XCOM General - /xcg/

>>174863749
useless just kidding I use them on all my rangers

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Pistols are useful

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Snek

>>174863749
Is the phoenix point video around anywhere? It's no longer up on the German site.

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Air game is fun

>>174864470
We can talk about Xenonauts in here too, right? Forgive me, I'm new to these generals.

I really wish it said it somewhere in game that officers need 5 missions and CPL rank before I wasted 100 credits thinking I could stop fatigue spirals early.

>>174865081
You can but alot of Anons here are more likely to criticize it.

>>174865138
Ahh. What was so bad about it? I thought it was okay except for some annoying bugs and pretty bad graphics. All my dudes looked dumb.

>>174865081
/xcg/ is de facto /x-com and xcom like general/. So or example, Xenonauts and Phoenix Point would be considered on topic.

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>>174864470

Air Game is Challenge.

>>174865749

They will generally tell you that it starts of nicely but, eventualy as the fad begins to dissapear, it will get very boring and not very well balanced by the end-game.

>>174865905
f22s are aesthetic this is objective fact

>>174867661
What the hell is that ADVENT soldier on the right doing

>>174867734
auto-fellatio

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>Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the AVATAR Project. If we're going to slow them down we need to move fast.

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>>174867734
Rather uncomfortable dirt nap by the looks of it. Related picture check out this guy hes having a breakdown from an advertisement.

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>>174867867
>The new engineers arrived this morning Commander. We're always glad to have more help down here.

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>>174867996
>Commander I appreciate you recruiting new staff for the engineering team but as it stands we still have people waiting for an assignment. We could have them working on construction, excavation, or staffing a facility.

>>174868398
Why does she look like jackie chan with longer hair? Why are women so offended with making women good looking in games?

>>174868398
Jesus christ fuck off Shen. If I don't have someone assigned to anything its because I'm waiting for something to assign them to.

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Everything by the _______.

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>>174868398
>We have to get these people out of here

>>174868552
Numerical values

>>174865905
I gotcha. That was another problem I had with it, at the end of the game I just wanted to airstrike every crashed alien ship I could because the ground combat was so tiresome, the only thing that kept me from doing so was the chance to get those black hole engines.

Julian did nothing wrong

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>>174868552

Bumping. Enemy Within I/I Gangplank, but with normal guns.

https://youtu.be/BsY2UL_FqeA

Back to sleep!

>>174871504
Julian is the reason I use SPARKs. His voice is too good.

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>>174868552

Números.

>>174873747
Fuckin' El Nombre didn't know when to let go

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=912064263

Oh shit Coilguns for vanilla

But I don't know how it'll work with the laser weapons

>>174875998
Probably easy to ini edit

I wish XCOM soldiers had more stats

>>174877909
what kind of stats?

>>174872285
Does anyone have a favorite soldier in this campaign? I haven't really given them personalities, but I wonder if there's anyone the audience is particularly attached to. Don't sleep on Baloyi, easily second best girl after Andre

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>Assault exalt base
>this shouldn't too bad
>shoot everyone in the helipad and front room
>move in and take up every point of cover in the room
>an Exault chucks a high explosive grenade into the room
>it blows up the back wall causing a fuckload of guys to get alerted in the middle of the building
>try to pull back to the helipad
>take cover behind a ventilation shaft
>some big fucking exalt bastard with a rocket launcher walks out of the central room and fires a rocket right into my vent
>most of my squad panics not that it matters because the rest of the exalt start chucking grenades
>entire squad gets wiped

>>174875998
Fuckin' A.

Now to wait for an X-Skin version that lets me use those as a Beam replacement so that I can finally have my 4 squad mechanic where one uses beam, one uses mercenary plasma, one uses lasers and the last uses coilguns

>>174871504
>Shen will never seriously talk with Julian
>Shen will never adopt Julian as a little brother
Fuck this gay earth.

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>>174883643
Get fucked xcom

anyone feel they done fucked it up that they gone the direction that they did for xcom2? i'd be fine if the new DLC is the commander going back to the past to unfuck everything,
the timeline would look something like.
EU>X2>commander time travel plot device<EW>X2/EWDLC

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Did Pavonis fix the camera under the Avenger bug yet? I can't play LW2 until it's gone

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Sup guys

>>174863749
Fuck man. ADVENT guns are so goddamned sexy. Real shame that you need to mod the game to use them yourself.

>>174867885

Say what you want but that 'car' looks kinda nice.

>>174890196
There's plenty of direction left. Hell, the ending of XCOM 2 is prime material to segue into an Apocalypse setting.

>>174891885
This. If XCOM 3 did an even further time skip to post-ADVENT Earth with a ton of different factions rising up, there's a lot of potential

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what nice scout stats

>>174892324
SPEAKING OF

OPEN APOC FIRST RELEASE SOON

>>174892723
I'm pretty jazzed about this. It's so hard to play apoc right now when you have the beauty and sex that is openxcom.

>>174892923
by the end of the year I bet someone will have completely fixed the QoL issues Apoc has

>>174882985
If you're trying to get people invested in your characters, watch and take cues from Beagle.

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>>174863749
I'm considering upgrading my humble /xcg/ imgur album into a Booru Gallery. The benefits of this would be a tagging system so that people can easily find pics on topics that they want. However, considering the album is fast approaching 1,000 images, this would be a large project.
How interested would people be in this? I am probably going to do it anyway, but some feedback might give me some motivation
Here is an example of a /vg/ Booru for reference: http://r6gdrawfriends.booru.org/

>>174900396
sounds cool

>>174876342
You can easily change the cost to make each type and the damage/spread/range/etc. stats but you can't change where they are in research. So they'll still conflict.

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>>174900396

That sounds better. Go for it.

>>174900396
why not

make sure to make a standardized tagging system

>>174902052
>make sure to make a standardized tagging system
Can you clarify what a "standardized tagging system" looks like?

>>174902316
it depends on the specific needs of the general and the specific booru style you're going for

for instance in-jokes could be tagged, or character names could be tagged, or specific gameplay concepts could be tagged depending on consensus terms for them

basically, do you want to tag the memes or not, work that out early on

some boorus just alphabetize their tags, some separate by category (artist name separate from "tig_ass_bitties", etc

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>>174900783
That would be because its in the StrategyElement .uc instead of an ini.
If someone can find where in the base games files that the laser/coil mod makes the override to make beams come after laser/coil you can probably do the same for Mag weapons then change the tech requirement for Lasers to Modular Weapons, adjust the stats to be in between Ballistic and Mag, and adjust the supply/alloy/elerium cost.
Or Pavonis could accept the fact that not everyone wants to use the entirety of Long War 2 and actually update their individual packs but thats not likely.

>>174902669
Ok, I'll take that into consideration. Thank you for the input.

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Hello /xcg/,

Before the VGL8 kicks off in a couple of weeks i want to discuss 2 things.

First the roster which is pic related. Do you guys have suggestions for the roster or should i run a poll for a couple of days/weeks?

Second is our music for the team.
Currently we have
Pregame anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpwb6kOMUc
Goal horn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtyvh-DeQYs
Beaglerush brace horn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0PfpFRl8M
Alien goal horn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJq3Rngmek
Miracle goal horn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRJ7eCiWY7M
Do you guys want to change any of these or should we keep them

>>174906186
That all looks good to me, I can't think of anything new to add at least.

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Started my old campaign again. I've completed all my autopsies. Will this unlock after I make her volunteer?

>>174908661
have to mind control an ethereal for it

>>174908661
The volunteer gets it. If you want more people with it you need to mind control

>>174906186
oh boy is this going to be like the /tf2g/ attempt

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So are thin mints, sneks and faceless the same race?

>>174908839
>>174908946
Ah, thanks. I forgot.

fug I'm going to get raped by ayys. It's May 2017

>>174906186
I was quite happy with the roster and music tracks last season. Keep up the good work Delta.

>>174910093
Faceless are different.

>>174910093
>Thin Mints
>Sneks
Yes.
>Faceless
No, they're something else entirely.

>>174910093
I don't think what Faceless are is actually explained in the game. They have quite the potential though, I wonder what will Jake do with them

>>174910093
Thin men and snakes are the same. Faceless are not. Though we never see sneks having transforming powers, so how they were disguised is anyone's guess

>>174910757
They're supposed to be the most loyal by far and presumably more willing to go under the genemod knife

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Crap. First time getting to the final mission on LW2. DId the final Network tower to begin the final mission but all i get is this. How the hell can i actually get my dudes into the psionic gate? In the vanilla it just happened right after right?

>>174900396
I'd help, even though I don't hang around here much anymore. I'd also upload a lot of my images if you gave me an easy way to do that in a way that would detect and ignore duplicates.

>>174906186
Back when I first started visiting the IRC back in 2016 you were often very rude to me and seemed to want to try to drive me away from the cup. Why was that? Also I’m happy we get along better now, you seem like a good guy and like you honestly care about the cup and having fun.

>>174911223
>that would detect and ignore duplicates.
No idea how to do this desu. It's something I had to manually trim out myself.

What is the mod Beagle was using that showed if soldiers can shoot or not

Don't say modlist that pastebin is 3 years old

>>174914813
Just hit up XCOM on Nexus. All the important mods will be on the first two pages.

>>174914813
this?
http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/666/?

>>174914960
I always forget there aren't many mods anyway.

>>174915361
Yeah, thanks.

>>174890196
>commander

you mean Asaru right?

>>174915909
>you mean Asaru right?
Why does everyone think the fucking bureau is canon?

Wew you got one throwaway line in the meld recombination report, better legitimize this horseshit game.

>>174916065
Carter pls

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>>174915909

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When is EXALT coming back?

>>174916065
>Why does everyone think the fucking bureau is canon?
Because X2 implies it is

>>174911106
well, i have bad news anon. It's a bug where the waterworld disappears. If you can't assault now, basically you cannot finish the campaign. DFC (small youtuber, had a few modded playthroughs) had this exact problem. iirc he didn't find a solution.
it's not a bug with LW2 and probably some weird interaction between 2 different mods

>>174916065

Why does everyone think you can just throw away canon like it's nothing?
XCOM2: Shitting over all previous canon

>>174916796
Xcom 2 is an alternate scenario that explores what could happen should xcom fail.

>>174916541
Bullshit, the bits with an ethereal when you possess an avatar don't mean anything.

>>174917453
Than how do you explain the random ethereal who shows up at the end? Or the fact that this ethereal seems to be on our side? (sound familiar) Or why the commander suddenly has psychic bullshit affinity? Or why the commander can handle the simulation machine? There's something that doesn't add up. Besides, the Bureau is focused around ascended ethereals, which XCOM 1 already confirms. It's probably canon as ridiculous as it is.

>>174917908
Sounds like a lot of shit they put in because it looked cool. That's it.

>>174918071
Alright anon, have it your way. I don't like it either, but I think it's pretty clear.

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>>174918071
>rule of cool

Nah man, they better explain that shit in the expansion

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>>174916751
Damn.....that's alot of hours gone for a game i can't complete now.....
Only hope is if i can find the command to spawn it perhaps. Other than that i'll just start up a new game & forget about this one then. Shiiiiiiit....

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Backpack ports fucking when

>>174918365
It's just occam's razor

>>174917908
You are the ethereal and the commander is just another carter is what it implies.

>>174910093

Thin mints are some artificial two-legged breed of snek. The faceless are something else. My theory is that they're made of genetic sludge from the Avatar project.

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>>174895864

>>174919774
this is beautiful

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>>174883708
>wake up
>see this
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=912653686

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>>174919969
thanks

>>174918715
occam's razor wouldn't apply to what you are trying to argue.

>>174916291

In the expansion alongside MECs. Maybe...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=910203574&searchtext=

My dick is so fucking hard right now.

>>174921876
You're kind of late

>>174922070

Never too late.

>>174869698

Not the original one who asked but I also keep hearing this about Xenonauts end-game begin quite not that good. Why is this? I remember an example were the last tier of fighters are so OP that the air game loses all the challenge after you get them. What else in un-balanced?

>>174921876
Question is, how gud does it look ingame?

>>174924942
What was this made for

>>174924942
>black woman with a netherlands flag
guess the refugees really did take over

>>174932302
thats a white person with dreads though

>>174933634
>white person
>with dreads
a contradiction

1.3 never ever lol

>>174933804
look it up they are a wild sight

>>174933828
Who gives a shit. EXPANSION WHEN?

>>174934164
A lot longer than a Long War update so I need it to not be shit.

Anyone experience with installing sightlines mod for Long War?
Do I rename sightlines.u to sightlines.upk?

Windows 10 btw.

>>174892923
what is openxcom?

>>174934404
that's the line of sight thing?

I use the patcher GUI

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>>174935216
Open xcom is a knitted together mashup of UFO defense with huge amounts of mods added. It's a whole experience in of itself making a decades old game seem fresh.
One of my personal favorites is tearing apart Sectoids with attack dogs.

>>174935510

Dude. There's more steps than that.

>>174935775
so it's worth getting?

>>174936231
You're asking the X Com general if the beloved classic X Com game's open source port is worth getting.
Yes, yes it is.

>>174935980
no there aren't you fucking idiot

it's easy as fuck

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>>174931839

Silly stuff DA does.

>>174935216
>>174936231
Just to be clear, the most important feature is the x-com but cleaned up and re-coded from the ground up to run buttery smooth on any modern operating system with very good options and mods built straight in. The mods are optional of course, but between building your own modding experience, and overhaul mods like FMP and PirateZ, you get entire fresh experiences once you've exhausted vanilla x-com. Also, Terror from the Deep is supported.

>>174933828

Whats so especial about it?

>>174934164

WE NEED EXPANSION NAO DANNIT NAAOOOO

>>174944851
>Whats so especial about it?
It's supposed to remove stealth as your standard tactic and instead encourage actual fights. Which is a big deal since I would say stealth is by far LW2's biggest downfall currently. Not to say it's certain the mod will be fantastic after 1.3, but it at least gives it a shot.

>>174935980
there's not supposed to be, unless wangblows 10 is that different

if you're talking about the several steps to enable patchergui and mutators in the first place, that's already done if you're using long war

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So i just tried the debug character & started exploring some of the buildings that you never really bother with in game & i couldn't help but notice the bloody axe on a bed....

>>174949032
make a story up

What will the next expansion be about

>>174950769
Tygans Advent burger franchising monopoly

>Alien weapons chew right through the thickest layers of kevlar I've seen over what is probably the best ballistic plates that money can buy
Seeing as you can watch those plates take .308 and barely bow from it I never realized how truly powerful plasma weapons are.

>Enemy within long war
>Order 57 rookies so I can stay near the 100 cap
>order arrives
>game crashes every time
Does anyone know the way around this crash?

>>174952125
You can customize Kevlar to be shirtless and the weapons still do the same damage, so they're probably using cheap ones, really cheap ones

>>174952696
I had like over 100 things in repair and it crashed every time the order completes. Too much orders seem to fuck something up and crash. Limit what you order up to 20 even I got lag from those event list orders.

>>174952764
Kevlar was designed to resist bullets, not super heated plasma.

>>174952840
Ok, how do I cancel orders?

>>174952696
I played EW long ago so I don't remember, can that game use 4 gb of ram or is it limited to 2? Try patching it to 4 gb, perhaps that's the issue

>>174952764
You can customize any tier to be shirtless and it still does the same damage.

>>174952992
You can't :^)

Sadly I hope you have some previous saves because I had to go back a month for mine due to keeping my saves with no scroll bar.

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>>174953241
I was 20 hours in playing on Ironman.

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I unironically liked The Bureau

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>>174956294
Me too

>>174956294

Is not s bad as people says.

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NOT FAIR IF I HAVE ALL THE FUN

>>174961057
Beagle should be proud of his baldness. It brings him closer to the man, the myth, the fucking legend who has a completely bare and shining scalp.

EXALT did nothing wrong

>>174961361
i think beagle needs to eat a sandwich and lift some weights to be closer to vandoorn than a sectoid

>>174961717

ouch...

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>>174961704
*agrees in static*

Anyone else planning on donating to the Phoenix Point fig crowdfund? I think Gollop seems pretty reliable, the build he already has ready looks damn cool.

>>174961717
all we neeed is to stick him a gene mode tank for 2 weeks

meld fixes everything

>>174964506
meld is not canon

>>174966572
canon is whatever they decide is canon. so meld can be canon if they decide to add it in the expansion
also, meld is canon for EW

>>174966824
Meld might very well be canon anyway. Certainly, the MEC project is, just XCOM didn't survive long enough to retrieve MELD to make it viable beyond the SPARK prototype.

As a resistance, XCOM has taken a much more "Purge the Alien" approach to due to the ubiquity of alien gene-modding which means that they may have moral reasons from not actually 'discovering' MELD, as they never plan to implement cybernetics or genetic modification.

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>my face when I forget that my gunner is my only unit without an arc thrower

>>174961717
I think you need to stop eating so many sandwiches.

Damn the airgame is hard, but I finally got 2 laser cannons building and I have 2 pilots one with 3 kill and one with 2. Managed to damage a medium just enough to send it packing. If I luck out and they send another RIP my sat. Somehow I accidentally built 2 spare satellites though, I was wondering why I was so poor for a month there. Since I;v got the spares I'v been a bit more reckless in the airgame trying to get my topguns more kills.

>>174968481
I just did that mission. Wild.

>>174952125
>>174952764
Plasma boils through TANKS in one shot in XCOM1.

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>>174961704

Of course they did. They opposed XCOM.

>>174976437
From my point of view XCOM is evil.

>>174969173
>Somehow I accidentally built 2 spare satellites though
personally I often keep a spare, when everything is repairing it's cheaper to pay up when a fighter comes than to buy extra birds in a desperate attempt to do enough damage

>>174979762
It's also useful to keep one ready for when the ayys launch a retaliation mission. Since a battleship nukes your satellite it can be handy to get another one back up so when the assault carrier is inbound you can pull people out of psi training or something.

>>174892679

>-3 defense
>13 move
>minimal will

That's an LMG gunner, lad

>>174983387
That sweet sweet 5 health would be wasted on a gunner. Also
>commander's choice

>>174983648
>not commander's choice

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>>174983920

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>>174983997

>>174983648

gunners get shot at all the time. could use him as a biotank

>>174984994
Gunners have good inherent health progression, so making him into one wastes the good base amount. What's the point of a 6-health squaddie? You can make use if they also have 11 mobility and must thus always wear mobility armor, but that's not the case here.

Or as you say, if you try to salvage it by biotanking, but he doesn't have the will for it. Plus "gunner biotank" sounds like "support grenade scout", a build you use when you get bad stats from randoming and are trying to make do somehow.

Probably late to the party but Pheonix Point is now up on fig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuN9g502cYM

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>>174985810
The crab with tits keeps haunting me.

there are so many better ways to give crabs tits...

>>174985810
Just got the 40$ tier.

>>174985810
rip in pieces jake

quick

give me a reason to take a medic on any mission versus having TWO SOLID STRONG gunners

>>174985810

Is this the same as >>174864029 ?

>>174987087
Probably.

>>174985810
Can you delete this post

>>174985810
Pledged 40 bucks

It looks great

>>174987529
Fuck off Jake.

>>174986906
Excellent will progression and weak conventional offense makes for excellent psions. They are also among the lowest priority for gene mods, so fatigue won't stack up.

modded my soldier genders to be 95-5 male to female ratio for realism. anyone else do this?

>>174988143
I'm not autistic so no

>>174988143
I go more like 75-25

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>>174988143
I was considering making it 75-25 because my name list was lacking the gentle touch, but I fixed that by adding some waifus

>>174988225
>10 second change
>autism

go to bed granddad

>>174988143
What did you edit? Can't find anything on google.

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>>174985810

Looks like utter shit. Probably doesn't even have timers to help the players have more fun.

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>>174986458
>>174986882
>>174987728
You guys are going to regret these posts once the expansion drops

>>174985810
>fig

GOD DAMNIT.

I want to support this so bad, but not through tim shafer's money laundering scam site.

Is there a paypal option? Or some other way?

>>174985810
I never back or purchase games early until they are in a playable state that I enjoy as is and would not care if the game was actually finished (see Darkest Dungeons early access).
Do I break my rule?

>>174996240
Yes.
t. Backer

>>174968981
sounds like you arent the 6'5 gods chosen

>>174996240
Its always worth waiting till the game is worth its cost.

Bit of a plot hole?
How did normie humans completely forget about the invasion?

>584 mods

Send help

>>174988143
I prefer a more realistic 100-0 ratio

>>174994380
No other way unless they set up their own paypal system on the side, unfortunately.

And yeah, it is my major ballache with fig and why I have only ever backed two projects on it.

This one was worth it, imo, because Gollop coming back to the genre he helped create is something I am willing to pay to see.

>>175001212
If you're talking XCOM 2 - Normie humans were told their governments shot first and the aliens were just retaliating/defending themselves.

I imagine the government officials who knew different were the first people to take a trip to the blacksites.

>>175001212
The advent speaker says in the beginning something like this:
"Earth's corrupt governments struck first against a peaceful visitor, resulting in devastation that left hundreds of millions with nothing!"

>>175001212
ayys dindu nuffin

>>175004996
#SectoidLivesMatter

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>>175005395

>>174956294
I know I played it and I know I beat it.

But I don't remember a single thing about it....

it existed /10

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https://youtu.be/D9mL3lx7b0c
>tfw Gollop + Slav-technosorcery makes vidya

Brix were shat.

>>174864470
I remember back in the beta for xeno the Migs were so much fun. 1 missle-->three missles would BTFO the ayys like 90% of the time, for the 10% just turn and burn. Plus the Mig-31 is a cool fucking plane

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>>174883643
EXALTED

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>>174883643
>grenade spam
It's like I'm playing BF 1

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>>174964291
Why /XCOM general/ isn't talking about PP fig campaign? It looks great

>>174964291
Got the $25 poorfag pledge. I had no idea Gollop was now in Bulgaria with a local studio.

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>>175008171

Looks really promising.

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Whats the difference between pulse and coil in lw2

>>175011586
Pulse is between ballistic and mag in terms of power and gets +5 aim, coil is between mag and beam and pierces armor.

>>174964291
I got the 40$ one, might upgrade if there's a stretch goal I really want.

>>175009127
Sauce? Does the girl has a name?

>>175012695
Yeah there name is ded

How fast does DR scale in LW1? Youtube anon here doing the groundwork for a MEC rush ballistics only LW1 win.

Who here prefers to equip all there Snipers with the Marksman Rifles in LW1?

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All those years working for the aliens can affect a man.

>>175013318
All of them? Even after the early game?

>>175013964
Well, atleast until Snapshot then I keep a healthy balance of Snipers and Marksmen

>>174987087
More or less. It just has added sfx, where the "leaked" vid mostly had just music during the ingame sequences.

>>174994380
Redpill me on this. What's the deal with tim schafer and fig?

>>175015636
>What's the deal with tim schafer and fig?
Where to start, it's a total fuck up and some real shady business practices. If you just want a cheap game then go for it (low tier that you don't mind potentially losing) but don't do the """investor""" bullshit.

>>175012786
Check ufopaedia's alien research article, it goes into detail on DR and other values for each unit.

>>175014072
Kinda silly considering snapshot is at CPL.

>>175016012
>>175012786
oops I meant this one, not alien research

http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Alien_Life_Forms_(Long_War)

>>175011887
Thanks man

>>175015636
Basically he is an "SJW" so people freak out and try to make it seem like every decision he makes is awful and not something pretty much every developer does. He has made some bad decisions and can't stick to a budget, but it's pretty clear whenever he is brought up that people exaggerate because of his politics. Never mind the fact that Tim Schafer is one of many people who started Fig you will still hear people bitching about some "shady" dealings without proof.

>>175016315
Thanks man. I guess i'll have to think of ayy DR gains as a doom clock in this campaign.

Imagine if XCOM 2 had actual resistance mechanics outside of "establish haven".

>>175015916
The whole shebang, if you don't mind. Or kindly point me to somewhere I can begin research on this. But what you're basically saying is go for it so long as I go for say the $25 tier and below?

>>175016758
One of the good things LW2 did. Made better with RM's haven job mods

>>175017265
I like the more varied retaliations too, defending a supply convoy, recruitment drive or datatap breaks it up from the conventional terror type mission.

Also rendezvous was cool the first few times I did it, but it is really easy and boring.

>>175017265
It really isn't related to a resistance though. I mean there's never any operations to steal guns, you don't even need to unite other resistance groups. Like fuck, there's barely any kinds of sabotage missions.

>>175016435
My reasons for disliking him are the bad business decisions.

Broken Age was a debacle, and pulling the plug on Spacebase DF9 when it was basically a tech demo and having the gall to call it complete really rankles.

But yeah, you're right that a lot of the Fig is shady shit is just the same argument you can level against every crowdfunding platform.

>>175017592
You could say smash and grabs would be like that.

Running a resistance force is outside the scope of XCOM anyway.

>>175017676
The only thing I have ever seen that was crowdfunded and turned out well was FTL. I liked Elite: Dangerous's concept but the execution is too autistic for even me.

But Gollop actually has passion, talent and experience so I am hopeful.

>>175017265
I really like the strategic early game but it becomes such a chore once you have more regions than can fit on one screen.

It reminds me a lot of manually going through your cities in Civilization 3 and making sure people weren't acting retarded. Early game it matters so much and it's more or less painless to do but by endgame half of your seven hour turns are spent tabbing through your hundreds of cities.

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>>174976929

The Commander is the chosen one. He can't be evil.

anyone have the
>local commander breaks line of sight
image?

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>>175018597

>>175018889
Thanks.
Is there any problem in life breaking LOS won't solve?

>>175019141
being dogged by some loser from /v/ for months

>>175019228
>>175019141
This desu

>>175016315
>chem grenades cut inherent DR in half or by 3, whichever is higher

So chem trivializes DR?

>>175019306
It helps, but with HEAT you don't need it a lot of the time.

I bring it along for berserkers, mostly. It turns them into jokes.

>>175019306
Mostly. But someone has to take it, someone has to get in range to throw it, not reliable against flying targets, and it is a consumable.

>>175019306
Yes. Despite mechanical units being immune to the poison they're actually the prime targets for chem grenades because their DR gets completely obliterated.

>>175019454
>beagle trying to chem a pod of heavy floaters.avi

>>175019443
Hm, i may carry it anyway because
>ballistics
>>175019454
Flying targets huh? Hm. How would a ballistic squad deal with those?
>>175019552
Seems like it. That plus AP ammo and shred and HEAT and i don't see any real reason for DR to threaten a ballistic run.

>>175019836
>How would a ballistic squad deal with those
Flack ammo I guess. And Heat for disks. Does Ballistics mean no rocket launcher upgrades? Rocketeers are pretty much AA troops.

>>175019992
Yeah, no recoilless rifles

>>175019836
A ballistics only run would be practically impossible in long war.

2-4 damage on most unit's weapons is not going to hold up when the alien research starts compiling and you get 12 health thin men.

>>175020096
Well early game they are still good, but then of course they will fall off quite hard.

>>175017958
There are a few kickstarter projects that went well even when debacles like MN9 hog the attention. Shadowrun Returns/Dragonfall/Hong Kong are generally well regarded, with Dragonfall being seen as truly excellent. There was a Divine Divinity game that also went well. I have some critiques about Pillars of Eternity, but that one at least delivered on what was promised. Crowdfunding can be hit more miss, but it's not all miss.

>>175020161
Yeah so you run more gunners, mecs, and critfantry with lots of explosives and support grenades with bullet wizards and stuff. Not ballistic ARs.

>>175020613
MECs are ludicrously expensive

>>175020826
Yes, and? It's not like you're spending money on weapons or armor

>>175021002
It's not the elerium or alloys, it's the meld

>>175021002
those don't cost meld though, which is what mecs are mostly gated by
sure you'll have tons of buckaroonis, alloys and elerium
but your meld is still the same as that of people playing normally
in fact less so since the gear handicap will require you to be more careful and make it harder to run up and get meld

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>>174964291
>Julian Gollop working with slavs in a game that at least sort of looks like the BPRD total conversion I've always wished for

I wish I had a international card to pledge something tbqh, and I fucking hate crowdfundin.

>>175021127
>>175021228
I feel like going balls out for meld is possible playing like a normal MEC rush. Streamers do that shit all the time.

>>175021701
The issue is that if you are playing your strategic game correctly then meld will be a lot less plentiful.

>>175022049
Fair, but a mec-1 costs 30 meld. We can easily bank what, 100 in the first month? Really we only care about mec-1s and their attendant perks from the soldiers.

>>175022412
No chance you're getting 100 from the first month. Canisters give 5 each, there's 3 scouts and what, 4 abductions? Some of those will have no meld and you'd be doing very well to snag two canisters in those that do have it. Assuming what I think is a generous average of 1.5 canisters per mission, that's 10 for 7 missions or 50 meld, plus like 10-20 from kills depending on how much you use explosives. That's the optimistic number, not "easily".

Also there's a token price for chopping soldiers so it's a bit above 30 per mec, but I don't remember how much.

How do people even get the 4 alien computers for a mec rush?

>>175023328
Fair

Still that's a mec in one month and in month two there's way more meld up for grabs
>>175023760
Landed large tovarisch )))))

>>175023887
>Still that's a mec in one month
No, that's the entry cost for xenogenetics + biocybernetics. I doubt you'll have problems building mec-1 of all things, but I love me some technicalities.

>>175023887
>Landed large tovarisch )))))
You'd have to discard 4-5 starts if not more to see that. Joinrbs is doing a mec rush atm and I don't think he got it either. I'm wondering what his plan is.

>>175024615
Fair criticisms on all fronts. The entry cost is true. I do plan to replay and re record several Marches until i get lucky. No reason not to.

>>175024697
I'll be curious to see how far you get, but that's it. It's not doable.

>>175024862
Aight famigliano, that's 100% fair. But that's what they said about I/I ballistics in vanilla, too, and that campaign was easy.

>>175025252
I wish you all the luck

>>175025252
best of luck

>>175025341
>>175025463
I'll take it!

also keep watching my youtube shit

What do you guys think about people who complain about X-COM not having x like XCOM had? They're different games, of course they're not identical, Jesus.

>>175025984
Some of them are legitimate. I wouldn't broad brush it either way.

>XCOM gets a freemieum mobile game.

How do you think it could play?

>>175026607
no

I have family who compare mobile strike to xcom

just no

>>175025984
Some things like complaining about a lack of time units are relatively stupid.
Complaining about a lack of physical projectiles seems stupid until you realize bullets are semi-physical in X2 and really a mod for them should happen.

>>175026607
>Similar tactical gameplay with less skills and smaller maps
>Characters have a limit to how many times they can go down before dying
>Have to roll for new units with a chance they will come at a higher rank
>Everyone starts at squaddie
>Standard mission selection system
Doesn't sound that bad.

>>175026607
Hopefully it would be sort of like that free Fire Emblem game. It's actually fun.

>>175026607
Clear out a random ufo/abduction a day with a random selection of squadmembers

>>175026884
>Annette Durand and Shaojie Zhang are SSS summons

>>175012063
Yeah, I can't wait to see the stretch goals. They haven't put any up yet but its already 50% funded on the first public day, so I think they should get some soon.

>>175029446
I never paid attention when Chaos Reborn was crowdfunding, did it get Stretch Goals?

>>175030407
I didn't pay attention to it either, but I just looked it up:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1206403106/chaos-reborn-from-the-creator-of-the-original-x-co

There were two small stretch goals, and Chaos Reborn reached the first (localization in a couple extra languages).

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I feel slow as fuck, I just found out you could give rockets in lw2 expanded magazines.
>Just dicking around
>Get my technical 4 rockets with just basic bitch expanded mags
>mfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LX7WrHCaUA

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>Mod XCOM 2 heavily and play on Legendary
>While I was busy making sure it would be challenging I forgot to give myself some advantages so it would actually be somewhat balanced instead of heavily skewed in the ayys favor
>Had ideal initial activations for the first 4 missions
>Still had 11 casualties despite doing everything I could
Uh, I might need to take this setup back to the drawing board and start over.

>>175035372

Nonsense, you'll be alright.

>>174964291
I really like how he says he's influenced by x-piratez

>>175035562
Anon I don't think you understand. We physically don't have enough supplies to field enough soldiers for a mission even if I decide to take Fatigue wounds.

>>175036356
Pardon my ignorance, but what's x-piratez?

>>175036896

Not with that attitude.

>>175036356
Pretty sure he just said that he played it, not that it influenced the game

>>175037078
openxcom gampelay overhaul mod.

>>175037396
Cool, thanks. One thing I like about Gollop is that he's so nice and supportive of all the fangames that have spawned from his work.

>>175037694
>supportive of all the fangames that have spawned from his work
Yeah that is pretty cool.

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I'm really digging these new deepsea mutants

Wonder what other designs await us.

holy shit xcom 2 sold nearly 1.4 million units on PC

what was EU/EW?

>>175040346
It seems like it'll be really cool. They've mentioned land-based mutations depending on region, like elephants and lions in Africa, and in the video you can see a mission involving Kaiju sized monsters that you have to kill with special tactics and weapons, its like a combo of XCOM with Pacific Rim or something

>>175040346
Mod to give them sectoid faces and screams WHEN

>>175040359
1.4 billion

>>175041441
that's nearly half of all computers connected to internet

jake made out big

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>Got into XCOM because a friend gifted me 2 and I really loved it, put in 250 hours in 2 months
>Gone through 2 more modded campaigns since then
>Didn't really like LW2
>Really want to sink my teeth into EU/EW and then LW1
>Missed the sale a little over a month ago to get it cheap
>Resign myself to waiting till the next one
>Check Amazon today on a whim for it
>Fucking $9.90 for a new physical copy of the Complete Edition which you activate on Steam anyway
It'll be here on Thursday and I'll be having my first experience of the first invasion that day.
Give me your best tips for someone who has only played X2 and is now jumping into EU, /xcg/.

>>175042839
It's fairly similar except the AI is a lot easier to exploit, mostly by breaking line of sight and popping out to catch the enemy making stupid moves.

>>175040359
I couldn't find a steamspy archive link before it got free for some time, but a (((neogaf))) thread I found says it sold 1,6 million

>>175042839
Enjoy being able to take your time and manuever. X2 is xcom gotta go fast edtion. Take a seat and chill for XCOM1. Still kinda gotta go fast to get the MELD, but it is way more laid back and gives you much more time to approach situations how you want to. Also spam Sats. Spamming Satellites takes engies, so nab those.

>>175043836
>Not playing just as aggressive as 2 in Enemy Within
GOTTA GET THAT MELD. THAT SWEET ORANGE DELICIOUSNESS.

>>175043234
>AI is a lot easier to exploit

This is misleading. The AI in Long War 1.0 is at the same level maybe better as their skills increase and the fact that LOS doesn't pierce building makes the game more tactical but yes slightly easier. XCOM2 has so much LOS bullshit issues that you can't ever plan to break LOS appropriately. Rooftops are particularly stupid.

>>175045371
Based on his post hes doing vanilla EU/EW then LW1. That Anon is right to say vanilla AI is easy to exploit.

>>175045634
>vanilla AI is easy to exploit.

So is the vanilla AI in XCOM2.

>>175045735
I'd say the AI exploits you as much as you exploit them in XCOM 2 with how fucked LOS is.

>>175045735
I mean you can exploit sectoids but I don't know what else.

Good luck breaking los with windows on every building too.

>>175045735
X2 AI is just reliably retarded, but you can't really do anything clever with it.

>>175045735
Only Psionic enemies really. There are other enemies that you know are going to do 1 thing everytime when they first encounter you (like MECs and firing missiles) but those ones are more likely to fuck you up compared to Sectoids and Gatekeepers always prioritizing zombies or Codices always prioritizing the AOE disable.

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>>175050373

>>175050373

Crashed passenger plane terror mission time?

XCOM 2 is fun

>>175052004
1.3 when
expansion when

>>175052074

fresh beagles whan

40 hours til the bakery opens and we have fresh bagles

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Literally a mission to blow up a hospital. Good job, X-COM. Your next target is school.

>>175041350>>175040346
Snek heads and boobs.

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>tfw I'm dominating my airgame
DEAR HUMANITY, WE REGRET BEING ALIEN BASTARDS. WE REGRET COMING TO EARTH. AND WE MOST DEFINITELY REGRET THE CORPS JUST BLEW UP OUR RAGGEDY ASS FLEET.
HOORAH.

I really dislike timers and stealth.

>>175054659
just mod them senpai

>>175054775
Can't I just pay you to do it for me?

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>>175054881
Dude you're just going to open a few files in notepad and change a few numbers, or even if you're too lazy to do that download someshit from steamworkshop

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>>175054127