XCOM Lives, Commander.
By popular demand, /tg/'s /xcomg/ returns, with anther shitty survey for everyone to mock me for.
>Best XCOM game? Why?
>Worst XCOM game? Why?
>What's your best XCOM story?
>How much do you hate Thin Men/Vipers?
How do you distinguish between earnest discussion initiated by an enthusiastic Anon and marketing awarness increasing campaign by corporate new media department?
I'm not saying you necessarily have to be the latter, but it's an interesting question I believe.
I wish we got more of a look at what human life is like now that ADVENT is in charge. We have the newscasts and the new colonies and the gene therapy and constantly being watched, but do humans have any contact with aliens who are not just soldiers patrolling? Are the humans being forced to learn the alien language? Are there alien cults outside of the personality cult of the Elders promoted on TV?
>>45376527
The only difference between shilling and generally wanting to discuss a game is that the former already knows the answers.
>>45376542
>Are the humans being forced to learn the alien language?
That's definitely a no. Shen makes a note in XCOM 2 about how they've never managed to figure out the alien language. Otherwise, no idea.
>>45376527
I'm bored at work and wanted to chat about XCOM because it's a great series and /v/ is completely fucking useless.
>>45376542
It's just like America, but with IRL Scalies.
When I'm skulking around in the missions you have concealment, they'll often stop and talk with civilians. They can spend several turns with them.
But I'm going to agree with Tygan that it is still scary.
>>45376475
My current laptop is just under the minimum specs for graphics, so i'm just playing long war until I finish my new PC.
That said, suck on a rocket thin men.
>>45376576
If they can't figure out the alien language, why is it written in the television broadcasts?
>>45376527
>How do you distinguish between earnest discussion initiated by an enthusiastic Anon and marketing awarness increasing campaign by corporate new media department?
Presence or absence of Snek?
>>45376577
>When I'm skulking around in the missions you have concealment, they'll often stop and talk with civilians.
Even Snek?
>>45376577
Seriously? I've never seen the aliens talking with other humans. Granted, I usually don't stick around in concealment for long, but the humans just seem to mind their own business and get out of the way once the fighting starts.
>>45376619
XCOM Snek's aren't even fully sentient, science man tells us so.Probably trying to keep all the snek for himself.
>>45376577
>>45376623
>doing loot recovery mission
>find pod of Sectoid,Officer, and Trooper standing around next to 3 civvies
>as I spend the next two turns moving into position, ayys and ADVENT don't move, and just keep looking at the civvies
>Sectoid periodicaly looks back and forth
>ADVENT and civvies are making hand gestures
>huh, they're chatting
>that's cute
>fire frag grenade, both civvies are dead
>AYY and ADVENT are cut down by reaction fire
>"excellent work commander, the mission was a success"
VIGILO CONFIDO
>>45376619
>>45376623
Chances are what I saw was the GAME GLITCHING, GET IT TOGETHER FIRAXIS.
But what I got was similar to this: >>45376666. There was a pod patrolling, stopped for a while to chat with civvies and then went to another pod I blew them up with.
Grenades are great
>>45376666
COMMANDER AKBAR
>>45376666
>notice I got Satan Quads
V I G I L O
C O N F I D O
>>45376666
Remov collaborators.
>>45376637
>Probably trying to keep all the snek for himself.
THAT BASTARD!!!
So /tg/
Do you organize your units by color?
I do.
>Rangers: green
>Snipers: blue
>Medic/hackers: yellow
>Heavies: red
>Psychics: white
>>45376733
Docs get white with red stripes, everyone else gets some mix of dark blue and grey
>>45376637
He never says that, he says they are highly intelligent actually. Which makes sense considering thin men are a genetic variation of them.
>>45376733
Rangers: red
Sharpshooters: dark grey
Specialists: light grey
Heavies: olive
Psiops: purple
Rookies: tan
>>45376666
>Mind control a Gatekeeper
>Have him turn around and nuke a muton standing in the middle of an Advent burger joint.
>Explosion fills the entire building
>Muton goes splat
>So do the civilians
>5 psi zombies stand up
Do you feel like a hero yet?
>>45376619
>>45376726
>ND prefering snayyktits over codexass
What shit taste
>>45376637
>>45376775
Yeah, he directly says
"This creature is clearly reptilian in nature, although it appears to be not only sentient, but also highly intelligent."
Sneks can smart.
>Organize "Generations" of recruits by armor colors.
>1st Gen red, 2nd blue, 3rd green, ect.
>As game progresses, notice colors.
>Reds are extinct. Only two blue left. Handful of green. Rest are later gens.
>TFW you watch all the OG's getting phased out and there's nothing you can do about it since you're incompetent.
>>45376802
>transmitter destruction mission
>my squad is garrisoning a 3 story building next to another 3 story building, of which the transmitter is in the bottom floor
>fire missile at second floor into a pod of Advent, they explode and now there's a flaming hole in the building from which I can fire at the transmitter
>explosion spooks both a second squad and a pack of civvies on the top floor, civvies run to center while ADVENT take cover around them to respond
>fire second missile
>civvies corpses fall 3 stories to ground level
>ADVENT weren't killed by the missile blast outright, but the fall did kill them
>look at transmitter
>corpses strewn all around it
>and a final pack of ADVENT
>fire incendiary grenade into the heap
The ends justify the means, Commander.
>>45376841
>tfw just got the achievement for completing the game on commander with no deaths
>>45376806
>>ND prefering snayyktits over codexass
>What shit taste
THEN GET ME SOME CODEX ART!!!
>>45376775
>He never says that, he says they are highly intelligent actually. Which makes sense considering thin men are a genetic variation of them.
>>45376811
>Yeah, he directly says
>"This creature is clearly reptilian in nature, although it appears to be not only sentient, but also highly intelligent."
>Sneks can smart.
Brainy Snek BEST SNEK!
>>45376806
>ND at all
What did you expect?
>>45376811
>>45376775
O-oh.
S-sorry.
Is it ok to savescum if you feel the rng fucked you hard ?
>be in a beacon destruction mission
>everything normal so far
>make the mistake of getting my sniper on a roof without checking for enemies
>heavy turret right in front of him, everybody else too far away to do anything
>manage to blow up the roof below his feet to save him
>trigger an advent soldier pod
>next turn after killing the grunts I skullfuck the advent captain because bradford keep pestering me with it
>hilarity ensues
>waste turns and grenades killing the codices
>trigger some sneks and archons at the same time
>two of my remaining guys got acid'd
>trigger another archon and sneks
>one guy get pulled
>three turns left, still no line of sight with the objective which is inside a building
>decide to blow up the wall to destroy it from afar
>the fucking wall do not disappear
that's the only moment I restarted a mission
>>45376841
>make a manual roster of every soldier by name, organized by date recruited
>delineate blocks of recruit generations
>strike them out as they die, and add them to a death list, in blocks by mission of death
>there's one guy left from the original generation
>everyone from 2nd and 3rd are dead
>4th and 5th have casualties
>fresh off the boat 6th
>>45376881
That's not RNG anon; environment objects have HP pools all the same, you likely somehow didn't do enough damage to destory it.
Besides, that's better than having ALL HEAVY COVER within 50 tiles explode for no reason at all.
>Be a human
>Finally get the courage to ask out that snake girl who patrols my street
>Some of my friends are still against the idea but ADVENT tells us to embrace our new alien overlords, and that's what I want to do
>See her one night
>About to approach her
>X-CUNTS suddenly come out of nowhere and kill her with a sniper rifle
>They punch me in the face and drag me to their ship
>Now I'm forced to help them perform science
T-thanks
>XCOM 2 expansion: Ally Unknown
>Recruit dissident elements from the alien faction
>snek recruits
firaxis please
>>45376981
>Be XCOM
>Out on a mission to save a town from being turned into goo.
>Find a civilian being threatened by a Viper.
>Sniper scores a good hit.
>Ranger extracts civ.
>Mission successful, town liberated.
>Civilian has been drafted by Tygan.
>He cries a lot.
Fellow XCOM soldiers, why are civilians such babies? If only they knew the truth of what we saved them from.
What do you think happens to those enemy VIPs you capture?
Do you think they get beheaded on YouTube?
>>45377028
>Be Snek
>Doing Snek things
>Get shot
>Dead
Hissss
I panicked the first time I accidentally massacres civilians in a firefight
Then laughed when I realized the game doesn't care at all
It doesn't even admonish you.
God I love that they don't penalize explosives anymore
>>45376867
Aint the only that sees killer queen aren i?
I don't know about you guys but I'm waiting to actually get into XCOM 2. My computer is a potato and because the game is so poorly optimized it runs like ass. I still haven't finished my run on EW, so I'm wasting time on that waiting for the patch. Anyone else in the same boat?
>>45377186
>because the game is so poorly optimized
While true, turning off AA (aka Ayyy Ayyy) helps a ton.
>>45377208
This and some other setting I forget affects performance greatly
Alas I have reached the l
Part of the game where I am kicking the aliens ass. Power armor, plasma, everyone's a colonel etc. I am legit out of things to research, just going through the shadow chamber projects now
>>45377329
It's called "the end of the game".
Whats your favorite XCOM 2 design
Whats your least Favorite XCOM 2 design?
>>45377525
>Least favourite
Tier 3 armour in general
Why are my plucky rebels with hats and balaclavas and tattoos suddenly TRON
>>45377525
>Favorite
XCOM's magnetic weapons. Love the look, the greebles, and the chirping.
>Least favorite
Endgame armor. Looks too smooth and clean for a ragtag bunch of rebels. Would have liked to see a more greebled, ramshackle look.
I love this game but its optimization is so bad that I sometimes have trouble believing it. How can it be THIS bad?
>>45377525
>Whats your favorite XCOM 2 design?
I actually like the weapon designs in general, especially mag weapons. Also, the EXO armor looks excellent.
>Whats your least Favorite XCOM 2 design?
WAR armor. It's just too clean and crisp and bleh. I'm not a fan, honestly. I do love the powered heavy weapons though.
>>45376733
I give them cadpat camo based on the biome and time of day
>snekfags
>>45376666
>>45376802
>>45376851
Collaborators are even worse than aliums.
Killing them isn't murder, but an act of mercy.They should really add some kind of reaction if you kill civilians
Does XCom 2 elaborate what aliens wanted from humanity to begin with? Enemy Unknown was a bit rushed.
>ADVENT trooper shoots some dude I couldn't have possibly saved at the far corner of a rebel encampment
>"WE'RE TAKING HEAVY CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, COMMANDER. IF YOU DON'T HURRY UP THE ALIENS WILL WIPE OUT THE CAMP!"
>Fire a missile into a crowd of four civillians to kill muton while escorting a VIP out of an ADVENT city
>Complete radio silence
>>45377727
He was just worried you are late to the party.
>>45377702If you get all the psi zombies killed Bradford starts flipping his shit at how many "soldiers" you are losing.
>>45377702
I hope Vahlen goes full cartoon villain and has an undersea lair where's she's creating genetic monstrosities to combat the ayys
>No, Mr. Hinman, I expect you to die
>>45377714There's some sort of mysterious entity that targeted the Ethereals because of their psychic potential and chased them off their planet. The Ethereals want to fight the entity, but leaving their planet has caused their bodies to gradually decay and they're slowly dying in spite of their prior immortality.
The Ethereal Elders have been traversing the galaxy for about one thousand years, dominating alien species in hopes of building up an army that they can turn around and fight the Cosmic Horror with, but they're also trying to find a species that is genetically compatible enough with them that they can save their dying race. Whenever an Ethereal overextends itself psychically their body collapses and leaves them as a psychic ghost, which dies shortly after. The Ethereals are occupying earth because humans have the right DNA sequence that their body can be melted down into DNA goo and processed into new bodies for the Ethereals.
Remember citizens, the Elders seek only to protect us and to elevate us. The ADVENT Coalition is humanity's future; embrace it!
>>45377885
Fuck off Angelis. You ruined a good thing with your avatar shit.
>>45378022
Your ideas, your notions, your prejudices are old and outdated. The Elders have brought us out of darkness into light, we owe them everything and yet they ask so very little. Listen to The Speaker, citizen, he speaks the truth that those stuck in old ways of thinking refuse to see.
>>45378086
If I listen will I get a codex girlfriend?
>>45378100
All those who voluntarily come to ADVENT gene therapy clinics get their choice of ayy waifus.
>>45378086
>>45378100
>>45378120
This is why XCOM was betrayed.
>>45378086
>The Speaker
You mean King Bootlicker? Fuck off with your ayy lies.
>>45378086
>those uggo civilians
Does everyone get nigger lips in your new world? If yes, I'd rather sign up with XCOM
>>45378142
It's sad that even after two decades of peace and prosperity you still hold onto your vile racist, speciesist views. You will not destroy all the great things the Elders have given us, all the advances we have made together, there is no longer a singular human or alien civilization, there is only the ADVENT Coalition; striving forward together.ayy lmao
>>45378174
You have something against a girl with DSLs? Wow, I always knew XCOM was just about terrorists yelling 'humanity fuck yeah!' while railing eacother's asses.
>>45378086
>>45378195
All you had to do was not abduct and process people to create Avatars in such an inhumane method and you would've been in the right.
It's rather telling that despite all of your glorious technology you remained unable to manufacture genetic material from its base componets and insisted on melting down the good folk. How exactly do you plan on defeating those who devour all with a handful of rave rejects again? 7 billion fighters is far better than a few thousand.
Why didn't you listen to the Uber?
>>45377806
You do know she had a volcano lair in the tie-in book, right?
>>45378240
>How exactly do you plan on defeating those who devour all with a handful of rave rejects again?
We defeated all of the armies of your planet as well as a specialized alien hunting organization with an army of three foot tall greys and snekmen in cheap suits.
>>45378195
>>45378120
>>45378086
Those loading screens are so creepy, I love 'em
>>45378287
Creepy? Why? All they show is the glorious ADVENT troopers protecting our freedom. Do you have something against freedom?
>>45378286
Actually you spammed Sectopods to do that, and given your technological edge it's not surprising, honestly.We still managed to reverse engineer all of your shit in a couple of months, so your sectoid Engineers need to get it together if you ask me.
>>45376881
Yes.
>VIP rescue and extraction mission
>Sneak through the city without getting spotted
>Reach the armored car, escort of 6 advent and 3 ayys
>Ambush goes well, kill 4 Advent first turn, start mopping up
>Kill 4 more without getting damaged, only 1 snek left
>Snek fires at a soldier hiding behind a car
>Misses, hits car
>Car explodes, causes chain reaction that detonates the armored car, all in the enemy's turn
>VIP dead, couldn't do a single thing about it
I was so mad that I reloaded into the geoscape, just so I could get a different randomly generated rescue mission.
>the new Sector odd
A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR
>>45376989
im 100% sure theres already a working Alien Allies mod, although it isnt really fleshed out and seems a bit buggy.
but yes, you can get your snek...
>>45378316
>We still managed to reverse engineer all of your shit in a couple of months
Yeah, you didn't have anything to do with that. We reverse-engineered it first, decades before the invasion.
>>45378367
Fuck off eggsalt, they fucking gave you the tech, and you didn't exactly survive the invasion anyway. At least XCOM fought back instead of just sucking off the ayys dicks.
>>45378367
and you still couldn't get past laser weapons
>>45378367
>implying EXALT- hell, all of EU, EW, and maybe even Long War- wasn't part of the simulation the ayys had the Commander running for 20 years.
Hell, you can even equip your dudes with Exalt's striped cloth.
>>45378404
Fuck you XCOM, we got FIRST PICK of sneks. Also, ADVENT made anime real. What do you have to offer even if you win? Back to life as a shitty planet filled with fighting nations and pollution?
>>45378423
>equip with EXALT's striped cloth
>not revealing EXALT operatives within XCOM
Okay.
Could someone give the me the basic rundown of the xcom universe and stuff.
I played and finished xcom EU and im currently playing the bureau declassified, i really want xcom 2 but im poor.
>>45378447
>step one
STOP PLAYING THE BUREAU
>>45378536
Yeh its pretty shit but i got it with a bundle
>do second blacksite mission, after examining the vial
>first mission with andromedons and Sectopods
>mind control Andromedon and hack Sectopod
>more or less steamroll the entire map
Bulldozing through buildingsis hilarious
>>45378447
Save your pennies, commander.
It's hell, but it's worth it.
>>45378262
>Vahlen had a supervillain lair
Best girl.
How would a colonel rank team with endgame equipment last in 40k?
>>45378447
>>45378604
Get Long War, feel no guilt about savescumming to your hearts content.
I'm quite liking Long War desu, though I have to play it on max-easy settings to avoid the insane bullshit.don't fall behind in the air game, just don't.
>>45378656
How much is it on steam?
Is enemy unkown a good representation of other xcom games?
Is Apocalypse worth playing?
>>45378305
You guys broke into my apartment complex, beat my neighbor to death to took my wife.
Fuck off.
I'm helping X-COM build a device that sets alien blood on fire.
>>45378728
Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within are like, ~$10 on steam or something. Long War is a mod for Enemy Within.
If you want REALLY cheap, grab XCOM original and the openxcom overhaul. But I assume you're talking about the reboots.
I just moved from normal difficulty up and man am I in for some pain and humiliation. Can you believe it? Flanking actually matters! Conventional weapon sucks and tfw no snipers with squadsight.
>>45378731
I'd say yes. Annihilator is not as sexy as (old) avenger, but it's still a fun game.
>>45378767
Cool i should be able to get it.
I also learned not to get attached to your squad.
It hurt when my sniper died.
>>45376619
Post more snek
>>45378342
I actually just had a Warden-suited ranger sword kill a Sectopod. RULES OF NATURE feels good.
When I finish the game, it shows my statistics compared to the world. Why is my score several orders of magnitude lower?
>>45378799
Good snipers are valuable, but why are they in position to get killed to begin with?
>>45376600
For aliens perhaps?
send separate messages to aliens than what they give the humans?
Or maybe the language in broadcasts is a sort of human friendly cipher?
Or maybe its just aesthetic.
>>45378842
I hadnt checked the flank and a muton berserker came out of the blue and tore him up.
RIP Col. Braun
Your service is remembered
>>45378425
I always knew egg salt was into vore.
>>45378748
Your neighbor was giving information to terrorists, citizen. Also, your wife had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and we immediately took her to the local gene therapy clinic to cure her, because ADVENT technology has eliminated all the horrible diseases that ravaged mankind before the coming of the Elders.
But please, continue working for those who want only to drag you back into the darkness where you can hate and kill one another while you slowly die from disease or the poisoning of your own ecosystem.
>>45378874
Jackblack.exe
>>45378876
My neighbor was an 80 year old woman who made clay pots for a living and according to our last visit to one of your oh so helpful gene clinics, my wife was the picture of health
Oh, and that chemical that sets alien blood on fire?
It works fucking perfectly.
>>45376576
>>45376600
And why are they trying to decrypt alien communications if they can't read them once they finish?
Plus I've only ever heard the Advent troopers speaking it, so unless they also speak English or whatever they'd have a tough time with civillians.
>>45378870
This is what Archangel armour is for.
>>45376475
I usually see ADVENT in all caps like it's some kind of acronym, but what does it stand for?
Assholes Deploying Very Excellent New Technology?
>>45378970
He was in ghost armour.
>>45378965
I could've sworn I heard the advent officer yelling stuff like " It's an ambush" and " Don't get cocky".
>>45378731
Speaking of Apocalypse, does anyone have that gif with X-COM troopers with disruptor cannons laying waste to some gangster slums?
>>45378929
Which alien's blood?
I mean, you know there's more than one species of them, right?
>>45376475
Playing this mission the second time around is a cakewalk
Just move half distance and overwatch, keeping a ranger with Bladestorm at the front
>>45379095
snek blood
>>45379095
All of them
>>45379123
Wouldn't any chemical that could do that also work on human blood, and for that matter probably most things in general?
What's the name of your best character, /tg/?
>Corporal Shambles "Spider" Kelly, Ranger.
>>45379167
My best character is one I've brought in from EW already
Colonel Alessia "Solo" Costa is the deadliest sonuvabitch with a sniper rifle.
>that feel when you gas grenade an entire pod with your Volatile Mix perk Grenadier
GAS THE AYYS RACE WAR NOW
>>45379167
wait,
that name sounds familiar
> its the name of one of my soldiers from my most recent EW playthroughs
well i guess it makes sense for them to copy paste the random names list...
>>45378876
Fuck you you fucking drone
You shit heads took my dog
>>45379167
> Col. Britt 'lights out' johanssen
Swedish heavy with full psionic powers.
Died taking out the temple ship.
RIP you sexy beast
>>45377629
Devs spent all their time making snek art
Friendly reminder the gene clinics are just a screening process to see if your useful for melting down Into Nickelodeon gack
>>45377808
As a bio major, I absolutely lothe the fixation on having the "right" DNA
Have these fuckers never heard of GMO?
>>45379360
>The AVATAR project is just their attempt at solving the gack shortage crisis in the galaxy
>>45379167
Colonel James "007" Bond, the crazy fucking ranger. Gets to boast he ran up to sectopods, archons and gatekeepers just to stab them.
>>45379005
At some point in the Dev cycle, it probably was called that
>>45379380
They tried but never got exactly what they needed.
>>45379022
I think Advent speech is basically Early Mortal Kombat speech, ie normal English speed up or altered so it sounds foreign
>>45379146
I guess he erred on the side of caution.
>>45378767
>Checkmate
how fitting
>>45379431
I believe it is. They even speak it to civilians
>>45376475
Now let's be honest, if the aliens had limited their genocide to a few regions like Africa and the Middle east it would've been a win win for everyone
>>45379466
Go home /pol/
Also, who names these missions?
I assume it's an RNG with 2 lists, one for first word one for second word, but between this and the mission called "Cosmic Misery" I got on my first run, I'm not certain Bradford isn't just taking the piss
>>45379466
Yeah, but then the etherials would be making avatars solely out of jungle bunnies and rag heads.
>>45379505
Go easy on central, commander; this is the only fun he has anymore.
>>45379505
I had a "Morbid Mountain" once, funnily it was a very lethal mission for me.
>>45379505
fuck the name, that guy on the far right looks like he snorted a kilo of Meld
>>45379524
Fair enough, but please don't lower Squad Morale even MORE just from the mission names
>>45379589
Nobody said it's your misery.
>>45379570
>>45379589
>cosmic misery
>space misery
>ayys are from space
>misery for the ayys
>>45379589
>>45379505
Lets make up good Operation names:
Cold Suicide
Burning Sepukku
Hope-Breaker
Dream-Breaker
Sun-Breaker
Dismal Dawn
Space Grave
Icequake
Sky Kracker
Sin Eater
Dismal Hate
Horror Hall
Forbidden Call
> VIP "kill or capture" mission.
> Start in lower right corner of an urban map.
> First, move my ranger full disance along the right map edge.
> VIP sighted, standing rigth at a crossroads, next to a car, guarded by a snek and ADVENT troops.
> Sniper squadsight: ~20% chance to hit. Letsdothis.jpg
> CRIT! 10 damage
> Central: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, EXTRACT THE TEAM.
>>45379167
Colonel "Rhino" Gou
A crazy chinese with a shotgun. Almost soloed Site Recon thanks to close combat specialist. Became the volunteer and killed the uber ethereal with feedback damage when he tried to mind control him.
>>45376576
let's face anon...../tg/ has pretty much become /v/
/tg/ has also become /k/
>>45379795
/tg/ is every board
>>45379760
What is the reward difference between kill and capture?
I've always captured
>>45376867
damnit rule 34....why do you always give me the weirdest boners
>>45379821
No intel on a kill
>>45379167
Colonel Axel "Axel" Axel is the deadliest guy I have. Explosives focused Grenadier with maximum grenades and rocket.
On the other end of the scale, Major Esteban "Mailman" Hicola is hilariously lethal with a beam pistol. And he looks ridiculous to boot.
>>45377696
I actually despise snekfags, waifufags in general ruin the communities around games and courage developers to sacrifice gameplay in exchange for waifus.
Now snekfags are trying to do that with xcom. I mad.
>doing a train loot mission
>fuck up and trigger an archon at the end of my turn
>archon starts up blazing pinions, nowhere to go
>specialist makes it to the box just in time to defuse it
>four ayys left
>sniper realizes this is his moment
>lightning hands+basic attack the archon
>faceoff
>kill all four ayys, mission ends before pinions land
That mission was some shit in general
>>45379889
>And he looks ridiculous to boot.
Screenshot?
>>45379895
>(en)courage developers to sacrifice gameplay in exchange for waifus.
> now snekfags are trying to do that with Xcom
> XCom
> a strategy game about aliens invading the earth and youre the commander of a militia force to try and get them off our rock
> will be made into waifu game because some people are Xenophiles and/or playing into a joke
alright den m8i
>>45380010
It happened to Dragon Age and Mass Effect
And actually acceptable fantasy game, and a pretty neat sci-fi game degenerated mostly through ever increasing waifu-ism at the cost of everything else
>>45380045
I don't think romance options is what brought it down.
>>45379032
How long until openxcom gets a realtime mode?
>>45379895
>getting this bootyblasted over a harmless joke
>>45380062
OG Dragon Age was marketed with Dragons
Every DA after was marketed with waifus and husbandos
>>45376811
>>45376637
>>45376775
I definitely remember him directly stating both a line where they aren't sapient, and also one where they are highly intelligent and self-aware. Can't make up his mind on the snek.
>>45376867
I didn't find the snek nearly as sexy as expected. I was relieved to find a boner inducing internet ghost in consolation though.
>>45379380
I do plenty of gene research and while it was a little soft, it wasn't so bad.
Basically, the ethereals needed to create a body that was simultaneously:
- Similar enough to the ethereals to allow an ethereal's psychic presence to continue sustaining itself after it takes up residence
- Physically robust enough to not fucking wither and explode under the prolonged strain of hosting an ethereal psychic presence
- Dissimilar enough from the ethereals genetically to not suffer from the wasting disease.
The end result of this selection process was that they needed a species which natively had psychic potential because while they could make shit psychic by putting all their psyker genes in it, that just gave it the wasting disease. It also needed to be physically and mentally robust, ruling out the sectoids, who were frail and feeble minded despite their psychic powers, and even with, or indeed BECAUSE of their human DNA powered enhancements still somewhat unstable.
The avatar project was to use millions of redundant human gene sequences to create a robust scaffold that absolutely wouldn't say, stop producing haemoglobin under intense psychic strain, and then put just the tiniest amount of ethereal DNA in to make the ole spaceghosts feel at home.
>>45380115
Thank you.
>>45377696
>engaging at close range
RANGER DUN GIVE A SHIT
Would you cuddle a snayyk?
>>45380146
now i havent played DA, but i dont even remotely See mass effect getting so called "waifu syndrome". sure, new romance options were opened up, but thats the nature of a game series that suddenly got more popular in general, the alien romance options were jsut there for the reason of extra game content.
>>45380045
that might have been because bioware games were some of the only mainstream RPG's with reasonable well done *(for the most part) romance options (i dont really consider the fallout games as being well known for this). and ive seen the trailers and promo material for the DA games, and the extra "waifus and husbandos" are just features, not the main attractions. also the playing up of the "romance options of all sexes and races" is probably bioware doign that thing they like to do, you know, the progressive agenda thing.
perhaps you see it this way because thats the way this site tends to talk about such things, but cmon anon...
>>45380270
Because I would cuddle a snayyk
>>45376475
XCOM IS DEAD
>>45379921
It's pretty obvious which one is him.
>>>45373793
Wait, these are actual recruit backgrounds?
>>45380270
Purge the xenos.
>>45380146
>OG Dragon Age was marketed with Dragons
I somewhat doubt it considering how few there are. But I wasn't there.
>>45380045
>It happened to Dragon Age and Mass Effect
Give an example of it happening to a non-Bioware game.
>>45380313
>posting monster girls
>instead of girl aliens
>>45380301
Default rookies have bio but apparently it's fucked, because it all reads like they were fighting or working during initial invasion 20 years ago while being like 8 years old.
>>45380354
>while being like 8 years old
I don't see the problem with children contributing to the cause.
>>45378335
I never hide behind cars if near something delicate or expecting heavy fire. That's what you could've done.
>Arumba is playing ECHsCUM
Oh boy, this will be fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Npp8FCM44
>>45380354
I will just headcanon it that all the rookies are 40-year-old+ Traveller style. We'll see who gets to survive to cash in their pensions.
>>45380151
>I do plenty of gene research and while it was a little soft, it wasn't so bad.
I work for Monsanto and it was painful. Again, all those traits could have been spliced in.
>>45380354
Apparently if you find and recruit Bradford, his bio has him at about 9 years old during EU/EW. Birthdates are fucked.
>>45379738
Operation War Slap
Operation Secret Whale
War Slap was piss easy, but I lost a guy on Secret Whale
>>45380416
>I work for Monsanto
Are they actually evil or is it just a load of hippy fearmongering?
>>45380346
Just take a look at Fire Emblem. Or don't.
>>45380354
Hmm? The only bios of my soldiers I've actually read were:
A german rumored to have escaped from murderer-prison
Someone who's family all got killed and he swore revenge
>>45380439
They're bitches with overtime. In 09 there was a memo that went something like "due to market turbulence, we are expecting everyone to work at least 50 hours a week." We were comped with bonuses, but not overtime pay
Then again, I get to spend a lot of time goofing around waiting for other people to get off their asses
>>45380439
Not that anon, but you gotta admit, the intersection of GMO and Laissez-Faire capitalism is a little scary. Even plausible stuff like terminator seeds could really screw over a lot of people
>>45380485
Sounds like fun desu senpai. Is it true that the Monsanto execs have specially designed intelligent plants as assistants?
>>45380510
Yeah but SCIENCE
"This burger doesn't taste good"
LET'S SCIENCE IT UP
NEW COWS THAT SHIT CHOCOLATE AND TASTE LIKE CAVIER
>>45380557
>implying that you can't do science with at least some regulation
Economical vat-grown meat when.
>>45380557
Does Caviar even taste good? I was under the impression rich people just ate whatever was expensive
>>45380572
When it doesn't taste like ass
I've eaten NuMeat, it has the texture of mush
>>45380638
>I've eaten NuMeat, it has the texture of mush
So it will make a great ground-beef substitute
>>45376475
Fuck Thin Men, meanwhile Vipers are a joke if you have a sword ranger on your team. Bladestorm procs even if they grapple you and causes a graphical bug quite often for me, where the ranger is stuck in the grapple animation for the rest of the mission.
Billion dollar idea
Dog squad member
>>45380301
Yeah Recruits have biographies now, like a short, paragraph long thing. Dates are fucked but its absolutely hilarious when you make your groups Rogue Trader characters, and the Magos ended up going GTA batshit on the Xenos and the Rogue Trader broke out of a maximum security prison during the invasion, with the OTHER Rogue Trader being some sort of serial killer (Surprisingly accurate).
>>45380786
>date of birth, July 9th, 2009
>John Joe is know as a hero in the United States for his effort DURING the invasion
Start when they are young, I guess
https://answergarden.ch/259924
>>45380631
It does and they do.
Caviar used to be the go-to beer snack for the working class. But over-fishing drove the sturgeon very close to extinction and the price went up.
>>45380911
>beer snack
So did they still use the silver spoons, or was it a finger food?
>>45380720
We really are Diamond Dogs.
>>45376475
Best XCOM game is XCOM 2, mainly because of my hype and the potential it has moving forward.
Worst XCOM game is 2, mainly because of the hype around it and the current state it's in.
My best XCOM story is how a lone colonel heavy got stuck in midair on a Facility Raid mission in XCOM 2, and managed to kill 2 reinforcement waves all on her own before I had to restart the entire mission.
Thin Men aren't too bad in my opinion, Vipers are only annoying when they use their tongues to pull you onto higher or lower floors, otherwise they're rather squishy.
there might be a faceless posting here
>>45381183
Grenadier bears.
>>45381315They're on to me!
>>45376475
>>Best XCOM game? Why?
Xenonauts. Because it refines the original while preserving what the game was about. Second place XCOM2, for actually taking the concept forward and expanding on the potential of the previous title's design.
>>Worst XCOM game? Why?
TFDT due to it being a reskin with 20% more dick. Also biodrones.
>>What's your best XCOM story?
Let's go with the shortest, but still amusing. Which is the eternal MVP, Citizen Tonk single handedly breaking the final mission in Xenonauts by killing the high praetor from starting position on turn two.
>>How much do you hate Thin Men/Vipers?
I don't. I rather like both, to be fair.
>>45380427
How DO you recruit Bradford?
>>45381480
import character pools.
It's kinda nonsense though, since real central will still come calling over the communicator, so it's more like having his identical twin in the squad.
>>45381751
>not having your entire roster filled with Bradford clones
I need to figure out how to make this happen.
>>45381299
Thin men are definitely worse, because enemies in 2 don't get a close range aim bonus, vipers like to tongue and poison if they can, and don't come in packs of 23.
It's actually GOOD if a viper binds you, because that soldier isn't gonna get shot this turn, with a free flank shot if you free him with say a grenade or shock.
>>45380572
Shmeat exists already it just has terrible texture and flavour
(I'm assuming the initial blacksite building is always the same as it contains plot-relevant item and animation, so you know the layout.)
> Taking on the first blacksite mission
> Finishing up, team is inside the building.
> Since ALIEN ACTIVITY is not just a quick flash, there must be at least one xray pod still somewhere on the map.
> Move towards target item across the water, everyone on overwatch.
> Suddenly, sniper camping at the entrance side of the building spots something `!´
> Overwatch shot! A snek is grazed!
> A pod of two sectoids and a snek on the roof, behind the giant window. They activate.
> Suddenly, breaking glass as the sectoids rush in.
> Long slo-mo cinematic of falling glass, jumping sectoids and bullet trails as everyone fires at them.
> Two dead sectoids splat into water in front of the team, the snek never even made it off the roof.
> Me: XRAYS ELIMINATED!
>>45381751
so it becomes xcom gear solid V the phantom commander?
>>45381467
>Xenonauts. Because it refines the original while preserving what the game was about
As I've heard someone describe it, Xenonauts managed to end up with practically zero character to it for all its attempting to preserve the original feel.
>>45380288
>ME
>shoehorned gay romance options
I will never be not mad about it
>>45382427
The gay shit is just personal taste, not gonna harm anyone, the story's lack of consistence and the ending are the real problem. I don't give a shit if you wanna add faggots to your game as long as it plays well and the story is nice, ya get me? But if you don't fill those two don't come pretend like these "features" make up for it.
>>45379505
There is a 1 in 500 chance that the second word for op names will be chicken because someone at Firaxis wanted it.
All right mates, give it to me straight.
Why are most of the new Ayy designs sexy?
Why do vipers have tits and Codex's are womanly shaped and the new Floaters look like strong buff hotties?
>>45383197
Because the goal is to make humans accept aliens ruling over them, which (as you can no doubt tell) is a lot easier when you find them attractive.
I had a RAD idea for a mod.
Like maybe a mini or tiny campaign where you control ADVENT soldiers and low-ranked aliens to try and boot down the resistance.
Could be kinda easy since controlling ayys are already in the game and i could give the human enemies basic ADVENT soldier AI if that makes sense.
Could it possibly work?
>>45383197
>why do vipers have tits
Okay the game actually does explain this one
They aren't snake tits, they'e venom sacs.
>>45381318
>they only come from Russia.
>>45383312
Eh, part of me thinks those venon sacks were put there on purpose to look like tits to make them more appealing
>>45383197
>not mentioning those tight pectoid glutes
>not mentioning those brawny bara mutons
>nor mentioning the beautiful hair and femboi figure of the avatars
>>45382531
That's the point, they felt terribly out of place, as if they put all of their work into writing a gay romance option and somehow forgot to end the game because of it. And the gay romance was still so cardboardy and stereotypical it isn't even funny.
>>45383357
Obviously, what are you, retarded?
That said, why in gods name does anyone care?
>>45383377
Honestly the Andromedons and Faceless are the only ayys in this game I don't see people wanting to fuck
And the Gatekeepers but those barely count
>>45383197
So the humans feel more comfortable about the aayys.
Look at the original aayys in EU/EW
They were fucking ugly.
Now they are so much more... refined. I guess the word would be.
>>45383377
I love the idea of the aliens loving out body types and thus wanting to mimic it.
>>45383407
>Faceless not being your slimegirl waifu
IS THIS NOT WHAT YOU WANTED?
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
>>45383407
>nor wanting to brainfuck a gatekeeper's cerebral spiracles while it caresses you with its tentacles
>>45383407
Gate keeper is there for tentacle fags
>>45376733
>>45376781
Swordsmens = Charcoal
Sniperguys = Olive green
Boom-Chuckers = Dark blue
Healy Nerds = Off-white
Weird Boys = Purplish red
Rookies = HOT PINK -cannon fodder gotta EARN their colors.
I'm prepared to sacrifice wave after wave of flamingos.
>>45383407
>andromadon
Robophiles and gasfags
>>45383448
Andromedons are ugly little shriveled guys inside those suits and die as soon as their glass breaks and I don't think that really hits anyone's niche
>>45376733
I started out with everyone in green with tan secondary, with all sgt and above getting the sweater because fuck yeah sweater. Once I upgraded armors and sweater was no longer an option, I still kept everyone in the same colors. My first Psiop was where I started adding some customization to guys, and eventually my entire A-team got their own colors.
>>45383497
Midgetfags
Cripplefags
Mexican Sugar Dancing
>>45376733
Most of my guys get MARPAT or M90, urban pattern. My rangers get flecktarn t-shirts (by sheer coincidence all of my RPG characters that I made became rangers, and flecktarn is my thing). Specialists get red M90. My only psi kicked the bucket before I actually remembered to customize. I only have one sharpshooter, he wears yellow Finnish M05.
>>45383407
>And the Gatekeepers but those barely count
Ball is for cute, not lewd.
>>45377058
Really? Whoa, that's kinda freaky I thought killing Civvies would have resulted in less supply or something. So I never really actually shot things where civvies would get hit. Not to mention that some of those civives are freaking faceless, what the hell is the point of them anyway? Are they the new bugs? Cuz I haven't found yet in my game, getting nervous really.
>>45383653
Nope, chrysalids are still in. And worse.
>>45383351
Lies. That bear is a decorated Polish soldier and died peacefully in his sleep in his retirement home in UK.
>>45383780
>UK
But he died in Ireland, not England.
>>45383816
I thought it was actually Scotland
>>45383859
Pretty sure it was Wales
>>45383890
I'm pretty sure that he was a decorated UK soldier, then died in a retirement home in Poland.
>>45383780
>>45383816
>>45383859
>>45383890
None of those are how you spell "Isle of Man", I'm not even sure how you pulled that off.
>>45383935
I think it was Jersey, actually.
>>45383929
He was actually an American bear on loan to Poland before dieing in England during the English-Polish war of 1750
>>45384001
He was actually an English bear on loan to Poland before dieing in America during the Polish-American war of 1570
>>45383407
Faceless are literally zoidberg
So uh, ADVENT soldiers. So they're not loyal humans upgraded by their ayy overlords?
>>45384044
nope!
>>45384044
The source of Advent soldiers is revealed late game
