA 2+ other enemy mods so my squad was bigger too. Also even with these mods the pods in the first mission shouldn't be 8 aliens, try to activate only one pod at a time

>>164478071

It is literally the second mission, I'm only going to have 4 squaddies that are going to get mind controlled. Are you telling me the only way to beat Legendary Ironman is blind shit ass luck?

>>164478185

It's a VIP escort mission, I got 12 turns to get this dude across a big ass map. I'm going to be fighting at least 3 guys at once minimum and I don't have concealment. It's the second mission everytime to get your first scientist. One of them is going to be a Sectoid that 100% mindcontrols someone everytime.

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>>164478215
Just kill the sectoid. Just use more grenades.

Sectoids don't always get mindcontrol when they mindfray.

If you kill a trooper, the sectoid is veeeery likely gonna spend its turn making a zombie.

>>164478428
Sectoids can't use mindfry if you use flashbangs. I assume you don't use support grenades?

>>164478215
Well first off you should be activating one pod at a time which is generally through good movement discipline. So now you have activated the pod with some advent troopers and a sectoid. You kill the troopers the first turn, maybe injure the sectoid. The sectoid mind controls one of your guys (even though he is much more likely to a) raise a zombie or b)do some other psi effect), and then you kill him with your other three dudes on your second turn.
Also flashbangs remove mind control and kill zombies when used on sectoids.

Guys, how risky is disabling some mods after you made few saves with some active?

I eman, I tried that Frog Suit I got told about but turned out that something went wrong, as it basically overwrite default options for torso customization and clip with everything else.

I started one mission with it active, but I think I should deactivate it and unsubscribe. I dont want to screw over my save, tho.

Or there is no risk with just such customization options?

>>164481583
>as it basically overwrite default options for torso
I don't know get what you meant by that
> clip with everything else.
Some modded clothes are made in a way that " torso" contains the whole set including arms and legs and IIRC frog suit is one of them. So you get frog suit as your torso and use invisible arms and legs for it. Is that what you're asking?

>>164481583

There isn't. And what you're seeing is just the frog suit overlapping with the vanilla armor, for some reason the guy that ported didn't cut the suit into pieces, so when you equip it it overlaps with the arms, legs and whatever else your soldier is using. Unless you equip the invisible arms and legs that come with the mod.

>>164482681
>I don't know get what you meant by that

I mean that when I try to select options like "Torso 1" which should show "default" (non modded, non dlc) armor parts, it shows instead the mentioned frog suit.

Anyone know what ini I should be editi ng if I want to make cover more durable? The weaponstats one says that the different weapons' "environment damage" is hardcoded, but also references HP stats for the cover types themselves. Can't find those anywhere.

>>164443473
>Jurassic World 3

>>164382502
I puke in my mouth every time watching that retarded fucking scene.

>>164484619
I though you could just change the environmental damage for weapons, but perhaps I was mistaken.

>>164486892

As far as I can tell, that part of the ini is not actually in use by the game.

>>164487204
You tested it?

>>164487640

No sir, that would require me to wait for a number of cover hits and observe the results.

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>>164475307
>only Beagle XCOM 2 content available to view now is the braindead easy vanilla playthrough on youtube
>all those dozens of hours of amped up mod difficulty are lost like tears in rain
expansion

>>164487819
Are the twitch vods gone too?

>>164487767
But what about other weapon stats, like damage and stuff? If those change the in game numbers, wouldn't it be reasonable to assume the environmental damage line would work as well?