/xcg/ - XCOM General

pistols are useful

The only embrace that vipers deserve are the warm embraces of death and napalm

Post your LW2 victory screens, I'm curious to see how the stats compare to a legend campaign.

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>1 elerium core for plasma grenade

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I want to rape Shen! She's so cute!

>>182102739
she's really fairly plain-to-ugly

Is there any scans of the concept art book? I can't seem to find any

>>182102739
I want to replace her with Julian

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>>182103037
Dont drag me into this.

>>182103236
I'd also replace Tygan with Bubbles and Bradford with Ricky given the choice.

They'll probably be more useful.

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can anyone put this up on mediafire, zippyshare or something similar? the creator took it off SKYMODS for some reason. all you have to do is subscribe to it, find the folder in steamapps, and upload it.

i can give you like $5 of ETH or BTC as a reward, just post your wallet with the link and which one you want

With WotC, we can have a squad consisting of one SPARK, one Psi trooper, one Skirmisher, one Templar, one Reaper, and one other.

What shall be the other?

>>182103024
None of us who own it are willing to cut it up to provide scans, no

>>182103496
Bradford.

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alright lads i'm scared with this magnificence

>>182103454
>Someone used 3d software to model a testicle

>>182103420
>alarm blares, commander is called up to the bridge
>"'bout frickin' time you got here. The aliens are wrecking shit in Your Gay-i-stan or where ever the fuck"
>someone on the bridge corrects him and tells him the country is called Uruguay
>"Did I ask for your up onion, asshole? Shut the fuck up!"

>>182103831
>not wanting a pulsating, bouncing scrotum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNy6_kRklYc

>Hate Long War.

>Want a longer war.

Sigh.

>>182104776
Learn .ini editing.

>>182102739
>Needs corpses to make items.

I don't think she is an engineer at all, I think she takes what you give her and then sells it on the grey market to buy the gear.

Anyone know a fix or the cause of the instant Mag weapon research bug?

>>182105424
She needs raw material

Could the Commander beFemale?

>>182106584
Commander is a girl (male)

>>182103847
>"Man-Ass 15 your objection is to steal some shit from a train station"

>>182106584
I have some voice pack that has one of my soldiers refering to the commander as female all the time.

So probably yes.

>>182107547
how so? "ma'am" and such?

>>182106584
I self insert as a female commander

>>182107675
Yeah if I remember correcly I know she says something like "Yes maam, commander maam:

Sarcastically and shit.

>>182107795
I'll self insert into your female commander

>>182107836
It's the ME Jack voice pack I think, but...how does a mod prove anything?

>>182107010
>new alien unit appears
>Ricky over the comms:
>"WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THAT UGLY COCK WHORE? SHOOT THIS FUCKHEAD BEFORE HE BREAKS SOME SHIT."

How do I mod LW2 rockets so someone doesn't accidently behind them because their aim is so shitty?

>>182103454
Looks like moonman alien

what are some good weapon mods on the workshop? Also, are they actually unique weapons or just skins?

>>182108382
I'm pretty sure commander shepard and the commander from xcom are the same person.

>>182109494
I don't know, they may have the same first name but without knowing xcom's last name there's no way to be sure.

lewd mods?

>>182109820

commander xcom

You always get alien ruler corpses even if you blow them up right?

>get the bonus for instant proving grounds projects
>buy three ammo types
>Bugged and I don't get anything
>Ironman

Awesome.

>>182110972
yes

>>182110972
Not even lump would take away ruler corpses

>>182111171
Not even in your inventory?

>>182109041
Try not moving before shooting and taking fire in the hole

>Graze
>Graze
>Graze

Who thought this was a good mechanic?

>>182112178
Nope. When I click "ok" on the notification that pops up, I get a zoomed out proving grounds menu and nothing else.

Do you prefer Perception or Agility PCS for your sharpshooters?

>>182113305
Anything to improve sight is useful for Sharpshooters, Agility is more for Rangers

fuck LW2's never ending stream of unimportant side missions DESU

Death From Above is amazing skill in LW2. Anyone know how it holds up in Vanilla for a sniper focused sharp? Doesn't seem as powerful since it doesn't negate squadsight aim penalty and no steady weapon.

>>182112874
>Complains about a mechanic, but doesn't just go to the options menu to disable it.

>>182114495
Sharpshooters suck in vanilla. Anything that isn't grenadier sucks in vanilla.

>>182114918
>gunslingers suck
>rangers suck

>>182115206
if you compare them to a grenadier, they do

>>182115289
The grenade meme has gone too far.

>>182115515
oh but young rookie, the grenade meme is no meme at all

the grenade is the source of xcom's strength
with no grenades, xcom is nothing

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Bitch deployed, Commander.

every class sucks

So what's the word on the new DLC? Are we getting Ayys on our team now or something?

Carrying corpses is my favourite new cheat, with pickable Hunter Axe as a close second.

Also, how can I reduce memory leaking?

>>182116169
big cosmetic packs can do that

>>182116105
Apparently without their brain chips, the ADVENT can rebel.

>>182114918
>psiops exist
>Rapidfire ranger with shotgun
>gunslinger
>sectopod hack

Grenadiers are easy to reach full potential but saying everything else sucks is quite an exaggeration.

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>>182007824
>mfw when the first one popped out and proceded to fuck my shit up majorly
fuck that god damn thing and whoever thought it was a good idea

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>[insert remark about "shinobi" and how the name could be better]
:^)

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>>182123756
>not nicknaming your shinobi "shinobi" to double trigger people

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Fuck you market.

>>182102490
>not buying volture

>another hot weekend in the UK

help

>>182128757
Is the UK an ayy heat ray testing site?

>>182128757
It's only like 77 in London today...

>>182129047
Fuck nows

>>182129831
Anon I am heat intolerant and the only drink around is hot tea

>>182129906
you should see arizona its 115 right now

>>182128757
I just moved to Kelowna BC from Fort McMurray AB and it's fucking 36°C here EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY I CAN'T HANDLE THIS FUCKING HEAT HOW DO PEOPLE LIVE HERE

>>182130159
there is no reason it should be that hot at 2am

>>182130159
"It's a dry heat"

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>>182130535

>>182130159
Why do people live there again?

>>182130880
well i live here for guns also the housing is really cheap

>>182130880
I'd rather live there than the Willamette Valley with my allergies. Fuck this place. Moving at the end of the month.

>>182130982
oh baby pollen town

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>tfw living in san diego
The government is crazy, but the eternal mild summer is so nice

>>182131115
this hey at least some of our shitting gun legislation is finally get some push back

>>182131115
I'm moving to a small town called Aliso Viejo in Southern California at the end of the month. I love it there, despite the shit CA gun laws and high cost of living.

>americans

why is this allowed?

>>182131268
do you want to be a state?

>>182131328
isn't it like 5 AM in the US right now?

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>>182131268
Freedom.

>>182131369
>the us only has 1 timezone

>>182131369
West coast it's only 2:17

>>182131369
It's 11 PM in Hawaii.

>>182131374
why is it that an american's response to anything is always "muh guns"?

>>182131413
makes sense

>>182131369
11:18 in Hawaii.

>>182131494
>>182131462
do you guys live in hawaii?

>>182131465
muh guns motha fucka

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>>182131465
Freedom is why.

How else will I fight off the ayy invasion Anon?

>>182131537
>>182131494

I do.

>>182131560
literally every reply i get from americans whenever their condition is brought up is "freedom" accompanied by various pictures of guns

it's very amusing desu

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>>182131560
>keymod

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>>182131560

What's this thing?

>>182131897
forward assist honestly they dont really need them

>>182132039
>>182131897
should have said what it does it pushes the bolt carrier forward to make sure the bolt is locked but usually if you have a malfunction the last thing you want to do is force the bolt closed

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>>182132039
>>182132173

I see, i always thought that Spark Rifles just had that thing because it looked cool, but now i know that it is because it looks cool.

>>182132297
oh neat nice catch i hadn't noticed that detail on their guns

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>>182131636
It's very amusing for us Americans too when we get to shoot our guns.

>>182131636
better than various pictures of ayyys

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>>182133431
but I love (bullying) ayys.

>LW2
>All ranger squads
>double move every round
>3 overwatch shots every round
fuck those enemies that can't be overwatched, it would be perfect

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Rate my white cis het male right wing fascist neo nazi

>>182134997
Was gonna call you a faggot for capping a girl instead of a bloke then I noticed the name
8/10 would lose my facebook page for him

>>182134997
Just because the general is dead doesn't mean you need to resort to t_d posting for (you)s

>>182134997
cute hat/10

>>182135112
thanks for your (you)

>>182134997
Needs a MAGA hat

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guys this is totally not a trap

>>182135702
i say spring the trap

>>182135702
It isn't. Traps are always detected extremely early.

anyone know if the new expansion will have new PCPs?

>>182136354
I hope it adds a hacking PCS.

>>182136192
oh this is an already 140% infiltrated mission that I just noticed it was an absolute trap.

and indeed it was, I evaced all my soldiers thankfully

>>182106584
it'd make sense

why else would bradford be some deep up your tits

>>182134767
getting an entire squad up to TSGT and available is hard, though

they're so useful i send one out on every mission

>>182134997
WARDEN GEAR GUY I HAVE A REQUEST

can you stretch out a t-shirt like this one on top of the warden gear

I don't know why but I think it'd look cool and hot

>>182136619
I still go for the trap mission, just stealth to the objective, pop flare and defend until evac arrives.

>>182137409
in my experience leveling monkeys in LW2 is easy, what is hard is having the squad you want at the time you need it, my roster is all people scattered around so I end up with missions with 2 SPARKs, a mission with no specialist, officers training 24/7 so never actually available for missions, and psi ops that are wounded for 30 days all the time.

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>>182137458

I actually thought about making a jacket and/or trench coat for the warden gear mod at one point, so i'm not going to say no, but i will say that i wont be making cosmetic mods in a while.

>>182138216
trenchcoats will be coming along with the slavs in the new expansion, gonna be pretty cool

>>182138318
What armour tier for, though? Kevlar is already well stocked with mod components.

>>182140590
don't care, I use uniforms manager, it overwrites any appearance, even ruler armors, with whatever appearance you saved previously.

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>try out the playable aliens mod
>do the "contact defector" research
>get a viper named Big Booty

>>182142691
DESTROY SNEK NO MERCY NO REMORSE

>>182140590
Pretty sure the armours are going to be unique to the hero classes and have their own (probably small) selection of customisations.

>>182142865
It's still possible that you could get some stuff for your average grunts.
I'm not the only one afraid that the new ubermen will render stock classes borderline useless and you will essentially replace standard guys with here units, just like you replace mag with plasma?

>>182143192
*hero

Just did a "protect the relay" mission without it taking damage and a flawless rating. Am I finally good?

Do you guys think "recon" (seeing meld through the fog) is "cheating" ?

I think its pretty silly that you have no idea where it is when you arrive but you know its there anyway, but I am not sure if its just how its meant to be played or not.

>>182143192
Well, they've said repeatedly that getting the new hero classes will require a lot of credit with the resistance factions, which is hard to amass because you get it via covert options and it is a pool that you spend on several things.

That plus their abilities being really expensive and levelled up from a universal pool and the new will mechanic acting as fatigue means I'm not particularly concerned - any point where you can run an all hero squad would already be you intentionally gimping your campaign past the point where you would have won anyway just to do so.

Guys, is there ANY way to get Officer corpses in LW2 after Gatecrashed but before researching the first one?

I posted this last thread but it's been several months since then and fucking nothing. Even when I get missions that seem like I can keep stuff, such as Haven missions, I still don't get to keep loot.

It's getting to the point where I'm getting Dark events happening and I can't fucking advance the plot/research shit.
Why can't bodies be loot like in OG X-COM with the ability to put them in my backpack?

>>182144407

You are asking why you cant put bodies in backpacks?

>>182144138
Not really cheating. You can only see it in half-fog, where you can see the map, covers, etc. but not enemies.
They also appear on motion trackers, anyway.

>>182144682
If I can carry ADVENT loot in pocket space and VIPs on my soldier's backs, why not dead guys who are of value?

>>182144832

carrying a body on your back is more sensible though

>>182144832
Get the Extract Corpses mod.

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How big is her boote?

>>182134997
What clothing mod is this

>>182135702
How do you tell if a mission is a trap or not?

>>182145169
The name is an old inside joke from a crazy as fuck 80's scifi movie, "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension"

>>182145272
- has more than 9 days remaining
-is either hack workstation or neutralize enemy VIP
-has 8 turns remaining at the start
-is in a region with strength 7 or more
-baseline activity says "very light" or "extremely light"

when you start the mission reinforcements drop at turn 2, then turn, then turn 3, then turn 4, then turn 5, etc... until every turn they're dropping 8+ enemies on you, the evac takes 4 turns to arrive and enemies have higher detection range than usual, basically if you attempt this the normal way you get buttraped.

>>182145595
Welp. Good to know that walking into a trap mission is what ended my last LW2 run.

>best squad going in for a quick cleanup
>take the high ground on top of a building while Shinobi scouts out
>SPOTTED
>suddenly 30 fucking enemies descending upon the building
>evac taking forever
>Objective: Survive
>7 soldiers dead
>1 gravely wounded
I just couldn't keep up after their deaths.

>>182126915
Not him but I need those damn supplies and vulture is 150, but yeah it's good.

>thread's nothing but shitposting during eurofag hours
Big surprise there.

>>182145197
resistance warrior pack DLC, trooper cadet hat from http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=650809111 and the headset from http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=650731226

if you have a stock on a character with a pistol, and you fire with the pistol and miss, do you still deal damage from the stock?

>>182148147
I don't think that addons do anything to secondary weapons, still I could be wrong .

>>182103496
Grenadier or specialist. Probably specialist.

You need the healing and nobody else provides it.

>Xcom 2 : just chill, make some contacts with some dudes, attack facilities when have the gear for it

>xcom 1 : WHAT DA FUKK WE ARE UNDER ATTACK, INTERCEPTORS INTERCEPTORS!! WTF

Is it a legit strategy to just focus on a couple of continents to cover with satellites and interceptors or you should always aim for full coverage?

>>182149423
In 1 you cover each continent first because then missions stop spawning on them.

>>182149423

you can avoid shitty continents like south america since their bonus is trash

asia's pretty shit too, all they do is give engineers really

as long as 8 countries don't leave and you can get the bonuses you want it doesn't really matter

>>182149423
Focus on one continent at a time and start with your own continent. You don't have to cover all countries to win.

>>182149774
Not true. Missions always start with a UFO landing you just don't see it without satelites.
If you see an abductor ship and don't shoot it down, it usually generates an alien abduction mission.
Same with terror ships and terror missions.

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>>182101695

>play with tactical suppressor mod
>overwatch ranger with killzone on a prison break exfil op
>rifle equipped with laser sight, hair trigger and elite suppressor
>have talon rounds equipped
>pod of 4 advent wanders into LOS
>ranger kills ALL of them and remains in concealment while my shinobi and specialist opens the prison and exfil the prisoner without even bringing enemies to yellow alert status

>>182150473
Oh, wait I was thinking about LW.

>>182150190
this type of advice gimped me and makes you lose the game

don't follow this advice

always push for more coverage, but make sure you've got satellites in excess to replace the odd ones that get shot down and plenty of interceptors.

Marbozir doing TftD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic3W0EG9JZE

>>182153824
how can beagle even compete

>>182142865
>Pretty sure the armours are going to be unique
Pretty sure they already said the cosmetics will be available on release, no mods necessary. Might still need a mod to have the armor permanently unlocked even when you haven't contacted the faction yet, but that's about it.

>>182149423
Go for full coverage, prioritize getting engineers whenever you can, DON'T lose the african bonus, and hold onto the base assault mission until you need a global panic reduction

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Wow... how informative...
So,how do I fix this ?

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One of the civilians in the retaliation mission was called William Williams.

>>182155174
>So,how do I fix this ?
Play game in english

After trying out LW2 for the first time, I just can't get over the infiltration system. It's lousy as a mechanic. Thinking of just getting all the LW2 mods, but I didn't really like any of the new enemies they added to the alien pack. Granted, I didn't get to late game, so I wanted to ask is it worth drudging through ten million scout drones to see anything cool?

>>182155528
I knew a guy named Will Williams.

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>>182157586
>LW2
>late game

>>182155528
Totally not an ADVENT spy.

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>>182119464
>mfw the first avatar I met teleported next to a car and got blaster bombed to death within a turn
I guess he was a half-baked prototype, after all...

>>182158421
>Greetings, fellow disgusting rebel! My name is Hue Mann! Can you remind me about all the secret plans to work against the glorious ADVENT regime?

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>>182155531
I would gladly do that (Taking into account the fact how these autists with 1C-CoфтКлaб fucked up with the voice acting.) But I spent too much time in Long War to turn back.

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>>182106287
>Needs a jello man to create a portable holographic device.

>>182134916
>Andromedans

Hey, wait a sec. If all advent units are human genetic goo then why do they have guys that breath poison gas and are dependant on giant mechanical suits?

>>182160154
Because they are Aliens anon.

>>182160154
They were engineered just to annoy the commander.

anyone know the stance of say importing a MEC into fallout 4 and vice versa as far as not getting sued either way?

>>182161182
I think a given is "As long as you aren't making money off of it".

>>182161182
>getting sued for mods
Mods are in this legal twilight zone that nobody seems to want to touch. Just as long as you don't charge for it...

>>182160154
Because they're not Advent, they're aliens.

Advent specifically refers only to the hybrid troops and the MECs (which are stolen human tech anyway)

Whats up with thin men in classic difficulty?

Do they have 100% aim?

Hits from any range to any cover.

>>182164992

>he thinks they only have 100 aim

>>182162597
Actually, given we know that there is some kind of Terror in the Deep, I wonder if Andromedons were a unit specifically deployed for deep sea combat/containment of it, that gets redeployed when XCOM becomes a real threat.

The gas mix etc that their biology was tailored for was never changed because they were to function in an airless environment anyway.

>>182167783

The creature inside does look fish like when you kill it and the suit rampages around.

>>182161182
Nexusmods doesn't allow ported content. I don't think steam workshop does either but I'm not 100% on that one

I wanna make a mod that makes everyone immune to critical hits from an attack that has a penalty from full cover. How do I start?

Is there a way to give myself experimental ammo?

I'm sure its one of my mods but I don't have anything that affects proving grounds, but I cannot build experimental ammunition. The game menu bugs out and I receive nothing for my time.

>>182170121
Console commands. Don't remember the exact command, just google it

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>>182167783

>Actually, given we know that there is some kind of Terror in the Deep
>everyone expecting some new enemy from the deep because of the ending
>yfw the purple magic thing was just to show the Elder's ghosts survived

is it ok to use ttc if a soldier is literally stuck inside cover and can't move to the evac zone

>>182170440
Well, there is a Terror, we're just assuming that it is from the Deep.

Someone infected the Elders with Space-AIDs and they are on the run from them.

>>182170672
Obviously

>>182170672
No you have to blow them up with a grenade to free them

>>182171461

I used all my grenades and the soldier only had 2hp.

I hope that in WotC they let you know the "Biosphere" of the map so I can autistically camo up accordingly.

>>182171572
Guess you're SHIT OUTTA LUCK

>Run ADVENT HQ mission with 3 people
>Read the pod placement code to find where to put my snipers
>Wait for hundreds of turns in the corner of the map
>Read pod job / patrol path code some more to figure out how to game the yellow alert AI
>Wait some more
>Wait another hundred turns
>Almost squadwipe a few times anyway
>Finally win after the enemies die of old age
>Look guys, I-I proved snipers are broken! They totally need to be nerfed now, right?
>I-if you don't, everyone will just copy me and it'll be too easy, r-right?

Fucking xwynns

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>>182172905
Is this real

>>182171605
Uniform manager does this, when on the "outfit squad" screen a box on the right hand side states the biome and area. For example, it can read as temperate and wilderness which means standard forest. Could read as arctic and shanty which means snow covered slums. Could be Arctic small town which means snowy small town. Also tells you time of day.

>>182169518
>doesn't allow ported content

nigga you wot. There's heaps of ports all over the workshop and nexus.

>>182173072
Sounds like xywnns to me, yeah.

>>182132297
>MISS!

>>182172905
Snipers are literally the only balanced class. You can build snipers from any of the trees and have something viable.

Good luck with your army of middle-tree Grenadiers or Assaults or Rangers though. Or the remarkably specific missions that make left-tree Technicals viable. And I know no one dumb enough to run middle-tree Specialists.

Gunners are 'balanced' by each tree being broken in its own way.

When should I do the first Alien Rulers mission and Shen mission? Laser or Mag?

>>182174814

Avoid alien rulers until you have OP soldiers with lots of non-% based damage like eplosives, and lots of ways to shut aliens down.

Shen's can be done with the first weapon and armor upgrades comfortably. It's not that hard, just have to play smart and bring bluescreen ammo.

I havent played since release.
How integral are the mech units the DLC adds? Should i be rushing that mission as soon as it unlocks to get a mech soldier or?

Also how does the timing of taking the mission change? Ive done the mission on my L/I a few months in but i fucked up badly the very next mission and am restarting now, wondering if i should do it as soon as it unlocks, and if the enemies on it are fixed or will it be harder for me to take on with a smaller less experienced team?

>>182177206
>ow integral are the mech units the DLC adds?
They are weaker than normal soldiers.

>>182177206
Holy fuck i just noticed the post two above mine asked essentially the same question.

Ill just as then, how good are SPARK units? I usualy ran 1 of each class + an extra grenadier as my standard. What to replace with a robot? Also it seems robots can heal other robots with a skill they get? How does running multiple spark units work out?

What are the strategies for doing this?

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>>182102169

>>182177306
Oh, should i just save the mission then till everything is easy and farm kills in it?

>>182177664
>Oh, should i just save the mission then till everything is easy and farm kills in it?
If you are just going for the win, yes

>>182177604
>that gif
>the snek is eternally twisting in one direction
>her snek vagina is going to become a corkscrew for duck benis if she keeps that up

>>182172905
He's the one who got demo and hail nerfed.

>>182177806
I wonder how a corkscrew/maze vagina feels.

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snek riding lift

>>182180217
One day they'll fix her animations. One day...

>>182177480
Not sure about vanilla, but they're pretty nice in long dong 2. Not only do they not need cover, they can provide high cover for your troops, so they're good for advancing and breaking enemy formations quickly. Really useful for hectic missions like retaliations.

The fact that they can deploy with wounds and repair in the field can also be really handy, and means it's not such a big deal when they get hit. You should try to smoke/aid protocol them if you're going to take a lot of fire, though.

>>182180217
Did you just bring that Viper along to see what the animation would be like? Do they work well against the bots?

>>182181543
Vipers can be overwatch goddesses or concealment queens. The former is good for the standoffs in this mission, and the latter is good anywhere for acting as a spotter.

>>182181543

Using playable aliens, it's pretty cool so far. Only have a viper as of now though.

Like said >>182182181 she was exceedingly good at holding off the mecs and she was immune to Julian's poison so could also take point against the turret waves too. She one shot everything with bluescreen ammo.

>>182182181
>>182182950
I really ought to try that mod on my next run.
>immune to Julian's poison
Oh yeah, I didn't think about that. Neat.

>>182184872
Some of their tricks are available in vanilla too, to psi troopers. Ever constrict an avatar before? They're easy pickings after that.

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>>182102169
>implying that Viper embraces are not a thing of beauty and cuteness

>>182185254

art of a viper in XCOM armor constricting the archon king when

>>182180217
Which mod lets you use the ayy lmaos?

>>182128757
It was almost 38 degrees Celsius in Kansas today. Working outside isn't very fun during the summer.

>>182130880
To show the arrogance of Mankind.

>>182185523
Fire is also a thing of beauty.

xcom mmofps when?

>>182187508
when you make it

>>182187508
XCOM S.T.A.L.K.E.R when?

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>>182186948
>not wanting to cuddle your Viper on a cold day so she stays warm with your heat

>>182187623
august

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>>182187861
Doesn't count

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>>182187754
>set viper on fire
>it stays warm for the rest of its life

>beserker attacks a civilian
>it misses

why are they so shit in 2 boys

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>>182182181
>>182182950
Yeah sneks aren't great soldiers or frontline fighters (barring high dodge) & their damage really falls off by the end game but they're fantastic at putting out overwatch shots or spotting.
MECs are the tanks SPARKs should have been and do real well at drawing fire & being artillery.
Sectoids are cheap & alright soldiers though their status effects and the ability to spawn zombies is what you want them for being a real force multiplier at high levels they'll be dishing out void rifts or lances as well as domination of 1 enemy per battle (unless you picked solace for some reason). Best high level ayy
Mutons are good soldiers if slow. Solid damage and can take shitloads of damage even at low tech levels. If you get some good AWC rolls they can become absolute monsters but are less versatile than human soldiers.
Cryssilids are actually alright hit and runners & can tank a lot of damage as they get more experience (especially if you equip them with good armor AND a vest or plate). Low level lids are admittedly hard to put to good use but they become made out of goes fast at high ranks.
Codexes are busted in half.

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>>182188606
Stop bullying the Vipers.

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>>182188829
Berserkers: Surprisingly or not they're extremely good scouts, can bust apart cover like no ones business (through movement), take a fuckload of fire & if you put gear on them even act as a nice grenade carrier. (i use fulton harnesses to clean up all the dead advent myself). Obviously the lack of range is a pain but you'll get used to it just break LOS
Gatekeeper: Glorious little death orbs. Either build it to be a tanky BFG/wannabe SHIV or focus on psionics & laugh as you summon 10+ zombies in a single turn.
Sectopod: What do you think it wouldn't be busted in half? Admittedly the wraith cannon is if you're not overwatch+slow advancing is just a waste of 2 turns & you'll be using the 2 shot heavy primary to wipe out hordes of advent, the lightning field can situationally become useful incase of lids or if you're able to dive the sectopod into a pod of entrenched ADVENT.

>>182189273
I'm not bullying them, I'm putting them out of their misery.

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ADVENT has become too strong for me to even fight now

>>182190449
>tfw you encounter your first archon of the campaign with your newly minded Domination Psiop
>100% chance to dominate

Early psi pays off, kids.

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>Viper ruler, Muton ruler, Archon ruler
>no Andromedon ruler
I'd hate to use LoL as an example, but Nautilus is the only thing that comes to mind when I think of an Andromedon ruler.

>>182191071
What would his abilities be?

>>182191014
Hmm.... Can I dominate a gatekeeper? What are the chances of doing so with a Magus with an Alien Psi-Amp?

>>182191175
Cover destroying AOE acid wave because the anal ravaging delivered by the Archon Ruler wasn't enough

>>182191497
What so like he just stomps on the ground and waves of acid just appear before his feet in a circular AoE?

Nice. Anything else? I was thinking a "Get over here!" anchor skill that either pulls people towards him, or throws them somewhere else.

>>182189403
What about Andromedons and Archons?

>>182191763
Maybe it can abuse the andromedon's second life mechanic and explosively body slam a soldier the second it hits zero life and the suit automatically flees.

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>>182191763
>tosses multiple anchors at operatives--not all of them--, chaining them in place so that they cannot move, yet can still perform other actions
>tl;dr operatives get anchored
>follows up with the acid slam wave

>>182191071
Isn't the Archon ruler technically a Muton Ruler as well considering it's origins?

Is it true that a Gatekeepers laser deals explosive damage, and you can pretty much make them useless by just standing a psi-op with fortress in the open and baiting them into lasering him?

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>>182191884
Andromedons are slow as hell. I mean seriously too damned slow. So slow you'll be willing to spend a superior speed PCS on them. They're unsurprisingly tanks with an inbuilt grenade ability and solid combat ability though they have the rage inducing ability to both use cover & move through it destroying it. Meaning that it should be kept separate from your other squad mates or it'll fuck up their cover too.
Archons should either be CQC monsters that hit & run or support gunners with high mobility which works real well when you hit reaper. Like all units that can't take cover breaking LOS is an archon's best friend.
>>182191071
Andromedon ruler when damaged can suck a xcom member into the broiling pot of acid like the hag in darkest dungeon.

>>182192862
Which mod adds female Archons?

>>182192983
ABA2 adds the Valkyrie which is a melee variant of the Archon

So why would someone join the resistance against ADVENT? It's not until late in the campaign that the resistance discover ADVENT is actually up to bad shit.

>>182194449
theyre racist against aliens

>>182191469
Really depends if you activated NCE or not. Its extremely low without and hits the low 40 with.

>>182194449
Freedom.

>>182192432
Successful hits break the anchor for that particular soldier I assume? Otherwise its shit.

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What kind of bullshit is this?

How the fuck does this even happen where a frag doesn't kill a fucking weakling like a sectoid IN THE FIRST FUCKING MISSION OF THE GAME.

Is that some type or armor or what? This is fucking bullshit because this was the 2nd nade i threw, the first one took 2 HP away from the sectoid on the left meanwhile the sectoid on the right got damaged but it showed up that shield.

Also is LW too.

>>182194959
Welcome to Lump's magnificent ride.

>>182194959

the further away from the center of the grenade the less damage they take

simple economics

>>182194449
People who remember or were from Cities that were attacked during the war, people naturally suspicious about alien overlords, etc etc.

Not like we have a shortage of people willing to take up arms against governments already.

>>182194689
What the fuck is NCE

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>>182194820
>every time an anchored operative misses the andromedon ruler they get punished with an acid stomp
I don't know why, but that sounds lewd.

>>182195152
Not Created Equal

Also I get like 85-99% Mind Control on them so like its easy

>>182195424
How is domination chance even calculated? It's gotta be your will vs theirs somehow right? Do we actually know the math behind it? Same with hacking chance?

>>182195152
>>182195424

I hate NCE because it turns your soldiers into gods or clods.

I hate not having NCE because then everyone is the same.

I wish there was a stat allocation mod like your average rpg. It would be fun to play around with some different stat allocations without relying on randomness.

are hq assaults any different in 1.4 to what they were in 1.0 lw2?

>>182195873
>Shooting from longer Ranges increases their aim
>Shooting from Closer RAnges increases their Crit

>Destroying a lot of Cover makes them into Grenadiers

>Hacking shit makes them into Specialists

I wish Class selection was impacted by how you use the rookie instead of pure RNG

>>182196425
There is the GTS for that.

>>182196705
Yes it exists but fuck the game for letting you impact how you use the soldiers to determine how they get trained and level up.

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>>182101695

I'd love a tactical warhammer mod; just an alternate melee weapon which bypasses the effectiveness of armor.

>>182196705
But it's useless for the first four people you use in the first one or two missions if you're using your own custom characters and want them to be specific classes, it's a humongous luck of the draw which ones get picked and what they become after the opening mission.

Being able to retrain characters into different classes should be the top priority for the expansion, and it can be balanced by forcing them to start at the lowest class level and randomizing their AWC perk or if they get one at all.

has it been confirmed if we can have hero units in the character pool and create them in the character pool

>>182197270
We don't know as of yet.

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to customise ones that you receive and save them to the character pool, though.

>>182197143
Sledge pls

>>182196425
How about the dynamic stats development mod that breaks LW2 by creating 112 aim soldiers by FL3

>>182197229
>if you're using your own custom characters and want them to be specific classes
There's a mod for that.

>>182198393
explain desu

>>182196425
Honestly I roleplay this with my rookies anyway and use the commander's choice mod to pick a class based on their preformance. It's pretty fun.

>>182197991
Wonder if they save into the general pool or if hero units get their own pool.

>>182197143

>All hammers do reduced damage than blades, have less mobility but bypass more armor and have a higher critical and by default have the chance to stun their foe
>Tier 2 hammer is an EM can damage robotic foes more effectively, higher damage, higher crit range and damage and with a longer stun duration
>Tier 3 hammers have an even longer stun chance and duration, higher critical more damage, more armor bypass and have the chance to rupture the target on a critical hit

>>182198798
I'd imagine they must get their own pool, because Skirmishers will need to look like Advent Soldiers who have undergone significant injury/decay due to their chip-removal.

>>182198896
Halo Gravity Hammer mod when?

>>182198896
Should also have a melee ability that can remove cover or walls.

>>182198686
The mod gives soldiers more stats based on what they do in a mission.
>Landing riskier shots:Higher chance to gain a point of aim
>Sprint more:Mobility
>Dodging: +Dodge
etc.

>>182179812

Now I want a shirt with pic related

>>182199573
sounds very overpowered

>>182198651
There is? Don't tell me I'd have to go through every character and set them to become something specific because I have a lot of characters.

>>182199931
You choose their class on rank up. Very easy, should have been a core mechanic imo.

>>182199714
It is

I love watching the Berserker Queen run around and clear out packs of mobs.

>>182198651
That feature is actually available even in vanilla. You can specify which class the soldiers in your character pool will become. Sometimes they will show up in the Black Market instead, though.

>>182187592
if i win the lottery i will do this

>>182200734
Last I checked it doesn't apply to the ones who get to do Gatecrasher.

>>182200334
Just wait till it knocks an enemy unconscious and then all the enemies lose their action points permanently until the unconscious enemy is dead

>>182200867
It does if they are from your character pool. The drawback is that having non-character-pool soldiers in your campaign (that you dont control the class of) is inevitable unless you have like 50 in your pool.

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>>182199442

>hammers have the ability to breach walls, doors and cover
>higher level hammers are capable of breaching harder materials

fuck yeah, we RB6 nao

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>>182131248
>small town called Aliso Viejo

Not really, when you have two major shopping centers and a costco.

Mission Viejo from across the freeway says hi.

>>182131248
>>182201712
oshit

>>182145308
>The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

You're not pulling my leg, what the fuck is this shit?

>>182200091
Oh fucking sweet, name of mod?

>>182202093
Commander's Choice.

>>182200734
>>182201137
No, the character pool setting only impacts black market/reward soldiers. All others are subject to random chance, regardless of origin.

>>182203298
Yeah, you need something like Commander's Choice or Use My Class to make Gatecrasher char pool rookies keep their assigned class on level up

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Alright /xcg/, let's rank the classes in LW2 from best to worst in terms of what you enjoy playing the most.

1.Technical
2. Psi-Op
3. Assault
4. Shinobi
5. Sharpshooter
6. Specialist
7. Grenadier
8. Ranger
9. SPARK
10. Gunner

>>182204415
That's not what best to worst means anon, you want "Most enjoyable to least enjoyable".

>>182204415

1.Shinobi
2. Ranger
3. Assault
4. Specialist
5. Grenadier
6. Psi
7. Spark
8. Sharpshooter
9. Technical
10. Gunner

>>182204415
>>182204572
>shinobi

Is this really a real class in long war 2? Didn't realize it was a weeb mod.

>>182204415
1. Assault
2. Psi-Op
3. Ranger
4. Grenadier
5. Shinobi
6. Specialist
7. Sharpshooter
8. Gunner
9. Technical
10. SPARK

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>>182204572
>9. Technical
Fix this.

>>182204636
*queue the shitposting*

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>>182204636
not this shit again. it's the scouting class

they make use of stealth tactics and swords

>>182204563
>knows what OP meant
>corrected instead of responded to the question

textbook autism

>>182204840
Oh, you didn't say they use swords, that makes it better.

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>>182204636
I've got a japanese shinobi nicknamed "shinobi" :^)

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>>182205010
>1920x1080
>open it
>height is greater than width

>>182205201
It changed my screenshot for some reason

>>182205390
I'm refreshing the page and it's still like this. Did ADVENT do this?

>>182204415
Sure.

1. Grenadier
2. Technical
3. Gunner
4. Specialist
5. Psi-Ops
6. Ranger
7. Assault
8. Sharpshooter
9. Shinobi
10. SPARK

>>182205545
They didn't want proof of the resistance getting out. Shinobi with over 200 confirmed kills is bad for PR.

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...Hm.

>>182206751
You brought someone who can hack that lamp post, right?

>>182207161
Successful hacks on lamp posts don't break concealment..?

>>182207679
So long as you don't fail them.

>>182207679
To my knowledge, no, it doesn't break concealment. Disabling turrets for a turn doesn't either IIRC.

>>182207815
>>182207816
Guess i'll try it a different time, broke squad concealment on accident when I moved someone on the roof to the left of the previous photo and there was a drone waiting for me instead.

>>182202431
Danke.

>>182159237
down vodka and soldier on comrade

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>>182185697
son you better not be considering consorting with the enemy

>>182204840
you mean like a ninja?

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>>182212383
Pretty much, it just sounds a bit less out of place than ninja.

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>finishing Shen's Last Gift mission
>got everyone positioned on the roof for maximum Overwatching and laying it into the Sectopod after it comes out
>Julian rants and activates and bursts out
>Ranger 1 fires, some damage
>Ranger 2 fires, some damage
>Sharpshooter 1 fires, some damage
>Sharpshooter 2 fires
>EXECUTED!
>Sectopod explodes
>me and my inner voices' reaction

Damn it, people, XCOM will not die.

>>182217283
It died once. Something that has happened can happen again.

>>182217806
Not on my watch.

>>182217806
t.advent