/xcg/ - XCOM general

all aliens must fucking hang.

what does advent burgers taste like?

>>187282362
Chryssalid

What's your ideal end game lineup in WotC?

>>187282362
like those shitty hotdogs you get in a tin

>>187282809
for waterworld?
>2 grenadiers, 1 of each but reaper, skirmisher and psy op

Less than 3 days left, also fuck sonic for this release on tuesday bullshit

>>187282809
I keep reading that as "Wizards of the Coast".

Wew lads. This fucking game...

>advent forge mission, counter is on 1 day left but my team is fukken sick so not a problem
>cheese my way through the level fucking up every alien that makes the mistake of engaging us
>finally get to the end, ready for evac, time to go
>MISSION FAILED
>what the FUCK... Oh yeah, didn't pick up the prototype and evac it
>The whole fucking game, the whooole fucking game Bradford is fucking blabbing down the headphones to do this, to do that, 'don't forget to do this commander, make sure to do that commander, hey stop what you're doing for the 100th time and look at these enemies for like 10 seconds commander' until I'm fucking sick and tired of his lovely gravel laden voice
>The one time it actually matters, the one time I could actually use a reminder about the mission objective before I leave and Bradford is no where to be seen nor heard
>Probably got a mouth full of cock in the rec room bathrooms
>Battle weary team has to suit up and go right the fuck back to fight it out all over again because no one in command reminded me to pick up the fucking prototype.

FUCK just as I think I'm on a roll and let my concentration go for a second this game instantly finds a way to fuck me in the ass.

RELEASE IT NOW YOU FUCKING

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>>187284049
WHOOOORE

>"we could use a grenade here"
>spends 5 minutes trying to position it
>"what... why can't... huh..? oh there's wall blocking it, well that's stupid"

>>187284049
Three days. I don't think I'm gonna make it.

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>>187285665
>some /xcg/ anon will die before the release

>>187285932
It could even be you.

>>187286126
It could even be me!

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JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>187285932
>at least one /xcg/ anon died before the xcom 2 base game was released

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when

>>187286531
At least one /xcg/ anon died before LW1.0 released

>statistically speaking at least 1 (one) XCOM fan died anticipating the Anarchy's Children cosmetics pack
fuck.

Anyone else waiting a month or so to let the mods catch up on War on Chosen before getting it?

>>187289000
if i had to wait any longer i'd kill myself so no

WHAT IF: Vipers can use their tongues to grapple on to surfaces.

>>187289000
I hope bubscan get his stuff updated soon. But he's busy it looks like (perhaps long war or school).

>>187289334
I want a Viper to grapple my surface if you know what I mean.

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>>187289334
>Viper lashes her tongue at you
>Uses it like a flail.

>>187289642
>I want a Viper to grapple my surface if you know what I mean.

What did he mean by this?

>>187289000
According to the straight page of voicepack mods on the workshop page, the modders sure are.

>>187287218
>German niggers

I just don't get it

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>>187289808

Have keys from Greenman Gaming dropped yet?

>tb gets a voicepack
>beaglerush still doesn't have a voicepack

What the fuck is wrong, lads? Why has it taken so long for our salty Aussie cunt to get his own voicepack?

>>187290721
>Sneks still don't have a voicepack where they elongate the "s"

>>187290721
>tb gets a voicepack

what

I thought he died.

What ever happened to that Jake voice pack?

>>187291251
released

>>187290624
I have yet to get mine

>>187290624
Nope, I'm guessing tomorrow or monday

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>>187287708
>LONG
>WAR
>2
lol does anyone actually use that trash fire of a mod

>>187293187
Only the poor saps still addicted to the taste of Lump's dick. In a few days, Jake will show us the true meaning of magnificent design.

>>187293187
How bad is it? I only played long dong for xcom1

>Kill all aliens
>1 turn left to evac
>Everyone already took their turn
>lol all your guys got captured

huh

>>187293565
It's not bad, hating on it became a meme

>>187294157
Sounds just like dong 1 then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg4JVwi7obc

I consider myself a Classic-tier player, but I'm considering jumping to Legendary for WotC because Classic just seems much more forgiving than the standard game.

>>187289916
CoD WW2 has it worse. You can play as black female German paratroopers

>>187282362

Damn juicy.

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>>187282362

It varies from person to person.

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>Rendevous mission
>Come across this right at the start

Some meeting place this

>>187289000

Most of my mods are cosmetic and voice packs. I'll wait a week, and that's probably overkill.

>>187289916

I haven't played, but from what I've heard through /v/, the black soldiers are colonial forces from the African fronts of the war. And obviously, you can play whatever you want in the multiplayer battle arenas.

>>187293770

ADVENT aircraft force the Firebrand to withdraw. It doesn't matter what the situation is on the ground if your troops have no one to pick them up.

>>187294978
I'm gonna go to bed, and hope 8-10 hours is enough for some mods to be fixed if needed. If not, I'll grit my teeth and do a semi-clean run.

Does no one else here play mostly vanilla with only cosmetic upgrades?

>>187295742
The only gameplay mods I use are ones to give soldiers extra equipment slots, because the game has a lot of cool gear that almost never gets used because grenades are so essential.

>>187296069
I feel you but then it feels like cheating with that mod.

>>187295742

Cosmetic, voice pack, and quality-of-life mods like Evac All and more camera angles for me. XCOM's balance is pretty finely-tuned, I don't need some seemingly innocuous mod to throw things out of whack.

>>187296129
It makes the game a little easier, yeah, but I don't think it upsets the balance too much. It's also fun if you want to get into personalising your soldiers more, because you can kit them out with all the weird, thematic odds and ends that you'd otherwise have to miss out on.

>>187295742
The only major mod that breaks away from the general setup I use is tactical rigging, simply because I find it absurd that ammo takes a inventory slot. It's also lowers the value of grenadiers because everybody can have 2 types of grenade class equipment

What are you guys expecting from Long War of The Chosen?

I feel like the most obvious change would be making the Advent HQs use the same mapset as the Chosen Bases

>>187295147

But why blacks? I'm sure there were a lot more asians than blacks if we're going to count the 15 blacks that fought in mainland germany.

>>187296578

One thing I really think is total nonsense is that in vanilla you can't remove weapon mods. You can exchange them with the continent bonus but still, what fucking sense does it make to not be able to take a scope off your rifle once it's already on there?

It just makes things obtuse for seemingly no reason.
Things like inventory restrictions make sense from a gameplay standpoint (although there are surely better ways to balance things) but this is just irredeemable. Like the xcom team is using gorilla glue to attach all their equipment or something.

>>187296787

Again, I haven't played the game, but I think some of the single-player takes place on the African front.

>>187296780
Chosen will have more than 5 strengths and will show up more.

>>187296780
I'm expecting it to not exist because they are focusing on Phoenix Point

>>187296936
Agreed, thankfully http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=658977800 exists.

>>187296936
>>187297078
There was a continent bonus for that though.

>>187297203
The continent bonus allows you to exchange them, not remove them

>>187297078
Pavonis is not making Phoenix Point, they are working on some other game (gsg dock iirc)

>>187297646
*xcom not dock, fuck autocorrect

Is this the snake enthusiast thread?

>>187297875
>>187282145

>>187297875
Nope, snake-fucking weirdo thread is two doors down, just ignore the sign that says 'industrial blast furnace - caution do no enter" and step inside

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>>187297875

>>187297875
Yes, you just need to step right into a gas chamber before proceeding though.

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>>187297875

>>187299067
perfect target for execution via high-caliber firearm or death by napalm strike

god damn we all love alien murder!

>>187299067
Isn't snakes rattling their tail a sign for other creatures to stay away?

>>187283774
>BOSS GET DOWN

>>187299492
Only when it's a rattlesnake or a harmless species that mimics the action against dead leaves and rocks to imitate a rattle. In everything else with a tail it's a sign of fear and nervousness.

>>187299579
He does mention a few times to pick it up and the game even shows you via a cutscene and an indicator, stop blaming Bradford because you're stupid.

>>187299903
Eeeh, wrong anon, friendo.

>>187283774
That's a DSP level of fail anon

>>187295236
how about taking a car home or someshit, or just lay low in the area and reconnect some time later?

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>>187297875
>>187299067

>>187300132

You're fighting a guerilla war against a force that controls the entire planet, and if I remember correctly, those missions only take place on urban maps. How far do you think your soldiers can get undetected with checkpoints and those ADVENT towers everywhere?

I don't think you really grasp the position that XCOM is in vis-a-vis ADVENT in this game.

These Breakthroughs that give you an extra weapon upgrade slot will be the death of me.

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>Play Hitman, I don't even like the game, just bored waiting for WotC
>PC turns off out of nowhere, restarts
>No video feed
>GPU is dead

Is this god punishing me for masturbating to futurama porn?

>>187300401
>controls the entire planet
they control the city centers at best. there are countless resistance, or even just plain civilian hideouts all over and they cant even find a flying city even when its parked out next to them.

And other than the pristine city centers (and even tehre) there is evidence of dissatisfaction all over the place so even in urban areas, there would be XCOM-friendly safedens where they can hide out for a few days, but more than likely they wouldnt even need those since its porven that XCOM operatives can move in low profile, so once immedieate enemies are silenced they are effctively concealed again.

Also, depending on the tech level they could just carve a trail out of the town. If we take a turn to take say 10 sec, and you can take out enemies in 1 turn which is entirely in the realm of possible, then you are just basicaly sprinting across town, decorating the walls with advent as soon as you see them.

>>187301468
Probably should be local gene therapy clinic instead of recruitment centre (since they don't exist) but otherwise 10/10

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I'd spam WW2 ports when but then I see this and I'm going "the fuck?"

>>187304228
you've not seen the black female SS troops yet

>>187304021

You'd think so, but in WotC one of the after-mission soundbites mentions ADVENT stepping up its voluntary recruitment efforts. They may not use them for military or security (but who knows, maybe they want someone with a human face for some checkpoints), but they obviously want basic human employees for *something*.

>>187304638
Scientists and stuff.

I think the people from other voluntary recruitment programs just end up on a train to the Black Site anon. They need them, yes, as goo.

>>187304597
reeee

>>187305162

I think you're overestimating the stupidity of the general populace. I think they'd catch on if literally everyone who went to a recruitment centre was never seen again, and their families just told they're on a farm where they can run around as much as they want.

Even the Spokesman, when introducing the Avatar Project, sends a list of "disappearances" all over the world. This would seem to imply that individuals are going missing, one here and one there, at a rate that wouldn't raise eyebrows. Even the dumbest civilian is going to notice if everyone who walks into a recruitment center never walks out.

>>187305597
You notice in the new intro that the advent guards speak their gibberish and the scientists respond in english. Wont people think thats odd since everyone should think that advent guards are people?

>>187293565
It's not bad, however, I would say that it's now LW1 tier.
Not too suprising though, LW1 was lightening, and was so well done, it smothered other attempted mod overhauls. Not too mention it had Lump and the teams undivided attention as was adapted to fit in the expac (which we don't know if will happen with LW2).

The limited nature of XCOM1 might have ironically helped it since they had to be much more restrained in some of the stuff they did. Sometimes the limits can force you to be innovative and creative in a positive manner.

But LW2 is still fun, I load it up from time to time and am currently playing a campaign before WOTC comes out. I'm not expecting to finish it

>>187304228
What's wrong?

>>187282083
Why are you using an edit of an Islamophobic image?

>>187306607
>black female in the military

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>>187306717
Why the fuck not?

>>187306729
Oh I didn't notice she's black.

>>187304228
Is that a trans-nigger?
>>187301349
My two favorite things in WotC
>rng stealth
>rng research

>>187305597
No, that's literally what happens though. The game even talks about huge amount of missing person reports that are never followed up on when talking about the Black Site.

Advent just attributes it to the resistance's activities and people believe it, because ADVENT cured cancer and is generally nice.

A happy populace is a dumb one.

>>187306717
>Muslims say things
>Islamophobic
???

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>>187284386
aghhh

>>187307065
Uhm, you don't know the cultural context in which those signs were made. Just posting an image like that makes muslims look bad and gives dumb right-wing extremists more fuel to spread hate.

>>187306986
Well if you read the book ( I wouldn't recommend) it says that every person knows at least one missing person but they don't do anything about it.

Does anyone here know the fix to this bug i'm facing?

I have sectiod autopsy as an instant complete but was unable to do it since i had no scientists. I just got a scientist as a mission reward but if i try to pause my current research and do sectoid autopsy I get softlocked on the autopsy complete screen. There is no option to choose the next research and the pause menu wont open.

>>187307190
>>187306986
Aren't people who "disappear" just getting "transferred" to a new Mega City?
Probably they just rotate a few generic reasons why someone left:
>Corporal punishment
>They were actually terrorists (They fled or were killed)
>"Transferred"
>Moved to be with family
>New employment
>etc. etc.

>>187307190
Your warning comes too late anon, I own the book and have since before XCOM 2 came out, so I am well aware. And one of the points it raises is that there are no recruitment centres for Advent soldiers, they just seem to appear.

>>187307505
Most likely, yeah. I suspect some are even said to have joined the Advent Peacekeepers, which would be hilarious because they're probably not technically wrong, just.. you know... were rendered into goo which was used to create them.

>>187307505
I don't know man, you'd think those excuses would grow stale after 20 years of the same shit being thrown at you, I guess people who don't believe it move out of advent control and are the resistance camps you meet in other continents.

>>187307705
Yeah but people are led to believe there are recruitment centers/Advent soldiers are humans hence why they were modified to look humanoid/have female features to trick the public although idk why'd they'd be all white.

>>187307893
True, but I reckon they'd probably just roll it into the Gene Therapy Clinics, since those seem to be the 'centres' of ADVENT control in cities.

And I think the Hybrids do actually have sexes, since they're just modified humans, they may even be fertile but the psionic network control makes it moot.

Betos, the Skirmisher leader, is definitely female.

>>187308068
Yeah, I wrote that the reason why the elders bothered to make the peacekeepers look humanoid in appearance and even giving some female features is to trick the general populace that they are in fact humans and not weird hybrid monsters, that could even explain why people disappear by saying they're peacekeepers and that they're keeping the peace a hundred miles away.

>>187308240
Also covers the contact problem. "We are sorry, fellow humans, but peacekeepers are forbidden from communicating outside of the army". May throw in some fabricated text-only messages in case some family becomes too suspicious of their rebel son joining the army and disappearing from their lives.

>>187306986

A higher-than-normal rate of disappearances is still a far cry from "99% of people who go to a recruitment center are never heard from again, let's go sign up!"

>>187308790
Also when we're in the subject of life under Advent control, shouldn't Tygan have an understanding on how Elerium or at the very least how magnetic weapons work, I mean he's been working under them for 20 years surely he must have knowledge beyond conventional and outdated technology since all Advent troopers are sporting Magnetic weapons, he even managed to make the Avenger run which is run on Elerium (?) but then as a gameplay choice making you start with Magnetic is silly. Also for Xcom3 do you guys want to start at Plasma but have the Sectoids/Troopers of 3 be that "strong" storywise that they are able to brush off plasma shots?

>>187309217
Advent don't use elerium based tech in their day-to-day operations. You can't expect Tygan to know how a power plant works when he spent his time working on cybernetic implants.

>>187309217
>tygan made the Avenger run on elerium
No, that was papa Shen, and the Avenger is just an alien ship that they retrofitted.

Also, I know how a gun works, but put me in a lab with all the materials necessary to build one, and I wouldn't be able to make an M16.

>>187309446
I mean shouldn't ballistic weaponry be at the very least be considered primitive since everyone is sporting magnetic weapons, are you telling me none of the resistance fighters were able to kill some troopers and reverse engineer magnetic weapons at the very least? 20 years is a long time.

>>187309579
>Also, I know how a gun works, but put me in a lab with all the materials necessary to build one, and I wouldn't be able to make an M16.
That's true. Also wasn't it Tygan/Lily the ones that made the Avenger fly? I mean in the mission after the tutorial you steal a power supply rod thing to power it up.

>>187309736
ADVENT mag weaponry explodes if you fiddle with it.

Is there going to be a preload?

>>187309736
Nah, Papa Shen got it running, they just needed fuel iirc.

He died in the attempt when powering it up also defrosted a bunch of the crew who were in cryo in sections that XCOM hadn't yet accessed (basically the compartments that you excavate later)

He got mindfucked by the Sectoid Commander of the ship.

>>187309815
Do the aliens not share their tech then? Sounds like a rough deal.

>>187309867
If Xcom doesn't have access to it yet how are there cryochambers? Also the reason why the avenger got fucked is because there was a fire fight there?

>>187306815
Anyone want to edit a Viper so she looks like she's wearing a hijab?

>>187309867
>He died in the attempt when powering it up also defrosted a bunch of the crew who were in cryo in sections that XCOM hadn't yet accessed (basically the compartments that you excavate later)
>He got mindfucked by the Sectoid Commander of the ship.

Is this from the book? Because everything I hear about this book sounds retarded.

>>187310201
Vahlen also set a volcano to self destruct.

>>187310168
>If Xcom doesn't have access to it yet how are there cryochambers?
Because the ship got locked down when it was shot down and they couldn't open up all the doors.

>>187310296
dont forget the crystal zombies and weird red spine growth shit

>>187310721
To be fair, a lot of the infestation zone stuff has clearly been repurposed - Crystal growth is now the Lost and the Abduction pod mutation shit in the old cities, and the new alien xenoforming tileset.

Plus Purifiers, which were referenced in the books, are now canon ingame.

>>187310714
So the locked parts were originally Cryochamber cells? So when Shen Sr defrosts them they're the ones who became the crew of the Avenger? How come they were in cryo in the first place if the Avenger was originally an Alien vessel? Also kinda weird how the avenger is supposed to be "alien" but it looks pretty human made to me.

>>187310932
Crystals were in vanilla XCOM 2 as a PoI.

>>187311373
Cryochamber of aliens, when they defrosted they attacked

>>187311373
Are you intentionally being dense? The cryochambers held the original crew of the UFO, ayys.

>>187311489
>>187311516
Okay fuck I'm stupid. It did not register to me you guys were talking about the ayy crew. It's 2 am where I live.

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Wow, ADVENT Tower mission in the first month.

>>187299067
when thin men become thicc women

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Do I ... ?

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>>187314360
yes

>>187314360
do not

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>ambush 3 Advent
>Sniper misses all three shots
>rest of my guys kill 2 except the shieldbearer
>fucker runs back, I chase
>triggers all remaining aliens: 2 vipers, 2 mutons and 3 more Advent
>gives the ammo buff to them
Really, I'm surprised it ended up so well. Too bad this was my A team and I was aiming to do a Blacksite next...

>>187314360
DOOO EEET

>>187314360
It's cheaper in EUR.

>>187314360
DO IT

>>187314360
RELEASE THE FUCKING EXPANSION JAKE

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>>187318216
Every damn second is longer than the last

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Nice. I swear I never get these.

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>>187318564
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is this what happens when you have a full haven all on intel

>Ignores a perfect Remote Start shot
>"ERMAGED I HAD REMOTE START 1!1!!1"
>Next turn, Aliens have not moved, still a perfect Remote Start shot
>"Okay, time to move. Let's not take this perfect high cover, instead let's take this shitty tree with a blatant flank and an awful LOS angle"
>All three targets grey out on LOS as he mouses it over
>"HMM, WILL I HAVE SIGHT OF THE CAR"
>Moves, no sight of the car
>"WOOOW THIS GAME IS STUPID!"

It must hurt to be this clinically retarded. I wish it showed environment explosives on the LOS dashboard, but that's such a minor issue compared to being too fucking retarded to understand how LOS works and why it's dangerous to move in obtuse cover

>>187318985
Is this ChrisOdd?

>>187319102

Well, of course it is. He's constantly ignoring his HUD

It's been 14 episodes and he's blabbering about "will I have muh LOS" when he literally has the tool of god to tell him all the LOS at every single square on the map

>>187319212
Yeah, I'm really surprised he doesn't know how to fucking play when he played Xcom2 when it first came out. What really tickles my neurons is when he goes "oh my flashbang is gonna hit me". It makes me suspect he doesn't play the game and just voices over the footage.

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Just had the Viper King turn up in an early mission before having done the Viper's Nest mission. Didn't realize this was possible, and am basically completely fucked right now, because all my equipment is trash.

>>187319416
Did you disable the alien hunters dlc from the campaign start menu? Cuz if you did, yeah you fucked up.

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Release the expansion now Jake or you're waifu gets it!

>>187319704
Yep, pretty new to the game and deactivating it didn't do what I assumed it would do. Oh well, live and learn.

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Xcom 2 enemy variety is pretty bad.

>>187320840
Yeah if you don't want to mess with that stuff, leave the dlc enabled, then just ignore the missions.

>>187321065
>no codex
>no avatars

shitlist

I bought the game because of the free weekend. How does the expansion pack work? Is it something that continues after you finish the main game or are all its features integrated into the regular game?

>>187321065
I dunno, that looks pretty good to be

something that's integrated into the main game and from the looks of it you are going to be able to decide if you wanna play wotc or vanilla

>>187321490
All integrated into the regular game.

>>187321707
meant for >>187321490

honestly from what i've seen is that the lost like to sit there and wait to be activated.....would be nice if they roamed the map and attack advent proactively

>>187321897
I don't like how the lost goes past advent troops just for you, I mean you'd see 3~4 lost going for Advent but most of the swarm goes to Xcom.

>>187323142

They're set to target you 70% of the time, it's an ini configuration

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War of the Chosen's DLC integration is shit. SHIT.

>>187321319
>Codex
Nobody cares about the codex.
>avatar
Shit design and only appears once.

>>187323185
it'll be the first thing i'll mod out DESU

>>187323297
Get some new material

>>187323185
Boy someone better make a mod fixing that, I wanna be able to sic whole pack of zombies onto a squad and just have them get ripped apart.

What the fuck is the codex anyways? A hologram?!

>>187324041
All the porno in your computer in physical form.

>Skirmisher gets hit for 5 from across the map
>"Well..."
>"SQUADMATE WOUNDED"
>"PANICKED"
>"PANICKED"
>Both tired soldiers panic
>One shoots his SQUADMATE in the back for five
>2 soldiers down

Oh, so literally never take soldiers to fights. Ever

Nice balance. Why even allow me to take them if they're going to do so horribly. I might as well grab Rookies

>>187324183
You're supposed to rotate the people in your squad so you just don't cheese till the end. I mean it's not really the games fault you bring tired soldiers to combat tho.

>>187324152
Can't be, they lack dicks and tentacles.

>>187324436

Yeah, but the penalty for bringing Tired soldiers seems so huge that I'd literally never do it, I'd rather leave my Tired Major home and take a Rookie

Not only are they guaranteed to develop a negative trait, which is going to further knock them out of combat for 10 days and make them hog the infirmary, but they can panic for a damage roll and shoot their squadmates, which can be a total disaster. A shotgun crit can kill someone

I'm sure a lot of people are gonna press Tired soldiers into combat not knowing this kind of high level bullshit can happen. There's no actual warning you can get such a dangerous panic roll on a graze shot on a squaddie anywhere

>>187324041
It's a projection of the psionic network. So kind of like a psionic-based machine thing. Basically the physical embodiement of ADVENTs anti-virus.

>>187324707
I mean I think the tired trait is explained somewhere in the game, also I guess the only reason you'd ever bring tired soldiers is if you REALLY NEED to, like on an avenger's defense or a Retaliation mission, etc.

>>187324847

Yeah, but the mission I saw this happen is on Avenger Defense

Even bringing a wounded soldier is safer. And while you have 8 to 12 soldiers to deploy (2 full squads), I still would prefer to press all my Sergeants

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>>187312669
So if you ever get ADVENT Tower in the first month, I highly recommend it. ADVENT regional strength of 1, infiltrated to 125% to slow down reinforcements, toughest enemies were two lancer and a snek, only had to deal in with one reinforcements drop.

>>187324707
>not knowing this kind of high level bullshit can happen

That's part of the XCOM experience though. Getting fucked hard because you encounter a new enemy or situation and learning from it is part of the gameplay.

What the fuck is the codex anyways? A hologram?!

>>187326136
Codes is my bae

>>187323297
Lazy shitposting

>has 2 95% shots plus a shit load of soldiers with actions available
>"oooh I don't know about this, better use a grenade to be sure"
Was having brain damage one of the requirements to get an early copy?

I see the "XCom 2 has bad enemies" shitposter has replaced the "Bore of the Chosen" shitposter. If they're different people.

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>>187327829
>If they're different people.
>IF

>>187328043
Where's the Nagi version?

>>187328098
>Where's the Nagi version?
I don't know who or what that is.

>>187327576
it's RISKY dude

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>>187327829
boar wine, your grace.

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>>187328246

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>>187328349
Go home /tv/ you're drunk

>>187319212
That's because of his format. He speaks up pretty much all of hist plans, he talks about LOS while using the tool. If he would just think instead of talking it through, videos would be much shorter and probably more boring for the average dude.
>>187327576
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like shit gets worse with each video. More frequent stupid decisions, missed opportunities.
>>187328280
I'm pretty sure he had combat protocols and stocks out there, which makes it even more tiring.

>>187328669
GOTTA SAVE THAT FOR ROBUTTS MY DUDE

>>187328349
the BOAR is pregnant

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>>187328797

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>>187328349

>>187327829
We can't possibly have only one shitposter.

>>187328669
I dont see how making the viewer watch a longer video that just leads into a massive failure is more interesting then a faster and more successful video.
Anyone who ventures into the comments just sees comments telling him how to fucking do it anyway, so it's not like people are loving this.

>>187329496
look at the filenames
Joey, Avatar, Bore and the Deviantart trash have all been spammed by the same person

>>187329845
>Deviantart trash

?

>>187329845
No ones spamming deviant trash. That's all really old stuff that was posted a while ago.

>>187329845
Boreposter never uses images

>>187329760
>so it's not like people are loving this

And yet we keep coming back, time and time again. We're THAT thirsty for WotC content.

>>187330125
Well yea, we're all fucking craving it. But it's not like anyone's staying after it launches.

>>187330125
>being thirsty for Jake "3.3 million dollars" Howard's tripe xcom jew Bore of the Chosen

>>187330931
>not wanting Jake's long, thick Xpac
What are you, gay?

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Need more bolt actions

>ABA AI improvements on day 1
Can't wait

>>187331436
Something about this animation bothers me.

>>187331313
Your the one thirsty for Jake's cum

>Priest mind controls XCOM soldier
>Uses mind merge on said soldier

What do?

>>187331436
>that completely rigid and stiff animation
>barely any aim-offset
thank god I don't play battlefield

>>187331597
Probably the bolt rocking in front of your face.

>>187331820
You think you've put forth a clever bind, except it has a very easy answer you've overlooked:
flashbang

>>187329760
He's working his usual audience perhaps? Or maybe all of this happens for same reasons why people watch twitch instead of playing themselves? Or he tries to create tension? Only idealists will be interested in pure ideal walkthrough, which is most likely not a lot of people. It's kinda boring to watch if there's no danger. Folks around here say how XCOM 2 gets boring by the end, when you get all the options, and how it's more interesting in previous phases of the game, with limited tactical resources or when you have to work through a fucked up situation. Odd sure sounded excited after the Hunter fiasco. Fuck, i enjoyed it, even if i was rooting for the other team. I was just laughing watching Odd get fucked.
>>187332043
Wonder if stasis would work in this situation.

>>187331689
At least I'm not gay like you.

>use Incoming!
>entire squad does the shot dodging animation for a spilt second
Always makes me laugh

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>>187331841
Do you like CoD?

>>187332160
>Or he tries to create tension?
He is going about it incredibly wrong then as it is entirely artificial by intentionally playing badly.

>>187331850
I'm seeing brass eject, but when he pops out the clip the brass cartridges are still attached. And then at the end nothing pops out, but he puts a new one in fully.

>>187332346
This has been brought to DICE's attention, they're working on it.

The en-bloc clip still has all the unfired bullets despite the use, I think that's what you mean?

>>187332160
While you're right in that yea, its rewarding to get out of a bad situation early, its more infuriating when he can get out of situations but doesnt, or when situations turn bad when they didnt have too.
I mean if I'm gonna watch someone play legendary, I want to be good, so I can see some skill on display, if I had no previous knowledge of this guy, I would suggest he play on normal.

>>187332518
That, on top of there being no brass ejecting or even a clip eject when in third person.

The whole thing seems Bethesda-tier.

I want Jake inside me.

>>187332646
I think regarding the clip ejecting when all rounds are used the gun automatically drops the clip instead of having it eject

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZlWhNDI2q8

Mild spoilers for the new type of Avenger defence, but holy crap does it have so much potential for mods.

I'd love to see a new type of Haven Defence mission where rather than defending the Haven you're silencing a battery of those railguns which are being used to bombard a resistance town.

OR just see the ACV with active turret on vanilla haven siege types.

>>187333128
>Mild spoilers for the new type of Avenger defence, but holy crap does it have so much potential for mods.

I'd really like to see a mod which changes things up depending on which Chosen it is attacking you. Having to play the same Defense mission up to three times (or even more if you're really bad) could get pretty boring.

Imagine having a foursome with a Priest, Gatekeeper, and Avatar.

Imagine how slutty and mindbroken you'd be at the end.

>>187333128
I want to see missions INSIDE the avenger fuckk

>>187333126
That makes sense. I was expecting it to be like the M1.

>>187329845
I've been saying the Avatar looks like shit and is shit mechanically since release and during that time everyone agreed. It's not just one person that dislikes that incredibly lazy design.

>>187333565
>>187333126

These old guns confuse the shit out of me

>>187332607
You have the curse of knowledge. Judging by steam achievements, only 5.1% of players managed to beat the game on commander, 1.3 for legend. Do you think an average player, or the average guy from the internet is going to see all the mistakes you saw? I watched some WOTC video from AngryJoe, a "game critic". Dude didn't even read the skill descriptions sometimes, or didn't take cover. And it seems he fucking liked it. This is your average player.
It can feel like shit being minority sometimes but that is a burden you'll have to carry.
>>187333128
It sure could use some Reinforcements here and there, or just plain more enemies at least. The BFG was barely protected for my opinion.

>>187323209
Stop it, just stop it, it's against /xcg/ rules to think Jake's game is anything but absolutely magnificent and perfect in every way.

>he S T I L L tries

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BORE OF THE CHOSEN

Jake Solomon is George Lucas

EU/EW is the original trilogy.

2 and WotC are the prequels.

>>187333718
It makes me sad that you're probably right about that...

>>187333581
Nobody except you dislikes the Avatar though.

>>187334080

Well I'll be a son of a bitch.

They don't match the chosen except for being a trio andthe faces but it is what it is.

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>>187334084

>>187331436
>>187332223

Why are you posting reload animations here, anyway? How is this xcom?

>>187334920
It's in the hopes that if I'm autistic enough some modder will port it into XCOM

>>187334920
>>187335061
Same reason that I keep hoping Nigel will finish the HCA mod. And maybe add more weapons.

tfw guerilla war never ever

>>187334279
This general must really have gone to shit over the past year if people now consider a human in armor with funny hair to be an interesting enemy.

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>>187334084
that'd imply 2 is a step back from EU and EW

>>187335546
Mechanically they are superior to ethereals

>>187335574
XCOM2 doesn't have alien megaship missions, psy for every trooper, genetech, cyborgs

>>187335912
Thank god

>>187335912
Large ufos were not as good as you remember them. They were great in long war, but not vanilla. Psi is way better and I'm glad they didn't rehash EW.

>>187335912
>alien megaship missions
I'm right royally sick of raiding large UFOs after playing EW

>psy for every trooper
Psionics are more interesting in X2

>genetech,
Avenger isn't stable enough to do that anyway

>cyborgs
SPARK > MEC

>>187335574
2 was so sparsely playtested that they didn't even think of the "beaglerush maneuver" as dumb a name as that is.

They literally just took the EU ruleset and tried slapping stuff ontop of it, with little consideration of how it fits together. XCOM 2 plays like a mod for EU, not a very good one at that.

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>play vanilla ew
>first mission reminds me of horrible los problems

i don't think i will be ever able to go back anymore

>>187336310
>SPARK > MEC
This is advanced shitposting, the spark literally needs a mod to have it's melee attack feel satisfying in gameplay terms.

>>187336451
Vanilla MEC are outright terrible.

>>187336451
I think you've forgotten how much LW improved vanilla EW

>>187336451
literally the only good think about vanilla mec is their punch because it looks cool

>>187336519
>Vanilla MEC are outright terrible.
Look man, there's nothing wrong with X2 or X1, but don't get carried away to try and prove your point, you'll just look dumb.
Vanilla MECs are good to very strong. Not everything in X2 has to be the equivlent of X1 and vice versa. Though the expansion should hopefully buff them up properly.

>>187336451
Why would you grab strike over rainmaker?

>>187336815
>Why would you grab strike over rainmaker?

Punching things is fun, and I often find Sparks have trouble with ammo. Only three shots, no weapon mods, and various abilities which fire multiple times in a turn can put them in situations where they need to move and attack, but have no ammo. Strike is useful for those occasions.

>>187336815
Why would you ever do anything except overwatch crawl?

>>187337051
>no weapon mods
Wait, why would leave it like that and not use a mod that gives it weapon slots?

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Remainder that Snore of the Chosen is boring shit that only retards are hyped for and the only people that defend it are people on the firaxis payroll

>>187337208
When discussing the quality of a game
>just mod it
is not an argument in defense of the game's quality, as the mod itself is not made by the developers or released officially. If a game needs a mod or mods to fix gameplay elements, then it's a pretty shit game.

>>187337336
>can't call it bore of the chosen anymore because it draws bobbyposting
kek

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i am sake jolomon please buy m- i mean firaxis' game it's very good

>>187337387
We're not discussing the quality of the game anymore, I asked you a gameplay question. The SPARK weapons lacking mod slots is a clear oversight and one they have fixed

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>>187337336

RELEASE IT JAKE CUNT SHIT DICKHOLE FUCKER

>>187337336
>>187337396
Now look here you faggot shitposter and you faggot firaxis drone retard.

I think the Avatar is gay as fuck, so are the rulers and the Chosen have boring designs but fun personalities.

I'm hyped for WotC cause XCOM 2 might finally feel like a complete game and most importantly, the new mods should be amazing.

Both of you are fucking retards by the way.

>>187337396
>implying the cuckpansion isn't both bore and snore

THE

>>187337675
CAREFUL NOW

>>187337387
How did >>187336815 turn into a "discussing the quality of a game"? Because it seems you skipped a few steps in the conversation

>>187337574
>make DLC
>it's shitty
>release the fix for it in another DLC

The level of shekels Jake must be on.

BOAR

>>187337912
The fixes for the old DLC aren't tied to just the new expansion, they are literally changing the original DLC.

>>187337773
>chore of the chosen lover calling anyone else a retard
lol

>>187337857
I don't spend all my time online, I just assumed that (considering someone saw the reason to mention that lolmodit) we're not assuming eachother to be dumb enough to think that "there's a mod for that" means the game/element of the game is not shit.

This is some kind of cabin fever levels of crazy I haven't seen since the LOS shitposting days. 3 more days...

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>>187337958

There's no mod that adds giant ayy ships into the game.

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>>187338142

>>187338082
It's hardly a "lolmodit" when it's change the developers are applying to the game itself

>>187338321
>it's change the developers are applying to the game itself
Because developers have never been influenced by mods in the past or anything.

Also, I wonder if that will be available in a patch for the base game or if they'll lock that behind $40, like the performance fixes are.

>>187338248
You could make a large UFO based off the assets in X2 if you want to put some effort into it

>>187338750
>mod already exists
>Easy .ini changes
>"locked behind a paywall"
Come on man, tone down the shitposting.

>>187338750
The changes to the SPARKs and the Alien rulers aren't tied to the expansion, they are universal apparently.

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>>187338771
A goy made this.

>>187338750
You do realize the supposed changes they are making to the sparks in WotC can be be applied right now via .ini edits?

>>187299706
other vipers do the rattling thing. And it is always a sign of fear, the snake knows it's been found out and rattling is it's last shot at getting you to fuck off and leave it alone.

>>187339047
>you can mod the game

>>187338882
>mod already exists
I thought it wasn't "lolmodit", now you're saying it is, which one is it?
>>187339047
Sure, doesn't change the fact that Firaxis still messed up there. Really, I don't get why this general has turned so apologist since the last time I browsed actively.

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>all that fucking rampant shitposting
>it's still 2 days

we ain't gonna make it lads

>>187339259
I know Frax messed up with the Sparks, they've stated that themselves hence the changes. I don't see why you're so antagonistic towards them

>guy playing Classic
>fails the first non-Gatecrasher mission
>yes, the Guerilla Ops one that is always easy and is given to you on a silver platter
>gets one soldier killed and another greviously wounded on the way

There is literally no excuse for being this inhumanly fucking stupid. And by no excuse I don't mean "it's your fault", I mean "no one who does this deserves to live". It's a fucking miscarriage of justice that I can't fucking kill someone this infuriatingly fucking deficient as a human being. Every second they live breathing oxygen that can go to more deserving bacteria is a crime against fucking nature.

>>187339306
You should've seen the shitposting prior to the release of Total War Rome 2 on /twg/

>>187298136
looks like he's showing her his dick

>>187339454
I think I've only ever seen one playthrough where somebody fucked up the first guerilla op, they didn't even make it to the blacksite

>>187339553
>overwatch this

>>187339414
Because they are lazy and this kind of stuff shows you how little effort goes into actually testing or even designing these things. We're talking basic gameplay issues that ANY intermediate player would spot and can provide suggestions for.

>>187339259
>I thought it wasn't "lolmodit", now you're saying it is, which one is it?
You just said that the Spark changes were "locked behind a pay wall". Since we that doesn't seem to be the case, your point is wrong. And since you can already change is yourself, it still wouldn't be locked behind anything even if the previous wasn't true. Not complicated

>apologists
This may be surprising, but /xcg/ has been waiting for an expansion pack, and now it's coming with good fixes to common complaints and add tons of new shit, people are quite excited.
And the Avatar argument is as the release of /xcg/

>>187339526

Wait, there was shitposting BEFORE the release of Rome 2 ? The biggest strategy shitstorm this decade so far ?

>>187296975
it doesn't

>>187339526
>tfw no gook

>>187339870
I meant the few days prior, and then it reached critical mass when players saw the release was an unfinished pile of shit that took 14 patches to fix up

>>187339762
>You just said that the Spark changes were "locked behind a pay wall". Since we that doesn't seem to be the case, your point is wrong. And since you can already change is yourself, it still wouldn't be locked behind anything even if the previous wasn't true. Not complicated
Same logic applies to piracy. The content in WotC isn't locked behind a paywall, because I can just go and download it from a tracker.

>This may be surprising, but /xcg/ has been waiting for an expansion pack, and now it's coming with good fixes to common complaints and add tons of new shit, people are quite excited.
And the Avatar argument is as the release of /xcg/

I am also excited for the expack myself, I just don't understand how the general went from

>lmao, does Jake really think twinks with troll doll hair are a good design
to
>shut up, Avatar is literally perfect in every way

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>>187339870
>>187339526

So does WOTC launch monday or tuesday? Steam says 2 days for me but that'll be monday

>>187340397

Tuesday 29th

28th got tossed around a bit but 29th is fully confirmed

>>187339454
link it,

>>187340441
gotcha, I guess steam is bad at counting then

>>187340397
>>187338321

When does gmg give out steam keys for expansion? Asking for a myself

>>187340189
>Same logic applies to piracy.
You are so far off the tracks now. One (Modding) is something encouraged by the devs, and something explicitly implemented so that players could modify the game however they want, and the other is illegal and the opposite of encouraged.

>I just don't understand how the general went from
>shut up, Avatar is literally perfect in every way
It never did. You will find these kind of posts began in response to "what went wrong" spam. It's just shitposting in response to even more blatant shitposting.

>>187340546

What ?

>Available: 29 August
>This game will unlock in approximately 2 days

has anyone bought WotC from gamersgate? if so did they send the key straight away or do you have to wait til tuesday?

>>187340567
oh so midnight then, thanks friend

>>187340696
it's the 26th here pal

>>187340780
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/launch?iso=20170828T2101&p0=137&msg=XCOM+WOTC+Launch&font=serif&csz=1

>>187340843
>Time until Monday, August 28, 2017 at 9:01:00 pm

I guess this isnt too accurate for east coast americans unless it does actually unlock at 9

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Release the DLC now Jake or Sansa kills Jon and becomes Queen of the North

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JAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

RELEASE IT

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>>187342561
DO IT

>Can't stabilize someone being carried
Oh no
Is there a mod for this?

>look up the expansion's requirements
>70gb
Wait
That's just someone having a laugh, right
Right?

>>187343248
Fuck it's going to take me several days to download

>>187343248
from what I've heard its only around 20gb or so

>>187343248
Anon, remember that they have to add the base game download to that requirement

>>187343248
Yeah and Anarchy's Children requires 45gig

>>187342842

No, because it makes sense

Put the fucker back down and get a medic over

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Release it now Jake mmhmmm or I may have a use for you hmmmhhmm

>>187338771
No you can't. You can make one slightly resemble a large, but the assets just aren't there

JAKE PLEASE

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Be no dick! Suck a bitch

>>187345087
>the absolute state of lets players

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>>187345087
Is there a limit on text boxes? I want to make a shitty recreation of the Boss Nigger poster sometimes.

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JAKE

What was the last good patch for EW LW?