XCOM General - /xcg/

fists are useful

pistols are useful

swords are useless

swords are very useless

I'm useful

>>180662238

Alright, I bought it

Take Jew are trying to avoid putting anything on sale it seems. Both X2 and Civ6 DLC are full price still. Civ 6 has been discounted from £50 to £30 (most new games are 30-40...).

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fuck

Snipers are useful.

>>180662954
>(most new games are 30-40...).
what world are you living in?

>>180662954
>X2 dlcs
>full price
50% discount isn't full price, dummy.

>>180663035

>£

Britain m8. The only games I see for £50 are the new FIFA and other shit you find in supermarkets. GTA 5 was £40 on PS3, PS4 and I think £30 on PC. That was 2-5 years ago though...

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>>180663012

>activates shields

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Oh man, I just barely got her.

>>180662115
I really like alien hunters but I do play long war 2 where they are pretty weak.

>>180663146

I had alright bought shen's last gift

/xcg/ will soon play /rsg/ in the RO16 of the VGL 8

Streamlink here:
https://pastebin.com/yH1jeMgL

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>>180662926

LIES

>>180663301
>not buying all of Jake's stuff

Is it worth using a Ranger as a melee-oriented until, or just stick to their Shotgun?

>>180663504
For vanilla, stick to the shotgun.

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>>180662907

See you in a couple of months.

>This game will unlock in approximately 2 months

kill me

>>180663564
That's not a sword - that's psi.

>>180663303
Home field, home ball, we got this

>>180663537
How about in 2?

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>>180663634

Close enough.

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>>180663634

Looks like a sword to me


Looks like a psionic, too, though...

>>180663961
They really improved on the aesthetic in this dlc.
From what i have seen so far of the faction soldiers, I'll say I'm pleased.
I think they look alot better than the standard warden armor.

>>180663961

That's a neat new gun that dude has. Also look at those funky trees in the background, new tileset or whatever it's called.

>>180664208

Looks like Jake listens, a lot of the mechanics and improvements on the expansion sounds like better versions of numerous mods in the workshop.

>>180663862
You mean LW2? Yeah, swords on Shinobi are good.

>>180664324
>new tileset
I think that's just the place where you're supposed to meet your first Gatekeeper.

Goal Baby

>>180664324
Yeah It's nice to see some devs who geniunely cares for their game and the people playing it.

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These missions are getting harder with all the dark events.

How do I consistently win countdown missions?

I feel like I'm always being forced into bad decision making because I basically have to just throw a rookie through barbed wire with yellow movement to shut of a computer or whatever.

>>180664801
>6 ayys
>3 corpses
This is not by the numbers.

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>>180662907
>>180662926
Someone has never had a 8+ reaper chain.

>>180664801
oh it can get worse

>>180665045
I keep putting shitty expandable squaddie shinobis as my haven leaders, and there were 3 faceless, and a stun lancer that just walked into me. The super faceless ruined me since he had 17 health, and I needed to give him a sacrifice just to kill him in 2 turns.

>>180664424
XCom 2.

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>>180665494

>>180664324
>>That's a neat new gun that dude has.

Yep. It looks really useful too.

>>180663303
Good job commander

>>180662943
less Just kidding Anon, you are all right

>>180665692
>"Well, fuck."
Pretty accurate.

>>180665692

is this vanilla or lw2

>>180666614
Neither I think

>>180666676
thank fuck

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With this win /xcg/ will move on to the final day for the third time in a row. Lets hope the team learned from the last 2 times and hopefully win the whole thing

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>>180666728

>>180666728
rooting for you

>>180666728

Who else is in it?

>>180665692
Are those effects removed if you find the ADVENT location causing it and destroy it?

>>180662304
>Piratez mod for OpenXCom:
>>http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3626.0.html
What is this. I've played a lot of OpenXcom.
Is this a total conversion mod that turns the game into pirates? The link doesn't have much info, just a changelog and download link.
Can I xcom baby acting like a pirate lord?

>>180667467
it's a fetish mod

it's a really good fetish mod

>>180667216
https://implyingrigged.info/wiki//vg/_League_8#Knockout_Stage

>>180667820
>fetish mod
I'm disgusted
Tell me more

>>180667854


>/gsg/

I hope that happens, and /xcg/ wins

>>180667467
Pirate Ladies only need apply.

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>>180667467
>>180667915
Yeah It's a total conversion. Shoots the time forward to a post x-com defeat. You'll be spending your time as a Uber Mutant Female Pirates. It is pretty ridiculous, but fun. Certainly worth a shot, though I feel like it's issues have only grown since I last played it.
>fetish mod
It's meme and not. As in yes, plenty of weird stuff in it, but it's all side flavor stuff, the gameplay changes are huge and the world building is actually surprisingly good.

>>180667820
I really liked the conversion a while back, one of the first people playing it and posting it on the general, and posted my run through the final mission. But honestly, I feel like it is just way to bloated now. It does some very interesting things, but the mod author has been working like crazy to just add more more more into the mod and it's lost it's charm for me.

>>180667915
it's about your army of escapee 7 foot tall pirate amazons who go around kidnapping and enslaving people and shooting down ships for loot

well you won't be shooting down any ships for a while, it has an amazingly scaled strategic layer which gives you a shitty bus at the start and eventually scales to a pirate battleship

so you go from a bunch of losers in a mountain to World Pirates who assassinate Star Lords.

>>180668090
The things he does with the systems of OXCOM are amazing.

I'm not saying they're good, mind.
He'll probably focus on trimming it down a bit later.

>>180668090
>fetish mod
>meme

look mate when a great deal of your income is from capturing shota boys and training them and making respectable hostesses who've only sucked the occasional cock into full-on prostitutes, it's not a meme

>>180668286
>He'll probably focus on trimming it down a bit later.
Doubtful, though one can hope. desu, if I ever go back and play it, I'll probably just load up an older version. Simpler times when you just raided ships with your large but poorly equipped crew. Weather, the small crews, monster hunts, zombie ufos, bleh. It's all so tedious and decidedly not fun. Even the temple raid grind on my nerves.

>>180668449
I beat through it when prostitution income wasn't even a thing, so I still think of it that way.

>>180666728
>snaketits and ">99%chancetohit" are the highest scorers
amazing

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>fetish mod talk

There's this one for XCom 2. Weird that no one's made a female variant yet.

>>180669271
I'd protect their device, if you catch my drift

>>180669271
Go back to /v/.

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>>180669271
>one of them has my last name

>>180669482
its Johnson isnt it

>waste 50 intel on a facility lead
>its in the same region as one I already know

is this how it's supposed to work or did I get memed

>emp bombs ignore armor when dealing damage
>gremlin combat protocol doesn't

What did they mean by this

>>180670467
Facility leads let you instantly infiltrate facilities even without being connected to them.

>>180669482
Must be Nivans.

>>180670634
>>gremlin combat protocol doesn't
>
>What did they mean by this
But it does? Combat protocol one shots drones and low hp turrets.

>>180670728

Oh, fuck. That's amazing, it's like 90 intel out of range and I got salty I wasted 50 on it when it was all I had. Didn't see it had an intel cost til after I clicked research.

is there any penalty to civilian collateral damage? These collaborator fucks deserve to die desu

>>180672526
>is there any penalty to civilian collateral damage?
No, The Commander be praised

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>>180672526
there is no pentalty

>>180670634
Are you okay, anon?

>>180672618
>>180672610

Glad I'm not the only one who goes full school shooter then

how the fuck do you do vip extraction missions? What's the trick? I got one really early on and I could only get the VIP to the extraction zone and all the operatives were captured
I've got another one now and it's fucking nuts. I don't even have magnetic weapons yet and there are 3 mechs, 2 sectoids and 2 officers. I have 12 turns to get across the map and I don't start in concealment. Is it better to just ignore them for a while? Also not being able to just emergency evac without the VIP makes it even more difficult.

>>180672932
You need a conceal ranger so that you can yellow move as often as possible. Besides that full damage spec everyone (including your specialist) and murder fast.

>>180667820
I really wouldn't dismiss it like that. Sure it's got some exploitation film flavor, but it's a really good total conversion with a lot of good fairly well balanced options at most stages of the campaign.

I would say it is hands down better than the original campaign, and the best X(-)COM game out there.

I haven't played since .99C though.

The thing I have the most problem with is that he now limits you to two branches of psionics, and the campaign is so long it means you're probably only going to see half of that content. I get that it's for balance and stuff, but that annoys me - couldn't that be balanced another way?

>>180673104
I can't murder fast enough. I get out flanked and bogged down and I miss the evac counter and everyone is left behind. Do I just need to send a squad that is designed for move fast/kill fast? I also have exactly zero rangers at the moment. What do you mean by "conceal ranger"?

>Can't shoot ay lama who appears to be clearly in LOS
>Okay I'll be safe from them
>Get shot out of darkness and die
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>Panic cascade
>Snake cheese two soldiers to death because
>Commadah, pull outta dat MISSION
>NO FCUKING GODNADK MLADKMJGF
>Manage to steal canister with one guy remaining

Do I just pull out after losing two soldiers?

>>180673545
>I also have exactly zero rangers at the moment
This is a big problem anon. They are the move fast, kill fast class
>What do you mean by "conceal ranger"?
Rangers get an early skill that's lets them start every mission in concealment, and if your squad is already in concealment, they won't break concealment when the rest of the squad does.

How is the combat in the LW mod for XCOm2?

I found XCOM 1 LW to slow down the game way to much. It became all about minimizing the chance of alerting squads and OVERWATCH OEVER WATCH OVERWATCH, because the enemies had ludicrous health pools.

>>180674102
Yeah I had one starting off but lost him quick (first time in xcom2) I'll remember that they are important.
What if the mission starts with everyone revealed? To rangers with that skill remain concealed anyway?

How difficult is it to port weapons/armor models to xcom 2?

>>180674442
LW2 is about avoiding combat

>>180674456
>What if the mission starts with everyone revealed? To rangers with that skill remain concealed anyway?
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

>>180674791
Not anymore.

>>180675041
Also, I'm not very far into the game and the avatar program is already just short of halfway. I haven't done the blacksite mission yet either due to not having great soldiers. If I had played smarter and done the mission earlier would that have prevented that? Or is there random mission to reduce it? Cause I feel like a campaign loss is gonna happen soon.

>>180674442
It's hectic at times, but imagine the base game with more ayy subtypes and some advent who mirror xcom soldiers in role. Also more weapon tech levels and equipment.

Worth a try but just like the original long war it's not for everyone.

>>180675373

Not him but I couldn't stand having so many soldiers in LW1, is it the same here?

>>180675443
Yes, there are more soldiers than the base game. My roster is composed of at least 48 men.

>>180675294
When the bar fills all the way up, you get about a month countdown timer to knock down progress. You are doing just fine in terms of the bar, as long as you always have a way to knock it back at least one.

>>180675520

Ah, never mind then.

>>180675639
One caveat however, about a third of those are haven liaisons, psions, and "backups." I only really deploy about 28 of them.

>>180675868

How many soldiers per mission, though? It was the starting with 6 and upgrading for more that I hated. It became tedious to micromanage all the fatigue and rotating soldiers in and out, too.

What do I need to research to upgrade my Sparks armor? They're stuck in basic armor when I'm almost moving my troops up to T3 armors, really cutting their few uses down. (Being tasty tank-shields for the units that I need to not be injured.)

>>180676014
Majority of mission are only 4-6 soldiers. The bigger missions will have the large squads, but those are rarer.

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>>180676571

>>180676014
In LW2 early game you deploy 4-6 soldiers per mission a lot of the time. Mid to late game 6-8, occasionally ten and rarely 12.

Fatigue is replaced with infiltration, there's a sliding scale of enemy activity (pod/ayy numbers) and the more you infiltrate, the less enemies there are. But after 100% infiltration there are diminishing returns, so often there's little point in going past 100. Each additional soldier increases infiltration time, but this can be mitigated by equipment or cumulative officer bonuses.

If for some reason you needed to get someone back for an important mission, you can abort the infiltration and the only thing it costs you is time until the mission expires.

>>180676697
Huh, thanks. That's kinda shit that I need battle armor though, battle armor's nice, but wasn't worth the time expenditure for most of my campaign thus far.

>>180676014
No fatigue in Long War 2 - instead most missions require you to infiltrate a squad ahead of time (although they only get a set amount of time to infiltrate in) and the % infiltration that they get to dictates how hard things will be you.

You'll probably average at about 3 - 4 active squads at a time, depending on progress into the game.

I am not actually sure how the infiltration mechanic is going to play well with the fact that War of the Chosen is introducing its own fatigue mechanic, though

>>180677048
Your soldiers become fatigued as they're on infiltration, and they roll for magnificent negative traits at the start of every battle.

>>180676859
I should note that there's a squad mechanic that does cut down on the micro if you often deploy the same soldiers with each other. Helps a lot when you just want to stick with your A team for a given mission.

>99% to hit in melee
>counterattack
>9 damage

fuck mutons

fuck this shit mechanic

fuck the sword meme

>>180677686
colon caret right parenthesis

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>>180677686

>not luring Mutons to attack you in melee so you counterattack them first

>>180677686
Maybe try using your shotgun next time then.

>>180677808
Hot new meme content?

I'm okay with this

>>180677686
Swords aren't really a meme, but definitely don't melee mutons

>>180677808
I wish combatives parried counterattacks too.

>>180677380
>Darkest Dungeon on overdrive

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why does it feel so nice to have my soldiers look like a bunch of idiots? tactical/military style feels so boring.

>>180678931
Couldn't get into DD. Felt like I was just shoving bodies into an RNG murder monster until I clogged it.

To treadmilly.

>>180678946
>why does it feel so nice to have my soldiers look like a bunch of idiots?
Because you fit right in anon

>>180678946

>be immensely advanced intergalactic society
>invade planet of backwater primitives
>get blown the fuck out by a group of """""soldiers""""" dressed in their kid's goofy clothes
>twice

>>180679051
I love it for its atmosphere and Wayne June's sexy sexy voice.

But gameplay wise, yeah, its a chore that doesn't really feel like it has much of a pay off. They try too hard with "lets make achieving anything like having the player sandpaper their own balls" and so you don't end up having all that much fun.

>>180678946
XCOM rookie are potato throwing savant and are pretty retarded in all other aspects.

Need me to go three feet that way?

Leaps off of building, burst through window, runs along outside of building against enemy fire, climbs ladder, the cover is no longer there due to all the over-watch that was attracted. Survive.

Sargent gets domed from a shot in the dark through three stories of concrete by a rank and file grunt.

Such is XCOM.

>>180679389
At least now you can dictate their paths.

I'm really happy with xcom 2, it's like a perfect sequel.

>>180679251
I couldn't really get attached to my characters, I stopped caring when they died.

With XCOm you have a lot of chioce and chance to size up a fight.

With DD it's just move forward and get chewed upon by literally fucking everything. You wanna open a box *A CURSE HAS TURNED YOU DIABETIC*

Too grindy, I felt like you could wire the game to a gas pedal and play it like pushing through traffic. Not for me I guess.

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>>180679389
That's XCOM baby

>>180679721

>tfw you get attached to your soldiers in Xcom
>tfw your Colonel who has been with you since gatecrasher has to stay behind for the greater good and you have to watch him get blown to bits by Sectopods

>>180679721
Honestly using the Curio guide makes the game 100% more fun to play. Guess that means that curios aren't good design, but whatever.

>>180678946
I like a nice mix. Tacticool operator style for the 'professional' soldiers and leftovers from the first XCOM project, and crazy mad max for the more recent civilian recruits.

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>>180679194
REEEEEEEEEEEE

>>180679885
He'll be remembered like The Lieutenant from Starship Troopers.
btw Starship Troopers is the most XCOM-esque thing I've ever read

Why is Xcom 2 so hard? you basically have to kill all hostiles on the turn that you meet them because if you don't, they will one-shot you. There is no opportunity for extended firefights because the game is basically "eliminate the pod before they can fight back or you are fucked."

>>180680173
Why is Xcom 1 so hard? you basically have to kill all hostiles on the turn that you meet them because if you don't, they will one-shot you. There is no opportunity for extended firefights because the game is basically "eliminate the pod before they can fight back or you are fucked."

>>180680250
Why is XCOM: UFO Defense so hard? you basically have to kill all hostiles on the turn that you meet them because if you don't, they will one-shot you. There is no opportunity for extended firefights because the game is basically "eliminate the pod before they can fight back or you are fucked."

>>180680173
F L A S H B A N G S
(And suppression)

>>180680250
Is this a motherfucking jojo reference?

>>180680518
>>180680150
>99% chance to hit

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>>180680440

>>180680609
The one time I don't double-check the post number, fuck.

>>180680440
Why is Laser Squad so hard? you basically have to kill all hostiles on the turn that you meet them because if you don't, they will one-shot you. There is no opportunity for extended firefights because the game is basically "eliminate the pod before they can fight back or you are fucked."

>>180680830
That's XCOM, baby!

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>I was ready to end the game in December and it took me until March to find a codex to skulljack. In that time I killed about 15 gatekeepers and sectopods

>I ended up starting the doom timer twice and killing three facilities total in the campaign. Two of those were probably only needed because I was trying to get a codex to skull jack.

>doing all these extra missions just to try to find a codex

>Also lost my last campaign due in part to lack of Codex

>23 days until Doom, I hit the blacksite which cut three pips. From then on I did 2 supply raids and one UFO defence and every damn mission I could (all on Intel) but not one fucking Codex

Other than skulljacking an officer to spawn the codex, ive only seen ONE codex and it's December for me. I saw one during the PSI Gate mission, but I had 16+ things activated so sprinting to skulljack, activating more, and fighting 20+ & an Avatar didn't happen.

Wat do?

>>180681284
I'm pretty sure they spawn on every single mission for as long as you have the objective active.

>>180681480
reeeeee not in lw2 1.4

>>180681668
>>180681284
They're going to fix the spawnrates in the next patch.

>>180681668
>it's a Lumps breaks the game episode

anyone wiling to gift me XCOM for my bday?

>>180682171
get a job

>>180681284
This is why I tend to rush the skulljack missions ASAP so that I don't have to rely on RNG for officer/codex to spawn to advance Golden Path.

Although I did manage to skulljack codex on the Psigate mission on my last campaign. Did it by disabling the fuck out of it with flashbang/sting grenades while dealing with the rest of the enemies first.

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I just bought the digital deluxe version of this game, played 3 hours and did a TON of character customization. I even made fully fledged out Bio's for certain soldiers. I save & quit the game and come back only to find that everything I did was undone, even on the backup save file, everything was reverted back to the way it originally was, the cosmetic changes, the biography's..all gone. I'm playing on the steam version. Can anyone help me with this? How do I fix this?

(I made a thread on /v/ awhile ago and it 404'd with zero responses, pls respond)

>>180682325
Wait, your character pool had blanked out?

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>>180680632

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>>180682325
Thanks, Jake.

>>180682764
Didn't zoom out and show the destruction of a town, therefore not funny.

>Ironman
>"No returning to previous saves"
>Game is stuck mid turn, can't do anything in the mission
>Okay
>Restart game
>Load only save
>Game is still stuck

Well my first XCOM 2 campaign has failed I guess, the aliens invented a way to stop time.

Should I just never do Ironman due to this potential for glitch?

>>180682325
did you save and exit to main menu or save and exit to desktop?

I had this happen to me this morning actually when I saved and exited to main menu. I redid them and exited to desktop and they were saved the next time I booted up. Can't confirm if this is the cause though.

>>180683064
>Ironman
That's what menes and lack of self control gets you.

>>180683064
two better options:

honestman (make saves as you play but only reload a previous save if you encounter a bug)

bronzeman (you can restart missions but not load previous saves, either self-enforced or theres a mod to do so)

>>180683064
>Should I just never do Ironman due to this potential for glitch?
Unless you are willing to put in the effort to make backups, not really.

>about to breach a small UFO
>people set up in position on the other side of a door
>sectoids waltz right through it into my dudes, activating them and causing the outsider to activate
>Outsider TAKES A FUCKING TURN AND SHOOTS MY FUCKING ROOKIE KILLING HIM AND CAUSING TWO OF MY SQUAD MEMBERS TO PANIC WHILE THE TWO SECTOIDS THAT ACTIVATED FLANK EVERYONE AND TWO MORE SECTOIDS PATROL INTO MY SQUAD AND ACTIVATE

WHY

IS THAT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN

HOW

THAT'S BULLSHIT

>>180684423
That's xcom baby

>>180684423
Le XCOM face BABEEEEEEE : ^ )

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>>180684527
>>180684830
Okay I got out of that without a scratch otherwise, but what makes me mad is that the outsider gets a free turn on me because it activated on the alien's turn. I used a motion tracker earlier, and while it didn't get the back of the UFO it did show me the front part, which only had a couple of sectoids I had dealt with earlier and the outsider, so it seems the sectoids just happened to patrol into me from the other side of the UFO or I set off that hunt mode bullshit with the two earlier sectoids.

I mean I got +20 meld so it's not like I played that mission at a loss in terms of money, but it still stings to lose a rookie for no good reason.

>the sectoids' faces when they patrol into me

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>>180685250
Also

>just realized the rookie had 15 mobility

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>>180684830
Want to know how I lost these soldiers?
Well, that's XCom, baby!

>>180665692
>Pack of 4 Avatars on most missions
Makes for a fun time

>>180677686
Flashbang them first, or use a 3rd tier sword

Is there another way in xcom2 to get more ammo outside of extended magazines?

>>180685250
What else do you do with rookies but lose them? Losing them is their only purpose. Be it at the hands of ayliens or when they level up and change class.

>>180686468
I don't think so. Why do you ask?

>>180686548

There was a foundry project in EU that did it, was hoping for a proving grounds equivalent. Thanks m8

>operation god hammer
>spark named mjolnir almost died

whew

>>180686529
That's 25 dollars and a specialist gone. You don't do anything with rookies, but you do do something with the specialist that comes after you level them up.

If this were OG XCOM I'd agree with you in the sentiment rookies are expendable and don't matter, but this is I/I EW LW and every loss hurts too much.

Anyone have LW2 victory screens/stats?

Curious how much longer it takes vs a normal game

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>>180682423
I started a new game and customized the first soldiers you're given after the first mission. I'm not talking about that other thing where you import soldiers and stuff.

>>180682764
???????????

>>180683173
I saved twice (Once on my main save file, the other on my backup save file). And I exited to the desktop.

Sorry for the late reply everyone, hope you're still here and willing to help me out /w this problem.

>>180687776
Someone posted theirs a thread or two back if you want to look for them.

Is there a good redneck voicepack for xcom 2?

FIX YOUR PREORDER JAKE

>>180688086
not sure if it's any solution on the user-end then. Guess we have to wait for Jake to fix his game.

One thing you could do is create all the characters you want in the character pool tab from the main menu and set the game to pull from character pool only before starting a new campaign.

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>>180678946
because you like having fun

should I delete the GTS after gettin all the tactics? I ain't too bothered about specific training.

>>180691665
I'm pretty sure you will lose all the tactics that the GTS gives if you do.

>>180691767

well, fuck. I don't wanna have to build another power plant ;_;

Who voices Julian? I recognize it but can't place the name, help me lads

Any decent class mods to go alongside the standard LW2 ones, lads?

Not looking for OP gamebreaking ones so much as I am interesting, balanced ones that fill interesting niches.

When would you use a spark over a regular soldier?

>shooting relay, 6-10 damage
>roll a 4
Why the FUCK can you graze a relay?

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strong pipe

>when you find some battlefield 3 weapon models + textures but you dont know how to mod and it would take so long to download the dev kit

if anyone that mods here is interested I found em off this guy's vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbNS8O3C6TA

>>180694076
Once they get buffed in the new expack. Or if you're playing LW2.

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>>180694220
That's ADVENT engineering for you. Has XCOM ever built pipes like these?

>>180694076


So you can hear Julian's remarks about your inadequate commanding skills, duh!

>>180663262
Hey, I know a Victoria Davis

>>180679194
*once

>>180696295

It was real to me you alien faggot

Got a pretty noobish question, but the items you make in the Proving Grounds like different ammo and things like Medipacks aren't "used up" forever after using them in a mission, correct? Making multiples of them is only for giving more than one trooper the same thing, right?

>>180694414
They have indeed, five by five.

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>mind control stun lancer
>stun an enemy with it
>it gets back up and fires back anyway

is it worth getting xcom 2 despite the complaints?

>>180697060
yea

>>180697060
The complains are generally from those who have not gotten gud.

>>180697060
Very much so. It's still a solid game with lots of options and ways to do the story and it looks great. My only major complaint is the game REALLY needs to be optimized, the framerates and loading times are all over the place.

>>180696631
Grenades and other logically consumable items aren't actually consumed.

>the avatar project is based on the doomsday clock
>12 blocks is midnight

Man I feel dumb sometimes for not noticing shit

How many people should I be sending on missions in LW2?

>>180698035
Nice, thanks. So I can take the Ice Grenades out and not have to worry about losing them unless the trooper gets killed?

>>180696631
Correct. However, if the soldier with it equipped is left behind (corpse or unconscious) the item is lost.

>>180698779

Even if they die, you can carry their corpse to the evac zone to get their gear back.

>different voice actor for bradford
this is not by the numbers

>>180698156
As few as you can per mission, and as many as you can overall.
Few as you can per mission to maximize the number of other people that can go on other missions.
As many as you can overall as in you want as many people in your barracks as possible without spreading yourself too thin on levels or gear, so you can run more missions.

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qt Cyclops girls in the expansion when

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>>180662304
>Air Game will return in the Expansion right? RIGHT?!

No.

And seriously, fuck off with this meme. Getting tired of you spamming the OP with this shit

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>Blacklist mission for the vial
>got everyone set up outside with Overwatches and one guy (whose turn is the last before the enemy turn) ready to grab and go
>get the vial and run outside
>ADVENT threesome show up in their flying taxi right next to my waiting troopers
>they split and run to cover triggering all the Overwatches
>EVERY SINGLE MOTHERFUCKING OVERWATCH SHOT MISSES DESPITE MY PEOPLE BEING CLOSE ENOUGH TO WHIP OUT THEIR DICKS AND SLAP THE ADVENT TROOPERS IN THE FACE WITH THEM
>fuck it and evac everyone out in my turn

Seriously, fuck this game in the ass sometimes.

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Capturing and "interrogating" the speaker in the expansion when

someone on reddit mentioned they're doing away with the AWC, is this confirmed? A dev responded to their post, but didn't mention that bit

>>180702731
Yes that is confirmed. It is being replaced by a similar building that gives even more perks/upgrade options for your troops.

>>180702832
Also a separate infirmary building.

>>180702998

I hope this comes with another row of space to build on

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>longbow missile range
I don't know what I expected. Why aren't there SPARK classes, and why isn't this an ability for a grenade launcher one.

>>180701178
that's xcom baby

Playing XCom 2, just made a W.A.R. Suit. Which class would be the best to have use it?

>>180704501
War suits are very flexible. They benefit from some of the grenadiers perks, but you can put them on any class and they will still be very useful. Basically anyone who doesn't need the extra inventory slot for something besides heavy weapons.

>>180703598
>why isn't this an ability for a grenade launcher one.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=924664152

Mag weapons or Pred armor first?

If I can build the alien ruler weapons like the bolt caster and frost bomb, that means I disabled the ruler mission right?

I've watched Beagle play a lot of X2, but haven't actually played for longer than a few missions yet. Should I just hop right into LW2 or Spectrum Green, stay with vanilla, or something else?

>>180705035
Mag

>>180705227
yes
>>180705035
mag weapons

>>180705440
Fuck, well only sunk in a hour before I noticed my mistake.

>>180705248
Stick with vanilla first.

>>180706041
Okay. Any QOL/tweak mods you suggest, or are they all in the OP?

>>180706167
Yeah the OP modlist actually has them broken into categories. Cosmetics and quality of life/fixes are the recommended mods for vanilla/every playthrough.

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Don't you love it when this happens?

>>180673105
I did say it was a really good fetish mod

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lets do a poll

>How many hours have you put into xcom (2 or ew)?

>Have you beaten vanilla I/I

>Have you beaten LW I/I

>>180708448
>EW 648 hrs
>X2 1003 hrs
EW/2 Impossible/Legend Ironmeme
LW brutal ironmeme

Never finished LW I/I, too grindy for me

>>180680250
>>180680440

This is actually not true. XCOM 2 pushes alpha strikes due to the timer mechanic. You can have protracted fire fights in 1 and the original.

Well, not the original, really, but certainly 1.

>>180694376
They aren't worth it in LW2 either.

>>180705506
>Tick alien rulers
>Can build alien ruler weapons

>Untick alien rulers
>Can build alien ruler weapon

What can cause this?

>>180710276
Did you untick it in your steam library or at game setup? The in-game checkbox only turns off the DLC mission, not the rulers.

>>180710612
At game setup.

I read that there can be crates in the missions you can loot for items. Are they in all missions or only in certain ones?

>>180710612
>>180710736
>Go though mods
>Unsubscribe to a few I've stopped using or are outdated
>Suddenly things work as intended

Well I don't quite know what the exact problem was, but it is fixed now.

Making a Pistol Sharpshooter, should I go with Return Fire or Long Watch as the first ability?

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>tfw putting the Guardsman voice pack on every rookie

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>>180711345

Well anon, which of those two perks involves using your pistol?

>>180711980
I know Return Fire uses his pistol, but I was thinking Long Watch might be better so he can pistol people from far away, unless it has a range limit. Never actually used the Sharpshooter's pistol before, always used the rifle.

>>180712131
...Long Watch is a rifle overwatch ability. Pistol overwatch is limited to sight range.

>>180711345
>>180711980
Actually return fire sucks dick. Long Watch is the better choice.

>>180711345
Return fire sucks. If you are competent at all it will never trigger for the entire campaign. Long watch provides a solid tool for activating scouted enemies outside vision range to run into the rest of your overwatched troops right on the edge of sight.

>>180713402
>>180713328
I just had my Return Fire Sharpshooter kill a Trooper who snuck up on him and missed, so it's not all bad.

>>180715972
It's astonishingly unlikely for it to actually hit, since it takes into account cover.

>>180716159
The Trooper was behind high cover two squares away and missed, Sharpshooter turned around and OHKO'd him, finishing the mission. It was delightful.

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>>180701173

'sup

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Oh god, i didn't even think about this.

Any particular reason that attacking a relay with Fleche doesn't provide the distance damage?

>>180718982
Magnificence.
Also they should make Objectives targetable with the Demolition Charge.

>>180718982
God hates you.

Post yfw you see an ayy absentmindedly walk though fire/acid/explosive container.

>>180718982
>attack relay with fleche
>it catches fire
>my shinobi starts to burn next round because I cant move him

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>>180721272

>>180716759
I bet you feel joy betting high in poker and getting a straight, too.

>>180717984
they've already got merc aesthetic though

>>180721726
>tfw you hit someone with a sword so hard that the walls explode

>>180723363
Kek, yeah exactly

>>180700996
Cyclops-Anon is back? We really are time travelling due to the expansion

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This is my favorite cheat

>>180717984
I think before you even consider that we need to see how the weapon classes of the hero units are treated - they may not upgrade in exactly the same way as XCOM's own stuff.

>>180725867
lootbox mod gets crazy when you edit it's config so the reusable weapon mods continent bonus actually pops up
a weapon with 4 different legendary tier bonuses is just magical

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Pistols are useful

Will war of the chawsen have new armour tier?

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Anyway to play on Borderless Window with XCOM 2 in Linux?

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>the Blacksite Evac Location doesn't update in Long War 2

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>tfw beags will never play Silent Storm
Seems like it would be right up his alley. I'm getting XCOM vibes from it. Just in WW2, with way better environment destruction.
>sniper fires at enemy SMG soldier
>misses
>shot keeps going
>shatters a window
>hits the officer who was standing in the building
>hits explosive barrels he was standing in front of
>no more building

>need to get into a building where Germans are holed up, shooting at allied troops in the front
>sneak behind the building
>door's locked, no lockpicks
>fuck the door, blow a hole in the wall right behind the Germans inside
>send in two guys with machine guns and order them to magdump on the Germans inside

>>180731146
Sounds kinda cool

Is it worth picking up

>>180731234
It's pretty fun so far but I feel like the tutorial missed a lot of important stuff. The environment destruction is the best part so far. I killed a sniper in the attic of a 3-story house by putting my whole squad in the ground floor and ordering them all to fire at the footsteps they could hear. Even if he had survived the floor would have eventually given out under him and he would have fallen through.

>>180731234
>there are people right now in this thread who haven't played Silent Storm
Jesus christ, nigger, get on it right now.

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>tfw weapon pack mod isnt out yet

>>180731234
It's like $2 on Steam right now. Pirate it if you have to. It's criminal how obscure that game is.

>>180732889
>When your gun is modded so much it blends into random crates and junk behind it.

Is Black "BD" "Pogue" "C.O.K" "95% lul" Dragon our guy?

>>180733578

what?

>>180733578
Who?

>>180733578
what did he mean by this

>>180733578
Are you having a stroke?

>>180733578

I am afraid I don't understand

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>>180733578

>>180731146
Just picked it up from GOG, it has two things in it though. Silent Storm and Silent Storm - Sentinels. What is the difference?

>>180735692
Sentinels is a sequel. In Silent Storm you're a military group funded by the government. Sentinels takes place just after the war and you're not a government group so you have to pay for ammo and recruits and stuff.

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>>180733578

Use english or i'll cut you

>>180736001
Is this the edgiest image of XCOM in existence?

Beagle vs joinrbs vs xwynns

Who is the best?

i want to FUCK an ayy

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>>180737350
:^)

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>>180737615
Leave

>>180731146
What are other XCOM-like games?

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>>180738461

>>180738461

Expeditions Conquistador is kinda like it I guess

>>180738461
Templar Battleforce
Though I don't approve of its insistance on clinging to a clunky narrative instead of letting a ludonarrative flourish

How do you deal with pods on yellow alert?

Is it possible to avoid the magnificence of getting shot through cover by a patrolling grunt?

>>180735692
Silent storm is great

Sentinels is fucking shit and a grindfest

Just got into the game
Are med kits worth it or should I go full offence?

>>180736978

Not Beagle, he doesn't have hair, he is annoying, and he takes forever to do anything.

Xwynns is ok but he takes his "job" as a LW2 beta tester too seriously so he only plays LW2 and complains about it like a cuck.

I haven't watched enough of Joinrbs to make a judgement, but by process of elimination i'll go with him.

>>180741673
Always bring two (because you're fucked if the guy with the only medkit gets killed), unless you're a dirty savescummer

>>180741673
Medkits aren't terribly useful in the early or late game, since either you'll die with one hit or you're so powerful you start facerolling everything. But in the midgame, once you're about equal with the aliens, having a dedicated medic character in your squad can be a lifesafer.

It's also very important to have one along for Retaliation missions, to cure Chryssalid poison.

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Is this safe to ignore?

>>180742114
You shouldnt be using the perk pack anyway, everything is bundled into long war, no?

>>180742334

I don't wanna try LW yet, haven't even finished the game. Just bored of vanilla and wanna spice things up for now.

>>180741074
The pods can't do shit if they don't have line of sight

>>180742413
Perk Pack by itself will completely break the game's difficulty, just so you know.

>>180742708

That's a shame. I'll give it a whirl and see how easy it is, if it's too easy I'll just get LW2. I'm not very good at this game yet.

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Does anyone know the formula for how hacking works? Everything I search for just comes up with people savescumming, and thinking seeds = broken game. I'm thinking about mining the pistol section for my specialist for redscreen rounds lightning hands with hacking PCS, max gremlin, and a skulljack so I can hack the planet.

>>180741074
You just get used to it. You play the entire game worrying about LoS, sound range, what cover is facing what direction, if this pod is isolated enough. The more scouting you have the better. You also need to use sound ques constantly. You can even do things like start a hack on a terminal, then cancel it so the enemies turn around to look at it, and you can hear them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL-j_iqNJ30

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SHUT THIS PARTY DOWN

>>180744615
That's a big guy

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Destroy All Humans ports when?

>>180745214
ye

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>>180745227
>X ports when
>inb4 when you learn to port it yourself followed by rude words

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>>180745227
>tfw waiting for Mushroom Kingdom DLC

Just got enemy unknown on steam. Good game but it feels pretty hard. Enemies kill my dudes in one or two hits

>>180745910
Since when did Nintendo want the XCOM audience?

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>>180746015
Since they let Ubisoft take the reigns on the next big game

>>180746015
When they announced that they were going to be more free with their licensing a few years ago.

>>180745945

So lower the difficulty?

>>180746610
I picked normal, easy is usually boring in most games. They have green thugs with grenades that just fuck my shit up, maybe I should do some grinding and go for the easier missions even if it means losing countries to panic

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>>180746015

Miyamoto told the Ubisoft guy, "I LET YOU HAVE MARIO, BUT YOU MUST MAKE GAME UNLIKE MARIO HAS EVER BEEN YOU DO NOW" and here we are.

>>180746774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK4VB5g7JXc

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I keep doing it. I keep feeding ADVENT more and more squaddie haven leaders. I think I need to use Lead By Example to make grinding missions to level them all up to sergeant.

/xcg/ will soon face /lolg/ on the final day of VGL8

Streamlink: https://pastebin.com/yH1jeMgL

>>180748393
good luck commander
I bet all my rigbucks on you

Remember, we'll be watching.

>>180748393
WE ARE LOSING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION!

>/xcg/ out once again

maybe next year

>">99%chancetohit" scores again
Is this real life?

>>180748393
For a moment I had hope again.

>>180750565
Obviously it's 99% chance to hit the Goalkeeper.

>/lolg/ immediately scores again
It was fun while it lasted.

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>>180750727
>99% misses the next shot

Does the Ranger's crit and hit+ ability bonus from attacking from cover also apply to the W.A.R. Suit's weapons? Because I want one of my Rangers to be dealing massive perfect-aim crits with flamethrowers, rocket launchers, etc.

>/xcg/ just keeps taking these low probability shots
BUT THAT'S XCOM BABY

>>180751026
Did we even deploy any MECs?

>>180750919
no, explosives only crit when you get the grenadier perk in the GTS that lets it happen for everyone.

So whats the main source of corpses and shit if most raids are smash and grabs now?

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>>180747321

>luigi has taken half cover

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>>180751914
literally only missions you don't evac from so here use this like everyone else
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=766512413&searchtext=extract
Also edit the fultons for more charges