XCOM General - /xcg/

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post your holes /xcg/

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VALKYRIA PORTS WHEN?

Give me .ini edits so i can make the MAGNIFICENT DESIGN go away, please i can't take it any longer

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>>166609402

death to all sneks

What does Advent Strength do? How do I reduce it?

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I'm going to do it. I'm going to edit my squad size in the .ini. Wish me luck.

>Want to play Xcom2
>Get bored even with 500 mods because i've already beaten the game like 50 times
>Don't want to play Long War 2 because i hate MAGNIFICENT DESING and pretending that Xcom is a stealth game
Expansion when?

>>166609778
>11 turns
>37 enemies
damn

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Reminder that Swords are Useful.

Does anybody else have like 30 second hangups on autosaves in EW? The only way I can fix it is to launch steam in offline mode, which is a pain.

>>166609515
hopefully never

>>166610165
I had the same problem on the pirated version

>>166609592
https://mega.nz/#!z98xBASR!acxZvlDwIMYBcqOIJ2xSjvFG5Alv23c9YAw0lzjJ_Go

>>166610604
how easy does this make the original long war?

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14th for Battlefield 1 weapons/armor when?

>>166609994
Same, I've just gone back to LW1 because I haven't done a full 1.0 campaign yet.

>>166610693
now i can't even be demeaning to you you smug faggot i just

I noticed Beagle was using weapon mods in his LW playthrough - did he tweak these to be compatible with LW? The sheet says they need to be fixed to allow 3 attachments.

>>166610687
Timers are at 99.

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>>166610236
>you don't want sickass officers cap and scouting uniform

>>166610940
I like the Federation armors from MP: Corruption.

So does setting my haven staff to hidden reduce Advent strength or just maintain it until they move to other regions?

Secondary weapons in Long War 2 need to confer the abilities to use them by being equipped.

All classes should have access to more if not all secondary weapons in Long War 2.

>>166610940
okay fine it looks decent

Underwater rebel bases when?

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More Titanfall ports when? I want more tight female asses

>>166610804
I guess so, also most of SMG mods on the workshop still have rifle stats, I guess that he edited that too

>>166611370
Ah, the bodysuit anon from a few threads ago?

God speed.

>>166611238
A shinobi with a holotargeter would be amazing.

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>>166611370
Oh damn.

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Well it's no capnbubs but this what I've edited the goggles to look like.

I've also enabled face props for those anons that wanted them.

>>166611924
That's pretty as hell, good job.

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We need more stealth suits

>>166611924
Thank you very much. The helmets have been really comfy to play with thus far and those new lenses+props are going to make them absolutely perfect.

>>166612041
DAMN IT FISHER

>>166612041
You don't see snak- Oh wait no that's just Sam fisher.

>>166609924
Puts stronger ayys on the field. I don't know, liberate.

>>166611924
are you uncle gunman?
if so can you do the same thing to the mw helmets?

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>>166612129
>>166612131

What are you talking about?

>>166611924
That's fantastic, Anon.

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>>166609515
I wish Valkyria Chronicles had an anime.
And a sequel.
And a trilogy.

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>>166612461
Anon, are you okay?

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what are some good cammo/color set up?

>>166612041
>>166612461
>>166612519
fuck these alien hallucinations

>>166609110
how the hell would the game have that many sectopods spawn? the most I had in a mission during any of my lengthy penis campaigns was like 3 or 4

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>>166612520
I admit, I giggled.

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>>166612519

Anon...

Are we doing the thing where we're pretending the VC anime doesn't exist because it was so bad... or do you not know the bad news?

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>>166611370

Why don't we just skip all the bullshit and start porting Nier outfits?

>>166612637
Depends on the starting region: like desert camo for Africa or snow camo for Siberia

>>166612909
Because Titanfall gear is best of both worlds.

>>166612909
the only point where brick camo mattered

>>166612286
Yeah I'll go back and redo them like this, or the shadow company ones at least.

>>166612909
>>166613260

>mfw i actually didn't see snake until you said that

>>166613303
probably because you were busy ogling the man

>>166613303
that means the camo is actually working properly for once

>>166611924
Looks great, Anon.

>>166613303
Congratz anon, that means you're not gay.

>>166613267
based

>>166613417
>not being attracted to naked snake who later becomes big boss
are you actually gay?

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>>166612909
Where's the dick?

>>166613897

on the wall

>>166613417
that's a trap though so that anon is pretty gay

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So who's the least shit

>>166614195
Jap. Just look at that movement.

>>166614195
>>166614346
s-she's fast!

>>166610693
world war 1 was such a stupid war honestly

>sir how should we attack them?
>bomb them for 5 minutes, blow this loud as fuck whistle, then walk at them maybe jog if feeling energetic
>like the last 300 times we attack then...
>yes they will never suspect it :3

>>166614195
Depends on the class you need.

>>166614195
What do you need? The 16 mobility one could be a scout shinobi. The 5 health one could be a Specialist of some kind, using gremlin ranged abilities. The top one could be an Arc Thrower Assault, but the mobility is one too low for me.

>>166614467
it's because those "stupid tactics" rendered every way man had previously fought war useless

If ANY method thought up to at that point had been used against trenche lines, they were crushed horribly

hell in the end a big contributor to the ending of the war was a new form of warfare being invented that would define the next war 30 years later

>>166614467
it was a stupid war but it was so bloody because it turns out white people got just a little bit too good at killing eachother; I don't think any other conflict comes close to the first two world wars and their death toll.

remind me never to fuck with white people

>>166614467
what >>166614691 said

WW1 was the end of the massed army and line tactics, and that was the way man fought for the last 3,000 years

>>166614467
Generals back then didnt know what the fuck to do to break the stalemate because of how powerful weapons have gotten compare to the previous wars.
They threw millions of lives away in trial and error. Pretty fucked up.

>>166614458
>>166614346
>>166614496
>>166614531
I went with the Jap

Can anyone give me a rundown on what these stats mean and the base stats for every soldier? I can't seem to find explanations and base numbers

>100% shot
>Grazed

I'm honestly feeling similar to how Julian was when he discovered the feeling of being pissed off. Thanks lump!

>>166614195
Always get negative dodge for that glorious increased chance to get crit. Same thing with defense for that increased chance to get hit !

I would get Ala as specialist/ranger/grenadier, Sofya as a gunner and Midori as shinobi or assault.

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Post Long Dong death tolls

>>166615052
Aim - Defense - Health - Mobility - Will - Hack - Dodge

The "normal" stats are something like this

65 - 0 - 4 - 12 - 30 - 10

the values have individual "points" that are distributed at random

>>166615052
From left to right, Accuracy, Defense, Health, Movement, Will, Hacking and Dodge.
Defense is just added defense while in cover, Dodge adds a chance to roll a graze instead of a full damage hit; Will determines chance of psi abilities affecting you or accuracy of landing them on enemies.

>>166614870
white people these days are fat and happy

they don't have the nuts to do what they used to

>>166615346
nah, all the little shit after WW2 proves that they can still do some nasty shit if incited

hair trigger works on suppression reaction shots right?

Does anyone else nickname all of their soldiers Peace Walker style?

Basically characteristic/adjective + animal name

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>>166615883
I give them either random shit i think up or something situational

Take this guy for instance, ill post why he got his title in a sec, and /xcg/ sort of named him not me i guess

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>>166616106
and here's why vlad is a "hero"

>>166616106
In Soviet Russia, Dog pound you!

Tactically.

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>>166615883
most of my character pool is made up of memorable soldiers from past EW/LW campaigns or remakes of other video game characters

>>166616251
There are any penalities for killing civilians?

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>>166616106
>>166616251
that's some Apocalypse Now shit anon, don't do this to me

>>166615475
I also want know...

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>>166616545
no

I don't even feel bad killing them anymore after all the times they've broken my concealment by sitting in retarded positions

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Who at XCOM is responsible for naming ops?

>got a mission to sabotage a monument
give me your best xcom terrorists

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Wakaliwood voice mod WHEN

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

>>166616751
a fucking faggot that's who

>>166612637
I'm a big fan of primary 29 secondary 42 with finnish armor camo pattern

>>166616805
>putting links in spoilers
die

>>166616768
remember to keep someone next to the statue while you kill civilians at the end of the mission, avent can still send reinforcements

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>>166616545
>killing ayy sympathizers
>penalties

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I made a meme

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>download long war
>first mission goes fine
>second mission
>activate a pod of 6
>game freezes

nice

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>Literally spawns in fire
MAGNIFICENT

>>166617609
Sorry you have to turn in your meme card you have broken the law

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>ayy ballet

Also, what classes do you tend to make your officers in LW2? I've been sticking with specialists, gunners, and rangers.

Is the graze band bugged?
I seem to grace what i'd say roughly 80% of all shots even at high accuracy percentages.
Really god damn stupid seeing "graze - 2" on a gun that does 6-8

is there a point to wearing the skulljack after face raping an officer? I have yet to unlock skullmine

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>mfw using 3 Specialist with Air Drop to arm civilians during Heaven Defense

>>166617609
delete this

>>166617738
git gud :^)

>>166617938
show me

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Slay the ayy away

>>166615052
Avoid negative defense and dodge if possible.

The rest is pretty self explanatory. Acc for classes that you want to hit stuff, mobility/life for classes that need to get closer or tank, hack for specialist. Defense, will and dodge in the positives are a bonus.

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>>166617851

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>Technical with 18 base mobility at squaddie rank

this gon be gud

>>166617992
I can't, already did that mission
Now i wish i had 8 of them for the next retaliation

>>166617880
Without Skullmining no. When you get Skullmining you should of course always put it on your hacking specialist

>>166618498
is skullmine even in LW2?

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I wasn't able to save him. Rip Pitbull.

>>166618992
nevermind I found it in the proving grounds

>>166619119
why would you make that move?

Is there a compulsory list of all the dev console commands for xcom 2? I started a mission and one of my guys spawned badly on a roof tile that is gone? Since he can't fall through or something, he is stuck there. I just need to teleport him out of this bad spot.

why does the mod manager keep telling me accurate swords is gone

>>166619119
>breaching a door with a yellow move

But... but why?

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>>166619119
absolute lunacy

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>>166619170
>why would you make that move?

I went through that exact area before my game froze and the Crysalids weren't there before.

I have to save and load every one or two missions because somehow I'm eventually not able to move at all.

But yea, should have been more careful.

>>166619542
ttc (teleport to cursor)

>>166619809
Thanks, it works. Time to kill some ayys.

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>>166619809
>>166619542
I sure do fuckin' wish I knew that on the DLC op on ironman. They were stuck up there since the beginning of the fight.

>>166617851
Those classes seem the best. Everyone else needs both their actions always to get stuff done, or benefit more from being command than commanding someone.
I think snipers might be an option too, due to their free holo-targetting action and once action holo-targetting and one action steady weapon.

>>166618073
>Avoid negative defense and dodge if possible.
Won't ayys shoot at your low defense tank if it's the easiest shot? Or are the ayys too magnificent to be controlled this time?

my officer is bleeding right in front of the avenger and the game wont let me pick him up
any console command to revive him? or restore the charge of revival protocol my other soldier used?

>>166621149
do you know which tile he occupied prior to being crit wounded? maybe the ragdoll is misleading you

>>166617851
>>166621080
Can you use command while concealed? I'm considering making a recon shinobi officer

>>166621503
That's a good question that I don't know the answer too.
But usually I won't to be able to command my Shinobi so he can actually safely use his sword.

>>166621481
yea i have a soldier in the exact tile he was
and the rag doll landed one tile behind, i am sure it is because the game wont let me move to that tile like if it was occupied but seems like no one can pick him up

>>166621710
try save loading, that usually fixes silly shit like that

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>>166618260
I know exactly what you mean.
>got the god Technical with 18 base speed at squaddie, with both Mobility, AND ghostwalker in the AWC

Shinobis, and Assaults can double move, they don't need giga retarded movement speed. How else am I going to fuel my firebats, and sawed off shotgunners?

>>166621149
I don't know about revive when they're bugged, but there's a win command: endbattle xcomwins

>>166622119
>Civilian revealing Shinobi on swarming

>>166621710
thats the first thing i tried with no success
anyway i found the console command i wanted Giveabilitycharges, it will give x100 to everything
that gave me my revival protocol charge i needed to lift off with him

>>166622282
that would have been way more useful since all i had to do is run back to the avenger thanks

>move two tiles to flank

>activate another pod which was impossible to see and lose instantly

woah... so this is the power of strategic gameplay

>>166622464
how do you get the console open?

>>166622478
Swapping Scouts for Shinobi was a mistake. I'd rather have Lflex+Battlescanners than some mong with phantom and a sword

>>166622478
literally the same shit that has always happened

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>>166622126

>send squad on mission and they infiltrate to 140 percent or so
>listed as "vulnerable"
>there are at least 25 ayys on the map to begin with and they get reinforced each turn

I guess ADVENT strength 9 is no joke, holy shit. I must be close to finding the network tower with all the heat I've got.

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NOBODY

PANIC

I HAVE A PLAN

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>>166623184
holy shit the sectoid knows

So let me get this straight, crit chance raises the chance of turning a graze into a hit? So if u build a crit shinobi they would be more accurate?

how can the pod system possibly be fixed?

>>166623347
if a crit is rolled it will override a dodge and deal full damage

Just beat XCOM 2. Wondering if I should try Long War 1 or Long War 2. What's the best way to play Long War 1, and how do I do the config/ini refreshing for Long War 2?

>>166623418
Make all aliens start activated, like OGXcom, and allow smoke to block LOS

>>166622534
Open properties.
-allowconsole
in launch options
Press ~

>>166623347
It can't turn a miss into a graze but it can turn a graze into a hit if the other guy miss his dodge roll. Otherwise, they cancel out.

>>166623981
>What's the best way to play Long War 1
Gauss rush.

I'm shit at long war. All I remember is spamming scanners, and laying massive mine traps to one shot pods. Then dying to the air game.

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Why don't you join the body pile, /xcg/?

>>166623981
I would try out long war 1 before long war 2. It'll give time until they roll out the next patch to fix some of the current issues it has right now.

>what's the best way to play Long War 1?
what do you mean?

>how do I refresh my configs?
Go to documents/my games/xcom2/xcomgame/config and just straight up delete everything in there. run the game as normal and it'll recreate all those inis/configs.

>>166623981
Long War 1 is a completely different kind of beast than Long War 2.

I'd recommend Long War 2 honestly since you're familiar with the game on a good level right now. Long War 1 is amazing, but if you haven't played EW or don't remember much from there you'll have a magnificent time.

For Long War 1, I recommend:
http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/556/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/554/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/502/? (if you like red fog)
https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/1020/ (for a better looking game)

For Long War 2, go to the My Games folder in your Documents, the XCOM 2 folder there, then wipe the config folder entirely(make a backup if you want).

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>shaken
That was literally my best mission of all time. Four rookies activating 9 enemies at the same time on a terrorist bombing mission, and clutching the fuck out of it with one guy flanking in the back with 61% chance to hit, and spamming hunkers under smoke.

>>166624558
Holy shit wtf?
I JUST REALISED i WANT AN ALIEN CAMPAIGN

>>166624558
what the hell is this?

>>166616251
A real human bean. And a real hero.

>>166624468
Will keep this in mind, thank you.
>>166624575
I heard that there's some modifications in earlier threads, was wondering if I should just go with the official Long War 1 or try an altered version.
Thanks for the Long War 2 info, too.
>>166624687
Those quality of life mods look nice, should help a first timer like me have an easier first experience, thanks.

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>>166623184
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>166624750
wtf i love advent now

>end game
>flawless game on regular ironman mode
>killing last avatar
>70%
>miss
>alt f4
>70%
>miss
>restart
>miss
>restart
>miss
Alright, i usually don't use the cheap reset but this was my first play through adn i want to get started with long war, but with that many misses i'm just going to call it a night because that's stupid.

>>166624881
Forgot to throw one in actually
http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/666/?

You'll love having this around because there's some real finicky LOS at times. Especially with flying enemies(looking at you floaters) inside of buildings.

Also a quick tip, in LW1 enemies are the opposite of ADVENT. They don't have a death wish and they respect the shit you have. Overwatching in their sights or using suppression will have them stay put, and counter appropriately. The only way you'll get an overwatched/suppressed alien to move is by either having him be flanked or by the offending alien having Lighting Reflexes(not the most common thing but do watch out). To extend on the caring for the lives thing for a tiny bit, aliens won't act stupid, and they'll actively overwatch(frequently outside of LOS without an indicator of such) and suppress you down. Be ready to deal with that.

>>166624750
Doesn't the game use a seed system where if you reload and do the exact same action, it'll go the exact same way?
You need to at least change it up a bit.

>>166625549
>tfw i miss enemies that actually wanted to live

>>166625568
s-sorry ;-;

>>166625549
In other words, Long war 1 is much scarier than 2. Also chrysalids swarms. Fucking chrysalids swarms.

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>>166625096

>>166625513
It saves the seed, so you were actually just doing the same roll everytime.

>>166625609
That's my fucking biggest gripe of vanilla XCOM 2. No amount of stuff added in ABA or whatever fixed the AI being suicidally insane.

I'm glad that Long War 2 did something to it. I can actually suppress now knowing that they'll stay put and not decide to move two tiles into a worthless position!

>>166625827
Meaning i still have a chance to hit right? Because if so my god do they just want me to lose at end game and start over. I had a FLAWLESS run, no loss, one soldier took damage the entire play through. I'm about to just say fuck it and do long war 2. Not touching it until tomorrow. Dota then bed for tonight

>>166624812
The body pile

>>166625856
you would think they wouldn't charge headfirst into overwatch shots that are just put down to delay them while you move people to evac

>>166625940
No I mean, let us say that you have a 90% chance to hit, but then your soldier rolls a 99 and misses. If you quit and reload, your soldier will roll 99 again, just like last time. You have to do a different action at a different time to get a different role.

>>166623981
>Long War 1
Just fucking don't. There's almost no reason to play it now that LW2 is out. It's a more compelling game in almost every way.

>>166619119
>revealing new ground with a yellow move

for what purpose?

So what do you think about SPARK builds?
>don't do them
They're going to get buffed, so I want to know for that moment.

It feels like if you eventually get a fully leveled SPARK with all the defense shit +Sacrifice with improved smoke, and aid protocol that you can basically pick any turn in a mission to become invincible.

>>166626664
don't say that

LW1 is fantastic

>>166607526
Ah. I need to get back into that, I used to keep up with all of their stuff for years. Even tried to join when I finished classes but they had too many members then.

>>166626802
LW1 is all grind and little joy.
LW2 is the perfect marriage between grind and joy.

>>166626847
LW1 and LW2 are distinctly different experiences and I think it's pretty impossible to compare the two at least for now

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>>166626872
>impossible to compare them

>>166626847
not really

after year 1 you can say it's all grindy, but that power curve you ride from the summer all the way through the fall is an amazing feeling. once you finally nail the air game (at least until destroyers/battleships) and get MSGTs, Gauss/Early pulse and MECs the game really opens up. I usually got the base assault in the fall as well, which was a capstone for me

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>>166627020
And see, this is where I disagree. LW1 is a razor-thin optimization problem that has you grinding over the same parts again and again until you shave it down just right to the optimal LW1 build.

LW2, on the other hand, opens up XCOM 2 into a wide variety of tactical and strategic decisions that result in a much more compelling and interesting problem with delightfully different solutions. It's a deeper experience, and one that is at once both immediately rewarding and punishing - and not just in the LW1 fashion where you're back is in a corner and you're just heaped shit on you, but punishing you through the larger ramifications of your strategic decisions on your tactical performance.

LW1 can't compete.

So after doing most of the liberation missions in a region the advent strength has gone up to 5. I still have the HQ to assault, should I wait and try to draw their attention to another region before attacking the HQ?

Do I have Mike Pence as an Assault or as a Specialist? they both use electricity.

>>166628671
dark vip

>>166628671
Specialist is going to be zapping more things.

>>166628671
Is that even a question? assault.

>>166628671
specialist

>>166628671
Arc Thrower assault. All the way.

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>>166628671

What is up with unalerted pods in concealment. 50% of the time it seems they know where I am and conspire to fuck me and 50% they have 0 clue.

>>166628671
Assault would be shocking organics more, with their upgraded swords, right?

>>166611370
this desu

>get snap shot for my sniper
>he now no longer has squadsight
Epic.

>>166622119
red and black flags who are these smellers

>>166629686
that's standard ancom/anarcho-syndicalist flag

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>>166628863

>>166629759
huh that sounds dumb and a colossal waste of time

What is the most reiable way to get rooks in lw2? I'm only getting like one per month and the attrition rates are high. I've set up 2 of my regions on recruit only, but they always just recruit more resistance members and not soldiers, and I'm already full on in the haven so they're forced to stay in hiding.

I can't afford to buy soldiers through black market either.

>>166629358
Bug that will be fixed in 1.1, currently they can hear you dash

>>166629686
Probably those Antifa fags.

>>166629870
You can recruit rooks for like 10 supplies right from the armory on your Avenger.

Post your LW2 MVP

>flashbangs prevent abilitie use entirely instead of just reducing range

what is this casual bullshit

>>166630175
No I can't, because none are available and haven't been for a month.

>>166630382
It's casual bullshit that saves my life. Speaking of life saving, I'm going to miss Hunker Down working when flanked. I've been spamming it constantly.

>>166629908
WHEN
H
E
N

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Post squads that don't give a fuck about infiltrating properly

>>166630521
Oh does the list not restock? Tat is unfortunate, and I highly doubt intentional.

>>166630594
s-soon hopefully
>tfw wanted to start a new campaing but wasted all day waiting for the patch

>>166630721
I'm in the same boat.

>jailbreak mission
>fight through three pods in an open parking lot
>break civs out of jail with two turns left
>skyranger takes two turns to arrive
>can't summon skyranger, button greyed out and no message to say why

wat

>>166631069
this shit is why i modded to 100 turrntimer. now you might be thinking thats cheating but the reinforcements come thicc and fast in a prolonged fight, im talking 9+pod every turn reinforcment.

shit gets FUBAR after 8 turns

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Solo extracting VIPs is so risky, yet so fun.

>>166630693
I just got a single recruitable rook, apparently you do get them by assigning havens to recruiting. Feels really RNG though.

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>>166611370
I I want to secure that (ass)ets

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>>166616251

>>166616805
For how easy it is to make a voice pack, and how often you ask, you could have made it yourself already.

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viper mod when

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT THE FUCK

Do you guys give your Technicals SMGs? I'm going Rocketeer Technicals and I'm feeling really triggered by the flamethrower's range

Is incoming worth taking on the officer tree?
The command range isn't that large but the crit just seems better. Sure, rocketeers are a thing but they don't fire rockets if you spread your dudes out a bit.

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rate my squad

>>166632575
operatin

>>166631069
Jailbreaks have fixed extraction points, can't summon them willy nilly.

>>166631295
You must have fucked up the infiltration because I never have that many drop in 1 turn

>>166632573
They basically nullify enemy grenades for that turn, even more so if you got blast padding. The crit is nice but most of my people are crit machines anyway

>>166632917
I've not had any real problems with enemy explosives thus far.
Does it really become a problem later on?

Are meme beacons present in LW2?

>>166633017
no

>>166632949
Not really. The way I figure, 2nd tier officer perks are both pretty bad. Crit only affects people in range and does nothing if people don't crit and killing/disorienting the opposition is always better than trying to tank. I'd probably take incoming since I usually find better use for my actions and incoming is free, and I suppose it works well if you find that one rocketeer is out of range for your bangs.

>>166627328
You're trolling right? It's like you swapped the descriptions of Long War 1 and 2. Long War 2 has a set loadout for every class. The biggest tactical choice you can make is putting a pistol on someone. Support grenades are still meaningless without the medic class to use them. Long War 2's strategy depth is slightly better, but it still revolves around prioritizing results now or later, this time by devoting resources to steady resource gain or RNG mission generation. Long War 1 is NOTORIOUS for punishing the player just as you've described, with the mounting larger strategic ramifications of tiny tactical mistakes and sacrifices.

Long War 2 has known massively broken scripts, for example its new pod system, it can't even be properly evaluated in this state because we don't know what degree of the new strategic vision is actually working. Especially coming out of Vanilla XCOM 2 which had no strategic layer whatsoever.

>>166632575
Is that a Helghast helmet bottom left?

Where the fuck?

Holy fuck why is the flamer so useless?

>>166634495
>Being set on FUCKING FIRE
>3 damage
>no panic

magnificent incandescence

>>166634595
They're burning, you know how good burning is?

>>166634686
Actually I'm kind of curious as to whether Long War tweaked it or not. I realize it's a pretty severe debuff by I don't think it's worth the tradeoff of having to position a flamethrower user versus positioning a flashbang user, besides maybe the fact that a technical innately has two uses to a one use flashbang.

>>166634353
Honestly, I think Long War 2 was hurt a bit by being officially funded by the devs because it means that 2k wouldn't possibly allow them to toss anything out even though some of the class ideas are shitty and the Avatar Project is much more boring than actively stopping UFOs in the first game. If they had complete creative control, I think they would've made their game even more different than standard XC2.

>>166634851
Well, we can always wait for their own Kickstarted game, right?

>>166634894
It'll be grandstrat

>>166634595
Not just that, the cone is wonky and is stopped by all cover. Being not able to set a muton on fire because he's hiding behind a trash can makes perfect sense.

>>166634907
considering the only sci-fi grandstrat we have is Stellaris, I wouldn't mind a planet scale one.

What the fuck is the accuracy of muton centurions?

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>advent sitting in high cover spamming overwatch on timed missions

Anon what tech level would you suggest for doing your first region liberation? I have lasers and that's it, it's early June.

I've got 6 reasonably high level folk ready and 200% on the facility thing.

>destroy advent relay
>its a small map so every pod on the map is aggro'd at once
>they call in reinforcements ontop of it
>muton centurion running around one shotting people in full cover every fucking turn
>relay has 30 fucking HP
Wew it really feels like most missions were designed to have the least amount of fun as possible if you ever initiate combat.

1.1 when

Are there any tacticool armour mods other than the call of duty one?

Can someone tell me how to activate that console in LW2? I really would like to teleport someone and I can't get it to activate.

I've been launching the game with "-allowconsole" but can't get it to appear.

>scopes no longer give a bonus to reaction fire
JL please. That's not how this works.

>>166636393
are you using alt mod launcher? if so put this in arguments
-allowconsole -log -autodebug -noRedScreens -review

>>166636458
I'm not but I'll try that as well

Thank you by the way.

>>166636136
There's the SAS one. Although that may be cod too, not sure.

>>166636636
alt mod launcher is really good use it

>>166636743
Do you mean "XCOM2 Mod Manager"?

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At which point should I be worried about not seeing the Avatar project? I'm at May, nowhere near T2 gear or liberating a region and I'm starting see mutons already. On the other had I haven't had a single casualty and my roster's looking great. I feel like the game is doing poorly communicating how well I'm doing and if my campaign is fucked or not in the early game.

>>166636825
yeah i was getting another mod manger mixed up

>>166632575
Operatorfag here.

pretty good.

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>>166634495
>>166634595
>>166635036
Pretty sure there's a perk that allows flames to panic. Stupid, I know, as it should be right from the get go. Also some upcoming changes to the way the flame thrower works: http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=23589

Okay, so who's magnificent idea was it to let ayys attack on the turn thery activate? They already get a free move, free move +attack is too much.

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>rift reinforcements with two sneks, one muton and few trooper variations drop literally on my head

LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMP

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time for snake jerky

>>166637072
pretty sure that was jake

>>166637096
Is that the leveled up flamethrower or did you edit the ini?

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spooked

>>166637262
leveled up

>every time I replace a grenadier or technical they get blown away immediately in the next mission
This is getting old real damn fast.

REMOVE SNEK remove snek you are ayy idiot you are ayy smell

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>>166637465
this

What's the general thought around here: should i play long war 2 or nay?

>>166637534
wait for the next patch

>>166627328
>strategic decisions
If LW2 appears strategically deeper than 1 it's only because it's new and hasn't had years of player analysis put into it. If you were equally unfamiliar with both mods I think LW1 would have more to figure out, ultimately LW2 doesn't have as many levers to convert strategy gains to tactical and vice versa, and there's not as many decisions to make strategically either.

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>>166616251
>>166616557
at what cost lads?

>>166634421
I think that's a GIGN helmet from the MW2 mod

>>166636417
If they did the new hair triggers would be worthless.

>>166636417
Why not? Magnified optics are poor for shooting at moving targets at close range

>>166638364
Keyword: range.

>>166637723
a lot of that is because they took anything more complicated than square peg square hole out of the strategy layer. No building bonuses, for one, and it's been so long since I played vanilla Enemy Within but I'm pretty sure you dont unlock unlimited plasma rifles once you build one.

>>166638507
Yes, but range means >100m

I think flashbangs are a bit too powerful if carrying 2-3 on every character can be a successful strategy.

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>>166637753
The price of a world free of the Elder is anything and everything

>>166637893
Ah, I see that now. I didn't notice the glass shield at first and the dark patch made it appear like the tinted fore-piece on some Higg helmets, coupled with the goggles+mask he appears to be wearing either due to my shitty eyes or the lighting. Sucks, I wish it was more practical to port Killzone stuff but no PC releases.

>both barrels crit for 20

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

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operator enough or no?

>>166638872
Carrying 2-3 on every character is the only successful strategy because the rest of the equipment game is more stagnant. If they just let more classes equip different secondary weapons and open up strategies that the player actually decides instead of forcing every class into a niche role there would be less appeal to flashbang spam. They got classes so right in LW1 and so completely wrong in LW2, we seriously need a total overhaul on them.

Can the toolbox open a mod you've downloaded from the workshop?

>>166639694

yes.

>>166639481

There's a tiny little bit of skin showing up between his goggles and mask, 0/10, wouldn't operate with.

Unsubscribed.

>>166639962
rookie mistake

>>166639481
I would say no, but there's no good female operator torso

>>166639985
what would make them more operator

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>>166640260
you know, your standard ammo pouches and vest. I know there's the sas one but I don't like the long coat it has

>>166631761
If its so easy why hasn't anyone else made it yet

>>166640405
Because no one gives a shit.

>>166640397
ive reached plated so i was looking for something a little more i guess

>>166640461
fair enough, I never care about the tiers, I just want dat operator look. Try the halo reach marines torso then

>>166640405
because you need hundreds of lines for a voice pack that doesn't annoy the shit out of you after 1 mission

when i should be getting out of ballistic tier?

>>166640627
Yeah isn't it standard to have 540 voice lines for a DECENT pack?

Do you guys like the Anarchy's Children customizations? They feel disappointingly shit most times for me, but there are rare occasion where one of the props work perfectly

>>166641972
nope, infact the only DLC I have installed is Last Gift despite owning the season pass.

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=850505247

LW2 compatible version of Merc plasma weapons. I think everything should be working properly, but if you find anything wrong either post it on the bug reporting thread there or post it here, i'm pretty much always here anyway. One thing i'm iffy about is if there are any differences between difficulties, that's how it was in vanilla, but from what i could see that is not the case in LW2, weapons always cost the same both in veteran and legendary, but i could've missed something i dunno.

Right now they have the same stats as the normal plasma weapons, but once i actually get to play LW2 i'll update the mod so they have their own stats, and possibly their own research and stuff.

Funfacts: I ran into a weird bug where the sheath of the plasma sword would disappear once you were in a mission, i fixed it, but either they changed how the sheath is added(for some reason, although if i were to guess i'd assume it's because of their new weapons) or i have dementia and i did something wrong the first time around.

Also i think there isn't a laser sword in-game? But there is one in the files, it's just the beam sword recolored red but it's there.

>>166640694
I made a couple with 400ish and going lower is a bad time

General advice on how to pick class?
High mobility for ranger/shinobi, high health for gunners/grenadiers, high aim for sharps, and rest is whatever?

>>166642256
>picking classes
Stop cheating.

>>166642231
Thanks for the work, always loved the look of the cannon. The bug you describe with the sheath occurs pretty frequently (in my game at least) with Long War's own swords so I believe the cause is definitely something started on their end.

>>166642280
Next you're going to tell me LOS is a feature.

>>166642505
No, the mere existence of lines of sight is a bug.

>>166642505
BREAK LOS

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>>166637390
Something to look forward to then

>install LW2
>exposed power coils are on bottom row
WHY

>>166643376
una designa magnifique

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>can only use console if using the steam launcher

>>166644184
rip what arguments are you using

>>166643910
>tfw when we could have had such a customization system with an actual character body with meshes layered ontop but Firaxis chose to travel back to 2008 in order to develop XCOM 2

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Why is defense a stat again?

>>166644238
You can do that?

>>166645169
>playing with NCE

Your own fault desu

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>they don't play with NCE, Hidden Potential on 100% and MAX on Damage Roulette
explain yourselves

>>166615346
No, white Americans are fat and happy.

White Europeans still plot against one another through banter and soccer.

>>166645220
It's enabled by default and I forgot to disable it.

>>166645169
yeah put this in xcom2 mod manager arguments -allowconsole -log -autodebug -noRedScreens -review

>>166645916
What do the last two mean?

>>166645404
I'd rather just play on harder difficulties than deal with that bullshit, which is essentially just more RNG.

>>166645982
helps with potential crashes

What is "luck" in the debriefing?

>advent sentry
>pod patrols into my squad
>moves
>shoots
>overwatch from ready for anything
>even though he moved

What a feature.

fucking bullshit, advent forces either one shot my soldiers or do nothing, what's the point on having armor if the game is so binary
>wew lad game design
>yes i'm salty

>>166647190
Armour does help a lot though. My assault with 2 ablative and 3 armour just got hit for 5 damage. No health loss, no injury = no downtime.

>>166640461
Go for advent armor, trust a random anon

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>>166647190
>want to like lw2 still get frustrated with some design choices
I just don't like how it's nearly impossible to not activate ALL the pods, seeing as there's that "bug" where they patrol directly towards you

>>166640694
>>166642247
You need at minimum about 5 variants per line, so that's a rough minimum of 150-200

The problem with huge ones is that they are often shoehorned and retarded.

>>166647716
Yeah, the pod mechanics aren't balanced for the map sizes, I think. On 8 turn timers with the smaller maps, it's impossible not to activate everyone at once.

>>166645404
I'm not touching Damage Roulette, but I raise you Training Roulette instead

>>166645169
its there to show a soldiers innate ability to be FUCKING INVINICBLE

What's that mod that shows the mobility, aim, etc. on the name bars again?

>>166648406
That's good friend, I'm keeping TR playthrough for after the time I beat/fail at LW2 once

>>166648471
additional icons

What is in-universe justification for cooldown on grenades?

>>166649019
Arms get tired

>>166649019
tired arm

lw2 is bad

>>166649698
it's your opinion and you're allowed to have one

anyway to give your soldiers a default uniform when they are recruited? Like a mod or something so they have to wear helmets? rookie scum haven't earned wearing headgear baka