XCOM General - /xcg/

pistols are useful

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>>149848462

So, first time playing ew and 2 countries left xcom right after the first rebels mission. Can I bring this country back? What can I do in order not to lose more countries?

>>149848637
>ew
You can't bring countries back. To prevent loss of countries, acquire engineers, build satellite buildings (forgot exact name), build satellites, launch satellites at the end of the month on countries that are about to leave (max panic).

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>Your ship is shot down by a vessel with pirate markings
>Fortunately you are in a state of the art military vessel so you and nearly all your crew survive the crash landing
>You immediate set you ship's crew to begin working on sending out a distress beacon and trying to repair the ship
>The lookout you posted spots a large assault craft landing with the same pirate markings
>You rush to get everyone ready for combat and outside before the pirates can get inside and and potentially further damage your ship
>You open the door and see pic related

What do you do?

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>>149848569

Context?

>>149849464

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ChmyJ9K7T4

ALLAH

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>>149849265
Surrender and pray they'll be gentle

>>149847056
PANIC

>>149849908
I hope you can shoot down fighters.

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>>149849908
They must be butthurt I completed the research that makes them unable to persuade any more countries to shun us.

>>149850025
How does it work - if you shoot down one of the crackdown ships, does the crackdown mission stop, or is it delayed?

>>149850240
The crackdown ship has to "find" your base in order for the actual assault. Shooting down fighters cut the chances down pretty good, but they will probably send a follow up Heavy Gunship, and maybe a Cruiser after that.

Basically you want to shoot down the scouting ships to greatly reduce the chances of a base assault actually happening. Usually craft that are actually going to assault your base are to fast to intercept, or too tough for you faster interceptors.

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>>149849265
>Good Night Nig

>>149850240
>Thinking they're going to stop
Nope, the existing mission will repeat indefinitely, unaffected.

And I gather all the crackdown ships are scanning for your bases, so shooting them down means they won't.

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>>149850478
Holy kek, fortunately (unfortunately?) that's just her name shortened.

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Ow, the edge.

>>149850532
I don't really care if they send more juicy ships every month, it just rustles my jimmies when they make countries withdraw.

I think this base is probably pretty safe - it's one of my auxiliary radar bases, and they mentioned fewer buildings == lower chance of detection. They haven't found me yet, at least.

>>149850665
>bio suit reduces your stats by that much
Not sure if want...

>>149851085
>Not sure if want...
Yes you do. Screw accuracy, just give everyone shotguns and kill everything. Blaster launchers still are 100% chance to hit. Nuclear Chainsaws can't miss. A soldier with good aim still gets 100% to hit with the advanced rocket launcher most other high aim weapons like the portable lascanon. You can tank a blaster launcher in these things, I literally spend most my missions stampeding my entire squad all over the map now since I know they there are only a few things that can kill them.

Those things are an unknown number of shots all hitting for high damage in a single turn. How many? I don't know, but the answer certainly isn't 5 or 6, they might not even be hurt.

What could kill you is someone with a super good melee weapons who attacks like 10 times in a single turn. That's about it. Alien grenades do nothing, Plasma weapons tickle, Gauss weapons tickle. And you regen 10% of your health so tickles don't amount to anything. Also it gives the most psi defense of any armor. There literally is not a better armor, if feels like I've activated God-mode for my soldiers.

>>149851480
Wait, what shotguns do actual damage?

How long have you had the armor? Do you imagine you'll get bored without the risk?

Not saying it's not awesome, just not sure I'd equip it on all my soldiers. Maybe for the final mission which I guess is what you're going for.

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Archangel Armor WHEN?!

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Good night, /xcg/. Remember to nuke your sectopods.

>>149853419
>Wait, what shotguns do actual damage
Boom Gun does 50 damage per pellet, I think like six pellets. Yeah its not the best against really heavy armor, but anything that't not power armor won't survive.

I've had the armor recently, but I've run through lots of missions recklessly with no concern of soldiers even ending the mission wounded. I don't have time to be bored, because I'm farming up for the final mission. I would get bored otherwise.

I'm equipping on all soldiers because once you have it, everyone else feels like a squishy liability.

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>>149849512

Crazy Stuff.

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Someone wanted to see the webm of memester grenading a crowd of friendlies last thread.

>>149857134
I won't

>>149856786
Are these streams archived anywhere? I feel like I've missed out by ignoring them

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>>149850665
$$$$$$$$$$$$

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>9 unique posters, but 9 post responding to a single bait post for a total of 10 posts.
Can we not.

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>>149858740

>PROBLEMATIC

>>149857447
If its not on twitch under broadcasts or highlights, the you're gonna have to hope that the original anon(s) who recorded it and made the webms still has it and is still here.

Actually now that I think about it, I might have a copy somewhere, I'll look for it tomorrow and figure out how to share it.

>legend with tier1 weapons

i always forget how bad it is

>>149860628
Its so hard to avoid that feeling. You get all the good gear and a part of you're mind equates that to gitting gud. You start up a new campaign feeling like you're gonna take it by storm, and then it slaps you in the face when you're down in the dirt again.

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>>149787410

>Could have had that helmet (Space helmet does resemble it)
>Could have had that bangin armor for T2
>Could have had that Exo-suit rest for the gun

SOLOMON GIB ME ARCHANGEL ARMOR
GIB ME GHOST ARMOR
GIB ME MORE CYBERPUNK SCI FI
GIB LESS POWER-RANGERS

>>149826518
It's the museum map right?
I'm pretty sure they removed it in EW.

Swords are useless!

>give a fedora to my french shpee covert operator
>he takes it off when he goes on missions
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>149858326
holla holla get dolla

> aeiou

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>>149866789
Stop right there necron lord

>>149862178
It was removed in EW. Tbh i've only ever seen it once, on my vanilla Enemy Unknown ironmeme impossible run, which is kinda harder without being able to get OP soldiers with Not Created Equally and also you lack some of the big damage sources from EW.

Lump's Ruler pack when?

>>149872619
>Gatekeeper ruler
>Sectopod ruler
Magnificent

>>149874982
>Codex Ruler

>>149875061
>Avatar Ruler

>>149875061
>100 hp
>makes a copy that takes 5hp every time its attacked
>all copies get Ruler Reaction

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AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP,

unknown

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>no proper XCOM merchandise

I just want a nice-looking Vigilo Confido poster for fuck's sake.

>>149879349
>He hasn't made his own Bradford sweater
Disappointed in you famalam

>>149879508
>knitting
I'm not an old granny, you know

>>149879349
I have an XCOM pin attached to my backpack for when I'm running around. No one has noticed. Yet.

>>149879708
Where'd you get it?

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>>149879834
Ebay. It was given out at a convention or something, so I found and bought it for like $20.
>pic related

>>149880056
Upon further research, it appears to have been given out at E3 2015.

>>149880056
I am officially jelly

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YES, STRONK RUSSIAN BEAR WILL DESTROY WEAK DED BODY

>>149881506
EU/EW Plasma weapon replacers for XCOM2 W H E N

So, /xcg/, I found one cause of that random bug that crashes X2 games (the 'Pure virtual function being called while application was running (GisRunning == 1)." bug). Turns out that if you uninstall the Advent Titan mod during a campaign, even if your most recent save is on the Avenger, it'll spawn that bug. Reinstall it? Everything's fine.

tl;dr;: Advent Titans: so OP, they'll murder a campaign just so you *have* to fight them.

>>149881820
>using such shoddily-made cheats
You've had it coming, really.

>>149882091
>Shitposting Intensifies
This is what I get for trying to be who Mister Rogers knew I could be. Fuck you too, anon.

>>149882460
>>149881820
I appreciate you anon Someone needs to help all those unwashed leprous cheaters out there.

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>>149864137

No.

They are tools of Justice.

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>>149884403
Agreed.

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>>149858326
I think there's a cap on how much countries can fund you and that I've found the ceiling. Haven't received a funding increase from almost all governments for a while despite large scores on the monthly reports.

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>>149885156
Yep, I'd say you've definitely found it.

>2607
Don't want the game to end?

>>149885156
Each country has a defined funding cap, yes.

>>149885892
>Don't want the game to end?
Yes but I also want to win. All I'm doing right now is farming power armor parts. Feels like the past two years have been spent just setting the geoscape to max speed and waiting for Academy ships to show up. I need 11 power armor parts before my 36 man bio suit super soldiers are ready to crush the star gods on mars.

Its kind of ridiculous that I can't manufacture them as components at this point.

>>149886354
>Academy
Meant to say Trader's Guild. They deploy the most power suited soldiers, even on gunships.

XCOM is an organization of peace

>>149889316
>A paramilitary group originally formed to fight off an alien invasion
>Not an organization of peace
No way. Stupid ADVENT supporters.

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don't think I've gotten 100% shots hit until now

>>149891318
those legs look fucked

>>149891745
what the sparks?

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>>149886526
>>149886354
Highest funding you can get.

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>tfw you on base defense and everything is dead but you know there should be one lid you can't find it

>>149895779
...is that the advent captain helmet, night vision goggles, and some bandana from anarchys children?

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>>149896056
captain helm, one of the anarchy's full face masks,night vision goggles. So ye

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>Nearly 90 posts in
>Only one abstract snek
S N E K

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So this thing came at me, ruining my concealment, my spark took a shot at it for 9 damage, and the damage mysteriously dissappeared, literally all before I was able to take my first time

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>move soldier ahead into fog of war
>try to next unit
>can't

>>149894509
JUST GO ALREADY WE ALL WANT TO SEE THE FINAL MISSION

>>149897301
>tfw PC is so crap that the game stutters like hell whenever you reveal a pod
A-at least I can run 60fps on minimum

>>149897486
Today or tomorrow I swear. I have no idea what I will be up against I need to be ready...

>>149897667
I can't imagine it's going to be that much harder than the rest of the game. Would be pretty funny if it was though.

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>>149897481
>>149898091
>Academician uses BLASTER LAUNCHER!
>It's not very effective...

It would be pretty hard to imagine what would stop me at this point

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>>149898830
>Turns out the enemy brain has psi strength of 200
>Good Night Nig is under an evil spell!
>Adventurous Clo is under an evil spell!
>repeat ad nauseum
>And after the game over screen you find out that is how the first group that went to Cydonia failed.
Then you get access to New Game+, set in year 3200, 600 years after your team failed.

>>149899745
>Turns out the enemy brain
There better be more then one, because my troops won't even be able to kill each other.

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EXALT
X
A
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T

>>149899745
so, is there a way to actually win the mission?
or are you destined to fail?

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>>149896561
Mah man
But i'm afraid we are running out of rares

>>149902023
Quite true, but we need at least one SNEK. Pistols get the same few pictures every thread. I only post new pictures other than the first S N E K post.

>>149902023
What are the rare sneks anyway?
I'm new to snekposting.

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>>149901624
I'm just painting a picture of the Piratez ending if JL designed it.

>>149900367
Well yeah, there would have to be at least 36 given the size of your troops unless they changed the TU requirement for MC for the brains :^)

Am I qualified to design LW 2 or what?

>>149903195
Not quite. You need to write up a smug summary on why this is a good design decision (throw some discussion of mechanics and real challenge) and berate any dissenters.

>>149902993
Rare is a snek that has not yet been REMOVED.

>Ethereals have no incendiary resistance and small health pools
Oh yes, I'll be cooking some ethereals real soon...

>impossible ironman EW
>waited until full plasma before the alien base
>fucking BERSERKERS spawned there
>no chryssalids for my 2nd cheatin plating
I think I fucked up

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So I got some doom stuff working in the sdk but no textures until further notice we cant figure out how to get at them

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>>149902993
A snek that no one has posted/seen yet
I think this one is

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>>149907587

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>>149907108
Good work. I'm rooting for you.

>>149908706
I want this shit so bad its literally just the textures holding me back its something to do with idtech 6 the textures just break when you extract them

>>149898830
what are these mods?

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>>149909130
If I knew I'd contribute but I don't

>>149909276
PirateZ, its a complete overhaul. Also there's a link in the OP.

>>149909276
>>149909576
After Piratez I'm never going back to vanilla xcom desu senpai

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So I took out my Conqueror (ship I'm going to ram the Star Gods with) out for a spin because why not.

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>>149911779
3rd level

>>149911975
why are there so many bathtubs

>losing the entire game because of avenger defense
>robots sectoids and lancers rush in every turn
>cant even defeat a single pod because only mag rifles and shit aim

this never happened before, thanks for changing mechanics again jake
fuck you

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>>149911975
4th level

>>149912030
The entire ship looks like its built for an extend voyage, and the crew size is 36. Not sure exactly what everything inside is though.

>>149912075
What exactly changed

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>>149912163
5th level

>>149912383
Looks comfy as fuck

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>>149912383
6th level

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>>149912590
Exterior view

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>>149912787
Ground level (1st level)

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>>149913003
And ground level with all the elevators full to how how you can quickly deploy your troops in any direction from the ship.

The only thing really missing is access to the roof.

Overall, this is a pretty damn cool ship that actually looks like I could roam space with 10/10.

>>149912176
there were 6x3 pods on the map
all flooding in 1 by 1, even i dont leave the avenger they spot me, and they go in a straight line anyway
plus another at the spike
snakes mecs lancers and sectoids
on turn 4 first reinforcement and every turn another
i didnt install any mods
in first week of may

ive done multiple legend playthroughs and a few on lower difficulty
even if going straight for mag, i wont have resources to have anything else than rifles and shotguns
the spike had something like 15+ HP too

>>149911779
Uhhh why is there something that looks disturbingly like a dissection table in the back?

>>149914263
I don't understand anon, you don't condone the dissection of aliens for research and study? Its the science compartment of the ship.

Unless you're going for the whole, "When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you" angle.

>Decide to wait until at least mag weapons before starting up alien hunters missions
>Get to plasma before getting around to them because of a string of unfortunate incidents
>Not getting any of the missions now despite scanning for 2 months
Well, I guess I'm just not seeing any rulers on this campaign.

>>149905958
>Killing cyclopes and waspites with chainsaws, firebombs, and flamethrowers
Ok now I'm having fun.

>>149916420
>enabling narrative cheats

>>149914263
For unpredictable yet intriguing outcomes in space.

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Some say that thinmints revere his as an artistic god...
...and that Dr.Shen once proposed to him.

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>>149918329
Preparing to test the Nuclear Demo Charge.

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Beagles?

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>>149922358
That's a breach. Test is a success.

>>149922564
Some of the early XCOM2 streams were really fucking funny
>random truck explodes for no reason and kills the whole campaign
>people asking beagle if he has cancer after seeing the pictures from when he was Firaxis or something
>vietcom

Why do reptilians have breasts?

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>>149923748

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>>149923748
Too fight humans more effectively.

>>149923748
Why do aliens conveniently look like a earth species?

>>149923748
I want to taste reptilian alien's milk

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>>149922887
Sectopod meets Nuclear Chainsaw

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>>149924238
Alright that's a wrap. Once I finish this mission its off to Cydonia. The Star Gods got nothin' on me.

>>149924512
POAST IT

>Lost 18 soldiers on my last veteran play through
>Up from 3 on Commander

>>149924784
>Obligatory "Git Gud"

>>149924784
B R E A K L O S
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>>149914681
I guess I didn't really think about what they would do if successful after Cydonia. Dissect the alien brain(s?), then what? Try to fight the rest of the Stellar Empire? Take over the world? Suppose the Stellar Empire would even care about Earth?

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Alright, I'll be laying down the pre-flight checklist before I jet off to Mars.

A Space Ship that has enough Fuel to reach mars and back, is tougher then 4 battleships and hits harder.

I have 36 crew members. All of them have over 54 psi power, and max psi skill. All of them are wearing Bio Suits.

For Equipment:
-30 Heavy Shotguns (Boom Guns) and 21 Nuclear Chainsaws for Close quarters combat.
-3 Portable Lascanons for ranged Sectopod killing
-30 Plasma Rifles and 30 Heavy Plasma for surprises (fighting other factions)
-Another 30 Euro Syndicate Lasers for further surprises
-Tornado Mortar with Fusion Shells for indirect fire and terrain remodeling
-Advance Launcher with Fusion rockets for the same reason, and MAG rockets for Sectopod killin'
-15 Blaster Launchers and 42 Blaster Bombs
- 8 Fireball Launchers and 50 Firebombs for setting gods on fire
-438 Aline Grenades because why not
-100 Fusion Grenade because they're better then alien nades
-30 nuclear demo charges for... demotion
-5 Nano Surgery Kits and 10 small medpacks in case there's anything my armor can't handle
-30 Combat stims. For combat stims.
-And 619 Smoke grenades, because I love smoke grenades.

That's just the highlights, I actually have more gear. In fact I am quite literally ready for a war.

I do not believe in Overkill.

>>149925804
My personal conjecture is that destroying the Cydonia base will signal to the Ethereal Empire that earth is more trouble than its worth. They are using the planet's resources to fight a different alien empire, but if they are defeated here, they might not want to recommit for another invasion that will be even more difficult and costly then the first time.

Does Beags stream on Thursdays?

>>149927801
Yes, and Fridays. Starting about now, but he's usually late.
And Space DnD on Saturday and Fantasy DnD on Sunday

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>>149926843
Ok

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>>149928161
No going back

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Bagles is live. Looks like a Long War

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>>149928524
And so it is.

>>149927989
Thanks.

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>>149928336
Only forward.

So far doesn't look to different from the vanilla set up.

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>>149928524
>long war
Guess he didn't fix the issues previously with XCOM 2.
>inb4 he got hit with the glsrunning==1 error in his usual campaign

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>>149928524
>>149928630

Awesome.

Mass Mods + DLC must have got him.

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>>149928879
A glimpse at some of my soldiers loadouts. This gall is packing a flamethrower, chainsaw, and shotgun.
Flamethrower for mid range, shotgun for close, chainsaw for CLOSE RANGE

>>149926843
>619 smoke grenades
wtf mate. I guess you really love smoke.

I haven't heard of 25% of this stuff. And you're on .98! I can't believe how big this game is!

>>149930093
>3 smoke
Yep. Really loves the smoke.

Watching eagerly. I really hope they have multiple factions up there.

>>149927287
Yeah, Earth as Afghanistan. I can see it. I do still wonder what would happen to Earth now that it's been retaken, though. Hope they will add alternate endings depending on the optional research you completed.

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This is Big sky
XCOM operatives deployed
ArmA 3-COM is a go

>>149930419
Yeah the smoke is a bit of joke, but people carrying three smokes is the norm.

>>149930093
Its gonna take me a bit to get everyone's load out done. 36 people to go through, and anything they aren't carrying by the end of the mission won't be coming with me for the second stage.
I'm also watching Bagels

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>>149930867
Some of my soldiers will be serving as pack mules to make sure I have plenty of equipment and ammo for the extended fight. Almost done.with equipping I swear.

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post more propaganda

>>149932131
Getting a bit Stalingrad up in here

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>>149932131
I NEED these nuclear demo charges. How else will I properly remove the alien stain from Mars?

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>>149932623
Ah yes, the beautiful sands of Cydonia. I'm gonna make like Doom and unleash some Hell on Mars

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>>149933257
The pyramids are still here, and that's the first contact of are Mar's expedition. That's a Academy Commander (Provost) right there. Let's see what else we find.

>>149932623
Why not Annihilator armor?

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>>149933490

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>>Not activating by one tile.

No bad Beagle.

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>>149933490
Looks like the Academy has the run of this place, which lore wise makes sense. They are the most directly sponsored by the star gods of any major faction. I ain't messing around so everything around here is about to get blown to hell.

>>149933932
Bio Suits are straight up superior. They have 40% resistance to plasma, 50% to piercing, and 70% to laser (And resistances to everything else that are very good) in addittion to the 60 armor on all sides. Also adds +60 health (soldiers will have 150 hp at max stats), and that's a huge boost to effective health in combination with the resistances and armor. Also regens 10% of you're health per turn. Also gives you bonus 20% psi defense based off you're health making it the best armor in the game for psi defense. When you can't die, the penalties are negligible.

>trying to start a campaign with a better advent and grimmy loot mod
>when gatecrasher loads all colors start flipping the fuck out
life is pain

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>>149934427
Let the alpha striking commence.

Ah I missed long dong streams

>>149934427
>They have 40% resistance to plasma
>resistance
It's actually a damage modifier. So it's 60% plasma resistance and 30% laser resistance, and holy shit I didn't realize it's so strong on bio suits.

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>>149934967

The bait is Real.

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>>149934583
Three blaster launcher bombs later and an unkown amount of enemies bite the dust. I used one to nuke the two disks, one to blow up the near pyramid, and one more to blow up a different pyramid at the very edge of my position. I'll still be moving troops up this turn, but that's the end of immediate contact.

End of Turn 1.

>>149935048
Yeah I meant only 40% of the plasma damage penetrates. Bio Suits are literally god mode for you're troops.

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>>149935367
As sad as it sounds, I think once I clean up the enemies I can currently see, that will be the entire map cleared, at most maybe 1 or 2 stragglers. I guess that's what happens when you can clear out enemy spawn points with a 100% accurate, unlimited range explosive.

I remember when I finished a vanilla campaign a while back, I told myself next time I would just nuke all the pyramids with windows, and that has carried over to PirateZ just fine.

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> fucked up an early critical mission
> advent calander is 3/4s from completion
> my A team just got wiped out by a rampaging case of bad luck
> B team is in the hospital
> critical mission just poped up
> away team consists of rookies and one of my B team guys
> mfw

>>149936318
Aw man. I was hoping for a larger map.

I guess they saved their efforts for the missions more people would see.

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>>149936318
Unfortunately I got stuff to take care of. I'll resume in a couple of hours.

>>149936875
It might be that the final mission is the last thing they intended to work on, which considering how long a PirateZ campaign is, would make sense. If they haven't already changed it for .99 I will definitely leave feedback on the forum that they should change the final mission, I love what he did with everything else.

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AIR GAME

>>149936814
They're all going to win, and you'll be looking at your new A team.

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>>149937085

Did Beagle ever finish that Deserts of Karak campaign?

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Looks like XCOM 2 is out and LW is back in, at least for a while.

What was that other game Beagle was commenting on?

>DR

God that was such a shitty mechanic. I am so glad that XCom 2 has armor instead.

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>>149936318

It will be interesting to see Beagle pick X-COM back up.

>>149941370
Is he doing that tonight?

>>149937085
Aww, sorry to see you go. Hope I'm around when you finish up.

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>>Jamball wants a XCOM X Fire Emblem crossover.

Oh boy...

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>launch grenade
>break selfs cover
Shit like this makes me want to savescum

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>>149942063

No but he did say that he is definitely picking X-COM back at some point in the future.

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I really missed beagles b14 campaign, happy to see him playing lw again

What happened to the mod secondaries mod? Just realized it isn't in my modlist anymore.

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>>149943774

Admit it dude.

You just missed dat Sweeter.

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Ok, so this is too long.

>>149945858
Ya don't say.

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/28/12310762/mysterious-purple-orb-nautlius
#TFTD

>>149945858
The text looks goofy. I know what a goddamn scope looks like and I sure hope my men do.

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>>149947415
>#TFTD

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>>149945858

I like where this is going.

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Post insertions.

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>>149949209
>Newfoundland

>>149949508
Surely such a massive speciman wouldn't show up near the end of May, r-right?

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>>149942090
>XCOM: Go phone game
>have to travel around your neighborhood stopping alien attacks and such
>your character is a sole operative
>as you stop alien attacks or raid alien facilities you find resources to build better gear
>uses real life time to research technology upgrades
>unlocked upgrades can be purchased/built afterwards
>co-op is available
>so is pvp
>two factions you can join
>exalt and xcom
>can send your operative as a spy to uncover info or steal cash, resources, etc
>can also battle other operatives in certain areas
At first I was just joking around, but now I kind of want this.

Stream is Over.

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>>149950846
Sh-shit, that does actually sound good. Especially with the amount of collaboration pokemon go has spawned.

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I have to say, as nice as procedural overwatch is for practicality purposes it can be quite amusing to watch an entire squad simultaneously BTFO a single hostile Ayy.

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>>149950912
>>149937085
And I'm back. Think I cleaned up the map completely two turns later. Time to decide if I'm good on the equipment I have and then proceed to the final base.

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>>149951820
Nevermind. A single enemy throws an alien grenade at some of my gals and kills themselves in the process. A hillarious side-effect of putting on this armor has been all the AI suicides that don't sting so much now that one is actually is bothered by measly things like grenades.

>>149951820
>>149952001
Aw shit.

That is a nice side effect.

Sounds like there's only one brain ;_;

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>>149952001
Gotta be honest here. Just need to level. I think. That the ayys are really screwed.

I'm pretty sure the only thing that could feasibly kill my soldiers is a chryssalid because I don't think they ever adjusted them so they still just ignore armor. But that's the only tool they have unless the game throws some insane stuff at me. Lets go investigate.

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>>149952001
somewhere inside that poor fuck is going
> but i AM a star-god!
> f-fear me

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>>149952668
Sectopod is the first contact. Seems appropriate.

>>149952683
^
>>149952668
>>149952808
see above. They are fucked.

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>>149952808
In a shocking turn of events this Sectopod gets some high rolls and actually knocks someone unconscious. Afterwards I applied some chainsaws.

I guess that's a good reminder after running my mouth off, though really, I never would have tried rushing a Sectopod on the first turn with a chainsaw before using this armor.

>>149953081
Glad to know it's not just me who attempts to run at the worst enemy with a chainsaw with predictably bad results.

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>>149953081
An ethereal is blocking this elevator, and I can't see him or shoot him. Time to bust out the flame thrower, maybe setting his robes on fire will convince him to move.

Quick question /xcg/, I've never actually done Site Recon with Long Dong before so did their magnificence manage to change the whale so that it can permanently spawn Chryssalids before you press the button, or is the strategy of just shooting the Chryssalids until they stop spawning still a viable option?

>>149953481
YES, GOOD

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>>149953481
Apparently the second floor ceiling does not have a ceiling for hitbox purposes, so I wait a turn and chainsaw him instead. Did I mention that nuclear chainsaws often cut through the floor after killing their target?

Looks like I'll have to light up some robes later.

>>149953912
It's spooky quiet. I can hear door opening, but I haven't seen anyone for two turns.

>>149953912
>>149954293
Come downstairs and experience the magic

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>>149954293
Found another Sectopod. I think I'll just play it safe this time.

>>149953718
They added a mint pod to it.

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>>149954529
This base is a chainsaw paradise.

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>>149954818
More safe Sectopod Removal. This one took two pills. Feels a little to safe. I might charge the next one again.

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>>149955005
A prime suspect.

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>>149955124
This is the person who almost died to the Sectopod in the very beginning btw. Already good to go for the rest of the operation.

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>>149955558
Another victim of the chainsaw massacre. Flesh and metal are nothing before the whirring teeth.

>>149955845
Stupid invisible ethereals keep camping at the top of elevators. I'm trying to chuck nades up them now.

>>149956047
They are totally the ladder civs a la xcom 2.

Where the fuck are your BLOOD AXES???

>>149956047
The nade does its job and blows that ladder camping ethereal away. Anyway else trying the same shenanigans will now get the same treatment.

I'm getting hit by alot of ethereal psi beam attacks, but they only tickle my troops who then regen the lost health back.

>>149956262
They take demons to make and I just couldn't be bothered. Nuclear chainsaws arguably do more damage anyway.

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>>149956429
Welp. There it is.

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>>149956813
ayys be like

>>149956813
Nooooo this is too soon!

>>149956813
I'm dutifully clearing the rest of the map first. Leave no stone un-turned.

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>>149956813
>>149957151
Oops, clearing the map doesn't let me take my time to execute the brain. I've only got one turn to do it. I think this is the only moment I regret having ironman on.

>>149957484
Interesting. Though I bet the ending is the same whether you kill the brain or not.

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>>149957484
Chainsaws have bee the the theme of the day. Guess I'll just keep it running.

>>149957731
ITS AFRAID!

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>>149957731
>>149957898
Rip and Tear

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>>149957927

>>149958062
Did they seriously just replace the text :|

>>149958062
"hey hey, i know we enslaved your race for centuries.
but hear me out will ya"

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>>149958062
The first appeal is nothing more than drivel just like in the original.

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>>149958227
But then things get a little more spicy.

>>149958412
Sounding awfully similar to EU 2012 here...

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>>149958412
But I don't have time to reason with the weak and cruel when I could do their job so much better.

>>149958646
It sounds like taking over the world is the path you'll take.

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>>149958646
Now I get to start the PirateZ space campaign!

>>149958646
Also, dat ass.

>>149958842
If only!

Going to try .99 or take a break and do something else? What are your plans Cap'n?

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>>149958954
>>149958842
Oh boy I'm pretty hyped for this.

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>>149959395
This is gonna be great!

SPACE XCOM WHEN
Also I'm done eating all the images

>>149959395
ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME?

PLEASE DON'T PLAY GAMES WITH MY HEART

>>149959395
>>149959590
Goddamnit, this could be so good.

CivCOM WHEN?

>being so lonely that you start replying to your own posts

>>149959772
>He doesn't know how to read post times

>>149959590
>>149959732
more like stella-COM
i am really considering buying stellaris only to roleplay as the elders from XCOM

>>149958954
>What are your plans Cap'n
Honestly while its still slow around here I was thinking of booting up OG x-com and starting a /xcg/ Fantasy league campaign. If I can draft enough anons it could be fun. Already put a little thought into it and drafted up a simple point system.

>>149959772
I assure you all the pathetic reply posts are from me, the drunk guy who is now going to bed.

>>149958062
>>149958227
>>149958412
>>149958646
>>149958842
Thanks so much for the journey. It's been a hell of a ride and really fun for someone like me who's only on year 2602 to watch.

>>149959918
Yay!

>>149959989
Sure, why not? But I have to call it a night for now.

>>149960164
Yeah I wouldn't start right away. Gotta take a break for a little bit after I really dug in to finish this campaign. Mindlessly farming power armor parts starts to melt your brain.

>>149959772
>being so lonely that you try to tear down other people who enjoy video games

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>>149907587
Am I doing it right?

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Post your ironman legend victory screens.

>>149962282
>Post your ironman legend victory screens
I don't have one ;_;.

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>>149962351
I didn't realize how fast the aliens took down the device late game. I was pretty surprised.

>>149962395
Aww that's ok. Took me a lot of time to do it. Just want to compare with you guys since it didn't show me the world stats for some reason.

>>149962567
Go back to your cheats kid.

>>149962351
>not cranking the game to the point its an actual challenge for you
do you hate fun?

>beagle
>wants his campaigns as hard as can be
>uses strict screening

This is so stupid.

>>149962282
122 hours in, campaign 89 right now. 75 of those are mission-3 restarts. 7 are mod adjustment restarts, 3 are within the first month restarts.

Commander difficulty is too easy, Legend makes me rage-quit-delete-saves on bullshit full cover crit instakills (yes, 75 times, generally more than one soldier). I actually wouldn't have a problem with just damaged soldiers.

I don't think I'll finish this game. Ever.

>>149963884
>this rookie has the highest accuracy but very low movement: Assault
>this rookie is the slowest of all: here carry this rocket launcher
>this rookie missed every shoot in that mission, give him a sniper rifle

the stupid thing would be not use it
or at least turn on commanders choice

>>149964564
>the stupid thing would be not use it

The challenging thing would be. Deal with what you get. CC is fine, too, though, but basically cheating. Which is fun as well.

Are there any mods that will make central shut the fuck up?

>>149964931
There are no mods that will make Bradford quiet.

>>149964931
What form of mod could make Quiet, Bradfrod?

>>149964931
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=621358553

by default it makes him shut up on retaliation missions only
but apparently it got support to remove other lines as well but i haven't checked which ones

>>149965283
Why'd you ruin the running gag, man? Why you have to be that guy?

>XCOM Base Defense!
>expected to fight in the barracks, situation room and shit
>you fight in some isolated area
disappointing Tbh
on another hand how fucking retarded bradford is to hire ROOKIES for his base defense crew

>>149965480
Well, unlike RPGs, having actually competent characters for an XCom game in the beginning isn't feasible. In RPGs it's just laziness.

We really need AI development more than anything, these days.

>>149965480
Rookies are obviously the gold standard for troops in the XCOM universe.

I'm really disappointed they haven't included some form of base map generation in XCOM 2. They have the parcel map technology for it now!

Don't know if anyone from the Beags chat reads here, but since I can't watch live streams like ever, I'd like to comment here that Beagle didn't almost lose the B14 campaign because there were so many base defenses or anything. He got into so much pain, because he didn't take shots, instead backing away and the like. Plain and simple too defensive.

Not that it matters....

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Aww shit! What the hell is that? It's huge!

>>149968556
Looks like a target to me

>>149950846
And now I wanna join EXALT

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>>149968740
>Joining the EXALT Fedora club
XCOM FOR LIFE
C
O
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F
O
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L
I
F
E

>>149962271
Not really, I saved this one already
still for a newfag at snekposting you chose a rather uncommon snek, gj

>>149968556
I might have been able to shoot it down but it came with 2 cloaked escort ships. It just managed to escape with a scraping of hull points and with about 1/4 of my ships destroyed.

I guess the aliens are stepping up their game? I haven't even finished researching the Retaliator yet!

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>>149945858
>>149947546

Sniper is done and out, i did remove the scope text on the scope like anon suggested above, made the thing shorter too.

>tfw mec rush+not created equally trivializes I/I EW
Where were you when it was officially over?

>>149970936
What was over? You lying? So far I ain't seeing that happening.

Bumping with off topic question.

I bought a no name (ampaya) powerbank for my smartphone.
I know that there is a risk that I'll burn my house down or lose my leg but what's the worst that could possibly happen to my phone?

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Post BLACKED Site soldiers!

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>>149971664

>>149971065
How is that not
With VPT (which with how much face your first MEC will rape you get pretty fucking early) your min roll is six
If you get a 75-80 aim Heavy and chop them, you've got an absurdly hard-hitting, fast, tough trooper right out the gate.

>>149972817
Plus you get immediate access to flamethrowers for your first MEC, which are worth their weight in gold when you kill a whole pod in one move or panic a bunch of insert-baddie-here

What building do I build first in Xcom 2?

>>149973018
Lab

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>>149973539
Do not listen to this alien.
Build AWC or gorilla warfare room depending on personal preference

Is Vahlen insane?

>>149973613
>implying Lab rush isn't a valid strat
Anon please, you can shit out full mag/carapace before encountering your first mutons on Commander

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>>149973539
>Lab
Nice try ayylien scum. Better luck next time.

I went to look for a lady scientist and now I'm surrounded by snakes. Send help

>>149973885
>implying it was not part of her masterplan
You're not big enough of a guy is you doubt it

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>>149973726
>Commander

>>149973984
Hey, I can have some easy mode after L/I run

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>>149974069
>easy mode
>ever
Looks like the Commander's been slacking off.

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>>149974228
Eh, once you get a roulette soldier that can solo pods with ease, the game becomes trivial
5 possible shots a turn if hair trigger procs and both chain shots land

>>149974368
Guess Rubes finally got tired of being sexualized.

Seriously though, that's a lotta dakka

>>149974956
Her Captain skill didn't give her any more, but hey, there's still 3 ranks of possible FUN waiting.
>inb4 squadsight

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Reminder that if this isn't how you shoot your guns then you don't belong in this general

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>>149975217

>>149959732
>>149959590
Do you kids realize that Xcom Interceptor already exists?

Stop dying

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We WW2-COM now