XCOM General - /xcg/

>>168433425
First for should I respec my only sniper into a gunslinger in Vanilla Xcom2

pistols are useful

Is there a way to modify dark events in long war2 yet? My will is not high enough to handle the thought of lighting reflex stunlancers and the already flanky vipers getting hunters insticts just to make sure they get the onehitkill.

>>168433515
early/mid game: sure why not, full gunslinger

late game with a +21 Aim PCS and Superior Scope: full sniper

>>168433082
I mean I know the trigger was the spiderman mod request but why did it trigger him?

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Guys, could you help? I have no idea what I did wrong.

I opened up animation file of beam sniper rifle in Blender, modified it a bit to make it swap in small arc, but when I tried to import it in X2 editor, it dropped this error and application crashed.

I just wanted to make flamethrower animation with rifle.

>>168434095
No one really knows

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Archangel Armor needs to make a return.

>>168433924
download easier war dark events

configure

???

>>168434078
I just found that the last time I brought him on a mission I ended up taking 3 shots with the rifle and the handgun did the rest of the work. It'd be fun to build around that playstyle a little.

>>168433425
anon the vulva should be just a bit lower on that drawing

>>168430797

My first LW1 terror mission went a lot better than I thought, with two assaults with shotguns and two engineers with four grenades each. I think I had a medic and a rocketeer as well. I just spammed grenades until there was nothing left standing, and only lost some 2-3 civilians.

Both my assaults were gravely wounded though, and I had to go without them for a whole month.

Anyway: a lot of explosives. That's how I tackle almost all terror missions, at least in the beginning.

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>>168430797
Managed to complete my panic mission. I originally went in with one Rocketeer. For my last attempt I went in with three and just blew the xeno scum back into the sky.

VIGILO CONFIDO

First for shilling shitty youtube videos

https://youtu.be/poKWvy2Q4g4

:^)

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>>168434464
>>168434493

ALLAHU XCOM

AKBAR VIGILO YALLA

>>168434226
needs a fresh campaign

>>168434493
I remember ignoring rocketeers when i was a wee lad in LW. By the time I was playing I/I, they really came into their own as "oh fucking christ how am i supposed to deal with this" buttons

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>>168434493
VIGILO CONFIDO

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Is skipping lasers viable?

>>168435207
I do it all the time.
I also die.

>>168434134

Did you watch that animation tutorial video for Xcom2 the sassy viper guy made?

If no watch it

If yes, then i dunno

>>168435207
They're a lot less of an investment than mag and give plus +5 aim.

>>168433635
And swords are not.

>>168434134
I though someone already made a flamethrower animation?

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Wakaliwood voice mod when

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

>>168435689
In LW they are

>>168435207
If you like suffering and not doing many missions. Lasers are cheap.

>>168435750

They did? All I see is arm-mounted thrower like in original animation.

>>168435506

Yes, but I dont really understand it. Would be better if I had written version, trying to listen to him is kinda problematic.

I hate video guides.

>>168435207

Yes. But it takes a long time, and you are really only saving a few days of research at most, during which you have to wait a *long* time with just ballistic weapons.

It isn't worth it if you have to skip missions, but if you can manage without them you can start crushing Troop Ambush missions.

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>>168435689

Behead those who insult SwordCOM

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Okay, now Im completely out of ideas.

I made new package, imported both animations for flamethrower and for firing beam sniper rifle (without modifying any, I guess they dont like Blender) and copied notifies from flamethrower animation to rifle one (contains triggers for particle effects, sound, aim and such).

But for some reason fire goes not straight but off to the right.

Anybody have any idea?

>>168433425
Huh. Somebody actually did it. Ain't that somethin'.

>>168436602
he's right though

swords are shit

>>168434134
I've found that whenever I try and import any weapon skeleton from blender into the sdk it gives that same error no matter what. I think it has something to do with the root bone bring mislabelled or something.

>>168436842
>doesn't like one-shotting Sectoids and Vipers from across the map
gay desu

>UFO-08 sighting in LW 1
>Only have one jet available because the rest are still being repaired due to UFO-07 being piloted by Luke Skywalker
>Jet fails to intercept

Now I got a swarming abduction mission in near full panic China. Thank you Mr. Lump

>>168436842
Swords are shit, ninjatos are GOD-TIER

>>168437263

I went full retard and sent my entire fleet of interceptors to take down a medium UFO, which they all spectacularly failed at.

I went rest of the month without any interceptors, but luckily only lost one satellite.

>>168436720
The answer might be in this

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j3sG2NUAmKj4BgJA9yLYk-i7ZfflXkcamVvgscNzkZk/mobilebasic

>>168437263
did you try to kill a medium? Don't do that.

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>>168436720

It is shooting straight, but it's shooting from the socket where it would normally fire if he was using the wrist mounted flamethrower.

See that icon on the top that's like a red triangle upside down with a black arrow pointing at it? Click it that's the socket manager and it's important, scroll down until you see something like right hand or something like that, click on that and look at where it says skeletal mesh, it should be pointing to a pistol, replace the pistol with the beam sniper rifle(find the beam sniper rifle on the SDK, click on it(don't open it, just select it), then go back to the socket manager and next to the path to the pistol there should be a green arrow or something, click on it and it should replace the pistol on the soldier's right hand with the beam sniper rifle.

Now, open the beam sniper rifle, and go to it's socket manager, and see what the socket for the gun fire is called(it's probably something like gun_fire iirc). Now, go back to your flamethrower animation, go to animsequence and find the Flamethrowerfire(probably) notification, it should say something like emitter socket or whatever, change it to gun_fire, and that should make it so that the fire comes from the beam sniper rifle.

I'm just guessing though, i don't have the SDK open right now.

Also when you're done with everything, it will probably ask you if you want to save something like soldier medium something or other because you replaced the pistol with the beam sniper on that "test model" or whatever, it probably doesn't break anything if you save it like that, but i would just say don't save it.

Also i haven't used the mod, but i think you are already too late with this, see here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=848571873&searchtext=

>>168437410
You can get mediums early but don't even try without laser cannons. And until you get supercapacitors don't try large.

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>messing around
>wipe out all his buddies
>out like in the open i don't give a fuck
>he does literally nothing on his turn, not even hunker

Is this the "pissed yourself" mechanic?

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>>168438382

Yeah I kinda learned that the hard way. I just go for small ones now.

>>168437432

Sadly, not really. I tried reading it and its really nice and all, but still couldnt find.

>>168436880

So it doesnt like Blender and Im supposed to rather use Autodesk instead?

I have a feeling that its pointless to setup Autodeks account and downloading trial if this whole ting will probably ends up as failed experiment.

>>168438489
The AI is programmed to be unpredictable to an extent. This means it will sometimes take unwise actions or those that are unlikely to succeed. It's possible his mobility was so impacted by the flashbang or whatever disoriented him that he opted to stay put.

>forgot that predator armor costs advent soldier corpses
>no problem, just got a downed UFO!
>2 stun lancer, 1 MEC, 2 heavy trooper, 2 sectoid 1 muton

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I'm not a very good XCOM player (normal ironman being the hardest I've completed), but if LW has taught me anything, it's the value of destroying cover, spamming flashbangs and using suppression. The latter two have saved my ass more times than I can count.

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>>168437784

Thanks for detailed explanation, but I kinda lost myself at the "click on it and it should replace the pistol on the soldier's right hand with the beam sniper rifle" part, because it doesnt replace anything.

I will keep trying, tho.

>Also i haven't used the mod, but i think you are already too late with this, see here:

I didnt plan on making flamer as separate weapon. All I wanted was to add a skill for custom class that would work like flamethrower but fired from rifle (should be underbarrel but Im too green to make models). And another that would use normal fire animation for firing grenades.

But thanks for the link.

>>168440575
>under barrel attachments
Sounds like a worthwhile cause to me. Keep up it up anon.

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>>168440575

Changed socket on particle effect (P_Heavy_Flamethrower_Blast) with R_Hand and it shoots straight, yet from hand. But its always some progress.

>>168440693

I can only guess that it would require me to make new weapon class, with all tiers that would have additional socket, copypasted from gun, but located lower.

I dont think I can make it ;_;

>>168441403
It probably seems pretty daunting if you want to do that all yourself, but remember that it's called a modding community. Keep asking for help, talk to other modders, and they will probably be interested in helping you or even doing entire parts of the project.

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>interrupt meeting mission
>pod with faceless walks in to me
>it transforms and then runs up to attack me on the same turn with itchy trigger tentacle disabled

>>168442350
That's from the vanilla game.

>>168441060

Just wanted to add that while I can indeed place mesh of said sniper rifle in place of pistol in preview hand, model dont receive sockets from said sniper rifle. So I can enter "gun_fire" instead of "R_Hand" in socket name for particle effect but nothing will then appear, because animation lacks this socket.

I thought it would import sockets somehow but turns out it dont.

>>168441531

Asking here or somewhere else as well?

>>168442590
>Asking here or somewhere else as well?
You can unironically ask for help on reddit, but also there is a X2 modding discord that all the modder hang out on. I don't know exactly how to get on the discord (I don't mod, never looked into it), but I know we have some moddders and other curious anons here.

Say what you want about Advent, but they sure know how to make a snazzy insignia

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>>168442747

Why "unironically"? I mean, I know all those jokes like "go back to" and all, but is there something more about that?

Oh and by they way if I placed certain weapon mesh into animation, it wont force appear when using different one, right?

This is how it looks like now.

>>168443334
It's just an ethereal with its arms at its side

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>mfw I just realised I had gone 7 days without a research program assigned

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So what's the deal with Stenchfury right now? I saw he's trying to make a brand new alien unit on his patreon.

>>168444198
Didn't you answer your own question? He's making the sillocoid from x-com.

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ALLOYS

I NEED ALLOYS NOW

>it's a crashed scout UFO trap mission episode

This is actually the worst feeling in the world and I feel guilty every time I take a casualty.

Honestly, LW2 just needs to have more timerless missions at the start. I feel like the big issue is that mission types like troop columns and rendevouz don't show up until you've made some progress into the campaign

>>168444939
I agree

>>168444456
Celatid.

Silicoid was a different alien.

And afaik he's actually done with his end of the Celatid, and is back to making more of his modular armour.

>>168440150
I don't understand. That seems like a pretty light security detail for a UFO.

>>168430797
Never ignore a terror mission. You don't win terror missions, you can't even break even if you do them perfectly. Instead you mitigate the damage to a minimum.

My first terror mission was shotgun assaults everywhere, since they're a big focus for me, with a couple of non-shotgunners for range. I'd've been better off bringing moar shotguns as it turned out. It turned into a point-blank clusterfuck pretty quickly, while the one remaining pod kept eating civs. You just can't clean a whole map efficiently in a couple of turns, so don't try too hard, and bring grenades.

>>168445159
Oh yeah sorry, that's the lava rock monster.

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Rest in Peace Shiv.

>>168445596
We can rebuild him

>>168445334
Yeah, easy mistake to make desu, since the names sound vaguely similar.

>>168445731
It's more that they are such non-threat in x-com they both go into the trash bin together. PirateZ makes celatids insanely scary though.

>>168445596
>Rest in Peace
Don't you mean, rest in...pieces?

>>168445680

Yea. He was a holdover from early Terror Missions, but now I have Alloy Shivs. I just used him mostly as bait for Cyberdisks. Dodged 4 overwatch shots only to be 1HKO by a Mechtoid.

It really is mind boggling how strong Basic Shivs are.

>>168445967
Cheap to rebuild, too.

>>168445596

How are SHIVS in LW1? I never bothered with them in vanilla, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were useful in LW.

>>168446283
They are useful in LW1, especially the alloy shivs.

>>168443912
Yeah, and the avatar project icon is an elder

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>>168446352

I'll build a few then, thanks. My roster's a little depleted after spending most of my rookies on arc thrower duty.

>>168447226
>I'll build a few then
You only really need one. They don't have fatigue, and if one gets destroyed you can rebuild them for cheap cost. At least early on you definitely don't have tons of money to throw around.

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>>168446283

They are easily the most cost effective things you can produce in the game. Overpowered, even, which is balanced by the fact that they don't gain experience, and so relying on them too much will hinder the growth of your flesh and blood units.

Basic Shiv's only cost 60$, and with it you get a 10 HP, 70 AIM 5-9 Damage unit that doesn't suffer from fatigue (and recovers quickly from wounds). Even if they are destroyed, you replace them at 1/4th the cost. For Commander/Impossible Ironman they are really great investments, simply for when you get swamped with missions.

For a little bit more money, you can get Laser Cannons and Suppression, which allows them to reliably neuter any singular threat you may come across in a mission.

You can also invest in Alloy Shivs, which have double the HP, can act as cover, and have 2.5* DR. They do cost a lot of Alloys though, 80(!), but they are seriously viable units through the midgame and early lategame.

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>>168448430

Neat, thanks for the in-depth answer.

>>168435207

Nah; you won't have the supplies to make mag weapons for everyone anyway - so why not also research lasers, get the cheap ones rolling out, then move on to mags when you research it? I'm using a mix of both still due to supply crunch.

It might be "viable" but it's not really a big payoff. You don't net yourself enough guns quickly enough to make a huge difference, and you'll appreciate having extra lasers lying around for Rendevous missions.

>>168449109
I'm currently skipping magnetics for coilguns, hopefully it pays off.

>>168443617
>I know all those jokes
He means you can ask Reddit for help, and unlike elsewhere on 4chan, he's not dismissing you; it's a legitimate place to ask.

>>168443617
For all the shit reddit gets, it's still chock full of good material and people.

>>168449049

No problem. They are really, really great to bring on missions in general, because they do a *lot* of damage, so they are good for "These fucking aliens need to die *right* now" turns (which happens a lot on terror missions), or to suppress things that are behind cover that you cannot quite deal with immediately (as well as drawing fire from your troops).

Just be careful about letting them get kills, since you don't want to rob your guys of valuable EXP.

>>168449434

iirc Mag Weapons are a prerequisite for Coilguns. Plus, Advanced Mag Weapons are how you get Grenade Launcher mk. 2.

>>168449702
I think elerium is needed but not mags, but maybe I'm reading the tech tree wrong.

>>168449702
>Grenade Launcher mk. 2.
that requires andromedon autopsy as well

>>168449851

Yea. I meant it in the sense that you are probably going to get it 'eventually' (Grenadiers are a critically important unit), so there is something to be said about just getting it earlier, when you would benefit from the guns more.

>>168449434

That might be harder. Skipping lasers means dealing with enemies as they begin to *slightly* out-tank your damage output until you get ahold of your Mags. Skipping mags means dealing with Mutons, Mecs, Dark Event bonuses, and larger enemy groups with your lasers, which means it's more likely you end up with 1-3 enemies with 1-2 HP left who really had to die.

Just kicked off the download of Long War 2.

How do I get reliable cover destruction as early as possible? I see all these youtubers' grenades failing to dent cover and it seems to drag their big fights to a crawl.

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XCOM is an organization of peace!

>>168450297
Grenades with the cover destroying perks
Demo Gunners
Rockets

>>168450297

Grenades destroy "flat" cover very reliably (walls/etc.). LCPL Grenadier's can destroy almost all cover very reliably with Sapper.

Rockets are obviously quite good, although you only get 1 of them per Technical, and you usually use it as your Alpha Strike to break Concealment.

Gunners get Demolition relatively early which is the definition of reliable cover destruction (and they can spam it a *lot* when you get some auto-magazines). Demolition+Ranger/Sniper kills basically everything very reliably.

Later on, "Heavy" Armor with the Shredder Gun is pretty fucking good at this too.

>>168450795
>>168450863
Thanks yo

Got any other L/I tips?

>>168451017
Put everyone on intel in the beginning, including scanning in your region (this is the equivelent of 4 people on intel). Ignore the black market until you have run some good mission and actually have supplies to buy stuff or things to sell. You need GTS to start training your officers.

>>168451017
Break LoS

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>>168451017

You see this thing? This is the strongest item in the game. Literally every problem in the game can be solved with more Flashbangs.

>Pulled a 2nd pod and can't kill everything.
Flashbang

>That Sectoid MC'd the only unit that could possibly kill it
Flashbang

>I want to capture that alien
Flashbang

>I need to survive a few more turns for EVAC, but the whole map is converging on my
Flashbang

>Fucking CODEX
Flashbang disables their replication

You can *never* go wrong just giving everyone on your squad a Flashbang.

>>168450297
>How do I get reliable cover destruction as early as possible?
Grenades can destroy weak shit like fences early on. With Sapper, you have a chance to break the walls of things like Earth buildings, and rarely ADVENT craftsmanship, if you're lucky and center the damage on what you want destroyed.

Rockets are excellent for blowing cover to shit, but have a tendency to turn nasty at the worst possible time. You may need to move and fire, and your rocket will veer off wildly, unless you've built that Tech for rockets and aim.

And definitely keep an eye on destructible objects, early on. One lucky propane tank can save a turn, or a mission, and there are probably more booms scattered through the environment than you have noticed before.

>>168451017

Try and get good at doing Low Infiltration% Supply Raids. They are not easy, by any means, and are extremely long missions but they are beyond worth it (even more than early Large Landed UFO's in Long War 1).

>>168451216
Gotcha, so you can actually detect and get a head start on missions.
>>168451295
Hi beaglerush, I thought you didn't like long war 2.
>>168451338
Kek, how many should I take and what classes should generally be taking them? Specialists for maximum utility?

>>168441060
How hard is it to make new animations from what you've experienced?

>>168451726
>how many should I take
he's not exaggerating when he says that you can take one on every soldier

you don't have to, but..

>>168451726
>Hi beaglerush, I thought you didn't like long war 2.
What's beagle-ish about break los? We had a time when every question on the general was answered with "break los".

>>168452168
I thought he was memeing. But if it's really THAT strong, damn, will do.

>>168451791

It took me around 3 hours total to make this clearly little modification, but on my defense I started completely green. But note that I didnt actually make new animation - I just took existing ones and played with them.

I guess that making completely new animations in software like Maya would take much longer - from what I saw in Blender when I played with it yeterday, you have to set key animation frames for each most important joints and while program will create between frames automatically, for fluid movement of characters you would still need to make rather large number of such key frames.

But if you would want to just have fun with modifying existing ones, I guess it shouldnt take you longer than me to grasp basics.

I wanted to deal with my apathy and complete lack of will to play video games or doing things in general and damn, it actually works.

>>168452348

Flashbangs disable most abilites, like Spit Poison, Grenades(!), Mind Control (and disrupt MC in progress), instakill Zombies (flashbang the Sectoid), Rockets, Shieldbearer's, Stun Lancer's melee attack, etc.

Plus, enemies simply won't even try shooting at you they don't have about a ~20% of hitting, and they have drastically reduced movement, so they will often take low hit chance shots or hunker down, so you can easily set up a flank for the next turn.

Most pods scatter within a distance that you can flashbang the *entire* pod, so if you get flanked by a new pod you can clean up the old pod and simply with 1 flashbang buy yourself another turn where at *worst* the aliens might take a few very low% shots at you.

You know how sometimes you just miss 4 80% shots in a row? ez Flashbang, aliens fiddle their assholes on their turn, and bam, it is like it never happened.

>>168448430
Shivs were the true heroes of my LW1 camp.
The amount of punishment my little beep boops endured during all those hellish missions was immense.

>>168453681
Yea, I was thinking about learning the software to make some custom animations and wanted to get a reference point. I'm completely green as well.

XCOM should really be more accepting of other cultures, I have a female sniper from UAE and on missions she covers herself with her scarf, but back at the Avenger she is forced to act like a whore and show off her hair.

>>168454625

Best of luck then, mate.

If you dont mind giving Autodesk some info on registration and happens to be a student, you might get Maya 3 years license for free.

>>168454684

I think there is a mod that forces characters to wear armor on Avenger.

another mission, another lack of fucking trooper corpses

about to start all over desu because my retarded self forgot you need trooper corpses to make predator armor aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

>>168453782
Wish I had this much trust in Flasbangs.
They used to be my bread & butter for all missions, but after Mutons & Vipers start appearing, I lost too many soldiers to "flashbanged" ayys, that take those sweet sub 15% shots and crit trough full cover in elevated position.
Now I just prioritize maximum kill efficiency and full disable capability.
Assaults have become my favourite class with arc thrower, nothing like stunning a Gatekeeper two turns in a row while you mop the floor with its escort, then setup a effective kill combo and take it down.

>You will never capture a viper with the Arc Thrower and subject it to months of rape in the dungeon.

>>168453782
>enemies simply won't even try shooting at you they don't have about a ~20% of hitting

oh they do
they will shoot at you
mostly miss but that one crit kills your MVP

Why is Bradford's gun so fucking tacticool?

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Tandem is tempting but I get the feeling HEAT is going to be useful

>>168456761
that shred is pretty good

Is there a mod for Long War 2 that removes timers?

Bagles fucking when

>>contact rebels in new indonesia

>snow background

>>168458187
climate change bro

>>168457282
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=847481752

>>168457528
not for a while, because he hates LW2, he's too out of date with LW1 to be any good (so he'll need time to unrust), and Guerilla War status is unknown.

>>168451338
>Utility Grenadier Feelsgoodman

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So why does my haven advisor have two of everything now?

>Do first exalt mission, finish without any problem on classic.
>Realize I have exalt weapons in my inventory
>"Sweet! I wonder how much diffrent the stats could be-"
>Exactly the same stats as regular weapons.

Is there a point to these weapons? Something hidden that I don't get?

>>168463334
Selling them on the gray market.

Also free lasers

>>168456761
I feel like tandem is broken or there's still leading off damage or something, I've seen people take less than full damage before.

>>168463541
There's still damage range at the center of a blast. The number you see when targeting is what happens in the middle, while things on the outside take less damage than the minimum you see.

Tandem means the damage range at the Centre is what's applied to everything hit by the grenade, not that everything takes the upper bound of damage on the grenade.

>>168451338
Quick PSA

Flashbangs on sectoids will not break MC or kill their zombies in LW2

>>168463434
Oh, they'll get lasers later on? That's interesting. Plasma too?

>>168463949
Except that they do? Unless this was in a change that was just released now, I just flashbanged a sectoid and killed a zombie with it

>>168464123
It didn't for me, maybe it was the wrong Sectoid getting flashbanged

>>168463949
>>168464215
You probably didn't actually flash it, the targeting sphere might have twitched. Is it disoriented?

>>168464564
Yeah it was

Has anyone tried breaking MC in Lw2 with a flashbang?

>>168464071
No, just lasers

And gene mods

REMOVE AP SYSTEM
REMOVE OR REFORGE STEALTH
REMOVE PODS

>>168464764
Yes, it works. You 'banged the wrong dude

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>>168465509

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>start over, vanilla xcom2
>added a frenchman with the last name "Martell" from last time to my character pool, was an absolute beast ranger, gave him nickname "The Hammer"
>manage to get him starting off
>stupidly triggered pod on last movement, sectoid manages to make Martell panic
>"fuck" I think, rip old buddy
>he sprints across the map and point blank blows its head off

yes

YES

YESSSSSSSSS

vigilo confido motherfucker

>>168464956

What is the "AP System?" Do you mean AP grenades?

>>168468841
He wants time units instead of action points.

>>168467520
>panics a troop
>troop shoots back at the alien that made them panic and kills that alien

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I love it when this happens

XCOM2 OFFICIAL TIER OF CLASS SECONDARY WEAPON/ITEM

Eternal elder god tier, will 100% be used
>Grenade Launcher
Will save your retarded ass tier
>gremlin bot
Sometimes useful tier
>sniper pistol
Shit that takes up space on the model's back tier
>sword

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F

>>168472306
That sucks, figured they would target the assault more than the rocketeer.

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>>168472306

Thankfully, I happened to capture my first live Muton. But still, XCOM celebrates with a heavy heart this day.

This is easily one of the best soliders I have ever lost. He had 84 AIM ffs. He was one of the starting six, too. Fuck.

>>168472550

Yea. Shot through Heavy Cover and Through smoke. He started his turn out of sight, and there wasn't a good forward position I could take. 12% RIP.

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>>168470728
The best feeling.

So, am I supposed to take the mission where you get the robot as my 3rd mission? I'm getting ass fucked by the giant robot in the end. I think this may be supposed to be played on a later date because aparently my rookies cant do shit to the robots while getting cornered by another 10 robots every turn.

>>168457528
When he finishes Escalation 2

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>LW2 retaliation mission
>A team on standby, one member just recovered from injury
>7 man squad vs all the ayys
>battle going well, all civvies safe in a bunker occupied by the troops
>ayys keep coming, but aim is true and they fall in droves
>last batch of reinforcements before evac
>game crashes as they drop
>okay.png
>relaunch game
>play mission again
>no problems
>game crashes again, same place
>it keeps happening
>mfw
how do I get this to stop, Xcom wont let me win.

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:|

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>mfw playing long war for the first time
This is nothing like the 1st long war, had no idea what I was doing sending my squads out at first, then not realizing I had to EVAC out ahead of time and getting large groups of ayys out the A.

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I'm disappointed in LW2, it doesn't change the things I hated about XCOM 2 in general(shitty stealth and timers) and just adds a lot of bullshit that guarantees your going to have to restart campaigns either because something wasn't explained or just pure bad RNG luck. I honestly think I'm done with this game until some other overhaul mod, expansion, or sequel that shakes it up a lot.

It's a shame because I love the mods and customization that the game offers but it's simply stale at this point, and I don't really know what I'll spend my time doing now. It's really kind of a curse that it improves so many aspects because at the same time I want to go back and replay EW which I think the gameplay is better but without the improvements to customization and quality of life I feel like it will be kind of hollow.

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2nd MSGT on this run so far.

I swore to myself that I wanted to get Tandem Warheads when I started the campaign, but there are just so many fucking times I want just *bit* more fucking range on my Rockets.

reNicknamed "geoThermal" in memory of her comrade >>168472306

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Oh fuck, invasions are no joke. This is my only liberated region, too. The beacon is so far away...

>>168456761

You want Heat Warheads bro. Shred is super important.

>>168476497
It's even worse when constant reinforcements pin the bulk of your strike force and you have to rely on your assault/shinobi duo to take out the node thing.

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Is there really going to be an expansion at this point or are we going to see a new game? I feel like there isn't much an enemy within style expansion could add to the base game(as in, enhancing the current campaign rather than adding onto it after victory), and besides that Long War 2 was fully endorsed by Firaxis and touted as a major addon much like how Enemy Within was. Anything that is taking place after the main game ending is probably best left for a full game rather than an expansion.

>>168476086
>done with this game until some other overhaul mod, expansion, or sequel that shakes it up a lot.

Are there even any other overhaul mods in xcom 2 or is it just Long war or bust?

>>168473026
Can't soldiers still shoot panic but rare in xcom 2? I had one miss panic shoot my ally and destroy the wall the alien was hiding behind with predictable results.

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well

>XCOM 2 expansion with gene modding
>Recsue Vhalen mission to unlock new gene lab.
She's gene modified herself to be half Viper and appears as the gene lab's main scientist.

>>168478448
The hidden entry was last updated six days ago
https://steamdb.info/app/268500/dlc/

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>>168476497
>>168477361
It's over. Had to blow my shinobi's concealment to dash to get vision on the objective, which of course revealed yet another pod. She lived, somehow.

That allowed my two snipers to focus down the relay for several very painful turns while my squad was stuck fighting the entire map. I only have 6 rebels left but I still have my region and due to some serious luck I didn't lose any soldiers, I'm counting this as a win.

Does Advent have to spend legions to do this, or can they just keep doing it over and over again? Because I'm terrified of invasions now

At what point does /xcg/ just evac out of a mission?

I'm thinking of uninstalling the hunters dlc because rulers are fucking shit and not worth the effort of murdering.

>Vahlen didn't take advantage of advent's horrific genetic experiments and end up a viper

Firaxis fucking blew it.

>>168481205
Just check the box for it when you start a campaign and then don't do the mission for it. You don't have to worry about them then

Are LW2 labs any good at all?

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https://youtu.be/3FuHZon5HNc

N-notice me /xcg/

Tell me I'm shit at this and should never have started learning to edit or play xcom so I at least know whether or not to ever post here again.

constructive criticism would be great though desu

>>168481396
It seems like it, research takes a long time and it can be upgraded to 4 scientist slots. Might be a good candidate to build on a power coil.

>>168481396

Yes, early game it is a huge research bonus, and in LW2 research is much more time-gated than LW1 (where you were primarily resource starved).

The problem is that there are a lot of other buildsings you really are going to want to build first, so by the time you get it, it isn't really that worth it. IMHO you are usually better just buying a scientist early on if you desperately need more.

>>168482176
Ah the infamous catch 22

>>168481205
I had the viper shitlord appear on my hq assault, almost killed him. Only two of my dudes were lightly injured I believe.

>>168481440
Sorry I don't have anything really constructive to say but you've got a good video voice and demeanor. Doesn't sound like you're just trying to talk sometimes like a lot of people do.

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rooftops op

>xcom 2, vanilla
>prioritize engineers like mad, get really lucky with intel drops and black market, rush magnetic weapons and gauss
>have 4 engineers, dug straight down to power coil and am building a power relay on it right now
>going to try and rush psi next

going good so far

>>168482486
uhhh?

>>168481440
brave man posting this shit on 4chan

I don't like lets plays, but I feel like you did a good job.

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>>168482605
camping the roof on a swarming supply raid

So I'm like quite a few months into my vanilla xcom2 run and haven't activated the black market yet, should I? Is there anything to do besides sell corpses for more supplies? I'm fairly new.

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>Agitated by the massive losses caused by X-COM, the elders finally take control of the Avenger's staff and use them to crash the game

>>168483012

How the hell did you even get through the early game not doing that? It's pretty much essential if you want scientists/engineers off the bat.

it's only a day worth of scanning what the hell anon

>>168483012

YES. Check the Black Market every month. If they are "VERY INTERESTED" in an item, it is almost always worth selling it, including corpses, mods, and PCS's (unless you need them for research/save a few for items). Don't sell materials though.

Sometimes they sell Soldiers/Personnel for particularly cheap, and Black Market soldiers seem to be heavily weighted towards awesome base stats.

>>168483221
>>168483325
Uh oh. I have 4 scientists and 5 engies, I don't remember what month I'm on exactly but I just encountered my first sectopod on the story mission I'm doing.

I'm in desperate need of more intel and I'm pretty sure unless I get more engineers there's no way I can expand my contacts in time to stop the advent project.

I'm playing a bronzeman so I restart missions from the avenger if things go really wrong, I'm guessing they will. Should I have one guy equipped with bluescreens just for the sectopod? I recently discovered how great mimic beacons are and all my combat deployments have been going flawlessly, but I'm not sure if I can handle 28hp and 4 armor.

Modular Weapons --> Lasers
Modular Weapons + Hybrid Materials --> Magnetics
Modular Weapons + Hybrid Materials + Elerium -->Coilguns
Modular Weapons + Hybrid Materials + Elerium+Coilguns-->Plasma

Am I reading this shit right?

http://i.imgur.com/qf19YYe.jpg

>>168483968

Magnetics + Elerium-->Coilguns

Advanced Lasers + Adv Magnetics + Adv Coilguns --> Plasma.

>>168483852
>bluescreens

yes, fucks yes
I personally:
>Talon Rounds
go to rangers
>AP rounds
go to snipers
>Tracer
heavy
>bluescreen
depends on mission, bluescreen rounds ALSO give a bonus to hacking after a robotic unit is hit with them.
>misc others
sell or throw on someone

Don't forget, on VIP capture/kill missions if you capture the VIP you get supplies AND intel, but if you kill you only get supplies.

ayyliens
ayythereals
ayytherium
ayyloys

>>168484473
Yeah last VIP mission I did I sent a grenadier and specialist. Exploded the VIP from the evac and smoked it out for our great escape. I guess I'll just do it the hard way in the future.

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>>168483852

Are you playing Long War 2?

If so, giving your SPecialists the "Free" pistol shot skills (Quickdraw/Lightning Hands) from AWC and equipping them with Bluescreen rounds is a really amazing combination, which increases your effective hacking by 25 points.

>>168484856
No it's my first Xcom so I decided I'd actually finish the game by playing vanilla first. I heard about the bluescreen quickdraw memes and respeced my sharpshooter into a gunslinger, but he hasn't got that many skills yet. My specialist also has a ballin 90+45 in hack, so when I get around to it I'm going to see if I can just take control of the sectopod and trample the rest of the level with it.

>new cheat mod

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864797068

Does anyone ever use combat protocol for specialists over medic?

Seriously, just why isn't that that standard?

>>168486109
Because combat protocol is guaranteed armor piercing damage with squadsight range?

It practically eliminates the frustration that results from turrets and drones.

>>168486109
Nothing to heal if there is no one left alive to harm your soldiers is usually a better strategy.
Also it's the best way to deal with early heavy turrets and MECs when you got nothing to shred them with.

>>168486109
combat protocol gives you guaranteed drone removal

>>168486109

Are you saying that getting medic should be the standard?

Combat Protocol is fucking amazing and scales through the entire game.

>>168478634

Spectrum and Gorilla warfare. ABA2 surrendered and just made a mod for LW2.

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>Soldier born 2006
>Veteran of the original invasion
>Invasion was 20 years ago
>Year is 2035

>page 10

LOLNOPE

>>168486109

This is why I use that Combat Medic class mod

>>168438489
hes in high cover, no flanks, flashbanged, cant do shit
actually best action to do nothing, you might trigger another pod or waste nades on him

>>168488741
>soldier born 2006
>veteran of the original invasion in 2015

>>168487409
>ABA2 surrendered
he is working on a mod for LW2 to make early game firefights feel better and tone down on the stealth aspect

>>168493430
May he succeed in fixing Lump's shit.

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>miss two 90%+ shots in a row
>land this beauty of a max range threading the needle overwatch shot with a shotgun

I'll take it.

>>168490837
well, best action would be hunker, but yeah

i can't tell if lw2 becomes more aggravating or more fun when the avatar project actually appears because it becomes a weird tug of war

>>168494001
I keep getting this thing where it's fine for a while but then in the span of 1-2 months it just jumps 3/4 of the bar through and I have no idea why or how to counter it outside of story missions that take forever to get to anyway

>>168467520
I guess he managed to climb that Mountain.

>>168483968
wait, am i too dumb and its not linear?
i want to go lasorz, magnetic, coil, and plasma

i want to use magnetic asap, i need to skip lasers or im reading it wrong

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Really?

How does the character pool work? I've created my best sniper in xcom 2 from my original team in ew and specifically marked her as a sniper in creation but after showing up in my game she promoted to some drone pilot shit, wtf?

Can I import my team directly from ew to the character pool? Can I give her actually good aim since she had over 100 aim in ew?

the anon who linked something about expansion the other day would be so kind to link it again?

>>168470735
>not having your technical up front.

>>168496194
This?
https://steamdb.info/app/268500/dlc/

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aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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>When the flamethrower makes the ayy panic

>>168499729
You better have an AWC with a staffed scientist.

>Rescued VIP from vehicle
>Killed 9 ayys
>Got out before reinforcements
>With a 3 man team of support grenadier, pyro technical and a ranger.

Never have I felt so operator

>>168500024
>taking down a dark VIP with just a shinobi and sharpshooter
>swarming status
>faceless in every crowd
It was nervewracking dodging the patrols and staying out of every civvie's sight, but taking the VIP out and getting out without as much as an alert felt nice as hell

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Fuck fuck fuck fuck

They're developing laser sights too

>>168482408
Thanks my dude
>>168482812
Gotcha. Idk, is it bad manners to keep posting this shit here? I'm planning to start attenuating the mic and working on some other sound quality shit, as well as building a little intro card.

Is Dark VIP the rarest mission type or something? I rarely ever see it.

>Defending rebel relay
>main force spawn miles away surrounded by mechs and chrysalids
>meanwhile advisor and few expendables have to deal with Advent elite squad, 3 sneks and Archon spawned right top of them

that relay is dead

I've been hibernating for a while and only just heard about Long Dong 2's release.

Is it shit as expected?

>>168502032
yep, even beagle gave up become of the magnificence

>enemies get to attack after activation if they are on yellow alert, meaning after you engage the first pod
>reinforcements every other turn dropped behind you
>even more rng
>grenades can't even blow up cover, even if you have the sapper perk that is suppose to let you do this.

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The Way It's Meant to be Played™

>>168502562
>enemies get to attack after activation if they are on yellow alert, meaning after you engage the first pod

Mind-bogglingly stupid, but can easily (and should) be disabled.

>reinforcements every other turn dropped behind you

It's pretty lame. Only serves to make you play more defensively and overwatch trap for optimal engagements, instead of pushing forward to the (timed) objective.

>even more rng

Negative defence/dodge a shit, but that's all I can think of.

>grenades can't even blow up cover, even if you have the sapper perk that is suppose to let you do this.

That's a good thing.

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>>168503042
Turtling camper faggot™

>>168485737
>tfw you can't equip bayonets

Right now I want a mod that lets me take whatever primary weapon I want on every class

>"fuck frank I can't be doing this its too hard!" - grenadier
>"its a fucking shotgun james its not that goddamn hard" - ranger

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>>168500437
>bonus grazing chance
>bonus crit chance
>bonus defense while in cover
>bonus hit Points
>bonus meme ammo
maximum wew

So apparently you can mind control the dark VIP with a Deception hack

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>first time playing lw1
>run into a cyberdisk with 4 armor
>have a mix of early lasers and basic guns
>miss an inordinate amount of high percentage shots and those that hit deal 1-2 damage
>somehow manage to avoid taking any damage myself even with gaps in suppression
>cyberdisk finally blows up after 7 fucking turns
>mfw through the whole thing

>>168507223

That is why I personally:

Get Chem Grenades asap
Try to bring 2x Infantry

whats better in EW vanilla genes or cybernetics

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>>168507802
Infantry is a shit, dudebro...

>>168508112
memebots > memegenes

>>168508112

Gene Mods are strong as fuck in vanilla EW. Mimetic Skin is straight up broken as hell, and it is easy to get.

That being said, MEC troopers are basically the strongest units in the game, but require a lot of investment.

>>168508284

Maybe, but they still are consistent, high volume of fire against shit like Cyberdisks, or enemies out of cover (with rockets/engineers etc.). 2 Infantry and a Shredder Rocket/Chem Grenade can pretty reliably take down a Cyberdisk even at Laser weapons.

Why does Numeric Health Display randomly stop working? Anyone else getting that? It's making me paranoid about my other mods that actually matter.

>>168508112
With the notable exception of meme skin. In vanilla though even Impossible is easymode if you turn on Not Created Equally and turn your 80 aim soldiers into MECs. Get all the meld on your first mission, and research meld recombination right out the gate, and you can have MECs by the end of the first month.

>>168500437

With shit like this happening it makes fighting suicidal, these buffs could be beatable if you had timers removed giving you the time needed to what would be required to deal with this shit.

Meaning you could now have shootouts where you're outclassed or evenly matched considering ranks of troops.

Which sounds more fun than having an armory full of shinobis built for soloing missions.

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>when you start to falter in LW2 due to building injuries from yellow alert bullshit garbage
>having to do supply raids with suboptimal squads
>now doing supply raids with two good soldiers and the rest are whatever I can buy from the black market at the time

Guys yellow alert is slowly bleeding me

h e l p

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fucking what

>>168511235
>tile scatter: 6

Maybe you shouldn't shoot a fucking rocket from the hip

>>168510914
use cheats or you could also spawn a hero unit (positive they are in xcom 2)

>>168511235
>6 tile scatter
fucking wow

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>>168511235

>max scatter 6 tiles

>>168496168
The classes assigned (if they rank up from rookie) are always random unless you get a specific mod that changes it.

>>168496168

>Can I import my team directly from ew to the character pool?

Well, you could just console command in a dozen or so Advent troops corpses.

>>168511235

>facing the complete wrong direction

That's not scatter, that's an alien collaborator.

>>168507223
yeah gotta have heat gunners and shred rockets for robos

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>7 missions at once

fuck off lump, this is why bealge quit playing your shitty mod. I literally had to send 3 rookies on one of these missions to counter a dark event.

>>168513714
>you must do every mission
No

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>>168496168
The character pool is a roster of custom soldiers the game can pull recruits from. They're just like any other rookies.

I remade several units from my EW/LW campaigns as well as characters from other games.

>>168511235

You have a severe case of infiltrated Faceless Ruler.

>>168513714
So what infiltration percentage is it safe to attempt a mission? I haven't really grasped anything about LW2 yet. There seems to be no logic or reason behind anything anymore.

>>168513714
Beagle is a faggot who is ass mad he can't camp for fifteen turns. Fuck him

>>168513909
Rude.

Somewhat accurate though.

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>>168513898
You have to know what your squad can handle and then go from there.

>>168513898
Depends on the mission. Regular missions, you need to infiltrate to at least 100%, if not more. On supply raids, just fill up the roster and prepare to storm the beaches.

>>168513795
so what happens if I have most of my squads out and a supply raid or a mission to counter a dark event happens? Then I send my last squad and another one of those pops up? I rather not lose the game because the defense boost dark event pops up this early and I can't counter it.

>>168514254
You pull a squad off a non-essential mission.

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>>168513714

You are not supposed to actually do every mission. Like, at all.

>>168513898

The game is generally balanced around 100% infiltration, but you can get to 150-200% if you just send 1 or 2 soldiers (shinobi+Specialist stealth ops). Lower difficulty means more and higher tech enemies, which makes missions get *much* harder very fast, and since you don't get corpses on most missions (any mission you Evac from) there isn't any real reward from doing harder missions except margionally more experience from kills. If you struggle with 100% infiltration missions then something is definitely wrong (except shit like Network Towers, which are brutal).

The one exception to this is Troop Ambushes/Supply Raids. Since you actually get corpses, and since you can sell extra corpses for quite a lot of money on the Black Market, doing low (even 0%) missions are very much worth it if you can handle it.

You really only *need* to do 100% Corpse missions to have enough for research/equipment, but deliberately doing low infiltration on these gives you a lot more supplies and possibly higher tier unit corpses than you would otherwise get.

>>168514632
So you are telling me I should send a squad on every mission, just pull them off if another one pops up.

>>168514254

Then you bring back your A team from that INTEL mission and send them on the more important mission. There is no penalty for pulling back from a mission before you start.

Or, if the mission you are currently infiltrating is close to completing, you can boost it with Intel and pop it immediately, and then send your guys on the new mission.

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Welp, that was a fun campaign. I love getting fucked with RNG in the tactical layer too since I had no option to counter this in april

>>168515036
Yes, why not?

>>168515036

There is no real cost on having your units infiltrating somewhere, so if there is a nice, moderate value mission just send a team in, and if something more important pops up, pull them back and do the more important mission. If not, then you just proceed with the first mission.

>>168515272
It only applies to a few enemies

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>There are people *right now* that play with Strict Screening on

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Post Kelly comics

>>168445949
they arent a threat cause their shots arc and you mostly find them in bases so they can never fire cause of low ceilings
they do an insane amount of damage

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what went so right bros?

>>168514951
>Lower difficulty means more and higher tech enemies
????????

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>deadliest enemy is still advent grunts

>>168516758
Good job. I couldn't bring myself to slog through TFTD

>>168516985
Needs more Ayys in the game

>>168516985
>They're watching you play RIGHT NOW.

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>>168517069
I enjoyed it a lot actually except for the last part where you just abuse MC forever
Also the last mission is way too long

>>168517310
I wanted to do comfy undersea UFO missions, but the game withheld them and just kept on giving me the Terror Cruise lines.

>>168516985
I expected lancers to be much higher. Officers make sense because of mark. I have no idea what makes mutons deadly though.

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>>168517456
yea i literally never got an island terror mission and only 1 harbor terror mission.
It was a mistake to give the shipping lanes such a high frequency in comparison.
Also despite having mixed crew missions, a lot of aliens felt underrepresented like xarquids and tricenes. I only encountered the former on the final mission and the later on a shipping lane

>>168517615
Muton plasma grenades fuck over careless players like me

>>168463310
He's really good at sneaking supplies to his personal stash.

>tfw late-game Rangers can't Counter-counter Mutons

Hah-I-was-really-the-one-behind-you would have been a great Colonel perk.

>>168516864
>>168514951

Sorry. I meant that *HIGHER* difficulty means more and higher tech enemies.

>>168464764

Yes it's almost my more preferred tactic with Sectoids. MC/Zombie are like the best thing ever since it avoids a direct damaging attack to your squad, wastes the Sectoid's turn, and is super easily countered by a FB. You banged the wrong dude, bro

>>168517615

Lancers don't do much damage and don't usually *kill* you though. They just fuck you over and cause the mission to fall apart, allowing the other ayys to overwhelm you.

>>168473671
It's designed to make you start over once you begin to win.

>>168476086
Why not just get true concealment for LW2? Literally solves like 99% of the timer related issues I ever see people bitch about. Stealth up and move to the objective. Break stealth with an ambush and call the Skyranger on the same turn. It's almost like the timers don't exist any more, but adds a certain layer of intensity to the game if you get discovered early in the assault and have to rush the objective and evac sooner than anticipiated.

Or just git gud

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>>168433425
>Had to move, didn't have internet for about ~5 days
>Was ready to play Long Dong 2 and beat it during those days
>Fire up XCOM 2 after setting up my PC, turns out I have to be online for the mods I physically downloaded to actually work
>Had to resort to playing fucking Vanilla XCOM 2

How is this allowed? I downloaded the physical files from the fucking workshop. Total bullshit. Steam was, and is, a mistake.

>>168481205
Only once did I actually fully say fuck it and evac'd. Had a good time slowly moving towards the objective to get LOS of the crate to hack at a range to have a safe Skyranger landing near by behind cover. Moved up and got discovered by 3 squads simultaenously and got shit on due to cover placements on my side of the road vs their side. It was like a good version of Battle Los Angeles carrying my spec op dudes to the evac site while getting suppressed.

>>168519148
Not true, is a meme. Dumb as fuck, etc.

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http://www.strawpoll.me/12351885

Trying to play Xcom: EW after a long time, but every time on this one mission a certain thin man will crash my game. If I shoot him, or if he shoots, the game just crashes immediately. Fully vanilla, steam install, nothing unusual. What's going on? I think I'm just gonna get long dong for it

>>168516985
it's archons that fuck me up normally. something like 11 damage on a non-crit melee with huge movement range and ignoring height some is horseshit.

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Holy shit this was an intense firefight

Would have had to evac if I didn't have three gunners to suppress and get guaranteed hits. My grenadier was from the BM and was an experiment in a support grenadier with flashes and smokes, and only had one shredstorm available.

MVP goes to the assault I bought from the BM that kept tanking entire pods

and the little drone I hacked that tanked the last pod

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>>168521113
thx 4 ur service lil' droner

>>168520208
get dev console (I think there's one for vanilla too) and kill it with a command I guess

such a thing has never happened to me

>>168522343
Yeah, I guess I could do that. Thank you.

>dick around before liberating first area
>avatar project almost done
>maybe I realy should do that black site..
>while I infiltrate Ayyys boost last 4 boxes
>doom clock countdown
>clear site, kill codex
>4 boxes to go again
>just told Tygan to find me another facility

How fucked am I and will doomclock reset?

Is the Trooper class mod still up to date?

>>168524298
the doom timer persists

if it goes down from 28 days to 9 days and you blow up that facility then the next time it rears its ugly head it will continue to be 9 days.

Do not hesitate on blowing up the facilities.

If a civ runs they're a collaborator, if they don't run they're a disciplined collaborator.

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>>168510914
>he still hasn't made the simple .ini edit to disable it

You only have yourself to blame, boy.

>>168527282

>cheating

lmao @ ur life

>>168527318
>cheating

I spoke to Lump, he told me the mechanic was an intentionally nonsensical inclusion, and enabled by default purely as a social experiment to see how many people would have the intuition to disable it.

>>168527803

Want to know how I know you're lying?

>>168515173
Thankfully there isn't like a combat stress meter where you have to give breaks to returning squads or something. I've used the same squads for like 4 missions in a row back to back.

>>168502562
>>enemies get to attack after activation if they are on yellow alert, meaning after you engage the first pod

Plan a better ambush. If you can ambush the first squad good enough it's not even a problem. Beagle does some retarded decisions from what I have seen from his LW2 plays.

>>reinforcements every other turn dropped behind you

Sucks, but makes the most sense from an ADVENT defensive measure. I tend to overwatch during a reinforcement phase to hopefully at least get 2 or 3 of them at once.

>>even more rng

I give you that. Shit gets really ridiculous later on.

>>grenades can't even blow up cover, even if you have the sapper perk that is suppose to let you do this.

Pretty realisitic IMO. Frag grenades don't blow most cover in real life either, unless you land that shit right ontop of whatever it is you intend to blow up broski. But yeah, satchel charges are very situational and rockets are fucking scatter 2d6 tile dumb shit.

>>168528313
Sounds like something lump would do desu

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>tfw made a class concept but can't code for shit
>tfw I'll never make it into an actual fleshed out mod

>>168530064
Well let's hear it. Maybe someone here with more experience at modding will like it and make it.

>>168529265
>reinforcements every other turn dropped behind you

neuting reinforcement rates was one of the best edits I made.
Little fix to overall reinforcement speed modifier and suddenly reinfercements dont drop on worst possible times but few turns later

>>168516985
Considering their constant presence and increasingly large numbers relative to other enemies, not too surprising. You may not always see a bunch of mutons, but you will always see advent grunts.

>>168516547
I do miss cyberdisks a bit.

>>168530658
http://pastebin.com/yQDgDQrB

Here yo go. Obviously note that this is a WIP and skill placement isn't final.

>if you use gremlin to hack data cache you miss out on lods of loot

Is there a mod to fix this? I searched but couldn't find anything.