XCOM General - /xcg/

pistols are useful

So, pitching faceless class, uses a stance system to shift between basic trooper style fighting with Rifle, Pistol and grenades, to Faceless melee tank mode, the hardest thing to mod would be the animation for turning back to humanoid form

So my idea, turn Merc Plasma into the default plasma, recolor the beams for the in game plasma to purple, Psionic weapons

>>155772256

Yes they are.

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At the start of the game , the first black site shows up before the advent calender starts , does destroying it beforehand have an effect on the calendar or is it best to wait till it starts?

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>>155774301

This.

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>>155774035

What would be the benefits of making Psy-Guns over standard ones or using a Psychic Skill?

>>155774912
never tried it
i dont recommend it doing so early in the game because it is scripted that there would be at least one mec in the mission and doing so early just to drop one point of the avatar bar in the early game i would say its not even worth to try

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Shit, did not realize you could not link to an archived thread's posts.

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HUZZAH FOR XCOM

Are there any mods that make XCOM 2 not a pile of shit?

>>155780275
go look at the modlist

I just reinstalled the game with some mods and im having problems

When I try and launch the game from steam nothing happens, it says the game is running and I have to manually exit ModLauncherWPF via task manager

When I use Alternate Mod Launcher with mods installed and checked it launches the game fine but no mods are activated, its just vanilla

I tried deleting those ini files in the documents and restarting and it didnt work, validating game files didnt help either

>>155776093
limitless ammo, as its fueled by the psionic power itself, possibly stuff like charged shots and higher chances of triggering panic or the like

Come watch comfy stream of a competent player and absolute silence
You might learn a thing or 2
>https://www.twitch tv/raistlin__majere

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>>155779949

That's the spirit.

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>>155787390

Well done.

>>155781064
Had the same issue a while ago. It suddenly fixed itself and i dont know why.

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http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShadowscythe/live

Morning anons, I will be streaming Xcom 2 Modded long dong again in roughly an hours time.

So for those who want to swing in and have a look, link related.

See ya'll on the flip side.

Why are streamfags posting here

>>155791048
its just the one guy

>>155791048
Speaking of which, are there any streamers/youtubers worth watching besides our guy beags?

>>155791097
watch sw1tcher if you want to see someone fail real bad

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>>155781828

Limitless ammo sounds nice but that would be quite too powerful and make the gun even more costly to make. Having special abilities could make things more interesting and they could mods that you could make for each weapon: Psy-Lance a la EW for maximum single-target damage, Pyrokinesis for area denial, force-like push to flush out of cover, lighting strike to de-buff robotic units and so on.

Each gun/sword/armor-modules would have to be made individually and then you add the desired mods/runes/psy-reactive-circuits on it to represent how hard to make they are.

Psy and Guns are not often related but, in order to make the mod more easy to make, it could work.

>>155791097
>>155791310

What was the vid were ChristopherOdd had hat spectacular fail again?

>>155791048

Dude, I used to post my Final mod pack and my Xcom 2 series here too, I moved into streaming for the simple fact that /xcg/ seemed friendlier than other /vg/ boards and I wanted to be able to interact with people as I played.

It's monday morning only for a few hours, you're free to ignore or block me as you wish.

For everyone else, stream will be starting in about 20 minutes.

>>155791709
do you play on legend?
do you play meme comps and with cheats?

>>155791509
Cant remember but the sw1tcher guys I dont think they won a single mission other than gatecrasher

>>155791893

No, I played on normal and lost each playthrough because I was playing for fun not memes.

Sometimes you can just play and loose, and I lost. didn't stop me from having fun(tm)

>>155791509
do you mean the one where he fails gatecrasher?

>>155792060

Think so. It was the last video that was posted here.

>>155792273
yea after watching it i realized what you meant, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOI11iDbGoI
for those who hadn't seen it the fun starts at the 8 minute mark

>>155792331

thanks

How do I deal with Shieldbearers if I can't kill them when they first activate?

>>155793227
Shoot at them until they die.

>>155793838
Do flashbangs not disable their shield ability?

>>155794209
I'm not sure. Not sure if ap rounds go through the shield either.

Sorry, I'm not being very helpful. I never had much issues with shieldbearers, I just exhaust the shield by shooting it.

>>155794209
burning if i remember correctly does

Could someone upload the blademaster throwing axe fix to MEGA?

Please

>>155794460
Would it be better to just nade the shield off or save the nades for better situations?

>>155794674
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind

>>155795205
Depends on the situation. There isn't really a do this or do that answer to that. Shieldbearers are generally a low priority target for me, because they wont fuck your nearest operative in the ass on their first turn. They will shield most of time.

I just lost 4 of my best soldiers in the second Exalt mission in EW. Should I keep going or start from the beginning?

>>155798254
Honor them by defeating exalt

>>155795205
Kill the Shieldbearer and all the other shields will disappear as well.

>>155799246
Ah I see, I guess that makes them way less of a pain

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>my favorite ME gun is in

Always loved the sound of that wind-up.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=770158526

>>155778942
XCOM 2 mod?

>>155791097

ChristopherOdd is the only guy i watch, i can't stand Beagle anymore.

>>155802238
Why can't you stand Beags anymore? Have not really watched his recent streams actually.

>>155802834

I feel like he tries too hard to be funny now and whenever he is in that mood it just annoys me, so i stopped watching him.

tl;dr: I don't find him funny or entertaining anymore.

>>155802238
>i can't stand beagle anymore
God I feel the same way.
Maybe I'm just burnt out but he's no fun to watch anymore.

>>155803227

christopherOdd make so so many mistakes and plays the objectively easier game (xcom2)

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Cyclops mod when

>>155802834
>>155802238
I've completely stopped watching Beagle's XCOM streams because I agree they aren't nearly as funny anymore, but all of his other stuff are still great. It doesn't feel like he has fun playing XCOM anymore, and then it's not fun to watch either. Can't say I blame him, the dude has played like 3k hours or something

>>155804738

To be fair, in these kinds of games(actually i would say that in most games) it's more fun to watch someone that makes mistakes than watch someone that doesn't.

>>155804989
Problem with Odd is that he isn't funny imo, I appreciate that he's better at putting out content than Beagle though

>>155804862
The bureau streams hes been doing lately have been fun to watch but... yeah, its the first good content in a while.

>>155805313

Well i don't think he is funny either, but i don't think he is actually trying to be funny, on the other hand, Beagle is trying to be funny and in my case he is failing, so i'd rather watch Odd.

I don't know any other decent Xcom player to watch.

>>155794921
Please /xcg/

I beg you

>>155804989

oh beagle also makes mistakes here and there like that base defense episode where he got one of his best soldiers killed

RIP in pepperonis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_xP2daOM8

>>155806675
I watched that recently, what would you say was the mistake? In my opinion he made the right call commiting to killing the ethereal instead of helping out on that left flank, he was going to have to risk sacrificing someone anyway

>>155806857

I think he should just keep the left room barricaded with one soldier (the rookie cuz rookies can't do shit as demonstrated time and time again) in front of the door (since aliens can't turn doorknobs), dash-move Cell and Scuba to the right to deal with etheral, then move back to deal with the left pod

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>>155792331
holy shit, maximum kek!

>>155807396
Except he needed his blueshirts to help out against the ethereal with nades and he wouldn't have been able to swivel them over to the left fast enough without leaving them exposed anyway. Then there's the fact that none of Cell, Orgun and Scuba could make it into a position from which they could shoot the ethereal because of the building the lanky fuck was holed up in, and even if they could have, wasn't there a Cyberdisk or some shit they had to engage? I mean sure, it was a risk to leave those three on the left, but not half as big of a risk as allowing an ethereal get an attacking move. Sometimes you just have to minimize risk then roll the dice, Beags tried going for a bestcase scenario (everybody makes it out alive) rather than a eh scenario (everyone but blueshirts make it out alive) and he got fucked for it. Just because it had a bad outcome doesn't mean it was categorically the wrong choice though.

>>155799132
I tried and now everyone's dead.

Well, lesson learned: playing with your best soldiers all the time isn't actually wise because you won't have any back ups.

Any other tips to be aware of before I start Ironmanning from the beginning? I haven't completed EW before so no spoilers, thank you.

>>155807940

fuck the blueshirts they are literally worst than redshirt rookies

just use them as cannon fodders that's all they're ever good for, beagle wasted too many turns and resources trying to keep them alive

>>155808594

what difficulty level?

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>>155808594

>mfw one of my blueshirts survived through barrages of plasma, made it out and then became one of XCOM's finest.

On the off-chance a drawfag comes by, what kinda stuff do you want them to draw, /xcg/?

>>155809856
Advent and ayys consoling a gatekeeper that is panicked.

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>>155792331

>>155809856

Bradford cradling a dying soldier

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>>155792331

>"Good campaign, this was fun, you guys."

I thought you said this guy wasn't funny.

>>155812112

>trusting /xcg/

>>155812112
>>155812275
I don't want to be a spoilsport and I honestly don't watch Christopher Odd, but my dead cat could have been funny in that moment. It's just a very funny xcom moment no matter who's playing.

Chooseable awc perks is not working for me.

FUCK

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>>155813291

Guess you'll have to play clean then, you filthy cheat.

>>155813483
you wont be saying that when you get volatile mix on your specialist or phantom on your grenadier.

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So do you guys think that consoles will actually get mods?

There was an article I read where they said they (Firaxis) are working with the "workshop" to try and get mods on console, but other than that I can't find any other information.

I just want to make my team a bunch of misfits and punks in tacticool gear when I get it on Thursday arvo.

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>>155813291
>one of the game's main selling point is its moddability
>every new patch or dlc breaks all mods

this shit is as bad as fucking minecraft

>>155815627

but people that play on consoles don't really care about mods?

they always say they just wanna sit back and shoot some fools 360 on a couch after work and don't want to bother with all that fancy difficult gaming PC crap

>>155815867
so THAT'S why they try to push skype and netflix and other useless bullshit into xbox

>>155815867

>Believing that a vocal minority of the supposed "majority" is a good reference
>"they always say they just wanna sit back and shoot some fools 360"
>Using the CoD perspective when talking about XCOM

Alright.

>>155815702
That's how it works for every game anon.

>>155815627
Last I heard there wasn't going to be mods. There could be, but if you are expecting it (and seeing as they haven't announced it yet) you are going to be disappointed.

>>155816296
Not expecting it really, just something that'd be nice to have available.

>>155816185
not really

>>155817180
So which ones don't break their mods with new dlc and patches? Which games do break their mods with dlc and patches?

>>155817264
none of the elder scrolls games broke their mods with updates

>>155818040

which is a huge surprise considering how absolutely shit garbage the game engine all bethesda games are built upon

>>155818268
Exactly. This makes XCOM 2 look even worse.

>>155818358
Addendum:
The last dlc broke not only the mods, but the core game functionalities as well. VIPs and dark VIPs on your character pool no longer appear during your campaign, for example.

>>155818569
They'll fix it

I believe in Jake

>>155794921
Please

Someone

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It might not be siege, but here's some SAS stuff from MW3.

>>155819236
you really think tech people, who think homeless people are like a fungus, are going to give you things if you beg?

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I think my XCOM 2 fucked up

>>155819278
Oh, very nice.

>>155818040
Elder scrolls in a good counter example. However even a quick google search shows that Fallout 4 mods absolutely got rekt by updates and GTA5 suffers similar issue.

I am by no means arguing things shouldn't be improved, but X2 is the norm, not the exception.

>>155819346
Maybe

>>155819236
Slapped it in the OP Mega, under misc

>>155819278
Holy fucking shit that's nice.

Thanks for your hard work if you're the modder

>>155819278
You are so fucking based, anon. So fucking based.

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>>155819583
Thank you very much anon

I'll never forget this

>>155818358

not to mention:

see through roof bug

see through wall bug

losing LOS of an enemy that was JUST RIGHT FUCKING THERE after using explosive or demolition to get rid of its cover

horrible horrible un-optimization on even the best PC rig while graphics are meh (I mean they're stylistically great but not exactly hyper photo-realistic unlike games like Crysis or Deus EX Mankind divided)

>>155819583
>modlist-anon still alive
thought you were ded again for a moment there

>>155819864
you forgot:

>teleporting pods

>>155821140
I forgot:
>every single thing takes control of the camera away from you
>Bradford makes the same remarks every mission (trains, mission objectives, etc)
>the camera freezes at the objective for half an hour before bradford begins to talk

the fuck happened to beaglerush? is he kill? been 3 months since he posted xcom videos and his twitch doesn't save any of his previous streams :(

>>155821586
He's been streaming XCOM on Friday nights. Currently playing The Bureau.
His youtube upload schedule is following the current beagle upload schedule there is no schedule
He streams Sci-fi DnD on saturdays and fantasy DnD on Sundays

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>>155819880
I actually post a lot, I just don't post about the modlist or my trademark shitty screenshots + wall of texts all that much

>>155819278
How long did it take you

Armors seem to take way longer than weapons when it comes to porting

I just downloaded the XCOM mod launcher and it's giving me the following override issue:
Conflict found for 'UIArmory_MainMenu':
LW_PerkPack
LW_PerkPack
What does this mean? That the LW Perk Pack doesn't work with itself?

>>155823107
False flag

>>155823148
Cool, I figured as much. Thanks for confirming that.

>>155823107
lw perk pack doesn't work with a LOT of stuff

>>155787705

>that username

fucking dragonlance fags.

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>>155822261
Around 5 hours today on and off. I've only done a quick rigging job though so it'll probably be a while before it's ready to release.

>>155819465
>>155819651
>>155819689
Camo/ colour customization is done. I've even managed to get flags to show up, sort of.

>>155827881
are you uncle gunman?

>>155827881
>5 hours

That's pretty fast. I know the other armor modders say they take days/weeks to finish. I know the guy who ported over the EU/EW armors said he was overworked by the time he was done with one suit.

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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

>>155828261
It means you're a fucking faggot

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>Try out Ironman for the first time
>Lose all hope for victory by the second retailation strike.

>>155828043
Yes

>>155828113
Yeah most of the time is taken up by rigging. I've basically just copied the rigging from the vanilla xcom 2 kevlar parts, so that took all of about 5 seconds.

>>155828563
>being mean

>>155828261

>Chryssalids having surnames
>or names that complicated, for that matter

They should just be named stuff like "Fido" or "Buster".

>>155828738
fuck off

>>155828261
It means you browse reddit and repost their content here.

>>155828261
Now even the ayy lmao get a fateful of buggy omnomnom, delightful.


Hm... >>177777777

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Post Ops

>>155829908
Reach armor >>>>>> Halo 5 armor

>>155829830
Christ, I'm an autist.
>>155777777

>>155829908
>post ops

Googling that gave me some post op shemales

Whatever happened to Major Klendathu?

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>>155830251
>>155829830
>non 0 gets
>on /vg/
how's your first day here treating ya?

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>>155822143

Be that assault a Beagle?

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>>155830957
You know it

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>>155831816
That's a nice bio you have there.

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>>155831816

Very appropriate bio indeed.

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>>155819394
could be worse

>>155835413
I meant I've got 1000+ choices but they're all copies of each other from the original 180-something

>>155823357
the perk pack will say its non compatible with things but this isnt true because the perk pack as a ui thing in it it is marked differently so you should be fine

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>>155829908

>>155835548
uh oh

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>>155829908
Have my first Haven Defense mission in this campaign's amazingly fitting Op name.

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>>155791310
>Watching Best Friends Play XCOM 2
>Watch how badly they fuck up the second mission
>Find myself shouting orders futility at the video screen

This pain, it sustains me

>>155837006
Its kind of astounding

>>155837307
Still watching, and the third mission just went to shit. They're screaming "The Game's bugged!" when Pat forgot to actually target enemies with a grenade.

Just... fuck.

>>155838162
They really should have put liam or or one of the others on the controls pat is a negative bonus on these kind of games

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The first mission of the campaign. Modding is fun.

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>>155839332

Only Swiss Army Grampa made it out unscathed, and only because he had to haul Douglas off for medevac halfway through the mission.

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>>155839519

they're all going to die

>see XCOM XBOX trailer
>sectopod and gremlin avatar props for XBOX

Who the fuck even plays with those

I need the ded snek oc.

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>>155840125
This?

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Cheeky civilian

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>>155840204
Yes. Now post more dead snek.

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>>155840630

This man is wearing a dead snek, does that count?

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>>155840630
There is a dead snek in this one

>>155841232

Reminder that sneks are dying to protect humans while you lot still support TerrorCom.

>>155841050

That nigga looks scary.

VIGILO CONFIDO
VIGILO CONFIDO

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>>155841369
Collaborators face the same fate as the ayy

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>>155840204
>requesting a memeimage just so you can shitpost in another general

>>155841789
what general?

>>155841867
>>155841789
I bet 10 (you)s that it's /pol/ tg

>>155841867
kfg

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Forgot to install the update carried units mod and this fucking shit happens. An advent stun lancer hitted my soldier who was carrying the unconscious VIP and now I can only pick up the soldier, but not the VIP (not even in his first position, next pic). I do not have any grenades left to kill the VIP, and this is in my fucking second ironman run, any ideas?

>>155842120
Console commands?

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>>155842120

Even going next to that tile I still cannot pick him up.

>>155841968
>Not editing the pic before posting
0/10

>>155842445
it didnt post it senpai

>>155842197
Will this fuck up the achievements?

>>155841738

Look around the room, that's a fucking kindergarten teacher

>>155842512
The anon who posted it knows who they are.

>>155842552
No

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>>155839659

That seems likely, yes

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>>155842563
THE AYYS HAD IT COMING

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>>155842563
REMOVE

>>155842608
Had to use RestartLevel, but thank you anon, you saved my run

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>>155842563

God fucking damnit, I want to know more about life in the City Centers. What kind of entertainment is there? Does Hollywood still exist? What's the crime rate? Can you drink as much booze as you like? Is food and drink rationed? How obvious is the whole police state business, do you have your home searched regularly?

I get that this isn't the focus of the game, but I feel like Firaxis went way too shallow with it. Imagining a kindergarten in the world of XCOM seems off, which it shouldn't because everyone's living in this illusion of utopia.

>>155843729
Your welcome. Console commands are my brute force solution to anything.

>>155843863

Are there console commands to brute force the DLC POIs to show up?

>>155844003
No idea to be honest.

Is it possible to kill the viper king in the first mission or does he escape no matter what?

>>155844158

Possible, yes. Probable, no.

>>155843763
Honestly, half of those questions are already answered or implied.

>entertainment
Subliminal mind control or something. They muse on it if you enter a certain room.
>crime rate
Presumably low, considering vaguely suspected rebels are arrested and executed.
>booze
Booze is bad for the body, remember what the entire point of setting up those city is?
>how obvious is the whole police state
>searches
You might want to rewatch the opening video. The one where they stop a random woman on the street.
And the whole armed-soldiers-every-ten-feet.

>>155843763
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/Mw2muooz/file.html
^ is the tie-in novel if you want to know more, there's a chapter there where the main characters go to a city.

Certainly seems like booze is free based on what I remember reading there. They do pointedly encourage you to have children upon entering, which came off as pretty creepy.

>>155844219
good to know, thanks!
I was a little confused when he escaped, but it still said the mission was a success.

>still no patch announcement

I think we may be headed for disappointment, comrades.

How long was the average loading time of random missions (getting to the skyranger screen, waiting on the skyranger with the mission name and details etc) on XCOM2 for the PC, day 1? Without SSDs, by the way.

It seems long on the PS4 port, but I wanna know if this is a problem both versions shared.

>>155846491
Even with an SSD and a fuckton of ram I still get 2-3 minutes wait time. I'm pretty sure it's not really loading so I don't know what the fuck its doing. Maybe pregenning all those seeds or secretly transferring data to some secret fireaxis server. .

>>155846295
I mean, they've never announced patches before, but yes, I'm getting nervous as well.

>>155846295

Why are you expecting a patch?

>>155846491

I never timed it but it took 60 years, but when going back to base you could(you still can) click caps lock to have it load instantly, but if you don't have enough ram it blows your game up.

>>155847170
I notice a little stutter at some point when going back to base. That's the time to press caps for me, but maybe other people don't get that stutter.

>>155847170

Well honestly, we have no reason to expecto patchonum other than that Firaxis usally drop patches on otherwise significant dates (DLC release, port release, etc), there's still stuff to patch in X2, and it's been a while since the last one.

>>155846491
>getting to the skyranger screen
If you mean the part where the skyranger takes off, that's just eyecandy.
Also it was shit and it still is, but everyone here is playing with at least a dozen mods active.
Also I personally run a potato, so there's that.
I'm curious though, since I haven't been following the console release, do you get the official mods? I assume you're at least getting the DLCs.

>>155847469
>>155847170
To add to this anon they confirmed additional patches in a relatively recent interview, as well as more paid content.

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Post peaceful moments

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>>155849064

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>>155844721

Hold the phone, what ever happened to the "contagion" that was such a big deal in the book? I think there's even a PoI in the game that references it.

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>>155849064

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I'm so hyped for XCOM 2 to drop tomorrow.

>>155850872

Me too. I was waiting for this day since it was announced for the PC a long time ago. Can't even get myself to play XCOM Enemy Within while I wait.

>>155850519

Off-screen to the left: The portraits of Schafer, Meza, Bar-Lev, and Muamba.

>>155851273
pmuch

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>>155850872
>>155850980

Welcome, console-friends. You are home now.

>>155851416

Thanks, bro. I hope XCOM 2 is as replayable as the last one, even without the mods PC have access to.

Have they even been working on fixing bugs and shit in XCOM2?

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>>155840204
Ok, now you can go shitpost in other places undetected.

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>>155850872
>>155850980

Shit, I remember when it was announced. I haven't been that fucking hyped for any game for years. November release, they said. Of course it was delayed, and /xcg/ howled in shared agony.

Then my hype died down for a while, only to come back like a mad bitch for those last few weeks before release. It was seriously all I could think about, I watched Beagle's preview videos pretty much daily. And to be honest, I actually enjoyed it. I don't GET hype anymore, it was like losing my virginity all over again.

>>155844151

Welp, guess I'll keep untagging the missions for my new playthroughs. For some reason they just won't show up past getting the Ruler Weapons

>voice pack ripped from another game
>the author included lines where the original character refer to themselves by name or mention super-specific things from that game

Shibbledebibble

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Is there any tips for a newcomer? I loved EU but I never got around to beating it.

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>>155850047
Nothing ever happened.

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Post motherfucking black motherfucking sites motherfucker

>>155854182
Biggest difference is speed. In X2 you have to be very aggressive. You can't take your time anymore, time is a luxury you don't get.

>>155853832
Just throwing it out there, but you're sure you aren't scanning and abandoning the scans halfway through?
Neither the scans nor the missions themselves expire, but if you start a scan and then interrupt it because reasons, it starts a timer for how many days you've left to resume scanning.
Not actually sure what happens if you let those run out.
Probably not even firaxis knows.

>>155854741

I'm gonna be real with you here.

I am a huge casual and I have two mods that increase the amount of POIs and one that shortens scans to a day.

Do you think thats the issue?

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>>155850047

This one? Yeah, nothing has happened so far.

The last 'hope' for this is that the next DLC may be centered on our Intriguing Doctor so they maybe, just maybe, will touch upon that subject again.

>>155854576
>You can't take your time anymore
As if the game wasn't stressful enough

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>>155854232
>>155854924

There was also this one.

>>155854924

Perhaps this is to be the focus of the expansion?

>>155854865
Possibly? I'm not entirely fluent in Firaxis, but if it's the main POI spawn script that calls for the DLC scans, then either mod could be a rewritten POI spawn script lacking the DLC POI calls.
Then again you shouldn't even be getting the weapon scan, unless it's something else starting that specific scan.
I have no idea, honestly. Try disabling both mods and starting a new campaign.

>>155855160
>>155854924
Just saying, but you do realize that's just a shout out to C&C, right?

>>155855396
Then why make it such a notable scene and mention it multiple times in the book?

>>155855396

Huh. Then perhaps they're satisfied to just leave the contagion in the book, but it seems strange to establish a threat that makes even the aliens nervous, and then do nothing with it.

>>155840204
no need to be jealous about the other pretty girls luvvey

>>155855596
I'm not talking about the book.
I actually have yet to read it. Wasn't it also non-canon since it contradicted a couple things present in the game itself? Going on hearsay, though.
The pic in that event is just Tiberium, though.

>>155855282

Okay senpai I'll let you know how it goes.

>>155851693
anon, i was here on release day

it's waaaaaaaay better now

>>155855396
Anon, there's a difference between a foreshadowed plot element and a shoutout.

>>155841369
End yourself collaborator.

>>155856419
Keep in mind I'm the anon above that didn't actually read the book, but wasn't the contagion blue?
I don't see blue in the scan pic.

>>155861146
AYO AYO WE WUZ PREDATORS N SHIEYT

>>155861516
Don't be mean, Anon.

>>155809856
waifus

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>>155809856

Archon King version of this

>>155809856
Xcom crashing an ayy tailgate party

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Don't let ayys take out women, /xcg/.

So what do annons who use visual mods to change ballistic weapons to tacticool weapons do when you hit tier 2 guns?

>>155863112
what if your woman is an ayy?

>>155863260

Start another campaign.

>>155863260
those mods usually include a T2 and T3 variant that looks and sound the same but with different damage values

>>155863701
>he doesn't stay at T1 forever
wew

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>>155863697
Then keep them away from /xcg/.

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>>155864206
>XCOM
And why would I want them?

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>>155864296
Because Advent Burgers are people.

Why did I fall for the meme that specialists suck? They can completely immobilize sectopods which trivializes those pods

>>155865020
>baseless claims
gib proofs suka

>>155865447
Specialists are very solid imo, especially with their guaranteed damage and the fact that X2 is very objective oriented.

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>>155865943
http://xcom.wikia.com/wiki/Alien_Food

If there are no cows anymore, where does the beef come from?

>>155867682
it's obviously lab-grown synthetic beef, anon.

>>155868365
You can't fool gene-testing, Anon.

And even then, you still need prime matter.

Protein.

Reclaimed protein.

Core.

Humans.

>>155844151
>>155853832
>>155854865
>>155855282
>>155856118

Those two mods were indeed the culprit. Thank you for your guys' help

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>>155854541

>>155875421
damn!

How do you guys come up with names for your crew?

I'm really tempted just to name them after pornstars and glam models, but I don't want to cry myself to sleep when Tanya/Anna Song inevitably dies.

>>155875949
Usually just stick with their random name unless I'm making someone like Van Darkholme, Ben Garrison or John Conquest.

>>155875421

Higher res and colors when?

>>155875949
I try to mix in some of my buds keep some randos and past survivors into my list

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>>155876310
found a bigger version on tumblr

Hey boys, I need help I just installed Xcom 2 (pirate sadly since I have no money for it atm but plan to buy it), I modded that shit, but none of my mods appear to be active (they appear checked on the mod launcher) but when starting the game they don't appear anywhere

>>155878690
Ask this later if you can we arent very active at this time unfortunately and I dont knwo how to help you

>>155793227
you make up your mind who you kill
you either kill the bearer for no shields, or as many as possible so aylums get lower value from having a shield
if you do it well, bearer runs away and joins another squad

>>155792331
>has the best starting pos
>OPENS WITH A FUCKING GUNSHOT

complete nublet

>>155867682

I'm pretty sure the meat is not supposed to be human. It's a cliché, and a wildly inefficient method to begin with. Not to mention that the abducted humans we see are all dissolved down to the very bones. It'd be far easier to just keep a small number of secret livestock than to produce Soylent Green for the evulz.

>>155882960
not quite blocky enough famalam

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>>155883001

I just miss the cheese and stealthy days of the Ghost Armor.

>>155883323
I do to buddy

>>155883323

Know what I miss? Flight armor

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>>155854541

>>155869289
they're called elements, anon, they don't break down just to CHON

!notTiberium infested animals in XCOM 2 expansion when

The novel did a decent job describing the creepiness of it all

But most importantly, I want to face off against Advent flamethrowers. And they're described to be wielding backpack tankers of the stuff.

Edited Ragdoll Physics or Edited Ragdoll Physics Redux

>>155886479
One literally doesn't work anymore, and the other is the updated version that works. This ain't no debate.

>>155886574
I see

>>155878690
>being a rock

You need to launch the game from the mod launcher. It should give you an error. Ignore it, close the launcher, start via cracked exe.

>>155887973
don't do this

I used to do this but my mods stopped working randomly after loading my games.

Instead you change the Xcom2.exe to XcomGame.exe and start the game through the mod launcher. This will assure no random deactivations during your game.

>>155882960

Is that a fucking tripod on the bow?

>3rd Retaliation mission
>Advent killing two civilians every turn

What the actual fuck.

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REMOVE

How much impact is a voice pack supposed to have on performance? Because I feel like there's a significant drop since I installed a bunch of them.

>>155893064
They use to have a much larger impact until alot of the mod authors cleaned them up. I guess it depends on the individual mod and your rig, but they definitely can have an impact.

>>155896493

I see, thank you. Perhaps I ought to cut back on modding.

>>155896879
Take some time perhaps to look at when the mod was last updated and what the steam comments are saying about it. This can give you some clues without really digging into the technical stuff.
If it was updated after the June patch, then chances are it's probably running as it should, but if not there's a chance the mod is sort of un-optimized.

>>155897079
Listen to this anon. I updated a voice pack I had and my loading times were cut by half.

>>155897079
>>155897243

Even if the mod author hasn't update it, you can just go into the content folder inside the mod folder and delete the shader cache.

>>155888575
okay I did what you said and it launched but it said "Unable to save default.ini" Reason:acces path is denied...

will this pose a problem? I started the first mission (gatecrasher) and it doesn't appear that my squad size mod (this might be because it conflicts with LW toolbox? because it let's you modify squad size I think) or overwatch all are activated

>>155898435
my bad, it said DefaultEngine.ini and Modoptions.ini, I suppose this won't let me use the mods

>>155897830

Yeah, I made sure to do that first thing. The advice about updating seems relevant, though, because I've been stacking the mods on high since launch week and I suspect some of them have been long abandoned.

>When you're a console pleb and live in Australia
>When you see the sweet download sign
>When you see that it's less than 50 hours left until it becomes unlocked and playable

Waited quite a while for this, pretty hyped.

>>155900006

Aw, crap, more aussie shitposters

>>155900006
>download times
Bleh, it was horrible even in the US on release.

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>>155900094
>Not wanting more Aussies
shiggy

>>155898502
try to change ownership of files or give access to everyone.

>>155901591
thanks that's what I did and now it works as intended... although the HALO armor for some reason freeze my shit in character creator, will see if after the first mission it still happens on the avenger, but that's probably because of my toaster

>>155901691
yeah don't worry about freezes. the important thing is making sure the mods are working as intended, save for compatibility problems (ex: squad cohesion "relashionship" button doesn't appear with perk pack installed, but the mod itself still works).

>>155888575
>stopped working randomly
Did you fuck around with the inis in some way or another?
Been playing since release and it never happened to me.
This is honestly the first time I hear something like this.

>>155901808
yeah, also the character creator is a buggy mess since Shien's gift dlc

>>155901815
Yeah I did but nothing that would conflict with mod made changes. The mods that stopped working specifically:
>Use my class
>Instant Avenger menus
>Longer Campaign
>Ragdoll Redux
>music mods

>soldier survives battle unscathed
>gets shaken and has to spend 23 days in infirmary

WTF XCOM 2

I'm almost giving up on this mess of a game

>>155903665
Never heard of the soldier wounds bugging out. He was never injured during the fight?

>>155903440
>Use my class
Did you install anything after that mod? The perk pack breaks it.

>Instant Avenger menus
I recall people saying it broke with some of the later patches. Actually, one patch in particular broke every single mod out there.
Also, it hasn't been updated since February.

>Longer Campaign
Haven't been updated since March.

>Ragdoll Redux
Can't even find it, only an edited version. Probably had incompatibilities or was outdated?

Honestly, the play button on the launcher should simply write a file telling the game that mod X is active, then the cracked exe reads that file.
It can't break out of nowhere unless you patch the game/install or remove a mod/fuck around with something you shouldn't fuck around it.

>>155903665
They still get wounds even if you heal them up in battle.

>>155904518
He wasn't injured OR mind controlled.

>>155904283
ragdoll redux is ragdoll physics redux

As I said since I started launching from the mod launcher the mods haven't turned off randomly (yet).

>>155904283

The perk pack breaks Use my class? It works fine for me.

>>155907383
it doesn't

>tfw saw the new Battlememe 1 single player trailer

Campaign better not be shit like BF4's

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>>155872714

wait wat

¿How?

>>155908364
HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN PAYING ATTENTION

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=755415182

I'm sorry, I can't help but check the Most Recent XCOM 2 workshop mods every hour. I think I check it like 16 times a day. I have 408 mods subscribed

>>155908482
>408

wew lad

and I thought my 40 or so were too much

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>>155884572

Same here. They were lots of fun and allowed for some silly tactics.

>>155890703

Got a problem with that?

>>155841968
I noticed it there and I looked at my tabs like "What general am I in?"
Fucking

>>155890703
I'd say those are counterweights

>>155908482

>408 mods

Ye gods and little fishes... Do you keep them all active and if so, how does the game run?

>>155908482
Just how big is your mod folder? What are you even subscribing to?

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sgg/ sends its regards.

>tfw xbot
>cant fucking boot the game, keeps telling me to wait for release date
Anyone else have this issue?

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>>155909825
Nevermind it's 405 after deleting a few conflicts.

Yes, always active.

Most of it is some kind of voice mod or cosmetic mod or flag mod. Very little of it is gamechanging.

Game runs very well but I have an Aorus Laptop.

>>155910061
it's about 30 gb

>>155907383
So the steam comments say. Then again, steam comments. I personally just use Commander's choice.

>>155905075
I have no idea then. As I said, doing a fake launch via mod launcher always worked for me.
It might just be that Jake needs to fix his fucking game.

>>155910195
Are you murrican? Game unlocks on the 30 for the rest of the world.

>>155910192

From left to right:
5/10
9/10
1/10

>>155910239

Absolute Madman

>>155910192
ssg? what general is this?