So, how's your XCOM play-through going, anon? Think the

Started on legend and squad wiped on the 2nd mission because the game kept giving me enemies on high ground and those dumb fucks missing 87% shots.
It's going great.

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I don't have the expansion, but my save got fucked up and I can't play it anymore. I guess I'm restarting for the 7th time

>>388715942
>Xenonauts 2
Doubt.
Just look at this shit
https://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/index.php?/topic/14355-summarisation-of-changes/

>>388715942
I once started X-com 2 and got pissed with one of the early story missions fucking me over with the time limits. I decided I won't play again until I get the expansion, but I am waiting for a serious discount because 30 freedoms is a bit too much.

Meanwhile, getting into Long War 1. Loving the support gunner weapons.

>>388717654
It's still the same.
2nd mission is impossible without sacrificing at least one soldier because they literally place 5 enemies on top of the objective and expect you to do it within 6 turns.
Or you can get some retarded bullshit like 10+ hp general you need to kill surrounded by another 4 enemies.

>xcom thread
>no manly mens in sight
Worst thread right now

>>388718076
Thank god WOTC broke that mod for now

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>>388717654
>>388717985
Just play on Beta Strike and double the timers in the advanced WotC options

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>>388718394
>Thank god
What are you gay or something?

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>>388718513
I just want to talk about xcom without the thread being spammed with gay shit.

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>favorite character dies
>dont feel like playing anymore

>>388718586
>Not introducing his brother who signed up in the resistance to avenge his death
Yes I have autism but at least I'm having fun in my vidya

>Starting a thread with stale /pol/ and r/politics memes

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Fucking timed missions man.

>tfw re-rolling the 2nd mission for the 7th time now because I literally end up 1 tile off from the objective every single time
You don't get that first engineer you're pretty much fucked on legend.

>>388718502
i'm assuming you can upgrade the resistance factions guns eventually because 4 damage pop shots become worthless mid and late game.

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What mods are you using, /v/?

>>388718840
everything in xcom 2 is timed

>>388718887
4 damage is actually the magnetic tier of reaper weapon

>>388718891
They've updated them already?
Only have health values myself.

>>388718973
damn that's kinda sad.

>>388719020
reapers get most of their damage from things other than their weapon I'd say
they're mostly scouts

>>388718937
>>388718840
>Not modding that horrible design decision out

Is the game good now? Everyone was bitching about the timer when the game came out.

>>388718887
>>388719020
Reapers later get +5 extra damage on crits and some other neat utility but most of their strength is for scouting and covert actions

>>388719141
oh that's better then.

>>388719112
Wont that make the game too easy though?

>>388718840
>>388717654
Seriously. WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING?

Losing a mission because of some artificial time limit is not fun nor is it fairly challenging. What a shitload of fuck.

>>388719137
The game was always good, albeit with performance issues.

The timer can be easily modded out or extended by a few turns if it bugs you that much.

>>388719137
You can mod timers out

>>388719137
There's a few things you can do about them now. There's an option before you start the game to double the length of mission or avatar timers, and there's a resistance order you can get in the game (basically cards that you swap in and out) that makes it so timers don't start until you leave concealment. There was a mod that did this but now it's in-game with an associated cost

>>388719275
Wait, where are those options? I didnt see them when i was starting the game.

>>388719275

That's much better, Anon. There were some points in the game where it sounded like a timer would make sense and make the game more fun, so removing timers altogether sounded like a shitty solution, desu, even if people kept on saying the timers were excessive.

Double length sounds like a good compromise. Maybe there's a mod that makes it so that timers don't start until you leave concealment instead of the RO. That sounds much more sensible.

>>388719453
If you're running the expansion I think it says "show advanced option" when starting a new game.

New DLC is kinda meh
>adds more super enemies
>fighting a chosen
>chosen are fucking weaker than rulers, a man made variant of regular aliens
>chosen and alien at the same time buttfuck my life
>Chosen gain knowledge at re-donk speeds. My first 2 months in game have been trying to get a major so I can shut this ugly assassin bitch up already while her brothers are fucking up every other Continent.

>>388719640
This

>>388719640
the other 2 chosen haven't shown up yet because i haven't even done the first blacksite.

>>388720481
you don't have to do a blacksite to get more chosen running around.
if you make contact with a region they control, they activate

>>388720554
i haven't built the resistance comms yet either.

Mario plus rabbids completley destroys shitcom. No reason to ever go back.

>>388720672
okay buddy go play with your fisher price

>>388719209
they watched people like beaglerush take an hour to move up 10 meters in ironman and said this is no better then fucking savescummming. In saying that there is no reason that they couldn't of made the mission timers tick down only once you get discovered instead of right at the start when your team has been sent in unnoticed

>>388721895
Also, maybe instead of ending the mission right fucking then, just start dropping in enemy reinforcements.

>>388721895
There's a mod called "True Stealth" Or something along those lines.

Does exactly what you just described; only starts the countdown when you're discovered.

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Come on you bastards

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>>388715942
I'm pissed off, they reintroduced retarded friendly fire with the bondmate system

>>388721403
gameplay wise it does, though. Hope this will somehow revive the genre a bit.

Hey faggots

There's now a faction ability card that only activates the timer when revealed built in WOTC

Its one of the first two cards you get (at least for my play through)

>>388722143
i know man but it doesnt excuse what many see as an obvious oversight in design

>>388720672
Nintenbros truly are the worst fan base.

>>388722473
>Its one of the first two cards you get
not for me, I got cheaper rookies and one extra resistance contact

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>All aesthetics mods are broken due to new shaders.
>They are keeping the old shaders in vanilla for some retarded reason.

>>388717654
>I once started X-com 2 and got pissed with one of the early story missions fucking me over with the time limits. I decided I won't play again until I get the expansion
Wait, does the expansion remove time limits or something?

>>388723549
There's an option to double the time limits.

That new supply raid version is just obnoxious.
Especially so when you're dealing with lost and chosen at the same time.