XCOM General - /xcg/

pistols are useful

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>>150159214

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Any possibility of a tygan based dlc in the future? He's the best secondary character

>>150159401

Why does he look like a goblin?

>>150159674
Tygan Vahlen tag team missions for the expansion. Calling it now.

>ABA: Better Pods +
>Legend

>Escalation Classes
>Increased Turn Timer
>6 man starting size with 7 and 8 squad size upgrades

Balanced?

>>150159401
Anybody have a picture of Beagle after he shaves?

>>150159778
Because he is literally a lanky goblin anon. No need to be so rude, you can't just ask why someone looks the way they do.

>>150159848
Throw in Grenade Fall Off Damage

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>>150159401
>that tuft of hair
christ beagle, sort yourself out

have some pride, man

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>>150159856
ayy lmao

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>>150159893
implying he would let that reach the internet

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Codices in their natural habitat. A mexican farm in the middle of nowhere.

>>150159401
Ayy lmao.
AYY LMAO

Post the stupid music you listen to while playing Long War XCOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlqlNZkV5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtp93QP1sWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tptx8boeGhE

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>>150160352

Another happy day at Xcom.

>>150160171
He doesn't look so bad from the front, but I'm sure if you'd view him from any angle but head-on, you'd start to notice his narrow jaw and chin more.

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I never noticed this before, but where is the dog's head?

>>150160171
Someone should find where he lives, hold him at gunpoint and then shave his beard off and upload it to /xcg/.

>>150160352
>>150160501
>Enemy that drops their own ready made trophies
Beautiful

>>150160541
Its bending back towards his top arm, its just hard to see with the blur.

>>150160191
Did they get deported? :^)

>>150160556
I don't think you can upload a bunch of hair to the internet, anon.

>>150160556

How would you even upload a beard?

>>150160698
Not with that attitude.

>>150160294
https://soundcloud.com/gillsberry/my-people-have-suffered

>>150160721
Make it a soldier customization option.

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>>150160556
Please do not do that to our supreme Commander

>>150160835
But it already is. Beagle has confirmed that the beard and his face without the beard are accurate to life recreations.

>>150161509
What. When?

>>150161598
On stream. He was messing with his in-game character and went on to detail (after removing the beard briefly) how he went in to Firaxis so they could get his likeness and he was shocked at how well she did the face (what it looks like without the beard).

>>150161598
Last time he stream XCOM 2. He was giving us a tour of Beagle-rookie and took the beard off and told us how Firaxis made an accurate representation of his head from just a few pictures. He then gave Beagle-rookie Bradfords rifle and killed X2.

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>>150161754
Do you have a general time into the stream when it happens?

>>150162001
Not off the top of my head.

>>150162001
Sometime around the end. That's all I can say.

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Alright so I'm finally gonna start a Long War campaign with intent to finish it this time. Just normal ironman because I am not good. Only changes are a reduction of aircraft transfer time and weapon re-arm time, everything else will be unmodified.
Turning on New Economy, Commander's Choice, and Durability. Starting in Nigeria because gotta go fast I am addicted to speed. Probably nothing interesting will happen.

Wish me luck /xcg/

>>150162610
Do dynamic war or else you're never going to finish

>>150162610
>Mall map
>More then a blue move away from cover
Ack, hate this map. Anyway my starting lineup:
Jack O'Neill, Beaglerush (ayy lmao), Paiva, Big Ol'Aarbear, Comodoretrek, and Neimiah

>>150162928
If I finished PirateZ, I can finish Long War. Or at least length won't be the issuethat's what she said. At least that's what i tell myself.

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>finally got some new classes for this run
>oh look, starting ability: commissar
>what does this one do
>pic related
this is not ok

>>150164031
Why would you even want that?

>>150164031
kek

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>>150164031

BRUISER WHEN

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>>150163273
Almost a perfect mission, but I done goofed. Kind of surprising considering every pod activated before I had even killed one.

>>150164031

I noticed that too.

I mean, in what conceivable stretch would you ever execute one of your own soldiers?

>>150164502
>>150164643
>>150166574
Literally for the memes. Either that or the Long War alien pack will introduce enemies with permanent mind control.

>>150164031
wat mod

>>150166776
Pretty sure that's the Long War perk pack

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>tfw you kill 5 ayys without breaking concealment with 1 soldier

This spec ops class is insane.

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>>150167030

Stabbing ayys left and right in the jungle

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>>150167152

[vigilo confido intensifies]

>>150165969
For the first round of base management, I'm building an elevator, excavating one spot, building a satellite control, a satellite, a motion tracker, and starting xenobiology.

The 2nd mission is the dam map from Portent, and my lineup is Sun Tzu, Ms Overwatch Bait, Voyboy, Davy Crockett, Freckled Buckler, and Amestub. I brough alot of AP since it was a roadway map.

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Oh my

>>150169042
I feel like this got teased ages ago. Is it finally happening?

>>150169112
Someone's been porting over heads, but this is the first time someone ported over all the clothes

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=734716688

Got uploaded while I was busy watching Jason Bourne

More civilian clothing in XCOM 2 when

>>150169421
>http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=734716688
Cool

>Bourne
I'm assuming the new one. Did you enjoy it?

>>150169562
I actually haven't seen any of the other Bourne films but yeah it's the new one

I kinda liked it, but my eyes hurt from the chaotic camera scenes in the first 30 minutes

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>>150168591
2nd mission was flawless, no one even hurt for armor damage and managed to recover some of the meld. Its a good start to the campaign, I'll take the momentum into tomorrow hopefully.

>>150170698
>Wanting rookies to ever have guaranteed shots
Then what's the fucking point of ranking up?

>replay XCOM 2 for the first time since launch
>all the difficulty shit, ABA++ blah blah blah
>lose interest fairly quickly
>take several weeks to finish campaign due to lack of interest

>want to play long dong again
>boot up my old save
>at geoscape with a council bomb removal mission waiting
>only like my D team in terms of fatigue and shit

>get in mission
>Leviathan Mechtoid
>2 warmaster heavy floaters
>super muton elite leader
>greater hive queen
>2 ethereals

It's good to be back.

>>150171289
I haven't had that issue so idk

>>150171289

Because whatever they did to the unreal engine between EW and XCOM 2 was absolute SHIT in terms of performance, and the game is even buggier than EW was.

>>150171913
ignore him, he's still salty about the game not being optimized at launch day

>>150171913
I assumed you meant X2 when I said I wasn't having that problem.

>>150172026

FIX YOUR GAME JAKE IT IS STILL BUGGY AND UNOPTIMIZED YOU FUCKING KIKE

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I've finally admitted to myself that Xcom 2 is not what I thought it would be. It just isn't good.

Fuck Advent. They're dull and boring as shit. I hate fighting them and they're not satisfying. I want to kill aliens not humans. Killing a single sectoid in Xcom EU is more satisfying than killing an entire levels worth of Advent. I'm sick of killing the same 3 faggots every single mission.

fuck xcom 2

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>>150172750

>>150172750
To be fair Advent are aliens, but I get what you mean.

The game is just boring. I miss killing popcorn heads. Also the game is buggy as shit, STILL. And the DLC has all been really really bad.

Even with all the mods its not as fun as EW and the story is pants on head retarded. Really really stupid. There were endless faggots defending it before release too

Someone in the last thread was talking about a mod that removes advent and balances the game around fighting only aliens. Does anyone have a link to that?

>>150172750

I disagree, except about the fuck advent part.

Advent should've disappeared as you went further into the game, or they should've become cannon fodder and meat shields for the ayys, the whole "heavy, elite, advanced" or whatever versions of advent should not exist.

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>>150171096

How did that go?

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>>150159401

Ayy...

>>150177032
GIVE JAKE MONEY

>>150160541
Literally an XCOM 2 Sectoid.

>original xcoms - sectoids were smol and cute
>enemy unknown - sectoids were smol and cute
>xcom 2 - sectoids are normal-sized and not cute
>/xcg/ will defend this

>>150178076
oh I won't.
Trust me, Pectoids are my biggest disappointment when it comes to 2.

>>150178076
original ayy remnants in XCOM 2 when

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>>150178076

>implying pectoids aren't cute

Disgusting human get out, GET OUT! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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>>150178076
Vahlen From The Deep better have oldtoids.

>>150172691
Optimization is honestly a huge can of worms and I'm not too mad if it takes a little while to do even after launch.

>b-but this other game was super-optimized at launch

Different teams are better at different things, some have a better understanding of the engine, some simply have different feature sets, XCOM 2 was inefficient at launch, but it wasn't unfinished.

>>150180661

On the plus side, Xcom2 has never crashed on me. Although, the first time i got to the last mission i restarted the game myself after the last room turned into a disco because i thought it was melting my computer.

As it turns out, it was just the game not being able to handle so many ayys.

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>tfw you start to miss LW

Is there any point wasting resources on workshops and Labs early game on Legendary?

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>There are people who unironically believe that Long war is better than XCAM2

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>>150185301
I really miss Cyberdisks.

Gatekeepers just aren't the same.

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>>150185650
>there are people that have differing opinons

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>>150186625
>There are people with terrible opinions

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>>150186909
>there are people with opinions that differ from MINE

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>>150187006
>People think it's about differing opinions
>Its just about a bad opinion
>Like thinking tits are better than ass
>Or being pro-skub

>>150185386
It's pretty important with how long things take to research in Legendary. But workshops don't give efficiency bonuses so using them is entirely dependent on your engineer numbers and strategy.

>>150185650
I can tell that XCOM2 is better, but believe me if Long War ain't richer.

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Post Roulettes how the fuck is there 15 seconds of lag between pasting an image link and 4chan x registering it

Why does everyone hate the specalist

there used to be a LW modlist back when i browsed xcg a year ago, do you guys still have it somewhere?

>>150189275
I don't think I've seen that helmet before, what mod?

>>150192216
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=650731226

>>150192371
Thank ye

Hey /xcg/ I'm at a impasse at Xcom EW, this is my first invasion with the LW mod and it's fucking brutal.
Is there any good tip you can share?

>>150174483
>Advent
>interesting

They're exalt in stupid costumes

>>150167030
>This spec ops class is insane.
I've been telling anons that StealthCom with SpecOps, Rogues, and Scouts is totally possible. It's a hell of a drug.

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>fighting seekers
>can't go in a specific spot with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on it
it really makes you think..........................

>>150189275
This one of those mods which adds perks to weapons?

>>150189275
>Dense Smoke twice
That guy has the best smoke grenades in the entire universe.

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>>150195731
It's a Roulette mod by some /xcg/ anon

>>150195982

>>150197543
Jesus, -60 for dat fatty smoke. Absolutely insane.

>>150197543
No, I mean none of your selected perks are on the ability list.

>>150193739
Wow you pleb. Exalt are actually just the Cult of Sirius in stupid costumes. So that means that ADVENT are also just Cult of Sirius in stupid costumes. If you actually knew anything you would know that wow.

>>150200048
Now, don't be dumb.

Nothing are stupider than Apocalypse costumes.

>>150200242
The Cult looks fine in apoc, they are just a bunch of pixel sprite people in oddly green suits, which for apoc really puts them ahead in the curve.

Also ADVENT armor is pretty rocking imo. I just don't agree with this concept that somehow because EXALT are humanoid they resemble EXALT from a gameplay perspective.

>>150200523
*Because ADVENT are humanoid

>>150194226
Is tile spamming for Seekers effective? Or does it only restrict your movement if you give the order to move there? As opposed to just moving the cursor around?

>>150201062
Hold right click, if a seeker is there it won't let you go there and it there won't be a yellow/blue square over that tile.

>XCOM2 is getting a console release soon
>all my friends on console will be playing it for the first time

who's ready for the new wave of casual tears? what will they be bitching about he most?
>they throw way too many enemies at you!
>vipers and stunlancers have bullshit abilities!
>the stealth makes no sense!
>the Avatar Project fills up waaay too fast!
>why is my guy "shaken" when he isn't even hurt!? when will this go away!

>>150202876
>what the fuck are those timers
>fucking codex multiplying wtf firaxis
>fucking rulers wtf

>>150202876
Stuttering and time limits

>>150202876
Definitely the DLC content

I expect rulers producing mass amount of salt and tears, and tons of pics of people having a four man squad(or even less with casualties) with ballistics, while Julian towers over them.

>>150203707
I'd expect them to rebalance/shift the DLC narrative. Currently it's slated for PC users who can just slot it into their campaign. If it's in the base game it needs to be properly paced into any introductory campaign.

Why can't a single soldier from Nigeria live for longer than 4 insertions, seriously.

Whereas anybody from South Africa seems to be unkillable.

>>150204887
Every time I get a free unit because of council mission or council request it's a nigger.
EVERY
GOD
DAMN
TIME

>>150202876
>>150203406
I for one am looking forward to more casuals bitching about the timers.

>>150205483
I have mixed emotions about this. My very first playthrough of EU I was given a Sargent from Russie who was a black guy, and he ended up being the best assault I've had to date.

Every other one? Trash.
>Nigerian sniper who can't hit shit and panics immediately
>black chick from Brazil that cannot make an OW shot to save her life (or anyone else's)
>American black who panics, hunkers down, gets btfo out anyway

Affirmative action is hurting the counsel, and ADVENT took full advantage of it.

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THEY SHALL NOT PASS!

>>150208085
Jesus. Hell of a base defense. LW?

Is the DLC worth getting lads

Haven't played since launch when my save broke on the final mission

>>150208085

I imagine all the rookies recruited since this attack will never get the full story, and get shut down if they ask about it.

>>150185650
LW is indisputably better than vanilla XCOM 2.

>>150210790
>Gatling Pulser
>Two S.C.O.P.Es
GEE, I DON'T KNOW!

>>150208085
Who's the casualty?

>>150210790
It's definitely LW, equipment is from it and the colored health bars indicate it

Late game base defense in LW is a nightmare and a half. Very first wave dumps sectoids to eat some overwatch shots, followed by lids, a few mechtoids, and commanders out of LOS. You need to get damn lucky clearing that out, because if things go bad and things take time, before you know it the flier wave of disks, floaters, heavy floaters, and seekers come at you while you're unprepared.

>>150211339
Been like two years since I played LW, don't gotta be a nigger about it.

>>150211635
Holy shit, that's pretty fucking brutal.

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Heres the other half of the whole half shitstorm I have still to go trought.

>>150211363
Sgt. Hocleitner, he did his job

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>>150187246
>There are people who like pineapple on pizza

>>150189275
>crotch window that exposes camo leggings
Haha, wtf?

>>150194226
Time to put that grenade to good use

>>150210956
No

>>150206476
Shit, that makes me realize, there are no black ADVENT.

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>>150211815
Friendly reminder, ethereals can spam psi lance and fucking oneshot a MEC trooper without even doing a crit.
I sometimes hate this shit

>>150212963
Inspire? Does mind merge help?

>>150212963
How many guys do you have left anon? There's a lot of causalities that I saw in your pics

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>>150212963

Worry.jpg

>>150211881
Or female ADVENT.

>>150213202
I had to load a previous save, they steamrolled me, but I atleast know where I fucked up

>>150213334
Don't start this again

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>>150213440
>>but I at least know where I fucked up.

Good.

Their sacrifices where not in vain.

>>150213334
>>150211881

Advent is propagating an ideal future where minorities and females have no sway in the public forum, which is run entirely by genetically-enhanced whites.

>>150208085

>not abusing the high ground for that section

Ya blew it.

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>>150214582
Don't be silly anon. The only future they care about is the one where everyone is paste high in vitiamin psi.

>>150215049
>going up and getting raped by the 2 disc + 3 sectoid commanders with mind control
forwhatpurpose.jpg

Anyone know a good face pack for XCOM2? I haven't dabbled in mods for 2 so much.

No anime faces pls

>>150215728
>face pack
They don't exist anon. The best you can do is get the mod that adds hero unit's (julian, Doorn, and Bealge) faces as regular customization options.

>>150216004
Fug

I have four guys with the same face but differing hair/skin tone because there's only 2 good male faces for each race, same for the girls.

>>150216265
Yeah it sucks, I do expect eventually the code will be cracked. Maybe Firaxis will have mercy on us and release more faces with the expansion, or prefereably release more faces and fix things up so modders can start importing/making their own.

Sort of how like they made the extra customization slots for Anarchy's children, but also released those customization slots for everybody as a general patch. This was extra the greatest value of that DLC everyone forgets.

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Fucking hell

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>>150216658
>Operatives killed: 7
>Rating: as poor as a rock

>>150215219

I've never seen cyber disks come from the hanger area only the cave part in the early waves. And even then for the disks there is a ton of heavy cover in that high ground from the support beams. Would be dumb to not go up there.

>>150208085
Fuck me, I'm not ashamed to say I save-scummed the hell out of this mission. Why did it feel the need to put me in the base defence while my two top level augmented assaults and my best medics were all recovering so my entire team was carried by rookies and a single mech.
This is my first playthrough of EW, are there more utter BS missions to come?

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>8 species
>7 on the list

Place your bets, regular floater, ethereal, or sectopod.Maybe berserker.

>>150217001
If you aren't aware of it, base defense is going to be the toughest imo.

>>150217001
It was my first base defense too, and I would say that most LW missions are bs.
You want to know the best part of all of this fucking mission?
That they didn't sent mechs

>>150216658
Everything by the numbers

>>150217116
Guessing an ethereal to accompany those elites

>>150217116
It will be a fucking gatekeeper

>>150216658
>"they came after us, our people, right at the heart of our operation, and we showed them what happens"

90% fatality rate for the response team?

All that tells the aliens is that, 9 out of 10 times, they win that fight.

>>150217609

I would gladly fight 3 gate keepers over a single ethereal.

>>150217632
In my defense , most of my good soldiers were recovering, those mec soldiers were good but my regular soldiers were 3 times better.

>>150217632
>Trade 37 aliens for 8 men, most of them rookie base security in one massive attack that you will never be able to launch again
Nope, bad trade for ayys. If you remember the base defense mission is tied plotwise to the Portent plot.
Yeah its Long War, so the base defense plot is a bit messed

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>>150216658
>>Operatives killed: 7

It's really amazing how easy is to lose all of the Base Security in an instant. Even in EW keeping them alive was quite of a problem.

>>150217157
I wasn't expecting it, and it fucked me up. I must've been stuck on it for days. Salt too real.

>>150217632
Oh man, so many rookies dead. With only 1 active support I had to reload so many times
to stop my top level soldier from being fucking crit'ed by Mechtoids from literally nowhere.

>>150218156
I look at savescumming as less cheesing and more trying to find the perfect formula for a mission. At least, that's how a rationalize it when I start getting my shit pushed in.

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>>150218057
I honestly feel bad about the security personal, not to mention that even with the LW extra upgrades you can give them they just die as quick as usual

>>150216658
>37

Is that it? I had double that in one of the lategame defenses.

>>150217116
Berserker.
Sectoid Commanders will be the "captains" considering that there are already sectoids with the mechtoid, so no ethereal or outsider.

>>150219030
Yeah, because it was lategame, this was my first def mission.

>>150218650
If you're playing LW, next time look into enabling Ironman and then ticking off Bronzeman in the second wave options. It allows you to restart missions, which Ironman disables. It's a really great tool to cure savescumming. If something goes wrong at the start, sure, restart. If the mission is nearly done and a guy gets crit to death, you're not going to go for the restart button because you have to re-do the entire mission.

>run up to a mechtoid
>fight him with a neat cutscene
>punch him out of the window
>he lands on a car
>car explodes
>explosion takes out his sectoid buddies
How can SPARKs even compare?

>>150221154
they can't

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>>150221154
>>150221506

Funny thing is that i'm pretty sure you can "fix" that just by changing a number. There's this line under the strike ability that says:

>KnockbackEffect.KnockbackDistance = 2;

Maybe if you bump that up it'll send ayys flying across the map.

>>150223434
Pretty sure there is already a mod that does just that. Doesn't fix cool cutscene of course.

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commander it seems the aliens have packaged your combat simulations

>>150223543
Funny how the lack of cutscenes killed my hype for the SPARK fist. I punched shit all the time in EW/LW, because it looked cool and it felt damn great to smackdown a sectopod in a cutscene, even if you did take damage from the resulting explosion.

>>150223543
>>150223543

You are indeed, correct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ztvb9JsZ8

>>150224073
Already 100% better
Literally a mandatory mod

/xcg/ what classes benefit from the alien ruler armors the best? i'm using the long war perk pack and not sure who to put them on.

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>>150219410
>If the mission is nearly done and a guy gets crit to death, you're not going to go for the restart button

>>150219410
Certainly never stopped me in Fire Emblem. I think its better because you actually have to play the entire mission well. I still go ironman, but bronzeman is certainly more healthy for developing your tactics and gitting gud then save-scumming.

>>150224381
Snake armor for Shinobi (you did take Death From Above, right?), Berserker armor for assault, and Archon armor for anyone who can benefit from flanking.

>>150224381
Assault gets the Viper Armor. With the insanely good crit boosting perks, I can go balls out with a run and gun, incapacitate a guy with the armor, crit another to death with the axe, then murder another with a shotgun

RAGE armor is a tough one, but I slapped it on my Gunner. Since the ability doesn't cost any actions, I can use it to reposition my gunner in balls out assaults for better shots. One of the last perks the gunner can get is fucking monstrous but requires both actions and has an aim penalty, so being able to reposition close to the enemy with this armor is really good.

Icarus armor went on my ranger. Since they have light em up as well as a lot of other shit, you can really fuck over ayy positions. Fly behind them to flank them all, take out an isolated ayy, and then sat fire the rest.

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>>150222964

Good Stuff.

How useful do you rate basic shivs in Long War? Would you value them differently in a normal campaign versus a more difficult one?

>>150227763
They excel at supporting low tier squads, especially rookies

Prime example are UFOs. It's not an easy task for rookies to get through an Outsiders regenning 10 hp without getting blasted, but a SHIV can kick his ass really hard, enough that you only need one rookie to hit in order to finish the job

>>150227763
Alloy SHIVS are the best shit ever, if you have to level all cover you use them to advance.

>>150225826
Helicopter is cute! CUTE!

>>150228205
>>150228081
So you would fork over $60 dollaroos in the first month of a normal campaign for shiv?

>>150228586
Definitely. It's one of the things that I grab right off the start, alongside two motion trackers. They're the perfect backup

>>150229232
thanks

>>150170273
So the first UFO nailed every single shot on my interceptor and then dodged every single shot from my second interceptor and then merrily flew away.

Outplayed

Anyone knows how to uninstall all Xcom2 mods manually? I have transfered the Xcom2 files from one PC to anoter because my internet is shit, and all the mods i used to have transfered too. I don't care about the save files.

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>>150230204
>UFO continues to hit every shot
>Tell interceptor to abort
>Takes two hits while "disengaging"
I uh, I don't even know anymore. Maybe I just shouldn't be playing Long War today.

>>150230914
Post hanger, I want to see those juicy repair times

>>150231507
It's shot down anon. I have lost one of my four original interceptors in the first month. 200 bucks.

Vahlen.

Wow (the mission) Shen's Gift is annoying as fuck

>>150233521
break los

>still no jagged alliance AP/time units overhaul

>>150235406
That is because those systems suck

>>150236058
Fuck you, they're great- flexible but not cumbersome once used to.

The 2 ap system is the single LEAST tactical system I've ever had the displeasure to be constricted with. It's sorta tolerable in the shadowrun returns because the gameplay is pretty basic, but it's fucking disgraceful for xcom.

>>150237168

>being this much of a shitter

>>150237369
>not wanting to take one of my two precious APs to move one case from corner to out-of-los or vice-versa makes me a shitter
Yeah okay buddy.

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>>150159401
AYY LMAO

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>>150206476
In my first campaign one of my veterans was a niggress from Britain. She was fucking waifu material.
>Go-lucky attitude
>Wrecked shit as a ranger
>Kept being happy even as her face that didn't have an ugly underbite was covered in plasma burns

In my current campaign my best ranger (or infantry, with LW) is an edgy gal from Nigeria. I'm getting similar vibes from her, and it doesn't help that she's using Shepard's voice.

Moonman head and VP when?

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>>150233521
NEVER AGAIN

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>>150239505

I had a waifu once, and then a stun lancer force fed her his rod.

>>150239710
Source?

>>150240704

I've no idea other than it's green lantern and it's when the red lanterns showed up.

>>150159085
im playing the first xcom on my pc to get before i play part two any tips ?

>>150241968
Don't use cars as cover unless you want to be disappointed.

>>150241968
low cover is no cover

Always go for engineers so you can build satellite control buildings, so you can launch satellites, so you can launch these satellites over countries about to leave the council (max panic)

Ey, yo. Someone who knows... In piratez, what's the godly brain for? I can't for the life of me find out...

>>150243005
>>150243079
im playing xcom 1 enemy unknow the one that came out recently not 1990's

>>150243259
Those still apply

>>150243259
Ummm, yes. so all are advice still applies. In fact our advice does not apply to the og x-com.

>>150243130
Never found out even by the time I beat the game. Old version though.

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>>150243486
Fug. That makes it harder. It's not for selling, I know that. It generates negative profit.

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>>150243638

>>150243638
The tech viewer says you unlock "Godly Brain" after "Post-Apocalyptic Cuisine."

So.... Its food I guess?

>>150243486
thanks

>>150244085
Also remember spacing or else you will get fragged to hell

Sure, but you can't bring it with you... And eat it on missions.

>>150245114
>Sure, but you can't bring it with you... And eat it on missions.
What did he mean by this?

>>150245957
Probably >>150244065

What's the meme mod called were it changes the debriefing to "how much you save scummed" and all that?

How long untill all the assets from EU/EW get ported over?
We already have armor and tier one weapons.

>>150254075

You also have mecs, and long dong made lasers, there's also the exalt clothes and bradford's sweater.

What's left to port? The ayys probably will never happen because the guy that was doing that commited sudoku.

>>150255093
Go away payday gang

I don't think there's even any banks left in the ADVENT cities

>>150253146
Pretty sure it's called ayy lmao.

>>150255321
>tfw no Pay Day mask mod for XCOM 2

At least there's the Clover and Bonnie voice packs

Sure are a lot of UK lesbians doing voice acting

>bagle started a new long dong campaign

will he go all the way, lads?

will war within ever be finished?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=731540200

Hope this plays out well

Anyone home?

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>>150259212

>>150159786
Late as fuck but it would be great if the expansion had a "pick your progression" shit, you can either keep Tygan or send him away and hire Vahlen, and each one gives new possibilities (Tygan could be tech shit, Vahlen genetic shit), and you get a mission in which you have to face the one you didn't pick (Tygan goes back to ADVENT, Vahlen goes full on crazy)

>>150259431
ohshit

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>>150259212

'sup

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Snek is shit

>>150260827
Sup boat guy

>>150259431
2spoop

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Anyone play a game with Partisan War installed? I'm not expecting it to be anywhere close to long war, but is it any good?

>>150264343
tis fun dont get pinned

>>150264343
>Partisan War
Wat dis?

>>150265516
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=645321724&searchtext=

>>150265620
Interesting. Thanks, I hadn't heard of this.

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>255 posts in
>No snek
JAKE, I BLAME YOU!

>>150267387
There was one snek, probably not what you were looking for though. >>150260903

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>>150260827
Hey boat guy

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>>150267387

>tfw when no snek husbando

>>150267649
Obviously not as snek is pure, and needs to be recruited to XCOM to assist with pacification of ADVENT forces!

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>>150261046
>>150267746

Quite a slow day this has been.

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>>150267387
Well, this place hasn't been as lively as it once was. A lot of the snekposters have pulled up and left.

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DURR HURR CYCLOPS MOD WHEN GUYZ AMIRITE LOLOLOL HUURRGHH

until now i am catching up on the void of Thursday
i am curious, why did he suddenly decided to play LW? and also what are the plans for the future?
only LW? or will he rotate between X2 and LW?

>>150270406

He finally broke Xcom2, so he can't play it anymore. So he was thinking what else to play and decided to go back to long war until he figured how to fix Xcom2.

>>150270619
>He finally broke Xcom2
he just had to mess with Bradford's gun

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>>150270959

Y-YOU TOOK MY GUN?

MY. GUN!?

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Good Times.

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>>150270120
Truly, cant say that I'm bored though.

So, what's everyone up to right now?

>>150273342
Trying to convince myself to play something that isn't XCom, EDF or Serious Sam.

I've been killing a fuckload of ayys lately.

>>150273342
been playin starbound, comfy game
also i recently started a new campaign with ABA (with better pods +), and paragon class rebalance
i am really diggin the new classes so far, it might become my default classmod

>>150273537
I'd say you are doing gods work anon, It's mainly been stellaris, doom2016, xcom, and modded to hell arma3 for me.

>>150273837
Very comfy game I had played it in alpha but I definitely need to go back to it, I always had liked meeting friendly towns of npc's.

>>150189275

What's the best training roulette mod?

>>150274000
the amount of stuff to do now is nuts
and i am glad that it finally came out and isnt a terrible mess of a game

>>150274884
Thats good to hear I will have to play it next chance I get

>>150270345
>the poor sods are unable to feel much pleasure either
Well that kind of
>we have checked
L-lewd I think

>>150276056
Just use this quick test next time your wondering.

>Does it sound lewd
>Is it PirateZ

If you answered yes to both, it is 100% lewd.

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>>150273342
Neglecting to research guns in Piratez and suffering for it

What the fuck is an omega rifle?

>>150276056
>>150276313
This is 100% accurate

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>>150270120
Yep.

>>150273860
What mods are you using for Arma 3?

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>>150274307
This one made by /xcg/ anon, I don't think he has it on Steam or Nexus

Also a good fifth of the skills are broken but it's still the most comprehensive Roulette mod

https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/149179194/#149274160

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>>150278473
Lots of weapons mods off of workshop RHS, Ace, Cup maps, a variety of rappelling options, LOTS of different factions from Rhodesians, to eastern European ultra-nationalists, some stuff so I can make the ai actually care about their lives, task force so my friends and I can express our autism over radios ,and some gear mods so we can play dress up.

>>150277973
uac? Is there doom shit in piratez?

>>150279280
UNF. Holy shit. I don't suppose you guys are in the Americas and are looking for other players?

>>150279687
Yes.

>>150279863
I mean Im always down to play with people only issue is we dont have as many people as we used to so its up to you if you are still interested (we mainly do Zeus stuff just quick missions we setup for each other)

>>150239710
Is that Guy Gardner?

>>150282145

yes

>>150282227
Why is he so angry, and why is he red?

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GO TIME

>>150282298

If i remember right(and i probably don't), he takes the red ring to save someone, and then ends up going apeshit because rage.

>grenadier injured on gatecrasher
>1st mission with hack
>2 pods camp the objective

i either need to get good again or the game is commited to fuck me

>>150280132
Not him, but who are you guys ? Always interested to have some fun with other arma 3 autists like me

so im playing long war and i cant figure out how to capture floaters

do they need to be on ground level to be able to be captured or what do you have to do ?

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>>150270140
I want to cum in klodette

>>150270140
>A lot of the snekposters have pulled up and left
Good thing they did, /xcg/ was a shitshow after X2's release.

what other games
>xgc
are playing

im putting it away for a bit

>>150289638
It still is, see >>150287381

>>150290707
Nigger this is my favorite map in the game.

>>150290646
I tried 94Com. I can't get into it at all. It's just so freaking slow having to move 14+ dudes one at a time, and you can't move anyone else in the interim. So you have 14+ actions that take like 10 seconds each turn. Then the reaction fire rules always just seem to fuck me. My dudes don't move, but never seem to get reaction shots. Meanwhile my dude farts next to an alien, and he unloads his whole clip in them.

Meh. I'll give it a shot again at some point, but god damn is it tedious compared to EW/XCOM 2. As for what I'm playing instead, replaying games I've beaten already like Ori and the Blind Forest, and some weeb shit for fun.

>>150290707
>it's different so it's bad
Ayys have to deal with the same cover. If anything, the biggest issue there is that you can activate the entire map in one turn.

>>150290646
Total Warhammer. It's pretty good already, can't imagine what'll it be like when the expansions start coming out.

>no LWS alien pack
Gimme muh ayys JL and Bubs

>>150290740
Better than literally nothing

>>150289638
>Implying snekposters were extremely prevalent
>Implying they shat the threads up the most

>>150290646
Original Doom

It's a great fallback. Tons of source ports with tons of mods, and there's a decently active multiplayer on Zandronum if you want to try it. Currently mucking around with the D4D modification(Doom 4s stuff for Doom).

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>it's a "drone kills a mec tropper that had 13 fucking health episode"
yup ok i gotchu senpai ;-))))))

>>150294198
how long did your campaign last ?

>>150294929
It's still going, but with one of my mec trooper colonels ded.
turns out it was the meld canister that did 9 damage before the drone, despite no one attacking or hurting it in any way

>>150295061
Unless you're playing some kind of next generational long dong, meld doesn't do damage. It's a passive environmental object.

>>150295061
Meld canisters do damage in Long Dong now ?

>>150295239
>>150295246
I have no fucking idea then.
I wasn't even playing on Long Dong, just vanilla EW.

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Just squad wiped on a clutch facility assault because of a stupid mistake and a 1 hp left sectopod wrecked my team and lead to a squadwipe. First playthrough with Legend Ironman. Probably should have played commander but I honestly almost made it through despite all my wrong choices with research and buildings.

All random squad, but I sitll got attached.

18 flawless missions out of 33. RIP you beautiful bastards.

>>150278827
This reminds of risk of rain, the helmet probably.

>>150286416
They don't have to be ground level, you just have to be within four tiles I think.

Did Jake fix his game yet?

>>150297839
You don't just "fix" a game.

>>150290919
Reaction fire is a risk I never take in 94com. The mechanics of it are consistent if you know the game rules, but if you know the game rules you know that relying on it is a fools errand.

In perfectly optimal play, you will never see an alien on their turn, and only on yours. Yes, the ultimate tactic really is break los. Its way easier to achieve in og x-com though and you should be abusing smoke grendades since they are the most powerful item in the entire game.

Also make sure to turn up friendly unit speed, watching the animation for you're guys walking around takes a suprising amount of time.

>>150291057
>but yes it is an incredibly tedious to play game and i understand why it stops being fun after the first couple hours
Honestly at this point I play it really fast, faster then I play Long War. I guess it goes without saying I still find it fun.

>>150290919
>>150291057
P I R A T E Z
(Soldiers start with a much higher reaction stat so it actually gets trained.)

>>150297272
RIP.

>>150298735
>Using reactions

>>150298903
Its also not very slow. Besides, you can play pretty fast if you aren't Beaglerush and aren't on impossible.

Just finished my vanilla run, now I have some mod questions, if someone can help me.

Are these SpartBashes mods good? I mean, this guy has like 20 something mods, are ALL of them bad or are there some good ones?
What are some good SPARK mods? The pastebin has none.
What are some good gun mods that actually tie in with the game besides LW Pulse ones?

>>150299613
I haven't really gave much of a fuck about Spart's armours but I like his guns.

>>150299784
no u :^)

>>150299743
I'm always wary of mod weapons because some people are retarded and make them godmode shit

>>150299813
You can always just changes the stats in the mod .ini, combat stats and strategic costs.

>>150299613
Another one: Is the SPARK classes mod good?

>>150299946
I haven't done any ini editing in X2 yet, is it as easy as in EW? Because I hope it is if I'm getting the SPARK classes mod, no way I'll be spending two fucking cores all the time like that either that or I'm getting grimy's loot cheat

POST IMAGINARY JL VS JAKE GAME DESIGN DEBATES

>>150300063
>I haven't done any ini editing in X2 yet, is it as easy as in EW?
If you did any .ini editing for Long War it's pretty much the exact same thing. Just finding the correct value and changing them. Just remember that when you want to edit mods you need to find the actual mod ini files, not the standard ones kept in the steam folder.

>>150302069
Fine, I'll just cheat and reduce SPARK costs then (or increase core drops if I find out how)

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>First time playing X2
>Finally escape the Africa shithole so I could actually deal with all the ADVENT facilities in East Asia/South America
>Entire A-team is wounded from previous missions, send in B-team to facility since Avatar progress is 2 bars from completion
>Situation immediately goes to the shitter thanks to dark event boosted detection radii
>Codex keeps running around fucking me over with the weapon-disabling maneuver
>2 Vipers, 6 Advent of various flavors, and a Sectoid all coming after me
>Codex fucks up and teleports within dash range
>Decide to blitz a skulljack on it
>Fucking Bolo enters the fight
I'd like to nominate myself for "worst idea of the day award"

He was surprisingly easy though round 2, since I cornered him with 3 rangers and just wailed on him with stun blades

>>150303182
>skulljacking enemies that early
Oh boy. Glad you are ok.

Also if you didn't know when the Avatar bar fills up you still have time to knock it back down.

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>>150270345
Anon plz. If you want to meme, do it right

>>150305309
>If you want to meme, do it right
>implying they wanted to do it right

Does X-Piratez gets any better latter in the game?

So far I stayed for the diverzity of stuff to kill and stuff to kill stuff with, but the memes and fetishes are rather offputing to me to be absolutely honest.

Also I find it regretable, that in a game about pirates, you recruit people normally instead of conscripting captives which si what many pirate crews acrually did IRL. But I guess there are limits to what opencxom can do.

>>150305014
>when the Avatar bar fills up you still have time to knock it back down.
That's actually really good to know

I actually figured I was pretty behind progress-wise since I'd been stalled by low supplies/slow construction for ages in Africa
I did at least get my first EXO-suit though, shit's neat
The Avenger defense mission was cool as shit though, mostly because I had a competent sharpshooter with squadsight/overwatch, a cowboy sharpshooter kicking ass with his revolver, and like 8 grenadiers razing everything

>>150298236
>Its way easier to achieve in og x-com though and you should be abusing smoke grendades
I used smoke grenades, and aliens just shot my dudes in it anyways.

>>150305014
Skullfucking enemies can be a nice little resource boost if you can consistently do it though.

>>150307103
Depends, but I would need to know a few things:
1) What year are you in
2) How far in the tech tree
3) How much time do you spend reading stuff/ how much of the plot/world building have you uncovered.

>Also I find it regrettable, that in a game about pirates, you recruit people normally instead of conscripting captives which iswhat many pirate crews actually did IRL. But I guess there are limits to what opencxom can do.
Pretty sure openxcom could pretty easily do this.
>fetishes
Actually don't think there is that much, unless you just mean nude/mostly nude women 24/7 and general lewdness. Felt more like a running gag to me.

>>150308260
Then why did you let them get so close? Smoke grenades don't add defense, they just reduce sight range. Use them in open spaces when you can't hid behind cover.

>>150308382
That's true, I just should give that mindset a shot, I don't really use it much except for pushing the Avatar bar back.

>>150159401
ayyy lmao

>>150307103
The lewdness and sense of humour isn't going anywhere. If you find them that off-putting it's probably not for you.

And the engine can handle that, but I'm not sure you'd want to capture people and then give them guns and send them into combat. Sounds like a good way to get holes in your back. And your boats don't need galley slaves.

>>150282352
Is that all poison gas?