XCOM General - /xcg/

Berserkers are best wifes.

pistols are useful
pistols are waifu

Swords are useful in LW2

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LW1 mission difficulties
>A-team
terror, base assault, landed ufo, council
>B-team
covert extraction, abduction [including easy], crashed medium and above
>rookies with supervision
crashed small, newfoundland, encoder defense

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Has anyone pointed out that a SHIELD mod for XCOM2 would be perfect? I mean, goddamn, you already have the Helicarrier. Replace aliens with super powered thugs and Advent with hired goons.

Your Psi operatives are already super powered beings, just need more superpower types (a pyro type that shoots flames in a cone, a fly type that does what the icarus armor does, etc). There's already a boss encounter system.

Sure, there's a teeny problem of Marvel possibly suing the modders. In which case, you scrub all mention of Marvel IP and make it a generic superhero mod.

Does Opportunist work in EW?

Squadsight says only headshot gives critical chance, while Opportunist says that it allws for overwatch criticals.

>>169045846
Overwatch can only proc within visual range, therefore is not subject to the squadsight crit penalty.

>>169045846
>>169046079
I'm not sure, but what I do know is that you can overwatch from squadsight with opportunist in vanilla (not Long War).

Is it possible to make a psi class mod that doesn't use the psi amp?

>>169046168
Oh yeah you're right I just checked the wiki.

It's kind of a waste to take in EW but not an awful choice.

>>169044868
Thats what I usually do in lw2 as I did with lw1. Swap any causalities with the next in line.

>>169046079
>Overwatch can only proc within visual range

I know, but I'm asking if an enemy only seen with squadsight and has opportunist will crit or is it only within the regular non-squadsight range.

Because if the latter I'd rather go with opportunist.

>>169046889
>Because if the latter I'd rather go with opportunist.

with executioner*

>>169046889
A shot in EW will not crit at squadsight range without headshot, period.

One of the changes that EW makes I disagree with. I like how LW handled it (flat -20% to crit chance) over EW.

>>169046692
I don't see how overwatch shots that always hit are a waste. In fact considering how good sniper aim is, I think it's much better than executioner in vanilla, as you are really only getting the crit, not the aim.

>>169045846
I think you could crit from squadsight overwatch in EU, but they might've fixed it in EW.

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T H I C C
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>>169045025
Capeshit is trash and you should feel bad for even thinking about it.

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>>169047108
Thanks! Sticking to executioner then.

>>169047213
Yea, you could, which is why I wanted to understand what the new wording in EW's description meant.

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>>169047342
That armor looks really uncomfortable

Speaking of Enemy Within, I finished the Classic Ironmeme solo soldier youtube campaign. All that's left is to upload before we move onto I/I rookies only.

https://youtu.be/w-gba2fxd2Q

>>169045025
that shit is not kino

>>169047623
Make Annette or one of the furies your volunteer

>>169049034
That's the advice I got last thread. Either them or Zhang will be.

>tfw phone rang like five times during the Overseer crash so the video has awful jump cuts
I don't wanna upload this shit but I kinda have to

Also lmfao just wait til you see the Volunteer cheese two Sectopods with Rift from out of LOS on the temple ship. Shit's fire yo. Also, throwing chem nades doesn't break concealement, so you can shave off some of the Uber Ethereal's HP, then slap him with a fat crit, which is how I solo'd that room.

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>>169043692
>>169044216

Words of Wisdom.

>>169044868

Basically this.

>>169049613
>Also, throwing chem nades doesn't break concealement, so you can shave off some of the Uber Ethereal's HP, then slap him with a fat crit, which is how I solo'd that room.
That's some solid cheesing anon

>>169049972
Thanks matey. Sectopods will fucking kill your solo soldier campaign without extreme luck (which I had) or researching everything so fast you get the Overseer shootdown before September btw.

>>169050645
What build did you use for your sniper? I haven't got a chance to watch yet.

>>169050857
>>169050857
I used Training Roulette and ground out a sniper with good aim and the following perks
Headshot
Snap Shot
Opportunist
Rapid Reaction
Bring Em On
Resilient (HEAT ammo would've been ideal but required much more careful play)
In the Zone

...I also turned on one Second Wave option: Absolutely Critical.

Once I got mimetic skin, the game devolved to sprint to high cover -> overwatch a pod for 1/2 free crit kills -> either break LOS and re-cloak, or flank, ItZ the last enemy, and THEN re-cloak.

>>169050857
Also, International Service Cross (+2 aim per continent bonus) and especially Council Medal of Honor (+10 aim and crit when 10 tiles from friendly units) are amazingly useful, CMoH is basically a free upgraded SCOPE.

>>169053158
How did you get through the base defense?

>>169053579
It's already up. I just sorta carelessly dropped people in the meatgrinder because I couldn't be assed. Cleared out my barracks nice and neat though!

https://youtu.be/Y4imQnVyaPQ

Honestly the only really cool mission in the run is whichever you watch first and then the Temple Ship Assault. It's not very tactically interesting, which is why I'm using it to learn how to do this whole commentary thing. The rookies-only Ironman Impossible is gonna be much more coherent.

>>169053579
Speaking of "tactically interesting", Seekers only cloak for like 5 or 6 moves. Once you find them on a mission, book it for the nearest map edge and let them chase you until you hear them un cloak and then waste em.

Seeker Autopsy is dank as fuck, because you get Respirator Implant and also Meme Skin out if it.

>>169053861
That reminds me, Bradford had one hell of a hard head if he could still be conscious after a fire extinguisher to the head.

>>169047636
>>>/tv/

Also, DCshill detected

>>169056160
He traded in some of his brains for more skull.

>>169056626
Super Heroes just aren't cool, both Marvel and DC. No shilling necessary bro

>>169059749
>basic comic literacy for 200
>what is the Miracleman reboot

Call me a Moore cocksucker all you want but comics already got deconstructed.

Can't tell me that shit's not dope.

>>169060190

Not him, but while i like some of the "capeshit" movies, marvel and dc videogames have never appealed to me, so i don't see the appeal in a marvel Xcom game.

Are we down?

New to long wars in XCOM 2, mind giving me some tips that I should start with? Weapon or classes I should skip like in vanilla or perhaps priority I should have at the beginning so it won't bite me in the ass later down the line.

>>169062829

Put everyone on your starting haven on intel

If you can't get infiltration at 100% just don't do the mission

>>169062965

Also, I would like to know if Long war mod have its glitches fix or should I start downloading a shit loads of glitch fix also. Currently I only have:

Long Wars
Capnbubs accessories
A few character pools creation
Free rotation
stop wasting my time
evac all
overwatch all

>>169064457
Long War already has free rotation in its toolbox.

Are Supply Raids supposed to be this hard in LW2? On Commander and I go in with my best guys and the pods patrol so close that I barely kill the first one before 2 more come in and fuck me. Is it skippable or is it worth losing a few guys over?

What infiltration should I try hitting with this because I've heard people say you should do it swarming but it's literally impossible with the troops I have now, and I have low intel so I'm trying to do it without boosting 73%.

I had to reinstall my game because I fucked up my ini file.

Is LW2 still a fucking buggy mess or is it at all playable?

>>169066171
i haven't seen a lot of bugs but it's still unplayable all the same

Expansion When?

Also, what do you think an expansion could flesh out or add to the game/ hope they would add? Personally I would like a rework of the timer/concealment system or just add more mission types without timers. I like having to work within a timer, but I also miss regular missions where I could take my time and search a map for bad guys.

>>169067938
I think adding more mission types without timers would be pretty reasonable, just like how EW adds some different mission types into the mix.
More aliens is pretty obvious, but still good. No more ADVENT unless they decide they want some crazy stuff. Tygan needs a mission out in the field.

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Bumping for SNEK!

>>169071878
nononono

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>>169071940
YES

>>169071878
>>169072049
die in a fire

>>169072049
NNONONOONO

>>169067938
we will fight collaborators
more advent types, few more mission types and a mysterious new creature kinda thing which heralds the new TERROR FROM THE DEEP WHICH WILL BE XCOM 3 AND WILL BRING FEAR AND TERROR IN ALL OF OUR HEARTS AND THATLL BE XCOM BABY

>Start playing Xcom 2 again
>Get over the research hump and everyone has plasma weapons, powered armor, etc
>All difficulty is gone
>Lose interest in playing
>Decide to go ironman top difficulty
>Instantly lose interest as soon as half my A squad gets killed by bullshit

I don't think I'm cut out for this game.

What is this weeb shit in the OP?

>>169077409
>Ablooh the game is difficult
git gud

Can ravens detect an UFO without a sat present in LW? I had the vague idea that it's possible, but thinking back I've never seen it happen.

>>169080189
every interceptor has like a 4% chance to detect a ufo

>>169077409
>easy difficulty is easy but hard is hard

well lad arent you bit of a bitch there

>race 0 face E is the only acceptable female voice
Suffering.

>>169083326
I mean face, duh.

>>169044216
t. faceless shitposter

>>169043362
OP is a fucking weeabo faggot with shitty taste in music.

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>>169083839
best music

>>169084335
>We're all weaboos
Bullshit. You're a weeb, I'm not.
I tolerate your choice of life, but stop shoving your shit down my throat.

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>>169084335
The cheek of it!

>>169079386
>>169082003
pls no bully

>lw2 finally doing something about single shinobi stealth
>solution being discussed is just throwing a yellow alert pod on top of the objective or evac

>>169044216
unironically the most reliable source of dmg until you can get your aim up

>>169084728
Actually it's us that tolerate you.

>>169086916
Please go back to /a/. You're delusional.

>>169086916
That has to be the highest denial:word ratio I've ever seen.

This general has really spiraled.

>bumps
>completely off topic bumps
>bumps barely disguised as rookie questions that anyone still posting in xcg already knows in a desperate attempt to stimulate conversation
>kids going back and forth about weeaboos
>bumps
>kids going off about "capeshit" or something
>bare minimum posting to keep the general on its deathbed
>one ok guy still playing XCOM and doing some actual campaignposting

>>169086405
This.
>>169085740
Wait really? Besides I just use specialists for stealthing non-jailbreak.

>>169088320

LW2 was a mistake.

>>169088320
>>kids going back and forth about weeaboos
Weeb detected

>>169088320
I tried to stimulate comversation in the last thread by posting a screenshot of a fallen soldier I genuinely thought it would be fun to read other peoples fallen heroes with interesting epitaphs explaining their demise. Got 2 replies. Everybody was too busy posting pictures "waifus" and manga characters.

Say what you want but I miss the more, feminine, models in xcom 2.

Daymn shayme

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>>169088768
My soldiers don't fall

>>169088320
Don't forget Show Health Values shilling. Those "people" probably like the rainbow vomit icons too.

>>169089438
>How the fuck do I work this thing

>>169089825
She's been working in the kitchen on the Avenger and has no idea what the fuck to do when she's deployed due to desperation & low counting barracks.

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>>169089825
Like a hammer.

What's the mod I see on some strimms that displays the %'s?

>>169092002
Perfect info

>haven defense
>squad spawns on a fire tile

Magnificent design.

>>169093536
Happened to me as well. Thought it was a bug with map generation from one of my other mods.

>>169093536
>spawn
>pod activates and shoots you

>>169089824
numeric health display is the one with faggy icons faggot

>muh cleen ui

i actually do have a rookie question for you all:
should I counter the UFO hunt or the Minor breakthrough? I have 10 bars of avatar progress up.

>>169095020

*Pod activates behind you*

>>169095650
Depends on if you can hit a facility or do a story objective soon. If you can't then counter the breakthrough.

The UFO is a 50-50 shot at a base defense.

>>169095936
Eh, I've got a facility in the Western US I can hit, and the Codex Coordinates in the Eastern US right after. I can afford to do the UFO hunt. Thanks

>>169096121
The breakthrough dark events also add progress pips to facilities themselves. If you're lucky then it will add the pip to that nearby facility and you can completely negate the progress.

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>>169095020
>pod teleports in on bladestorm shinobi

gg

>>169095650
depends on tech. ufo is easy if you have lots of power weapons. blaster launcher makes that one piss easy, the others are good as well.

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>>169089824
You're literally the only "Clean UI"-babby in here still upset about the fact that you're wrong.

>>169097240
But little inconspicuous text makes my head hurt reeee

How do I get recruits for Long War 2? I've got a couple people on the recruit job, but I'm only getting new haven recruits.

>Your Shinobi coughs and alerts an entire city block

>>169099701
Do you mean recruits as in troops? You can recruit for 10 moneys at your barracks. The haven recruiting is an uncertain way to get troops. You sometimes get troops and sometimes get haven recruits. Also you could try doing the hostage rescue missions (there's usually 2 hostages/troops per mission). I've gotten many fighters from those.

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BF 1 ports when

>>169100825
Stop posting BF1, you faggot! You're making me jelly because I have a potato and can barely play xcom 2. I'd like to try BF 1 one day

>>169099701
You can get rookies through either a jail break mission or rookies contacted by haven rebels on recruit duty. Once contacted they can be recruited in the avenger armory menu.

>>169101247
BF4 is still better
t. /bfg/

>>169100825
Why would you want 100 year old equipment?

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>>169101415
Because Advent forgot to confiscate anything beyond 100 years old.

Therefore XCOM will fight with Benet Mercies and the awesome Villa Perosa and win

>>169101394
No

>>169101247
>potato

Get a console instead

>>169101735
>No
Yes

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>>169101735
>Get a console instead
>get a console
>get console
>console

>>169101394
Bf3 is still better
t. somebody who likes a varity of weapons

>>169102396
>dude bluefilter lmao

>>169102396
>MLG-16A3/M416
>variety
how's 24/7 metro going, sport?

guardian is awc only ability?

>>169102697
It's a specialist perk in vanilla

>>169102424
>>169102535
LETS USE THE SAME SPRAY PATTERN AND RECOIL FOR ALL SMGS AND RIFLES

G3 master race

>>169088320
lw is shit, played vanilla to death
not interested in shitposting

Repeating question from previous thread:

Just being curious - with LW2 here, does people still use custom classes mods? Or everyone just stick to LW2 ones?

>>169102748
yea in vanilla but in lw2?

>>169102959
I'll show you a spray pattern faggot

I've come to a realization... I prefer the maps in XCOM 1

Anybody else feel this way?

I know that XCOM2's superior in that it has random, procedurally generated maps that allow for infinite variety, but man... it just doesn't end up looking good at all for me.

XCOM 1 had maps that looked natural and were well-crafted and just seemed like actual locations. You had real-looking highways, subway stations, city blocks with department stores, etc. One map was a fast food burger joint. You'd see the back kitchen, and the dining area, and the parking lot outside. It felt like a real place.

And who could forget the spooky whaling mission from Enemies Within, with the wooden pier deco and snow and whales?
In XCOM 2, I'm going by some futuristic office building with redundant sci-fi tiles everywhere and weird alien blocks and lamps outside. And usually a lot of red holofield barriers everywhere. It feels a lot more boring to me somehow. There's no real character to the map, if that makes sense.

>>169103145
The only thing that's superior in BF4 is the map paracel storm.

>>169103272
you just dont like the fantasy world, its okay

>>169103272
>that spacing
go back to your reddit faggot

SO many maps in EW are TOTAL SHIT

>>169103123
Yes in LW I believe it is AWC only

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>>169103272
I like xcom 1 maps more because there isn't as much cover. You really need to think about the next spot you take and there might be no escape if something goes wrong.

In xcom 2 you have dozens of possibilities. You don't need to think as much about your plays, which is boring, because it reduces the tactical part. And that's the most fun part in xcom.

>>169104106
Just download the suffer map packs from the workshop.

>>169064732
Try and infiltrate as much as you can, no point in immediately rushing in unless you can't help it (like 3hr timers). You can always boost your infiltrate if needed, if you have your haven set to intel only you can sometimes get like 5+ day timers on supply raids. Yes, they are supposed to be hard but they are cruical for stopping ADVENT movement to your region. I almost never skip them unless my current mission takes priority (liberation).

>>169103272

No way fag.

>>169083326
So what your saying is your entire Valkyrie squad looks like cloned waifus.

>>169085740

Bruh your infiltrate for solo shinobi should easily exceed 125%. Extremely Light, grab a smoke grenade and plan your routes accordingly. I typically call skyranger right outside the cache, throw a smoke ontop of me and the objective then skyranger takes 1 turn to get there after the hack.

It's risky as fuck but doable even on L/I.

Alternate is shinobi scout with spec hacker to range that shit and ghost walk the fuck out bro.

Am I supposed to play LW2 on normal?

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Nice game Firaxis

>>169105556
>that UI
You deserve everything that's happening to you.

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Here's a lewd treat for you guys!

>>169105360
Play however you want to bro. Learn the new mechanics and tactics and git gud before trying Ironman Legend.

I imagine 99% of the reason people bitch about LW2 is because they never learned the game and started immediately on Legend and complain shit is hard. I recommend at least Veteran though, it's a good balance of challenging times and easy progress through the campaign. Always infiltrate to atleast +100% to make the mission more manageable, longer timers for the objective and faster evacs. Don't supply the haven unless you have outted the Faceless or it'll be a waste of a month. Don't skip objectives that say "Find a Lead" with intel as a reward, that's liberation 1. Afterwards you'll get Rescue a VIP, liberation 2. After that it's pretty obvious what the next liberation missions are (they say Liberate: words). The ADVENT tower mission, Liberation 4, is hard as fuck without a good squad. Disable the computer as fast as possible and pew the ayys for the 2 free turns. Liberation 5 is liberation of the region, plan accordingly. At least 30+ ADVENT on a heavily guarded base, plus a General. Liberate the region, but at least expand out before doing so or your game is done, in a bad way.

>>169105875
There's literally a mod which adds cum for faces.

>>169103272
I mostly remember the nightmarish rooftop construction site from XCOM1.

>>169103109
i use both

>>169105360
>>169106109

Also bro, liberating a region causes ALL ongoing operations in the region to Launch or Abort. Do not complete Lib5 without at least getting the other missions atleast 100% or close enough or you are in for a bad time.

>>169103109
I just use the base LW2 ones. I don't see a point personally on having too many classes as managing a good squad of the 8 or so base classes pretty difficult later on. But I also haven't really looked into the mod classes too much, seeing how what I have seen can be accomplished by other classes already (Rogue/Shinobi)

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Sup xgc.

Just watched John Wick 2. I've been thinking: how would a mafia/covert assassin cartel work post alien invasion? Would they still be in the business? Or would ADVENT rout them out?

>>169107294
Probably continue operations as normal but taxed by ADVENT for their own supply gain. Or they would convince them to distribute drugs to make the population more docile to help cease rebel occupation.

>>169088320
>This general has really spiraled.
I've never seen this comment before.

>>169106342
May I get the direction for this mod and others like it for, ya know, purely scientific reasons.

>>169108678
Go to Lover's Lab.

>>169107587
>>169107294
Cartels might be manipulated during initial stages of the invasions, but they are way to independent of an organization to tolerate once the ADVENT administration really gets going.

As far as I can tell, anything that's not located in the ADVENT super cities is extremely suspect, let alone a criminal organization that smuggles and traffics items that ADVENT doesn't want any citizens possessing.

>>169108678
Go to the /xcg/ pastebin in the OP, and then go to the very bottom.

>>169105256
>So what your saying is your entire Valkyrie squad looks like cloned waifus.
No they have different hair and accessories. But the other faces don't look good.

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Guys please help me. What research do you need to complete to be able to build Proving Grounds in LW2. I'm just aimlessly guessing and wasting time at this point!

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>>169109603
It's one of the really early ones.

>>169109686
>>169109603
If I'm reading this right, it looks like it's the ADVENT trooper autopsy oddly enough.

>>169109686
>>169109851
Thanks!

>>169108795
>Cartels might be manipulated during initial stages of the invasions
Why? Aliens that can brush earth's forces aside don't need some shitty cartels.

>>169110470
When they are getting the new government installed I imagine they could still be useful, but yeah, I'm thinking more of the XCOM1 invasion scenario for that case.

>>169110470
If you want people to follow ADVENT just have the cartels fuck shit up and let the troop column stop them, live on TV.

>>169103272
>>169104106
For some reason I find XCOM 1 to be more menacing and scary. Especially when your missions are at night. That feeling is completely gone in X2. Why? That I do not know.

Do you get to play turn 0 on the mission timer too?

>>169111842
Never waited that long to complete a mission. 16 turns is more than enough for me.

>>169111842
no. the number decreases after both sides finish their movies. a turn is human then alien actions.

>>169111763
id say that has more to do with the thematic change form 1 to 2 than the maps id say

>>169112303
Pretty much this.

In xcom 1 its enemy unknown. In xcom 2: you know the enemy

>>169113710
XCOM 1 you're constantly worried about the ayys getting the drop on you, and you're always under the threat of a bunch of thin mints or other enemies just dropping in behind you.
XCOM 2 you're the one getting the drop on the aliens most of the time thanks to infiltration, and timers make things feel less suspenseful and more urgent. The actual themes of the games are a bit different too of course.

>1 hour 30 minutes left on the solo madman last episode upload

So what actually triggers the ethereals and muton elites to spawn in the last room? Because I did it with one soldier and nothing spawned but the fucking Uber.

>>169114551
The Uber has to do his "we who have failed to ascend" cutscene.

Why don't grenades destroy cover in LW2?

Do I get grenades that do later on?

>>169114875
Yeah but... how do you trigger it? I skipped it in that run.

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What is causing this loss of mobility?

>>169114892
The durability of cover has been increased across the board. Perks can help but ultimately grenades are more useful for damage than flattening buildings.

>>169115074
4 grenades in small slots?

>>169114963
You have to step further into the room

>>169115074
The equipment she's carrying (presumably grenades). Most equipment confers an encumberence. You can mitigate the penalty by having a unit carry an smg.

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>>169115074
-1 per each equipment

Grenadiers have 1 extra slot for grenades.

= -4

>>169115398
>yfw xcom are literal social justice warriors on the side of humans

>>169115398
still ben garrison is my favorite.

>>169115770
>Ben "Ruining the Day of Every Ayy" Garrison.

>>169115883
>Ben "Ayy's No Jew, But I'll Kill Him Too" Garrison

Post cum face paint.

>>169116462
>Ben "Empty my nine in the gene clinic line" Garrison

>>169116530
>Ben "Some Advent Are Allright, At Least The Troopers Look White" Garrison

>LW2 didn't add the t3 grenade launcher

FUUUUUUUUUUUU

That's the one thing I wanted the most, this blocky advanced grenade launcher made to fit with t2 armor is just so ugly with power armor

>>169045025
Yes and yes. I want to make a super powered mod but idk where to start replacing anims and attacks.

>>169045025
Don't mind the haters that's a great idea. Instead of recruiting members you'd recruit super powered beings. This needs to be done.

>>169107294
Is the movie as great as the first?

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>>169116515
The mod has a couple splatters, with one of them white and the other green.

>>169061014
Doesn't have to be Marvel or DC you can be inspired by them or Valiant or Image Comics(Invincible,Savage Dragon) then replace . This engine would be perfect for something like this.>>

>>169117697
>>169117697
Kek

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>>169117697
holy christ

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>>169117697
Hahah jeeez...

Guys is it me or the shinobi stealth tree sucks dick? The combat and blade tree seem a lot better

>>169117697
But
Why?

>>169119373
Considering that stealthing missions is a big part of LW2, no not really. Obviously if you have a squad planning to go loud, take a combat build shinobi.

god damn it I corrupted my fucking save

>>169119736

What missions can be stealthed?

>>169120074
The vast majority of them. Prison breaks, hack something, recover an item, etc.

>>169120074
Almost all that don't have the objective of killing something. You can solo/two man most stealth based missions easily.

>>169120234
>>169120463

But how do you vet your soldiers if you don't fight?

>>169120627
LW2 gives much higher missions reward xp and less xp for killing stuff. The mission xp is also split I believe, so smaller squads will get a bigger cut for each individual soldier.
Also, with the infiltration mechanic, many times you don't have time to deploy a big squad, or even a medium squad. But if you send 1 or 2 people, you can complete mission you would have never taken in the first place.

Fresh OC here, soloed Operation Avenger on Enemy Within on Classic Ironman with one trooper. No cuts or any bullshit, all one clean take.

https://youtu.be/FvEZsSQ-FZQ

>>169120996
>The mission xp is also split I believe, so smaller squads will get a bigger cut for each individual soldier.
The optimal squad size is three people, actually. The way mission XP is divided is that there's a base amount of mission XP that is divided by 3, or the number of people on the mission, whichever is larger. If you take 1 or two soldiers, they still only get 1/3rd of the mission XP, meaning you should generally take 3 if you can handle it (hiding three people can be hard on stealth missions, it gets tricky).

Can the MEC repair in LW2 be used on itself?

Does LW2 have peek from concealment already integrated?

Does a guy not in cover count as flanked?

>>169122967
In what context? Usually yes

>>169123039

+2 dmg vs flanked enemies

Does that apply to out of cover enemies?

>>169122581
Lw2 hasn't been updated since peek from concealment became a thing.

>>169123218
Yes it should.

>>169122967
>>169123218
Pretty sure it does.

>>169088320
>>one ok guy still playing XCOM and doing some actual campaignposting

Well, I sometimes post webms. I'm not sure about posting the entire campaign since most of the time it's pretty boring and I'm not doing any challenge run.

>>169103463
When the fuck did formatting your posts in a easily-readable fashion begin to constitute "Reddit"? This is a conceit I never saw until about a year ago, and I am genuinely curious.

Guys, what if, you can wear a vest that made berserkers run towards you and hug you?

>>169122085
Good shit, anon.

Sound's mixed pretty well but why the fuck is it so quiet?

>>169125645
that post is literally copy pasted from reddit

Guys, I miss Beagle

>>169129330
I don't, overrated whiner.

>>169129330
So do I

>>169129904
Maybe he's overrated now, but he certainly wasn't in the Long War heydays

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>>169103272

>mfw I actually thought post-LW2 /xcg/ was going to be like LW1 /xcg/

>>169130602
Well, it may never be, but the timeline is off. Technically we aren't where LW1 /xcg/ was, since I believe that was more around b12-b15.

Reminder, Story Time with Jake Solomon on the 10th on the main stage of pax. It is probably going to be the expansion.

>>169129330
What would it take for someone to take up the Beagle mantle?

>the imgur has been updated

This general may be slow, but we've got some damn good output when we put our minds to it.

>>169131042
Overwatch spam while cracking jokes?

>>169131042

Skill at the game and a modicum of genuine charisma.

>>169131814
Got the Overwatch spam part down pat
>>169131876
Not sure about either of those though

>tfw pressing f10 at the end of a hack nullifies the hack and you can do it again

Weird bug

>>169131876
Charisma?

>>169131042
be an australian shitposter of the highest caliber

>>169132115

Sure, Beagle is fun and engaging to watch because he can talk to his audience without sounding like your average, garden variety Youtube sperg.

>>169132218
>australian
Fuck

>try to stealth a mission in LW2
>Hack the container with a shinobi
>REVEALED
>wut
>Look for the evac
>5 turns

Last time I listen to your stupid fucking advice

>>169132285
Welp, I'm out. I don't like talking in videos.

>>169132584

No mantling Beagle, then. Doesn't stop you from making videos for people to learn the game from, though.

>>169132086
Is there a window where you can keep the reward? Not saying I'd ever cheat but it'd be funny as fuck to get a 999 Hack soldier off of Enemy Protocols

>>169132339
You can get the evac timer down to 1-2 turns.

>>169132285
I'm >>169122085. Is there any hope? Tactical layer starts at like 7min30sec

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>>169132086

>>169133080

Rhodoks are not accepted in this general.

>>169132934

There is hope. You sound like you know what you're doing, but you're also a bit inexperienced and, perhaps, nervous. Just keep cracking at it, ain't no-one became the best in kindergarten.

>>169133914
Good stuff. In about 30 minutes i'm starting an Ironman Impossible Rookies Only run, so I'll try and sound more confident without being overbearing.

>>169115493
>social justice warriors
>on the side of humans
Niggers, homosexuals and Muslims are not humans, anon, not even when combined.

>>169134631
Boys should love boys and girls should love girls

>>169134264

Confidence comes with time, don't force it. Just give yourself the time to breathe and don't feel like you need to talk super quick lest your audience get bored.

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>>169134631
>when /pol/ invades

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>>169134631

Yes, and nudity and cartoon violence are wrong

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>>169134631

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>>169134631
>not even when combined

The only reason /pol/ triggers you is because you let it trigger you.

>>169135340
I remember a 4chan that wasn't filled with sensitive faggots that have issues with someone speaking out against minorities.

>>169131042
I think it's mostly hard work [and knowing the game but if you post here that's a given]. Beagle took off because of his heavy editing, he was fun to watch when he put effort into his videos and stopped being fun to watch when he stopped giving a shit.

Jonrbs can play and he's not a sperg but he just dumps his multihour playsessions on youtube, so he won't be the next beagle.

>>169135884
Hm. You'd think Xwynns would be well liked here. I don't like his memester youtube voices, but he's good (even if he does lean on Crutch Fog, i'm sure he could perform without it)

>>169136103
There isn't anything wrong with red fog, it's more realistic than playing without.

>>169136103
Doesn't red fog affect both sides?

>>169136527
Yes but being able to simply hurt an enemy instead of killing them in order to neutralize them is very powerful.

Ideally you never take damage

>>169136484
>realsim
>vs. game balance
Nah, in many cases red fog straight makes the game easier.

>>169136484
still makes the game way easier

>>169136527
XCOM consistently shoots first, and even when it doesn't you can heal. Turning every grenade and every accurate shot into a permanent flashbang is a huge buff.

>>169136103
I'd never heard of him before. His vids seem ok but I still wish for an Ironman Impossible analogue.

>>169127043
Huh. News to me; I don't use Reddit.

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>ABA is just a mod compilation that use stolen assets from every custom enemy on the workshop
>The Spectrum mod does this as well but takes from a whole bunch of other mods
>Neither of them have been slammed for it

>>169139547

Did they actually steal those assets, or acquire permission to use them?

>>169139547
Can't speak for Spectrum but ABA gives credit

CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -

This mod wouldn't exist without several people that helped with their contributions, either directly or by allowing me to pilfer some things from their own mods. Thanks go to:

Atheran, who did many of the changes to visuals. Without him, this mod wouldn’t look even a fraction as good as it does now. Thanks, man.
Kexx, for doing the Archon Valkyrie
CMDBob, for the ADVENT weapon models from his “Total ADVENT Weaponry”
Swinka666, for fixing the Firestarter animations
Rayman!, for his Call Reinforcements mod
Klavickus, for the russian translation
Cornelian, for the French translation
ADVENT Avenger, who did some of the Chryssalid AI
Long War Studios, for their Alien Pack, a truly endless source of stuff I shamelessly ripped off
Kobazco, for his Elite Viper mod
xylthixlm, robojumper, Yzaxtol and numerous other modders who helped me out many times when I asked stupid questions on Discord and reddit.

>>169139547
>stolen
I can never take this seriously as applies to data. If you aren't losing anything, it isn't being "stolen".

>>169139982
how about I take credit for your hard work then?

>>169139982
>If you aren't losing anything, it isn't being "stolen".
So if someone makes a copy of your keys, nothing was stolen?
That's pretty silly anon.

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>>169139982
>Spend hours and hours working on a mod
>Some faggot just rips your and a ton of other people's files, makes his own shitty compilation out of them
>"Lmao man, it's like a bunch of 1s and 0s, how is it even stealing".

>>169140245
"Copying" is not "stealing". If said guy was taking credit for making the assets he is using, that would be kinda faggoty, but it wouldn't be "stealing".

>>169140297
Yes. That's exactly correct. I would still have my keys. They would not have been stolen. I know you're trying to segue into some off-the-wall comparison of burglary and internet piracy, so I'm just going to say that if I knew someone made a copy of my keys who I didn't want having a copy of my keys, I would just change my locks.

>>169140603
So, when you find said guy, let people know via the comments section that the assets being used were not created by the maker of said compilation, and do your queer internet-shaming bullshit. It still is not "stealing".

>>169139667
ABA guy otherwise seems pretty chill and updates his mods and answers question. Spectrum guy is a total assbag though.

>start recording for rookies only challenge
>discover that soldiers autopromote to Squaddie
Fuck. Would beating the game with unpromoted Squaddies be anywhere near as impressive? What better challenge runs are out there?

>>169141243
Whatever, believe what you want. A person's entitled to their own odd stubbornness.


>>169141680
Maybe you could get the commander's choice mod for Vanilla?

>>169141852
Ooh let me see. I need a >mac compatible one though

>>169139667

Spetrum dude asked me for permission to use my merc guns for his mod, even though i made sure to put the "you can use whatever you want if you give credit" thing on my mod's page.

>>169142263
>Spectrum guy asked for permission
>>169139667
ABA guy gives credit

Further confirming my suspicions that guys like >>169139547 are just trying to start shit. Good to know.

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I need another fucking Officer corpse to make the skulljack? These fucking things are harder to come by than unobtainium.

Welp, I remember wondering a month ago what LW2 Sectopods were going to be packing. Seems the answer is 60 hp and 5 armor.

Ain't that somethin'.

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>>169133080

For Honor ports when?

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>>169143685
>tfw you permacontrol one

>>169117697
post green muton cum

>>169131876
>Implying talking like Jar Jar Binks and yelling BURNINATE really loud isn't charisma

Sperg

>>169132339
your shinobi should have enough mobility to run the fuck away for five turns

So why aren't you working on a mod RIGHT NOW for XCOM2?

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>>169147701
>mod
I literally just take existing class mods and edit them so they work with LWPP/LW2.
It's not even hard to do, all I'm doing is adding a few lines of code to create a third tree.

>>169148146
Wait, do just randomly add various skills to it? How can you tell it's balanced for LW2?

>Open on a pod of 8 with a sting grenade
>7 are stunned for a whole turn

Holy fucking shit this is retarded op

>>169147701
Probably because I have absolutely zero experience with modding, coding, 3d modeling, animating, or anything of that sort.

If somebody were working on a mod to transliterate XCOM2 to other languages, I'd probably be all over that.

>>169148504
>Open up a pod of 8 with a plasma grenade
>7 are dead for a whole mission

Holy fucking shit this is retarded op

>>169148494
When it comes to picking perks, usually I do my best to stick with the original theme that the mod author intended.

>Balance
I've hadn't gotten to test any of my edits in game yet.

>LW1 terror op
>aliens just murder 6 civilians in one turn

I'm ok with this

>>169149261
>Dog_saying_This_is_fine.jpg

>>169148921
>He would blow up 7 corpses

shigg a digg digg

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>>169149261
>they just kept ignoring XCOM and slaughtering civilians
>even as we picked them apart one by one

Still ok with this

xcom is a bunch of terrorists

>>169150643
oh no not 35 supplies!

It's not like I liberated three regions last month

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>>169149261
get gud scrub

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>>169151816
the weak should fear the strong

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>>169152052
>m-mor balaten
Sodomy will not be tolerated, deus vult.

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>>169152198
the ayys had it coming and those damn collaborators got in the way

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These are pretty good Gunner abilities.

>>169152310
holy hell

>>169151816
I actually take the extra time to frag a few civilians from the evac point if the area is secure.

>>169152568
That will only make setting up a provisional government in a liberated region that much harder.

>>169152690
XCOM doesn't answer to a council of nations anymore senpai, Commander has GONE ROGUE except for epic voice guy but he's just another rogue guy giving us information he doesn't give us funding. All we need are the guns and the cool ship.

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>playing lw1
>medium ufo
>stuck inside one of the smaller rooms with a muton berserker

fug

>>169156202

Should have sacrificed the SHIV senpai.

>SGT is wounded for 45 days

He is as good as dead.

>>169156202
That's why you want them chem grenades anon

>>169156202
>specs on a medium past April
Anon I mean no disrespect, but what were you thinking?

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>>169156741

Everybody else was sleeping off their fatigue and I didn't want to wake them up.

>>169156202
Close combat specialist, bring one every single time. Especially into UFOs. Dragging berserkers around a CCS assault with shredder ammo is pretty much the only way to clear the early game double berserker pulls without someone getting smashed to little gooey pieces.

>want to start first LW campaign on I/I
Where do I study the airgame?

Is MEC rushing like joinrbs does viable?

>>169158731
don't use ironmeme for a long war campaign, and don't start your long war on impossible.

don't act dumb.

Does anyone else have the problem where you exit from XCOM2 but it still shows are running in Steam ALL THE TIME?

>cyberdisc uses its last dying breath to fly above the already secured meld canister
>smiles contentedly as lasers fry its CPU, knowing it did good
>falls onto the meld and explodes

Fuck you too, buddy.

Did I actually lose the meld, or does clicking it get me the meld after mission no matter what happens afterward?

>Want to try Grimy's Fury Class but don't want to deal with the HP loss on every skill
Are there any modders here who would know If I could edit/disable the HP cost?

>>169158731
jesus christ they call it a readme for a reason


Q: I'm fairly new to XCom. What difficulty should I start with?
A: Normal.

Q: I'm an XCOM veteran. What difficulty should I start with?
A: Normal.

Q: But I'm really awesome at --
A: Sorry to interrupt, but just start with Normal. We don't have easy difficulties in this mod that hold your hand while you learn the ropes and we've removed every bit of code we can find that cheats for the player on the lower difficulties. It's going to be hard. The other difficulties are just harder versions of Normal; feel free to move up when you get a handle on all the new mechanics.

>>169158731
also the repair mechanic is total shit and should be disabled by selecting the "Durability" second wave option. Optionally play with the commander's choice option enabled if you don't want to get really silly things like 59 aim snipers

>>169159541
If you already manually clicked the meld, then you are good to go.

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LW2 was a mistake

>>169163339

Then finish the -other- campaigns already!

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>>169158731

Look at Joinrbs LW I/I win if you want to understand how to play the Airgame.

DO NOT PLAY ON IRONMAN. Just play with Honestman. Your save will get corrupted and you will lost fucking EVERYTHING. And no, if it is corrupted there is literally nothing you can do. If you INSIST on playing with Ironman actually on, you literally neeed to back up your save file every 2nd mission or so.

Play with Commanders Choice. Literally every rookie in your barraks is usable as one class or another. Joinrbs goes into a lot of detail about what he uses his rookies for.

In essence:

Highest AIM should be Snipers. High Mobility, High AIM Scouts. ~14+ Mobility High AIM Rocketeer. Rest of the High Aim Infantry (also good with highish will for officer).

"Balanced" Stats are good for Gunner (they benefit from Aim, but other classes need it more).

High Mobility (Low/SHIT Aim) Assault. Shit Stats, High Will are good Medics (for Psi). Shit-tier soldiers are good Assaults and Engineers. Engineers are actually *very* good the entire game and almost entirely independant of their Aim (cover destruction is OP).

Hidden Potential is a good option to have, because it will give you a better A team, and the soldiers that get completely dicked by level ups are great candidates for MEC's (Infantry/Scouts are amazing MEC's). You don't even *really* benefit from savescuming good stats, since you can just turn the shit troopers into MEC's eventually.

Also, don't play with Ironman enabled.

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>>169158731

Do yourself a favor and build a SHIV or two (preferrably two soon-ish). You don't even need to build them better weapons. They are good for helping you with early missions if you find it hard to keep people alive, and they are life savers when you get swarmed with multiple missions and don't want to start falling into a fatigue spiral.

They are actually Overpowered compared to any other unit early or even midgame, but you don't want to rely on them too much since they soak up some experience from your other soldiers.

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>>169156202
Aren't mutons & berserkers two different species? Am I retarded now?

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>>169156547
>>169157205

I've been running into a berserker every couple of missions now, and I took the advice and made a couple of chem grenades and better ammo. They're a bit less scary to deal with now.

Thanks lads.

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>>169165930
berserkers are bigger mutons hopped up on stimulants and shit

in XCOM 2 they are the females

>>169165930

>Am I retarded now?

I have some bad news for you anon.

>>169165930
Berserkers are the female mutons. Floaters are the runts turned into cyborgs.

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>>169166090
>>169166121
Does they say that in an autopsy/interrigation? I don't remember this...
Please post proofs for the retard!

>>169166191
>http://xcom.wikia.com/wiki/Berserker_(XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown)
>The Berserker appears to be a larger, more heavily armored Muton.

>http://xcom.wikia.com/wiki/Berserker_(XCOM_2)
>Unlike its previous incarnation, this Berserker is twice the size of other Mutons.

>>169166153
>floaters are runts

it all makes sense now

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JAKE

HOW DID THIS FAG FLANK HER?

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>playing lw1
>down a small ufo
>everybody's tuckered out so i have bring 5 rookies with me
>nothing but tiny little drones everywhere
>mfw

Hello promotions.

>>169169398
>doing good
>scout or smallest lands
>okay same shit
>Bring shit expecting a lone navigator captain

>*BEEP BOOOOOP UFO SOUNDS*
>*WALKER SOUNDS*

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>>169169930

>*WALKER SOUNDS*

>>169170280
>manplayingbloodborne.jpg

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>6x heavy floater pod
>2x mechtoid 2x sectoid commander pod
>5x outsider 2x sectoid commander pod

okay xcom

>>169170714

Still good job at not losing operatives over there.

Why is no one talking about this?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=869801828&searchtext=

>>169173619
sweet. Could be fun.

>>169173619
ahhhhhh yes. I have been asking for this, about time someone with mod skills had the idea.

>>169173619
>IED mod

you can go allahu ackbar on the ayys now
sounds really cheesy to plant it on a wall and wait for unsuspecting patrols

>>169179084
please, going ISIS on ADVENT has been an option ever since the suicide vest mod

>>169179346
>suicide vest mod

this is not very vigilo confido of you commander
refrain using human bomb
perhaps collaborators but not your own dudes

>>169166090

Way I take it, berserkers were always the females of the species, and when the Ethereals started pushing for more extensive gene tampering, they took well to being made bigger and stronger.

Now imagine being a muton trying to get laid.

>beaglejerking
>waah waaah I can't spam overwatch and move a tile a round waaah
Shitter

>>169150842
LW terror mission are horrible, I'd rather ignore and assault the alien base.