XCOM General - /xcg/

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1st in with Xcom mag weapons (pic related)

If you like snakes you are gay

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making van doorn into crit monster MEC (y/n)?

Reposting from previous campaign

>>126376521
Solved this, but now I have yet another error.
As soon I start a new game and I have to choose the starting country for the XCOM base, I see nothing displayed, if I press Confirm, a mission starts but it doesn't load and I end up in a black screen.

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>>126378763

And samefagging too to damn well confirm it.

Anyone else think we might have 4 tiers in the game? Maybe more?

Traditional Ballistics > Mag Weapons > Lasers(?) > Plasma(?)

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>>126378784

What if I like the Air Game?

>>126378917
What tiers did Long War have?

Ballistic > Laser > Gauss > Plasma?

I think I'm forgetting something. Did anything use the Exalt laser gun models?

>>126378445
>Cover vs concealment

do you even know what those words mean or are you just spouting BREAK LOS memery

>>126379210
I think laser shows up twice, once as coherent beams and again as pulse.

I think beam lasers came first and used exalt lasers, then it's xcom beefy big chrome lasers for pulse.

>>126378662
Guys,

I'm trying to run Enemy Within on my shitty laptop since I'm out of town.

It's an Intel dual core 2.4 ghz with a shitty graphics processor that meets all the minimums except that it has only 64 MB of video ram.

I put everything to low and used the lowest resolution it would allow me to but it still runs choppy. It does run but I just can't handle how unsmooth it is.

How do I further fuck with the config to make the game even less demanding? I just want it to run smoothly. I don't care if it looks good for now. I can tell I'm close but there are no more options in the setting area to make lower.

What mods do you want to see for Xcom 2?

I want there to be a chance of there being resistance fighters in the maps, at first just places like the wilderness or shanty towns, you could run into them hiding out, or in combat with Exalt units, and you can recruit them by approaching them like civilians in EU terror missions, which gives you control over their actions for the rest of the mission then adds them to your roster when you complete the mission.

Later as support for the Xcom program increases you could inspire resistance fighters to be more bold, perhaps you're in a suburb, or even a city, and some civvies have managed to procure a few guns, ready to join in on the fight if one breaks out in their neighborhood, but still a lot more rare of an occurrence than finding fighters out in the woods.

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yo this game doesnt work btw

>>126379698
Run it at a lower resolution

Let's see some pics of potato xcom

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i made this lady shoot and now the game wont respond
shes just standing here with this camera and nothing is happening. idle animations are still going but it won't return control to me or anything

>>126379824
dont steal my fucking gimmick asshole

Yo, XCOM's on steam sale today. I already have the base game (enemy unkown), but I want Enemy Within DLC. http://store.steampowered.com/app/225340/ And the funny thing is that it's more expensive than all dlcs and base game together. What are my options to buy only enemy within and make it cheaper? (Or if I do buy the complete pack, do I get base game as a copy that I can give away?)

>>126380264
Just buy the complete pack, it's only 10 bucks

captcha: shekel kingesag

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time for fun

>>126380405
k, fuck it all, i bought the complete pack.

>>126378763
Where did you find this screenshot, never saw it before, nice find.

>>126378917
I don't know... i think they replaced lasers with magnetics.

>>126379732
I want to see a WW2 mod. The aliens stay the same, but the ame is placed during WW2 so you have the weapons and uniforms from that aera.

>>126380853
>WW2 mod
that would be fucking ridiculous

I just sent 4 soldiers with Archangel Armor and improved flight with 2 flying SHIV's to New Founland mission.

Fuck ayyliens.

>>126380853

The screens where from the Xcom 2 website - I clicked on the thumbs and opened them in a new tab, to my surprise they where full scale images . . . so I shared them here.

Im wondering if they have backups of the websites evolution on the internet wayback machine, I might be able to dig up a few more lost screens.

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It's okay to like sweet snake pussy.

>>126381053

Strange don't work for me, see always the same pictures i know before.

>>126381267

Nice, new snek pictures

>>126381267
Snakes have cloaca.

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>>126381267
S N E K

>>126381556
This is a blue board, anon; delete this.

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>>126378763
That's a laser rifle

>>126381752
No its a magnetic sniper rifle. That "laser" on the top is a laser sight.

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>>126378763
Is that a Berserk/Muton type or new enemy?

Also i love getting this mission late game, free exp for my squaddies for the meat grinding.

>>126381864
shhh it has laser must be lasor wopon

>>126381909
new berserk

Has anyone here tried playing xcom while drinking heavily? I'm about to.

>>126382013
stream?

>>126382013
I drink and take oxy while playing long war normal and I do ok.

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>>126381267

>you'll never dominate a snake slut with your psychic powers and turn her into your personal fuckslave

>>126382013

It can't be any harder than playing Tribes Ascend while drinking heavily.

>>126382090
Nah man I don't feel like setting up any streaming channels.

If I remember I'll post assume pictures and texts.

Long Dong by the way.

>>126382013
It actually makes losses and mistakes funnier to me so I enjoy it more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSciFwv0SIU

fug

>>126382330
aight hf senpai

>>126381993
>new berserk

God damn, they look sick af now.

>>126378763
I'd cap that berserk and fry up those rib fillet looking things. Survival mod when!

>>126380431
>51

dont do it anon

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>>126382831
can't quit now

I just bought the game in the steam sale any tips?

>>126383071
Finish vanilla EW and then play long war then come back and ask tips.

>>126383071
try to figure out how the AI works.
its easy after that

>>126383071
Install Long War for fun times.

>>126383071
don't give up if something goes bad

>>126383718
I will and you can't stop me

>>126383071
Dont do what >>126383198 told you

Instead do this: play Enemy Within once on normal, then on ironman classic.

Then you're set for XCOM2 which is around the corner.

Do not touch Long War even though others might tell you to. It was made by people who got bored of vanilla due to figuring out every little thing, to people of similar mindset.
It is not like Jagged Alliance 2's 1.13 which is basically just an upgrade to the existing game, nor is it like OpenXCOM that makes the game modern and streamlined.
Imagine a tasty sandwich that leaves you hungry for more, thats your EW.
LW is that sandwich with a bit more topping, but sealed in a fucking basket full of sour milk which you also have to deal with if you want to enjoy that marginally better sandwich, and most likely you'll be full before finishing.
LW is not for first-timers.

Play vanilla EW. Then play XCOM2.

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>>126383758

>>126383851
Dont listen to this guy he sucks at XCOM and shitposts regularly.

>>126384037
He probably also can't break LOS properly.

>>126380264
This guy here. Do I get achievements playing Enemy Within? Yes, i'm an achievement whore :)

>>126384340
Buy the complete pack.

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>>126383015
I love command flamethrower

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>>126384413
ez money

does anyone have those images with several builds for LW classes?
i have saved them, but just cant find them at all

>>126384624
use notepad++
http://pastebin.com/HE1s4TpQ

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the fun continues...

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I finally installed Long War yesterday. Every single mission I'm in either results in in every soldier dying or none of them even taking a spec of damage.
Is this normal, because it's just frustrating and makes me want to casual up and go back to vanilla EW. Is playing Long War even feasible without reading all these fucking FAQs?

>>126384965
question; how many hours do you have in xcom? (all games)

long war is all about AI manipulation, breaking line of sight, making your squads versatile, packing a LOT of damage, and being ahead in research constantly.

>>126384965
Well maybe you should have done like literally everyone with half a brain says and play the fucking vanilla game and git gud before going on to LW.

Classic/Ironman is the minimum requirement before trying LW.

>>126384965
nah thats pretty much how it works

ayys don't take shots they'll miss, so if anyone gets hit once, they're gonna get hit until they die

>>126384965
Break LOS

>>126384745
not what i was looking for, but gives me an idea of what to do
thanks

>>126384965
it's not supposed to be easy, people die a lot, if you're not careful, abuse line of sight breaking and knowing what your squad needs to prosper in each situation

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>>126384624
Gotcha covered Commander.

>>126385141
>>126385170
I've beaten Enemy Unknown twice, once on vanilla EU and once with EW, though I've played a bunch of games I never finished because I quit in frustration halfway through.

Either way, I already understand the vanilla game very well. I'm probably just not used to all the additions in LW.

>>126385409
thank you, fine sir
i will take better care of this from now on

>>126385503
play lw on normal, over and over again until you finish a campaign.

practice makes perfect
LW is a lot different than vanilla, need time to get used to it.

when someone from council quits, is it game lost?

>>126385852
yeah. if you lose one you'll lose em all

if there's one piece of advice more improtant than Break LOS it's Rush SATs

>>126385852
game over when 8 countries leave

>>126386120
But losing 1 puts you in great disadvantage. Is it even sane to continue when someone quits?

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>>126382330
>>126382451
Alright got a couple beers in me finally decided on what i'm gonna start with.

8 more to go, then it's on to the liqueur

plese enjoy my shitty editing

>>126386213
If you play on anything above easy expect atleast 1 or 2 countries to quit.

You sadly can't be everywhere at the same time.

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>>126383758

>>126386252
show us those sick skills

good luck beermander

>>126386252
judge my shit choices all you want. fight me.

>>126386358
>pointing is rude

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Anyone else disappointed by these things in XCOM 2?

>The enemy AI with literally suicidal units like the stun lancer and Snaketits
>The horrible art design of some units, like the new cyberdisk looking straight out of Starcraft

>>126386213
if you are playing vanilla, the difficulty doesn't really get worse; you only lose some potential income, which isn't even important by the time you could have gotten it

if you are playing long war, you can retake lost countries and the campaign has so many things that can go wrong that restarting for every failure is a fool's errand

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>>126386737
>new cyberdisk
>cyberdisk

>>126386737
Whats the new cyberdisk looked like?

>>126386961
>>126387082

I mean the unit that is replacing the cyberdisk, the blue looking dude

>>126380853
>Nazis have taken over the world and you're the resistance
hnnnnnnnng

>>126387140
You are very confused. That is the new floater, made to look not so horribly nightmarish. The cyberdisk is yet to be revealed if that makes you feel better.

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>having only ONE male soldier in my rooster on Classic Ironman run
>every new male soldier gets killed ethier in the same mission or in 2-3 next missions

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who else /eggsalt/ here

Was there some kind of range nerf to bombard archers in b15?

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Well thats not good.. panic spiral on my first mission and one rookie critically wounded... fuck. i'm just being shit right now, it's not even the alcohol

I want RNG to pick my perks in long war.

>>126387787
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>>126387953
>playing LW
>with controller

God damn son, you're masochistic.

>>126388070
Assign numbers, roll dice. done

>>126387953
>gamepad
damn

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>>126387953
lady luck was on my side. managed to pull through fairly well after the panic spiral. they didn't even get any chances. buggers just dashed to cover and overwatched.

>>126388228
controller is comfy man. i can just sit back and relax. with kbm i get all hunched over and shit.

>>126388773
I wonder if they will still support controllers for x2?

>>126388531
>not playing on a steam controller
ayy lmao

>>126388957
What for?

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>>126388773
well shit i knew i forgot to give someone a kill. oh well.
>>126388957
probably not but mods may be able to add it in. it just feels right to me, idk maybe because i started playing EU on 360 then EW on ps3 so i'm used to it.

>>126389127
It can be pretty comfy to just lean back in your office chair with a controller instead of hunching over the keyboard 24/7. I wouldn't care if they didn't have it, I just had not though about it till now.

>>126389391
I lay in bed with a keyboard and mouse playing xcom though.

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Flanks are for scrubs

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>>126389161
Shit. well i found the perfect medic for my team. he's already got 40 will and 15 movillity.

>>126388957
they said post-release they'd patch it in

>>126389545
How do you do that comfortably? Honest question.

>>126389583
That hunker animation is hilarious, its like a standing fetal position.

>>126389710
I dont know how to explain it well but im sitting up with like a million pillows behind me, blanket on and keyboard on my lap and mouse on a wooden thingy with a mouse pad on top.

>>126389913
Ok, sounds pretty comfy. I don't really have that option.

Steam controller is literally perfect for this game, goy
Why dont you have one yet

>>126390064
>get wireless mouse and k-board
>?????

>>126390281
>Have big desktop compute in office
>Would have to move entire bed into office
>???????

Not everyone has their computer set up next to their bed.

>>126390494
You neither have a couch or something of sort in that room?

Damn so, you fucked up.

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>>126390547
I guess I could move a couch in, but now I'm moving a couch across my house and buying a wireless keyboard and mouse when I already have a wireless controller.

I just got so angry about missing a bunch of high hit chances I kept shooting at the aliens in rage until I finally hit instead of just using a rocket to take them out. I lost two veterans.

I think it's time for a break.

>>126390737
I usually assume people don't have wireless controllers.

I'm like a fucking exception with that where i live.

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Sneaking up on dem ayys man. feels good.

can't fucking wait for xcom 2

2 beers left, i'm ready for that whisky

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You can actually do some cool breaches with fire as it turns out. For some reason, if you use the flamethrower, it will set ufo walls on fire and they will break after a few turns. Fire always ticks immediately at the end of your turn. So if you light a wall on fire and put everyone on overwatch outside, the wall will break, the aliens will activate giving you free overwatch shots, and then you can take your next turn.

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>>126392629

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>>126392804

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>>126392976

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DAMN IT! WHY DIDN'T I CHEKC THIS! run over. time to restart.

not really but that still sucks.

>>126393171
>controller

>>126387718
>having only ONE male soldier
Bradford and him are drowning in the bar
drowning in... you damn well know what
Shen just records

>>126393434
You're pretty slow, aren't you?

>>126393626
Fair point, I just came here and scrolled to the bottom to bump the thread with some quality shitposting

>>126393171
Always start with 4 steam vents, it's a stupid part of the game to simulate base building but gives nothing in return. I'm glad they removed it in XCOM2.

How many complete playthroughs have you done, Anonymous

>>126394417
Just 3. EU normal, EW Classic ironman, EW Classic ironman.

>>126394417
None I just come here to shitpost.

>>126394417
>he asked Anonymous
f-fuck you too

EU easy 1
EW classic 2
EW impossible 2
LW normal 3
LW classic 6
LW brutal 1+(currently playing one)

>>126394417
literally two, I keep getting bored and restarting

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Happy holidays, guys!

>>126394910
Don't reply to me just to get yourself filtered

>>126394417
>playing the game

nerd

>>126394417

around half.

I wish I had a snek wife :/

>>126395230
filtering namefags is the worst 4chan meme, to be honest
alliteratingfag is nice

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Yeah fuck you meld... id didn't want you in the first place.

fuck i'm starting to feel it quite a bit. though my first ufo is going well. not even a scratch and about to engage the outsider.

>>126395780
Listen get a gf any, even if she fat and ugly, once you feel that velvet smooth pussy you'll never want anything else.

I've Ayy lmao so hard that I've broke LoS in CLOSE RANGE ?!

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>shh, I think there are aliens outside

>>126395149
That's neat, thank you ( •ᴗ•)

>>126396348
Have you ever ayylmao'd so hard that you straight up break los'd someone irl?

>>126396451
dude, I can blink ?

>>126394417
1 Normal EU
3 C/I EW
Currently running LW

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>>126396353
>I told you there were aliens

>>126396016
fucking normal fags.

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>>126395894
Everything went soothly but there was a pod left after the outsider. now i'm doing a moderate aline activity thing and i only have rookies.

on hte bright side i'm using cinimatic mode so the shitties aim is 75

>>126396016
I want scales to slit my dick open!

Was/Is there a beagle stream today?

>>126397678
>streaming on christmas day

who would do that

>>126397678
I hope so I'm all alone on christmas day, all my friends are asleep/different timezones.

>>126397749
>christmas day
it's the 23th

>>126397975

you need to break LOS on your timezone

>>126397975
it's already the 25th for me, the fuck are you doing.

>>126378662
>No Christmas OP

One job.

Merry Christmas, fuckers. Stay strong, keep fighting those ayyliums. We gonna make it.

>play LW normal for first time
>Terror Mission: Swarming
>zombies and chrysallids every fucking where
>can't even save civilians, have to keep the squad alive

Holy fuck, is this how it usually is?

>>126378763
Anyone else notice the reflection in the water? If this isn't a bullshot then holy shit.

>>126398369
Yeah its like OG XCOM.

>>126398336
IT'S NOT CHRISTMAS YET REEEEEE

>>126394417
>250 restarted
>5 completed

I'm the reason XCOM2 happened.

>>126398559
I swear I've killed about 15 zombies so far, and the flow of enemies isn't going down anytime soon

>>126398557
I guarantuee it's a bullshot.
Nowadays, Devs never do exciting or unique graphics.

>>126398685
>tfw 3 chrysallids hatching from each egg in XCOM 2

>>126398797
There better be a pesticide weapon

>>126398557
>>126398784
"Every screenshot is taken directly out of the game."
-JS

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Oh crap.

ive already loset 2 guys this mission i don't know whats happening. fuck this whisky is hitting me harer than i thought it would

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AYYYYYYY LMAOOOOOOO!!!
Finally finished LW and what a fucking ride it was. I am just sorry that none of that hard work will count for anything in XCOM2. We didn't even reach lasers or MEC's in cannon timeline.

>>126398557
>>126398784

It's real they have reflections in game. Whats the big deal? Even happens on polished concrete.

>>126398369
Just did my first terror mission LW Normal and I only dealt with 3 Chryssalids and a single zombie. Did you get unlucky and pinned down by a firefight while offscreen Chryssalids killed everybody?

>>126398881
E X P L O S I V E S

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>>126387787
TELL ME ABOUT THE MEDIC

WHY DOES HE WEAR A BANDANA

>>126399243
They all do.

>>126399243

he's a gene-modded guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i9yl73xEfQ

>>126399376
LMAO WHEN THE SNEK APPEARS

>>126378763
>people unironically think X2 has the same graphical fidelity as EU
wew

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>>126399052
this wasnt suposed to ahpen. oh man i though t iwas doing okay... i can't ebelive i had a sqwaud wipe this early.

>>126400148
fuck i can't even type right.

>>126394417
10. 11th Classic Ironman currently ongoing.

Never forget what really happens after you "augment" a soldier for MECs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOhIJg4B7k

>>126394417
1, on normal

;_;

>>126400551
Lol what a shitter xD

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>>126393171
run with it anon!!!

>>126400460
I wonder what purpose that mirror serves when not being used in that scene.

>>126400460
>the making of advent stun lancer

Two questions for EW:

What class is the best for Mec and why is it Heavy?

What is the best starting continent and why is it Asia?

>>126401221

heavies are the best to MEC early, but lategame you want to chop colonel snipers

>>126400632
;__;

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>>126400982
Yeah, you right

>>126401221
But you know it already. Why do you ask?

>>126401794
Just in case there are some arguments I hadn't considered

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i threw a grenade to expose the sectoid.
it ended up destroying the entire wall except for a little slab the dude was hiding behind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAy4WX4KwUE

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>>126400148
I dont now what this waild ride is but i think i want off. i just dont underastnad how i got form completely aniihlated to just destroying a landed ufo.

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>>126402723
Fucking sweet.

>>126402723
Damn, i always think at 0:10 the imperial march would kick in.

>>126401983
First months = hardest = need to make first months easier = asia start

MEC = not to get hit / flanking /removing cover / killing shit with flamethrower = heavy

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Alright something weird and fucked just happened.

Started a brand new game.
It's the shitty rain-washed narrow street map, fml.
Move squad into cover, end turn.
Next turn, move a soldier up - his vision is just on the cusp of seeing an alien (in low cover) but without triggering their movement.
Move another soldier up into firing position
SECTOID TAKES AN OVERWATCH SHOT WHAT THE FUCK?!
I shot at him twice, killed him. No movement phase, no sign of his buddies.

Has ANYONE else had this happen? Stock EW btw.

>>126403490
Yeah this map is a bit buggy. Had some "AYY WE WILL SHOOT YOU EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T SPOT OUR POT ANYTIME BEFORE" moments on there

>>126402723
Someone was inspired by The Rock it seems.

>>126403490
git gud

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Ah, the "Too greedy for meld" position

Fucking cheating disk going out of his way to shoot her

>>126402723

I feel pretty good about the new soundtrack, McCann or no McCann.

>>126405686
15 min no comment... dead general.
Than out of nothing:
>git gud

lol

>>126405767

Wow, she really look fucked up, nice screenshot.

>>126393171
I've literally just restarted 4 games because of this

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i thank that went wall. except for then squad wipe unfortunely i'm too tired to contine. maybe another time when i can afforde more booze.

>>126403490
Yeah. It only seems to happen on Street Hurricane, where aliens get to be "pre-activated".

Honestly, when I get that map, I just reload. It's a shit map, it's buggy, the camera flips out a ton because it's too narrow, just fuck it. It is literally broken. It may as well be missing textures, to boot.

I know I call for aliens to start activated a lot but the game just isn't balanced around that shit and it's fucking stupid when it happens.

>>126407747

>Not playing Ironman

>>126407919
>trusting ironman in a game that literally does not work

that said I freely savesscum like a cunt because the balance in this game is piss poor also and all the clutch shit that made oldcom so satisfying to play but also so lethal and motivating when shit goes south is just not there in the new one

soldiers are too valuable, it's too easy to lose several turns in a row to panic, rules for things are inconsistent (or just buggy) and in general it's a far more unfair experience than other "Le Hardcore :^)" games

Can you get a cinematic camera or like a free aim thing to take nice screenshots with?

>>126408060

I thik all this bugs und "unfair" situations are excuses. I think people are to afraid to lose something, so they want a chill pill in form of a save stat. But the true mode is ironman, a game without consequence is boring.
I played alot of Vanilla Ironman Classic, saw only few bug and play around them, i cant image to play a serious campaign without Ironman.
Yes it's hard, but after some restarts you will learn to live with loses.

Btw, Beaglerush play Ironman only too.

Merry christmas /xcg/ you guys are great.

I hope all your shots hit, I hope you get good sleep and I hope you get the girl. I love you all.

>>126396353
>>126396930
>bunching up like that
I hope someone throws a grenade.

>>126408609
see
>>126395149

>>126398797
They're more fragile now though, so it could be manageable.

I kinda imagine that a sufficiently built/geared ranger could just sword a whole swarm of them to death if given half a chance.

>>126408408
I play without reloading saves, but I don't use Ironman because the game is genuinely too buggy to. Too often will a dumb glitch rear its ugly head and if in Ironman there's nothing you can do about it.

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>>126400460
Except they have a whole flesh head and torso.

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>>126408945

Thats ok.

>>126408992

I don't think so...

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>>126408803
>tfw they said Ranger can get a perk that's basically CCS but with the sword

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>>126409185
It's just a futuristic body suit covering their torso.

>>126409367
I see the metalic frame under that "shirt"

>>126409532
that's reinforced padding for the shirt.

>>126409352

>mod out the sword, adding in punching animations
>call the perk RIP AND TEAR

>>126408992
waifusim is so weird

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>>126409532
The prosthetics and MEC suits still need something to interface with, just because they have mounting hardware on their shoulders/pelvis doesn't mean the whole torso is metal.

>>126409793
>>126409971

Hmmm, maybe you are right, argument and normal woman have the same frame during the medal-scene.

>>126409914
Wait until Firaxis reveal the remaining female aliens, /xcg/ will go wild.

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>>126409914
>he doesn't want to fuck this

>>126410394
I want to fuck that :3

>>126410394

kill all ayys

so guys, what second wave options make for a good impossible playthrough. i had completed a playthrough on classic a couple of years ago, bought it on this sale to start again. suggestions?

also how do i include the mgs namelist in the game? its the only file without instructions, sorry to bother

>>126411742

rename it to just DefaultNameList.ini

go to C:/program files (x86)/steam/steamapps/common/XCom-Enemy-Unknown/XEW/XComGame/Config

copy and replace

>>126399350
for Xcom

solomon confirms retaking territory will be in vanilla X2

>rocket does one damage against a thin mint
fuck it, this is enough to make me uninstall long war for now. i'll give it another try in the future probably but i'm clearly too casual to handle it right now.

>>126415169
But the future is Xcom 2

>>126415276
I can always come back to Enemy Within. Not even sure if my computer will be able to handle XCOM 2.

>>126415418
the minimum reqs are the same as EU/EW

>>126415485
It's a bit steeper, but not much.
I THINK it should run. I have the right version of DirectX, enough RAM, it's running on fucking Unreal 3 and my computer can handle EW nearly-perfectly. But even if it can't run I can always get a Steam refund.

>Vanilla EW

When do terror missions appear? The first one is in the second month. But am I guaranteed to get one mission every month after that? And in which country take they place, do panic levels matter?

>>126415998

In the third month (May) there is no terror mission

>vanilla ew also

scientists or engineers?

>>126416123
So if

>7 lost countries
>2 with level 5 panic
>Already did both abduction missions
>Only 1 Satellite to launch
>EXALT mission taking place in a country I already lost

then I'm fucked?

>>126415485

This, and it should run a bit smoother since it's PC exclusive

>>126416470
1 time scientist to cut your reasearch time by almost 50%

Rest only engineers

>>126416579

No chance to get into alien base ?

>half kill a floater pod
>it falls back
>chains intwo one more
>chains into another

suddenly a united front of 8 floaters form a crack squad to buttfuck me with an outsider hanging out in the darkness overwatched. Miss sectoids already.

>>126416698
safe bruv

>>126416769
Not at all.

Seems like I have to hope for my loved council to give me a mission in one of those 2 countries.

I mean, 22% is a shot I could hit, couldn't I?

>>126417736

Ah don't worry, you get the chance to win in Xcom 2

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>tfw cyberdisc teleports into your ow

Impulse bought xenonauts on the steam sale.

Did I fuck up?

Played a single ground mission. So far it seems pretty good. Really hated the whole dont uncover any new map if not moving your first soldier thing going on in xcom. Wish I could use xenonauts mechanics on xcom. Spreading people out and shit and sweeping instead of just balling my dudes up. But mabye I havent hit any real difficulty to make that statement yet.

Is there anyway to play Long War with a pirated copy? I've had EW pirated for like two years and I don't want to redownload a 20gig package just for a mod. Could I buy EW on steam, copy and paste the pirated version to the steamapps directory, and then re-validate files?

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>>126419079

TRAITOR !!!

>>126419217
nigga I said I'd buy it if i can circumvent the download

>>126419079
you can just play long war with the pirated version i did it before works fine

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*does not include the addition to the series that people actually want a discount on

So The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is on sale for like 4 bucks, is it worth it?

I have heard a lot of bad things about the game, but I am not familiar enough with the XCOM series to know what exactly is wrong with it outside of the 1960s setting and focus on a set protagonist.

>>126420238
Generic story.
Shoot shit until it dies.

But there's a few nice twists and callbacks

>>126420238
If you like any 50s-60s sci-fi aesthetic, okay squad-based combat, and a M. Night Shamalamadingdong plot twist - buy it. But most would advise against buying Declassified under any circumstance.

>>126394417
Zero, I really need to actually work at finishing one.
Maybe I should name all of my dudes that survive their first mission to make me feel attached and more likely to stick with it?

>>126420196
anon snake prostitution is illegal

>>126419989
I've tried installing LW on a cracked version but wasn't able to. The steam version is like 3 patches ahead of mine. That's why I was sort of thinking about buying it, but I don't wanna be assed to download the whole game again.

>>126420196
>why is this unreleased game not getting a discount >:O

>>126421149
:O

>>126421149

Early access games get discounts too and aren't still released. It's a joke

>>126421503
:V

>>126421503
>>126422461

•ᴗ•

>>126422461
>>126422570
o3o

I fucking hate this place

>>126422965
You love it

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>>126422965
Here some cute snek for you

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>>126421069
well choose the folder youve got the cracked version installed in as a steam directory, by the game then validate the files

also have some oc i just did for a shitty draw thread

>you will never play an XCOM set in the 60's
>no Soviet MiG-25's or 31's intercepting UFOs
>no specially modified SR-71's for the US/HATO

please

Post more waifu snaeks

>>126423537
xenonauts

>>126423167
This is quality work

Just got EU the complete edition on steam. Downloading EU right now and the download is 16.7gb for just EU apparently. Does anyone have any idea how big will be the EW download after I finish this one?

>>126424171
but xenonauts sucks
and it's 70's

>>126424436
Probably not too much. My whole EU/EW install is only like 19gb.

>>126424639
Nevermind, I just found out that the 16.7gb download included EW and the DLCs already.

>>126425068
Yeah there's no separate game entry in steam, when you launch EU it will pop up with a mini launcher that lets you pick between EU and EW.

>>126424445
whats wrong with xenonauts?

>>126419079
just buy it, start the download and copy over the biggest vanilla files.

>>126420196
20% off on GMG

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>>126378662
wait a minute that robot

Another dumb question from the creator of >>126424436

Will steam count achievements I complete while using Long War?

>>126427171
Yes and no. I think its inconsistent.

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Hope you are having a great Christmas xcg/

>>126426737

It's supposed to be a power suit for some sort of alien but the resemblance is definitely there.

>first crack squad you made are all massive fuckups
>had to start training up new units to furfill missing roles

I am too casual for LW, working on an Ironman/Classic run for EW, thou are there any good mods that make the base game either more enjoyable or fun without going into LW shenanigans?

MEC Units are back in XCOM 2. Is Meld and gene modification?

>>126379698
Come on fags.

Help an anon out. I'd really prefer not to wait a week or two before I can play this again.

>>126420238
It's basically a bad Mass Effect, gameplay-wise.
Story is kind of boring but the 1960s X-Files aesthetic is cool.

>>126429471
>MEC Units are back in XCOM 2
?

>>126427171
dont play Long War without beating the vanilla game first
>>126429475
i have no idea, anon. If it's choppy does it really matter, it's a fucking turn-based game.

>>126429710
i just googled and apparently Firaxis said there actually aren't, but I swear I saw a webm with a MEC and I know there's ADVENT MECs

>>126429810
At the very least, we'll get armored exo-skeletons.

>>126429471
No, not as far as we know. One of the primary purposes of Meld was to add incentives for the player to not camp in most missions, and that's been replaced by just having additional/different objectives that are timed.

>>126430074
>armored exo-skeletons
That's probably what I saw in the webm. Close enough.

Can I upgrade from an earlier version of LW? Last time I tried a fresh install (of a pirated copy, because I already bought it on Xbox), it fucked the game up and wouldn't run. But I have a copy with an old version of LW installed that runs for some reason.

>>126430183
At least we'll be able to recreate Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt from Edge of Tomorrow.

>>126430323
ehh, better than Damon from that shitty Elysium movie.

What's so wrong about using a controller in long war?

>>126430593
The only good sci-fi part of the movie was the retrofitted AK.

Curious - why exactly isn't Firaxis releasing the game on consoles? I know Enemy Unknown sold better on PC than console, but did they lose money on the console port?

>>126430681
It's fine if it's a steam controller

>>126431119
I use an Xbox controller, or whatever the Walmart knockoff is. Love it.

>>126430717
there are so many sci-fi elements in that show that just make me scratch my head, they had fuckin magic tables of magic, that were able to nearly instantly rearrange a lump of meat and charcoal back into a functional person, so they were basically at the "Star Trek Replicators" levels of tech, between that and easy surface-to-orbit travel why the HELL were they not living in a post-scarcity utopia? compared to getting to orbit moving over some random mass from near earth objects or the asteroid belt is basically free and then you have enough raw matter to literally PAVE THE ENTIRE PLANET IN GOLD FIVE FEET THICK if it struck your fancy, all previous ideas of limited resources and scarcity just get chucked out the window.

...one of the reasons I am so jazzed about the recent SpaceX landing.

>>126431035
It is a waste to effectively make something 3 times when you could focus all that time and money on a platform that can actually use all the controls and focus.

>>126429723
Technically no it just really bugs the shit out of me that I can't control my game smoothly.

>>126431210
You also suck dicks you dumb slut

>>126431363
But the console versions of EU weren't cut down at all. The game actually worked really well with a controller in general.

>>126431035
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/05/why-xcom-2-had-to-be-pc-exclusive

>>126431605
Thanks anon. Seems fair enough.
Considering how Firaxis has been almost 100% PC exclusive forever, it's honestly a little weird Enemy Unknown released on consoles at all.

>>126431837
Enemy Unknown was made on a middling budget in response to the outrage over XCOM being rebooted as an FPS in the 60s fighting goo aliens and the following development hell. I imagine that a console release was seen as a key strategy to both ensuring the game made back money if it was a bomb on PC, and to reach out to a wider audience in general.

Turns out the vast, vast majority of XCOM fans, old and new, prefer to play on PC anyways. The console version of EW also came out on 360/PS3 like a week or two before the new consoles came out. I imagine it sold abysmally there and further cemented the decision to go PC only with 2.

>>126432139
i bought the console version of EW before getting the PC version years later

>>126428698
>3 supports
>A sniper with like 67 aim

wew lads

Is there a reason my soldiers never say lines when I put them in Overwatch?

>>126426448
I tried doing that but it still looks like it wants to download the entire thing. Verify game files doesn't do anything either.

So on vanilla EU/EW, are any of the second wave options worth using on a first play through?

>>126433024
>playing a first run with any sort of mod

FUKKEN DONT

>>126431347
Where did you get the idea that they had the ability to create matter as they pleased? The magic healy tables were just a way to fix their main plot hole.

I really liked Elysium, purely because it featured a Lawful Evil type world government employing a shady special forces crew that are only kept around because they got shit done, and when they get the opportunity they turn and try to take over for themselves.

>>126433129
Even just "Not Created Equal" and "Hidden Potential"?

>>126433375
Nope. 1st run of ANY GAME should be done exactly as intended. No second wave options, no mods, no nothing. 101% Vanilla.

When you beat Classic with zero second wave options, you can start playing around and start talking shit about how the game ought to be. Yes, Hidden Potential and Not Created Equally make the game more fun. But, unfortunately, they are not part of any indented playstyle. Finish at least one game just so you know what the game even is, then start enabling stuff.

>>126433375
>Turning NCE and HP
Enjoy snipers with piss poor aim, assaults that can barely move, and everybody being generally shit save for one or two good ones.

>>126433480
Honestly, you should just fire anyone who doesn't make at least 75 Aim, and then rename anyone who proves themselves to be exceptionally fast and just make them part of your A team. It's not like in Vanilla you really need to rotate people.

>>126387140
>>126386737

From the amount of retard coming from your post i can tell your opinion doesn't matter

>>126393123
that's pretty ingenious man, does it work on the outer walls too?

>>126433475
I guess I'll try it, it just feels a bit dull having soldiers be rather static.

>>126433480
A try I did a couple weeks ago I couldn't even get a sniper.
I had a heavy with like 85 aim and almost 70 will at like rank 2.

>>126429236
Long war and edit the ini

>>126434079
>I guess I'll try it, it just feels a bit dull having soldiers be rather static.
Then instead of enabling aftermarket shit, blame Firaxis for not making it standard.

>>126433776
I can't say i have specifically the tested on those, but they are destructible, and I'm pretty sure i have seen fire spread to them from explosives so I want to say yes. Like a 99% shot miss

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>>126379732
Call me a faggot but I'd like to see cute girls soldier mods. Granted it would never work out as well as in my vague imagination.

>>126436426
>XCOM 2: Anime Edition

The new ayys and advent already look like something from an anime so why not get a full conversion mod?

>>126436426
faggot

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>>126394417
1 Regular and 1 Classic
I still don't get the difficulty in this game, as soon you get Carapace armor and laser weapons it becomes easy enough to not lose more than 2 soldiers, and as soon you get Titan Armor and Plasma Weapons it's literally impossible to lose one soldier until you don't accidentally trigger every enemy in the map

NEED IRONMAN CLASSIC TIPS

>>126437121
Grenades

>>126437121
Rockets