XCOM General - /xcg/

>Storm Troopers
>Star Trek

>>181278421
at least they aren't those stupid TFA helmets

fuck JJ Abrahams

>>181278279
>Star Trek
Triggered

>>181261063
This... I really wish there was more story to these games. It would make for a really interesting character conflict.

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 War of the Chosen
https://www.gamespot.com/videos/xcom-2s-new-expansion-lets-you-control-aliens-e3-2/2300-6439474/ - Video interview with Jake Solomon on WotC
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/20/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-preview/

>slow news weekend

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>>181278513

That sounds like traitor speak

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nth for remove vipers

>cheating fuck keeps all his damage
nice

>>181278664
eat a dick

TFA is shit

Remember that snakes are NOT your waifus, and collaborators will be hung alongside the enemy.

>>181278736

I can't wait til you meet the other 2 :)

My hard drive died.

Post XCOM memes.

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>>181278753

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>>181278916

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>>181278584
I am not good. My only prior experience is playing Enemy Within on normal while savescumming, though I'm trying to not be as huge of a babby baddy this time around and failing

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>>181278736
Just you wait

>>181279047
Don't feel too bad, soon enough you'll find the game so easy you'll install difficulty mods.

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Which .ini do you edit to change shit like interceptor repair times and psi probability?

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>>181279292
DefaultGameCore.ini

I assume you're talking long war since you're concerned about the repair times, so just so you know psi training performs a will check against a roll to determine success. It's no longer a "gift/no gift" test.

>>181279279
>install difficulty mods.
I mean, if I were to get really good at the game, got better than that, and then put together a PC that isn't a potato and could run XCOM2 then maybe, but as it stands no

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>>181278823
>>181279279
Mission difficulty was easy
So I brought some of my weaker soldiers to try and beef them up

>Frozen
>poisoned
>bound

>Frozen
>Poisoned
>bound
>critted

But then I finally got a chance to damage the fuck

>Missed an 80% flanking shot
But then Hair Trigger Procced

>DODGED:GRAZED

then my game crashed.
My Last save was almost an hour ago

gg

>>181280131
They can show up on retaliation missions too.

>>181280224
The ones with the walking tumors?

OH FUCK THAT

is the bureau worth getting boys

>>181280131
Out-fucking-skilled.

That's why you don't activate them so early.

>>181280385
For cheap? Yeah, its worth a shot. Its a pile of wasted potential but the story is actually half-decent.

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>>181279563

Thanks commander

>>181280864
Wew what hair is that?

>>181281129
anon that's a render, not gameplay

>>181281129
Looks like lightning's hair but like >>181281325 said its a render

it's strange how you can basically make that girl in the picture minus the armour, but if someone ports it in then its definitely do-able

>>181281325
>>181281420
Oh
I just really want good customization mods pls don't judge me

>>181281483
well, the lightning hair is a mod already so you got that part at least

FUCK THE ARCHON KING

>Initiate retrieval mission
>Everything going fine and dandy
>only 3 turns left while iam fending off some stragglers.
>Decide to book my tech guy to the computer since the map was basically cleared.
>Even if he popped another pod they wouldnt be able to stop him
>He yellow moved literally two inches away from box with two turns left
>Suddenly Archon King.
>Flies in and grabs my guy before he can interact with box
>No LoS on king
>King slams
>Suddenly Archon King
>Slams my guy into ground
>Disoriented.........cant interact with box
>SKREEEEEEEEEEE as box blows up while my guy is literally right next to it
>Archon then moves to do his FUCKING STUPID DEVASTATE
>Eventually flees, no dead but i failed mission and everyone got wounded.
>Next mission i immediately pop him
>His group consists of 1 sectoid, 1 archomaton, and at least one archon

FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THE KING! Berserker and Viper were nothing but the Archon has so many bullshit mechanics that work way too well with his ruler passive.

>>181282550
Devastate is complete bullshit. It's the one thing in XCOM2 that gets me genuinely mad, because you can't mitigate it through careful play. You ARE going to take damage on at least some of your soldiers, even if you spread out, and you ARE going to have most of your cover destroyed into the bargain.

>>181282550

>it's a "devastate hits 4 soldiers because you can only move one" episode

I hate that queer

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>>181282550
>>181282889

>>181282889
Frost grenades also only freeze him for 1 turn as opposed to 2 on the other rulers.

>>181282889
Sacrifice SPARKS counter it.

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>All those hostiles

No not again

>>181283310
You deserve it for starting Rulers so early. Whatever rape the Viper gives you will be nothing compared to the Archon King.

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>>181271341
Its easy actually, first you bully him

>>181283310

build the shadow chamber asap, it doesn't allow you to see if a ruler is on a map BUT if the ruler's base type (viper, etc) is on the map and there's a small amount of enemies, the ruelr is guaranteed to spawn

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>>181283519
And when you're done bullying him..

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>>181283424
Anon I didnt know
>>181283519
I'm slightly aroused looking at this
>>181283534
I dont know what this is.
I'm shitter anon I never know whats happening

>>181283743
Then you're getting the true XCOM experience.

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why do i keep running out of money and I can't fucking research anything and i can't build what I need to and my soldiers keep dying

>>181284057

>that poor, stranded satellite uplink

>>181284057
You blew your entire budget on labs and workshops

>>181284057
>That fucking layout
>Sats not adjacent
>3 damn labs

>>181284231
>>181284202
should i just start over?

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>>181283941
Round 2 with Viper Kang

>2 soldiers frozen
>1 unconcious
>1 giving the succ to a snek grill
My only able bodied fighter is a rookie with no nades left who missed an 89% shot to release my bound ranger

T-that's xcom baby

>>181284409
Yes.

>>181284509

why did you freeze your own soldiers

>>181278626

I really can't stand that dude's face or accent

>>181284783
That was Gammaboi's idea of a social experiment

My game crashes randomly loading up a UFO mission, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And then when I do get into the game, it crashes a few turns in. Should I just revert back to geoscape and restart the mission?

>>181284509
Just leave him alone

>>181284509
Remember anon, losing is fun. It's all a learning process for the next playthrough.

>>181284885
Don't ever live in England, they all look like that. The women are worse.

Good thing all the hot chicks ran to the glorious USA

>>181285085
I would if i could
>>181285097
It's all part of the plan.

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>>181285916

>>181285018
I'd try that, maybe try switching soldiers around.

I've had cases where one particular soldier being on the squad caused the game to crash on that mission alone.

>>181286006
frotting seems like such a meme experience

same shit with footjobs, it just looks way too complex and unstimulating

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>>181286006
Post snek ravaging
All my soldiers are dead except for the ex German Goo Girl

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>sneak through most of the Blacksite
>evac doesn't change after getting vial
>have to fight all the way back to the start
>every pod swarms over at once
>Berserker Queen, shitloads of Mutons, Viper Elites, a pod of 3 heavy MECs, various Advent Elites
>all at once

Go fuck yourself long dong, thank you for finally destroying my desire to keep playing with one fucking retarded change.

And why the fuck does Concussive rocket give THEM the smoke? In what magnificent world does it make sense to deliberately give the aliens more defense?

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>>181286363
Your wish is my command

>>181286396
le exkscam babi:D MAGNIFICENT

>>181286396
>Go fuck yourself long dong, thank you for finally destroying my desire to keep playing with one fucking retarded change.

Odd. Is that a bug, or did they change it in an update? The evac point shifted to just outside the refinery like normal when I played it a while back.

And Concussion Rockets are pretty awful, yeah. Do they damage cover? I suppose they could be used like a giant smoke grenade, albeit one you have to fire first then advance into.

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Is there a worse feeling than loseing 5 soldiers at once

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>>181286396
I'm thinking that's a bug

>>181286768

Losing 10.

>>181286707
I know it used too, so I'm not really sure if it was changed or a glitch. But either way it's completely fucked the playthrough. I'm already in the pit too much to salvage a total wipe of my A team

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>>181286768
Losing 12 soldiers at once AND the campaign because your dumb ass decided to send everyone good out on infiltration with all the gear.

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>train hijack mission
>First pod of 2 advent, a mek, and a drone starts right on top of me
>One advent runs after the rest die, go full overwatch because I can't see the other side of the train
>Runner comes back with 10 fucking advent in tow
>Overwatch cuts down 3, most of the rest fall within a couple turns
>Then a pack of 5 mutons join in
>Sacrifice my SPARK to nearly wipe them out in a protracted battle
>Then a pack of 5 mutons, 4 meks, and an advent protector strolls in
Jesus fuck why do I insist on playing LW2

>>181286968
Train raids are notoriously brutal since you rarely get much chance to infiltrate them. You basically have to go in hard and play them like a Facility/ADVENT HQ assault.

>>181285527

...I am English anon

Just not where he is

>>181287134
I really should've considering I'd done one before but I totally forgot and only brought 6 guys including a fresh SPARK. Mistakes were made, but I'm proud of how well they held out considering the odds.

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>fire up a new long dong 2 campaign
>perfect gatecrasher, no wounded
>forgot to take off not created equally

>>181287551

cant you do that in the optons

>>181287725
not after finishing gatecrasher/after first turn

now my starting troops stats are fucked up

>>181287192
my sympathies

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>>181287908
?

>>181287786
Just turn it off. They'll return to normal.

I swear.

>>181288015
you mean before promoting them famalamafamagamma?

i'll try

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>>181286838
>>181286950
How do you even get squads that big

>only enough cash for 1 recruit

I had to make it count

>>181288074
long dong 2 or ini editing

>>181288074

Long Dong 2.

>>181288074
Long war

Is it worth picking up Reinforcement pack on sale?

>>181288015
you were right my dude

thanks, now i won't have to crash the gate again

>>181288286
Yes.

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>>181286006

>>181286189
I think it's psychologically arousing.

I don't know, I'm an unloved virgin

>cunt panics
>moves away from extract
>gets left behind to get gangraped by the ayys

Panic is do dumb sometimes

Is LW2 supposed to have 8 person squads?

>Raid advent base mission
>5 days infiltrating
>start mission
>no concealment

M A G N I F I C I E N T

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If I can run XCom, should I be able to run XCom 2 almost as well?

Also, should I play on normal or ironmane?

>>181291786
>Almost as well
Depends on what you have. Chances are the answer will be no.

>>181291786
60 fps in xcom2 takes an act of god.
Or a higher tier up to date gaming computer.
It is not optimized by any stretch of the imagination.

I just started long war 2, and I did my first infiltration mission
>extremely light resistance
>oh alright i'll send 4 rookies
>4 pods all next to each other

why

>>181291786

probably not, there's a significant leap between the 2. I recall my 770 struggling with it on max, had to turn lots down.

always ironmang

>>181291786
apparently a patch is coming out with the expansion that should alleviate the framerate issues many still have

>>181292269
What infiltration percentage did you get to? Force estimates assume 100% infiltration

>>181292756
no idea, i don't understand much about long cock yet

i guess i'll savescum

these ak74s sure sound cool though

>>181289340
>Be Viper King
>Out in the city taking some of the girls to the new movie thats out
>Suddenly Bradford's goons leap out of the shadows
>Watch in mild amusement as they all blunder their weapons
>One of them panics and sits on a grenade
>Whatevs and portal out before they hurt themselves more
>Tell Vahlen about it later on, have a good laugh

never finished an x2 campaign, can I just hop into LW2, or is the magnificence too much?

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Does this mission ever end without evacuating? Because if so I can't win because this fucking robot can't get on the roof.

Thanks LWbama

>>181293095

It's substantially different from the vanilla campaign but I would say just go for it. Though when WotC comes out you'll be without LW2 for a while so there's that.

>>181293095
You can, but you'll likely lose a few times, and considering how long these campaigns are, that'll burn you the fuck out.

Beat Vanilla first, enjoy the game before you torture yourself

>>181293095
Do a vanilla run first or ABA2+LWPP if you some challenge before trying LW

>>181293208

>Does this mission ever end without evacuating?

No, and the pods that warp in get progressively larger.

good luck commander

>>181293208
They can just jump up.

>>181293208
Try blowing up the roof under the evac point, see if that forces it to relocate.

>>181293208

Robots can just jump up a floor lad

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>>181293526
No he can't jump up

>>181293429
fuck

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Post your epitaphs

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Is Firebrand trying to tell me she has a viper kink?

>>181292756
How many troopers should I send on these missions? I sent like 4 to 5 to keep the infiltration timer down.

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>>181293632
this was like a year ago

>>181293768
As long as you're above 100% or willing to spend the intel you can probably send however many people you want

>>181293768
Early on you can get away with 2-4 troops per mission with infiltration above 100

>>181293768
Use
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=888102133

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>5 rookies overwatch ambush from high ground, graze band at 10
>0 hits, not even a graze

>Beagle speaks Japanese
He never ceases to amaze me

>>181294435
>he fell for the ambush meme
the best way to start an encounter is put your troops in the path of enemy movement and get ambushed during their turn

>>181294435
>having the graze band on

>>181293984
>>181294030
>>181294039
you mean waiting until the infiltration percentage is on 100%?

i did that, and i still got wrecked
maybe i'm just bad, i don't know

>>181294579

>advent just shoots the flanked guy that got caught out

brilliant strat

>>181294809
only if you're playing LW2 with meme difficulties, otherwise enemies will get spooked and waste their turn

>>181294909

>not playing on meme difficulties

>>181294954
>ever falling for a meme

>>181294954
Normal xcom2 sure play on legendary ironman.
LW2 is full of such bullshit though, only do so if you actively hate your life and want it to end sooner.

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>>181278916

>>181293690
>intense sadness that I identify those acronyms immediately
continuous integration/continuous deployment, means new software developed is immediately tested and deployed as opposed to waiting for new tests to be written or tests to be manually run

>>181278279
good troll.

>>181286189
>>181289652
it's entirely mental, all up to whether you're into it or not. had a guy rub himself off on my stockinged foot once, it did not take him long at all. wasn't really erotic to me, except it was fun to watch someone else get off on it.

>>181294909
Actually, LW2 took out the anti Beaglerush manuever. So you can just sit your guys out on overwatch.

>>181295212

Just decided to listen to some Viper.

It's alright, I guess. Kinda shit, kinda not so shit.

>>181295978
>>181294809
As this anon said, Beaglerush maneuver is in full effect for LW2. They removed it because they felt Yellow alerts allready fucked with players enough, they needed something for themselves.

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>>181293630
hide in the closet till evac

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>>181293632

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When I ask this, treat me as if I know absolutely nothing.

Are there any particular ways I should be moving my units/tactical decisions I need to make to smooth missions out? Is half cover really just that shit?

>>181299546
Half cover is only useful for avoiding detection and somewhat baiting ayys.

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>>181299496
>Operation Doom Mask

>>181278916
anything in particular you're looking for?

>>181299496
>Rk. Ho Ho

>>181299884
XCOM EU and EW ones.

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>>181299895
>tfw ADVENT ruins Christmas

Is there any way to reset soldiers' abilities in long cock 2?
I'm asking for a cheat basically

I know it's a faggot thing to do but I want to play around with soldiers without having to start new campaigns every time I fuck a build up

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>>181299919
just memes/still images or webms and gifs too? have to go to bed soon but i'll be back tomorrow.

>>181300449
Webms and gifs too.

>>181300369
awc can retrain

>>181300543
yeah but i want it free of charge and instantly
do i need to work .ini magic?

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>>181300540
i miss EU/EW days.

>>181295212
are u a grill?

>>181300870
You can turn off the awc retraining time scaling up every rank but I'm not sure if you can eliminate it entirely

I'll check real quick

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>>181300540

hot off the presses

XCOM 3 when?

>>181300870
You need to work ini magic, yeah.

>>181300959
Can some explain this

Is Tygan a thinman?

>>181301871
>Thinmen
>Thinmints

>>181301542
>>181300870
Found it.

[ParentDirectory]\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\844674609\Config\XComGameData.ini

Line 73-76

And to disable level scaling

[ParentDirectory]\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\844674609\Config\XComLW_Overhaul.ini

Line 182

>>181301871
Slang term for Thin Men aliens

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>>181300540

>>181301928
>>181301946
Oh it's from xcom 1. I've only played xcom 2 and have just beaten story mode on normal

>>181301946
In line 73-76 do I set them all to 0?

Are there any mods that make it easier to keep track of your characters' builds and abilities so you don't have to constantly go into their personal screens to check them?

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100th+ for pistols are useful.

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>>181302235
Give it a run its bretty gud
But if you do just remember

SATALLITES
and
AIR GAME

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>>181303223

>try to play Enemy Within while waiting for the expansion
>commander this way to the hangar

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I made an xcom 2 one

I struggled with the text

Why aren't there any good hair mods for XCOM2?

>>181302480
Only if you plan on playing on all four difficulty settings

>>181303161
pistols are borderline OP in LW2, and the only thing keeping them from being OP is strategic disadvantage due to training times

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>>181303582
>see my playtime

I think I have a problem

>>181304082
>only 1k

>early game "raid advent base and steal shit" mission in lw2
>sent 2 rookies and 2 squaddies
>2 pods activate at the same time because they're literally on top of each other, someone shoots my grenadier squaddie and he panics
>all advent spread out, all in full cover

how am i supposed to deal with this?

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>>181303657
I was trying to remember if we had one of these for X2 already, but it seems we only have a Jane Kelly, so good job.

>>181304256

I did the same, assumed it was just any ol mission. Nope, like 30 aliens within a few moves of the start point. Restarted the campaign after dying a load of times. It was impossible, every pack was close, and kept moving towards us. No time to kill pack 1 before pack 2 showed up and so on. Shit was stupid. Gotta stick as many soldiers as possible on those mission types.

>>181304256
>>181304361
>assuming Advent base/facility raids will be easy peazy
?

>>181304491
>"""""""""extremely light resistance""""""""""
i guess i'm too entitled

not to mention, if it's a smash and grab on an advent outpost, why do my soldiers start with no concealment? following your logic soldiers should know that rushing in cocks out and guns blazing is a bad idea

>>181304256
run

not all missions are going to be wins, be glad it was an optional supply raid and not something you actually really needed

>>181304707
considering it's long war I'm sure I need every single supply raid

>>181304672
Extremely light is 6-9 enemies

>>181304776
smash and grabs are pretty common. If it were a troop column or supply convoy I'd agree with you

>tfw triggering a pod at the extent of your blue move's sight radius

Just fucking kill me

>>181304776
At the start they're really nice, but smash and grabs are just supply, once you free a region or two you'll be swimming in it. Other sorts of raids that give full salvage for corpses and what have you are far more important.

They're worth the attempt if you can get some good infiltration on them, but you can squeeze by without.

>>181305128
Smash n grab also gives you alloys and elerium.

The lack of corpses kinda sucks though.

>>181303161
That's if you have too many and u have no choice
but to do gunslinger build on Sharpshooter.

Man I wish I knew about the wonders of the Wraith Suit before now, my Rangers and Sharpshooters are so much more powerful and versatile wearing them.

>>181305491

The "pshh... nothing personnel, kid" suit is great. Icarus is god tier, though. Nothing like flying behind some prick and rapid firing them to death.

>>181305491
I love them on specialists, makes reaching hack objects so safe and easy

>>181305264
Only a little bit though

>>181305608
Haven't gotten to the point the bosses start showing up, unless there's a mission that unlocks them.

>>181305704
Need to try that, since nearly all hack objects are inside vans and buildings.

Got three countering AVATAR guerilla missions at once.

-countering armor on enemy troops
-countering an immediate block on the meter
-countering 50% supply reduction

The third one is pfffft, but the other two are gonna be annoying, which one would eb best to do? My AVATAR meter's at 4 right now.

>>181306367
Do you have a alien facility up?

>>181306506
I've got two AVATAR sites I can hit immediately after doing whatever mission is up.

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>>181306367
If you have any alien facilities up (see pic) do the armor one as you can ignore the block because it gets applied to a facility instead of the main alien base, if you don't have any up then counter the block.

>>181306850
Yeah, I've got one of them up in the very next area I'm heading to after this mission. Going for the armor mission, thanks.

How are you supposed to get all of the supplies needed to upgrade weapons for all of your troops in LW2? I can't afford 100 for one person, nevermind five squads

>>181305895

You have to do a mission, yeah. First one is a scan that gives you some nice items early on, 2nd is a scan that rewards a mission that allows the 3 rulers to spawn in normal play after you complete it.

>>181306850
>because it gets applied to a facility instead of the main alien base

Wew, and here's me leaving up ALL of my black sites all the while countering AVATAR breakthroughs, complaining to myself why the progress continues to go up. Thanks for that m8y

>>181308116
No problem, I recommend getting http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=807973360

>>181308404

I have it, just assumed the breakthrough pips were added to the meter at the top and were un-removable after application

Thanks again

Redpill me on dynamic war in LW1's second wave? Is it good or bad?

>>181290486
An anyone please answer? I've looked up all the information I can, it just says you get bigger squads but not how much bigger, I don't think another mod is causing this but I feel way overpowered with 8 people on my first few missions at least.

In XCOM EU, if XCOM is supposed to be a top secret organization, how do you think they recruit?

I like to think Bradford or the Commander go to a bar where soldiers tend hang out, they slip some lone soldier a mickey and then kidnap them

Hell, considering rookie skills, they probably do this shit to anyone above 18 and below 60

>>181309103

It's normal m8, and you start with so many soldiers because you are probably going to spread them out to do so many ops jobs at once. The intel time scaling with how many soldiers you send on a mission is meant to dissuade you from going all in on each mission.

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>Advent reinforcement trio drops in on a "Protect the Device" mission
>SPARK-001 happens to be standing in the middle of the drop zone
>they scatter a little and hide in spots that protect them from the human soldiers but SPARK has all three flanked
>activate Overdrive
>BLAM! crit
>BLAM! crit
>BLAM! crit
>mission finished, no injuries, no damage to device

I fucking love SPARK-001.

>>181309147

The XCOM project was designed by multiple countries acting as suppliers of all sorts, including money, resources, and of course, soldiers. It's why most soldiers are only from the countries that you can recruit from (barring some cut countries being recruitable, like Belgium). I'm sure they would have gone a bit further with that and barred you from being able to recruit a solder from the UK if the UK left the Council.

>>181308009
get the gorilla tictacs school thingy that makes enemies drop 2 loot instead of one and soon oyu'll be swimming in worthless attachments and PCS that you can sell for mone

>promote Gunslinger Sharpshooter
>gets Chain Shot as a bonus ability

How good is this for a Gunslinger?

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>>181309147

>Hell, considering rookie skills, they probably do this shit to anyone above 18 and below 60

They probably just crash /k/ meetups, judging by their aiming skills.

>tfw ywn post on 4chan during an alien
>/b/tards posting pics of them fucking Chrysallid corpses
>/r9k/ crying about not being abducted by a snek gf
>/pol/ trying to figure out if XCOM/EXALT are controlled by the Jews and livestreaming themselves getting rekt during terror attacks
>/k/ posting webms of them emerging from the brush to give covering fire to XCOM with their nuggets when a ufo crashes in a rural area
>/x/ trying to activate their psionic potential by summoning a succubus
>/int/ calling anyone from a panicked country a cuck

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i want to hug bagel

>>181309631
It lets them have an option to actually use their sniper rifle.

>>181309696

>/gif/ frontpage filled with "rekt/alien gore" threads
>/d/ gets a slew of alien dickgirl porn
>/bant/ gets infested with shitposting Ayys, the Great Bantz War ends with an Aussie victory
>/3/ is still dead

>>181309727

dumb sectoidposter

>>181309696
>be xcom operative
>approaching a landed UFO with my squad
>spot a group of aliens from afar, take combat positions
>just before the firefight begins, we hear movement coming from our right
>immediately think another group of aliens is coming, but for some reason the aliens are just as confused as we are
>a wild pack of fat dudes wielding nuggets wearing shitty outdoors clothing takes positions
>they aim and start firing wildly towards us and the aliens while screaming stuff like "TWO TO DA CHEST ONE TO DA HEAD" "CENTER MASS CENTER MASS" "SOMEONE THROW THE GLOCKNADES" ".45 STOPPIN POWAH GET SOME INB4 SLOW ROUND"
>no rounds really connect with anything but the sheer amount of firepower forces both us and the aliens to retreat

>>181309696
>/m/ clamoring to be turned into MECs

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How the fuck do these floaty dicks work? It looks like their spotting range is the exact same as ours, meaning it's impossible to discover their pods without activating them. This is on my first mission, where scanners aren't an option, and the only way I even got this screenshot was using someone who could stand one square in it's spotting, which apparently goes through trees, barriers and around the full cover she's standing behind, pictured here.

Is this meant to encourage savescumming? Or is it just supposed to be a lolfuckyou?

>>181310038
bagel is not a sectoid
rude as hell desu

>>181310102
it's magnificent design

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Their troops have become too difficult for me to take on more than one pod at a time, but at least they're still morons

>Alien Hunters mission just popped up on the map

Should I?

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I just realized I don't really like how XCOM 2 plays.
I mean the game is great and stuff, but I hate being rushed by timers, I just don't enjoy the missions where there's a timer, and there are timers on like every mission.

Of course this could just be temporary asshurt because I'm getting wrecked in long magnificence 2, but really, dropping into a mission with a timer that says "end this in 10 turns or you get wrecked" and the objective being on the other side of the planet, and the evac point being on the other side of the planet from the obejctive, with seven hundred and thirty-two pods between point A, B and C just drains me mentally

thanks for reading my blog lads

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One shall stand, many shall fall.

>>181310253
I hope you're being sarcastic.
I don't mind being careful, in fact before LW2 I was VERY meticulous on every mission, moving my stealth characters ahead very slowly to scout patrols and set up ambushes, but now that I only have 10-12 turns to cover 6 turns worth of map space, I can't move two squares at a time anymore, and literally every turn I move my shinobi forward into clearly safe, full cover located halfway forward in my move area, SPOTTED BY FLOATING TUNA CAN

>>181310917
>Not Rodimus
Shit taste.

>>181311024
Someone post the Lump magnificence screencap.

>>181311104
>Rodimus

The clod who got Optimus killed and spent all of season three moping and whining about his heavy burden?

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>>181310823

I know, it's such a shame there aren't some sort of freely available customizable "modifications" or something to make the game play to your liking.

>>181311024
it's a meme you dip

long cock is supposed to be frustratingly unfair and hard, there's really no reason behind some of its features other than "it makes the game hard"

>>181311179
>The real and relatable character who makes mistakes and deals with actual crisis of character instead of being a lofty and unchanging idealistic grandstander with static, stagnant demeanor
Yeah, that's the one.

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What the fuck I got less than a single day before they announced advent was working on this and when it went into effect

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>>181311260
I wanted it to be difficult, but this is kind of stupid, it negates the stealth mechanic entirely if you are always discovered upon spotting a pod.
Why did they even keep the stealth mechanic at all if this is the effect they wanted? Also every pod I'm finding is just a stupidly huge glob of enemies standing around staring at each other, is this normal? This is playing like shit so far.

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>>181311243
Problem is if I do that I'll get called a shitter and a cheater by people on /xcg/.
I like the game, I can enjoy aggressive timed missions every once in a while. It's just that nearly EVERY single mission in XCOM 2 are aggressive timed missions. I just want to hunker down and cover a position, or sneak around, or clear an area, or stuff like that

>>181311630

Just get True Concealment. Everyone here uses it, even if they say they don't.

>>181311630
Either increase/mod away the timer or use true concealment, there's no point playing the game if you don't enjoy it.

>move unit some 1-3 tiles
>pod
>pod
>pod
>pod
I've dealt with this shit since vanilla XCOM:EU, and not once have I been ok with it. Fuck everything.

>>181311847
>>181311672
I'm too proud for that

Call me retarded but I'd rather not enjoy the game than play it with cheats

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>>181311630

>Problem is if I do that I'll get called a shitter and a cheater by people on /xcg/.

I admit it /xcg/
I savescum
I haven't had a single campaign where I've dealt with the death of an important soldier
I'm a shitter

>>181311921
>True concealment
>Cheat

Most of the base game operations don't make sense to have a timer with except for things like destroy relays

>>181312008
same desu senpai

>>181311629

While Drones have a pretty big detection radius, you can definitively see them before they see you, their detection radius is definitively not the same as yours.

As for the giant pods, i don't remember what the mechanic is called but it's a thing, you should be able to control whether you launch missions with a million advent or missions with like 9 tops. You are probably not used to the magnificent mechanics of long dong 2.

>kill a gatekeeper
>kill another one
>never get their shells
WHAT THE FUCK I JUST WANT THE ALIEN AMP GOD FUCK

Playing 1 after playing 2 for so long feels so god damn weird
Also breaking LOS is overpowered, what the fuck

>>181312297
Make sure it isn't an evac mission.

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>>181312419
Break LOS is not just a meme

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>>181312008
It's okay anon, we're more common than you think. We just pretend we aren't savescumming when we post about bullshit moments that somehow inexplicably our soldiers return to base from or when we hit 'lucky' RNG rolls.

>>181312621
>tfw my soldiers havent died at all
>savescummed once
>avatar project ticking down as i have too much fun dicking around with my new god team
losing them is gonna feel bad :(

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I wish this fit together just a little bit better or Predator had some sort of neck-covering option/mod. It looks kind of neato

>>181312768
Use the rage neck guard?

>>181312619
I played hide and seek with a muton and he just casually ran into spitting distance of my soldiers without doing anything, I feel like I'm cheating
On the upside though, free plasma grenades

>>181312621
>Using a non-specialist to hack

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>>181312798
I didn't think of that, it's almost perfect though. Thanks bruh

>rescue some civvy from a swat van mission
>get to them
>pectoid and soldier behind cover
>blow em up with grenades
>blows the side panel off the swat van
>also sets it on fire
>have to sit around for 3 turns waiting for the fire to subside cause the vip will die before reaching the evac zone

timers are fun

>>181311260
Basically this. I don't have enough autism for Long War, but it strokes some people's autism just right.

Makes the combat so slow. Not such much harder, but just more "gee, I have to grin and bear it"

>>181313456
>blow side panel off the van

you're lucky the van didn't blow up and kill the VIP you fuck

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>>181313527
>lose a soldier cause of some sneaky faggot I triggered
>the scientist is going to burn to death anyway

I hate this game some times

Is there a mod that changes timers from "Insta fail" to just dumping a shit load of reinforcements every round after its up? I've always hated that the timer just is auto captured/fail.

I like the feeling of fleeing, but not from... a clock.

>>181312008
You know, just once I'd like for my soldier to die because of a bad play on my part, like having him get flanked to death or whatever
But most of the time I just get oneshot through heavy cover, I fucking hate this RNG meme

>>181313703
das eggsgom babii :DDDDD

do turrets cause noise waves to happen?

>modders putting out all these port mods
>all these new releases
>vocaloid and animu
>remastered riot gear

>>181313703
That's kind of what decides if I'll savescum or not, most of the time. I'll pick out maybe 2-3 soldiers that I 'must have' because they're my favorites, but the rest can be blown up provided I actually fuck up hard enough, But to lose someone important to a low 20%? Fuck my life

>miss!

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>Ranger gets blasted by a ADVENT grenadier
>3 turns till bleedout
>get him to the skyranger in time
>dies
>"what the fu-"
>remember that the same turn a soldier gets put into a bleedout state counts towards the overall time till they bleedout

>>181315879

I hate that shit

>flashbang lasts for 2 turns
>that's actually just 2 of your turns and only 1 enemy turn :^)

fucking stupid

>>181315879
>>181316054
>kill enemy on overwatch
>loot drops 3 turns till expires
>your turn, lol jk 2 turns

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>>181295212
>>good troll.

No Problem.

Is there a button you can press to randomize soldier equipment? It gets tiresome having to do everybody all the time.

I just finished a terror mission and it was a really lucky one.
>Only one civilian dead.
>No injuries.
>Finished the mission by camping the skyranger
>Every chryssalid rushed to the skyranger, they came close enough to kill them easily but they couldn't attack me.
>Floater pod suffered a heavy case of retard and only used cover that's literally flanked by all of my soldiers.
>Literally no misses.
>Even my rocketeer shot his rocket where I told him to.
Did all of my luck just ran out? Will my squad gets wiped out next mission?

When no one was looking, Bradford killed 40 snakes
He killed 40 snakes
That's as many as 4 tens
And that's XCOM baby!

>>181316940
Well, my next batch of rookies just arrived, so the squadwipes seems more and more likely.

does loot on the ground get destroyed if i grenade the area its in?

I hate zombies.
They aren't dangerous or anything. But they are so fucking slow.
Once you activate more then one zombie pods, the ayy's turn will take ages.

>>181319656
I don't think so, LW might be different

Dragon rounds are strictly superior to venom rounds right?

>>181319893
Mostly, vemon is better when you are going to have a prolonged battle.

>>181311513
help how do I counter this shit

>>181320287
>help how do I counter this shit
You don't, you just kill aliens that have more health now. You just got unlucky, usually it takes minimum a couple of weeks for dark events to go through.

>>181320287
Hope to god you roll high numbers on your next missions?

>>181320353
>2 damage smg vs 10 health enemies
thanks lwbama

>>181320389
Oh it's LW2? Have to spam intel in any region not liberated.

>>181316974
>Bradford hates sneks
>Goes around personally strangling all the sneks he come across
>Talks about how much he hates sneks
>Has a tatoo of him stomping on snek eggs on his ass
>Ends up marrying a snek and having half-snek kids like those WW2 pacific theater soldiers that married Jap women post war

I hate the fact you have to evac from most missions in Long Dong
It removes the sense of accomplishment you get when you completely wipe out every ayy in the area

>>181320503
I have everyone on intel, but the game only gave me 4 hours to find the dark event

>>181320539
I kind of like the fixed evac for extractions though. Also the tense feeling when you gotta cut and run or hold out long enough to get the squad out.

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Are LW2 psions worth all the extra hassle?

>>181321118
They're remarkably broken.

>>181321483
in a good way?

>>181321118
What's the point of this metal bar under the smg.

>>181321839
It makes the weapon look more blocky. Future weapons are all blocky.

>>181321839
More importantly why isn't every gun in the game a P90? Everyone knows that's the best gun in two galaxies

>>181321975
It's a completely useless chunk of metal. Why would you attach a completely useless chunk of metal under your gun?

>>181321118
why does hair of psi always default to white

>>181322135
psi training ages you and makes you slightly purple

>>181322135
To make them stand out. Still better than sleeveless armors on gene modded troopers in Enemy Within.

>>181322267
why doesnt xcom2 have gene mods or cyborgs

>>181322529
Because you got robbuts now and will get hero units in the new expansion pack.

>>181322529
because Vahlen dead boi

>>181322135
also gives them purple eyes, too

>>181322529
Because girl-Shen is fucking useless.

>>181322653
Where are the proofs?

>>181322914
There are no proofs. Vahlen is alive as some ungodly abomination.

>>181323323
>ungodly abomination
Show me the proofs.

>>181323394
D L C
L
C

>>181323413
So there are no proofs.

>>181322529
Because Advent have been adding gene mods and cyber implants into the people and as a resistance group you try to stay vanilla human.

>>181323694
>Vanilla Human

Psi Ops?

Wasnt that the plan the first time? But then we had wizards and giant robots for high impact Ayy Removal

>>181316931
Equipment or appearance because there's a Random Appearance Button mod I use all the tiime

>>181321118
they are worth it but the mechanics changed drastically

you still require roughly the same stuff to unlock psi lab (1 sectoid corpse and some supplies, etc)

The psi op starts with 4 abilities and can only learn 7 more, to learn a new ability they must spend time in the psi lab, but in order to unlock more abilities to learn they must rank up normally like any soldier on the battlefield, which means they must spend a lot more time before they have the fun abilities like domination or goatse.

I recommend you train solace, fortress and stasis as soon as they become available (stasis is a lv 4 ability now) as they unlock domination and void rift.

>>181323413
t. hasn't played the dlc missions because he thinks he has a big dick and can deal with rulers on april

>>181324141
Psi Ops are vanilla humans still

>tfw i will never have ranger with rapid fire and chain shot

she managed to get 120 kills in vanilla campaign only to perish in alien fortress ;_;

>>181324585
What's the point? Chain Shot is literally just a worse Rapid Fire.

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>>181324684
but 2 is better than 1

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Morning /xcg/
Shitter anon again

Rate my formation

>>181324896
please nade my ass/10

>>181324837
There's no reason to have Chain Shot if you have Rapid Fire.

>had to savescum a ton to complete shens last gift

jesus christ fuck julian I wasnt prepared in the slightest at the ass rape.

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>Might as well play some LW before bed, it's just a small landed, I could use those alloys for more lasers, shouldn't take too long
>check clock again
>after 5 AM

Forgot how addicting this shit is

>>181324896

Better off forming testudo and attacking desu

>>181325604
We told you to wait till mag weapons.

>>181325604
>Not saving Shen DLC for farming kills for an entire squad rank up

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Defense Matrix sounds like one of those things that is 90% useless untill its comes in clutch

What should i build?

>>181313069
Sometimes you work with what you get. I had one playthrough where the first mission I had outside of Gatecrasher was a 'Recover Object' objective, and didn't have a specialist because one of my four starting rookies died. Ended up pulling off a 4% hack to get a Facility Lead.

>>181325880
You have exactly enough building slots for every building once, and power & comms twice, so build what you want senpai
Defense matrix does come in handy when the game hates you

>>181325880
AWC or PG. You can save the Matrix for later.

>>181325880
You can just start the base defense matrix when a UFO event happens and then load it up with upgrades and engineers.

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>most of my good units are wounded
>reach retaliatory strike mission thing
>spark unit hasnt healed either
>have to go in with two rookies

>>181282550
>Devastate
And that's why I have an officer with Incoming! in EVERY mission. Doesn't eat all of it, but it'll stop it getting through ablatives.

>>181325604
I did it blind on base weaps and 5 man squad. I savescummed maybe twice, and only once during the sectopod fight, but holy fuck that was intense. Supression and haywire are king against the boss.

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>>181325951
>>181325968
>>181326007
I started building the Proving Grounds

>Make Utility Items Available
>drops me back to the map without making things available

How to fix this?

Also this is a Retaliation mission. Are thoswe the ones with the Fleshies?