/xcg/ - XCOM General

PISTOLS ARE USEFUL

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what the hell happened

>>182280103
pokemon porn threads in such a quantity that they pushed everything to auto archive

>>182280379
?

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Tell me, /xcg/, why does it wear the mask?

>>182281097
Because they're probably really ugly under there.

>get all training school upgrades
>destroy it because I want to replace it with an uplink
>can't field more than 4 soldiers now
>need to skip some activity because of that
>lose india to panic

It's hard being a xcom noob

>>182281163
>>182281097
Because they have no face

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>>182281097

>>182281201
Heh, I remember someone else doing this. min-maxers btfo

>>182281467
I was just trying to fix my base... I didn't pay attention to adjacent building bonuses at first

>>182281701
I'm not making fun of you, it just makes me chuckle that destroying the building removes the upgrades.
Some other anon was asking about removing their GTS a couple weeks ago and I told him not to do it, because it might work the same way in X2.

>>182281967
Wait, so when it's rebuilt I'll need to buy all the upgrades again? Oh man this is gonna suck

>>182282110
>Wait, so when it's rebuilt I'll need to buy all the upgrades again?
I actually have no idea how that works. Let me us know the results.

>>182280772
/vp/ spam bot

>>182282202
Think I'll just quit my file and try enemy within instead. My base is fucked anyway

OpenApco slowly becoming a reality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgspgxWLKmE

Old update, but thought I'd post it anyway

what is the least amount of countries that left the x- com project on your first complete run ?
eu and ew

>>182282992
0

>>182282992
Probably like 4. I don't remember desu but I knew mexico was one of them.

>>182282992
i meant max number to leave sorry

What the fuck happened? we weren't going that slow to get knocked off.

So are the chosen just ETH/Hum hybrids like the Sectoids? They seem a lot more ethereal than the Avatars do which seem to be like 99% human.

The Chosen look more like the ethereal human hybrids I was expecting than the Avatars.

>>182282992
One, but it's been a long time since then.

>>182284216
>>182282519

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FUCK YOU AYYS

>>182284367
>>182280379
>>182282519
containment boards were a mistake. All they do is contain an infection until it overflows and fucks the rest of 4chan.

>>182284386
> that 1 lost mission
kek

>>182284713
I'll never forget that dick-ass stun lancer. We engaged that motherfucker 4 seperate times, and he just kept running away and stabbing a civie on every single turn, somehow positioning himself in such a way to break LoS every turn, and if we did find him on the next turn he was in full cover and we had no grenades left.

>>182284386
>34 missions
So few missions

>>182285758
I had researched everything there was to research and built every weapon I needed. I didn't see a reason to keep going without risking a squad wipe that would fuck up my final mission.

>>182284532

But /vg/ is a containment board.

>>182284363

They look like a different species to me.

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R8

>>182288641
14 / 88

jokes aside, sparky looking fly

>>182288641
I lost it at jungle fever

>>182288641
>that one asshole who won't wear armor

>>182288641
>Fucking Onyx Guard
10/10

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Fuck me that was tough, did it lads

>>182290223

>no enemies killed
>0 wounds
>0 kills
>flawless
>tough

Really chopped my onions

>>182288629
I'm going off of their intense psi-powers and the fact they are the exact same color as ethereals. They seem like hybrids that are the ethereal equivalent of the new Sectoids while the Avatars are like Humans but with a bit of Ethereal.

Ayys can still win. Here's how.

>>182291846

Match me, anons

>>182291846
>kill like 100 ayys
>a whole region is liberated

There must be millions in reserve. They just need to activate them and end xcom.

>>182292474
But if they activate aliens then eckskom kills aliens. Why do u want to see aliens get died, dirty eckscom?

>>182292474
You inspire resistance among the regions which Leads to tons of them dying if I'm not mistaken

>>182292759
>>182292474
When you kill xcom, xcom wins!

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>tfw Faceless dont scare me
>tfw lids dont spook me
>tfw I dominate every Gatekeeper
>tfw I oneshot Codices

This Campaign must end.

>>182292474
Ever seen an offensive where the chain of command and supply lines are ruined? XCOM is making a surgical strike that leads to a domino effect, and the resistance gains ground big time. Compare half life 2 and the destruction of Nova Pospekt.

>>182293295
Yeah but this really doesn't work when you have millions of armed soldiers stationed locally. Their effectivity might be low(er) but this is still a force that rebels equipped with small arms cannot overcome (there is nearly no gasoline anymore)

>>182293636
>RTS xcom when

>send random shitter out to tank an overwatch so I can move a grenade thrower in
>throw said grenade
>leaves guy with 1hp
>he shoots the shitter who is out in the open, kills them
>panics someone
>said someone throws a grenade
>kills my 74 aim NCE rookie
>send the thrower into the meat grinder

RIP Tracy O'Sullivan ;_;

>>182293768
RTS games suck. I'd rather micro just one unit with multiple abilities

>>182294361
Go play mobas

>>182293636
How do you know there are millions landed? Why maintain such a fighting force in largely peaceful time?

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>yfw its time for the final assault

>tfw only 3 can go in

What do you think of this team?

>>182294618
>advent tower
>final assault

>>182294618
haha you're dumb

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>>182295489
>>182295552
I'm guessing this is the true final assault

mfw my Magus is gravely wounded and will have to sit this one out.

Good thing I have his Protege ready for action

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>>182296919
>he thinks that's the final mission
Oh, if only you knew the truth...

>>182298373
Yeah it gets even more fuckey than average

>>182298518
Especially if your graphics card starts dying or overheating though the mission.

>>182298842
Truly Jake has beat lump at his own game. Melting FPUs and ALUs under the sheer magnificence.

>>182290223
>People like sneaking around and not fighting
I stopped playing Long War 2

>>182299241
I don't think that's long war

>>182299241
I wasn't sneaking around, no enemies spawned and Central kept blabbing about "you're done now get the thing before it explodes". It was weird. Think it's something to do with some map mod I downloaded that spawns some really tiny maps.

>>182299241
>>182299335
I think that's a bug.
>Enemies killed: 0/0
That means there were no enemies on the map.

Also LW2 hasn't been about sneaking for a while now. I almost feel like putting it in the OP, I have to tell so many people.

>>182299241
>doesn't realize you can just choose not to sneak
>instead judges people who like the tempo change of different approaches

enjoy vanilla bud lmao

>>182299176
It's GPUs and CPUs, retard.

>>182299695
You can't sneak in LW2. Also sneaking was objectively dumb.

>>182299695
How the fuck are you going to sneak when it takes 5 turns to evac?

>>182299778
You can totally send one shinobi into a rescue mission and succeed without fighting anyone, especially early game. And it's not objectively dumb...it's actually pretty smart gameplay and suspenseful in its own right.

If you don't want to do a mission that way then don't. That's the beauty of LW2 over vanilla. Missions are more diverse and objective based rather than "kill everyone in the room to win."

>>182298373

This guy has a really cool voice.

https://twitter.com/XCOM/status/884411905707614208/video/1

And music apparently.

>>182299778
>Start up LW2 campaign
>O boy, a class based on sneaky sneaky.
>5 million surveilance drones
>Trollface

Yeah, LW2 is not for sneaky.

>>182300173
Evac timer is reduced based on infiltration percentage. If you send one shinobi on a mission they can easily reach 150% - 200% infiltration, reducing evac significantly. Also many rescue missions have a fixed evac regardless.

>>182300358
SNEAKY MCSNEAKERSONS

t. xwynns

>>182300229
>You can totally send one shinobi into a rescue mission and succeed without fighting anyone
That's been dead for awhile now. Objectives have guard pods now, evac take longer even for small squads.

>If you don't want to do a mission that way then don't.
It was purged because optimal play was sneaking. Sneaking occasionally was fine, but balancing the combat meant taking into account that fact that almost every mission could just be stealthed. Hence, sneaking was nerfed to shit in order to properly balance the gameplay around combat. The player was actively punished before for fighting.
Sneaking in a turn based game with hardly any stealth mechanics is not what you want the optimal method to be for completing missions.

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This guy had some quality time with a berserker and is now unconcious

I have no more revival charges

Will Restoration pick him up or do I just continue with the mission?

>>182300358
I don't understand...is a 1-man sneak tactic bullshit and ezpz, or nonexistent and unviable?

Pick a reason to be mad about it please lol

>>182300725
Don't you have a psionic? If they have fortress or solace or whatever it is just move them to the dead one.

>>182300812
1.3 ezpz
1.4 unviable.

>>182300812
As of 1.3 solo "stealth" is super high risk and will probably get your soldier killed. It can work if you get lucky but it's not worth it.

That said, concealment can be helpful to avoid pods and it's nice if you can get near the objective before going loud sometimes. You just have to take a squad that can fight if necessary.

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>>182301007
Don't lie to me anon it hurts

>>182301372
I like to use concealment to get up in the middle of the action, nuke one pod and fight the other. Reduces the chance of a pod patrolling into me.

>>182301510
Pretty sure you need revival protocol

>>182300725
Unconscious is a revival only

Wouldn't waste restoration or many consumables period. You'll need them later

>>182299746
Maybe you should google ALU and FPU before making an ass of yourself.

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>>182301678
>>182301849
>tfw wasted REstoration

>tfw one of my gunners fell inside of a laundry basket

what do

>>182302902
You could enable the console and use the command TTC to get him out of there

>>182303032
>PLEASE WAIT -SENDING CRASH REPORT
>THANK YOU, COMMANDER

Advent is coming.

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>Elon Musk is now the commander of xcom

how do things change?

>>182304828
Sparks become useful

>>182304828
Sparks rely on government handouts to be viable

>>182304828
XCOM engineers a reusable launch system and uses it to take Cydonia.

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>jump into a rescue VIP mission
>VIP is on one corner of the map
>evac zone is on the opposite corner of the map
>map spans more than some 200+ tiles, could be a 500x500 tile map
>this is ok for some reason
>instant reinforcements due to dark event
Time to disable my map mods. This is fucking bullshit.

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Working on making the cosmetic versions for the Advent Scou- Pathfinders mod, and playing "dress your Advent" with Dor's Avatar armor mod. Unfortunately as it turns out i should've thought about this when i made the Advent Pathfinders themselves 8 months ago because their legs only go with their own torso, so if you use the Pathfinder legs with other Advent Torsos they have a gaping hole where their dick would be.

>>182308108
>gaping hole where their dick would be
Is there no end to the alien dickery.

>>182308108
Can I at least get the cape on any ADVENT torso, or any torso preferably? I just want that nice cape.

>>182307865
>But I thought you wanted a Long War?!

>>182308281

No for two reasons, one, the way capes work is that they get attached to "sockets" on the torsos, so in order for you to use a cape on a torso the torso needs to have a socket for a cape, meaning that i would have to go through each torso and add sockets for the capes so you could use them.

The second reason is that the way these capes are made they wouldn't work on any torso in the game anyway, they attach to their giant shoulderpads and no other torso or arms in the game has shoulderpads that big.

So, while i'm not opposed to making more capes(i love capes), it would have to be its own mod and it wont be happening any time soon, the only cape related plans i have is capes for the skirmishers, but maybe we wont be able to play with the Expansion's assets so maybe i wont get to do that.

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>tfw no snek wife

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>>182308714
>you will never come home to a snek wife so happy to see you she wraps you up before you even walk in the door

>tfw no Vahlen to abuse you

>tfw no Viper King husbundo

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>>182309927
>>182309235
>>182309173
>>182308714
more for the pile

>>182310045
>you will never have a Viper-skin belt, boots, hat, and jacket

>>182308714
SNAKES
IN
SWEATERS

>>182310045

I like to think there's two types of people that wear the EXALT bandana in XCOM

>The actual ex-EXALT member who's seen some shit and has been on the run from the cops and aliens for over two decades

>The young rookie who's trying waaaaay to hard to be edgy

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>>182310434
He is the former

>>182308714
why is she reading that book? how could she possibly get comfier than that? What a dumb snek

>Download a bunch of class mods.
>Basic vanilla game doesn't last long enough to get everyone to max rank.

Is there a (mod) for that? Thoughts?

>in xcom 2 exalt never existed due to excoms early defeat in the war

>>182312775
> they were destroyed in the ew

>>182312775
>inb4 the memester who think EW was a simulation

>>182312959

>meme

https://youtu.be/A1ml3O3AyL8?t=14m54s

Idea: 5 way battles

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>tfw exalt will still not be in the game with upcoming expansion
when are they bringing muffled static back, they're so cool

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>>182314583

Exalt suck lmao, Advent are the superior enemy. Lmao!

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>tfw no Psi-operative as powerful as Doom
I've been listening to too much MF Doom these past couple of weeks.

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>>182315046
They all suck against rocket launchers and grenades

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>>182315239

>one of my original grenadiers disappears
>don't recall him dying
>don't recall leaving him behind
>not in the memorial list
>not in soldier list
They ayy menace is stepping up their game. Lads are getting abducted right off my boat.

I actually liked one man sneak squads tbqh

>>182314014
>5 second bink video that doesn't show even a single thing from EW
might as well say EU is a simulation

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>Mindspin Resisted!

>>182314583
But they are in the game.

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>Five Nights At Viper's

Commanders please advise. Is potentials mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=695216006 working with longdong 1.4? I know it says maybe on the company mod list but I'm seeing otherwise on mod comments.

Also anyone have advice on good ini settings for notoriety and cohesion for ui placement?

Also wtf half of WotC is just ripping off workshop mods it feels like to me. No one is calling out that bullshit?

>>182317639


Company = Compat. Fucking autocorrect.

>>182317639
>Also wtf half of WotC is just ripping off workshop mods it feels like to me. No one is calling out that bullshit?

It's nice to have official support for these things. It gives modders a more stable platform to work off of and there is never a bad reason to steal a good idea.

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>attempting a mission without any injuries, trying to keep people from going on vacation so I can run the black site right after
>kill almost all of the enemies, so far only ablative points lost from grazes
>viper
>ohno
>poison.jpg
>ohno part2
>"Person XYZ is no longer poisoned" right after getting poisoned, thus is still in the poison cloud
>ohnoooooooooo part3
>"Person XYZ is poisoned"
>2 health lost
>will probably be on vacation for 9+ days
Right after I free Earth I'm dropping a planet buster on the Viper homeworld.

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I can't even fight these missions anymore. My only way of achieving victory is ignoring enemies and hoping they don't kill me.

>>182318319
map mod still screwing you?

>>182318214
at least poison doesn't hit your grenadier for 9 and knock her unconcious, putting her in medbay for 24 days

zhang just had to miss his goddamn overwatch and let the muton centurion through

>>182318414
map mod?

>>182318579
oh mistook you for some other anon who had a 0 enemy mission

besides, how bad could an 8 enemy mission be?

>>182318746
It could be all sectopods.

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>>182318746
enemies 2stronk for my shitty troops with default weapons

>>182318779
>full override
>bluescreen
>acid
boom

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>>182279790
Post best mission names

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Rate squad.

>>182319738
>>182319869

uniform/10

a moment of silence please
for all our fallen comrades

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Just finished Enemy Within on Easy. Man that was tense. Congrats to Pauline and Sylvain, the two snipers who somehow survived the whole way through.

>>182321074
So which game had a better final level EU/EW with the ethereals or 2 with the avatars

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>>182321074

>easy

>>182320409
RIP that one dude who got killed in full cover by a thin man
and the other one
and the other one
and the other one

>>182321712

EU/EW, though 2's final fight of the level is better.

>>182321712
EU/EW had some cool buildup and narration
but the final chamber in X2 was much more intense

>>182322159
>>182322297
this, EU/EW had a much better atmosphere and it helped with the reveal of the aliens reasons, but the actual final fight is an anti-climax.

The Avatars while less intimidating or mysterious looking, thus lacking the impact of their previous forms, served as a much better final fight

>>182321712
The first one is way too easy to cheese, the second one gets extremely intense depending on how well you can kill whatever spawned

>>182322082
I suck at them.

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>thin mints fart acid when they die
>sneks don't

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what do I do in this situation?

>longdong 2
>22 turn VIP mission
>pull 3 drones, 2 pods of 2 advent soldiers each, 1 pod of muton+2 pectoids, 1 pod of 3 advent soldiers, another drone, 1 pod of reinforcements and 1 pod of viper+2 advent soldiers INTO THE FUCKING SPAWN
>they all take free shots from being revealed on spawn
>haven't moved past the spawn area

>>182322959
Thin Men are genetically altered to look as close to human as possible and so their bodies are barely holding together, which makes them burst into confetti on death
thats what I think anyway

how do you beat gatecrasher on legendary
i swear it's the hardest mission in the game other than the last one

>>182323309
grenades are love
grenades are life

all hail our lord and savior HE grenade
praise be unto it who delivers us from all evil

>>182323309
Spam grenades
Abuse high ground
Savescum

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>>182322959
Thinmen>>>>smelly dumb snakes

>>182323309
It's okay to conceal overwatch the first enemy pod imo. Since you dont' really have special abilites, those 85% shots are worth the risk. Then just restart when someone gets wounded.

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>>182310045
You call that a viper pile? This is a viper pile.

>>182323997
>want to try to set up that mission so that all of my soldiers get coiled and squeezed to death in a group but I know that they'd yank everyone away all over the room or just shoot them or barf poison on the group

Why must you torment me, game.

It's so fucking hard to stick through with being an "honestman" when my specialist got shot while hunkered down TWICE IN A FUCKING ROW

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>>182324727
dass eggsggom babbi :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>>182324727
ironman only with nades

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This is my assault. Say something nice about her!

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>>182326878
She has nice hair

>>182326878
i like her ass anon

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>Playing CXOM: EW Long War on Classic Mode
>Tier 1 Weapons and Armor
>Highest Ranking guy is a Rocketeer Sergeant
>Need Cash for a new Lab
>Spokesman calls me in for a job giving 200 Bucks
>Its Newfoundland
>I did it with no Casualties somehow.
>Sergeant (Now Lieutenant) managed to most of seven lids with the last one going retard mode and wasting two moves on getting on the roof and down again.
>Order construction of the lab
>Scan the Hologlobe
>Its a terror mission in Mexico
>Say fuck that and leave it be.
>Lose Mexico

>>182326878
>Woman. Weaker handle stress worse more likely to panic or be mind controlled
>Smoking gives away your position and I bet ayys can smell real good
>Eye patch. No depth perception
> Black
0/10 would not operate with.

>>182327218
yes, that's how terror missions work

>>182327236
Shes loo

>>182327291
You don't understand, I was so mentally drained from that mission I couldn't bring myself to do the Terror Op.

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Getting sick of this shit

>>182328134
That's how I feel about longwar. It's too fucking long and bullshit.

I like the new mechanics and depth but they go full beagle exploit game tier hard

>>182317639

No one on ini config for ui placement?

>>182318019

>Stealing modder ideas for your expac...

Wew son, if you can't beat 'em join em I guess, or just steal without paying 'em.

Then sit back and lap up game media praise and hype to boot, about "new features".

Shame, at least lump and co. got credit / reward for their work.

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>>182328657
Long War has turned into "main squad kills enemies, every other squad just tries to complete objectives without encountering the enemy" for me

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>>182327236
>Shitting on smoking.
>Shitting on eyepatchs.
Fuck you and your shit taste.

>take a 96% shot with the graze band at 10%
>miss
what

>>182329064
Smoke = Ayy smells smoke due to advanced genetics and early reinforcements are brought in. Get btfo

Eyepatch = Shoots gun, can't tell how far away an enemy or where the bullets landed or a stun rod is, useless in melee

Faggot taste

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>>182329258
>take a 100% shot
>graze
Why is this allowed?

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>>182329690
>>182329258

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi52HjJbwVQ

>Enemies on one side of giant building
>Move on the other side of the building
>Spotted
Why is this allowed?

>>182329985
windows

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RIP civvie
RIP guy who will be in medbay for the next year

>>182330329
I hope you brought his body back
You would want his friends to give him a proper goodbye wouldn't you?

Is it weird that graze triggers me more in vanilla than it does in LW2? I know I can try to mitigate graze at least by upping hit chance and crit through the roof in LW2 at least.

i know there's a mod that forces character pool classes to be assigned to their class, but is there a mod for that that forces gatecrasher to give you a ranger, grenadier, sharpshooter, and specialist character? i'm tired of having to reload it everytime to get one of each

>>182332157
U wot? It does that by default. Do you have any mods that give any extra classes?

>>182332307
i have a workshop mod installed called "use my class" that forces dudes from the character pool to be assigned to their character pool class when they level up (since the game doesnt do this by default). the problem is, sometimes gatecrasher doesn't give you one of each class because of this. i was wondering if there was a sort of "mod for mod" that forces gatecrasher to give you one of each class

>>182330470
prolly just cause lw2 makes every 2nd miss a graze, but it's rare as fuck vanilla

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>these loading screens
Now i remember why I uninstalled all those cosmetic mods

>>182329690
Wasn't that actually disallowed in a patch where a 100% to hit didn't allow a dodge chance?

Bloody hell, the way these missions play out sometimes really astound me.

Wound up getting fucked by a mod map as I was placed starting in a tower radius with no specialist on mission. Blew early cover ... Mission went better than expected. 0 Deaths 2 wounded. All rookies, all promoted.

Lacked full infiltration (97%) on next mission only had a fire team (4 total) on mission and accidently tripped detection immediately.

Popped evac call 1st tun because I expected to get swarmed. Nope. Mission went smooth as hell. 1 wounded.

Using all my luck early I guess.

>>182332889
>Not just alt tabbing and browsing 4chan while it loads

Problem is you end up taking a turn then browsing for half an hour and repeating

>>182333082
>tfw not enough ram to do this

Can I fail any missions in March and/or lose anyone above Squaddie rank in Xcom 2? Been playing C/I and had plenty of failed runs under my belt. A failed mission or loss of critical squad members just seems to snowball into a shitpile. Even if I have some successful missions afterwards it feels like my campaign is just bleeding out until May mercy kills me because I don't have the supplies to buy the upgrades I've researched.

It feels so good when you can manage some tacticool shit.

>Plan on extracting dark vip
>He's right below an access point on the roof.
>Have 2 rangers up there
>Everyone else on the ground near the evac
>Enemies on the roof run right into rangers.
>Send ranger 1 down the hole and knock out the vip
>Grenadier blows up the roof and the wall sending the 2 enemies that broke concealment onto the same floor as the vip
>Ranger 2 throws hunter axe and kills a third unit in the distance before dropping down and picking up vip
>Sharpshooter hookshots up to the roof just near the freshly made hole and kills both remaining units with his pistol.

What other shit have you guys done?

>Trigger a patrol of lids
>Kill them off
>Advent Officer wanders into sight during alien turn
>Take some overwatch shots
>Camera then focuses on a lid that's in a building offscreen
>It fucking flies through the air and now appears in sight range
>It then sprints across stopping directly infront of one of my units
>All this apparently cost 1 action as it then punched my unit

What in the fuck is this?

>>182336584

I dunno but I alt f4'd whenever it happened to me

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>>182336584
Gotta learn to adapt, find a place they can't chase you

>>182279790
Anyone here watch Beaglerush? What does he/his GF look like?

>>182337587
Not pretty.

>>182337587
like some sort of jam ball

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>Most under fire: Mimic Beacon

>>182337726
I know that's her nickname
>>182337672
so a 6/10?

to be honest i'm half expecting him to look like a skeltal ayy and her to to be some ftm jamball addict.

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There's probably going to be a mod for WoTC that'll make ruler show up on any missions.
>Mission with The Lost
>The lost arrives
>Ruler pod activated
>they fucking swarm the Ruler
>

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>>182337785
Psshhh nothin personnel

>>182338006
Beagle does look like an XCOM EU Sectoid, yes.

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>>182338021

>Archon King reacts every time a lost moves
>Jake said you'll be facing dozens of lost at a time

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>>182338184

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>>182338184
>>182338270

>he uses Devastate multiple times in the lost's turn
>can't save your soldiers because it isn't your turn

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>>182338021
>>182338184
>Lost versus Ruler
>Ruler reacts to every move the Lost make
>uses it to attack your squad instead of the horde of zombies hitting him
Does the headshot thing also apply to ADVENT?

>>182338006
I'd say 4/10 at best from what I remember.

>>182317639
Half of workshop mods are just expanding on unused features, so...

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>>182338021
Gotta make a Captain Archibald Haddock soldier for my next run. Anyone know a voice pack that could capture a spark of Haddock's essence?

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>>182337587
>>182337672
>>182337726
>>182338006
>>182338160
>>182338645

Beaglerush is the guy on the far left.

Have a guess who "jamball" is.

>>182317639
>>182328942

I don't see a single issue with the expansion adding mechanics from mods, especially since they will likely be more polished and better implemented.

>>182339325
>hamball
Jesus, I know beags isn't a looker but he isn't -that- ugly... is he?

>watching a pod patrolling on a supply raid
>notice a mec all by itself
>all of a sudden it teleports halfway across the map to be part of the pod i actively engage
t-that's xcom baby

>>182339325

How many advent burgers could you make out of her?

>>182339537
Enough to feed Tygan for at least ten, twelve minutes

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>>182339537

Only one way to find out

>>182339754
I could not predict this outcome, though it IS intriguing...

>>182340159
Is Tygan an ayy? Half ayy? Advent hayybrid?

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>>182340323
>>182339537
>>182339754

He is half burger.

>tfw too good to get the achievement for having a spark survive a mission with less than half health

>>182340963
>half
Isn't he american?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wIoESZnkQ0

Anyone use Maps by Vozati alongside A Better Advent? I keep getting missions where no ayys spawn and I dunno what's causing it.

>>182344625
I use that mod with long war and get plenty of enemies

>>182344523
Holy fug, best one yet.

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https://xcom.com/news/entries/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-the-warlock

>>182344849
>Can summon an army of spectral knights to guard him while being invincible
The rulers really were just a sample of Jake's madness

>>182344523

I knew he would be the best one, that edgy hooded guy and the bitch don't have shit on this absolute madman

>>182344523
>>182344849
FLASHBANGS

>>182345163

I'm going to make a mod where he reflects flashbangs back to you, fuck you.

>>182345251
Advent Modder detected

Is there a mod that arms the resistance in the retaliation missions? Why are these assholes unarmed and not fighting back?

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>>182344523

>even the spirits will stand at my side in REVERENCE OF THE ELDERS!

>try a coil rush in lw2
>one shotting anything that isn't a pod leader in august
at last i truly see the magnificence

>>182345462
That would be cool. Give em all pistols.

>>182344523
So... are the alien champions created from human DNA or what?

>>182345708
Coil looks and sounds really cool with the exception of the cannon.

>>182346069

Must be a mix of Elder DNA and something else, i guess they could have human in there too but they sound like they are old, so i dunno if that works.

>>182346146
They look pretty human tho, besides the blue skin.

>>182346118
i like the way the guns look, but the actual bullets are a bit underwhelming desu

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grrrr

>>182346118

Really? I love the sound of the coil cannon, it's like your gunner is chopping down ayy-shaped trees.

>>182347067
It's not bad, it's just not as good as the beam cannon

>>182344523
>>182344849
>spooky ghosts
>spooky exploding zombie ghosts
Uhh
Thanks, Jake.

>Operation Faceless Blade
>It's a retaliation mission

Whatcha tryin to tell me, game?

>>182346146
I read a theory on Reddit that they were the furies.

>>182329176
colorful/10
but a 7/10 really.

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>>182348125
>reddit

>>182328942
>Stealing modder ideas for your expac...
I actually don't think there is a single feature they are stealing from a modder that you could call "the modders og idea" desu.

>>182348391
I colorcode my guys by profession

>>182329258
Can't the dodge downgrade grazes into misses? (if I'm understanding the mechanic)

>>182335716
Pretty sure you can, but to be honest, on commander it's pretty possible to reach a state of "git gud" that you can reasonably expect not to lose anyone, or just one soldier.

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>>182344523
>He didn't say come, Brother! Atleast once

Wasted opportunity

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>all these fucking fantasy bullshit
>all these power creeps
>even more alpha strikes
>armors and the chosens look like they were designed by 6 year olds

yeah I am not buying the expansion the vanilla XCOM2 is bad enough as is

>>182348642
XCOM is XCOM faggot. If the source matters more than the idea you are a fucking mongoloid failure,

>>182349420
>more than the idea
But the idea is absolutely shit so that's pretty dumb to say.

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>>182349420

So is there anyone else here who spends 3 hours doing a single mission, because he always alt+tabs out to shitpost in the general?

>>182349420
The idea is about as substantive as "EW was a simulation."

e.g. not at all

>>182349415
>snekfag has shit opinions
checks out

>>182349639
yes

Actually worse than that, I have my laptop sitting right next to my rig so I don't even alt-tab, /xcg/ is permanently open right next to me.

>>182349671
>The idea is about as substantive as "EW was a simulation."
Except in X2, the majority XCOM 1 is a simulation silly. That's not headcanon, it's right in the game.

>>182349639
Sometimes.

>>182349783
it's an alternate scenario where xcom loses, memester

>>182349984
Yeah, like I said, "IN" XCOM2, XCOM 1 is a simulation. If you are playing XCOM1, it's not a simulation.

>>182339325
What's with the uniform?
also
>those cankles

>>182339437
He's pretty bad.

>>182350114
>What's with the uniform?
They are taking a picture with an e-sports team: TSM.

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>>182350080
my bad then

>>182339437
love is blind

>>182349783
XCOM beating the invasion is canon.

XCOM 2 is alternate time line where you got BTFO and forced to play endless campaigns of EU

do faceless on terror maps move around like normal civilians do?

xcom 2 was a mistake

>>182352589
it sold better than the last game

so no

why dont poison clouds provide smoke cover

>>182352853
why don't fart clouds provide smoke cover

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>>182344849
>He’s also able to summon additional guards capable of deadly melee attacks to his side. While these guards are active, the Warlock goes into stasis making him invulnerable to harm.
Because I didn't have enough of that shit in Shadow Warrior 2.

>>182351931
They're both canon.

>>182353084
I bet your mum would provide full cover

>>182344849
I wonder what the Sniper chosen will have to have equal standing with the other 2. Warlock obviously has op skillset with his psionic bullshit and I am guessing the Assassin will have shadowstep since she's ayy ranger. The rail gun in the trailer look great.

>>182354276
>How is the sniper chosen OP
He stays outside of your LOS and takes shots at you from behind pods and forces you to keep out of his LOS forcing you to make dangerous moves or die.

Warlock is powerful but someone who just keeps shooting at you with a 30% chance to hit when you can't even see them is the most bullshit powerful thing.

>>182354627
Toss a Scanner at him, send a concealed Ranger close to him, then snipe his ass with your own Sniper.

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>making contact with a facility region
>start researching a facility lead
>didn't realise it'd finish before the contact
>get free access to the facility I'm 1 day from having access to

>>182344523
Suddenly, SPARKs are relevant. Mindcontrol this, bitch.

>>182355553
then this will happen to you
https://youtu.be/XiyfoyIt_oE?t=18m6s

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I guess the remaining thin men were turned into Advent troops

>>182355032
>Throw a battle scanner or send a concealed ranger to find a concealed enemy that is behind two pods and outside of throwing range

He is almost certainly going to get concealment while attacking like Reapers do.

>>182355553
Why are SPARKs shit?

>>182357824
Stats are too low and you can't apply mods to their guns.

>>182357824
>>182358082
Mods is the answer to everything, of course.

>>182358082
My main problem with them is their dismal accuracy. They're robots, they should have targeting scanners. Hopefully WotC fixes the SPARK's problems.

>>182357824
The same stupid logic that makes heavy gunners and EW MECs bad: "bigger guns must be less accurate".

>>182357824

>hey here's a heavy weapons platform built around taking intense damage or dealing huge damage
>by the way it has fuck all HP, everything shreds armor and it has dog shit aim

Wait what ?
You're supposed to start Gatecrasher with 4 rookies, not 8, in Long Dong, right ?

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Does anyone know which .ini files to edit for the Xskin, Vanilla Laser Weapons and EW weapons? For some reason the damage on those (when I use them as the Xskin version) defaults to the average value instead of the spread (IE; 4 instead of 3-5 for ballistics)

Also, for some reason, a lot of weapon mods add skins for Tier 1, but not the other tiers. Its fine when you're at the final stretch with tons of spare resources, but between having an upgrade list that takes several days to scroll through and not being able to have certain characters carry certain weapons it's getting pretty annoying.

>>182359086


LW2 gatecrasher isn't even gatecrasher, it's just a normal mission with the same name to teach you the basics.

>>182359224
My question still stands though.

>>182359086
You start with eight

>>182359335
Shiiit, no wonder I shat the bed yesterday, I started with 4 in my first campaign. Didn't loose anyone, but had one bleedout

Do SPARK units gain experience at a slower rate than regular soldiers? They seem to get promoted a lot slower, and I'm not sure if it's just my own imagination or not.

>>182359647
They're just an all around poopies!

which faction are you looking forward to playing most, and which chosen do you think you will prioritize killing first?

Personally I'm split between Templar/Skirmisher and killing either Hunter/Assassin first. Hunter for his sniper rifle and Assassin so I don't have to listen to throatscratch.

>>182360249
Skirmishers. They look like boss motherfuckers.

>>182360249
I think reapers will be more useful earlier with less investment of resources, and the templars will be absolute monsters once fully scaled up. Skirmishers somewhere in between as the most flexible/reliable all a rounders.
Not sure which Chosen I will have the most trouble with.

I'm not really liking all these "bosses" they keep adding to the game. All it does is guarentee that every X missions half or more squad members die or get sent on vacation. Just having the aliens is bad enough, but bow with even more, if they don't stagger them out it's going to make the game so much harder.

>The Warlock believes himself to be a god and, through his continued abuse of psionics, has grown mentally unstable. He believes himself greater than the Elders that made him, and that he alone recognizes the true power of psionics.

Neat!

>>182360561
>and that he alone recognizes the true power of psionics.
I mean, he's the first one to make spoopy purple ghosts literally pop out using it, isn't he?

>tfw when the Chosen are The Commander's replacement for Bradford, Vahlen and Shen while he was under ADVENT control and they just want their friend back.

>>182360721
>Today, we’re introducing the Warlock, perhaps the Elders’ most arrogant child, who has sacrificed his sanity by drinking too deeply from the psionic well of power.

Also neat

>>182360723
That's why they kidnap your dudes. They just want some friends to watch anime and snuggle.

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>>182360723
bro
brovsky
what if
the commander is an elder
BUT HEY THAT'S JUST A THEORY
A GAME THEORY

>>182361138
My noggin jogged off in terror.

Is my game bugged? I just encountered the Berserker Ruler before I killed the Viper King.

>>182361216
that's xcom baby etc etc

>>182361216
No, that means the viper king "escaped" and the Berseker Queen is now the active ruler. The Viper King won't come back until you've dealt with the Berserker Queen

This only happens if you let the Rulers escape multiple times

>>182361216
>In Alien Hunters, there's three different states rulers can be in:

>Active, they're in play and will appear on missions.

>Dead, they're deader than disco.

>Escaped, they will not show up as long as there's still active rulers in play. This requires them surviving multiple missions against XCOM (3 on most difficulties, 5 on Legend), this is NOT them escaping from a mission just one time.

>In vanilla rules, escaped rulers come back to play once all active rulers have escaped or have been killed and that's it.

how much of a meme is a better advent 2?

Is there a way to increase the skullmining chance of success past 70%? I keep failing the dice roll and it's getting annoying since I can't get base leads.

>>182361682
Try it see how it is

Quick question, I already finished xcom2 once but now doing the last radio tower attack in LW2. Can I use the same squad for both missions?

I cant remember if I had to use 2 squads (one for the radio tower, one for the base assault) or just one.

>>182361551
I've faced down both the berserker queen and viper king on one map once. It was a VIP rescue too.

>>182361746
No.

>>182361768
Yes

>>182361682
started off as a better advent
ended up as a worse bloatvent

>>182361890
>bloatvent
The sad fate of many mods

>>182361816
Thanks

>>182361768
>Can I use the same squad for both missions?
You should be able to but remember that fatigue exists

Do you go out of your way to target """""civilians""""" with your explosives?