/xcg/ - XCOM General

Pistols

pistols are useful

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THE RUBBER'S ON THE ROAD AND THE KIDS ARE IN THE BACK SEAT

dont like pistols

>>187872241
>obligatory hour/day long download time post

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F

>>187872241
Huh so apparently your dudes get smarter. Just had a guy go from Genius to Savant

Templars seem pretty underwhelming desu lads

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>Creating custom Skirmishers is fun

Is my first "real" encounter with the Assassin during this supply raid supposed to be this hard?

She just rolls in and slaps my shit while some Stun Lancers and Lost have their way with me.

Am I supposed to come out of every engagement with these things with maximum dead/wounds?

Send help.

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Do I do it? How important is it to get the VIP dude alive?

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>>187872468
Ypu have a problem with black soldiers, pal? We're all humans here. That's the important part.

(Skirmishers get a pass too, you guys are cool.)

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>tfw one of your anons is a gotposter or other undesirable and you have to fix it with the report

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>-1 days
What did she mean by this

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>>187872656
I promise

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>Broke my Ironman save with mods

beagle in like 5 minutes? will he have fun again?

>sitrep limits me to three
>Get a random defector
>Dominate a Muton
Fuck the system

>>187872727
Battle scanner, or flank her immediately. But realistically your probably going to take a hit.
>>187872620
They are great senpai, all the new classes are.

>>187872842
>Tired Reaper Colonel: I am growing stronger

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>>187872338

Is WoTC like a lot harder than the base game? It keeps feeling like there is no fucking time to do any of the missions and that the timers are like 2 turns shorter. That and when I did the mission to save Mox I lost 2 soldiers

>>187872468
>It takes all colors to make a rainbow
>Except black, there's no black in a rainbow

>>187873028
>Lost two people saving Mox
Fucking how? They didn't even hit me

>>187872730
You miss out on the intel reward if killed

>>187873013
Sharpshooter+between the eyes = easy lost missions

>>187873028
How the fuck did you lose anybody on that mission?

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How do I make my equipment screen look like this

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>Wounded, 6 Days
>Gravely Wounded, 5 Days

>>187873061
but memes aside, I'm sick of seeing all those mulattos faces in my recruit list even though it'll soon be the face of the human race after a few more thousand years of reproduction, rage rage against the dying of the light

>>187873028
It's harder because you have more stuff to juggle, even with how crazy good the new classes are. Before it was basically just doing the skulljack and blacksite and then you cruise on alien facilities until the end of the game

>>187873061
people are like bananas, no one likes the black ones

>>187873220
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1122974240&searchtext=

>>187873110
>open the door
>there are now 21 billion fucking advent and I got 2 guys to shoot and gotta run back to the sky ranger

>>187873359
I'm pretty sure you can plop the evac point anywhere

>>187873214
>>187873110
Cause there were like 50 fucking guys and more guys dropped every turn

I beat the base game and the base game with the 2 DLC on commander. I've also beat EW on classic like a billion times and can beat EW on classic change to impossible mid game and win as long as I do it after lasers.


>>187873446
When I grabbed Mox the Skyranger deployed like on the other side of the map.

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>>187873258
>wounded 4 days
>gravely wounded 49 days
>took 1 hp difference in damage

>>187873359
>opening doors
No m8, you MAKE doors, and you call skyranger before you do
I literally called skyranger near the cell, lobbed three grenades at the back of the prison, it went down next turn, packed up and left
The entire point of that mission is that you NEED to call evac near, since blowing your covert WILL force it to spawn somewhere else

>>187873572
>"Drama Queen" trait

>>187873446
>>187873569
No it was static, still though it was a really easy mission. I had two guys hanging out near the EVAC while Dragunova grabbed Mox and booked it for the EVAC

I killed one Advent and EVACed without getting hit

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Have you hugged your Psy Operative today?

is there a way to disable the Immune to Explosives Chosen strength because holy shit is it bullshit

What is the challenge mode?

>>187873749
nope, my waifus are elves only

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Jesus fucking Christ rangers are elder god-tier.
>final mission
>go in with my A-team
>2psi/1gren/1sharp/1spec/1ranger
>ranger kills most of the pods by himself
>final battle is him just obliterating ayys and avatars like pic related

Who here /WIND OF DESTRUCTION/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-drpEGRc0&t=2s

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>>187873765

>>187873749

>using a psy operative when templars are available

>5 min after stream time
>still hasn't even started
Bore of the Chosen

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He has no arms but he'll fight for humanity

>>187874029
you laugh now but just you wait until you roll an Assassin with Immune to Explosives and your Claymore is USELESS

>>187873942
They get better in WotC since they can get chosen weapons, both sides of their ability tree, and 4 other abilities.

>>187874040
Templars are shit compared to psy ops though. They're only good as melee monsters, but only if you get bladestorm. They are mostly utility otherwise.

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>>187872419
>see the invisible
But it's XCOM so you still can't hit it.

>>187874106
Joke's on you my assassin is vulnerable to explosives.
The Warlock is immune though but you can just shoot him in the face anyway.

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>finish alien cache soon after killing ass
>this happens
VIGILO CONFIDO

>>187874219
Does blade storm trigger if you use momentum to stand near an opponent?

>>187873572
That one hp was on the nads. Have mercy.

>go to sleep
>spend a day away from PC
>come back
>3 threads behind

So its good eh?

>>187874594
It's aight.

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Someone make a meme from this shit

>sniper crits purifier next to objective
>mission failed
t-thanks

>>187874594
its good when it doesnt crash, which is often

>>187873942

>2psi

Are psi even that good? I always felt like one is okay at best. Rather grind another grenadier. Hell in my current wotc run I dont even have psi ops going.

>get between the eyes and sniper to mission with lost
>every turn the sniper misses a 92%+ shot with her pistol on her first shot

>>187874804
Works on my machine ;)

>15 minutes after start time
>stream still hasn't started

>tfw no Grimy's Loot Mod for wotc

>>187873028

Nah. It feels harder but once you get 2 squads up rolling youre fine. Covert ops reducing the avatar project is literally op. You have basically all the time in the world due to this.

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Beagles soon?

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Holy shit this sitrep is broken. if your Reaper doesn't break concealment, then the timer never starts.

>>187874810

Psi are pretty OP.

Two nice blasts, CC, a debuff that also do damage and heal you, emergency stasis, immunity to environmental effects and granting immunity to mental effects to nearby squad members.

And you can explode the grenades that aliens carry.

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Post your main bad motherfucker

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>stealth

>>187875058
It's 20 minutes past TNX time and he hasn't said a word, he probably got "sick" again

>>187874810
Psi are great.
And with the new system that makes it take a long time to train up your soldiers, having them training independently in the background is great to fill in your roster with strong high level troops.

>>187873942
templars are the true eversors because I can just rush them into pods and bladestorm everything at max focus

Just jumping in to XCOM 2 from 1, I can start a WotC campaign and it will just be a regular campaign with new stuff inserted, right?

They're not two separate campaigns? I also have Shen's Last Gift if it matters.

>>187875240
>stealth
>flashlight on
Dumb Reaper.

>>187875498
yes

>>187875498
>Just jumping in to XCOM 2 from 1, I can start a WotC campaign and it will just be a regular campaign with new stuff inserted, right?

Yes. Think EW compared to Enemy Unknown. Though the difference in features between Xcom 2 and wotc is even greater

>>187875556
Thanks my dude

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>>187873942
>Full Skill Tree Unlocked

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With Chosen weapons and full skill trees and hero units how can the elders even hope to compete

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Rate the factions
Skirmishers>Reapers>Templars
Fucking Templars are chumps who are so situational it's insane. Skirmishers are gods of chaining attacks and soloing entire pods, and Reapers are best scouts.

>>187875307

Its hard work streaming once a week.

>>187874442
Yes. But only if they (enemies) move.

Anyone know if the titanfall armor mod work on the new classes/units?

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How do I use the Hypervital Module? I've got a Reaper that's wounded for like 28 days.

>>187876327
You need an elirium core and I think you do it through the squad selection screen when going on a mission. You can also only do it once per soldier and he gets back to being wounded after the mission ends.

>>187873736
I don't get it. I dropped the evac, but as soon as I picked up Mox, the evac moved to the other side of the building.

>>187872620
templars are awesome, you just need to build their focus somehow

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>>187875058

>>187874810
>Are psi even that good?
Yes? Have you played the game?
>permanent mind control (works on everything except robots)
>two great nukes
>one great aoe
>immune to everything except direct damage
>aura of calm
>can explode grenades on enemies
>stasis for insane utility
They are like one of the two best classes in the game (ranger/psi).

I just killed the assasin in a mission, but the dialogue implied she isnt dead.

a supply raid, bitch didnt see the gas nade and the lost coming

>>187875131
You're forgetting the most important thing that is Mind Control on the Gatekeepers.

>>187876748
she's not

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>>187876068
>hero units
Why would you need them when you can ripandtear as ranger? Seriously, hero classes get kinda shit in the lategame, being good only for great utility and a templar melee build.

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All right, stupid question. How does one make a mod to put on Steam? Right now I've got some simple ideas I want to implement, they're all ini edits, but I'd like to have them as an easily-toggled mod.

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>>187876596
wanna bet its the buff males mod?

>>187876179
Not had a chance with the Templars yet, but I have high hopes! Sometimes a situational guy having to improvise is fun!

In other news, how long do you think, before we get commander/Assassin porn?

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>early in game, have the skulljack mission
>Bring Mox along since I figure between his justice and someone else that getting an officer jacked would be easy
>Get it done actually
>Some gold ass motherfucker spawns and basically wipes out my crew the moment reinforcements come

Well. fuck this game too.

>>187876812
I love the Doomguy armor mod, but I'm still waiting for them to give us Doomguns to go with it.

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Is my save fucked? Playing on ironman.
I'm on the chosen stronghold, got the prompt about wether I'm sure I want to start and anyone out of the square will get sent back to the avenger, I backed out since I wanted to send somebody back and now I don't get the prompt to use it again and I'm stuck.

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HAS PSIONIC-SCIENCE gone too far?

i went to poop and when i sat my nuts dipped into the water the ayys won

>>187876179
Scirmisher>Templar>Reaper
Scirmisher's utility with bluescreen rounds is insane. Can take out mechs and give more actions to squadmates. Templars are great in melee/utility and they are also tanky, but shit without bladestorm. Reapers are fucking trash in lategame, because a fully upgraded ranger is just a better reaper and can also delete entire packs from this reality, unlike the guy with svd.

>>187876784

I`m kinda impressed i managed to forget the mind control.

>>187877151
>letting your psi-lanes cross
Gay.

>>187876950

Ah. The Codex can be bad in early game.

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FUCK YEAH!
I'M GOING TO MINE THE FUCK OUT OF ADVENT SKULLS

>>187877620
>having anyone but offense specialists hack

>>187877620
Specialists are still better for that.

>watching comes naturally

Are Reapers cucks?

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>>187877620
>tfw you fail the only time that reward pops up

>>187877276
So I've always been kind of confused about the bonus ability thing, how do you get stuff like Bladestorm on Templars? Didn't it used to be random chance to get it when promoting, with a building that let people get their full potential or some shit?

>>187876950
>doing story missions before you have full plasma/power armor
Pretty dumb desu

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Which one

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>>187877810
>tfw that reward pops up and the hack succeeds but the soldier dies in a late-game ambush

Advent should just deploy Mutons against lost, counterattack just mops up lost

>>187872551
Spartans never die

>>187877709
>>187877715
Specialists can't pull someone up to a rooftop to start mind fucking them

>>187877810

My first X-Com 2 playthrough my main specialist got that three times.

He ruled the Sectopods with a harsh but unfair hand.

>>187877829
You need this new bulding that forms and improves bonds, along with the old GTS (not sure about the last one). Then you just pray to RNGesus to have the right skill available for purchase in the skill purchase menu.

>>187877841
It's my first time man I didn't expect gold bitch to fuck my ass.

>>187877950
purifiers work well enough, since the lost run away when on fire

>>187878039
So those X-Com skills are random? I thought they just assigned a set number of bonus skills to each class

>>187878135
Nah, they're random. My doomguy ranger got Death From Above one of the random skills.

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Not sure which to pick.

Double AP ?

>>187878459
Wait, Lightning Strike isn't a GTS Upgrade anymore?

>>187878459
Really depends on what is going on. Fast construction can be immensely useful, so it just depends if you are planning to or have the resources to put down need facilities that month.

>>187874594
9/10
it's OK

>>187878084
Yeah but unlike purifiers, Mutons can actually tank attacks completely

>>187878610
GTS perks are just rookie training, squad size and captain bonuses now

when are the fresh bagels coming?

>>187878459
Orders really depend on what you are doing that month, what with the construction speed and research modifying ones. There are a couple that even make certain proving grounds things instant

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muh elders

>>187878893
never

bakery's closed

rest in rip

Does stun strike have any practical uses? It just seems like a way to make enemies pratfall before rending them.

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>>187878982
pls no

I am simply not autistic enough for LW2.

First Invasion and it is simply not possible for me to win. My troops lack the shear lethality to deal with the fuck load of troops + reinforcements every single round. I just got to Lasers and my best guys are maybe like 3-4.

I've never played long war 2 and I need help deciding if I should play that or war of the chosen

>tfw everyone forgot about the shemagh scarf in the load of all the tacticool and ports

it will always hold a special place in my roster

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>expect to fight many deep ones
>even x files thinks it's a lot
I'm expecting to face like 100 deep ones

BEAGLE WHEN?

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>10+ enemies visible without even moving
I think I'm just gonna see if any of them have sonic, capture them, then leave and take the point hit.

BEAGLE NEVER!

>>187878746
Fugg.
>Ranger gets Serial
It's time to rock.

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>>187879551
STOP IT

Does resistance ring benefit from workshop ?

>>187879267
Start with War of the Chosen

>>187879547
They are all just gonna have primitive weapons, pretty sure

>>187879267

Play War of the Chosen.

Long War is...good. If you like being abused.

It is a long slogging grueling affair with quite a bit of improvements and enhancements to the game.

Basically Long War is like being punched repeatedly in the groin. Some people like that, but most people find other crotch related interactions more fun.

>>187879616
Why do you want to watch him play instead of playing it yourself?

>>187872241
VIPER FACTION WHEN?

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>>187879791
this dude was standing under my dragonfly, just going to stun him and throw him on the dragonfly then leave.

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>>187879878
Friend simulator
and I want to either see good or bad Beagle luck

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>>187879924
Speed is life.

How do you guys use Templars?
>Too weak to one shot guys, so you need to soften them up, therefore wasting an allied turn whereas a ranger or a grenadier can probably waste them by themselves
>Have to rely on RNG for returning fire, and for volt to hit multiple other enemies
>If you melee people you risk pulling other pods
Shittiest fucking hero character with worst reliable damage output

>>187879924
Once someone is crazy enough to also mod in Chosen

>>187880107

they are kind of trash early game. they need some investment into them before them become beastmode.

>>187880107
>Too weak to one shot guys, so you need to soften them up,
Use them to fuck up shitty troopers and Sectoids in the beginning, that way they'll quickly gain experience and Focus.

>>187880107
They are best early game since they usually one shot troopers and sectoids, midgame is where they are at their weakest. Once you get close to colonel, it's full on rule of nature

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>CHOSEN ACTION
>Overwatch
>Executed!

can you still compleately retrain soldiers (redistributing their skills) or you lose soemthign with it?

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>archon king in lost mission
>came prepared with lures
>watch him slowly get worn down and then desperately try and get to a rift through a horde of zombies

>>187880502
yeah in the training center
you will be given back the soldier's AP you used but you wont get back the xcom AP spent

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>Chosen ambushes me in a mission
>Hits one of my soldiers and retreats to the second floor of a building
>Run my Grenadier as close as possible and shoot a grenade into it
>They get it, fall through the floor, and take like 16 damage total
>Shoot them with a sniper
>Kill them in one turn

Who knew the chosen were so weak to gravity?

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>>187877962
Gotta keep morale up somehow

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Half-tone is kino

>>187879267
Long War isn't for everyone. I don't mean that in a "gotta git gud, kid, way" I mean that in a "Some people simply will not find it fun to play, it's arduous". It's a lot more about RNG and your ability to cheese the game as much as possible.

I like a lot of what it does, but I also don't like a lot of what it does. Like why is there no pistol build?

I also find it to simply be "too much". It slows progression to an absolute crawl. You do like 4-5 missions every WEEK it feels like. And you'll be using the same equipment vs the same enemies for like 25 missions, because progress is so, so, so painstakingly slow that I often completely forgot what stuff I was trying to build and my strategy was numbed to "I am generally getting stuff". "I dunno I'm train AWC abilities and GTS abilites and I have Havens set to... wtf are my haven's doing again?"

I don't like pouring over UFOpedia charts, Id rather just learn whats going on through the game, a lot of LW2 is "educate yourself", going in blind will just cause you to fail, you can't really "learn as you go"

You need like, Autism to really enjoy the "tile counting" action of LW2.

If LW2 could be speed up by like 50% I think I might like it, but jesus, when they say "long" they mean "Imagine playing 100 hours of walking around the world map in a JRPG long"

>>187880675
Falls are dangerous.

>>187880780
>>187879804
>>187879791
What about alien hunters? I know it sucked back then but I heard that WotC made it good.

bagels?

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>>187880964

>it sucked back then

>>187880964
It's poorly implemented IMO, but basically it's okay.

Essentially it adds more bosses, but you have to gear yourself for the possibility that there might be a ay Boss in any given mission.

I don't hate it.

>>187872241
>Codex on missions with lost
(Screams Externally)

>>187880964
THe worst part about Alien hunters is the retarded looking alien skin armors and the OP weapons.

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r8 my Assassin killers

>>187879547
>>187879943
Holy fucking what the actual shit. I think I've missed something pretty damn major, as I do NOT recall TFTD looking like that!

>>187880678
Totally stealing that for any of my true heroes of the resistance, should they ever bite the big one...

>>187880780
Speaking of RNG, oh god no... I made a mistake. I made ONE little mistake and re-loaded to undo it... And forgot that if you re-load, the RNG is automatically fudged so that any shot you made successfully that turn, which just got undone, is now guaranteed to miss. Oh no.

>>187880780
I really really wish I could find a mod that works with the plasma/coil tier swap and let me use them in WotC. They're just so COOL-!

>>187880964
>>187881170
>Pick up Alien Hunters to go with WotC
>Not encountered any of the alien leaders yet,
>"Bla bla bla new blacksite. Bla bla some more of Vahlen's test subjects."

Wait... What? Fucking game spoiled me!

>>187881236
...Just give up. There'll be other chances.

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>Skirmisher Graffiti
Neat

HES LIVE

>>187881342
It's not TFTD, it's a mod. I forgot the exact name but it turns X-COM into X-Files, your guys are now FBI agents and stuff.

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>>187881342
it's x files. It's a mod that sets you at 1996 instead of 1999, and you deal with paranormal activities and cults and in 1999 it becomes regular UFO Defense with Final Mod Pack. Personally, I think the mod is really good with a huge variation in enemies and equipment, and it's fun going from some underfunded U.N agency with outdated equipment to secret paramilitary organization with lots of shit and experimental tech and vehicles.

I came here to see if anyone else was retarded like me. I started playing old xcom and didn't realize you had to click on war of the chosen in the launcher. Kept wondering when I was going to get to the new content.

>>187879547
>>187879943
Yo what the fuck mod is this, it looks pretty sick.

>>187881810
>>187881786

>>187881342
>Speaking of RNG, oh god no... I made a mistake

I don't even just mean RNG in terms of shot percentages. It also determines enemy placements and movements.

>Move at all from start
>2 pods
>k
>fight it out
>3 more pods walk in on enemy turn
>Completely surrounded
>Options: Run and Pray to RNG gods
>Fight what is almost certainly a lost cause
>Fixed EVAC across the universe gg fagget no re

For as much as XCOM2 says it's about "hit and run" "faster pace" they really didn't add much in terms of fighting while stay mobile. Plus the enemies have so many ankle slasher abilities.

what's the preferred build order now with the expansion?

>>187880675
That's pretty much how I killed the Hunter the first time I met him.
>Grappled onto the 2nd floor of my building
>Grenaded that floor and he fell to the 1st floor
>Grenaded that as well and then he was surrounded by the rest of my soldiers
>Templar wrecked his ass
Felt good, the 2nd time I met him my Templar almost two-shot him due to a bond, I then watched him shoot the Templar who simply parried. He immediately took a third Rend after that.

Fucking Hell, Beags has that WOTC weapon pack

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BEAGLE NOTICED ME

>>187881342
Honor the fallen

Thread's kinda slow. I guess people are playing the expansion.

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>Beag's has early access to E3245's mega pack
YOU BASTARD

>running routine security in new india to keep the statue party clean of bums
>stop suspicious looking guy with faggot haircut cause our metal detector goes off
>dickhead CO decides to show off and be a dick like usual
>this guy makes the situation worse by not answering and being a smartass
>suddenly get blown up and all of my friends die when all we did was do our jobs

defend this xdumbs

>>187882328
T-that means is not far away right?

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>>187882289
I would post more x files, but I'm doing this new mission type that popped up and the first turn had 5 FUCKING MINUTES I counted of hidden movement. The mod really like throwing shitloads of enemies at you. I've heard that supposedly cult HQ missions have 100+ enemies.

>>187882491
E3245 probably gave it to him to get the word before he releases it. Hes already said its done he just needs to put it on the workshop.

>assassin somehow set up a massive cannon and amassed an army next to a downed avenger without anyone noticing
Does Bradford know what a window is?

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>Mutons' faces when I throw grenades at their position in a Lost sitrep

Anybody know how to port mods to WOTC?

>>187874594
Jake fixed his game.

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Is there any Chosen Assassin porn yet

>Can't sell lost corpses
Good

Pillar or Overcharge first?

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is this a graphical error? I don't see why an aquatic dog would have a rocket launcer, but then again this is the cult of dagon.

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>>187883082
if you know where to look for it

>>187883267
Maybe its mod shorthand for telling you it breathes fireballs that explode or someshit?

>hack the work station mission
>send 2 msgts with a bunch of sqds and cpls
>forget to send a class with hack
>turn 1 reveal from drone
>advent rolled out new armor and now has 3 armor against a bunch of guys with smgs
>viper partrol walks in
>flash them
>second viper patrol walks in
>they get 3 squad sight kills through cover
>try to reaper them with msgt shinobi
>rolls a 1/6 and leaves the first target with 1 hp
>gets pulled
>procs bladestorm
>Missed!

Managed to get the 2 msgts out with only a month of medbay for them. Everyone else was a total loss. Might be the worst mission I've had in long war 2. Normally I'm at least able to evac the bodies. The stat screen mod showed a -25 on expected damage.

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>jamball died on gatecrasher

>Lost Siterep
>Purifier, Sectopod and And a bunch of lost get around a car
>Toss a claymore
>Sectopod blows up car, purifier and claymore, 3 horde messages
>Next turn a car blows up out of sight, another horde message
>Next turn again Remote Start a truck and get the fifth horde message
>no imminent horde
Is it because I'm still in concealment?
That fucking sucks if it is

>>187883812
>restarts because of it
kek

>>187883812
>>187883934

topcuck

>>187883934
Well he had one dead and 2 woundedI think that was his excuse

>>187883934
what a cuck

Looks like Incendiary grenades got a nerf on their direct damage

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THIS is nice!

>>187884141
jesus christ

>>187884141
I think that's a little too strong especially in legend

>>187884141
That seems broken as fuck.

>>187884141
Dont think I've gotten that yet. Is that a late power you get?

On that note, what decides what orders you get with a faction? Are they predetermined the ones you get with ranking up, etc, or is there an element of randomness?

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>Kicks the door open
>next turn gets mind controlled
must be """"""rusty""""""

>>187884380
RNG

What's to be done when the Warlock mind controls one of my guys? Should I just freeze grenade them?

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Jake has changed the rules of overwatch. Beags is not pleased.

>tfw texting people asking them what color they want their armor to be in Xcom

So far nobody picked anything stupid (but some edge)

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fuck you. there were 39 enemies and I took 11 of them alive, how was I supposed to save 12 civvies? I think it's a miracle that I didn't kill any of them with my liberal use of grenades and land mines.

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>>187884609
are australians inbred like the english?

>Templars literal masters of Psi
>Can fucking conjure up swords of literal psychic force
>Geist talking big about how they delve deep into the pool of psychic whatever
>Fucking my idiot retard templar gets mind controlled by sectoids and priests every single damn time
Goddamn Templars are fakes.

>>187884626
how do you even bring that up? most people haven't even heard of xcom

Do chosen show up in the shadow chamber preview? or are they always enemy unknown

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>>187884503
>RNG
>I've already got the Lower Avatar Progress one

>Hamball is so fat she has negative defense

>>187884685
Australians are English

so how do the new levelup works? you can buy old skills instead of the new levels?

>>187884609
>Beags and chat throwing a fit about Jake fixing it
Most of the time the aliens just waste their turn when they do it and it's one of the easiest mechanics to counter

>Beagle's mod list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7O17O1t-9g

>>187884767

>Hey [Name]!
>Wanna be in my alien killing army in Xcom?

That's as easy as that, fi they ask what the fuck it is you say it'S a game.

>>187885064
level ups work the same, but you can go into the Training Center and buy the other ability afterwards

I just started a WotC ironman run since I played the base game a lot, but I can't remember which mission types I'm allowed to delay. For example right now I have a choice between the first two dark event counter missions. Can I delay those for a bit while some of my squad recovers or do I have to do it immediately?

tl;dr which mission types have to be done immediately or they automatically fail/despawn?

>>187885164
neat, no longer do i have to take 2 specailists

>>187884609
How did they change it?

Is he using ABA Ai improvement at the very least?

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>>187884609
hmmmmm

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>none of my solider bonds are wholesome heterosexual relationships

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I want to get out

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>>187880107
They're inferior to regular troops early to mid-game, but they become pod-destroying forces of nature by the time you get them to Colonel.

And as long as they fucking get Bladestorm, goddamn.

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>>187885386
No homo brotherhood bonding only

>>187885354
yes.

>>187880107
I use them to clean up mobs to gain focus and then go nuts with said focus later on

>>187884609
He did? How so?

So the expansion changed the DLC missions, right? There's no Lily or Vahlen missions and the Alien leaders are specifically in certain missions instead of showing up randomly? Something like that?

I guess that's not too bad, after playing those 2 missions in every campaign over and over. I liked 'em but they did wear out. Kind of a shame you can't do a massive, all-out campaign option with them, though.

>>187885839
Overwatch triggers on single tile movements now. You can't worm your way out of an Overwatch without removing it via Suppression, Flashbangs, etc.

>>187885884
Alien rulers show up on facility missions and you are given prior warning to them appearing.

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oh fuck, should I do it lads? I've still only got the dragonfly which only holds 8, but I don't know when I'll get another chance and if I can get a better craft before the actual invasion in a year.

>>187885884
Only if you don't enable them. If you enable them you'll still do the Viper King's den and the Zerker and Archon will be guarding facilities after that.

>>187885974
no john, you are the fish people.

>>187885924
It does? Good advent can't cheese anymore

>>187886076
Well the reason it was frustrating Beagle is that he wasn't able to use it to his advantage.

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what the fuck is wong /xcg/
>install xcom 2
>after its completed, it thinks for a moment, deletes the steam data (despite all the data files still preset) and starts all over again.
it doesn't do this with any other games, like steam has an error seeing that its installed. and iv had to do this 3 times and it does fuck all.

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disembarked after a few turns and I've seen no movement. It's quiet. too quiet.

How do the two chosen meters work?

I just had the assassin field interrogate one of my guys and it gave her more of the knowledge meter.

Is that just how strong she is or does she get one of the triangles once it fills up all the way?

Are avenger defense turrets supposed to have squadsight? This is funny

>>187886419
they haven't, but they might have added it to make them better

>>187886404
At the end of the month each chosen attempt to do a move on the strategic level and more knowledge means they do more dangerous things

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>>187886404
Once it fills up she can assault the avenger. It's different from a UFO assault or whatever because you have to clear out all enemies, fuck up some enemy turret cars, and destroy a giant antiship gun.

>>187886164
Lmao he's bitching again that he has to play by the rules.

>>187886403
They're in the GODDAMN TREES

>>187886534
>ayy lmaos just tow a giant turret and its generator right in front of the avenger without bothering to shield or armor them

>>187886528
Ok, how do they fill up the bar this annon is talking about?
>>187886534

Thanks by the way.

Are sparks any better in WotC

>>187886641
And they somehow don't get seen dragging all that shit right in front of you while you're grounded.

>>187886650
They fill out the bar by taking and interrogating your soldiers and succeeding on doing their Strategic events which can be countered via covert actions

>>187886404
It changes the tactics it uses, once it's full there are chances for avenger assault with the big gun
1-2 has higher chances of training, 2-3 has higher chances of raiding, 3-4 has higher chances of avenger sabotage, at least that's what I got while playing
>>187886650
they fill it up each month naturally, it goes up during missions if one of your operatives is captured or knowledge is extracted from it on the battlefield, and after every successful action they take, like raiding or training

BEAGLE HAS THE MEGA PACK THE SHIT

>>187886940
>YOU SEE IVAN

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oh man, they've got multiple psi users. I've killed a few gilldogs but I've seen a few gillmen and priests of dagon moving in and out of sight. doesn't seem to be too many enemies though, hidden movement is over in less than a minute. I could just hunker down and wait for turn 20 for the game to go into bug hunt mode and reveal all units on the map to each side.

>>187886879
>>187886889
Can you lower the meter in any way?

Also if the knowledge meter dictates if they do avenger missions what do the three triangles mean?

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>sniper shoots out my reaper's cover when trying to hit a sectopod on the other side of the map and reveals her
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

>>187886940
wait, the weapon mega pack?

>>187887057
According to an anon in this thread or the previous, No. A defense matrix helps protect the avenger from their invasions

>Triangles
I think that has to do with hunting them down or something

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>special mission from volk after I got rid of the assassin
>engineer and two soldiers
>they're both colonels

>>187887168
Yes.

Get on his stream. he's looking at them now.

>>187887057
The three triangles are your progress in finding their stronghold. When the triangle fills up through specific Covert Actions, you can assault the stronghold of that specific Chosen.

>>187887168

Yes, E3245 hooked him up to generate buzz and stuff.

>>187887020
They are underground, three of them, taunting you with there giant grey ay lmao dongers.

>>187887245
>>187887261
that means it's almost done and it'll be on the workshop soon r-right?

>>187887294
It is done he just hasn't posted it yet.

>>187887294
if >>187882642 is to be believed then more than likely yeah

>>187887261
what an absolutely based god

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man I love the FN FAL. solid accuracy and the bonus damage is great since all my dudes are above 100 accuracy so it's actually 36 base damage.

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>spend all my intel contacting region
>new templar mission in it, only lost
>take it and warlock appears
>beat him but then the dumbass car explodes and vip dies
>lose contact with the region and the entirety of the last two months of intel was used for nothing

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Is there anyway to update a cosmetic mod yourself? as in a helmet pack to wotc to get rid of the black shader effect.

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found the psi fuckers. gonna grenade and explode their ass

>>187887261
The teasing bastard better release it tongiht then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwruiesWsT8&feature=youtu.be

>>187888079
K I N O

>>187887902
What is this mod?

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CAPTAIN QUICKDOG

can't watch stream, is beagle having fun?

>>187888079
https://vimeo.com/230218391

>>187888498
Bitching about can't cheese overwatch, but says he likes WotC. Hasn't played any in the last 20 or so because mods and autism.

>>187887757
Open the upk in the sdk and fuck with the textures, I'm not sure if the bug is because of the alpha channels on the textures or the actual UV's on the models themselves

My mod wasn't broken by it so I can't say for sure what causes it

>>187888498
no

>>187888498
He's getting autistic about mods again so half of the stream will be him editing files like every XCOM 2 stream

>>187888523
Interesting... I wonder if that would work with a super aggressive playstyle.

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First time trying a blacksite since installing WotC or Alien Hunters and WHAT the fuck happened here?! I-is this meant to happen? I'm pretty damn sure blacksites didn't look like this before! Is no-one gonna comment on this? Tagon? Bradford? No-one?!

>>187888523
It completely breaks the AI. They move in circles for some reason.

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Is there a way to import custom soldiers from the my saved pool from the base game? Not a single one has shown up yet.

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Anyone else notice there's an unoccupied spot for you in this cutscene?

Why are the Elders so fucking obsessed with you, anyway?

Did he seriously just get Mag first?

I miss when Beagle didn't bitch every single minute

>>187889146
Ayy.

i have never played xcom or any other game similar to xcom. i installed it tonight and this game is too fucking stressful. every mission takes 10 years off my lifespan. the first 2 or 3 missions were laughably easy and then its like hitting a brick wall.

>spend 45 minutes perfectly maneuvering through the map
>picking off lost and whittling down the advent numbers
>get in perfect position to take the objective
>AYYYYY LMAO im da chosen! appears
>cloaks and avoids overwatch
>slowly and methodically kills off my entire squad one by one
>immediately close out of the game without saving

i have ptsd now and im probably only 10% of the way into the missions so i cant even fucking imagine how much harder it gets. how do i not blow absolute donkey dick at this game? is it expected for new players to fail the first playthrough(s) until they figure shit out?

>>187889452
Ego does things to everyone.

>Suit up as starting continent bonus
Fuck yes

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>>187888240
>>187881786

>>187889397
>Why are the Elders so fucking obsessed with you, anyway?
Because the Commander is apparently a tactical genius and they were using his tactics through their psi links and that chip in his head.
>>187889602
I don't think I'll ever get a good starting continent bonus, I keep getting garbage.

>>187889610
>PLAYED COLLEGE BALL YOU KNOW

>>187889523
>is it expected for new players to fail the first playthrough(s) until they figure shit out?
It's pretty common. There's alot of information you need to know to clear anything besides the easiest difficulties. Honestly if it is your first time, it's ok to do some save scumming, just don't go to hard.

Just for every bodies information faction heroes can't use experimental armor which probably means they can't use ruler armor either, but I'll confirm this later

>>187889146
>>187889495
Mutons?! Why are there mutons at the first blacksite?! I'm so fucked, I don't even have mag weapons yet! This is only the second month!

>>187889397
You're a tactical/strategic mastermind with untapped psionic potential. While the other Chosen are front-line combatants, you were to be the Elders' greatest general

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Oh hell yeah

>>187889523

Play more aggressively, go for flanking shots

>>187889751
Faction heroes cannot use ruler armor. Tried to put Icarus armor on my Skirmisher.

>>187889397
Read the xcom archives, there's entries for all of the Chosen. They used to be human.

>>187889523
I probably reset the game twenty times before I finished a playthrough. That's probably excessive but honestly don't expect to play perfectly your first attempt. There is a lot to learn in the game and not a lot of room for mistakes but it's very rewarding once you get good.

>>187889523
Pretty much, you learn until you get a grip on it, then hope to survive that first few months meatgrind. You shouldn't focus on winning, focus on doing better each time.

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>mfw low roll damage for an entire mission

>>187889523
My first successful campaign was my 64th one. The game requires you to be patient, pay attention, and learn from your mistakes. It's very unlikely that you'll manage a flawless game, and it's practically impossible if you're new to the series. There's no shame in starting at a lower difficulty and working your way up.

Any working mods for kevlar at every level?

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>Stop the ayys from damaging this telecom thing we have to counter a dark event
>Get there, take my move, and turn
>2 pods count em two pods spawn on top of the fucking telecom thing and start damaging it
>It gets killed before I can rush my people there.

Wew lad.

>take a break from XCOM after about 5 hours of playing
>decide to play something else
>end up reading on phone for about 30 minutes
>am now booting up XCOM to play some more

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