XCOM General - /xcg/

>pistols
>anything but useful

>>181413282
The edgy tryhard names Firaxis chose for literally everything in War of the Chosen kind of betrays the fact that their writers are either teens or mentally adolescent.

why are ADVENT HQ raids in LW2 such a chore to do?

always take almost a good hour or more, I end up putting them off sometimes simply because I don't enjoy doing them.

>>181413514
>LW2
>chore
No shit, that's the point.

Is there a way to instantly end current mission, cheats included? I'm two turns away from extraction but game always crashes at the end of the turn. Long wang 2.

>>181413651

You can just use "tatc" in the console to move your characters to the evac.

>>181413554
I mean the new classes and boogaloos are all fun stuff, new Gops and using RnFs for soft timers I definitely prefer to vanilla but goddamn the HQ raids are the one thing I never really liked doing. The network towers are a close second I guess.

>>181413353
What do you mean? They make a good backup weapon I thought. For like when you are out of ammo but you need something dead. Or when your sniper gets to close and should switch to the sidearm?

I have a mod that allows all secondary weapons/gadgets be slotted in as a utility slot.

Speaking of backup weapons, are there any good machine pistols or shotty mods similar to what Long War 1 added?

>>181413712
Thanks

just encounted my first muton elite on commander

that wasn't fun

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1.21 GIGAWATTS

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>>181414031
Stunned 90% of them

>>181414108
>>181414031

WEW

For the late comers to Xcom 1 or Xcom 2, did you play vanilla first or did you just instantly mod your game? For Xcom 1 I got it late so Long War was already established so I just got that and ran with it. For Xcom 2, I just waited until a sale and more mods came out.

Do you prefer XCOM 1's loadout music or XCOM 2's loadout music?

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>>181414108
This is at the end of the very same turn.

>>181413514
Funny, I really like them - it's fun to settle in for a long, protracted siege with dozens of enemies to mow down. I just wish ADVENT Generals felt a bit more special to fight, they're a little unconvincing as a boss enemies.

>>181414031
>>181414108
What mod is that to have the pictures on top? Does it make unit selection easier?

>>181414196

I prefer EU's but they're both superb.

>>181414253
Yeah makes it definitely easier also this is the mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=642371502

is void rift supposed to be balanced

>>181415269
They're all balanced.

>>181415269
that shit nearly ended my no deaths ironman run

How do i make my mod weapon reskins default weapons?
I hate to swap it for every fucking soldier.

>>181413862
I found this to fill in the short shotty hole. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=705577020 I have found nothing yet for a "machine pistol" like in LW1. I know LW2 has a sawed off shotty but I am not ready to dive deep into that yet. Rather finish my "vanilla" play through.

Anyone have any good machine pistol mods that go in the secondary slot?

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>>181414205

This, they're comfy as shit. Just bring plenty of flashbangs and heavy ordnance for when the inevitable platoon of advent charges at you into half-cover.

https://youtu.be/DOSvLWK5Z2A

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Fuck off please Mr Ufo

>>181417115
Hope you've already built that Defense Matrix.

>>181417157

I haven't been able to since all the ADVENT turrets have spawned on evac only missions...

the worst thing about xcom 2 is the frequency of loading screens and the shitty music that plays during them

>>181403859
Rangers. Amazing at high levels, less so until they reach TSGT.

>>181398260
I cheese those missions with 4 assaults and a shinobi. Stalk 2 to 3 pods with muh assaults, sneak to the objective with the shinobi, and eliminate half the map while they're still stunned.

I have super bad issues with loading times and I wonder if it is just me or others are experiencing it also. So I load a save file when the game launches. Ok I have a decent load time. As soon as I try and load another save, or I am in a mission and try to load back to another save within the mission, the load times are exponentially long. So long that it is faster for me to quit the game, and load the save file from the start. Is that just me? I do have a lot of mods but a good chunk of it is cosmetics I think.

>>181413514
They're really easy, mate. Sit in a corner with loads of high cover, kite the enemies with a sniper and a spotter shinobi, and just watch them die.

Ohhhhhh, you're GOING to them. Bad idea.

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Well that was easy. Killed the thing on turn 3 and even made a friend.

>4/13 killed

Sentry faggots have explosion resist?
Cuz literally 3 times in a row this faggot got 1 dmg from grenade.
And it says 2 dmg is min

>>181418326
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
This faggot ate 3(!!!) grenades with 1 damage each, dodged 6 shots, damaged 1 man through full cover and THAN game allowed me to finish him with 1(!!!) dmg graze.

In XCOM 2, have I just been using battle scanners incorrectly or do they not count for the purposes of squadsight?

>>181418326

is he in hte middle of the explosion? they do less the further the target is from the epicenter

>>181418762
Sadly they don't count anymore

Uncle Gunman if you're around here are the assets for the Ghillie Suit and Tracksuit from MWR

www.mediafire.com/file/7wwhji4y1yl123z/MWR+Russian+Ultranationalist+%2B+Villains+Collection.7z

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0tvec1mzbskq4yr/MWR+Extras+Collection.7z

>>181418871
Fuck, all this time I thought I just was messing up line of sight or something.

>>181418784
I think he was, he was 1 square away from center at max

>>181418762
Based on a quick google no, they do not work vanilla wise. After some searching, there is no current mod that adds this capability. Unless I missed something, shit sucks yo!

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Could you guys post some of your own custom created characters?

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>>181419724

>forgot weapon color

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>>181419724

>lightning reflexes or killer instinct

thats not funny at all

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Any new goodies on the mod front?

>>181420861
Reflexes aren't as useful anymore thanks to damage breaking overwatch

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Is there a helmet mod or something for Tygan's mask?

So I installed the jedi soldier class mod. They hold the lightsabers like rifles wat do?

>>181421986

>wat do?

post a pic of course

>>181413514
They're base assaults. They're supposed to be hard and long.

>>181421052
I wouldn't say that. Lightning reflexes is a godsend when swarmed or a pod activates with yellow alert overwatch.
https://youtu.be/oLl4ErdTeSM
https://youtu.be/eKhnRrRtORA

>>181421986
I think there's a dependcy called melee primary weapons and hq animations

>>181421986
Dumb question, did you install all the prereq mods? And are you using this new version? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=944207594

>>181421812
>We live in a world where there is no Tygan unit who uses a chainsaw, exclusively, in battle. His attacks would trigger 200% more alien blood.

>>181421812
I think it's part of the alien hunters dlc

>>181421812
Jsleezy's Repurposed Gear, I think.

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So how SHOULD you take out a fresh pod in concealment?


My tactic
>everyone in cover
>overwatch all but my Nade-bro
>launch grenade

How about you?

>>181423734
>vanilla xcom
fuck overwatching and have one of my soldiers who can do two actions start it off or have someone through a grenade. Then I have the rest of my squad move up and kill the remaining aliens
>LW
Beaglerush maneuver.

>>181423734
>Vanilla
Same as you
>Current mod run
Kill them with throwing knives and silent takedowns

>>181423734
I leave an overwatched spark out in the open with everybody else overwatching unless if it is two or more pods clumped up, then grenade overwatch.

>>181424063
>Beaglerush maneuver.
What is this?
t. newfag

>>181424182

have 1 bait troop pull a pod then lure the aliens into 30 xcom soldiers all on overwatch

repeat until extraction

>>181424182
technically the beaglerush maneuver involves putting every soldier in concealment and on overwatch, and allowing an enemy spot one of your soldiers in concealment, triggering a full squad close range overwatch against the enemy.

this tactic was patched early in the development of the game and enemies were able to shoot flanked soldiers when they spotted them from concealment.

In LW it's even worse, enemies get free actions if you activate them during their turn.

>>181424182
right before the xcom2 release beagle got an early copy and was streaming it. He found out that if you put your soldiers out in the open on overwatch in the patrol path of enemies during concealment it let him get off free overwatch and then a whole turn. It was patched out before the game was even released, but LW brought it back.

>>181423734
>giving aliens a free turn
Don't Do This™

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>>181419724
I hate the fact that the cap fucks up the bobcut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hZ5XnAmKE
This is some silly shit.

>>181424597
Then how do you do it?

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>>181419724

>>181424723
Easily! Thanks for asking.

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>>181419724
not posting rosters as the quality is all over.

Fuck this shit, forgot to take alien data with my specialist and now i'm savescumming to survive this one turn i had to stay because of this.
(93% chance overwatch killing me all the time)

>>181424997
Why not just cheat? I mean you're savescumming anyway

>>181424838
Retard

>>181425229
I already was searching for cheat console, but then i found my key to victory.
It was FAILED DRONE HACK, lol, i did this and somehow i survived aliens turn.
Feeling bad, but i did everything good and it doesn't feel right to fuck up just because i forgot to press hack

>>181425290
you sound like my dad

>reduced avatar progress by 5

Yummy

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=961800020&searchtext=
Fuck yes! Some fallout power armor!

>>181426465
>fallout 3
ew

>>181426465
Call me back when it's the old school Enclave armour.

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>>181426465
>APA soon
Fuck yes.
That said, these will probably look really odd in motion.

Do any stats matter for training psi ops in 2 or can I just whack anyone in there? Is will still important?

>>181426680
Everyone has the same stats as a rookie so use whoever you want.

So the new villains/heroes are pretty much the Ginyu Force/Slavic /k/ommandos?

>>181427109
Don't forget wizards and ninjas.

>>181427109
>>181427319
I seriously hope that hero units won't make your guys completely obsolete late game.

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I dont think shes dead
How long will she be stunned for?
She took a faulty vibrator from a stun lancer

>>181427618
She won't wake up on her own. If that's what you've asked about.

>>181426680
if you're talking vanilla, no

if you're talking LW, you want to have someone with high psi offense, the generation is random between 2 psi offense all the way to 38 psi offense, if you see a rookie with 38 that's one ot become a super soldier

>>181427618

she's down for the rest of the mission unless you use something like a specialist's revival protocol

you will have to pick em up and drag em to the evac zone if you are forced to evac

>>181427743
Well shit can I wake her up in the mission? I could use the extra fire power.

>>181427909
tfw she is my medic specialist
Its a Retaliation mission so I should be alright with leaving her to her nap right?

>>181428027

Yeah, she'll be fine. Once you kill all the aliens the mission will end.

>psi operative's fortress ability is passive

holy fug why have I never bothered with psionics before, these things are completely busted and I love them

do gatekeepers appear automatically or do I have to do the portal mission?

>>181428212
Doing the mission lets you encounter them earlier, I think, but they'll start appearing eventually even if you don't do it.

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>>181428107
Funnily enough the 2 Botched Facelifts were the easiest part of that mission

I dont care how bad my guy's aim is this should be a 100% shot no matter what

>Last mission
>Brought 4 max level psychics and the commander
>At least two avatar are wrecked by their own mindcontrolled minions

>>181428652
I'm not the only one who would try to eat them with a spoon, am I?

>Avenger defense starts right after I send out two big squads for the Portal mission and a Region liberation
>its all C-Team people with ballistic or laser weaponry
>nearly every enemy is an Elite

well it was fun while it lasted

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>>181428751
They do remind me of a sort of pudding

TAKE A GUESS WHICH EVENT I WANT TO COUNTER THE MOST

>>181428997
Rural Checkpoints?

>>181428997
>Avatar will go up by at least 3 blocks in a week or two
Well that's fucked up.

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jesus fucking christ

>>181429121
2 of those will be added to a facility so they can be removed.

>>181429439
If the facility is close enough.

>been running round a terror mission looking for a single chryssalid who keeps burrowing across the map

so fun

>>181429421
reminder to never haywire the first mech you find

This new missions in long dong is hardest shit ever, every time i lose at least 1 soldier, so much pods.

>>181429816
That was the first Superheavy MEC I've ever seen and I really thought "Well shit, it won't get better than that right now"

>>181429421
tfw I took it out with two missiles from across the map

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I need to build up my roster but I also have to hit that first blacksite asap
fuck

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>>181430309
Fuck it im just gunna try and take it.

>Recover data from a truck mission in 8 turns
>game puts my squad on the opposite side of the map so that it takes three+ turns just to get to the damned truck

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>>181430496
Decided some upgrades were in order before going in

>>181430775
That's how it always goes, anon.

>>181430775
Is it a set extraction or can you place the evac? As soon as you can pop the flares near the objective so you can do a smash and grab.

>>181426465
>fallout 3 version

Literally why

is there a greater feel than a sectopod moving up to your gunslinger and assault, both equipped with bluescreen ammo

>>181432459
Yes, when your support successfully hacks it and takes control of said sectopod which you then use to massacre the rest of the map, and the last pod manage to take it out just before the hack wears off.

>>181432989
Story of my life. Street shitter uber hacker be praised.

How do you color your soldiers?

I have a uniform for every class but the squad decides the color (military green for squad 1, grey for squad 2 etc)

I just love how composite teams feel since I can track from which of my 5 squads they're from.

>>181434069
I color them based on class

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>>181431759
probably the same reason that he ripped the ranger set from new vegas. The other power armors are probably being worked on but we're not getting fallout 4 armors probably at all.

>>181413282
How does panicking soldiers work exactly? Whenever one of my soldiers panic, they lose their following turn. I just set fire to 2 exalt guys who panicked, but on their turn they both shot and killed my mec. Is panic different for enemies, or do my soldiers have a chance to snap out and not lose a turn?

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Which colors do think he would choose for himself?
Oh the side note: real shame props are tied to armor tiers. Is there a mod to change it?

>>181436046
Panic has a RNG chance to attack anything in sight/run around/hunkerdown/attempt suicide

>>181414191
I played EU twice, then EW, then Long War, but that was over the course of like three years.

>>181436659
>No V-sync

>it's a "sectopod destroys all the equipment on a landed ufo" episode

>>181436659

yes

>>181437075
doesn't that trigger when they're panicked? The exalt ran to cover and hunkered when they panicked, then they shot on their turn instead of loosing a turn to panic.

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that was close

>>181437075
>attempt suicide
i wish this was real

>>181438564
Wait, equipment? I just blow as much shit as I can up to remove cover for the ayys

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Rate my A-team

>>181440908
I don't understand why LW2 removes the ability for grenades to blow everything up, makes grabbing objectives and boxes much easier when you make grenades incapable of damaging the environment.

>>181440908
Anon I...

>>181441073

SPESS

MUHREENS

>>181441073
default weapons/10

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>>181437075
>mfw a panicked rookie tossed a nade at my best men, killing them
It was my fault for putting them next to a truck, but I wasn't expecting blue on blue.

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fuck me
I never spent so much time thinking 7*7 moves ahead

>tfw can use Evac All on Operatives who have no moves left

I didnt thinkiit would work but im glad it did

>>181441073

Needs bigger guns

>>181440908
A buch of research stuff like the UFO power sources, the UFO flight computers,the alien surgery, etc. are physically on the map.
They can be used as cover or can be destroyed, in wich case you can't use them as research. You can still sell them though.

>promote my Squaddie Ranger to Corporal
>got Salvo as a bonus ability

What's the best way to make this useful on a Ranger?

>>181441678
What weapons are suggesting?

>>181442910
plasma to destroy cover/shred armor I guess

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The fuck am I supposed to do here? No option to hack the door.

Do I just have to try chucking my remaining grenades at the damn thing or something?

>>181444391
So WAR Suit with Shredstorm Cannon/Plasma Cannon would be a good setup?

>>181444649
Your soldier probably has 0 hack. Otherwise it might be a bug so save and reload to fix it.

>>181444858
Hmm, all my soldiers have ~10 hacking.

Guess I'll reload the game.

>>181444649
If you are using the stats roulette some soldiers can end up with 0 hack and can't hack containers and doors, if not then it's magnificent design.

>>181444649
explode it instead

>>181444858
>>181444986
>>181445173
Reloading didn't work, not enough 'nades to blow it up.

Guess that one soldier died in vain. Thanks LW.

>>181444690
>>181442910
Okay, so I'm making the Salvo Ranger a Blademaster with the Shredstorm Cannon.

>>181445281
Fuck that, use console commands to win the mission, there is no need to take that shit.

>>181445173
Not him, but when I tried that, the van just blew up, killing the VIP.

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>>181419724

>>181431759
Fallout 4 power armour won't fit the xcom 2 skeleton without major modifications.

>>181445629
Thank you anon, I didn't even know there were console commands.

Infinite AP, infinite grenades, blasted that fucking bullshit door open in a turn.

>now my Grenadier gets Death From Above after promotion

Fucking hell, game, stop giving my guys useless abilities.

>>181448040
>useless abilities.
Is this some magnificent design?

>>181448040

>he hasn't trained his grenadiers in the art of bullet launching from high altitudes

How many doses of snek cock did vahlen end up taking after the first game?

>>181448845
>>181448559
It takes too long to get Grenadiers into high positions unless they're wearing Wraith suits and have high ground in range, unless there's very specific circumstances it's useless for them.

>>181449000
You're making it sound as if she didn't work them to death by the dozens and still remained unfulfilled.

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Useful

>>181450437
>that much fucking recoil

>>181450608
Small, low-mass package. Recoil would be like that.

>>181450702
Boolits are even smaller, with barely enough powder to push them outta barrel.

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>you will never see the panicked fear in an ayy lmao's eyes as he stares down the barrel of your gun aimed right between his eyes while you smother-crush his comrade's face with your massive washboard abs

modding was a mistake

>>181454295
>Pactical

>burning archons can still melee

magnificent

>>181454345
>a million different mods that make the game easier
>"Modding is awesome!"
>one lone mod that makes the men buff
>"WTF I hate mods now!"

Such fragile creatures.

>>181455591
who are you quoting

someone post the magnificient design quote

>>181455687
>someone post the magnificient design quote
someone post the magnificient design quote

>>181455673
The guy complaining about a mod.

>>181455836
Nobody in this thread has said what you said stupid fucking reddit nigger

>>181455832
ha thanks

How do i stop rulers from fleeing and how do you counter their reaction?

>>181456347
Just kill them in a single turn. Use freeze nades.

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>>181456347
>stop them from fleeing
They'll summon a portal after a set amount of turn or if you deal enough damage to them. The only real way to prevent them from fleeing is by killing them.

>>181457054
I really hate these tenderizers. She would look better with more armor.

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>>181457340
Agreed.
>No back breaker kill move
>can't pick up dead bodies and fucking Throw them.

Mod that makes it so that dudes who get shot through full cover have a drastically increased chance of bleeding out rather than outright dying.
Getting flanked or shot through half cover, or even having positive modifiers added to the shot through full cover (such as height advantage or being marked) would still function as normal. But no more "lol 5% critted through full cover while disoriented" outright killing your guys.
Good idea for making the game feel less bullshit?
Or just easymode?
I might make this mod and play around with the idea and see how it works.

New to XCOM.

When I'm looking at my "chance to hit number", is this at the end of all calculations or are defense bonuses not included.

Shots with 55% DO NOT hit. They simply, DO NOT.

I have had more instance of having 4 guys fire at 55% and NONE of them hitting, than having just ONE of them hit. Dice rolls seem weighted at lest by 10% or something.

>>181458470
You're being shown the final product but the way the RNG works means it's not always accurate

And just because its 55% doesn't mean you'll hit 1 out of 2 shots either.

>>181458470

Assuming you're talking about Xcom 2, depending on the difficulty you are playing, rolls might be weighted in your favor, they are never weighted against your favor. It's just RNG.

XCOM taught me to reach for every possible advantage in percentage and that an 80% chance of success is horrible.

>Job hunting for 3 months
>No luck
>Read that applications and email sent on Monday and Tuesday are "20%" more likely to be read
>That's like being in hard cover vs half cover
>Only send applications on Monday/Tuesday
>Suddenly have 3 job interviews

Thanks XCOM!

How do I get gatekeeper's shell? Killed 3 already and got none.

>>181441091
Because grenades are op as fuck

>>181459319
Gotta do it on the mission without evac.

>>181459615
Oh, I see. Thanks.

>>181417192
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=687662081

>>181459253
And people say you can't learn anything from video games.

Is there a mod that makes the campaign last longer but isn't long schlong 2?

>>181458470
Why does everyone still believe in gambler's fallacy?

>>181413282

Technically they're not dead...

They're just feral ghouls from fallout.

Also, is there mod like the strict screening second wave option for LW 2?

>>181458470
>4 guys firing at 55%
that's a pretty small number

it's not unlikely that they will all miss

>>181461236
Go to the lw toolbox options menu and untick nce

>>181458470
The idea is to position your guys in such a way that you have high chance shots.
Sitting back and taking 55% shots all day will get you killed very fast. You need to flank, remove cover, and get close. When you find yourself taking 85%-100% shots the majority of the time, you'll know you're doing it right.
At the end of a mission, if your successful shot percentage is 100% without save scumming, you'll know that you've got gud at the tactics part.

People who complain about XCOM being "muh RNG" are just shitters who just repeatedly take 50% shots and wonder why they're not hitting anything.

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>>181461236

Nah nigga, they are tiberium mutants

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>Skirmisher Double agent
>One ADVENT trooper will defect to your side every mission.

I guarantee someone will mod it so any alien can.
>YFW Sectopod buddy.

>>181456347
Have someone with blademaster stand on top of their portal

Gunslingers are FUN
Pistols are USEFUL

>>181463075
How do I effectively use a gunslinger?
Every other class is pretty easy. Rangers flank and crit. Specialists Overwatch. Grenadiers blow everything up. Gunslingers? Where do I put them to get the most out of their abilities?

>>181462561

I'm guess that Advent will only defect to you during the mission and you wont be able to keep them, but i'd love a mod that made it so you could.

>>181463638
Only if it also lets them rank up. Would make shieldbearers fucking crazy

>>181463515
Anywhere, really. With such a volume of fire you can't go wrong, you won't go as right as more dedicated classes either, though.

>>181462406
mfw I trust 30-50% shots more than I do 60-80% shots.

Even after a good flank or cover removal I sometimes just keep thinking to myself "oh great this shitter's gonna miss somehow" while I cannot count the number of times my sharpshooter lands some BS ~40% shot out of nowhere, killing the guy.

>>181463515
/r/ing the WebM of that one gunslinger shooting like 8 enemies in one round

>>181463638
You'd probably get intel from them.

>>181464042
This is because if you're in a position to get a really good shot, you're also in a position that if you somehow miss and the guy survives, you're going to get absolutely fucked.

Whereas of your sharpshooter misses it's usually pretty inconsequential.

So you remember your Ranger missing 90% shots more than you remember your sharpshooter missing the 30% shots

>>181464208
my sharpshooters never miss tbqh, I dont even bother save scumming before a 10% chance to hit because I know it will always 1HKO and give death from above into pistol death vs someone else

>>181464208
That's probably the case. It's also probably because higher percent shots you're going to take all the time while the 30% you never really go for unless theres nothing else you can do.

Cheesing turrets with a concealed ranger and a squadsight sniper is fun

>>181464208
Different anon, but not really. It's like Puzzle Quest, you expect to get fucked over the most obviously unfuckeable shit, and at the same time expect this obviously retarded maneuver to work. Because you simply try to play it safe.

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What do you lads think?

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>>181464526
you're gonna love long war bud

Why does everyone say sharpshooters suck when my sharpshooters are always the ones with more kills than anybody else

>>181465420
Because you babysit them.

>>181465420
probably because sharpshooters are one of the weakest classes in the early game because theyre impacted most by the low aim, and earlygame is one of the most important things for a successful campaign in xcom.

That being said if you do make it to midgame and lategame they become clutch carries.

>>181465420
Maybe because sharpshooters really suck. For them to get anywhere you basically need the whole team coordinated to feeding them kills. Meanwhile an all-grenadier squad just fucks over absolutely everything in the game no problem.

>>181462561
Screw ADVENT. I just want his rifle.

>>181465064
Needs more mustache.

Would it be too cruel to subject a sectoid to a straight month of anime?

>>181467030
The xenos must never be allowed to watch our glorious anime. Next thing you know those sons of bitches will be stealing our waifus.

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>it's this episode again

Ok so for some reason one of my soldiers has had their Will reset to a really low value upon rank up (I'm playing Long War 2).

I've reloaded to a previous save but it keeps happening every time they level up.

Is there a patch I can do or a console command to fix this really low will? Is something in the LW2 toolbox causing this?

>>181467328
>implying snek wont steal you from your're waifu

>>181467720
Did they get critically injured in their last mission? If so it's probably the Reduced Will debuff.

>>181467973
Snek is for burning alive.

>>181413282

Ok, starting up LW2, guys.

I need a recommended group of compatible mods for gameplay, UI. I have good enough Cosmetics.

>>181468272

Oh, and bug fixes too, if you have them.

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>when the fix for all the mods that were for some unknown reason broken was literally just to delete the game's config folder

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Why am I getting my asshole torn open in LW2?

I beat the first xcom handily and cruised through the vanilla xcom 2 campaign on veteran, I think I'm not absolutely terrible but I feel so completely outmatched by the aliens very early on in LW2. First mission rarely goes off without a hitch, and the subsequent infiltration missions feel like I need to have a full squad of at least corporals to have a chance

>>181468673
You're not using enough grenades

>Blacksite
>Almost flawless
>2 guys get mortared by a MEC near the end
>Take 3 damage each, 10 HP max
>Cool, casualties are minimal for the mission, just a couple lightly wounde-
>Gravely Wounded: 22 Days
What? Why? They took less than a third of their total health in damage.

>>181468981
they got exploded, what did you expect

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So now that xcom 2's "big mod" came out, do i need to give up hope on attack dogs or is there maybe someone to be a buddy and mod it?

Has there been any attempt?

Would anyone be interested in a fapfic featuring a futa viper having her way with rookie that gets left behind?

>>181468673
What difficulty are you playing on? For both vanilla and LW2.

>>181468981
Serious answer is that damage wound timers are also filled with rng.

Anyone know why my guys never return from infiltration unless they get wounded?

Completed a mission and it just tells me they're all still infiltrating.

>>181468272
>>181468401

Bump, please.

Best hair/face mods for XCOM2?

>>181471183

Gotcha Again, Another F1, Smooth Scrolling, New Target Icons, RoboJumper's squad select screen, BlackMarket Usage, LW2, Better Squad Icon Select, LW2 Information Display, LW2 Advent Back in Black, Actual Chain Lightning, More Environmental Lighting maps, Darker Nights, Show Infiltration Percentage in Squad Select.

>>181470197
How is Wound Recalibration?

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>>181471545

There's only a couple of mods that add faces, i don't know their names of the top of my head, i think mods like the Liara port, the Kerrigan port and the like adds their faces to the game. And there is at least one mod in LoversLab that also adds a couple of faces.

tl;dr: There are no face mods, there are a couple scattered here and there and that's it, adding faces to the game is pretty hard.

As for hair mods, i don't know which one i could call "best" the only one i remember is Destroyer's Hair Pack, and look like 2 more were uploaded a couple of days ago.

>>181471796
Probably reasonable, I haven't used it. Just makes it more straight in line with the hp you lost.

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>>181469913
Maybe

>>181471591

Any gameplay rebalances?

>>181470369
Anyone? I can't play xcom2 at all with this bug. Really frustrating.

>>181474467
you're probably better off just tweaking the lw2 inis

Do officers in magnificient war 2 still level up their normal class?

As in, will a ranger officer still level up as ranger?

>>181476512

Of course you silly goose!

Officer training is something entirely different!

>>181476512
Yes and yes.

>>181470369
>>181475169
I haven't been able to find anything like what you're experiencing on google. Maybe you found a new bug?

>>181476692
Dunno, I don't trust so much magnificence.
Does this mean Psi-operatives can be officers?

>>181477143
Yes but anyone whose training requires tube time will be somewhat hampered by double training burden. Sometimes psi operatives get a perk called quick study that halves AWC and officer tube times though.

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I did my first mission without breaking concealment today /xcg/

I wasn't informed, however, that as soon as the terminal was hacked I would get revealed anyways, and it wasn't fun holding for 4 turns in an awful position against all pods at the same time.

Are Dark Events with you forever or do they expire at some point.

>Reduce retaliation Counter by 2 weeks

vs

>Guaranteed reinforcements on Guerilla missions

I do not want number two with me forever.

Also, what constitutes a "Guerilla" mission?

>>181478468
Dark events last for like a month

>>181478468
>Are Dark Events with you forever or do they expire at some point.
LW? Forever, Vanilla? they apply and last for a month

>what constitutes a "Guerilla" mission?
The standard missions

>>181478748
Not all dark events in long war are permanent. Only tactical upgrades

Today I have discovered some rules for a happy mission. 2 grenadiers, minimum, every mission. Apply grenades and btfo out of the cover of anything that has a free "fuck you" ability. All rookies will report to grenadier training until I have a shit load of grenadiers.

>>181478682
>>181478748
If I'm on the 29th of a month, will they only be for one day? Or are we talking 30 days?

So basically I'm look at: Every mission is harder vs One more mission thats hard

That scientist would be nice, but fuuuuuck that.

>>181479779
The event will active one day in the next month and will be active for 28~30 days

>>181479896
>in the next month
It can activate as early as the current month if you're unlucky

>>181413282

I'd kill for an ACU camo at this point.

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>>181469913
GOD YESSSSSSSS

>>181462561
Will this be also possibly a shieldbearer defect to XCOM side?

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>>181469913

Only if it ends up with Bradford entering the room like this and decapitating them both.

I beat commander ironman without any psi-operatives. Then I got to use the commanders avatar in the last mission. Are all psi-operatives that great? Next playthrough I'm gonna have to rush psi I guess. Even though I don't really know how to.

Commander! My latest research has yielded the schematics for suit, a suit that just has a shit load of pockets.

Is that it?

Yes.

Can the pockets fit a grenade?

A shit ton of them commander. We've also developed a prototype B.U.C.K.E.T., we believe we can fit up to 15 grenades in each, allowing a soldier's none-grenade throwing hand to carry as much as-

BEGIN PRODUCTION IMMEDIATELY! I WANT ALL GUNS AND METAL MELTED DOWN INTO GRENADES, TOP PRIORITY! Let's see if these aliens can handle a full regime of potato throwing savants.

>>181479779
Grenadiers are amazing early game, drop off sharply mid-game, then suddenly become amazing again end-game

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>>181481556
Yes, psi operatives are ridiculously powerful

>>181481556
Starting psi are a bit better than rookies. Full psi are gods.

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>>181481575

At last the time has come

>>181481756
How bad do they really drop off? Seems to me that guaranteed damage/cover removal is pretty good. Only at the codex myself.

FUCK

THIS

>>181469913
sure

SNAKE

whats the command to teleport a unit to the cursor?
my sniper fell on top of a coffe table and cant move

>>181482891
ttc I think

>>181483174
it worked thanks

>>181476738
figured it out
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/5pm0nv/long_war_2_infiltration_bug/

>>181482456
They're still useful for getting rid of cover, but there's a point where Mutons and MECs become increasingly common but you haven't been able to get Plasma Grenades, and basic frags only tickle those guys.

What the fuck? I thought you couldn't make melee attacks while disoriented? Why did the faceless just smack one of my guys while disoriented?

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>*mor balaten's you through full cover*
JUST DELETE THE FUCKING COVER.
THIS SHIT DOESN'T DO DINKY DICK.

What's this? You hiding behind reinforced Ayylmaonium Steel reinforced thousands of times?
>TUNGSTEN-ED
Fortify Buff?
>CRIT-ED

>"You see Balaten, when close eyes like me, you shall always hit target, for wall no longer exists."
>"Ayy lmao."

>VIGILO CONFIDO
My ass.
>PROTECTUS MORTUUS
That's the shit. Tuck me in this shit^ for I am done for tonight.

>>181485787
They can on legendary

>>181485787
Faceless are melee only units

I don't think they'd be much of a threat if a flashbang neutralized them.

>54 Corporals by the first supply drop
I love Satellite data

>>181469913
>futa
no
I want a fic of an after the war, domesticated, non-futa Viper being a timid dom with a veteran xcom operative that she has been assigned to as his domestic servant

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>>181485797

>teleports bullets inside you

Nothing personal terrorist

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

>>181487904
>cannot see my gun
confirmed, stun lancers are high as fuck when on duty

>>181488243
Doesn't the autopsy say they have been injected with drugs before combat?

>>181488498
That's all Advent desu

Disk ai in 1.0 is the most operator, annoying fucking shit I've seen in vidya in a long time.

>fucks off after activation to who knows where
>hides using elevation LOS
>squad starts looking for it
>swoops out of nowhere and one-shots some poor Fuck
>chills like a faggot because it's still somehow out of the rest of the squad's LOS

It's like fighting a frisbee version of the Predator

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>It's this episode again

>>181489148

Disable the uniform manager mod, that's what was causing it 4me

>>181489263
But that mod's useful as fuck.

>>181488795
You gotta smash space plates asap

>>181489343

Well shit. Good luck Commander

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Protect the Device
Moderate
175 supplies
Counters: Rural Checkpoints

Hack the Workstation
Difficult
1 Scientist
Counters:Hidden Faceless

Recover Item
Moderate
One Engineer
Counters:2 Blocks of progress on Avatar Project

WHICH SHOULD I DO?

>>181489762
The one that gives an engineer.

>>181489762
Recover item.

Hidden faceless lets you get mimic beacons faster and rural checkpoints is a non-issue as long as you have the black market

>>181489762

Either 1 or 3, hidden Faceless is a meme.

How's your supply situation? How far along is the avatar project/are you in a position to remove those ticks?

>>181489762
Recover Item

Engineer and two Avatar blocks prevented > the other two.

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>>181489938
>>181489960
>>181490001
>>181490239
Good I was leaning towards that one.

This is the current global situation

I have Mag Weps/Predator ARmor
Just bought Shard Guns for big Crits

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>>181490345
This is the team thats going in.
I have a chance right?

Any tips for a new player?

I'm only playing on the 2nd highest difficulty but feel like I'm losing one or two people every mission. Is there something I'm missing here?

Got a couple of quality of life mods installed, but nothing that really changes the gameplay.

>>181491074
Maintain LoS

>>181491074
G R E N A D E S

>>181491074
low cover is no cover

>>181491074

Half cover is no cover

Cars are death traps

Don't be afraid of using grenades

Get Magnetic Weapons as soon as you can.

If you own it, do not, under any circumstance, disable the Alien Hunter DLC when you start a campaign.

Breaking Line of Sight and baiting aliens into overwatch ambushes is your friend, unless timerslmao.

>>181491074
get commanders choice
get a squad of nothing but grenadiers + 1 specialist
endgame you can add a psion if you want

>can't collect enemy bodies for autopsies and research in any missions that require you to evac out
>3/4 of the missions in the game are evac missions

Wonderful game design.

>>181493004
I went for months before I got my first advent commander corpse in LW2

You really should do supply raid mission when it becomes available, especially at 0% infilitration

>>181493004
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=766512413

>>181493004
just be glad you don't need 20 muton elite corpses and a truckload of meld to get three item slots

>>181493318
>Need to kill elites for their corpses
>Need to capture them for their weapons
>Maybe 1-3 appear every mission

Fuck

>>181493456
In the late game they are fairly plentiful, but by that point I already have tac rigging

>>181490494
What mod gives you that middle girl's shirt?

I really want more mods with stuff like that, give the early game more of a rag-tag feel. Sticking everyone in resistance warrior gets repetitive

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Should I go for the Exo suit?

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>>181493996
In game its just Torso 12
Probably from the various armor packs recommended in the op
Its sorta like a WW2 Field Jacket


I was going to post about how i dont like the new muton design but looking at it now its starting to grow on me.
In motion they look like a football player who skips leg day.

>>181494307
Mutons have transitioned from meatshield to actual soldiers.

>>181494086

Probably.

>>181494086
WAR Suit is better.

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Flamethrower ambushes get me hard.

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>>181495609
>enemies within flamethrower range
well that's a first, also
>bladestorm ambush

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>unrevealed gatekeeper revives every fucking corpse from my perfect ambush

Well there goes that erection.

>difficult raid
>only 10 ayys

What did they mean by this?

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Jolly black man is gunna rain death on the Xeno scum

Post your favorite Soldiers from your current run.

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>>181496203
>game crashes
>reload save
>all the corpses have turned into generic x-com men

what the fuck

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>to defeat advent we became advent

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>reinforcements incoming next turn
>set up entire team in overwatch
>the Three Stooges fly down and hop out
>leader makes her gurgling bark
>they break for cover
>RAT-A-TAT-ABLAMCHKCHKBRRRRRRRRTPOWBANGBANGBANGBZZZORT
>pile of smoking meat in the middle of the road

Alternatively

>Three Stooges drop down right on top of SPARK-001
>break and hide in a way where he's still flanking all three of them
>Overdrive
>"PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON. YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO COMPLY."
>BLAM
>BLAM
>BLAM
>three dead mice, three dead mice, see how they rot, see how they rot