XCOM General - /xcg/

Remember Snek Lovers should be executed on sight.

Pistols are guns

Remember to love thy snek.

>50% chance to succeed
>Try, fail
>Change seed
>Try, fail
>Change seed
>Try, fail
>Change seed
>Try, fail
>Alt-F4

>>182639093
the seed doesn't change when you reload, anon

>You start in N America and the only place you can go to is Asia

Fuck, I was even lucky enough to get 2 +1 resistance contact missions complete

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Threadly reminder that he is the ELDER'S MOST LOYAL CHAMPION, and he has been favored with their blessings.

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Bitch deployed, Commander.

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>tfw reading XCOM smut
>see narcotic Muton semen

hmmmm

>>182638695
>$40 "expansion"\
>still has gay timers
yes preorder :^)

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>>182639868

>preorders infront of you

Psh, nuffin personal kid

>>182639868
I probably will, thanks.

>>182639868
>still salty about timers after more than a year after release
ayy lmao

>>182639184
the seed changes when you reload and make other actions

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>>182638991

And very Useful.

>>182638991
Do you guys ever miss being able to have a pistol as a secondary?

>>182639868
Use a cheat mod then, unless your on a garbage console lmao

>>182640239
No if the same guy shoots the same thing it's the same thing. The only thing I found that worked with being a faggot savescummer was hacking

>>182640534
I never used them on anyone but assaults on agent duty or snipers.

>>182640534
I didn't use them much, but it was good to have a secondary weapon when I'm out of ammo or a weapon that didn't kill the ayys I wanted to capture.
But they would be less useful in X2 since you can reload without ending your turn and there's no capture mechanic.

>>182640689
No, if you try to shoot something, reload, have someone else shoot something, then the seed will change afterwards

>>182640870
http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412446292761375422/

https://forums.2k.com/showthread.php?4200576-XCOM-2-Random-Seed

https://forums.2k.com/showthread.php?4202111-Is-the-RNG-seed-saved-with-the-save-game-now

Nope I've only see hacking change the outcomes, in which case they allowed hacking to change the seed but shots to not

>>182640870
Well then that's the same seed but a different combination. If 1. shoots at Sectoid 1 no matter how many times you reload 1. is always going to miss.

Making 2. shoot at Sectoid1. first still keeps the same seed. x+y doesn't always equal z. 1 will not always miss if 2,3,4 and 5 take their actions first. But the seed is still the same you've just changed a few variables

What's your #1 anticipated feature from WOTC?

>>182641845
replayability

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>Unable to figure out which mods were previously used

>>182639868
New expansion changes most timers and mission requirements for the better

>>182641845
Skirmisher waifus

>Yet another run dies due to some mod causing the game to crash or not load something

>>182641845
Dating sim

>>182641845
The meme creator.

>>182641845
Either playing as Templar or getting my hands on the Hunter's rifle after killing him.

>>182641845
Covert missions, navigating urban maps with tons of lost, bonds ( I wonder if you can have them married since Jake did say they can be lovers") hero classes and fighting the chosen. I wonder if killing the warlock drops some psi weapon, he doesn't look like hes wearing an amp so maybe his gauntlets for the templar? Templar inside look when?

How many mods do you use?

>>182647635
all of them. every mod.

>>182647661
What if their not compatible?

>>182647635
I only ever use cosmetic mods, female Archon mod is pretty gud. Used to use overwatch all mod but it counted as one action so if you're facing an alien ruler he only reacts once.

Is it worth getting this game on console?

>>182647827
nah nigga

So who is the superior scientist? Tygan or Vahlen? Pls don't think with your dicks or burgers

>>182648179
Vahlen but tygan has good knowledge of how advent works

Inb4 the Chosen are Vahlen's second stage project to combine human+elder dna that also turned traitor and joined ADVENT.

>>182648179
Vahlen, she's much more enigmatic and energetic than Tygan.

>>182648721
Pls no bully Vahlen. She just needs that good old Bradford dicking.

I wish we get Pectoid commander in xcom 3, I mean Normal Sectoids evolve why couldn't the commander.

>>182648721
inb4 Vahlen is a witch working for the TFTD who played both Earth and the ayys into a conflict to see who would provide an adequate challenge for Cthulu

What would a Vahlen/Tygan hybrid look like?

>>182649497
An anal probing, gene splicing, burger eating monster.

>>182647849
Damn bruh that sucks. Thanks for telling me but I ain't got no choice if I wanna play it.

>>182649497
You can go to Germany to find out

>>182649574
Not that Anon, but besides from being stuck in vanilla, its kind of a hassle to pick unit and tiles with a controller, the controls aren't smooth since it was pretty much designed to be played with a mouse and keyboard.

>>182647632
I've been hungering for the templar inside look too anon

>>182650131
I was actually kinda surprised they showed Warlock inside look first before the Hunter since Warlock is the equivalent of the Templar. I feel like next inside look will be the Hunter tho since the order has been Assassin, Reaper, Skirmisher then Warlock. They're really blue balling me here on that Templar lore.

>>182649689
Oh I know about the jank-ass controls. I meant more along the lines of are the console versions not getting all the cool meme shit like customization and photo booths and whatnot. The barebones customization that console versions got in the first game hurt bad.

>>182650445
I believe the console version is also getting the photo booth and all the features of WOTC. Do you not have a computer to play on Anon? Personally I'd recommend playing it on a pc but if your concern is if consoles aren't getting the whole WOTC experience then you shouldn't worry about that.

Where's the video that shows the ADVENT priest?

>>182650854
how often do we get these updates actually?

>>182651310
Once per week?

>>182651310
Inside Look happens every 7 days.


What will happen to ADVENT/Skirmishers after the war? Will they be executed by the mobs since they are technically alien?

>>182639868
they have a second wave option that doubles timers. Great for cheaters like you.

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I wonder if some guy will ever port this for shits and giggles

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>>182652312

>>182652312
>>182652454
Time to play this and WOTC till xcom 3 comes out.

War of the Chosen looks so baller. The more multi-leveled maps and the zombie chaos looks like it's gonna be tense as hell.

>>182652454
>>182652312
The ONLY thing that looks bad about it is how Nintendo fanboys will respond to it. They can't tell us forever that xcom is meaningless and nobody wants to play it and then go around praising it because now it has bing bing bing wahoo!

>>182652454
>>182652312
>XCom 2's next expansion
>activate several pods
>"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

>>182652876
I don't spend time on the internet interacting with shitty fanboys except for you guys

>>182647632
Jake said that you're supposed to interpret bonds however you please, not that they can be lovers. It's a YOUR DUDES thing, you can see bonds as love, friendship, rivalry, etc.

>>182648179
Int he context of XCOM2 Tygan is superior due to his knowledge of some of ADVENT's inner workings, but otherwise Vahlen.

>>182653219
This, they keep the definition of what exactly bonds are entirely up to you, they just tell you that the troops have formed a bond.

I think what Jake said was that he was expecting people to turn the Bonds into more of a dating mechanic before long.

>>182654631
I'm surprised there's no Xcom dating sim yet or is there

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>Our time on this world is drawing to a close...
Why the fuck is the alien threat the Elders are afraid of coming out of the earth's crust?

And if the Chosen know that, why the fuck are they so happy to fight over a planet that's about to get assraped by Yog-Sothoth and the elder gods?

Now that we have way more classes than we do deployment slots, what sort of A-team are you expecting to run?

I'm thinking
2 Supports
Skirmisher
Reaper
Templar
SPARK

I'm also pretty tempted to download some sort of mod that will let me deploy 8 or more units so I can take 1 of everything but that's just my autism.

>>182655187
Is that the threat? I thought the purple light signified that the Elders did survive waterworld and the chosen doesn't know that, the Hunter says in the intro cinematic " I thought you were the strongest"

>>182655245
Can't have multiple heroes on the same squad.

>>182655316
Shit, when did they say that?

>>182655307
First of all, that cutscene's in week 2.

Second of all, this plays when the Ethereals are saying a greater battle awaits them. Everything points to this being the great enemy they fear.

>>182655393
Pretty early on, multiple times on r/XCOM.

>>182655434
I meant to say chosen's intro cinematic*, yeah I've played the level and I know that a lot of people think the purple light is the threat the Ethereals feared but then why would it be near their underwater base and from the dialogue I assumed the threat is still on the way. It's all speculation so I could be wrong and you could be right.

>>182655393
>>182655546
I would like to see the source if you have it as well.

>>182655316
But the tutorial mission has exactly that.

I've been having issues with additional class mods disabling the technical class for Long War 2, anybody know how to fix it? I'm currently reinstalling absolutely everything

>>182655631
Yeah, a reaper and a skirmisher working together

>>182655631
Well it is a tutorial mission, not sure how much info I would glean from that.

>>182655905
And why would they present impossible scenarios in a tutorial?

>>182655631
Yeah, a scripted story mission where you lose one of them right at the end, unavoidably...

S how much is the main story changing. Just some missions and having to fight those blue dudes if you don't kill them?

>>182655940
You see yourself ever using Shen or Dadford on the true tactical layer? Don't forget you exceed the squad limit with the SPARK in Shen's last Gift. Special missions can bend rules just as they please.

>>182655986
Well what we currently know is that the intro mission will be different (the reapers are gonna be the ones who discover you) and the ending will be different..

>>182655956
Not sure why we're arguing over the semantics of this when someone on your side could just present a quote from a dev saying only 1 hero per mission

>>182655940
idk, why would they put a sectoid commander in the XCOM 1 tutorial even though it's not a common enemy? Why do the ayyys break all the rules by shooting on activation?
Why does X2 tutorial give you Jane Kelly and always get the other rookie killed?
Also looks like you might be using six soldiers when you only have a squadsize of 4.

Scripted mission break the standard rules is my point, doesn't mean I'm saying that you won't be able to have multiple new classes in your group at the same time, just saying that mission is poor evidence.

>>182656207
You're right.

>>182656207
more evidence than your argument's coughed up

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>>182654631
>>182653219
Oh, the possibilities of what unites your soldiers.

The Theban Band reborn

>>182656315
Just saying bro. I'm guessing the other anon is still looking for the exact quote.

>>182656207
This, all this Anon is saying are that tutorials and special missions aren't proof of whats to come since they do bend the rules. I do think you can have more than 1 hero class (unless you guys can provide the source proving otherwise) since the whole WOTC is uniting the other factions and it will be such a shit mechanic if you can't put them in the same squad.

>>182656315
Yeah, this seems fishy. If reddit is where they got their claim I'm going to quickly check with the freaks there to see if it's true.

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Thanks anon

>>182656464
Just got my answer, you can bring more than one per mission, so those guys were bullshitting.

>>182656826
Thanks for the Answer kind Anon. As I said kinda ridiculous you can only bring 1 per faction (I mean its not the smartest move since fatigue to bring all 3) since the whole point is uniting the other resistance groups.

>>182656826
I'm pretty sure Jake even said that you could bring more than one to a mission back in his big E3 interview, so yeah, this is what I expected.

XCOM has always let you run weirdass squad compositions for the hell of it, like all MECs/SHIVs etc.

WELL now that that's settled, what team of 6 do you plan on running? I'm still pretty undecided since I can't tell if a Reaper could fully replace the functionality of a Sharpshooter for example. I want to have all 3 hero classes out as much as possible though.

>>182641992
This. frbr.

>>182657628
I guess 1 Support, 1 Spark since they're getting some good buffs, 1 sniper, 1 Hero class (I don't want to use all 3 in the same mission because of fatigue) a grenadier and a ranger.

>>182657628
I really see reapers being a no-brainer replacement for snipers. They won't have pistols, but they are extremely mobile with their sniper rifle always only taking one action to fire with no penalties, plus they can shoot twice.
Furthermore, with their stealth, you can probably start building rangers with pure combat perks and just ignore concealment stuff if you wanted to.

>>182657628
>I want to have all 3 hero classes out as much as possible though.
Then you're not all putting them in one squad. The fatigue system would make that lead to them either being out of combat very often or quickly racking up negative traits.

>>182657628
Reapers seem to more offensive snap shot snipers that focus on dealing more damage to important targets, compared to sharpshooters being able to wound and deal chip damage frequently with pistols.

Then again, do Reapers even have squadsight and snap shot?

>>182658134
>Then again, do Reapers even have squadsight and snap shot?
Don't know about squadsight, but their rifles only cost one action to shoot.

>>182658134
Reapers' Vektor rifles don't need snapshot, and they don't seem to have squadsight. They also do piss damage with their base weapon, 3-4, so no, Sharpshooters are innately more damaging than them unless they use explosives.

>>182657819
No Squadsight and no high damage, long range abilities like a Sharpshooter has though.

They're not really comparable at all, what a Reaper IS a replacement for is a Concealment Ranger, they do everything that they do but much, much better.

>>182658308
I believe that Reapers have a skill in the Marksmen tree that gives them more damage, do we know if they can only carry one claymore?

>>182658452
>what a Reaper IS a replacement for is a Concealment Ranger, they do everything that they do but much, much better.
Doesn't seem like they kill things better, at least not before you start upgrading them.

>>182657819
>plus they can shoot twice.
No. That's skirmishers. You're idiotic.

In addition, Reapers have terrible rifle damage, it's as bad as a base assault rifle. They're designed to be scouts that set mines, not extreme gun-damage dealers.

>>182658134
Squadsight is possibly something they could get as an Xcom ability, but the amount of ability points it takes to get an Xcom ability is more then their personal abilities. So prepare to do some heavy investment to get it. Remember that Xcom abilities are random for every soldier, think of them like how the AWC does things in Long War 2, you get a bunch of different things assigned and it's up to you if you want to take them.

So your Reaper could get conceal instead of Squadsight.

>>182657628
Reaper and Skirmisher split the Ranger's job of recon and mobile damage dealer. Sharpshooter takes out both low (Lost) and high (Chosen) priority targets. Psi op with an EXO suit handles heavy weapons (I usually replace grenadiers with Psi troopers when considering loadout). A Specialist who's taken both combat hacking and medical perks, a gunner-based Grenadier, and finally another ranger because they're simply the best class. The last two are optional if you're going for a 4-man only run.

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>>182658748
>Honor-talk and liking fights is lolsorandom
Huh?

>>182658748
Assassin don't strike me as "lol randumb"

>>182658517
Situationally they can and remain in stealth, once they get Remote Start and the ability to tag enemies with their claymore mine. Plus their detection radii is much, much lower than a ranger's, allowing them to do more of the clutch sneaking.

A Reaper calling shots for a Sharpshooter is going to be a pretty powerful combo, I think.

>>182658819
>>182658803
Just memeing

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>>182658748
hat's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Bastard Sword" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Katanas deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine katana in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that's about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my katana.

Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.

Katanas are thrice as sharp as European swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Katanas:

(One-Handed Exotic Weapon)
1d12 Damage
19-20 x4 Crit
+2 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon)
2d10 Damage
17-20 x4 Crit
+5 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork

Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Katanas in real life, don't you think?

tl;dr = Katanas need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.

Fixed your copypasta for you.

>>182658874
I'm surprise you didn't get a stroke from typing that atrocity down.

>>182658567
I remember seeing that they get an ability that increases their damage on a flank, just like Hunter's Instincts, so that will be nice. But yeah they don't seem to deal the best damage on their own, they are just meant to be a trapper class that can deal out small but effective damage with their rifle, setting up explosives which can put them back in stealth, as well as using Remote Start to fuck over enemies that walk too close to any explosive i.e cars, all while not revealing themselves, which is honestly pretty broken since the enemy AI doesn't react well to not being able to target a concealed soldier. They don't even try to go to where the shot came from most of the time.

>>182658847
Esspecially good for those times when your Sniper leaves someone with low HP. Reaper can take them out and not reveal themselves. Or, other way around, Reaper can soften a target up with some abilities. Perfect for a Serial chain to start.

Apparently it's confirmed that each Chosen has their own battle theme, which explains the jungle noises in the theme I thought was the Chosen's in general, not just the Assassin's, I hope we get to see the Hunter and the Warlock's battle themes soon... and I hope they lvie up to how cool the Assassin's theme is.

>>182659263
>jungle noises
>dreadlocks
>invisibility
>obsessed with honor and the thrill of the hunt
>carries both a melee weapon and an advanced, futuristic blaster
What are the odds that Assassin had a ripjack before they moved it over to the Skirmishers?

>>182659416
Don't forget
>huge-ass forehead

>>182659416
Considering we know you can mod Chosen, it's just rather hard, a predator Chosen is theoretically possible, you'd just have to gift it some of the skirmisher's animations along with the Assassin's stealth powers.

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>YOU ARE THE CHOSEN, DO NOT FAIL US. NOW GO!
What did he mean by this?

>>182641845

Bonding. Now I can make my battle waifus a reality.

Do Rulers in vanilla react to the free actions given by the Alien Hunter weapons? (Axe throw, rage smash, etc)? I know this info will be outdated in a month but it's useful for now.

>>182658962
Nice copypasta... Although at this point it isn't funny anymore b/c ppl(not majority) over in /his/ actually tried to argue this. Makes me salty.

>>182661060
But where is sunglasses?

>>182661185
fuck I knew i forgot something

>>182661060
Can you imagine a chosen whose entire strength progression is just repeatedly becoming immune to useful things to the point that by the end you've got a beast with like 50 HP who's immune to overwatch, explosives, melee attacks, status effects and can't be flanked.

I can. And this is the future that awaits us.

>>182661060
>later...
>immune to fire, poison, freezing and acid
>immune to falling
>immune to psionic abilities
>immune to melee
>immune to first attack made on your turn
>immune to gremlin attacks

>>182661505
What is this, fucking FFTA?

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>Hey Ranger, you need to kill this guy at point-blank range using your last round
>no, I'm gonna reload instead

It better not be turn-ending.

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>>182661185
Now with sunglasses

>>182660982
No, they do not. That's why they are so powerful against them.

>>182662097
It probably is - that's one of the negative traits you get by being an asshole and forcing fatigued soldiers to go out into combat anyways.

>>182658962
What are your views on the kukri?

>>182662259
It's says he's happy about a full __clip__, not fatigued. Unless certain traits can only be triggered by battle fatigue.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJ_gC79x90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG2Dmev6Edk

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/07/12/how-xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-ramps-up-threats-and-options

>>182662307
Genuinely, I find them cool, but I assume the asinine original poster of that copypasta, back in the bygone days of /tg/, would probably hate them like any non-weeb sword.

>>182662259
It's action using and they can do it on any command that you do. BUT, only once per mission. Jake wanted it to be something you have to deal with, but not completely fucking you over since guns are almost never fully loaded at any point in a mission.

>>182662450
Basically if you force a fatigued soldier out to fight, they have a chance to pick up a negative quirk, the example they gave was "compulsive reloader", where a soldier might refuse your order to move or shoot, and instead reload their gun. Which costs an action as normal.

The whole point is that it is to stop you using fatigued soldiers because on top of their low will scores, they might develop these negative quirks.

There is supposed to be a way to remove them, but it will apparently be quite costly.

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>>182662450
That one has quite literally been stated multiple times in interviews to be one of the kind you get by forcing fatigued soldiers to fight.

If you take a tired soldier out into battle, they'll get a permanent negative trait that costs to remove with a facility.


So basically, XCOM2 is now Darkest Dungeon.

Can the Chosen reproduce?

>>182662475
>Purifier explodes

Well, shit. This is going to make fighting them interesting if you can get them while they are with their buddies.

>>182662791
Probably not, Ethereals seem to have created them and they seem to have a hateboner about reproduction that isn't done via cloning tanks.

>>182663209
sounds like the Ethereals need to get laid

>>182663209
>Ethereal-santified reproduction methods:
>Cloning
>Violently parasitizing other species
>That's it
"but we're the the goods" - Elder McManLady, Exkom Twoh

>>182662667
Well, it's not quite permanent if you can remove it with a facility.
Like the Shaken effect, I'm glad that getting losing Will doesn't permanently consign soldiers to the garbage bin anymore.

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Why are the blueballing us with the Templars? They're probably failed subjects of the Avatar experiments.

>>182663446
Sex is probably how they got their space aids so now its taboo.

>>182663715
vahlen

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>>182647632
Seems like the warlock will drop a sweet rifle.

>>182662116
Good work anon

>>182647789
Is there a standalone female archon mod floating around? I can only find them in A Better Advent.

>>182665129
Loverslab. That's the models origin

>>182664950
Dammit. I wanted to collect his psionic power gloves to punch ayys in the face

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>>182662097
We /darkest dungeon/ now

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Well then.

>>182665583
What's the status of the situation?

>>182665764
LOSING CONTROL

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What went right?

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>tfw no snek girlfriend

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>>182666054
>implying the Viper King is into girls

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>>182666386
:^)

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>>182666445
>worshiping filthy reptiles

There's only one ayy lmao I'd bow down for.

>>182665764
the worst health bar mod

Anyone got that webm of a bunch of advent getting wiped out by a (likely modded) super-sized squad all triggering overwatch at the same time? I remember seeing it a lot when XCom2 first came out

>>182666445
He doesn't really look like he's enjoying himself, looks like he's in the middle of telling a story while some naked guy reverse-crab walks towards him.

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>>182667046
>>182666760
>>182666445
>>182666054

REMOVE COLLABORATORS

So when are we gonna get an alien campaign? I'm so sick of playing as the villains.

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>>182668190
AYY LMAO

>tfw your soldier couldve been saved if you had just brought another medkit

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>>182668190

>>182650562
Sadly no, I don't have the dosh saved up for a PC yet but I really wanna play me some XCOM so I'm glad to hear I won't be getting shafted on anything except mods.

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>>182670139
Vahlen soon, Praise the commander BPUH

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>vip escort mission
>have phantom ranger
>use him to spot enemy pod including a heavy mec
>have my specialist, still out of sight, look at haywire protocol, but dont actually use it
>pod activates

is this intended or is the game broke again

>>182670478
Not intended]

>>182670478
your gremlin can be seen by enemies if youre not hidden

>>182670478
The drone can be spotted I don't really know how often or what trigger it myself. I think flying it right up into a robots face though is a good way to get caught

>>182670587
>>182670593

so im guessing this only happens if you dont start in concealment then? its not often i get the chance to hack stuff before being spotted in non-concealed missions so im not sure personally.

>>182670831
specialist is unconcealed = gremlin reveals
specialist is concealed = safe to use gremlin

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjeQ_TNRP0Y

>>182671385
Jake is too pure for this world

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>post yfw the ayy version of these motherfuckers appear

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>>182671995

>>182671995
>Fully upgraded Chosen whose strength rolls are all immunities

>>182671995
What do you think one of these feels like to touch, it would be fun to ride these like a hippo horse mix

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>>182671995
There's nothing to be done. The best we could hope for is containment, because tardigrades are immortal and invurlnable.

XCOM 2: 2: Terror from the Deep when

>>182655434
>>182655187

I'm really wondering when/if we'll get to fight whatever cosmic horror the Ethereals have been running from. Maybe it will involve your ancestor telling you that he lost control of the situation and you need to come fix his mess.

>>182672479
after WotC

>>182671483
I know, right?

>>182671995
XCOM: Apocalypse.

>>182671995
Is it just me or do these seem unlike anything else on earth?

They seem almost mechanical.

>>182671385
Do you think eating sectoid brains give hallucinogenic effects?

>>182673312
Do you think eating Avatar pussy gives you anxiety?

>>182673109
You've clearly never seen what viruses look like - those fuckers look like biological robots.

>>182673531
no but it'll definitely spin your mind

>>182673584
Bacteriophages look like space ships.

>>182674131
I hope if the greater threat is a redo of the apocalypse aliens, that the micronoids have a bacteriophage-like design.

80% to hit more like 80% to miss

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>soldiers with highest Aim stat miss
>soldiers with lowest Aim stat hit

Me am Bizzaro XCom.

>>182676693
gay rights were a mistake

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>>182676693
Goat = XCOM game franchise
Gun = aid ridden, bug spreading mod and memes of it which are getting old
You = Man

>>182660518
>you can see the hi-res ethereal's face

weird

>>182677289
Relax, dude.

>>182665583
>everyone easily lined up for a flaming

easy

>>182677594
People actually use flame weapons?

>>182677647
They're better in LW2

>>182677647
if you don't figure out how to use that gauntlet right you're going to have a bad time

>>182667285
correct

>>182677823
Can they even compete with options like the blaster launcher or the shredstorm?

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Is this a new Alien Type VG?

>>182678119
Setting enemies on fire and covering the ground with fire fucks over a lot of enemies, so the flamethrower weapons have good use.

>>182678119
four flames per mission by the time you get warsuits

so yes, they're competitive, especially since every flamer technical you have STILL comes with a free FUCK YOU blaster bomb

they really should have let rocket technicals have three rockets

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>SPARK gets killed
>"Sorry. I...failed. Youuuuuu.." [shutdowns]

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>>182679835

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>>182679835

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"Commander, I'm ready for your orders."

>>182679835
I honestly hope videogames start costing $100 just to spite these people

>>182680078
Her theme song and this expression alone already my favorite.

>get game
>get to first mission past gatekeeper
>dont know shit
>got 8 turns to get shit
>4 turns of yellow dashing to get a single guy into blue range
>shit is set up that there is no possible way to hack that shit without flanking myself (3 turns left and revelaed)
>after missing a point blank flanking shot (still killed it, just a note on the stupid shit that wastes my time even more) move one guy up with blue move to hack that shit
>hacking takes an action and he is now left hanging

aaaaaaaaand that timer shit is getting off

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>unsubscribe to certain mods, including LW2
>delete the folder in My Gaems
>delete the mods location in steam folder
>delete and reinstall XCOM 2
>install and use the mod manager
>all mods I had unsubscribed to shows up in the mod list
>LW 2 residue still bitching at me now and again
How? Am I supposed to do a clean reinstall of my OS after I change my drives before I can get a completely fresh XCOM 2 experience?

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>>182679835
BULLIED

>war of the chosen dev play
>comments full of gib console mods pls
lmao

>>182680354

LW2 is fucking malware, it literally wont go away even if you reinstall the game, sometimes.

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STOP. FUCKING STOP. I'M ALMOST OUT OF FLAMES AND NADES. QUIT SENDING REINFORCEMENTS.

>>182680276
Shitter

>>182680354
did you restart? I think xcom is silly about mods like that

>>182680864
Restarted, rebooted, reinstalled, played a campaign. I would upgrade the mod managed to 1.02 if the link didn't redirect to the 1.01 location. Maybe that would fix it.

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>Use Insanity as my last move
>Realise too late that it might shoot the Codex, causing it to clone
>Critical hit; down in one hit
Good job, alien.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

>>182682023
That's already in game.

>>182679835
Fuck that guy. Even Pavonis themselves said that the cost was likely due to 2k bullshit because the game had no micro-transactions. Yet harmless opinion questions like this are met with nothing but hostility, due to obvious shilling.

Bad enough that he and other Beta testers pushed the "LW NEEDS TO RAPE ME" meme so much that Pavonis fucked it.

>>182682023
>>182682132
Yeah, I remember people losing their shit over it shortly after the game came out.

You're not going to see Vahlen in WotC guys, unless she's in the expanded cocktease at the end for XCOM 3

>>182682159
He's so fucking shot at the game too. Up until a few months ago he didn't even know about custom pathing.

>>182682159
I think he forgot his sarcasm /s at the end

>>182682364
Fuck, really? How could you not know about it? It was one of the most highly shown features. Aside from that, his latest bitch fest has been about Death from Above allowing you to 3 man facility missions. When really the big problem is shit AI that doesn't know how to deal with Squadsight. DfA just makes it go faster. Guy is pretty much at the point where he wants DfA removed, but he knows he can't say that without the horde descending down on him. God, every time he talks about aspects of the game, he absolutely hates them, but abuses them all the same. It's like he has no joy for the game anymore, but he doesn't really know how to fucking fix the issue so he just whines about it.

>>182682731
I don't think so, guy is an ass, been showing his true colors as of late when people were calling out his shitty design decisions and trying to get the LW dev team to change things. Been nothing but vitriol for the last month and a half.

>>182683126
Got any more examples of said vitriol? I need more things to distract me from the fact we're still 6 weeks away til release

>implying it matters whether he was serious or not
Shit's funny, that user was absolutely btfo

>>182683126
>It's like he has no joy for the game anymore, but he doesn't really know how to fucking fix the issue so he just whines about it.

Can you imagine having to play XCOM 2 every day and try and to try and break it? Shit would get pretty tired quickly

>>182682364
>Up until a few months ago he didn't even know about custom pathing.

Seriously? Custom pathing = holding down ctrl and clicking on a tile right? I watched his first LW2 season and I'm pretty sure he was doing that.

Just picked this up to play it before the expansion hits. How do I make sparks not shit?

I thought they would be more like EW Mecs but they just seem kind of worse than regular soldiers.

Looks like there's a couple of mods for them but I have no idea which ones are worth using.

>>182684461
At the moment, only with mods. Machine Over Flesh is the best one.

>>182684461

Metal over Flesh makes them nicely OP.

>>182684461
You don't unless you download the Metal over Flesh mod. WotC has Jake realize that Sparks are complete shit and gave them everything they need to not be shit.

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How long until it goes on sale?

>>182684805
August 29th

>>182684846
No, I mean another kind of sale. As in discount.

>>182684805
Purchase or slash the price? I'd expect half a year before they lower the price and probably only 10 dollars anyway.

>>182684805
Next summer sale

SKIRMISHER WAIFUS

WHEN?

>>182685017
you can get it for 30 right now on GMG with their e3 coupon and shit

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>>182684805

>tfw your Gods force you to spend time with edgy idiots

>>182685114
Well shit better refund it on steam

That's what I get for being a good goy

>>182685305
He's the older bro who's getting tired of his younger siblings.

>>182685305
>Written article says he goes insane from drinkign too deep into the Psionic well of power and starts thinking of himself as an ultimate god above the elders who is the only one who knows the true strength of Psionics
Their edgy idiocy is contagious it seems.

>>182663446
Sex is sinful anon

>>182685642
and violently murdering somebody and then using their corpse to incubate more murderous beasts isn't?

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>>182685114
>>182685339
>not having a russian credit debit card
>2017
Its like 25$ right now, mates.

>LW2 find dark event and begin infiltrating
>just before the 100% a pop up comes up saying they completed the dark event
>soldiers are still infiltrating
If I complete this will it remove the dark event or would it be fruitless.

>>182685642
Not when done with the lights off in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation with one of those weird coverings that hides the genitals and upper body with minimum contact.

>>182684805
free from day 1

>>182685972
I'm not that invested into vidya gayms my man

>>182686081
It will not, just cancel the mission.

>>182685775
Did they stick a penis in to do it?

>YOU DARE DEFILE THIS PLACE WITH YOUR WRETCHED TONGUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJ_gC79x90

>soldier misses a 90% shot
>reload just because I cant deal with that much bullshit for today
>hours later still feel guilty about that reload
>delete every save file and start a new game
fuggg :DDDDD

>>182680354
>Uncheck LW2
>Everything seems good.
>Get to first Viper.
>GRAZE!!!!!1!!
>Everything else seems fine.

Should I just... deal with it?

>>182688096
Dodge is a vanilla behavior.

>>182688096
That's vanilla stuff

>>182688202
>>182688276

O good. Guess it's been to long since I've played vanilla.

You guys think WoTC will have its own set of DLC?

>>182688661
Unlikely, they'll probably start development on XCOM 3: Apocalypse from the Deep

>>182687919
You did the right thing.

>>182688661
I hope not. Time for new content needs to end, mods can take care of that. Devs should focus their energies on fixing the game they have while working on the the next one.

>>182688898
You think they will go the Bethesda Route and do Console Mods Guys?

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>>182687270

>MISCREANTS

>>182689023
I hope not. It's a waste of time, and I don't think it is very profitable, especially when you consider how obnoxious working with consoles is when it comes time to update/introduce new content.

>>182689023
console players are already plebs

can't imagine what long dong would do to them

>>182689023

No. Bethesda only started up console modding in the first place because they intended to monetize it. I hope that practice never becomes common.

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>>182689130
>>182687270

MISCREANTS STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER

>>182691002
>When your little siblings are being pieces of shit and you have to come in and quiet them down since Mom-Dad is about to give us a serious scolding

I want to marry Vahlen and make little scientists with her

Templar Trailer when?

Theories on who they are and their origins?

>>182691437
Durand is the Lady Templar in charge

>>182687270
I'd defile her place with my wretched tongue.

>>182691574
>frenchfry
>using german codename
????

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>>182691574
>>182691652
We already know who the leader of the Templars is.

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Of all our creations, you are truly blessed. You are the Chosen. Do not fail us. Now go!

6 fucking weeks

I can't take it

>>182692008
is angelis their mom or their dad, or are they such a freakish abomination they're both

i need this information for my cringeworthy slice of life flan fliction

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All humans must fucking die. The aliens are the superior species. Humans are pathetic creatures who must be purged in order to make room for the superior race.

>>182692287
>superior race
>btfo by humans looking at their tech with an an hour glass really, really hard

>>182691903
P-Pequod?

>>182692287
>superior race
>can't reproduce naturally because they bought into the no children meme
No wonder their race is dying out.

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>>182692417
>hour glass

>>182692614
Lab staff just stand around until the clock runs out.
>I could not have predicted this outcome
no shit asshole you just stood around playing word cookies on your tablet

>>182692614
magnifying glass. fuck. time to commit seppuku

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>>182691903
Big sky doesn't have a name does he?

The random name I gave him doesn't really fit desu.

>>182691903
I can't not see him just wearing a weird helmet with an open lower face and lots of facial hair everywhere but his chin

>>182693050
Well no, swedes are usually not called Geoff Kelly.

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Somebody said in the last thread that the advent priest was briefly shown in a video. Anyone got a link to it? I can't find it.

>>182693050
Just call him;
First Name: Big
LastName: Sky
Nickname: madman or other such

>>182693251
You, or they, may be thinking of the Spectre. We got to see it for like 7 frames in the announce trailer.

>>182693202
His flag was just a choice to diversify my flags on the roster. I have tons of Americans since a lot of my character pool is made up of video game characters.

>>182693363
No, it was the advent priest. They said his armor looks similar to a stunlancer.

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>>182693251
maybe they were referring to this, I don't think they were in the lost and the damned, unless they confused the advent captain with purifiers with the priest.

>>182693351
What if his name really is Big Sky?

I mean, what if in his ID it literally says "Big Sky"

>>182693456
Oh my god his armor looks awful.

>>182693363
>>182693456
>>182693435

I said it, he was definitively on a video. Maybe it was the german one, but in all honesty i don't remember.

>>182693554
He looks like the fucking Pope

>>182693351
The issue with that is I'll just see Sky on the deployment screen or unit flag. It's better to have big sky as the nickname.

>>182693641

Found it

https://youtu.be/4tr8KGWqLNc?t=2m53s

Pretty sure you see him again later in the video.

>>182683363
Watch his 3 man HQ mission, it's just endless bitching about how broken death from above is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUHVBZBlZ1Y

hint: watch it at x2 speed

>>182693970
god this guy speaks like a retard

is he yurotrash or something?

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>>182693740

He looks stupid.

>>182693740
>Meanwhile, in Waterworld.
>Elder #1: So what should we do to design this psionic soldier to make them appeal to the base humans?
>Elder #2: What if we were to style them off their human religions of the old.
>Elder #1: But how..
>Elder #3: i know of a human religionite. his name, the pope.
>Elder #1: Show me.
>Elder #3 promptly presses a comically regal remote, and a very small screen floats down, depicting Pope Benedict in a more unflattering picture than usual.
>Elder #1: Brilliant! Let us style all of our Advent Popes after this Earth-Pope!
>Elder #2: That might not be wise, I believe the Pope is something of a singular entity among the humans. Perhaps their only natural Psi-Warrior?
>Elder #1: We shall call them Priests, then!
>All elders, in Unison: We are so smart! x3

>>182691652
Well, its not going to be Vahlen guys, the AH mission is still in game, the "oh noes is it Vahlen?!" is going to make sense if you've already met her leading the Templars.

The AH mission is the facility that the VK guards, you just contact the others by doing the facility mission that they are guarding in turn.

>>182694120
That helmet is so funny looking

>>182694120
Poor neck.

>>182694232
I don't think it's Vahlen, I just don't think Geist is going to be

a) french

or b) a forgettable DLC character, especially since if Jake put the kibosh on them being EXALT that makes it even more unlikely portent is going to be referenced in any meaningful way

>>182694120
Looks to me like they're hiding the fact his head is probably more sectoid like to me. Would make sense that the psionic advent that aren't Avatar candidates have a bit more pectoid dna in there to get the psi going.

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>>182694164
>You harbor such blind hatred for us. We cannot understand it.

So, are a lot of you just gay or is that mod just a giant meme here?

>>182694330
Okay, fair enough, but its just everyone else who makes a point about Geist's name being German goes on to suggest it is Vahlen.

For the record, I don't think it is either Durand or Vahlen, it will be someone new.

>>182694528
it's just one faggot posting it

>>182694528
It's literally one dude. And half his soldiers are named after male pornstars.

maybe /pol/ was right

>>182693191
He wouldn't have facial hair because that impairs his ability to get a seal on his mask.

>>182694120
They someone made an enemy design worse than the avatar.

>>182694689
>>182694667
One guy, I find it hilarious. I think anyone getting genuinely butt-blasted over it really needs a humour infusion, stat.

>>182694726
well yeah obviously but the little thumbnail size of it in game I always saw it as that

>>182694732
Every design is worse than the perfection of the avatar.

>>182694775
It was funny at first, now it's practically waifu posting

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>>182694120
I'm sure he's got a gigantic brain they needed to hide but couldn't they have opted to either make a new alien to fit the roll or pull some avatar reject bullshit?