XCOM general - /xcg/

pistols are useful

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>there will never be an expansion in our lifetimes

>>172974296
Bradford cant die as long as the ayys remain a threat

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test

>>172974728
Muton commandos mod when

>>172974670

>Bradford will be so old in Xcom3 that he will ride into battle on a SHIV

>>172974853
>Even in death I serve

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>>172974934

>Bradford is going to have his own life support suit and he will be a special unit that you can deploy on missions if you have enough resources

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>>172974728
test 2

>>172975073
What are you testing

>>172975073
Allright, this one is good enough

>>172975159
Transparency with 4chan theme "Tomorrow." If you look at the different images with that them on, the differences are quite apparent.

>>172975264
Gotcha are you the artist by chance?

>>172975440
no

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BF 1 Ports when

>>172977005
Would rather have more bf4 stuff added or more tier 3 stuff

Are the XCOM 2 DLCs worth it? I heard that the first one offers some bad cartoony customization options and constantly resets your characters to the new clothing. Is that the case and has it been fixed?

>>172980549
Anarchy's children is the one you're thinking of, it adds a lot of mad max esque accessories and stuff.

You can also have soldiers run around in short shorts + sports bras or regular shorts.

Alien hunters and Shen's last gift are kinda eh imo.

>>172980549
>constantly resets your characters to the new clothing
Turn the Anarchy's Children spawn % to 0 in your options menu. You can still use them if you want, but the game shouldn't force them on you with the randomgen disabled.

>>172983385
One caveat to this, sometimes when you upgrade armor a soldier will get the stupid anarchy options and you've got to fix them.

Not a big deal to me since I always customize my soldiers' armor.

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>>172980549
>>172980980
Anarchy's Children has like one good use

>advent strength 11

Oh shit, how high can it go?

>>172985460
I think 20

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>>172974853
>>172974934
Just drop him in one of of these and add on some green, woolen side panels. He'll be back to purging ayys like the good old times.

>>172984589
is that M.C Ride?

>>172988768
Who else could it be?

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>>172993863

>>172994583
You wouldn't step on this Snek would you?

>>172994956
No, but I'll burn it alive

>>172973962
Compter died and Been playing xbone Xcom 2
Anyone else played it? There are lots odd small differences I noticed
>both soilders and aliens have more life, soldiers get more lift per rank up
>shorter mission timers
>lancers miss a lot more often
>several ui colors are changed,

>>173002771
Is it possible the console version is not on the same patch as PC? Otherwise that's very weird.

>>173002771
Strange, I never noticed any balance changes in the PS3 EW. Granted I did not play much because vanilla is boring but it's weird they'd do that for xcom 2.

I wish there was an ability for xcom that let soldiers parry and counter incoming melee like mutons do.

>>173004412
Gunners have that

>>173004489
But it's up against shredder and grazing fire.

>>173004716
But the ability exists. So you can do what you want with it now. Also it's against grazing fire and center mass, if that makes any difference.

>>173003767
Console Xcom 2

>>172975440
I am though, taking requests for any other alien trooper/xcom operative armor ideas

>>173008529
xcom warcrimes on ayys please

>>173008726
or armored sectoids or something

shoo page 10

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>>173008814

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>>173014890
Ah sick! Thanks my guy.

>>173014890
I like the blending you have going on in this one.

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>doing the vahlen mission in xcom 2
>use reaper on bradley
>kill 4 babby vipers with sword, shoot down another babby, hair trigger procs, out of ammo, use my free reload, go into overwatch, get an overwatch kill

based comms jockey

>>173015492
bradford is no comms jockey

he's a god damn hero, who somehow took a fire extinguisher to the head and remained conscious

>>173014890
I like what you've done makes me think about anti xcom spec ops or something

...Guys what if Long War 2 was supposed to be our fucking expansion pack?

>>173016330
Like an alien leader, but with multiple special enemies that escape if they take too many losses.

>>173019812
than they better start updating it

>>173019812
wrong

You guys don't get it. There is no expansion announcement because Firaxis is going under thanks to Civ 6 being shitty and 2k going under thanks to the fact that they invested fucking everything into Mafia 3 and it was shitty.

>>173019895
some thing like that like a squad of 6 spec ops sectoids

>>173020297
>Have game in top 10 for 2016
>oh no other stuff isn't doing well
>better cut the successful one
It's not a good argument.

>>173020341
I think a mix of different spec ops aliens would be cooler, so they have different abilities that synergize with each other.
Though six Sectoids means six mindfrays, which is horrifying.

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>>172974296
This makes me sad...
I've been hanging on /civ4xg/ for a while and came back to see if there's any news of an expansion, so I can start playing XCUM again.

>>173020604
https://steamdb.info/app/268500/history/

>>173025293
Something is cookin

Should Meld (or some other sort of optional secondary objective that affects the strategy layer) return in the expansion?

>>173029727
stealth rebalance hopefully

>>173030272
How would you rebalance stealth for vanilla? What's wrong with the current system/role of stealth?

>>173029727
i dont think so
meld was introduced to solve the overly safe playstyle of the base game and incentiveze a more risky playstyle

>>173030390
it's shit

>>173030390
snow balls very quickly unfortunately it could be real neat but as of now its a free kill on one or more pod

>>173025767
Yup, that's the point.

>>173030390
countdown timers dont go down as long as you're stealthed allowing you to maneuver your squad to tactical position nearby and engage when ready.

silence kills that also require you to pick up the enemy body and reposition it to prevent the enemy squad from locating it and alerting it to your presence.

hacking a workstation no longer reveals your squad

if you take down entire pod in a stealth attack your conceal remains.

>>173030390
remove concealed start
only soldiers with phantom get concealment

Rich Evans voicepack when?

>>173033025
>every move is laughter

>>173030390
The way I see it stealth is there to let you get to the action faster than overwatch camping and avoid the "welp I activated the entire map on my first move" scenario.
The problem is that it's too good at letting you pick your fights and anything you ambush has zero chance of surviving.

I'd like to keep the former while minimizing the latter and I think the best way to do that is limit the time of setup. One way to do it would be to take the timers, reduce them and make it the "turns until concealment is lost" timer. So the game is telling you, OK man, you have four turns to find the best ambush and then go loud. Alternatively you could increase the pod detection radius every turn until it eventually becomes impossible to sneak past them, forcing you to engage. Harder to implement but you could also make it so that any pod you have LOS of for two consecutive turns activates and breaks concealment. Makes stealth more skillful since you need to keep breaking LOS to maintain it and prevents you from doing the silly thing where somebody with an AOE skill just sits still for seven turns waiting for stuff to waddle nearly on top of them. Would make hunker down lowering your LOS for the turn really useful too. I don't think it has any application otherwise.

Stealth was meant to fix the problem of EW where the best way to engage a pod was to sit in overwatch and wait for them to wander into you, but at the end of the day stealth is the exact same thing but dialed up to 11. Proper use of stealth makes the game slower, not faster while at the same time making it too easy. The biggest challenge ends up being how good you are at handling being bored.

>>173015492
>not waiting until you get someone with faceoff

>>173019812
ABA2 is better at that

I AM A LORD OF BRETTONIA

NO

>playing x2 with no ssd on a 3-4 yo rig
Commander please deliver me from loading hell.

>>173040249
>playing with 400 mostly voice or cosmetic mods

People have been telling me 16 GBs of ram is overkill, but I'm starting to think otherwise. It'd certiantly help with loading over the 8 I currently have.

>>173041656
At the rate we're going 16GB won't stay overkill very long.

Tanks will never come back and SHIVS if they come back will never be as anywhere as useful as a tank with 8 rockets.

I want my tanks!

>>173045608

I wonder how difficult it would be to make tanks for Xcom2, Shivs would in theory be really simple probably.

>>173045765
Some of the Crysallids and Sectopods are multi-tiled so that wouldn't be a problem I think. Make it so it can't gain xp, give it cover destruction as it rolls over things, and make it so it can't go up stairs.

The only thing I have no clue about is how that tank is going to climb a rope to get back in the Skyranger.

>>173046889

Same way a spark does, rockets.

https://youtu.be/_eyY4RGwz2E

Bump

>>173041656
I actually upgraded my ram for this very reason.

why are grenades so weak? in real life they have a much larger casualty radius and much less falloff

>>173050475
Balance, motherfucker, ever heard of it?

>>173050475
In real life they also don't blow up cover or even go through cover.

>>173051101
The shrapnel won't but the rapid expansion and compression from the explosion often can injure someone.

>>173050475
Grenades are ridiculously broken, especially in vanilla.

>>173048084
>yakety sax during ufo chase
Kek/10

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>improved training roulette mod

>>173056982
I assume you aren't getting two rockets

>>173058989
It gives me two rockets along with Fire in the Hole. Suppression is also merged with Opportunist, which is a bit crazy as well.

>>173059687
Oh very nice.
I assumed you met "improved" sarcastically due to the greentext.
>suppression is also merged with opportunist
Doesn't suppression always get opportunist on reaction shots?

>>173048084
Anyone got feedback? The format's been getting more polished imo, but I'd still like to hear what you guys have to say. Even if it's gems like "kill yourself fag xD"

>>173060098
All right anon, I'll watch it just for you. I haven't watched any yet, so I'll give my unfiltered opinion.

>>173059903
You still get the normal reaction shot penalties without opportunist on suppression reactions.

>>173060195
Thanks famigliano

>>173059903
iirc that's a long war change

>tfw xcom 2 would be massively more interesting if the advent had a mix of weird goo babies and regular humans to give some moral greyness to fucking them the heck up
rip

>>173060692
found it
>Beta 15f (July 16, 2015)
>Features/Balancing:
>All suppression-based reaction fire will get the opportunist bonus (not just LMG/SAW-series) and ignore cover

>>173061130
Cept there's nothing morally grey about killing enemy combatants.

>>173060369
>>173060692
Wait that's not Long War? I didn't realize there was a three perk mod that's not lw.

>>173060608
First off for a 8 minute video it didn't feel too long which is good. I really felt like not having any game audio is a mistake. There no meatiness or punch when you are blowing up ayys or bbqing them which I think definitely brings down the quality. The background music is ok, but I feel like leaving the game sounds with you background track taking less center-stage would be an improvement. The commentary is pretty solid, though at times I felt like you were talking just to talk. Maybe you feel the need to talk with no game-audio, but I'm not sure if everything things that happens (like not finding ayys on that turn) needs to be commented on. Your voice is fine, I think I saw complaints on earlier vids, but I don't have any for this one. There were a few times where you dashed and my internal xcom brain winced in horror, but that's a pretty small detail. I think that's everything I have to say.

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>>173061130

There is no moral greyness and there shouldn't be any, even if they were completely humans they are still servants of the ayy and deserve nothing more than being brutally butchered by Xcom forces. You fucking collaborator shit.

>>173061216
Well, guess I'm fucking wrong then. Never read the patch notes though so I just assumed suppression worked as it did in vanilla. The mod is actually called Roullete Plus for anyone interested. I recommend disabling the merged perk feature if that's possible, since it seems to be a bit powerful.

>>173061498
Definitely will bring out the ingame audio, it's actually there unmuted but turned waaaaay down in the mix. Thanks for the feedback, i'll be incorporating that into the next video.

>>173014890
This is badass. Do you have a link to a portfolio of yours?

Are you looking for work?

>>173062527

Go away Lump

>>173061498
What's your recommendation to avoid choppiness in ingame audio from the edits? Just bring up the audio in shooty/smashy/actiony moments?

>>173064929
I don't do editing, but I had to take a stab at it, I would have the in-game audio constantly low enough where you can hear it, and then pipe it up for the action just like you are saying.

>>173065286
The problem with constant ingame audio is that it sounds audibly choppy and off-putting if you leave it running constantly. I'll probably leave it muted except for action moments.

>>173066627
>The problem with constant ingame audio is that it sounds audibly choppy and off-putting if you leave it running constantly
It does? Do you have an example?

>>173067426
I've tried to keep it out of my videos, but if you've got about ten minutes, download OBS, record some gameplay (without ingame music), and then cut and splice two bits together. If a soldier is talking it sounds super off, ambient noises jumping around can be awful too.

>>173068324
I still don't really understand. Most xcom gameplay has the in-game audio with no issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9zJE9GodMQ
Is there something I'm missing here?

>>173069076
Not him, but can you not hear the skips and cuts in the battle music?

>>173069370
>battle music
But we aren't talking about the in-game music. And stuff skips and cuts because the clips are literally edited and cut together. The in-game audio all sounds fine to me.

>>173073015
>stuff skips and cuts because it was literally edited and cut together

Original anon here, that's what I want to minimize. I'll try cranking it louder for the next video and we'll see how it does. I'm definitely mostly muting the strategic layer though; my editing doesn't leave time to sit through a forty second monologue from shen, vahlen, or bradford.

>>173073356
Ok, I guess I just don't see why you think it sounds bad. It sounds fine to me.

>>173073621
I guess if it's not worrying you it shouldn't make a difference. Anyway despite my bitching thanks for the feedback

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Would you take care of an orphan babby snek?

>>173077817
probably not

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>>173077817

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>>173077817

Oh, i would "take care" of it alright.

>>173078265
kek

YOU COMING DOWN HERE OR WHAT

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>>173077817
hell yeah I would.

>>173083000
>loli snek
See somethin' new everyday

>>173083000
"Officer Bradford, it seems these adolescent Vipers seem to have imprinted on you as their mother. I suggest we take advantage of this new development to study them back at the base."

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>>173083000

>>173048084

Nice one.

But it made me remember 3COM. Wish he was still making videos...

>have to fight the berserker queen literally only 3 mission after doing the vahlen mission
>only have 1 type of mag weapon yet
>mutons were like just introduced the mission before, I only have killed one so far, no berserkers

Did I get absolutely destroyed by RNG or are the alien rulers expected to be faced this quickly after the DLC mission.

>>173085873
You can do the dlc mission whenever you want to.

>>173086271

yeah, I just expected to at least not have to fight the fucking berserker queen even before berserkers were introduced, that shit is absurd.

ded

>>173089850
that's pretty sweet looking

>make all the rookies wear the same helmet
>make agressive plays the first 2 months
>don't feel bad when they die
anyone else do this

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What if E.Ψ.Ǝ: Enemy Within?

>>173091484
Then I'd wear your moron face as a party mask

>>173014890
Neat, but I think sectouds and the aliens in general should use the more sleek shiny alien tech aesthetic seen on their wrist device and UFO's than the angular black look of the """"human"""" ADVENT forces

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>>173091638
>my legs when

>advent force 12 hq with laser weapons
how fucked is my shit going to be

>>173091484
>Jump down a small cliff
>"My legs are broken"
>You gain meld.

>>173093164
JUST/10

>>173093164
ME2Suicidemission.mp3

>>173093307
Oh my god I should play that theme when I do another hard mission.

That track is one of the best in the entire series

Commander, it is unfortunate you reason efforts have proven to be so... mediocre.

>>173097128
my current A-team assault is also named dudek

ded

>>173111729
this is the fucking heavy from tf2

why

>>173111846
why not

1.3 when?

>>173062527
Sorry not open for work atm, working on a 2-3 year game dev project with a team, my stuff can be seen here though its mostly porn

http://s-purple.tumblr.com/

>>173120143
>its mostly porn
indeed

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I thought europe had monopoly on muslims

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Would you take covering fire on an overwatch gunner? Seems like a good way to waste your overwatch on full cover enemies.

>>173006159
Get stepped on by snek.

>>173120143

>it's mostly porn

Good.

>>173123423
get beheaded by bradford, fucker

HEY FAGGOTS

HELP OPENAPOC BY PLAYING APOCALYPSE AND TELLING THE CODE MONKEYS SHIT

http://openapoc.org/threads/help-openapoc-by-playing-x-com-3.181/

>>173084305
Who's 3com?

>>173131197
>openapocalypse is actually happening
Madmen

the eternal debate: holo or flush on a non-OW gunner?

>>173137426
holo for LMG bullet wizards, flush for SAW HEAT gunners

>>173137512
I feel like flush falls off too quickly, it's amazing the first three months and from then on the enemies are too scary to risk missing so it's always better to suppress.

>>173137907
use it to kill drones and cyberdisks

>>173137960
I know about drones, it's just that they're always nearly last on the target priority list. Don't you need any bit of damage you can get against disks? Or do they get too hard to hit lategame?

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>>173120143
Hey schwig. Glad to see you're still hopping around 4chan. I hope the current game is going well for you, and I wanted to say I've always loved the warhammer stuff you did years ago.

Have a good one!

>>173120143
aren't you the dude who fucked over some furry game

>>173087524
well you are supposed to have the alien hunters weapons and since you finished the mission the chance to upgrade them if you already researched magntic/plasma weapons

Pro lame Tip: Alien Rulers are not immune to being executed

>>173140794
Nah, he works on the successor to it but he isn't (afaik) the dev who fucked it over.

>>173138045
It's nice to just have a finisher of sorts. You can use flush in conjunction with suppression or overwatch too.

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>>173140794
>>173142730
It's hard to tell because all three people were claiming it was each other's fault.

We'll never know outside a he-said she-said type thing, best just to put it behind.

Still a little upset about Broquest, however.

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Designed an exo suit in a style of alien rulers based on a Chrysalid due to them being one of my favorite designs alongside Faceless and Gatekeepers and my disappointment that there werent more stuff to Alien Rulers dlc.

>>173144709

Man that's cool, i might just have to steal that idea.

>>173143430
Yeah, the entire thing was a shit-show, but as far as I recall, the name on that tumblr is not related to any of the devs of the dead project, so I don't think he's involved in any way.

But yeah, people need to just move on from it, it was one of those personal spats that those outside of will never know the truth of.

>>173145165
You're free to use it, i can draw backview later to help with making this, anything to make my squad look more spiffy.

>>173145392
You talking about the Gatekeeper being one of your favourite ayys made me think that a Gatekeeper ruler would be interesting.

>>173145475
Im going to draw Faceless and Gatekeeper armors at some point in a few days.

I was thinking Faceless would be like one of those full body ghilli suits snipers wear to mask with environment except this one is half alive and can have elirium pumped into it to give it half life to help its user grab onto ledges and meld onto walls

and gatekeeper would be like uh...a psi armor made out of his shell with the brain tentacle acting as spinal cord of it, enhancing the psi operatives offensive stats.

Gatekeeper armor should just be the Catarina set.

I really wish cyberdiscs were in the game

>>173145730
I dunno, im still trying to work within confines of a suit that wouldnt clip like hell if it were to be actually modelled, and catarina style fatsuit wouldnt be one of them.

https://youtu.be/_mN9nuS5ozs

Reminder to like, comment, and subscribe :^^^^^)

real talk though I'm taking all feedback and looking for background music suggestions for future episodes

>>173148896
That track you had in the last one was really good.

>>173149161
Tactical or strategic? You can find links in the description

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>>173103875

Well done.

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>>173139307

What's the story behind the one with the broken Avatar?

>>173144709

Nice.

So just wondering is the easiest way to get rid of the shaken effect is to have the shakened person kill first from concealment then they chill all the way in the back?

>>173149339
tactical

>>173151269
that's one way to do it

just make sure they get a kill and don't take damage

>>173151370
https://exabyte.bandcamp.com/track/armor

>>173131197
Bumping for this because IT IS NOT A HARD THING TO DO

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>>173150031

Now that I remember it. Were the 40k models ever modded into X2?

>>173154187

Everyone is afraid of GW's lawyers.

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Apparently Newfoundland has its own unique lid. It's silverish, didn't think fast enough to screenshot during the spawning animation. Shows up from the inert zombies if you let them live long enough. Unlike the usual spawn procedure where the lid gets a turn, for these ones the zombie moves, the lid spawns after but doesn't get a turn. Never seen it before despite playing this mission dozens of times.

>>173154187
There was a guy who posted plenty of models then disappeared. Maybe had a hard drive crash or something

>>173154683
That's what chryssalids look like after they "hatch" from a zombie. They turn purple after their carapace hardens/dries.

Real insects do the same thing when they molt.

>>173155946
Ah, I thought it's different from the usual model, but I've just forgotten how it looks. Still weird that the lid didn't get a turn though.

>>173154386

They are still at it?

>>173155441

That sounds depressingly likely.

>>173148896
Nice, but try making your delivery more natural

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>mopping up some floaters
>assault gets hit, top him up to 6
>he gets crit to 9, bleeding, no medkits
>move team up aggressively, kill all floaters within two turns

>tfw Retaliations are easier to deal with then Intel Raids

Have your Shinobi grab all the Resistance members, and overwatch camp. Not difficult.

Intel Raids have a bunch of pods around which can flank you.

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>>173160183
>As the engineer shotguns the last floater, his move activates 4 seekers.
At this point I realize that my assault is dead. He may not have bled out yet, but he has been dead since I recruited him. There is nothing to mourn.
>One seeker strangles a soldier, the rest stay stealthed. We kill the one seeker. It's been 3 turns of bleeding by now.
>The remaining three seekers strangle both my gunners and the medic in the same turn.
>They're all around the rocketeer. Point-blank HEAT rocket is fired with prayers that nobody dies
>assault makes it out alive after 4 turns of bleed

>>173160606
Tbh the youtube series is more entertaining >>173148896

Victory from the jaws of defeat gurren Lagann style
>less then 24 hours left
>blacksite raid on a site with 2 progress ticks
>destroy black site and kill codex while I'm there
>set calander back 5 spaces
Ever had those moments /xcg/?

>>173161368
>shilling your own series in a dead general

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>>173093164
>>173093208
>>173093307
I did it. Some bad wounds. Near the end the command pod just wandered into me and hit one of my grenadiers, causing her to bleed out. Luckily my gunners and sharpshooter carry medkits and then I had my specialist revive her. Fought about 6 berserkers. Advent Lieutenant was only the 25ish HP version, honestly if I had scouted the 50 HP 6 armor one I think I would have just pulled back.

Force level 12 could have been archons but I didn't really fight anything force level 12 worthy. All in all a good mission. Still that command pod sneaking up on me could have gone bad. It was right when I started relocating and got caught in bad half cover.

>>173163441
I do it intentionally in vanilla

>>173155441
Or maybe GW's copyright squad found him.

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Did that drawfriend who was working on codex smut ever deliver?

>>173166610
>Fucking a hologram

>>173167075

I totally would, if only to find out what it's like. I mean, it must have some corporealness to it, seeing as how it can hold guns and be chopped with a machete.

>>173164397
>implying
Rude desu

>>173073621
You probably saw it already, but what do you think of the ingame audio on the latest episode?

>>173166610
I am the drawfriend in question, I have it sorta half done but I wasn't happy with it and decided to drop it.

>>173168630
Tfw no scrappy tomboy xcom resistance operative dom girl pics

>>173168737
Well I drew something of Annette a couple months ago, I might do it again.

Mostly need inspiration.

>>173168849
What do you mean by "inspiration"?

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>>173168630

Aw

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>>173168951
I need to be "into" the subject in question. Otherwise I lose interest, kinda what happened with the codex pic.

>>173168952
This is what I have of it so far, the big problem I was having was trying to get the angle of insertion proper. I got a good lineart for both but I had trouble meshing them.

Let me know what you think and I may end up finishing this. Not today though since I have to study for an exam.

>>173169321
>into
What ~are~ you into, dear anon? UwU

>>173169321

I would totally like to see it finished, but your creative time is your own, dude.

>>173169439
I'm betting hot Bradford on sweater action.

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>>173169439

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"It's a tenacious creature, Commander. It may appear to be dying for long periods of time, only to rise from hibernation as if nothing happened."

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>>173169439
I've actually come out of 4chan relatively unscathed. Pretty vanilla normalfag shit I guess.

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>>173169662
>bradford in meme virgin killer sweater
>>173169321
Yo anon we've got an idea for you...

>>173170107
Sorry anon, not into dudes.

>>173170223
Not even for a joke pic?

>>173170223

How about Bradford schtupping Vahlen while she wears his sweater?

>>173170376

Or perhaps Lily masturbating with a psi amp?

>>173169949
Aw, so no berserkers x muton where the zerker has a magnum dong?
maybe someone should buy Sparrow a copy of xcom 2

>>173083000
>TFW no cute viper daughter to take to kindergarten school.

>>173170619
Not running resistance day car instead

>>173170546
...intriguing

>>173161368
it doesn't bump the thread though

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>>173169949

STOP LEWD

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>>173132182

Some random dude:

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz1e7fHRMWg

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Could a 2D XCOM work?

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Would you date a snek?

Is there a nude mod for those alien snakes? I need more snake tiddies in life.

>>173186776
Only if she was willing to join Xcom with me.

>>173186776
I'd let it date my shotgun

>>173187212
She's willing if your into long term commitment.

>>173187140

Someone made a nude model of them for SFM.

>>173186776
>Talk to cute girl over Xcom-dating.com
>She too wants to destroy Advent and free the earth from their rule.
>Coincide on a lot of other hobbies and interests.
>Decide to meet up at a local restaurant.
>It's a goddamn viper.
>"Ready for our date?"

Well /xcg/? How would you respond?

>>173190114
I'd show her my storm gun. It'd blow her mind.

>>173190712
Not really, she's pretty /k/ since she has a plasma gun collection at home.

>>172973962
where can i get this guy on my team?

>>173183290
the best xcom game is already 2d

>>173191284
She won't feel that way after her face is sprayed with hot plasma

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>>173192718

I meant as a spin-off game like a shooter or something like that.

>>173193379
If you know what I'm sayin', dawg.

You know what I'm sayin', dawg?

Nah, you don't know what I'm sayin', dawg.

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>>173196853
rest in peace microprose

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What do you guys use as an urban camo pattern? I just ain't sure about this one.

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>>173198842
i like how finnish armor looks but i change the colors up depending on where my guys are going

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The prodigal son is returning.

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>>173198842
Berlin Brigade, but only for urban. That small digital doesn't look bad.

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>>173198842
ACU all day erry day.

Does anyone have the link to the newest beta version of the Siege armors, the one with the male jeans? Not on the workshop nor the modlist yet.

>>173199731
>fanart

Fucking finally he understands!

>>173199731
Fuck you beags I was just starting to get momentum with the series

https://youtu.be/KBdGUNQn4iI

Actually just kidding please please please come back

>>173204112
Oh, yeah, that's uh ep7. Bump I guess.

>>173204215
the fucking thomas the tank engine mashup always makes me laugh

>>173204112
why did you pussy out of Progeny?

>>173204692
Gangplank gives early fusion cores so you can make fusion lances instead of emp cannons for your firestorms. Since it's ballistics only you can't get interceptor weapon upgrades for plasma and lasers.

>>173204803
>>173204692
But you miss out on guaranteed psi from Annette or the furies.

You might have trouble getting a volunteer, especially since Zhang is a prime target for augmentation; so his will goes to waste.

>>173205013
The campaign is over amigo, i'm just editing and recording voiceover audio. Finding a Volunteer is no biggie when you can get soldiers as mission rewards. The ideal Volunteer is a Heavy anyway. Zhang is a less ideal MEC candidate in a ballistics-only run, because you are in more need of AOE damage than you are of a high HP MEC.

>>173204459
That intro took me two hours to make, I was digging around stupid song mashups and found the middle chorus of that one. The slide rack really sold me on the idea.

>>173205553
To clarify, the action xcom is performing when they "slap" their rifles is not racking a slide. That's how you chamber a round in a pistol.

What they're actually doing is attempting to compensate for their reduced dexterity from wearing gloves. Slapping the bolt catch to send the bolt home and lock a new round in is easier for some people to do than pressing the bolt catch. I myself always use my thumb but it's mostly personal preference.

I suspect XCOM does it because it looks cool.

>>173206036
Yup! The slide racking is audible in the biggie smalls mashup, there is no audio from the xcom cutscene in the intro. It's after the last "cmon motherfuckers."

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>>173197270

F

F for all of those that have been left behind.

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>>173199731
>>Beagle Returning.

WHAT

>>Fanart.

I do -Not- Believe you.

Way, way too good to be true.

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>>173199731
>There will be fanart
By Gawd

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>>173199731
A week to prepare, but I should get some art ready

>>173196853

Huh. I never realized how much of EU's intro cutscene is a direct reference to this.

>>173211959
wast ist vas?

>>173199731

Is he going to actually enjoy it this time? Because angry, cynical Beagle makes me sad.

>>173212832
Burnt Bagles is only fun in small brief doses.

>>173204112
Never has a crashed ship assault given me a thinmen pod.

>>173211959

Is that the place where they filmed the Moon landings?

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Goodnight /xcg/

>>173216441
sleep tight bradford, dream of fresh bagels

>spend way too long away from the game and /xcg/, didn't keep up with the release of the extra content
>decide to finally catch up and see how the DLC change things up, if anything
>Oh heavens why am I fighting a Sectopod with ballistic weapons
>Wait, that snek has how much HP?
>It moves on every action?
>It can ESCAPE?!
>A BERSERKER?!

>>173144709
thats fucking awesome

>>173144709

>Chrysalid poison shredder gun

>>173224216
>Burrowing ambusher with poison melee attacks

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>>173219227

I envy you this magnificent experience.

>>173224216
>killed organic enemies turn into cocoons that hatch into three rookies

>>173227270
kek

>>173225904
>>173224216
>>173227270

Needs to be added to a "beast master" class so he can command all the baby chrysalids.

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>>173227934

Yes. YES!

>>173228619
I was going to say that the class should be called "Free Man"

(Could make it a double joke about Fremen Worm-riders too)

>>173204112
Kek, did you realize you said that rookie missed the thinman that she hit?

>hum the eu battle themes every now and then
>cant even remember what any of the x2 music sounds like

Just got XCOM 2 yesterday, just did the Guantanlmao Ayy (black site) raid in month 2 and am really loving it so far. The new focus on aggressive gameplay really changes things up.
Something I'm noticing however is that I seem to be losing 1 or 2 troops every other mission, and despite my efforts I don't know if I'm progressing the game fast enough to stop the Avatar Project. (it's already at like 5 points or something) Any advice? I know I probably won't beat the game first run, and am more or less just doing my best and trying to feel things out.

>>173240189
not even the ambush track? or avenger defense?

come on man

>>173240284

Don't get scared by the Avatar Project, just make sure you always have a story mission available or an alien facility so you can attack it and set it back if the ayys start making too much progress.

Losing troops can start to snowball, try bringing one rookie or something on missions so he can get carried by your higher leveled up troops.

>>173240284
The avatar project is very easy to game and control. The main concern you have is losing men.

How do they end up dying? Too many ayys active on their turn? Moving too far forward and ending up with a spilt squad?

>>173240284
you can counter advance on the avatar project by destroying facilities or completing story objectives
the avatar project is actually more lenient than it seems, just keep an steady pace towards alien facilities and story missions

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>>173240284
>Guantanlmao Ayy

>>173240770
>>173240969
Thanks for the advice.
One more thing I forgot to mention; how the fuck do you deal with stun lancers? What is their effective range to run across the entire map and stab you in the face?
>>173240964
Usually stupid mistakes like split squads and getting overwhelmed like you said, but sometimes it's just outrageous shit like the aforementioned stun lancers quarterbacking through everybody's overwatch to one-hit someone through a wall, or a bunch of failed dice rolls. I mainly just chalk it up to the fact that I haven't played a strategy game in a long time and need to work on risk management.

>>173241451
>how the fuck do you deal with stun lancers?
i try to kill them before they can act, if that doesnt work then i keep my distance from it or use a flashbang and prepare to kill it next turn
>What is their effective range?
i dont know exactly how many tiles it can cover but i recommend keeping them outside of your own soldier dash range for good measure

>>173241451
if you catch them on fire they cant melee

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>>173219227

I hope that whatever the next DLC/Expansion brings, it also fixes Psy/MEC stuff.

>>173243284
sentinel suppression run & gun and steadfast on a guy with two promotions total?

>>173245340
ah he's a sergeant, i thought it's the LCPL selected

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>>173199731

I remember...

>>173245191
I'm so disappointed with the implementation of psionics in XCOM 2.
The way it is now it's just another flat and boring class to level. I liked the idea of layering skill trees on top of skill trees so once you had your elite squad of normal soldiers you could then decide if you wanted to subject them to genetic engineering, cybernetics enhancements or just try and see if any of them had any psionic potential. You never quite knew what the end product of your soldiers would be like, while now you know exactly how it'll end up as soon as you see what class gets rolled for it

>>173245452
Yeah, the SGT was selected and I'm also using Roulette Plus, so some soldiers will have way more perks than their rank would otherwise allow due to "perk merging." Dense Smoke will give Smoke Grenade if you roll it later on in the skill tree and don't already have Smoke Grenade, for instance.

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>half my units have salvo from awc
>slap exo suits on them
>just shredding everything

>>173249170
>so once you had your elite squad of normal soldiers you could then decide if you wanted to subject them to genetic engineering, cybernetics enhancements or just try and see if any of them had any psionic potential.

THIS

It was such a natural step for your Elite Operatives to, once they reach the top of the line, do the jump into a whole new Psy/Gene/MEC world.

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Am I the only one that actually likes X2's soundtrack alot?

>>173255691
I like it too

>>173255691

No, I do too.

>>173204112
Daily reminder to get your discount Beaglerush
Is the shilling getting too aggressive?

>>173255691

It's nice. We simply got too used to EW Soundtrack.

>>173253180

That's literally a way for All-Ranger squads to work it out.

>>173255691
It's not that the X2 soundtrack is bad, it's just competing with XCOM 1's soundtrack.

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>mfw my only interceptor, with stingrays, kills a scout in may

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>>173262181

Good luck, Commander.

>its another aliens siege my base with no soldiers episode

>>173264043
Sounds like commanding incompetence to me.

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Post a soldier whose name begins with K.

>>173264043
>needing more than one soldier to beat xcom

Shiggy diggy

>>173267140
>playing with a snapshot sniper and exploiting meme skin

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Hang on, were the arms always this misaligned in back?