/xcg/ - XCOM General

pistols are useful

Small, handheld firearms have considerable utility.

REEE ITS HOT

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>break los

Does the "all cover is full cover" from Low Profile combo with the "full cover hides you" from Mimetic Skin?

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>>180388412
Home Counties best counties

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>>180388412
nah m8

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>>180388412
>omitting Scotland

Fuck no, lad

the islanders are out watch your booze

>>180388270
Mate.

>>180388625
yes

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>>180388412
>being English

I pity you.

>>180390753
>living in Northern Ireland
>pitying anyone else

lol

>>180390167
its true though its hot

>>180391056
I don't see the problem. We're not overrun with immigrants who grope women and blow themselves up at concerts.

Should've went with /xcg/ - International edition.

X
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Have a real /v/ XCOM thread.

>>>/v/381347678

>>180392580
>it's either furfags or literal gay shit
I don't understand /v/.

>>180392706
You can also have the worst of both worlds and have gay furfags.

>>180392706
Not understanding /v/ is a good thing, just like not understanding /pol/

It means you have retained some of your human decency

>>180392859
But your average furfag is gay.

>>180388412

/worcestershire/ bro

fuck it's hot

I'm too scared to play XCOM 2 for fear my GPU would combust so I'm bashing my head against a wall trying to git gud and break los on EW

>>180393083
True, but the /v/ variety is the full extreme of the spectrum. Like, full on "All women are shit" mode.

>>180392859
>gay furfags.
>worst
They aren't worst since gays can't reproduce.

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>>180248670
No problem bro. It was really irksome someone left it like that after editing everything else anyway.

>>180392580
>that gay shit
Holy shit has /v/ only recently gotten this bad, or am I just now noticing after leaving?

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>1st XCOM 2 playthrough
>Doing extremely well, multiple flawless missions one after another
>think I'm hot shit, try to do the Blacksite mission with my brand spanking new magnetic weapons
>get my shit pushed in by mutons who flanked the fuck out of me
>no rookies for me to buy anywhere even if I wanted to continue the run

Talk about luck turning on a dime.

Anyone got any tips? Magnetic weapons or Armor first? What kinda team should I have. How early can I do the blacksite mission? When should I start to deal with reducing the Avatar Project bar?

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>>180396945

>>180397430
Weapons then armor, no expectations for any x-com game.

>>180397430
Magnetic first, I like to have at least one of each class (add extra grenadier and/or ranger or psi op when squad size upgrade comes).

As far as the blacksite and avatar project, I like to wait until the bar is maxed before touching either. But that's because I like to game the timer.

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how do i bring back 10-man squads?

1.3 is such a pile of dogshit.

>>180399136
I miss how you would have 10-14 operatives plus an actual fucking TANK in UFO Defense. Too bad it was impossible to really tell any of them apart. Only "this guy is a rookie" and "this guy is not"

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>>180397430
>no rookies for me to buy anywhere even if I wanted to continue the run
that's called "shit design". it's amazing how both the expansion and long war suck so much dick on the design part. the unique shit that they add(and even more broken shit that we'll get from hunters now, i mean seriously), recruitment problems, broken levelups.

they could've just copied old xcom instead and it would be literally better.

>>180399706

it's also called not having backup squads to rotate around for this eventuality, what do you mean by broken levelups? I've never come across a lack of recruits personally but I always try to spam contact regions as fast as possible which might be why

are you the mean anon who said they would rather this general die as an X-COM general than nu-com?

Anyone want to guess how my first meeting with an andromedon went?

>finish the level with the Chryssalid whale
>lose one of my best, barely make it out
>less than a day later
>UFO in an area without interceptors
>blows up satellite
>area immediately goes into panic
how the fuck am I supposed to win at this game
I really enjoy the unit customization and shit but having to pretty much stand there and watch myself lose despite it is pretty unfun

>>180401353
>go balls to the wall to kill it
>get fucking destroyed when you realize its not completely dead yet

>>180401796
>UFO in an area without interceptors
That's your own damn fault

>>180401965
I have no fucking idea how to get more. I checked Engineering but the option is straight up not there, only for Interceptor upgrades.

>>180401830
Ding ding ding!

So what's the ideal approach for these bastards?

>>180399136
edit the ini retard

>>180401830
>go balls to the wall to kill it
>acquire robo slave

I've hacked almost every robot with my super poo hacker.

>>180402016
go to the hangar and buy planes

>>180402275
exploit untouchable

>>180402275
dont kill it if you are not ready to deal with the shell
whittle him down so that you only have to finish him off with as little actions as possible and everyone else wail on the shell
if you can hack it you might shut it down to gain time
also bluescreen rounds

>>180402016
Go to the hangar and under each continent there is an option to order more.

>>180399136
>>180402539
Y'know what I'm feeling nice actually.

Go to
SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\844674609\Config\XComMissions.ini

And change the maxsoldiers line for each mission type. 12 is the maximum supported by the UI.

I kind of want to play an xcom survival mode, like you start with a squad and see how long you can last under an ever growing force.

A last stand sort of thing.

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>radar picks up a landed large ship, most likely a supply ship so I send out a squad comprising of mostly rookies since I need some veterans quickly after a string of losses.
>when approaching the site, a landed battleship and another supply ship pop up a few minutes away and figure I'll deal with them after the supply ship
>on the first mission out of the 3 planned, this is the landing site
I'm fugged. I'm already running a huge point deficit the past few months so If I don't go positive this month I'm done.

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Can't wait for my main man to show these new dlc rookies how to remove ayys properly.
Who /DoomOfAyys/ here?

>>180406020
Wasn't there a mod exactly for this? It had waves, and you could buy new soldiers and upgrades. Pretty sure it required you to download the full Mod tools package to use.

>>180406496
That looks pretty maneable to me, they aren't even looking at you.

>>180406496
nigger why don't you have las weapons?

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLOkk-Lhdw
>psssh, nothing personnel commander

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>>180408420
>everything in that speech
WHO'S KID WROTE THIS

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>>180408420
It always feels wierd when someone talks like that. Like only twelve year olds and maybe some autistic weebs. Like what the actual fuck?

Is there a working mod that lets you use the debug camera with keyboard and mouse or a way to edit it in? For some reason the one I use stopped working when I got back into the game and I cant get my controller to work for some fucking reason.

>>180407827
ayys meet the same fate as demons

>>180409050
>>180409402
What if she's an autistic weeb. Collecting authentic katanahs and uploading water bottle cutting videos to Adventnet?

>>180409785
Doom weapons fucking when?

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>>180408420
This is exponentially worse than watching Borat and autistic rants, the cringe is real, especially since people will now associate this drivel with my favorite game franchise.

>>180409984
the sfm dudes have some maybe we could ask them

>>180409306
Maybe have Vhalen getting Viper King'd

>>180410101
>>180409402
>>180409050
She is an alien she is not used to our human norms. Maybe it sounds really cool and not autistic in her language, but sounds dumb in English.
Give her break.

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>>180411281
remove ayyy

>>180411136
Was thinking about Vahlen x Sectoid this time. Would do Commander x Vahlen but already got that with Annette.

Will strongly consider viper king though.

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>>180412125
:^)

I did not know we had drawfags of this caliber

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>>180411136

>>180409448
I can't read his facial expression, is this approval?

being autistic sucks

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>>180413556
This one always makes me smile.

>>180414019
More like being sure that no one gets to bring friends on his aircraft.

>>180412125
>Viper King is male
>Vipers infesting Vahlen's base were female, young, unusually patterned and not advent, they were using Vahlen's resistance weapons
>Viper King has inappropriate feelings for mama Vahlen
>Things happened, the King crowns his new Queen
>Vahlen birthed a new generation of free vipers before escaping
>Viper King continues to look for his Queen

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>>180412125
Sectoids are gross, would not bang

Ethereal master race forever

>>180414019
He's judging you to see if you're a big guy.

>>180414825
Actually an interesting idea. Might give that a try while sketching.

>>180414607
I'm not writing a fanfic, I'm drawing a picture. But still a nice idea.

>>180414825
>She can masturbate you with her mind

Does long war 2 have persistent timers or something? I installed a disable timers mod but I still have one. is the mod broke?

>>180415614
The mod probably changes a value that is overwritten/ignored by LW. The timers are fairly generous in LW2 from my experience, but I do play on commander.

>>180415916
I just dislike being forced into a timer. probably gonna wait till the mod works again, I think.

>>180416084
I'm fairly certain the values are ini editable.

>>180419410
Don't post watersports you degenerate.

>>180419410
I find myself disgusted aroused at the Xcom: EW Chryssalid animations

did I miss something earlier in the thread?

>>180420790
yeah jake came in and posted several development pictures of the expansion but deleted his posts and got any replies about it removed too

>>180415614
Long War 2 has built in timer modifications for those that don't want to wait for mod authors to update. (XComLW_Overhaul.ini) Lines 1037 - 1040 will have what you're looking for.

>>180420790
rule34

It's on pahael

how the fuck am i supposed to do exalt missions
i have to defend this area against 30 guys with a team of six

>>180423213
tons of explosives, remove all the cover from the area and take pot shots at the poor souls who have to stand there in the open
have your operative ready to disable their weapons if you need it
and focus on the heavies the moment they appear
and more explosives

IN THE NAME OF KANE

Double Tap or In The Zone?

>>180423782
We need more C&C-based mods.

Zone trooper armour for T3 gear etc.

>>180424598
Double tap is the popular choice, but I like ITZ

>>180424598
For vanilla, I take two snipers, one with double tap, one with ITZ

I am very hype for WotC

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Is it bad that I unironically like this guy? Maybe it's just the cool voice.

>>180425234
I prefer the psionic one, the Warlock. His head piece is cool and he has a neat voice.

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>>180424671
>>180424774
Thanks for the advice. I think Double Tap was the right call, considering he just 100-0'd a Cyberdisc in one turn.

>>180425690
Yeah, doubletap is better for when you need to take down hard targets. Also extremely helpful against sectopods, since you can disable shot and then regular shot in the same turn.

>>180424671
Double tap is basically always a good pick, because it can annihilate high health targets that you really want gone as fast as possible.

ITZ is more situational, but if the situation arises where it works, arguably more powerful.

Favorite part of War of the Chosen is the offically made ADVENT Mag snipers and shotguns

>>180425980
Honestly, there is a lot to like about it (mechanically)

But I am pretty hype for an actual primary weapon flamethrower (for ADVENT Purifiers) and accompanying animations.

So has 1.4 fixed long war 2 or is it still obtuse crap

Also what the fuck is a rainbow pod

>>180426789
Stealth is dead, so I consider LW2 more fixed than not.

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>>180426789
A rainbow pod is a pod composed of several advent sub classes. They each are color coded and thusly make a "rainbow."

Kinda like these guys getting shot.

>>180427153
I agree, I'm enjoying it a lot more now. I'm still playing on veteran to learn the strategy layer better but most of my issues with it are small gripes.

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>>180426789
>Also what the fuck is a rainbow pod

>>180423213
if you are struggling on vanilla xcom, then i suggest you get good
if you are playing lw, then bring 6-7 ccs assaults

>>180427330
>>180427625
tfw installed the mod that changed all of the alt coloured units back to black

>>180424663
GDI MANDO ARMOR WHEN, NOD ARMOR WHEN, BLACK HAND ARMOR WHEN.

>>180427921

Same, rainbow advent are disgusting.

>>180427625
Poor kid, but at least he will have the better Superhero, the Masked Skirmisher, to cheer for when Xcom reveals Advents lies.

Seriously though, got to get some Kamen Rider armor for my first Skirmisher. Fight Aliens WITH Aliens.

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GOOD GUYS COMING THROUGH

>>180429606
is there a mod for dead civ bodies to stay?

>>180429826
yours disappear? uh the only thing that i think may change it is this. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=697477093

>>180429606
Anyone complacent with the aliens rule is an enemy to the free state. Just because they are unarmed doesn't mean they aren't dangerous for Xcom's continued resistance.

I hope that the propoganda radio stuff talks about how many civies we kill though, it's funny how much the game keeps track of random stuff like that. Glad we know what it's for now.

>>180429826

They don't disappear though.

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>>180429959
this guy gets it

>>180427921
They're supposed to be visually distinct, not appealing.

I like knowing that orange guys and red guys are assholes with explosives.

>>180429959
A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of XCOM to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

>>180430327
>A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of XCOM to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
what?

>>180402275
>see the andromodon
>break los
>dump damage into it from overwatch
>if that doesn't kill it, whittle it down then blow up the shell that turn

Scared the shit outta me a tower mission in LW2, but I used a ranger's sawn off to kill the alien, then used an assaults stun gun to lower gaming defense and then took direct control. Aliens finished the kill-aid man off

>>180430445
1776 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN!

>>180430445
It's a paraphrasing of the second amendment to the US constitution. It guarantees the right of the people to own and use weapons in order to keep government tyranny in check.

That's what it means by "being necessary to the security of a free State."

>>180430497
>gaming defense

Bed time

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the idle suppression mod is pretty neat

>>180429956
>https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=697477093
ah i do have that mod installed.

>>180431287
does it eat up perfomance? and can i use it with spectrum green?

>>180431678
you should be able to ive only seen perf drops on the woods maps when lots of people are shooting

>>180431586
i use that also but the bodies stay so idk what to tell you

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THIS SOB IS FAKING IT

How's Spectrum Green?

>>180434237
fun, hard as hell, lotsa stuff to drown in with the proving grounds and research. interesting drop mechanics. but other than that, REALLY FUCKING HARD.

How do you incorporate Psi Soldiers into your team? Seems like the Psi facility would wanna be built sometime mid game. Do you just leave someone in there repeatedly and just slap them on your team later in the game?

>>180437347
Is this LW2 or vanilla? In vanilla it depends on the coil locations when I get them, and when I get them I use them or or just let them grind depending on which abilities they got. So there isn't a clear answer to the question, it all depends on how the game plays out

>>180437347
10th slot (Spark is 9th), Yes. I mainly use Psi soldiers to speed up the later missions in the game and to make the final mission a joke

>>180434237
>>180434308
ditto, i just made it past my first roadblock in the campaign (advent rolling out their advanced units) so far it has been very enjoyable figuring out the quirks of spectrum on my own

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>>180432760
My sides

>>180402016
play the fucking tutorial

>>180408420
I like this more and more. I hope she has more coldsteel-tier speeches in the game.

It hits the exact amount of unironic camp for me to find it hilarious and endearing.

>>180402275
Murder them with a high leveled sniper with Double Tap/Serial.

Also fun fact killing it the first time with Serial will refund actions, so you can kill it again a second time.

>>180437834
>>180437889
On Vanilla. I'm also not sure how I'd feel replacing a squad member with a psi soldier because I'm a little bitch who'd probably grow too attached with the current team I have by then

>>180426789
>>180427625
>>180427921
Why didn't they just give the special units' helmets stripes or some shit?

>Just finished liberating my first region after 5 months in LW2
>Finally have money for buildings and supplies while I do my research
>Now have 4 active havens up
>Finally feeling like my squads are strong enough to reliably survive
>mag weapons research done
>have lost 3 soldiers so far
Vigilo confido

Haven't played in a year. What mods should I pick up?

>>180444065
capnbubs cosmetics
better than ones made by jake

How do you deal with Faceless on Retaliations pre-Battle Scanner? It's so annoying to have one of them show up and get a free hit on a soldier and injures him for ages. Really messes with my early game

In LW1, can pods that have been revealed with battle scanner cause civ heart attacks after the scanner runs out?

>>180448224
also uhh will I lose the mission and country if all civilians die

>>180430158
>tfw I can't inspire the citizens to join my cause during a raid
>Have them pick up weapons off fallen advent and start attacking

EVAC WE NEED EMERGENCY EVAC

>>180446937
It's pretty insane how high quality Cap n Bubs mods are, Firaxis should hire him.

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havent played since january
should i try to get back into xcom 2 now or wait until the dlc comes out

>>180452997
Long War 2 is pretty good (now), but if you're not super enthused it might just be best to wait until the expansion comes out.

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Fucking finally got to Coilguns, maybe I can enjoy them for a whole month before the Doom Clock completes

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page 10

I know RPS is shit, which is why I think this article didn't get posted here, but there are a few questions they ask in this that get answers that I'm sure will interest people:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/20/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-preview/

Confirmation that the Chosen/Resistance group rivalry pairing is randomly selected at game start and a few more details on The Lost, mostly. Along with justifications for the design of the Chosen.

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>Archons can launch into Blazing Pinions on pod reveal

>>180458934
The proper etiquette is to use an Archive link
Here I've done it for you http://archive.fo/GP00E

>>180459315
Can they do that when they activate on your turn?

>>180459315
I take it this is some special rule for linking to RPS?

Because I have never seen anyone use the archive link when linking to other news sites.

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>>180458934

I didn't want to get excited, i didn't want to get hyped and think of nothing but the expansion, but it's beginning to happen, slowly and surely the hype is overtaking me.

>“It makes it warmer. You want to feel like there are other characters either with or without you. I always felt the Geoscape is really cold. Nobody is really commenting on the things you’re doing. It doesn’t feel as epic as, say, a Civ. There’s a very different feel and it’s much warmer if there are other entities vying for control.”

>The biggest change is the introduction of The Chosen, three alien heroes, and the resistance factions that oppose them. At the beginning of each campaign, the factions and Chosen are matched up randomly, and if you want to seize the weapons of a defeated Chosen or gain influence over the faction facing off against it, that’ll take you on a detour from the traditional path to victory.

>“To create enemies with personalities feels counter to XCOM at first, but the way they operate is still very procedural. They have a schedule determining when they’ll appear in the game, but once they enter play, they’ll start appearing on missions, will teleport in, and they’ll have these map powers that change things before you even engage them. And then they get new traits and abilities as they go.

“The expansion runs through the entire campaign [rather than being end-game content], but people will play it different ways. It’s interesting because The Chosen get trickier to deal with throughout the campaign, but some of our systems don’t come online until later – because you have to win over the resistance to access some of their functions – so taking down the Chosen should be mid- to late-game. But taking them down doesn’t just remove them from the strategic layer, it also gives you their weapons, which are very powerful. So some players just go to take them down right away. They see that as an immediate, high profile objective. And that’s not how I envisaged it but it shows the flexibility of the system.”

>“We wanted to give them a look that wasn’t like the authoritarian military we’ve already done, or like the crazy aliens from the original. These needed to have distinct personalities, to be tall and imposing. They’re what the Ethereals would view as the perfect beings. And armour-wise, we did want it to be ornate because conceptually they should look like field commanders. We were drawn to medieval armour sets. The assassin has an Eastern flavour to her armour, but it’s hard not to make a guy with magic on his hands, like the Warlock, look like a fantasy character. It’s just going to happen.”

>“In the old cities you’ll always have the Lost. You know they’re out there and you know they’re coming. They’re drawn to the sound of explosions, which make them come really quickly, but they’re always going to come eventually, explosions or not. Once you break concealment, they’re on their way.”

>“They have a headshot mechanic. If you hit them and take them out, that shot is free, so you’re trying to take down lots at the same time, chaining kills together. When one of your soldier’s misses, that’s a real problem, because you just lost out on a whole chain of kills. So it becomes all about target selection, and that works the same for the Advent who are fending them off. It’s an ammunition game and almost like a puzzle of chaining together as many shots as possible. And you could have The Chosen present on those maps as well so there’s more potential for chaos. In some cases it gets back to the original original XCOM. That game had higher highs but lower lows, I think.”

>Covert actions will make the Lost even more of a horrifying threat.
>“In a covert action you might have sent people into a city and they could get ambushed. So then you have two soldiers now trapped in an abandoned city, trying to escape, and that is when The Lost get scary because you cannot take them on. And Advent are hunting you as well.” A new flavour of terror mission in all but name.

>There’s another kind of terror I feel I should mention though. Terror From The Deep. I’d thought it might be the XCOM 2 expansion as soon as I heard an announcement was due, particularly given the tease at the end of XCOM 2’s campaign, but I’m glad to have something completely new instead. As I put it to Solomon, if it’s going to happen at all, Terror From the Deep feels like “what happens next rather than what happens alongside the XCOM 2 campaign”.

>“That’s exactly right. I remember talking to our narrative guys and I was saying “let’s have it end on a little water tease”, which is why the final mission of XCOM 2 takes place where it does. And they were saying, “Do you not know what this implies?” And of course I do! That’s the whole point. But maybe that’s our one reference to that. Maybe.”

tl;dr nothing new here, don't bother

>>180459373
I think that can only happen when the pod is on yellow alert.

>>180459406
It's etiquette for linking to pretty much any click farm, but you mostly see it on /pol/; /vg/ rarely has reason to link to news sites

>>180459781
>“In a covert action you might have sent people into a city and they could get ambushed. So then you have two soldiers now trapped in an abandoned city, trying to escape, and that is when The Lost get scary because you cannot take them on. And Advent are hunting you as well.” A new flavour of terror mission in all but name.

J-Jake?

>>180460486
Got too much class to be a /pol/ack, so yeah, explains why I've never seen anyone bother in the /vg/ gens I haunt

>>180459406
It deprives clicks, referrals and ad revenue from clickbait and yellow journalism.

Mostly used when linking to trash like Huffington post, vox, etc. Sometimes hyper partisan mainstream sources too. It's a shame the New York Times is no longer a great newspaper.

Anyone else encountered the extremely useful glitch (in LW2 at least) where having a shinobi reveal itself after rescuing prisoners resets their movement for a turn?

So, what music do anons like to listen to whilst playing XCOM 2?

If I do throw on other music over it it tends to be synthwave, especially Perturbator's last two albums (Dangerous Days and Uncanny Valley) because they've got dark dystopian/cyberpunk themes which make them a pretty damn good fit, in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2UKhmH03uc

Never played Shen's Last Gift. I heard the Spark things were shit, that true?

>>180463469
Yeah, mods fix it though, and Jake is fixing it alongside the expansion - boosting their stats, allowing their primary weapon to be modded, etc.

>>180463469
They're okay, I think they just lack the impact that MECs did. Might as well bring a heavy instead

>>180463638
>>180463759
Does the questline have to be activated manually in the Geoscape like Alien Hunters? Does it interfere with normal missions like Alien Hunters or is it isolated missions like the Psi chick in EW?

>>180463391
I like to exploit revival protocol in conjunction with disorientation

>>180463469
The only time I used a spark was during the Crashed Avenger event. I lined by troops up on the ramp and sent the Spark out to solo the beacon. It managed to pull it off and make it back alive.

>>180463905
Its an isolated mission like the DLC from XCOM EU.

If you deselect it whilst starting a new game you're instead able to research and build SPARKs from the off.

The DLC mission is actually worth doing at least once (Do it with at least mag and predator armour tho) because some of the dialogue is amusing.

>>180464019
Do you get based Julian even if you disable the mission?

>>180464237
Yeah, since he's just a voice pack. What I'm not sure is whether you get the dialogue that plays between him and Shen when you first give a SPARK that voice pack.

>>180464351
You don't get the "you reprogrammed me!" dialogue without doing the mission.

>>180464496
I figured you wouldn't, but since I tend to do SLG (and in runs where I don't I haven't actually used Julian's voice) I wasn't sure.

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>like mixing and matching troops for each mission
>between LW2 officer squad bonuses, and WotC bonding the game will be punishing me for not taking the same squad every time

>Fighting Julian on the roof
>Reposition some troops behind him
>Stumble into the Viper King
>Clusterfuck ensues

>>180463394
I usually listen to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Of7XR82AfI

>>180465282
>Rulers on Shen's mission
Huh?

>>180465215
>he doesn't know that jake is adding a fatigue system that gives soldiers darkest dungeon quirks

>>180465382
Yeah, XCOM 2's soundtrack actually has some really good pieces, I'm in that minority who really like it.

But if I'm going through an epic session of the game I like to switch it up now and then by listening to something else. I did the same for XCOM EU/EW too

>>180465282
That can happen?

>>180465215
>>180465768
As this anon said, they're adding a fatigue system that decreases the Will of soldiers for every consecutive mission you send them on, and eventually gives them quirks a la Darkest Dungeon.

One example of a quirk is "Compulsive Reloader", where the trooper might use their second move slot to reload (out of your control) if their mag isn't full.

>>180465282
I have never had that happen, and I use AH all the time.

Sounds like a fucky mod interaction, but also FUN.

>>180465768
>>180466032
None of that changes everything. You take a squad, it gets fatigues, you take another squad, it gets fatigued. You're given the exact same intensive to keep everyone in the same squad.

>>180466391
Not everyone has the same will stat though, so someone will flag out earlier than others, giving you incentive to rotate in others whilst keeping the majority of your A-team in service. And vice versa, since that means not everyone will recover equally.

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>>180467469

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>>180467681

>>180467767
>writing XCOM Mod on the fucking armor
Is this fucking for real?

>>180458934
Guys, I just thought of something. Killing a lost means it refunds an action, right? So doesn't that mean that the Ranger, who can infinitely sword slice, is going to be a beast at killing these things? Guns run out of ammo, Ranger with Bladestorm and implacable just rushes into the fray slicing his way to victory.

Is this the Ranger sword buff that everyone wanted? Swords are finally useful for certain missions?

>>>/v/381448838

>>180467937
'fraid so. It's a shame, because it is a damn nice piece of armour otherwise.

>>180468002
>swords are only useful if you fuck up and attract a murder of Lost
wow

>>180470220
I don't think attracting them will be avoidable in most circumstances. Only through completing the mission before the countdown happens and we don't know how short or long that countdown is. It could be something like 4 turns after getting revealed.

Not to mention the shit that will happen in Covert missions.

>>180468002
killing a lost with a gun, probably, anon

>>180471267
Yeah, I was thinking that could be the case, hoped it wouldn't be though. Sword Rangers are already pretty useless. Though I expect that Bladestorm will see at least some use depending on how much HP these things have, probably not a lot if you are expected to kill them in one attack most of the time and your concern is ammunition and not damage.

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>run and gun up to 2 vipers and flank them
>trench gun them both
>Missed! 100%
Can someone explain this magnificence?

>>180473876
Arbitrary Punishment, it's a feature that simulates bad things happening at random. Just like in real life.

>>180402016
Could just fucking google that shit you massive tool

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>no discount on the DLCs

>>180473876
Perfect information doesn't show the to hit values of trench gun. Trench gun does not deal guaranteed damage, it takes a separate roll for each target. It's like taking a regular shot against everyone in the red target cone.

>>180475980

You're better off without DLC

I'm not even memeing, except for SPARKS (which suck too) they all make the game worse

>>180476208
They'll be good in WotC though

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>>180476208

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>>180475980
>

>>180461875
>gens

what? is that just you trying to fit in to the point where you're making up slang, or is that actually a phrase now?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=952539295

Someone fixed your avatars.

>>180406496
>>180407875

Dudes at the back of the line get out the side door. Grenades are thrown. Including over the fuselage of the transport.
> "Tell me you brought them this time..." - Captain Mal

Also does anyone in there have heavy weapons... autocannons or heavy cannons?
Maybe a Rocket Launcher perhaps?

This is what you use when you really gotta be sure that you dont want the alien to return fire. Bang, dude on the right is dead, end of story.

>>180476858
holy shit one change makes a huge difference

>>180407827
>>180409785
>>180409984

> mfw full auto doom plasma rifle, even retro, would be so badass in xcom.
> mfw the X-Piratez port of it was actually pretty damn awesome except for maintaining it.

>>180476858
That looks edgy and stupid, instead of just stupid.

So I've been playing for a bit in 1.4, and I feel like I should never take roust over fire in the hole even on a dedicated flamer.

>>180476710
only that one atm, can't get any of the individual ones on discount.

>>180478919
>that one
That's all of them. Are you that scared of Rulers or something, anon?

>>180479024

No I just don't like the overpowered meme weapons and armor.

>>180479163
Rules are fun to fight, if you don't like the equipment, don't use it?

(And really, only the frost bomb is OP)

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>>180476710
it's only 10 dollarydoos and some of the content is ok right?

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>>180467469

>>180479830
All of the content is good. Anarchy's Children is a hot mess, but you can make it work too.

>>180479785

Getting AH and not using any of the equipment is like getting SLG and then not using SPARKs. Almost defeats the purpose of getting the DLC.

>>180480231
The purpose of the dlc is ass-fucking you with new boss ayys.

My ever vigilant covering fire ranger just let a drone shoot someone, and a dude point blank with him walk away and shoot him all without reacting again. What the fuck is happening?

>try to get the meld
>activate 10 thin men and 4 floaters in the span of three turns

lucky I only lost two rookies. Fuck meld

>>180480382
If that tickles your fancy all the more power to you. I'm in it for the weapons and classes when looking for DLC

>>180480763
Jake is cute...

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>>180481080

>>180478859
Would fit right in with War of the Chokers

>>180427625
>my greenpost is still being used today

>>180449591
>>Have them pick up weapons off fallen advent and start attacking
Advent weapons are like Judge's lawbringers
If you aren't an Advent Soldier it will kill you if you try to use it

>>180484641
Last cutscene after you win certainly shows that's not true

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>>180467469

>>180484758
it's literally in the research description after you research Mag Rifles

>>180484758
They never show anyone firing one.

I wouldn't trust any alien weapons anyway. The plasma containment field is so brittle it can fail through normal wear.

>>180485130
>>180484968
Then again it could just be people forgetting those weapons shouldn't work with normal humans

Or the fact ADVENT network is kill just makes them fine for use

>>180476858
Great, now they just look like Cobra Commander.

>>180485309
Yeah, exactly, it's fixed.

Most probably going to finally get XCOM2, should I try vanilla first as usual or just jump into long war? How is LW2 different from 1, if it is?

>>180476858
Would marry.

>>180488491
vanilla first

LW2 has similarities and differences

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>In this new expansion your squadmates can "bond" with each other.

Viper insurgent wives soon?

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>>180489779
We have a new waifu!

>>180391750
No, just overrun with butthurt proddies.

>>180488491
Vanilla first. Always for 95% of games that have an important mod/series of mods.

>>180463394
On those swarming convoy missions I really love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2FWzJ_RiVI

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>>180473876
>not flanking the whole map
>not SWEEPING THE STREET

But yeah trench gun really can fuck you over

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>>180492138
SWEEP

>>180490453
>She will never abduct you and proceed to rape you.

>>180492543
Totally forgot to name my weapons!

>>180490453
>Viper
"Anon. ..it's cold tonight. . .can I have some of your body heat?"
>Nightmaiden
"Human filth, you are not worthy to own a bed"

>>180492920
I'm more down with the second.

>Set up overwatch trap for the final group on the map that are alert to my presence and have a shinobi watch the group move
>They stop moving 1 tile outside of my overwatch range and don't agro, refusing the move forward into the overwatch they can't see and should be completely unaware of

I swear things like this piss me off

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Whats your excuse for not playing THE pinnacle of XCOM modding?

>>180493358
Xpiratez is better

>>180493981
>>180493358
Both are bloated clusterfucks.

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>>180492920
Viper is truly best wife.

>>180492920
>XCOM wife
"In hot, let's shoot up some snakes!"

>>180494163
and Long War isn't?

>>180494721
>no sharktoothed vagina dentata
Dropped, not factually accurate

>>180494721
If you really fantasize about your grandmother that much... Then an Ethereal is still a better choice.

>>180494717
Didn't say anything about it. Whole idea of turning a casual game into some rng grindfest trying to make it 'hardcore' turned me off.

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What's in the Digital Deluxe?

>>180494518
>Beserker wife
"HUMAN. PREPARE FOR MATING."

>>180495191
Read the description and find out

>>180494196
>tfw no nervous snek gf to cuddle with

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>get shadowstrike on gunner
>underwhelmed
>uncover Phantom in T2 defense
This ain't no game.
https://youtu.be/ktVqsBgOvBI?t=49s

>>180495054
>rng grindfest
+10 defense for low cover does not make the game an rng grindfest

>>180497581
Where's the 1 DR for high cover? This is one of my favorite things about LW1.

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>>180497190
>She will never cook your favorite foods.

>>180497946
>xcom wins
>Vipers go through reeducation program so that they become domestic servants of all XCOM veterans

>>180498149
Best timeline.

Reminder that Beaglerush doesn't enjoy or play XCOM anymore.

>waifuing dirty fucking snakes
>not based bitch Vahlen
fuck is wrong with you people

>>180500045
>waifuing a corpse

>>180500045
But Vhalen is a snek too.

>>180500045
>>180500138
Your both just mad that Vahlen prefers giant viper cock of you lil humie dongs.

>>180500976
It isn't the fatness that she likes
it's the fact that he has two

>game automatically changes character in character pool to spark when you accidently press the class button but back out without picking anything

thanks jake

>>180498149
>Sexing inevitably happens
>Vipers give birth to more vipers but these ones think like humans but breed faster and thanks to Vahlen, male vipers as well
>Within a generation, half of humanity is made up of free vipers
>Everyone is okay wit this
>Especially the Etherials who learned fetishes from humanity and just sit around their ruined ocean base rubbing them out to viper news reporters and human-viper domestic comedies.

>>180499940
neither do i like my job, but i get paid for it so i fucking do it; unless i'm late by almost an hour every time on top of regulary just flat out refuse to show up at all, without any explanation: then i would be fucking fired.

So Beags can just suck it up and bless all his stars that his no.1 concern regarding his job is that he is bored with the game he otherwise loved to death.

Also, he can just do openxcom till guerillawars or whatshit he's hyped about to spice things up.

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I can't handle this much NUCLEAR stuff...

Redpill me on the court wizard, why is he such a faggot

>Beags calling out xcg live

Get rekt

>>180505428
what did he say

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>>180505490

That we mad about sub callings and stuff.

>>180504423
>Cute viper daughters will never hug you when you come home from work.

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>>180505725

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Local wizard just LOST it.

>>180505712
tell him he smells

>>180497764
>liking DR

https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/04/the-deanbeat-im-surrendering-to-the-aliens-in-xcom-2-its-too-hard/

>>180506110
>liking RNG

>>180467767
I don't recognize that armor. LW2?

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>>180506770
>there are people who are this casual
holy fuck I am laughing so hard.

>>180507097
Not him, but the arms are warden, I think the helmet is black ops, or halo. Not sure about the torso.

>>180506770
>>180507123

>he went crying to Sid Meier
>Sid told him to git gud

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>>180506770
>We’re seeing a new obsession with “permadeath” and high difficulty in games such as Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Necropolis.
>We’re seeing a new obsession with “permadeath” and high difficulty
>new
>“permadeath” and high difficulty

>>180506871
>thinking xcom can exist without rng

>>180508336
CUTE!
UTE!
TE!
E!
!

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>this happens
>only able to save 2 civilians out of 5
Magnificent.

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Is it me or is XCOM 2 REALLY stingy with being able to find new recruits? In EU you could buy them for like $10 a pop, but black market aint selling shit, resistance HQ aint selling shit. I fuck up a little bit and now my missions are starting to be understaffed. Which leads to more injuries which leads to more understaffing etc etc.

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The Doorn is about to have ALL the fun.

>>180510823
go get your supplies they also supply rookies

>>180510823
You should get a fair number of them for free near the start of the game from rumour scan sites. And you can buy them for 25 freedombux each through the barracks, which isn't terrible unless you've lost dozens and need a fill a whole squad early on.

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>>180510823
I made the same mistake at first. You can instantly recruit them for $10.
>>180511052
That would be pretty cool.

>>180511052
I have been. Guess I just haven't been lucky.

>>180511139
>You should get a fair number of them for free near the start of the game from rumour scan sites

I haven't had a single one yet. I had like maybe 3 or 4 extra rookies by default.

>>180511140
FUCK ME, I wish I knew this earlier.

Thanks anon.

Well /xcg/ ? Do you agree with this Christian review?

https://www.christcenteredgamer.com/index.php/reviews/pc-mac/6158-xcom-2-pc

>>180511410
Yes. Their reviews are better than kotaku and other shit. I remember when those meme lords came to /v/ after someone posted their SMT review, which they actually gave a high game score, but a low morality score.
I still don't understand the desire, but they do the task well.

>>180511410
>Weak Points: Lagging frame rate sometimes the enemies are glitchy at times but that's excusable

Yes

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This is so cool. I wish they could expand on this more without stepping on SPARK's toes.

>>180507097
>>180507289
I am him, the helmet is Black Ops, I think, and the torso is from WA'sCustomGear.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=653902466&searchtext=WA

>>180495527
there's no description that I can see

>>180511410
Good taste, overall, although I find the morality rating strange. Is this website geared towards christian parents or a general audience? One would think a Christian young adult/adult would be able to realize that the violence/supernatural undertones aren't real and aren't pushing an agenda, so what's the problem? Are Christians really offended by virtual violence or magic space aliens?

>>180513248
I think they're an elaborate prank. Making a reasoning that uses outdated religious writs and concepts to award points is baically a mental exercice. It's fun in the same way math is, except you still get to play video games.

The Doorn is BACK

RAPID
REACTION
FRIENDLY

ALIENS ARE GONNA FREAK

tfw you've got nearly 400 hours in the game and haven't even beaten the campaign yet,
let alone get to any of the dlc

>>180504423
DELETE THIS

What are you guys getting off the steam sale?

Does XCOM 2 get lower than 67% in sales? Also does Digital Deluxe include all dlcs(except for exp pack of course)

>>180520320
I've never seen it less than 29.99

and digital deluxe does include the DLC but in its current state the dlc is kinda meh

>>180519392
Mostly just games I've been waiting to go on sale for a while:
Steel Armor Blaze of War
Gary Grigsby's War in the East
Distant Worlds
I might get some multiplayer games if my friends will be getting them as well.

>>180520320
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/xcomii/history/

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>>180414825
>>Ethereal master race forever

Still not purple enough.

They just don't stop coming...

>when you accidentally walk your grenadier into 2 advent troopers but they decide to mark and overwatch for some reason
is there something specific about elevation changes that makes the AI retarded no matter what difficulty/mod?

>>180523275

The AI does all sorts of silly things.

Is it me or do the highways in X2 end up becoming deathtraps instead of high ground ayy murder zones. Everytime I use them ayys just scurry out of vision or one straggler just climbs up and backstabs one of my soldiers

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>>180523275
The AI has an element of unpredictability, it works great 90% of the time.

The other 10% you get this.

>>180524161
The big issue I run into with highway overpasses is LOS. The ayys love to cheat and see a glimpse of my soldier's hairline and become active.

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Ayyyy