/xcg/ - XCOM General

Jake is useful

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I love this sitrep.

So is there supposed to be a cutscene after you defeat all the Chosen? After I beat the last one, I just got the regular one where the guy collapses and the obelisk explodes and that's it. Was hoping for maybe something more.

DEUS VULT

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xth for homosexuality

nth for when will "reduce beginner voiceover" actually reduce beginner voice overs

never, because the $40 patch is already out, and it still doens't stop the quotes about >that's an advent goon, commander

https://clips.twitch
.tv/FunnyFreezingSproutFunRun

"Weakness to explosives was a mistake"
-Jake Solomon 2017

>>188087683
You only see it if you kill the last Chosen using a bond attack from level 3 bondmates who are both using the weapons of the other two dead Chosen

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>>188087786
I feel like you're memeing me

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I'm going to regret this aren't I?

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>>188087738
What are you talking about?

>>188088129

He is not memeing, but he forgot to mention that they both need to be colonels too.

>>188088145
>half cover
yep

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>Sitting on a roof with all my soldiers
>Concealed, in overwatch
>Enemy patrol decides to RANDOMLY FUCKING CLIMB UP SOME PIPE (yeah, I am sure that is in protocol you advent fucks)
>They spot me
>For some reason, instead of doing their usual cutscene and then run away (which would trigger overwatch) THEY FUCKING TELEPORT INTO THE BOTTOM FLOOR
>Don't trigger overwatch
>One of the enemies throws a grenade THROUGH the ceiling onto the roof
>Hits all my troops, blows it up, all my guys fall
>All of my guys are heavily damaged
>The other two patrols shoot and kill two of my guys

I genuinely don't understand what happened. How did they climb up the pipe and then teleport into the building? How did they not trigger overwatch? How did they get to do their turn instantly?

This isn't even bullshit or anything, it is literally what happened.

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>get an idea during a retaliation mission
>photo booth
>position soldier looking over destroyed haven
>some position, effects, and text later and get something good
>take a step back and look at it
>get a rush of anger and thirst for revenge
Post emotional posters.

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>>188087452

>>188088350
dang man thats good!

>>188088332
Sounds like magnificent design to me.

Which Hidden Potential/Not Created Equal mod to use?
Theres like 3 for WotC.

>>188088332
While I haven't had anything that extreme, I have had enemy troops teleport before.

I had an advent patrol walk up to a building and just teleport to the other side of it and then spot me, but they still triggered the cutscene.

>>188088196
>23 damage
Holy fuck did you nuke him?

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>start a new game with tutorial
>get past converter mission
>go into loadout screen from deployment screen for guerilla mission
>can't exit screen, don't feel like sitting through anymore tutorial bullshit
>start another new game
>set up ambush
>three on reaction, one shooting
>first shot hits, kills one ADVENT
>three reaction fires target the same guy and miss
>both surviving enemy troops hit the same target on their turn, killing a soldier in full cover
Gee XCOM thanks for reminding me that you are complete cheating horse shit and should be exploited at every turn.

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So I decided to watch the aliens and the lost fight it out for a bit, then moved my squad that was in concealment into position to fight them, while my reaper threw claymores and blew up cars etc.

The aliens got into a giant ball as I setup and for some reason started shooting each other. The Gatekeeper and ADVENT troops just started shooting at each other and the Spectres, but the spectres wouldn't do any shooting and just moved back and forth.

I dropped a rift and some grenades on them then mopped up the rest. They didn't move when I revealed myself, probably because they were activated from the Lost.

What the fuck?

What are you guys expecting from the WOTC version of LW2?

>>188088332
This happens all the time when you're ambushed in Covert ops. The red flare can pop up fucking far away from you, but then they teleport right next to you, then get an extra move. Total bullshit.

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>in photo booth at end of mission
>edit dudes, move em around next to funny rag dolls
>press continue to "continue" editing
>continue means go to skyranger, need to press < instead

rip

This is my its time playing this game (XCOM 2), and I'm on PS4; new to XCOM too. I think I am near endgame, and one of those choose-between-3-missions events popped up. Revealed a hidden event in West Africa as reinforcing the Avatar project by 2 points.

Every time the mission loads the game crashes. What the fuck? Is this game buggy as shit? I get crashes from time to time, but nothing consistent and repeatable like this.

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>>188088660
Also in this mission I kept getting concealment broken after rescuing a friendly VIP. Gatekeeper would then open up a gate in the room and kill the VIP + nuke everyone else in there.

>>188088616
Remote Start + Claymore + Assassin weak to explosives and Reapers, it was a one-shot.

>>188088682
30 HP per lost with 100% targeting to Xcom.

>>188088628
why would you ever overwatch when ambushing tho?

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>>188088970
Haha! Look how tactical I am! Look how much this game rewards tactics! I sure do enjoy the fact that running out of cover like a complete fucking moron and spamming grenades can very easily win in a situation where thinking like an intelligent human being does not.

Boy I sure am feeling tactical.

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>>188088682
>WOTC version of LW2

If I gain immunity for 2 turns on a soldier and I just run out into the open, will aliens still attack them?

>>188088857
Your first mistake was playing on console.

>>188088332
>Blacksite mission pre-WotC
>Most of my guys are on a roof right outside the entrance
>execute a nearly perfect opening, wipe out two whole pods other than one mech
>next turn
>mech decides to use rockets
>destroys the building and kills three of my five soldiers and heavily damages my spark
I think I quit after that

>>188089003
flanking and using grenades is far more tactical that hunkering down and hoping to hit a moving target

>>188089087
How so? Does the game have a reputation as being shit on consoles?

>start legend campaign
>finally get through gatecrasher without wounds
>game doesn't give me a grenadier
>first mission is a neutralize commander
>enemy hiding behind three blocks of heavy cover near the spawn spots me on the first turn
>another pod which doesn't have the commander rolls up
>promptly ragequit the campaign and try again
>this time first mission is a destory the relay
>abandoned subway map, having to open the two sets of doors eats up turns trying to get to the objective while staying concealed
>only path forward into the next area has two groups
>try the engagement anyway, get mind controlled, ragequit again
>this time the mission is a hack the computer
>7 turns to complete the objective
>takes 4 to run across the map
>objective is surrounded by two pods of pectoid+2goons, can't get line of sight without reveal
>try the engagement anyway, kill one goon, flashbang all but one sectoid
>sectoid mind controls, everybody else hits my guys
how do you even get a legend run started guys what the fugg

I thought green = doesn't cost an action?

>>188087380
Install [WOTC] Gotcha Again

So do the Chosen attack the Avenger at max knowledge bars? I'm debating if I should attack their stronghold or wait and see what the avenger mission is like

>>188088821
Yeah their UI designer kinda shit the bed on this one. The buttons aren't even the same height, let alone size, and aren't clearly labeled on any of the new screens

>>188089269
yes

>>188089269
Yes

>>188089224
Nah, green is just a mission-related action. Some cost actions, some don't.

How many new tilesets are there in WoTC? I know there's tunnel/sewer and abandoned cities, but are there any more?

>>188088682
>Removal of Between the Eyes
>To get a Hero character you need to get a soldier to Colonel, then send them to the Faction HQ for a month
>Chosen have a shitload more health
>Purifiers have more movement speed and run and gun

>>188089193
>flanking and using grenades is far more tactical
Stop right there. No it's fucking not. Not in this game. Tactics have nothing to do with it. The simple matter of fact is that grenades have no RNG and can be relied upon 100%. Even flanking is trash compared to simply throwing as many grenades as you can because it still operates on XCOM's fucktarded percentage system that doesn't make sense.

>>188089317
>>188089323
Is their version of the avenger defence interesting? Is ti worth checking out?

>>188089269
>see what the avenger mission is like
it's piss easy if you have a reaper and a sharpshooter with squadsight

>>188088857
So I changed up a squad member I was subbing in for one that I had used in the last mission and the mission loads. Hope I'm not stuck with one squad for he rest of the game

>>188089379

I'm honestly wondering if Lump is just going to completely axe his revised burning mechanics and keep it preventing melee attacks now that the lost are a thing

>>188089198
It's infinitely inferior by nature of not having mod support, or even being able to edit the game at all.

pistols are useful

Why did plasma go from green to blue inbetween EU/EW and XCOM 2?

>>188089214
kek you havent even seen the retarded speed of the avatar project and the 80 days build for facilities

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>>188088554
Bls resbond
I wanna play but I don't know which versions might be shit or not

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>>188089795

I think you need your eyes checked if you think this is blue.

>>188089795
you might be colorblind

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>when your master hacker Specialist is afraid of MECs

>>188089939
>>188089997

but the XCOM plasma rifles are blue

>>188089446
It's even funnier since your turrets can target the battery and the trucks across the map.

>>188090029
That boy needs therapy.

>>188090057
They're green

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Does the Reaper chick get wall hacks?

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>>188088682
Hot garbage. The game has enough content now to where I don't need LW throwing a mission at me every 6 hours.

>>188088332
>le extra move maymay
firaxisCOM was a mistake.

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Finally, something goes my way

>>188090057
you mean the actual weapons themselves? EU plasma weapons are silver, not green

Are SPARKS useless now with the fact they can't gain ability points?

>>188090350
They have a place when you have wounded units and need to send something out.

>>188090350
I just see SPARKs as big, expensive SHIVs.

Unfortunately the whole point of SHIVs was to be able to manufacture semi-cheap throwaway squadmates that could help fill out your squad when you were a man short. Since SPARKs are big and expensive that kinda defeats the purpose.

>>188087709
>has man in her name
is this intentional

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>tfw ADVENT forces are cornered and getting colossally assfucked
This is seriously satisfying desu.

>>188090350
No, not with the fatigue system. They can be a boon early to mid game since you can just keep taking them and they should level up faster than your other troops because of this. Obviously they will fall off compared to the vanilla classes at the end, but making it through the early/mid game is the most important part anyway.

>katana does 1 more damage
>but ionic axe has a free ranged attack
decisions decisions

>>188089214
you need to restart for a dozen hours until rng blesses your campaign tbqh

>>188090798
Katana can't miss and ignores armor

>>188090798
As other anon said, can't miss + ignores armor. Definitely better unless you are specifically fighting the rulers.

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>>188089836
Legend aint that bad.

>>188087452
where do I get the hairstyles in the OP?

>>188090768
They cost so fucking much though with 2 elerium cores a pop
Easier to roll a genius rookie and train him a little

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>>188090998
>no ironman
fuk off savescumer

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Objectively the worst GTS tactic right now. Even biggest booms has a higher chance.

>>188091156
>They cost so fucking much though with 2 elerium cores a pop
Yeah, that's true. Really don't need more than one though.

>>188091184
>playing ironman
My first campaign would have been broken right now if I had done that.

>>188090350
You can still use Ability points on them though

>>188091227
Mentally awake is required for Templars to even be remotely playable.

>>188091334
How do you use it on them? I can't train them in the advanced warfare center.

>>188091184
>Playing Ironman
>In the new XCOMs

No thanks, my first Ironplay through of EU was forced to end after 3 days of solid playing because of a bug I could not get around.

>>188091349
What does it do again? I'm in a mission.

>>188091487
they start missions with one focus

>>188091418
>>188091319
If you can't work around bugs in ironman you shouldn't be playing this game at all

>>188091227
I had this for months and it literally never ever happened. Waste of supplies.

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yeh boi

>>188091487
Templars start with 1 focus.

It's necessary because it gives you a decent chunk of damage to start, allows you to use abilities on the first fight if needed, and it is pretty much necessary to have if you get the skill that lets you get more levels of focus (which is necessary for making their moves any good).

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>>188091382
Like so?

>>188091227
Use the mod that buffs it to a free blue move each turn for skirimishers

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>>188091184
NED
THE BOAAAAAAAAAAAR NED

>>188091531
>Bug causes my game to crash every time I start a plot progression mission
>"Just play around it bro"

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Meme beacon saved the day again.

stun lancer decided to shove it in my sniper's mouth.

>"bugs"
wtf I didn't mean to click there this game is bugged
wtf that was a 90% chance this game is bugged
wtf nothing is ever my fault this game is bugged

>>188091227
>>188091578
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1125671906

>>188091620
>Like so?
Greyed out for me.
>Free blue move for skirmishers
On the other hand that sounds op as fuck...

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>>188091184
Careful, megushitter, careful now

>>188091725
Game crashes are a feature

>>188090562
It's Magnificent Desgin

>>188091631
>GoT spammer
>Savescums

Like fly to shit

>>188091793
>Greyed out for me.
Use this then, http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1124609091

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>>188091418
lmao i got legend ironman 1 year ago

only to find theres is no achievement

>>188091827

what is auto-save

Don't bring a SPARK along to kill the warlock
He becomes disabled forever

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Are reapers going to get nerfed or what? Being literally invisible is way too good in almost every mission, even if their gun is shit. And blowing up a truck full of ADVENT surrounding it is always awesome.

>>188091920
>As a consequence SPARKs can now buy extra skills with XCom AP like a normal soldier could. They don't gain a line of XCom Abilities though.
So that kinda defeats the purpose of what I initially meant, which is why use SPARKS right now?

>>188091939
I don't think you understand anon: >>188091661

Every time I went to start a plot progression mission, even if I tried to skip it, even if I changed my squad it always crashed.

I literally could not beat the game.

>>188091826
>>188091631
>>188091826
BORE OF THE CHOSEN
SNORE OF THE CHOSEN
BORE OF THE BOVINE
BLORE OF THE PROSEN
SCHNUR OF THE PLOVEN
CORE OF THE KOSEN
LORE OF THE HOSEN

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Rate my edge queen

>>188092021
Moveable cover

>>188092072
I have templars for that

>>188092069
Yawn. Easy as fuck to kill.

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Delicious.

>>188092069
Piss easy because shell-shocked

>>188092107
Two is better than one, also SPARKs can cheese Devastation. Sparks can be send on missions while damage, Don't suffer fatigue and repair Very quickly.

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>>188091184
>he fell for the ironmeme

>>188092258
You can bring them back when the die

>>188092119
>>188092258
She already pulled a "teleport behind u"
Knocked out one of my Carpet Munchers

>shadowstep
Overwatch trapping wont work. Thats like my only strat.

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>Plan on warlock mission to finally kill his smug ass
>Equip as many bluescreen rounds on soldiers as possible cuz he can summon MECs as his special ability
>Also mindshield my best soldiers to cancel chain daze and mindcontrol

Am I prepared enough, guys? Overall, I got T2 Weapons and T3 armor plus the Assassin Weapons on my ranger.

Is there any story related content that comes from the factions after you kill the chosen? Because if there isn't I'm going to try and leave them alive until waterwold

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>tfw get so erect at soloing assassination missions with a reaper that the intel loss doesn't even matter to me
>mfw explode their car so it literally just looks like an accident and my reaper exfiltrates without even being seen

>>188092069
>bombs and reapers
Any more and she should be considered on your team
free fuckin AP

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>Overwatching reinforcements (at a slight distance
>Purifier explodes the rest of the pod

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>>188092454
>he went for t3 armor first instead of weapons

>>188092441
Use scanning grenades. If you scan her general area, she'll always show up on the map even when she does her slice and run away bit.

Be proactive, bring the fight to her, not the other way around.

Instead of creating the Chosen as a separate thing they should have revamped the Avatars to essentially be the Chosen instead of three guys in gimp suits with anime hair

Discuss

>>188092454
ez
I would recommend a specialist tho for hacks, carrying a medkit if you fuck up (maybe a second one for healz in that case) and one for memebeacons
>>188092779
It means you can equip an ammunition type to compensate; as well as carrying a mindshield

>>188092845
Excuse you one of them is a girl and she is my waifu.

>>188092826
An alternative tactic is to find the nearest high walls that also happen to be AWAY from where she spawns, and stack up (with reasonable spacing) behind the wall
She attacks for sure, and then proceeds to run to the nearest out-of-LoS
The more open the zone, the farther she runs, so intentionally LoS yourself and she wont run too far

Lost power to my laptop, game cuts out, when it restarted, im now playing on the old xcom so to speak. same hang ups, same bad performance, not as nice graphics. content is sort of the same but elements of the chosen dont work - namely the screen detailing strenghts and weaknesses.
what do?

>>188092779
>Buying t3 armor gives it to all your soldiers
>Have to buy weapon upgrades individually.

I don't know about you, but supplies, crystals and alloys don't just grow on trees

>>188092661
>His car spontaneously exploded
>Musta been an accident

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God I love your Skirmisher cape mod, Claus.

Why did no one tell me that invert is so damn good?

>>188093212
>there's an ADVENT radio bulletin telling ADVENT citizens to remain calm and that recent combat was all simulated; shots and wounds included
Can't tell if they just have great spin teams, or are actually that dumb

The Commander Avatar's Mind Control lasts the whole of the mission right?

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>>188093117
>>188092854
>they don't swim in dosh and alloys
Anon being shit at XCOM, Gods what a stupid situation

>>188092952
>implying Angelis Ethereal isn't best girl

>>188093546
If I remember correctly, then Avatar Mind Control is permanent while the Psi Ops is five turns or so.

>>188093676
You're not. Both of their mind controls are permanent, but if the psi ops dominate fails, it is put on a 5 turn cooldown.

>>188093676
Psi Op Dominate is permanent

>>188093676
Other way around unless wotc changed it

>>188093570
You're aware some playthroughs give tons of breakthroughs but in turn delay your R&D of new weapons right?
The game is VERY dynamic; the game even throws tons of intel at me the more I spend, in return drying up my money, which in turn gives me plenty of both in orders like literally as soon as I make the purchases. Hell the Game decided to cuck me on engineers but in turn gave me instant bombs and tons of cores to go all in on ammo

Delaying T3 is now an option in a sense

>>188091531
My game was broken, a mission wouldn't end. No playing around that.

How do I git gud?

>Ranger is scared shitless of Mutons
>Fails fear check
>Goes "Berserk"
>Proceeds to run across the entire map, gun down a Muton before slashing the shit out it's mech companion.

Caught me off guard, but I'm proud of him facing up to his fears and all.

>send a ranger to Sword attack the lost so I could evac from the Rendezvous

>XCOM2: WAR OF THE CHOSEN has stopped working

Great game jake.

I havent saved in over an hour :(

>>188093779
>>188093792
Did they change it from release? I remember having to Mind Control the floating eyeballs from time to time.

>>188093932
die, lose, repeat

also grenades and high cover

>>188093987
Autosaves weren't working?

are SPARKS decent in WoTC or still shit?

>>188093932
grenades

>>188094101
still garbage

>>188094101
Probably worse since most other things got a buff

>>188093987
By default it autosaves every turn, so if you changed that you only have yourself to blame. Otherwise you should be good

>>188093932
Realize that the game has a few mechanics to it other than just raw chance
Especially in WotC
>Haven't had a fight in a week
Mission imminent; but can interrupt it (retaliations not included) with a manually launched DLC mission/facility assault
>Things going to shit? Aliens will likely target your SPARK, Lost, or Civvies
>I'm short on X, clearly the game is trying to fuck me
when in reality a mixture of scan events and covert ops will more than compensate but force you to work with what you have
>I've been fucked by a Chosen
Don't take stupid risks, always fall back if the boss has been engaged (puts timers on stasis) and you still intend on winning the mission (supply box dine and dash not included)

>>188094101
I had to use a few mods (which no longer work with wotc) to make SPARKS not shit so I doubt it.

>>188094094
WTF is up with autosaves? Sometimes that shit works perfectly, sometimes I lose a hour of progress because the game decided that saving was for scrubs.

If it would never work, that would at least train me to manually save. This is just sadistic.

>>188094101
SPARKS don't gain ability points and are ultra expensive so not really

>>188094158
>>188094216
They are great as an emergency stand-in, their stats are high enough that they are decent as SGTs right off the shelf. Not as powerful or tanky as a Templar maxed out but good to plug in to fill a gap when everyone had a tiring week.

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>reaper
>97% shot
>miss
>dumbass advent shoots some resistant npc instead of me despite having shit cover
>97% shot
>miss

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What the fuck's wrong with this general? ~170 posts in and barely any posters? Get to posting ya shits.

>>188094445
I've found that happening to me too. I think it has something to do with alt-tabbing on a loading screen. I've found a fix to be going to the options menu and just save and exiting that as is.

>>188088682
>sending rookies to train with one of the factions
>Chosen capture is more frequent and wont even need to daze
>sticky sonic lures from proving grounds
>training center rework
>One reaper infiltration missions
>Ambush missions you starting surrounded with advent
>Farming simulator 101

>>188094101
bretty good
Most people consider it as a shitty squad padding because >muh tireless
When in reality it gets up to 4 base armor (6 with actives); the punch is REALLY useful against chosen because you can easily scale buildings for flanking/height advantage shots (now augmented with weapon mods) and then follow up with a very heavy hitting punch against Chosen that are weak to melee (which consequently doesnt seem to suffer the aim penalty)
That and sacrifice is a 10/10 ability against Archon King's Desolate

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>>188094568

>>188094624
Interesting theory. I do alt-tab to change twitch streams etc. Still..

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>>188094568

What's more important, the event you counter or the reward?

>>188094380
Thanks m8 thats probably the best answer I'm going to get

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>>188094568
I made a poster but nobody replied to it so I stopped caring. Guess I'll go back to making characters for my pool.

>>188094852
Depends desu

I'll always counter avatar events and made whole

>Just started month 3
>No mag weapons yet
>Know a retaliation mission is coming
im fucked, right? Should I restart?

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I don't have any issues with timers, but regardless this is nice.

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>Viper (male) got mauled nearly to death before my squad could even reach him
>only got the kill because a Reaper was up to some deep tactical shit
Permanent Lost World is a hell of a drug.

>>188095003
Depends if you get the old retaliation mission or the new one with soldiers

>>188095129
>What's he saying Dr. Vahlen?
>He's trying to say "Help me"

>>188095129
Did it get a reaction for all the lost or just when it moves one group at at time?

>>188095197
:(

GIVE ME MORE FUCKING ELERIUM

>>188095201
That sounds like some potential DBZ shit animation wise

>>188095241
The market is open

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>>188095129
>Local Viper King not so kingly after getting surrounded by Lost
I want to see the Archon King getting his ass handed to him by Lost. That would truly be a sight.

>>188095352
GIVE ME MORE FUCKING INTEL

>>188095418
The king's aoe attack would get exponentially more and more lost.

>>188095201
Lost don't count for battlelord so I assume it's the same for rulers

>>188095373
>take back 'the' Earth
>not "take back Earth"

>>188095129
Spooky

>>188095197
What a story, Moira.

>>188095201
It didn't get any reactions at all.

>>188095418
Soon. Unless I lose the campaign before I can even find him.

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>>188094568
Found this randomly generated one pretty funny

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>>188095542
Good grammar is for collaborators

Is there any reason to use burning ripjack over stunning one?

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>>188094568
nth for ww2 propaganda recreations

>Sitrep: Show of Force
>Warlock shows up so there are only two pods

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>>188094568
>>188095743
Better damage? Though the stun effect is better, I have to admit

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>>188094568
Get PILLS against my orders!

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>>188096052
Go in and Go in and Go in and Go in

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>>188093406

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>>188094568
F

What are the rules for the Alien rulers to spawn?

I've only seen the berserker queen twice now.

Started in Asia if that makes a difference.

>>188096158
The Skirmisher eyes do remind me an awful lot of Buscemi.

>>188096052
That will be your butt.

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>>188094568
Warlock is a fucking pushover

>>188096227

You have to trigger them individually by doing a facility mission. The text description will say "A powerful alien seems to be guarding this facility!"

Also man does the Alien Hunter content still suck hard in WOTC. I guess I'll have to use a mod to remove them or just turn off integration so I can avoid activating them forever again.

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>>188088350
Underrated poster.

>>188096383
They are easy to cheese. Reaper stealth plus squadsight sinpers equals one encounter dead rulers.

>>188088682
more shit design decisions that remove the new fun stuff in favor of 'lol so difficult guiz!!!! xD'

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>>188094568
Haven defense with no resistance squads and a buttload of chryssalids + warlock. They all fucking burrowed at the start and I had to move through the map one blue move at a time while shooting spectral zombies.

It was fun

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>>188088350
The lost were a genocide

>>188096526
Hey that's my birthday. I'll be dead by the time that date actually rolls around.

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>>188096743
this one is also very good i like this

>>188096841
what is advent pointing at? we must follow the clues

>>188096336
Warlock is the most disruptive.
Assassin is the most dangerous.
Hunter is the biggest bro.

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>>188094568
Vigilo confido

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>tfw your custom characters get more (You)s than your posters

>>188096917
>kill warlock
>Assassin feels empty
>Hunter feels satisfaction
Truly amused the Elders are portrayed to put up with the hunter's shit

>>188096930
STAND PROUD

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>>188093980
>Panics
>Fight or Flight response
>FIGHT
AYYS LEAVE THIS PLACE

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>Game kept crashing at end of a mission
>Verify integrity
>2 missing files reallocated
>Start game again
>Despite all mods still being selected, it acts like none are installed
>Exit, restart game, deselect and reselect mods
>Go into character pool
>All faces are the same with different textures, eye apparel is static and doesn't move causing the characters head to clip through it as it wobbles around
>Faces look like something out of a racist cartoon

What the actual fuck is happening

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grapples to high ground
flanks you
whips out sniper

>>188097127
The Jakening

>>188097139
>gets shot down
>congratulates you on your victory

Beagle activity

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>>188094568
God I love the Ambush missions after finding out that there's only one reinforcement wave.

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Fuck you assassin

Mutons have nice biceps

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>>188096930
Such an easy mission in WotC

>>188097324
I'm sure he's a great guy and all but what's with this hero worship?
What's so special about him?
Or are these people just stream shills

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>>188097017
According to the Archives the Elders barely put up with any of them due to their incompetence and arrogance.

>>188097410
genuinely immersion breaking
>We escaped successfully, let's land, run out into the open and take a group picture before we actually leave

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>>188094568
Ask the difficult questions

>>188097017
>Subjugate an alien species
>Rewrite their minds and genes again and again and again until they're completely loyal and under your control
>Bring them to earth to recover a lost asset
>One immediately devolves into a nihilistic narcissistic sarcastic assclown

>>188097447
The WotC streams are the last time he's seemed like his former self in like 2 years

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>>188097582
The original poster before I changed the text was this

Just finished WotC. For those of you who saw the new ending, definitely TFTD right?

>>188096914
Its a National Treasure style treasure hunt. Figure out the mystery, get the treasure.

>>188097447
It's a prison colony circle jerk. Nothing but Austrailian shitposting.

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Which tech unlocks the Infirmary?

>>188097841
It was TFTD in vanilla XCOM 2. I'm interested to see where they take it. They had a lot of fun messing around with the ideas of conspiracy theorists and ufologist types up until now. I hope they approach the Lovecraftian type shit with the same mindset.

>>188097674
The chosen are all humans that went through forced advent gene experimentation. Read the bios in the commander's quarters. Hunter used to be a Reaper for instance.

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I'm so glad that the game only gave me the option to counter two Dark Events when I knew what all three of them were. I'm so fucked.

>>188097139
The Assassin was the bane of my early game. Warlock was always a pain in the ass when he spawned, but Hunter never got a single attack off on me on legend. Spawned twice, killed twice, then killed in his own house.

I dont even know what his attacks look like. Are they cool?

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Oh shit anon you got turned into one of the Chosen

Quick, what cool one-liner do you say when you teleport into the battlefield?

>>188098003
So what you're saying is it's possible to diddle the Assassin?

>>188098003
Not the Assasin, she was a fresh Advent/Clone template that they decided to make after Hunter snarks off and Warlock went too batshit insane. Problem is, they made her too loyal and honorable and she developed massive elder-issues after she let the Skirmisher escape.

>>188098175
not really
he has a stun grenade and mostly just tries to grapple behind you and crit your dudes

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>>188098190
"Break LOS"

>>188098190
i want a skirmisher gf

>>188098190
H-here I g-go. I guess

>>188098190
what are you doing here

>>188098190
"This sucks. I was told there would be advent burgers. I want to go home already."

>>188098190
*TV static noise*

>>188098190
"why do we even have your radio frequency anyways?"

>>188096383
Oh interesting. What's the best way to find a facility mission?

Looking for that archon armour.

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>Central says this mission has to be handled with stealth
>Stealth breaks the moment you do the objective

>>188098767
>Reaper moves one tile
>THE TIME FOR HIDING IS OVER

>>188098651
They are the red base missions on the map. You have them now Im sure, but you need to have resistance contact in the area to hit them. Or have a facility lead.

>>188098767
He means getting to the objective. Kill ayys is fine to do without stealth.

>>188098651
Facilities are on the geoscape, get to then via making contact through counties or a facility lead that when research gets direct access, construction time for when they show up is shown via the dark events thing

THIS WORLD IS OUHS

>>188098190
Gotta go with a classic. "Ayy Lamo"

>>188095743
>>188096009
Losing stun affect on upgrade is so dumb.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/6xnxhq/there_may_have_originally_been_four_chosen_planned/

Wow, the Ruler Bolt Caster gets affected by Rifle Breakthrough.

>>188088350
>The devil doesn't sleep. Nor do we.
would be better phrased in english. not trying to be a dick, just a suggestion.

>>188090179
I get that if I'm caught, enemies should react. But I think it should end my turn and immediately begin there's. Not they move, I finish, then they rape.

>>188097841
>definitely TFTD right?
Actually all that "you are not ready for what is following us" stuff sounds more like Apoc. And the ADVENT human hybrids were basically present in Apoc too. But then you have spooky purpole psi tentacles from the deep sea, so it's a tossup.

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>>188092116
>>188089763
I just haven't upgrade regular rifles all game, only one of my A team uses them anyway, soon it'll be two when my Psi is done baking, so I'll probably upgrade them.

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>[angry sectopod noises]

>>188099281
Because it's categorized as a rifle

Are stun lancers supposed to show up in the very first goddamn mission after Gatecrasher? I got an advent train guerilla op and two of them showed up with a priest as a reinforcement pod.

>>188099432
>Are stun lancers supposed to show up in the very first goddamn mission after Gatecrasher?
Yes that is pretty normal. I feel your pain though.

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Reverse terror missions when?.

I don't know why, but this run I never used any of the special armors. The heavy weapons and grapple are nice, but I don't feel like it justifies having to choose between an ammo or a utility item. Seems way better to me to just have everyone rocking ammo with medkits, mimic beacons, battle scanners, flashbangs, etc.
And if you really want to get some special armor, just go gun down the alien rulers.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1126788564

>Context: the vanilla check for the extra faction hero reward has the requirement that the faction that offers it must be the first faction you met.

Priests (female) are kinda cute desu.
It's not just me, right?

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>savage sitrep
>sectopod stomping around
In what way is a sectopod savage? I was expecting no robotic enemies so I didn't bring bluescreen.

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>>188099326

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Neat, if you run out of stuff to research, it gives you a random breakthrough.

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>>188099423
It's not fair to send mechs against Lost hordes, I want to keep him.

He even got an extra move from Mox's Combat Presence thing. A quick pat on the back and he's using the blaster again.

>>188099854
its full of lids

>>188099270

Imagine if they come out with DLC for the DLC just to add in the fourth chosen/faction

>>188100179
I honestly don't want them to touch X2 anymore besides bug fixing and balancing.

>>188099763
That seems like a god awful choice for a check.

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>hunter shouts something along the lines of LET THIS BE OUR FINAL BATTLE
>just fucking sprints in one direction off the map never to be seen again

lung collapsed from laughing

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>one of the original 4 is a genius Australian ranger

>>188100429
kek, that's the best instance of this bug i've seen.

Who else brings tons of explosives to horde missions to just have fun mass slaughtering lost?

>>188099398

Or maybe it's both.

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>>188088350
ADVENT will fucking pay.

>>188100284
I want them to add in helm cosmetics for the new advent soldiers

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>Field Commander assassination
>In a city full of Lost
>4 aliens and 1 commander
>Gorillion zombies to slowly edge my way to the objective only to eventually find the commander cowering by the bus stop praying he gets picked up in time

Why the heck did they send him there?

>>188100613
That's actually my current theory, that it is some sort of mashup.
Maybe the apoc ayys will come from the portals in the ethereal sea base. Start from the sea and go up from there.

>>188100731
You just assassinated the George Costanza of ADVENT, I hope you're proud.

>>188100702
I guess, but modders can do this just fine for free.

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>multiple consecutive turns where your men hit nothing and the enemy hits every single shot
Boy and I thought this game was a cheating fucking whore before.

>>188100891
They should have just put them with updated Alien hunter content in Wotc

>>188098190
*Sound of honking clown nose and slapping of big shoes getting rapidly closer.*

Why were Templars cucked of any story? Does anything happen if you select the option to start at Templar HQ?

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>>188099763
>that check
That sounds fucking retarded.

>Haven't seen a resistance soldier miss a single shot in retaliation mission
Motherfuckers with regular ballistics can somehow crit for 7 and 8, and clear out pods by themselves because the pods just fucking stand there and take the shots. It's crazy

Just for every bodies information the Tracking shot from the hunter can not miss so hunkering down does jack shit

Expansion or LW2?

>>188101501
Expansion

Expansion shits all over Dong 2

>>188101501
Expansion

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>cuckbois who unironically thinks that advent is a bad guys

>>188101532
>>188101571
How good is the expansion?

>>188101501

long con 2

>>188101501
LW2 is just too fucking tedious

>>188101303
funding and deadlines apparently

>>188101501
both

>>188098190
"Please don't kill me, I surrender."

>>188101717
Excellent. Definitely takes X2 to the next level, fills the whole game in and extends everything. I'm actually now tempted to say X2 WotC trumps EW (ignoring mods because that isn't a contest) but I'll wait for a bit since it is still fresh.

>>188101705
>wants to exterminate the entire human race
>ADVENT coalition has military personnel running a despotic totalitarian state
Don't tread on me motherfucker

>>188101390
perfect information shows they have like 95 aim
xcom isn't even needed desu, they could beat advent by themselves

>>188101717
You can't do a surefire minmax
Breakthroughs, Covert Ops, and random events revamped so that you never have a reliable strategy for winning a certain phase of the game, but there are WAY more ways to do well, the game basically forces you to find those out with what it gives you large amounts of

>>188099763
Why is this a thing? I don't understand the rational of making it so you can get more of only one of the new classes while the other two only give you one per campaign.

>>188101918
>>188101717
Should say as an addendum you should still prioritize the main weapons/armor but there are blatantly obvious moments now where you should or shouldn't; game is very dynamic

>>188102241
because they're very powerful

>>188102353
They're not, but if they were than wouldn't it make sense to limit all of them instead of a potentially unlimited supply of one of them and a single unit of the other two?

>>188102254
So, no more rushing a certain tech or proving grounds ad nauseum?

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>Very Difficult Alien Facility with Berserker Queen
>Forced into it since I'm one tick away from Avatar Project Completion
>1 reaper, 4 grenadiers, magnetic weapons, and kevlar
>Use my reaper to keep an eye on the queen while my grenadiers pick off the pods
>mentally prepare myself for the ass kicking I'm about to receive from the Queen
>Shoot the queen with my Reaper
>Executed

Repeaters were a mistake