XCOM General - /xcg/

>>169367209
I know slow is smooth and smooth is fast, but that is definitely way too smooth.

pistols are useful

lw2 is shit

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>My A-team assault lets me know early on that he will be carrying the shit out of the plebs who cant hit their 80% shots in his squad by shitting on every mission he is in
>Fuck it, lightning reflexes, run and gun, close combat, crit perks, talon rounds
>He never misses
>His squad sits back and cheers him on as he tapdances into each mission and slaps the aliens shit
>"The Nuts" Robinson gets to close combat specialist rank
>AWC perks are motherfucking hard target and tac sense
>The rest of the squad equips their pom-poms as Big Nuts Robinson walks into the middle of a pod of 6, whips out his [coil shotgun] dick, and slaps the aliens faces with it
assaults are the shit

>>169367880
Fuck! those awc perks are godly best ive gotten are some sniper one and additional damage my ranger with a rifle had an additional 12damage with every attack

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Please help

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>>169367880
Is that a weapon mod? What kind?

>>169369620
nigger that's the coilgun shotgun

>>169370215
kill the snake, but the sweater must survive.

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zap

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The fuck

>>169372224
you killed a viper and got that instead of a corpse?

>>169372224
dont breath that

>>169372224
If I had to guess, that's pink alien cocaine.

>>169369679
like hard r n word, like hard r, like arm wrapped around my neck like smiling like hard r like arm wrapped around my neck

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>>169372224

>>169372360
I killed a Valentines Viper (it's a mod)

>>169374504
and i thought that mod was just a recolor
thats a neat easter egg

>>169374504
You got your hands on some chinese traditional medicine.

>>169374709
>tfw Chinese
>tfw I like grass jelly

>>169374912
that stuff looks gross

>>169375504
I'm sorry

Well I was having a lot of fun on my brand new run of LW1, but on my first UFO assault I got a hangup after getting suppressed by a sectoid. Audio and UI worked fine but I can't even press escape to bring up the menu, or use any abilities or select units. I looked this up and apparently it's been around since the game's release.

What the fuck? I have about an hour invested into this mission, is there a fix?

>>169375540
no need to apologize

long dong sucks ass

>>169375540
Don't be, pretty much every culture has its things that seem weird to others.

Probably Haggis, in my case. (Which is also delicious)

>>169362931
alien sight range indicator
campaign summary
enhanced soldier customization
enhanced tactical info
exalt reminder
realistic mission intel
and ofc texmod camo stuffs

>>169210018
>>169209519
I read the wiki and asked jonrbs and at this point I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter what rank your medic unlocks psi at.

>>169375759
What happens when you reload the mission? Maybe you can enable dev console and use a command to complete it.

Bagel is useless.

>>169380032
He just stopped spending his freetime playing something that he doesn't actually enjoy (like we're all doing)

>>169380032
well, yeah, we've gotta find someone else to latch onto and form a cult of personality around. But honestly where to find a new /ourguy/ ? He needs to be a dank combination of natural charisma, entertainer, meme shitposter, plus legitimately skilled at videogames. It's a tall order.

>want to mod enemy within
>need mod patcher
>am on osx
>create virtual machine that runs linux
>compile mod manager on vm
>use it to patch the directory back on the non virtual machine
Good feel. Being computer illiterate sucks

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>Sometimes you just have those good days for a change

Shit I'm not even attracted to aliens anymore, I just want to kill them.

>>169372224
>Huff it like cocane.
>Turn INTO a viper.

>>169376593
Do those mods work with LW?

>>169390064
Yes, the guy was asking for lw1 mods and I listed what I use. Haven't played vanilla in years.

>>169389376
this is a good thing embrace this feeling

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>>169390158
Ah. I'm about to finish vanilla and about to do a lw run so I was curious.

Didn't know there were EW mods besides LW to be honest.

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>>169383794
>4.20 average damage

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>>169391097
>BLAZE IT OR DIE FAGGOT

>>169389376

I don't just want to kill them, that's too simple, I want to humiliate and degrade them. But until the option to capture and rape them then upload it to the darknet to lower morale and instill more fear, I guess killing them will do.

>>169390907
There are a lot of mods and most of them are minor tweaks for LW. A couple eventually got incorporated into LW itself - you used to need a separate mod to see the entire skill tree, and what currently exists as the UFO scanners project used to be a mod - but some really good ones were made near or after LW's final release version so they didn't have much hope of being packaged with it by default.

Aww shiiet

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=871899663

Xcom is a misguided bunch of terrorists whose short-sightedness will mean the end of humanity

xcom more like tardcom amirite fellow advent citizens?

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>>169394005
Don't be a racist. Humans are an oppressed minority now! Are you a racist little trooper?

>>169394224
Will we get Viper sex slaves?

What are THE mods to use with Long Dong 2?

>>169394336
:(

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Thanks Uncle Gunman

>>169394336
Will this anon get a free Skyranger ride?

>half my people in the havens get melee attack perks
>on people you can't pick the items on

Who designed this haven system? Why is it that rookies all have rifles with he and flash grenades, while haven defenders can have any weapon and any items except swords? Seems like lone wolf and cutthroat are the most common perks.

>>169395319
That's a bug, I'm afraid. Will be removed in 1.2.

>>169395224
That weapon looks like it's made of painted wooden blocks... :(

>>169395638
I was going for that

>:(

Oh sup numeric UI anon

>>169395638
It was that guy's first attempt. I remember when he first posted it on /xcg/.

I think he went on to make the Mercenary Plasma Weapons.

ETA on 1.2?

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I'm fucking done with xcom, between all my soldier missing all their 70% flanking shots, getting 1 shot at full health, and now this "can't vault over low cover" horseshit, I'm fucking done.

>>169395803
No way it's the same guy! Mercenary Plasma look amazing!
Well, you've gotta start somewhere I guess. I admit I wouldn't be able to even make the Mercenary Woodblock Weapons myself.

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Why is X2 so much better than EW

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>>169396417
Join me on the darkside

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>>169397482
Postan operators

>>169397909
nice the good old man face

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>>169397482

Cosmetics.

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>>169398148

>93%
>graze
>3 dmg

just make it a miss you shit game

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>100%
AGAIN? This game is fucking broken! This is my second mission where I hit all my targets!

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>>169398385

>>169391242
>tfw no Hank Hill voice pack for my favorite technical

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>>169398567

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>>169398719

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>>169399079
Wrong pic, woops

Though Manchu armor mods would be nice too

>>169399079
What game is that, sir?

>>169400218
Medieval 2 Total War with a partially translated Chinese mod

>>169397482
>load times
>minimalistic UI
>delays even with zip
it's not

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>>169400516
>not liking minimalistic UI
>load times only with toasters
>mfw Jake got angry at zip

>>169400874
What kind of PC are you playing on that you have no load times? Game installed on an SSD?

>>169401296
SSD, though I admit it's still not quite as fast as lightning but still pretty decent

I use an Aorus laptop

>end of month report
>reveal advent events
>the event procs before I can fly to the supply drop

what magnificent design.

>>169395224
>Awakened IQ
>IF BREATHES OR RUNS ON ELECTRONICS I'LL SEE IT

Is there a console command to spawn alien debris in a map index position?

>very light extract the vip
>start revealed
>4 advent mecs surrounding the extraction point

when does the fun start?

>>169402136
I instinctively want to say no. What the hell are you trying to pull off anon?

>>169402291

I accidentally cheated by spawning GTS. I feel bad and want to remediate my actions

>>169402415
Couldn't you just, not use it for awhile? Don't forget that by not clearing the debris you also lost resources in case you want to compensate for the free supplies you got.

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>>169402550

I guess I could but just feel not very elegant

What's the most embarassing way you've ever lost an xcom campaign?
>playing UFO:EU
>expand my laser cannon business with a large investment
>except it was two days from the end of the month
>the maintenance and salary bill comes and I'm like 10 million in debt
>can't buy anything
>not nearly enough shit to sell
>can't make laser cannons to sell because I don't have money to build them
>fug

>>169406172
Honestly most of my xcom/x-com losses have been a slow crawl of despair as my roster suscumbs to wounds and the eventual death of all veterans and eventually the weight is too much for rookies to bare. I can't remember the last time I lost an x-com campaign, maybe when I was really young. It think one time I put my base in Antartica because I thought that would be a real cool secret base. It was cool, but it was also a little too secret.

Is there an indicator mod that clearly labels things that are about to explode? Sometimes those effects are not that visible and obscured by already-present smoke and fire like on supply raids.

Is EW literally rigged to give you 3+ women on your starting squad? what the fuck is this

>>169406928
I wish when the expansion comes out to XCOM 2 it will contain secret nazi bases in Antarctica and you could choose to fight both nazis & ADVENT (like the eggsalt in EW) or you can choose to work together with them to usher in a new fashy dawn on Earth.

>>169408764
EU had gender ratios that reflected real life, then in EW it was changed to 50/50 distribution

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>>169367413

pistols are the waifus

>>169409014
More like 20/80 distribution. Every campaign I've started ever has had overwheming number of wome.

>>169408764
>not rolling with all-female armies of kung-fu killers
Dolemite frowns upon your faggotry.

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>>169409014
Well in the future mostly women fight and die in wars due to years of feminism! Men stay at home looking after the children!

>>169409929
XCOM1 ain't the future. And anyway, it's the way it is because that's the way x-com was. I seriously doubt Gallop had some reason to push feminism back in 1994. It's honestly just an xcom tradition.

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Wakaliwood voice mod when

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

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I swear, LW2 actually favors lower chance shots then high ones. im hitting 15%-20% chances shots more often then 50%-60% to the point that I'm purposely aiming lower
I made 3 15% hits in one mission

>>169413278
It would explain the well-documented "thin man effect."

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>>169413278
What is this, an image for ants?

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I want to hold hands with Vahlen!

>>169415094
>Vahlen is cute
>but the sweater is a horrible forced meme
Not sure how to feel about this desu.

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All I did was blue move on a have defense mission.

I love the music in Piratez. I've been trying to find out more about the artist. All I have is that it's by Gifty (if I'm even correct in saying that). Does anyone know where I can find more of Gifty's stuff or if he goes under a different name somewhere or something?
I'm playing Xenonauts and I have a hankering to play Piratez type music as I do so

>>169416305
I've never listened to PirateZ's music and I've beaten the entire game. I am curious now though.

>>169416641
Really? I heard the main menu music and fell in love. I believe I actually waited on the main menu until the track finished before I started the game

>>169416305
>>169416641
Anyway, if you want to track down the artist, I would reccomend posting on the PirateZ thread on the openxcom forum: http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3626.4095.html

>>169417280
I just got in the habit of openxcom of not having the music on and playing whatever I was in the mood for. This carried over to PirateZ.

>>169417310
Great idea. Thanks

>9/12 of my EW roster is womyn

lol?

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>PirateZ has added weather affects
>Armor can make your troops to hot or too cold now
>underwater missions
>space missions
wtf PirateZ dev the absolute MADMAN

>>169418541
I found with my recent Long War playthrough that most new recruits were women. Surely purely coincidental. Still strange though

is sapper a no-brainer?

>>169419634
Welp, I just f5'ed my post into oblivion, so fuck it.

Go with Sapper if you don't trust your Technicals to destroy cover when necessary, or if you don't like using Demolition, or if you really want to blow up cars. It still isn't going to let you destroy most ADVENT construction until you get better grenades, and support-spec 'naders with Rapid Reaction and Sting Grenades can change an entire engagement on a whim.

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The fuck? Can you encounter Alien leaders more than once in LW2? I definitely killed a Berserker Queen already.

How do I switch perks in LW1 with dev console? I'm wanting to switch close and personal with hit and run on my assault and I'm typing \giveperk -[34] and \giveperk [167] while hovering the mouse over the unit in battle.

>>169420938
So you've selected the unit, enabled the dev console, and have used the .txt file int the LW foldier for this proccess? I should work then. I don't think you need the brackets though, pretty sure it's giveperk -1 or giveperk 46

>>169420250
>Reaction
Rapid Deployment, rather.

>>169421202
I am not aware of this .txt file since I did not see it in the instructions. Do you mean putting in the engine.upk thing or something else?

>>169421713
There is a text file in the LW folder that has the correct perk numbers, since they are different from vanilla. You want to refer to this file:
>Long_War_EW_Armor_Kit_Codes

>>169420438
Perhaps you started infiltrating before killing the ruler in another mission? Not sure how ruler chance is rolled, maybe it happens on infiltration start.

>>169420250
right, technicals are a thing. rapid deployment it is

>>169422204

It's unlikely; this was a fairly recent Troop Column mission. The previous queen was quite some tim ago.

>>169422648
Then I have no ideas.

Now that I think about it, zerker q once escaped with 50% hp and then came back at 100%, just assumed lw2 sometimes heals rulers. But perhaps it was a bug after all. Someone should tell the devs.

>>169422604
Keep in mind that their rockets are inaccurate-at-best without rocket perks, and they do only get one.

There is no "correct" build or perk per level-up. Roll with what works for you.

>>169423252
>they do only get one
With perks they also get the Concussion Rocket and the Bunker Buster, giving them lots of rocket selection. Rocket technicals are solid.

>>169424250
>Concussion Rocket

Anyone ever found a use for that one?

>>169424674
Buying time to evac

>>169424674

Not really. I'm perplexed as why smoke would be useful. Doesn't that make it harder to hit the targets? Or is it they-can't-see-out-of-the-smoke smoke?

>>169424674
It's worse than useless because of smoke and low proc chance of its effects because they're based on will

Grenadiers > rocket technical every situation beyond early game.

>>169424849
By the way, not saying the rocket isn't shit, because it is. Just get rid of concussion rocket and replace it with another standard one.

>>169424250
>Concussion Rocket
>inaccurate Sting Grenade that also gives your enemies smoke
Not worth mentioning. I did say that there is no correct perk per level, but I see I spoke too soon. Especially when compared to Burnout.

>>169425070
Better yet, just add guaranteed disorient and completely remove the smoke and chance to stun. A flashbang-rocket would be worthwhile at any time, even with reduced damage.

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>>169423252
>Having to choose between accurate rockets and suppression

>>169425363
>Better yet,
Another rocket would be strictly better, and I don't think the technical runs the risk of being op.

>>169425530
Suppression in X2 is shit if you don't have any perks to back it up or the right equipment.

>>169424674
I used it once to protect an assault who was stuck in a bad position with like 10 enemies. But really that could be done with conventional smoke

>>169425620
>Suppression in X2 is shit
Lies. Lies and slander. Suppression breaks overwatch, removes the ability to grenade, kills accuracy, and can make a lot of enemies just turtle up for a turn.

Sure, when you have an enemy bold enough to run your suppression, you can be in for a bad time, but that doesn't make Suppression shit.

>long dong still keeps trying to make combat as unpredictable and chaotic as possible with magnificent trigger tentacle mechanics, totally unreliable cover destruction and randomly scattering rockets and everything
>it works in ufo defense because there's way more soldiers per squad, life is cheap and there are no pod mechanics, and you can chuck shitloads of rockets, high ex and autoshot spray&pray everywhere
>none of those things apply to the new xcoms
For what purpose

Stealth or combat for LW2 blacksite?

>>169426040
If it's not a gunner then I wouldn't bother with suppression. Think about suppression on your technical man. Running technicals with smgs so they can be in good position for rockets or flamethrower is pretty standard. smgs and suppression don't mix. Even a rifle is a pretty poor suppressor. In the meantime your gunner is suppressing 4 enemies and can actually hit them if they run and do damage.
Removing overwatch might have mattered in XCOM1, but now everything removes overwatch. And the AI is going to run that suppression everytime when they don't feel threatened. A suppressing techincal is a non-threat.

But hey maybe, I'm wrong. Have you run a suppression techincal before and what were the results? If not, go for it, no one is stopping you.

>>169426324
Stealth as long as possible.

>>169426495
I might be able to just shinobi it instead of infiltrating a large squad and breaking conc at the last moment

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>>169426108

Because they are hack frauds.

>>169426495
SMGs and suppression allow you to suppress after all your Gauntlet utility is expended. A Technical with no rockets or flamer charges is dead weight, unless he has Suppression.

>>169426108
>I can't beaglestrat or bring two grenadiers to destroy ALL THE COVER anymore

Cry me a river, pissbaby.

>>169427382
>smg has 2 base ammo
>suppression takes 2 ammo
>nothing left to take the actual reaction fire shot with
>enemy just runs your suppression and takes an uninhibited action same turn


Only way to make it useful is a fully loaded assault rifle, or putting a huge expanded mag on your piddly little smg for very little value. Just use gunners for suppression senpai.

>>169427382
>dead weight

Well, with an SMG, they ARE dead weight. SMGs are terrible. They were terrible in LW1 as well, yet people seemed convinced that Engineers and Medics had to carry them for the fringe utility, then complained those two classes were shit in regular combat.

Give your Techncials a goddamn rifle. A good rifleman is never useless. Technicals don't have the aim of Rangers, Gunners or Sharpshooters, but they're no worse than the next trooper. Give them some Tracer Rounds and a Scope and tell that soldier to shoot his weapon!

>>169427382
Is this from experience or are you theory crafting?

>>169427929
>yet people seemed convinced that Engineers and Medics had to carry them for the fringe utility
No one did this.
Anyway, for LW2, smgs for grenadiers and techinicals on timed missions, rifles on full on firefights.

>>169427671
I do use Gunners for Suppression. That's their job. What giving Suppression to a Technical does is enable them to still be useful after they otherwise would not be useful.

>enemy just runs your suppression
Stop suppressing MECs.

>>169428079
Ok seriously the average trooper will run overwatch and suppression. People try to run my gunner suppresion all the time which is why I use area suppression when I have the luxury even on single targets.

>>169428079
I don't think you understand.

Your smg literally can't even take the shot on someone running your suppression.

It's useless and anyone can walk right out of it.

>>169428204
Looks like we have a serious case of "personal experience may vary", here. Most enemies I've encountered don't tend to run Suppression unless they're either flanked or heavily armored, like Mutons and mechanical units.

>>169428291
>Your smg literally can't even take the shot on someone running your suppression.
You're an idiot. Area Suppression costs extra ammo to take extra shots. Normal Suppression does not. An SMG suppression costs two ammo, can take a shot at the unit who dares to run Suppression, and then has to reload on the following turn. A Rifle has one ammo remaining after the same situation.

>>169427929
I only used smgs for rocketeers since they never shot anything anyway

>advent is sniping out everyone from max viewrange
>i cant land 80~ shots

yea, die lump
hope you fucking die

>>169430064
>it's an "/xcg/ doesn't understand probability or risk management" episode
Just imagine a Pepe attached to this post, since I don't save them.

>>169430395
your whore mother doesnt understand risk management
fuck off and die with you gay buddy
>500hours on legend
>lel he doesnt manage risks

die

>>169431569
Then you should know better, faggot.

>>169431569
not him, but

>500hours on legend
>still yet to attain true understanding

so you're just incurably stupid, and judging by your temper probably autistic in the truest sense

>>169430395
>*Detect moves in front of you*
>*Crits your squad leader through hard cover*
>"Heh, guess you needed better risk management kid".

>>169432425
I get the distinct feeling that you're leaving out a shitload of details that could be used to better understand your situation, probably because said details reveal your shitteriety.

>>169432557
This stuff happens. But after 500 hours you should have moved beyond this.

Pop quiz, /xcg/.

Is it possible to throw grenades up through a hole in the roof, such as a ladder well in an ADVENT jail, onto the other side of a wall?

This is a little important.

>>169438101
You can, but where exactly the throw arc will let you get it after that are pretty sketchy and hard to predict. Providing a screenshot may lead to more accurate guesses.

>>169438101
maybe, start pixel hunting

>>169438379
Turned out well enough. I just had to cause a distraction from a place I wouldn't see enemies. First successful distraction tactic of LW2, first scientist of the campaign.

>>169426108
I think a lot of LW's appeal was that the base game was still pretty much the same, but better.

LW2 adds a bunch of new mechanics and they aren't properly balanced yet.

>landed medium
>command pod patrols into me on second turn

k

>>169435752
What is this and why does it look so interesting?

>>169439708

This is actually pretty on the mark. The base game of EW was "delay/mitigate panic across the world while developing your tech and soliders so you can complete story missions". LW1 didn't change that, only really changing the mechanics of panic - but largely for the better.

LW2 makes a lot of changes to how the game progresses.

>>169439708
>LW2 adds a bunch of new mechanics and they aren't properly balanced yet.
It would also help if they had someway of actually explaining them to the player.

>Start new LW2 campaign
>Moving up from Veteran to Commander for this run.
>Finish first mission, get to check my roster for the first time.
>1/2 my soldiers only have 3hp
>Only 3 men have over 4 health.
They have good aim I guess, but I have a feeling casualties are gonna be high this time.

All you snekfags might want to head over to /gif/ and find the SFM thread

>>169397482

It's not. It is, however, also not any worse.

Do the reinforcements on the Blacksite mission stop after you hack the target?

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"Let me out, little human. I can tell you things. So many things."

Does aim affect the scatter of technical rockets at all?

>>169441513
Phoenix Point. A game being developed by Julian Gallop, the original creator of x-com. Ever since mirco-prose shutdown, Julian has wandered the earth, attaching himself to random studios hoping to re-make his beloved x-com. Now, he is working on Phoenix Point, an x-com like game, with his own studio.

>>169446056
no

>>169418094
Are you gonna ask now, or do I have to do it?

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>>169439919
>command pod
>patrolling

>>169457131
Pretty sure they can patrol if it's a sectoid commander or ethereal.

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Any idea what mod is causing this to happen?

>>169460653
looks like it might be one of those cutting room floor ammo mods

>>169397729
No wonder you lost you only had four scientists after an entire year. Gotta smash those freighters to cash in and ramp up.

>>169456895

SHIV: Ultima Tier

Just started a new LW2 Campaign with MOCX. Are the recurring enemies as sexy as i think they are?

>>169460653

Looks like whatever mod that is has a broken text file, .int file? Can't remember what they're called. It shouldn't be any other mod causing that.

How do I get the alternate mod launcher to display conflicts?

>>169467327
>https://github.com/aEnigmatic/xcom2-launcher/releases/tag/v0.4.3
It's in the mod pastebin

>>169467418

I'm not asking for a link to the launcher, I already have it. I'm asking how to get it to display conflicts, they aren't showing up

>>169467543
It happens automatically. If it's not displaying the conflicts, then it's not detecting them.

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I hope the upcoming tie-in novel for the expansion actually expands more on this pseudoTiberium.

Advent was incredibly freaked out by the effect it had on local fauna and sent flamethrower troops to deal with it.

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>>169466954

A quiet night indeed.

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>tfw your Psiqueen Anette dies to a misfired rocket

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>>tfw no Archangel Armor mod.

>>169467675
Considering the expansion deals with it instead of the sequel, and it's in the book, I suspect this is the leadin for XCOM3: Apocalypse's megacities.

>>169470657
I don't think there's code for XCOM flying. Archons don't really count.

>>169473408
>instead of the sequel

Wait, did they already say the sequel won't deal with it?

>>169473490
>>169473490

i was assuming he was correct about an upcoming expansion tie-in novel

>>169473558
Oh wait sorry I misread and got confused with expansion and sequel

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>>169398401
I once grazed a 100% rupture.

Wow, this Xenonauts 2 demo is sure a thing. All this work for the same ugly looking game that takes everything from old X-Com and but without the fun stuff. But this time in 3D! That looks just as bad as the old tileset graphic of its predecessor.

>>169474227
Well, it's Xenonauts. Mediocrity is in the game.

That was unkind, but after seeing other examples of early access success, I feel it's honest.

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So how important is Radio Relay in Long Dong 2?
I've built 3 facilities now and in this order: Guerilla Tactics Fool -> Advanced Gameboy Center -> Providing Proofsgrounds
Should I build Radio Relay next? Obviously I have to build a Power Plant first?

>>169474312
Depends on how your intel game is and how much you like bonuses.

I get free rookies now. It's a pretty good bonus.

>>169474227
I don't like UFO defense itself. It was revolutionary at the time, with its strategy layer and variety of choice. But twenty years later the tactical layer is shallow and repetitive and that's before psi shows up.

Anyone played through the UFO: After____ series?

>>169474493
The old xcom and the more simulationist tactical layer are better though.

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so how do you fix these kinds of things?

>X2 disappointing
>it's dlc is disappointing
>LW2 is disappointing
>whole lot of disappointing mods when they aren't cosmetic

why isn't this game as good as EU/W? I really don't understand why I'm not having fun.

>>169476904
Maybe you didn't temper your expectations? I enjoyed most aspects of this game.

In fact I have more playtime in xcom 2 than ew.

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Tips on how my happy covert agent should look? What clothes should I give him?

>>169463227
I actually overspent a bit because of new large vaults and new radar built.
Also I had some trouble with ammo for my vessels - I got a cannon for the aircar and shot everything I had on ONE vehicle, then couldn't get any more.
I bought a Pahyderm, same deal. Shot out all the rockets and couldn't get any more. I'm not sure which research leads to getting them. So the missions I was doing were mostly landings and stuff like Ratmen and shit.
Great mod all in all but a bit overwhelming at first.

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>>169477484
These are the most jewish face & haircut I could find! Now what clothes should he wear?

>>169476904
But X2 is superior in every way except with SPARKs but that was fixed with mods.

>>169477707
>no jewfro
For fucks sake goy, apply yourself.

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Dragon Age ports when

I want to exterminate ayys with actual magic and bows not some psi powers with psi amps and some crossbow ripoff

Is thrre any way past the Pure Virtual Function error? Is XCOM fucked forever?

>>169483775
those are caused by mods being fucky id look for compatibility issues

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This thread desperately needs a bump!
Post your fallen characters.

>>169481138
I happen to be playing this right now.

I wish someone would make an updated version of the commanders vest using the suicide mechanics of the MECs from the Tower mission.

>>169477562
Shooting down big ships with early weapons is not easily done. If you have little craft ammo, save it for small craft like runabouts and cutters that have little health. I think early social/merchant techs makes beginner craft weapons and ammo available in the markey, stuff like 25mm rounds and unguided rockets.

The big cash money early on is the freighter, which almost always lands and cruises at only 1400 knots, so the pachyderm and other early craft can easily follow it to its landing spot. Remember that you can shadow craft by minimizing the pursuit window. Freighters have two full-sized engines to steal with 50 units of fuel total, and about 200 units of plasteel in their hulls, on top of random civilian-grade cargos. If you snatch the crew, which includes a pilot and an engineer, you can get some good researches or ransom them for top dollar.

Ratman villages are pretty shitty money-wise, they have few valuables and are worth little ransom. Church raids and academy outposts are where it's at in terms of scooping up a bunch of captives to research or cash in.

>>169496610
I might start actually pick up a new campaign if 1.0 gets rolled out. The guy has been updating so fast, I haven't wanted to start a new one yet.

I dislike the infiltration mechanic, any way to remove it or perhaps nerf it to the ground? I don't really play xcom for it's strategic depth.

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So I accidently tried to enable Sid Meier to see if it actually works. And when it did it asked me "Are you sure? This is a cheat and if you enable it all Steam-Achievements will be disabled for the rest of the game!" I naturally hit "Cancel" but Sid Meier spawned in my roster anyway. Will my achievements be enabled if I reload a save from before I enabled him, or am I fuckkkd forever?

>>169500601
If you didn't enable it, he should just look like sid meir. He doesn't have any special equipment or abilities right?

>>169500696
No he does have everything...

>>169500819
Oh, then I have no idea then.

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>>169488462

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Silly question - whats the deal with animation sets with "_DELETE" added in name? I didnt notice differences between those and normal ones.

>>169502190
Probably just old sets that have no use which FXS couldn't be fucked to remove

>>169477707

Almost looks like Larry David with that face

>>169502450

Thanks.

Another quick question - is it possible to make skills added by mod to work only with certain weapon? Like if soldier can use both sniper and normal rifle and tie some of the skills to only one of those weapons?

>>169503091
Yes. I know Beagle has weapons that do that.

1.2 IS LIVE YOU FUCKS

>>169503321

H-how do I contact the famous Beagle?

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>>169502024
B-BRAVE!

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I didnt knew that Berserkers use claws in combat.

>>169503923
That's probably the XCOM 1 berserker.

>>169503492
Idk, go throw a tweet at him.

Whats the proper "etiquette" towards using somebody else weapon models, besides asking first and later linking to original mod in description? Telling people to download original first or include files in your own mod?

I dont know a thing about making models or textures so I cant make my own ones (I wanted to make semi-automatic "hunting" rifle and light machine guns) and Im afraid about trying to use models from different games due to copyrights and such.

Sega would probably hunt me for that.

>>169506432
>besides asking first and later linking to original mod in description?
I think that's all you need to do desu. Just ask the mod author case by case.

>>169508127

Yeah, but what about the second part of the question - to already include the files or tell people to download and load somebody else mod first?

Additional question - of existing animations, which one would be best to serve as base for firing underbarrel grenade? I mean, normal grenede launcher animation would look weird without replacing weapon (soldier would swing his/her arms around for no reason) and any try to edit fbx files in Blender cause X2 editor to crash when I try to import changed files. At the same time, just using, say reload animations for different weapons would also look a bit off.

>>169509174
>Yeah, but what about the second part of the question - to already include the files or tell people to download and load somebody else mod first?
Case by case

>>169509379

Oh, okay then.

Any ideas about mentioned grenade launcher, by the way?

>>169509587
Sorry man, I have zero modding experience.

>>169509887

;_;

Still, I was wondering about opinions, eve if somebody dont have modding experience.

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>>169473470

I think that whats keeping it from happening. Sad stuff, flaying around the battlefield is quite the experience.

>>169510240
Umm, idk. Is it possible to shorten an snimation. Like cut it down to the actual part where you shoot? Because there is a brief moment where they aim straight forward, and then adjust for angle before firing.

>>169511541

Funny enough, the adjusting part is probably handled by "aim" notification, since when you open the grenade launching animation in editor, it looks like if they just fire forward.

Like with flamethrower animation before, I can simply copy notification from one animation to another. The problem I face is that I cannot modify existing animations in Blender.

>implying Bagel still plays XCOM

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So not that I'm complaining, but are Experimental Heavy Weapons supposed to be free and instant?

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>>169517032

Er, better pic.

The only thing worse about X2 is the heads of staff. Grizzled Bradford is worse than sweater Bradford, though admittably just barely. Shen Jr. is boring. Tygen has some funny lines, but can't a candle to batshit crazy German torture lady.

>>169516159
Has he put an official stop to it? Or is he just on unexplained hiatus like always? I stopped watching when X2 dropped to avoid spoilers, so I'm out of the loop.

>>169518310
He's in a lull right now, but has dropped LW2 indefinitely. He was working on his own modded campaign before LW2 dropped, and demoed it a tiny bit.

>>169517246
What are your current continent bonuses, if any? I don't recall any that would have that effect, so it's probably a bug, but you may as well check to see if you overlooked something.

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>tfw your snipers become gods

>>169520460
I love that loud snap the plasma sniper rifle makes

>>169367880
Assault is love, assault is life.
Dominga "Stalker" Perez, grew in the ghetto shitholes of brazil.
Each day was practically a 24 hour long game of survival, with drugs, guns and cocaine.
When ADVENT came, that shit came to end. Peace and love for all.
Stalker disagreed, she had grown addicted to the favela shithole lifestyle like grade A crack addict to their fix.
So now she slap aliens shit around with her trusty Technical slave cuck PhD, who clears the aliens little hidey holes with the Bunker Buster, just so her ever cold love can go and pleasure herself in the blood of alien scum.
With perks like
>Deadshot
>Shredder
>Serial
>Resilience
>Cool Under Pressure
>Implacable
She is always on the mood for some tasty Ayylien ass.
She also has a super cool sidekick officer DJ Khaled "Player" Turk, who is always cheering on her to go "Get some!" and always commanding her to give the aliens an extra one up their asses.
Rest of her squad is practically a cavalcade of skimpy clothed men who cheer on her and sometimes provide "support"
Her arch enemies are Sidewinder snake whores, who are SOMEHOW able to run away from under her watchful eye.
The golden sniper boy "The Cleaner" who is always competing for the carnage with his own "serial" brand of massacre.
Also Dante, not from devil may cry, who is a fucking disgusting weebwarrior with his stupid folded gookblade, but nigga knows how to shank a nigga, so he gets shit done and is always trying to one up our latina heroine.

Thank you, her autobio is 5,79 ADVENT bucks & her action figure 14 A$.

>>169524053
i like their design a lot better than xcom 2's vanilla plasma weapons

thank goodness for mods

>>169525861
I like both of them. The only thing I don't like is predator armor

Deader than disco

>>169477920
wrong

Seriously though, did i just miss the MOCX hype train or do you guys really not care about it?

>>169535347
Doesn't it just add more human enemies? Or am I missing something about?

>>169535481
>>169535347
Looking at it, it adds human enemies that follow a lot of the same rules as you do, including class levels and injuries and such and limited deployment. I might be more interested when the whole planned arc is in, including operations specifically to counter them.

>>169416305
http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;sa=topics;u=1207

>http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3879.msg50028.html#msg50028

http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,2602.msg26613.html#msg26613

>http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,1479.msg13465.html#msg13465

>>169503482
>comes out after the weekend is over

Thanks Lump

>>169535764
Im just really fucking excited to have an old nemesis come up after i thought i slapped him down before

>>169367209
Patch 1.2 Notes:
>http://www.pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=23951

Some highlights I saw:
>- Fixed two urban maps that were not allowing soldiers to jump low obstacles or break through windows, and we're placing people to rescue in bad locations

> Added Sedate Ability to medikits; will allow you to render unconscious any adjacent human ally who is panicking, stunned or disoriented. This allows them to be carried out of combat. Uses 1 action, does not end turn, has two charges.

>Delayed first chance of Avenger Defense dark event based on DifficultySetting. Hunter UFO will cap at 14 days flight time.

>You may now evac to escape from regional network tower missions

>-Added new NavHelp button "Strip All Weapon Upgrades" to UIArmory_Loadout, UISquadSelect and the Upgrades UI.
>Increased resarch time and/or reduced application chance for several tactical dark events

->Flamethrowers given +1 range to get it back to intended 1.0 levels

>Unarmed rebels get 4 hp like their armed counterparts.

>Rebels will only get lasers/mags if you've researched the appropriate techs as well as the existing triggering techs. So a mag rush that skips lasers will prevent rebels from getting lasers.

>>169541329
>rebels still won't get predator or even ceramic plating for ablative hp

>>169541329
>>- Fixed two urban maps that were not allowing soldiers to jump low obstacles or break through windows, and we're placing people to rescue in bad locations
Oh thank god, that fucking cafe and its impassible fence

>>169541329
Also forgot
>-Increased resarch time and/or reduced application chance for several tactical dark events

>>169541494

I mean, the Predator, I get. That stuff's on the Avenger and the point is you can't get there fast enough. No excuse for some ceramic plating though.

>>169542065

Thank Christ. Dunno which ones of course, but a few nerfs to tactical Dark Events is never bad.

>remove long war 2 to play C/I vanilla while more patches come out
>game loads 10x faster
magnificent

>>169542674
>>remove long war 2 to play C/I vanilla while more patches come out
>>game loads 10x faster

I think LW turned off multi-threaded loading to fix some vanilla LOS bugs. So that may not be as good as you think.

>>169542674
>go to LW1
>game loads 100x faster

>>169544000
>go to LW1
>have fun until the new year
always happens to me, I get bored around lategame

from Patch 1.3

>Feature
- Adding Smash n Grab mission and associated activity. This mission will show up fairly often, including from campaign start. XCOM starts out revealed at a fixed evac point. At a nearby ADVENT structure is between 4-6 loot boxes that contain supplies, elerium dust, alien alloys, an elerium core or a datapad. Loot will scale up over the course of a campaign. A soldier may carry loot from only one box. The mission uses a "soft" timer of steadily increasing reinforcements after a turn threshold is reached. Mission can occur in city, smalltown and wilderness areas.

I's a shame this change didn't make the deadline

>>169545298
I've been playing since somewhere between b7 and b9 and still haven't completed a campaign due to this.

>>169545445
>I's a shame this change didn't make the deadline
I've seen a few Smash and Grabs actually. They're neat missions, but usually come down to taking a dedicated combat team, shooting your way into the facility, nicking a few boxes, and evac'ing ASAP. A big thing they didn't tell you there is that you start with the evac zone already placed where you spawn, so you have to hoof it across the map back to the evac zone once you have the goods.

>>169546298
I've never seen one, are they in 1.2?

>>169546514
No, they aren't live yet, they're aiming for 1.3. As for how I've seen them anyway, I watch JoiNrbs, who streams on a dev version of the game, and he's done a few S&Gs that I've watched.

>>169546872
link pls?

>>169546872
Oh you had me going for a second, now I'm sad.

>>169547181
twitch. (notspam) tv/joinrbs

He does 8-hour streams from 11 AM to 7 PM PST every day. Right now there won't be any S&Gs, they were disabled on the internal build until tweaked. They might come back later though, we'll see as things develop.

>>169547219
Don't be down, they're cool missions and Pavonis will bring them back in a good state, have faith in that.

>>169545445
Sounds like a good change that will help with the supply drought early game.

>>169547181
>>169548164
Oh, do know that JoiNrbs has been doing some coding to improve the stream at the start of each stream recently, so the first hour or two is coding and the like on Creative. Just a heads-up in case you check him out.

>>169541329
>Fixed two urban maps that were not allowing soldiers to jump low obstacles or break through windows
>break through windows
So that was a bug. Lost a good couple of rescue missions due to that.

>>169550465
coup de grace is still broken I think

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>Target Detected Intensifies

>>169555842
wait until they launch a two terror missions, a base assault, two fighters and two large landeds in a span of three days

had it not been for the fact the AI shoots down your home sat with a battleship within the first few days of a month with a base assault (as a warning/hiding the assault carrier from you) I would have been screwed.

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>>169557421

That happened to me last campaign.

I had a small UFO. Then *landed* Raider, a Terror Mission, a Covert Extraction, *another* small UFO and a Council Mission all within the span of ~48 Hours. Honestly, it was probably the most enjoyment I have had in XCOM, since I *really* had to think hard about what soldiers I wanted to send on what mission, and seriously considering skipping the 2nd small UFO.

I did it, but my god that was a stressful month, and I had to double up with a lot of my soldiers. Thank CHRIST I built 3 Shiv's (and 1 Superheavy Laser Cannon), and 2 Suppression Modules earlier in the campaign, even though I had only used them once before in the campaign on an early bomb disposal mission.

And if that wasn't enough, THEN the savefile got corrupted and I lost an entire I/I campaign 7 months into it.

>>169557935
>spoiler
>he plays on ironmeme
Sorry m8, you lost to yourself before you even started.

>>169557935
It's a delightful experience

I need to finish my LW campaign

fags shitposting too much

>>169374912
Grass Jelly is the shit and I'm whiter than the klan

>>169562274
sounds like you are an ayy to me

>>169562274
My 朋友

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>>169564890
yfw I know pengyou.

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>>169565289
>mfw

In XCOM2 you can abuse the doom timer mechanic right?

>move disoriented unit up and have them take a shot
>at the end of the turn decide to use revival protocol on the unit so they are not disoriented next turn
>get two free actions

Totally not going to exploit this

>>169565856
They patched that exploit out

>>169566276
Is there a way to actively cause disorient on your own troops?

>>169566464

There's a mod where it enables friendly fire for flashbangs

>>169566464
Not that I know of. Probably for this very reason, because I believe this behavior is unchanged from vanilla.

>Waterworld mission
>Bring along my Colonel Grenadier
>Encounter bigass pod
>Dimensional Rift
>Proxy Mine
>If they move, they die
>If they don't move, they die

Goddamn I love this game

>>169569781
ccheck mate

>>169569781
the only winning move is to not ayy

>>169569079
Maybe it's just me, but I don't fully understand how this image is related to XCOM in any way.

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>>169555842

That could use some more activity.

>>169572475
Uhh what game?

>>169565289
wtf animal is dis

>>169569781
>Proxy mines require sectonigga wrecks
The only strategic layer I miss in LW2.

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>>169571816

>>169572657
x-com fanart

long war sucks ass
expansion when?

>>169572980
It's a brackish water pepe.
Pretty common around these parts.

Holy shit.
Is there no end to the pods of +8 enemies.
If I did not have my Serial Sniper & Reaper Weebwarrior, I have no idea how one is supposed to live trough these literal fuckwad squads, especially when on scamper it is ALWAYS the fucking shieldnigger who gets a free move & they even spread their asses on a huge ass area, denying AOE.

Considering that my infiltration times on the most important missions seem to be getting shorter and shorter, this kind of shit is becoming standard.

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What the fuck is this? I have never seen this skill/ability before. Is this a Long Dong 2-thing?

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Also, does anybody else find it annoying how drones always destroy windows while patrolling? Must be nice being an alien collaborator, sitting behind your computer on a regular day at work. Suddenly one of these cd-player looking fuckers just casually crashes through the window, takes a spin around the office and exits through the glass roof...

>>169572657
vector thrust
it's not very good

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>>169367209
>most under fire
>sectopod
mfw