XCOM General - /xcg/

pistols are useful

How do I into the DOS game? What should I know before playing?

3rd for Julian

Graze - 1

>>166711252
Are you using openxcom?

6th for OP is a faceless.

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>>166711141
>>166710867
yup vanilla
nth for wtf is this walking tumor?
Just killed my Bball champ

>>166711312
yes

Lots of info in the OP!

I haven't played since original pre-DLC XCOM2, but I'm a veteran of the original Long Dong. Any recommendations on where to begin for a new game?

Are the current modlists updated?

Is Long Dong 2 a worthy successor?

Please drop some fucking knowledge on me, anons.

>>166711376
If you haven't played XC2 vanilla you will have a bad time.
If you play XC2 vanilla, and then LW2 you will have a bad time.
LW2 doesn't play anything like LW1 and at times actively discourages combat.

>>166711376
Never got around to playing original Long Dong, since I'm a filthy game-stealer who steals games and WOULD download a car, but Dong Harder adds a assload of depth to the strat level and a wider variety of options at campaign start. I'm liking it. Now if I can only figure out this whole "not losing" thing...

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>>166711354
Toss smoke grenades outside of the skyranger so your troops PROBABLY won't get murdered after stepping out.

Also, flares are your friend in night missions, and you can re throw them if you pick them up off the ground

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>Panicking twice in a single mission
Dammit Doc get it together

Killed the Big Slime
fucking regenerating health?

>>166711354
Ok. So for research you still rush lasers. Hire enough dudes to start and fill up your skyranger to full (14) and then load up on scientists. You will want more scientists before engineers. Use smoke grenades as they actually break LOS in this game. Explosives are still king. Explosive damage is the most reliable damage type. Load up as many soldier as you can with nades, HE bricks, Heavy canons with HE rounds, and have a rocketeer or two. Do not exit your skyranger on turn 1. All aliens have full reactions score and will cut down your people as they exit. Instead, smoke your ramp and wait for them to move around. Make sure to get a large radar up asap as well as alien containment. Stun rods are purchased from the market. You will need to engage ayys at close range. Build your base so that the access lift and Hangar are seperate from the rest of your buildings. This is because in base assaults, the aliens infiltrate through these points, so it makes for a good defensible chokepoint. If you can avoid night missions do not go on them. If you can't avoid night missions, bring electro-flares. Laser rifles are extremely good once you get those. Auto-fire is almost always the most efficient fire mode for both chance to hit and damage. Sell all your ayy corpses and most of your plasma weaponry for mad cash. You can manufacture and sell some items as a source of income (see laser canons, but medkits and laser pistols also work). As soon as you have enough cash to set up a base, you probably want to. Consdier your radar coverage for base placement. I think a Middle East base that covers all of Europe is the best starting location.

That's alot of stuff off the top of my head. Go to UFOpaedia if you have specific game mechanic questions. Read through the in-game ufopaedia to understand all the equipment you have in game. Have fun.

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>>166711849
You're a helpful guy

worse than what I had hoped but overall not the end of the world.

>>166712094
>You're a helpful guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJroOnp7-Rg

>>166711349
a fellow human friend
say hi to it with the earthly tradition of filling his lack of face full of lead

>>166711271
His banter was top notch.

>"How much ammunition did you even bring?"
>"You do realize I can still hear you, right?"

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>>166712450
I got him alright

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uhhh
fuck?

>>166712520
His voice set is honestly the best in the game, up there with some of the best mods.

>they are crouching, I am using science
>do I get a medal for this?
>STOMP STOMP

>>166712879
Rapid Response is free experience

>>166712879
>more XP and mission rewards
>more XP and easy overwatch traps
You're right, this is a tough choice.

>>166711542
I beat vanilla 2.

>If you play XC2 vanilla, and then LW2 you will have a bad time.
So a refresher run with the dlc won't really be much good, then?

>>166713021
Not really. First watch the introduction video on youtube because there's a metric fuckton of important information they didn't even bother to tell ingame let alone link on their mod page.

Seriously, they have 0 official documentation on almost every mechanic except for a few brief explanatory tooltips on certain missions.

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>Generals wear monocles
classy

>>166712769
good
be wary when getting close to civilians on those missions and avoid using cars as cover

>>166713230
There's a tumor on every terror mission?
>cars
If I learned anything from Ew its that cars are a death sentence.

>>166713131
Thanks for the heads up.

I'm trying to make a voice pack but this error keeps showing up:

>The following packages have references to external packages:
>External packages won't be found when in a game and all references will be broken

What did I do wrong?

>>166713329
yes, and there is no way to tell them apart until they reveal
or you use some kind of scanning device or ability

How would I transfer the files from this game onto a new PC? I can't re download it thanks to my internet being fucked temporarily.

I used Steam to buy it btw

>>166713329

>There's a tumor on every terror mission?

Atleast two on every retaliation. If you kill all the other enemies on the map they'll reveal themselves automatically

>>166713529
there's a backup function in Steam.

I'm not going to tell you where because it's very obvious if you actually look for it.

On Veteran LW2, did I fuck up if I don't have Lasers and I've already encountered Mutons?

>>166713721
I think I found it, right-click on a game and select backup game files.

Do I need to manually transfer the game files onto the new PC into the steamapps folder or does steam do that itself with the backup function?

>>166713854
Copy the files you're going to make over to a new PC, and use Steam to extract them.

literally the only strategy in xcom 2 is gaming pods to fight them one at a time


its the shallowest "strategy" game ever made

>>166714164
That's what is known as "tactics". Not "strategy".

Not disagreeing that vanilla nu-COM strategy layer is pretty shallow.

The ADVENT tower missions made me legit fucking quit LW2.


Narrow maps where you're railroaded into using 5 people to fight enemies who have indestructible cover while you have half cover in easily flanked positions. If you get a bad map, you can have literally only 1 path. And reinforcements spawn.

Don't feed me the "LW is difficult" shit. Even an early Slingshot wasn't this fucking retarded in LW1. LW1 always, ALWAYS felt fair. This is just fucking ridiculously difficult to satiate meme faggots like the retards here who think something being pointlessly difficult is good game design.

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>>166714287
>LW1 always, ALWAYS felt fair.

>>166714287
>LW1 always, ALWAYS felt fair.
This is how I know you're completely full of shit, friendo.

>>166714443
>>166714482
Name a time that LW made you play a mission you had absolutely no way out of that put you in a no-win situaiton.

Sure, sometimes you get abductions or whatever where your LZ is absolutely swamped. OK, get in the Skyranger and go home.

You HAVE to do the ADVENT Tower. There is absolutely 0 strategy involved in this map because it can literally be 100% linear and you literally cannot progress the campaign without doing it.

>>166714672
>You HAVE to do the ADVENT Tower.
Whenever you want to.

>>166714672
I agree, the S shaped map is pure bullshit considering that reinforcements will come even when in concealement

>>166713469

Now it's telling me 'could not find part of the path'

Did I set up modbuddy wrong? What am I doing?

>>166714770
That has literally no bearing on the fact that the map was not designed for something like LW2.

Its simply not fun. Fighting 13~ Ayys because there is only 1 path and they all patrol around it and you're stuck on the shitty walkway isn't fun. You can't play around it, you can't outthink it. Its a numbers and terrain game you have no control over.

>>166714672
>OK, get in the Skyranger and go home

And then the panic goes though the roof

I like LW2 because the simple reason of i dont have to do shit i dont want to, fuck extracting or killing that VIP or doing supply raids.

If i dont do those missions i dont get a penalty of losing the entire fucking region, also the ADVENT tower is like the alien base of LW1, sooner or later you will have to do them if you dont have enough counties to go around.

>>166714930
In LW1 you could bring 10 people to an Alien Base and despite being linear, there was ample cover could be done methodically.

ADVENT Tower is a fucking hurrfest.

>>166714886

jesus christ now Xcom 2 Editor isn't launching at all past the splash screen, what the fuck is happening?

>>166714907
Sounds like a target-rich environment for the judicious application of explosives, to me.

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>Rookie has 12 hack and 56 aim
>Commanders Choice him from fucking game-chosen Sniper class to Specialist
>His hack goes to 47

This mod is fucking worthless.

>>166715941
Except a lot of the cover is indestructible.

I rocketed and naded something a Pectoid was hiding behind on one of the walkways. Didn't break.

(And yes, the Grenadier fucking had Sapper)

>>166716138
just leave the mission until later, it's not like you have to do it as soon as it pops

>>166716138
I was thinking more of the "guaranteed damage" aspect of explosives, personally. Then again, Long War would make relying on that a little bit more of a risk.

Still. Nobody promised you a rose garden.

>>166711071

Fresh bagels WHEN?!

is the gts tactic causing more bleed outs really worth it in long war? 300 supplies is potentially 7-8 pre leveled recruits from the black market if you need the replacements

>>166717358
depends on when you get it, no? Either early on when those survivors will add up, or so late you're swimming in supplies.

WHERE IS THE LW2 UPDATE REEEEEEEE

>>166716076
That's just the gremlin.

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>>166717938
>>166716076

Does the how early you try a dlc mission effect the difficulty at all?

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CLOSE

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>>166718373
RANGE?

Where do I click to buy new staff/change scan perk in LW2? All I see is haven management

>you can graze on a 100%
I fully understand the mechanic

that is still retarded though

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>>166718373
>>166718487
Why does this bullshit crack me up everytime?

Wish the Alien Hunters mod had missions or required you to down rulers to get the weapons. It feels so cheat-y just starting off the game with 'oh, here is a package of weapons you just happen to cross'

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>LW1
>chugging along into middle of october
>some bumps and bruises here and there
>haven't lost many soldiers
>2 full A-team style squads and some lower level B-team dudes available
>haven't encountered heavy floaters yet
>small ufo lands
>send out some chumps
>first blue move with motion tracking scout
>2 floater pods a mix of regular and heavy
>4 mutons
>4 muton elites
>a lid thrown in for good measure
>nades and suppression everywhere
>can only watch as the ayys rape everything before them

was this a trap? was i bamboozled by the ayys?

>>166718802

Well, you need to do the mission to upgrade the weapons.

>>166718809
>he walked up to the clown car

Which voice packs do Anon use and which do you think are awful?

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What the hell is this "unknown causes" expense in LW2? How does one make money in LW2?

>>166721943

faceless among the ranks. need to put a squaddie in as an adviser to flush it out.

alternatively, what is google?

>taking the snap shot perk removes squadsight
Wow great mod.

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>Haven Defense
>Haven has 17 people, have to do it
>AO Defense
>My Staff Sargent Gunner starts out on fire
>Move 1 tile
>Pop 4 pods next to each other with Mutons and Vipers (Haven't seen either yet)
>Reinforcements still come every turn
>9 turns till evac

Well that was fucking stupid. Pretty much just lost me the whole game losing the 9 soldiers (and ALL the fucking gear) there. I thought AO defense started with no enemies but they spawned every turn.

>>166722089
But it doesn't

>>166721943
>taking screenshots with your phone

There's nothing screaming harder "I'm a retard" than that.

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>>166721943
nigger wat r u doing

>>166722463
>>166722246
I never understood why people can't handle this. It's way quicker.

>>166723008
>Ctrl+print screen
>open paint, paste, save
>slower

Finally

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=851079221

>>166723252
i'm tired of flaming homosexuals

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>>166723252
>https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=851079221

>>166723008
>hitting F12
>slower

>>166723252
>https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=851079221

I really hope the person who wrote that is using English as a second-language, otherwise it is depressingly autistic.

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>>166723252
>>166723342
>ps2.
>Warning: XCOM is not the only one using them.
>You must be prepared for the Unexpected situation' at ADVENT headquarters.
>magical ADVENT girls
What the fuck do you have to be smoking to come up with that shit?

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WE'VE GOT HOSTILES

Really makes me wish for a mod where you could color different parts of the outfit different camos/colors.

I mean, the grunt commander's hat needs to be red, it's impossible to get a black blaklava on the shotgun grunt, tower's cap needs to be a solid green, as well as the standard grunts helmets need to be a green camo while their uniforms are just black and white.

Really frustrating.

>>166723252
Weebshit was a mistake.

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>>166723675
>Operation sensational slap-fight

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>>166723675
And while I'm at it I'll post the never ever montage

>>166721943
Sell ayy corpses and useless attachments like stocks.

>>166724034
>using stocks end your turn

I think this will be changed

>>166723675
Why would you want to make it obvious who's the unit commander? Easiest way to get your officers sniped, which isn't operator at all.

>>166723728
Thanks, it's this mod
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=848765486

Been having a good time with it so far.

>>166724119
>which isn't operator at all

but thats HECU baby!

>>166723498
Hentai and Anime.

>>166724214
>http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=848765486
This mod does not include racist or homophobic slurs. The point is to be childish, not jerkish.

Gay.

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>advent strenght: 4

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>>166723252
about time desu

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>>166723252
>all these requirements

>>166724756
Who wants to make the sacrifice and see how OP/Magnificent that shit is?

>>166723093
>tabbing out of the game to post on 4chan.

>>166725014
It's trash.

It doesn't even have cute animu gril heads.

0/10 だめだ

How buggy is LW2?

HOW FAR AWAY IS THE LW2 PATCH.
LIKE NIGGER ARE WE TALKING WEEKS? MONTHS?

>>166725292
It's not that buggy in my experience, only thing that keep happening to me is my camera being stuck under the avenger after finishing a mission but restarting the game fixes that.

>>166725164
>hitting the fucking button specifically to screenshotting is slower than getting out your phone and taking a picture

Does your care taker know you're playing violent videogames?

>>166725420
And by not that buggy i mean it's playable.
Plenty of shit doesn't work properly.

>>166725497
>care taker

>>166725798
Would you prefer "Retard Wrangler" or "Helmet Handler" ?

>>166725850
Il handle your helmet if you catch my drift

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Speaking of clown cars, wasn't there a webm of a car with actual clowns and smoke? I can't seem to find it.

>>166725850
it's too late man, ya fucked up

>>166725913
>you fucked up
On what, sped?

>>166725292
Had a couple of annoying ones, don't remember if they were in original xcom tho

*Camera being under the avenger at the end of missions (not to bad, just main menu and load
*Soldiers dying when they're carrying someone fucks up lots of things
*A sectoid resed a zombie on the same tile he was standing on, was very frustrating because the sectoid wouldn't take any damage until the zombie died (Couldn't shoot or throw a grenade to damage him)
*After 4+ hours BIG memory leak (6GB) causing game crash

>>166724071
That would make them less useless, yes, but in most cases it's still better to maneuver and fire/grenade rather than sitting on your ass and hoping to beat the RNG.

>>166725193
>だめ
>not ダメ or 駄目

>>166725901
That's the opposite of defenestration, you threw him into a window, you fenestrated him.

>>166726312
I didn't even mean to post this old bagel webm.

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What a fucking slog.

Had to resort to using resistance members as shields at certain points.

>>166726294
たいていその言葉はかなに書いてるだと思うですけど僕の月ルーン文字はあまり上手じゃない~ ＾＾;

ban japan

>>166726892
>not taking the screenshot with your phone

>>166727018
Maybe I should, then people wouldn't see how awful graphics settings I'm forced to use.

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Hi /xgc/ I've been out of the loop for a while. Is Longmeme2 worth acquiring a copy of XCOM 2 to play? I haven't played since the Brokeback Mountain DLC for Cyberpunks came out.

>>166726892
...And I didn't even get to keep the corpses. Motherfucker.

fucking sectoids

>>166727163

its 10 bux in the humble store

>>166727534
hot

>>166725014
>>166724756
Judging from those requirements, I hope you like having your XCOM Operator panic so hard they turn into some insane witch from the series while you only have conventional weapons

in long war does the plasma grenades project give you just the one grenade?

>>166727846
Nice. I was planning on buying it, honest.

Is Longmeme 2 good tho?

Also, where's the shitposting, waifufagging, anime, fanfiction, blogposting and OC? Did /xcg/ get purged or something?

>>166728552
no we just dont have as many people we did earlier or they are just silently waiting to take us

>>166728552
There's been some of it, but also remember that it's not as popular as it was and it's early morning for most of the burgers.

Damn sharpshooters feel anemic as fuck. They can't even dish samage on their own, they need someone else to pull the ayys out of cover, and then they have the opportunity to graze for 4 damage.

Meanwhile, technicals and grenadiers are killing whole pods by themselves, shinobi are sneaking to the objective and shanking niggas in the back, and assaults and rangers are actually in a position to flank and therefore do some actual damage. I feel like my damn specialists are doing more damage than my snipers.

>>166728920
It's almost like someone else should carry the holotargeter.

Almost, as if by chance, the classes in LW1 were balanced as a team and shaking them up for the sake of shaking them up was idiotic.

Any standalone mods to expand my squad size?

>>166728920
i always find sharpshooters to either be dead weight or carry a mission, but they're way too reliant on stacking all the aim bonuses they can get

>>166729296
In my experience theyr've been dead weight exclusively. Just consider that you could have another grenadier with 3 flashbangs instead of a sniper.

I just had to prune some faceless from a haven with a sniper as the adviser. It was horrible, lost 3 fucking guys.

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give me some other caracters ideas

>>166729509
Guderian

>>166729509

Your mom.

>>166729509
>Charles Martel
>not 'Hammertime'
One fucking job you shit.

Yes, one. Instantly buy more for 10 supplies one core and something else.

>>166722168

git gud, it's totally fair, maybe u shoulda played better. pods that chain activate and cause you to face 15+ ayy's at once while reinforcements are coming next turn is the epitome of true difficulty. I wish it was more difficult.

>>166729965
There people here who actually think like that, so maybe make the irony a bit more obvious?

>fighting ayys
>end my turn
>suddenly another pod runs out from behind me and kills two of my guys on the same turn.
Whoa, dude, epic man.

>>166730358
attacking on reveal for yellow alert is bullshit with the "investigating" status of inactive pods. The problem compounds with randomly generated maps because you dont know what to check for LOS where through the fog of war until you've already made committing moves.

Timers and Random Generation for maps really is the worst combo

>>166730530
>Timers and Random Generation for maps really is the worst combo
Worked just fine in vanilla.

>>166729509
>guardien
[French disdain in the distance]

>>166718809
>muton elites in October
You dun goofed son

>>166730530
I'd rather get my ass kicked every so often by surprised pods than have the same few maps where I've memorized the entire layout before the mission begins. Fog of war and random map generation is a good thing for the tactical game.

>>166727294
Is it an extra mission type? I've never seen that one in long war

>>166721943
>>166723008
>f12
>alt+tab
>view screenshot library
>show on disk
>open browser
>4chan.org/vg
>ctrl+f "xcg"
>click reply
>drag and drop
>enter captcha
>submit

>unlock phone
>type in passcode if you have one
>open internet browser or 4chan app
>go to /vg/
>spend ages looking for /xcg/
>finally find it after half an hour
>click reply
>navigate through all your garbage
>picture
>upload
>mistype captcha 11 times because your fat fingers can't hit the buttons correctly
>submit
>get called a retard for taking a photoof your screen
Which is quicker again?

>>166728552
Well I was working on an "art" piece for the anons here but then long war 2 dropped and class began to pick up in workload. If/when it's finished I'll post it for sure though

>>166722089
keep up with your squad
you can move and fire there's no reason to stay behind

>>166714672
PANIC MISSIONS
PANIC MISSIONS WITH HUGE SPIDER FUCKS
EVEN IF I SUCCEED ALL CIVILIANS DIES
""""""""""FAIR""""""""""

but still fun

>>166722089
>I can't read the perk description which says you have effectively 5 squadsight like a scout rifle

>>166722089
>equip whole squad of Sharpshooters with extended mags/autoloaders
>get them on high ground
>with Death From Above you have a situational Serial, potentially on the whole squad
>if they're topped off with +Aim PCS chips and Scopes, cover is nothing
>they can move and shoot on top of all that
I haven't played LW2 so I don't know if things are drastically different from the Perk Pack, but Snap Shot is super fucking useful as long as you don't treat the soldier as a sniper.

>>166734360
>equip whole squad of Sharpshooters with extended mags/autoloaders
>get them on high ground
>get revealed by a solo drone
>shoot it
>every pod on the map is closing in on your position
>you can't fire and move so you are severely restricted on positioning
>get flanked by everyone
>reinforcements drop on top of you
>get rocketed and fall to your death

>I haven't played LW2
It shows

>>166733456
>have sharex with upload disabled
>press ctrl+printscreen
>have my screenshot in this month's folder

or

>press ctrl+printscreen without any 3rd party shit
>paste it into paint
>save and post

people who take pics with their phones are just braindead

>>166734360
They never should've taken the gunslinger perks away from snipers desu. They should've just removed the penalty on squadsight if they were going to neuter the sniper at close range.

>that autistic mod description

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=851079221

>>166734630
>not reading the thread

>>166723747
WHY DON'T YOU JUST FUCKING RELEASE IT

>>166734692
on phone, so I just go straight to bottom and post

>>166734570
How about snap shot penalty only applies after you've moved? Makes no sense that picking up additional training makes you perform better at the original job, after all. Give pure snipers some other powerful perk, like for example 'degrade the effectiveness of enemy's cover by one degree; high cover becomes low cover, and low cover is ignored'. There, I just fucking fixed sharpshooters.

>>166737157
While we're at it, Center Mass should confer immunity to non-dodge grazes

>>166737157
actually in LW1 there was a perk called sharpshooter that did just that. +10 Aim and Crit on targets in full cover

How exactly do I add Characters from the /xcg/ pool to X2 vanilla

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Does the LW Team has plans to change/overhaul the Psy and MEC components of the game?

>>166738971
Yes, I don't know to what degree.

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moreBF4 ports when?

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>>166739135
BF1 ports when?

Why do alium relays' health scale up with your progress? Shit's absurd when they have more hitpoints than fucking sexopods.

>tfw finally got to traitors in my main regions

REMUV FACELESS remuv faceless you are the worst ayy you are the ayy smell

>stuck under the avenger
im done

fuck this broken ass game

>>166740595
close program
restart game
load most recent save

>>166740595
I've never gotten this glitch. I wonder what the hell causes it.

Reminder that Silent Storm is better than any xcom game

>>166741395
then what are you doing here? make an SSG thread

>>166741813
just felt the need to talk some shit.

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I swear if i miss this

So apparently the Avatar Project is ticking away behind the scenes, even if it's never actually revealed to you. Because I suddenly got a game over, despite having never even been given the Blacksite mission.

Twitchy trigger tentacle is the most retarded feature ever. Fucking hell.

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>Guranteed Hits
>With a shotgun for big crits
>with the cheesy instakill attachment
Will he be my top slayer?

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Ambush predator or top flanker?

>>166743951
Shadowstep. Always Shadowstep.

>>166743951
>Ranger
>Hail of Bullets
>>166743780

Dear god RNG you are soo drunk.

>>166743951
>sword perks
Oh well, looks like you have to double down anyway

>>166743730
>Guys, the game heavily encourages alpha striking, because the aliens will scatter to cover immediately upon discovery, and players are proponent to savescumming until they can kill the aliens in a single turn. How can we make the gameplay more engaging?
>Well, I have just the thing, let's make it so that further groups of enemies are attracted to sound, and upon discovering you they will scatter to flanking positions and immediately shoot at your unprotected soldiers while you're stuck at slogging it out with the earlier aliens if you fail your alpha strike.
>Brilliant!

What the fuck is this infinite reinforcements bullshit in my forge mission ?
Is there a hidden timer I don't know of ?

>>166744543
it worked fine in Ufo Defense

>>166745004

It had a completely different mechanic and you know it.

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>>166744103
>>166744117
i understand nothing but 100% sword strikes have been useful so far.

These Rush Research options seem like good deals I think I can afford 2 of them.

>>166745067
yes, and is still better than having nearby pods ignoring you, the only problem is that now they move in large groups

>>166745232
get the engineer

>>166745465
Pods coming towards sound is fine, them being able to shoot is not. You cannot position your troops in a manner that protects them from all sides, and there is no way to prevent the pods from moving towards you.

They also break the whole retarded two-action system. They move and discover you, then they scatter to cover and then they should be out of actions. But no, they can shoot too.

>>166745004
It's nothing like the first game. In UFO:EU nobody has any engagement/pod rules and casualties are expected.
Some random ayy patrols into you during their turn? Hope you like heavy plasma autofire and grenades. You run into an alien on your turn? Hope you got the drop or atleast mutual surprise because everything is always on ogrewatch, time for wild autofire from the whole squad or explosives that level the whole screen.

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>>166730358
>doing a really tough mission
>this guy just appears alone in one tiny square behind my whole squad
I'm 95% sure he teleported there.

>>166745232
Blademaster is fantastic earlygame but Phantom is more useful in the long run. Recon is king and a scouting focused ranger will make your life a million times easier.

>spanish voice options
>all sound like mexican serveants and illegals
>no sexy Puerto Rican or Spaniard Galatians Spanish available.

Everytime rip

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My XCOM2 save wont freak out if I uninstall Anarchy's Children DLC, right? Since it is just cosmetics. Some anon said that uninstalling it fixed the post-mission landing gear lock bug for him. I don't mind losing out on those cosmetic options if it means I can play the game without having to restart it every second mission.

>>166747304
>wanting spic speak

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>>166743562
Shit happens.

>>166747576
>post about not wanting spic speak

>>166747576
That's exactly what Mexican is though.

lw2 is bad

>>166748059
lw2 needs some more polishing

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>>166747304
>Cuando la option de "español" es de sur America y no de ma madre patria España.

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>ordinary gurellia op
>everything's going smoothly
>even hitting low % chances with a squaddie I'm trying to train
>1 kill away from mission finish
>crash
why

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>>166748193
I want the proper Novella spanish ya know?
Its 90% "Orrale Hue" or "ethpañol" if youre lucky.

>my first snek
>central says they dont need a stelf unit anymore
Then what the fuck are the tumors for?

>that subtle hip swaying when idle
I can see why everyone is attracted

>female panics again
ffs

>snek pulls a "GRAZED:DODGED" to escape my killzone shot

for what purpose

I thought the graze meme was for Lw2 only

>>166723342
And the most autistic mod award goes to...

>>166729509
Trevor "Snek Fag" O'Rear

>>166729509
Sam Hyde
Ben Garrison
Elliot Rodger
Eric Harris
Dylan Klebold
Nigel Farage
Alex Jones
Dylann Roof
Mike Pence

>>166749160
>>central says they dont need a stelf unit anymore
I don't get that line either.

You always run into snek after running into Faceless and even then the Faceless line mentions rumors of those things existing.
And even then there's the fucking fact that the aliens do need an infiltration unit since the resistance is obviously a thing.

I should just chalk it up to Bradford being more annoying than useful but I can't.

>>166749834
>forgetting Ted Kaczynski

>>166729509
Thomas "Ghost" Albin

How long did the first lw patches take to come after they were announced? it's been a week of just waiting...

>>166751260
ten years

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t-thanks senpai

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>>166749991
I put it more to being that the Elders don't need such an easily discovered unit anymore. When the initial invasion hit they clearly served their purpose, but now that it's over and (in public) aliens are somewhat accepted as normal, engineering Vipers serves no purpose when Faceless can do a better job without the resource cost of making them look like cheap lawyers.

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Drunk Vipers.

>>166751814
>no unknown causes
i'm a nsa/cia/fbi/gia and you're banned from the internet for hacking

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>>166751814

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>>166752307
>Gorilla ops

>>166752143
>>166752307
I'm on Vanilla if that helps. This is still early I think.

>>166752824
if it's vanilla your supplies won't get fucked
only long war
what month?

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>>166752143
>i'm a nsa/cia/fbi/gia
I would like to cordially invite you to fuck off. /xcg/ is under FSB jurisdiction and you yankee dicks have no authority over here.

>>166753021
that's why I made sure to clarify
GIA
General Intelligence Agency
goy

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>>166752942
I think its late April
>vs mecs
>i still have basic armor and weps
rip me I guess

>>166753336
if you're willing to make experimental ammo you can always try for a certain round that makes them easier (rounds are made in proving grounds)

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>>166752823
>Not playing with the /xcg/ renaming mod + childish and/or inappropriate mission names mod
You are only disappointing yourself

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>>166753465
Get on my level

>>166753595
>Stop the Advent's streaming of Vipers "training" captured XCOM agents..

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>>166753595
You can barely fathom the names I've overlooked screenshotting

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>tfw you drag a soldier to evac one turn before the bleeds out
Good thing the VIP car and the evac were literally next to each other.

>>166751260
For the very last patches they came out with months inbetween. You're asking for the very first patches, but those aren't applicable since LW was a very different project back then.

They have preliminary patch notes so it should be soon.

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>>166753963
>Carrying soldier with one turn on bleedout timer
>One square off evac

>>166753963
I once had three soldiers bleeding out at the same time and I finished the supply raid just before they all bled out. It was great.

>>166753465
>/xcg/ renaming mod

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>>166753438
Thats like the X2 version of the Foundry right?

Guys i think Im boned here
Lost a guy and I need to reload desperately
2 pods left and only 3 turns to gtfo

also my game is starting to stutter during the skyranger scenes

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>>166752136

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I'm not starting my second LW2 campaign until 2.1 comes out.
Until then, I will boot up some glorious age of mythology.

>>166754267
That's when you savescum

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Should I play with NCE xcg?

>>166754627
yes

>>166718802
They're not balance-breaking weapons, and the opportunity to change up my playstyle in the early game is pretty nice. If anything, I think their inclusion was a bit shallow. On my first (blind) playthrough, I thought that I could expect to see more rare random quirky weapon drops. Would have been somewhat more interesting than the gacha-style experimental crafting system.

>TF2 voice pack doesn't have Pyro voice available for female soldiers

into the trash it goes

>>166754719
but why?
>not masking up every single trooper and hiding their face then making them all pyro

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>>166754685
>They're not balance-breaking weapons

>>166754530
>age of mythology
good taste my man

>>166754771
Pyro is a girl

>>166754907
pyro is a meme

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>>166754907
This is a bad meme, and you should feel bad.

>>166752136
what is this from?

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>>166755552
Got it from deviantart. Shitload of untapped Viper art on there.

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>>166755714
>deviantart

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>>166755714
>deviantart
>snekposter

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>>166755895
>>166755958
Yeah, but what did you expect? Just look at that art, that self insert.

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>>166755895
>>166755958
Which I found from a simple google search, no need to get triggered.

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>>166756047
The quality improves two hundred fold once you remove the self-insert.

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>>166756729

does anyone know a good realistic military armor mod?

>>166756969
MGS BDUs, Modern Warfare ports, SAS Ports, Siege Ports.

Does Aid Protocol disable enemy overwatch against the aided unit?

>>166758040
No, why would you think that?

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>>166756729
>>166756905
You're right, they're actually improved.

Followed your lead and edited this one from some other comic.

>>166758040
no but it makes it less likely to hit

>>166758141
>implying snakes don't willingly poison refugees

are there any ways to reduce the avatar counter in long war besides the story missions

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Would Big Sky still be /ourguy/ if Firebrand wasn't a woman?

>>166759519
What?

>>166747304
hmm I'll think about making a Rogelio De La Vega pack one day

>Enemy Activity: Light
>10 dudes sitting on the evac point on top of a building
das xcom bby

Hey, I know there might be a little bit of bias asking /xcg/, but if I have a 10% off coupon, should I get the February Monthly Bundle with XCOM2?

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>>166757053
bf4 helmets too
Rest of bf4 armor when?

>>166758132
It just happened. A bug then, I guess.

>>166758141
>trooper outranking a viper
would have been more believable if it was an advent officer
>>166759519
yes

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>>166760090

>>166760208
yes, but sadly it does not includes DLCs
>tfw I bought it just to download mods from the workshop for the pirated version

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>>166760349
BF1 outfits when

or at least the helmets

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>>166760708
truly the best strat

>>166759519
If you are asking who the best pilot is, Firebrand is the best skyranger pilot in the entire x-com franchise.

>>166760928
us support pretty baller
but still prefer the tacticool modern

>>166761237
I understand your taste

I just like mixing and matching themes

My dream set of squads would be a tacticool modern squad, ghetto operator squad, WW1 museum looters squad, WW2 squad, and a squad that lives and breathes "It Ain't Me"

>>166761027
my question is, why aren't you training rookies on exalt missions

>>166761404
>start to do anything
>it aint me starts playing
>thing is now automatically better
Just a fact of life

>>166761404
Can't wait for someone to port bf3 ports over so I can make a milsim airsoft squad

Fuck 'yellow alert'.

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>>166761519
because I don't have rookies by the time EXALT starts deploying, let alone when I have gauss+carapace and, mecs and psi soldiers

>>166756047
>mfw i made that webm

>>166756047
W-what am I-looking at

>>166762498
it looks like an endoscopy of the esophagus

near the end there is a little bit of chyme or mucus that splashes

What is Advent Strength? Alien pissed off meter?

Similarly, what is enemy readiness? Is it basically current enemy activity?

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>>166762749

>>166761404
And a Mass Effect squad, an overwatch squad, an XCOM EU/EW squad....

But knowing me they'll end up all mixed and matched because of casualties and wounds

>>166762749

Higher strength means harder missions (higher readiness and activity) and higher chances of retaliation against the area's haven.

Readiness effects enemy pod patrol distances from objectives and each-other I belieeeeeve?

>>166762749
Readiness decrease with infiltration
Strenght increase as you piss off aliens in a specific region, but they usually have to move troops across the globe and leave other regions unguarded

>>166762749
Advent has a limited number of forces they can deploy around the world, if they focus more on a single region it pulls resources from other regions. The more successful XCOM is in a region, the more forces will convene on that region. As a result there will be more enemies on missions and more reinforcing troops.

Readiness is a measure of the effectiveness of the infiltration operation XCOM has undertaken. Lower readiness means less pods, faster evac and less reinforcing troops.

>>166762296
I can see it for gauss+psi+mecs, but for early exalt there's always rookies to train - squad size 2 tends to start fatigue cascades if it's not followed by a barracks upgrade from 40 to 60.

>>166762749
>What is Advent Strength?
How hard their dicks are.
>Similarly, what is enemy readiness?
Climax meter.

Watching "Dark Skies" and I just keep waiting for motherfuckin' XCOM to come crashing through the door

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>>166763193
I had a steady suppy of council requests that provided me with corporals by that point. Quai d'Orsay is powerful.

>extract important prisoner
>begin literally at the corner of the map
>extraction is on the completely other side of the map
>so far away pure sprinting takes at least 10 turns

You've got to be kidding me

How do I stop LW2 using characters from my pool for the first mission?

It always picks a few even if set to random only and it's annoying because I got guys I want as a specific class but it gives a few guys a random class even though I have a mod that's supposed to make sure your guys always get their assigned class from the pool.

Does the character pool class setting only apply if they don't appear as rookies?

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>grenadiers with HEAT Warheads can shred armor with flashbangs
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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>>166734842

I was just posting the pictures from ninja's screenshots, settle down.

>>166754627
No.

If you guys want the customization that LW1 had, you can use Grimy Loot. It allows you to really fine tune your soldier's roles

and yea yea
>using cheats

>>166764136
Anon why do you do this

Why isn't he releasing

why

pls

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>>166759519

You're a Big Sky.

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Who's your MVP operative, /xcg/?

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>>166764430
Making these collage images hurts me more than it does you.

>>166764984
Who is working on these and how come I've never seen these before?

>>166765040
>Who is working
Just you mean who was :^)

Oh that's a fun bug

Now that aliens can and will hunker down on occasion, if you blow their cover up as they're hunkering they'll retain the hunker bonus. Meaning 30% defense while exposed

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LW2 sucks cock. The stealth mechanics are fundamentally broken, between the pod pathing and ITT. The "lowered" value of a soldier is false, since your recruits dry up almost immediately if you're taking casualties and if you're playing correctly you should have a ton of haven support dedicated to Intel and Supples, not Recruit. Also the infiltration system is bad, since you have defined breakpoints in crew capacity and infiltration meter, meaning that if you can get to 99% infil you get punished heavily, since your squad is too big for 100%, but you can't add to the squad so you're going into a +50% pods activation becuase you failed by 1%.

I fucking hate LW2, and am disappointed to a level that shocks me, I guess I liked LW1 much more than I thought i did.
>just play LW1 instead
I am in the process of dl'ing EW right now, I wanted to play the new one, with the robust mod systems and fantastic customization. But I guess I'll wait for Spectrum to complete, although he'll probably drop his mod since LW2 came out, and now I'm fucked out of X2 completely since the base game is so goddamn shallow.

>>166764070
yes

if a soldier is a mission reward or bought from the black market then they have the character pool class

>>166765040
>Who is

I'm so sorry anon.

>>166765438
Hunker down completely ignores cover right now, including when your guys use it. Very annoying.

>>166765453
Well you are wrong, but at least you are going to do something about it. And I wouldn't worry, other overhauls will be made.

>>166765040
>dad is black
>comes out really light
????

>>166765635
>>166765438
it's a bug, not WAD

will be rectified in the next patch

>>166765781
>WAD
I understand the post, but what does this stand for. Working as D....?

>>166765585
>>166765209
Why didn't he just release what he had

>>166765453

Overhauls are still being made, AbA2 guy is working on AI improvements for LW2 and better aliens.

>>166765453
>pod pathing
Fixed in 1.1. Whenever the hell that comes out

>ITT
I found that in the .ini and gutted it. I don't agree with that design decision, but thankfully like LW1, I can tailor things to my own will. So far I've only done this and increasing Vet bonus timers to +4.

>you should have a ton of haven support dedicated to Intel and Supplies, not Recruit
Subjective. I set havens on Recruit until they were mini city centers and then once I had them going they pumped shit out like nothing

>infilitration
I like the system actually. The 1% thing isn't really a worry since I can equip SMGs, silencers, have shinobis with perks, officers with soldiers serving long enough under them that they gain bonuses to infiltration, and even spend intel. I like the level of control there is

Honestly I see the points and this mod does look to me like a hit or miss for most people. Take a look around the .inis and see if you can't gut what you don't like, wait for 1.1, then give it another shot

>>166765901
designed

>>166766029
thank

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>>166765929

He released the Combine pack, but then the STALKER modding community got him and now he's been porting ARMA outfits to CoC for the last five months.

RIP