XCOM General - /xcg/

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1st for post BLACKED

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2nd for Snek genocide

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3rd for Pistols are Useful.

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>>150492894
>99%

>>150493074
It ended up being a crit. Never doubt Zyklon-Ben.

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>>150492894

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Snek is for recruiting to XCOM to help repopulate our ravaged world, not for killing.

>>150493192
You too will get the rope once the Snek Shoah begins.

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Liking snek gets you no where

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>3 posters jealous that Vipers don't want to join their XCOM
Settle down boys. Maybe if you stopped being so mean they'd come to your Avengers, and play with your troops too.

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>>150493739
Why would I want sneks on my avenger sounds awful fambo

>>150493739
Degenerates like you belong on a cross.

>>150493192
>help repopulate
Found the mind-controlled rookie. Kill his snek.

Reminder to imagine chryssalid queen rulers on terror missions.

>>150494649
>chryssalid queen rulers
ABA has a non-magnificent version of that.

It's time for me to go back to the suffering of Long War.
Where can I find the alternative text for Enemy Within?

Magnificent ayy lamos when?

>>150494649
>Stun Lancer Ruler that exclusively moves by prodding

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>>150494649
I really would love to see ruler for each enemy type
>sectopod ruler
yes, I want it

>>150499305

>it ain't ayy starts playing

I just landed my skyranger (don't judge me, I needed those extra hands to deal with endless swarm of deep ones) next to first landed ship I've seen in months and the fucker in swarming with govt people.

How deep into negative will it put me? Should I leave?

>>150499685
Leave now, it's not worth it

If you're struggling with deep ones, govt will be hard and will damage your monthly score on top of that. And you never need to assault the local governments - you can get the government research by hacking later.

I haven't played Xcom 2 since like a month after it came out, and that's because things just went so shit and I restarted so often that I got burnt out. I'm thinking of giving it another try. What buildings and research options should i prioritize?

>>150502116

Guerilla Tactics, Advanced Warfare Center.

Mag weapons.

Will there ever be a firaxicom game where "rush tier 2 weapons" isn't the best initial option? I went into xcom 2 blind on commander ironman and won my first game thanks to rushing mag.

>>150502352
Name a game where betterer dakka isn't the solution to all of your problems.

>>150502529
Spec Ops: The Line

>>150502529
Animal Crossing

>>150502352
will there ever be a Firaxis XCOM that doesn't have a hump watershed after which the game is a joke with no difficulty?

>>150502886
I/I EW if you go fast
Was fighting 2 sectopods on a supply barge with railguns and lasers

>>150495448
in the OP modlist?

>>150493192
Man, ADVENT re-education is good if they've got people convinced they can breed with snek.

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>>150493192
It does look like a rare
Don't have it at least, thanks fellow snekposter

Is there a way to force Steam to redownload all of the mods? Aside from resubscribing to all of them one by one of course.

>>150507474
Probably deleting all of your local mod content, files, folder, configs. Think that stuff is in your "my documents" somewhere, can't remember.

>>150507892
Deleting the entire workshop folder and starting an integrity check did it. Thanks, famcom.

>>150502529
Farming Simulator 2015

>>150508420
>Implying you don't increase your gains by buying a better tipper, plow, sprayer, etc.

>>150502529
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear

>>150502529
CS:GO

M249 and the Negev, the only two machine guns in the game. M249 never gets used at all, while the Negev only comes out when you're curbstomping the other team and you want to screw with them further

>>150509178
I don't know, you still start with your crappy pistols and upgrade to assault rifles and a sniper rifle that wakes up the neighbors.

>>150509786
>crappy pistols

Interestingly enough a lot of the bitching around the balance of the game is about pistols and that they are actually too good. They aren't something that are good enough that you don't have to buy rifles, but they are still good enough that a team with pistols, armor, and no other gear against a team with full rifles, armor, and gear have a lot better chance to win then they should have.

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>that cigarette

>>150510805
>having ayys in your base

Because that worked out so well in the Bureau

Spellcross anon, I was unable to reproduce your problem. But I might have a solution anyway.

Turns out I had been lazy and was running the exe someone linked first from http://www.stare-hry.cz/hry/strategie/spellcross/
with the iso, which worked. While using the iso to make an install didn't. So try that.

Or there are patched exe files at http://www.patches-scrolls.com/spellcross.php you can try. One of them might just work for you.

>>150511034
That's because Faulke made a really bad call

And Vahlen was an idiot

>playing EU
>game softlocks because it keeps doing the "I HEAR AN ENEMY!" thing and literally will not stop removing control from me so it can do it
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

THIS FUCKING GAME

>>150511034
>the Bureau
I'm still disappointed by that game to this day. As a random shooter it's not half bad, but there was really no need for the XCOM label. Were there really even any upgrades in the game? I remember everything pretty much just being handed to you as you advanced through the plot. Even if you fucked up you ended up getting upgrades anyways.

>>150511034
>Bureau
Don't bring that shit up here ever again.

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>>150511034
>Implying you wouldn't want to have this cutie in your base
>Implying you wouldn't want all of her sisters there with your troops too
The Man With No Taste.

Why do you people think the leader pack isn't useful, I'm literally drowning in alloys, elerium and intel.

At some point, I bought everything (bar the soldier) the black market had to sell it back for supplies, I'm literally ignoring supplie drops at this point.

>>150512513
People generally evaluate things by tactical merit, not strategic. I know I do. Generally this is because success in the tactical game will lead to success in the strategic, and there is so much emphasis on completing every mission and having no wounds.

>>150512776
But having a good balance on strategic meant I could rush a lot of shit, including Resistance Comms, leading to have two continent bonuses before even reaching Magnetic, doing DLC shit or any facility (save the first one).

>>150512076
>being a race traitor

Reminder that snek and filthy ayys should be offered in sacrifice to Commander and His most Holy Prophet.

Okay, is there a way to fucking disable the sound markers in EU?

At seemingly random times in the middle of my turn, I'll be doing something, and then the game just removes control so a soldier can go "HEY U HERD THAT"

It's annoying as fuck

>>150513540
>he doesn't want to be informed of the enemy's position
B A K A

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>wanna move more than 0 tiles
>"Dashing!"

what
the
fuck

/xcg/ will defend this im sure

>>150513813
they just teleport anyway, and aliens will start coming to you after your first firefight. the sound markers are literally useless and do nothing but slow the game down and remove control from the player at random times for no reason

>>150513052
I'm not explaining why you shouldn't consider the strategic benefits, I'm explaining why people generally don't due to a tactically focused mindset, hence answering the question, "Why do people think the leader pack isn't useful?"

I see your reasoning, looks solid as long as the number match up.

>>150513540
Literally one of the best mechanics added to x-com. Pretty sure you can't turn it off anyway.

>>150499941
>If you're struggling with deep ones

IDK, I think 40+ rather tough fishmen charging from all directions is supposed to be a bit challenging even if most of them are armed only with spears. Good thing lobstermen are a joke now since they forgot how to use guns.

new to piratez anon, downloaded and patched .95A and skirmish worked, gonna roll with this and thanks for the help, let me know if you want details of my campaign

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>>150514084
They can also have bagpipes that shoot acid with near 100% accuracy with 80 acid damage. Generally fatal.

>>150514115
Goodluck anon, and yes, if you feel like sharing would love to hear your exploits. Too bad you couldn't get .99 working

>>150513886
git gud

>>150514747
>ladders and drainpipes aren't cover
/xcg/ will defend this

Like the Remington 870? good news
https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=http://www.strawpoll.me/10904990

also new poll for whatever shotgun our good friend will port next
http://www.strawpoll.me/10904990
Remember to do your part and vote for the KS-23

>>150515772
Sometimes I fucking hate Steam
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=736939919

>>150515772
>Remember to do your part and vote for the KS-23
I got you man

Slowly getting through Apocalypse, I went from being stuck with stock vehicles for ages to suddenly being able to make all of the vehicles I want.

It went from being overwhelmed all the time in the city and having to pick my battles to being able to invade the alien dimension and wiping out whatever I want on a whim.

Feels like it should have been more spread out. Also personal shield generators take way to long to make.

Guess I just grind through all these missions now? I think I have most tech researched now, other than some captures and autopsy's, is there any point in getting them?

>>150515997
>I think I have most tech researched now, other than some captures and autopsy's
Don't you need those to unlock the final story stuff for beating the game? Or did you already get that.

>>150514115
On what date did you originally download the .99 version of PirateZ?

>first guerrilla op of Legend /Ironman
>car explodes
>Grenadier's cover 3 tiles over gets set on fire
>have to evac her before she burns to death
>still gets 36 days of rest
I'M SICK OF THE AUTOMOBILE TYRANNY
REEEEEEEEEEE

>>150516759
>I'M SICK OF THE AUTOMOBILE TYRANNY
kek

>>150516692
yesterday

>>150516692
about to get on a flight so i wont be able to post shit for about 5 hours

>>150517213
Huh weird. Just installed the newest version (.99A), and did a test battle and it finished with no bugs. I have no idea what is wrong with your game at this point.

>>150517376
Have a safe flight

>>150514264
i noticed in .95a that you dont start off with primitive as fuck tech so now i want to make it work again, this is torture

>>150516759
That's what you get for letting your cover use a car as cover!

>>150514264
Yes. I shoot these first. Celatids too.

Can you tame celatid and use it as a superparrot?

>>150516215
I don't know. I found Apoc to hard/slow/frustrating as a kid, so this is the first time I have gotten anywhere in it. I never even knew you invaded the Alien Dimension.

I am just destroying these buildings every other day at the moment.

>>150518912
No idea. Couldn't in .98a, but who knows in .99. Just check the tech-viewer, or start a skirmish an check the equipment section for a tamed Celatid.

>>150519089
If you haven't unlocked any research that doesn't mention any final solutions, or ending the alien threat, you definitely need to do more autopsies at least, if not captures.

>I never even knew you invaded the Alien Dimension.
Yeah, I think if you destroy their hanger equivalents they stop sending out ufos. Pretty sure you can also launch ground combat missions on any of those structures.

>>150519415
Well right now I am on some mission where I have to destroy white cubes. Unfortunatly the games didn't restock my grenades, so it is proving to be a chore.

I also already wiped every UFO from the map. I still haven't caught a Type 7 UFO yet though.

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>playing long dong for the first time
>throw a nade at 2 sectoids
>it does 1 and 2 damage instead of 3
>whatever, kill one of them (which was mind merging another)
>the one that he was mind merging doesn't die
oh

>Try desperately to get into 94Com
>Can't, it's too bloody slow
>Just finished an I/C XCOM 2 run
>Don't feel like doing EW
Time to boot up Afterlight I guess.

>>150519814
>not knowing JL removes every tactic that worked in vanilla

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>get in a dodgy situation
>remember /xcg/'s wise words and break los
>mfw it works like a charm
Every time.

>I will never figure out how to .ini edit SPARKs intimidate to not be shit

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this guy is flanked right

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>>150523026
l-le thats xcom :'^)

>>150519814
What? I swear that still worked.

I've had a mind merging commander kill like 4 nearby ayys on death before.

>>150523332
Greater mind merge is different than mind merge.

>>150523026
>>150523250
>the "high cover" didn't actually reduce your chance to hit
It works fine you degenerate /v/poster

>>150523250
How do you display this type of information of enemies on xcom 2? Abilities I mean mainly.

>>150523432
crit rate

WHERES MY FUCKING CRITS

>>150519089
I think the full set of autopsy/capture research gives you toxin c. Given how powerful toxin b is, it's quite unnecessary. I'm not sure you actually have to do it to win.

Apocalypise is a pretty broken game. I think it would have benefited a lot from modding to fix the worst offences.

>>150523478
You don't. That's XCOM, b*tch. :)

>>150523642
One day they will stop working on open tftd and actually focus on open apoc. One day.

>>150510805
Hey, they actually don't look half bad.

>>150511034
FUCK YOU CARTER

>have soldier fire on a muton
>they miss
>that soldier gets nailed by the muton he tried to shoot
>dies instantly
>100% of the remaining squad panics

great game, loving these meaningful tactical decisions that totally arent just rng

>>150524413
>not having backup shots
Could you be any worse at this?

>>150520084
94com desperately needs box select and move

Or at the very least skip the fucking move animation. So sick of hearing my soldiers' little feet toddling along metal tiles.

>>150525065
Just bump up the unit move speed. Unless you already have it at max of course.

>>150455384
Existing Legion and Mass Effect heads:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=650206549 (other heads linked in desc)
Pretty basic, but they'll do while the HD versions are in progress

Standalone invisible heads mod to go with the above: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=646749278
Warning: Invisible heads will generate on some civilians, and at least 1 scientist/engineer usually ends up with it sadly. These do not make the eyes and mouth invisible.

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All ninja squad. Good idea or no?

Squad consists of Shinobi (Longwar perk class) and hacker Specialists. Everyone carries SMGs, and the Shinobi all have Ninjato from the Katana pack. I might also include throwing knives for maximum ninja.

>>150525370
Shinobi was a terrible mistake.

>>150525542
Moreso than Commissar, or not making a medic class?

>>150525301
It's maxed and my execution speed is maxed. It's not fast enough. This is a C++ program. I shouldn't be able to see those fuckers move.

>>150525065
It'd be even more trouble than its worth. You'd either get everyone bunching up or trying (and failing) to stay in exactly the same formation. Plus moving multiple units at once would violate the game rules.

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>>150524792
>100% shots
>in xcom
>ever
EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

>>150525783
GIT

GUD

>>150525632
Yes. It enabled weebs.

>Commissar
As useless as it is right now, at least it's just a free perk. And I assume Long Dong ayys will have some sort of bullshit mind-control.

Just finished my XCOM2 DLC run and was looking for something else.
Didn't really scratch my itch as it was all a bit simple on Classic/Ironman.

Xenonauts or The LongWar mods for 2 worth another playthrough?
I don't really know what else to try other than XCOM
Silent Storm didn't really do it for me

>>150525783

>he doesn't fire from broken los
Wow.

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Fresh off the presses /xcg/!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=736939919

>>150526778
New shotgun poll up

http://www.strawpoll.me/10904990

WE ALL KS23 right?

I like how loverslab modders are making breakthroughs in XCOM 2 modding with regards to head meshes and their motivation is LEGIONfu porting

Grimy's Loot Mod.

Y/N ?

>>150527828
very Y

>>150527918
Does it work mid campaign?

>>150527828
Yes, if you hate difficulty.

>>150527991
He probably answers this on the mod page. You might need the Reward Decks Refresher mod in that case.

>>150528021
>mods are literally cheating
So mod in more difficulty if you feel so bad about it.

>>150528273
You can mod in only so much difficulty.

>>150528118
Nah it didn't mention and there's like 1500 comments

>>150527828
Isn't it incompatible with a crap ton of mods?
Or was that LW Toolbox?

>>150530136
The opposite actually, compatible with tons of mods.

Wow this class fucking sucks

http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom2/mods/536/?

>>150532193
Why?

>>150528969
It does mention it sort of at least, very badly worded though. It does work but you have to use a console command to enable the lockbox techs if you install the mod mid game.

Join me!
>>>/v/347124134

>>150535541
fuck off reddit

>>150535541
>/v/
No, fuck off.

>>150532193
You're a moron, but ok.

do we have a list of Julian's voice lines?

>>150510805
what mod?

>>150536215
See >>150535647 and >>150535703

>>150533725
>>150535819

It's just a shittier and clunkier sharpshooter.

>>150533834
>It does work but you have to use a console command to enable the lockbox techs if you install the mod mid game.

What is the console command?

>>150536780
Nevermind. I just realised what you meant by re-reading it.

>>150511034
Worked out fine in Apocalypse.

>>150536215
not your personal army

>>150526223
Those are two extremely different options. Xenonauts is like OG X-COM - but I found it didn't really hold my interest like the original did. I don't play X2 anymore so I can't really comment on the mod situation.

>>150536215
>>150535541
go away

>>150536215
>>150535541
I was in that thread "having a meltdown"

you didn't have to link it here

>>150537334
>I was in that thread "having a meltdown"
why would you do that

>>150536332
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=650809111

It says in the file name are you some kind of ayy

>>150537857
All I did was post screenshots

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>>150538371
why would you do that in a thread about games you DROPPED

>>150538723
There are anons in this thread who post screenshots they take from XCOM merely to complain about how crappy a game it is. People are morons, especially on the internet.

Why do xcom 2 operatives slap their knees so much?

>>150540089
Superstitious maybe

>>150540027
It's almost as if /vg/ is acting like /vg/.

>>150540089
Firebrand knows a LOT of good jokes.

>>150540523
You don't say. I'd never consider such a thing without your wisdom, anon. Thanks for educating me.

>>150511424
>And Vahlen was an idiot
Nigga I'll fight you.

>>150541946
I'll hold his arms.

>>150542598
And I'll hold your hand

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>>150542598
>>150541946
>bitch about explosives
>risk blowing up the base
>risk soldier lives for her fetish fuel
>eventually accidentally the alien rulers as a result
>not a damn liability

>>150542803
>Figure out how to find the observer ufo and get on the Temple ship so you can actually beat the ayys
>Encouraging you to get the MELD to improve soldiers combat survivability and Shen's MECS
>Only congratulates on recovering the MELD if no one dies.
Sorry but besides the explosives (which is once), she's flawless in X1. I'll reserve judgement in X2 after the expansion. The alien rulers don't even get out if you don't go disturb the research facility that you weren't supposed to go to.

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>>150542803
>bitch about explosives because it's in your best interests to NOT explode ayys
>risk nothing, since she had everything under control
>risk soldier lives to gain a better understanding of the aliens, a crucial part of defeating them
>yeah that was kinda bullshit but she admitted that she needs you and you get to wear a snek for it

LW lategame is a slog. 200-300 weapon frags for each research project is insane. Training up psis is mind numbing. I'm in May and I just want it to be over. Can't go a day without a UFO to raid

>>150543535
wot

they modeled nips and pussy?

>>150544418
I know the feeling.

>>150544826
They probably have the baremod installed and the game made a mistake when it tried to switch cosmetics for the cutscene.

>>150543406
>The alien rulers don't even get out if you don't go disturb the research facility that you weren't supposed to go to.
what
they already left by the time you got there and she is the one that asks you to help
accept it, she fucked up big time the moment she decided to put meat grinders on a berzerker because "mhu science"

>>150545145
If you don't go, they never pop up. And if you do go, the recording is warning people to stay away from the facility. But yeah, she messed up, its just not that big of a deal since if you don't go it has zero impact on your fight against the elders.

>>150545357
>if a tree falls and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound
you have weird ideas on what constitutes cannon events on X2

>>150546495
My point was it doesn't really have that much of an impact. She messed up, but until you get involved, her problems are her own.

Honestly the entire writing for Vahlen in X2 annoying. She doesn't do anything close to that crazy in X1, and the whole "If only the commander were here" line is some bs contrived to make you feel important and cool and out of character. Makes even less sense if XCOM only survived a month or two, meaning the science team never even go very far before having to pack it up and skip town. Canonically, they didn't even have laser weapons.

>>150547034
they just wanted to use Vahlen as an excuse for the boss aliens existence, everything after is secondary

>>150547824
Yeah I know, still doesn't mean they couldn't have done a better job, Besides, ADVENT could have just made them easily enough.

>>150547034
>Makes even less sense if XCOM only survived a month or two
Think of it like this: Sectopods were up and about since the first week of the invasion, and Commander kept his shit together for 2 months.

>>150548797
My point was the science team wouldn't have had time to do anything. They hardly developed anything at all (not even laser weapons), so the line "wish the Commander was here to keep me in line" (or something like that) doesn't make sense because they would have never reached the any of the crazy hi-tech, and if they weren't retarded, they should have been pursuing their research completely un-restrained considering their circumstances.

Not talking about the "Commander's" abilities here.

>>150549273
>day one on the base
>Vahlen: what if we put meatgrinders on our soldiers in orde-
>Commander: No

What do I need to change so that I actually get fucking elerium cores?

I'm nearing the middle-ish of the game in this playthrough and so far I've only had fucking two drop.

>>150549534
What about cosplay?

>>150549534
>Commander, what if we take a floater corpse, a soldier, strap one to another, and see where nature takes them?

>>150536638
Its like you hate abilities that cant miss

>>150553498
what a time that was

>>150553498
Believe it or not, I actually gave up on /xcg/ back then. Those were some truly dark times.

>>150554042
>not giving up on /xgc/ during the dark days of >BREAK LE LOS in Nov-Dec last year
That was truly hell.

>>150554290
That was fine. Besides, breaking los is a legitimate tactic.

>>150554423
>That was fine
? ? ?
You out of your mind

>>150554423
>fine
>750 replies expended on pointless bickering
>no value to be gleaned whatsoever
ok buddy. sure.

>>150554456
Spoken like a true rookie who can't comprehend breaking los.

>>150554667
spoken like a person who never left xcg and slogged through it, putting a brave face on and making every break los oc that exists
Look man, it sucked hardcore. Maybe if you only dropped in once in awhile it seemed fine, but it was horrible. I certainly nothing even post X2 launch matches it.

Let me tell you people about /twg/ just after R2 launch. Truly the darkest hour of /xcg/ has been nothing like as awful as that was.

>>150555572
Yeah, I remember trying to visit it once back then. Goddamn.
It's in a good place now though, if you're not a raging hisfag.

>Tomb Kings still not announced

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>Legendary

>>150557956
I see nothing wrong with that
How fast are build workers where you live ?

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>>150558664
Can't be slower than this lot.

>>150559074
>shielding an extraterrestrial energy generator, possibly generating all sort of rays deadly to unprotected people, and harnessing it's power to fuel the base without a feedback that could fry the electronics of the ship
Can't see why they are slow m8. I wonder

>>150557956
>>150559074
It's literally one man. Like there is one man in there working everything. Like I know its a game, so technically one engineer could represent a unit of engineers, but he has a name and when you staff them in rooms it literally adds one person to the room.

But the real answer is YOU MUST ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL ENGINEERS

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SQUAD UP

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>>150562051

>>150562051
>>150562320
>That cooking pot combo
It's amazing. Really being serious, couldn't even tell what i was looking at the first couple of seconds.

>>150562743
I would've left in a Tshirt if I didn't have a RAGE suit. Wanted to go for a ultra ghetto operator look with the Tactical Cooking Pot substituting for a proper helmet + light, ski mask substituting for a balaclava, and that weird cyclopean upper face prop for night vision goggles

>page 10
Commander, the aliens continue to make progress in archiving this general. We should bump the thread as soon as possible.

So I spent all day playing Enemy Unknown and achieved basically nothing. I got a really great run on my second file about a month ago and then lost all my support and got a game over. Today I went through 2 files and didn't accomplish jack shit. It's so difficult to keep panic down early game.

>>150567472
>Played EU for an entire day
>Accomplished nothing
/xcg/ will defend this

>>150570337
das xcom bb

>>150572593
dus uscom bahbe

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Is there anything important I need to know going from X2 to EW? Not doing Long Dong yet because I'm a scrub and I want to experience it vanilla first.

>>150574409
BREAK LOS
Also build satellites, archsnipers are broken, fuck thin mints.

>try to start ew
>error code 2
Th-thanks steam.

>>150575836
I'll keep these in mind.

Anyone has tried the Guerrilla War mod?

Is it possible to beat the game with it?

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anyone..?

>>150579223

Only if you git gud

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Ok guys, what class for Zhang.

>>150579429
username?

>>150579674
Random

>>150579674
Psi tank

>>150574409
Get the MELD, but don't risk your troops too much. Technically you can just beat the game without it, but not your men. Its the closest thing to timers, so otherwise chill and take your time. You don't need to push so hard like you did in X2. Still acquire engineers initially over anything else.

>>150579429
What is his?

>>150579674
Assault

Make sure to take advantage of adjacency bonuses for you base buildings.

>>150523771
>focus on

Entirely different team. And they're making good progress.

>>150526223
Try A Better Advent. No mod yet to make the Geoscape less of a shitty flowchart.

>>150576073
That's a hard drive issue reinstall our move it to a different drive

>>150583109
Thanks for the tip. Most of the fixes I've found so far involve moving Steam to C:. Problem with that is, it's already in C:.

>>150582858
Pretty sure its one guy, or at least it was for awhile. If there is more of a team that's great.

>>150583268
Worry not its mostly about steam missing a step during installations and updates more than it specifically your c: drive but yeah try reinstalling on a new drive

>>150557956
Guess that 'make construction faster' perk at HQ is actually useful now!

>>150583558
Hey, it's not one guy! He got like, two others now!

>>150583558
>>150586462

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heP_T4Fu2MY

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Based fucking E3245

We full VietCom now

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Cyclops mod when

>>150586584
Ok cool. I actually watched this, but I was so set on "John H the one man team," that I didn't even notice him reference someone else working on it.

I can't wait for whenever they finish that Apoclypse has so much potential, and even some basic quality of life changes and some tweaks will already make it pretty good. Some more extensive mods could be really impressive.

I wonder if there would be anyway to revamp the graphics...

Imagine playing something like PirateZ or FMP in a detailed mega city four times the current size. Imagine a comprehensive political system. It will be years though, can't get too excited.

I feel like trying out Long War again. Is the latest version the best one? I haven't played since 15b

>>150594057
Latest is probably the best. You can turn off you repair if you want. I know i do.

>>150594243
Do you still have to edit fighter repair times or did they finally realize some sense and fix it themselves?

>>150595514
>Mr. Magnificent Design
>Any sense at all

>>page 10

AW HELL NAW

What mode do you guys use?

>>150597605
You cant just ask some one what mode they use what the hell man.

>>150592174
What would you fix in Apocalypse? Or rather, what would you fix first?

>>150598668
Honestly I need to go back and really beat through the game before I can give a full answer. But first off it needs the same treatment x-com got when it comes to user interface and quality of life tweaks. Its been abit since I played the dos x-com, but it is so much easier to play, smoother, and easier for the user to control and manipulate. None of that is gameplay changes, but it makes a huge difference.

Obviously if the artstyle could be fixed that would be great, heh.

If you read some interviews, Apocalypse wan't supposed to have a full political system where factions had actual leader. You could monitor these leaders, negotiate alliances, make deats, etc. As x-com around this time is sponsored by the governmnet, but otherwise operates on its own terms, this would be pretty fun since you have lots of flexibility. Benefits, pros and cons for trading with and alliances with each faction.

Also some of the factions don't really matter. For example on group controls I think the food production, but even if they turn hostile to you or get taken over by the aliens, nothing really changes besides their units attacking you, which applies to other factions.

If for example Marsec goes hostile, you can't buy any of their stuff, including armor, guns, and ellerium. Pretty big deal.

Make the tanks useful. Apparently if you destroy the road tile they occupy, they just instantly are destroyed. More land vehicles would be cool.

A rebalancing of the ayys might be in order. Some are extremely difficult to deal with in Turn based (brain suckers, poppers) but are pretty easy to deal with realtime. On the other hand whatever the homing acid launcher is and the rocket launcher become extremely dangerous in realtime as its hard to stop them from firing.

Just kinda spit ballin', but that's some stuff I've noticed myself and seen other people observe. Honestly, Apocalypse might have the best air combat system of any x-com, so expanding that would be cool.

>>150599986
>Apocalypse wan't supposed
Meant to say "was supposed".

Also the air combat might be the best of any x-com game, but it could be a bit hard to all out with the easily destructible cities. Maybe toning down the destruction or the fees/consequences or both would be nice.

>>150602539
not enough snek/10

>>150602650
It was from a simpler time. A time without Sneks. A good time which we must bring back.

>>150602539
I agree with anon. Memes ain't free, they must be litterd with the blood of snek.

>>150603413
juices*

should i look to destroy exalt hq asap or rather comtinue doing covert operations for easy $$ ?

>>150605417
>if EW
feel free doing covert operations and getting easy money
>if LW
get rid of that shit ASAP it can do some real damage

>>150605521
yeah its lw

how hard is it going to be ?

>>150606438
it's going to be around 20 elites, the earlier you hit them the better because they will have less perks (but don't be a madman and try to fight them with default weapons)

>>150606558
im already on gauss and mechs so i should be fine

what happens to other exalt cells active when i destroy the hq ?

>>150606827
pretty sure they just disappear as well
and yeah you're fine

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oh fuggg

>>150608975

Good job.

>>150609125
>leave the negr behind
>mission's still considered Flawless
>Bradford's happy
Thank you, Central "No black face on my Motherbase" Bradford.

long war pros is it actually possible to complete a landed large ufo in march?

>>150610184
i am by no means good but i managed an almost flawless on normal difficulty albeit with savescumming

>>150610184
If you don't mind savescumming. Otherwise, you'd have to get extremely lucky.

>>150610184
With a bit of luck and overwatch cheese, yes.

>>150610184
Well think about it, what enemies show up? Essentially you'll want to bring tons of nades and scans if you're playing Ironman.

>>150610365
>>150610421
>>150610426
>>150610541

it's literally the first thing that happened after i completed the first mission. i'm playing on classic. basically nothing i can do about it.

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EXALT
X
A
L
T

How do I edit my soldiers' gender/nationality in Long Dong?

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So, /xcg/, how do you think this will work
Will the Reaper perk proc twice every kill, meaning INFINITE ACTIONS, or will it just be a waste of choice and the guy will go to AWC after his first OP

>>150615342
If your answer was "won't work at all because XCOM 2 doesn't let you take the same perk twice" then get yourself a cookie

>>150615342
>evasive
>start each mission with 100 bonus dodge, this bonus is removed when you get hit
I haven't played XCOM 2 yet but waht the fuck? Wouldn't that mean that you're 100% invincible?

>>150616070
Nah, it means ONE hit in the mission is a guaranteed graze against that soldier
So still 1-3 damage taken

>>150616134
Not guaranteed, but yes, this is correct.

>>150600089
Sharing shielding technology out so buildings are protected by shields in the later game?

Of course the Government wouldn't like you giving weapons tech to the criminal gangs. So choose carefully who you give tech too.

Protecting the cities power plant from attack or buildings lose thier shielding?

Having the city expand and develop over time?

>>150590871
When you make it.

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>finally try out the Pancor Jackhammer
>mfw that burst fire
Greatest mod of all time /10.

Legend /Ironman, lost two people in the first month, but powered through all of the missions nonetheless. I'm still fine, right?

>>150615342
>Lacking arms

What's his callsign? Failbbadon?

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>>150620669
kek

>>150620669
>Hopi
If only there was a way to give him one leg.

>>150615342
What mod is that?

>>150598668
I'd remove the aliens entirely and instead make the factions more defined. Add a faction alternative to Marsec (maybe rebels who are trying to overthrow them on Mars). And an alternative to the taxi company. Factions could conquer territory and buildings. Add a sort of "final" base assault mission for each faction that if you won, you'd essentially break that faction and remove them from the game. But you'd have to fight your way through their territory and defenses to get to it.

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>>150624508
Training Roulette + LW Classmod + a couple of class mods and heavily modified config

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>all these delicious weapon mods on the workshop

The last time I used mod guns, attachments wouldn't follow along when I upgraded to tier 2 which meant I gimped myself for pretty weapons. Is that still the case?

>>150626612
I'm waiting for the xskin guy to update before I use the guns

>>150627454
What's the issue with xskin currently?

>>150627898
It doesn't include the guns from the past 2 months because the guy is on vacation from modding

>>150613106
Can't edit it for individual soldiers. The only thing you can do is change up the country and gender ratio values in the .ini which will affect future recruits/new campaigns.

>>150619861
Yeah I think you can be fine as long as you are still completing missions.

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Shit, im mostly though the game and I don't know half the ayys actual names.
Have this one mod I find pretty entertaining, it turns all the in game text into meta humor and 4chan lingo
> /k/mandos
> sneks
> soldiers fucking Ded
> "10/10 , it was ok -IGN"
Tried it /Xcg/?

Odd idea
The ranger perk that keeps them invisible Until they are specificity spotted
Could you have a whole team of Rangers and be invincible?

>>150631751
No. Are you cereal?

>>150626612
That was actually a vanilla bug.

So, I wanna change the amount of cores for SPARKS from 2 to 1 also known as cheating, what's the .ini? I've already changed it to 0 in Strategy Tuning (on the DLC folder) but it still asks for 2 cores.

>>150632632

You sure? I could have sworn it happened fairly recently, between AH and SLG.

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>disoriented snek shoots at a specialist
>misses
>sets on fire sharpshooter's cover, who's out of her los
This is goddamn bullshit.
I don't really want her to spend 2 months in the sickbay, what's the best course of action, /xgc/? Can you heal yourself when you're on fire? Do I just evac her right now?

>>150631253
bruh, that textmod came from here

>>150634404
For future reference there is a mod that lets other people use a medkit on someone else.

But your options are:
a) Evac now
b) tough it out
c) Find water on the map

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>>150634696
>there is a mod that lets other people use a medkit on someone else
That couldn't be more specific. I'm guessing it's mostly used for stabilizing dying soldiers who are carrying medkits? Either way, good to know.

>Find water on the map
Guide my hips, anon, will pic related be enough?

>>150635469
I think so, but I've never actually used the fabled "environmental" method of putting out fire. That's definitely your best bet. To hedge your best, you could also call an evac there as well so if the fire doesn't get extinguished they can just evac.

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>>150636162
It's a few small steps for this brave trooper, but a giant leap for mankind. I've heard about this mechanic before, yet always forgot about it, never had a chance to check if it's legit.
Thank you, anon, I will remove many a snek in your name.

What's the file and lines I need to edit to unfuck Interceptor repair for long dong?

I swear this used to be in the OP

>>150637207
DefaultGameCore
ctrl F for interceptor_repair

>>150637061
Not who you were taking to but nice save

>>150634404
There's a mod that lets Hunker Down extinguish fire on soldiers. Stop Drop and Roll or something like that. It's pretty handy. Don't use it much, but when you need it, you *really* need it. I used to use it a lot on Grenadiers thanks to Saturation Fire setting their cover on fire like a doucheballoon.

>>150638683
All thanks to the helpful anon. Otherwise, I'd just evac her right there, most of the map was already dead and sharpshooters are useless anyway.

>>150613106
That's why you play X2 or wait for Long Dong 2

>>150641976
>sharpshooters are useless anyway
>concerned about saving one
Pick one and only one, anon. It's ok to like Sharpshooters, you know. even if you are wrong because they're definitely fucking useless in vanilla

>>150640724
Old player here, picked X2 back up after burning out early on.
Is Sat Fire still a free ticked for a month in the infirmary or did they fix it?
Also, did Jake fix his fucking game aside from nerfing meme beacons?

>>150643236
Sat fire no longer sets you on fire.

>>150643236
>Is Sat Fire still a free ticked for a month in the infirmary or did they fix it?
It doesn't do that anymore. Or well, it shouldn't, but I haven't tested it in like a month, so I dunno.

>Also, did Jake fix his fucking game aside from nerfing meme beacons?
Kinda? It's still got strangeness, but it's XCOM, so I don't expect anything else honestly.

>>150642637
>start a campaign without Commander's Choice because I'm not a cheater
>veteran of Long Dong and many X2 campaigns is in Gatecrasher
>she becomes a Sharpshooter
Can't just abandon her now, even if she rolled a useless class.

How do you determine who's the squad leader in long dong?
There doesn't seem to be a star on any of my squad mates.

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>>150590542
>PKM
We Spetsnaz now.

>>150644298
>squad leader
You mean the officer? The highest ranking officer. If that's what you meant.

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that went to shit at the last second.
> Munoz was part of my A Team
>besides that it was going fine until the scripted advent drop just happened to coinside with a snek and 2 stun advent showing up
> snek grabs six while the stun advent clobbered him to death.
> torres ran the opposite way to lure the ayes away while the rest rushed to the extract
and desu black site missions usually go a lot worse

>>150645435
Oh, so there's no longer a squad leader in Long Dong?
And I can't have my main guy be psionic?
Fucking hell.

>>150645231
That seems really unpractical and potentially even dangerous.

>>150645561
Is fine Dmitri.

>>150645509
How can black site missions go worse when you have infinite turns?

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>Finish PirateZ .98A
>Tempted to try .99 because new stuff
>Decide to go Long War instead
>Person having trouble with .99
>Try to help
>Install .99 to test myself
>Start a campaign just for "testing"
>It works fine and now I'm just playing the campaign
Tricked

>playing LW
>coucil mission
>"hey escort this dude and shit haha"
>he has a gun, cool!
>if you do anything gun-related (even enter overwatch) the game crashes
Man, it's just like the shitty design choices just weren't enough!

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>>150649028

It's OK dude.

Ayys need to be removed at all times.

>9 health
>take 3 damage
>GRAVELY WOUNDED - 22 DAYS

What are Cloaking Devices used for in Piratez?

>>150653189
Ships. All of your ships (for the most part) are equipped with cloaking devices/need cloaking devices to be built.

Holy fuck Murphy's Law is real

>1 fragment short of weapon research
>1 eng short to build an uplink.

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>>150645561
YUO SEE IVAN

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>>150649028
>Couldn't buy smoke grenades for the first six months
I was starting to really feel the withdrawal symptoms

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>>150656105
SILLY SERGEI, EEEEVERYONE KNOW THAT PEESTOL IS TRUE WEAPON OF MOTHERLAND

Vahlen?

>>150570337
git gud, /v/scrub

>>150649028
Hahahaha, owned.

Also, confirmed Piratez > Long Dong.

Piratez > Long Dong > XCOM 2 with mods > XCOM 2

Is it me or does the constant -movement on all items in Long Dong tend to make it so you basically get fucked over if you want to take 3 small items.
At most I have maybe grenades on engineers and at most one item on each soldier.

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Ready for the Battle of the Barge?

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Beagles?

>>150669612
>>150671203
He said he would be 30-40 mins late tonight on twitter

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>>150671353

40 mins have come and gone and he is still LATE

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The first computer core was the gateway drug to abandoning usual principles of base design. But I need MOAR RESEARCH.

and I'm sick of moving people across the huge ass base during base defenses, if they have two chokepoints at least half the gals on the right side can go to the north checkpoint and the other half can go to the west

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>>150659093
>not using a bow

How do I deal efficiently with X2 chryssalids ? Scanning protocol only had one use, and battle scanners only have so far when those fuckers unborrow on my turn from , run half the map and claw one of my soldiers, sending him to medbay for 25 days because X2 wound times are fucking retarded

>>150675562
the same way you deal with everything
overwatch

>>150675562
ranger with blademaster, bladestorm, a medkit to prevent poison and if you can afford it hellweave vest is your best option to scout forward if you are dealing with lids

>>150671203
no beagles today

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>>150676308

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>>150676839
>>150677960

>>150676543
My problem isn't that they kill someone, they very rarely do, my problem is that they can send 3~4 people to medbay for a fucking long time because Jake thought it was a great idea to remove armor HP and make wound times completely random, and medkits don't help with that. I might try a bladestorm ranger

>>150678882
We meet again old friend

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>>150676839
>>tfw no Beagles...

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I think these will always entertain me

>Missed shoots with Stock don't remove armor with Shredder
I may need to my strategy.