XCOM General - /xcg/

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Ayyyy

2nd for EXALT

3rd, 4th or 5th for FUCK ALIENS

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S N E K
(Original edition)

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Pistols are Useful.

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REMOVE SPACE-REFUGEES

>>152556713
Almost everything about this pleases me. The color scheme is the only bit that throws me off a little.

>>152556813
>The color scheme
But it's beautiful, anon. Bright colors also make some sense on mechs too, since you want them to attract enemy fire

>>152556713
Thank you Captain Sweden.

>>152557479
>Sweden
>Punishing space refugees
Looks like their opinions changed a lot in 20 years.

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>>152556713
>>152556813
>>152557147
Speaking of mecs
My first and only refuses to repair when I assign it for repairs, ultimately leaving it at 1 health until further notice
Is that because all my engineers are busy or is it a bug?

>>152557896
Git gud.

>>152557896
Sounds like a bug.
Take it on a mission and try healing it yourself.

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>>152558096
>>>/v/

>>152558131
Thank you i'll try that
Don't know why I didnt think of that before

>>152558305
But anon, /v/ is full of filthy casuals that need to git gud.
If anyone needs to join them, it's you.

>>152558131
I don't remember repair actually keeping the SPARK unit repaired after combat. I am on vanilla without any filthy cheat mods though. Only regular, healthy cheat mods for my UI.

>>152558506
I don't have any mods that'd affect Sparks either, but medkits still let me bypass the repair timers. It's weird.
Even if that's something fucky with my game only, taking the Spark out might help with anon's problem.

>>152558678
>medkits
>SPARK
Well, okay. I don't actually ever bring medkits, I was referring to its repair ability. Never tried a medkit, as can be told by my previous comment. Weird stuff if that translates to an actual heal.

Or maybe my SPARK was the buggy one, and the ability repair should have kept them repaired too. FIX YOUR GAME, JAKE!

>>152558824
Oh yeah, I actually forgot Repair is an ability you can get. Whoops.

>FIX YOUR GAME, JAKE!
Like that's ever gonna happen.

>Alien has 25% to hit me
>Hits me everytime
>I've got 80% to hit
>Miss most of the time

Ayy

>>152560078
That'll learn you to run through alien overwatches. Don't you know they secretly have a +60% chance to hit instead of a -30% chance?

>>152560078
>end-game, where you can afford some 80% misses
>hit every time
>even 70%
Meme magic.

Was anyone else seriously disappointed by the Cryssalid Warriors and Queen in the LW alien pack? Regular 'lids aren't all that dangerous any more so I hoped the LW ones would bring some of that old fear back, but they haven't even come close to hitting one of my soldiers before. The Queen should have been a custom Alien Ruler or something.

>>152561367
>The Queen should have been a custom Alien Ruler
Try A Better ADVENT, senpai.

>>152561367
>The Queen should have been a custom Alien Ruler

>ruler reactions
>can spawn lids as a special move
>people killed by the Queen's venom spawn fully grown lids or soldiers instead of babies
>doesn't escape via portal but via burrowing
>instead of running away she may simply ambush you later on in the mission
>has a custom mission dedicated to her
>it's Newfoundland Mk II

FUND IT NOW

Neufundland is overrated.
Zhang's wild graveyard shift was worse.

fuck ayyliens

>>152563830
How
I did that with a single sniper as my only soldier on ironman impossible and it was still easy

>>152566406
>infinite thin mints coming at you from literally all directions
>they have full cover, you don't
>they have infinite aim, you don't
Yes, anon, how?

>>152566595
Oh you're playing long war

>>152566684
Well yeah. Honestly, I don't even remember how the vanilla graveyard shift went.

>>152566886
There's a set amount of Thin Men, and like 2 mutons. I think you end up getting 12 thin men grand total?

>>152566886
In vanilla there are no enemies on the map at first and they fall down if Zhang gets closer to the evac point.
They don't attack you right away, just go into overwatch, giving you a chance to take them out easily.
Honestly what he says is still ridiculous, although I doubt I would have problem with a solo Heavy on Classic.

>>152567042
Only 1 muton which is replaced by a chryssalid on easy/normal.

>>152568267
>shitposting on /xgc/ is a good job mayte

Delicious Codex thighs

>>152570867
she has none tho
she might as well be anorexic

>haven't played since release decide ironman impossible
>loads of bugs have decimated my morale but I've pulled through
>decide to do the cheese strat of avatar progress free weeks again
>tfw second time it's 7days instead of another 20
Shit, I got 6 and a half days to skulljack an officer; the next facility is 6-8days to contact and 280intel. Is there officers in the Alien rulers DLC mission?

Is it just me or does anyone enjoy the first few months of XCOM 2 the most? I just like the whole rag-tag team aesthetic from the first few months. Everyone dressing like rebels and fighting advent 'cops'.

>>152571467
Yep. XCOM is always at its most fun in the first half of the game, where you never have enough resources and the aliens seem to perpetually have the upper hand. But once you get past that, odds are you're pretty much guranteed to go on to win. The sense of risk and danger vanishes.

>>152571337
No. Only vipers.
You might want to wait a couple months before doing that mission, by the way.

>>152571467

This applies to every game of this type, actually, it applies to most games. Once you get so strong or powerful that the enemies stop being challenging things start getting dull and boring.

We need more ayy mods that show up after the vanilla ayys and are significantly stronger. We also need more rulers, and/or we need a mod that stops the rulers from running away, the fact that you can hit them a couple of times and then they just leave makes it incredibly easy to cheese them.

>>152572514
I just want a mod that steadily increases the number of aliens per squad. Doesn't change the AI, doesn't add new aliens, just increases pod sizes in the mid and endgame.

>>152572514
>if you don't make the enemies get stronger then the game will be piss easy
>if you make them match up your equipment perfectly then there is no sense of progression
Oh the struggle while balancing videogames.

>>152573091

You just need more tiers. The sense of progression is there until plasma, and then the ayys stop improving because there is no T4 and if they kept getting better they would be unstoppable.

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post your funniest and/or most rage-inducing moments

>raid advent supply train mission
>last enemy is an pectoid
>he psi-panicks my assault
>my assault ran to my highest ranked solider, a shinobi
>throws a grenade and explodes them both, luckily both survived
>next turn
>ALRIGHT MOTHER FUCKER YOU DONE GOOF.exe
>goes for the cinematic one hit finish using my shinobi because it's only fitting
>right as my shinobi started to move
>he triggered the panicked assault's close combat specialist
>said close combat specialist shotgun connects and killed my highest ranked solider

FUCK YOU JAKE NICE GAME RETARD

>>152572341
I'm T2/T2 but I'm at a loss on what to do right now.
I just did a guerilla op 3 days ago so I can't count on that; I gotta risk the 6-8days contacting zimbabwe. Does alien rulers not remove an avatar progress point?

>>152573250
Something similar happened to me.

>Retaliation mission
>Getting towards the end, only one squad left. Sectoid and two Troopers.
>Most of the high cover is destroyed or on fire, so the squad is forced to bunch up around what's left
>Sectoid Mind Controls the Ranger
>Who has that skill which allows him to take a free Overwatch shot at any nearby enemy who moves or fires
>This cunt kills two of my own soldiers and cripples a third before the Sectoid finally goes down

I was kind of mad about that, but it serves me right for bunching up so tightly.

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>>152572514
>we need a mod that stops the rulers from running away
I don't see how is that a good idea. On one hand, you'll be hard, proper fucked if you bump into a Ruler on a VIP mission. On the other, you'll effortlessly remove them from the campaign as soon as you encounter them on any other mission.

>>152570952
>this is now anorexic
I want thick memers to leave.

>>152573861

You're right, we also need a mod that makes the Ruler's respawn even if they're killed.

>>152573992
Could work as a Dark Event or something. Adding more Rulers (ABA kinda does that) would be great too.

>>152573992
>Enough rulers will now spawn to guarantee the player loses their campaign
>This will separate the great commanders from the immortal commanders
I'm feeling real good about this balance change

>>152574179

how about

>dark event: replaces every single common alien with its ruler variant

good luck have fun, commander

>>152574179
>A pod of Archon Kings
>They all react together in each ruler reaction phase

>>152574274
>Alien rulers now react too alien rulers

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>>152573250

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>>152574343
You're giving JL a big erection right now

Also, historical armor mod when. I want to dress up my guys as Sengoku Jidai ashigaru

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>>152573250
Even though it's been at least a year, I still remember the shit from LW like yesterday

>shoot down a destroyer and raid it
>hunting around the map, avoiding the UFO
>no contact at all, sound cues are silent and are coming from the UFO
>eventually get to the other side of the UFO, still no contact
>spot a meld can near an entrance of the UFO
>decide to cautiously move up to it, end up within a blue move of it with still no contact
>end turn
>floater + heavy floater pod flies in front the right and activates
>another floater + heavy floater pod comes in from my left and activates
>mechtoid with seekers + drones spots me from inside the UFO and activates out of LOS
>muton pod barrels in through the UFO as well and activates
>somehow decide I can take this and move my biotank up slightly
>activate the outsider pod

>>152574823
Hopefully never.

>>152574874
>never
wew my dreams are out

>>152574823
That movie is too long

>>152575031
I play total war and it's too short for me

>>152575570
Same but I can only take so much build up

>>152575835
To each their own

I like EB 2

So uhh
Is anyone even using the mod achievements?

>>152576738

They're on my "mods i want to use on my next campaign" list.

>>152575953
Im a shogan 2 nigga

>>152576738
Yea, they're pretty decent. ABA has them implemented, and it's basically an XCOM version of the pokedex except you gotta kill em all.

>mc advent captain
>have some fun, run him into overwatches, have him shoot his own dudes
>good times
>mc ends
>he's allowed to move
Is this correct?

>>152579105
If it works the same way as mind control on your dudes then yea, I would assume so.

>>152579105
Jake thinks so, so it must be. Always kill whatever you're controlling or hacking after 3 turns.

>>152578290
Eh, ABA is exactly why I'm asking. Oh well.

>>152556713
LIVE FREE IN THE NC

>>152580035
>>152580364
Good to know. Luckily it wasn't too bad when he snapped out of it, just took a miss on my grenadier.

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xth for XCOM2 canon ending to XCOM1 campaigns post defeat.

>>152580991
Yea, you can just kill him on the last turn assuming things are under-control.

>>152581065
RIP campaign. Long Dong?

>>152579105
>>152581065

>tfw you mind control a muton and you have him run into a group of enemies so he can allahuackbar himself with his grenade

>>152581564
>tfw it only deals 2 dmg

>>152581464
Yeah, wasn't too bad as it was only the third month, but still.
I'll be honestmanning my next attempt, I don't trust myself to remember to backup my saves often enough and being an XCOM player I don't believe in tempting fate immediately after being sucker punched.

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>>152581065
Definitely not what I would have liked for the first map.

>>152581948
Try getting the highway map that has only cars for cover while your rookies all have either 2 APs or AP + Vest

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>>152581948
Meh, just got a bit unlucky with two overwatch shots that hit for max damage. Not really a big deal in the first month though, so good enough.

>>152584678
>half of them are tactical
>gravely wounded - 22 days
MAGNIFICENT

>>152585671
I've got Commander's choice on.

>>152586267
>Cheating
Good riddance.

>>152586335
But anon, I'm playing Long War, I was cheating from the start. Get your facts straight.

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wew lad these cheevos sure are something

>>152587894
That's certainly original.

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>>152587894

did they add the ability to turn recruits into mechs yet just like in enemy unknown (or any other cool classes)

>>152589284

No, mecs are robots in Xcom2.

We are all about pure humanity in Xcom2, none of that "we have to be like the ayys to beat them" shit.

>>152589406
So we're going to sacrifice fun shit like gene modding for muh ethnic cleansing?

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>>152589496
Ethnic cleansing is fun for everyone involved.

>>152589496

We're willing to sacrifice everything to remove those filthy Advent scum.

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A weapon to surpass metal gear!

>>152589982
Metal Gear Ghost

>>152590215
Metal Gear... Ghost!?

>>152591462
Yes, created to defeat the ADVENT Genome Soldiers once and for all.

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>download weapon pack cheat
>go to reload rifle
>reload pistol instead

>>152592726
>reload pistol
What manner of reckless cheating is this?

>>152592835
The CV weapon pack cheat, of course.
Because for some retarded reason pistols have 99 ammo instead of infinite.

>>152587894
Mod?

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Vahlen.

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>>152594910

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post long dong memories

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>>152594910
>>152596794

>>152596794
>not shopping the emblems to be XCOM ones

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>>152596864

>>152596947
What IS it Doctor?

>>152597023
Didn't make the shop, but maybe I'll give it a shot.

>>152597109
Clearly its the next generation of alien super soldier

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>>152596864

>>152596947
You're a treasure, anon

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>>152596864

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>>152596864
I miss Combat Drugs desu.

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>>152598850
I miss drone hyper beams

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>>152594910
ayy.

>>152600624
Ha, the drones look like floating hands to me.

>>152600781
i did that on purpose because the first time i saw a cyberdisk i thought the drones were its hands

>>152600624
>cyberdisc using the drones as hands
Fucking radical.
Also did you every try oekaki?

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>>152600896
Oh nice, you captured that nicely. Keep it up, I really enjoy these.

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>>152600624
Amazing.
Wish I had rare Vahlens for you.

>>152600972
i almost did but then i forogt

>>152603630
Goddamn that's good

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>>152584678
>Airgame Chance
>RNG in your favor!
>Pay 5 repair days
>Collect 1 small downed UFO

>>152574823
>>152575031
>>152575570
What movie is this bros?

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>>152603630

>>152604905
Admiral its on netflix if you have it

>>152574635
horry shiet! eSCape!

>>152604968
>YES WE BACK

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These things are quite literally the worst.

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>>152608758

>mind control them
>light 'em up

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>>152609319
AWC making assaults even stronger

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>>152609530
>94 turns
Lad.

>>152610282
it was a guerilla war playthrough

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Months later and Stun Lancers still make me ragequit playthroughs.
I want nothing more than to remove Stun Kebab.

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Wake up /xcg/

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>>152611643

>playing long dog
>start of month 3
>17 meld in a canister
This is bad right?

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+8 base damage from awc and perks alone time to spray the ayys!

>>152610559
>Months later
>Stun Lancer still make me ragequit

>no stun lancer in sight
>not even legendary
Anon pls

>>152611925
>slithery swooty comin for dat booty

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>>152613395

How can I edit the male/female creation ratio in EU/EW? I started with 80 rookies and dismissed 30 of the worst, now I have six squads and five of them are all or very nearly all female.

I don't have an opinion on women in war, I just want males represented on my squads for once.

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>>152613395
>>152614159

>when the ayys are removed just right

>>152617219
PMUCH

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>due to bullshit activate 12 heavy floaters in one turn
>mind merge psi inspire, the medic and toss out a mimic beacon
>12 heavy floaters all bunch up on one point and waste 2 turns in a row

God bless your low will stat floaters.

>>152568267

I kinda miss the pre-release days. Everyone watching Beagle's previews and going nuts over Stacy Bell, scrounging up every single screenshot that came up... Those were comfy days. Granted, I was always close to eating my own ass from the hype, but still...

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>>152618739

Sometimes i almost feel sorry for the ayys.

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>second LW terror mission
>remember I got anally devestated on the first by lids
>bring two CCS assaults this time
>there are 3 pods of lids practically on top of the spawn
>mfw they all die during their movement
Haha get fucked lump I'm onto your shit

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>>152620357

But then i remember they only exist to be REMOVED

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>terror mission
>brand new squaddie weeb
>1 civilian left alive and I need them or I fail the mission
>the civvie is in middle of three pods
>send him in to grab them, ass towards enemy
>mfw as he dodges a berserker, two mutons a robot and an elite soldier
I don't know how this retard didn't get hit but he's gone past cannon fodder.

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WEW

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>>152620518
Check out the these trench gun crits my nigga!

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>>152623771
Did someone say Trench Gun?

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>>152625381
>>152623771
>>152620518
>>152620357
>>152614159

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>>152625485
This is my favorite. Frost bomb + trench gun is the best way to completely remove a pod from concealment

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>>152625771
DISGUSTING!

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>meme text mod

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Where are the priest classes?

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PSI OPERATIVES ARE ______

>>152627446
Whores. Look at how wide apart her legs are.

>>152627446
Not for sexuals

>>152628159
not NOT for sexuals :^)

>>152628287
Gasp!

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Our interceptors managed to splash one of the newly dubbed Raider class UFOs on a scouting mission over the skies of Canada. It was a hard fought battle - Lt. Teasdale's fighter suffered heavy damage getting close enough to deliver an accurate barrage of stingray missiles, and unfortunately the alien craft crashed right into the skyline of a major city. The great disc is perched perilously on top of two adjoined apartment buildings, and authorities have already worked with us to evacuate and cordon off the area under the guise of a military training exercise.

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gimme some of those tasty (you)s

>>152628853
A troubling report commander

>>152629258
Dude what the fuck this is a blue board!

>month 3 alien abduction simultaniously with my first medium UFO shot down
>its 2 pods of 4 seekers
Did LW just cut me some slack?

Are the long war squad leader perks meant to be hot garbage.
I'm pretty sure +4% chance to hit a single target even if there's 6 people who can shoot in your party is not worth using.

>>152630089

see >>152623527

They throw you a bone every now and then.

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>>152628853
With the knowledge gained of the new craft's interior in the successful capture of the landed Raider a week ago, our team dropped onto the site from high above while Big Sky performed a fakeout landing on the other end of the rooftops.

While a patrolling group of floaters went to investigate, Lt. Kelly Jenkins led her team straight into the UFO through a hole in the hull. The squad cleared their way room to room, meeting no resistance. In the blown out engine room, the team prepares to breach the central chamber.

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>>152630787
Four floaters are on routine patrol through the chamber and we open the door on them. Stackhouse, Hamilton and Maslov find themselves standing in arms reach of the enemy, close enough to see the utter shock on their faces. One in the back manages to flee around the corner.Their guns are down, ours are up.

>>152631510
Get out da way bitch, solo madman is back with SOLO MADMAN 2: MADMAN IMPOSSIBLE

That's right motherfuckers, we're running a bronzeman impossible solo soldier campaign (because sometimes RNG fucks you). I've been planning this bullshit for about six months now, and I see no reason why it shouldn't work.

In order for this to be possible, we need one skillsets for maximum rampage mode to unlock
bullet swarm/opportunist/sentinel (covering fire is a nice bonus)
Sit still in high cover, shoot once, then overwatch and wreck face when any ayy tries to do anything besides cower in fear. You essentially get the firepower of half a fucking squad crammed into one mean-ass bastard, and with Adaptive Bone Marrow backing him up keeping him out of the medbay and providing free infinite heals after firefights, he can take upwards of thirty damage over the course of a mission and bounce back 5 days later. Once you hit the Respirator Implant and grab Mimetic Skin, you become unstoppable.

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>>152631510
The new laser guns tear through the floaters before they even draw their weapons, at such close range the power of the beam weapons is devastating. Four dead floaters later we are moving to clear the bridge, just to make sure it's empty before we engage whatever's moving in the other engine room.

>>152631919
Since you have 6 skills to play with, assuming you roll like a god for the ones you need, you could theoretically end up with an even more capable one man army
Squaddie: Run and Gun
Corporal: Bullet Swarm
Sergeant: Opportunist
Lieutenant: Rapid Fire
Captain: Covering Fire
Major: Sentinel
Colonel: HEAT ammo (fuck robots)

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>>152632113
The bridge is cleared, and the team stacks up to assault the suspected outsider position in the port side engine room. Scout Maslov is spotted by a group of floaters as he checks the motion tracker, not one but two patrol groups are returning directly to the UFO. The outsiders are definitely waiting in hiding behind the bulkhead and the terrible damage the elerium reactor's blowout caused to the hull exposes anyone inside to plasma fire from outside. If we fall back, the floaters will surely fly through said gaping holes, open the door, and expose the outsiders within. Lt. Jenkins has a dire choice to make, the squad must fall back or charge forward.

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>>152604002
>MELDsoundsINTENSIFY
Thanks for nothing lump

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>>152634131
Lt. Jenkins hears Lcpl. Maslov's panicked reports of the six contacts beelining for them, but also his mention of both outsiders waiting within reach of a good ambush. She orders the breach, and Hamilton opens the door. The outsiders dash to the edge of the room, Hamilton tosses a grenade after them.

Inb4 flank with shotgun reveals more pods.

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>>152634970
The grenade explodes, weakening both as Cpl. Black follows up with an extended burst that obliterates one of the outsiders. Unfortunately Cpl. Stackhouse is left in an awkward situation where he is flanked by the remaining outsider, but does not himself flank the outsider. Leaving this thing alive is dangerous but he can't reliably kill it himself.

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>>152635674
Cpl. Derek 'Vandal' Stackhouse doesn't care that he isn't flanking the outsider properly. At this range he melts straight through the alien alloys and into the heart of the unit, destroying it utterly. Cpl. Boyd smokes the room out in preparation for breach by floaters.

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>>152636134
The first floater shoots into the cabin at Cpl. Stackhouse and utterly annihilates the sealed meld canister he was hiding behind. Before he can reposition another plasma burst comes through and causes him terrible damage no ordinary human would survive. Another floater watches through the dissipating smoke with an itchy trigger finger and a wary eye, while the fourth flies high above the UFO.

Clutch shot or kukibiri. The description of kuki isn't entirely clear compared to 100% guaranteed pistol dome shot.

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>>152636795
I'm too tired to do the rest of the mission right now but this happened.

>>152637979
excellent job commander

>>152632696
ADVENT's early gene splicing attempts with humans did not go well it seems.

>Just realized that holo-targetting makes adds aim for your suppression shots
It's so obvious, why didn't I realize this before? Anyway, that + opportunist makes suppression overwatch shots extremely accurate.

>>152638806
I dont know it looks like they engineered an apex predator

>>152638998
Holo-targeting is definitely overlooked too much by /xcg/, I agree, it's a dandy little perk. Except in XCOM 2 at least. Bullet Swarm vs. Holo Targeting, I can see getting one heavy with holo targeting for the aim bonus.

Holo Targeting vs. Heavy Ordnance though? A bonus freaking grenade? Yeah, sorry HT, I want that grenade.

>>152639263
Yeah sorry, should of mentioned I'm mostly talking Long War here, where it only competes with Flush and you will be suppressing targets alot.

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>just minding my own business murdering ayys
>turn a corner see this

PANIC. I was so sure he wasn't in this mission yet somehow he evaded 4 scanners and my scout for like 5 turns.

>>152640449
SLAY THE ANGRY AYY AWAY

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>>152640449

>turns out he is as much of a coward as the other rulers

>>152640578
What a bitch. Why do people complain about the Archon King, again?

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>>152641790

To be fair, all my squad is geared up with T3 stuff and even though he caught me by surprise he was still in range of my freeze grenade, if i hadn't been able to freeze him he probably would've used devastate and he would've ruined everything.

Or maybe it's time to download this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=726108727&searchtext=ruler

>Rulers have 8 times more HP and armor and 4 times more will, also 100 more dodge, rulers will run after disabeling 2 of your troops down from 3, also you need to kill a ruler before the next one shows up so the viper king will harass you for most of the game untill you can get rid of him

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=749612739

Anyone try this yet?

>>152627115

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=719646241&searchtext=priest

>>152642049
>probably would've used devastate
Nope. Look closely at where he's standing.

>>152643770
Almost certainly not what he was looking for.

>Read an offhand comment about how one anon likes to cheese the avatar project clock.
>Don't even bother to re-read the post.
>Assume you can do this by simply not attacking the black site.

I always knew I would lose my first campaign but not with this level of incompetence.
At least I learned some things, like it's probably not worth it to put any days into autopsies since they can become instant.

>>152648058
>I always knew I would lose my first campaign but not with this level of incompetence.
That's a staggering amount of incompetence. Be proud, retardanon.

>At least I learned some things, like it's probably not worth it to put any days into autopsies since they can become instant.
This isn't exactly true, as early on you should sink some time into autopsies to get the tech they allow (Faceless->meme beacons, Trooper->scanners, Captain->everything forever). Just don't prioritize them over real techs like guns, armor, etc. Autopsies are, generally, targets of opportunity, research you take when you lack anything more pressing to focus on.

>>152648209
Well, at least I have a chance at it.
I was only a little upset that the project started up with 3 blocks.

>>152648551
To be fair and not to spoil you, the project is obviously something the aliens have been thinking about for quite a bit of time. It makes sense that they already did some progress.

>cheesing the project
You might simply be going the wrong way about it.
You can ignore it as in not shitting yourself because it's close to completion or the timer is running, but that doesn't mean you can ignore it completely.
You should always be contacting regions that lead you to a facility, especially since the amti-cheese patch.
Always have at least one facility ready to hit, leave the blacksite for emergencies since it's close and you probably contacted it fairly early on.
Abuse the days you're given, only hit those missions/facilities when the timer is close to zero and remember that destroying facilities also prevents the aliens from doing any more progress for a while.

Also, as other anon said, some autopsies are pretty crucial unless you enjoy suffering.
Do skip faceless autopsy until the second retal is about to hit, though.
The corpses from the first one won't be enough to let you build a beacon and you can use those days for more pressing research.

I haven't played XCOM2 since release, got fairly far but didn't finish it. I've heard Alien Hunters ruins the game massively, wondering as to how true that is?

Any other things I should do/know before hopping back in?

>>152654043

Play long dong again instead.

>>152654287
I played Long War in the first XCOM and really liked many features but they came packaged with some truly terrible game design decisions in my opinion. Presumably these changes were to make the games more like the originals but as somebody who was played the originals, the changes only really served to make the game tedious and dull rather than stressful and weighty. Sure, I could edit the ini but then I know the numbers and a good part of the mystery and 'what if' is destroyed. For this reason I'm hesitant on jumping straight into Long War stuff for XCOM when I haven't finished the base game at all.

I'll give it a play after I've gone through once or twice. That way I can appreciate any changes it made more fully and judge as to which I prefer.

Is there a way to set the ratio of pool soldiers to randoms? I'd like my saved dudes to be rare gems rather than 50% of the crew.

>>152655957
>ratio
No idea. What you can do, is force all of the "reward" soldiers to be pool characters.
It's not the perfect solution, but it accomplishes what you want.

Is there a mod that lets you use Dr. Tygan as a soldier, just like you can use Bradford and Shen?

>>152661530
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=621715241&searchtext=intriguing

blammo

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Fuck Xcom 2.

Tygen is the big bad and there's gonna be a third one.

I'm sorry. But it just would not stop crashing no matter what I did.

Hope Enemy Within is stable...

>>152666429
>Hope Enemy Within is stable...
It is, unless you're using Long War (and even then it only crashes sometimes.)

>>152666516
>Long War crashes

Is there anything I should edit or add to hopefully fix this?

>>152666672
Enable autosaves and don't play ironmeme

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>>152666749

>not playing ironmeme

do you also ask your wife for permission to come out of the cuckshed too?

>>152667268
stupid animeposter wants his saves corrupted

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>>152667268
Have fun losing your 40 hour campaign because Long Dong decides to shit itself and you don't have a backup

>>152667268
>dumb anime poster never tried playing ironman and thinks he can talk

>>152667456
>>152667523
>>152667563
nice samefag dude

>>152667268
>He needs the game to stop him from cheating
Post an anime girl for me, I'm sure you'll have something for it.

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>>152667823

>no total conversion mod to turn all ayys into awoo girls

why even live senpai

>>152668028
>XCOM: Anime Removal Simulator
COMMANDER WILLS IT

dude sex soon, fellow commanders

>>152671050
loverslab?

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>teleports behind you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=79&v=txIbiZKiRkM

It may be cliche, but it still looks pretty damn cool.

>>152674527
I can't get over how awful the melee animation is.

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>>152674527

I thought the katana pack was just a weapon mod.

>>152674717
I guess its gone full unsheathes katana now.

>>152674695
What's wrong with it?

>>152676920
Everything. No impact, needlessly theatrical, retarded environmental damage. 0/10 would not trigger another pod with.

>>152677694
Oh I thought you were actually critiquing the animation itself from the technical side.

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Holy fuck

>>152680413
What seems to be the problem officer?

>>152680413
[angry stomping in the distance]

>Reading up on this Dragonpunk Mod
>Will feature dragons
>Website has some fucking weird cyber ogre things
>Apparently has people that worked for Bethesda, Sony, and Bungie working on it
What the fuck is this mod even about?

>>152682363
I believe it is supposed to be a shadowrun conversion.

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>>152680658

Rape. Rape is the problem.

>>152682363
Scalie faggotry.

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>>152682363
It really is a weird horned gorilla orc thing.

Is there any reason why more often than not pods all cluster in the same place on the map?
I see this often and it's usually between me and the objective.

>19 meld
This is approaching bad isnt it?

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>>152682660

Couldn't do it, i should've retreated back when i saw the sectopod and riftkeeper pod so i could take one pod at a time, but i wanted to be hardcore.

I wanted to be hardcore but the elders wouldn't let me.

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>>152684041

And i lost my best man. Rest in pieces.

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>>152683779
Max alien resources is 300. Meld*10=current alien resources. It's getting up there, but it also isn't to unusual.

>>152684259
rip

>>152684349
>only one badge
Typical for a female soldier.

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>>152684404
>trying to insult a war hero
>badge
This isn't pokemon anon

>>152684946
>he had to turn her into a robot to make her useful
Wew laddo.

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>>152684259
>>152684349

First soldier i add to the character pool, poor guy almost survived an entire year on the avenger.

>>152685136
Anon she was already a robot. Your attention to detail is extremely lacking.

can you keep attacking alien facilities forever or will the game eventually run of alien facilities for you to assault and you need to progress the story line?

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>pod walks into the battle scanner in the distance
>seeker teleports from over there into the middle of my squad and activates the pod
Fuck you too.

Can you turn off the "hurr durr carrying items slows you down" bullshit in long dong? I can't find it in the .ini

>>152686523
>hurr durr carrying items slows you down
It's a gameplay mechanic, and is part of the item balance. Also I do believe carrying stuff slows you down, but maybe I'm just crazy.
You can turn off bs, but that isn't bs. You can cheat if you want to.

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>>152674797

Good.

>>152686816
>hurr carrying a scope on your gun makes you move two tiles slower
I get that carrying shit like rockets slows you down, but grenades, SCOPE etc should not.

>>152687289
heh, nothing personnel, kid

>>152687556
That's your opinion, and doesn't speak to item balance at all. Like I said, feel free to cheat if you want to. What your proposing would basically by a +2 mobility buff to everyone for absolutely free. Later in the game it would be a +3 buff.

>>152685905
It won't run out since they'll keep building them, but some progress will be added to the avatar project instead of the facilities and that progress can only be removed with story missions.
Progress can also be made if no facilities are present, so if the main project alone contributes the entirety of the progress, you can't reduce it anymore once you're out of story missions.

>>152639263
You gonna need Gunner Grenadiers with the grenade nerf, anon. Nothing better to take out Gatekeepers and Archons.

>>152687876
>Like I said, feel free to cheat if you want to
I would if you told me how to instead of throwing a shitfit for god's sake.

>>152673154
How is Lover's Lab coming along? It bemuses me that they're part of the state of the art of XCOM 2 modding.

>>152687937

doesn't the red blip underneath each facility denotes how much bar it will reset once it gets destroyed?

are you saying there will be a point far into a campaign when facilities will prop up but they don't have any red bars underneath them at all?

>>152688358
They're working on getting different facial animations to work

And getting best waifus into XCOM 2

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>>152688040
Well you only asked it it was possible which I did answer...
It is also super simple

>>152688718
>And getting best waifus into XCOM 2
I thought that Vipers already filled that purpose?

>>152688761
I swear to god it wasn't there when I was looking, that's why I was asking.
Thanks for spoonfeeding me, friend.

>>152688558
No, they'll always pop up with at least one point of avatar contribution.
However, when they add progress they may do so to the facility itself or to the general project represented in the ocean.
Facility progress can be removed by blowing up the facility, general progress by doing story missions.
Thing is, the project doesn't necessarily need an active facility to advance.
If the blip triggering the countdown is generated from the general advancement and you have no facilities active or story missions to take, that's as far as you go. Either you finish the game, or game over.

>Shaken bug finally fixed on LW Toolbox

HAHAHA, TIME FOR NEW CAMPAIGN

>>152688897
Viper is just scaley waifu, the other waifus are from ME and Overmeme

>>152688993

can't you just skull mine officers to get facility leads anyway?

>>152689576
Facility leads only lead you to a facility, as the name implies.
If there are no facilities around, they do nothing.
You can't even research them if there are no facilities, iirc.

How do flashbangs work exactly.
I know they give an aim penalty but not by how much, I also faintly remember they increase crit rate of enemies they hit?

>>152690327

they decrease enemy aim by 20

>>152682632
Honestly if they're gonna make the game into Totally-Not-Shadowrun then I'll be down with that.

>>152690327
Its the way the vanilla game calculates crit. In XCOM1, the game rolls for crit on a 1-100 scale effectively.
In XCOM2, the game rolls crit chance against hit chance instead.
So if you have 20% hit chance and 20% crit chance, you should crit the enemy every-time you hit.
If you don't like this (because it makes no sense) you can always use the EU rolls mod.

>>152690612
I have no familiarity with shadowrun, but I would be interested. Anyone who can get multiplayer co-op functional (if it happens) is certainly worth my time imo.

>>152694456
Now I feel bad and kinda sad for all the soldiers I lost

>>152694456
Rising storm voice pack when

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>>152694456

F

>>152694456

Age shall not weary them
Nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun
We remember them

F

>>152695417
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldNSMnEeKio
>>152694456
F!

Would you let your snek waifu slide her tail up your butt while sucking your dick?

>>152694456

That's how I always imagine my fallen come home, except the landing bay would be crowded with their friends. Bradford would go down to the bar before, turn the music down and deliver the news. They would drink a toast for every name and march off to the hangar in silence.

>>152697815

Only if she's a rattlesnake

>>152694456
Rip squaddie whos name i cant remember.
You died to young.

0-5 Witcher
6-9 Finally finish the half XCOM 2 campaign

I know it's 60-40

>>152698403
rolling for bjs

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Co-Op trailer if you missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1vuLDqcI98

>>152699120
>No gameplay shown
What a shame, still looks really fucking cool though

Why are sparks so shit.

>>152604905
Litttle late but its admiral of the roaring currents a 2nd best korea film. And the fucking titular admrial is a fucking badass, and real if you can fucking believe it

>>152701856
Because you're shit

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METAL GEAR GHOST!?

>>152706116
A WEAPON TO SURPASS SECTOPOD GEAR...

WHERE IS THE MELD VAHLEN

>>152701225
sexy pic hon

Where is the Vahlen From The Deep

>train squad leader with the free intel perk
>instead of giving +1 intel per death it gives like 20
>even after my squad leader died I still get the effect

>>152712090
So uh, what do you do with all that intel?

>>152713448
Sits in the bank.
I know where advent shits and what it smells like at this point.

>>152714025
Never.

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POST BLACKSITES

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>>152717630

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>>152717630

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Swords are EDGE

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>>152717630

Beep boop water

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>>152717630
杀我

>andromeda is last enemy on defend equipment mission
>it ignores the 6dudes and beats on the equipment
>one more hit and its toast
>throw freeze grenade at him but miss
>his model is 13spaces away from where he actually is
>he does a whirling spin punch and destroys it
I wish I had shadowplay open because that fucker did the zangief twirl.

>download magnificent ayy pack
>2 advent surveillance drones on gatecrasher
>officer marks and kills 1 rookie
>2 rookies get stunned by the surveillance drones

What the fuck is this

>>152719556
are you the Chinese anon from /twg/

>>152721709
You said it. It's MAGNIFICENCE.
You'll love najas. Sentries as well.
Also giant chryssalids. They can still burrow. They also have enhanced lid poison. Enjoy!

We ded?

>>152726168
Im sick so almost

>>152563830
>Zhang's silly gangplank blitz n' splitz
>with special guest, pre-activated teleporting cyberdisc

I almost had a fucking aneurism the first time that faggot disc popped up behind my squad and crit my engineer in the back.

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>>152596864
I once killed so many goddamned aliens on a base assault that their corpses literally plugged the doorframe. I didn't even know corpses affected pathfinding in this game.

>>152719264
...SPARKs can take the vial? I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads-up, anon.