/xcg/ - XCOM General

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>try a 0% mission to see what all the fuss is about
>load up
>move soldier 1 (one) tile
>spot 16 enemies

I want to marry Vahlen

Third for pistols got lumped and Vahlen is my cumdumpster

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Pistols are Useful

Battlesscanners are useful.

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>>181899745
>typical LW2 engagement distances
>>181899897
I've STARTED missions in combat before at 0%. Apparently, your units are in overwatch state if the shooting starts before your 1st turn. Useful to know.

Nano-vests are useful

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I SWEAR I'll DO IT JAKE

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>>181900632
DO IT. FOR ALL OF US.
END MY FUCKING NIGHTMARES.

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>>181900852
I am sorry brother, I have failed us all.

units being able to attack after patrolling into you is my least favorite meme

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>deactivate relay
>Stunned: 4
>nice now I can spend the next 2 turns killing th-
>they wake up next turn

Is there a console command to revive a soldier? I don't know what happened, but the game glitched out and killed my ranger. A heavy lancer ran at my bladestorm ranger and hit her. Did 9 damage, she survived. Then bladestorm triggered, whacked the lancer and lit him on fire. He also survived, but at this point the game locked up, lancer T-posed. Then he teleported 3 squared away from where he should have been. Game locked up again for another 30 seconds. Then suddenly my ranger took more damage, identical to the damage the lancer dealt. But nothing actually caused it, nobody shot or attacked or anything. It was just
>Game is frozen
>Nothing is happening
>Crit 9 lol you're dead for no reason

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>>181901402
>failsafe
:^)

>>181901621
ToggleGodMode maybe?

>>181901054
Blame beagle.

>>181901054
They only do that if they are in alert mode.

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>>181899745
can someone please help me! I've been trying to play Long war 2 but I can't access the haven management screen which seems to be pretty important! I don't have a haven't management button in my command center and clicking on haven related buttons in the geoscape brings me to screens that are obviously missing pieces. I've reinstalled the mod twice and the whole game once. pls help!

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Yay smooth scroll mod!

>>181902259
when are they ever not in alert mode?

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>typical LW2 mission length

>>181903713
When they don't hear gunfire or explosions

>>181903065
Delete all the XCOM2 config files under your Documents folder. Something is probably fucked up there. You'll need to fix your graphics settings etc. afterwards

>>181901621
>>181901954
I used RestartLevel

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WHAT THE FUCK WHY DID IT SPAWN ON A NETWORK TOWER MISSION

>>181905253
just hack it bro

>>181905253
>why does a late game enemy spawn during the late game?

>>181905253

nigga just press the buttons like how are sectopods even real lmao just press the button nigga

>>181905561
I haven't even seen gatekeepers on normal Ops yet.

>>181904150
how? it keeps coming back.

>>181905724
Gaykeepers are post sectopods

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i want to bud benis in snëk :-DD

Are there cosmetic soldier mods for EW, or is that an XCOM 2 exclusive thing?

do you guys consider perfect information cheating?

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>>181905884
>>181904150
someone please help me, I haven't killed an alien in like, THREE DAYS!

>>181908232
No, I consider it infuriating.

>All these 95% overwatch misses

>>181908232
No, but it takes some of the mystery out of the game.

>>181908232
How can pot action information be cheating?

What difficulty you guys play on for LW2? After attempting some 100+ campaigns on Legendary and Commander I've decided to try Veteran.

>>181909550
>What difficulty you guys play on for LW2?
Veteran

>>181909550
Commander is perfectly manageable, legend is a bit of an RNG fest early game but afterwards it's the same as commander

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>mission is going fine
>no wounds or casualties
>ayy reinforcements drop in
>they all manage to land crits during their turn
>mfw didn't bring medkits

>>181909550
Commander

Most of the changes from difficulty to difficulty seem to be under the hood. Mostly changing strategy layer variables it looks like.

>>181909821
>no medkits
>not spam fire nades

Does the damage bonus from venom/dragon rounds apply if attacking an enemy immune to the effect they give?

Do robots take fire damage? I've got a sectopod and a lancer together and I'm not sure if I should use the incendiary grenade or the plasma

>>181912185
All mech units are immune to fire and poison.

>>181912275
Thanks

>>181909550
Commander.

Legendary just seems like stepping on your dick a couple of times to come. I mean, if you're into that, sure...

>>181910878
Base +1 damage bonuses apply equally.

How the fuck do I manage advent shit better, progress keeps fucking me up.

> At 18/20
> single point bases

what the fugg

Does the alien relay mission and blacksite scale with your current tech/strength in LW2? For example if I was still in Tier I and did the Alien Relay mission I'd go up against enemies of that difficulty or will it be filled with Mutons, 13hp Captains, 10hp soldiers, Red and Green mechs, etc?

Is there a way to Enable the DLC when I've already started a game with it off?

I accidentally forgot it.

>>181913370
Not really. Enjoy the rulers wrecking you.

>try to save scum
>game crashes hard

Serves me right I guess.

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i've seen this ITT before

what the fuck is going on
do i need to cut on the cosmetic mods?

Welp, my Specialist with Guardian just took 4 Overwatch shots in a row and single-handedly killed an entire pod. What are the chances of that? Isn't that like a 6.75% chance?

>>181913509
It's the opposite though.

>>181914207
exit game, reload last save

thats the 'fix'

>>181915310
Not it's not. Assuming anon just unchecked the dlc, rulers will now show up randomly.

>>181914207
Save and restart.

What causes it is a mystery.

>>181915398
>>181915382
fug
i already disabled like 305 mods and now my soldiers are all missing legs, torsos and shit

i can't remember what i had

>>181915261
The first overwatch is guaranteed, so the chance is 0.5^3=12.5% multiplied with the first three hit chances.

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>tfw you're having too much fun killing wave after wave of ayys to leave the mission

If aliens invaded tomorrow and established dominance over Earth, BUT they also made anime illegal, would you still join XCOM?

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Is there any better feeling than successfully killing 5 ayys in a single ambush?

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>>181916964

>>181916964
Xcom doesn't take fatties or the mentally disabled

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>>181908279
>>181903065
apparently lw2 is working, it just ruined my campaign.

>>181916963
Tfw longdong 2 forces you to stealth and avoid enemies and robs you from the fun of xcom

>>181917463
Not anymore.

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>3 am
>work tomorrow
>just about to stop playing
>UFO event triggers

God fucking dammit

What was the state of Long War EW? Worth a playthrough?

When is a good time to begin the missions to get SPARKS and start fucking with the Ayy lmao rulers? Once you get Magnetic weapons and armor?

>Install mod that brings over EW health/armor system
>Second mission a rookie eats a shot that leaves him with 1hp
>For 33 days

Did I make a mistake getting this mod?

>>181919930
>When is a good time to begin the missions to get SPARKS
When you get bluescreen so the mission is faceroll and can be farmed for experience see >>181852159

>start fucking with the Ayy lmao rulers?
I generally start dealing with them when coil comes around but Mag is good enough to deal with the first 2 rulers.

Any weapon mods that fit XCOM 2's setting? All of these other weapon mods that put in M16s, AKs, etc just break the immersion for me.

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>>181920631
Spart's Kitbashes: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=693945557

XCOM:EU T1 Ports: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=699275116

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Is there a mod that makes these armors not a joke?

>>181921859
Don't you like Halloween costumes?

>>181921859
You're skinning your enemies and wearing their skin as an outfit. You went past joke and right to crazy person.

>>181921740
My bad. I should have mentioned I'm playing LW2. Spart's Carbines don't work on LW2.

goddamit my luck during the last mission was such a shit.
>me: keep positioning my troops and use various gadgets to maximise offense and defense
>ayys: lol lets hide behind low cover and take shots with <30% chance to hit
>2 of my men were killed and 1 was knocked unconcsious all expect a sniper wounded.
>ayys kept hitting through high cover, smoke, flash, etc.
>I barely hit anything at >80% chance and had to use up a large amount of nades to clear any pods.
I hate it when the rng decides to fuck up my mission.

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Shhh. Mr. Pectoid is sleeping.

Wish him a goodnight /xcg/.

>>181922272
My hacker has literally never succeeded in a hack. It doesn't matter if it's 30% or 85%, she fails every single one. She's cursed

>>181922610
Goodgains Mr. Pectoid!

>>181900632
>Xenonauts

I can admit, I suck at this kind of games. But that game just seemed unnecessarily difficult. Did it ever start getting better or just painful progress all the way?

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>>181922610
Accurate?

>>181922661
I had a soldier who was constantly targeted by every one
even when there was someone else in worse cover the ayys kept shooting him
on the other hand he barely ever got hit so at least he didn't die easily

>>181921859
Leave the helmets off and change the colours. Makes them look about a hundred times better.

>>181923312
fug my sides

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Kinda wish there was on with this for the Jump Suit.

>>181899745
Tbh, I would prefer a real rocket launcher a la xcom EW over this hand mounted shit.

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>>181921859
>>181923618

And this for the Berserker one.

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>>181923618
>Kinda wish there was on with this for the Jump Suit.

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>>181923740

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>>181923618
>>181923740
>on

mod*

>>181923659

Same here.

>>181923312
accurate/ten

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>That moment when you have enough detection reduction when you can stand next to enemies

>>181924532
The only reason is that you have your fat human cock out and the snake lady is too distracted.

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Bitch deployed, Commander.

>>181925057
She looks like she beds with Snek everynight.

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>>181925057

What emotion is her face trying to convey?

>>181925487
looks like a new form of L U S T

>>181925487
>One can just get game

>>181810608
>can like just get game

>>181925487
>one can just get game

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ayy

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>>181925818
lmao

>americans will be riseing soon

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fitting place for a t1 item

>>181922184
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=928300658&searchtext=Battle+rifle
Just some ini tweak and you got also a good for cannon

How are you supposed to get corpses in LW2? Everything has been an evac mission. I've killed like 40 trooper types and have only had 2 corpses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUW2a3yoUHM

>>181926812
Supply raids or grab the extract corpses mod

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>>181926447
Nice. Downloading now.
>>181926812
Look for "Full Salvage" in the mission's description--it's where you find info on the turn timer. Ultimately you'll want to look out for supply raids.

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I never liked Bioshock

>>181926924
>>181926936

Alright, thanks. Haven't had a supply raid yet. Kind of annoying as I rendered one trooper corpse for the alloys to research lasers but now I need the trooper corpse to get alloy padding in the proving grounds.

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Man, gotta love when the mission name mods give you a banger.

>>181926893

>I'll spare you the de-tails

Central forgot how to speak english

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>Fog of War turns off in overwatch
God help me

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>>181927108
I know that feel

>>181927414
There better be an abnormally high tier enemy that appears on that mission

>>181927551

*devastates behind you*

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>>181927337
It's about that time.

>>181927337
Nothing a few nades cant solve

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Plantin the dank shit

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I know this is objectively the best thing to counter but damn I dont want too

>getting to the end of june and still haven't liberated a region
vulture is literally keeping this campaign alive desu, hopefully i can rush through the lib chain in a fresh region soon

>>181928957
DO IT

why the FUCK does 4chan never remember that i want to auto-update threads? i've set it 5 times in the settings and it forgets daily. i don't have cookies disabled or anything.

>>181928957

You can just ignore that event and then hit the facility that the progress is added to.

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kill all sneks

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=961800020
Only took an entire year for someone to start porting the good stuff.

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>stun lancers

why is xcom EU/EW soundtrack so damn comfy, X2 becomes a lot better with it too

ayy

why in the future every weapon is mclargehuge?

>>181932131
so you can kill mclargehuge ayys with them

>>181932131
I really want to know what caliber the assault rifle uses

>15 days to research coilguns
>get double insight
>3 days

Fuck Insight and Satellite data are gamechanging

>>181932360
>Insight and Satellite data

What mod?

>>181932412
Objective Hacking rewards.

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>>181929676
But if you kill all sneks then how will you use sneks to kill sneks.

>tfw you finally get the absolutely fuck the Viper King on his first appearance.

>>181932480
snaks are cute
how do i get snak gf?

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>>181932561
You must make a sacrifice to the snek gods.

And then get the playable aliens mod.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=847605822

>>181932453
Literally never seen them pop up.

>spotted flanked enemy

FUCK

OFF

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>>181933374
>it's your sharpshooter / specialist

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>no tnx again

>>181933659
>watching wrestling in 2017

>>181933775
>2017
>not watching wrestling

what are you? some kind of homo?

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anyway to bulk delete saves?
i have around 170 and it takes ages to open up the save/load screen.

inb4 le epic savescummer

>>181934283
delete them from my documents you moron

>>181934456
How would he be able to access your documents?
Yes, I know what you meant. I'm olny pretending to be a retard.

daily reminder the advent did literally nothing wrong

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does anyone have a pic similar to this one, captioned "exalt dances to schubert" with some glitched out exalt corpses in the background?

>>181934283
>That one Franken Fran chapter where a girl uses plastic surgery to look like an anime girl, but when she wants to have sex with her boyfriend her body starts to fall apart and he thinks he's being abducted by aliens.

>>181934653
except have the girl I loved end up being a faceless

>>181936128
There is just more of her to love and now she can be any girl.

You're still out ahead of the pack, anon, and it is all thanks to Advent.

>>181936128
She can be anything and anyone now though. She's become the perfectly girl made out of jello from this point onwards.

>>181937204
>>181936931
But I'm afraid to have sex with her. I've heard stories man, ADVENT uses them like black widows to harvest genetic material.

>>181937735
If you're gonna die, die with your dick out.

>>181937735
If she's truly the girl you love is it not a risk worth taking? If your love was meant to be you'll be happy together forever. If not you can enjoy your new life as a burger.

>>181937735
Trust me, if ADVENT wanted your genes, you'd wake up in a tube, and you'd be the one turning into jello, not your gf.

>no helmets to make the rage suit look better
>had to mod in a helmet for snek suit

Icharus armor looks great but god damn why don't they make the ruler armors customizable/moddable?

>>181938353
>can't find mod helmet for rage suit

dumb wordposter

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=763045721

>>181938353
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=763045721&searchtext=rage

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>ranger gets panicked
>breaks a window and shoot the sectoid
>critical

Your daily reminder that long dong 2 is still a mess

>>181940981
but pretty fun mess

>>181938353
>>no helmets to make the rage suit look better

I always give a soldier who wears that suit that autistic metal mask with horns from AC dlc, looks breddy gud

>>181940981
your daily reminder is really not

only issue is the lack of documentation

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Do these all seem a bit shit? I've built her for suppression and overwatching. She has lockdown and an elite elite hair trigger. I've heard demolition is utter shit, which should I pick?

>>181942604
>demolition
>utter shit
lol `

>>181943040
I fell for the demolition is shit meme didn't I

>>181943102
Demolition is fantastic in LW2, just not vanilla.

>>181943196

Fuck. I already took chain shot since I figured she has decent enough aim to be able to hit some faggy big alien that they loved to spam in LW1. Oh well. I have the AWC, so it might be worth it. Thanks anyway.

>>181943359
Chain shot isn't bad either, not every gunner needs to take demolition, but yeah, certainly consider it in your future endeavors.

A nice thing you can do with average to low aim gunners is make them ability gunnners, so stuff like flush, hail of bullets, demolition, etc. The idea compensating there lower aim for cooldown abilities that have guaranteed effects, and in the mean tim when the the abilities are down, they can suppress targets. Last I checked, it's bretty gud.
But if you have a high aim gunner, building them to just smack ayys with their GIANT cannon is a good route too, especially as their aim goes up and you get some scopes for them.

>>181943359
Chain shot is still pretty good, if somewhat unreliable. If you're using demolition I'd edit the ini to reduce the ammo usage a bit, they went too far trying to nerf it.

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>>181929893

How come advent seems to crit almost all the time? The few times I manage to get hit by them they almost always crit. Fuck is going on lads?

>>181944190
advent burgers

Guys, I'm playing LW2 and just finished getting the Spark, and yet haven't researched the Advent Officer corpse yet (Where the fuck am I supposed to get those cunts, every mission is a fucking evac?), how fucked am I?

>>181944190
If they have a 10% chance to hit and a 10% chance to crit then every hit will be a crit guaranteed
There's mods to change this

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>boot PC this morning
>get select proper boot device prompt
>worry my SSD is dying
>think of the rookies
>turns out just needed to reset BIOS

>>181947947
Usually you get one from gatecrasher so long as you don't blow him up.

>>181948163
Fug, don't remember here being one but I was a tad grenade happy.

>>181948021
Is that only when they have an exact 10% for both?

>>181948447
It's when their crit is equal to their hit chance.

>>181948447
hit and crit chance happen on the same roll as far as I can tell
I visualize the rolls as the Gremlin hack, where you can get a way larger number than the one you actually need, and that equates to getting a crit

>>181948447
No, they share the roll in the base game.

If a unit has 20% to hit 10% to crit and their resulting d100 roll is 20 or less; they effectively have a 50% crit chance. If the hit chance was 10% and the crit 10%, if they roll a hit it is effectively 100% to crit.

This phenomenon tends to benefit the enemy more than the player, simply because humans don't like taking 10-20% shots. I prefer the way it works in LW2 where the rolls are totally separate but dodge acts like negative crit.

>>181948670
>>181948698
>>181948847
Gotcha.

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>LW2 Commander difficulty
>keep losing
>figure maybe it's because I don't put units into coherent squads
>start playing around with squads a lot more
>all Shinobi team, team for rescues, team for relays etc
>make a team with 2 technicals, 2 grenadier and an assault
>they have acid/incen grenades and/or dragon and venom rounds
>hazmat suits too
>call it Purge Team
>best fucking team I ever made
>missions always flawless
>aliens panic at their attacks
>fuck your full cover, eat acid flames bitch
>structures crumble all around the ayys
>always burning so ayys can never fire back
>one of the technicals is a captain so the other units get bonuses
>cleansing the earth one ayy at a time

Godbless this squad, most fun i've had in a long time

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that was kinda fun i guess

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>use up all my nades
>reinforcements come in
>first MEC encounter

>play ironman
>savescum

help

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>>181950492
if they didnt want you to savescum in ironman they should have disabled alt+f4

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>>181949872
This is the ONLY thing I liked about stealth missions when they were still practical.

>>181951058
Its worse than that, i am truly a criminal. I keep backups of all my saves outside of the save folder

>>181951058
>disabling user commands
that's what malware does.

should i hold off on doing the Lost Towers and Alien Nest missions? Im new to the two DLCs and not sure what to expect + on ironman.

>>181950492
Why even play on ironman then?

>>181951758
yes

>>181951758

You can do the towers one when you have magnetic weapons and predator armour easily enough. The other one should be avoided at all costs unless you want an actual challenge.

uh? did beagle skip tnx AGAIN yesterday?

Can I disable Anarchy's Children DLC mid-campaign, or will it fuck some things up?

I just upgraded to tier 2 armor and despite my options for Anarchy's Children being at 0%, about half of my troopers now have Anarchy's Children props and they look absolutely retarded.

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>>181951882
If the Alien Nest mission is so hard why do they have it spawn so early in the game?

>>181952913
For masochists

>>181952778
You should be ok if you unbind the missing content with the one mod, but if your save is important I'd just deal with it

>>181952913
For people who don't know so Jake can drink their tears.

>>181951882
>The other one should be avoided at all costs unless you want an actual challenge.

The Rulers aren't even that hard, you pussy. Archon King is the only one that should cause you any trouble.

>>181952913

The mission isn't hard, the first two rulers aren't hard. But god have mercy on your poor soul if you fight the third ruler unprepared.

>>181953049
>You should be ok if you unbind the missing content with the one mod
Which mod is this? I really want to uninstall Anarchy's Children.

>>181953779
remove missing mods

>>181927414
You better have had a team of nothing but sneaky Australian Rangers.

So how hard is LW2?

Like, if I'm a baby should I download some of these "A Better..." mods to make the game easier?

Note: I really dislike losing a soldier, ever. So yes that big of a baby.

>>181954120
Most of the time in LW2 your best soldiers don't die just sit in the base waiting for 30 days to go back in the field, so half of your team is throwing squadies because 1 damage is 10 days.

>>181954120
Wounds really suck until AWC is up, but it's not too bad.

>>181953903
Thanks anon. I got it sorted and everything seems to work fine. No more ugly as sin troopers looking like they just got back from protesting at a Portland LGBTQ event.

>>181954626
>>181954714
I guess I can deal with that. I get really attached to my soldiers, so I don't really want to play if it just throwing them into a meat grinder.

>>181954926
Just make them in the character pool so they can get reincarnated throughout playthrough.

>>181955095
It's not the same.

>Not lovingly hand crafting each soldier each playthrough.

What do guys think of the "Make Heals Persist" mod?
Personally I never liked the fact that just getting burned or poisoned for a couple of turns could send someone to the infirmary for 2 weeks, but it also means your soldiers can shrug off gunshot wounds without care

>>181956329
You are probably better off with the wound recallibration mod, or maybe something that brings back the armor health from LW1.

>>181899897
>First time playing LW2
>Think i can just jump into battle just like vanilla
>get completely fucked on my SECOND FUCKING MISSION
After that i got mad, then i actually read what i had to do

Is there anywhere I can see the equipment/abilities that the LW2 aliens have?

>>181951793
I enjiy playing methodically and carefully and doing everything right. The thing is with out iron man i would be saving and reloading every single turn, untill each goes perfect. The idea of ironman is to punish when you mess up and make you think careful, the issue is xcom is RNG bullshit, especially early game when youve only got 4-5 hitpoints and some grenades.

So herei am.

>>181956329
>>181956501

There is the "it's just a scratch" mod or something, that makes it so soldiers only get wounded when they take damage to their original health, so if a soldier started with 4 health but ends the campaign with 20 health and armor, he only gets wounded if his health drops below 4. Or something like that.

>>181957583
Sounds reasonable, but any way to change it so that it calculates based on the soldier's current base health?
Like, a soldier has 10 HP and armor adds 6, so dropping below 10 would acquire injury time

>>181957851

I don't remember exactly how it works to be honest, maybe that is how it works. I dunno, look it up.

graze!

>>181960184
BIG BLACK DODGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCVj-rFXqUo

I swear to god, the more Xcom Files I play - the more the death screams are starting to sound like orgasm cries.

Something is very, very wrong with me.

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I'm playing LW 1.0 and I've got a big hole in my gameplay. I know the whole idea is to minimize the amount of groups you're dealing with at once by inching into the fog of war, but I never know how to deal with a straight forward firefight when it comes up. Like, if I try to flank I could run into more enemies. Do I just have to rely on grenades to get the job done? I'm specifically talking about rookie squads mostly.

How often do supply raids happen in LW2? Can I influence it at all?

>>181962798
Use motion scanners to gain intel on when it is safe to advance, or if you are risking activating a pod.

>>181948847
What happens if my Crit chance is higher than my hit chance? My ranger always has 95% crit while flanking at maximum shotgun range, 105% at close range.
Or 120% while flanking in concealment at max range, 135% while flanking in concealment at close range. Is there a benefit to going over 100% with Crit chance? Even if hit chance is only 75% for example?

>>181962854
ADVENT moves supplies and troops into regions to bolster and increase the strength of their forces in the region. There's no direct means of making them spawn, but a general rule is they will respond to your aggression. Sometimes your network detects a supply convoy or troop movement and those are the missions you see.

>>181963251
Above 100% means nothing in the base game.

>>181963251

Some enemies have reduced chance to be crit, that's the only time going overcap is useful.

>>181963667
Said enemies are often hardened because they can't take cover and have lots of HP. It has its moments.

At least I can still get a 95% Crit against enemies that can't be flanked

>25% Superior Laser Sight, Close Range
>25% Shadowstrike
>25% Talon Rounds
>20% Storm Gun

Is psi operative really that OP?

are building workshops in the middle slots worth it?

>>181965219
I do it every time.

>>181965214
Yes

>>181965214
Yes. Imagine having a character that has an ability for literally every situation, to the point where you have difficulty even choosing which one to use for this turn.

Other classes have abilities that are useful in specific situations with specific setups. Psi-operatives are ALWAYS useful.
Domination is not only good for giving you an extra man during your fight, but you can also use it as basically an even better pre-nerf mimic beacon.
Stuck in a shitty situation with no way to kill off a tough pod in one turn? Just throw the andromedon you dominated out into the open.

Enemies grouped up? Void rift them, which casts insanity on most of them, which also ruptures them. You probably mind controlled 1 or 2 guys in the process.

Enemies lined up? Null Lance will fucking wreck them all.

Need to remove some cover but your grenadiers are out of nades? Fuze.

One of your dudes got mind controlled by an avatar? Solace.

Need to finish off that low health enemy in full cover? Soul fire.

1 turn left to get the objective, but no way to for the soldier to do it AND survive? Put him in stasis after he does it.

1 really tough enemy that you just don't have the means of killing in this turn? Just put that sectopod/gatekeeper/avatar into Stasis, deal with the rest of the enemies for this turn.

>liberated region defense
>rescue 3 civvies
>counter doesnt go up
>advent kill 2 civvies
>2/10 dead

How the fuck does this work???

>>181967826
Don't you have to control them to the evac now? You activate them by walking in the circle and then walk them to the evac like an escort mission IIRC

>>181968356
These ones just disappear like old civvies

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>unlock predator armor
>all my soldiers turn into retarded looking mad-max freaks

this DLC was a mistake

>>181967826
You have to evac the rescued ones

>>181969029
It's not the dlc, Predator just looks godawful in general.

>>181969029
Anarchy's Children has a slider in settings that reduces the frequency of choosing its cosmetics at random (all the way down to 0 I assume)

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>don't care for LW 2 but want something more than vanilla
>dl A Better Advent
>breddy fun and more diverse
>landed UFO
>sneaky sneak all the way to the UFO
>pop the door open
>new sneks called Boa
>a pod of mutons outside UFO
>close door to take care of mutton first
>"Ha ha! Time to kill snek!"
>line everyone up by the doors
>next turn
>"Alright, lets do this"
>poppan door
>four successfull reaction tounge-and-hug jobs later
THE MANUAL MADE NO MENTION OF THIS, BRADFORD!

I wiped out everyone and everything, but everyone spent their vacation days in the hospital. The highlight was my MVP SPARK with its Sacrifice ability, thank fuck for seven armor.

>>181957546
the wiki

The Freeman's Mind voicepack is so obnoxiously charming. It adds just the right amount of comedic relief that this game needs.

>Miss a 95% shot
>"Oh man, this is gonna be a loooooong day."

>Get shot
>Ow! Jesus Christ, you shot me in the ear!

>>181971252
I fucking love that voicepack. I use that for my self-insert soldier to maximize the autism.

If only LW2 had better documentation. There's a core of an interesting dynamic in their liberation priority idea.

It's too bad it's overwrought and the UI can't handle it and all the things you need to know aren't taught to you outside of terrible screechy YouTube videos.

>>181971397
>having a self-insert

>>181971397
In my current campaign I have a Gordon conditioning program. There is always one Gordon. When a Gordon dies, the next highest ranking Ranger is called into the Commander's office. He/she emerges as Gordon Freeman. I'm at Freeman the Fourth now. Every single Gordon has died via Lancer Crit, I think it's a curse

>>181971748
Why not. Dying in xcom is fun.

>>181971252
Yeah, I always have a Freeman in my character pool using it.

>>181971857
It's that fucking stun baton cunt from the start of HL2 reincarnated.

Shoulda picked up that can fucko.

>>181971748
gotta be successful in some life

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>>181972229
FUCK

>>181971252
>Freeman uses flamethrower
>"YOU'RE THE REASON WE HAVE NAPALM"

Love that voice pack

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Are Talon Rounds a Passive to all shots or do I have to specifically load them or something?

>>181972905

All ammo types are passive as long as they are equipped.

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>SPARK marching up to Advent Sentinel
>85% to hit
>activateit.exe
>prepare to shoot the cunt
>Oh right, the fucker fires first
>he miss
>"Oh just stop it" in GLaDOS voice
>proceeds to crit the bastard

>>181973052
I kinda want SPARKs now after reading this. I never even thought of voicepacks. Is the DLC worth it?

>>181973256
You need mods or war of the chosen to make SPARKS worthwhile past the early game, but yes, I'd say they're worth it.

>cunt lancer runs up to a grenadier
>spots my concealed but overwatched shinobi
>makes it into melee range of my gren
>gets gunned down when he spots the shinobi

heh...

>>181972229
I threw it back in his face.

LOCK ME UP

>>181972992
Holy shit that sounds powerful as fuck

>>181971252
It's the best voicepack.
It really makes me want to learn modding so I can port it to EU/EW

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>>181973678
>muton centurion decides to spend his remaining 2 health on a suicide mission
>bayonet charges my shinobi
>combatives procs and muton is hit for 11

Nothin' personal kid.

>>181974487
JC Denton either competes for first or is a close second.

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WHERE ARE MY TOTAL CONVERSION MODS, /xcg/


WHERE IS MY FANTASY TOTAL OVERHAUL

WHERE ARE THE GAME RESKINS TO REMAKE GAMES OF OTHER SCI-FI FRANCHISES

WHERE

WHERE

>>181974767
>Fantasy total overhaul
You mean Dragonpunk? Idunno, ask those guys.

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>>181975069
That's more like Shadowrun than anything else.

I was thinking of an actual mod set in a high fantasy setting. I guess some thing are not meant to be.

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vocaroo.com/i/s03bmGxDdpG2

>>181974767
I would like to see a Starship Troopers Mod for XCOM.

>>181975552
rip headphone users

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>>181975552
>Trying to civilize africa was a mistake

so sneks ever not go for bind if you leave a soldier in range and in cover in lw2?

>>181976125
they like to spit poison like the little shits they are

>>181974403
A.P. rounds are the only reasonable way to fight MECs without a specialist early game

>>181976271
i know they'll do that, but every time this campaign that i've left a soldier within range of a blue move bind they've done it, no matter how suicidal the move is. trading one ablative for a bunch of flank shots on a viper seems pretty good

>>181976503
Usually they just shoot at me. Maybe they consider my high health and armored soldiers too dangerous?

>>181976654
could be, i'm still only halfway through rolling out predator armor

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>Hong Kong
>China

>>181969448
This is only partially true. The slider for Anarchy's Children only applies to recruited and acquired soldiers, not cosmetic changes upon unlocking new armor. Even with the slider set to 0 soldiers will still have the apparel equipped upon upgrading their armor.

>>181969029
I recently posted about the same issue that was bothering me, and I solved it. Are you playing with LW2 by chance? If not, it's much easier to solve.

>>181977160
the way things are going they probably will annex hong kong by 2015

>>181977243
???

>>181977243
hong kong set off a dirty bomb you know you want to

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>train map, extremely light, hack box
>mind raping ayys with newly trained psi ops
>dash sergeant inside train
>activates another pod on the other side
>sergeants got cover he should be f-
>"They're moving to flank us!"
>what.jpg
>lose the guy to buggy cover
I guess that's fucking xcom 2 baby

>>181973256
Until the expansion pack comes out (less than 7 weeks now) SPARK units are fun to play with but not all that powerful past tier 1. I still use them because they're fun as hell with some great abilities, but they're a bit under powered in late game.

The upcoming expansion pack is giving them a pretty good buff though, or so I hear.

>>181977462
>he doesnt know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUW2a3yoUHM

>>181977863
This was already posted two threads ago, but thanks anyway. Don't know why the OP hasn't been updated with the new trailers.

>>181978073
I usually post a big post after the OP with all the post-release info including vids and interviews but I felt it was a bit spammy. I should pastebin it and someone can put it in the OP but with how often stuff comes out it seems redundant.

>>181978073
Because nobody makes a new thread until the last one is about to collapse.

LW2 1.2 was never displayed at all for weeks, it said 1.1 was out until 1.3 dropped.

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Knock off Cortana has a nice butt

>>181978330

what does it smell like

>>181899745
OP image has a soldier staring directly into that sectoid's ass.

That's quite the screenshot.

>>181978453
Magic smoke

>>181978453
beaver butt (vanilla)

>>181978330
That's the female body mesh with effects added, and I agree

>>181975552
SPREAD EAGLE
CROSS
THE
BLOCK

Am I the only one who leaves Anarchy's Children completely uninstalled? I wish I hadn't bought the Reinforcements Pack which includes AC since I never have it installed.

No idea whose idea it was to create that cosmetic pack, but it's shit.

>>181979554
>>181975552
Unrelated, but related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_RoLSSRe5Y

>>181980235
I kept it installed for the occasional swimsuit mission for like a year, but it's unchecked now.

>>181980235
>Hating mad max.

This general is shit.

>>181980235
>Am I the only one who leaves Anarchy's Children completely uninstalled?
No, but that's probably rare. There are some pretty solid cosmetic items in there.

>>181980235
On occasion I need a fella to start screaming incoherently while dressed like Lord Humongous. I need AC for that.

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>>181980235

>not liking the samurai masks

I don't even know what those are from desu

>>181980508
Yeah, but I hate upgrading my armor and getting randomly assigned cosmetic items on all my soldiers. Even with the slider in the options menu at 0% it doesn't adhere to that slider when upgrading to a new armor tier.

>>181980686
>Yeah, but I hate upgrading my armor and getting randomly assigned cosmetic items on all my soldiers
It does this if you have cosmetic armor mods as well. It's completely unrelated to Anarchy's children, it's just how the game assigns armor when you change tiers.

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>stab psychic relay for barely half its health
>blows up anyway

well Im not going to complain about it, but...

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>tfw no null lance

this will never happen again will it

>>181980845
You destroyed the floor

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>>181980895

>>181980843
And I'm pretty sure there is a mod that fixes it by making that when you upgrade to a new armour tier it defaults to the 0 values.

>>181981250
Link? I think everyone would like this mod.

>>181980843
Yeah that's my whole point. I'm totally okay with the game randomly assigning apparel from CapnBubs Accessories Pack and the vanilla assets because it fits the themes of the game world. The same can not be said for my demolitions grenadier trooper putting on a halter top, spiked pauldrons, and leather pants. It's just stupid.

>>181981528
Just sayin', as a person with a lot of armor mods, there is a ton of stuff I don't want randomly assigned, because not everything goes together. But I would never give up my armor mods over this annoyance.

>>181980235
I have installed and put the slider at like 10%, because I want my soldiers to wear normal shit with the occasional swag item, rather than look full retard

>>181980364
there is nothing quite as good as wehraboo tears

>>181980895
You'd be surprised. I always get at least 2 enemies per mission with null Lance.

What's a good build order for beginning vanilla X2 geoscape? I never know what I should build first and second.

>>181982565
awc and guerilla

>>181980235
I set the slider to zero and then go nuts with making my troops look like idiots. AC really helps with it.

>>181982696
Is the AWC really that useful outside of reducing heal time? It's main feature judging by the description is the ability for troops to get abilities outside of their given class, but I've had that happen very very rarely in the past.

>>181983434
heal time alone makes it needed

>>181983434
You won't mind the costs when your A team is out for a week instead of two weeks.

Is there a way to have all the tactical level additions from Long War 2, but without the strategic geoscape level overhaul? I really like the new classes, new enemies, weapons, etc; but I hate the infiltration, haven, and overhauled meta.

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>>181899745
continue for next thread

>>181981360
Hmm, I'm pretty sure it is "Mod Config Menu" that offers the option.

>>181983434
get the mod that makes the special ability gain retroactive, it should honestly be that way by default

How many OW shots on average does a spec with Guardian get in vanilla? How does it compare to Sentinel or Rapid Reaction from LW2?

Do you guys use workshops in vanilla X2? Seems like it's quite an investment for doing literally nothing but providing you an extra two engineers. Can't you just buy an additional two human engineers with supply and intel?

There must be something I'm missing here.

I wish I could put off the Advent project inevitably. I'm having too much fun just bodying gatekeepers and sectopod with my indestructible team of super soldiers.

>>181985025

>staff workshop with 2 engineers
>get 4 engineers out of it for the adjacent buildings

saves having to use humans in the adjacent buildings when the robots can do it for you, allows you to use the humans on more useful stuff

>>181984401
You can't have one without the other