/xcg/ - XCOM General

1st for flashbangs and how much I love 'em

>Operation Ice Kang

Bagel

pistols are useful

Doing my first HQ assault, and I'm wondering how you fight a nasty pod when you can't move forward due to the enemy density?

I've got a sapper grenadier who's just shit and one rocket. So cover destruction isn't much of an option.

I've been loving flashbangs (I might actually ditch the boomer grenadiers for support ones) and area suppression for control, but delaying seems like an awful idea because at least one of the 3 pods my shinobi sees will probably patrol into me.

>>167589570
You need gunners with demolitions and hail of bullets to smack people out of or in cover, combined with snipers and rangers to rain down the damage consistently. Grenadiers take off once you hit plasma nades, but besides the very early game can be kind of underwhelming. Everyone else can help a bit with volume of fire on exposed targets, or chipping away at targets in cover with grazing shots.

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What the fuck is this?
REEEEEEEEEEEEE!

How do I train up psi dudes in long war 2? I stuck 'em in the tube as rookies, but I've no option put them back in there for further training.

>>167589570
map is pretty huge. I scouted and secured the first two buildings without breaking concealment, then pulled pods across that big airport area and made no man's land with gunner demolition and value rockets. My guys just sat in the windows and doors taking potshots and overwatch, sniper and shinobi kept reeling them in.

Eventually you do have to push across the airport to the main building for the boss pod, it's not so bad if you clear every other one first and give it the old surround and pound.

>>167589898
Actually, it's magnificent design.

>>167590006
They need combat experience now

>>167589898
Is there an object above that tile? I know that things like lamp posts can block evac. If not it's just a bug. Just use the console to teleport him if you can.

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>>167590209
Oh. Interesting. He can extract when he's in a different tile, I never took the time to consider that things above me could block extraction when placing my evac. I'll have to keep that in mind next time.

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Wakaliwood voice mod when

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

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>tfw

>>167590854
It's a good feeling

how do i play the midgame in lw2? i can run earlygame relatively easy now, but around about june/july it all starts to go to shit

>>167591964
It seems like the biggest deal it knocking down your first HQ. YOU NEED all those supplies and corpses to keep your research going while pumping out armor, weapons, and foundry projects.
I'm convinced the HQ assault is the chip, a key if you will. Without a liberated region you will eventually fall behind the arms and race be be beaten down by attrition.

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Delivery from /co/

>>>/co/89678126
>>>/co/89691560

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>>167592403
nice

>kill several red armor Advent
>they're all engineers and gunners and other sorts of bullshit
>no commander corpses to autopsy

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>167592403
>Captain Haddock swears
Absolutely based

>>167592207
cheers anon, i figured roughly the same, the supply pinch is forcing me to choose between research, proving ground projects or building facilities and that's where i think the problem stems from.

>two chinese soldiers
>they both speak french

Weird.

>>167592660
This is speculation after my current campaign is going down the tubes. I though that I could put all the rebels in the region into hiding and stop doing mission to lower the ADVENT strength, but no lol, fuck you. So I waited for two months, got nothing for it, and now I'm down 5 men after a horrible AVENGER defense. If I pick it back up, I'll be launching an immediate assault on the HQ as my final gambit to save the campaign. I've been doing the same as you, passing up research and foundry projects and not able to pump out weapons because I don't have the supplies, and it finally bit me in the ass.

>>167592403
Captain Haddock voice mod when

>>167592608
Can you console yourself in an officer corpse?

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>mfw managed to defend a base in OpenXCOM+FMP with nothing but a cannon tank and 4 attack dogs

Just sat the tank at the end of a living quarters and 4 corridors. Used attack dogs to spot for it. That's easily the cheesiest thing I've ever done

>>167593204
That's pretty cheesey

>>167592941
Just like that Jean Reno movie, Wasabi. Every nip spoke fluent french. Very convenient.

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>reinstalling XCOM2 for the first time since launch for LW2
>goes straight onna SSD

>loading times is up to a minute+

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Just ninja'd my first solo stealth mission
Look at that smug motherfucker
The only bullshit left once you start actually playing the way the mod is designed is >DRONES and >LOS
Which are still kinda significant T B C H kek

>>167593670
Also, anyone know how to enable ironman via console? I've been playing honestman up to this point but I wanna remove the temptation now that I've got a pretty good handle on wonky "features" and magnificent design

>>167593901
>Also, anyone know how to enable ironman via console
Don't do this to yourself anon

>>167594231
IF I SAY IT'S SAFE TO SURF THIS BEACH, IT'S SAFE TO SURF THIS BEACH.

Anyone have it where after a mission it goes to just staring at the ground to the bottom left of the avenger instead of any sort of mission complete screen?

How can I fix this?

Is Long Schlong 2 still a meme or I can safely come back to XCOM 2 and play it?

>>167594637
>Is Long Schlong 2 still a meme
And it always will be

>google XCOM2 logo for a picture
>second image is 'XCOM2 Resurrection' hosted on the official site

what's that all about?

>>167594776
X2 pre novel. Has plot, supposedly canon, but not that well written.

>>167594776
The official prequel novel to XCOM 2. It's worth a read.

Does anyone here like red fog? Never used it before, but I've taken a liking to it since I started watching Xavier's LW campaign. Seems to make things more realistic.

>>167594564
Delete the config folder and everything in it, let steam validate your files, and boot it up. Works for most of a day of gaming for me after that "fix".

>>167591964
Get lasers reasonably early and do supply raids at 0% infiltration and bring your entire A-team (fill in with your B-team if necessary). Remember, more enemy corpses = more dosh from the black market.

Be prepared to overwatch for VERY long periods of time if you want to avoid casualties.

>>167592403
Now I kinda wish we had drawfriends in /xcg/

Got an idea I wish someone would pick up.

>>167595092
Red Fog can be fun. Not because it's more realistic, but because it rewards the player more often than not. I does mean that medics are more valuable and in some cases in can make long missions pretty grueling.

>>167595092
It feels like cheating since I'm blasting pods down before they can get much done with my Shino/SS tactics and BREAK into overwatch traps
It probably gets more challenging later when you start seeing muton/grenadier variants, but I'm finishing this run with it off
>>167595198
this, pick up Overwatch All and robojumpers speedups, it'll make overwatch turtling eat up much less of your time
>>167595247
2hofag here, shoot the idea, i might give it a shot

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>>167592403

Good Job.

>>167595327
It really can fuck you on timed missions when you're hit though, which is why I don't feel as if it advantages the player too much.

>>167595439
Yeah timed missions shake that up. Guess I was still thinking of it from my LW1 campaigns.

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Well my idea is Dr. Vahlen in the virgin killer version of her normal sweater. (also, no labcoat)
Additional references: http://imgur.com/a/1xvEj

>>167595897
Meant for >>167595385

>>167595897
>virgin killer
I could not sully my hands with this sorry anon

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>>167596212
>virgin killer
>I could not sully my hands with this sorry anon
True, it would be detrimental to your health

>>167595385
>It feels like cheating
I'm so torn because I share that sentiment, yet, I definitely see how it makes sense and it sounds fair on paper.

What mod lets you use the trojan protocol/sidearm holster drops from advent crates?
I know they're not primary wep mods, nothing will let me use them

>>167596212
Its just an expression, bruh.

>>167595897
virgin killer sweater was a mistake

>>167597321
It's the content, not the title m8

>>167596425
Honestly, even with Red Fog set to Ayy's Only they have tons of ways to fuck your shit by mid-game. Just you wait till those Dark Events starts piling up. Also, LW2 Red Fog does not seem to affect Viper poison spit range or enemy grenade throwing range, so a single viper spit can cost you either the mission or a couple of soldiers with full Red Fog on.

>>167597474
You afraid of a little lewd?

>>167595897
STOP TRYING TO SEXUALIZE VAHLEN REEEEEEEEEEE

>>167599014
Yeah, she's attractive enough as is.

>>167594921
Ah cool, thanks for the info.

>>167594910
Yeah I guess that goes without saying, only video game novel I've read that wasn't bad was Crysis 2 because it's by Peter Watts (who wrote Blindsight which is fucking amazing)

I might pick it up, I forced myself through the Mass Effect novels so I can deal with dry writing. I think the worst book I ever read was Ice station Zeta or some shit like that, god damn that was fucking retarded.

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fucking kek
that's what i get for buying off G2A

>>167599309
>G2A

>>167599014
Autism

>>167599014
Sounds like someone wants to be Interrogated

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>>167599014
You are like 5 years too late

>>167599534
doesn't even look like vahlen

>>167599678
ye

>buying from low rated vendors

>>167600487
>98%
>low rated
Although, to be fair
That's XCOM as fuck

If i left behind a soldier on a timed mission and he didnt die (MIA) is it guaranteed to recover him from an advent prison later in the game? Nasty sectoid reinforcments ruined my retreat.

>>167600986
>is it guaranteed to recover him from an advent prison later in the game?
Guaranteed I'm not sure about, but likely, yes.

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BF 1 Ports when

>>167602330
When you make them.

I'm thinking about buying Shen's last gift. Can anyone explain in detail why I should or shouldn't?

>>167602568
If you are playing vanilla:
>one sub par soldier class
>a pretty fun mission
That's it. If that's worth it, go ahead.

i bought the dlc like the goy i am even though i'm playing LW2
what to suspect

>>167589256
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Beda3kFNjo

posted in OP already, but the title of this video fits the meme

I feel like I'm finally getting it /xcg/

>lure MEC onto the roof
>rookie nades his feet
>MEC crashes through 3 stories and dies

Environmental destruction in games gives me a serious hard on and holy shit does this game get me going.

Can I demolish a whole building if I blow out all the supports/walls, Red faction style? Does falling debris crush ayys?

>>167602739
But explain in detail why SPARKS are shite. I want robo buddies speaking in moonbase.

>>167603494
You might want to look at the last ability on the Technical tree

>Flamethrower technical recieves Run and Gun via AWC

This is alright. Also theres a .ini config that immediately reveals all your soldiers AWC abilities.

>>167603494
Allegedly a roof will collapse if all the connected walls are blown out.
Debris is purely cosmetic.

>>167603565
Shit aim, no cover, no utility slots, hard to use in concealment.

>>167589898
The angled window pane above the VIP is blocking him from evac

>>167602491
Maybe I should contact Nigel

>>167599309
>G2A
>Not CDKeys

>>167607532
is there anywhere to get non-shit keys for cheaper
i'm assuming it's all memes even the one you mentioned

>>167608119
I got my key from CDKeys for 33% off on release month. Also I've never had issues buying from them

How does the DLC mesh with LW2? I would imagine it's a bit overwhelming.

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From the modding Discord

New to XCOM2 but played old X-Com, XCOM1 and LW. Is the game forgiving if you lose some guys or are you forced to get perfect runs everytime to stay afloat?

I obviously like not losing people but if someone bites it I can get sad enough without thinking that now the campaign is screwed and I have to restart everything.

>>167608119
CDkeys is legit.

>>167608821
>Discord
Go ahead and take a long walk off a short pier.

>>167608975
How else am I supposed to stalk mod authors and know what they're working on before anyone else? Truth has it that Antifa squad icon pack was released because Robojumper and Tabris got triggered by the Kek nation flag mod

>>167608829
Losing your dudes isn't as bad as falling behind on counter-attacks and council missions. Just hire a few rookies and train them in an easy mission and you should be on track.

>>167609512
Sweet. High lethality is nice and all but what's the point of playing a game where your dudes die if you can't let them die sometimes?

>>167608829
you'll be fine if you lose some soldiers. The Avenger even has a nice memorial so you can press F for your fallen soldiers.

Retaliation strikes can kill campaigns though

>>167589420
new Beagle when?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=858219711

LW2 is metal gear solid
if you disagree you are wrong

TAKING CASUALTIES!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=858693855&searchtext=

>>167611310
AW YEAH

CERBERUS ARMOR PORTS WHEN because CAT6 is in already

>>167611310
Inflicting casualties > taking casualties.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=854507809&searchtext=

>>167611527
I always loved that cerberus armor and hoped for all the game I'd get it

>>167611828
Making Cerberus the bad guys was a mistake

Its near the end of September and I haven't gotten a Liberation done (might be one soon but its looking shoddy) and the Shadow Chamber's still 16 days out.

Am I already fucked for going too slow? It sure feels like I'm moving slow

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POKEMON 3DS PORTS WHEN

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>>167589256
I just registered the license plate "AYYXCOM" in Florida

Is there any point in playing LW1 anymore?

>>167612719
Basking in the magnificence

It's more refined and actually less horse shit than current LW2

>>167612719
To get your XCOM fix until LW 2 is on better legs.

When I eventually lose my current LW 2 game I'm going to play another LW 1. Haven't played a proper game of the final version so it'll be nice to what's changed.

>>167612719
I lost my lw1 campaign mid June with some tweaks had a fucking blast and felt like a war.

Rip my hard drive dying I tried to use a recovery tool but out of every game xcom was the only one that had shit so scattered I couldn't even get the saves.

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Center Mass or Grazing Fire?

>>167614102
Center Mass all day erry day

>>167614102
I never take skills that bet on missing

>>167614102
With 62 Aim? I'd personally go with Grazing Fire if you don't have any ways to improve her aim. If it gets better later, you can always respec, but Center Mass isn't going to do shit if you can't hit shit.

>>167614102
Grazing fire early, respec into center mass later.

>>167614102
There was a period of time where Grazing Fire was broken such that you could never miss if you took it (you'd always crit, hit, or graze, but you could legit not miss a shot), but since that's been fixed (I believe anyway), Center Mass is the pick here.

>>167614102
>>167614520
Then again, with that Mobility, it WOULD be pretty easy to shift around for easy flank shots, as long as somebody else can handle doing the Gunner's job and remove overwatch for a turn.

>>167614768
So we're all agreeing that the long war devs sniff alien coke off of snake tits while they're coming up with balance right?

>>167615043
Yes.

Second wave options when?

>>167615318
Never because then you would ask "where's itchy trigger tentacle"

Are they're any good youtubers/streamers for openxcom? I enjoy beaglerush for modern xcom but he has shit all for the older ones.

So are there any good lewd mods for Xcom?

can someone drop me a link to pirate working LW2I'm not buying Jakes game period.

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>>167617082
>Xcom
You mean the old one? Hell, you wouldn't even be able to see nipples with those graphics.

For XCOM2, go to LoversLab.

>>167617151
well fuck you too

>>167617151
no

>>167617151
Not even if you like it after playing it? That's faggoty, and you ain't my pirate nigga.

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Fist class that punches the fuck out of ayys until they blow up into a bloody mess when

>>167618294
Pugilist class for SPARKS.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=732838044&searchtext=pugilist

> 2 different dark events that each give +1 hp to ayys

Fix your mod lump

>>167618430
That isn't a human punching those ayys into a bloody mush
you have failed me

>>167618294
People are too lazy to animate cool punching animations

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>Still no Mjolnir Mk IV

How do people rip assets from other games? Mk IV and Titanfall gear are things I desperately want.

Do called in evac zones expire in LW2? If so, what happens then? You have to call it in and wait the same specified turns again?

nth for Dodge is a retarded memechanic that has no place in the game

>>167619484
>Do called in evac zones expire in LW2?
No.

>>167619674
Get better bait.

>>167619947
>Unironically defending having to succeed 2 rolls to hit your target

>>167620057
>being bad
>not getting good
>posting about it

>>167620241
>Being good at rng
?

>>167620306
Stacking crit chance mitigates graze band.

Stacking aim/using almost any secondaries can negate dodge

Flash bangs and grenades are freely available

Also
>bitching about rng in XCOM

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>Hi I'm here to sssnipe your sssoldiers from the other end of the map with my sssquadsssight

Post your dream AWC lottery skills and the class you want them for.

Assault with
>infighter/ghostwalker
>evasive/hard target/low profile
>implacable/shadow step/tactical sense
>deadeye/sprinter
I cant decide the rest, too much sick shit to get.

>>167592941
They were legionnaires. Make them old and give them white caps. Or they're just nerds.

>>167593901
Literally why would you want to, if you have the willpower to suck up your losses, just do it. don't put your saves at risk.

>>167612719
I can't. Not anymore, not those same maps over and over again. Even the little bit of randomization X2 does is just enough to shake things up, I could draw EW's maps from memory.

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>>167621125
All I really want is a Technical with Ghostwalker.

About to start a haven defense, the objective is to round up resistance agents and start evac after 9 turns. What sort of hell am I in for? Should I move fast and try to scoop up agents, or go carefully and kill ayys at a safe pace?

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>>167622142
The ayys keep coming. On top of the evac sometimes.

Use a shinobi to round up civs, defend the evac

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It's interesting to see how this general has moved away from nothing but SPARTANs and ODSTs and there are a lot more operator squads.

But not me. I need my Halo: Tactics.

>>167619245
There's a Titanfall SPARK and armor pack on the workshop somewhere. Only Halo 4 and Halo Reach spartans however.

>>167621434
Just got that myself, feels pretty fucking good.

>>167622258
Oh, good to know, now I wish I'd brought an extra shinobi, but I think a lightning reflex assault can try to pick up the slack with some overwatch.

>>167622484
Wait, no. No no no.


Some of them are faceless, aren't they?

>>167622684
Gods bless LW2

>>167622273
I've been doing a run where my dudes start as marines, become ODSTs upon hitting Sergeant, and then Spartans for Gunny and Master Sergeant. Make them look as badass as they are for survivng that long.

I just saw on a joinrbs video and he said that with close encounters you can blue move, shoot and then activate run and gun.

Was it like that in EW? I loved assaults and I never realized you could do that.

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>>167622684
Depends. Don't worry, they appear all at once.

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Probably a stupid question, but if I research plated armor/ magentic weapons, does Advent follow suit?
Or does Advent upgrade on their own?
For example, if I never researched any upgrades whatsoever, would Advent also be stuck in the stone age with me? Or am I just fucking myself?

>>167625370

advent strengthens based on the game calendar so yes youd be fucked

>>167625370
Assuming vanilla, ADVENT never upgrades. Instead, their standard troopers get replaced by advanced variants over time. This happens independent of your tech levels.

Assuming LW2, same answer, except that tactical dark events are permanent and fill in the gap a little. Also, there's a third tier of enemy past advanced, the elite enemies.

>>167608119
Kinguin

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>>167622142
This is actually going pretty smoothly, this haven is pretty based in terms of design. Do I always get a building like this? Aliens portal in, overwatch annihilates them, agents keep moving.

>backing out of the squad equip scene before a mission makes the mission inaccessible

fucking why

What effects does liberating a region have?
Are there still ADVENT missions in the region?
Will ADVENT try to retake the region?

Bit nervous, just liberated my first region.
R.I.P King Crimson squad, gotta either rebuild or spread them to boost other squads.

>>167625519
>>167625524
Vanilla for the most part, sorry

>This happens independent of your tech levels
That's what I wanted to know
I mostly just wanted to see if i could perpetually stay at that primordial state of gameplay, IE Advent troops with 3 health vs Rookies, etc.
Something about that really intrigues me

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In the end, it ended up being "destroy all enemies the turn you activate them" again. Also the avatars are as easy as ever and can also be set on fire, hope they increase their power at some point.

>>167625994
>veteran
I wish I could take your opinion seriously.

>>167625994
>0 soldiers lost
Either Veteran is more babby tier than I thought or you savescummed hard.

>>167599309
next time do not buy from someone who only has 5 games sold boi

>>167602739
SPARKS are quite fun to use though

I will admit i modded them to have increased aim and 1 additional point of armor

>>167608423
Disable the missions they are canned buttrape in long dong

>>167603794
Can someone tell me where this .ini edit is?

Also, is it possible to change which items are infinite and which have to be individually made? It's looking like they made everything finite in LW2, including alien grenades, gremlins and medikits. Fucking magnificent.

>>167625607
Nobody was a faceless and everything went better than expected. Haven defense turned out to be a feel good mission.

>>167626537
>extremely high bleedout chance
>avoid doing shitty missions
Probably got lucky early on, but after rushing plasma every mission light and under got slaughtered. After that, went after warden and better ablative and basically became a god.

>tfw playing UFO Defense with the Final Mod Pack during the weeks on my old ass laptop and playing Long Dong 2 on the weekends on desktop pc

I feel commander as fuck right now

LW-like mod for Terror from the Deep when?

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>>167627190
Also here's some uniforms and happy faces.

Are DEs like Vigilance permanent in LW?

>>167627507
Is it tactical? If yes, then yes, it's permanent.

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>>167625787

>>167627650
You're fucking kidding

>>167627507
Get easier war dark events mod, you can configure it yourself but it basically makes permanent DEs expire after 2 months or if you liberate the region hosting the DE.

>>167625787
Eventually they'll attack it. I don't think there are missions available inside of it, but you can still get intel/missions in adjacent regions from setting people on intel.

>>167627318
>Long War TFTD
Don't you ever make this suggestion again

>>167627767
Yeah I was looking at it earlier. I'm hesitant because I don't want the +HP and other stuff similar to LW1 to be temporary. Will the game still be challenging at the end if ADVENT doesn't have those active?

Do rendezvous (faceless hunt) missions ever get harder, or are they always this nice and comfy?

>>167627680
Nope. Tactical Dark Events in LW2 are permanent. Gitgud, scrubking.

>>167627143
You can bring as many copies of basic equipment as you want, and don't have to pay a thing for them!

Advanced equipment? Yeah, that costs. As it should.

>>167628151
They get harder, but not much and the rebels rank up too. They're always a nice comfy kind of feel.

>>167628151
They're fine when you have a bunch of guys in the region.

When you get that Rendezvous mission in a region with two or three, on the other hand...

>>167628349
By that logic, you should have to pay for a new special grenade every time they get used.

I don't mind certain things costing on a per-unit scale, but the tedium is getting ridiculous.
>>167628489
Yeah, this. I got one on a region with 4, and 2 of them turned out to be faceless. So it was 2 rebels and a low rank soldier against 2 faceless and an ADVENT pod.
>>167628236
I know you're memeing, but Vigilance basically renders stealth useless. I could deal if it was for a more month or two

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>>167595247
I mean I could but i'm absolutely garbo

Gib requests I guess

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>>167619245
I never did finish with this, hence the weird discolouration.

>>167628634
>I know you're memeing, but Vigilance basically renders stealth useless. I could deal if it was for a more month or two
I was full-on the meme train, but I actually agree with you. Vigilance, and most other DEs, are huge pains in the ass now. At least most of the DEs only apply to a few enemies (for example, the TacSense one is captains only). Vigilance is just the big bad one.

>gatekeeper can spawn in reinforcements and use the psionic orb blast in the cells were prisoners are killing them and turning them into zombies
why the fuck do i even bother trying to fight when solo shinobi is the way to go

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Should I make contact with Mexico or should I use my intel to research Resistance Radio?

>>167629597
Contact first, you already have a radio tower in your original haven. Towers are also expensive to build anyway, and you don't have the money.

>>167629597
Some advice: don't spread intel out until you've at least liberated one region, IMO.

I like to set all regions other than first to recruit/supply, while trying to go through the liberation chain ASAP in the first region.

>>167627507
>>167629121

Pretty sure Vigilance is temporary.
For that matter I think DEs are still temporary unless they start with "Tactical Upgrade:".

On another note, my campaign has Grazing Fire and Formidable in the pending events list, time to switch everyone I can to intel and pray

>>167629928
This, just chain missions in your home region until you unlock the tower hack mission, then move intel somewhere else with low advent strength.

I would say don't even bother with supply though, just recruit aggressively and get more agents. Supply money from the havens is pennies compared to liberated dosh.

>>167628634
>Vigilance basically renders stealth useless
I don'[t know about that. You DID take Ghostwalker on your Shinobis, right? You did spend money on a Spider Suit or two to give them opportunities to get the fuck out should they be trapped in vision radius, right? You aren't taking blind corners, right?

Vigilance makes stealth harder, but it doesn't make it useless.

I do agree that permanent Vigilance is a pain-in-the-ass, though, and I don't think it should be eligible for Tactical Dark Event status.

So I'm playing LW2 and I put some rookies on a mission. They promoted but they didnt gain a class so the perk tree for them is completely empty. anyone have this before, and aknow of a fix? It was working fine a mission or 2 before and I had other rookies promote without issue, so this issue happened in the middle of me playing today.

>infiltration time 6 days 3 hrs
>mission expires in 6 days 2 hrs

Do I go for it?

>>167630590
It makes it useless if you have anything other than shinobis, since your squad basically can't move if they can see aliens.

>Spider Suits
Haven't got those yet. Does grapple really let you move without breaking concealment if you're within their detection radius? That's fucking cool

>>167631071
Do you have suppressors you can take from soldiers in other squads?

When should I worry about ADVENT's strength in a region?

Thanks in advance.

>>167631228
Only have two supressors in my whole armory.

I already have one in the squad on my ranger, and I don't want to take my dedicated Solid Snake's SMG away in case I need him for something else while this squad is doing their thing.

>>167631071
What's the basline enemy activity?

>>167631393
Extremely light, I'm only in the second month.

>>167631449
Yeah, that's just gonna knock it down to Very Light. Go for it, maybe add another soldier for the free XP

>>167609442
Is Robo /vg/?

>>167631482
Just one extra soldier? That won't put it past very light?

>hit a squad of three people with the flamethrower
>wait 10 seconds for the emergency backup trigger because the math is bad and they don't actually get tagged
>they take 3 damage each, 1 by 1, and none of them get burnt
>they just run around me and get flanked shots for free
fucking fix your game jake

>>167631573
Depends on how many you already have, and how much lower that will knock you below 100%

>>167631587
>To this day the game still hitches doing simple damage calculations and freaks out and displays the results early or late etc.

I don't get what they broke between EW/EU and 2.

I really think that Firaxis sticks to turn based games because they have poor programmers.

>>167612719
Yeah, I got bored of LW2 pretty quick, went back and started a new Impossible LW1 campaign and am still finding it much more fun. It feels like proper XCOM.

>>167623129
no, EW assaults couldn't use R&G and CE in the same turn

>>167631935
Honestly. The next Xcom title is probably going to destroy steam through some sort of ridiculously poor programming work, somehow.

At this rate I wouldn't trust them to make a mobile game

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>Grenadier gets his generated nickname.
>Dick 'Tickle' Turner

Are his squad mates bullying him?

>>167634719
The nickname doesn't make the soldier, the soldier makes the nickname.


Make ADVENT fear the dick tickler. Alternatively they're so busy laughing that they literally can't shoot back

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>>167634456
>Xcom 3: The So Called Greater Threat Arrives Immediately After Your Veterans Leave the Hyperbolic Time Chamber will run smooth as butter

Can someone give me a retard run-down of how the early game of LW2 is supposed to go? I got to October of the first year having just finished the first two Codex SC projects, and right as I was going to raid the coordinates I suddenly lost the game.

What the fuck do you have to do to reveal the Avatar progress? It never even gave me a liberation mission until right before I lost either, so what am I missing?

>>167635061
>when you laugh so hard that you accidentally slip and your weapon flies out and scores a critical hit against an xcom operative that was in full cover and not only does he die, but his entire team panics too
haha

>>167634719
No, he's tying up his squad and bullying them. The nickname is said in fear, not jest.

>>167635152
Gotta liberate a region

>>167635152
Go to the long war wiki, it has a page breaking down what missions are a part of the liberation chain. For whatever reason the first 2 missions in the chain don't give any indication that they are.

>>167628731
see >>167595897

don't do it anon
virgin killer is normie meme trash

>>167638118
>he doesn't want Vahlen to rock him like a hurricane

Could you be any more of a faggot, anon?

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>>167628731
This but with faceless

>>167638118
I agree, if we get a drawfag we can aspire to something funnier and more memorable than fap material. But it's ultimately up to any that show up.

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>tfw

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>>167640157
Wait, there can be EXALT on terror missions?

>>167640289
You beat the EXALT base yet? Then yes.

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Where are all the codexes to skullfuck in long Dong 2, just finished the shadow projects from officer skullfuck but I'm not having any luck finding a single damn codex.

>>167595897
Fuck, makes me jack off.

>>167640384
They can show up before EXALT base raid iirc

they're a stopgap unit on missions until muton elites show up I think

>mfw finally got back to ew after 6 months to finish my first campaign
>almost all countries red and 3 left the council
>invaded the alien base or some shit and the panic was cut by half
>still had no money when I suddenly realized that I could sell all of my shit to get some mad cash
>got like a thousand bucks selling shit that I wont ever use

If I knew I could get this ammount of cash so easily I think my playthrough would have been much better.

What are the differences between xcom and xcom 2? Is it now worth to buy it?

>>167639232
Fap material is what draws people to games though

>>167643449
The games are very similar with different settings

Personally I prefer XCOM 2 to XCOM EU/EW

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>>167595385
>>167628731
My idea was Bradford (either young or old) holding Laharl from Disgaea, by the neck, in a situation similar to this one from The Dark Knight. Preferably with a gun to his head.

Bonus points if you have Bradford calling Laharl an alien and demanding why he is invading, and Laharl explaining that he is actually a demon.

>>167643180
gray market is awesome

it's even more useful (pretty much a requirement) in LW, since the months are so long and you always need funding

What the fuck. 200 supply, 10 alloy, 20 elerium, 3 elerium cores, and 45 days to build a shadow chamber. Oh, and costs 50 supplies per month in maintenance.


Do I start it now and get it done early, or do I not need it for quite awhile? This is a huge resource sink for my income and it's only June 17, but it takes so goddamn long to build.

>>167644513
you can probably leave it for a month or two, the avatar project shouldn't be a problem until late september/october at the earliest, and blacksite+ the officer hack lets you knock off 4 pips

>>167644513
is that 45 days with an engineer assigned?

>>167641903
>not awaken My Elders

Looks sweet though

>>167598612
Lewd is what is killing the modern world
REMOVE LEWD

>>167627003
>Disable the missions
>Letting the Rulers just randomly appear at will
Holy fuck

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>>167595897
Every time I see the sweater I think about how that would work without wearing a bra.

Perhaps if it were at the beginning of time there wouldn't be a taboo on female upper nudity due to desensitization to the exposed breast.

>>167627003
Disabling the missions is the absolute last thing you ever want to do with Alien Hunters.
Disabling it allows the Rulers to show up whenever they want to, including very on early on.

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THE OVERWAIFU MODS CONTINUE

D.Va for Sparks when

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=858746002

>>167649161
God that texture quality if horrendous

>>167649161
>E3245 is actually rude to this guy

Damn, I guess his modding ego got to him

>>167649394

To be fair, why bother porting something if you're not going to take the minimum effort to make it look good? Texturing is hard, and probably making something from an old game fit in a modern game that uses a different texture system(something or other) is also hard, but this looks like the textures were literally just copy pasted and no changes were made at all.

>>167649379
>>167649491
Maybe it's just his shitty settings, the rest of the textures in that screen look horrible too.

What in the fuck.

I passed normal missions a ton of times without deaths, now that I started a classic difficulty game suddenly thin men one shot everyone and every mission has at least someone dieing.

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Hmmmmmmmm. This seems, suspicious.

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>>167650130

FUUUCK, i knew i should've fired instead of overwatching

>>167589256

FRESH BAGELS WHEN

GODDAMN

>>167650130
What mod lets you shoot at civvies? I'd gladly waste these fuckers if they stand between me and a stealthy path.

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>>167650253

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>>167650371

>civvies

I wish. LW2.

Where can you change the stat limits for Not Created Equal?

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How many times do you think Jake played Half Life 2 while making XCOM 2?

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This is bull, i'm in july and i only have 2 engineers while drowning in scientists.

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>1 health

What the fuck? I never had below 3 in the past 3 games I attempted.

Advent strength building up in a region next to a liberated one means they're getting ready to try and take it back, right?

What are all the methods I can use to lower their strength in that area? I'm doing missions in other, low strength regions but they seem to just be pulling more legions in from other areas. This campaign started with 30 legions and they now have 44.

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>>167650824
?
Elaborate.

>>167651653
you can take those troop column ambush missions in that region, they'll reduce advent strength while also reducing vigilance in that region. as far as i can tell from looking through the ini all you can really do is reduce their vigilance in that region and increase it in others. "getting advents attention" gives something like three times the vigilance increase of other missions if you're looking to re-position legions

>>167652154
I want them away from my core liberated regions, having strength 8 next door to my biggest cash cow is not a warm and fuzzy feeling. Is there a way to trigger these specific missions or is it just another case of intel and pray to RNG?

>>167652302
advent alert and vigilance both need to be pretty low, so they're won't occur after the first couple missions you complete in a region

>>167589256
What mod?

>>167651948
XCOM 2's entire setup is a ripoff of Half-Life 2.

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>>167651948
Not him but I noted a while back that they share a fuckton of parallels
>Galactic Alien Empire invades Earth, swiftly crushes humanity's defenses, and defeats their military
>Earth completely surrenders and the ayys take over
>Bulk of the occupation force is humans modified with alien tech and genetic manipulation
>Equipment of the trans-humans is based on human designs but supplemented or created with ayy materials and technology
>Rest of the occupation force is made up of actual ayys and mechanized units
>Ayys abduct and harvest humans for their own purposes
>The leaders of the ayy empire are beings with a strong affinity for telepathy and psionic abilities but are physically weak
>Leaders require medical and other technological assistance to survive
>A small resistance against the ayys fight back, including characters from the first game
>Protagonist of the first game was put in stasis and released 20 years into the future
>Daughter of former colleague from the first game is now grown up and assisting you
>Daughter is tech savvy and familiar with alien tech
>Former colleague built robot guardian for said daughter
>Protagonist's return causes the resistance to step up its rebellion into an actual war
>Resistance uses human tech as well as recovered or modified ayy tech
>Black science man
>Ayy Peacekeepers using electricity based batons
>Insect like pack hunter aliens that burrow until they sense disturbance (granted Lids existed all the way back in OG XCOM but didn't have 4 legs until EU and didn't burrow until 2)
>Large mechanized unit with a standard automatic gun mounted up top and a death ray on the bottom, unit is capable of standing tall or squatting
Theres probably some other shit I'm missing but I think you get it

Something I had on my mind for the people who complain about missing shots in point-blank when debuffed; What if, instead of adding a ballistics system to the new XCOMs, we just have certain debuffs lower your aim less depending on how close your target is.

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>>167634719
Are you kidding me with that name? Because link related.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b28_wgzR34Y

>>167649161
That looks horrible.

So can I activate mods in the middle of a save? I'm not sure how this whole steam workshop thing works but I subscribed to show health values and it doesn't look like it's activated ingame, even though I clicked it in the launcher.

>>167652992
Don't forget that the former colleague dies at some point (sometime before the beginning in X2, at the end of EP2 for HL2)

>>167652992
>>167653293
Impending end of humanity coming quickly has to be stopped. Superportal in Episode 2 and the Avatar Project in XCOM 2

>>167652992

Hmmm, really intrigues my scientists.

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>>167652992
>>167653293
>>167653413
>All these similarities and still no HEV Suit mod

>>167651054
You can do the basic engineering research to bring down the eng requirement.

>>167651258
He's wounded, it'll tick back up as he recovers. It's in case you use him on an avenger defense I assume.

>>167653125
please respond

>>167647502
That sounds like ADVENT talk, you collaborator

>>167653705
>>167653125

Depends on the mod, also depends on what kind of save it is. For example, on that mod i'd assume that if you are in a mission, then install the mod, and then load up a save that was mid mission, it probably wont change anything until you are on the next mission.

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>>167653598

I forgot that was a thing, and now i spent most of my supplies buying an engineer.

>>167654310
it's probably not a bad idea to buy one anyway, basic engineering has no other effect bar reducing the number of engineers required and you'll be wanting a few for avenger facilities and haven advising

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>>167654310
nice screen shot

>>167653514
that and
>no DOOM4 armour port
>no Venom Snake hand

wish I knew how to do that shit but all I can do is voice packs.

>>167654957
the face punch dudes have ripped the doom guy armor to source film maker so its not hopeless

In long schlong 2, does serial refund two actions?

>>167654957
>voice packs
Can I comission you for one? >>167590417

>Decide to try Long War 2
>Dig it so far
>Get a side mission
>To to investigate
>Has "Very light" enemy forces
>Figure I may as well attack right away
>Have to "infiltrate" first
>No option for immediate attack
>Get team ready
>Headquarters is just a stone throw away from the mission
>Fly back
>Immediately go back to side mission
>Will let me launch the mission
>Now has heavy amounts of enemy activity
Fucks sake

>>167656020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7QeArG2xXI&list=PLesIE_v8rF22m9iNgvHVFCOQh3oHLZJ67&index=1

>>167656169
This helps a lot. Thanks. I might just start a new game since it sorta seems like I fucked myself over.

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Not all missions go as planned.

Planning on getting into LW1 until LW2 is more polished. Anyone have any tips?

So can like

Faceless turn into ANYTHING?

Even anime lolis?

asking for a friend

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Advent begone

>>167659294
this tbqh

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>getting the under the avenger bug every mission now

>>167659662
Delete your whole config folder and validate your files through steam.

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this is the last thing i wanted to see

>>167661649
>different flavours of muton
nice

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Well we got this far, did they basically set a trap? This is part of a liberation chain, we need to get him out of there. I don't know what the solution is that doesn't get us all killed. The alien pod doesn't seem to want to leave the truck.

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>>167661745
remember me how i was

>>167661926
How does alien patrolling work exactly? Do they have designated zones and paths that they follow, or will they eventually pick the right series of random directions to fuck off out of here? This was supposed to be extremely light resistance.

>>167662246
after your break conceal and open fire they enter yellow mode

In yellow mode they will ditch patrolling and either go to the source of the gun fire or dog pile the objective.

>>167662354
I've got them down to just the alien pod in sight of my rooftop overwatch spam, it's going to be a hot extract no matter what but this might be the best shot.


Before I try it though, how would this work: Run the shinobi off one block down and out of sight, pop a flashbang for noise, and conceal?

>>167662453
What's up with that tiny sword?

>>167662715
thats a knife

Is there a mod for civilian clothing on your soldiers yet?

>>167662754
Jesus Christ, are you telling me that Lump and co. were too lazy to make a new mesh and just shrunk the sword?

>>167663652
the knife itself has a different model just not the sheath

>>167663652
it's an australian knife

you wouldn't understand

>>167619169
I want to make an alien man hybrid that punches aliens in the taint. As far as I know there doesn't exist a tutorial to make animations work to make a completely new class from scratch,including idles . If there was one I'd make one.

>>167663917
Aren't they crooked and shit?

>>167664673
you are thinking of attack boomerangs

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no man my haircut is way worse than yours

> pod grouped around 4 civilians

>just rocket all of them

>Everyone's dead

>sectoid commander resurrects all of them next turn

>surrounded by 10 zombies

>all in perfect position for the flamethrower

>first time the flamethrower has ever been useful

>no survivors

I can't contain my boner

>>167665929
why contain it?

>Fucking 4-5 turns in Advent HQ mission
>Have not seen a single fucking ayy
>Yellow moving every turn
>Can hear them but no sound direction indicator
>Just waiting to get jumped by 5 pods at once.

The only thing I've seen is a single fucking turret. I can't take this shit. Where are the ayys?

>>167641903
That is some top tier shit, I love it.

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>Salvo works with the primary flamethrower mod

So should I still bring explosives to supply raid missions?
Aren't the point of those to just bring as many soldiers as possible along for maximum carnage and corpse looting?

Do flamethrowers destroy corpses?

>>167666792
Yes unless burn damage is the killer

>>167666060
s'cool

>soldier with a minigun just missed an unconsience target

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I got three gravely wounded and a KIA for this, was it worth it?

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>>167589420

WHERE

Post coilguns

>>167671018
Don't shitpost just to bump a thread.

>>167671228
Selling a few of those troopers when they're in demand will buy you rookies on a 1:1 ratio, so why not?

>>167671635
In a bakery lol

Should i be selling elerium cores? They go for like 20 supp at the start of the game and doing so enables me to get an engi and scientist right off the bat

>>167672348
They can sell for 40 if the dindu market is interested

>>167672572
Right, but are they too important to sell or can i forego them in the early game in favour of getting scis and engis? It feels like grabbing an engi asap to start clearing rooms and a sci to boost early research is too good to miss

>>167672864
You get a fair # of them. Keep in mind that you can render cores for elerium crystals early on and that you will need entire cores later. Don't sell all and check if you need them to build/research anything first.

>>167672864
Loot is common enough if you aren't sneaking to the extreme, cores come off of ayy weapons so if you actuall end up needing them, make a personal objective to hit an alien pod on the next op.