/xcg/ - XCOM General

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Praised be the Elders.

>>180174123

need evac

Is Beagle going to have any excuse for not playing when WotC comes out besides muh timers? Even then there is going to be some kind of civ vi policy system and one policy is going to be true concealment, timer being paused until discovered.

His other complaints are what? Replayability? Siterip and how the chosen line up is going to shake that up.

>>180174356
>there is going to be some kind of civ vi policy system
Elaborate?

>>180174402
http://www.pcgamer.com/xcom-2s-huge-war-of-the-chosen-expansion-detailed/
>To track down and kill the Chosen you need the assistance of the three new rebel groups— Templars, Reapers and a rebellious human-alien hybrid faction called the Skirmishers. Each Chosen is being hunted by a corresponding resistance faction. You send soldiers to aid resistance activities to improve your standing with a given resistance faction, unlocking leads on the Chosen along with strategic orders and resistance soldiers for hire.
>Solomon likens orders to policies in Civ, you enact them to activate a particular effect on the strategy layer or the battlefield layer. One order reduces the Avatar Project count by one bar per turn. Another pauses the countdown timer in a stealth mission until your squad has been revealed. There are dozens of orders themed to fit their associated resistance faction. You can cosy up to multiple factions at once, but obviously it takes time and resources to do so.

>>180174538
I'm guessing by "per turn" they mean "per month".

And I'm fairly sure the IGN article mentions that the resistance faction that hates a particular chosen is randomly selected at the game start, which would be neat if true.

>>180174538
Oh shit. I remember reading about these, but for some reason I thought you wouldn't have much choice there.

>>180174746
Maybe you were thinking of the SITREP system, which has modifiers for battles, but you don't get to choose.

>>180174290
Just use the EU/EW ports monica

Whats the mod where I can wether an enemy has loot or not?

>>180175274
That's not a mod, that's a raw cheat.

>>180175274
Additional Icons: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=646244015

It looks way better than that stupid numeric health mod people keep using. THAT LONG BAR ISN'T ATTRACTIVE IN SCREENSHOTS PEOPLE

>>180175369
>cheaters hate the numeric health mod
Yep, everything checks out.

>>180175350
all mods are cheating

>>180175434
The loot icon can be turned off. The numeric health mod just looks ugly now that t's super stretched out

>>180175369
I prefer the show health values. Simplicity appeals to my inner engineer.

>>180176050
>Engineer
>Simplicity

This only raises suspicions.

>>180176182
Not everyone's a German, you know.

>>180176050
UXfag here. You want to have bars and numbers. The bars represent remaining/max in an intuitive way, numbers give you the direct value without having to count or pay attention.

>>180176747
That's why I use show health values as opposed to the numeric health display.

>>180175369
Thank you so much

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>>180177380

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>Love the Guerrilla aspect of the early game.
>Eventually mid way, when your reach tier 2 armor the feeling kind of fades.
>It goes from small scale resistance to decent sized Private army, kind of like Militaires Sans Frontieres.
>Eventually depart from it completely and become a countries military force and that feel good Guerrilla force is no longer there.

I get that it's just a reflection of Advent and The Resistances forces growing, but there's eventually a drop off point to where it no longer feels like the start of the game which is so fun. It kind of sucks, but it's great while it lasts.

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>playing EW vanilla for the first time in a couple of years
>playing on Classic

Holy fuck am I getting BTFO, I've logged over 500 hours on X2 and completed Classic/Legend a few times but holy fuck why does this game feel so much harder? I went from having a really good start to losing my second satellite and all my soldiers getting killed in the next few missions. I've been stung by RNG a lot as well, I've frequently had 80%+ shots miss as well as being crit through full cover.

What the fuck am I doing wrong? I always hunker in half cover unless there's a good shot to take, I go for flanks whenever possible.

Are there any must-have items? Is there a better research path? I'm trying to rush satellites as well as laser weapons

>>180179942
Break LOS and overwatch.
There, you've just won every non-terror mission in EW.

>>180179942
Try _____________________________break los__________________________________

>>180180027
>>180180062
This. It's not a meme for nothing.

>>180179292
Kinda why I rarely actually finish campaigns of this type of games, the start small and grow in power kind, JA2, Xenonauts, Total War, Mountain Blade, etc.
I just keep restarting whenever I get too big an advantage over the enemy.

>>180181151
>>180179292

What i take from this is that, we need bigger, stronger, meaner ayys. Like a flying Sectopod.

>>180182037
Magnificent design

go recruit more rookies
>>>/v/381083247

>>180182654
That entire thread is filled with furries, fuck off.

>>180182654
absolutely degenerate and heretical

nuke them into dust

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Some attachments for the Magnetic Hunter Rifle, some not all because i forgot to take a screenshot of the stock, oopsie. But the stock looks pretty much the same anyway and you wouldn't be able to tell much from this angle so whatever, and the trigger is hidden by the soldier's hand. In case you forgot these weapons are part of the Advent Scouts(tentatively leaning towards "Advent Pathfinders" now btw) mod, you might be thinking it's close to being finished, but you would be terrible, catastrophically, wrong. Other than the tier 3 weapon there's still a couple more weapons to make(those will be a surprise, hopefully people will like the idea) and none of the FX, sounds or icons are done or even started, so there's still a mountainfuckload of stuff to do.

Anyway with that the magnetic hunter rifle is pretty much done, might make a couple of adjustments here and there but that's pretty much it, so next is the plasma weapon.

>>180183091
That thing looks ridiculous in a good way

>>180182654

That thread is absolutely disgusting. What we need is more alien rulers to get rid of these /v/ scrubs.

>>180183091
why aren't you working for jake

>>180183091
make it BIGGER

Easy with scientist and remove a block of avatar

Or

Moderate with 117 intel enemies won't get armour

My gut tells me to remove the armour option but I'm new to this series so could someone advise?

>>180183635
Armor will hurt you more unless with that additional avatar block you will go into timer with no facility in sight

>>180183635
ADVENT armor can ruin your day on the harder difficulties.

>>180183635
Scientists are not that useful and you'd be removing a block from a facility. Unless your Avatar progress is crazy high, there's no reason to take that mission.

>>180183091
Just doing the base game tiers? Or will you do LW2 tiered ones as well?

No real horse in that race myself, just curious. As it is, that looks pretty damned amazing.

>>180183823
>>180183817
>>180183807

Avatar is nowhere near done so armour sounds like a plan, cheers fellas!

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>>180183227
>>180183554

I might make it a little shorter, or i might just move the repeater a little bit back, i made sure that they aren't longer than sniper rifles but i suppose these are much thiccer

>>180183461

He didn't call me back after our first date, he didn't pay either.

>>180183910

Not for the initial release, will do for the LW2 release. Which hopefully i can put off indefinitely after the expansion breaks it.

Not to worry though, i don't plan to take a break either, now that i have free time i want to get a couple of mods done before the expansion hits, which is why i'm desperately trying to finish this one.

>>180183461

If he keeps going he might

Generally speaking while degrees and such are very important to an employer, real experience and work to show for it are the best resumes, I remember the guy that made OOO for TES IV ended up working for Obsidian.

That said modders are all cunts and this is the only nice thing I will say about them.

>>180183091
Any particular reason your stuff is XBOXHUEG? Looks neat tho

>>180184281
Hah, yeah, that seems reasonable to me. LW2 is going to break in a big way when the expansion hits, definitely, will be a while before it recovers, if it ever does.

And yeah, do I not remember that you wanted to do either a T1 or T2 armour mod too?

(Which I am eagerly looking forward to because your Warden gear mod is fantastic. The Wraith suit stuff is brilliant)

>>180184475

Just turned out that way i guess, my only rule for the size of these weapons was "shorter than snipers".

>>180184541

I was going to make a T2 armor mode after Warden Gear, but then i decided to finish this mod instead, not sure if i'll make a T2 armor mod next or something else, either way the next mod will involve a new armor, probably.

Two questions for the boys today.

Why does the game still run like shit after more than a year of patches? Especially in the world map, I get like 3 fps.

Secondly,

Is that nigga ever gonna update the XCG modlist? It hasnt been updated since before LW2 came out and I doubt everything there is stable with it.

In fact, is Long War 2 even worth a playthrough? This infiltration mechanic seems retarded.

>>180185027

worksonmypclol. At one point i got a lot of lag on the world map and it turned out it was because i had the LW alien pack and LW 2 active at the same time, after that it runs buttery smooth, for the most part. Still get frame drops here and there but nothing horrific.

That nigga is dead and/or gone.

LW2 is much better now.

>>180185027
>Especially in the world map, I get like 3 fps.
Poorly optimized and because of your machine

>It hasn't been updated since before LW2 came out and I doubt everything there is stable with it.
Doesn't really matter, LW2 is it's own beast, but it is pretty easy to figure out what is compatible

>Is LW2 worth it
Yes

>>180185027
Most trouble I've had has been with the extremely long load times. Building a new PC though, so I'll throw XCOM2 on my SSD and that should be alleviated. Will probably be able to enjoy more than 15-24 frames at more than low settings, too.

As far as LW2 goes, I really don't enjoy the infiltration mechanic. Is LW2 modular anywhere? Like, could I remove that specific thing? I just grabbed it off of the workshop while I was browsing for some cosmetics.

>>180179942
On maps without time limit just take 2 snipers, a shinobi scout (and some meatshields) up on a hill, set up camp, scout ahead with your shinobi and shoot at the other end of the map with your snipers.

>>180185194
>>180185280
>>180185361
You see thats the funny thing, as far as I know I have no mod complications or anything.

I also have a Ryzen cpu, 32 gigs of ram, and a 970, so the lag itself really makes me wonder what I managed to break

>>180187582

Well that's better than mine, except for the GPU since i have a 980 so i dunno.

>>180187582
Maybe try reinstalling completely or install new drivers? Otherwise you'll have to prey Jake fixes his game in 2 months.

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will our squidfriends ever make a return

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post x-com/xcom comfy

>>180190782
when you mod them in

>>180190782

fuck those assholes are annoying early game

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>>180190782
I kinda miss them desu.

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>>180190782
I wish adding new enemies to X2 wasn't so esoteric.
Also I'm still keeping my hopes up on someone porting EU/EW plasma guns, they look and sound so much better than the X2 ones.

>>180183091
What does the ballistic version look like?

>>180194786
Not the modder, but considering this is an advent enemy, there probably isn't a ballistic version.

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Looks like we get more info tomorrow, boyos. I'm debating whether or not to keep myself in the dark til release, though.

>>180196938

I'm in the same boat, I'm hyped enough that I really want to learn everything but I also want to go dark

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>Beat XCOM:EW a week ago
>Bought 2 last week because it was on sale
>Beat it last night
Gunna try out Long War 2 before WotC comes out.

RIP Spokesman, I really didn't see that coming at all and I nearly teared up when it happened.

Pic related was the only soldier to die on the final mission for me.

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>>180196938
>don't want to know everything
>know I won't be able to avoid all spoilers all the way till the end of august
FUCK

So when is the best time to pursue story content? As it appears? I'm like 4 months into my campaign and I still haven't done the first blacksite, tech wise I've just finished my first EXO armour and everyone has Mag weapons and plated armour. Have I fucked up?

>>180199605
mag and plated is standard for me when going to the blacksite
all story missions will delay the avatar progress so you will want to time them the moment the bar fills up

>expansion pack announced
FUCK YES
>it doesn't continue the story
FUCK NO

>>180181151
>Mountain Blade

That game is the worst for me, I want to 'beat' it but I lose interest quickly after I become anything more than just a merc band

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Hi guys. My bitch does't make any problems here?

>>180200107
Not sure why you expected that since that doesn't tend to be what Firaxis does, they like to expand the gameplay experience.

But there is a changed ending, so maybe expect a bit of bigger bait on the sequel hook.

>>180184541
Anon, they were literally commisioned to make it. Jake said he'd call them when he got back from E3.

They'll get early access to get a day-one patch out.

Are we gonna have to buy the new expansion if we preorded Xcom 2? Or we gonna get it for free?

>>180202560
expansions aren't free

>>180202560
Of course you're going to have to buy it, are you bloody retarded?

>>180202116
Hah, it certainly won't be day one anon. Remember, they are actually working on their own game and have been trying to transition to spend more dev time on that.

Literally HOW do I get good at these games?
Every time half my squad dies I have no idea which exact mistakes I made so I just bullshit my way through hoping I don't do them again, I never beat those games past easy difficulty.
It's also what I do in the when not commanding missions, I just randomly build and research what I need at the moment hoping it was the right call.

Is there a guide or something that can teach me the most basic strategies and do's and don'ts?

>>180203406
I forgot to mention I'm talking about modern XCOM, I do hope I'll eventually play the classic games too when I become less of a casual.

>>180203406
Well first tell us how you play

Describe in detail the moves you took in your last failed mission

>>180203568
>>180203406
Actually the classic games are easier once you get a hold of the older controls/UI (They are way more forgiving than new xcom).

Regardless, basic xcom tips:
Half cover is no cover
Weapons research then armor
Always play as slowly as possible
Never run wildly into fog of war , especially at the end of your turn
explosives (and guaranteed damage) are your friend.
Analyze every-turn like a puzzle. Your goal is to kill all active enemies, or kill enemies and debuff the rest.

>>180202645
>>180203123
oh all the DLC was free, not expansions
i gotcha

>>180179942

>going for flanks
>actually shooting instead of throwing grenades at everything

>>180203406
Covers a shit

Flank is everything

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Post Elites

I may stick with the original armor aesthetics for my first LW2 playthrough but havent decided yet

>>180203634
I don't really know how to describe it, every move I make is either way to agressive, making dashes for cheesy flanks which sometimes works out and sometimes doesn't, or way to defensive, basically wasting my turn because I was too afraid to do anything else.

Essentially I have no idea what to do most of the time, I see the enemies in front of me and my dudes by my side and am clueless on what would be the most effective position to take so I go for extremes because everything else seems too slow and useless.
I had this problem especially with the timers in XCOM2.
Every time I got for a middle ground between the extremes it leads to me and the ayy's taking potshots at each other and pure RNG decides who kills who.

Is sparts anarchy bashes kill or is it domething wrong on my side

I can't AC stuff without it

Given the choice between 100% Intel cost increase and a random faceless on every mission, which would you eliminate?

>>180204765
Intel

>>180204765
fuck faceless

>>180200689

I'm kind of feeling like it's going to be the same campaign with a few changes, it's looking more and more like the resistance lady saves the Commandy one instead of Bradford in the expac, and Jake has said there's a new intro/end cinematic

Maybe it'll be like what Off the Record was to Dead Rising 2

Either one works for me I'm still hype af

>>180204765
Spend intel, then prevent the faceless event.

>>180204316
One thing you should always take into account is who can move the furthest in the blue squares. Never play outside of them if you can't see the enemy. This way you can find adequate cover before an engagement.

Theres nothing wrong with playing aggresively, but just keep in mind who is where and what you can kill. Also make sure to prioritize targets closest to who you need to keep alive.

Dont bunch your soldiers up, spread them out to maximize usage.
IE
>Snipers on the roofs
>Rangers playing the frontline
>Grenadiers providing support
>Specialists working all fields
Also don't rush it, take your time scouting places out and if you can avoid a fight for the time being, do so.

Coming fresh from EW, 2 kicked my ass HARD.

>>180204928
Yeah, that's what I mean, it'll be the same as EW - mostly content that expands the existing campaign, maybe minor changes here and there to the story.

Mostly, as you say, the fact that a Reaper lady saves the Commandy one and there will be a new ending cutscene.

Ello /xcg/ it's been a while due to IRL shite, but here is my latest episode of my OpenXcom/Xcom files playthrough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c45fL43JZc

I swap pleasantries with the cult of Dagon, and oblige them with BOOLETS.

>>180203406
step 1: concealed ranger is the pointman, nobody reveals more fog of war than the pointman
step 2: after locating a pod move your squad to good firing positions for their class, pointman continues advancing but stays in range to provide emergency kill on important ayy
step 3: activate pod with grenades
step 4: cleanup with sniper shots/combat protocol/more grenades
step 5: continue moving forward
step 6: repeat steps 1-5 until objective is reached

>>180206158
>HULLO THERE
and closed

Are sparks as shit as in vanilla?

>>180206531
In LW2*

>>180200107
>narrative
>not ludonarrative

>>180204316
Take a bunch of screens next time you play a mission. Might also want to go john madden and draw arrows about where you moved dudes and what not. This >>180203851 is pretty solid advice, though.

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>fly across map when research and an intel retaliation mission are both at 0 hours
>click on mission, do it
>game bugs out, does two loading screens at the start, and end of the mission, music gets fucked up
>game considers the mission failed after completing it
T-that's magnificent, baby!

>>180203406
>Literally HOW do I get good at these games?
By playing them and learning strategies to deal with situations along the way

>>180206158
Stop being inauthentic.sartre

>>180204316
I'll add that once you feel comfortable, you *can* blue move the squad in a "block" formation BEFORE any aliens have been triggered, so any aliens that walk into range of your overwatch get shot at by the entire squad. That said, once you trigger pods, Scatter to high cover or out of LOS with hunker down in low cover as a secondary option if you don't have anything else.

Also, a trick: instead of having the entire squad overwatch if nothing's happening, you can hunker down the entire squad, and aliens will often over-extend themselves trying to get into flank position. In EU/EW doing this before you've triggered pods can result in weird pod aggro interactions, (since you can't aggro a pod unless you see them), possibly to your benefit.

>>180206531
I'm sorta playing with them at the moment. I have a squad that's composed of 4 psi, 2 sparks, and 1 specialist. They have a lot of defense and can tank a lot of damage, even more if you smoke their positions. Their aim is improved a little more than vanilla, but their movement range tends to be a bit low.

>>180207642
>4 psi
Why even bother with robots then?

>>180207823
Well this is LW2 and they're fresh out their first round in tubes. And so far in my experience they're basically rookies with 5 guaranteed damage cooldown + the ability to give 3 ablative hp. So the bots are there just to babysit for now. The bots provide the ability to tank damage and aoe (shredder cannon) for the baby psis.

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>thinmint kills my officer while hunkered in full cover

>>180185361
You can just knock down the infiltration values some.

Just keep in mind the game is balanced around them.

>>180209423
We warned you, bud.
We told you to break LOS.

So what's the meta term for War of the Chosen?

>WotC
>WoC
>WC
>???

>>180209742
JFHG

Jake Fixed His Game

>>180209423
Losing officers hurts a lot, they're harder to replace than regular ops. Were they at least at full health?

>>180209841
I like it, knew exactly what it meant even without opening the spoiler.

>>180194356

what are you smoking and where can i get it.

>>180209841
>>180210092
I'll wait to see the final product before I start using this. I have no worries that the new content will significantly fill out the vanilla game, but bug fixes (fixing LOS) and other performance tweaks are just as important imo.

>>180209945
no

he got shot through full cover twice before on the mission

>>180204765
intel cost. faceless are annoying but getting choked on intel is the worst.

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help

>>180211001
I'm not sure what's wrong here.

>both my high rank rangers get shaken on the same mission

So do I restart the game now or can I come back from this

>>180213712
>shaken
Just don't get hit again you incompetent faggot

>>180213712
You should be able to recover from that pretty easily

>>180213273
EXALT is already on the encoder

>>180206229
grenades should be reserved for cover elimination more than pod activation imo

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Pistols still Useful.

>>180214847
I had several Covert Ops start that way, you can usually recover from it although it comes down to the wire.

>>180213712
Slap a mindshield on them, send them out on a mission and have them come back without getting a hit on them AND have them get a kill each, then they'll be right as rain.

>>180215547
Depends on the pod. Sometimes the first pod you see is a rainbow pod or something.

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>>180215558
I'm more of a bolt action rifle man(ish) myself

>No Kar98k mod

I'm honestly surprised considering the amount of naziboos in strategy games.

>>180217206
You don't need to be a naziboo to have an appreciation for German weaponry.

>>180215547
granted I usually activate with acid grenades who dont do much to cover

>>180215547
>Not activating with a gas grenade and have a entire group stand in the middle of the poison exposed for easy flank shots

>>180217303

Of course you do, there's no reason to take a kar98k over an m1 garand.

>>180206229

How do you even do that with timers everywhere

>>180218521
If taking down a single pod is taking more than two turns, 3 at a stretch on 12 turn timer missions, then you know things are going wrong.

You want as much damage put forward as quickly as possible in the ambush, damaging as many enemies as possible with one attack. Violence of action etc etc.

You need to be fast.

>>180218521
The wonders of being able to double move through the map thanks to the pointman scouting ahead
You have proper forewarning, take positions and wipe the pod in one turn, then keep running.

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>>180218409

>>180218409
>Not Lee Enfield.

For shame good sir.

Does SPECTRUM have some fresh mechanics regarding managing gorilla warfare like LW2?

>>180218409
except for an appreciation over well designed weaponry

I mean I agree with you but I'm not gonna fault somebody for appreciating German shit, it was usually pretty well made.

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>graze a 100% shot

WHAT THE FUG

>>180220707
That is how dodge works, it has a certain percentage to roll a lesser value if you hit. Did you think that graze only happened on missed shots?

Also if you are playing LW2 turn off the graze band in options.

>>180220707
M A G N I F I C E N T

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>>180220707
here is a solution for you

>>180221000
I did not know that. Haven't played vanilla since release. Will read up on the wiki.

I assumed grazes only happened when your miss was within the graze band. I turned it down to 5 because it was happening way too often

I hope War of the chosen adds new armors, I'm tired of power armors being at odds with the LW2 new weapons

ALSO GIVE US T3 AND T4 GRENADE LAUNCHERS JAKE, I'M TIRED OF HAVING THAT BLOCKY SHIT ON THE BACK OF MY SLEEK POWER ARMOR

>>180220464
nope. most of it is on the tactical layer, research and dev, along with proving ground stuff, however arming and equiping your units is MASSIVELY different, all opponents have a chance to drop the gun that they are using.

>>180221398
Graze band just means a certain number of your shots, 5% in your case, when they hit will be grazes. Just turn it off.

>>180221609
shame although IT IS INTRIGUING

i love X2 but the lack of depth put into that aspect triggers my autism

>>180221872
That's not quite how it works. It turns near misses and bare hits into grazes.

The slider simply changes the threshold

>>180222003
AND, you can go over the amount to hit and it eventually pushes the graze bound out of possibility. 105% percent and all shots will hit 100%. Crit can also upgrade a graze to a normal hit.

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Haha, get fucked ADVENT!

>>180223348
BTFO

>>180223348

The pendulum swings both ways.

>>180221164

I really hate the design of the new plasma LMG. The one in EU/EW was fucking god-tier

>>180225780
T3 tech looks all-around like shit.

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>>180225780
YOU DID NOT JUST SHIT ON MY BABY

That firing sound is sacred

>>180225780
>>180225971
The T3 weapons kinda grew on me. Fuck the armour though.

>>180226090
>eyes closed
He is either a fool, or a skilled combatant who aims with his mind.

>>180226683
He's either blinking or his vision is augmented

>>180225971
>>180226303
t. absolute faggots

>>180225780
why did they go from green to blue anyway

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>>180225672

I miss them jetpack wings.

>>180227637
Green to blue is the smallest change

>>180227637
blue = hotter

>>180228016
>tfw no white plasma

>>180228250
>tfw no good T3 armour

>>180228612
>tfw plenty of good t3 armor

>>180228612
>tfw T3 armour is the most beautiful thing in the series

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>>180194976
>>180194786

There is a ballistic version.

>>180211001
I still wish they had kept armor HP around when deciding wounded status in XCom 2.

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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

>>180229794

Don't move! They react to movement.

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>>180229969
good thing my front 2 had HE on them

>>180229756
Wasn't this a Long War thing? Also you have vests in Long War 2 which do something similar.

>>180230042
XCOM should really have to answer for the environmental destruction they cause.

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>>180230189
China already pollutes the environment a shitload, no one would really mind just a bit more smoke in the air in the name of earth's safety.

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>>180230717
Looks like some Vietnam shit.

New XCOM concept:You have invaded and defeated the aliens on their homeworld,
and are now basically ruling over them. Gorilla warfare ensues as you stalk through strange forests hunting for hiding aliums.

>>180230189
>>180230042
>>180229794
>FMP

>>180231794
Whats wrong with it? It's filled with unbalanced shit, but so is vanilla X-COM. Only complaint is the fucking absurd amount of engineers you need to interrogate to get all the later tech.

>>180231163
I miss the pedestrian locations that we got in Enemy Unknown. I liked blowing up the back wall of a McDonald's to get a flanking shot on some poor Muton.

Haven defense missions need to leave. Forever. I don't mind ANY of the missions except for the goddamned 1 pod drop per turn + civvies that sprint away/hide in the corner of the map BULLSHIT.

Please tell me there's a mod that removes that defense type, or that the mission creator has been shot for his offense against humanity.

>>180233728
>removing the equivalent of terror missions

>>180234451
It's a pretty sucky varient desu. Why can't we just have haven sages and the vanilla ones?

>>180234612
Wait are you talking about retaliations or COIN ops?

>>180234451
Terror missions don't drop hundreds of extra aliens on you though. The retaliation that's got a set number of Aliens assaulting the civvies is fine, it's the evac one that's fucking terrible.

>>180235089
The LW2 haven defense where you have to evac the peeps and there are reinforcements every turn and you have to individually run up to each rebel? So yeah, ADVENT retaliations against your rebel havens, killing all your rebels.

That's the one that LW2 introduces. Haven Siege was the earlier modded mission that has you defend for X turns with rebel rookies backing your turn up.
And then there is vanilla of course.

>>180235304
Oh wow I misunderstood. In my experience that mission isn't that bad, but maybe you can comment it out in the ini?

>>180235304
So I'm only now getting far in Long War, is this a different mission than when there are a set number of rebels on the map and when you run into them you control them and make them run to extraction, but there is a set number of aliens on the map and when you kill them it's over? I just had that one and am wondering when this other one shows up because it sounds hard.

>>180235767
Or actually now that I think of it I'm playing on veteran so maybe that doesn't have the endless reinforcements.

>>180235767
>>180235886
It's on veteran difficulty. It's just one of the possible retaliation missions, it's the same premise except there's a delay before the evac arrives, there's reinforcements every turn (The pods dropped get larger over time, I had pods of 8+ coming in.) and the map is typically much larger, making finding the civvies a pain in the ass.

>>180236014
Ah thanks. Also, maybe I misunderstood the mission but are the civilians on the map all members of your haven, because I may be imagining it but it seemed like I lost resistance members when I lost a couple on that mission.

>>180198692
>implying he doesn't live
>implying he isn't running one of the new factions
>implying you won't be able to recruit him

I can dream of this and snek tits right?

>>180236217
Yes, the civies are all your rebels. So everyone left behind or dead is a rebel lost from your haven.

>>180236217
That's 100% true. That's the point of retaliation missions, all the civvies are your Haven members, which is why I hate the mission I was talking about so much. I lost all but 1 of my haven members in that region b/c of that shit.

>>180235767
I got one early. I went from 12~ rebels to 4. Now I just hide all my rebels like a bitch the moment the strength gets even remotely high.

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>>180198692
Possible spoilers for expansion/3.
The voice actor at least said before that he's heard from devs that he's still alive, so he may have survived.

>>180236832
I managed to get lucky>>180223348
was my mission and after they killed 3 of them they just focused on trying to kill me, I only needed to evac 1 guy before the mission ended and the rest survived, started with 9 ended with 6. I never really realized before that hiding actually had a purpose desu.

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Haven't played Xcom since enemy Within on consoleon easyresetting every time a soldier died, downloading 2 Deluxe Edition now. What am I in for.

Do's and don'ts?

>>180236943
I knew the madman wouldn't stay down.

>>180237708
Don't go slow anymore, go fast.

>>180237708
It's very similar, just watch out for the turn limits on some missions.

>>180223348
I love it when they somehow completely miss

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>sprint ready for anything ranger right into the last viper's face
>it slithers from point blank through 4 open tiles, goes behind full cover and spits on him
>he doesn't shoot at all
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>180244681
it might have had shadowstep

What do you guys think the new info tomorrow is going to be?

I hope they don't tell us EVERYTHING about the expansion before it's released like they did with the base game, I played EU somewhat blind and really enjoyed the shock I felt the first time an ethereal reflected a shot and cast rift on me.

>>180247893
They kind of implied it would focus on The Assassin with the video that came with the tweet, I'm not getting my hopes up that it will be anything other than lore.

How come every EU/EW armor port looks like shit on my machine? it has these crappy white ridges that look horrendous and low res, especially mec parts.

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Thanks to whoever did this edit to make the font fit with the rest of the comic sans script.

>>180248170
Screenshot?

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Haven't seen this posted here yet oddly enough - maybe because the interviewer is totally clueless: https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/17/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-upgrades-design-enemies-and-cinematic-story/

>You have the assassin, who’s about honor and duty. The warlock is sort of a zealot. He believes in the alien cause. Then, you have the hunter, voiced by Nolan North actually, and he’s this more cynical, lighthearted character.

>GamesBeat: Are they human?
>Solomon: Not exactly.
Do they look human, dumbass interviewer?

>Sometimes, you’d be fighting for the world, but you couldn’t hear voices talking about it. We’ve added the sense of important people talking about this, commenting on the things you do. It feels more warm, more alive.
worry intensifies

Here's the big part that I haven't seen mentioned:
>We’ve added what we call second wave options. We’ve added options that players can use when they start a game. They can click things to make it different. One option we’ve added is, “Double the timers on missions. Double the timers on the strategy layer.” We definitely understand that that type of gameplay doesn’t work for how everyone plays the game. We added a lot of elements, so players can enjoy the game at their own pace — more like how Enemy Unknown worked.
inb4
>pandering to fucking casuals

>GamesBeat: Do you have a schedule of more DLC as well, or is this the focus right now?
>Solomon: As far as what we have planned right now, this is it.

FIX YOUR FUCKING SHIRT JAKE, THAT IS AWFUL.

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>Long War 2 campaign going poorly
>locked out of intel in main region, ADVENT getting dark events left and right
>unlock laser weapons and ADVENT comm tower mission
>pick my 5 best guys to go in, think it's going to be tough but doable
>initiate first pod, pretty much kill them all but suppress last 2
>getting to cover to kill last guy activates another pod with viper and 2 sectoids
>oh fuck.jpg
>viper pulls in assault, activates another pod with 5 ADVENT dudes
>manage to flashbang the viper and 1 sectoid after he makes a zombie, area suppress the big ADVENT group
>still willing to fight it out at this point
>out of nowhere 24% shot from ADVENT crits and incapacitates my Ranger through the fucking suppression
>another shot severely wounds my officer support
>decide to bug out, have my Assault grab the Ranger and pull back to the only half cover available
>activate oscar mike and have everyone fall back to evac while Officer and assault carrying wounded stay behind cover as they can't reach
>vipers spits on them
>sectoid disorients officer
>decide he's going to have to sacrifice himself to save his men
>Hunkers down while the wounded and everyone else makes it to the evac zone
>somehow he survives the turn, and has an opportunity to make it to the evac zone
>he has to run through an overwatch shot to get there

Fuck I think this campaign is coming to a close, I'm glad I stopped save scumming though because it really adds so much more enjoyment to the game I forgot about. It's fun tolose.

>>180251619
I am intrigued by what he means by
>We added a lot of elements, so players can enjoy the game at their own pace — more like how Enemy Unknown worked.
Does he mean there are just a lot of Second Wave options so you can customize to be much more your own style, or that they added things in with the double timers option that makes the game more balanced with the increased timers? As it is in Vanilla I would definitely prefer a couple extra turns so I don't have to rush so much but certainly not doubled unless there is some other mechanic. Mods can fix anyways so it's really just more for console people and people who don't know how to edit their ini.

Also, don't bully Jake, he is pure.

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>>180251619

>We’ve added options that players can use when they start a game. They can click things to make it different. One option we’ve added is, “Double the timers on missions. Double the timers on the strategy layer.”

I know there's mods aplenty that already do this, but this is great.

>>180252476

>or that they added things in with the double timers option that makes the game more balanced with the increased timers?

I doubt it will be forced, but I took the time increase for missions and the strategy layer to mean that you can balance it yourself.

>Double mission timers so you don't have to go full gottagofast
>Compensate by doubling the time it takes to contact regions/build radio towers etc.

Honestly though I'd love a 2nd wave option that makes the Avatar project less of a hard cap on your campaign time. That mod that spreads progress throughout blacksites that you can assault instead of having it be concentrated in R'yleh makes campaigns so much smoother, and with all the content they're adding, I'd like to take my time and get comfy experimenting with everything.

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>>180252476
As a programmer, I would add a field that allowed the player to multiply the stock timers by a float value, but I kinda doubt they're going to do that. Fucking casuals.

Not bullying, it's coming from a place of love. Jake is one of the hottest guys I have ever met pic related, where I would shop if I kidnapped him for a weekend, that's why I'm getting upset. NO ONE looks good in a henley or anything with elastic around the bottom of the shirt. This is the second time I've seen him wear a terrible shirt and he needs to get his shit together.

>>180253021
I hope they have other second wave options, but I'm glad they mentioned timers specifically, it was the biggest grievance I heard about the new game.

I would rather see a mod that came with consequences for letting the Avatar meter get too high (such as more powerful alien loadouts/perks/enemies) rather than a game over screen if it fills up - that just doesn't feel realistic or engaging at all.

>>180251619
>>We’ve added what we call second wave options. We’ve added options that players can use when they start a game. They can click things to make it different. One option we’ve added is, “Double the timers on missions. Double the timers on the strategy layer.” We definitely understand that that type of gameplay doesn’t work for how everyone plays the game. We added a lot of elements, so players can enjoy the game at their own pace — more like how Enemy Unknown worked.


So does Beagle have ANY REASON to not play xcom2 after WotC is released?

>>180252476
One of the other reasons for helping out the factions besides the soldiers is for Civ VI like policies, and one of these is going to be like the True Concealment mod

>>180253661
Yeah, he doesn't like it. That's a good reason.

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>>180252275
All I want, ever, in any and future XCOM game:

Is a dramatic dodge animation with action cam, for whatever's being dodged.

A roly-poly, a slide, even a simple duck to acknowledge that he nearly died - would make this game fucking perfect.

>>180254621

Both Advent and Xcom soldiers have multiple "dodge" animations in Xcom 2 that they play when a shot misses against them where they duck and raise one of their arms above their head.

Actually i'm pretty sure Mutons, Vipers and Archons also have a dodge animation.

>>180254920

I should stress Action Cam, make it cinematic.

PLus, I'm pretty sure those are stationary animations, I'm talking about running through Suppressed areas or Overwatch.

>>180255268

Well technically they also duck when they shoot at them and they are running, at least humans do, although i also vaguely recall Archons doing this little twirl when they dodge shots as they run.

>>180182037
Flying Berserkers with the Agility of stun lancers.

>played lw 1 first
>normal enemy within is trivial
fuck i should have done it in reverse order

im gonna buy xcom 2 soon, what big flaws of xcom2 aswell as long war 2 are people talking about here ?
also, how is the xcom 2 modding community, active or rather ded ?

>>180256302

Biggest flaws i can think of are that the game is poorly optimized, if you have a toaster it's all over, there are some bugs with line of sight where you or the aliens will be able to see through walls or roofs, it's not so rampant that it makes the game unplayable or anything but chances are pretty high that you will encounter LOS issues every now and then. Other than that people have problems with some of the aesthetics of the tier 3 weapons and armor, which is obviously subjective, and a lot of people think the DLCs are crap.

There are 3 DLCs, one is just cosmetics, one introduces "challenge alien boss battles" which a lot of people considered to be unfair, and the third DLC introduces Sparks, Sparks are "not-MECs" and they are mostly useless without mods, also not as cool as MECs.

The modding community is alive and well.

What are some IRL/Vidya inspirations to draw from for a tacticool feel?

inb4 CoD, MGS, Battlefield - already have mods of those.

Colour Schemes, Nicknames and Squad Uniform ideas appreciated.

>>180256524
why are the alien bosses seen as unfair ?

>>180256692
Because they react to every action that takes around then (besides free ones). I personally don't see the problem, you just need to plan out the engagement with the ruler very carefully

>>180256692
Shoot, they get a ruler reaction
Move, they get a ruler reaction
Throw a smoke grenade, they get a ruler reaction
Medkit someone, they get a ruler reaction
Reload, they get a ruler reaction

>>180256692

Alien bosses have their own "turn" and it activates whenever your troops do anything that aren't free actions, so basically if you move one soldier, the alien rulers get an action, your soldier shoots? they get an action, they reload? they get an action, you use an ability that isn't free? they get an action.

So if you are not prepared to deal with them, things can go downhill extremely fast. That said, in my opinion they aren't that big of a deal, first of all, once they take enough damage they will try and run away from the mission(they will return on another mission but they wont heal), secondly, they are just as susceptible to status effects as normal ayys, which means you can stun them, disorient them, burn them, acid them, gas them and so on and that will disable their abilities or at the very least crippled them like any other ayy, on top of all that their DLC comes with weapons for your troops that are so powerful that i would consider them OP, a single shot rifle that deals high damage and can stun and has high accurracy, axes that you can throw as a free action, a freeze grenade that freezes enemies for 2 turns.

Only one of the alien rulers is a challenge, and even then if you don't cheese him to death. The people that had problems with them either didn't read the fine print when they disabled the DLC(which doesn't actually disable the DLC it just disables the mission that triggers them, which means they will show up on their own) or normies and casuals.

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>http://www.pcgamer.com/xcom-2s-huge-war-of-the-chosen-expansion-detailed/
>Perhaps my favourite addition in War of the Chosen is the soldier bonds system. As your soldiers fight alongside one another in battle, pairs will be flagged as 'compatible'. If you nurture this compatibility your squaddies can form bonds that come with battlefield effects. Superfriends can potentially fire simultaneously on targets. If one goes down to panic, the other can run over and remove that status effect (Jake also mentioned new types of panic, but we'll have to wait and see what those are). The expansion also adds covert missions that let you send scientists, engineers and soldiers off to a location for a while to earn resources and help out resistance factions, and bonded soldiers will complete these more quickly. The system makes your soldiers more effective and realises the sort of battlefield dramas XCOM players have been crafting for years. I know what you're thinking, are these soldiers just friends, or something more? "It's up to players to decide what a bond represents" says Jake Solomon, diplomatically.
Jake enabling waifufags, wtf

pic unrelated to the quote but extremely related to my life

>>180256964
>Enabling waifufags
>Not enabling true bro pairings

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The expansion will make Beagle like Xcom again, r-right?

I have multiple 20 hour roadtrips from September to November ;__;

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>LW2 enemy reinforcements include Sectopods

>>180261785
even though its fixing everything beagle said he didn't like, doubt it.

>>180256964
>pairs will be flagged as 'compatible'.
>Superfriends
>battlefield dramas
>are these soldiers just friends, or something more?

GAAAYYYYY

>>180262849
what if it's a man and a woman

Mod that lets you capture and use ADVENT gene clinic technology when?

>>180263502
That's even gayer

>>180261785
No because he's overwatch abusing faggot that hates playing aggresively

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>>180256964
>Jake enabling waifufags, wtf

>Waifufag's faces when their waifu cucks them with another soldier
>Then gets kidnapped by Chosen and takes the big alien dick all night long

>>180230189
We'll answer for our environmental destruction after EDF answers for all the cities they destroy

>>180256894
>DLC comes with weapons for your troops that are so powerful that i would consider them OP
that's the real issue, they made the rulers so strong that they felt the need to bring in OP gear to counter them, but you can use said OP gear everywhere

>launch game
>no soldier visible in the main menu

send help chosen are already here

I like Chosen

>>180265485
are you using the GITS section 9 armor on anyone? the modder set a bad z or something for some elements and they float midair sideways, becoming only partially visible when you do something like exit the character pool

>>180265614
Off yourself, you thin fuck.

>>180237712
47 doesn't die easily.

>>180236943
I don't understand why did people think he died anyway.

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>>180251619

>He doesnt want more reasons to hate the smugspeaker and ayys more

>>180264873
Eh, I think the trade-offs balance them really well. Shadowkeeper is probably the closest to being OP.

Boltcaster is balanced by being one shot, which really limits its damage output when you factor in the need to manoeuvre. Frost bomb has the grenade issue, its one and done, and the Axe is just a good melee weapon with an optional, once per mission ranged attack which can still miss.

>>180267653
hopefully they'll add an option to skip through those scenes after the first play lthrough. or even better, it would be background noise like Shen, Tygan, and Central chatting on the Avenger and wouldn't take time away from base-building or shooting ayys

>>180267680
>Frost bomb has the grenade issue, its one and done
Except it can be more than one and done.
Regardless, Frost bombs let you safely defuse complete clusterfucks that'd otherwise ruin your team. That alone makes it the most OP piece of new gear, I think.

>>180268325
Area of effect is so tiny that it defuses one enemy.

Or maybe that's LW2 reducing the area of effect, I can't remember how it behaved in vanilla.

But regardless, unless that one enemy is a ruler, a clusterfuck will not often be defused by taking one enemy out of the equation.

>>180268417
Anon, you do realize that grenadiers exist, right? And the area of effect gets even bigger over time... right?

>>180268186

I've been looking into making a mod that skips all the annoying dialogue you're fed up of hearing, Stop Wasting My Time removes some of it but I never liked how silly the animations look, I prefer to use Zip Mode

But yeah, I'd like to remove the annoying shit like Bradford telling you there are reinforcements coming or if you've won or failed the mission. I REALLY want to get rid of Shen telling you that are idle Engineers because you spent just a second too long zoomed out of the base. All that kind of crap

>>180268417

It's pretty useful early to mid game I find, it's super useful before breaking concealment as you can freeze an entire squad as they patrol around

XCOM 2 Expansion - Inside Look: The Assassin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLOkk-Lhdw

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>>180268417
>Area of effect is so tiny that it defuses one enemy.

>>180269204
Okay, and at that max extent, doing that when not in concealment will catch two enemies at most.

And again, you've bit a long war grenadier to boost support grenades.

>>180269086
NOTHING PERSONNEL AYY LMAO

>>180269086
*throws smoke grenade*
*teleports behind you*
*steals your soldier*
hhehe

>>180269086

Wow, she looks cool, i mean Good. You opened this message. This isn't actually the spokesman. He is busy tending to what's left of his planet.

So you survived our fight on New York. You're not as weak as I thought. But never forget that your best wasn't good enough to stop me. Now an entire planet is dying because you lacked the strength to win. The legend of the commander needs to be re-written. I hope I'm there for the last chapter. It ends with your death.

>>180269627
It was a hologram
*fires arc thrower at you*
Heh, too easy

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>>180269732
Dodge this!

>>180269086
Man the ethereals REALLY want you back

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>override sectopod
>dominate hive queen
>reenact Kaijū battles

>>180268186
Its clearly background noise from how they explained it.

I'd fuck a Chosen

>>180270274
that's why you're getting decapitated along with the snakefuckers

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>>180270274
I'd throw you out a Skyranger

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kind reminder that infiltration is not necessary

>>180270274
You're not supposed to be here.

>>180270523
>soldiers killed: 1
MEDIOCRE

>>180270061
It is implied that you were what was making Advent forces an unstoppable rapetrain against the resistance forces.

>>180270274
Oh, if only you knew the truth

>>180262020
>Two dashes away from evac, every soldier already a blue move away but fucking slow ass civilians lagging behind.
>A Sectopod + 2 Red MECs (the explosive-focused ones, forgot their name) drop

>>180270565
Not him, but I lost a shinobi that was chilling on my squad's flank during an hq raid to a rainbow pod. For some reason they started far from the right side of the first building, and were attracted by the gunfire and into alert mode.

Poor guy was crit on a barrage of yellow alert. RIP in peace Joshua Graham.

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>make the mistake of installing Halo armors in the hopes of having nicer aesthetics for T3
>instead they increase loadtimes when customizing by nearly ten seconds in every menu
>game also randomly rolls Halo armor bits when trying to use Alien Hunter suits, resulting in mishmashes that you can't remove
>uninstalling midgame results in all customization options being locked on troops

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Give me your BASED (in your opinion) team comps and soldier builds.

>>180270932
that's what u get for using gaylo mods amirite?

>>180270523
>One ayy/turn
Maybe that soldier wouldn't have died if had only giten gud

>>180270932
>Halo armors
>nicer aesthetics than T3
This is the price of having shit taste.

>>180270873
I hate how non-activated pods beeline to my forward hidden shinobi, its so fucking gay.

>>180271004
Overwatch Ranger with Shredder
Sniper with Shredder
Psi-God with Shredder
Technical (Rocket / Shredder)
Assault
Nader with Shredder

>>180271264
This but
>ranger with shredder and rapid reaction
>assault with the ranger double basic shot
>gunner with fleche

>>180271248
They're not attracted to concealed units, but they do run toward fights. My shinobi was just watching the sides.

>>180271359
>>gunner with fleche
Wait, what?

>>180270932

Not all of the halo mods cause that, one of them has ridiculously big textures and stuff for no reason at all. Don't remember which ones though, but you can try them all and find out.

>>180271380
Are you 100% sure about that? I savescummed a bit and run around with my concealed shinobi who was near a pod in yellow alert and nevermind which direction I run they would follow him

>>180271391
I have one who can get it, but haven't trained it yet.
>criting for 13 with your rambo knife

t-thanks JL

>>180271359
>Assault with light 'em up

wait does it mean it can run & gun, blue move and take two shots, or fire, run & gun and fire again?

>>180269086
What the fuck did you just say about me you little ayy? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in Guerilla Tactics School, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Advent blacksites, and I've over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in close range warfare and I'm the top ranger in the entire XCOM forces. You are nothing to me but another promotion. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this timeline, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the resistance relays? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of undercover agents across the globe and your signature is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking ded, ayy. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over several hundred ways, and that's just with my sword. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the XCOM and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the earth, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" speech was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit chain shots all over you and you will drown in them. You're fucking dead, ayyo.

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>>180271391
Pic

>>180271747
>fire, run & gun and fire again?

Yeah, against strong enemies I basically run up to him, stun, wait a turn and then fire two times the next turn (or three thanks to hit and run)

>>180271662
>>180271978
But
Why?

>>180272112
Dude this might not sound like it but it's very useful to say, take down an advent sentry + reposition your gunner to a roof in a single turn, for example.

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>>180267653
I'd listen to the speaker all day, but i'm more afraid of pic related levels of dialogue. Firaxis has not shown themselves to be particularly adept at the subtleties of this aspect of gamemaking.

>>180271619
They're not supposed to do that if I'm not mistaken

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PORTS WHEN

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>>180269086
Would still fuck in the ass

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>>180269732

>>180273320
Would hold hands, wear fedoras and vape with.

>>180269086
So we can all agree the Assassin is just shitposting given boss form?

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>>180273550

AT LAST! A TRUE MEME

>>180273923
It sounds to me like we need to start making MGR:R references here.

WASH AWAY THE ANGER

>>180273001
That skill is OP as fuck actually, blue moves and strikes ribbid, yellow moves and strikes mario + jump to cover then firing at flanked enemy.

So I'm looking for a good tier 2 armor mod for my new Long Dong 2 play-through, any suggestions? I used to use Halo Reach armor but have cut back on it due to size and a change of pace, so I'm thinking I'll use Titanfall to some extent mixed around with modern warfare ones(which I use for tier 1)because it doesn't have that much variety. I'm just wondering if I'm missing any major ones, but mostly I'll probably just use regular tacticool ones explaining it away that they are just using advanced alloy plates in their plate carriers. Also I wish there was a better T-shirt arms mod because there is an almost perfect set on the MGS BDU's I think but they glitch out with tattoos so I mostly use the crappy one arm ones part of the Kevlar arms mod.

>>180271747
>>180271978
That's crazy OP. My A team assault had LEU as the last awc perk and I decided against training it because I thought it was useless.

>>180269086
This looks so fun.

>THE WAVE THAT'S COMING

I wonder how XCOM 2 is so cheesy yet pulls me right back in.

>>180274670
Yeah, I pick my A-Team based on the AWC perks because they can make such a huge difference.

>>180274668
I use the carapace port and sometimes the section 9 armor

>>180274776
Thank you I totally forgot about the carapace port.

>>180271264
>>180271004
My best Ranger has Hit and Run and Shredder.

With Rapid Reaction, fucker never stops shooting.

>>180274730
Its like comic books when they are good, cheesy but it works.

>>180269086
her voice is really annoying. Also this>>180269732

>>180269086
>>180275468

I knew from the announcement that she would be terrible, i have all my hopes on the big guy he looks cool. Edgy hood hunter man is probably going to be shit too.

>>180274871
My best AWC roll was an assault with serial. You have no idea how much fun I used to have making her move all the way to the other side of the map and flank everyone.

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>>180269086
Wow. I mean, I guess that is pretty much what I expected from Firaxis's writing team, but still, wow.

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>>180276119

Literally Kai Leng 2

>>180275468
>>180275707

I have very [Visible Concern] over their talk of talking on the strategy layer and just about everywhere, I feel as though the cringe meter will be off the charts with some real toe-curler moments

then again mods will fix it no doubt

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>>180276498
Predicting that "STFU Chosen" will be one of the first expansion pack mods released. Not by me, I've given up on this fucking trainwreck for now.

Damn, that picture takes me back, there's no mistaking the NYC "SALE" signs. Good fucking riddance to that shithole.

I just got back to XCOM 2 after a while, and the game fucked me over
How do i git gud again ?

>>180278797
use lots of grenades

>>180278797
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