XCOM General - /xcg/

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>>181606907
100% not fucked

>>181606907
https://youtu.be/QoLywiaM6PA

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>>181607005
VIGILO CONFIDO

>tfw just hit 3 lined up targets with null lance

itll never happen again

none of them died

>>181606426
The Faction soldiers all gain Ability Points (AP) when they rank up, so you can always purchase at least one ability from their new rank.
Each soldier also has a new "Combat Intelligence", which modifies how much AP they earn at each rank. Smarter soldiers earn more AP, so they can buy more abilities.
And on top of that, you can then choose to spend any extra AP you've earned from combat (listed as "XCOM AP" on the promotion screen) to purchase additional abilities.
Very possible to unlock all of the abilities if you really invest in one soldier, or if they're super smart
Base game soldiers also have Combat Intelligence and gain AP when they rank up, but you can't access their "expanded" skill tree and spend it until you build the Training Center.
Base classes don't have new abilities on their trees, but they can get some through the Soldier Bond system. They can also get multiple cross-class abilities now (instead of just one through the AWC) or learn abilities from both branches through the Training Center.

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I want the anon from last thread to make a phased plasma guns tier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mg7qKstnPk

Once again posting information released after War of the Chosen's reveal. Reply to this post with more information and I will put it in the next thread.

>Chosen factions and soldier class information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLOkk-Lhdw [Embed] - Inside Look - the Assassin
https://xcom.com/news/entries/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-the-assassin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVJg_KrLzBA [Embed] - Inside Look - the Reaper
https://xcom.com/news/entries/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-the-reaper


>Other WotC stuff

https://www.pcgamesn.com/xcom-2/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-release-date-factions-units-strategy - has details about 3 new buildings that replace the Advanced Warfare Center and the alternative level up system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLcPIWqK18 [Embed] - 112 new things in War of the Chosen
https://www.gamespot.com/videos/xcom-2s-new-expansion-lets-you-control-aliens-e3-2/2300-6439474/ - Video interview with Jake Solomon on WotC
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/20/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-preview/

Is it worth making a pastebin compendium and putting it in the OP?

>>181607324

phased whatnow?

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This doesn't feel fair

>>181607469
phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range

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have you ever seen a sectopod do this?

pavonis changed something with haven retaliations in long dong?
When i played 1.0-1.2 i was getting my first retaliations when i already had mags + predator armor, now i'm getting retaliation my in second campaign in a row within first 3 months
wtf

>>181607632
Nope. I think its so shit even the AI thinks its not worth using it.

>>181607818
Put more people on Intel so that you can detect datataps and prevent the retaliations completely.

>>181607875
I had 10 faggots in haven and 7 from this 10 was on intel.
What is datataps btw?
And i'm talking not about 'Kill 2 pods with 1-2 faceless and some advent troops with your heaven rookies" retaliations, i'm talking about ones that "HELLO FAGGOT WE ARE ABOUT TO KILL ALL YOUR HAVEN PERSONNEL"

>>181608057
They are the missions where you have, in addition to the team you sent, your haven advisor and 4-5 rebels protect a relay while advent rush it from all sides.

>>181608239
Oh shit, i remembered.
I had this mission once in one my first campaigns, i don't want this kind of expirience anymore desu
But still, why do i keep getting retaliation missions in my first months in new update?
I don't want to read all this patchnotes i missed

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>Reinforcements
>Reinforcements the next turn
>Reinforcements the next turn

fuckkk me

>>181607459
That's a lot of links. I'd pastebin it.

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wewww

I'm not doing another mission at 0% unless I get supplies for it

>>181607459
>[Embed]

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>>181607263

Null lance as an ability is based as fuck, ptoblem is it usually isn't that useful in open combat unless there's an enemy like a gatekeeper or an archon that you 100% need to finish off and can't waste a nade or risk muh grazed. Where it really shines is in taking out enemies in heavy cover if you need your explosives somewhere else and fucking up faggots that abuse LOS since the lance can go through multiple walls, roofs, and even hit airborne targets.

It's also goat for ambushing pods when they're clustered up, (especially in longer missions, as it's not a consumable and can cripple or outright kill as well as a grenade in that situation.)

The real problem is that all the psi powers are shit compared to stasis.

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What do you think lads? Rupture or combat fitness?

In non-LW XCOM 2, is there any particular reason why my specialist shouldn't have a skullmining skulljack glued to their arm at all times?

>>181609260

Fug, I copied it from the last thread instead of my notepad file

Don't hurt me anon

>>181609309
Kill Zone for you.

>>181609523
She already empties her magazine every round with overwatch due to rapid reaction

>>181609309

Her mobility and aim are already solid for what she's supposed to do, so rupture would be my choice for a bit of added utility. A ranger with basically shredder could be breddy gud

>>181609612
But that's only three overwatch shots. Kill Zone gives you six if you get an elite magazine, and it lets you activate enemies at squadsight ranges with the AR I recall correctly.

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That's xcom baby

>give a spark a 36% dodge pcs
>nothing happens, it just gets deleted
>no buff, nothing

th-thanks jake, I guess

>try to play a late night infiltration before going to bed
>get caught up customizing some soldiers
>start the mission
>game crashes
>fall asleep watching bagel videos

pretty comfy

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https://youtu.be/-0QeOx-Jwcc

Bzzz bzzz i scan u. I'll finish the rest of the scanners tomorrow but i figured it wouldn't take too long to make a shitty video.

It'll be pretty much the same for Xcom's scanner, except for the color of the effect and the sound.

>use a gatekeeper to make a psi zombie
>kill the psi zombie with the gatekeeper's resurrect ability
>doesn't make a new zombie out of the old zombie

shit game

What's with all the hate for SPARKs? Using them for first time in Long War 2 Commander difficulty and they always carry team/their weight in every mission I've deployed them so far. They're the kings of retaliation missions.

Granted I'm in late July at the moment. Is most of their criticism based on Vanilla, or lategame in LW2?

>>181612564
vanilla

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>>181609282

That still makes me wish we had PsyLance from the EU/EW Ethereals.

>can mind control ethereals
>cant mind control avatars

why tho

>>181613251
Because the Avatar is already mind controlled

Lads my cousin is getting rekt in XCOM EU Vanilla on Normal Ironman, what advice can I give him? I told him to never be out of cover and stuff but it's been ages since I played EU Vanilla I don't even remember what it was like

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o7

>>181613394
High Cover Overwatch everything, use nades and break los
works for anything

Haven't been here a while, is my beloved Uncle Gunnie working on anything cool?

>>181613394
Get EW and use SHIVs.

>>181613394
train up 2 squadsight snipers and have them camp at the LZ of every mission

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OPERATED DOT COM.
CLICK HERE FOR BIG CALIBERS RUINING TIGHT LITTLE AYY SKULLS

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BULLSHIT

>>181614183
>falling for the <100% meme

>>181611721
Why your fps is so low?

if a retaliation strike is 1 week away, is that 0-7 days or 7-14 days away?

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>>181613125

>tfw pretty sure it's been added in LW 1.0

Can't be sure, but that icon is riddlin me a lullaby of USEFUL late-game psionics.

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>>181614481
>jacob rees-mogg

Hello brother

>void rift a near dead pod, kills heavy mec and damages an officer
>officer panics, runs near off screen
>shoots something offscreen
>scores a crit, kills a shieldbearer

Probably the only time panic will do something beneficial

>move spark adjacent to enemy
>only 65 hit chance, high cover
>the fucking high cover perk works for enemies too

I fell for the all for one meme again

- Retaliations (and mini-retals) will occur according to a different mechanism: every day you have a rebel on a job, the rebel has a chance to be detected by ADVENT. That chance is impacted by difficulty level, regional vigilance and alert. If detection occurs, a global bucket to trigger a retaliation gets a little more full. (There are buckets for each rebel job except hiding and a master bucket for full Haven retaliations). Once a threshhold is reached, a retal/mini-retal will occur and the bucket empties. They will tend to occur in busier regions. This reduces the minimum working rebels threshhold to trigger retals and should space out retals/mini-retals better. Increased regional cooldowns for these missions.

Fuuuck this shit, now i understand why i got retaliation 2 games in a row so fast.
How do i manage my havens now with this change?

Swords are useless

Have there been any decent Reshade's or graphical overhauls since launch? There was that "Cinematic Reshade" one but I'm sorta tired of it.

>>181615982
I use sweetfx but alas I cannot provide a link at the moment

>>181615592
This is why I'm holding off on LW2 for now. I love some of the ideas it has, and it feels like a more complete gameplay experience than the base game, but the fact it keeps changing and updating annoys me. Once it's considered 'finished' and the only updates they release are bug fixes, I'll move over it. But not until then.

>>181615637
Say that to my 100+ kills shinobi waifu's face and not online, motherfucker.

veteran difficulty
hunker down
full cover
disoriented advent officer
gatecrasher
3 damage on my rookie
What chance advent officer had to hit my rookie?
I used perfect info but i deleted it because i didn't found how to remove loot marker on enemies with loot

>>181617028

>I think 80 aim
>-50
>-40
>-25

So he has around -35% chance to hit.

Sounds like he memed you desu

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>>181617028
If there is one thing you have in gatecrasher it is time. Just take it slow, take a fortified position and defend it.

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>>181613614
I've figured out how to port weapons from GR: Wildlands. First time I've ever made a weapon so it's a bit too big at the moment, but it's a start.

>>181617134
Hunker down gives -50% chance to hit? Wut?
I thought it gives 20%
Anyway, even if it gives 20% he still should've missed. what. the. fuck.

>>181617381

I checked and it's 30 def with 50 dodge chance.

>>181617459
Maybe it's hunker down mod i installed, i should check it.

>>181617459
Vanilla Hunker Down:
+30 Defence, +50 Dodge.
Must be in cover.

Modified Hunker Down: (customisable)
+15 Defence, +50 Dodge, +1 Armour, +10 Will, -15 Sight Radius.
Reduces reveal range when flanked in Concealment by 40%.
Does not require cover.
Removes Burning (Stop, Drop and Roll!)

>>181617273
love it, truly a god amongst men

on the avenger during ironman, do i have to save and exit then quit to desktop every time or can i just exit to desktop?

>>181609317
Not really. I use skulljack all the time for the hack bonus

>>181618034
it saves when you exit the geoscape but you can save and exit manually if you want

What happened to the last thread? Not the one who reached bump limit, the other one

>>181618293

OP was a shitter who just wanted to be the first to make a thread.

The previous thread link in it was to the current fire emblem general, for one thing.

>>181617664
>>181617459
>>181617134
Not sure about X2, but in EW the minimum chance 1%. So doesn't matter how many defences you have there's allways a chance to hit.

>>181618617

I also seem to remember some bullshit mechanic in X2

>enemy has 0% chance to hit
>but has anywhere between 1-100 crit chance
>this means that if they attack and roll a crit, let's say they have 40 crit chance, that means the attack that CANNOT hit, will instead crit, meaning crit damage is dealt

I dunno if that got fixed or if I'm misremembering but it's total bullshit and why flashbangs are garbage for anything but psionics.

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>>181614183

>>181606907
>install more mission types mod
>get a council mission three weeks in
>par for the course until I rescue the VIP
>"commander, reinforcements incoming!"
>every other turn for 12 turns, ADVENT groups of five drop in
>3 of my rookies show up for some reason
>wave after wave, I endure

What a ride. I was not prepared. There was still a pod I hadn't fought on the map yet either.

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>haywire stun a mec for 2 turns
>hits me next turn with rockets

wot

Is there a mod that gets you the classes of LW 2 in vanilla?

>>181619783
yeah, LW2 classes but it's not up to date at all. Same for the aliens pack.

>>181619745
Did it say Stunned 2 or Stunned 4? Stun is measured in terms of Action Points, not turns.

>>181619626

Is it the "rescue dude from a rioting city" mission? Those are fucking painful but very fun. I had the archon king spawn on one once and it was utter chaos. Most hectic mission I've ever done, fun as fuck too.

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how bad are the viper venom rounds? 50% less time on concealment missions seems too difficult

>>181620225
Really depends on if grunts and captains are still a threat to you or not. Normally once you're past Mag weapons, you can wipe the floor with them

>>181620225

If you can deal with ADVENT soldiers effortlessly then it's fine. You can also just put medkits on soldiers and they become immune anyway. High Alert is utter fucking AIDS and should always be countered, imo.

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tfw nobody wants to drink at phobos's bar

>>181620350
phobos cant mix for shit

greeks out

>>181620057
I'm not sure. It was on some sort of Advent fortress map within a city.

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Joey mod when?

>Find a Muton before a MEC

Aren't Mutons at a higher force level?

What legit cheats can you recommend, /xcg/?
Turning off NCE made game a lot easier, but it's still a bit hard for me.
long dong 2 btw

>>181621896
Rookie difficulty helps. Has a lot of basic bitch cheats

>>181622887
Rookie is too easy even for me.
Metal over flesh mod making game easier?

>>181622953
Well, it makes SPARKS useful but balances it somewhat by making the buffs to them available through a great deal of proving ground projects.

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>Haven't played XCOM in a while
>Throw gas grenade at Vipers
>Remember too late that they're immune to poison
>One of them pulls my soldier into the cloud and binds him
>The other one spits redundant poison at him, covering them all, and hammering home how much of a fucking idiot I am

>>181626145
>beingBradford.jpeg

>>181626145
that's what you get for buying into the gas grenade meme

>>181627061
Gas grenades see some use with the Anarchist custom class, at least so far in my campaign.

Trying to do the Skullack a Codex thing, do I have to wait until Codexes become normal enemies in missions or can I skulljack an officer to summon a Codex then skulljack that Codex?

>>181627061
Combination debuff and damage dealer that won't kill structures (I think? Can gas grenades trigger cars?) with extended radius. It's mostly a direct upgrade from frag grenades, so if that's what the Proving Grounds gets first you might as well smoke 'em if you got 'em.

>>181617273
Please keep it that size, that looks amazing. It's like a callback to the retarded big LMGs from LW1

>>181628567
The codex summon from skulljacking the officer is just a one time thing as far as i know.

>>181628567
Codices have to be normal spawns, the skulljack has only one "charge."

Also be ready for anything if you've never skulljacked a codex before.

>>181628567

Once you have that objective codices spawn on every map until you complete it. Can't skulljack an officer ever again after the first time to spawn a codex.

>>181628964
>>181628946
>>181628709
Ah, gotcha. Thanks.

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>near the end of 1st vip extract mission
>miss a flank shot and all my overwatches overwatches
>rookie now dead, specialist bleeding out, 2 about to die
>shoot through high cover out of desperation
>full damage hit, dead, mission over.

xcom taketh, xcom giveth.

(new ironman commander campaign, vanilla, ive done 3 missions and had 3 deaths, so guess ill just restart)

>>181628618
>>181627272
>>181627061
>>181626145
>not having Hazmat vests on your front-line soldiers so that they can conga line through fire and gas clouds and waltz around enemies burning and choking to death

>>181630178
well I would do that if an extra armor point wasn't more generally useful

>>181630178

>not just having a psionic fuck making everyone immune by just existing

>>181630479
Armor's only useful if your soldier is slow and has diddly in the way of dodge and defense. Rangers don't need armor points.

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Off to a great start

>>181630886
The chameleon genemod needs some work.

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>>181631003
Ok I laughed
Ignoring Autopsies is paying off

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Post your Overwatch ambush slaughterfests.

Hey there guys, just installed some armor customization mods and noticed that all my soldiers now have randomly generated armor as soon as I bought the predator armor. Is this something fixable or do I have to manually switch all their uniforms from now on? To be specific I installed new armors like capnbubs tasteful pack and the mgsv balaclavas but I dont think theyre the problem. Could it be the use all armor/civilian gear mod thats the problem? Thanks for your time.

>>181631893
Ah, the bara mod. I wouldnt have known about it if it wasent for bagels stream.

>>181632046
Yeah that's probably what's the problem .

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Which upgrade should I get?
I only have 1 empty block on Avatar so I want to attack the Chile Facilty asap

>>181631893
>3 guys
That's bullying, not an ambush, you bully!

>>181632431
Is this vanilla? Grenade.

>>181632431
MK2 Gremlins is always a safe bet. Advanced Grenade Launchers are also nice.

>skulljack a Codex
>Avatar appears and tries to get to cover
>gets utterly annihilated by the rest of the Overwatching squad, taking two hits that burn AND poison him before my SPARK finishes him off

That was awesome.

>couple of turns later an evemy Viper is forced to move toward the group and spits venom on the SPARK who was standing by himself

I thought these ayy lmaos were supposed to be smart.

>>181632563
It's not bullying when it's alien invaders.

>>181632135
Beaglerush uses that mod?

>Avatar body recovered, still need to do some more story missions before I can examine it
>Avatar Project meter at zero blocks
>Alien Hunters mission beckoning to me

Wish me luck, friends, the super-ayy lmaos are going to be unleashed. Any tips on making sure the Viper King doesn't leave the opening mission alive?

>>181633485
It was fanart submission

>>181634146
Is there a link to it?

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Post sneks.

Any way to force a mission success with console? Testing some shit

>>181632135
>the musclefag is just Beagle attentionwhoring as revenge for all of the bullying
I understand everything now.

>>181632135
where is this stream?

>>181634057
Frost grenades and plasma rifles

>>181630617
tell that to my assaults who shrug off muton elites thanks to armor

>>181635254
P-please respond

>>181636201
i think there's a command like 'killaliens' or something but im not sure.

>>181636280
No, that one's from EU but doesn't seem to work in X2

>>181636201
best you can do is just use powerup and ttc to teleport around and kill everything if you need to kill shit, or just ttc to the evac zone

>>181636028
tfw no snake mommy

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Can somebody please explain to me the difference between "current enemy activity" and "enemy readiness"? I thought enemy activity controlled the number of enemies present, but I have no idea what enemy readiness does then.

>>181637186
Heavy is how many base pods the mission will have and the Readiness is how many % there is, so for you it is 200% of how many pods Heavy adds.

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>>181634914
snek loves black

>>181637186
Readiness doesn't really mean anything. It's sort of an "at a glance" metric.

http://ufopaedia.org/index.php/Infiltration_(LW2)

I keep getting a virtual function error after ending my turn. What the fuck is it and wat do?

>>181639269
The CPU is calling for data from the RAM that no longer exists, causing a crash.

I can't say what's causing it with any certainty, there are a number of reasons this could happen with any program.

>>181632354
You yanking my chain?

>>181639541
>Hey there guys, just installed some armor customization mods and noticed that all my soldiers now have randomly generated armor as soon as I bought the predator armor.
This isn't linked to any cosmetic mod, it's just they way that the vanilla game handles you switching armors. Normally it wouldn't matter much without mods because it would just switch you too random vanilla armor pieces that all fit together, but once you have dlc cosmetics and mod cosmetics, and unlocked armor tiers, things get messy. No real fix besides maybe using the Uniform Manager to quickly get soldiers into their designated looks. But I've heard uniform manager might be tied to more frequent cases of under the camera avenger bug.

>>181639530
So wat do could it be one of the mods i have installed causing this?

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>just want some sexier lady armors
>closest is the Lara croft body mod
>most revealing armor mod so far is>>181631893

>>181639965
check loverslab for bikini armor mods

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>you will never watch your squadmate be coiled and constricted by a big snek

>>181639965
Try these.

http://www.loverslab.com/topic/64634-xcom-2-mod-index/

>>181640248
>>181640337
>Cum face paint
>Prostitution mod
WEW LAD

>>181640248
>>181640337
Thanks guys, I'll check it out but it might be almost too lewd and might break MUH immersion. Really just complaining about the lack of titplate armors or more form fitting female armors.
>inb4 tittyplate doesn't ruin your immersion

>>181639246
>>181637186
it actually applies to enemy alert level

like whether they'll shoot you on reveal or not

>>181639926
Possibly, having several mods installed can use a lot of memory up.

I've also seen reports of memory leaks, but I have yet to experience one. Make of that what you will.

>>181640826
Well I do have a shit ton of mods installed. I guess I'm going to have to dial it back a bit.

>>181639803
>No real fix besides maybe using the Uniform Manager to quickly get soldiers into their designated looks. But I've heard uniform manager might be tied to more frequent cases of under the camera avenger bug.

I figured it might've been the slew of armor mods I installed. I'm no modder but would you say it'd be a armor file name problem? Yeah I resorted to uniform manager and it works fine so far. Don't know anything about the avenger camera bug tho, I just picked it upon sale
Thanks!

>>181614342

Recording does that to it, maybe it's a CPU thing since mine is ancient.

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What went wrong?

>>181642872
dumb avatarposter

>>181642872
nothing at all

>longdong 2 hack workstation mission
>8 turns
>reinforcements on turn 2
>reinforcements on turn 4, 4 man pod
>REINFORFUCKINGCEMENTS ON TURN 5 AND IT'S A MOTHERFUCKING 6 MAN POD WITH A MUTON CENTURION
>4 turns intil evac

what the fuck man

>>181643839
>falling for a trap mission

Just stealth to the objective and fight there.

>>181644538
The evac still takes 4 turns to arrive though

>>181644727
You can lay it on the turn you get spotted, that way you only fight 1 pod of reinforcements and evac when the second one lands.

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Serious Sam enemy ports when?

>>181606907

Is there a good Cyborg voice pack out there for someone who wants kind of a cyborg character?

>>181644538
Wait so these missions are just traps? What happens if I fail it by evacing eithout completing the objective, do I instalose the region/campaign?

>>181645475
The trap is that reinforcements spawn very quickly. So the worst that can happen is losing your squad.

>>181645475
No thankfully, they are just Magnificently Designed to make you lose soldiers and nothing else.

>>181645475
It's not a trap mission, those are only missions with a dark event counter and vip capture in a high vigilance region.

ADVENT just has a considerable garrison wherever you're operating so they get reinforced quickly.

>>181645624
>So the worst that can happen is losing your squad
Well that's a relief.

>>181645668
Oh I always worked under the EU/EW LW assumption that losing one mission = losing the entire campaign

I want to hug Vahlen and tell her she is my favourite scientist

>>181646297
Vahlen made the alien rulers so i want to punch her, not hug her.

>>181646412
I want to punch her from the inside.

>>181646412
>>181646564
Delete this right fucking now
She did nothing wrong

>>181646819
She created and armed the Archon King. That's fucking wrong.

>>181647054
It was for scientific purposes

>>181646819
Delete what? I want to pound her cervix

>>181643839
Nothing is worse than doing a late-game Extremely Light Jailbreak with four guys and a fucking SECTOPOD shows up on the first reinforcement pod.

>>181647054
Blame Subject Gamma for breaking out and ruining everything.

>>181647265
FUCKING DELETE THIS

>>181648331
i bet he didn't even break out

vahlen let him out so that she could suck some snek dick

>>181647054

The Archon King did nothing wrong, it's your fault you got buttdevastated

>>181648891
HE NUKED MY WHOLE SQUAD

>>181648552
Not until I dump my entire balls into her

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>>181648980
The archon king brings out everybody's inner DSP

>>181648989
>>181648590
Delete these posts or I'm sending the archon king to fuck you up

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>>181606907

Is there a brave anon out there that can port the MEC trooper body legs and arms as options for our troopers?

>>181648891
>vahlen spent her time making a king viper instead of a queen

literally why

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>>181648891
>>181648980
Slaughtered my entire team because somebody let him out! And you know what? IT WAS YOU!

>>181649169
Hi, Vahlen! How does snek dick taste like?

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Damn, Central, you're hot.

Vahlen is pure and loves science

>>181649925
some things are off limits anon

this is such a thing

>>181650125
AHAHAHAHAAH
>AHAHAHAHAAHAH

0-3 Long War 2
4-6 GTAV
7-9 Xenonauts

>>181650125
>vahlen is pure
>who knows how much snek cock she took

Keep telling yourself that anon

>>181650686
Get an alien related mod for GTAV

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>>181650859
>>181650261
I will fucking kill you both

>>181649213
>why would a single woman with odd tastes and no social life create a slightly different female viper instead of a 12/10 scaly alien toyboy

Hmm, I wonder...

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>>181649705

>I NEVER WIPED ON NOBODY
>I NEVER WIPED ON NOBODY

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>>181648980
>>181648891
>>181649213
>>181649705

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>*flies behind u*
>pssht, mor balaten... xcom...
>*flies up*
>*devastates ur entire squad*
>*picks up ur soldiers and drops him*
>ayy... too easy...
>*teleports out*

what do you do?

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>>181634914

>>181655359

stroke out and die

will war of the chosen be LW2 but good?

>run into the Berserker Queen on an extract VIP mission
>remove her first healthbar before she does anything
>opens a rift and runs away

Little bitch.

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Bitch deployed, Commander.

>>181655923
W O R S T
G I R L

>>181655923
i want to rape this ayylien

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>>181656168
Good idea, my friend.

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>>181656063
So here is the best girl

>>181656770
>boring blonde bimbo
>best girl
Anon please

>>181656575
>>181656770
All ayys and collaborators must fucking hang

>>181656770
to be quite desu with you, I would've preferred if ADVENT was actual humans brainwashed by propaganda instead of half-ayys.

I know eggscom isn't about the moral consequences of your actions, and it's more about killing aliens shits while being the unquestionable good guys, but it would've been cool.

>>181657423
I'd prefer most of them completely sane volunteers, with specialized units using gene mods and cybernetics. Something like vipers, as in collaborators rather than simple slaves.

>>181657847
Thing is, even collaborators are slaves to the aliens. As in, even if they were sane volunteers, they'd still be mislead by ayy propaganda that the aliens are great and all nice.
I want them to be mislead people thinking they're doing the right thing by fighting the Human State of XCOM and the Avenger.

Xcom where you play as the invading aliens when?

>>181658424

Well, Bradford did say he wanted to take the Avenger to space so he can fuck up their homeplanet.

>>181658753
I hope that's not the next game's plot. That'd be pretty boring.

>>181658753
inb4 Earth was the Etherials homeworld all along

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>>181659016
what if ethereals are the next step in human evolution??????????????????????????????????

>>181659016
inb4 Ethereals are humans from the future and to stop them you will become Ethereals and whole thing will repeat itself yet again

>>181659016
>no central, you are the ayyliens!

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Can you really call it a victory if your spark is blown to shit?

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/simg/ here
we are doing an assessment of the combat readiness/knowledge of other subreddits generals
Find as much tanks as you can in the picture (there are 3)

xgom is gud gaem

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>>181662972
fuck off desu

>>181662972
one taking the picture
another one on the bottom in the menu
last one up ur mums butt

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>>181662972
Tanks tickle my autism

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>>181662972

tfw you have to take a desperate action and your rookie fires at a target through heavy cover with a 13% chance to hit and crits him

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>tfw you can't beat a mission because they keep sending reinforcements and the enemies on the map are holed up and won't come out of their bunker

>>181666329
It's good that enemies don't give up good positions. In any case you might want to evac and try again.

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>>181666513
I need the game to give me some goddamn supplies so I can buy weapons that aren't garbage

>>181666741
most of your cash comes from smash n grab/black market prior to completion of lib 5

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Fuck it, we'll do it live

>>181667579
hack the computer and it will stun all enemies for two turns

Can someone please post the gif of the scantily clad all-male team posing or whatever? I need it for reasons. It was a mod or something right?

>>181668815
roit

>>181668941
yes but I need the gif and I dunno where to look. I don't need the mod itself, just the gif.

>>181669309
It's on plebbit if you want it that badly

Something like modding was a mistake

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>200% infilitration
>40 turns

lmao

>playing enemy unknown
>already put in like 20 hours
>finished the first base raid
jesus how long do i have left this is taking forever

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Hmm, this is a really tough one folks, what do you think?

>>181670535
Serial

>>181669549
yes that was it thank

>>181670535
Double tap

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All right let's do this

>>181670535

Alpha mike foxtrot.

>>181671389
All rookies, right?

>>181671389
move slow

is there a mod that lets you reskin the endgame weapons as the bullet using ones from the start of the game? The shotgun is so damn satisfying to hear go off.

>>181672104

Yes. Get RoboJumper's Xskin mod.

I'm really excited for the changes coming to SPARK units and Alien Rulers in the new expansion pack update. In addition to all the new stuff, those changes will make the game so much better.

>>181672282

I'm excited for the Spark changes, but not the Rulers changes, if anything i would've expected a buff for them not a nerf.

Maybe mods will fix it.

>>181662972
What game is that /simg/? I don't recognize the UI.

>>181670365
What difficulty?

>>181670507
Do you have any mods installed, or playing on Impossible? The vanilla Enemy Unknown campaign's aren't very long.

>>181672175
I need to do this with the coilguns and plasma

>>181672373
I disagree. I think having the Rulers take an action every time you do ANYTHING including reloading your damn gun is too annoying. It makes the Bolt Caster pretty much useless since it guarantees they get two retaliatory actions after each shot. That's the weapon that's supposed to be made specifically to deal with the rulers, yet it's actually the worst due to their actions every time you reload. Bullshit if you ask me, especially when you're still at tier 1 armor and weapons.

>>181672373
Practically speaking, I think that the Rulers should be nerfed, but the broken alien hunter weapons should also be removed. But realistically, this can't happen because a company can't take content away from their players, and even then, in a mod it would be hard to sell.

>>181672972
I don't think the Alien Hunters weapons should be removed, just adjusted. They're not really all that powerful, especially in Long War where you can only send the weapon on one deployment at a time, meaning most of your squads can't access it.

>>181673279
>They're not really all that powerful, especially in Long War
Pretty clearly not talking about LW. And they are very powerful in vanilla.

Did a celebratory run of Vanilla, I want to do another one with long war alien pack and the perk pack. Should I increase squad size too? I remember the drones being early campaign enders with 4 soldiers.

>>181666329
Just go to the terminal (or as close as you can) and then start the fight.

>>181672865

You shouldn't be fighting them at tier 1 armor and weapons, and you can still trivialize them anyway with tier 1 gear because you still have access to the ruler weapons, flashbangs and enough abilities to fuck with them.

If you ask me, those changes that they are making to the rulers are only good if they also get buffs, if they only get nerfed then they'll end up as even bigger jokes than they already are. Except for Archon King, who was never a joke.

>>181673848
>You shouldn't be fighting them at tier 1 armor and weapons
Yeah ideally, but that doesn't always happen. Sometimes they pop up on a mission before you get to all tier 2 gear. Unless you cheese it by enabling the Alien Hunters story mission and wait forever to "activate" them. Saying they need a buff because you're intentionally exploiting the DLC campaign mechanics isn't really a fair statement though.

>>181674165
>Unless you cheese it by enabling the Alien Hunters story mission
Except that's how it is designed to be. And then most wait till T2. Hence why the dlc is being re-worked.

>>181670535
AMF. Dear god, imagine the crit numbers.

>>181649169
>posted from my mad scientist volcano base

>>181649213
probably because she's straight and the devs knew the boob vipers were a joke and a marketing ploy and they wanted to use a design from the unused concept art

>>181674165

>you cheese it

First of all, it's not cheese if it's designed to be that way, secondly, that is also how it's going to be for the Expansion except now the queen and archon king also have their own missions, so you will have to "cheese" them either way.

>>181674362
I've always viewed enabling the story missions as a way to delay difficult content as a sort of exploit. I usually don't enable the story missions when creating a new campaign. It adds a lot of tension to the early game when you don't know when the Rulers will start appearing.

Not only that, but the DLC story missions are kind of annoying after you've played through them once or twice. They take forever to complete and don't give you anything worthwhile as a reward, except the same content you get right from the start if you disable the missions.

>>181674696

I agree the DLC story missions suck. Lost Towers in particular is horrible because you can easily farm hundreds of kills at get a COL squad as soon as you can afford bluescreen ammo.

>download Avatar Hoods mod
>have never actually seen it in over 100+ hours since installing cause I can't get past the mid-late game portion of LW2 to summon one

thats okay, its the thought that counts

>>181674918
>you can easily farm hundreds of kills at get a COL squad
Except in Long War, where kills don't reward very much XP to troopers. Completing missions is much, much more conducive to earning XP with that mod.

>>181675065

Long War is also a mess

>>181674696
I always enjoy Lost Towers desu, but AH is pretty weak.

>>181675234
I just started my first LW2 campaign, so I'm not too familiar with it yet. Why do you say it's a mess?

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What do you think? Can she do it?

>>181675374

It's way too long, personally I like to have my campaigns end. The length is a problem because it becomes more of a resource management game as you juggle tons of squads. The tactical layer just does not hold up to the amount of missions it takes to clear a LW2 campaign, it gets very repetitive.

How do Liberated Region defenses work? Does Advent take it back if I fail or just kill all my people there? Why the fuck am I rescuing civilians but the Rescued counter isn't going up for me, but when Advent kills one the dead people goes up?

>>181675374
It stops being fun after a while and it gets incredibly repetitive.

>>181675613
Ah damn I kinda worried about that going in. It seems like with the new infiltration + squads systems they've implemented it'd really turn into a shit show in late game.

Do you recommend any good mods then outside of LW? I'm thinking about cancelling my LW2 campaign before I invest too much time into it.

>>181675838

I'd say as long as you're having fun with it keep going.

>>181675838
You should play LW2 for the memes and gimmicks that are fun. Just don't play it with the end in mind.
The second you get bored drop it and play something else.

>>181675975
I find I really don't like many of the changes LW2 made to the strategic layer, even in early game. I like the tactical layer additions such as the new classes, skill trees, weapons, and such. The strategic layer changes like infiltration are more annoying to me than anything else.

>>181674696
>I've always viewed enabling the story missions as a way to delay difficult content as a sort of exploit.
Well that's nice, but it's still the intended implementation of the dlc by the devs, hence the changes.

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>>181670535
I would go with serial, but you're right, it's a really tough call.

>>181659016
If you go to new york city, you will see some women and men that are about as thin as the ethereals. I kinda wondered if that was where we were heading while I was living there.

>>181655923
>>181656575
Stop posting this trash.

>>181642872
I also want to see you stop posting this; I'm getting sick of seeing people defend this shit design because you're spamming this complaint in every thread. This is an obvious false flag operation.
Pic related, it reminds me of the guy who would post "do you think an adult viper could swallow a grown man whole?" in every thread. The monoeye degenerate is a better example, but I'm afraid of summoning him.

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>>181672393
>>181663537
>>181663436
>>181663289
>>181663123
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>>181675613

>It's way too long
>LONG war is too LONG

the post below mine was made by a faceless

so if i want to lower vigilance in a region in lw2 do i need to have all the rebels in a haven on hiding, or can i still leave a few on supply/recruiting

>>181676241
If the intended implementation of the DLC content is to play the missions every time you create a campaign, then why can you disable the story missions and retain the added features? Seems to me like the story missions are meant to be skipped after playing them and getting tired of them.

>>181676542

It's true though.

>>181676141
Exactly my thoughts
I'm not too far into it just yet but it feels like they removed my favorite part of xcom, which was playing the god damn game
Who the fuck thought infiltration was fun

>>181663537
Good answer.

>>181676654
less activity is less attention, but having them all on hiding will make it go down faster

>>181609317

Why are specialists such hot garbage. I hope WOTC fixes this

>>181676729
Exactly this. The strategic game is supposed to be important and fun, not a tedious slog. The strategic layer in Long War 2 is turned into a micromanagement hell.

The tactical game was improved though in LW2. The added and rebalanced skills, added enemy types, smarter AI, more classes to play around with, and more interesting weapon variety are all great additions to a fantastic base game. LW2 takes what's great about the tactical game in XCOM 2 and makes it better. However it totally changes the strategic game and for the worse unfortunately.

>>181677000
Threat Assessment alone makes Specialists extremely powerful, not to mention Guardian
Also having a guaranteed two damage at the beginning of the game is nice

>>181677000
>Not getting facility leads via skullmining
>Not getting massive amounts of overwatch with guardian
>Not commanding all the beep boops to destroy the ayy

>>181677000
I think I'm the only person who actually enjoys having a specialist geared toward medical aid. It's a nice insurance policy if shit hits the fan, like a Ruler shows up and fucks up your squad before you kill it.

>>181677000

>specialists
>garbage

Do you even guardian

Wizards of the Chosen should add a melee hacker based around skulljack combos

>>181677327
The medical tree is nice but when literally everything on the combat side is good it just feels like a waste

>>181677338

By the time my gatecrasher specialist gets guardian I usually have three grenadiers and two rangers that clear everything.

>>181677173
desu i wouldn't mind the strat layer if you got proper information, the amount of stuff going on under the hood that you've got no idea about without diving through the .inis is infuriating

>>181675838
SPECTRUM Green

>>181676729
>>181677173
Deep down I'm hoping they'll dump it with WotC adding a fatigue system.

Doubt it'll happen, though.

>>181678308
>implying they won't just use both so you have to run magnificent 200 man rosters

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>there's a turret on the map
>mission ends before I can destroy it
>no turret wreck
fuck you bradford

>>181678495
200 man rosters would be great, just needs a decent default autoresolve

>>181649213
Vhalen was a represses sexual deviant. She wanted to create a husbando.

The real reason is that the XCOM team wanted to fuck with fans. They KNEW the Vipers were popular because of the tits.

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>>181679090

This is true, i'm pretty certain that there was actual mention of a firebreathing viper queen in the SDK at some point, so Jake did the opposite after the sneks turned out to be popular, because fuck you.

All hail Solomon.

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>this just happened
Fucking radical.

>>181679552
Shame. They could have done a duo.

FIRE AND ICE.

>>181680223
That is what incendiary ammo/grenades/bombs are for.

>>181680223
>King and Queen Vipers appearing at once.
Plz no.

>>181679090
please learn to spell

>>181680695
>And then the Archon King shows up with a Gatekeepr Queen behind you via psi rift

>>181680779
What, Vhalen?

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>>181679918

>>181680948
yes.

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this game is fun

>Hear the loot mod breaks the game
>Vanilla gun mods boring as hell, go for it anyway
>Much later in campaign, vaguely enjoying diablocom
>Legendary sword mod- Reaper increases damage with every kill
>Unleash a torrent of ayy blood, cackling all the while
I gave myself one mission before I put it off to the side. LW2's pod sizes and a swarming+++ map made for what is probably the most fun I'll have in the entire campaign.
People were 100% right about the loot breaking the game though. Killed every non muton enemy on the map in activation, fleche damage was showing 65-67 before I ran out of ayy.

>>181681204
wew

i kind of want this soldier in my character pool, but only him with this kind of body, all other male soldiers should be normal

how should I do this?

>>181681456
VectorPlexus

>>181658424
That's Stellaris.

>>181681204
that guy is ludicrously huge

How does XP work? At first I thought only getting the final blow on an enemy gives progress toward a promotion, but then I've seen a couple of soldiers get promotions on the post-mission screen even though I was sure they didn't get one during combat. Do soldiers get XP for damage as well, calculated after the mission or something? Vanilla, btw.

>>181682680
All soldiers share 25% of the total kills done after a mission.

i want to kiss a snek

>>181682929
I want to turn a snek into bloody paste with my boot.

>>181682862

Certain classes get more from assists I believe, like specialists.

>>181683031
delete this!

>>181683031
You're a big boot

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I am going to make a character that looks as close to Bradford Central as possible.
I am going to make him a Ranger.
I am going to kill the Viper King and make armor out of his carcass and have Bradford wear it.
I will make all reptilian foes flee in terror before the vengeful man-snake.

And this is how he will look in the skin of the King.

>>181684038
You can get his face with mods

anybody else flinching every minute as their neighbors set off fireworks?

worst holiday in the united states. 0/10, box contained bobcat, would never recommend.

>>181685146
Fireworks aren't even that loud

>>181685146
>mexicans get uppity and start setting off massive fireworks over the weekend
>shit sounds like an airburst and shakes the house
>police heli buzzes over 10 mins later
>mexicants scatter like roaches
>peace and quiet until the next 4th of july

like clockwork