39 days away.
In a recent thread someone made a cool suggestion.
>>Start a new game of XCOM:EU/EW
>>Chose ironman + Impossible
>>Play as best you can until you get game over.
>>Take note of the last surviving members of your team
>>Recreate them in XCOM 2 as veterans who stuck by Bradford
>>321699781
He doesn't play Long War.
>not knowing you have to replay the first missions until they go perfectly if you want to play ironman impossible
>>321699970
>replay the first missions
fucking kek, ever heard of zemalf?
>>321699916
Yes i did. What's that have to do with anything?
Hyped as fuck to make a rag tag crew of terrorist space cowboys.
>>321699970
That fucking pissed me off. Especially if some ayy lmaos get a few lucky shots at the beginning.
>>321701476
Yeah i got lucky on the 2nd go and im up to my 3rd mission now.
Im still triggered that you cant have more than 6 man squads.
All I want is 8 man squads!
And long war BS will just bring back 12 man squads.
8 is such a perfect number. Still a small and manageable squad, but you have numbers to pull off more tactics, and losing someone doesnt feel as harsh, and you have room to always bring a rookie even on important missions.
I think I'm gonna pull the trigger and buy XCOM on steam, never played the series before. Any beginner tips?
>>321702068
Apparently the devs played around with squad numbers of 8 and 10 but felt 6 still felt the best. I do agree with you i prefer a team of 8, thankfully if modding is as easy as they are claiming it will be i'll just make a 8 team mod.
>>321702301
I dunno, if you play on normal and/or savescum it's easy-peasy. The only tip I can give to the modern gamers is to play the original X-COM/UFO and Terror from the Deep. Download Open X-COM for maximum compatibility.
>>321702363
Yeah but the game is still built a bit around 6 man squads. Which makes it not that big of a deal, but still personally less fun.
You would need to change alot of shit to make higher squad numbers okay.
>>321699970
no, the biggest problem is the steam placement, you pretty much have to restart the game if you have steam under the satellites uplinks
Death to ayy lmaos
The Commander is god and Bradford is his Prophet
Vigilo Confido
Vigilo Confido
Vigilo Confido
>>321702301
EW doesn't work on steam right now. Support refuses to answer why
is impossible really that much different from classic or is it just a lot of bullshit
>>321699781
mods
wonderful game changing mods
>mfw 40K
>mfw Stargate
>mfw Mass Effect
>mfw all the possibilites
>>321703676
>First mod
>Suicide bombers.
>>321703656
Stats wise, classic puts XCOM soldiers and ayys at about the same level, which you could say is how it's "meant to be played".
Impossible bumps the ayys stats up to near bullshit levels + makes the strategy part of the game more challenging, and is meant for when you figure out how to consistently exploit the enemy's AI.
>>321703656
Impossible makes some bullshit decisions like lets some AYYLMAOS tank sniper shots.
>>321703656
Yeah the x rays have 4 health bars so you can't just drop frags on them for the first month. Oh and you lose four countries a month to panic. All you have to do is destroy the first two months and have perfect macro and its like your playing easy afterwards.
I was just playing it and managed to drop four satellites the first month, three the second, and rushed the alien base the third to lower every ones panic by one, all with only one death and one country drop out total. Normally I lose three countries the first month and 5 of my best men. You only need satellites and exp to win
>>321699916
I like Long War, I really do, but every time I play it I really miss Warspace Extension.
>>321699781
pass the controler bro
>>321703942
>You can level half a building and any but the toughest ayys but your soldier dies
>>321703676
ISIS mod when?
>>321704747
get that foundation off your hands first.
Beat iron man impossible twice. First time I lost 8 soldiers and the second time I lost 2.
Took me like 60 tries to get a good start. Steam placements are a bitch and you need good mission timings. You need 4 satellites to cover the 4 panic countries from the 2 abduction missions. You need a generator and a workshop so youre selling everything. Oh and forget it if you get a bomb disposal mission in March.
>>321703487
wot? Do you mean LW? Because I just fired up EW and it works fine.
>>321705794
You also need weapon fragments and lasers by April becacuse thinmen and floaters don't Fuck around. You will get a landed ufo and a terror mission in April. You have to rush carapace immediately after lasers.
There are many strategies but these things have to go perfect for the satellite rush strategy that I use because I don't like losing countries so I didn't lose any on those 2campaigns. I've tried rushing xenobio for base rush start but it didn't work out and I squad wiped on the base when 8 crysallids rushed me and I just had ballistic weapons.
Somebody post the fall damage webms
>>321700174
Well, he actually did get extremely lucky all throughout the series both in terms of combat and misc stuff like well timed council missions, so he didn't need to restart.
>>321700871
XCOM ACKBAR
>>321699781
that'd be fun if i could make it through the first fucking mission without getting completely wiped
>>321706727
I seriously hope you are playing Long War on impossible or something, otherwise you really need to fucking git gud.
>>321706270
Floaters are still only one rocket hit to kill, stay grouped, and are fans of only moving when you fall back. Thin men aren't even a problem as long as you avoid the progeny dlc mission
Also I had the same crysallid rush and did fine with 4X assault double tapping them. It was more of 2 groups of four 1 turn apart than one 8 group rush
>>321699781
Well i started this a few hours ago, still going well. Countries aren't freaking out yet, science team going well, lost a few team members so far.
>>321703487
I thought it was just me, weird
>>321705859
EW isn't working for a number of people that bought it on sale
Did anyone actually enjoy playing Apocalypse?
>>321703676
>tfw all ambitious mods get abandoned and nothing really worthwhile ends up getting created until 2026
>>321708096
What the fuck is even happening there?
>>321708338
plasma weaponry being fired at a building on live action mode instead of turn based
the building collapses and dudes inside die
>>321699781
>39 days away
wait what, isn't it out in February?
>>321708397
>live action mode
How horrifying.
>>321708409
January starts next week.
>>321708605
oh fug, time flies
>30 something days till SMT Final and XCOM2
noice
>>321707812
>>321707897
Working fine for me, playing it atm
>>321708125
>mfw there will never be a FFX mod dealing with the war between Zanarkand and Beville
>>321708096
Until it collapses into a pile of tedium, yes.
>>321700174
who?
>>321711284
"best xcom player in the world" Im inclined to agree since he beat ironman impossible without losing a single man, country or interceptor. Pretty ballsy
>>321711470
you're telling me beagle isn't the best player? my virgin ears can't handle this
>>321711601
No idea who he is. Had to look him up.
Can't wait for NL's LP
>>321711470
I have suspicions that he cheated. His chances were like less than 1% to do all that .
just missed a 93% shot from higher elevation
wew lad. I don't even care
>>321699781
>$75
lol no
>>321714512
He did livestream the whole thing, took 50+hours. I didnt watch it, maybe he's super good? I know he got lucky a billion times though.
>>321714735
I just missed a 2tile 96%. feels good man
>>321715250
Here we go again.
>>get a job
>>look around its as low as $30-$40 on some sites
>>$60 on steam $75 is for the deluxe edition.
>>fuck off poorfag/"moral"fag
>like xcom
>excited for xcom 2
>worried that computer won't be able to run it and I'll be stuck playing EW/LW until I can afford to upgrade
here's hoping it can run on toasters
>>321715675
>>CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHZ or AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHZ
>>GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 or ATI Radeon HD 5870
>>RAM: 6 GB RAM
You should be fine, if you have worse than this, what the fuck are you doing with your life?
Well my game was going well, until thinmen raped my whole team. PTSD kicking in
>>321699781
I really want the game but holy hell that price tag.
>>321717248
CDkeys has it for like $43aud im sure that cheap as fuck for the rest of the world
>>321717792
$31 USD
>>321716045
Personally, I'm trying to use my laptop as an actual toaster because the fan shat itself months ago.
>>321717932
Oh, that sucks man. I know you can make an average PC in aus for chicken scratch.
