/xcg/ - XCOM General

First for I want to drop a load on Lily's back, just once.

snipers are useful

All vipers must fucking hang

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>>183388071
Agreed

Viglio Confido

pistols are XCOM'S MOST USEFUL CHAMPION

>>183388201
I'm just saying man. Just to say I did it.

snipers are useless

So when Xcom drives out ADVENT what's gonna happen to the Advent soldiers in the incubators? are they gotta euthanize them or use them for Babymaking

>>183388498
The Skirmishers are gonna swoop in and start their own society

>>183388498
if theyre even alive that is
probably hand em over to the Skirmishers

what happened to menace 1 1, menace 1 2, menace 1 3 and menace 1 4?

>>183388979
they didnt fly so good....

>>183388979
Lily's excellent leadership.

>>183388979
Nothing. The squad is called menace one, like strike one.

Menace 1-6 or Menace Actual would be the commander (you). So Bradford is talking to the squad leader, Menace 1-5.

>only have to finish the avatar autopsy and i can head off to central network tower and waterworld in lw2
the suffering is nearly over

Can faction heroes be customized? Will there be new customization options for other soldiers with wotc?

>>183389176
yes

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>>183389278
:)

>>183389176
Yep, reapers and Templars have 2 new faces (can be used on normal soldiers) also faction heroes have more customization parts such as thighs,etc. Also new voices while Skirmishers have scar options.

In Long Dong: Part Duex, how do AWC abilities work with classes that don't have pistols already equiped? Do I have to equip a pistol in the utility slots? Do they work at all?

>>183389141
The golden path is always kind of bitter sweet to me.

>>183389681
Yes and yes. Pistols are a utility item available to all classes.

They're still very powerful, but it's harder to train a gunslinger than vanilla.

does enemy will work the same way as XCOM will?
how do you make enemies panic?

>>183391194
Enemies can only be panicked by psionic attacks

>>183391194
Burning enemies panics them

What we saw in the livestream:
>Reapers are auto-revealed when completing objectives
>Priests have Mind Meld 2.0
>Priest Autopsy unlocks a one-time-use item that's basically an Amulet of Life Saving
>XCOM returns to mission sites after evac to take selfies
>Rangers have an ability where anything they see once remains visible even in darkness
>Templars get a third move after melee attacks
>Instead of moving, they can take a 100% block against the first attack next turn
>An upgraded Templar can make focus drop from enemies they didn't kill themselves
>Skirmishers can do Justice in reverse (they move to the target)
>Skirms also can get a once-per-mission free attack that deals double damage to robo
>One of the sitreps puts loot crates in the battlefield, another gives every soldier a free concealment
>There's at least one new "underground" map type (sewers)
>Warlock is too OP for the game to handle

>>183391194
When hit by a Flamethrower or Hellfire Projector.
From a Psi Operative's Insanity or Void Rift attack.
From a SPARK's Intimidate ability.
or from alien rulers suits

>>183391714
then whats the fucking point of that "reduce enemy will by 50%" thing

>>183391887
Makes it easier to dominate enemies.

>>183391983
hot
I havent used psi ops in forever so I forgot that was even a thing

>>183391887
I agree it's pretty bad reward. Atleast it's sort of lore friendly since the Elders have the psionic network up and strong

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>>183387843
>going from anorexic four-armed skinned twigs to perfect human forms

I for one welcome our new sexy overlords.

>>183392372
raus

>>183391664
Templar also has the ability to swap places with ADVENT and squadmates and can Templar's 3rd move (which can only be activated when you use rend/melee) could either be a move or parry and if you upgrade your parry you could deflect the attacks back.

>>183392372
Literally nowhere near as sexy as my boy Mox. That voice sets me all aquiver.

>>183391664
Wasn't the warlock, apparently, confirmed by a dev on plebbit that it was a bug tied to the Viper's binding XCOM soldiers.

Which is neat, because that is what I thought it was.

>>183392860
Yeah and also because they were using an older build for the stream.

>>183393031
Yep, an old 'stable' build, which for an in-development title means that they didn't find any glaring bugs in their cursory test runs.

Everyone played too good to let a Viper bind someone when testing it, clearly.

Am I the only one who fucking hates the cosmetics from Anarchy's Children and Alien Rulers ?

I just have them both set to 0 % chance to generate and I'm loving that XCOM vibe instead of "lol edgy"

>>183393502
I like the muzzle from AC
and AR isnt all that bad really
I just wish AC didnt take priority all the time

>>183388201
刪除!

>>183393502
I like one pair of pants in the anarchy children DLC and Alien ruler's armor are okay, except for rage suit. Just take out the helmets and they'll look alright.

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Hey guys, apparently loot chests were already an incomplete feature accidently left in the base game release build. They may or may not have been patched out, though. Anyone know more about this / is willing to test?

>>183392502
>Templar also has the ability to swap places with ADVENT
I thought it was only with your own soldiers?

>>183392860
>confirmed by a dev on plebbit that it was a bug tied to the Viper's binding XCOM soldiers
I figured; they were saying that in twitch chat too.

>>183393852
They've been in the game since release, they're a rare thing you find on missions that involve any kind of ADVENT storage.

They give you a little bit of loot iirc, wasn't an incomplete feature or anything, just a little hidden "huh, neat" one.

If anything, I think the ADVENT Supplies sitrep is them realising that the majority of their players didn't notice it so drawing it to their attention.

>>183393852
>apparently loot chests were already an incomplete feature accidently left in the base game release build.

I've occasionally found them myself, but they've always been empty.

the loot crates were just placeholder boxes for missions involving the rescue of a captured soldier
the dlc is just adding shit to them in the case that they spawn on regular missions

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>>183393308
That's a common problem with playtesting. Valve used to get around it by just hiring some shmucks to play their games occasionally.

Most of the devs I know who heard about that missed the point entirely, and just get mad at how dumb people are.

>>183393852
I've found them a couple times in certain missions, mostly break out missions where you go into an advent building of some kind. They had a few weapon mods, but normally they are empty.

>>183393852
>I thought it was only with your own soldiers?
Nah firaxis employee said you could do it with Advent in reddit, it's also not turn ending.

All these game-breaking psi powers just make Ethereals look kinda like shmucks in X1.

>>183393502

The only good content in AC is the powered armor options.

>>183394391
The issue could easily be solved by having a check list of all states the game can be in and testing it. Valve's testing is fine, the issue is that some parts of games that would otherwise be enjoyable get removed because devs misinterpret people getting confused with frustrated and rather then just making certain things clearer, decide it's not worth the effort and completely gut a section.

>>183394961
Eh. I like my squads to have a mix of proper, disciplined soldiery types and Mad Max wannabee rebels.

>>183395007
>The issue could easily be solved by having a check list of all states the game can be in and testing it.
You seem to have worked out the solution for every bug in history!

>>183394650
This is going to be way too powerful.

>Templar sits in open, swaps Shieldbearer into the open
>Templar kills trooper
>sits still, completely immune to retaliation from final unit

Even with larger pods, you could have a Ghost up and move two units into the open

Anyone know what the second stream was? The name would help a lot as well since I need to watch it

>>183395709
It isn't up yet. They are probably trying to figure out how they could salvage the footage they had to put on Youtube.

>>183395709
It isn't online yet and it was Templar stuff and Warlock stuff. Thread is full of discussion on it, read the thread.

>>183395007
Anon have you ever developed any kind of software whatsoever?

whats the most advanced tactic you can think of

>>183396361
Making the enemy blow themselves up

>>183396361
give an aid protocol to whoever is running the enemy's overwatch

>>183396361
Overwatch leapfrog

>>183395832
>>183395852
Isn't that the third stream? There was the the lost and the story one, and then one other before the Templers?

You guys realize that they are in full development of the DLC and probably running through commits, right ? The latest was probably a few hours old

They should have made a test before the stream doing exactly what they'd do live to make sure nothing was too broken, but I dunno what went wrong internally. Maybe they had a special stable build for demo but it wasn't mounted and they were still running the internal bleeding edge build ?

>>183396361
Shoot with guns

>>183396607
Or maybe shit just happened.

Let's go with that.

>>183396361
activating pods with concealment+longwatch

>>183396361
activating pods with threat assessment on a soldier with holo targeting

>>183396604
Not that I'm aware of, Templar vs Warlock was the next one, it started off with rescuing Mox which is the first thing after Lost and Abandoned, and is just an ordinary covert op type to recover soldiers taken by the Chosen.

>>183396607
They confirmed the build was about a week old, just a bug related to Viper Binding had slipped by, probably because a cursory testing before they moved onto focusing on other builds didn't turn it up.

>>183396731
Or this, its a stream of a game that is still in development, of course this shit is going to happen and anyone who thinks otherwise is either a.) deluded, or b.) doesn't really know much about software/game dev.

>>183396361
Set a wall on fire. Fire always does environmental damage tick after XCOM's turn. Set everyone on overwatch. The fire burns the wall away revealing the pod hidden behind the wall, the pod activaties eating your full overwatch, and then it's your turn.

>>183397367
that works with a basic flamethrower?

>>183396361
Hammer and anvil.

>>183397459
No idea. I executed this in XCOM 1 with a vanilla MEC flamethrower vs. the Overseer-er UFO wall.

1-3 DOOM 4
4-6 LW2
7-9 Xenonauts
0 fap

>>183397459
He might be talking about mec flamers.

>>183397662
1-3 ck2 game
4-6 Xenoauts

>>183397908
oh i forgot there's more then 6 numbers, Xenonauts it is

>>183394075
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>>183394248
>>183394418
Apparently they have loot in them, but it isn't always displayed for whatever reason. You'll see the loot on the mission overview screen though. That buggyness makes me think that the feature was simply forgotten about, not intentionally kept hidden.

>>183395614
>This is going to be way too powerful.
>>Templar sits in open, swaps Shieldbearer into the open
>>Templar kills trooper
>>sits still, completely immune to retaliation from final unit
Seems like a waste of Focus to me; you could have just as easily killed him with a slash without pulling him out first.

>>183396361
>the most advanced tactic you can think of
Fire and Manuever
Parthian Shot
Reverse-Slope Defense

Oh, you meant in XCOM? Well, at least one of these applies.

I have a very stupid qestion.
Is elerium is blue in EU/EW Or it is yellow like on UFO defence ?

What's with LW2's hard on for never getting enemy corpses?
Supply raids are few and far inbetween and every mission you'd think would let you grab some corpses like defend supply convoys don't net shit. You telling me we couldn't throw an advent MEC onto the back of that fucking semi?

>>183388201>>183388284
>early-late game
>can hit multiple targets on a CD
>can do multiple rolls on 1 target
>can provide free actions
pistols are like early game psi-ops or something

>>183399852
>Is elerium is blue in EU/EW
?
Isn't it still yellow? I don't remember seeing blue elerium.

This is some basic ass information but either I suck at googling or there isn't a proper answer out there.

Do laser sights improve melee crit chance?

>>183400310
they only improve the crit chance of the weapon itself

>>183392372
When do we get a similar mod but for women?

>>183400452
When do we get a similar mod but for mutons?

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>>183399852
>Is elerium is blue in EU/EW Or it is yellow like on UFO defence ?
>>183400142
I found this pic on UFOpedia, but I don't know where it comes from (i.e. it's probably unofficial). It may be that confusion was caused by the blue UI theme being the only easily visible in-game representation of pure elerium.

Not having played X-Com, though, I assumed it was green like the UFO power source. But then again, the Elerium Cores from XCOM 2 are also yellow, so...

I think it's supposed to be yellow.

>>183400310
No just the modded weapon, I'm pretty sure a mod all weapons mod would let you put a laser sight on a sword though which is funny

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>>183400142
Well, I recently chek Wiki and found this

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>>183400142
Does this look yellow to you?

93rd for snek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvoEkFsUmi4

>>183400884
Maybe it's blue but in the containers it's yellow. Like it's in a tinted container

>>183401113
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>>183401035
>>183400884

>anon discovers they have color blindness

>>183401138
I'm thinking of meld ignore me

>engaging the enemy
>a couple of actions in
>suddenly realize a strategy that wouldve made fighting them much easier
>reload save and put that plan into action

its not save scumming if im just improving my play

>>183389131

Which is why in every run through I name my fist squad Menace

>>183400142

Let me guess, you mistook it with Meld ?

>>183401358
I mean it IS
you're just choosing how hard you punish yourself for fucking up

>>183401358
That's exactly what savescumming is.

>>183401834
its very hard to resist save scumming when you get insta killed through heavy cover
you can do everything correctly and the game will still fuck you over because of a bad roll

yeah yeah yeah, thats xcom baby, whatever

>>183400884
>>183401035
>>183401113
Weird, I don't recall Elerium ever being blue in X1. Elerium is yellow to me, I think my brain just ignored that a blue object could possibly be elerium.

>>183402010
I was more thinking along the lines of
"not 0% is still, not 0%"

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>>183400884
>>183401035
>>183401113
I haven't found a single official source using that image, and the oldest upload was in October 2013. I'm pretty sure that it isn't actually from Firaxis, and that XCOM Elerium is in fact yellow.

Could someone with a twitter account maybe pester the devs for a definitive answer on this one?

>>183402815
Just finished a session of XCOM 2 a few minutes ago. That image is of the elerium crystal. I'm like 95% the elerium core is yellow.

Every research project in EW was tinted blue, Elerium is still yellow as evidenced in XCOM 2 (all the alien engines are powered by elerium and are yellow, elerium cores are yellow).

>>183400030
You'll get more Troop Maneuvers in 1.5 but they have a 50/50 chance of reducing alert levels now.

>implacable procs AFTER the two shots from light em up, even if your first shot is the kill

that makes that perk so much more useful, i would have liked to have realized that earlier

>>183400405
>>183400972
Thaks, senapis

status confirmed

>>183403675
Implacable procs after the first kill too. It's just the action is move only. Comes in handy if you can take a pot shot then move in on a flank.

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Rigor mortis is a bitch.

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>>183407314
>filename
top kek

>>183407314
Chryssalid jousting when?

>>183408957
Fuck the Chryssalids, the jousters need to be riding Berserkers piggyback.

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>>183401420
Same here

>get home from work
>"I wonder if bagle played xcom yesterday"
>only a 3 hour stream

did he lose the campaign

>>183410645
>fast forward vod
>hamball voice

?

?

?

>>183410645
>only a 3 hour stream
It wasn't him

So all the aliens from EU are back in Xcom 2 in some form?

Sectoid is still the same but taller.

Vipers used to be thin men.

Mutons are back.

Chryssalids are back.

Archons are the new floaters.

Berserkers are back.

Advent MECS are the new mechtoids.

Avatars are the new Ethereals.

Gatekeepers are the new cyberdiscs.


Andromedon, faceless, chosen, spectre and the six types of Advent enemies are completely new.

The only enemies that are missing are drones and reapers but were those even interesting?

>>183411159
never again will I be this baited see you next week lmao

what's his excuse then?

>>183411421
idk, maybe it was shactac drama

>>183411212
You forgot the codex and sectopod and the advent turrets.

No. Drones were fucking boring as shit filler enemies and reapers were complete pushovers.

>>183411647
Oh yeah I'm scoping that on his twitter now

might be better than a stream even

>>183411212
Pretty much. I thought the way they went about it was cool. Mutons are my favorite ones.

>>183412673
Archons look stupid.

>>183412921
Your face looks stupid.

>>183412921
>Greek/Egyptian fusion
>not cool

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>>183411212
>reapers
Did you mean seekers?

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>>183412921
Archons are sexy as fuck, shut your mouth.

>>183414019
>being a sodomite

>>183414019
I like to imagine archons are floating heads with tentacle-like prehensile organs and veins underneath that armor

>>183414506
If they actually ARE redesigned Floaters, then genetically they're Mutons, just crippled ones butchered and shoved into a pretty ceramic shell.

>>183414732
I don't care. In my headcanon they are alien penanggalans.

>>183414732
What the fuck did mutons do to the elders to make them so absolutely assmad?

>thin man insta kills a squaddie through full cover
but everyone told me full cover would keep me alive

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>>183416605
someone forgot to tell you that's xcom bby

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>>183414019
indeed

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>>183415371
>If we don't have them, nobody can.

>>183416605

>Using full cover

Don't use cover as your main engagement tactic, enemies always hit their 20 % shots when you don't want them to

Your main engagement tactic is to kill every single alien you reveal on their activation turn. If not possible, THEN cover is your clutch while you hope you don't get lel randumb crit from across the battlefield by a Thin Man on a full cover soldier

>>183416969
>you will never passionately fuck a female Archon while a male Archon fucks you from behind

>>183414732
Truly a cruel fate, as though floaters weren't bad enough.

No wonder they flip out when damaged.

>>183403503
Elerium is either blue,yellow or green. The core may be yellow but UFO Power Sources were green as fuck as are most things powered by Alieums.

It's blue in it's natural state and might be processed into different colors related to the power output.

>>183415371
Well, think about how tough Mutons are. Now imagine trying to conquer an entire planet of them, when all the Elders had were EU-era Sectoids and Vipers, plus possibly war machines like Sectopods. I can imagine the Mutons giving them such a hard job that when they finally _were_ conquered, the Elders were rather spiteful when assimilating them into their empire.

>>183418062
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>>183418315
>>183418432
hmmm

>>183419180
MODS = GODS

what

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>>183415371

Mutons do it willingly to show their devotion to their gods.

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>>183419116
Sectoids are pretty much pushovers

>still haven't uploaded yesterday's stream

I guess they're embarrassed.

>>183420864
I'd be embarrassed.

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>>183388041

This.

>>183416969
>nips
Really now?

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>>183420904

What happened?

>>183421359
Game crashed like 2-3 times

>>183421359
Warlock memes too dank for game.

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>>183421624

Warlock?

>>183421359
The Elder's most loyal champion showed Firaxis the wisdom of their choice.

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FOOLS. Bathe in my GLORY and the Wisdom of the Elders lest you BE JUDGED.

>first celatid

will it hurt?

>>183425428
in lw2*

>wait too long to do the ayy hunters DLC
>kill the snek in the nest
>berserker just fucks right off before my turn is even over.

>>183425338
Wut ur gun do fagit. Crash ur own game?

So when exactly am I fucked in LW2 if I still haven't discovered a lead?

>>183428606
If you've got no golden paths left and ayys are breaking your ass open.

Try not blowing up officers so much

>>183428606
Yeah this I haven't recieved any sort of shit like this infiltration stuff you guys are talking about

>>183428606
Facility leads are a potential reward for "find a lead" missions. Other rewards are UFO landing sites or liberation chains.

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Whoa. I wasn't expecting these two to be the final boss battle. Firaxis did a good job at hiding things in plain sight.

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>>183430307
You mean the ethereal statues?

>>183430852
certainly not the two normal looking fellows
their hair isnt fucking retarded enough

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>>183431002
The ethereals are chilling out in these sarcophaguses.

>>183396361

S.E.A.D.

>>183431467
A version of those also appears in the temple ship IIRC

why are scientists and laboratories always useless?

>>183433641
research is super short in vanilla

>>183433641
EU: research credits
2: you only need the minimum number of scientists to research all the shadow projects and anything more is just pointless

>>183433641
>>183434042
>Scientists/Labs
>pointless

Getting tech faster is always a good thing though?

>>183433641

Mostly because scientist revenue decrements proportionally, so having 2 scientists instead of 1 is a much bigger deal than having 6 instead of 5

Laboratories are straight up useless and don't fit in the Avenger's layout. If they don't salvage them in the DLC no-one is gonna build them still

>>183434160
the vanilla pace of research and tech is just optimal enough to keep everything affordable
if I spend resources on faster tech I have less resources to buy everything in time

I like how the Kevlar armor is literally a layer (or multiple) of Kevlar over the the suit that engineers wear.

>it costs 2 engineers to buy t2 weapons
ive never been this far in the game without multiple engineers so ive never noticed, but damn

>>183434582
>>183434160
>>183434329

How would you fix this? More research? Research that takes longer?

>>183434582
>>183434329
>>183434042
>>183433818

And I thought we all played on impossible. How worthless you are, commander

>>183436598
it's been like 6 months since I've played vanilla

>>183434582
It's more certainly not if you are playing legendary, getting a early lab is game changing.

>>183436598
What do you skip when you rush your research?
The budget can't afford all that

>>183436818
Nothing.

>>183436818
What do you mean? It's all very balanced. Harder enemies show up later in impossible, even alien rulers. Research is instead based at 63 days for most. All I do is cash in my data pads and rush other research

>>183436818
More scientists just means I can get things done faster and have time to get free batchs of intel. I don't see any negatives whatsoever

>>183388071
Gut them, cook 'em and eat them.
Snake Eater are on prowl!

>>183438221
UMA DELICIA

>>183437336
Only negative is the opportunity cost.

Is there anything in the ini I change change so that Faceless just straight up don't appear in havens? These are by far the most boring missions in LW2. I'd rather take a permanent cut to my supplies than deal with them.

>>183439984
Which isn't an issue if your intelligent about what you research and in what order. Still seeing no downsides to having labs and tons of scientists

>>183440253
I haven't had this issue

>>183440580
once I had six havens, I basically got like 2 of these missions every month and it's literally just a bunch of no-skill soldiers grenading shit. I can't imagine what will happen once I get more.

>>183440253
XComLW_Outposts.ini

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>>183440253
>These are by far the most boring missions in LW2.

Man, really? I loved them. Given how crazily huge some LW2 missions get, it's nice to really go back to basics - just a handful of rookies with a few upgraded guns and one veteran soldier. They're super-tense as well, since you don't know what you're going to have to work with, and can't rely on the old flashbang/mimic beacon spam to get you out of a bad spot.

>>183441035
Thanks m8

>>183441226
Not a problem. I should also note that next patch they can be skipped with no penalty, but you miss out on xp/loot/corpses.

Thank you to the anon that helped me with mod issue in the previous thread, It turned out that the "Ammo and Vest Slots" mod was causing the geoscape lag.

Considering that using Tactical Rigging instead causes no issues, I'm going to take a guess that adding in a vest slot (which is really just +1 utility slot) caused the issue somehow.

Fuck this game and fuck firaxis for the awful optimization.
I've fucking pre-ordered this shit because my specs then should be able to run it on medium-low, and it was OK until Shen's Last Gift. First, it was my GPU who couldn't take it, so I went and bought a new one. Then, my CPU fan wasn't good either, so I went and got a new one as well. Now it's my RAM, and in the end I'll end up spending pretty much enough to get me a new PC to run a game I should have always been able to run, if fucking devs did their fucking job like everyone else is supposed to.

How the fuck does this game manage to be heavier than fucking Total Warhammer, D44M or Akrham Knight, anyway.

>>183441775
works for me

>>183441775
And before one of you memesters comes up and blame MY fucking computer again, just remember that not even Firaxis themselves can make this fucking game work, as seen on the stream yesterday, which was just as bad as my own game crashing since all I wanted to see since this fucking expac was announced was the Templar in action.

>>183442091
Shut the fuck up, get anal cancer then die, leaving your parents free of the burden of raising a NEET so they can go explore their sexuality with animals and soropositive people.

>>183442091
epic meme my reddit friendo

>>183442204
>>183442250
It works fine for me 60+ fps full graphics
It quite literally is your computer

>>183442385
another epic meme by everyone's favourite readditor haha what a meme friendo

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>>183442385
Yeah, it's not that this game is a complete fucking mess, I mean, the fact that if I want to I can pull one hundred and fucking twenty plus frames per second without even overclocking my GPU must mean my hardware is living proof that it's my fault, not the game's shit code.

Also, this shit right here, how bad have the Pavonis people fucked up that the computer even thinks this is possible.

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>>183441775
>tfw works for me

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>>183442680
Fuck I'm so fucking pissed at this piece of shit that I've cropped the actually important part

>>183442772
Yeah Jake I saw how it worked for you during your fucking livestream, you cunt.

>>183442204
>code bug in a development build
>same as anon having a shit computer

kys

>>183441775
You're lucky. My laptop went from running the game well to suddenly freezing at any sudden movements. It's not even a crash, the game just stops, disk usage just hits 0 and I can only exit through the task manager

>>183441775
The memory leak makes running Legend runs almost unbearable in the late game

>>183441775
Where were you 17 months ago?

>>183444660
>memory leaks persisting after process cancel
You do know it's volatile storage right?

>>183441775
>blaming the game when you're running 5,000 different mods

>>183444271
But seriously can anyone help me with that issue?

>>183445040
You could be overheating.

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How the fuck does this happen

>>183445743
Happens to me with the section 9 armor mod. Probably a bad z or something

>>183444770
It worked fine 17 months ago, it was only after Shen / Console launch that it went to absolute shit

>>183444271
I've had this but after a while it just bluescreens for whatever reason it feels like

>>183444964
I'm running 64 mods, no voice packs and SIX cosmetic packs, the rest is mostly ini tweaking and shit.

>>183444660
Memesters are blaming my computer but all I have to do is close the game, wait for like 2 minutes and open it again, and I'd be fine doing this if it wasn't for the increase in leak with game progress. I'm at a point that the only safe thing for me to do is to play two turns, close, open, wait for the abysmal load times, play two more turns, close and so on.

>>183446403

Only being able to run for 2 minutes sounds like hardware failure. Are you able to run other demanding games? Can you run the game vanilla for longer than 2 minutes?

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>>183446837
As i've said before, yes. Taking the heaviest games I have installed:
Arkham Knight - Run it with everything on ultra, though I've had some issues and crashes, but this port is a total mess and it never came close to the sort of shit I get from XCOM 2 anyway.
Total Warhammer - runs fucking fine, I actually play it with my winamp + browser open and alt tabbing all the time
D44M - runs beautifully, everything on highest settings
Rainbow Six Siege - Single player runs perfectly fine with everything on high, Idk about multiplayer because I fell for the low specs meme
I've had some issues with the new Deus Ex as well, but I played it with my old shitty stock fan and haven't really felt the urge to reinstall it after I got my new one

While I do get a more stable performance if I'm running Vanilla, I can get to a full mission + the start of the next one before I'm getting 90%+ RAM usage and a eventual crash.

>>183447528
Also, everything there runs at 60+ fps, but all it takes is a fucking reinforcement drop for my XCOM 2 to go to 20~30 fps before coming back.

>>183446837
Yeah, sounds like hardware failure.

People weren't meming when they said it sounds like something is wrong with his computer.

>>183447528
Do you have anything else running when playing?

>>183448051
Never, at most speccy or task manager so I can keep tabs on memory usage, last weeks not even that since my brother borrowed my second monitor and I'm actually SCARED to alt tab.

>>183447791
I certainly hope the performance patch does you a solid. I've got perfect frames with my 4690k, 16GB, GTX 980

>>183448278
It's my last hope as well. I know it's not that heavy but reqs are similar to XCOM2 and for most of the time I've been talking here I'm alt+tabbing Wolfenstein Old Blood and the game runs fine.

>>183447528
Are you running a pirated copy by any chance?

>>183449164
No. From all those games I listed, XCOM 2 is the only legit one (besides R6S, obviously)

>>183448232
Drivers all updated? When was the last time you physically cleaned your computer?

>>183449625
Yes, and around a month and a half ago, formatted it in april? march? sometime during that timeframe.

>>183449902
What about the power supply? I've seen some strange issues come from that, even when other games run correctly.

Really though it does just sound like a hardware compatibility issue. Jake's admitted that the game runs strangely and even when you have people with similar hardware, it just runs perfectly fine on someone elses computer. Friend had the same specs as mine, but he's having your problem and we can't figure out why. You would think it would be impossible since it's all the same shit, but eh.

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>waited till I had plasma to go to the viper pit
>the viper, berserker, and archon all died with basically no effort and none of my guys dying
>having last a soldier since like the second council mission where I lost 3

fuck I waited too long to get the rulers in. Also how do you play legendary/impossible. Right now I play bronze mode commander on xcom 2 (though I have to admit I did save scum 1 level where my col support died, but that is because I didn't realize that a burn affects the shield bearer's shield instead of their health which is dumb).

Basically what do I need to be able to play the hardest difficulty in xcom ew and xcom 2? I've technically never beaten xcom eu. In EW I can do everything on commander, except for the shen and annette missions, with those turned off I can play the first 2 months as classic and then after I get lasers I can put the game on impossible and win. Xcom 2 can beat the game with all dlc and no mods on commander.


So what is the thing I need to be able to beat both games on legendary/impossible?

>>183450357
Yeah, my power supply isn't the best one, I'll admit, but this is just so fucking weird because I have friends playing with inferior specs and hardly any trouble. Worst part is that I feel that overall it's a great game, one of my favourites and my most played game on steam that's not Civ V and I really wanna support Firaxis (consider my 3rd, 4th and 5th most played games are also XCOMs and Civs) but I'll have to postpone buying the expac until I see I can trust it with a pirate copy.
If anything, I've learned a lot of hardware and some programing shit since I started trying to make it run, so thanks Jake I guess?

>>183450679
XCom 2 is like Subnautica right now, neither of them are optimized and their playability varies wildly between people. Ultra gaming rigs struggle for 60fps and no memory leaking while toaster rigs run fine and everything in between. hopefully the optimizing pass with the expansion fixes all of that shit.

>>183451392
Wew that got me

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>>183451392
Triggered

>>183451392
I love long war but this guy is fucking dumb

>>183451392
>>183451457
Also what mod were they commenting on?

>>183451926

Advent Pathfinders.

>>183452005
Haha, what a twat. I enjoy LW2 and I will drop it like its hot to play WotC, and I'd like the Pathfinders there when I do it.

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>>183451392

>zombie dlc!

>>183451392
>needing to justify to the world why you wont spend 40 dollars
Are people this self-conscious?

>dragon rounds with plasma weapons has a random fireball shot through the middle of the beam
this was worth the gorillion cores to get plasma tech desu

>>183454046

Yeah, pretty sure all the ammo has different visual effects. I know that tracer rounds fire bright red bullets.

>>183454238
i knew about the visual effects, just didn't expect something so pronounced

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How fucked am I?
Decently late game I'd imagine.

>>183451392
I'm into LW2, but believe me, after the 20th time doing the exact same mission, I'm really going to enjoy some mutators like 'this mission is going to be full of chrysallids' or 'lol, nope, only three guys'

>>183454745
You'll be fine if you secure the UK.

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>>183451457
>>183451773
>>183451851
>>183453296
>>183453419
He's right. The DLC is fucking bad.
Lost are literally just reskinned psi zombies and look boring as fuck to fight. The chosen are just more alien ruler cancer and they also look like shitty mass effect aliens.

>>183455010
Fuck I hope so.
I came so far, and the only trouble I've had is this panic system.
Commander btw, if that matters.

>>183454745
>Decently late game I'd imagine.
You're nowhere near where you think you are.

You aren't in any immediate threat, although you need to get those remaining satellites up ASAP. Brazil first, then the UK (you can lose Nigeria, in fact I would probably abandon it; but you really want to grab the SA continent bonus while you still can)

Once you've got global satellite coverage, you'll end the unavoidable panic increase from abduction missions. As long you can keep shooting those UFOs down, you're in the clear.

>>183455538
I finally got those Firestorms, so I'm gonna fuck the next large UFO I see.

>>183455538
>he doesn't leave one nation uncovered to farm meld

>Vanilla
>have 1 squad with 2-3 substitute soldiers
>annihilate everything
>LW2
>have 5 squads that are always understaffed or underlevelled
>constant death

don't take the bait

>>183455648
>>183454745
Where are you in story missions? If you haven't taken on the alien base yet, now may be a good time.

>>183455739
Mfw describing my current play thru

>>183456170
I have to interrogate the Outsider.
I mean, if they beat me here, I'll only come back even more pissed off.

>>183456849
>I have to interrogate the Outsider.
Aw man, you're *way* behind. You really need to get on that; advancing the story is the only way to win the game. Wait too long and the enemies will just increase in power whether you've moved the story forwards or not.

>93%
>miss
I mean, the worst thing that happened to me was I took a grenade to the face, but fucking christ

>>183411149
>>183410645
He found out that Shack Tac was trying to hire people to dig up embarrassing things about him, but didn't want to leave anybody XCOM-less

1-4 play EW again
5-9 play XCOM 2 again
0 Masturbate for 6 hours

>>183458272
Why would they do that?

>>183458303
Six hours? I don't think it's safe to trap blood for that long.

>>183458558
I've done longer several times.

>>183458508
People with "internet fame and power" (meaning none IRL really) can be retards sometimes.

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>>183458303

Play EU instead. Remind yourself of simpler, easier times.

>>183458585
if you say so

>>183458508
So they could blackmail him into keeping silent about how Dyslexi treated him and currently treats the members of Shack Tac

>Two Sectopods in one facility
>On the start of fucking August

What the fuck

>>183458698
But EU doesn't let me amputate my soldiers limbs to give them a robot suit with rocket fists.

>>183458878
Huh sounds petty

>>183458585
How do you not get tired? Or bored?

>>183414506
I bet you do.

>>183436598
Settle down, Angelis. Give them time.

>>183459895
Coffee and porn suiting my fetishes.

>>183458996
>petty
More like necessity. A bad reputation like that would sink shactac.

>>183459984
Bet your arms are sore after that.

>>183460092
Sex machines are the engineer's own reward.

>>183457630
They've been showing up as beefer version of themselves, but they're still a bunch of bitches.
Lasers still seem to push their shit in, and they're fucking donezo bozo now that I have plasma researched (just need money).
Shot down a "very large" ufo, gonna get paid today bois.

>>183459986
Maybe treat people better and it wouldn't be an issue

>>183460774
Well obviously

is there anything i should make sure to have in my squad for waterworld in lw2?

>>183461994
Honesty some medkits

Why is EXALT 100% white males obsessed with a e s t h e t i c s

>>183462575
Exalt are clones

>>183462575
[STATIC NOISES]

Getting real tired of this grapple glitch. How do people even play ironman with this shit

>>183462575
>a e s t h e t i c s
>not a e s t a t i c s
One job

>>183455487
non-ironically this

>>183462575
The true reason is probably because the design department ran out of time and just reskined the one model they managed to make before the deadline.

>>183462761
THEY'RE NOT ZOMBIES

>>183462996
In practice theyre zombies. Its like the gang in Assualt on Precint 13

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>Wake up
>See this
wat do?

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>mfw the fucking ayys keep destroying the objective

>hack this terminal
>lol jk on turn 3 fucking sectopod walks over it

>rescue this vip
>lol jk turn 2 the gate keeper will AOE the truck he was in despite no units being near the truck

was a weird mission the second one where they had to immediately change where to leave because they put the ayys and the evac spot on the same spot

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>>183463541
Gatekeepers are fucking ZERO comf

>>183462663
What grapple glitch?

>>183464528
probably grapple flinging you halfway around the map

>>183464528
Two I can think of are grappling and sending your soldier to god knows where or grappling and making your soldier not reveal any fog.

>>183464617
>>183464647
Never encountered that bug before. And does anyone know if they released the stream footage from yesterday yet?

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>weating Icarus armor
>Archon and sectoid on patrol
>they spot me
>sectoid hides behind a rock
>Archon starts coming for me, sees my armor, turns around, flies back to where the rock was and shoots the sectoid in the head, killing him
>mfw

>>183460697
I can't wait until this guy gets his main assault MC'd

>>183464864

I think they're too embarrased

except for Jake

>>183464205
>bring an assault and psi op
>stun for 1 turn, stasis next, then stun again
8 mec pods are the real zero comf

>>183465250
I mean they can just cut the last 10 minutes of the stream.

>>183463464
Call security and then clock out on my lunch break because fuck dealing with terrorists.

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>>183465213
>tfw you can't spare panicked ayys and recruit them for your side

>>183465938
>Wanting to spare ayys
This is why Xcom lost in the first place.

>>183466519

They're all spliced with humans so it's okay.

>>183465364

I think they're just going to redo the mission this Thursday and pretend that session never happened.

>>183466792
I mean besides the Warlock/Templar crashes they showed the covert ops for Mox so I hope in the very least they show that part.

>Move to cover
>Shoot gun
>Don't kill enemy
>Blow up own cover somehow

what the fuck

>>183467429
THATS
XCOM
BABY

>>183467429
>take an overwatch shot from a roof
>blow up the floor that an adjacent soldier is standing on
>said soldier dies from fall damage
>other soldier panics

>>183467429
>Run two overwatches from disoriented soldiers
>Their misfire literally blows up the car I ran past and kills me

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>tfw advent radar turrets

>>183468129
this bug bothers me and i wish i knew what caused it

i think there might be some leftover code when radar turrets had an in-game function or something

either that or they're just allocated to the same space without any conflict code

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>just hack the computer said
>just a walk in the park they said

>>183468273
Probably the latter as the radar part itself is just terrain.

>>183468273

radar...turrets?

I'm fairly sure they're just turrets that spawned on top of a rader post because some dev didn't think to put a rule in where they can't occupy the same space and thus spawn into each other because of le procedural maps

>>183468273
i think it only happens with modded terrain
the creator probably overlook something that would remove the radar dish if a turret is placed there

>>183468954
Nah, that's a vanilla bug.

>>183468129
>>183468273
Started to see this after i installed map and PCP modes, go figure.

>>183468814
It's a colloquialism

>>183401420
>>183410629
I feel foolish for not doing this myself

>Haven retaliation
wowee, fuck this

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>Soldier promoted to Commander
This can't be happening. I'm in charge here!

>>183455739
the squad system makes perfect sense conceptually in LW2 and it conveys a much better feeling of organizing a resistance instead of making this super ayy kill squad. But squad management is just not very rewarding. You get officer bonuses, that's pretty much it. Not only that but you just do way too many missions back to back with no break or meaningful stuff inbetween. Cutting missions by even 25%, making infiltration tighted, and granting more exp would provide for more meaningful decisions.

>>183470317
Especially when halfway through the game you can't make any new squads all of a sudden because the troops are too SHIT and the enemies are too hard and it's too expensive to equip them with anything worth a damn

>>183470290
if i took that eyepatch off would she die?

>>183470290
Remember that all promotions are honorary and not actual military positions

>>183470492
It would be extremely painful for ayy

>>183470434
One of the inherent problems with heavily nerfing the stealth aspect from LW2 is that suddenly all missions absolutely require a full squad but now all the pods are focused around the objective and you have a shit ton of drones out to bring everything into yellow alert before you can even approach the main area.

When does firaxis normally drop their VODs?

>>183447528
Total war warhammer should run like trash on your pc, like 30-40 fps in big battles, and other games is not CPU/ram heavy, and xcom are, especially with lw2
Yeah firaxis fucked up optimization, but your pc is not as good for this type of games.

>>183472440
they usually upload them to their youtube channel the next day
i guess >>183420864 is right

Post yfw enemy protocol shows up and you don't get it.

Where the FUCK is this weeks TNX? All that's up on Beags channel is jamball shit

who the FUCK thought it was a good idea to make weapons cost so much in LW2?

>>183476870
Funny story, beagle was actually sitting down and about to start TNX when he found out people were trying to buy stuff to black mail him.
>>183477551
Its magnificent design

>>183477745
So another week without TNX, great.