/xcg/ - XCOM General

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>>188245421
>no option to recruit Hunter for sick bants with Central on the Avenger
I doubt he'd be even aginst it honestly


Also post waifus

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nth for the Commander's Chosen

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>start a new Grim Horizon campaign
>this happens
Jake
Jake why

I want to hug Vahlen!

How do I recruit more faction soldiers? Do the three freebies have to die before the game will let you have another one?

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>>188246592
>having a waifu

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Are you enjoying the videogame.
I am.

>>188246632
Oh man, I don't think I can do Grim Horizon. There's too much Dark Events that would be impossible if they stack too much.

>>188246659
You only get a 2nd hero class from the faction you first started or you can download the more hero classes mod

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/xcg/, come closer... Ther- *cough* -There's something I need to tell you... N- *cough cough* -Never switch on...Beta... Strike...

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So do Templars have Purple eyes and White hair or I'm stupid for changing their default looks?

>>188246632
Eat the supply cut imo, it's not like that's your sole income.

>>188246752
I like to think not since in Xcom EU/EW psi classes weren't "forced" you had to find someone who was compatible with psionics while in 2 you basically for them to be a psi-ops hence the psi amp and shit.

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>>188246667
>not having a waifu
Good luck being gay

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>>188246674
Making posters is so much fun

>tfw WotC too expensive but don't want to pirate it because want to support Jake

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>>188246854
It is indeed

>>188246781
Really? You already need more supplies than you normally get. How am I gonna build up the Avenger if one of the biggest sources of income gets slashed in half?

>>188246723
>There's too much Dark Events that would be impossible if they stack too much
I think that's the point - trying to get through the campaign before RNG stacks the odds against you too much.
It is fucked up though, absolutely.

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>>188246592

Lily is best waifu, r-right?

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>>188247031
yes

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>>188246854
Like you wouldn't believe.
>>188247031
How does one import the XCOM crew in WotC?
All I have is the Developers pool and Bradford isn't in it.
In fact, the Bradford in the bar keeps appearing with muttonchops.

>>188247031
Worst person on the avenger

>>188246967
>he didn't get it on gmg

>>188247009
Chosen actually cut my supplies to 12 a month at one point in time, had to rely on Council missions and Supply Raids to make it. Advent armor and weapon stacks with Grim Horizon would be fucking cancerous also if you get the one where you never start with concealment.

Okay, so three short-lived attempts at Commander beta strike, I think I'm just going to go for either commander, or beta strike. But for those that are curious about the latter, basically.
> Sharpshooters are kinda the same, since Lost's life doesn't really ramp up. So you can line the pistol headshots just fine. Given you're more prone to be lightly wounded, them avoiding even that is pretty neat.
> Specialists have more chances to use their skills, and hacking mechs is pretty useful too
> Rangers survive a bit more, and can play a bit more agressive, as long as you're not activating two pods at the same time, it's fine.
> Grenadiers are in a weird spot. On one hand, sustained autocannon damage is nice, and the shred is pretty much necessary. On the other hand, you get the same amount of grenades for much more health to dig through.
> Reaper's peashooters is pretty useless, but the explosive capabilities are pretty good
> Skirmishers are more or the same, so amazing still
> Templars' utility is more highly valued given the need to focus fire and all that. On the other hand, you have a harder time finishing off ennemies for easy focus
> SPARKs are probably pretty much like grenadiers, with less of the grenade downside. So they're most likely good...

>>188247009
Focus on other resources and then buy/sell/convert shit on the black market.

>>188247031
Considering the photobooth counts SPARKs as female, Julian best girl

>>188247107
He took that photo with the Photobooth after doing the Shen DLC.
You can probably copy the old import list from XCOM 2 into XCOM 2 WotC.

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>>188247065

Delete this at once.

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>>188247031
>talking shit about Tygan behind his back
>fugly
>doesn't work in the field except for a single mission
>when you can have 10/10 templar waifu

>>188247156
How do you even do Beta Strike? You usually kill a pod when they show up but since they have double health there will be pro long fire fights, injuring people and putting them in the avenger for days/weeks also because fights are longer Will is drained faster.

>>188247184
>Make SPARKs unable to make bonds because "robuts"
>Use female pronoums instead of "it"
JAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>188247009
>Really? You already need more supplies than you normally get. How am I gonna build up the Avenger if one of the biggest sources of income gets slashed in half?
Sell everything on the Avenger that isn't nailed down on the black market, and then buy the supplies the black market offers each month. Skullmine like a fiend to replace the intel you spend on supplies each month.

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>>188247107

>extraction photo from Firebrand's perspective

Clever, I like it.

>>188247159
>>188247290
I suppose I can manage it. But is preventing Faceless on every mission really worth the trouble?

>>188247141
>the one where you never start with concealment
Had it in my last campaign since the second month. It's honestly not that bad, just use more Reapers and Rangers.

>>188247328
Faceless are pretty easy to deal with, I'm surprised I haven't seen the good old Cryssalid on missions Dark Event, did they remove that?

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>>188246592
>Basically solo'd a supply raid mission because of the high explosive Sitrep
>Now at a bodycount of 38 by the 2nd month

Reapers are just the best.

>>188247156
As for ennemies:

> ADVENT standard troops aren't really much different. Priests are a bit worse, due to fights naturally being more sustained anyway. Stun lancers are a bit better, due to their life making it harder to stop them before they hit you once. But overall, they're all manageable.
> Sectoids are much better, given they have too much life to simply use your three quasi-rookies to fuck'em up, the fourth being mind controlled obviously. Flashbangs are pretty much mandatory right out of gatecrasher.
> Hunter keeps you on your toes, and assassin is less damaging. Warlock, on the other hand, is better if only because it's much harder to shoot down far from your troops 10+ health psy-zombies
> MECs and anything with good armor must be shredded, or twese two points of armor are gonna translate to like, eight effective HP at least

tl;dr go for it is you like melees and psionics I guess?

>>188247328
>I suppose I can manage it. But is preventing Faceless on every mission really worth the trouble?

Depends on how strong you are. If you get the Reaper order that lest you delay timers, you can probably handle the 1-2 extra turns it takes to kill them, and you probably want to avoid civvies anyway. If not, though, unless you breeze through mission timers it's sort of a big risk.

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Dammit these chosen tick me off but at least their guns are cool.

>>188247290
Skullmining is a 70% success and and the tech score of ADVENT is high so you'd probably fail a lot.

>>188247328
>Had it in my last campaign since the second month. It's honestly not that bad, just use more Reapers and Rangers.
On Grim Horizon? I mean it's manageable if it's only for a month but using phantom rangers/reaper all the time will always leave them tired.

>>188246849
Tell me Anon, what is the secret to beautiful, luscious hair?

>>188247557
Semen

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>>188246521
rate my space weeb

>>188246632
Hidden faceless is a buff, take it and get 12 mimic beacons

>>188247557
Remember the blacksite vial? Bradford was right when his guessed it wasn't just water in there.

>>188247269
Yep. The wounds don't dock you in the ship THAT long, because you're healed by half at the end of a mission. Tiredness doesn't seem to be that much of an issue so maybe they adjusted that too.

Still tactically, at the beggining, killing a pod as soon as it shows up, at least in commander difficulty, isn't really that much of a thing. Closest I've got involved a trooper and a sectoid hanging out near an explosive barrel while I had a reaper. And even then, the sectoid made it out with 1HP.

>>188247639
Ouch, almost the same one as I got instead mine is brittle

>>188247718
Somehow, I don't think you're talking about the Colonel's 23 secret spices.
I was actually wondering about what mods were used, but I'll take funny replies

>>188247848
Pretty sure it's the nier hair pack.

>>188247736
So they balanced some stuff on Beta not just the health? My problem is retaliation missions since Civs usually get aggro'd on even if your whole squad is there so you'd most likely lose that region unless you keep yellow dashing.

>tfw XCOM2 is much better with Mass Effect's music
Why does Xcom's music design sucks so much?

>>188247898
Only three of them are, the other two are from vindictus pack i think
There are that many hair packs in the first place anyway

>>188247393
>>188247456
>>188247485
You aren't making it any easier, lads. I want to keep my sweet, sweet cash, but I can't imagine dealing with Council missions that have Chosen, Rulers AND Faceless all trying to crawl up my ass.
Fug.

>>188247485
>On Grim Horizon?
Yes. Seriously, just get more Rangers and Reapers.

>>188247971

It doesn't, but the Mankind Divided soundtrack does go very well with X2 as well.

>>188248028
Man I fucking hate Faceless on council missions especially when they activate near the evac site and decides to swipe at your guys, destroying the Evac zone.

>decided to plat every xcom game before starting X2
>currently slogging through The Bureau

kill me

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>terror mission with chosen, 5 berserkers(first apperance), 8 mutons on a small map. commander difficulty
>chosen summons a priest nigger that i kill but lulstasis and mind controls my support the turn after he should be dead
>CUNT RESISTANCE PROCEED TO SHOOT MY SUPPORT FOR 12 DAMAGE

I was tremendously pleased when the berserkers started smashing those resistance cunts.

>>188248123
Mankind Divided's composer and EU/EW's composer is the same guy btw, don't know why they changed him in XC2

>>188247941
Oh yeah, that's definitely a killer I forgot to mention. Just like the lost, the civvies don't get a health increase, so they get mowed down pretty bad.

>>188248220

The Bureau can be safely skipped, it's barely an XCOM game in any sense.

>>188248257
Probably too expensive or busy.

>>188248257

Oh that's right, Michael McCann. The man is a wonder.

>>188248257
He was working on md

Mutons have nice biceps.

>>188247971
The music isn't too bad at first, but there's not a lot of variation for how long the games are. A lot of other OST work pretty well too, from Mass Effect to Xenoblade Chronicles X, to things like the ever so appropriate "you fucked up" theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUDw4oDl5NQ

>>188247971
Can't have everything, I guess.

To be honest, I don't really listen to the music while playing. I listen to podcasts or videos in the background until I run into a really hard mission and then turn them off to fully concentrate

>>188248380
Yeah, this.

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>>188247031
Sooo, given I just encountered the viper king on my second blacksite, with no context at all, does Shen's Gift still function as intended in WotC? I never played Alien Hunters before and I really feel like I'm missing some serious context here!

>>188247065
Ignore this faggot >>188247214 Please continue.

>>188247249
Alright, I need to get my hands on some templars. What is it about psionics that makes every girl who gets it a complete qt?

I am convinced that WotC did something to her face to make her less cute... Good thing too; I felt bad sending her into the field.

>>188248212
Okay, I'm sold. Guess this campaign will be hobocom, but at least there won't be Faceless everywhere.

>>188248224
Resistance Chads are just culling your ranks of all weakness.

>>188248527
Advanced Will is giving 18 Focus? Wot, My superior PCS is only giving 14

>>188247639
>brutal
You're fucked.

>>188248527
The DLC story missions are cut if you have the "Integrated DLC" option checked when you start the game. Rulers guard Avatar Facilities initially before randomly appearing as normal and the SPARK shows up as a Proving Ground project. There are balance reasons behind it, although I have yet to hear a good explanation of what they are.

>>188248686
>he doesn't have the fix

>>188248468
Thanks brah

So what do you guys recommend I research and make for the early game? Doing my first playthrough of XCOM 2, not sure what the fuck is going on.

>>188248686
I read it's a permanent decrease to will? Is that true and if so is it intentional?

>>188248831
>he uses possibly illegitimate fixes
When they patch it, i'll go with it. Rit now, I'm just going to kill the assassin early and probably remove all the troops I do it with from rotation.

>>188248868
Try to get Magnetic Weapons fast since Ballistics will be under powered really fast.

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>>188246735

I wish i had listened.

>>188248897
Yes, no.

>>188248975
What Numeric Health Display is that? I'm using a different one and I'm getting kind of sick it since it's too colorful.

>>188248975
>Mutons with 18 health
NO
NOOOOO
I WANNA GO HOME

>>188248028
No mission will ever have a Chosen and a Ruler at the same time.

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>>188248679
Maybe it got nerfed? This was a while and several games ago. Plus I think I had a GTS thing which made them more effective or something...

>>188248804
Aw what? That's what that did?! Laaaame... And I'm guessing it can't be turned back on mid-game? Son of a bitch; now I have to start over! Like I said, I never played Alien Hunters before and I really want to see what it's all about!

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>>188248975
what a terrible fate

>>188248527

That means your DLC is "integrated", which means you skip the Nest *and* Shen's Last Gift missions that provide some valuable context. Sorry, Anon.

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The new title screens are so good.

>>188248476

Those two better be bonded.

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How should I spec my skirmisher?

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Which should I take?
Remote start seems good for shenagins but

>shredder

>>188247971
I should learn how the soundtrack modding shit works and stick some track from Battlezone's expansion in it.

>>188249237
Talon Rounds and Laser sight, get them crits. Also get the Rebalanced Skirmisher Mod, it's really good since it basically gives your skirmisher skills cooldowns rather than 1 turn per mission use.

>>188249314
Shredder can be saved for later

>>188249314
remote start now, come back and get shredder later

>>188248975
At this point, I'm almost thinking of going for Rookie difficulty beta strike for shit and giggles.

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>ranger with katana and templar gangbang a sectopod to death

GLORIOUS
NIPPON
STEEL

>>188249314
take remote start for wiping whole pods from stealth for free
get shred later

>>188249314
remote start so you can solo VIP missions

>>188249314
Get Shredder when you have Banish, you shouldn't be the one shredding armor for your team anyway.

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>>188249127
>>188249195

This mission has had more berserkers than you can possibly imagine. It has been a huge shitshow, my 34hp Mox got mind controlled and then he got dropped down to 1hp by fucking resistance members.

This fucking Warlock is anything but passive, he is not like Beagle's cucklock, this nigga is running all over the place shooting his gun, overwatching, summoning shit and scorching people every single time.

And my civilians are pretty much all dead, berserkers kept going into their little cuckshed to smash them, and good luck killing a 48hp Berserk with mag weapons before it kills a bunch of civvies, at one point my Spark and the Warlock were in the roof, until a Faceless climbed up, hit them both, destroyed the roof and all 3 fell on more civilians killing them.

J U S T

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What's the verdict

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Reaper + 4 grenadiers + Horde = Picture

>>188249552
8/10 "it's ok"

>>188248284
But its cannon

>>188249126

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1123174832

>>188249552

8/10

OFFICIAL NEW CLASSES POWER RANKINGS

1. TEMPLAR
2. REAPER
........
90001. SKIRMISHER

>>188249552
9/10

Refunded

>tfw commander riker admits you're way cooler than he thought you'd be

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>>188249552
Ids breddy gud :DDDD

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>>188249552
I literally cannot go back to playing the base game anymore, it's that good.

>>188249657
See, I know that's wrong, because every one of the new classes feels like it fits a niche, or starts slow but becomes a blender of alien-melting destruction later on.

>>188249643
Thanks my dude.

>>188249657
This, Skirmishers don't really have a lot of scenarios where they can showcase their skills.

>>188249657
>He doesn't know how to use a skirmisher

>>188249552
just like the past few civs, its shit until they add in all the stuff they should have at the start.

fun/10

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>>188249657
skirmishers are useless disgusting alien mongrels that need to be gassed

>watching beagle vod

>"ive got a mod that makes the lost target xcom and advent 50/50 instead of 70/30"

literally LITERALLY fucking cheating on first playthrough

>>188249657
Literally git gud

>>188249210
They've been dead for three campaigns now, it doesn't matter. None of this matters.

>Put RAGE suit on female ranger
>Paint it tan
hng

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>2 turns of double-moves in all directions
>only one power relay
NO JAKE
I DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING FACELESS
STOP IT

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>>188247031
15 AP for killing Julian is quite a lot, thank god I brought the Reaper along for an even bigger explosion up top.

How do I get Stop Wasting My Time mod if I'm a dirty pirate with mental deficiency?

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>>188249951
hes only entertaining in the super cut ironman impossible series, and it was before the leech got a hold of him.

>>188250263
You kill yourself and you get the whole game with all the mods in heaven.

>>188250263
Wait for your buyfag bulls to post it in the mega.

>>188249951
But it's 0/100, is Beagle a dummy?

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AWWWWWWWWWWWWW YIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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>>188249536

At least everyone survived, that was literally all mutons, berserkers, 1 faceless, 1 spectre and the warlock(featuring mecs and ghosts)

Beta uprising was a mistake, at least on haven missions because civvies don't get double HP.

>>188250263
russians to the rescue, stomping the steam jew

http://xcom2.smods.ru/

T2 armor or T2 weapons first? Legend difficulty.

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>>188250263
Buy it

>>188250468
Do you have an infirmary up and staffed? Weapons.

>>188250468
Weapons always

>>188250468
whats the point of armor if you cant kill stuff

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>>188250468
always gunz

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>>188249906
Boy, if they want to fight for a free Earth and kick the Elders in the teeth, they're alright in my book. This is the XCom forces, not 'human' forces. What next; no psionic soldiers allowed for not being human enough?

Besides, beggars can't be choosers.

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OH boy

>>188250663
its there a mod that turns her into matriarch blue tits yet?

Did WotC add flying yet

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>>188250146
>finally find some relays
>this happens.
Jesus.
Bladestorm is gonna cut up both of them if I blow concealment on Rend, right?

>>188250913
Yep.

PLAYABLE ALIENS FOR WOTC FUCKING WHEN

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>>188250670
>Haven Assault
Enjoy the free victory, I literally got carried in my 2nd retaliation mission with three squaddies and two rookies because the resistance forces took out half the pods on their own and kept flanking the Assassin to keep her from doing anything until she was the last xeno standing.

>>188251028
Skirmishers give you a command that makes some aliens defect to you.

>>188251116
It's not the same

>>188250998
Beautiful.

I was hoping Bladestorm would give you Focus on kills, but oh well, it's still insane.

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>>188249906

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

>>188251205
What I want to know is why I didn't think of naming my SPARK 'Optimus' sooner...

>>188250405
My Reaper got squadsight and long watch in the training center. I'm guessing banish works like other abilities involving guns in that it can't utilize squadsight.

Are SPARKs worth it?

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>>188251205
that sounds like DIRTY COMMIE TALK, you TRAITOR

best mod for sparks

>>188251283
Doesn't their gun count as a sniper rifle?

Anyone getting this thing where you throw your claymore and it's not in your LOS?

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>doing perfectly fine in a blacksite mission
>game hangs on the enemy turn, have to reload after waiting 10 minutes
>last autosave was three turns ago for some reason
>now I'm back to the turn I was on before, except I missed most of my shots that landed before and my best soldier got crited through full cover
>game gets stuck on the enemy turn again

Why did I spend more money on this broken piece of shit?

>>188251376
You can through a grenade outside of your LOS (over a wall etc), I can't see why not claymore

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>>188250405

How do those promotion screens work, anyway? How are the abilities randomized and distributed?

>>188250405
I think if you get tactical rigging for one soldier it unlocks the rigging for the other soldier, my 2nd reaper has the utility slot but I didn't get Tactical rigging.

>>188251116
What kind of soldiers do you get from that order? I got the resistance fighter version and they're basically improved rookies.

>>188251475
I mean the grenade is lobbed infront of the reaper without obstruction of any kind

>>188251479
The first three lines are pre-determined for all classes, the XCOM perks are the ones that are randomized on the amount, rank position, and what the perk actually gives.

>>188251307
yes

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I got a funny XCOM joke guys.

Psst listen.

A Skirmishes goes to a restaurant with his family and the hostess asks "Is that all you need a table for or are more coming".

The Skirmishes says "Nah, we're gonna at least need a Vox Tala for Ten"

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>>188250913
>too early for mindshields or level 2 Bonds
>Warlock is here already
>standing right between me and the objective
Gotta be shitting me.
The timer is grayed out however, and it didn't go down this turn. Does it mean what I think it means?

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>>188251691

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>>188251691

>>188249127
Mate archons got like 40hp

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>>188251691

I've got one!

Why did the Thin Man cross the road?
He didn't, he could hit you just fine from where he was.

>>188251751
In most mission types the timer freezes while Chosen have their way with you. It resumes when they "die"/peace out.

>>188251307
Kind of. The extra armor point and ability to add weapon mods are nice, but they still don't keep pace with the rest your squad, especially with the addition of the training center. I mainly use one because I think they look cool.

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>>188251691
Could not have predicted this outcome though it IS intrigging

Got the basegame on steam, but i dont feel like buying the dlc.
Is the pirated dlc compatible with the basegame?

Does combat protocol go through armour (life or death question)

>>188252134
yes

>>188252134

yes, it's guaranteed damage

>>188252134
Of course.

>>188251986
Does anyone miss thin mints?

OUTFIT SAVING MOD FOR WOTC NOW
I NEED IT

>>188252272
BUT FIRST PLAYABLE ALIENS FOR WOTC

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>>188251997
All I got from that was break LOS.

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>>188252231
They didn't go anywhere.

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Why is the XCOM fandom so obsessed with sneks? There's no art of Assassin "interrogating" soldiers.

>>188252231
Hell to the no

Is there a mod that makes the global map less... busy? Getting through a week long scan is usually impossible without getting 2-3 events, I'd like less stuff happening overall or more intervals between events.

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That fucking name.

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>>188252413
I hate sneks.
I also hate the Assassin.
Codex is where it's at.

>>188252412
I don't get what happened to him, he was shown to be mauled by the crowd but he's talking to you at water world.

>>188252543
Gur hur durrr

>>188252202
>>188252204
>>188252205
Thanks lads, another flawless mission in the bag

>>188252593
They probably just pull a fresh one out of a pod if something happens to the speaker.

>>188252465
you could use the marathon mod, but I dunno if thats what you're really looking for since it just extends the campaign length by spacing stuff out more

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1127116380&searchtext=

>>188252413

Sneks attract scalies and general xenophiles from all over, the Assassin is more XCOM-specific and thus has a smaller fanbase.

Besides, people can get hotter alien blueberries in Star Wars, Mass Effect, Warcraft, etc.

>>188252412
Is he actually a grill? Since thin man are sneks, and snek are all female.

>>188252593

He's a thin mint, he probably just leaped twenty feet into the air and escaped across the rooftops.

how the fuck do you un-equip attachments?
i got the thing that lets you take em off without breaking, so now i wanna create the best weapons possible

>Xcom 2 finally introduces different english accents
>Irish Jane Kelly still sounds like an american

explain

>>188252924
>Jane Kelly
Literally who lmao

>>188252853

Thin Men are probably so genetically distant from Vipers by this point from all the modifications I wouldn't be surprised if they're effectively genderless

I mean it's not like you'll see the viper king crawl up onto the speaker's stage while he's holding a speech and make him go into heat from the sheer presence of potential snake sex

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>>188253046

I know, Stacy Bell is where it's at.

Hey I know Lost aren't at all difficult, but I just realized, wouldn't you be entirely immune to them if you gave your squad (or just one guy by himself I guess) the Hellweave nanosuit?

>>188253089
That's my kind of story mission.

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>tfw you somehow manage to get all the crappy continent bonuses on one playthrough

>>188252580
Acceptable taste, anon. Literally no art though.
>>188252789
This is the worst reality.

>>188252921
Put a new one in that slot

Man, XCOMs ugly ass character and weak customization almost makes me want to skip it and jump straight to the second game

>caring about Jane Kelly
>outing yourself as somebody not playing on Legendary

Why even bother playing a game that actively cheats for you?

>>188252413
cuz she's fucking ugly

>>188253469

I still can't believe it took until LW1 to be able to give british soldiers appropriate accents

>>188253469
but how will you feel the thin man 360 no scope crits to your dudes in full cover?

>>188253469
Why don't you?

>>188253624
People bitch about Gatecrasher but sectoids can one-shot a rookie through full cover.

>>188252231
The aliens don't have any reason to hide anymore, commander.
EXCEPT THE FUCKING ASSASI AND FACELESS YOU DUMB CENTRAL.

>>188253737
Terror mission where some of the civs are thinmen.

>>188253870
>terror mission where some of the civs are gangly grey lizard people

>>188249209
How come I keep getting the same loading screen over and over with Elena and the commander?

>>188253737
The thin mints were meant for espionage, the faceless are not. They're just like a mine.

>>188253635
It was cheap and I wanted to get some experience since I usually don't play that many strategy games. I'm

>>188253531

Jane Kelly is in my character pool brew

>>188254024
This. I've got the same problem.

>>188252272
Didn't the Uniforms mod already get ported to WOTC?

>>188254024
>>188254348
Same.

Maybe it has something to do with doing the tutorial?

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has any madman tried grim horizon with beta strike on legendary yet?

now that beags' stream fun is over for a few days do you think the weapon pack will be released before he starts back up?

>>188254024

Your latest save depends on mods you no longer have installed, so the game can't draw information from it.

>>188254574
Nobody cares about some meme streamer

>>188254396
I haven't seen it, but if you have, please link it.
I'm so sad without it.

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Oh hey, the Photobooth folder saves every soldier headshot too. Useful for ready-made user images.

LWPP for WotC or I punch the anon above me.

>>188253531
>not making Jane Kelly into your character pool

pleb

>>188254690
Here comes the airplane...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1126857331&searchtext=uniforms

>>188254805
What are the headshots? Is it what they generate the wanted posters from? I didn't understand why they existed

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>>188254805
you can stop the game from saving 100+mb crash dumps but not its retarded picture saving

I think I fucked up, doing chosen base with Majors and Captains since I did it pretty easily on Commander. Everyone is dying.

>>188251691
I've been waiting for somebody to make a joke along these lines, thank you.

>>188254929
I was just about to post that I had found it myself, thank you very much.
I'll still let you feed me though.
No homo

>>188254805

Why'd they fuck up all the soldier mugshots anyway? The old ones weren't perfect, but they're infinitely preferable to these unflattering close-ups.

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Where do they even find these retarded rookies.

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I may run X2 on a toaster, but I can still have fun in the photobooth.

>>188254947
That's exactly what they're used for, also notifications like getting a new engineer or a soldier getting shaken.

>assassin teleports in the middle of my squad from across the map, hits one of my soldiers with a sword knocking them out, summons a stun lancer, then has enough moves to get completely out of my los ALL IN ONE FUCKING TURN


are you fucking kidding me?

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>>188252380
>break LOS a bunch
>Warlock only summons zombies on top of the objective
>get enough time to calmly clean up the map and the reinforcements
>force a showdown on my terms and finish him off with the Ranger who's been keeping an eye on the big guy for the whole mission from concealment
The Elders' most loyal champion unironically made this mission easy as hell. Thanks, Warlock.

>>188255267
Sounds like you need to git gud

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Is it just my computer, or do the filters usually make pictures look worse?

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Reminder that hacking is a viable tactic.

>>188252746
This, I'm fairly sure that there are lot of Speaker class aliens running around, since they're just upgraded/improved Thin Mints.

Advent Speaker as an alternate captain/commander class Ayy when? Could have all the old Thin Man's bullshit.

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>>188255409
Too bad he doesn't have an in-game model, though it'd be easy to approximate with civilian clothes and a neck tattoo. Maybe they'd be citybound Faceless, civilians who attack you out of the blue.

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>>188255396

does the tired mechanic work on distance covered or a set amount per mission. seems very inconsistent.

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>>188255567
>a cloaked Sectopod
What is this tactical wizardry and how do I emulate it?

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>>188255557
>Pairing Dragunova with a random

>>188255353
Sometimes the timer doesn't stop.

>>188255267
Dash attack is one AP
Summoning enemies is a free action
She had at least 2 AP left to run away

>>188254460
You mean, we should do the tutorial for it to start showing other screens?

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>>188246674
Coming up with catchy propaganda phrases is hard

>>188255679
Will rolls a chance to deplete from seeing enemies, getting wounded/panicked/knocked unconscious/psi-fucked, or seeing any of that happen to a squadmate. A soldier can lose a max of a 1/3 of their will per mission.

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>>188251352
Hell yeah anon

Just beat war of the Chosen

Was that ending another Terror from the Deep nod. Will XCOM 3 be a remake of it?

Also who is the true enemy the Elders were speaking of?

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>>188255971

>orange and blue armor
>purple gun
>red background

Can you use the Training Center for SPARK units?

>>188255567
>oh fuck xcom are attacking elders save me
>oh elders no they killed my entire squad fuck this I'm out
>run back to another group I know is patroling
>gotta warn them before xcom catches them unaware
>I'm no idiot though I'll take cover behind this lampost so they can't get a good shot at my back if they catch up
>is it me or is this lampost a little bigger than normal though
>wait a minute that's a fucking sectopod not a lampost
>COMMANDEEEEEER
TACTICAL GENIUS

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This felt like reading a Fate/Stay Night ero scenes.

>>188256023
explains why snipers never get tired

>>188255736
I'm guessing Shadow Squad and using Concealment after hacking the cunt.

>>188256101
The Crab people.

>>188255757
>not pairing Elena with Mox

they are the OTP

>>188255736
There are lamppost hack rewards that grant concealment to single soldier or whole squad

>>188255567
I can faintly hear someone shouting "TACTICAL GENIUS" in the distance.

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>>188256307
Nevermind that, it's clearly a Squad Concealment from using Hack on a lamppost.

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Hold up one second.
Are the new hero classes always the same guys? As in can you totally customise them like any other XCOM member, or are they always predetermined characters?

>>188256138
But you'll join, right?

What does Firebrand look like?

I'm guessing ginger, freckled and thicc

>>188256508
The two you get from the Lost and Abandoned tutorial are always the same. You'll get randoms if you skip that shit. You can still customize their names, faces, hair, gear etc. despite getting them from either.

>>188256508
If you do Lost and abandoned the first reaper and skirmisher you get are premade, templar is always random.

>>188256508
First Reaper and Skirsmisher are predetermined if you do the story mission.

>>188256563

Well, I mean, yes. Blood moon sounds wicked and all. But I'd have a word with whomever is handling XCOM's fashion these days.

>>188256639
She is a Big Sky

What happens if I skip a covert mission. Like the rescue the VIP in the tunnels with a stupid amount of reinforcements

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>>188256639
this is my waifu pls do not have lewd thoughts about her

>>188256821
For you

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>never got a game of XCom 2 beyond the beginning of mid-game
>never actually fielded a psionic
>WOTC is too good to stop
>have a psionic in the chamber for almost 2 months learning errything while the hero units and covert-boosted soldier wreck every mission
>finally decide to field the psi unit on a mission to permanently kill the assassin Chosen
>mfw
jesus christ she has, like, 7 abilities and they're all fucking amazing

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>>188255757
She beat Mox to the punch, what can I say. Besides, Worf's been in enough love triangles with Troi already.

Wait, how do you get more reapers, etc?

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>>188256639

This is an unused radio portrait of Firebrand without her helmet.

>>188256692
>>188256762
>first
You...you can get more?

I feel like I'm nearing the end of the game in terms of tech and difficulty, but I've still only got one of each faction member

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>>188256937
>Yellow and purple
You guys have no sense of style

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>>188255837
Pretty sure I remember them not stopping on a Council mission.
Either way, I'm fine with it even if they only stop on Sabotage Transmitter missions - the timers on these are fucked if you're not lucky.

>>188256956
Rare covert actions that require high influence.

>>188256956
There's a chance to get a covert action to recruit more hero classes, but in the base game you can only get new heroes from the first faction you were allied with. There's a mod to fix this.

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>Oh neat time for a supply raid
>It's the crate thing
>There's advent
>There's a shitton of Lost
>The Hunter shows up

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>Warlock shows up
>Mox kills him before he can do anything
Y-you too.

>>188257064

You can carry out covert operations to recruit more of them. However, due to the way the game is set up, these ops are only ever granted for the first faction you made contact with.

>>188256790
The gun works great on anyone that is not him, I swear

>>188257153
>Hunter shows up
But all he does is engage in bants

>>188257064
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1126788564
Firaxas put some retarded check in place, get the mod.

>>188257234
Which means he's making the mission longer thus making me lose most of the crates

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>>188257090
I see it as more of a pink, really. And that's a horse of a different color.

Pic unrelated, I just found the slogan ironic.

welp there ends my first Legendary Ironman run of war of the chosen. got fucked on one of those missions where you need to get to the VIP and then defend her for 5 turns before evacing. back to classic we go

>>188257064
Well if you don't have the mod you can only get a 2nd hero from the first faction you meet.

>>188257123
It's pretty hard when timer doesn't stop but you have to fight the spectral zombie + priest spam.

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r8

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>>188252593

Didn't you read the post you replied to? He's a thin man.

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>>188257090

>blue and purple

Neither do you.

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>>188257153
i hate the crate missions so much

>>188257259
eh, at this point it hardly seems worth it. I've got at least 3 squads of 6 strong troops between the 3 factions heroes, 2 strong psi ops with 1 in training, and the normal high-rank units

Psi ops gaining ranks through a few days in training is ridiculous btw

>>188257407
Sometimes it's just easier to wipe all the pods rather than race for crates. It's the new Meld.

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>>188257184
>just blew up Hunter's sarcophagus
>expect a hellish fight after doing assassin
>Hunter spawns in next turn
>fucking dies to an overwatch potshot from across the room

How disappointing.

Is Commander a guy or a girl?

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>>188257397
That was the avatar motif one I was fucking around with. How about this?

>got wiped out multiple times
>mostly got rookes
>encountering Archaons
>all missions failing
Should i start a new game?

>>188257371
That crit always gets me

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>>188257184
>Make sure all the aliens and Lost on the map are dead before engaging the Hunter
>Gets two shots on my soldiers before we can bring him down and both crit for 9

I desperately need to find the alloys for Plated Armor, my soldiers' squishiness is becoming a liability.

>>188257354
Man, we really need some Skirmisher variants of the base Advent helmets. That looks good, but it needs to look worn like the rest of their stuff.

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>playing with the Alien Hunters DLC functioning normally
>get the Viper King mission
>consider bringing my best soldiers
>nah, fuck it, I'll bring the Aspie Spark I got 2 missions ago, my OG bonded Corporal Ranger and Grenadier pair that keep getting injured and are therefore underleveled as fuck, and a rando Seargant Specialist I got from a mission a few fights back
>also I only have magnetic weaponry, the bolt caster, an ice grenade, and a hunter's axe as far as prep goes, no other weapon improvements or attachments.
Mistakes were made. I still got the snake skin and nobody died, but mistakes definitely were made. Hopefully Bradford can walk again soon.

>>188257538

Much better.

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>>188257512
Getting ready for the Deep Ones game in advance are we?

>>188257527
Commandy One's Gender/Sex is never stated so they can be a self-insert or whatever you want.

>>188256878
>torpedo tits

Side note is the game even more spaghetti now?
I had a Captain miss a shot but knock one of my soliders off a platform and the drop kill him.
It was about a 3 foot drop.

How can you miss but still hit?

>>188257527
Commander is Bradford's waifu, pls do not touch

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>>188257512
Every Chosen after the first died like a bitch on their stronghold mission. Then again, I did wait til tier 3 to do them.

>188256473
Aw, he looks so sad.

Sad to see his Chosen waifu go

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>>188257538
love it, I always do edgy black but those are some great colors.

There was a tintable avatar helmet on the workshop before wotc, it looked amazing on psiops, forgot which mod it belonged to though.

>>188257876
Dor's Advent parts mod, I'm pretty sure.

Still waiting eagerly for it to get updated.

>>188257751
Misses will often hit random shit in the background, he unfortunately hit the floor tile below one of your people.

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>>188257876
Reminds me of that fire damage set in Dedlands, nice.
>>188257993
I really want the rest of the advent helmets so I can do more former xyz-class Skirmishers

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>screenshot saved
>screenshot saved

any good torso cosmetic mods so i can make S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S along with the reaper helmets

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>>188256425
It's a hard bond to get because he gets captured, but it's worth it.

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>>188258074
Screenshots are so five minutes ago. Photobooth is the new black.

>>188257371
mecs were so much cooler than sparks

>have to sacrifice a human to become an abomination
>cool robo voice
>can wear fedora
>fully viable the whole game, even as a full squad of mecs

Pistols are useful
Mods are cheats
Advent is right