XCOM General - /xcg/

pistols are useful

>>181074695
First for XCOM set up in the '60s as a force meant to keep the fabric of reality in check.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0V24IEHao

Posting information released after War of the Chosen's reveal. Reply to this post with more information and I will put it in the next thread.

>Chosen factions and soldier class information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLOkk-Lhdw - Inside Look - the Assassin
https://xcom.com/news/entries/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-the-assassin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVJg_KrLzBA - Inside Look - the Reaper
https://xcom.com/news/entries/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-the-reaper


>Other WotC stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLcPIWqK18 - 112 new things in XCOM: 2 War of the Chosen - 20 minutes long
https://www.gamespot.com/videos/xcom-2s-new-expansion-lets-you-control-aliens-e3-2/2300-6439474/ - Video interview with Jake Solomon on WotC - 30 minutes long
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/20/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-preview/ - War of the Chosen’s alien champions, lost cities and soldier bonds explained

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This seems really good.

I hate how AWC abilities are random and you can't predefine them for your soldiers though.

>>181074903
They are, but they shouldn't be.
>hurr durr let's make snipers irrelevant and make the most viable build be to just have them carry around a useless hunk of metal while they just use gun magic with their sidearm

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Hey guys, just picked up xcom 2 dx edition and was wondering what are the must have mods in terms of improving gameplay? Are there more mods that are similar to raja's stop wasting my time mod?
Looking to keep this play through as vanilla as possible.
Thanks in advance for your time fellas

>>181075017

This isn't anything new, but it's everything in a condensed format.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96LzV95Nrq-Q1bR_HSj6AmwsxrlblqYC

>>181074903
Did they take everyone's pistol away for xcom 2 or am I just not far enough to equip them on normal soldiers?

>>181075324
Pistols are useful in X1 as well. I'll have none of you implications they are only now useful in X2.

>>181075508
snipers only in vanilla m8

>>181075337

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=957580056

Sparks are moderately usfeul, within reason

So, what are the chances that at least some mods don't get completely broken by the expansion release?

Customization ones at least? It's going to be weird going back to completely vanilla X-Com 2 again

>>181075520
Yes they were, and they fulfilled the role they were designed for which is a sidearm. Then they shat the bed in X2 and made them snipers only and making them better than a sniper rifle to boot.

>>181075337
Good place to start is the OP modding pastebin, which is old, but will have the core quality of life stuff. Just look in the appropriate categories.

The idea of hero units being so powerful is weird to me, since one unlucky full cover crit can trash your resource sink god unit, and you're left with nothing to show for it.

>>181075337
Nothing is mandatory straight away, feel free to go au natural for your first game.

>>181075701
I still think XCOM 2's approach to ammo management and sidearms is retarded. swords and Gremlins really didn't need to straight up replace pistols, and being able to reload then shoot feels too simplified.

>>181076149
I somewhat agree with the sidearms point, but I much prefer the one action for reloading.

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Fuck these guys

I just started, as I bought the game today, and I installed a bunch of armor mods and a lot of the armors are missing textures, or are flat out invisible. Is it just the mods or am I fucking something up using the mod manager?

>>181075673

I doubt cosmetics are going to be broken, alien mods will likely work from the get go but functionality might be wonky until they get updated, things like item and weapon mods will probably also work from the get go unless they make drastic changes to the way all that stuff works, and they just might do that.

Everything else will probably break, LW2 will definitively break.

>>181077741
What kind of cosmetic mods exactly? Can you name some you are having trouble with. Some mods actually come with invisible pieces.
Also what are your graphic settings?

>>181075287
is that long war?

>>181077741

A lot of armor mods, especially ports are lazily made and they aren't cut up into pieces, so a lot of times it ends up with invisible arms and legs so you can just select the torso for the full armor, which is what i assume is causing your invisible issues. As for missing textures the only mod i know of that has missing textures is one of the many halo mods that are out there.

>>181078032
Halo Reach Marine / ODST packs and Titanfall armor packs, I'm on high the high preset.

>>181075821

Well that's the name of the game. But i doubt they'll be weak enough to go down in one hit from anything, maybe the Reaper but the guy can stay cloaked forever, the Advent guy looks like the "warrior" of the group so he'll probably have tons of health and armor, and the psi guy probably has some bullshit like sustain to never die.

The other super expensive "powerful" class we have right now is Sparks and i don't think they could get one shot by anything in vanilla, unless it's something like a Sectopod crit or something, i dunno.

>>181078069
...yes

w-why

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>>181078082
>especially ports are lazily made
Speaking of which, a couple more bf 4 armours are on their way.

>>181078394
>Halo Reach Marine/ ODST Packs
If it's the helmets that are missing textures then you need the MJOLNIR variants mod too.

>>181078623
I just wanted to know, haven't tried it yet and haven't seen that ui

>>181078394
Pretty sure the Halo stuff has lots of invisible pieces, not to sure of it's overall quality. The titanfall pack should be good though.

>>181078672
>more tacticool options
THANK YOU

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Ohh fuck you

Why is it that mods work one minute and then the next they're suddenly broken and don't work what so ever? I can't seem to understand why a few mods I use refuse to actually work anymore when they worked just fine about a week ago.

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So I've been trying out this X-Comlike called Steam Squad.

The title music is very jaunty.

>>181079618
You're not alone. Just turn your brain off, reinstall everything and pray, I guess.

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The game has lots and lots of LORE.

I read a review that said it felt like a game that came out in the middle of last decade. I would say that except I've played Matrix and Slitherine games and their presentation is significantly worse.

>>181079793
I guess I'll have to, I hope it'll work this time because its really annoying to go through a campaign and then get on the next day and have something crucial break

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>>181079982
Anyway, the actual game.
It works like this. Just like Oldcom, or Xenonauts.

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>>181080181
Actually that is a lie, and not just because I haven't played Oldcom.
The whole game feels much more... I don't know how to say it? Not really streamlined, natural maybe? Xenonauts feels quite clunky at times.

>last mission
>mind control a berserker
>use it to hit a muton in cover
>counterattack
>crit
>died

Truly, an alpha muton.

>Just want my guys to look cool
>Modding is fucking awful and half the mods break or conflict even when it makes no fucking sense, like the Debrief dropship mod and the ODST armor mod
WHY

>>181080481
Mutons going their own way?

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>>181080479
Actually what it reminds me of is a real-time strategy game that runs on turns. The tutorial talks about hitting next turn to "refill" your AP, and it feels like you're doing that, like it's a resource that needs to regenerate rather than a gameplay abstraction.

It feels like Apocalypse, if Apocalypse wasn't produced by schizophrenics.

>>181080837
These sandbags feel very Valkyria Chronicles.

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>>181081065
I meant to post an image with that.

>tfw reload 100 times trying to get successful hack

80% my fucking ass

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You can enter fortifications and mow down enemies with machine guns. Pic related, it's why those chinks are dead.

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That's the end of the tutorial. Next is the real game.

You get this little newsreel that looks like it came from the Arcanum intro.

>>181081404
>savescumming
>gambler's fallacy

>>181081404
I hope you're making fun of the faggots who do that unironically.

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These letters and newsclippings remind me of Enigma Rising Tide.
At least the mission objectives are straightforward.

>>181075287
Well I have some good news for you then. WotC will have the AWC random perks replaced by training with points earned by doing certain actions like flanking or firing from an elevated position. You can spend these points to get extra abilities or even unlock perks that are on the same level of the perk tree.

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>>181082195
You even get a map.

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Sometimes when I get really really upset at the most bullshit things that somehow happen in this game I type in "KillAllAIs" in the command prompt and win the mission.

>>181083021
Fuck off, retard.

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>>181075627
Scroll speed only bugged me in finding saves during XC1. Trying Ironman run now so I have way less saves to go through. Surprising how the scroll clunky-ness made it into the second game.
>>181075760
Perfect, exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much! I just want to play the game with as little "time padding" as possible. Seriously wtf is with the damn rappelling being one at a time? "quality of life" was the phrase I was brain farting on.
>>181075831
some things just don't feel improved to the first game, so the mod-friendly-ness of XC2 made me wonder if there were a bunch of "QOL" changes. Gameplay "feel" doesn't really feel improved at all
>>181075569
Damn, I thought it must've been some secret advanced warfare center stuff I haven't unlocked yet. I was really surprised playing through a mission and had an advent trooper with 1 health and the last soldier had an empty AR I totally thought I could pull out a pistol.. I don't see the purpose in taking something away that was in the first game. Maybe it was OP?

>>181083021
I just alt-F4

What does Muton taste like?

>>181083021
You a lil bitch

>>181083801
You a slightly larger bitch

>>181083672
>I don't see the purpose in taking something away that was in the first game.
They just wanted to try something different with each class having a unique secondary and perks to go with it.

>>181083839
salty milk and coins

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>two pods open before the mission even starts

what the fuck lump

>>181084583
That's datatap, baby!

>>181083869
Fair enough, also surprised that concealment is a one gimmick. Only one ambush feels like a ripoff especially if I managed to git the pod in one turn through sheer luck but I can imagine it would get pretty OP.

>>181084837
Concealment becomes a more standardized mechanic once you start ranking up your ranger

>>181084837
Jake specifically addressed this in interviews running up to the game's release. XCOM is still primarily supposed to be about fighting, not stealth. It's mostly just to reinforce the fact that in most missions you're the one attacking the aliens, not the other way around. So unless you screw up and blunder into a patrol, you get to take the first shot.

>that last mission

how the FUCK do you do that without constant alt-f4ing?

>like 12 alien spawns per turn
>1 avatar 2 turns after 1 dies
>wanna kill an avatar? lol just teleported into 9 codices, 4 mutons and 174 mecs

Never again

>>181085904
Domination, mind control, grenades, hacking and psi help a lot.

I save all the consumables I can for the final room. It's a fun brawl, a great finale.

>>181085904
git gud
Best final xcom fight imo

>>181086141
Did they ever fix the fact that you can't launch grenades/mines past the two side statues?

>>181086604
Tend to agree, but my god was it tough on legend not knowing what I was getting into and having no psy troops. I think I lost 1 or 2 soldiers, which was rare in my campaign up til that point.

Shit was epic though.

>>181088798
You mean the reaching ethereals?

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>Blacksite mission lays out my A team while my B team are all recovering from a mission where the only person to come away with more than one pip of health was my sniper.
>Advent VIP mission pops up immediately after, force to take the fucking dregs of my force, a rookie, a couple of squaddies and one sgt. sniper.
>Pic related.

What are some times you thought you were completely screwed only for it to all turn out ok?

>>181089593
Literally any mission after the first month in LW2.

>>181089593
Happens all the time in long war

I love it

Thinking of having a single team of 6 people, one of each of the five human classes and Spark-001. How difficult will the game be doing this?

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>>181091040
>Single team
>Poorly optimised
>Spark

Either you haven't played the game, or a complete madman.

>>181091040

You should make a team of 8 sparks instead. RNG and bad aim is irrelevant with all those overdrives, heavy weapons and heavy fisting action.

>>181091463
>>181091303
I always see the Sparks treated derisively here. Are they really that bad? What are their problems?

>>181091692
their stats arent that great and have very little defense making them quite fragile

>>181091692

They just don't scale as well as your normal soldiers, if you ask me the biggest problem is their aim, they have shit aim by default and they have no ways to improve it.

That said, i never thought they were as bad as everyone seems to think they are, i like them just for the fact that they can be mobile heavy cover, i think that is incredibly useful. But they also have heavy weapons, that skill where they use their bit like a mortar and they can punch people to death and take like 4 actions in one turn with overdrive, i think they are plenty useful, especially in a vanilla.

But they get outclassed by your colonels either way in the end.

>>181091931
Don't they get like 4 armor by the time they're maxed and have an ability that gives them even more armor and defense?

>>181092004
Grenadier with Holo-Targeting is great for helping the Spark's aim, especially with their skill that targets multiple enemies in a cone. Personally I think the two classes make a devastating combo with their abilities working in synch.

>>181092570
the ai will still focus fire it because of the low defense making it a better target
at least in my experience when using them i have always had to be careful with LoS and after the first couple of hits they sit in the back the rest of the mission

>>181079982
>>181080181
>>181080479
>>181080837
>>181081543
>>181081860
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>>181082659
what game is that, anon?

>>181083839
mutton of course, anon

>>181093148
Steam Squad as per the logos in the screenshots, anon...

I know we're unlikely to get it but I'd love more of the dynamic music in the expansion.

>>181097907
Surely something for when the Lost or Chosen crash the party is appropriate.

>>181084583
>all that health
>I just got started on the second random mission that popped up
What should I shoot for? Or should I just go and learn on my first playthrough?

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>>181098217
For LW2? Lasers. If you feel out of your element you're probably going to lose, but that's half the fun.

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I'm installing the game right now, is it still terribly optimized as it was on launch or will I get a chance to actually run it normally this time around ?

>>181101023

It's better than it was at launch, but if you have a toaster you're probably fucked.

>>181101107
Ah rip, my PC can run nearly every recent game on high but with XCOM 2 at launch the framerate alone made me uninstall.
We'll see !

Are the Wraith Suit, Spider Suit, and EXO Suit worth using?

>>181101393
Apparently when the expansion comes out the patch that allows it to go live will confer performance improvements, as per word of god.

>>181102054
Definitely. Wraith suit lets you do crazy moves through ADVENT facilities and the like.

Is Assault or Scout better?

>>181102305
They both have roles to play. Some people don't use scouts because they consider lightning reflexes unreliable, but they work great in tandem with assaults.

In the early game I run both an assault and scout together as front liners. They make a great team.

>>181102214
Is the soldier unhittable while Wraithed? Would it best to give it to a Ranger since they tend to be the in-close units? What about the Spider Suit, is it best for Sharpshooters because of the grappling hook letting them go to high ground as a free move then shoot an enemy?

>>181102054
LW2? You can use the grappling hook to reposition your DFA sniper and keep using your stock. Also you can throw the WAR suit on a Shinobi with Phantom as a way to initiate on a 2nd pod. And phasing through walls is obviously insane. Most of these concepts carry over to vanilla.

>>181102549
Wraith just allows you to phase through walls. Spider suit is good for anyone who might need mobility or the high ground.

>>181093641
I did not see the logos

>>181102706
XCom 2 with all the current DLC. I just got the game recently and I'm still trying to figure out everything.

>>181102718
Ah, okay.

>mobility people

So Rangers and Sharpshooters would be the preferred recipients?

Also, regarding the special armors and their lack of extra slots, would keeping the Grenadier class in regular medium/heavy armor be best so they can have all three slots available for grenades and other lobbables?

Speaking of wraith, does anyone else think it should have at least one point of armor in LW2? I mean you always put it on assaults and they need every edge they can get, seems kinda shitty to have them go out with less protection than predator.

>>181102978
I was just giving you a hard time anon.

>>181103061
Yeah, just replace DFA stock snipers with any non snapshot sniper, and shinboi with ranger.

Also, what's a better strategy for special armor and weapon research, getting the experimental ammo and grenades first or getting the suits and their weapons?

>>181103190
>when you play long war so much you forget vanilla has no snap shot

>>181103370
I guess the equivalent is gunslinger.

>>181102214

The expansion is like enemy within, which means the base game wont get the performance improvements.

>>181074078

Actually there is, but he just uses face A of race 0

>>181103991
Kek that means my JC Denton soldier looks like the councilman with hair and glasses.

>>181103850
That doesn't mean anything. They have to patch the game in order for DLC to even work, let alone rebalance alien hunters or Shen's last gift.

It's just more cost effective to distribute the patch concurrently.

>>181103991
how do you know this, anon?

>>181104726

Actually Alien Hunters and Shen's Last Gift are integrated by default in WoTC according to that 112 things video, so they don't really have to patch the "vanilla" DLCs if they don't want to.

>>181103850
I doubt they won't patch it in. It would not be difficult to do.

What should I research first, Experimental Ammo and Grenades or the special Armors?

>>181109473
Ammo

>>181110227
Ammo or Grenades?

>>181110454
i'm not that anon but i like guaranteed 1 time damage+whatever debuff its going to give/possible cover destruction over having one character's shots deal damage differently

>>181110454
Ammo

>>181111345
>>181111002
I'm so conflicted.

>>181111498

>Ammo and grenades, or armor?

Pick ammo

>ammo or grenades

Pick ammo

What is there to be confused about m8y

>>181111570
This guy >>181111002 said Grenades.

>>181111498
>>181111570
I can literally not remember using any ammo in vanilla outside of bluescreen, which you can buy in large amounts anyway.

>tfw trying black pudding for the first time

most intriguing

>>181112305
Why the hell does pudding refrer to so many completely un-related food.

>>181111889
well think about what both give you and decide which one you like more
if you're in shootouts more where you think one of the special ammo types are going to be used more pick that
personally i got more use out of whatever random grenades they gave me but thats because i explode everything

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>>181106581
He's in the map files in the characters folder

>>181112491
Dunno, Yank here. Ask a Brit.

>>181113412
Interestingly he's referred to as 'Cato'

>>181113412
Does he survive Advent discovering him?

>>181113634
His VA says so.

>>181113572
>I, Cato Sicarius, shall lead XCOM from the shadows!

If XCOM 2 takes place in a universe where XCOM fucked everything up in EU then why the hell is the
Commander considered a fucking god if he never even did anything noteworthy in the first place

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is there an xcom 2 version of this yet

>>181115043
There has been 20 years between XCOM and XCOM 2.

Take a look at how far they got without him.

>>181115043
its implied that xcom was doing fine the first month of the war, but then something happen
either a member of the council betrayed xcom or the aliens simply rushed xcom deploying everything they had at once

>>181115312
>the first month of the war
Bradford saw him lead a 4 rookie squad without any deaths then decided that he must be the smartest guy on earth?

>>181115249
XCOM is what would have happened if the Council had put their faith in the Commander

XCOM2 is what happened when they sold out the Commander around the time they captured the alien cargo ship.

>>181115249
>The Commander undoes 20 years worth of progress in just a couple of months
Well damn

>>181115687

Fuck off, ADVENT shill.

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>>181115687
>trying this hard to be a consolewar-baiting faggot

Begone with ye.

>>181115687
>mario's caught the rabbid STD
Right now I only feel pity.

>>181115687
Ports when

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>>181115687

If anything that's going to be a nice tutorial for the real thing. Maybe if they do release XCOM 2 (and EW) in the Switch, even if download only, it could be a nice follow up to that Mario game.

>>181117951
What class would Mario be?

>>181120778
Firey crotch class.

>>181120778
Psi op

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Perfect

>>181120778
Psi Op with a focus on fire and panic

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>Hack the workstation
>5 ADVENT guys drop in every turn
>6 turn to evac

Are there any good Japanese / Korean voice overs?

Right now I only have the MoH South Korea voices as a mod, but i'd like to have some actual Korean.

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>>181123071
>Operation Doom Slayer

Which is better right now, EW long war or Xcom 2 long war?

>>181125661
EW Long War

>>181125735
>>181125661
More importantly, which Long War is more M A G N I F I C E N T?

In the early game, what do you guys usually go for or prioritize? Weapons to kill the ayys or Armor to survive the ayys? Or other to unlock more utility stuff?

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Bitch deployed, Commander.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/6k1uu2/is_wotc_going_to_be_separate_from_the_base_game/djjk38c/

Say bye bye to all your mods.

>>181128517
That doesn't say anything about how mods will/will not work with WotC.
It could literally just be a 'War of the Chosen' tick box on the launcher

What resistance faction will be better and why its going to be the templars?

>>181129305
Because they're the descendants of EXALT

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>>181102305
>Is Assault or Scout better?

>>181128517

What >>181129094

By the sounds of it is exactly like the EU/EW launcher, you click a new icon to launch the game as WotC. There is nothing in there about how mods will function alongside that.

>>181130286
>>181129094

I don't know why, but RoboJumper has been saying for a while that this is the worst thing that could happen.

>>181130506
Modders don't like patches or updates in general.

>>181127479
Anyone? I lean towards weapons cause you can live longer if the enemy dies before you. But the off chance the enemy does not miss you, you have a dead unit in your hands.

>>181130667
Weapons are better since you don't want to get shot (or even shot at, ideally) at all. Feel free to get the armor if you really like spamming items though.

LW2 is so fucking boring

>>181128141
Oh god there's going to be so many waifufags...

>you lived long enough to see Xcom go from warfare to the Sims
I hope Xeno 2 saves us

>>181128141
>people who can't draw being allowed to draw

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dat ass

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and this ass too

>>181132178
>man ass

>>181132259
>nonexistent ass

>>181132259

I love the look of this new ayy, looks like a mix of Tron and the alien from the day the earth stood still.

>>181132289
it's a feminine ass

>>181132327
that's an advent soldier so that's not an ayy

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>>181132490

That is an ayy, it's the spectre. The new Advent guys are the Purifier(Flamethrower guy) and the Priest(guy with a box on his face).

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>>181132353
>feminine ass

>>181132490
It looks humanoid, but I kinda doubt it's just an ADVENT soldier in a futuristic gimp suit.

>>181132809
the red lights on the boots give it away that it's advent, I'm guessing we will be able to mind control those spectres

>>181130506
At a guess, because it means that there will have to be two versions of most mods - an original game compatible version, and a version that is made compatible with all the balance changes etc in the expansion.

>>181132884

What red lights? It's all black and green, are we even looking at the same thing?

>>181132702
Proportion wise it almost looks like an alternate form of a pectoid in a gimp suit.

>>181112491
pudding is typically a desert in the UK, but it can refer to piquant tastes as well

>>181115687
>nintentoddlers still justifying their shitty purchase
I get the other consoleniggers but all you have is kiddieshit

>>181132884
>>181132945

I think he's referring to the guy who's getting copied by the Spectre. I think he's forgetting that Skirmishers are a thing, looks like the Spectre is copying a Skirmisher hero to me (Which is why he's going on about the red light on the boot)

>>181133815
>Copy skirmisher
>Teleport away
>XCOM now has to deal with a clone that has ruler reactions

>>181134648
>revival protocol
Semicolon caret right parenthesis

>>181135241
They might need to do something to actually make spectres a threat

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The cavalry's here!

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>>181135446

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>>181135446
overwatch is shit

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>>181135741
In your opinion.

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>>181136223
But it is shit

the game is pure waifubait

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>>181135446

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>>181135446
>>181136223

>>181115457
considering that bradford almost wiped his squad, yeah

>>181115043
this is so silly. the player character is always the only person of competence

>>181135446
>>181136223
this shit doesn't fit in xcom, stop immediately

>>181140905
God damn, it's amazing what causes people to get so upset so easily.

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>>181141153
>stop posting shit
>LMAOOOOO WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING UPSET BROOOOO

>>181141328
>I personally in my opinion dislike it and I demand nobody ever make me feel upset ever again
>"Dude, chill"
>OMG HOW DARE YOU MY REACTION IMAGE WILL TOTALLY DEFEAT YOU

You're worse than the /v/irgins.

>>181141928
kill yourself

>>181138625

actually that was Lily, and she tried to save Ana but she chose to get up close and personal. Peter got btfo because he tried to be a hero

give me draw requests

>>181142997
bradford getting upset over advent burger wrappers

More Steam Squad.

This is the Squad select screen. You have lots of recruits and the game is very lethal but so far I haven't lost anyone, partly because you get npc allies and partly because the ai likes to run directly into your fire.

>>181144362
Anon, you've got to stop forgetting to upload your pictures.

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>>181144362
fugg :-DDDDDDDDDDDD

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You get these little vignette animations on movement or attack, but they only play sometimes and the animations they show off are wonky.

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>>181078672
<3
recons when?

>>181145050
When you port them.

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The ENEMY ACTION animation is this gear cog. I think originally the game was supposed to be a steampunk setting but at some point it was changed to this more realistic one. It feels out of place now.

>>181145178
Any difference between factions or is it just cosmetic?

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One problem I have is that there doesn't seem to be any way to change facing. You get a kind of free-move pathing system but you have to make sure that you're facing the direction you want to at the end, because your dudes can't rotate their torsos.

And even if you do that the terrain isn't always obvious, like I thought that green field up there was impassable hedge but I'm being flanked here.

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>>181145293
It seems cosmetic but I'm only on the first campaign.

Some of the loading screen art is very nice.

What's a good armor setup for my troops, Wraith on the Rangers, PSI, and Sharpshooters and WAR on the Grenadiers and Specialists?

>>181145896
>engrish
who made this game?

are they saying you can overwatch?

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Also when you pull everything off it's pretty great.

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>>181146109
>who made this game
slavs

Demolitions Expert or Heavy Gunner?

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>>181144571

I want this guy in my Xcom squad

>>181146841
>1914-2014
Does the army change as the in-game year progresses like in Age of Emipres?

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I fucking love solo stealth ops

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>>181143104

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>>181149295
good job anon, thanks!

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>>181148760
No as far as I know it all takes place in WWI and 2014 was the year they started dev work
>>181148323
M V P
V
P

>>181148323
Literally the first thing I thought when I saw op's picture

>>181149295
>thin Bradford

>>181132327
I don't. I was hoping they'd go with something more monstrous, but its literally just some dude in a suit.

>>181107703
>Actually Alien Hunters and Shen's Last Gift are integrated by default in WoTC according to that 112 things video
Why would you just go on the internet and lie? IF you down the DLC it's "being integrated". It's like EW in the sense that all of the new missions and features, FROM WOTC are being integrated like how EW introduced Meld and MECs, WotC will have a cinematic and story flow into the chosen, and factions.
There is no free shit.

>>181150558
I think he means that all of the DLCs are integrated into the same base parts that control the performance of the game so the performance fixes apply to everything, not that they're free.

>>181150278
It's because they went with the whole "Socially acceptable, fool the humans." route. I hope X3 is humans invading aliens, and they eventually do another reboot back to flying saucers, and COMMANDER, BRAZIL HAS LEFT THE COUNCIL.

remastered EU with xcom 2's customization when?

Would a Wraith Suit be good for a Sniper-build Sharpshooter?

>>181154294
give everyone WAR suits and call it a day

>>181149295
>I don't think I've ever drawn one
what do you usally draw anon

>>181153679
never stop asking

>>181154294
I didn't find it useful on a sharpy, more useful on classes that need movement through obstacles and stuff like that. Spider suit would be better imo, Icarus suit probably the best if you have access to it. Don't remember if the wraith has a grapple though.

>>181154856
Wraith does have a grapple

>>181152885
>and they eventually do another reboot back to flying saucers

I love XCOM 2 to death, but I really do miss the air game. Raiding UFO's and slowly breach-and-clearing each room in EW was some of the most fun I've ever had in a videogame.

On which note, something occurred to me the other day. What happened to the alien's fleet? They clearly still have UFO's flying around, since they disable the Avenger with one and you raid landed ones afterwards, and the Temple Ship is seen in the Commander's flashback. One would think that the moment the Resistance became a genuine threat (say, the point where they raid the Blacksite and start destroying alien facilities) they would come down hard with their air assets and start accelerating the Avatar Project by force.

>>181154948
The ayys probably moved their invasion fleets to other targets in the decades since, leaving a token garrison. That's probably where gatekeepers and andromedons came from.

>>181154948
Bradford also states that battleships are en route when the avenger gets taken down by a UFO, so they still have a fleet. It is most likely in orbit, out of sight, as to not arouse too many suspicions that they are in fact hostile.

>>181155261
That would make sense. When the Speaker gets BTFO'ed and the Resistance goes global in the final missions, they might have started moving their battleships out from behind the moon or wherever they were hiding to pacify earth forcefully, but XCOM killing the Ethereals caused the crew to die from psionic backlash or turn their weapons on one another, or whatever.

Is Xenonauts worth $7.50? It's on sale right now and I've been eyeing it a bit.

>>181155797
The aliens are pretty much worthless without their puppetmasters. The ethereal army was built from the ground up to be fiercely loyal and dependent on their masters.

I think it's safe to say a combination of disarray, friendly fire and the destruction of their psionic network led to the doom of any real offensive.

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>>181132079
So draw better

>>181157480
>meface when u will never be captured by ugly alien womyn and be her snuggle bug

Is there a difference between Vulnerable at 200% and say, 110%? Is it worth waiting the few more days or should I just be going in asap?

>>181135446
Why would anyone even want this? She looks so bizarre right there

>>181157756
200% only drops the alert level by 3. So if it was moderate at 100% it would drop to extremely light or something

200% -3 levels
150% -2 levels
125% -1 level
100% no change

Do avenger ground attacks start in concealment?

>>181158249
not unless a unit has phantom

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>>181157480

oh my god what is wrong with your face

>>181158206
Oh, neat. Thanks

How do I use armor mods? I can't find them by props when I equip my soldiers with advanced armor

>>181158352
Only a sharpshooter who got it from AWC. How quick do reinforcements on my side come in?

>>181158864
You should get 1 soldier every couple of turns until you have around 10 (I think could be as few as 8)

>>181156669
>Is Xenonauts
yes

>>181154793
I don't.

>every square but this one will reveal you
>move into it
>revealed

>>181156669
Xenonauts is fun. Although it has problems, if you are looking for an XCOM-like game it is worth it.

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Are the new units in WotC heroes like Lily, or just classes?

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>>181160739
>>181159403
It's settled then.

>>181161231
From what I've seen they're more like Annette, the furies and Zhang; with new abilities.

>>181161231
They're called hero classes. :^)
That said, I'm sure they'll just be random characters, same as your regular soldiers.

>>181161231
They're classes - you can have more than one - but they're apparently very expensive to recruit. You get one of each for free but getting more than that will cost an arm and a leg.

>>181161612
>cost an arm and a leg

MECs confirmed, fuck yeah

WotC preorder and pricing when

>>181162336
I'm betting it's 30 bucks. But if I were firaxis I'd charge 40 because the good goys like me would buy it.

>>181162336
Probably the start of August, when they finish with the little videos showcasing the Chosen and the resistance factions, which should finish at the end of July at the current rate of one a week.

>>181162439
Don't give them any ideas.

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>>181162839
Too late

So I've got a hacked Sectopod, and I use a turn to charge up the Wrath Cannon. However, when next turn rolls around, the Wrath Cannon doesn't fire, and it's on cooldown.

Is there a reason for this that I'm not aware of?

>>181153679
I want to get back into XCOM EU/EW but I can't progress it because I can't make my xcom soldiers as unique as my XCOM 2 soldiers

>>181158786
Pretty sure there are mods that make is so cosmetics aren't restricted by the tier of armor your guys are wearing.

>>181163926
Did you try turning the Sectopod off and on again?

>>181163926
I don't think anyone has besides you has tried to use the sectopod charge canon desu. Usually I just use it's amazing ability to instantly have height advantage and shoot twice.

>>181163926
Sectopods have trouble with elevation, maybe something related to that?

How the FUUUUCK do I do these trainyard missions to disarm a bomb? I've got 4 guys who have to dash every god damn turn just to get within 20 tiles of it, by then I have 5 turns left, and then I have to fight through the fucking 5 sectopods, mech, and reptilian niggers who just grab my guys from across the map and warp them through walls via their tongue, or mind control, or panic them. Holy fuck, are these even possible to do with less than 6 people?

>>181163926

I'm fairly sure it's bugged, I've never been able to use it either, I always lose control or it just doesn't fire by the time it's meant to

Better to just use the height advantage and get shooting

>>181163926
Odd. I've used it.

In LW2.

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So why are there two sets of XCG mod collections? Do I grab the ones from Armok or 122aina? OP links to 122aina's collection but when I searched for xcg within steam Armok's collection were the first results.

>>181166921
122aina's is more up to date, besides that, I don't know what the difference is.

>>181165981
You know you can delay the timer by activating the nodes, right?

Is there a "Things XCOM Operatives Are No Longer Allowed to Do" for Xcom 2?

fuck me playing xcom2 on anything above veteran is hard as fuck

literally 3rd mission my best soldier get's MC'd and kills 2 of my of other soldiers reeeeeeee

Is the original XCOM (not EU, I mean the one that came out in the 90's) worth getting into? I own it and have tried it once or twice, but the UI's pretty dense, so there's no instant gratification. I know some people swear it's better than the remakes, but those people are usually faggots so I'm not sure if I should trust.

>>181171436
It's been a while since I played, but if mimic beacons are still OP, abuse the shit out of them.

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>>181171436
It's not hard
You're just shit

>>181171505
Get Openxcom and try it and see for yourself. UI's pretty simple once you get hang of it.

>>181171505
The original is arguably one of the best games of all time, it's worth it.

>>181171505
I wish someone would make a faithful remake of the original.

Like Black Mesa is to Half Life

>>181085904
Nigger, you have so much bullshit skills and gear for the last fight that it becomes easy as fuck. Like seriously, have you even tried using psi-ops or heavys/rangers?

>>181166921
It's a flynig cat!

>>181167408
thanks
>>181175410
you're
kidding right

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What is Jake talking about here? As far as I know all Notch did was call Anita Sarkeesian evil? I just don't give a fuck about this drama I wish Jake would just ignore it.

>>181176237

>i don't give a fuck about this drama, but let me take a screencap of this so we can shitpost about how Jake is an SJW or something lmao

That really activated my overwatch

>>181176410
I'm just curious as to what he's talking about, did he burn a lot of bridges or something?

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What went wrong?

>>181176556

Sounds like you do care about the drama, i have no idea what Jake is talking about, however i remember a while ago Notch went on a generic /pol/ rampage on Twitter, so i'm going to assume he is still on that.

That or he is calling him disgusting because he is a fat neckbeardo.

>>181176556
No, it's the fact that you can't call Anita evil if you want to work in the industry. Jakes just toeing the line. Notch decided that the entire outrage culture is bullshit and decrys anything that Anita has to say. This makes him an enemy of the industry that HAS to back Anita, or be seen as intolerant.

>>181176619
Wait, is the ethereal "head" just a mask? What's underneath, then?

>>181176745
Notch turned into /ourguy/ when he realized he has so much money that he can say whatever he wants and not worry about his career and livelyhood.

>>181136223
>Missions: 1 / Kills: 144
What the fuck.

>>181176619
Literally nothing you stupid fuck. The Avatar looks so much better than "muh mysterious illuminati alien overlords".

Stop posting this shit.

>>181176619
anime

>>181176960
an avatar

>>181177007
In that way I really don't care for him, even if what he's saying at the moment is right. It doesn't change the fact that he's a pretty shitty person that didn't care about the product he made, despite what he said about what he wanted to make.

All those vacations and then selling the damn thing to Microsoft the first chance he got.

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>>181171505
Take this friendo. And yes, it is excellent, and openxcom only makes it better.
>but those people are usually faggots
Yeah the elitism is obnoxious, and they are faggots if they can't see what XCOM brings to the table.

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>>181177193
How the fuck are Avatars anime?

>>181176619
Dumb avatarposter

>>181177104
The Avatar is literally just some bloke in a suit.

>>181177398
Floating white hair.

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>>181176960

>>181177398
Its the hair, people see the hair and all they can think is DBZ, despite them only being superficially similar in that they are upright hair styles.

Avatar hair is supposed to crackling with the barely contained psionic power of the Ethereal inhabiting it, swaying in eldritch winds, and it achieves that fairly well. Could have been cooler, could have doubled down on the eldritch wind idea and had it spread out a bit more, but w/e.

However, the Avatars with hoods mod is good shit too.

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>>181177398

>>181177348
Thanks, friendo.

>>181177453
The Ethereals are literally aids-ridden faggots. That's even more pathetic.

>>181177757
Yeah, but they look neat.

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>>181177669
Also this, and if there is other basic info you want, UFOpaedia is the place to go. Just be aware it doesn't have any openxcom pertinent information.

>>181177898
No they don't. Avatars are basically upgraded battle Ethereals.

>>181177246
You so jelly
skeleton jelly

>>181178596
Of all the money, sure, who wouldn't be. But damn did the guys life go to hell. He says he's not really been happy in quite a long time. I guess that's what happens when you ultimately don't do anything with the money you have amassed. Maybe he should make another game with his company, get some fire going again.

>>181178390
>Upgraded battle ethereals
I refer you back to "blokes in a suit".

>>181178884
He's fighting newspeak and sjws. Appears to be fairly content with himself. Mayhaps you be projecting how you would feeling in his situation, just a thought.

>Start thinking about sectoids at a dance party
>Start moving around my room, singing "scree scree" to the tune of dance music
Is it autism?

>>181179998
Yes.
But this mental image made me smile.

>>181179998
I do the same shit at work. I thought about one time where I hacked an ADVENT MEC who was on overwatch and used insanity on a stun lancer, who promptly panicked and was executed by the MEC.

I burst out laughing much to my chagrin. Neurotypical people's thoughts must be so boring.

>>181179156
Actually I just haven't been following him for the last few years. Last I heard, his wife left him and he said he was depressed. If he's feeling better, that's great and he's fighting the good fight as well. Maybe he will turn his life around yet, but all the same it's a shame that his company pretty much went no where and have become Microsoft's bitch.

>>181179998

I wanna see this

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B-Beagle Activity?!

Who the hell is this guy beagle is showing?

>>181186650

Dunno but productions values are BEYOND THE HORIZON

>>181186650
/our guy/

Why the fuck is Beagle again wasting everyones time?
Like fuck, if you dont want to play XCOM, DONT FUCKING PLAY.
This FUCKING shit of spamming "dude weed" and reading out some fucking subscriber/donator cucks is awful. Play or fuck off.

>>181075821
The fact that you are so heavily punished for losing high ranked soldiers b/c of how absurdly strong (since you are much more limited by the number of units) they are is one of the design decisions I was not thrilled about in the Nu-XComs. The hero units seem to be a doubling down of that.

>>181187839

he doesnt pull as many viewers and subscribers if he doesnt play xcom. literally the only reason he still plays it.

>>181188167
That would make sense if at the same time he didnt pull disappearing acts every other week

>>181187839
Can't wait for him to read this and call /xcg/ out again next week

Is Experimental Heavy Weapon worth it or do I start on grenades? I've only gotten the Dragon Rounds.

>>181188394
You can save it for powered heavy weapons.

>>181188394
Do you have plasma grenades?

>scan for 10 days
>only get 2 missions both <1 day
>got 7 people on intel and just killed 5 faceless

Fuck this

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>beat commander ironman
>Decide to try legendary ironman
>Gatecrasher is flawless
>Second mission is hack a computer inside a truck
>Going well, kill first pod without even letting them fight
>Trigger second pod, also kill them in one turn
>One of the overwatch shots happened to light a car on fire that was in the crossfire
>Car is two tiles away from the truck containing the computer
>car explodes, so does the truck somehow
>WELL YOU FAILED COMMANDER, MOP UP THE ENEMIES AND LETS GO
>Trigger last pod, officer and two troopers
>Flashbang them
>They kill two of my guys through full cover while disoriented
>At this point don't even care anymore, send the one rookie in for a point blank flank shot
>Does 3 damage to the officer who had 4 health
>Dies
>Just walk my sharpshooter in and let them kill her

This game makes me angry, why do I continue to do this to myself? How come when I blow up a car near enemies it doesn't hurt them of they're more than 1 tile away? But can blow up my objective at a distance of 3? How come these stupid faggot advent soldiers can kill my guys through full cover while disoriented? But my guys can't hit them behind half cover while flanked? I'm so done with this garbage game for probably two days until I inevitably come back like a battered housewife

>>181190208
I love this fucking game no matter how much bullshit it throws at me