/xcg/ - XCOM General

>pistols
>not useful

What would your title be if the Chosen actually caught and converted you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V7gDa80CpU

Assassin theme >>>> Warlock theme > Hunter theme

>>188010861

Commander, probably. The aliens do seem to lack any kind of unity and leadership.

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xth for fastest man alive

It turned out that Assassin is strongest of them all...

>>188010915
how are you even controlling this guy?

>>188010973

There's a resistance order that gives you a chance of starting with an advent soldier. There's also a continent bonus that gives you a chance of starting with a resistance soldier.

>>188010973
Yeah the ADVENT defector resistance order. Also Dark Events that affect ADVENT troops will also affect your defector.

>>188011008
>188011008
MMMM nice, templar, skirmisher or raeper?

>>188011008
You can get stun lancers from that?
It's only proc'd two times for me in 20~ missions and both times it was a generic grunt.
Picking up the unconscious soldier in that scientist lost mission didn't even have an animation for carrying, so he just ran around with a dude floating above him.

>>188011068
Skirmishers

>>188011097
Yep, stuns lancers are pretty ballin

>>188010890
I really dislike this bombastic, orchestral Hollywood music they went with in 2, it's really generic and boring.

>>188011068
Skirmisher gives Advent, Reaper gives Resistance

>>188011008
Resistance orders and continent bonuses are drawn from the same pool, actually.

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*slashes your teammate*
*cloaks*
*hides behind top of the building*
wat do?

>>188011237
Nade the building, bring the whole things down.

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>tfw you're going through old posters to remember old triumphs and you come across soldiers who are no longer on the roster
I'm sorry, friends.

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>buy all the DLC for the expansion
>with WotC there is no mission for Alien Rulers, so when you encounter them Tygan and Bradford keeps talking about Vahlen without the game even mentioning it to me
>SPARKS can be made instantly without any mission

What the hell, this fucks up immersion by a ton.

>advent grenades blow up cover that isn't normally destructible

I HATE THIS

>>188011361
those missions would be hell with the new fatigue system

>>188011237
Already have someone up there, duh. Failing that, blow holes in the floor until she falls down

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>ends with a 4 hp faceless dropping down and meleeing my guys next to a car
>blows himself up

worth a try I guess

>>188011378
They have more advanced grenades, plasma nades blow up more cover as well.

>>188011142
Shit taste

So can you check posters from your old run if you start a new one?

guys I can't take it anymore I'm restarting on Commander.
This is just too frustrating.

>>188011658
all saved on your hard disk

>>188011658
Yeah, just got check the photobooth folder located in you My documents.

>>188010373
just realized they kept the snek all the way up to its boobs

Stupid question probably, but I unlocked an Axe and shit from research, yet I cannot make them? And it's not part of my inventory.

Anybody got the EU roll DL for WotC?

>>188011669
You can change the difficulty in game.

>>188011695
>>188011697
Thanks.

>>188011762


they made them into proving grounds projects m8

>>188011803
Ah, so I have to wait until I can make proving grounds?

>>188011762
You need to make them in the proving ground.

>>188011738
So if you killed enough you could have a snek boob mousebad for all the computers in the Avenger.

>>188011878
just hypothetically haha yeah

>>188011771
Yeah, I got it.

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>>188010781
Kill all the Ayys.

>>188011379

Still, I never played those missions and all of a sudden when fighting a Viper King for the first time Bradford starts talking about Vahlen. It's so out of place.

>>188011983
it's mentioned when you research the weapons

just like the chosen backstory

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increased butt size mod, when?

Opinions on savescumming?

>>188012042

Certain mods have thicker butts, like titanfall gear, the Rainbow Six Siege ports(that's probably dead since Uncle Gunman is out of the modding scene for the time being), and i'm sure it's only a matter of time until there is a mod that lets you use the Skirmisher's underlay armor on any soldier, which has a thicc butt.

Actually i'm surprised that mod doesn't exist yet since it would only need an .ini config, maybe it already exists and i just don't know about it.

>>188012131
What's the point of playing at that point? I do it when shit breaks or whatever, but other than that it sorta defeats the purpose of even playing in the first place.

>>188012042
Already exists
Female Skirmishers

>>188011237
Gravity is the Chosen's worst enemy

>>188012041

Yes, but when you encounter them for the first time at alien facilities both Tygan and Bradford mentions Vahlen as if the mission had been done. The game up to that point has not even featured Vahlen in any way. It's a hilarious oversight.

>just like the chosen backstory
I killed the Assassin and researched her weapons, but I didn't get any of her backstory, only that the sword were out of this world and the shotgun being really good.

>>188012131

Up to you how to play your game.

>>188012131
Okay on missclicks or total bullshit like 3+ 90% misses.

>>188012131

Literally cheating, however, if you are new to the game or bad at the game i shall allow you to restart missions.

>>188012242
They're all in the archives.

Like the templar plot, I think they ran out of budget.

>>188012245
>3+ 90% misses
It's called the game working as intended, whats the fun if you can just redo every time shit goes wrong?

>>188011878
then we really would be the villains
thats some buffalo bill tier freaky

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>When your autistic character backstories are so detailed that they require you to theorize which country will be hosting the olympics a decade from now

>>188012343
Anon I hate to break it to you but boob pads IRL are made from 2d girls as well.

>>188012131
I want to do ironman but one single crash will remove my save completely so I have to do normal mode and I can't help it but savescumming

>>188012150
The Titanfall gear just looks kind of weird on the soldiers. It would be lovely if there was a full body modification mod. I hate how all the soldiers look the same in height and shape.

>>188012293

>templar
Yeah, what the fuck happened there. They give us a mission to introduce both the Skirmisher and Reaper, and let us fight both Lost and Chosen, but the Templars are not featured anywhere. No, instead you have to contact them via a Covert Action.

>>188012283
>i shall allow you to restart missions.
Oh thank you merciful anon for it would be a shame if people could play whichever way they want.

>>188012131
Eh it's a singe player game so play how you like but what's the point of playing Xcom if everything goes your way.

>>188012465
The Templars have the most interesting backstory too, with Geist being an XCOM psi squaddie.

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Post inspiring resistance propaganda

>>188012331
I don't give a shit. Sure, sometimes the ai crit me through high cover and I take it but when it's a very important moment where I've thoroughly outmaneuvered the enemy only to get cucked by sheer incompetence out of otherwise good soldiers, I'm not going to swallow it.

>>188012481

I mostly savescum when you trigger a pod via bullshit means. For example the arena being too small and while you manuever to get a better shot you trigger a pod with your last soldier.

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>>188012584

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>have to do this with surgical
>not pictured: the sectopod, elite purifier, elite
faggot

yeah fuck this I guess

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The chosen are 90s anime villan as fuck
>main bad guy has 3-6 powerful henchmen summoned for a task
>they all hate each other but work together anyways
>they get picked off one by one
Used to be cliche as fuck, but seems almost refreshing

So is anyone playing the challenge mode also anyone from /xcg/ hit the global leaderboards?

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>>188012584
The one on the right is dead now...

>>188012807
nobody's playing challenge mode because

>cheaters
>have to disable mods to play it

>>188012245
>non100% miss shots missing
>being a gripe
yeah ok tell me when you miss a 100% shot then Ill agree

>>188010781
How's the expansion

improve on the gameplay?

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>>188012584
Was checking the library and saw this gem.

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First mission, she did so well.

>>188012594
>thoroughly outmaneuvered
If you havent gotten a mix of flanks and height advantages that earn you 100% you weren't "thorough"
Also by that logic you should savescum when you crit an alien at 50% through cover at max range with a shotgun

>Assassin
Pretty deadly, often wounds at least one trooper heavily when encountered.
>Hunter
Ayy lmao I dont think he managed to deal a single point of damage in all his missions, and his stronghold was a fucking joke, he just died to my bonded ranger duo so easily.
>Warlock
>use a mindshield

Assassin is literally the only even remotely threatening one of these fucks

>>188012293

They definitively ran out of budget, they didn't even make new models for Spark gun attachments.

I just came to the realization that customizing my dudes to be some of my best friends will make it impossible for me to see them get shot the fuck down.

>stunlancer surivies because my gunner lowrolls and hits him for 4 instead of 5
>runs in and knocks my Specialist Colonel unconscious

great gameplay

>>188013143

I savescum whenever it suits me because I'm a petulant brat. What are you gonna do about it?

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>started with an Aussie
>promoted to Ranger

I HAVE to give him the boonie hat. I can't help it.

>>188013152
You equip 6 mind shields man?

So I've got full tier 3 and chosen weaponry, am I ready to go to the Viper King nest and activate the rulers?

>>188013203
I'm not ragging on anon for savescumming
I'm ragging on anon for making excuses for himself
"Just because" is a good and valid reason
"I need to justify to myself why I deserved it" is just sad

>>188013143
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

>>188013235
Get Reaper with Banish and Superior Mag to fuck his shit up.

>>188013235
tier 3 trivializes rulers

rulers are designed to begin from tier 1

>>188013217
Just equip them on your templar and ranger duo and let them run over the warlock while others wank off somewhere

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Stacking guys is fun
Shepard here killed the Hunter in one turn by himself with some words of encouragement from his buddy. Here he is right after that battle

>>188013235
You were ready a long time ago. Make sure to bring special ammos and nades that apply status effects.

>>188013216
>the dundee shorts and straya vest finally reveal their use
Fuck higher tier armor tho
>>188013264
>I don't know what 0% and 100% are
lol k

>>188013217
What's wrong with that?

>>188012897
there is literally a toggle to turn off mods without losing your list now

>>188013119
are the are the new voice lines translated in other languages ?

>>188013337
>Blowing up covers and standing three tiles apart for 3+ shots at 90% and all of the missing is good game design.

lol k

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>Can't be spotted if you get the kill
>Stack crit through roof
>One shot codexi
This is fun

>>188013303
Mind Control/Scorch has such a long range and short CD also Spectral Zombie/Stasis kinda fucks my shit up. Warlock was the only chosen I had trouble dealing with and Hunter being the easiest.

>>188013503
If the hunter had better AI he'd be fearsome as fuck.

Every shot that landed critted.

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>>188012131
>Opinions on savescumming?
Should have planned better, but barely excusable if the game activates an absurd amount of pods through bullshit sight lines

>just had three berserkers activate in one bad retaliation mission turn
I fucking hate this game

>abandoned city tileset
>skulking about the ruined hallways with lost screeching in the distance
>muton pod walking slowly down the hallway towards me
>have to duck in and out of rooms to avoid them

I like how they brought back some element of horror with this xpac, was sorely missing in vanilla

No save scumming. No game loading. You start the game, and you keep playing until you lose or you die. And once you've lost the game, you delete it, you delete your harddrive, you burn the drive, and then you kill yourself. No exceptions. Otherwise you're just a filthy casual.

>kill the general mission
>lost modifier
>somehow manage to kill the fuck while losing only one dude while being assaulted by gorillion zombies
>kill all the advent
>still cant finish the mission because there is a lost post somewhere on the map that I cant fight my way to

Stellar design Firaxis. Also who thought spawning lost pods randomly in the middle of the map is a good idea. They are supposed to arrive from outside of the area. Then fucking spawn them there, not right on top of me.

>>188013613
Hahaha epic upvoted xD

>>188013441
>game is about dice rolls
>your rolls fucked because you couldnt get to 100%
>still insist you were thorough

>>188013458
Is this base aim, or did you use PCS?

>>188013613
I hope you felt embarrassed while you typed that out.

>killed all the chosen and just dicking around
>havent gotten a lost mission in 6+ months
>just boring vanilla council missions
come on man i just want to btfo zombies in my endgame gear

>>188013741
No PCS, no scope

>>188013119
Shouldn't let Google Translate do your posters for you Anon.

>>188013724
>Insist on impossible odds.

>>188013805
>>188013741
No wait, nvm I lied. Aim pcs +10. It's been so long I forgot

I like how FULL COVER doesn't mean shit and even dipshit Advent troopers can shoot through it

>>188013890
FULL COVER means advent doesn't have to roll as high to get a critical hit :^)

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>gunslingers
>on lost missions
>with 'between the eyes' perk

>>188013831
>not 0%
>impossible
obvious troll is obvious

>>188013941
I reloaded after getting shot twice through high cover and just stood out in the open instead.

The Advent trooper then missed me. Is this game retarded?

>>188014046
>believe he can always get 100% rolls
You've never played the game.

Give me your best wotc mods
I fucking hate vanilla classes

>>188014201
>needing to always get it=winning every mission
Naw, but I'm telling you why your reason for savescumming is bullshit

>>188014268
And I'm telling your own logic is even worse.

>>188014285
my logic is based on the discrete/explicit numbers
your logic is based on because the numbers didn't work?

>>188014483
Your obsession with sticking to numbers lead to needless frustrations and bad game design.

>>188014706
>bad game design
The fundamentals of the combat system are percentage based. It's all risk mitigation and getting yourself in the best possible situation.

>>188014706
You realize those numbers are what XCOM runs on right?
On those grounds alone XCOM Ironman and XCOM 2 are two different games
That said dont go making BAD excuses for why you think Ironman isnt the way to play the game

>>188014748
And sometimes your efforts get fucked over for absolutely no reason other than a bad dice roll 3 times in a row.

Now stop being an annoying little shit.

>>188014120
because dice for 'getting shot through high cover' were already rolled no matter how many times you load, but when you ran out in the open new dice was rolled for that

Where`s my fucking rookies?

I built the PSI lab. and in the three months after that i havent got a single rookie.

>>188014812
The whole point is that you position yourself so when you miss those 3 rolls you don't get completely fucked over.

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>throw hunter's axe at Bloo Hunter
>"Where did you dig that thing up? It's probably older than you are."

>>188014968
Why not recruit some?

>>188014968
Just recruit them?

>>188014812
And sometimes your shittiest pot shots end up clearing a whole pod
Should you savescum those attempts then?

DICKBRICKER CAN'T STOP KILLING

>>188015070
Not really since I've had my share of crit through high cover from Officers and troopers.

>>188015089
Did he kill like 20 lost in this mission?

>>188015151

>in a mission

He killed like 20 in a turn.

>>188011056
>>188011056

>advent defector

how?

>>188015142
>youve been crit many times through high cover so you savescum
>you now crit through high cover but you think it's fair to the game that you dont savescum
???

>>188014990
>>188015013

Oh...

Goddamn i was so used to getting them from scanning i had entirely forgotten that i could actually recruit them.

Well then. Nothing to see here, move along...

>>188015240
Order
Theres a chance for a turboaccurate grunt for the Resistance version
and a chance for an elite trooper/elite lancer on the Advent edition one

Am I really unlucky or did Jake lower weapon mod droprates.
I'm already at plasma rifles and all the mods I got so far are one of each: basic scope, superior repeater, basic stock and advanced laser sight

>>188015268
Your failure at reading comprehension is appalling.

I don't savescum after getting critted through high cover, I reload after blowing out all of my enemy covers and missing 3+ 90% shots.

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>tfw no official Japanese voice packs

I.. I just want my female japanese grenadier to sound authentic...

>>188015368
Vulture resistance order is a fucking must. I think he lowered them significantly also because you get them through covert actions

>>188015418
ching chong

Which facilities should I build first in WoTC?

>data tap mission with 3 pods instantly on the objective and takes me like 3 turns just to reach it.

Why?

>>188015403
>3+ 90% shots.
theres that shit again but I don't see 100% sooooooooo you know
Why don't you savescum until you blow out all their cover and find those 100% chances?

>>188015446
Gorilla or Training Center

Huh, the horde council mission isn't that hard at all 1 wave of lost spawns each turn and that's all. Guess it's time for some free promotions

>>188015446
Gorilla, then medbay

>>188015446
Gorilla

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Post your best soldier

>starting first wotc game
my current objectives are:
blacksite
hack advent soldier with skulljack
build skulljack
build facility for skulljack
research radio for expansion
expand
get mox back
build facility for the other groups
investigate the alien assassin queen.
also defeat her.
(+random science bonus for this specific research or a new random research option which you have to do NOW or never)
in addition there is also the other usual stuff like better weapons research, excavating, building medical facility and so on.
and a new unexplained fatigue system, bounds between soldiers, random debuffs/buffs and so on.

i am 100% confused right now. But also quite happy that i didnt install new mods for more confusion.
its also fun.

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Wait a minute....

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>>188015784
WAIT A MINUTE

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>>188015784
Back into your boat, Huey

>Put templar in overwatch
>Except I didn't, I fucking shot my pistol and ruined the ambush
How long until Jake fixes this?

>>188015784
>he put on kaz's shades and assumed kaz's evil, jaded persona
I should've known

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>Ranger with an autoloader and advanced expanded magazine
>Kill literally thousands of fucking Lost

Holy shit, this expansion is hilarious. I could've sent this guy by himself and cleared this entire mission. I'm going to start sending teams of five rangers to do everything.

Finally killed all the chosen. Felt sad killing our guy the Hunter but felt so satisfying killing that dipshit Warlock once and far all. Biggest faggot personality wise and ability wise.

>>188015954
>I'm so retarded I don't overwatch by pressing Y
You have only yourself to blame, idiot

>>188015547
Because it's impossible to get 100% reliably.
Next, you'll say that's not true, so you're full of shit and didn't play the game.

>>188015930
>>188015784
Traitor all the time.

I'm glad he was cucked to death.

>>188010781
>download xcom 2 through steam
>install WotC from codex
>replace the original files with codex release and codex crack
>for some reason steam allows me to launch WotC with mods
I have a very strong feeling that someday Steam will fuck me up for that, but that day has not come yet

>>188016030
This, Hunter was pretty based. He never hurt a single one of my soldiers.

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How the fuck do you even manage combat fatigue? Sometimes my guys kill all of the map and only lose like 30% of the stamina bar, but other times they lose 60%, while killing everything just the same and without taking wounds. How does it even work? Are there any tach or buildings to negate this shit? It's perfectly managable, but wierd as fuck.

>>188011336
wait what? how'd you get the bf4 armor working?

>>188016164
I think the amount of turns spent on a mission affects it or something

>>188016220
But they literally spent like 20 minutes of real time on the mission. Where does Bradford get our recruits? From fucking 4chan?

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>>188016017
>literally thousands
show me your kills then, if you're so great!

>>188016035
that's not true
I use rangers, grenades, elevation, gadgets, grapples, and maybe compensate with some BS reaper stealth
For the record I don't play the game you play because I play Ironman and you don't

>>188016164
long missions just drain the shit out of everyone no matter how well you do
you just need to get used to using different squads

>>188016164
Would be cool if fatigue worked on a per action basis.

Like
>blue move: -1
>dash: -3
>climbing/vaulting: -2
>melee: -3
>shooting: -1
Or something like that so you could mitigate the risk of having a valuable soldier out for 40 days

>Legendary Ironman Reaper Start
>get Warlock on the 3rd mission

wow

>>188015784
>>188015930
It actually took me a full second to realize that the spokesman wasn't Huey. Holy shit.

>>188016446
And I know you're lying.
Next.

>>188016535
>melee costs 6 stamina
>overwatch costs 1 stamina
ok beagleodd

Installan
Hope I can make some very uninspiring and counter-productive propaganda posters.

Jesus christ beags just fucking ambush them already

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>>188015930
W A I T A M I N U T E

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>>188016826
I don't understand the appeal of watching this man play video games

>>188016334
It's probably psychological stress. They are fighting Lost and shit, and when they finish they get to go back to the flying deathtrap and not sleep because they're on a cursed alien spaceship being hunted by demons, and that Assassin bitch keeps sneaking aboard to release tarantulas into the air vents or whatever it is Sabotage represents.

Is berserk the most bullshit mechanic to ever be implemented in XCOM? Jesus christ, man.

>>188016826
It's why I stopped watching hours ago, you don't need 30 turns running around each map to beat it. Timers were a blessing.

>>188016887
I wouldn't watch anyone if my GPU wasn't fucking dead

>>188016910
I had a rookie take like 5 five missed shots at a muton a buddy got crit to death behind full cover, I thought it was a bug at first

You know what else I thought was a bug? Location Scout. I mean it's a literal map hack.

>tfw you managed to skip plated armor and go straight to power armor
>tfw you don't get to see tier 2 armor for the faction heroes
FeelsBadMan

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>when you get a Templar on your main menu they make finger guns

This is some deep lore shit

>Game crashes
>Last Autosave was 40 mintues ago and at least 20 turns have past since then

What the fuck is going on with the auto saves?

SPARK are pretty good, I'm impressed. Slap a big scope on them and they have good potential to solo a Sectopod.

>>188017056
saw the same for reapers for some reason, it was even on the new menu background. Jake fix it

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What is the best squad composition?

>>188016882
>a fucking leaf

>>188016705
He's entirely right, XCOM is all about mitigating risk. You have a fair amount of options that cannot miss, even more so with the expension. Taking a regular potshot, something you can do as many times as you like during a mission, will always be more dangerous than consumables or moves that can leave your soldiers open like a point-blank shotgun shot.

Don't know why I bother writing this down because you're clearly too young and angry at your videogame to admit rolling the dice can fuck you over sometimes. That or you're just bad at this, which is fine, you're far from the only one savescumming.

>>188017107
Wait can you mod their weapons now? Vanilla or modded?

>>188017115
4 Skirmishers

>>188016903
>psychological stress
But my niggers are fucking monsters. My A-team and B-team has 50+ kills on each soldier. If anyone should get psychological stress it should be those chosen fucks, who were killed by my crew multiple times.

>>188017183
Vanilla and they also got a buff to accuracy. They are pretty good at hitting and standing in the open now.

>>188017157
Senpai tell me how to mitigate risk on a 80 HP sectopod

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>>188017115
6 rangers

>>188017280
Pistols

>>188017183
>>188017115
four skirmishers feels like i'm playing xcom: republic commando

>>188015446
onion rings

>>188016887
>When you can traverse the depths of space and tear holes in the fabric of time and reality but you can't design a rifle that doesn't weigh 15 kilograms unloaded

You know we give the Americans a lot of shit for being terrible at aesthetics but at least you guys know how to engineer rifles. ADVENT has the exact opposite problem, their stuff all looks great until you start asking basic questions, like "why is this rifle's stock as broad as Channing Tatum's neck?"

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>>188012584
From the Avenger defense.

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>>188017280
>80hp sectopod
>playing long meme 2

>>188016887
>that gun design

Reminds me that I hate every single one vanilla ballistic weapon design. Maybe give a pass to the sniper rifle and the revolver, but the rest is anime tier.

But ballistic weapons that the Skirmisher, Templar and Reaper have look pretty good. I wonder why is that.

Just copy IRL designs in the future as well please, your weapons artist is bad.

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>>188012584
Mox got a booty

>>188017280
Use the Reaper with Remote Start to blow up everything from concealement while the enemies run in circles like retards

>>188016535
Jake doesn't like the player having options to mitigate his magnificent design. No risk management allowed outside of taking or not taking shots.

>Ragequit mission
>Last autosave was apparently a week before on the strategic map
Is this a bug or Jake's way of penalizing ironman wimps?

>>188017590
I actually like everything except miniguns. Like fucking hell, why would a soldier carry this fucking thing if it does the same damage as a normal assault rifle. Couldn't they give them something less giant?

>Lost mission
>endless misses at 80%+

Fuck off

>>188016474
there must be some cap, since I've done an ADVENT facility assault with over 200 turns and only 2 soldiers were tired

>not a single UFO mission the entire game
>not a single base defense the entire game
JAAAAKEE

>>188017727
Giving all of your grenadiers SMGs made sense in LW2. Too bad LW2 nerfed grenadiers so much they just weren't worth bringing.

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Why are snipers trash tier ?

>>188017783
sounds like you don't have the high ground

>>188017727
Yeah thats probably my least favorite. I like the idea of having a minigun, but as a part of a powered armor, not as a base weapon.

For me the biggest problem is that the designs are too chunky. Like the basic rifle is about 3 times the size that it should be.

>>188017828
Because you only need one or two perks for a sniper and now you can take them with gunslingers easily so there's no need for specialized snipers.

Anyone having a thing in retaliation missions where the resistance is unkillable because the pods don't activate and don't fire back, its nice since im in veteran and not very good but it feels like cheating

>>188017828
Everyone has low accuracy early game so Snipers can't hit fucking anything

is it even possible to do legendary this time around? seems to me you really need the covert mission reward that reduces avatar project each month or you will lose no matter what i already tried several times (28)

>warlock spawns at psi emitter mission
>grenadier is ready to finish him with chain shot
>first shot lands perfectly
>computer turns off

aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh for fuck's sake he's too strong

>>188017980
Your computer sounds awfully loyal to ADVENT

>>188017879
I see your point. You could slap a drum mag on the assault rifle and get a machinegun like that.

Is it possible to endlessly farm Lost for XP?

>>188018054
the cap per mission is still there

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>>188017980
>M O S T L O Y A L

>>188017980
Your miscreant computer decidet to restrain itself.

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>>188017980

FAVORED BY THEIR BLESSINGS

Reaper>Templar>>>>>Skirmisher

>>188018016
It's pretty clear Firaxis has nobody with any knowledge of guns. You will need an entire soldier's mass in bullets to continue firing it for any extended period and the ones in XCOM 2 have a regular rifle magazine by default. You'll run out of bullets in less than a tap and the recoil will send you flying to the other side of the map. It really tickles my /k/ so much that I wish someone will replace every minigun with a standard LMG.

>>188018209
i agree

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>>188018232
>>188017590

>i want tiny real life baby guns instead of big badass sci fi guns

>>188017280
Bluescreen rounds, rupture, hack if your specialist is huge, heavy single target DPS like shotgun ranger, shred its armor with sparks or grenadiers first of course, and if it's still alive at the end of the turn, stasis it or use a mimic beacon, 2 things that will give you an extra turn to kill it without fail.

If you don't have those things by the time you encounter sectopods you just fucked up.

>>188018209
late game skirm is extremely good though

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>>188018209
Ranger with all skills bought>Templar with Bladestorm>elder gods of the universe>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Psy Ops>early game reaper>everyone else>lategame reaper>templar without bladestorm

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>>188017056
bang, bang bang, bang bang bang bang
pew pewpew pewpewpewpewpewpew pew pewpew pew

>>188018384
Too many of skirmisher abilities have charges instead of cooldowns and don't have enough impact to justify it.

/k/ pls go and stay go

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>>188015747
not the best sweeper or burster, but definitely versatile

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>>188018303
Don't you have battleborn to cry about, Randy?

>shadowstep
>summons advent priests
>gets shield from missed shots
this fight aint gonna be pretty desu

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volk knows

>>188018232
I know that workshop has just basic ballistic weapons ... I think they were ripped from EU, or maybe custom made, I dont recall since I unsubbed from all mods when installing WotC.

But I dont know if its knowledge about weapons ... its more likely a bad stylistic choice. After all mag weapons look a bit better, but the ipod design of the plasma is also out of place. As is the (powered) armor, really. It should look more like the exoskeleton you can build in the foundry.

>>188018416
This

>>188018416
To be fair an early game reaper can be used with a gren to instagib any one pod out of stealth
and that ain't no joke

>almost 2 years still no single berserker porn

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IT BEGINS

>>188018623
I think we can all agree that Volk is the best faction leader

>>188012131
Understandable if you misclick or you try to do something the game looks like it will let you do but when you try it, you can't do it, like reviving someone but you're on a "bad tile"

>>188018823
Well duh, that's why it's above everyone but other 4 options.

So my X-Com bronies, is "War of the Chosun" the Greatest SRPG Ever Made?

"shut the fuck up everyone" mod WHEN

why do I have to sit through a 30 seconds speech every time a chosen comes to say hi

>>188018990
except for the voice acting

Gentlemen.

How do we unfuck snipers?

Okay, I'm on the first turn of the first Assassin encounter. How do I reveal this bitch before she sends one of my guys to the infirmary for more than a month?

>>188019145
just accept your fate anon

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>>188019059
>So my X-Com bronies

>>188019123
give them a lategame ability that let's them shoot after walking. It feels so much better when you give the hunter's rifle to a sharpshooter. Also pistol build is great but takes time to get viable.

>>188019059
Never fucking use the slang outside /mlp/ again you giving degenerate faggot.

Can I upgrade my Hero unit dudes whenever (with AP) up to their current rank or only on promotion?

>>188019145
spread your soldiers out so they're flanking as much random shit as possible.

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>>188012758
It's refreshing because we don't get retardedly stupid villains like them anymore, everything is too serious

>>188019289
Once you build the training center you can do it whenever, until then only on promotion.

>tfw psi op rolls domination in the training table

i fucking love that skill

IS IT POSSIBLE to play Challenge Mode on a cracked copy?

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>>188016882
FUCK

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>>188019059

Get back in your containment board

>>188019059
kill you're self

>>188018623
>Hunter actually complimented me for killing a berserker
Honestly the Hunter seems the least condescending and brainwashed

>>188019180
She bled out one of my rookies, took cover next to a truck, got C4'd and grenaded and immediately ended her encounter. Fuck this bitch.

If I am just now getting into XCOM 2, should I get the new DLC that just came out as well? Will it add anything to the early game?

Or should I wait till I'm further in, and then get it?

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>tooltip of Volt says 3-6 dmg
>jumps to additional targets
>use it, it deals 2 dmg
>doesnt jump

Im glad that lieing piece of shit templar died on that mission.
At least she was somewhat effective at killing that annoying assassin..

>>188011008
Check dem dubsss

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So, if SPARKs hold their heavy weapons on BITs, does that mean that if I put a flamethrower on a BIT, I can flame people from across the map?

>fully train up a skirmisher
>you get a worse version of the lw2 ranger that can larp as spiderman
i just want some kind of infantryman in the base game desu

>>188019995
>Worse
Grappling hook is probably the best thing possible for this class. Teleporting your living turret across the battlefield to get insane flanks is the best feel.

Should I be using the Dragonpunk second wave options, or the separate ones by Mertius?

>>188019662
i would say that you should start with just the basegame+dlc(+perhaps some mods).
ignore the addon. its good, but its just too much for someone without knowledge.

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Hello fellow cheeki's

It is I, Breeki Breeki.

Kill . . . the ayy? Lmaos?

>>188020163
i'm not arguing that it isn't cool, but it doesn't really accomplish a great deal that you couldn't get by bringing an extra grenadier and blowing cover, or a ranger to run and gun. Rangers and templars feel like they bring something unique to a squad, a skirmisher is just a xcom soldier in a grapple suit

>>188018823
Meanwhile a late game reaper can be used to delete pods by dropping a claymore then remote starting it. Sure it's situational, but it's soooooo satisfying.

>yfw a 3 man pod sits on top of a gas station roof
>surrounded by cars
>claymore, remote start
>they get BTFO so hard, the physics engine doesn't know what to do with them and so they're suspended in thin air until the end of the mission
>tfw I forgot to take a screenshot

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>>188012584
Fresh one

>>188020348
>He doesn't put bluescreen rounds on his skirmisher to rek multiple advent mecs a turn in late game
Why even live, anon?

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>>188012584
>when the bond forms just right

also i upgraded mac to a savant

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>>188012584

>dead friend in graceless position front and center
>inspiring

>>188019929
no

>>188020395
For some reason the photobooth makes sky transparent and el deletos anything that isn't a character or map object.

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>>188019520
It feels like he's there to chill and have fun and not really trying his best. Like assasin is rushing in to kill/capture your dudes, warlock is going full mindpower on you, while the hunter just sits back and fires potshots at your crew.

>>188020482
>even that is done better by pistol sharpshooters
all skirmishers need is something like lightning hands to use in addition to their free whip, that little bit of extra firepower would be nice

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I'M READY FOR ANYTHING

>>188020696
People use the bolt caster without alien rulers?
Hell, I rarely find my self using it for them too.

>>188020393
don't they have turbo faceoff?
I didnt know until recently
slightly regretting putting the superior exmag on my SPARK

What is X-COM an abbreviation for anyway?

>>188020728
It's really high damage early game

>>188020757

eXtra-terrestrial COMbat unit

>>188020757
eXtraterrestrial COMbat unit

>>188020757
Extraterrestrial combat unit

>>188020757
extra terrestrial combat unit

play the first game, you silly butt

>>188020757

Extreme computing.

>>188020826
>>188020831
>>188020834
>>188020841
Hmmm don't believe youse. What does it REALLY stand for?

How hard is the mission to kill the assassin?
I lost lik 3/5 guys on the first blacksite, because this bitch kept running around like a headless chicken, I wanna end her soon.

WHERE'S THE WEAPON MOD

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>>188020574

>>188020931
Rapacious Extraterrestrial Alien Likeminded Libido Yodeller

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>>188020602
Well what is the fucking point of mounting the weapon on the flying thing in the first place then? What's wrong with you, Jake?

>>188020931
well that's what x-com means
XCOM stands for
xenos
can
only be
massacred

WHERE ARE THE CLASS MODS

>>188020931
That's it anon. All the way back to the original UFO enemy unknown on MS-DOS. I still have the box and manual for it with the glossary in the back.

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>>188020696

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You clicked pic related, you saw the glorious bastards.

Post 3 men squads.

>>188020696
>frost nade on on grenadier

>>188020696
I wish I could bring myself to use the bolt caster. The thing is delicious, but I hate the one shot per reload. Seems solid for ranger I guess. Something to use in the rare instances they aren't swording bitches.

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O-oh...

>>188021340
>running into fog
LMAO

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FUCK ILLEGAL PARKING

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>>188020736
Turbo focused faceoff. If you get them to colonel, you can use them in crisis situations to delete any enemy and damage some other ones to boot. Just mount those expanded mags.

If it wasn't for that shit, there's at least 3 missions I done that were going full clusterfuck until that andromedon got btfo and the accompanying archon taken down to 4 hp. Or the clip got emptied into a chosen and he teleported away. Or a pod of 3 spectres got singlehandedly rekt due to some well placed crits. It's unreal how underrated reapers seem to be.

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>>188021265

>hunter spawns for the first time
>he has shell shocked
>he spawned next to a gas tank
>that my reaper had vision on
He didn't even get a turn the poor bastard.

>>188021496
R.E.D.: the old thin men squad

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What did they mean by this?

So i killed the assassin and got her gear, can i even do anything with it?

Is the chosen you get at your starting area random with the lost mission or would I need to disable it to get hunter or warlock.

>>188021646
Do the research, put the gun and the katana on your best ranger, enjoy endless crits and your first colonel of the campaign.

>>188021315
>Something to use in the rare instances they aren't swording bitches.
what?

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>>188021265

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>rifle damage breakthroughs affect bolt caster damage

>>188021710
> have to research it
I mean we fucking ripped off half her torso intact but we couldnt bring the gun back in one piece?

How fast does the Assassin move?

>>188021827
The prick probably tried to block using the gun

Scanning Protocol > Field medic rite?

>>188021898
VERY fast assassin (WOOSH) going FAST AS ALL FCK.jpg

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>resistance troops kill 2 stunlancers and 3 troopers completely unassisted, with only one casualty

Holy fuck, how can XCOM even compete?

is it ever explained anywhere why firaxis renamed ethereals into elders instead of calling them ethereals?

>>188021898
If your unlucky she will move out of sight after every attack.
Have fun chasing her around while constantly trying to pick your soldiers back up.

I swear that fucking SPARK mission is going to give me permanent heart damage.

Doing it on legendary as soon as it becomes available with not a single one dude that shreds armor is real fun. If Lily wasnt so OP, I would be beyond fucked.

brb doing the roof now.
Stupid 3 armor bots.

>>188021945
>>188022069
Fuck me.
Can you freeze the Chosen?

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>>188021898
about this fast

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SPARK's are such a downgrade from the MEC's it's fucking ridiculous how Firaxis fucked up already proven concept.