XCOM General - /xcg/

>when you see someone unironically taking the 25% shot
and it hits

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>>166224930

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>>166224659
Continuing, both drones went down easy and one of my two Spartans blows an unfortunate ADVENT the fuck up, while the other flanks and shotguns his buddy from thirty yards. I've decided I'm going to try and abduct that Officer once I've killed him, since I still need to research those. He's not going down easy though. The firefight is going my way, and hopefully this will be the only resistance since this is right in front of the building with the evac point.

>>166224604
On the majority of missions they're by default infinite. Theres maybe a few exceptions where it fits for the mission type for there to not be an infinite number of reinforcements.
As for steadily increasing frequency of appearance throughout the mission? It would not seem theres a way to do so, but the frequency of them overall can be increased to any amount you want by changing the bucket modifier. While they'll appear more frequently than the default setting it would still be at an unpredictable turn due to the nature of the ALERT MODIFIER roll.

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>>166225117
I was wrong. Very, very wrong. On the enemy's next turn two new pods popped up, bringing two sectoids and another squad of ADVENT into the mix. The ADVENT's Gunners proved extremely accurate, punching a hole in my drone-nigger's chest and causing one of my rookies to panic. My shotgunner Spartan is also wounded badly. The entrance to the building I need to reach the top of is now very heavily guarded.

Pistols are utilitious

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who remember

>>166225408
Clearly that mission name was a sign

>>166225270
So you can't make them get more frequent but can make them frequent and unpredictable enough from the get go to still be a threat? Alongside the fact that you said the composition of the pod ramps up and can be modified to be more of a pressure than it is now, I think this is a great system.

what's the point of sending an 8 man death squad to Gatecrash ADVENT when the next 10 missions you are just stealthing around with a high mobility rookie?

>>166225421
handguns are often found to be effective

>>166224930
>last guy in the pod trapped
>guaranteed death via grenade
>check everyone else's shots before grenading
>select one of the shitter rookies
>13%, take it
>hits for max damage and kills the ayy

I'll take it

>>166224796
Yeah I have laser too, I can see that now, but need elirium crystals for it, which I don't have, for magnetic, I just needed alien alloys and like 50 supplies

>>166225303
>>166225537
This is what happened, I haven't gotten a single elirium core, or have any debris to clear that would give me elirium

I'm not gonna restart, i'll just try to hold out and pray that I can hold out for 10 more days with tier 1
Hopefully magnetic weapons aren't too expensive

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>>166225607

Sidearms Dominate the Battlefield.

>>166225598
The point is to give you 8 promoted soldiers. Which allows you to break them up into smaller squads to level up rookies, send one to the resistance haven to sniff out those faceless

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I think I found a faceless infiltrator.

>>166225537
I'm guessing the debris that would give me elirium are the exposed power coils? Only have 2 of those in the very bottom row

Chances of survival at an early-game impregnable mission?

>>166226104
nope

>>166225939
>Hopefully magnetic weapons aren't too expensive

:^)

>>166225973

I thought that was a funky-colored dildo from the thumbnail

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>>166225408
The fight is not going my way. We're pinned down and now there are zombies on the field. My Spartans are cleaning up the refuse and my Marines score several kills, but their numbers are just too much to deal with. We're getting whittled down slowly as one of my men continues to bleed out without anyone able to reach him.

I think this next turn will decide if the VIP makes it out alive, or if he dies with my brave, retarded, suicidal men.

>>166226104

What does readiness indicate anyway?

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all my supplies are getting taken to unknown causes

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>>166225446

I do.

>>166226318
if I had to guess, it'd be the line of sight of enemies during the concealment phase

>>166226318
Reinforcement strength and how aggressive they are? Just guessing though.

>>166226330
Get soldiers to be advisers, and you'll soon discover the cause

>>166226495
can they just be rookies?

>>166226671
no, pretty sure they need to be at least a squaddie

>>166226671
At least a squaddie as >>166226756 mentions

The higher the ranker the more efficient they are

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Another turn goes by, down to 7 turns remaining. One of my two Rookies goes down under withering fire, and I'll need to stabilize her. But both Sectoids are dead, and I'm roughly even in numbers with ADVENT now, and I can start to advance again.

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Anyone notice on the LW2 maps that while they're really big all the enemies are always centered in a straight line from your spawn to the objective?

Now, I get on those rescue missions/assasinate whatever that they'd be chilling around their target but on extract VIP's generally every node is within sight/sound. Is the only viable way to do these to bring technicals in to fire rockets across the map randomly so you dont run out of time?

breaching charges when

Am I the only one that thinks that flamethrowers are fucking useless
The rocket launcher is great, but you only get 1 per mission, I really feel like the technical class is the worst
Or am I just missing something with the flamethrower?
It doesn't destroy cover, it doesn't attack through cover sometimes, the range is shit, I feel like they're always just outside of range

>>166227040
>breaching charges
-3 mobility
alerts all pods on the map
can cause friendly fire

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So I got a soldier on-Haven.
Is there anything else I can do to prevent this fuckery?

>>166227361
higher the soldier rank the better your odds of it not happening.
All in all LW2 seems to be this big emphasis on additional RNG and tedium.

Any idea why sneks are called Vipers when real life vipers don't have hoods? Cobras have hoods.

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>>166226176

Well, the Dominator -is- a funky weapon.

Tho it's also a useful pistol. Most of the time...

>>166227361
Nope, but keeping them down there ensures you don't have to go through this shit in the future(or at least as much)

You'll have to prioritize some havens to be on supply duty, and those should have soldiers attached for quite a bit. The ones that don't focus on supplies don't need them, meaning you can stick a scientist there for mad intel.

how broken are the MW weapons in LW2?
I assume they dont have the 3 upgrade slots like vanilla but do the upgrades actually work correctly?

HOLY FUCKING PODS BATMAN

I just tried my first LW2 Legendary mission, brought a smaller squad figuring if I infiltrated good enough that it would mean smaller groups or whatever

I bring five guys and I run into a pod right off the bat of five, then I shit you not, TEN fucking dudes are on the relay obj

Do I bring more guys? Do I eat shit early game?

>>166227541
xcom isn't full of aspies and viper sounds more vicious

>>166227672
>expecting anything doable from Legend
Anon...

>>166227624
>>166227473

Good to know.
So in that case its good to have Havens have different focuses. Alrighty.

Also Advent Strength determines the chance of retaliation, and hiding personnel lowers the chance, correct?

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>>166226889
God bless Harfield. Killed the officer and gave me a chance to advance. My men flank the couple of ADVENT still holed up in the building, my men start stabilizing their fallen comrades, and we make a beeline for the evac.

>>166227775
I expect it to be within the remotest possibility of reason

I know playing Legendary is asking for it, but holy crap

>>166224659

Hey I don't play this but who was the bitch with the nice sweaty lower back from the previous OP image?

>>166227782
As far as I can tell yes to that, but advent strength also determines the amount of (base) enemies on a mission and their tiers; at 2 you'll see more vipers/sectoids etc.
So far I'm having a lot of fun but also a lot of frustration from those dumb speedrun objectives people keep posting about.

>>166227636
doesn't matter when you can just strip all the attachments for free, is a little tedious though

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REPOSTING THIS:

Lists Infiltration Percentages and Enemy Activity stats.

How can I tell what the avatar project is at?

It's like june and I still haven't seen anything about it.

>>166227961
A regular soldier

What are the weapon tiers for LW?

Reg
Magnetic
???
???
Coil?

is there a mod or something i can do to make it so that certain voice packs cant be randomly assigned?

for example i have the delta squad voice pack and made each of the deltas as characters but the game of course also randomly assigns the voice packs and it annoys me and id rather not have ot change it for each soldier

>>166228196
Regular
Laser
Magnetic
Coil
Plasma

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>>166224659

>>166228335

>laser below magnetic

how in the fug

>tfw you will never be a ragtag piece of shit resistance team throwing molotovs and using barely functioning homemade smgs
>you will never raid an ADVENT supply train on the move via driving pickup technicals and shooting it the fuck up
>you will never get your first restored rifle from the era of the alien invasion and give it to your best sharpshooter
>you will never have your resistance cracked down upon and have to go into hiding while occasionally supporting other resistance cells
>you will never reach a point where you're able to fight straight up against the ayys after years of struggle and flood the streets with a mix of militia, rioters and veterans from the first war
>nobody will mod any of this into xcom 2

>>166227361

it takes awhile for your soldier to sniff the dude out. seems at least like 3 weeks maybe more.

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>>166227853
I DID IT

>>166227969
Basically what this means is that don't fucking infiltrate at anything less than 100% if you have to and don't bother going to 200% unless you have plenty of time to spare. It's fine to skip some mission.

>>166228557
On the other hand, I got a mission literally hours after deploying the advisor. It was so fast it ended up being my first post-gatecrasher mission.

>>166228679
>squaddie finds a mole hours into being put in charge of monkies
What, did he just walk up and start asking for secrets like a drug fiend trying to find crack?

>>166228679
Same here. It's probably just random.

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>>166228565
Everyone but the darkie got a promotion for their hard work.

And most importantly, I got a precious Engineer from that mission.

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>>166228565

Hope is just a sunrise away!

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>>166228792
I don't know what she did, but it spooked me when I pressed the skip time button for the first time and got thrust into a mission without a prompt or anything.

>>166228583
Its fine to skip a TON of missions.
You'll be getting plenty regardless.

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Ripped the Advent Trooper today

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Is it possible to single/double soldier cheese a "kill person in advent vehicle" mission in LW2?

>>166229232
yes

>>166229232
Yes. I just wrapped one up.
I prefer capturing the VIP when I can though, which is probably super fucking hard with a 1/2 person mission.

Anyone have any idea what mod could be conflicting with LW2 to cause scanning for intel to not be available at your resistance center? Trying to pan over where the haven should be moves the camera to the north pole, where nothing is.

>>166227969
I just had 25+ on moderate-heavy

so what about Long War 2 would you change?
>for me:

I haven't felt rushed to the objective like many others have, but maybe a rework of timers? Maybe eliminating them entirely but having reinforcements continually drop in ala Avenger defense after concealment breaks? I dunno.

That and I'd certainly change the dodge mechanic to work in a better way or remove it entirely.

Also I haven't encountered many bugs/crashes but ironing those out can't hurt.

>>166229902
I just had 17 on Light, I don't think that chart's entirely accurate. Unless Preparedness also factors in somehow?

>>166229971
>Maybe eliminating them entirely but having reinforcements continually drop in ala Avenger defense after concealment breaks? I dunno.
It actually already does this. What needs to be changed is the frequency and composition of the pods so it still has that sense of urgency. According to that one Anon who went digging in the .ini you can do so, now its a question of who's going to actually do it and test it.

>>166229902
>>166230032
I don't think the numbers are 100% always accurate. There is a degree of magnificent RNG in terms of the final numbers.
At least thats what the guy who made that infographic seems to believe.

>>166228387
That's how longwar 1 worked, except instead of coil it was pulse lasers. Like regular beam weapons but with intermittent, short. high energy exposures to improve penetration.

I'm getting a bug were i can't take control of the prisoner VIP: tried to grenade him and cut LOS but it's not working, any console command to fix it?

>>166230374
You aren't playing ironman are you anon?

>>166228387
puny light bulb gun is inferior to really fast boolet

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Maybe this time I shouldn't push my luck

>>166230453
Whats the expiration time?

>>166228387
Magnetic weaponry is basically insanely fast projectiles.
I can definitely see them being more effective than wimpy early-level beam weaponry.

>>166230453
>mission expiring
>0% infiltrated
What the hell happened?

So in Long War, how precisely am I supposed to actually acquire an ADVENT Officer corpse? I don't seem to be able to pick up enemy bodies.

>>166230521
Must launch or abort. I literally dropped them off and got that message.

>>166228134

Hot

Post more bare midriff soldiers

>>166230596
You either need to get a non-evac mission (probably won't happen for a month or two), or you should do what I do and be a fag and get Extract Corpses mod that lets you carry dead bodies to evac.

>>166230451
yes, but i did a backup after opening the cell door and noticing that he had no action points while the other prisoner could move

1.0 is shit 1.1 when?

>>166230596
Gatecrasher as well as rooting out faceless collaborators both give you corpses.

>>166228387

Just because the technology involved seems more sci-fi, it doesn't necessarily mean the destructive power is greater. That said, I'd like it if the lasguns came with a small bonus to aim, as an abstraction of super accuracy.

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>>166231069

Better wait till B15.

>>166230729
i think it's time for you to leave

What is the best part of Long War 2 and why is it the Squad management? It works so well with Realitymachinas notoriety and friend mods.

>>166230204
What do you mean by sense of urgency? The rubber-banding AI from Vanilla game?

>>166231574
Where is the rocket launcher animation for XCOM2

REEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>166231606

Sheesh, fine. I didn't know the FUN POLICE patrolled this thread.

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>>166231772

This. This needs to happen.

>>166226318
Nobody actually knows, which is kind of maddening considering it's one of two criteria which determine what missions to take.

>>166227087
I typically agree, although when you do find a good time to use the flamethrower, it's amazing. I will say I've only had as high as a Cpl. Technical, so I'm not sure if later perks will improve the flamethrower's effectiveness more.

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Beagle is alive

>>166232589
facking finally

>>166228565
Excellent Work, Commander.

>tfw too much of a shitter at LW2 so resort to playing on veteran

>>166232942
Who isn't playing on veteran?

>>166233002
I'm on commander, Legend increased everything times is just too brutal

>>166232589
I want the mods so I can make my dudes look this operator.

Eyepro on his helmet and balaclava? link pls

guys is there ever a reason to NOT take CCS on your assaults in LW1? i don't think i've ever picked anything else.

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=847425711

you're not going to use it?
are you /xcg/?

>>166233209
If you want to make a super bio tank you take steadfast because no panic and the extra willpower makes them tougher when psi gets thrown at them.

But yes, CCS is excellent and taking it is never a mistake.

>>166226318
>>166232171
Readiness affects how often Reinforcements are dropped into the map.

I need some help commanders, and google isn't being very helpful. My mods just suddenly stopped working. Camera rotation mod doesn't work, I don't see enemies HP, no yellow flank icons with Gotcha, nothing.

I only have the "essential mods" and nothing that changes gameplay or graphics or extra buttons, not even Overwatch All. Perfect Information still works partially and shows the shot breakdown bar, but it doesn't show the percentages for shots or anything else it's supposed to do.

I can't even get mods starting on new games and they are all enabled and I've tried various launcher tricks and turning them on/off repeteadly.

The only clue I have is that they stopped working around the time I was messing around with the ingame graphic options, but it was no help changing those back either. Not to mention it makes no goddamn sense.

If anyone could advice on this I'd appriciate it a lot.

>>166233493
Jesus, and I thought we couldn't go any lower than shitting out 10 loading screen """mods""" per day.

are SPARKs good now?

http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=23486

"SPARKs in the 1.1 patch should also be getting 5 ablative armor at the start of every mission (I think it's in 1.1, if you're not seeing that then it's in 1.1), so they'll be considerably tankier requiring >5 damage taken each mission to even be wounded. There might also be other minor tweaks, we've been working on them a bit."

>>166233882
>we've been working on them a bit
git hype

>>166233882
ooooooooooo :O

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>fuck up and activate too much with a 3 man squad
>call the evac and get to the roof
>one turn away sectoid gets up on the roof
>mindspins the only rookie into a panic
>no way I can lock the roof down for the next turn
>forced to evac the other two, feel like garbage for leaving the rookie behind
>next turn they pile on the roof
>all shots end up missing besides the sectoid in front doing 3
>rookie gets away to evac

Well that's XCOM. I'm not too sure whether I should congratulate the guy on having the will to survive or shoot him before his grudge for leaving him to die has him crash the Avenger

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Is walking fire as useless as it sounds? Flush is nice and good, but -30 crit makes it sound like the shot will not only do half damage but also graze.

>Kill Sectopod
>Save game
>Load game
>Game crashes
>Kill Gatekeeper
>Save game
>Load game
>Game crashes
Why the fuck does this keep happening

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Am I crazy or is Long Dong 2 not actually insanely difficult on Legend?

>>166234268
>Fire against enemy with dodge
>Walking fire
>roll for hit but now degraded to graze
>They successfully roll to dodge
>You don't have enough crit to counter the dodge
Yeah, it does seem fishy, though I have no personal experience with it.

>>166234543
Long War actually has the difficulty curve the right way around, so wait until endgame to decide that stuff.

>>166234613
You won't have enough crit without flanking anyway, it's just an extremely tiny poke to deny overwatch or finish off targets.

>>166231708
Something to make you not just sit on your ass and OW every turn. An increasingly more difficult enemy force the longer you stay would do that perfectly.

>>166234268
Walk fire is mildly useful whenever a low health dude needs killing albeit not as reliably as combat protocol, etc. Haven't tried an overwatch build but it doesn't strike me as compatible with most of how the game is supposed to be playing. Close and personal doesn't make much sense to me on a ranger

>>166234904
>it's just an extremely tiny poke to deny overwatch or finish off targets.
Yeah I suppose, but why not just make work like flush? The -crit chance scares me.

>>166227969
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rXps-SUGIvcwQJ-faLKvbzESVWjrQb1iWTZKAVLrzeM/edit#gid=0

>>166233603
Here. Looks like verifying my cache worked.
Said 2 files were corrupted and worked fine after that. Pretty strange.

If I do the objective, should I evac in LW2?
Is risking my men worth it to kill the aliens?
Killing them doesn't seem to grant much xp desu

>>166234512
https://youtu.be/YAkVbUpk4og?t=1381

>>166235007
I understand the purpose of a flush but I'm worried that everything will have armor making the ability useless.

>Every single mission with a Scientist as a reward so far has had an expiration time below the base infiltration time of 1 soldier
Getting real sick of this shit. The majority of the people in that Haven are even on Intel, get your shit together people.

>>166235118
Theres infinite reinforcements. Evac.

>>166235176
Put everyone on intel, get Avenger on top of haven, scan, pray. And get another engineer

>>166235176

>He doesn't have a solid snake shinobi for solo sneaking missions

>BEAGLE VIDEO
BEAGLE VIDEO
>BEAGLE VIDEO
IT'S LONG DONG 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dMnnVjo1HU

>>166235128
Is this just an example of a glitchy Sectopod, or is it the same issue I'm having, where it seems like the corpse is crashing the game on game load.
Also I realized had a mod that edits the physics of the corpses, going to see if disabling that will help the problem.

Playing Xcom EW vanilla for the first time in a while, could snipers always squadsight overwatch with their pistol? I though they could only use their rifle in squadsight. It's wierd though because I can hit someone with the pistol from across the map on overwatch, but I can't take a regular shot with squadsight pistol.

Don't try to have your rebels do anything if enemy strength is above five.

I just had back to back asset defense missions and since I ignored them like six rebels got killed.

Not that big of a deal since I'm kind of done with the region till adven find somewhere else to be.

>>166236081
Admittedly I haven't played vanilla in years, but it shouldn't be possible. Pistols only have 30 range, the reason snipers work at squadsight isn't just the perk but also the fact that they have high base range..

>>166233493

No, i'll wait for True concealment guy to update his mod to work for LW2.

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Seeing as I might not be done with the Siege armours for a while yet I figured I'd upload what I've done for those that want it.

https://mega.nz/#!O98mQLwZ!I-CYKEex86cLI2sCOUOlUjeqarRB2DzpEQHjchSg5CM

At the moment there are some clipping issues with IQ's arms and torso and there may be other clipping problems that I haven't seen yet. The Sledge and Mute stuff should be ok though.

>>166236897
You're in luck: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=847481752

Has anyone done a voice pitch modifier for XCom 2? That made it so much easier to create unique characters in LW1.

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>>166237494

>You're in luck:

YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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>>166237494

Absolutely fucking based.

>>166237494
nice man, do you plan on doing all the siege operators? Love your shit gunman

>>166237494

Where would we be without you, Uncle G?

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>there will never be a mod that adds zudjari units to enemies

>>166233209
It's a great ability and is tremendous for the early terror missions.

There is only one case where I'd take anything different, a psi/bio-tank. One could also make the case that non ccs assaults have a niche case advantage when utilizing ghost grenades.

>>166237494
Thanks mate, that's shits amazing

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>>166238357

>>166238357
It might as well say click the button for a free squadwipe

>>166238027
There's a guy working through and ripping the operators here: https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1495155&page=13

I'm just going to port the ones that I have an interest in.

>>166238451

>Enemy status: Impregnable
>That Viper: Impregnated

>>166238581
The bound soldier is a woman

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>>166238515
which ones are you interested it?

>>166238515
I fucking hate facepunch

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>>166238679

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>asHEY GUYS LET'S GO HANG OUT AT THE DILAPIDATED SUBSTATION

>>166238907
Probably getting high as fuck.

>>166238907
it's a drug deal, duh

>>166238907

They snuck off to whisper bad things about ADVENT, leave them alone

>>166238907
>he never hung out at dilapidated substations

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>>166238702

Jäger, Bandit, Frost, Hibana

Jäger, Bandit, Frost, Hibana

>>166238702
So far only the SAS guys. In the future if I do any others it'll probaby be male operatives too, the female proportions are way off the xcom ones. I've spent far more time on IQ just trying to get her to fit the skeleton than sledge or mute and I'm still not finished.

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bf4 ports when?
>inb4 vanilla already has that

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>>166239262
>tfw no point in porting Blitz

>>166239556
>tfw ported armor always looks funky and out of place
>vanilla armor looks bland and way too uniform
rip

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>>166239556
wait a second. . .
why is the bf4 ru recon popping up in more games?

>>166239421
fair enough mate, still if lux ever ports Frost or buck and you decide to go through hell again then I'd personally wank you off.

>>166239659
>looks out of place
Idunno man, they fit in pretty well if they're properly textured. I really like the MWR SAS pack but unfortunately it'sonly the SAS and theMW pack has god awful textures.

I know it's not really xcom per say but it'd be neat to play a game where the roles are reversed. like you are the invading force

>>166239262
a man can dream

>xcom 2 gets titanfall ports for everyone
>new vegas/fo4 has their titanfall ports locked behind gunetwork
why are bethesda modders so fragile?

>beagle takes 35% shot
>hits and rolls for max damage too

I mean

ok dude

>>166240048
I go watch beags for inspiration on tactics and all I get is him getting lucky as fuck

>>166227969
Bad gameplay design in a nutshell

This entire thing could be done more intuitively and in a less clunky fashion. If the rule of thumb is 'never infiltrate below 100%, and don't bother above unless you have time to waste' AND you can just skip missions whenever you feel like, the entire feature is a complete game design failure.

Long War 2 has shown me that lumpy has no fucking clue what he's doing and only got lucky with the first Long War.

>>166240128
>follows up with a 45% that also hits and also rolls max damage

this guy cheats

>>166240171
hopefully they tweak it some

because it's kind of nuts to run an op with even 90% infil

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>beags uploads a video
>Northernlion also uploads one where he says the AI "slapped him around so hard its a crime"

which one

>>166228387
Lasers kill people by heating up a spot on a body to a really high temperature so fast that it causes an explosion of steam and vaporized flesh.

It's nowhere near as deadly as an actual projectile is, but it's basically hitscan and easier to aim.

>>166240314
beagle

northernlion is a retard 200%

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>>166240441
>northernlion is a retard 200%
That's exactly why I watch him tho

The good ol lovable retard

>>166240171

I kinda agree, it's an interesting mechanic but it feels like they didn't put enough thought into it. That said, the good thing is that now modders can improve on it now that the "system" is there.

>>166240489
it's bad enough you're watching someone play instead of actually playing

just reinstalled xcom2 because of long war 2, do the mods in the repository all work with LW2 or do I have to pay attention?

>>166240619
You have to pay attention.
Theres a list of LW2-compatible mods in the OP as well.

>watching xcom on youtube
live or it's fake, my dudes

>>166240765
oh shit I missed that, thanks!

I'm wayyyy too excited for LW2. is it as good as B14+?

>>166240797
vods of a stream are as good as live, IMO.

>>166240797
Veteran is kicking my ass so I had to go to rookie ironman.

I feel so bad. I need to watch better people.

>>166235007
Have you not seen the fucking awesome double barreled shotgun?

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>Get a mission to kill a faceless scum
>One of my volunteers literally has no face
Fucking XCom needs to get its act together

>>166241161
Sure but all my rangers are usually too fat to make good use of it except in a pinch. Assault/Le Ninja's job is to barrel stuff alium.

I've probably just gotten lucky, but the mission timing seems really fair to me so far (month 2) on Veteran.

I've usually finished with turns to spare (last mission had 6/13 turns left on the clock when I was done) but the reinforcements keep the pressure up anyway. I assume that the timer is there just to keep you moving while in concealment, inching forward would be boring as hell but really efficient without the time limit. The reinforcements act as a "true concealment"-type timer.

Of course now I've jinxed myself and I'm sure the next mission will fuck me up horribly

Has anyone made a collection for xcg LW2 mods?

>>166236002
>Extremely Light
>Brings his best possible soldiers while also boosting
>Reward: Engineer

kek

Hey, I'm not from here but I have a quick question.

Is XCOM eu/ew still worth playing?

any xcg approved music playlist to jam to while getting fucked up in lw?

>>166241973
Been my experience so far as well.
I haven't felt rushed at all thus far. I think I'm about 3 months in.

>>166242693
yeah dude, doesnt have workshop support like 2 but its a great fantastic big nice game for cool people

>>166242693
Yes, even vanilla is good. Long war is better but a lot more complex.

>>166229971
I think the interface could use some work.

>>166225446
would anybody be interested in more of these? been a long time. just got back into XCOM since long dong two. been chilling at r6g in the meantime.

>POINT BLANK, NO COVER DODGES

>LW1
>just finish up a shitty terror mission with my A team
>B team still fatigued after landed medium
>game immediately throws a council mission at me
>then throws a light abduction for good measure

i forgot this game doesn't slow down enough to at least spit on your asshole first.

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Yay or nay? I feel like Moderate is going to be too much for 4 people.

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>>166243434

Of course.

>>166243643
Nay as fuck, son. Moderate missions don't fuck around.

>>166243790
Cool. I've still got some reference images saved too

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TIME FOR AVENGER DEFENSE, PRAY FOR ME ANONS

>>166243987

go get that free xp lad

>>166243643
Fuck no my dude.
Moderate is like 20 Ayys.

>>166244324
i think he's playing long dong my dude

>>166244324
AWC just crashed my game.

Will the Lewd War mod make xcom great again?

>xD

>>166245295
>Lewd War
tell me more

>>166245295
The what?

Sup guys. I bought XCOM 2 from Humble Bundle because I heard great things about Long War 2, but it seems it makes the game more difficult. Is it playable for a complete beginner or should I play the base game first?

>>166245396
>>166245645
Wow I thought you guys would've known about this already

>>166245826
The answer is yes, if you're an actual gamer and not some 100 IQ casual who's so stupid he needs everything explained to him like he's five.

>>166245826
Nope, if you never played any XCOM-style games before, it will kick your teeth in. Play Vanilla first then forget about the strategic layer when you go into LW2.

>>166229971
Agreed, timers are boring, but probably necessary, so I would like something like this:

Add more dynamic events instead of just a timer, like some types of missions have only reinforcements but at a faster rate; some could have artillery or an orbital strike called at your position after you do something; rescues could be a race before advent prisoner transfer unit reaches the cells, or even one extra surprise prisoner popped somewhere in the map and you might want to check it out.

Also link the above with hacking or maybe a capture/hold type of deal, making it possible to make your job easier (or harder) if you hack/hold certain Points of Interest around the map.

The rest would be quality of life more than anything

-Strip all unequipped weapons button
-Create squad from current assigned soldiers
-An indicator when a mission reaches Extremely Light/Vulnerable

Haven't really played that much, so this is what I gathered so far.

>>166245826
Base game first hands down

Get used to the mechanics and the likes first by completing a campaign and then hit up Long War 2. Going into Long War 2 without any knowledge of how the game works will be a terrible experience

So with LW2 do I have to call evac on most missions? Or do I get any benefit from staying and killing ayys

What exactly is the function of squads

Like why create them if you can build a mission squad from different squads anyways?

>>166246264
XP from kills is a lot smaller, and XP from mission success is a lot bigger. No XP gain from reinforcement kills.

Throw down the flare pretty much the moment you bust concealment, especially if that mission was badly infiltrated.

>>166246398
Named and organized squads will probably be much more of a thing in the mid/late game where you have enough leveled up people to make dedicated squads

>>166246264
>Or do I get any benefit from staying and killing ayys
No, and the reinforcements will never stop coming.
Call for evac ASAP once you break concealment / have a decent evac zone. Don't wait until you complete the objective. I made that mistake once, it sucked

>>166246398
Officers have a Leadership skill that affects the whole squad and gets better as people play under that officer.

>>166246398
I think leaders give soldiers bonuses which increase with consecutive missions. In theory using the same squads over time should max out those bonuses I guess?

I dunno, there's too much variance in missions for me to establish fixed squads so I'm effectively just grabbing a new squad each time, we'll see if that bites me later

>>166246398
>>166246742

Clarifying my post, it is not tied to squads at all, but the squads help you manage it.

>>166246264
You get a marginal amount of EXP.

>>166246398
For RP purposes and if you need the solid snake squad for last minute infiltration.

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Well this is interesting. I'm sure it has its niche uses but I can't see it being too good considering most VIP missions are speedran.

>>166246984
hahaha what

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>download xcom 2
>about 30gb idc tho loved the first game
>1st mission
>clear pod nr.1 no hits taken
>next turn pod nr.2 comes to line of sight
>this nigga in red armour, capitan or w/e, hiding behind full cover
>immagechubitch.exe
>throw a nade at him
>lowest dmg, cover fucking intact
>I'm a Dj Khaled of tactics
>throw another one
>lowest
>fucking
>dmg
>cover intact again
>'mby that cover can't be destroyed'
>alien's turn
>advent el comendante bout to fuck me up
>he throws a fucking nade at one of my guys standing behind an exact copy of cover that advent cap took
>cover rekt
>soldier almost rekt
>BUT
>burning
>AND
>panicking
>AND
>shot a guy next to him
>quit the game

>>166246984
>commissar
what now?

>>166247239

who the fuck talks like this?

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>>166246398
Soldiers that operate under an officer get bonuses to will, dodge and infiltration that become better the more missions they go on together.
So having one squad that does stuff together a lot is for the best it seems.
>>166247258
Bonus aim and crit chance against units who are mind controlled; I guess it's a last resort if you have no revival/flashbangs/suppression and the dudes got big guns.
Another cool thing is Intervention; spend 25intel to gain an extra 2 turns in a mission which is going to help a metric fuckton on those gigantic never stop sprinting maps.

>>166246984
Yeah doubt it'd see much use, but thats still rad as fuck.

>>166247585
>greentext
>talk
how new?

>>166247585
Newfag

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is beagle our guy?

christopher odd is better at xcom than beagle though, and doesn't waste nearly as much time. beagle is really at his best when heavily edited like his ironman impossible series because he wastes so much time jerking off

>tfw upgrade to laser tier in LW and xskin system doesnt recognize the weapons
I don't want to use these god awful laser weapons I want to use my modded ballistics reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>166248106
I've been following Beagle since before XCOM2012 even came out and I love the dude but he can get a bit too dull.

>Shaped Charges confirmed for future patch
dick status: hard

>>166248106
Yes, and no, christopher odd is horrible

>>166248106
beagle isn't even that good, he just plays extremely safe when he's able to and is ungodly lucky when he can't play safe

>>166248106
>bald ayyy looking cunt
>youtube gaming
>"memes" and heavily edited content or
>45 minutes of overwatch action

Hmm, nah

Also, unless you use twitch/youtube as backgroung noise, watching people play is just being a cuck in video game form

>>166248106
Beagle and Xwynns are my personal favorites.

ChristopherOdd is entertaining from what little of him I've watched.

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>Go in for stealth 4 man jailbreak
>spot two pods of 4 from high ground
>"ok i'll just sneak aroun-"
>single drone pod floats and reveals me
>welp time to evac
>can't evac on jailbreak
JL put drones back in just so they could be as irritating in LW1. Also is it too much for Menace to move the evacuation point across the street?

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Wakaliwood voice mod WHEN

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

>>166248746
This is what we get for having a female pilot.

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>>166248863
but think of how bad the aliens will feel when they see how much equality we have with our troops

>>166248784
>Bomb anything big and important

Forty fucking keks

>>166247947
>>166247820


meme

>>166248286

shut up with this faggot meme already. christ you're worse than cyclops poster.

>>166248106

>christopher odd is better at xcom than beagle though

I disagree, but that's why i prefer Odd over Beagle, he makes mistakes and fucks up. Which is more entertaining than watching a flawless run, that squadwipe moment at the start of one of his campaigns was 10/10.

>>166249426
>that squadwipe moment at the start of one of his campaigns was 10/10.
Requesting said moment

>>166249690

https://youtu.be/rOI11iDbGoI?t=7m28s

Here you go, it is beautiful.

>>166248784
>all Ugandans know Kung Fu
Shit man. Bradford take us to the center of Africa. We've got some new recruits coming in.

How do I drive down Advent presence in a region? Is it just spy missions?

>>166249690
if that tickles your nuts, you should watch the end video where he fights the three avatars. it's about an hour into it

>>166250210
Hide your kids and hide your wives and take your illicit activities elsewhere.

>>166248784
>What are you making
>German food
>German food?
>We found some german tourists, we're cooking them
This is kino.

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Is there a particular build/research order in LW2 you've found optimal anons or is it like vanilla where you pretty much just rush GTS asap

>eliminate the vip mission
>over 100% infiltration and very light level
>had to put in a 4 man squad to make the deadline
>first few turns, gee looks like the aliens have started deploying niggers with 3 armor
>3 pods all sitting next to the car, refusing to move
>flying toasters of surveillance preventing me from moving
>aliens, lamp post, zone wall all perfectly preventing escape to evac
Who inventing this mission type where you can't evac? Like why the fuck can't we even have the option to escape when it becomes apparent the opposition is too strong?

>>166246984
Might work in Haven Defenses/infiltrator hunts.

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anyone know how to replace the standard weapons with mod weapons like bagel did in his new campaign?

>>166250696

Rush GTS, and then upgrade immediately after.

Officers are extremely useful, which the upgrade allows you to train.

>>166250696
There's literally no reason not to build the GTS the moment you start the campaign. As in, you have the supplies, you have the slot, and the building is available

>>166250325
Is it that same Season.

almost squadwiped on a supply train

fortunately I was able to save my LCPL

should've just skipped the mission desu

>>166251540
Yep, sure is.

>>166251540
yes

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>ADVENT blue ranger can double overwatch if the first one hits
Learn something new everyday. At the cost of a good soldier.

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CLOSE RANGE?

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>>166243987
I'm back from base defense, wasn't that bad.

Pic related was the worst part.

29/38 ayys killed

Also why does the GTS let you use PCS's and AWS not?

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>First time using Technical
>Have him aim a rocket at a group of 1 viper and 2 Advent Sentries
>He misses
>It destroys literally the entire side of a 2 floor floor office building and kills 4 civilians

>>166250325
That was a great moment. Still bullshit how he resolved it though, really don't agree with his decision on that one.

Those wanting to up their infiltration time, have a populated haven set on all intel, and scan there. Missions that pop up within that region are going to have a ludicrous amount of leeway

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>>166252305
my favorite bug

it happening on deluge was icing on the cake

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>Take rookie squad for simple data extraction
>This
I guess it's time for a suicide run.

>>166253280
You can always just pull back, hold on for 4ish turns and extract. I can't seem to find anything bad that'll happen when you just leave a mission.

>>166252928
I miss real sectoids so much.

Lol what the fuck is this? I happened upon this by chance and can't stop reading more about it, like I'm reading a train wreck.

http://dragonpunk.org/

Someone please explain

>>166254837
this is your website, isn't it?

My game won't boot with the Modern Warfare Remastered SAS armor mod. I can't find any comments or notes on the workshop about any issues with other mods, but does anybody have any idea where this compatibility issue may be coming from?

>>166254837
nice try

>>166254837
Yiff is a hell of a drug.

>>166254837
I will only give these furries credit for the Goblin Bazaar and that was already done by a previous mod

>>166255065
>>166255145
>>166255253
There's more, so much more and it goes over a year deep. I've never even seen this mentioned on /xcg/ but there's over a year of news about this. This guy might actually be delusional, look at this.


>https://www.gofu----ndme.com/dragonpunk

>>166242725
Initial D Eurobeat. Favored by much of /xcg/, Most people on 4chan, and a quads get on /xcg/. I only mention this because it's my only vg get and I am quite proud of it.

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Ok so why the fuck is this stuttering shit still here almost a year later? tried the fix in the op and no luck, anyone have any other ideas?

>>166248106
>christopher odd is better at xcom than beagle though
>Both have a campaign on Legendary
>One doesn't lose anyone for the entire campaign
>One's campaign fails on the final mission

>>166255843
UEScript instead of functions, probably. It won't ever be fixed.

>>166248863
>shit talking firebrand
>literally the best skyranger pilot from x-com all the way to XCOM2

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>tfw you make two of your soldiers brother and sister
>One has to carry the other's remains back home

>>166255065
>>166255253
>>166255538
>shit talking dragon punk
They been mentioned on /xcg/ many times. Their actual fault is that they are too ambitious.

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>>166256406

>>166256620
Because I install forty mods every time I reinstall an old game. I can't help myself.

>>166255081
Update: Game also crashes with MWR SAS enabled with no other mods, so it's not a compatibility issue.

>>166256691
I didn't ask to feel over soldiers I have no attachment to

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>>166256406
>when sis cops a feel before passing

>suddenly defeated in campaign
>no warning what so ever
Wow. At least I can restart now.

>>166256406
>women on the battlefield
You deserve this.

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>>166256853
>women on the battlefield
Not anymore

>>166256843
Out of curiosity, what happened?

>>166256843
what? did the game over condition change?

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>>166256904

>>166256904
kek

>>166256843
I am curious as well. It might save me in the future.

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>Escape the Doom Chalice
>Same squad now faced with this
Is a scientist worth the risk?

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>>166256491
Never caught wind of it until now, every image, every paragraph looks and reads like a bad joke parodying scummy kickstarter practices. Like this totally not lazily photoshopped ogre over a loadout screen.

I still can't tell if this guy is serious, delusional or just wondering how much he can get away with.

Beagle is going to get annihilated next episode, isn't he?

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>First full stealth jailbreak
Fuck this feels good.

>>166256909
>>166256970
>>166257019
By the way this was a long war run.

I guess the Avatar project runs in the background if you haven't started/unlocked it due to whatever setbacks you've had. In other words make sure to unlock the AVATAR project regardless of setbacks otherwise you won't be able to fight it.

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>near fully stealth a 2-man VIP extract thanks to getting a 22% Squad Concealment hack
>only kill was an overwatch kill after breaking concealment

Real gorilla tactics!

>>166257206
Doesn't the Avatar project just unlock automatically after a set amount of time in the vanilla game? What triggers it in LW2?

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>>166257184
>Jailbreak mission type
>Mission expires in 2 hours

Time for the stealthiest approach of blowing everything up.

>>166257049
If you do a solo Shinobi or 2-3 sized squad or something, and manage to get infiltration to 200%, you can knock that down to very light.
Which is very doable, especially if you manage to stealth it.

>>166257476
You've misread. It's up NOW.

>>166257524
Oh fuck my bad, I forgot about that tiny ass little line.
Yeah no dude
>Moderate
>Impregnable

Nyeh.

>>166257262
You have to liberate a region or two to actually SEE the Avatar Project in LW2/. It's total bullshit.
Avatar Project Removal mod LW edition WHEN

>>166257126
Yeah it is a bit silly. I totally disregarded them when they first announced their project. Then they actually finished their Goblin Bazaar mod (some sort of black market replacement) so I was like, "ok, at least they accomplished something." But then, they actually released a co-op mod where to players connect to the same session during the loadout screen, and then I was actually kinda impressed.

>>166257653
I still haven't even figured out how to liberate a region.

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>>166257384
Remember, no one can notice if there's no one to notice

>>166257758
You have to do a liberation mission apparently. It's a multi-part quest chain that I have yet to actually start apparently. You also have to search for each part of the chain

>>166257206
Good to know.

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Has anyone got the avatar project meter to show up?