XCOM General - /xcg/

Interceptors are useful

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Pistols are Useful.

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Cyclops mod when

pistols are useful

Post xcom memes.

MEMES

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WHY IS HE SO CUTE

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Should I let it happen Y/N?

>>151016378
Free resources, power armor parts, and high level captives: Yes, yes, and yes

>>151016378
Yes. Just remember that the line of delicious supply ships come packed with mini-nukes.

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>>151016518
That's what I said.

It appears this game has a boner for Hawaii. I've seen enemies put up bases in Hawaii on two other people's games, now it appears it's my turn.

>>151016721
Err, I thought that was the Academy's purview?

>>151016805
Actually supply ships just come packed with baby nukes because literally FU. It think this was done to make the popular strategy of farming base supply ships risky. That and the 20 turn self-destruct timer.

>>151016805
No, weapons are determined by ship or mission type.

I think Hawaii is the only target in the Pacific, so if they roll a Pacific base mission, that's where it goes.

once more for ambitious Demake mods of xcom 1 and 2 in OpenXCOM, or at least the sprites and classes

>>151016889
M A G N I F I C E N T D E S I G N

captcha: assicurazioni
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>>151016947
Ahh, I see

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>>151015779
Imgur anon. Nothing new here, just reposting my announcement from last thread that the /xcg/ album is now over 600 images. If you haven't checked it out already and haven't looked in a while, maybe take a look. You never know what you might have missed. It's always linked at the bottom of the OP for easy browsing and updated about every two weeks.
I realized the last announcement was probably pretty obscure being posted in the middle of the thread, linked to nothing

>>151016947
They should really link it even harder to factions. Getting raiders or spartans in base defense with plasma weapons is always weird and makes no sense. Maybe its to keep them relevant, but the fact is, three to five years into the game Humanists are definitely not relevant, and I know they would never have that high-tech. Also means that early base defenses everyone has plasma.

>>151017173
Excellent work famalam there's some good shit in there

>>151017173
>http://imgur.com/a/S1qfx
Sure are a lot of sneks in that archive, anon... are you sure you're not an ayy sympathizer?

>>151017443
I am but a portrait of /xcg/, akin to holding up a mirror and seeing your own familiar reflection looking back.
Perhaps you should examine your fellow commanders a bit more closely...

Should I be worried or thankful that my Interceptors cant get any kills because the UFOs keep landing and I get to raid them?

Loadsa power cores

>>151017285
That's just how OpenXcom works. They would have to define each mission again for every faction.

>>151017956
>That's just how OpenXcom works
I thought openxcom extended helped them get around alot of that stuff? Different factions certainly all have different loadouts for terror missions, though I guess that's probably just some clever work around.

Damn, did they turn down the Night Vision in the latest version of X-Piratez? My gals can't see shit.

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>>151018108
There's probably some way to programmatically generate it, but there is still a separate faction loadout for every (or nearly every) single crashed UFO in the game.

>>151017173
I kinda would have preferred this design for the sectoid commander rather than the butthead we have. Oh well. I'm not ready to model it myself so I guess I shouldn't complain.

>>151018543
that looks so much better, actually looks Menacing, while the ones we got look like naked bram stokers Dracula

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>>151015860

Good to see people that understand how the world works.

>>151018543
this kinda makes want to learn how to model just to do it my self
and also to model a new tier 2 armor that doesn't look like shit

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>>151016902

>>151018108
I don't think Extended does any of that. I'm not sure it could and remain compatible with the original game, which I think is the intention.

I think some factions have their own own special snowflake missions defined, whichi s why they get different gear.

>covert extraction
>hack the relays
>first relay is one yellow move from my operative
>second relay is a single yellow move away from that
>inside of a building for maximum los break
>hack both in short order and take a short walk across a parking lot to evac
>only 2 exalt were capped that day
>only 0 wounded xcom soldiers
Is this what Beagleluck is like?

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S N E K
A lovely lady who can boost the morale of your troops with her exotic appeal!

>>151020170
a true pity they are all blindly loyal to either the Elders or their Viper King Senpai

it's cool the alien perk pack came out but i'm kind of disappointed with it since i haven't gotten to really experience any sort of MAGNIFICENCE due to xcom2's "kill them in the first turn or eat shit" kind of game play.

>>151020431
>Viper King Senpai
He can't fuck them all, it's impossible. Not all of them would even want to fuck him anyways!

>had extra cash
>finally bought a flamethrower

Holy shit, I can capture everything now. Fuck KSM, I wish I'd known about this magnificence sooner.

>>151020912
Shame the flamethrowers in XC2 are such hot garbage.

>>151020460
>i haven't gotten to really experience any sort of MAGNIFICENCE
First month pods with 2 drones that you can't kill in one turn aren't magnificent enough?

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I wish I had any reason to use these, Heater a cute pistol

>>151022220
Naja can be an absolute nightmare if you trigger them alongside another pod. Having squadsight, critting for 8 damage, and getting to automatically scurry to cover so they don't waste a turn setting up like your own snipers do is brutal.

>>151023193
>getting to automatically scurry to cover so they don't waste a turn setting up
Holy shit that's cheating.

If I kill an alien ruler on a black site do I get its corpse or should I reload and pray that it appears in a different mission?

>>151023875
you always get the corpse no matter the mission

You always get ruler corpses

>>151023918
>>151023957
Thanks I tried to make it run away fearing corpse isn't sure get.

Time for some Viper King armor.

>>151023193
>His snipers have to set up
Gunslinger - Commander tier
Rifle - Shit tier
You deserve everything that you get!

>>151021851
>this magnificent piece of weaponry inflicts absolutely lethal damage and can even panic units it damages!

>panic is broken
>shit range and arc
>damage isn't that good either
>cover actually protects against it what the fuck
>enemies may spontaneously decide they're immune to fire anyway and ignore all damage
>even basic rocket launchers are better

What the in the glorious ever loving fuck was Jake thinking?

>>151024269
Gunslingers ain't snipers
Snipers use rifles to snipe fools

>>151024992
The fourth one there pisses me off the absolute most. It might've actually been a pretty good weapon on SPARK units since they up the arc radius, but nooooooo, cover still protects them.

>>151025070
The LW perk pack makes dedicated Snipers a lot better as well.

>>151020460

>it's cool the alien perk pack came out but i'm kind of disappointed with it since i haven't gotten to really experience any sort of MAGNIFICENCE due to xcom2's "kill them in the first turn or eat shit" kind of game play.

To be fair, how was that any different Long War? Most of the time when ayys survive they will fuck your shit up.

>>151024992

"mods will fix it" is what he was thinking.

He is a student of the Todd Howard school of thought now.

>>151026794
>Bethesda and Firaxis joint game
>Jake in charge of balance
>Todd in charge of stability

The very thought terrifies me.
Would still play the shit out of it though.

>>151027546
Better than
>Todd in charge of balance
>Jake in charge of stability

It'd be dumbed down to the point where nothing is overpowered because nothing does anything interesting, and it'd still be riddled with bugs.

>Here's a modlist so you can easily install all the mods you need
>"This is broken since the last update"
>"Firaxis patched this so you don't need it anymore"

Okay then

>>151029214
The OP modlist hasn't been updated in a couple of months, I'd ignore it.

>>151029296

I'll probably still install most of the mods since unmodded XCOM 2 is still kinda shit and will likely stay so since all the devs fled to Civilization VI

Hopefully someone will bother to update it soon

>>151029352
>since all the devs fled to Civilization VI
That's not how it works, silly.

>>151028251
>nothing is overpowered
There is that whole smithing-alchemy-enchanting in Skyrim.
F4 also had silenced gauss guns that could stealth kill everything with the right perks.

>riddled with bugs
Would it be a game with a list of bugs too long to list, or a bunch of errors and CTDs with some gameplay in it?

>>151029352
>all the devs fled to Civilization VI
No? XCOM and Civ VI are different teams.

>>151029436
We're still probably going to get an Enemy Within-style expansion pack at some point as well.

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From the way this one's sighted in -sigh- there's no excuse -sigh- for missed shots -sigh-

What the fuck is going on with this game? I was able to run Xcom 2 on high settings and 60 fps when it came out but now it runs 10 - 20 fps.

Is there a button/trick to enable/disable everything in the Mod Launcher other than slowly clicking every single checkmark ?

>>151031875
Yes.

>>151031875

Yes.

>>151031875
Are you blind?

>Long War Perk Pack conflicts with itself

This meme went too far

>>151032128
False positive, mate.

>>151031531
Toaster here, had the same problem.
Check for mod conflicts.
Got back to it recently with all dlc and a bunch of mods, first campaign was horrible, especially in geoscape.
Removed free camera rotation since it didn't even work with the toolbox installed and everything went back to normal.
Might have been just a case though, Jake works in mysterious ways.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nW9rO

>you will never have Advent Fashion in real life

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>everything goes well
>activate the second pod
>sentry runs in and crits a useless sharpshooter through low cover
>faceless reveals and crits a grenadier
Fucking hell, I forgot how quickly the tide turns.
How come there were only 2 pods though?

>council mission
>leave a captain and a trooper alive
>troopers are spread out and are all at full hp, confident nothing will happen
>suddenly both ADVENT throw their grenades together at my soldier
>the Captain has his crit for 6 as well as apply acid
>soldier is left at one hp
>turn starts and he dies to acid
>grieve and finish the mission
>wake up

Fuck off Lump, stop invading my dreams

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>Can't decide how to customise my troops
>Too many options
>No idea what aesthetic I want
>I pick one and then change my mind later on
>mfw

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>>151037110

This is the true Xcom experience now, accept it and become one with it.

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>>151020431
Or not

>>151033681
>how quickly the tide turns

Trouble yourself not with the cost of this crusade - its noble end affords you broad tolerance in your choice of means.

>>151038074
>>151033681
>Fan the flames, mould the metal; we are raising an army!

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>>151038074
>>151038179
>still no mod to replace Bradford with Wayne June

>hey commander, go capture this race traitor
>landing is on car dealer roof
>must go through parking lot to get anywhere
>pray car don't decide to spontaneously explode because a soldier lightly brushed against it while moving
>end turn
>three pods decide to converge on parking lot
>can't go back
>can't get past patrols
>the only available cover is cars, cars as far as the eye can see
>waste a turn doing nothing hoping they go away
>one pod leaves
>"well, I can mana-"
>another pod shows up

FUCK YOU

>>151037110
Base it on their nickname when they get one.

>capture vip
>firefight near the traitorous scum
>only one enemy left
>instinctively press 1, space
>remember a fraction of a second too late that for some reason he's a priority target
>FUCK
>miss
>98% shot

Thank you, based RNG. Will be back to hating you next turn, but whatever.

>>151016019
Iristrismegistus pls

>>151039865
Remember anon, not all missions are supposed to be winnable :^)

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>>151043818
That's what a shitty commander would say.

>>151044130
I love how that soldier manages to teleport a shieldbearer by shooting it dead.

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>Download EU tier 1 armor ports
>One week away from getting tier 2 armor
>Still have gotten a single rookie wearing the new armor
Is there anyway I can increase the chances of armor mods showing up on randomized rookies?

>>151046584
>Is there anyway I can increase the chances of armor mods showing up on randomized rookies?
Yes if you customize them after they arrive at the Avenger you can switch them to the correct armor.
Sometimes cosmetic mods have sliders in the options menu that relate to the chance a random soldier will use those cosmetics

recently download xcom 2

why the fuck is everyone brown and has brown eyes?

>>151047117
Embrace the diversity, goy

>>151047117
Do you have any mods? Then the answer is RNG. Well maybe not the brown eyes, those are pretty common.

>>151047303

i dont mind having the token african black or arab but having every single european soldier look like a paki is fucking retarded

>>151047457
It's 20 years in the future, that's what yuropoors will look like then :^)

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>>151047457

Why? It's just like real life.

>>151033681
>>151038074
>>151038179
>>151038617

>XCOM 2 with Wayne June narrating fucking everything in the style of Darkest Dungeon.

I NEVER KNEW I WANTED THIS!

>>151056769
>Thinman Crit
REELING, DAZED, ABOUT TO BREAK

>Repeater Executes Sectopod
A DEVESTATING BLOW

>>151043748
>Iristrismegistus
Who?

>>151016282
Shame about the leprosy.

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Oh ok then.

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>gunslinger gets face off + bluescreen rounds
>pod of a million codices
>mfw

Just testing the waters here

How many people would be interested in a reupload of Beagle's OG-XCOM campaign? Since his original channel closed down, it's now impossible to get and he doesn't seem interested [or doesn't have] reuploading his recording

But would you be more interested in a highlight reel or a full reupload?

>>151058956
>Since his original channel closed down
hmmm? Does a name change have the same effect?

>>151058801
>on PR tour
is that a new mission type added by a mod?

>>151059339
Yes. From Additional Mission Types, which also adds the insane Haven Siege defense missions.

>>151059318
Yes. And actually, that's a bit of a misnomer. His old channel (Without J) still exists, but the og xcom was deleted.

I as lucky enough to download the originals when available.

>>151018543
Well, why isn't this a mod yet?

Other anons using the LW Perk Pack cheat, is Grazing Fire broken or is RNG being way too kind to me?
The description implies that if you miss the shot may become a DODGE: MEMED, yet I've never completely missed a shot with people that got that perk.

>>151029214
Protip: Find mods that you think look cool and then read up on them
The /xcg/ modlist is good to help set up a base and recommended but don't count on it as reliable.

>>151060018
It works for me, but its usefulness is limited by the fact you tend to give rangers aim boosts.

how do I get good enough for Legend reeeee

>>151060345
Sorry, I meant that I cannot seem to miss anymore at all.
Either it's a normal hit/crit or a dodge, haven't actually missed a single shot since getting the perk.

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Has there been any attempt at a 40k mod or conversion yet?

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>>151059469
>which also adds the insane Haven Siege defense missions.

Yeah they are insane alright

Have had 2 so far and each one is mayhem

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>>151061247
That's fucking awesome

reminds me of magnificence

>>151061210
There's only a few cosmetic mods, mostly just the backpacks I think.

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what's the deal with the purple smoke anyway? I never got why that was the color of choice

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>Want to play new Xcom 2 campaign
>Use character pool to save best dudes
>They show up in new game, first mission instead of randos
>Level them up, they have the wrong classes and personalities.

Fuck you game, don't give me them if they aren't going to be right, give me fresh meat instead.

How the fuck do I get it to do this?

>>151058956
Please

>>151058956
Highlight reel

>>151063229
The classes assigned in the character pool only apply to reward soldiers or veteran soldiers purchased at resistance HQ/Black Market.

the soldier class rolls are random, but you can save scum them if you're picky like me

Or install commander's choice

>>151063391
When is someone gonna rip the guns from that game?

>>151063679
I just wish the saved bastards would only show up as rewards, not as randos.

Haven't played XCOM2 since before the release of the Anarchy shit

Any decent new add-on classes that aren't stupidly broken?

Is the mech DLC worth it?

>it's a berserker gets OWed and moves in slow motion episode
>"oh well, I'll get through this and kill it in overwatch to avoid getting blindsided by faceless"
>entire squad in overwatch
>berserker "runs" toward ccs assault
>ccs doesn't fire
>no OW fires
>assault ded
>OWs STILL not firing

One of these days, Jake. One of these fucking days.

>>151063506
I've been working on it, slowly, since I'm full-time in school and barely have time to make notes.

But I am watching it and taking notes. If it were to be done, expect a per-episode basis in October.

>>151063351
Which one? The difficulty is it's 38GB and I want it available *forever*. Don't know which host can give me that.

>>151066972
Sounds good and take your time dude

>alien boss dlc
>activated all the viper pods in the center of the map
>try to move my grenadier closer to nade everyone grouped
>glitched movement and he yellow moves into a flanked position
>Assault with hail of bullets 100%s the viper flanking from halfway across the map

HOLY SHIT I'M TOO POWERFUL

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>tfw you kill Alien Leader with repeater on first shot

1-4 - go back to Long Dong ironman
5-9 - keep bashing my head against X2 legend
0 - masturbate instead
repeating digits - do something meaningful with my life

Pistols are useful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znvzXr3cLD4

>>151068759
Thanks. There's a ton of great material here, comparable to calliope's stuff.

It's a weird joy to watch Beagle worry about losing. He so rarely does, but OG XCOM is a harsh mistress.

And yes, I absolutely will include Memester shooting the dog

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>>151070061
rolling

>>151070395
My condolences, senpai.

Snek is subpar

>>151071113
Snek just gives me bad memories of a good relationships.

Remove snek.

>>151070215
Yeah no rush here, I'll probably be underwater when you finish though ;-; and I missed the entirety of that play through so no idea what fuckery awaits

>>151071508
Snek is incapable of good relationships anon this is why we remove.

>>151058956
I would. I don't really have time to watch those long ass streams anymore unfortunately.

i was just about to complain about how you stop seeing drones past your first month with the LW alien pack. one just showed up on a retaliation mission. they get stronger. god help us all.

>>151073000
I was moaning about not seeing them.

Those 8 hp 5 armour fuckers are more annoying than they have any right to be

Considering how snek obsessive ya'll are I don't see much Vipers (from playable aliens) in any squads

>>151074496
the animations shit themselves

>>151074496
Why would I want to have a snek in my squad if i love killing them?

drawfags when

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>>151076470
very rare sneek

>>151076838
it's beautiful

>>151070061
You forgot openxcom

>>151071508
How?

Have they changed the requirements for the turret building research? It says turret wreck but I don't think I've received any turret wrecks during my entire playthrough despite not using explosives on most of them

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Difficulty: Difficult
5 Squadies, 1 Lieutenant
LW Perk Pack, Alien Pack
T2 Gear

How fucked am I, /xcg/?

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>>151076470

>>151077779
Mission type is the most important thing, you dumdum.

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Let me add a little more info

June 12th
Rescue VIP from ADVENT Vehicle
Difficulty: Commander
Mission Difficulty: Difficult
5 Squaddies, 1 Lieutenant
Long War Perk Pack, Alien Pack
T2 Gear

How fucked am I? My casualty list is longer than my current roster, though it is padded by Addition Mission Types rookies.

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>>151076470
Fresh off mspaint snek

>>151077728
You probably evac'd at the end of the mission, either due to the mission type or because you ran. You don't get corpses if you evac.
Also I'm not sure, but I believe destroying them by blowing up the tiles under them doesn't drop their wreck.

>>151078378
>Perk pack
>T2
You should be okay, assuming RNG doesn't try to buttfuck you in the pussy.

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>>151079034
If I run into Najas, it's game over. My crack shot sniper got got in the last Haven Defense mission.

>>151079326
Just try to remember that sneks are for harpoons and explosives, not cuddling.

>>151078776

if you nade the space underneath and they fall there's no corpse. you have to actually kill them to get it.

>>151079326
Do you have any smokes? I found they pretty much completely removed the threat of Najas.

>>151080297

maybe on veteran that works. try a real difficulty like legend you pussy.

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>>151080297
I'm on commander, and I've yet to see a Naja miss. I've had to abort several missions because a Naja squad was chilling out of range of my dudes and just oneshotting them.

I've tried smoke, aid protocol, supression, all three at once. The Naja always finds its mark.

>>151080631
That the guy who was smoking for me rolled improved smokes through the AWC probably helped a lot more than I thought it did then.

>just finished a covert extraction
>suddenly Raider lands
>abduction starts
>Site Recon

the fatigue/injury spiral begins soon

Does /xcg/ play Long Dong with the dlcs? Meaning Annette and Zhang, naturally.

>>151070061
rolling

>>151081952
I do.

They're the only characters I let myself restart missions to keep alive, along with Van Doorn.

Are there any good deals on the DLC/season pass?

>>151070061
kek

>>151081952
I do, but the missions are punishingly difficult. Annette and the furies are great, and zhang is cool.

I've only been able to beat slingshot without savescumming once.

>>151082124
>>151082247
>restart
>savescumming
Yeah, my problem exactly. I want to see how far I can get in proper ironman and those missions are fucked hard.
I used to talk shit about Bagels always disabling them, but he was right to do it desu.

>>151082124
I miss Van Doorn, he always made me look forward towards getting him in a campaign, and I'll be damned if he wasn't the best officer gunner in my campaign.

>>151082485
Isn't there no punishment for skipping them anyway? Besides the wasted council mission

>>151082702
There isn't.

But I'll miss them. ;_;

So do we have any videos of the alien pack's chryssalid queen?

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>>151076838
>>151077095
>>151077828
>>151078604
>get more rare sneks in one XGC thread than in several weeks
>cons : they're shitty MSpaint edits
Not sure how i feel

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Which is the best turn sound?
>HIDDEN MOVEMENT
>EXALT TURN
>ALIEN ACTIVITY EU
>ALIEN ACTIVITY X2
>RULER REACTION

>>151083820
Angry static in the distance.

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>>151083820
EXALT
X
A
L
T

>>151083820
EXALT a best.

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>>151083820

>>151070061
zero get

>>151084017
>Dat axe
>Dat whatever the fuck on his arm
Neat.

>>151083820
the whoosh when turns swap in XCOM 2

>long war alien pack
>deep into june
>haven't seen any lids yet
>doing a base assault to take 3 pips off the meter and give me a huge cushion
>first pod is just a captain/grunt
>"weird there's only two"
>move everyone up
>nothing
>move everyone up again
>nothing
>turn ends
>LID SOLDIER APPEARS OUT OF NO WHERE
>21 HP 2 ARMOR
>7 DAMAGE+POISON on my ranger

HOLY FUCK MY BUTTHOLE IS SO TIGHT RIGHT NOW

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>>151086452

>the medkit got taken off my specalist because it upgraded
>going to lose my best ranger to lid poison because i can't heal him

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

>retaliation mission
>scout with a phantom
>pod ignores exposed civilian two meters ahead
>fucks off to kill a civilian up a ridge, behind a building, in cover

I SURE WONDER WHY THEY LEFT THAT ONE ALONE, YES.

>>151086452
Just the way the Chryssalid warrior likes it.

>>151086740
Evac the ranger, silly. Firebrand will save 'em.

>>151086452
>>151086740

>revival protocol doesn't work on lid poison

IT JUST DOESN'T FUCKING STOP.

>>151087027
Maybe next time you'll pay attention to what your soldiers are carrying.

>>151090095

i mean you're not wrong but at the same time JAKE FIX YOUR GAME. there's zero reason an item should become unequipped just because it got upgraded.

>>151081952
The Zhang missions are brutally difficult, so I only play with the Annette missions. The first Furies mission with the convoy is usually a lot of fun

>>151064210

>I just wish the saved bastards would only show up as rewards, not as randos.

No.
Fuck you. I want my team of nothing but Presidents and Professional Wrestlers.

>>151091462
Beagle?

>>151091562

Is Beagle using the Presidential and Pro Wrestler character pools?

>>151066972
>taking days of your life to trawl beagle's shit

Seriously dude

>lids unburrow and get a free move/attack

JAKE PLEASE

>>151083709
The old one is a bit more terrifying only because it moves so god damn fast for something so big

>>151095531
that slicing sound doe

>>151063229
if you are still interested, there is a mod that forces soldiers form the character pool to use their assigned class when you get them as rookies
the personalities i think you will have to fix manually yourself

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>>151091035

>>151096547
I cant right now friend when I return home we shall converse.

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Alright ill bite.
dl the piratez mod, whats the need to knows for this?

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After action report of this >>151078378

Mission accomplished.
Lost a man on the way to the objective.
Recovered VIP, encountered a pod of Najas led by an Archon
Najas were too far away to deal with, froze Archon and ran.
Lost two more to the Najas as we ran to evac.
VIP and 3 of the squaddies survived.

I'm not gonna win this campaign.

>>151070061
0 get

>finally get my first MEC
>"everyone on xcg says these are great, can't wait to take it on a mission"
>it's literally worse than a spark
>can't take cover and doesn't have the DR to make up for it
>no heavy weapon capability
MECs get much better at some point, right?

>>151102857
>a rocket propelled fist
>a flamethrower that actually does something
>proxy mines and grenade launcher for mass removal
>the EMP to ruin every robots day
>aim that doesn't make the MEC jealous of a rookies aim
>>>>it's literally worse than a spark

Do you hate fun anon

>>151099032
Help I'm new

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>>151096547

>>151103587
just go ballz deep famalam

My MEC doesn't have any of that shit m8 I just got it. It only has the rocket fist.

>>151104145
Well don't worry senpai. MECs may not seem like much at first but keep them alive and you will learn to love them.

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>realizing I put my containment in the wrong spot

do I destroy it and lose my 3 captives or just move on? I'm only in June

>>151104474
I'll try to keep faith but this initial deployment has been something of a letdown. I figured that since they have exposed human heads they would at least be able to take cover. I don't like leaving my men in the open under any circumstances.

>>151104980
The starting suits are fragile enough to basically not warrant using. Even on MECs that don't care about bulk like archers you still want the extra weapon slots from the later suits for more mines.

I think the earliest usable MECs are pathfinders, hit and run right out the gate is amazing. Endgame pathfinders are absolute monsters too, can hit upwards 120+ damage on single targets if you build them for pure crit damage.

>>151105824
Fug. Guess I'll keep plugging along then. Though I am in vanilla so I don't know if that changes anything.

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Tips for legend difficulty?

>>151106154
Yeah it means you're bitching about rookie MECs being kinda crappy.

>>151107118
Well they are so that makes sense.

>>151107062
Lube up

>>151107062
Get the AWC as fast as humanely possible. Wounds are going to be humongous, and the last thing you want to do is be forced to send out a squad with rookies/squaddies against stunlancers, sectoids, and the likes who will more than happily screw you over.

Oh and speaking about stunlancers, on Legend you meet the force level for them to start spawning from day 1. On the very first mission after gatecrasher you may find yourself staring down a reinforcement pod of a captain + 2 lancers, when you're still using rookies.

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>SHIVs will never be a thing again
>Gene Mods will never be a thing again
>Jetpacks will never be a thing again
>Medals will never be a thing again

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>heavy lasers

>>151109465
SPARKs are pretty much better SHIVs though

>>151110837
They're not cute

>>151104754
I think it should be fine to keep.

>>151015779
What is optimal squad size for xcom2 lw? 10 seems too easy, at least at start

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>overdrive Spark into position
>shreddergun 3 Naja Serpens to death on one go

>>151112393
6, upgraded to 8

>>151112393
I'm running with vanilla squad sizes because I'm not a pussy.

>>151112393
6 upgrading to 8 with pod sizes upped by 1 across the board.
You'll learn to fear the 5 Naja pods.

>>151091181
>Hey medic, I need that kit for a second
>Going to put some viper cum in it or something to make it heal your troops better
>I'll totally give it back in like an hour

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Trench gun is fun

>>151018302
Yes. The gals can actually see ethe nemies same as last time, but you sure as hell can't see anything. The terrain is so dark, its almost impossible to navigate, specially anything with building and fences. I recommend actually bringing torches and flashlights, or incendiaries.


>>151099032
Couldn't post earlier so sorry for the late response. You'll need to use melee early, so try to get use to that. Get captives whenever you feel it is safe to do so, they are critical for research and you will need lots. Crew members aren't really expendable, you want to keep them alive and get those well-statted veterants.

Read read read. There are tons of weapons and faction units and armor. They also have power bonuses and accuracy bonuses tied to stats and often have unique formulas for calculating how effectively can use them. Read everything in the bootypedia. The better you understand everything, the better you will play.
If you can avoid, never sell stuff, even if it seems useless. Everything can be researched, and most things can be used in manufacturing of different stuff. If you need to sell, at least hold onto as much as you can. I definitely reccommend holding onto everything until you know its junk, or can reliably procure it through manufacturing, fights/raids (consistently), or the market.

>>151121990
that radius is much wider than I had expected

I was thinking a 60 degree cone like shredder guns

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>>151123180
THEY ALL CRIT FOR 20

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>>151123387

>>151113132
...? How? Overdrive only ever gives me three actions.

>>151125043
Shredder Gun is an AoE damage cone heavy weapon.

>>151121990
>halo weapon mods
Where?

>>151127907
Are you deaf dumb and blind? Don't mean to rude, but go google that stuff man, very popular mod.

>Using MCM mod apparently fucks up your game
>A bunch of mods have it as a requirement
Um...

>>151129159
>MCM
wat dis

>>151129159
Mod Config Menu? Nothing bad happens if you use it.

>>151129306
A bunch of people reported multiple graphic issues.
Also the one bug where the camera gets stuck under the avenger, forcing you to restart to fix, has happened to me.

>>151129442
well people have been reporting those graphical issues everywhere so

works for me

>>151129558
>Works on my machine
Thanks anyways. RIP Grimy's Loot Mod.

>>151129632
I'm just saying localizing the problem to MCM is probably wrong

>>151129790
Maybe, maybe not.
I'm just trying to figure out why mods make my game shit itself.

>>151130229
Try going to \Documents\My Games\XCOM2\XComGame\Config, deleted everything except XComEngine.ini, and restarting to regenerate them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-840keiiFDE

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>tfw reading people complaining about how hard the game is
>while savescumming
>not even on the hardest difficulty

How is that even a thing? Just shoot the aliens.

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>>151134845
This thread needs more argon

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Why does a bio suit require 3 emeralds? This is horse shit.

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Cue the Moody Blues...

I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you

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10 fps savage

>>151137664

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

>>151137664
enough balatan
how many?

>shred Superheavy MEC
>Repair Servos BRING BACK THE ARMOR

I am in Hell.

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>>151137968

actually not that many

>>151137969
"How'd you want that design F A M ?"
"JUST MAGNIFICENT"

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uhhhh

I get the feeling something bad happened here.

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Reminds me a bit of NYC.

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Frigates in Piratez are definitely clown cars.

>>151121990
>>151123180
The fuck is this cheating
The cone used to be far more narrw

>>151141314
I havent edited it so idk

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>>151145168
Fuck of snakeposter.

>>151134845
I can play Commander without savescumming, and almost always without deaths at this point. Any deaths I do get are near exclusively just to extreme bad luck in the first month or two. I/C is no problem for me.

I/L, or just L in general, however? I just get my shit kicked in. Maybe you can get through L without any real problems. Great for you! Surely you remember a time when you couldn't though. Now just apply the idea to lower difficulties, and you can empathize a bit.

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>>151145283
Fuck of weebposter

>>151146204
Responding to him just makes him stronger, Commander.

>>151146204
>going onto a chinese knitting subforums
>getting butthurt over anime
lmaoing @ your life

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>>151146259
>have multiple boards for weebshit
>decide to shit up /vg/ /xcg/

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>>151146338
>still being this anally annihilated over chinese cartoons on a chinese knitting subforum
Grow up

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Why do you have to be mad

>>151146734
Every time I see these pictures of Snoop, my first thought is always at what he's like when he's mad.

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>Vahlen
>comfy overwatch spam
>qtp2t sectoids
>best Bradford
>delicious bait everywhere
>female voice 5
Goddamn I missed Long Dong.

Sorry if this has been asked a bunch recently, boys, but how's the Long War Ayy Pack? Is it bugged to shit? Is it just shit? Does it fuck conflict with everything and fuck all over mods to hell and back? Would like to use it, but I'm leery.

>>151149404
It shouldn't conflict with anything since pods are supposed to be generated on the fly.
>bugged to shit?
>just shit?
It's MAGNIFICENT.

Why do all new voices in Long Dong sound like they've been recorded with a microwave?

>>151149649

Because they were

>>151149580
Are you trying to cheat me again, Dolan?

>have toaster so low details
>come back to X2 after leaving pre-anarchy
>finally realize that the Avenger is in fact completely empty save for Tygan, Shen, and people working in player-built buildings
>not a single soldier around
>what the fuck
>read changelog
>number of extra people running around the Avenger tied to graphic preset
>not even a slider

Will Jake ever get anything right?

>>151150989
>my documents
>xcom2 config xcomui
>maxvisiblecrewconfig 40 in all of them
>start xcom2 and go to options
>graphics and detect settings. redo your graphics however

congrats. you just fixed Jake's game!

>>151152236
Not even necessary.
After reading that bullshit I just set the highest preset available and then turned down graphic options to previous levels.
Apparently if you're on a custom preset it keeps the crew values of the last used preset, no need to edit inis around.
It's just that it's Jake that should finally fix his fucking game, not me or you.

What's up with ufopaedia? I've been trying to access it since yesterday and it appears to still be down

>>151153798
Same here, I'm scared.

>>151153798
DDoSed by Advent apologists?

>>151153798
>>151154035
Some anon said it was down a couple of days ago as well, possibly for maintenance.

>>151153798
It's been technically dead for like half a year now, no? Something about getting DDoSed by snekposters or something.
They're probably fixing it now.

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>>151154627
>blaming snekposters
also page 10

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>>151157582
>Posting half sized snek

>>151157582
Snek is why we can't have nice things. Like sweaters.

>>151141302
Actually Heavy Gunships are clown cars imo. Always a brutal fight and the map is small. Tough factions are really difficult because breaking los is extremely tough and its almost impossible to avoid getting into an actual firefight.

I've been bloodied pretty hard by mercenaries and star gods, and even if the gunship is shotdown, the enemy number doesn't seem to decrease.

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>>151157809
>implying
wew lad
>>151157764
Guess i fucked up

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>>151153798
>>151154627
They had issues in the beginning of the year with increased traffic from X2 and someone was attacking the website as well. Eventually they were able to move UFOpaedia to new more stable servers, I believe thanks to some people with the openxcom team. However, while they were trying to deal with the attacks, they disabled user registrations, so no one was able to create an account to update the X2 wiki, so that was essentially useless. Also the head of the project considered stepping down and was pretty much afk which crippled them internally for awhile. The good new is that everything is almost fixed.

Also I strongly encourage for anyone well familiar with X2 to help out if they have the time to get the XCOM2 page back to speed so that we actually have a good wiki again. I'll post again when the site is finally up again and new user registration is allowed.

>>151159097
fucking ADVENT i fucking swear to god

>>151158437
Gunships are pretty packed. Frigates are huge though - even dozens of ayys is hardly "clown car".

I don't think heavy gunships spawn anyone near enough to the engines for it to matter if they're shot down.

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>>151159471
>Frigates are huge
It is not the inside of the ship that is the problem. Though it can be, of course.

>>151158437
I have not been on a heavy gunship raid in a while, can't call one to mind. I'll drop by the next one that comes by.

>>151159597
It's not a clown car if you fit a lot of people in a large space though.

>>151159597
>>151159471
I've deployed on Gunships where I see three sectopods and who knows how many invisible ethereals outside as soon as I step out of the door. The issue is the map is so small you almost instantly hit all the contact, and enemies inside the ship deploy very fast.

Also unlike the frigate, its just a medium. Literally a traditional clown car.

>game went from playable at start to literally crashing my computer if I try to open it


th-thanks jake

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>>151015779
Hey lads, has the anon who made the huge Roulette mod updated it / set up a Nexus page for it?


Really loving it, even aside from the few bugs it has

>>151160494
Seconding this, or could we put a link to it in the OP if you want to keep it /xcg/ only/don't want to worry about supporting it for a wider audience

>>151160494
>>151160802
You're probably talking about me, if you mean the config edits for the roulette, and sorry, since last time I haven't done shit because I've been pretty busy, but thanks for reminding me to actually add LW perks to it.

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>>151160494
Hello

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>Decide to play on legendary and try out the new Long War mods
>Do pretty well at first due to Alien Rulers weapons
>Get first squad upgrade and game becomes a little too easy
>Install 50% more enemies
>Hit magnetic weapons and go into a mission
>sniper najas that 1 shot anyone on my team
>dropship reinforcements that consist of an officer and three mecs on the same turn that another reinforcement pod lands
>Mission Failed 47/55 enemies killed

PRESS F

>>151161252
nah, you deserved it desu

>>151161185
what is this forced meme?

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>>151161407
I know, I just wasn't expecting it. 50% enemies didn't see like that many more on paper.

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>>151161537
>forced meme
>he doesn't know rocks are poor

>>151147047
I don't know why it's taking to long to re-create the old LW content in XCOM 2.

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>>151160960
The one I'm speaking of had LW perk pack included in it, you sure it's your mod I'm speaking of?

>>151161185
Nexus because it's dependent on a ton of class mods and it's better to handle complex mods like that there

>>151161817
It's not my mod, but pretty sure config could be mine, I know I posted it once here.
Oh well, I wanted to add LW perks to the roulette anyway.
I want my trench gun snipers.