/xcg/ - XCOM General

expansion when

>tfw a fuckton of cosmetic mods that remove legs and arms
>a ton of soldiers with floating limbs that i have to manually fix
bit annoying desu, worst part is i don't even remember which mod does this

i'm james saladman and my dad works at firaxis and he says wotc has been canceled

>>179904501
74 days

IT'S A SHAME YOUR EFFORTS HAVE BEEN SO MEDIOCRE, COMMANDER

Re-postin'

>>179902734
The people behind the Celatid, though they had modelling support from Stenchfury.

They also did those Archon variants etc.

>>179902842
Really? Have they actually said what? And is it just more variants of existing xenos or are they doing more interesting things like the Celatid? Or Bureau Ports?

Xcom interceptor remake when? They can get the ace combat people on it

pistols are useful

>>179905921
If they are so useful, how come you have to remind us about it in every thread?

This is Firebrand, evac request confirmed; hold tight.

>>179906239
The truth stated often is still the truth. Just because everyone tells you to BREAK LOS doesn't make it any less true.

>>179904630
For me I think it's one of the Halo ones.

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>>179906446
FUCK OFF FIREBRAND BIG SKY IS BETTER REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>179906446
I love you, Firebrand.

>>179905165
It's a bunch of stuff. A lot of people will be happy.

>>179907082
I want to believe, but at the same time I am incredibly dubious.

Oh well.

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>advent mec wipes squad on roof via grenade + fall damage + burning

>>179907621
Just wait I can't say anymore.

>>179904630

What could they do to fix this? Part of the reason I don't use a load of cosmetics is to keep the memory usage down but also because I hate having to fix every soldier in my barracks after upgrading an armour tier

I was thinking maybe a 'preset' function, ie instead of having to select the limbs separatley , you just select from a list what look you're going for. For example you're using a MW2 SAS pack with four different variants, you can just select one of the four variants and it sticks, the game doesn't try to assign new limbs after upgrading

>>179907642
Why did you group them all together when there was a MEC there?

>>179908503
Some mods have an option in the settings where you can set how often certain cosmetics are selected for recruits, but not all mods are there and I don't even know if it does anything. I really wish everyone who makes cosmetics just conformed to a standard system of limbs and stuff where you don't get invisible bits on certain combinations of mods, which I realize is tough/impossible due to using ported models, but it's really a pain in the ass and limits customization.

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>>179907642

>attempt to commence cheese on roof
>absolutely blow away a couple of pods thanks to height advantage
>pod with mec appears
>try to hack it
>hack it
>heh heh heh nothin personnel advent
>fire a flashbang at the rest since they're slightly out of range
>one of them doesn't get hit because sometimes the game doesn't like you
>he fucking flashbangs us
>Hack effect lost!
>fires grenades
>it all goes south from there
>mfw

that'll show me

>>179908978

IIRC that only works for newly obtained recruits, I really wish all mods had it though, at least you can turn it off for Alien Hunters and Anarchys Children

I fucking love how they make it feel so satisfying to hit the aliens in this game. They fly away, lots of blood and great sound from the guns. Only wish they made the strike punt enemies across the map like the EW mechs did.
Man sparks are just more boring than mechs in general.

>>179909394
>Still no mode where your soldiers shoot sectoids with shotguns for distance

Is sneaky AI for OG XCom too easy for anyone else?

>still no SHIV mode
give me back my beep boop fuckbots

>>179908978
>>179908503
I think there is one for the invisible head already, but basically this can be fixed by setting it so that there is one mod with all the invisible body parts and every cosmetic mod has a notice that it is required to have this mod in order for their mod to work. That one mod can have the option for how often it appears set to zero, and even if that doesn't completely stop it, having it only be one option out of a hundred means it likely won't appear.

>base defence
>t2 mec fires his launcher and cause one of my men to burn
>panics next round
>panic chain spreads to everyone on mission

Too fucking bad I wasn't recording, my first truly das xcum bb moment

/xcg/ will be playing soon in the VGL against /lzg/

https://pastebin.com/yH1jeMgL

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>>179910228
we got this

https://youtu.be/y6YUFCaMi-A

Will you be looking at Mario and Rabbids, /xcg/?

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>>179908503
bout when this happened to me.

>>179910505
Is it just for switch?

>>179910928
Whoops deleted some of my post, it's supposed to say, "I forgot about when this happened to me.".

>>179910989
Seems like it

What happened on weekly bagels last night?

>>179911226
Literally nothing, he was feeling "sick" so he didn't stream. Funny how he's only ever "sick" on Thursday nights.

>>179911226
lazy nigger happened

So is there a terror mission mod yet? I wanna kill civvies

>Try to play Jagged Alliance 2
What the hell am I supposed to do? This game is about 10x more confusing than UFO Defence was and there's approximately zero online resource for it.

>>179911439
>>179911534
Lol. Just saw the Twitter post.

So he was deathly ill last night, but is going to have no problem streaming Monthly Flavor Shooter Game all weekend. I almost feel sorry for people who subscribe and donate money to him, but I don't.

>>179910228
meh, could've been better

>>179910228
THAT'S XCOM BABY

Well that was disappointing and could have been a lot better

To advance we need to win sunday against /civ4xg/

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>>179911226
>>179911439
>>179911534

does beagle have a real job because maxing at 1K viewers for a couple of hours per week + 1 to 200 dollars in donations is like minimum wage level of poverty

plus he has feed his ogre of a fat-fuck gf and their 5 million different pets

he probably whores himself out to older business men on craigslist or something

>>179912282
The man's pretty much done with XCOM, the magnificence finally took it's toll. I just wish he'd actually say "yea I'm done", instead of pulling people along like that

>>179912226
Just like liberate cities an shieeet.

>>179912975
Well he does get paid for being on that PubG team now, right? But yeah, not exactly sure how the finances work out.

>>179912975
Doesn't he also get monthly 3 dollars from a bunch of people because of Twitch subscriptions? Don't really know how much that adds up to.

XCOM 2 the anime

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31254120

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So I said I would do a quick cleanup of this oc, but then when I changed it a bit, I almost felt like the hasty unpolished nature of it somehow made it better.

So, this one or...

>>179913412
>need to log in to watch
yeah, no.

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>>179913510
or this one. Which looks better? Maybe there is a way to fix it up nicer, wish I could easily match the gray gradient background.

Seriously, is there a mod for making ADVENT fly through walls and shit when hit by a strike? It feels like a mild slap compared to the old MEC strike

>>179913657
there's a white pixel on the grey side under 1st text

>>179913657
I can clean up the gradient when I get home for you if you'd like.

>>179913753
Improved SPARK punches or something

>>179906446
In your dreams :^)

>>179913657
I think you should try to match the style of http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/expanding-brain as much as possible. At least I thought that's what you were going for.

I'm actually really enjoying Long War 2 now that the stealth missions are gone, Also Smash and Grab missions are a neat way to get resources.

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>>179913657
This was driving me insane, so I just made the entire thing from scratch

>>179917661
>those fonts
GIMP?

>>179918328
Paint.net

>>179918461
Free fonts suck ass. But I'm too cheap for Photoshop

>>179918767
>he doesn't have CS5 portable

>>179918767
>I'm too cheap for Photoshop
me too

>>179918918
What's the pros of this one over paint or gimp?

>>179910505
Kek'd

>>179919137
It's a cracked Photoshop CS5 (free) that doesn't need to be installed so you can just copy it from computer to computer.

>>179919415
Can you give me a trusted link? I'm sure I could just google, but I'd rather get it from someone here.

>>179919502
What if anon's a faceless?

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>people putting effort into making your meme good

>>179919558
It's a risk I'll have to take. How tech savy could Faceless be anyway?

>>179919647
Well, they kinda look like their whole diet consists of hotpockets, pizza and sprite only.

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>>179918767
>implying anyone other than corporations pays for photoshop

>>179920112
So, a typical 4chan poster?

>>179920835
I also don't want the penis from Adobe lawyers.

>>179919502
Here, my own copy.
if you want to move it to another PC, all you do is just move the folder to the new PC and delete the 'data' folder (it generates it when you first run it, contains all the directory data).

I'm sure there are later version available but I've used CS5 for years and it's just the one I prefer to use (especially since I've had this portable one for ages).

If it don't work I do also have an installer-version.

https://mega.nz/#!UtoVHYoA!TDBDtwuUF4bXIBMiUNZV2uQo5bf3YOHSVUvJWeO--qw

>>179919647
>finally get to hang out with that girl from sector 5
>we walk around and stuff
>she invites me home and despite ADVENT telling us not to visit each other after 10 PM I go
>we get down to it
>I am so aroused
>she is taking her panties down
>I am going in
>I hear weird noises
>I look on her
>it's a faceless
>Feels like warm apple pie so close eyes and keep going
>turns out this is exactly what "she" wants
>its pussy tightens and massages your dick
>as you climax it stabs you through your chest
>your last moments are in beautiful agony
>after you expire it squeezes the last of your cum out
>it promptly assumes your form and sends you corpse to a gene clinic for use as a biomort

>>179921237
oh whoops, I uploaded the wrong one.
Just make sure you delete the 'Data' folder before running.

>>179921237
Thank you.

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>>179921237
Thanks anon, you're a real gem

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>>179921237
thanks my dude

>>179921349
Is it just me or did the writing quality increase in the second half?

How many mods is too many? I'm currently at 250

>>179922592
Until your game crashes consistantly

>>179922592
I have ~60. One anon here is running 500+

>>179922592
I recently slimmed mine down to 73 and am really enjoying how smooth it is.

>>179922592
63 here, turned off all the longwar stuff though

>>179922592
Currently on 124.
I think most of them are cosmetic.

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Well I gotta say solo avatar research facilities are fun, albeit a tad tough
especially when they drop 3 reinforcement pods on you

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>>179924261
But hey, it works well

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>>179924481
god bless this man

>>179924261
How? I mean, Rangers are broken, but still, how?

>>179926970
A lot of tactical thinking and using Implacable to break LOS
It was a full left side ranger as well, no reaper/blademaster fun and games here
I guess I just got gud

Should I get XCOM 2 on sale now, or should I wait until the Summer sale and hope it goes down more?

>>179927056
If Rapid Fire had a cooldown this wouldn't have been possible, you wouldn't have been able to outdamage something on that mission, I just know it. Was there a Gatekeeper?

>>179927162
Considering the expansion was recently announced I don't think it will go down much lower.

>>179927241
Nah, I barelly reached Archons, and haven't followed story missions at all
Haven't even made skulljack yet while fucking around

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>>179924652
>Changeling
>male
Dropped.

Still, that's pretty goddamn impressive.

>>179928147
I name my soldiers after how my friends want
this one is how my friend named his char in ss13 back in the day
he rolled this nickname and I asked him if he can explain this, as a joke
he said he convinced sec officers those husked corpses were planted by someone and he's innocent when he was an actual changeling
so I left the name on

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>"I can see EVERYTHING"

>>179922191
almost like anon enjoyed writing that part more ...

>>179913049
Why did he do this to us? He just started that new season last month with the cool new desk and shit and he was going on about how he loves xcom? How can he hurt someone who loves him so much?

>>179928513
It's almost as if you want to see your friends get brutally murdered.

>>179929232
>It's almost as if you want to see your friends get brutally murdered.
It's a no troop loss chievo run
Then again my L/I had only 5 dead soldiers, with 4 of them being rookies in early days, and 5th being a grenadier on last mission

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>>179928926
/r/ing an edit of this based on that

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>>179929232
>losing soldiers

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>operation name
>reward
send help my sides were abducted

>>179913049
>>179929229
It's almost like this is a bunch of anons talking out of their asses with no evidence or real insight.

>>179929795
>no evidence

the proof is in the pudding

>>179929856
Well then produce the pudding. Should be easy.

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>>179929634
>stealing my screenshots

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>>179929785
Oh, we're posting these now?

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?????

My GOD, Firestorm is broken. I unleashed it in a building and the entire damn place came down.

>>179932924
ayy

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>>179933137

>>179935835
>no shivs
>no flying
it hurts

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>>179936003
The Celatid turrets fulfill my SHIV needs.
Plus they don't take up a soldier slot.

>>179936523
I really need to use those more.

>>179936626
They are so good, almost too good.
Free, permanent 10HP/1A soldier that never needs to reload and can be whipped out like a Mimic beacon?

Yes please!

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American hero.

>>179908979
Sorry to hear that, commander.
Just remember, the enemy always has an ADVENTage over you...

...I'll show myself out.

Well fuck, my Mexican cell got crippled just now when TWO of the 5 turned out to be faceless, and one of the remaining got killed on the security breach mission. Now it's just my wounded Shinobi and 1 rookie.

>>179939730
Dayum lookit all dat juice

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Sparks are going to be useful.

>>179944417
>not needing a mod for SPARKs to be useful
Jake please don't disappoint

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About to get XCOM 2. Beat EU and EW.

Expansions. Are they worth it? I hear they throw the balance out of whack... But I'm afraid I'll need them for a number of mods.

Deluxe or regular?

I'm excited for that new mission modifier where you can only bring 3 soldiers and there are less enemies, sometimes I just want to have a simple firefight without having to worry about a full squad.

Steam sale for XCOM 2 is over but Amazon has it for a low price right now.

>>179944946
Just pick them up in one pack desu. Some people had complaints about the, but they are all getting re-balanced and tweaked for the expansion and of course mods.

>>179944946
The DLC doesn't really add anything worth having, and like 99% of mods are made without those in mind. I have them but I just activate them and then ignore the missions so they're basically disabled because I've heard how useless the Spark is and I don't want to deal with the Ruler shit, although I'm interested in their rebalance in the expansion.

>>179945013
Huh. I'm excited for it, but for the opposite reason - I wouldn't mind having to do occasional stealth missions.

>people loved the boss dlc so much, let's make a whole xpac if it
Guess this stuff was too far along to change so they just dump more of this shit in.

>>179946608
You realize that they already confirmed that Chosen won't have ruler reactions and that rulers are getting nerfed (only reacting to attacks and movement), right?

>>179946608
But the Chosen don't act like rulers, they act like the rulers should have originally been

>>179946608
I didn't mind the rulers, purely because they were something different.

>>179946608
There don't operate like rulers at all. They also come with strategic elements which is good.

>>179946608
maybe you should have just git gud

no but really like other anons have mentioned the chosen dont have the same ruler abilities like reacting to everything, and rulers dont have the ability to react everything anymore

>2017
>people still whine about being dunked by AH

Remember the good old days when people used to argue about the AWC setting skill unlock ranks too high, and if it was a bug or just a way to deny someone a skill

>>179949184
It was supposed to be retroactive. Either way the LW2 version is superior and will only be topped by the one in the expansion

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>>179949432
I love the LW2 version. Given enough time you can make really OP soldiers.

>only 7,300 in-game

ded gaem?

>>179950313
>only
>singlepayer
nah

>>179950313
The number will go up once the Expansion hits. Some people that would have been playing now don't want to burn themselves out on the game, myself included. Finding other things to pass the time and then before I know it, it will be sweet sweet xcom 2 time.

>>179944946
None of the cosmetic dlc's are important unless you want those & you can get by just fine without either DLC. Shen's last gift is the best of the bunch & there's a good amount of SPARK mods, they're getting rebalanced & Julian is fantastic. Alien hunters is some monsterhunter armor & adds some difficulty.

>tfw 250 hours in Enemy Within and haven't touched XCOM 2 that I bought for 50% off months ago

Finally beat my first ironman long war campaign and feels good man. Should I play vanilla XCOM 2 or jump into LW2? I never even completed EW's vanilla campaign since the game becomes stupid easy, 95% of my time was spent in LW.

>>179952056
I'd play 2 vanilla at least until midway just to get your bearings. 250 hours isn't that much for EW/LW anyway, so you can come back to it later.

>>179952471
Yeah maybe I'll play vanilla on very hard since I think I was playing on Classic or whatever for the EW campaign.

>>179952793
Don't play on Legend your first time. It's like Long War without all the addons. Everything takes three times as long and soldiers who get wounded are out for a month or more. Enemies get like an extra pip of health and maybe armor but most of the diffiuclty comes from outright tripling how long things take. I hope you like waiting 40 days to clear a room on the second fucking floor.

Play on Commander and your game will be a lot more enjoyable and less tedious.

https://youtu.be/PN4gEchJtY4?t=10m12s

Jake status: burning

>>179953027
That sounds good, thanks

>>179952056
>tfw played EW:LW 500 hours now and still haven't finished a LW campaign

I mean I've only played I/I LW since I got the game but still. I feel like a total scrub.

>>179954289
Why you playing impossible for your first time though?

>>179954550
I always play at the highest difficulty for every game that I play. It doesn't always work out so well, but that's just how I prefer to play my games.

If Jake wanted to stop overwatch crawling he could've just made the codex a FL1 enemy or replacement for the advent trooper

>>179955469
I mean I also "prefer" to play games on the highest difficulty but not when the developer literally stresses to complete the game on a lower difficulty first. I guess I just lack the autism gene.

>Made myself wait until after graduation to get XCOM2
>House all packed up except gaming PC
>Got Amazon gift card
>XCOM 2 on sale as product key on Amazon
>Buy it
>Oh boy oh boy, finally Ay Lmaos 2.0!
"Product key is a duplicate git fucked" - Steam
>Amazon Support
>"Lol wait 3-2 Buisness days and we'll email you a new code, but If we don't.... email us again lol" - Indian Guy From Amazon Support

Feels bad. All I wanted to do was reward myself with a night of removing Ay Lmaos. All my friends already moved away, now I'm stuck here with no XCOM. I'm tired of LW.

Tell me stories about Sneks and Missions that are done by the numbers XCOM general, I want to hear them. Tell me what DLCs are good... tell me... tell me of the good mods to get after I play through on Vanilla.

I'll never not buy directly from Steam again. Fuck you Amazon.

>>179955716
I really don't regret my decision, I tried playing it on lower difficulties and it was too easy. Felt like I wasn't being punished for my mistakes and wasn't learning anything. It wasn't even fun for me tbqh

Can someone recommend me a game like XCOM?

I've tried:

Darkest Dungeon: I don't like the "treadmill of RNG feeling" I find it to basically be a game that just shoves the RNG in your face and you may as well have a gas pedal that you just ease the throttle back and forth or go in reverse a little until you win. I just got numb to caring about my characters deaths or problems, then got bored halfway through.

City of Mordeheim: A game loaded with both good and bad game design. I was charmed when my rat man got his shield arm cut off, but gained a 20% doge chance. The UI and clunky way of movement made me uninstall when I had to transport gunpowder around. Also the battle felt like lifeless strategy of "force a favorable trade, then watch the locked-in battle play out"

----

Why is XCOM so perfect? No other Permadeath, Investment RNG-RPG comes close for me so far.

>>179956120
I just got a physical copy, discs activate through Steam.

>>179957413
Long war isn't balanced like a regular game. Normal and Impossible play very similarly but the big difference is the rate of alien advancement and the resources you get from missions.

>>179953182
>Xbone- Xbox One X
>OMFG SO CRINGE LOOOL XDD
why did I ever believe the meme that Pewdiepie wasn't that bad.

>>179956120
God that sucks man. Hope you get that sorted out soon. I remembered it was on sale recently, so I was going to be nice and gift you it. But sale is already over.

I can't regale you with any tales as of the current, my campaigns were never too memorable. But at least I can tell you about the DLC. Both of them were very mediocre. Hunters has new weapons, but they are very OP and you can get them pretty much at the start of the game for free if you want to do the story missions. If not, then you will need to make them yourself for a fair bit of money. The Rulers themselves will either be a bitch or they will be your bitch. Weapons you get were made to fight them, so they can be stunned twice as easily from two of the weapons and the frost bomb holds them in place for a few actions, which is nice if you don't want them to escape.

Sparks are kind of eh, you get a free one from the story mission, but they can't measure up to your human troops.

I think what you should do is play through complete vanilla, no DLC and then once the expansion hits, go full DLC. It's all being changed to incorporate the expansion anyway.

>>179958090
Thanks man, I hope I get my Ay Lmaos soon.

>>179958078

Because /v/ is behind that meme and /v/ is that bad and cringy.

i wish some one could recolor the basic advent from spectrum, i like them more in their original colors

>>179957724
I've been spending alot of time on the shitter thinking about how absurd it is that there are no games like xcom without being literal xcom clones (xenonauts)

>>179957838
There are pretty significant differences between normal/impossible in tactical mode. It genuinely is a lot easier because aliens have less aim, less health, less damage, and drones/floaters have less defense, which itself is huge

I remember the aliens also did retarded shit more often, but maybe they just did the same retarded shit and I attributed that to lower difficulties. I also figured that there were less aliens per mission due to less resource generation or whatever, but maybe I was imagining things.

here's the differences, according to the wiki

Impossible
Tactical
Unchanged from brutal difficulty:
All enemies have +10 aim.
Thin men gain extra +5 aim. (+15 total)
Outsiders gain extra +10 aim. (+20 total)
Floaters have 6 base HP up from 5.
Mutons have 10 base HP up from 8.
Drones have 4 base HP up from 3.
Zombies have 15 base HP up from 12.
All exalt troops gain +2 base HP.
Ethereals and Sectoid commanders gain +20 will.
Uber Ethereal gains +20 will.
Changes in impossible:
All non-mechanical enemies but sectoids and zombies gain +5 will. (Adding a total of +25 will to Ethereals and Sectoid commanders)
Sectoids have 4 base HP up from 3.
Muton berserkers have 25 base HP up from 22.
Seekers have 5 base HP up from 4.
Mechtoids have 30 base HP up from 25.
Cyberdiscs have 23 base HP up from 18.
Heavy Floaters gain +1 mobility.
Uber Ethereal gains +10 def.
"Easy aliens" gain +1 base damage (Sectoids, Floaters, Thin Men, Mutons, ballistic EXALT, seekers, chryssalids, zombies, sectoid commanders, outsiders).
"Hard aliens" gain +2 base damage (Berserkers, Cyberdiscs, Mechtoids, Heavy Floaters, Muton Elites, Ethereals, Sectopods, EXALT Elites, Uber Ethereal).

Higher base HP, damage, and aim are the biggest things that really make the difference. Risk minimization becomes a bigger thing and you can't make poor tactical choices as often without being punished.

For someone who's new to Xcom 2, should I bother with the Long War mod for my first playthrough?

>>179957724
I've heard invisible inc is kind of like xcom

>Want to make a voice pack mod
>Have to install SDK that's nearly 1.5x bigger than the base game

Fucking why Firaxis? The Geck and Creation kit is like 4 gigs.

>>179961070
The long war mod for either game is not meant for first time play. Go vanilla.

>>179961070
>>179961229
Or go Spectrum Green for Vanilla Enhanced

>>179961130
Because it contains literally every asset in the game, + some stuff from EU/W + some stuff from EU's alpha build

>>179961823
Why don't they just pull from the games directory?

Less redundancy and saves space, not to mention it's a check to see if you actually have the game or not.

>>179962079
Because its the raw assets of literally everything including shit not even in the base game.

>>179962248
Well that at least makes sense being SDK - but having to download duplicates of the things that you already have downloaded seems like an incredible waste.

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So who is Lily's mother?

>>179962486
me

>>179962396
The ones in the game files are encrypted

>>179962486
Some random MEC we will never see

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Damn my sniper just saved my ass, got like 6 kills while covering my insertion team on a jailbreak. I beat it but right before I got out a giant reinforcement wave came in with sidewinders and shit, man if I had wasted 1 turn I'd have been fucked.

>>179962486
Vahlen

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Since we're apperently cool with talking about the Bureau now what are your top 5 wants for getting ported over in some form.
1: Muton Elites
2: Silicoids
3: Backpacks & Venn Braces
4: Weapons ports. Damn i love those lines
5: Big doofy sectopod iwth an actual sectoid piloting it.

>>179961268
GREEN IS SUFFERING.

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>>179964626
Advent drone replacers. I'll take anything but I prefer the Bureau's to EW's

>>179964743
That looks like a thargoid

This is pretty cool
https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/15/xcom-developer-is-surprised-and-flattered-by-turn-based-combat-in-mario-rabbids-kingdom-battle/

>>179964626
Lasers
Sectopods
Muton elites
Titan totally didn't go through my cheevos to remember what it was called
The fucking lasers, seriously.

>>179964027
Snipers are love, Snipers are life. Remember to give your sniper all the best aim bonus stuff you can, sometimes he won't be able to get high ground, but he will still shoot that fucker through high cover AND crit on that 2%. Because Snipers are hardcore like that.

>>179964626
>Since we're apperently cool with talking about the Bureau now
Since when?

>>179965035
Oh boy, I love how Jake says he's going to take inspiration from the jumping mechanic. I can see this working really well in Xcom, too many times I wish soldiers could just boost another onto a higher elevation. Military tactics have this all the time, I'm surprised that it isn't in Xcom.

I'm also glad for Jake being able to play something Xcom like with his daughters, bonding like that over something you love is really nice.

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>>179964681
How so? I've heard so little about Spectrum Green compared to LW2. It does look like there's definitely some changes but what are they?

>>179965498
I anticipate there could be a shiv type unit in XCOM 3 and it can get an upgrade that lets you catapult soldiers to higher elevation.

>>179965575
LOTS. First up, loot drops are mostly useless, instead you get drops directly from Advent when you kill them. You could get their gun, their armor, almost anything. Guns are now broken into four classes, Ballistic, Laser, Mag and Plasma and each of them has their own tier. Instead these gun classes do different things. Plasma shreds, Ballistic hits through armor, Laser has HIGH hit chance and Mag has high crit damage, but negative armor pen.

Enemies are buffed pretty extremely. Like HP gets insane and you can get shielded units in the first few months. Playthrough I am watching right now has almost every enemy as an Aegis unit, which has 5 shields, which regenerate by 2 every turn.

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>hsssss c-commander, I want to join XCOM!
What do, /xcg/?

So which of the resistance groups are /our guys/?

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>>179966212
see attached picture

>>179966586
stronk pissed pseudo advent
>no edgy sniper edgelord shit with trench coats
>no pussy mind power shit prefer to grapple enemies for a 1 on 1 man fight berserkers included Hopefully

>>179966912
This, I like the idea of ADVENT deserters. Although I don't mind the stalker-types, space-mages are gay.

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to say that you should check out Julian Gollops new game Phoenix Point, it's made by the original creator of XCOM, and I think it's going to be great! And that new Mario-Rabbids game will hopefully introduce XCOM to a whole new generation!

>>179913412
i don't understand what they're saying but i want more

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>Start a blind LW2 campaign
>first mission is hack the console
>complete the objective with no hits taken
>mission doesn't end
>assume there's another pod
>[reinforcements incoming]
>k
>kill them with ogrewatch
>[reinforcements incoming]
>only 2 left standing
>[reinforcements incoming]
>5 enemies
>look in the corner
>forgot to call the skyranger
>[reinforcements incoming]
>3 turns till evac
>9 enemies
>[reinforcements incoming]
>2 KIA
>1 MIA

Being retarded has never made me laugh so hard

How do you dress your troops?

Full Tacticool? Silly? I need ideas for specific troops.

>>179968065
I'm pretty far into my LW2 campaign and I still sometimes forget to call in evac, I'll miss it by like 2 turns from when I should have called it.

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>>179968143
I do full tacticool, I try to have as much variety as possible in terms of helmets vs no helmets, mix and matching arms, legs and torsos, and camoflage/armor color but still some of my guys can look similar because I am still limited between certain mods being compatible with each other. Thank god the modern warfare armor pack has updated to include female options because that really helps with variety. For tier 2 I switch to more futuristic things like Halo armor, and tier 3 I use that anons warden gear and stenchfury modular armor.

>>179945170
>I've heard

why on earth don't you just play them for yourself

>>179968584
i've dealt with Ruler bullshit before and didn't like it, as for Sparks I don't have any interest in gimped MECs with no personality.

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>>179968143

Xcom.

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>>179966212
Step on snek.

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>>179965035

>“Just like everyone else, my jaw dropped a little bit when I heard the phrase, ‘As you see, Luigi has taken half-cover.’ What world am I in right now? I couldn’t believe it.”

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>>179966049
>Ballistic hits through armor, Laser has HIGH hit chance and Mag has high crit damage, but negative armor pen

>>179966049

What playthrough are you watching? I want to watch.

>>179969505
Didn't deny that it's retarded. That's just how it is. Basicly the idea is that you bring a variety of the different weapon types with you. So you have plasma to shred armor for your mag guys to finish off, Ballistic hits through the 1 armor guys no problem and you have someone with lasers so you can hit anything taking cover and far away. I think the hit chance it gives you is something insane, like 40 for a sniper rifle. It's rather stupid when Advent has them since it it means they have something like a 50% chance to hit you in full cover and flashbanged.

>>179969706
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtdFbHeD9CNznEP9uQpv5gkNY3dUsOg69

He started when it was still in Beta, don't know anything about the latest changes since I only played a couple missions before stopping.

>>179969857

Thank you my good man.

>>179969857
This shit sounds retarded, although kudos to them for trying something different.

>>179969857
I personally like the idea of sidegrades, but that's just stupid. Especially the mag thing. Ballistic shouldn't be in play by the time you have MAG and Laser.

>>179970353
The thing is that there isn't any 'time' that it takes to get anything. You could get a weapon drop from any Advent and now you have a Mag rifle, or SMG, or a DMR, Shotgun. The boss could have a Plasma weapon and drop that.

Having any of these class of weapons auto unlocks you being able to research them, which allows you to build more. If you don't, then you can do the basic research for weapon fragments.

>>179970649
Oh yeah, forgot to say that, there is a BOSS unit in every map, usually guarding the objective. It can be a special unit upgraded, or it could be unique. All of them have an increased chance to drop their weapon or armor or other items. The tech captain I killed dropped an Xpad 3.0, which increased my hacking by 60.

>>179970649
>>179970729
So ADVENT weapons are not ID locked anymore, huh?

More like SPECTRUM: Autism.

>>179970973

>cares about lore more than gameplay
>calls others autistic

That said, this mod does sound like a huge clusterfuck, sounds kinda interesting though.

How does on avoid the bug that causes the camera to focus on the Avenger's landing gear after a mission?

>>179971039
Sorry, I was using the correct definition of autism, where the tard is living in their own world instead of the real world, kind of like you.

>>179971098
less mods

>>179971445

Thanks fampai :^)

>>179971098
Easy way is to uninstall the game, I've heard.

>>179961091
It's actually an OG XCOM-like, with action points spent on a per-tile basis. Also, it's impossible to kill everyone and the missions are timed. Good luck, commander.

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Is it just me or does anyone else think the xcom2 mutons look like green lobsters?

>>179966049
>>179969857
The effects sound too strong. It sounds like you can get hardcountered as if you're playing an RPG without frequent loadout changes.

I mean, LW1 has the same basic idea. You need a long rifle for disks, a flak LMG for floaters, a shotgunand shredder for lids, shredder and heat for robots overall and holo for flyers overall. But there are a lot of modifiers with subtle effects, so you can be 100% prepared or 0% prepared but you can also be 60% prepared. And the defenses of the enemies are subtle too, in the first year you'll very rarely meet enemies with more than 2 DR, yet it is still worth bringing anti-DR tools.

>>179975516
Yeah, over all it's poorly balanced. When the guy I am watching isn't moving up and getting himself flanked like a retard, he's popping face off and killing everything because abilities have give him +3 extra crit damage and his plasma pistol hits for 3-8 damage and has a 40% crit chance. It's stupid and I don't know why he considers it anywhere close to the style of LW1.

>>179975178
I can kinda see why you see it but that's stupid.

get back out there

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*teleports behind you*

heh, nothing personal human

Quick!

The object directly to your left is now Advents top priority ceasable contraband, what is it?

>>179980301
my saber lily figure

ADVENT are coming for my anime

>>179980301
A couch cushion

>>179980301
chip clips

You may take my freedom, ADVENT, but you will NEVER take my freshness

>>179980301
jeans? vaseline?

>>179980301
A cattree. Even ayy pets need entertainment I guess.

>>179980301
A suit
NO FASHION ALLOWED

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I tried to make an animation and it was probably a bad idea, but i rate it 10/10 "it's good enough" and i'm throwing it into the mod anyway.

>>179980301
My satchel...

>beginingofJinRoh.wav

Any SWAT/other special forces armor mod?

>>179980580
Good enough? Dude it's awesome

>>179980580
that looks fantastic

>>179980597
>Jin-Roh

Panzer Corps Mod when.

>>179980580

Why is the tracking device from alien being used by the advent

>>179980580

>AdventScoutAnimation.webm
>scout
>bigfuckhuge armor

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>>179980895

>>179712386
>>179712707
>>179714234
>>179710718
>>179711017

That said, can you guys think of a better name for them? Apparently there's already Advent Scouts in the Spectrum mod, i don't really mind one way or the other but if a different names fit what they do better than Scouts i'll change it.

>>179980836

Turns out Advent can lose Faceless. But it also detects Allahus.

Anyway i'm glad you guys like the animation, this is pretty much practices for future mods which will probably require new animations.

>>179981141
Advent Pathfinder?

>>179981141
Recon?

>>179980818
never ;-;

>>179981141
vanguard

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Are psionics worth it in LW 2 lads?

>>179961091
it's not. It's a turnbased stealth game

>>179981141
Guerrilla? Spearhead? Pointman?

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>>179982085
>>179981348
>>179981207

I like Vanguard but i think that would fit better with some guy that bulldozes his way through your guys, these guys are more like the dudes that you bring along to your party because they have good utility skills, and there's already an Advent Recon mod apparently.

Pathfinder sounds good though. Maybe i'll do that, or maybe i'll keep them as scouts

>>179981141
Spotter?

>>179980301
A chair. All rise to praise the Elders.

>>179982889
>>179982940

Pointman actually sounds like exactly what they are, Advent Pointmen? Pointman Captain?

Spotter sounds like someone that calls in artillery, which should really be an alien mod.

>>179975736
I like all the options in Spectrum and the general strategy layer changes. Tactically speaking, XCOM Rocket Tag is some nice variety

>>179982909
How about Surveyor?

>>179982085
this

>>179982909
I vote Pointman

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is this flank a bug or should i have planned for this?

>>179984529

Looks like a bug
You should've planned for it anyway

>>179984529
>not planning around bugs
Step it up, Commander.

So I started a new campaign last night, and I had the best gate crasher of my fucking life.

>2 pods sit in the open, 3 advent troopers/variants with a sectoid and a stun drone
>all 4 rookies have LOS
>against my better judgement I set three on overwatch and take a 68 on the sectoid.
>5 damage.
>first overwatch procs on the sectoid, 5 damage. Sectoid is kill.
>second over watch procs on the trooper that was with it, 4 damage.
>second pod activates, and one of the two troopers is killed by and overwatch shot, leaving only one trooper and a drone.
>trooper runs behind one of my guys and does 3 damage, no biggie.
>rtd with a grenade, get the magic 4 damage to kill that cunt.
>one shot the stun drone through its armor.

Then the last pod of a captain and a trooper bumbled into an overwatch trap and got eliminated. The wound aside that was the best gatecrasher I've ever had. Did I just use all my luck on the first mission? Am I fucked /xcg/?

>>179984529
>expecting ayys to play by the rules

>>179984529
Man I hate those fucking shits. Free overwatches out of the ass

>>179984876
>Did I just use all my luck on the first mission?
I think LW2 reworks the magic 4 damage thing, but, that aside, yes, your luck is spent.

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>>179982085

How hard would it be to mod a Mass Effect-tier Vanguard class?

Basically ranger/assault with access to Fortress and a short-range version of the Codex teleport instead of lightning reflexes to let them bypass overwatch fire.

>>179985085
>Mass Effect shit

Probably hard for anyone with non-shit taste

>>179985085
Isn't there already a Biotic class in the workshop?

Haywire is straight up better than Revival, right?

>>179985229
Basically.
The expansion will make Revival a bit more useful though.

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>>179985139

>Being this mad for no reason

>>179985303
I'm not mad, I'm disappointed.

>>179984036
Whilst I agree that their role is analogous to Pointman, I don't like it because it sounds really informal and un-ADVENT-y.

I vote Pathfinder.

>>179980301

A potted plant. Perhaps it has some medicinal use that I'm unaware of.

>>179980301
carton of apple jiuce

>>179980301
Why do the elders hate windows?

>>179985229
Revival can clear panic, unconsciousness, stun and disorient.

It's more useful in the long war mod since all specs start with haywire

>>179980301
My cat is now advent contraband?

>>179987000
>cat
That's an advent burger.

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>>179987104

DELET

>>179987104
I don't know if cats would make a good hamburger. Their muscles are lean and sinewy.

>>179980301
>tissues

>>179988110
Better not find any gamete DNA on those tissues.

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Dual SMG Wielding Snake Squadmate

>>179989497
Snakes are for incineration.

>>179989616

With an exploding vest perk.

>>179989705
As in exploding onto her vest

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>>179966212
>I'm going to have to see your credentials.
>In advent Burger.

Death from above or Quickdraw?

>>179990539
Sniper or gunslinger?

>>179990678
So neither is objectively better than the alternative?

>>179990715
Gunslinger is better in most circumstances

>>179990782
So Quickdraw is the answer?

>>179990956
Yeah

>>179990956
Not necessarily. Pistols are more useful in general, but Death From Above is a better skill if you aren't fully committing to them.

>>179981141
Specialist?

>>179982586
They're actually pretty broken. But they are also literally broken (as in they can't progress past three levels) so wait till 1.5 when the bugfix comes out.

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>>179966212
>"Well, I can't have you with the troops due to squad cohesion... but I could always use an assistant?"

>>179980301
Magic: the Gathering cards...

plsno, spent way too much for it to become illegal now.

>>179980301
Xbox One? Oh well, I can live without it.

>decrypt alien data pad
>get intel
I COULD NOT HAVE PREDICTED THIS OUTCOME

>>179995191
...though it IS intriguing

>>179995191
It's ten times funnier if you imagine he is being a sarcastic cunt and the Commander doesn't realize it but Lily does.

>>179995340
>Tygan
>having a sense of humor

>>179995414
>'distinctive human features'

>>179980301
>diet coke

NO

>>179996521
It's okay, citizen, we supply an unlimited amount of ADVENT Fluid Lite in your local ADVENT food distributor.

>>179995191
Maybe the specific type of intel was something crazy
Maybe it was the recipe for ADVENT burgers

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Adam now replaces Bradford as the Commander, how does this affect the game?

>>179996754
Flying in the Avenger gets a little less rough.

>>179996735
It was muton's porn stash

>>179996754
Bradford is not the Commander, though

>>179997135
His PERFECT MILITARY MIND says otherwise.

>>179997345
>that snake-like posture

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>>179997345
Viper slaves to send into war in our steed.

>>179997345
>10 day sex with aliens

>>179997345
You know she fucked the viper king
all those non-advent vipers in that cave had to come from somewhere.

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>>179980301
My bed?

>>179980301
What does ADVENT want with my wall..?

>>179999413
you might be hiding rebels behind it anon

>>179980301
>Watchtower

Well, I guess they really are curious about immortal proto jews and apocalypse.

>>179957724
I bet you've already played it but Jagged Alliance 2, and then the fan made 1.13 patch.
Game's a little old though.

Flush or lockdown on gunner?

>>179980301
an xbox controller?

Guys I can't beat the opening mission on hardest difficulty ironman

>>180002458
Get a mod that removes operation gatecrasher

>>180002458
Look at him! Point your fingers and call him smelly poopie! HAHAHAH What a casual!

>>180002458
Gatecrasher sucks ass on Legend

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>>179980580
What the hell? Looks like shit. Please don't use that horrible mess in the mod.

Stop being so hard on yourself mate. Everybody including you knows it looks amazing!

>>180002627
>>180002636
>>180002827
Gib tips purisu

>>180003349
camp the high ground and wait 10 turns in overwatch
if no ayy comes along send 1 guy to bait them into range

>>180003349
break los