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>>162383596

WEWLAD
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I'm retarded and fucked up the OP, either refer to >>162383596 or make a new, proper thread

Sorry, guys!

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>tfw you're the only professional soldier

I'm trying to skullmine an officer to hack and draw out a codex but instead of hacking it kills him instead. Savescummed a few times but he dies every time
Am I doing something wrong ?

pistols are useful

>>162383859
>dress up your gremlin as a tie-fighter
>vaguely professional
c'mon son

>>162383773
don't worry anon you got the gist of it

>>162383928
You have to skulljack for missions not skullmine

>>162384028
I meant SAS dude

Tie Fighter is middle aged Eggsalt lawyer's thing

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wew lad boy gent

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operation name is fitting for the first retaliation with sectopods

went strangely well, though. Haywire protocol is retardedly overpowered

>>162383859
For some reason I think that when fighting aliens that have plasma/magnetic weaponry wearing kevlar is unprofessional.

The most professional ones there are probably far left and the robutt.

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>>162384447
>October
>have only seen ONE +20 hacking reward

>>162384973
me too, but you don't need to worry

skulljack + gremlin mark III will boost it up quite a nice amount, you'll probably won't be controlling all sectopods but you can stun them for 2 turns

Mod for a suicide vest when? I want to strap my poor Rks with shit tons of explosives and chuck them at hard targets in a last ditch attempt to salvage the mission.

>>162384210
Refer to >>162383773, it's late as fuck and I'm a bit drowzy. Sorry.

>>162385143
Stun's still a 50% for me.

Beagle sentenced for war-crimes post invasion when?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYWcXzO6yY&feature=youtu.be

>>162385702
>the winners
>ever being put on trial for war crimes

>>162385384
Already is one anon. Commanders vest or something.

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>First time playing the DLC, take the Spark mission as soon as it becomes available
>Playing the Spark mission, getting through alright, glad I brought along my combat hacker specialist. Glad to finally get through the turret area
>final area throws a fucking sectopod and infinitely respawning mookbots at you while I still have bullet weapons
anything I should know about the other dlc mission before I inevitably attempt it the moment it becomes available

>>162385880
>Yugoslav Wars
>Detainment camp U.S marines in middle east
>Russians after Chechnya (albeit to a lesser degree because Putin doesn't give a fuck)

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>tfw coydex recruit

>>162385964
yes

don't do it until you've got mag weapons

it's doable with ballistics but you'll want to rip off off your dick from the root with a hot wrench that's tied to the dick of a horse in heat that has in front of him prime and hot horse pussy ready to be penetrated

>>162386076
>implying any of those give the war criminals anything harder than a slap on the wrist (if and only if the crime becomes public)

>>162386127
I would've had mag weapons going into this robot factory but I hadn't uncovered any alien alloys yet reee

thankfully managed to come out with only one man gravely injured because I got two shutdowns on Julian's sectopod but I am pretty sure one or two more enemy turns would've wiped me

>>162386114
>there are ayy sympathizers in this very thread
vomiting RN

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>>162383773

It's OK dude.

Learning takes time.

I will never understand why people like sneyyk waifus

Codex waifus are truly superior

>>162388230
>united states aerospace force
>xcom logo

xcom is a private military group though

>>162388230
I guarantee you I've been a regular for longer than you, airgamefriend. Been here for long enough to remember when you only dropped in once in a blue moon to make a shitty OP and people were actually getting pissed off because your threads were terrible and you missed all requests to update it, sparking the most unnecessary piece of general drama /xcg/ has seen.

OPs are far from the most important thing in the world, and extremely difficult to fuck up. I just happen to have been awake for like 40 hours, so joke's on me

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>>162388715

I miss when we talked more about Xenonauts and X-COM

>>162389753
X-Piratez was hot shit for a while recently

>dressing my soldiers up like cheap whores
Send help

>>162390195
That's some real projection going

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>>162386114

>>162391436
What did she mean by this? I'm not projecting, I'm dressing them in skimpy outfits with heavy eyeshadow for the purpose of giving me an erection during my tactical missions.

>>162389880
Is that fun? Like most mods on that site it looks like autistic shit.

>>162394380
>autistic shit.
How would define this

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>>162394380
Holy shit, you don't even know. It's better than the original game. Way more options, way more depth. Like the good parts of LW people mention.

Been meaning to start a new campaign with the latest version but I don't want my life to be consumed until christmas vacation

>>162393680
Just a joke m8

>>162394661
Content for the sake of content
Combining all existant mods into a super mod
Aesthetic inconsistency
Insanely Overpowered things

Those are my main gripes about most mods

>>162394742
Maybe I'll check it out after I'm done with awesome guns. It's much more tactically deep and well balanced than the core game

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>>162395945
>Content for the sake of content
>Combining all existant mods into a super mod
>Aesthetic inconsistency
>Insanely Overpowered things
FMP in a nutshell

>>162395945
>Those are my main gripes about most mods
Than your in luck I would say. It was a mod made to deliver a very different gameplay experience, both on the tactical and strategic level, with it's own unique story/lore, mechanics, and strategy. Definitely a complete overhaul.

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The only REAL way to execute an Alien Ruler is by decapitation.

>>162396262
Yeah I'm watching meridians letsplay rn and it looks pretty neat.

>Decide to send B-team on Dark VIP mission so I don't have to wait for my A-team to recover
>Pod surrounding VIP is 3 Long Dong sneks
>Sniper kills largest first
>Overwatch doesn't activate for the other 2 because ???
>Archon pod shows up, somehow destroys the floor underneath 2 of the roof watchers
>They burn, one panics and shoots the VIP for nearly all of her health
>MEC and officer pod roll up from next to evac, sniper gets overwatched, panics, and kills the VIP

THAT'S

>>162396221
Samewith the hardmode expansion and EXE. I don't actually know the difference between these three mods.

>>162396468
XCOM

>>162396607
>>162396221
I'm looking forward too when XenoOps is close too finished up. Seems like a way more focused experience.

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>>162395608
Nice pic

>>162397305

That wizard looks angry

>>162396430

I wish dismemberment was possible. Cutting off ADVENT heads, snake tails, Sectoid glutes... Good times.

>activate first pod
>weaken the Archon before realizing I can just Dominate him
>immediately run him up to the objective relay with blazing pinions and trigger every last pod on the map in one turn
>he starts murdering civvies with his Blazing Pinions but hey, it's an Alien and not me :^)
>he somehow evade tanks until the very end where he gets poisoned and dies with one enemy left alive
>I somehow manage to lay proper Overwatch fire and shred everything on the map
That went better than expected.

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>>162400428

This wizard looks happy.

>>162402821
i miss arma beagle

>>162403001
He's dead. We're NEVER getting a happy, joyful Beagle back. All we have now is depressed, shackled, punished Beagle who shits out Xcom like his life depends on it because it DOES, because he was severely beaten by his captors when he failed to produce videos for a few months.

>>162384973
>December
>0 (Zero) +20 hacking
Just trample me with a sectopod already

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This is fine

>>162403556
He seems to do better recently, I'm happy for him. His Civ streams are actually pretty darn funny too.

>>162403829
P R O X M
P R O X I M I T Y
P R O X N
P R O X E

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>>162402821
>you will never be this happy

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>>162403556

>tfw never gotten accepted to shacktack

Any old /a3g/ here?

>>162404383
Why not anon

>>162404383
you aint missing nothing, son

>>162404528

Because they get so many applicants they can't accept them all. After /a3g/ dead I went with the official sponsor of acre2 I think server which was alright, a bit too anal on some things but a fun group overall, and also the cooler server (a fun group and more able to take that perfect balance of relaxed but also milsim. Other one was too but they could get a bit more strict which was to be expected with their server size).

Or it was the official ace one, I forget. Both were fun but it sounded like Shacktack had the super big stuff

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>>162404194
Mid-december and no Andromedon Corpse
It's an abstract kind of EVAC

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>>162405167
Do they still play?

>tfw I wasted $30 on A3 and never play it

>>162407308
the group is still active, yes

>>162407308

/a3g/ is now al-kibab. Cooler server is active and averages 20-30 or sometimes 40 people every saturday. The one I forget the name of is also active. Lots of arma 3 groups are pretty active

Also dumb snake niggers that get to spit acid and try and grab on the same turn fuck you snakes

I'll probably pick up 2 over christmas sale. Is there any major difference i need to know going into 2?

Do you keep using camo when you hit power armor?

It just looks silly I think

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>>162409727
I think it looks great personally, but I don't camo according to biome anymore at power armor. I just go with a gray/black finish or olive drab whereas during kevlar I might have separate uniforms for day/night in arid/temperate/arctic/urban missions

>>162410201
what mod is the band-aided face?

>>162409727
I think the powered armor looks dumb in general so I just stick to the predator/kevlar armor look.

>>162411371
Really? Predator's the dumbest imo, by a large margin

>>162412370
I respect that, I just like the simplicity of it.

I just activated a sectopod pod mid-turn while fighting reinforcements and I have to say, the meme beacon meme is real.

>>162409657
Timers, gotta go fast, dlc is for challenge not for fair, conceal is the best, snipers got kicked in the dick, modding is amazing, psi is very strong, sparks (mecs) are weak, always prioritize avatar progress.

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>it's a "End up playing highly irregular music to fighting Advent in a rainy dystopian ghetto street" episode
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDDswGsJ60

>>162411371
How?

>>162412948
With Grim's armor pack, I guess.

>>162412742
>dlc is for challenge not for fair
Only true for Alien Hunters and even then it's exaggerated a lot. Shen's Last Gift is a great and most importantly fair mission, if a little challenging

>snipers got kicked in the dick
Only if you refuse to spec them as gunslingers

Rest is 100% correct

>>162413090
>Only if you refuse to spec them as gunslingers
still kicked in the dick, X2 are not nearly in the same league as X1 snipers.

>Only true for Alien Hunters and even then it's exaggerated a lot. Shen's Last Gift is a great and most importantly fair mission, if a little challenging
They are still for challenge. but yeah I'm exaggerating a bit it's more that I don't recommend them for a first play-through is my main stance. I also don't think dlc has to be fair and I think people who whine that it isn't are using a fundamentally flawed criticism because there is nothing that says anything in xcom needs to be "fair."

>>162413090
>>162413298
X1 snipers were broken as fuck though. It's fair.

>>162413608
Eh, I think the sniping part of markmen in X2 got hit too hard. The timers were already a big enough hit, adding aim penalties for shooting at longer ranges is just over the top.

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>5th mission in new playthrough has a viper, 2x stun lancer pod
>miss 3/4 overwatch shots
Nope. Nope. Nope.

>>162416137
>overwatch
Tis but a meme

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fuck collaborators

I think I have a cursed medkit. Every time I equip someone with it they get sniped by a sectoid from across the map, lost 3 guys like this

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>>162413721
>Tfw LW perks snipers

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Should I, /xcg/?

He probably does not have a choice.
Those civilians were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The future of humanity depends on this, maybe.
What are three lives, against billions? His actions are justified.

Will these thoughts help him sleep at night?

>>162418439
dont give the order commander
if we are no better than advent then this whole war is pointless

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>>162418439
It will all be a blur. If he survives the war he'll need some counseling at worst.
Also Collaborators aren't people.

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>>162418439
Suffer not the faceless to live. Take the shot. VIGILO CONFIDO

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>>162418640
>>162418643
>>162418992

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>>162419441

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>>162419602
He used to be laid back.

Not anymore.

>>162419724
>blast padding

ITT: Warcrimes

>>162420229
Collaborators aren't people.

>>162420080
please no bully

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>nigga the fuck you shootin at theres nothin there
>quit dicking around theres aliens here

>>162419602

you did the right thing commander

fuck civies and their concealment breaking ways

>>162420418
Would you kill a little 'collaborator' girl?
What if she gets shipped off to the green goo/hamburger factory because her parents were collateral'd?

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o-oh..

>>162420757
If you don't she'll just get goo'd, so might as well give her the sweet release.

Is there anything I should know about Annette and Zhang and their respective missions in LW? I plan on using Annette as volunteer and ditching Zhang somewhere, but I still plan on doing his mission

>>162420873
>ditching Zhang
but why commander

>>162420995
Everytime I play he comes way too late in my games, way after I have my teams sorted out. Also his voice doesn't change when he gets MECced and he was a heavy in vanilla, which was the class I MEC so it always bothered me. Though I forgot that there are tons of classes now and he might get something useful this time

>>162420229
This isn't a war. There can be no war crimes.

>>162421168
Don't ditch Zhang, he will be useful. Also he has the hardest missions in the game so get ready.

>>162420861
They don't get goo'd unless they fall through the cracks/have highly-prized genetics.
She may have even lived to see the day the Earth belonged to humanity again, regardless of her parents' sins.

We must spare them and even save them wherever possible, even though they're scum & quasi-traitors.
They're still human. And they can still have a change of heart.
Help make our legion a righteous one, commander!

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>Have to take 3 rookies and a squaddie on a retaliation mission with chrysallids
>Preparing for total failure
>Hits and crits everywhere, only one man lightly injured, the rest are untouched
miracles

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>>162418643
There we go. Now I just need to add some text that doesn't look horrible.

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Thanks Firebrand.

I ended up just sneaking around the other side of the house and ignoring the turret entirely. Hurray for True Concealment :^)

>>162422462
Literally cheating

Why not add a mod that kills all enemies and gives you a million supplies and intel too?

>>162422961
Why don't you add a mod to your life that puts my dick in your butt.

>>162423029
Because I'd first need a mod that gives you a dick and there are none

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>>162423029
I'd like that.

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>failed in my 2nd retaliation mission
Should I just restart at this point? The game is doing some fucky shit, such as full cover vipers binding a squadmate in an open area.

>I'll never be a hardened true xcom operator
>I will never fight the alien menace to protect mankind
>I will never volunteer to painful gene modding or mind-wrecking psi tests or chop off my own limbs and become a mix of man and machine. to defend humanity, even if I have to lose my own in the process
>I will never sacrifice myself in the base defense to protect Dr Vahlen

Why the fuck live lads.

>>162412742
Would you recommend the mod to turn off timers for first time players?

Should officers be chosen from people with high will or does will not matter to them? Are there any stats important to them?

>>162423951
No

>>162423965
High will for officers is good.

Do sawed-off shotguns not upgrade like other weapons? I thought heater was its upgrade on beam tier, but no that is actually weaker. A shame I actually liked these

>>162423965
Officers are shit and a waste of resources and time.

>>162424757
Yeah there is no upgrade. Heater is upgrade to machine pistol

>>162424783
u w0t m8. Pretty sure he means LW officers.

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>2 turns left before ADVENT data shuts down
>specialist 1 move away from hacking it
>shot through full cover and panics
>lose data
>"Ah fuck. Failed yet another mission. Alright, guess I'll kill all the ayys then."
>sniper on rooftop KO-ed
>"Shit. At least he's bleeding out for 4 turns. I'll just send one of my guys to evac him out."
>closest units to bleeding sniper flashbanged and disoriented
>"T-This is still fine. I'll ju-. I'll just kill most of the ayys, clear up the area."
>pectiod, zombie, and ADVENT soldier remaining
>zombie grazes 2nd closest soldier for 1 damage
>"Oh nice! My soldier took minimal damage and can now evac the sni-
>panics
>hunkers down at the base of the only ladder to the rooftop
>1 turn left till bleed out
>1 turn left till bleed out
>1 tur-

>>162425581
rip anon

>>162418992
Prolly fucking collaborators

Why is Aiming Angles not in the base game and a second wave option?

>>162427862
Because it's a bit hinkey when it comes to flying units probably. Floaters get even scarier. In Long War it's pretty rough.

>>162385964
>anything I should know about the other dlc mission before I inevitably attempt it the moment it becomes available
the three dick kicking ayy kings only spawn AFTER you do the snake cave mission so you can scan the downed plane without pain.
TAKE ALL the ayy hunting weapons (even the ruler armours once you get it) or get ready lose your A-Team

An anon was porting short hair from men to women a while ago, did he finish that yet

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Hello guys

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>>162434001

>sectoids with pants

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Bump. Pic unrelated.

>>162386114
Oh dude why did u bring ayy in to our base, now bradford is going to get pissed.

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>>162438950

Did someone say an Ayy in the Avenger?

By Bradfords sweater, when is Beags going to release the next video!?

>>162434001
I don't get the joke?

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This turret has a hat

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>>162441507
Wat is dis?
Is it a cat in a hat?

>>162427862
Game wasn't designed around it.
With the static pre-made maps, aiming angles makes some territory completely nonviable for firefights.
Like say with a building bordering a road & the map-edge- You'd normally be able to put two guys in full cover with the building and the van next to it & fight around the corner, the ayys unable to move to flanking cover.
But aiming angles gives the ayys near-flanks anyway, and renders that spot impassable.

It's decent in XC2 where there's a lot MORE cover, a lot more destruction of that cover, and generated maps. But XC has less of it so the impact is greater, and the rough-spots will be there forever. Sometimes severely limiting the maps.

Is there any mod that adds a trench coat?

>>162442939

Fallout ranger pack, but it's noticably low-res.

>>162443093
Last I checked of the 3 sets it added, one was unavailable for Predator and none for Warden.

High-res Tactics power armour when?

>long war
>fishing village mission
cant wait to see what kind of bullshit this mission brings.

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>>162445937

>>162444346
Just .ini edit it into the highet tiers anon

Has anyone here made voice packs for xcom2?

>>162448381

Yes. Not me

>>162446319
Was pretty shitty. Save scummed like a mother fucker. Would have lost a dozen times cause of random misses. Can't do shit against chrysallids if the turn doesn't go perfect. Pretty much instant loss.

Only lost one soldier cause his fat ass couldn't run fast enough to the evac.

Is Avenger related to any ships you see in EU/EW? I remember the last missiıon being called Avenger

For new campaigns do you anons go 100% randomness for Not Created Equally? Or 50%?

>>162450002
>Not Created Equally
Meant Hidden Potential.

>>162449249
Ah.

I just cannot seem to find out if people who makes voice packs rip the quotes off of youtube or re record them.

>>162440723
Is just pants on sectoid. Idk, kinda funny.

>>162449939
>Is Avenger related to any ships you see in EU/EW
nope

ROCK

>>162454690
IS

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The first facility on my current campaign.

Ree.

>>162445937
The worst part is you don't get any lid corpses. I wish you could equip a soldier with plastic bag or something so he could collect the corpses

A VICTORY, PERHAPS A TURNING POINT

>>162455262
>I wish you could equip a soldier with plastic bag
kek

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>>162455315
PLAYED LIKE A FIDDLE

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>>162455315
MORTALITY DEFINED IN A SINGLE STRIKE
*crits for 18*

Did Codexes used to split between getting hit by multiple overwatch shots or am I imagining things

>>162455154
JUST

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Are you ready to do your duty to your planet, Anon?

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this is the greatest fucking xcom clip ive ever captured in my life

>>162459239
>filename
>fly me to the moon
>not AYY GO HOME

>>162459239
beautiful

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>that retaliation intro
Get goosebumps every time I watch it.

>>162459239
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEE

>>162449939
Avenger is what the best ship in UFO defence was called. The one you had to build to go to Mars.

Did anyone else catch the line in the newfoundland mission where Bradford says that at least the fishing ship wasn't a criuse liner? Do you think that's an intentional reference to those TFTD terror missions that happened on board cruise ships?

Also, TFTD remake when?

>>162461000
>Did anyone else catch the line in the newfoundland mission where Bradford says that at least the fishing ship wasn't a criuse liner? Do you think that's an intentional reference to those TFTD terror missions that happened on board cruise ships?
Probably

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>squad lands
>pod gets activated instantly
>they move to cover
>then mission starts
>squad gets concealed
ehh

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>>162460017
>there will never be an advent campiagn
>you will never raid a camp only to counter raider by the xcom terrorisms
>you will never strategically burrow your lids to body their medic
>you will never gun down civs while positioning you faceless a little closer each turn
>You will never advance the avatar project
>You will never train a crack squad of SS Troopers for extra sneaky breeky acivity
>You will never find and tame/recruit the rulers
>You will never capture julian and begin specialist MEC upgrading
>You will never manage your global interests and keep the rebels down while ensuring the Avatar project finishes
>"The humans continue to hinder the Avatar project Speaker, we'll have to move fast if we are to succeed" - Etheral

>>162461000

>tfw Bradford says that one day he wants to take the Avenger to the alien's planet to wreck them

DO IT JAKE

>>162461896
wouldn't the speaker be more like advent!bradford?

>>162462164
you know that was going to the thing but then who would the speaker being talking too? the commander that was never rescued or maybe some LEGION tier robot forged from Julian? Making it the speaker being spoken to by the Etherals formalises the "alien campaign" feeling and reinforces the "Voice of the Elders" thing he does.

>>162461896

You know, it would be relatively easy to make an Advent Campaign, take that playable alien mod and just make the enemy Xcom soldiers.

The only problems that are hard to circumvent that i can think of are the Avenger assets and the lack of voice work for an Advent boss.

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>>162461896
Fuck you for planting that wondrous and unachievable fantasy in my mind. One more thing to be sad and disappointed about.

Just saw this lads
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=815484526
Also does anyone play with http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=750704140, if so what's your opinions on it

where are the furry mods

>>162464398
Over at /tesg/ where they belong you fucking degenerate, get out

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Needs more falllout mods for Xcom2

>>162465580
reee

>>162465607
There's one i believe for one of the power armor helmets but i'd love Fallout Power armor. Enclave it up and take back earth for America

/xcg/ will be playing /rlg/ after this game

http://implyingrigged.info/wiki//vg/_League_7#Group_G
stream : http://pastebin.com/B047QXKr

>>162466439
Ayy, go get 'em Delta

>>162466439
Good luck Commander.

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>>162465580
FURRY GET OUT REEEEEE

>>162466439
Aww yeah

>>162466439
Game's starting!

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>/rlg/ already got a goal on us
FUCKING ROOKIES

Da Fugg :DD

BEAGLE CHOKE

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>>162466439
/rlg/ 2 - 0 /xcg/

JUST

SNEKS ARE FOR SEX AND FOOTBALL

>>162469550
MAKE THAT 2 - 1
DOGPILE SNEKTITS

>>162469550
You merely adopted the RNG. /rlg/ was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see the final level of the dungeon until I was already a man.

>>162469619
>snek
>for football
>football
>FOOT ball

>>162469758
Fuck outta here nerds, X-COM > anything in your stagnated genre

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PHANTOM PAIN PORTS WHEN

Or was that the MGSV mod

NINETY
I
N
E

[OUR LAST HOPE INTENSIFIES]
GET 'EM DELTA, 2-2

>>162470051
Every time I enter the stream /rlg/ scores a goal. I should just stay the fuck here and not jinx it.

F

We lost 3-2 against /rlg/.

Where does that leave us in the /vgl/?

>>162470779
MEDIOCRE

>>162471256
It is... Unfortunate.

>>162470830
Still advance at the top of the group

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Im sorry for the lost match.
Because we had 6 points from the other games all the squad had to do was not lose by 5. So even with this small loss it means we are going to the round of 16 next week.
Now its time to learn from these mistakes and hope things wont snowball out of control next week

>>162471986
We're still moving on, so that's fine. Campaign isn't over yet. Good luck commander.

Does pumping a soldier's Will stat in XCom 2 make them better at psionics, or is it just for defending against mental effects?

>>162471986
I'll take 2-1 anyday. That's a winning record.

>>162472736
Just for defending.

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>>162471986
You've done an admirable job in combating the futbol threat over the course of the past season, Commander. However, we still believe there is room for improvement in your efforts.

>>162472736
Psi has been divided into 2 stats. Psi-offense which improves psi abilities, and will, which is psi defense.

Just played the Shen's last gift story mission for the first time.

>This fucking music.

Best in the game by far, did they get McCann back to do the tracks for the DLC?

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>>162464449

Nice capture.

Boy ADVENT cities look so lifeless and sterile.

am I the only one who wishes Sparks would get generic people names for their nicknames like mech people used to?

>>162475028

The cities look super clean, which is probably what they were going for.

>>162479784
WE WUZ OPERATORZ N SHIET

DA COMMANDA WAS BLAK
BRADFORD N SHEN WAS BLACK

VAHLEN WAS HIS WHITE HO WHO LOVED DAT BBC

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WE SPEHS VDV NOW

So is there an ini editing technique that would let my soldiers have 4 base armour and have slightly adjust how much starting material I have?

>>162482075
Why do you want to be invincible?

>>162482075

Open DefaultGameCore.ini and find the git gud stat.

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>>162482204
because I wish to fuck around with an all ranger squad only using the swords

>>162482262
but muh temporary meme campaign

>>162482385

Oh, fine. DefaultCharacterStats.ini should have the stat you need under the Soldier entry.

What files am I supposed to paste in the UFO folder to play XPiratez?
The original XCOM ones or those of OpenXCom?

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>>162455335
So they could put it over their head after missing a shot

>>162461896
Actually, I'm gonna need a second bag to put over my head now too

>>162482938
Are you on the forum page? There are full instructions, it uses openxcom extended.

>>162483357
- Unpack the mod. It will create a complete Openxcom_XPiratez folder with all the files that you need; it will contain the correct nightly version and Yankes's & Meridian's custom exe named "OpenXcomExPlus29".
- Copy files from your original "UFO: Enemy Unknown"/"X-Com: UFO Defense" folder to the "OpenXcom_XPiratez/UFO" folder.
- Use OpenXcomExPlus29.exe to run the game.
- Choose "Piratez" as the master mod from the Game Options menu.-

I literally don't understand what I'm supposed to do.
The folder isn't even named Openxcom_XPiratez

>>162384690
>robutt
>not recognizing the Zaku

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HALP, I completed the mission but now I get this screen upon returning to base. Is there any console commands or some shit I could use to fix this?

>>162482385
It will do fine in the early game, but once you hit armored units it will be over. And if you somehow make it pass the mecs and gatekeepers, the death explosion every sectopod does will force you to evac basically every mission.

>>162449675
You can wait there and kill them as they spawn. Eventually there will be a lull and you can evac.

>>162484835
not if I bump the base armour up to 15!

I wonder if I can edit how many ayy hunter weapons I have

>>162484835
>>162485063
Alternatively, figure out how to add 100% armor penetration to Ranger Swords. If he's going to cheat for the sake of this meme he might as well go all out.

>>162485063
Chryssies and Snakes might be another issue. Poison goes through armor and will tick every turn. Luckily snakes won't use poison unless you bunch up, and if you're luckily you can deal with lids with bladestorm.

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>>162484524

That's what you get for not picking a Gundam.

>>162484540

That's just the Avenger's landing gear, try panning upwards with your mouse.

>>162484375
Okay I'll try to run through it so we are on the same page:
Start here: http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=3626.0
>Download the file
>Extract it wherever you want to store the game
>The main folder will be "Dioxine_XPiratez"
>Open that up
There will be a UFO (referes to x-com:ufo defense) and TFTD (Terror from the deep) folder.
>Open up your x-com:ufo defense folder (the vanilla game files)
>Open up the folder also named "UFO"
>copy all of the folders in there and place them in your PirateZ "UFO" folder (you don't need to copy save folders or dosbox, but I don't think it matters.
>Do the same with your vanilla terror from the deep folders, copying and pasting them into your PirateZ TFTD folder

At this point you are pretty much done, just run the executable program in your PirateZ folder named "OpenXcomExPlus33" and make sure piratez is selected for the master mod.

Let me know if it works

>>162485894
I don't own TFTD. Are these files required?

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UFO folder should look like this

>>162486218
Not as far as I know but I'm just starting up 99E2 after taking a hiatus since 99C1

>>162486218
Hmmm, I guess not, always though you did for some reason.

>>162486485
Yeah thank you mate it seems to work.
Just that the files in the original game files are in a folder named XCOM and not UFO.
Thank you again.

Oh shit, has the tech tree viewer not been updated since 99a1? http://techtreeviewer.byethost9.com/

>>162482938
don't forget to research torches! can't make fucking GUNS without TORCHES for some fucking reason

>>162487358
>Oh shit, has the tech tree viewer not been updated since 99a1
Guess so

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I've only seen it in some images before but are there any mods out there for Xcom 2 that allow more than 12 soldiers? I really want to human wave these ayys. These retaliation missions with 50-60 ADVENT forces are so goddamned fun.

>>162487808

Beagle brought something like 50 soldiers on a mission in pre-release, so yes.

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>curse of the machine
Eh what's this now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOkP706JaV8

>>162487808
you can tweak the ini to give more, but there isn't going to be any kind of balance outside of you working on it yourself.

>>162487808

You CAN, but it's going to throw balance out the window and actually managing that many units in a turn-based system is likely to get tedious.

>Airbus can't fly to Africa from North America anymore
>can't go on two of the randomly spawned missions because of this
wew lad, they made the early game even MORE shitty? WHY?

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I'm kinda at an impasse , what do /xcg/?
>had <2 days before advent calendar completed
>pulled victory from the jaws of defeat Gurren Lagann style and set the calander back a few blocks
>now what?
>no new facilities
>nothing else to reaserch
>no one skilled enough yet to hack a advent officer
>time still passing

>>162492630
>can't hack an advent officer
..you mean for the objective?
Isn't that a guaranteed success?

>>162492630
The ADVENT Officer hack is just a 70% chance for the Skulljack to hit and then you're guaranteed to access their network and progress the plot. Now go skullfuck a Hybrid and tell us how it goes.

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>finally finish downloading the dev kit
>go to launch it
>lol we messed something up please reinstall

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>He evacs soldiers before everyone reaches the LZ

>playing EW on ironman classic
>finally starting to get the hang of orchestrating overwatch traps
>spending less time deliberating moves as identifying ideal flanking pathways and cover is becoming increasingly easy
>finishing more and more missions with no casualties or injuries as time goes by
>still not able to beat it despite developing to being nearly competent with tactics because my strategic thinking sucks and I continuously mismanage my resources during research/base construction and prioritising missions

is there a 'XCOM EW Strategy for Retards' guide or something I can use?

>>162495331
You could just try following a build order anon.

Rush sats for the first two months, and then really expand.

>>162495331
There's not much. Rush sats and cover the world. Once you cover the world with sats, as long as you keep winning tactical, you can't actually lose the game.
Too build sats, you need engineers. Priotize engineers above all else.

I hate how Tygan trash-talks Vahlen during the whole rulers DLC.

Like nigga, how many aliens have you gotten your hands into and turned into glorious examples of genetic modification?
How many live aliens have you tortured so hard that they gave up their secrets?

you ain't shit negro
you just some scarred busta

Vahlen best girl

>>162496096

Can't wait to see her again as an alien collaborator in the XCOM 2 expansion

>>162496372
She would NEVER

>>162496372
>>>/reddit/

>>162496372
GET OUT

Any good SPARKS mod ?
The vanilla version feel kinda mediocre

>>162496779
I hate the "Vahlen actually took sadistic pleasure in torturing aliens and didn't give a shit about dead XCOM soldiers and was in general a stereotypical evil scientist" meme that reddit pushed forward, and I hate that XCOM 2 referenced it.

>>162497061
>>162496779
>>162496494
Why fight what you cannot stop?

>>162497457
Why don't you just git gud like the rest of us :^)

>>162497267
There's still plenty of room for Vahlen to show up and tell Tygan he's being naive and then they mutually respect each while being professionals but occasionally butt heads just like Vahlen and Shen. At least that's what I want.

>>162497457
Why continue breathing when you will inevitably die?

>>162497267
Why?
It's a good meme.
You faggots are just kicking yourselves because you think you didn't come up with it first.

>>162497658
>implying

>>162497703
No, it's a terrible meme.

>>162497703
No, it's terribly cliche, but the biggest strike is that it doesn't actually line up with Vahlen's character in XCOM1 at all.

>>162497751
>vahlen murder-fucking ayys in the name of science & humanity is a terrible meme
Your waifu isn't a pure.

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>>162497457
>What you cannot stop
>20y later a team of 6 dudes with grenade launcher and a black scientist rape the entire planetary administration

>>162497906
>vahlen murder-fucking ayys in the name of science & humanity is a terrible meme
But that isn't even the meme they are pushing.

How would I go about porting a hair model from one gender to the other?

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>>162497906
Your post isn't english.

>>162497906
I don't think I made myself clear.

Her torturing aliens for the sake of science and humanity is fine and cool.

Her being there only for research and actually not giving a shit on whether it's for the aliens or against the aliens, not caring about whether xcom operatives die or not is not cool and it's retarded.

>>162497906
>implying this somehow means Vahlen is not pure
>implying those aren't the exact reasons why Vahlen is based

I want to hear Vahlen's log of a viper's autopsy

>>162497903
>not giving a shit about dead XCOM soldiers & taking sadistic pleasure in torturing ayys is a bad meme that didn't match her behavior 'at all'
>she gives you shit whenever you blow up ayys, regardless of the circumstances
>wants you to capture those things _alive_
>literally murder-tortures them, vivisection & brain-probes included

>>162498141
They wrote & VA'd the snake-accent.

>>162498291
She's still doing it for 'science', not the aliens. And she always put priority on that over XCOM operatives.


>>162498432
She isn't pure in the sense those anons want her to be.
And we agree.

>>162498964
>she gives you shit
no she doesn't
>wants you to capture those things alive
so you can get new tech to fight off the new toys the ayys are throwing at you
>literally murder-tortures them, vivisection & brain-probes included
literally the same as above

she is fighting the war her way
and no, she does not put science as a priority over the xcom operatives, which is why she's happy on injury-free missions and sad when everyone gets KIA

stop trying to push this meme, reddit

>>162498964
She's in charge of XCOM Research. It's her job to make sure that commander is considering the necessary research/science xcom will need to actually end the war and advocate for her departement. Tactical advice is Bradford's shtick, even if he sucks a it.
You will also notice that Shen and Vahlen (and Bradford) all agree that capturing ayys is a necessary risk.

If you make it through an op with dead or wounded xcom soldiers, Vahlen will never praise you, no matter how much alien materiel you gather.
The mad science persona is supported no where in that game, unless doing your job now makes you a mad scientist.

>>162499425
>inb4 alien hunters isn't canon because I don't want it to be
She constantly makes references to how xcom was just "holding her back from her true potential" throughout all the logs in the dlc

>>162499818
Immediately after her subjects escape she begins to regret not being in XCOM so the commander could keep her ambition in check.

Also that is exactly what I meant. Reddit pushed the meme so hard it ended up being in the game.

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>>162498964
>They wrote & VA'd the snake-accent.

What?

>>162499818
Anon the crux of this conversation is how we don't like how Firaxis warped her character in the dlc. Same for that weird re-writing of Shen's character in X1 EW. It's obnoxious and lazy.

>>162499425
>no she doesn't
>You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.

>so you can fight
And capture more alien shit.

That's the minimum required emotion for her to display if she doesn't want to be outcast & lose her funding/materials.


It takes a special kind of person to vivisect someone, anon.


>>162499520
You sure about that?
Did they prevent story-related speeches, like capturing an outsider, if you took casualties?

As I recall she seems awe-struck by alien abilities like MC, and was the leading advocate for merging human & alien DNA.

>>162499962
https://youtu.be/Eb1bY2KNVXU
3:10 for the highlight.
She was sucking viper cock.

>>162500737
>>You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.
It happens once. Did you want her instead to not inform the commander and thus increase the chances of losing the war?
>It takes a special kind of person to vivisect someone, anon.
You mean a qualified medical professional? What are you even arguing even more. That cutscenes showing the team making progress towards defeating the ayys is now callous and uncaring? Ridiculous.

Your arguments are terrible. Vahlen pursues victory of mankind over the alien menace, the same as every character in X1. Her methods are pretty standard fare for defeating an enemy and she cares about the men and women in the field. She's a professional. All this "science for science" and "mad docter" spiel is fan-fic tier re-imaginings of her character.

>>162500737
>You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.You may want to instruct your men to exercise restraint when using explosives.

that's called "reminding the player every 3 seconds so he doesn't whine when he wants to build laser weapons but has 0 resources because he blew everyone up like a retard"

or if you want to go in-universe "reminding the commander that she can't investigate alien weapons or armor if they're piles of ashes"

>And capture more alien shit.
duh, to research
to arm the troops
to win the war

>It takes a special kind of person to vivisect someone, anon.
someTHING, you mean, filthy collaborator
these "someones" are abducting people, murdering people, terrorizing towns, etcetera.

biologists vivisect shit all the time

>>162500875
hot

>>162500875
I don't hear it

>>162501586
Did you activate 'reduce beginner VO' on your first campaign?
They reminded you of this shit constantly.

Vivisection is dissecting them while they're alive.
>inb4 muh analgesia
On a xenoform? You'd be more likely to kill the prized subject than numb their pain.
Better to go without.

Her methods were merciless and the only emotions she expressed were cold/logic & curiosity. She was a 1-dimensional character, and >muhreddit picked up on it. In fact everyone did.

>>162501824
Emphasis on research.

They vivisect cheap dumb crap after knocking it out.
Regardless of their xeno-ness & the imperative to learn & know, it still takes a special kind of person to understand what they're putting their subject through & still do it. With enthusiasm.

>>162503930
t. butthurt collaborator moralfag
You're just mad Advent doesn't have any qt researchers

I'm so happy LW Toolbox brought Assault back. Giving it Shredder along with CCS is just icing on the cake.

>>162503930
>With enthusiasm.
That would tend to happen when the invaders start wiping your species out by the millions and turns the rest into test subjects and cattle for their own research and goals.

>>162503930
>Vivisection
But this never happens, I just assumed you were talking about dissections, because why would we be discussing a non-event. Still nothing wrong with vivisecting ayys, don't know why you are hung up on that. Your arguments are bad, and you should feel bad. Any point that shows Vahlen caring about humanity, people, soldiers first you just disregard no counter argument, but instead just switch to a new topic.

Also this talk about how Vahlen should not be excited to vivisect ayys is making me pretty suspicious of your loyalties.

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>>162504454
>this never happens
>half the interrogations contain the line "BEFORE THE SUBJECT EXPIRED.."
Holy shit man sling your shit up your own ass. You haven't "shown" she's cared about SHIT, just claimed it. And I explained that no, she's just clumsily fucking rusing you, and what she's really showing is that she cares about RESEARCH, (because that's all she was to the devs- the lead researcher), and that she's willing to go to extreme lengths to satisfy her curiosities.

>doesn't fucking understand what he's reading
>argues anyway
>muh you're changing subjects/no counter argument
Point them out you massive faggot and I'll hold your hand on how I did.

I'm getting fucking assmad.
>your arguments a shit
ISN'T A FUCKING ARGUMENT YOU NIGGERFUCK

>>162506109
Please explain how Interrogation=vivisection.
I'm serious, there is not a single record of Vahlen performing a vivisection in XCOM 1. Go ahead and show me where it happens. The interrogations kill the aliens, but there is no vivisection involved. You are mis-remembering.

If I'm somehow wrong about that I'll certainly apologize, but I'm checking the wiki to refresh my memory and I can't find anything referring to vivisections.

>>162506109
intensive interrogation =/= vivisection
She constantly manifests that she cares about the xcom soldiers and humanity in general. She gets carried away in research like shown in >>162500875 but even then she's thinking about the fight
You need to calm down, m8, I hear unstable people are not eligible for gene therapy. You don't want to miss your chance to meet the Elders, right?

>>162506774
>>162506924

Most of it is 'between the lines' but I'd like to point out the use of the word 'procedure', references to implants/internal organs, and direct-imaging.
>we have no choice but to conduct a thorough interrogation of the subject if we hope to gain anything of value from it...it made every effort to resist even our most invasive procedures during the interrogation
>We were met with limited success in retrieving new information directly from the captive
>It seems unlikely that this particular species will break under interrogation as quickly as the other captives, as we believe it was specifically intended to serve as an infiltrator. Still, perhaps if we use more aggressive techniques, we can...coax...it into revealing additional information about how the aliens arrived here......However, as it turns out, the captive was surprisingly...pliable once we began the procedure.
>With the appropriate drug therapy and... encouragement... we may be able to coax some useful intel.....We realized during the interrogation process that it was only logical for the aliens to provide the Muton with a complete understanding of their....Although the Muton was quite resistant to our techniques, despite heavy sedation, we've learned...
>This captive was even more violent and aggressive than we expected, exceeding the previous limit established by the Floater and Muton species. Despite heavy sedation, it was virtually impossible to control the subject, leaving us with little recourse other than to increase the vigor of our tactics. After probing several regions of the captive's brain, we managed to find the appropriate stimulus to calm the beast, after which we put the captive through a number of controlled physical tests.

I'd link more but post length.
As established by the Sectoid 'interrogation', use of that term is liberal.
The question is whether it refers only to inserting brain-probes, or to more extensive (Vivisection). Look at Floater.

>>162508315
>Although this captive seems to be feeble of mind... clouded by rage... we might nonetheless be able to derive some benefit from a full interrogation...The most interesting aspect of its bizarre physique is the propulsion module integrated into the remaining portion of its upper torso. During controlled flight testing within the labs, we were able to observe how the Floater is capable of controlling and modulating the flow of power into the propulsion system itself. This..

>>162508315
Anon there is no vivisection. When you finish the interrogation, a fresh alien corpse is added that you can then dissect for the full research topic. I looked in the wiki, and I don't see it. Furthermore I don't know what benefit a vivisection would have over the interrogation they actually talk about in the game or the traditional dissections.

Back to your other point:
>Her emotions were a ruse
Why? Why can't she just be genuinely sad /disturbed when xcom soldier die, or when aliens start bombing cities? What's this evidence that she's just faking?
All of this can be easily explained by the idea that she cares about others and mankind. It doesn't require any complex motivation.

So the question is, what motivation would Vahlen have for being a big phony, because it's not like she was going to be kicked from her job for not meeting the emotion quota, I know Tygan certainly wasn't.

>ISN'T A FUCKING ARGUMENT YOU NIGGERFUCK
I'm well aware, but we've been arguing for a while, I was just stating that I found your arguments unconvincing.

>Rage Helmets
>Capnbub's Accessories
>Leader Pack
>Powered MK2 Helmets

Good mods for my first playthrough of xcom dos equis?

>>162509958

I mean, they're all cosmetics except for leader pack, so, yes?

>>162509958
All cosmetic mods are good for a first playthrough, but yeah, those are some solid ones. Would not recommend Leader pack though, at least experience the vanilla gampeplay first imo.

>>162509958

Well for cosmetics you can use whatever you want, you might also want to check some of the quality of life mods in the OP.

Other than that i dunno, do whatever you want, unless you want your first playthrough to be "pure" or some gay nonsense, in which case just use cosmetic mods.

>>162510049
>>162510074
It was a thinly veiled request for cosmetics suggestions.

I'll leave leader pack inactive for the first run.

>>162510223
Well if you haven't already checked out the mod pastebin, that's pretty good place to start: http://pastebin.com/pTMatP5Z

>>162509958
>>162510074
That, and get some of the simple UI improvement mods like Free Camera Rotation, Numerical Health (Or something else that keeps you from having to do Counting With Beagle every time you fight a big dude), and Evac All.

>>162510223
Well, in that case "||GrimStyleArmor||" immediately comes to mind but otherwise I'd fully advocate just browsing through the steam workshop's "soldier customization" section until you get to the point where you start continuously lagging traversing the customization menus because you have so much shit available at once.

>>162510223

Well, i'm going to assume that you picked those 3 in specific because they are not ports from other games. In which case i recommend:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=729351665&searchtext=stenchfury
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=636400624
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=737194092&searchtext=custom
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=653902466&searchtext=custom
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=647126269&searchtext=gear
This is technically a port but it looks very "neutral", doesn't look like it's from any game in particular.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=815223794&searchtext=
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=625349228&searchtext=Free+the+hood

This if you have Anarchy's Children:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=651406954&searchtext=gear

Of course there's also a lot of cosmetics for cammo, tattoos, facepaint and stuff.