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XCOM GENERAL (full information, all links):
>http://pastebin.com/Rd2nfr3n
Retaliation Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryOfZv0JjIg
Beagle's First Two Missions Gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9vG-N0ILB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT_0gsOmsQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X1Tfx_TM38
60 Minute Gameplay Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwHPhQXavPA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vblW65PQ9vY
Misc Videos (¡¡NEW!!):
https://youtu.be/HVw-QOU06WU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-cSh3aPDPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqHWR_J7VU
Other Articles:
>https://xcom.com/news/en-the-aesthetic-of-domination-the-look-of-advent-and-the-archon-in-xcom-2
>http://www.pcgamesn.com/xcom-2/xcom-2-declassified-firaxis-on-the-risky-shot-theyre-taking-with-a-new-strategy-layer
>https://xcom.com/news/en-dont-get-in-the-andromedons-way-in-xcom-2
>https://xcom.com/news/en-the-environments-of-xcom-2-wilderness
Long War download link:
>http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/88/
Wiki:
>http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Long_War
/xcg/'s Long War FAQ (new players read this shit):
>http://pastebin.com/YmaXBKpN
New Modlist:
>http://pastebin.com/4Hdthmpi
Dreadnought MEC Trooper voicepack:
>http://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/31wn6m/
Extra perks to add for Training Roulette:
>http://pastebin.com/cUjBbaFM
hugely detailed spreadsheet:
>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13CvoSAyapnC2p9a_r9SV5cTA2r3G9UqtsAazTg2_be4/edit#gid=970853268
Namelist generator:
>http://daiz.io/xcom-namegen/
MGS-themed codename list:
>https://www.dropbox.com/s/plfug9tz86zp56s/DefaultNameList%20(code%20names%20b15).ini?dl=0
Alternate in-game text .inis (AYY LMAO):
>b15f : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19805654/ayylmao.7z
/xcg/ Operation Name Generator 0.1 (doesn't take effect until you get a new mission):
>http://pastebin.com/i9KbDkF2
Memes will kill your dog.
Ayy lamo.
>>Aliens firendly fire.
>>Friendly fire on the Dog.
There is balance in the system.
>>125473995
Well beagle said he never misses
>>125473862
The scout tank is a modded thing, in the unmodded game losing proper tanks is a lot more expensive and it's not usually worth it to bring them.
>>125474867
Seems like a useless item.
FREE MONEY_?_
>>125474975
l o l
o l o
l o l
>>125474975
Depends on the stats.
>>125474975
Reducing their aim could be beneficial.
>>125475196
Apparently you can produce alloys and sell them for more money than it costs to make them
>>125474975
On-hit acid sounds pretty nice, assuming it has a decent activation rate.
Speed modeling: tactical dog strafe mod
>>125475568
Beautiful
>>125475402
Yep, not much else sells for good profit in FMP that doesn't cost elerium.
B R E A K
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anybody got the picture of the XCOM 2 soldier alone in the Skyranger holding his head after a squad wipe
>>125474867
>>125474975
Useful for tyranids.
>>125476080
oh man, 40k is so ebin. humanity fuck yearh lol
>>125474975
if it has the aim-reducing effect its a decent thing to have on one guy
>>125476141
you get really passive aggressive around this time of the month anon
>>125476350
>aim-reducing effec
it won't
reminder that poison only caused hp loss in EU and even in EW, only the special grenades had the aim loss
>>125476350
>>125476452
It probably won't, but I think we can expect mods with it.
>>125476558
>mods will fix it!
>>>/vg/fog/
Xth for GOFD
>>125476680
>mods will tailor the game to my individual preferences
Fixed
so how exactly was I supposed to avoid this fire
>>125476080
Man what i wouldn't give for a voice pack that gives my troops Dawn of War replies. I already got the dreadnought for mechs, but a Commissar, Priest, Guardsmen, Krasrkin, heck even a Psyker would be fun.
>>125477137
not sitting in half cover like an idiot
>>125475568
Were you the guy posting it in stream or was that just some fucker stealing your shine?
>>125476680
>adding an item that doesn't even exist and doesn't need to exist
>fixing it
pick one
Is Daiz trying to ruin XCOM too?
>>125477137
A) Kill the ayy before it can shoot
B) Break LOS
C)>>125477197
>>125475568
What's the deal with this?
>>125477197
>>125477362
taking bait like a zoo chimp
>>125477457
i don't understand
>>125477457
I can't help it, it's delicious.
>>125477363
Beagle wants tactical dog for xcom 2 that can strafe.
If you were watching the stream openxcom has attack dogs and you can strafe move with them. Used it for a ufo breach .
>>125477197
there is literally no full cover on that map within a turn or two of the skyranger. that 24h sign is the only piece and it's at least two turns away from start, would have activated more dudes, and only fits one soldier anyway so some other guy in half cover would have still taken the hit
>>125477362
> Kill the ayy before it can shoot
all the shots missed and the nades are all out
>Break LOS
on what nigger
You know you can mod in reaction fire chances in XCOM EU/EW/LW.
"killaliens" is an available console command in all versions of XCOM(2012)
>>125478276
>>125478376
Okay
I already knew these but thanks I guess
I for one am thankful for ghost grenades for saving my party as my mind controlled assault massacred the redshirts during the base defense
can't do this in LW
>>125478464
As in giving your soldier something like ITT but everytime an enemy moves in LOS they can have a chance to fire.
>>125478606
why is everyone getting buttblased about this tactikool boardgame having a melee option?
>Hey Beagle, check Skype
>>125477639
Saw the trailer but missed the first mission.
Thanks.
>>125478606
Huh, I only now noticed that the MEC is red
We have only seen white MECs so far correct? What could this mean?
>>125478883
Late-game upgraded MEC, or a "command" variant that buffs other nearby robotics.
>>125478812
Look at the flag.
Whatever happened to that guy who was doing the EXALT base assault with all rookies?
Anyone have the picture that shows the MEC classes?
>>125478820
those girls' spines are broken
>>125479171
Delay due to problems with recording software.
>>125478812
I'm not, but the Jews literally did this.
>>125479258
I hear that can happen if you use torpedos with magnetic fuzes.
>>125479475
>>125479492
Ah, ok
>>125479258
those aren't girls.
those are anthromorphic battleships
helps perverts justify both pedophilia and mechanophilia.
>>125478812
Really? People is always talking how cool is to have a melee option and how eager they are to use it.
>>125479258
Happens a lot in fanart.
the fuck is "senpai"?
>>125479683
I bet rapier construction would make a better type of laser sword.
>>125478812
I fully intend to have a 7 swordsmen run so I don't know what the fuck everyone else is throwing such a bitch fit about.
>>125479910
http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E5%85%88%E8%BC%A9
>>125479683
I don't think melee is gonna be "cool" in any sense and I'll probably turn off every option related to it being flashy because it's cringey as fuck, but it's nice to no longer be completely helpless at close range. ARs topping out at like 80% to-hit at point blank on a rookie (and on heavies forever without Not Created Equally/Hidden Potential) is bullshit, and it's kinda boring that the closest it gets to a close-range high damage option is typical vidya shotguns on only one class, and it'll be nice to have a useful sidearm once pistols stop being relevant for captures.
>>125479678
>those are anthromorphic battleships
no those are just anime girls
im so sick of this trend of making the same shitty anime as ever and just naming the chicks after guns/boats/tanks/whatever to attract the edgy /ak/ crowd
Upotte! was a mistake
I want actual gun/plane/shipboys
>>125480453
Gay
>>125480078
Wow, it actually worldfilters to senpai. I meant a buzzword i kept reading, and now beagles taken to it, it seems, its like the first part of family
>>125479937
I really wish they'd ditch the strange hunched rabbit leg design. It looks like bad furry porn, and makes the unit way too tall. The arms are way too long, too.
inb4
>bbbbbut tall is imposing!!!!
It's not scary, it looks like a shitty DeviantArt fursmut peddler's MSPaint OC.
>>125470910
I decided that Long War just isn't worth $10 to me.
I played it on EU and it was more frustrating than anything else. I liked a lot of it but I remember thinking it was total bullshit when I had 36 Chryssalids and 4 floaters on the first terror mission that was literally impossible to beat even with all the best possible moves and outcomes. I managed to kill 28 or so before I finally got overrun.
Thanks for the help guys. I at least learned some stuff.
>>125481026
It's black slang that people on the internet have been using to be silly. There are other filters, too. The abbreviation for "shaking my head" filters to baka, the abbreviation for "to be honest" filters to desu, the term for your wife getting fucked by another man is cuck
>>125481295
Wait. Does cuck not filter anymore? Fucking hell.
>night terror mission
Rip bagel
>>125481459
Yeah it was removed like today
Been an incredible day for shitposting
>>125481642
he were born 4 dis
>>125481026
>first part of family
it's pretty self explanitory, it refers to people familiar to the speaker. it's like saying "friend" or "bro", and gained a surge of popularity from "black twitter" screenshots that have become the hot new comedy currency as of late.
>>125481459
what did it filter to
>>125481268
LW has been in my top 3 most played games ever so idk senpai
>>125481295
thanks mate
>>125481642
Are everybody's expectations this low?
>>125481642
dank meme brah
>>125482260
>what did it filter to
"kek" IIRC
>>125481268
>I played it on EU
wait what is this a thing
>>125482456
he hasn't won a terror mission yet, let alone a night one
>have LOS broken
>enemy comes back into sight
>everyone's overwatches whiff
>thin mint kills somebody
shoulda broken los
>>125483070
>using overwatch
>firing on the enemy instead of continuing to break los
You are dumb as hell.
>>125482843
Yea. First mod was for Enemy Unknown.
They didn't port it to Enemy Within until long after it was out and done being patched.
how is this asshole not flanked or exposed
Friendly Fire.
Again.
>>125484131
He is exposed.
You don't get flanking shots on eneies not in cover.
You are shooting him at close range with a Sniper rifle so your to-hit chance is piss poor
>>125484453
>being wrong about LITERALLY EVERYTHING
This is such fucking bullshit. I am beyond mad. Who ever was responsible for designing the base defense is complete and utter retard. What kind of bullshit is having only 6 (six!) people defending an enormous underground installation. And what about those fucking reinforcements, for fucks sake? Guess I am still mad.
After jumping through every shitty hop LW has been throwing at me why not outright state - "we are out to gimp the player in every way possible". Do these people take absolutely no feedback? Almost every option in the Second War make LW easier. And what the fuck is with those insane research requirements? I need half a battleship to make one alloy SHIV.
Fucking bullshit.
>>125484784
it's just not in our budget
>doing something routine
>activate some dudes
>meh it's in an area where los is broken so who cares, can't do much with it anyway, may as well keep doing what i was planning to do
>the currently active soldier changes
>push Y thinking I'm on the guy I just moved and not the fresh dude
>now have a support way behind the rest of the team by himself
LITERALLY ARTIFICIAL DIFFICULTY
EVERY TIME I LOSE A GUY IN THIS DUMBSHIT GAME IT'S BECAUSE THE UI BUGGED OUT OR THE LOS SYSTEM BROKE OR SOME DUMB SHIT
>>125484784
le thats le xcom :)
>thin mint draws 4 overwatch shots at once
>none hit
what is even the point of this game if you can NEVER do damage without losing three people first
>>125486076
>relying on overwatch
You've got a long way to go.
>>125486076
>I rely on overwatch to kill ayys
>they keep fucking my shit up
point of the game is to have fun killing ayys.
if you are not having fun uninstall.
>>125486076
I had a muton just barge his way through 4 overwatching soldiers (one of them a gunner) at point blank. All misses.
Just ugh.
>>125486296
>>125486353
>no enemies in view
oh yeah I know what I'll do, I'll just fucking skip my turn and take no actions at all
>>125486353
>have fun killing ayys.
that literally never happens. gotta love those 87% shots at point blank whiffing everytim
>>125484784
That's why i'm not even slightly ashamed of save scumming.
>soldier takes 1 damage from poison
>panic chain
>everyone dies because 3 out of the 4 shoot eachother fatally, the last runs into some overwatch and dies
gotta love how getting hit ever is a complete death sentence for the campaign and only zero-damage runs are possible
>>125486637
I think they made the RNG system the way they did just to enable easier savesscumming because they knew the game was only barely completeable without it.
>Low Cover: The Map
>This will surely protect me: The Map
>Length: 52 Tiles. Width: 42 Tiles. Height: 3. Fucking. Tiles: The Map
Shittiest map in existence.
>>125484930
>>125485438
>>125485907
>>125486637
At this point it's just blatantly obvious they are fucking with whichever poor soul decides to play LW. I don't understand why pour so much time and effort just to blatantly try to gimp the player in every way possible.
Like the research and manufacture costs. Which are insane, and getting even more so with how hobbled you are with the imposed resource penalties.
>>125487682
because thats xcom baby, git gud or go home :)
>>125486626
get a new game. this one isn't for you.
>>125487682
because this is what finally happens when the guys spamming "git gud" get around to balancing a game.
>>125481132
>Strawman
>Repeating a point that no one has brought up
Are you okay man? Did a furry ruin your childhood? There aren't any here, just a bunch of snekfuckers, so you can leave your complex out there. We have enough shitposters.
>>125487682
edit the ini file and quit crying.
its literally right in front of you.
>>125484659
Well. He's right.
Might just be a bug for you.
>>125478606
he's got a lightsaber
>all these crybabies who never heard about confirmation bias
You only notice when all those 87% shots miss. You don't notice when they hit.
87% isn't 100%. Keep crying, bitch niggers.
>>125487812
>>125488137
I actually git gud at editing the ini files. As >>125488365 a;ready stated.
>>125486626
>>no enemies in view
Then how the fuck are you getting killed? They need to activate first ya dip
>>125487682
Research is pretty insane, but manufacture costs aren't that big considering the fucking heap of missions (and thus materials) you get
Unless you keep the whole Repair mechanic on, in which case holy shit you're a dumdum.
>>125486626
Well, hunker down is an option too.
>>125487408
Left bus --> sniper
Right bus --> Rest of Squad
Right stone thing --> Rest of Squad
>>125486626
>literally having the IQ of a cabbage
I agree, find a new game.
>>125490043
>hunker down
>implying it's anything but shitter bait
you get hit through it consistently and blocking crits doesn't mean shit when weapon damage outpaces your health for most of the early game anyway
Where did /v/ came from?
>>125490458
funny enough the xcom thread on /v/ is far more civil than this one
>>125487408
That map is one of the easiest to manage in the game. Just break LOS and you'll be fine.
>>125488137
Have you considered also gitting gud, maybe? It'd be more productive than crying about it incessantly.
>>125490363
I don't know what you are playing but 80 defense while hunkering is pretty damn much and not a single Ayylium will risk 1-5% shots.
>>125488975
I do keep track. How do you explain that literally over 1 in 10 of my 87% shots miss? How the fuck does that even make sense? 87% is practically guaranteed and yet 1 in FUCKING TEN shots miss. Fucking bullshit.
>>125490584
>eats shit
>it's an acquired taste!
>just add seasoning!
>>125490772
Cute bait.
Eat a gauss round.
>>125490620
>what is poison
>what are grenades
>what is Bull Rush
>what is Suppression
>what is 95 aim thin mints
5-10% != 0%, friendo, they still hit through it pretty consistently.
>>125490772
do you even know what "probability" is?
>>125490935
>what is poison
Manageable. Spread your fucking squad out.
>what are grenades
Manageable. Spread your fucking squad out.
>what is Bull Rush
Irritating. Mixed pods suck.
>what is Suppression
A waste of an enemy action if you were prepared.
>what is 95 aim thin mints
Priority targets.
strawpoll.me/6278510
strawpoll.me/6278518
>>125490935
>Being in range for grenades
>Being in range for bullrush
>2+1 dmg poison
>0 dmg suppression
>15% thinmints won't shoot, they will poison you, ie. point no. 3
Nah. I think the thread for new player is on /v/.
>>125491167
>Manageable. Spread your fucking squad out.
Okay, so one guy dies instead of two.
>Manageable. Spread your fucking squad out.
Okay, so one guy dies instead of two.
>[Bull Rush is] Irritating. Mixed pods suck.
Okay, so one guy dies, and the rest get exposed.
>[Suppression is] a waste of an enemy action if you were prepared.
Okay, so one guy is out of action and can't move, and is probably exposed.
>Priority targets.
Too bad my soldiers whiff 100% of shots.
>>125490772
Bait Level: 0
>>125491452
>>2+1 dmg poison
I've seen it take out 5HP squaddies consistently. It's RNG whether it clears, and so it can stay indefinitely.
>>125491454
Nigga u just fuckin suck lol
>>125491454
You should have prepared better. Everything you type tells me that you can't mitigate risk worth a damn.
>>125491618
>squaddies
>>125490935
>what is poison
Annoying, but decrease chances of it being used by spreading out. Can also be cured quite easily and midgame armor makes it useless
>what are grenades
Almost never used unless you huddle your squad together close to a muton
>what is bullrush
Something you can see coming from miles away and something that happens quite rarely
>what is suppression
A waste of ammo for the ayys and something you can remove with any damage or flush
>what is 95 aim thin mints
Something that is still bothered by hunker down, and they'll prefer poison.
>>125491254
>all these shitters that actually use overwatch
jesus christ
http://strawpoll.me/6278604
Are the Alloy Swords even worth it?
>>125491827
>Almost never used unless you huddle your squad together close to a muton
Mutons will gladly grenade single people if they have no good shots. Suppressing one is basically a death sentence for whoever's suppressing them if it's an area with short sight lines.
>>125491827
>A waste of ammo for the ayys
ayys never run out of ammo.
>>125491454
>Okay, so one guy dies instead of two.
From poison damage? Topkek
It's curable, too
>Okay, so one guy dies instead of two.
In 700+ hours of xcom, most of it Long War (with grenades being a lot more frequent), I have seen grenade-throws on single targets maybe 2 times
>Okay, so one guy dies, and the rest get exposed.
Why is your entire squad huddled together again?
>Okay, so one guy is out of action and can't move
Unless you remove the supression, in which case your soldier can do everything
Not to mention you can also do actions that don't involve moving or shooting
>and is probably exposed.
How the fuck
I've watched a few XCom LPs and tbqh I've literally never seen anyone use Hunker Down. Ever.
>>125492050
>ayys never run out of ammo
Okay that's it, maybe you start playing the game for at least 10 hours and come back again.
>>125492050
>ayys never run out of ammo.
LW :^)
if you're playing vanilla you shouldn't complain about poison, its a fucking boon because the alternative is getting the soldier shot at by a thinman, and we all know how that ends
>>125492050
>ayys never run out of ammo.
>>125492279
Then you've watched shitters who dont play on I/I
>>125492149
>>and is probably exposed.
>How the fuck
Suppression with heavy lasers and pretty much any plasma tends to break stuff. It's not guaranteed, but it's common enough that it's both a threat when it happens to you, and something you can use to your advantage when you're in a good enough position to take risks. It's even better if you have Mayhem, it starts becoming consistent.
>>125492279
Start watching some that play xcom on impossible. Without hunker, you won't survive any mission.
>>125492470
no one has ever completed a televised run of I/I, let alone one with no deaths
it has literally never happened
even your precious bagels gave up after becoming physically ill from the game's bullshit
>>125492476
Oh I know, but it's pretty damn rare without mayhem unless you've been getting shot at in the same place for multiple turns
>>125492393
>>125492307
>>125492346
He savescummed, so he never saw them running out of ammo.
>>125492279
https://youtu.be/z9zJE9GodMQ?t=332
at 5:30
literally first beagle vid I looked in
>>125492802
>still loses a guy
unacceptable
>>125492691
of Long War? Beaglerush has, along with other streamers
of vanilla? of course people have beaten it, it's hard but not LITERALLY impossible
>>125492691
What the fuck? You have no idea what you are talking about.
>>125492935
also I forgot
>it's LW so there's actually options for things instead of frags, ARs and basic armor for the first like ten missions
>>125492935
maybe he should've savescummed :^)
He's gotten a lot better over the last three years, all of us here have. Mission did in fact have a few mistakes in it, but that level of play I think is sufficient to win I/I.
>>125493158
I'd like to think that /v/ is trolling but honestly I think most of them are stupid and aggressive enough to actually think like this.
>>125493230
>losing people on I/I
are you a scrub? that's scrubbery. are you a scrub, anon?
>>125493287
>le /v/ boogeyman
what happened anon, did some goobergater rape you as a child last year or something
>>125493287
>aggressive
Not accepting losses isn't aggression, it's bitchery.
People die. This is war, and you fuck up, and people die. And sometimes you do everything right, and people still die. Sometimes you roll snake eyes.
>>125493357
I said the way people play has evolved from back then, it's a three-year old video.
>>125493115
thats vanilla
>>125493547
Here is your reply
Now >>>/v/
>>125492698
>I only play LW
vanilla cover falls apart if you look at it funny. even the basic LMG can tear shit apart
>>125493573
>d-dats xcom
maybe if you're a scrub
>>125491254
Snakes with hats mod when
>>125493698
Any day you want to upload your full I/I campaign where you don't lose a single soldier, I'll be waiting with hat and salt.
>>125493547
/v/ is known for shitposting, so it makes sense that shitposters convene there
>>125493573
Aggressive as in they are too stubborn and try to curse out anyone that proves them wrong
I don't know if anyone here is /tg/, but Ken Hite just released a mini-RPG where you basically play as 1970s XCOM.
MOON DUST MEN has you playing as field agents (investigators more than soldiers) fighting aliens and Soviet psychics, MAJESTIC OVERWATCH has you as the planning committee who choose what projects to fund and where to deploy interceptors, and then GALILEO UPLIFT is about the researchers working to reverse-engineer alien tech. It's fun shit.
Why didn't obama prevent the alien invasion in xcom2
They will know...
>>125495284
Obama wanted us to integrate the aliens.
>>125495292
EVERYBODY WILL KNOW
>>125495284
He was probably the one that pulled funding from xcom and surrendered to the enlightened ayys.
>>125475568
That dog is too OP and an exploit.
>>125496128
DELETE THIS
where can I get a list of random anime characters to make a namelist out of
>>125496406
Spike
Kaneda
Howl
Naruto
Vegeta
You're welcome
>>125496301
Actually it's magnificent strategy.
>>125497059
It deserves a magnificent change.
>XCOM was betrayed
>Vahlen has yet to be mentioned, not even as ded like Shen
I'd put money on that psychotic bitch being the turncoat. Anything for new tech, right?
Stream is Over.
>>125497236
She was mentioned in the book. She isn't working for Advent, but she is now a crazy scientist who wants to be left alone to root around in alien brains.
equipment video?
>>125497605
Nah.
>EW vanilla
Anyone else think that equipping assaults with shotguns is kind of pointless once you get laser weapons.
Sure they deal more damage, but with rapid fire that's kind of moot. The long range accuracy of a rifle is better.
>>125497776
It was available on scribd for free a while back by accident. They fixed that however and you can no longer access it.
What is that dude in black armor in Beagle's stream?
>>125496128
NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! THIS DOESN'T FUCKING HAPPEN! DELETE THIS!
>>125498197
Can't you read the nametag, its beagle. It is fan art by some guy for beagle for xcom2.
>>125497997
A title, at least?
>>125499003
XCOM 2: Resurrection by Greg Keyes
>>125496406
Shiki
SHIKI
shiki
>>125498570
Made that post before the tag was put there.
>>125491454
this cuck sucks at xcom desu senpai baka
>>125499652
Much obliged. I'll be back when I find a working download.
>>125501137
Good luck with that, there isn't a publisher ebook copy until May "officially". Hopefully someone was able to rip it from scribd before being taken down. Pls find one online wizard man.
>>125495217
Oh, shit. I've been itching for an XCOM RPG. I gotta check that out.
>>125501325
Can you at least spoil something about what is Vahlen doing? She was already mindbreaking with alien brain since EU
>>125501846
I have horrible memory so bear with me. If I remember correctly, she has a lab hidden in Antarctica. The squad tracks her down and gets her help with decoding the messagethat leads to finding the commander.The Vahlen part ends with Advent attacking and the fate of Vahlen is unknown in the end. I think her lab is described as horrific with alien body parts all over the place.
>>125502306
MFW based Vahlen torturing ayys
>>125501325
didn't amazon have an ebook
>>125492691
beagle has streamed numerous campaigns over the years
he even finished the LW one after like a year and a half
>>125503271
I think it was only available in the UK. It definetly isn't available on the US amazon.
>>125502306
>>125502863
Dug through the archive because I remember someone posting a good summary before. I got it wrong with Antartica, it was a volcanic island. Vahlen will most likely show up in the game somewhere, unlike shen.
>>125503271
Nope. Tell ya what. If I can afford it, I'll throw down for a paperback, dissect it and scan it. It might be a while before I can afford it, so I wouldn't get your hopes up too much.
>>125503727
$10 + SH on amazon
Here is the summary from the archive since we are talking about the book.1. Xcom only brought down 2 UFOs, one of them is the avenger.
2. Xcom failed extremely early in-game (no lasers developed, or interrogation)
3. Bradford survived and spent his time drunk and resentful. He starts his journey to rejoin Xcom in the Epilogue.
4. Shen and Vahlen are both alive, bankrolled by an unknown source(s). Heavily implied some governments who folded did so in order to infiltrate ayy operations.
5. Shen survives in a converted WW2 sub, working on a plan to salvage what is now the Avenger. His health fades throughout the book, and when the AI of the avenger awakens sectoids Xcom couldn't find in cryo, he gets mind read, but it is not clear if the aliens found out since all sectoids died. (poor writing, sorry). He dies at the end of the book and leaves his brilliant daughter in his place. New Shen is smarter than old shen.
6. Vahlen survives and went underground on an active volcanic island. She continues research there, hacking the ADVENT systems. The island is found in the book, and is invaded. She activates the failsafe exploding the volcano which destroys the ADVENT and Chryssalid invaders. Vahlen fakes her death during this and escapes via Sea.
7. CONTAGION SPOILERS: It is not clear exactly WHAT contagion is: biological, chemical or alien. The book described it as a spread of 'crystal' that attaches itself to anything organic, including plant life. The animals it touches seem to be controlled by it (like zombies), and the animals dont behave as they normally would. (A hedgehog, some dogs and deer group together in one scene, and the operators use fire to kill them. The animals don't react to the fire and are subsequently destroyed by it). ADVENT uses flameweapons and prioritize containment of this contagion.
>>125503727
I can afford it but i don't have a creditcard ;-;
>>125503908Fffffucking Tiberium all over again. (Fuck yeah.) What's next, the Scrin showing up?
>>125503916
>i don't have a creditcard
prepaid card from stores.
Also, how do you survive without a card? It is smart to at least get one that you immediately pay off after purchases to build up credit.
does openxcom work with a pirated copy
>>125504161
Well i'm not american so i just use iDeal and i do have a card but it doesn't work internationally.
>>125503908Dat Tiberium
Nod mods please
>>125503916
As much as I hate suggesting it, PayPal. Pretty sure you can put money into a PP account from an alternate source and then use that on anything that accepts PayPal. Of course, I don't know how it works in your country, so there is a significant possibility that I could be wrong.
>>125504792
Dutch, right?
Try setting up a PayPal account if that's an option. You can transfer dosh from your bank account to it using iDeal
>>125506021
Yeah i tried making an account for that but paypal gives me shit when i use my own zipcode and even any other one i try.
>>125504305
yes
>>125475914
gotcha senpai
>>125506619
I wish it said how many soldiers had been lost/wounded on that screen
>>125487408
This map is like the worst in the game to start on. Wiped 3 times before winning my first impossible mission there. Never had a problem with the first mission before.
>>125506619
which dumbfuck was playing that managed to wipe a squad on the lowest difficulty setting? and the only soldier left alive has the extra armor, natch
>>125492470
>>125492510
>hunkering down instead of breaking LOS on impossible
>>125507325
must have been angry joe
>>125495217
Cool, thanks.
I stopped going to /tg/ after too many 40kfags took over every thread and they started getting super uptight about what was /tg/ and what was not.
>>125508907
I stopped going when quest threads took over.
reminder that when the snake lady says she will take you out for a night of pleasure, you will actually be kidnapped and melted down into goo at an ADVENT black site. it will be immensely pleasurable for her to watch your muffled screaming as you die.
vigilo confido
How does everyone else feel about XCOM 2's pre-order DLC and season pass?
I love X-COM. I even $115 (CAN) love X-COM. I would hand Firaxis $5000 in cash if it meant the difference between XCOM 3 being developed or not. I just don't want to encourage 2K's shitty business model.
>>125511060
Sounds like a risk I am willing to take.
In UFO Defense what should my approach to terror missions be? It currently just feels like throwing as many soldiers as I have into the meat grinder and hoping more promotions come out than deaths from all the slaughter.
>>125511294
rockets everywhere
>>125511258
Good, your shitty genetic material will set back whatever the ADVENT are up to.
>>125511438
You're right I only had one guy manning a rocket.
>>125511202
The season pass is not day one dlc so its fine and the day one dlc that comes with a preorder is just cosmetic stuff. I'm fine with paying more for more xcom related stuff, blind hate against dlc is stupid. There is bad dlc, look at ea and paradox, but firaxis at least wants to give us good content for our money.
>>125511202
I have zero problem with it.
Fuck, everyone here seems to think EW is the tits ("Just play EW, you don't even need to play EU") and yet no one is complaining that it was DLC. I don't get it.
>>125511438
This, the first four people out of the skyranger should have rocket launchers and backpacks full of large rockets. Just blow everything the fuck up, the LZ can't be hot if it doesn't exist. Also give all your non rocket dudes high explosive packs so they can wreck everything too.
Just be careful if it's a sectoid terror mission, mind control and explosives is not good times.
>>125511202
I'm alright with the principle. Not all DLC is evil, and it's pretty clear that this is stuff they'll be working on post-release, so it's not cut content. EU's DLC was, for the most part, solid, so I'm willing to put a bit of faith in Friaxis for a $5 discount.
>>125511623
i dont see the problem with paradox DLC, sure it makes buying a game thats been out for a few years more expensive but by that point its better to get them in a sale.
>>125512085
EW is an expansion. "DLC" is stuff like the Slingshot Pack and Elite Soldier Pack, of which one was "preorder or pay extra" shit that should have been in EU at launch.
>>125512587
It is more the fact that you have to pay for your mongolian characters to not look like a european instead of it being actually part of the horselord expansion. That is really scummy dlc policy.
>>125512587
Its DLC that doesn't have work put into it. Its one thing to have 15 dollar dlc that actually adds to the game, its another to add faces or portraits
>>125513027
>$218.46
Fucking hell.
>>125513169
Paradox owns the market on grand strategy games, they can make their customers their bitch. They have said so before.
>>125513027
>Ruler Designer
>"Lovingly craft the character you'll control for 20% of the campaign!"
>>125512816
>>125513027
thats still a cosmetic feature which doesn't limit the game in any way, its no different that games that sell character/weapon skins, if you really like a certain part you can buy a skin for it or just play without it
>>125504142
>What's next, the Scrin showing up?
Well, there is some unknown threat that had the ethereals worried about...
>>125513564
Its pretty big immersion breaker and is just cut from the main dlc to make more money.
>>125513564
That would be like the mec dlc having the new mec class look like a regular trooper unless you payed more for it to look like an actual mec.
>>125514201
immersion? i never really thought of it that way, i've never been immersed in a grand strategy game because you play them from such an external point of view. in CK2 i nver really look at portraits, in EU4 i dont care about any of the unit sprites and i dont use sprites when playing HoI3
>Tfw you have a classical composer in your barracks
Would you want Thin Mints back in XCOM 2?
>>125516293
They are back
>>125516293
No. Keep those goofy fuckers. I want goofy advent and their mecs.
>>125516371
Wait really?
>>125516447
Sneks are Thin Mints.
>>125516293
They no longer need an infiltration unitexcept for the faceless
So is Eggsalt going to be mentioned at all in 2 or are they just gone?
>>125516785
The faceless are really more of an ambush unit than infiltration. They cannot do espionage, they only lie in wait until they need to brutally murder everything.
>>125517046
Firaxis has said they will get mentioned, but they won't show up. They got taken down too along with xcom.
>>125517154
Good, traitorous scum deserved it.
>>125517154
EXALT and XCOM team-up when?
>>125515395
>Dvorak
Good taste anon.
>>125480453
>"im too edgy for melee"
>mechagirls are edgy
kek
>>125506835
Yeah, I'm a whore for that but I want a full breakdown on that screen. Lost people, recovered materials, triage report on wounded, ect.
At the very least damage taken and from what.
>>125517356
>tfw there are an EXALT Avenger
>>125517154
Sauce?
>>125517356
>ally with literal cucks
confirmed for shit commandershould've won the war
Never trust an Australian.
>>125519524
I think it was the firaxiscon panel.
>>125517085
>>125516785
>tfw anyone could be a faceless and you wouldn't know about it until it's too late
>>125520251
Too busy to upload the vidoes because he just got his and jamball's kid killed.
BEAGLE
YOU AUSSIE SHITPOSTING FUCK
I NEED THE VIDEO
WHERE IS THE VIDEO
>>125520452
Relax man, his kid just died.
>>125510548
I only started going long after quest threads took over, saw all the shitty quest threads, and promptly went back to a good boardit was /r9k/
>>125511060
well, that's my fantasy anyway, so ok
>>125511294
they're not as horrible as people make them out to be. it's basically the same as a landed UFO except there aren't a million turns of slowly moving up before you get into the action
also the enemies are actually more interesting than "oddly colored man with a gun" so it really is your time to just YOLO out and have fun
>>125511202
>pay extra for parts of the game they finished well before release
how bout no
Bagel.
BAGEL
BAAAAAAAGEEEEEEEELLLLL
>>125506619
>stats
oh man can't wait for people to shitpost demanding mission stats anytime anyone asks for help on anything
it'll be the new "fraps is free", I know it
>the second anyone takes the b8 and has anything less than 6 ayys killed per turn and a 100% hit rate they'll be shitposted into oblivion
can't w8 m8s
>>125521219
it's funny, because your supposed cynicism involves an assumption that humans completed more than they set out to do when they announced the game.
>>125521813
>and a 100% hit rate
To be fair, why were you taking any shots that weren't guaranteed in the first place? It's almost as if you're bad at XCOM or something.
>>125521641
Reminder that this ayy looking fucker got to play xcom2 and you didn't.
http://strawpoll.me/6280364
>>125522562
Part of me wishes he got paid by Firaxis. At least then he'd have motivation to actually release the video on time.
>>125522562
of course he did, he's a sectoid
>>125522407
Should have broken LOS
>>125522562
he LITERALLY died from it though.
>>125479683
here we go, got a basic mesh going for that fellah, I need to work on the textures but the basic model should be good to import.
>>125522607
>no 'if there's nothing else useful a unit can do that turn you might as well take a shot because sometimes RNG will make your situation easier and ammo is a free commodity' option
biased poll desu
>>125522562
Do you think firaxis would take a bribe for being able to play the game in a beta state and being able to submit patches for it?
>>125522562
Jesus Christ, did his ancestors get sent to Australia because of how disformed they looked?
>>125522960
>relying on the RNG
how is that not covered by
>Yes. I am a shitter and a scrub with a huge gambling problem who shoots up sororities when he doesn't win the lotto.
>>125523008
No, but I think they would pay you for it. You just have to get hired onto their QA team.
http://strawpoll.me/6280415
>>125523158
again, it's not relying it's just a bonus for having nothing else to worry about
>>125522607
When did faggots like you start coming into this general anyway?
>>125523234
>implying firaxis has a QA team
how would we have our That's XCom Baby! memes if they had a functioning QA department?
>>125523474
It is why they pushed the game back a quarter. The game is actually done, all they are doing is QA.
>>125503647
>Vahlen has a secret lair on a Volcanic Island
...why am I not surprised by this?
>>125523584
Because she is german.
>>125523584
Because in any other game Vahlen would be the mad scientist you have to track down and kill. XCOM however lets Vahlen apply her talents to non-humans.
>>125523737
>German
Vahlen isn't a Muslim anon
http://strawpoll.me/6280460
>>125524268
>http://strawpoll.me/6280460
> Yes, I just use the Hunker Down ability because if I can't see them, they can't see me.
>someone voted for this even ironically
jesus christ
>Absolutely, I'm doing a writeup on it right now in the thread
pls actually do
>>125525131
I voted for it ironically because I think ostriches are entertaining.
>game crashes not long after getting back to HQ after a tactical mission
>whatever, I have the autosave of the last turn of the previous mission
>do it exactly the same way I did before
>when I crashed, there were 3 promotions to give out
>reload, do the exact same thing, now there's four
where does the RNG stop, really
>>125525131
>pls actually do
On it.
>>125526031
"Use Hunker Down"
>>125524268
>Yes, I just fall back into the fog of war and/or around a large cover element to force aliens to eat an overwatch before re-engaging me on my terms, already damaged and hopefully having missed through high cover and smoke when my turn comes.
This is wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to begin
>>125525520
When you break LOS.
>this fucking map
>mostly shitty low cover except the two trucks at the start
>no cover pieces more than two tiles wide so you have to split your team in wonky ways all the time
>even if you're lucky enough to not get hit, all the cover is super brittle and explosive
>only cover that isn't explosive is near the end of the map with a giant fuckoff wall thatblocks losonto the last bit of the map you might have an engagement in and is not useful to either side
>no elevated cover anywhere at all
>cover pieces are always one tile away from blue move range if you don't have skellington suits yet
>Ayys don't even have any reason to fucking be here in the first place
>THIS FUCKING MAP
is there literally any way to start this off on a good foot or should I just fucking reload
what the fuck were firaxis thinking when they made this map
it is easily the worst, I cannot think of a single worse map than this. even Street Hurricane is better, that at least has some of the cars go sideways and has those bus shelters to hide in and stuff. this is just complete awful and unfun even when you have the equipment to make it tolerable
>>125526667
I clearly did break los though, I won the mission after all
>>125527016
You didn't break it hard enough.
>>125527016
Nope, map is completely shit.
If you play Long Dong, the new spawns that they put are even worse, so much that even when you inevitably trigger an alien pod moving into your only available cover, they opt to just run away into the fog rather than attempting to take cover.
>>125527016
Easy map 2bh fampai
>>125527016
Have you considered that you're just shit?
I've encountered a new and interesting bug. Haven't had this happen to me before.
Hey, whoever suggested pressing caps lock to get rid of retarded loading times in enemy within, thank you.
I have no idea why the fuck that would possibly work but it did and my load times are back to nothing.
Thanks man.
>>125527598
What am I looking at that's new or interesting? Is one of your soldiers underground? That happens to me all the time.
>>125527668
ok what dumbshit thing is this supposed to actually do because I just did it out of curiosity and nothing happened
>>125527686
Nope. I am missing something. Something that /xcg/ finds completely useless and it's not a rookie.
>>125527940
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
yeah the UI in this game lies constantly, you probably have a pistol and it's just not saying so
alternatively, it may be a bug that LW patched so that the game is more fair. can't have too many players actually reaching the end game, now, so they'd better take away everyone's weapons
>>125527016
B R E A K
R E A K
E A K
A K
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L O S
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>>125527940
>Something that /xcg/ finds completely useless
Go fuck yourself. When you stop playing on Normal, you'll notice why the pistol is useful.
>>125527016
>doesn't take the super obvious moves
But whatever, another shitter scrub about to get rekt. Can't wait for this next big set of noob tears from some faggot complaining about "RNG", glug glug glug haha :)
>>125528257
I didn't say it was useless you dumb fuck. Why do you think I was making a deal out of it?
>>125528061
Nope, it's gone. Can't change weapon. Perfect since I wanted to use it for an overwatch just incase it did hit when a sectoid patrol came in.
>>125528257
Pistols only get worse and worse as you go up in difficulty. They're **maybe** okay if you have a gunslinger sniper who needs something to tide them over inbetween psi powers, but that's it. An Assault should be rapid firing with their main weapon to crank out dat damage, and supports get dick-all to make their pistols actually good. Heavies don't even carry pistols.
could maybe it be you who is playing on the easy difficulty ??
>>125527016
Maybe you should consider getting gud before complaining about map designs. That map is fine. Get over it and stop crying about how low cover doesn't save you from thin mints.
>>125527016
>all dem delicious los-breaking opportunities
>you take the pretty much already flanked low cover
wow
And lol that resolution and those graphics, are you playing on a fucking potato? Fuck outta here with that shit. Men are talking.
>>125528545
>Vanilla classes
Shit if you want to talk about the base game you should be grateful that your pistols stay so relevant in a world without DR. It makes capturing literally babby mode. The aliens don't even just buy innate defense later into the campaign. You can do a pistols only run if you game it hard enough, because nothing in vanilla can just tell your pistol damage to fuck off.
>>125528545
The laser pistol is cool as fuck though, and is the best weapon in the game for that alone.
>>125529069
>because nothing in vanilla can just tell your pistol damage to fuck off.
consistently doing 1 damage on a 20 HP enemy is pretty much the same thing. Pistols suck either way. They can be "fun", but never really good.
>>125527838
I was having long ass load times when loading a mission when before my load times were instant.
I pressed caps lock while it was "loading" it skipped a frame and immediately loaded.
No idea why the fuck this works but it did for me.
>watch Jade Star's tutorial series to xcom
>he constantly shits on smoke grenades and never uses them
do most people actually play without smoke grenades because they're fucking great
most tutorials I've seen are kinda shit about any kind of defensive play tbqh
>watching any xcom tutorial/LP ever
>they leave their guys out in the open, trust half cover, take 30% shots and shit
>it always goes okay for them every time
>I take a 90% shot
>it misses
>I get into full cover with a smoke on it
>guy gets crit through it like nothing
>I run an assault right into an ayy's face to blast it
>doesn't crit, doesn't even do full damage, misses the second shot of his Rapid Fire, assault dies next turn
what the fuck
>>125530550
Who's Jade Star?
I looked it up and got a hilariously awful singing channel.
>>125530809
a goon who's notable for having done some XCOM LPs with that GuavaMoment guy (who has a cameo in EU/EW as a special soldier) and known for being pretty good at XCOM
apparently he just has a horseshoe up his ass because his "tutorial series" basically came down to "have two steam vents right next to the lifts on the second level, and have cyberdisc AI that always misses and just kinda fucks off to masturbate in the corner whenever there's a soldier in the open ready to get some lasers to the face"
>>125522929
Nice job.
>not flanked
she'll step out to the side to shoot, but this floater sure ain't flanked
>>125531205
1 tile flying
>>125530550
>Not having item stacking combat drugs smoke grenade troopers glitter bombing entire cities
Long War lets me fetishize smoke grenade abuse and I'm glad. Anti plasma chaff some day soon.
>>125531336
that shit should not be allowed
my shivs and archangel armor guys can't do it, why can they
it should at least have a different icon from the normal half cover thing
>>125531030
Ah, found him.
But yeah just from what you said in your post he sounds kind of shit and reliant on luck.
>>125531474
They can actually.
>>125531582
I've never not had one automatically land when moved to a tile with ground beneath it
and it should still have a different icon, I feel liked to as a player. if it's visibly on the ground, I shouldn't have to check in sub-menus to confirm it, it should just have an icon for it
>>125531809
Toggle flight back on when they land.
>>125531491
>turns on Meld tutorial, Slingshot and Progeny
>doesn't play I/I
>"We are two of the most authoritive XCOM people on YouTube"
Oh, this is gonna be good.
>>125532036
>>doesn't play I/I
SUPPOSEDLY he did classic because it's "more entertaining" and "for people who can't make the jump from Normal" but I think it's just that he's a faggot
but don't forget the lucky council requests or perfectly lined up abductions. guide to xcom? roll good :^)ironically, it's the best advice you can possibly get since XCOM is basically all RNG with almost zero meaningful player input anyway
>this fucking steam
>>125533643
that's actually pretty good imo
any at all per level will get you pretty good for that level
it's not OPTIMAL but it's pretty great and 3 at all is quite lucky
About what time should I have laser weapons and stuff? Doing an iron man run, and I just hastily did my first terror mission with a decent enough job. But, I can tell I need bigger firepower now, especially since I fucked up and couldn't take out a medium UFO in air shit, so I know ground isn't gonna get easier.
>>125534027
Yesterday.
>>125533643
Reset. Right now. That's not even worth playing.
>>125534027
>lasers
never. skip to plasma by capturing ayys.
>>125534376
Is this like the /xcg/ version of "delete system32"?
>>125534709
No? It's a legitimate tactic.
Fucking /v/
>>125534709I beat Classic on my first "real" try through and never even touched Normal by disregarding 100% of the advice I ever received ITT. I am now doing an Impossible run, and my own tactics still work way better than "Break LOS" memery.
>>125533643
>second mission
>due to shit luckand admittedly shit playI get down to two soldiers
>both with 70 aim
>soldier 1 (Russian) kepts hitting shots at 50% the entire mission
>soldier 2 (French) just missed THREE flank shots in a row that were over 80%
>Russian eventually does Frenchie's job by scoring a 30% shot at an ayylmao in full cover
Jesus, fuck the French.
>tfw will probably spend more time making characters in XCOM 2 than playing
i am the scum of the earth
>putting on some water for tea in my kitchen
>feel something pop in my mouth
>a filling/covering just came off the base of one of my teeth
SHOULDA BROKEN LINE OF SIGHT HUH
DUDE LOS LMAO :^)
>>125535823
Shoulda broken your soda/candy addiction fampai :^)
>>125535890
I actually drink no soda and eat very limited amounts of candy
I drink SHITLOADS of coffee though and just straight up don't have a dentist
>>125534915
>costs mad dosh, elerium, alloys and even meld
>legitimate tactic
>two steam vents stacked on top of each other right next to the lift
>not worth playing
Oh! I get it! You're that shitposter guy I keep hearing about!
>>125536304
>>costs mad dosh, elerium, alloys and even meld
>for an arc thrower
are you gay
>>125536408
Oh. You're talking about vanilla. I assumed >>125534027 was playing Long War since he mentioned getting beat in airgame, which is basically impossible to do in vanilla.
AIR GAME IS KILL
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/interview-the-death-of-interceptors-iron-man-mode-and-xcom-2s-next-step
>USG: What about interceptors?
>Solomon: No, no fighters. This one is more "the only ship you’ve got is the one you’re flying around."
HAIL SOLOMON. HAIL FIRAXIS
>>125536527
>which is basically impossible to do in vanilla.
uhhh
>dice come up bad
>lose your fusion lance toting firestorm to a small scout
the air game is "easier" but it's still completely RNG and easy to lose shit for dumb reasons
>>125473778
I can't wait until the second one comes. I am hype.
>>125537132
>USG: I’ve just got to say thanks so much for not doing Terror from the Deep again.
>Solomon: It's not going to happen! I’ve made my feelings on that one known!
>>125537132
>first Bayonetta confirmed for Smash
>then airgame confirmed out of XCOM 2
Today was a good day.
>>125537210
I'll be blasting the fuck out of ayyyyys.
>>125532431
>Zero meaningful player input
Here's your (you)
>>125537143
>lose your fusion lance toting firestorm to a small scout
Delete XCOM if this has ever actually happened to you. Mario Party is more your speed.
>>125537523
>I, for one, think it's magnificent design that you can lose endgame interceptors with endgame equipment to the weakest UFO in the game just by bad RNG.
>>125537143
>>lose your fusion lance toting firestorm to a small scout
This never happened to anyone.
If you seriously got unlucky enough to get a Firestorm to even half HP against a small scout, be a smart person and fucking abort.
>>125537850
There is an "abort" button. Use it.
>>125537132
>implying you wont just use ship based defense cannons to shoot down intercepting UFOs
you guys are so gullible
>>125537306
Don't forget that Kojima is finally free from the tyrant Konami's clutches.
Should I make Pulse Laser or Gauss weapons in LW?
>>125539329
gauss
>>125539370
Good, that's what I just researched.
>>125539329
I personally prefer Gauss. Potential DR reduction is almost like additional damage, since so many things have DR by the mid game. The extra shot is huge (except for the long rifle, which is amazing in other ways), and, best of all, the look and sound sweet.
>>125538841
This is good.
Time for unhindered kojima TECHNOLOGY and insane mashed up inconsistent plots.
I wonder what kinda game he's gonna make first.
>tfw Assault was your fav class but the Ranger's sword is dumb as fuck
>>125539938
>tfw Assault is your fav class and the Ranger's sword is cool as fuck
fixed
>>125539938
You don't have to use it.
>>125539938
Yeah having a pistol was so much better :^)
>>125539938
The fifth class had better be great because the only interesting one so far is Specialist.
Why was EXALT bad, exactly?
They were just transhumanists.
>>125537275
>not doing Terror from the Deep
>It's not going to happen
I'd love to see an underwater xcom with today's graphics ;_;
>>125540607
Go away EXALT shill.
I wonder, what happened whith EXALT in XCOM 2. Is they turn to Advent or still operate undercover.
>>125540607
They were big meanies who hacked your gibstons
Wait a fucking minute.
If the bad ending of XCOM2012 showed the Councilman being controlled by a Sectoid Commander, why is the very same Councilman helping you in XCOM2?
>>125541639
The dude who invented them left the company, that's what happened to them.
>>125541639
curbstomped by the aliens like everyone else
interestingly, you can put EXALT bandanas on your soldiers, indicating some turned over to XCOM after the war
>>125541639
I wonder what happened with reading threads. Is too stupid or just too lazy?
>>125541753
N̶a̶n̶o̶m̶a̶c̶h̶i̶n̶e̶s̶ MELD or something
How morally dubious do you think we'll be able to get?
>>125541791
Source?
>>125541974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-cSh3aPDPw
>>125542057
at about 3:20
>>125537132
USG: Why did you decide not to go with interceptions?
Solomon: Well, because I think that what we had before was basically kind of a mini-game, and so I felt like it didn’t fit as well with the theme, which gave us an opportunity to start fresh with some of these things. We said, "Well, that one doesn’t work that well," and we weren’t that thrilled with what we did in Enemy Unknown, so we said, "Alright, let’s instead take the effort and put it somewhere else."
USG: A big part of the original original from the early 90s was being able to put your base in the right place so it could make interceptions.
Solomon: We’ve got radar, and I think the radar range is right. With the very first game, it was all about basically putting them in the right place so you can get the radar range so you can make the countries – the right countries – happy. You know, the ones that pay you all the money – you gotta make the right countries happy.
PRAISE SOLOMON
PRAISE ANON
STOP MAKING FIRESTORM THREADS AND GO CRY IN A PILLOW ANON-THAT-WOULD-MAKE-THREADS-AT-730-REPLIES
GET BENNNNNNT
>>125538841
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annuTcmB1rwOut of one set of claws and into another am I right? :^)
>>125542234
sony may be shit but they're not on konami's level
>>125540512
>sharpshooter that both can go full revolver ocelot or full quiet
>ranger that can fucking leg it and hit shit with laser swords and shoot shit with shotguns and just generally be a sneaky badass
>demo that has a fucking minigun and a grenade launcher
>not interesting
seriously m8
>>125542234
>console exclusive
>console
>not just "exclusive"
wew lad I wonder how bad /v/ is right now
>>125542390
>I wonder how bad /v/ is right now
Pretty bad, breh
>>>/v/320345473
>>125542234
top lels
>>125542057
I know that importing characters into later playthroughs was already confirmed, but man I'm glad that's a feature. It sounds great.
>>125540607
Exalt were planning to let the ayys uplift humanity and take over the world IF they left. XCOM was an obstacle to their goal. And so, they undermine them.
>>125541639
Their decades of planning hinged on the aliens leaving. And when they didn't leave, they were kinda fucked. I believe they've been either eradicated or a few of them are still around trying to salvage the 'world domination' plan after the aliens get expelled.
>>125542932
>>125542975
>make an EXALT looking dude
>he shows up in another play through on a wanted poster
thats pretty hot
>>125542234
KojiPro is actually independent. It's just the first project that will be sony-dependent.
>>125542975
If the fifth class is a psychic or a hybrid, then all of them get that bandana.
>>125516785
They don't need to do it... It's just for fun now.
>>125541791
>>125542057
God, i'm so blind. Wonder why they put such a strange looking bandana into the game, why would anyone wear such a orange-red thing ?
Yet i know...
So it's nice that you can make your own Exalt-squad.
>>125534027
As quickly as possible.
>>125543873
>So it's nice that you can make your own Exalt-squad.
Looks like we finally gained control of the situation.
>>125542975
>tfw i submitted an EXALT themed tattoo with XCOM iconography scribbled on top of it.
I'd much rather have this, though.
>>125542975
Considering that EXALT seems to basically be the Illuminati/Majestic 12, fitting them into the "reptillians control earth" mythos of general ayy lmao stuff, they'll probably make a comeback in some form. They are a fan favorite too, everyone loves shit-talking about the big base raid mission and how much they tore up, but also how stylish the EXALT agents are even when gene modded out and wielding ridiculous laser weapons that somehow look even stupider than yours.
So, do you think Seekers, Cyberdisks and Sectopods will be making an appearance in XCOM 2?
>>125545931
some variation on them yea
think like how the new floater is the archon. something that mostly does the same thing but also looks different besides for the base concept
they better have cyberdisks back in as mostly pure disks though. cyberdisks and eckscalm are deeply attached in my head
>>125545931
no
they've seemingly abandoned all pretense of being part of the XCOM franchise in anything but name
julian gollop must be rolling in his space-grave
>>125545931
>Cyberdiscs return as Hover Tanks
>>125546142
cyberdiscs were already not "pure discs" in EU/EWthough they got HELLA kawaiitfw no pet cyberdisc
When is it okay to use overwatch?
>>125546592
to prevent an enemy unit in sight range from moving
>>125546241
Epic, simply epic
Here's your reply
>>125546592
Literally never.
>>125546663
They fixed that in EW, they'll book it if they know you're a shit shot or are exposed/flanked/whatever.
i hope this general wont suffer a will penalty
>>125546592
If your overwatching unit can survive a turn and another soldier can flank/grenade/fuck up that unit next turn.
>>125527016
R
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>>125516785
The fuck is this? Have they done an enemy reveal video?
Can someone explain to a newb what this LOS thing is? I figure it means line of sight.
>>125544435
No, you are only preparing yourself for losing control of the situation. This is the situation you have control over.
>>125552409
https://xcom.com/news/en-xcom-2s-faceless-hides-among-us
>>125546592
vanilla:
if youre in full cover and smoke grenaded, and have anything but outsiders in sight
they will pop you anyways.
long war:
if you have full cover you're good to go.
>no shoddy, 2-bit, half-assed air game in xcom2
Fucking thank god. Could probably mod it in, but might as well as not bother trying if they're going to try something like EU/EW again. There was literally zero point to having it besides nodding at UFO Defense.
>>125522562
HOL UP.
You're telling me that's Beagle?
He look like a sectoid, we've been infiltrated.
>>125546778
>They fixed that in EW
in vanilla it's useful for exploiting that AI bug, which got fixed as you say, but it's also useful in LW for what anon said, preventing enemies like floaters and outsiders from doing their retarded 15-step bluemove into flank and then melee crit
>>125553949
That's exactly what it means.
>>125558667
Eh. It gave a whole bunch of missions some well needed context.
Post yfw you tried site recon mission for the first time on LW
>mfw
>>125561968
Serious question, is this a new meme? I thought most of us agreed it is a piss easy mission in LW what with the prevalence of shotguns
>>125562995
Autism
>Start a mew campaign
>Council mission comes around
>It's not Van Dorn
Thank god
>>125562995
>for the first time
>>125546241
"b-b-but muh boring, tedious, outdated shitty game design"
>>125564225
>>125564225
Can't you just, you know, break LOS and ignore him?
>>125561968
>take all shotguns vested Assaults b/c there were no ranged enemies in vanilla
>going well at first
>mfw 2 pods of sectoids activate behind me while im running away from 5 chrysallids
>squad wipe
>>125564415
he has pretty good quads actually
>no homo
>>125565114
Alas he is to be replaced by a tranny in the next five years.
>>125565336
details?
>>125563975
If you're not some bumblefuck who played LW before vanilla it wasn't the first time, so you knew you'd be up against only - or mostly, these days - melee units. You knew what to plan for. Failing or even having problems then is just you being trash
>outsiders chilling outside the UFO
>turn after i discover them 2 mechtoids, 10 thin men, 1 sectoid commander, 6 sectoids, 3 drones and 4 seekers immediately surround me from all directions
>>125566267
Sounds like fun.
>>125546241
damn, i mean, gollop must be so upset they changed the enemies
damn, yeah, the enemies and their names, that's what xcom is really about
you're a fucking retard
Remind yourself /xcg/Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
>>125566267
Have you tried breaking LoS?
>>125566467
>tfw full release literally never
>>125562995
I bet you didn't ever get a thin men pack in site recon
>>125566612
It was the first fight of the dungeon and it got surprised and pushed to the front of the pack. The release got crit and the resolve roll was abusive.
Let's discuss the new weapon attachment in Xcom 2 !
We know about 7 attachments:
Auto-loader, Expanded Magazine, Hair Trigger, Laser Sight, Repeater, Scope and Stock.
All of them have 3 different qualities:
(Normal), Advanced and Superior.
An Advanced Attachment is 2 times better than normal one, a Superior Attachment is 3 times better.
For example a (normal) Scope give +5 aim, an Advanced Scope give +10 aim and the Superior Scope give +15 aim.
I thought about what attachments are good to put one weapons and make a list, from the best attachment to the most useless, here we go:
1. Scope (+5, +10, +15 aim)
I think the scope is the best attachment, because aim is very important in XCom. I would put a scope on any weapon, because all classes have never a shortage for better aim.
2. Stock (Missed shots deal 1, 2, 3 damage)
Even with a lot of aim, shots will miss the target, so it's better they do still damage than do nothing. There are many critical moments in Xcom where any HP counts and/or an alien must die in the same turn, but the Stock will help a lot there. The is is useful for Grenadiers, because of their low aim, and Ranger with shotguns, so they can even "hit" at long distances. Late game snipers don't need it much, because i think anyone will put any aim on their snipers so that they always will hit anyway.
3. Hair Trigger (5%, 10%, 15% chance that the shot is free)
A free action is very useful, we saw it in the Xcom2 videos, how the "free action" pistol ability of the Sharpshooter class can be very useful. , so to have a similar (but random) effect on your weapons is very nice. 5% isn't reliable, but the 15% Trigger can be really good. If the whole team have the 15% Trigger and and shot with their main-weapons, there is a chance of 62,3% that it activates at least one time in a turn. During a whole mission it can active alot, what will make a huge difference in battle, because to shot twice or do other stuff in a turn is very good.
>>125566721
I did, but one pod of thin men + seekers isn't a massive threat unless you've gone full retard and activated them at the same time as other pods. Not trying to make you mad, but site recon is not anywhere near being a hard mission.
Confounding Light is a whole other story.
>>125566847
4. Repeater (5%, 10%, 15% chance of an instant-kill)
On paper it sounds very good to kill any enemy with only one shot, but there are problems. First, you must hit the opponent, a missed shot have no kill-ability from the repeater. The second problem is, that the shot kill the opponent anyway, so there is no need for that instant-kill. And the third problem is, that it's very random. But on the other side it can be a live saver and if the whole team have the 15% Repeater, bigger ayys have a hard time to survive. It's a low-chance, but high reward attachment, it can do almost nothing, or make the hardest battles very easy.
5. Laser Sight (+5, +10, +15 crit)
It's very similar to repeater attachment, only worse. Where the Laser Sight give me only a crit, the repeater give an instant-kill what is for sure much better.
6. Expanded Magazine (+1, +2, +3 ammo in magazine)
In Xcom: EU/EW the ammo conservation project from the foundry was very good and important, because reloading cost a whole turn and that was bad during a battle. In Xcom 2 reloading cost only 1 action point, so it's possible to reload and shoot/overwatch in the same turn ! So bigger magazines aren't that useful anymore, because it don't affect damage-output, only movement anymore. But it have its uses, you don't mind reload during a fight anymore and can run around more often, and it's good for abilities who need more than 1 ammo (Grenadier who destroy opponent cover need 2 of the 3 ammo of it's minigun)
7. Auto-Loader (1, 2, 3 free reloads)
This could be one of the best abilites in Xcom: EU/EW (and foremost LW) but because of the new reload mechanic it seems very weak in Xcom 2. It's only good if you play very aggressive and always run and shoot. But i don't thing this will be necessary, beside of multiplayer, in singleplayer i think you will have breath to not move that much but reload instead.
>>125566612
oh but it's all good
>>125566847
The stock was, as far as I have seen, a special attachment that was unique to that one sniper rifle. It will be something like the legendary weapons from massive chalice. The gun was a unique gun called "The Reaper."
>>125566959
Sadly, we don't know how many attachments we can put on the weapons, but i saw pictures with multiple attachments on weapons, even on Tier 1 weapons. The best example is the "Resistance Warrior Pack" picture, where the guy in the middle have a Stock, Scope and Repeater on his normal assault rifle.
So i assume you can put 3 attachments on weapons, what lead to nice weapon builds:
Here some examples:
"Close combat shotgun damage roulette" (Hair Trigger, Repeater, Laser Sight)
It's about to get very close to the opponent and deal as much damage as possible. No aim needed, because of the shotgun range bonus. Goal is to get an instant kill, a second action for another shot or crit damage.
"Support Gatling Gun" (Stock, Hair Trigger, Expanded Magazine)
For Grenadiers who's job is to remove cover. Expanded Magazine for more actions during battle, Stock for hitting something and with Hair Trigger you have a second action.
"Big Ayy Remover Assault Rifle/Sniper (Scope, Hair Trigger, Repeater)
Designed for fat enemies who need no cover (MECs, Berserker). Scope to hit them, Repeater to kill them even with the low damage of the gun, Hair Trigger to hit them twice and for more chances of repeater procs.
"Save Bet Early Game loadout" (Scope, Stock Expanded Magazine)
It's all save. Scope for save aim, stock for save hit, expanded magazine to have enough ammo during a fight, no random 5% luck stuff. Works well even with cheap normal attachments
>>125566959
I think the repeater would mesh very well with a revolver ocelot since you bring high aim so you won't miss giving maximum chance of proccing and you have lightening hands for free shots to increase the odds of proccing.
>>125566995
In the Angry Joe video, at the end of the misson you will see, that he found a stock.
I think the special sniper rifle, was a hint from the developers, that you can make legacy weapons and give them to other soldiers
>>125567263
I think the attachments only affect weapons where they are put on, so the repeater would affect only the sniper rifle but not the pistol.
>>125567368
If you can't put attactchements on the pistol for the gunslinger that would kinda suck/be a pretty big downside. I guess I just never considered that I wouldn't be able to trick out the big huge revolver.
Do we know that you can't?This makes me sad
>>125566496
I did actually break LoS.
The mechtoids were felled by a heat shredder rocket and the application of a double tap Guass Machinegun with HEAT rounds by Doorn. While the outsiders unfortunately chose destructible cover, meaning we could clear them out with the rifles in the squad. Both the medic and the infantry riddled both of them before moving on to avoiding the heavy fire by the mechs.
The thin mints were very worrying but half of them clustered up behind a hill making them easy prey for a rocket and some mayhem suppression by our LAW gunner.
The scout must've survived about 6 missed shots by thin men as he hunkered in multidirectional cover, the thin mints not advancing very close as they kept throwing fire his way, unable to see the rest of the squad. A few holos and cover destruction later, the Doorn machine and our resident sniper managed to nail all of them, with the scout running up to finish one off with apistol.
The Sectoid commander had scurried off at the start of the fight but when he returned he didn't last too long. The sectoids and seekers showed up one by one for some reason so that wasn't so bad.
Squadsight has accuracy penalties now. People also believes it increases with range.Maginificent Design Desu
>>125568476
SS is such as weird concept.
How is it, if at all, justified in-game?
>>125568598
Because being able to only see 10 tiles when you have a scope is pretty ridiculous and being able to see as far as you can with squadsight without having to take any risks with having people spotting on the front lines would be incredibly broken.
>>125568598
I mean, fog of war makes almost no sense in real life, if that's what you mean. SS is more realistic than not having it.
>>125568598
What do you find weird about it?
Its a game mechanic to make snipers act like snipers without making them to overpowered.
>>125568872
>>125568860
>>125568829
I understand the mechanic from a gameplay perspective entirely. Not what I was talking about.
Its just how it is justified in-game; HEAT rockets do extra damage to robotic enemies because thats a specific warhead that penetrates armor. Fine, I can live with that.
But you're telling me because someone is close to the enemy I can see them, but otherwise they're invisible? Just wondering if there is any fluff to substantiate it other than telepathy
>>125569082
Yeah, like I said, fog of war makes no sense in real life. It's just game mechanics, nothing to get too worked up over.
>>125569082
Because hearing radio chatter about every soldier calling in the enemies' positions to the sniper(s) would get annoying after a while.
>>125569082
Sniper is running around the battlefield. Their squad member says there is an enemy in x location.
The sniper then trains there scope in that area and shoots the enemy.
Do radios count as telepathy?
>>125569082
Uh, special gear that lets them see via allies helmets or something? Where the webm of that dude firing a camera through a window with a camera?
>>125569241
Like having the camera focus on panic'd soldiers every turn or listening to Van Doorn isn't.
>>125569250
Thats spotting, something that the sniper can do themselves, and should be doing.
But they're not spotting. Enemies are 100% invisible to you forever, regardless of how long you sit in position.
again, I'm not saying its bad or I don't understand it, just can't remember if theres any lore/fluff around it.
>>125569486
okay
http://days.to/until/5-february
>>125567623
I watched again a video and can say..
You can upgrade only your primary weapons with this attachment.
BUT
There must be a way how you can upgrade the sword of the ranger, because there is a strange looking sword in the new trailer. maybe you can upgrade the pistol and grenadelauncher later in the game too.
>>125568598
I heard reallife snipers operate with a spotter.
In Xcom, if he see a target he can shoot it, but if it's too far away he don't see it anymore.
Squadmembers tell the sniper where the target is, so looks with the scope to that point, but he have problems to hit the target , because it's so far away, so no crits on vital parts of the enemy and reduced aim in Xcom 2.
Don't forgt that almost any game have such kind of scale. There is almost no game who have corret ranges (the< are all trimmed down), for example tanks in RTS shoot only 100 ingame meters, in RL they can shoot 4000 meters. Only few games have correct ranges like ARMA and Combat Mission but they aren't that kind of games people like.
>>125570081
Even games like wargame have this kind of mechanic.
Units have a stealth rating relating to how easily identifiable and visible they are from a distance.
You can counter this with units that have excellent optics. Most MBTs and regular vehicles have medium. Recce vehicles and some infantry have good or even very good.
Only special ops forces have excellent optics.
its just a game mechanic
Since we got XCOM2 coming around the corner, and I've never actually completed the game, should I just uninstall LW and go through vanilla so I can get used to dumbed down mechanics again?
>>125570518
From what we've seen LW isn't going to be that far ahead of X2 on the hardest difficulty.
16 aliens on an early game mission is easily as much if not more ayys than LW
>>125570974
XCOM2 is sounding quite promising even unmodded.
>>125570518
Looks looks like x2 is bringing more this time, but getting adjusted to to cover crumbling from random fire, different panic mechanics, smaller squad sizes, and explosives is worth it.
>>125569486
Why do they need fluff for a board game mechanic?
Space marine bolters fire further than 36 inches in the lore.
>>125571624
>Space marine bolters fire further than 36 inches in the lore.
Space marines aren't an inch tall, either.
>Why does an ability need fluff
are you serious, nigga
>>125570974
In all the beags missions I saw he got people surrounding him and in large numbers every time. Didn't seem difficult to dispatch them at all even on the hardest difficulty he bumped it to.
>>125572438
He was pretty close to disaster on the blacksite mission. That was normal diffuculty. And he didn't lose a guy standing out in no cover on legendary cuzbeagleluck
>>125572438
he beagleluck'd on the legendary one
Is this chem grenade gonna work? They don't have the flying bonus to defense, so they're technically landed right now aren't they?
Just got the game, any tips for a beginner?
>>125573772
Break LOS
>>125572318
>people are restricted to moving in 5x5 squares.
>Geneva convention dictates combatants must take turns firing at each other.
Are you serious, nigga?
It's a board game
Are openxcom overhauls welcome here?
>Playin X-Piratez
>One of the gals gets promoted to Captain
>Give her dual homefront rifles
>Mutant Progrom in Boneyard
>She fucking solos 10+ UAC marines
>MFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEvOZAFZIFE
>>125573772
Full cover is your friend, half cover isn't. 99% is not 100%. Grenades/Explosives are your friend. Squadsight snipers are gods. When moving with no contact always move in conga line (first guy blue moves, the rest follow directly behind) then overwatch at end of turn.
Strategically always go for engineers and pump out satellites as fast as possible. Build your base to take advantage of adjacency bonuses. Go for laser weapons asap.
>>125570518
It's 7 more weeks man and they crawl by
>>125574209
Openxcom stuff in general is good. Unfortunately i haven't played the pirate overhaul so i can't really relate. I should try it some time.
So looks like there is going to be more than just rocket and flamethrower for the exo suit.
>>125575097
>inb4 kinetic strike module
>>125575176
I need this
>>125575176
please
>>125575176
I'll be honest that I'd take that most likely.
>>125575097
Nice, i hope those are random too.
>>125574209
>demo soldier panics on the second turn because "no los for mind control ethereal faec :^)" and tosses a high ex 5 feet away
>it kills 10/14 of your soldiers before you could even find the UFO
>there are no mods that make it so los is necessary for mind powers
Also the dogs in that x-piratez mod are bullshit.
>Hit one with a burst from a flamethrower, 2 black powder bombs, 5+ hits from an AK + 2 hits from a boarding rifle
>runs across the map and one shots your mutant that just tanked a shotgun blast to the face.
>>125576338
Proving Grounds is the new foundry that produces random items out of a pool when you research it.
>>125576378
>there are no mods that make it so los is necessary for mind powers
Hate to break it to you, but that's available in the default mod list for OpenXCOM. Go through the options and you'll see it as one of the very first ones.
>>125576539
It fucking better. I've lost way too many colonels to bullshit ethereals'/sectoids' mind shenanigans making the suicide rookie blow everybody to smithereens.
>>125576441
Yes, glad you understood.
>>125555614
Thanks
>>125574240
aight will do, thanks
So /xcg/, what mods do you hope to see for the game?
Post your current squad.
>>125578142
Bigger pods.
Increased squad size.
For a start
>>125575097
Garth said some other heavy weapons included a flamethrower, shredder (super shotgun) and plasma blaster
>>125578361
>>125575097
Exo new MEC, right?
>>125578623
MEC is coming in a dlc in summer.
>>125578142
Flags for the countries who are not in the game. I wanna recreate the chilean Scout I had in LW.
>>125578623
Anyone can equip an EXO suit, I think the true MECs will be in one of the DLCs
>>125578142
The one the removes static from explosions
The one that changes model of this three-barreled cannon to proper lmg.Or at least i hope next tiers cannons are not multibarreled
>>125578967
Well this is the tier two lmg.
>>125579316
>le chainsaw grip machine gun
This meme needs to die.
>>125578142
Some interesting armor designs and hats.
I don't care for shitty gameplay hurdles.
>>125579434
It's fucking Actionfigures vs Ayys: The Game: The Remake: The Sequel
The fuck do you expect.
>>125578967
>Not making pic related.
Jesse "The Body" Ventura is not pleased.
>>125579434
I don't mind it, but why there is 2 grips? I never saw soldiers shooting it by using the one from below. I can't believe it's just because they wanted to re-use animations.
>>125579434
Xcom rides the rule of cool. For fucks sake, we have a class based around a machete and the customisation is just bonkers. The xcom base is a fucking ufo that has been repurposed to be a stealthy flying base.
>>125578142
Bigger missions.
Bigger pods.
Bigger squads.
Longer campaigns.
Balaclavas.
Gas masks.
Civilian clothes such as jeans, hoodies and anoraks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbduDRH2m2M
>>125578142
nude models
various degrees hairchest instead of armor
i want my squad of hairy naked warriors
>>125580102
I was not impressed with the slection of leg and body options in the customization feature.
>>125580102
There's no balaclavas and gas masks in the base game?
>>125581379
We would know if BEAGLE WOULD JUST UPLOAD THAT FUCKING CUSTOMIZATION VIDEO.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>try to name xcom soldiers after friends and anime characters
>have to give all my friends nigger characters so at least my animes remain pure
why is xcom filled with africans
>>125581452
He doesn't have one anon.
He just likes to see you suffer in anticipation.
>>125581735
You do realize you can change their skin tone right?
>>125579434
It's a sci-fi staple from Aliens.
>>125581856
yeah but it feels like cheating somehow
>>125581735
Gotta get expendable troops from somewhere.
>>125581735
Not cool, 3d before 2d bro.
>>125579316
It's a steel beam, 9/11 xcom involvement confirmed
>>125578142
Air Carrier based Interceptors against UFO action Air Game.
>>125578142
Dick gun and dildo sword
>Vanilla
>i/i
>First month
>Van doorn mission
>Actually won
Ahhhhh that's some good shit.
>>125578142
Deadspace.
>>125578142
A mod where there are no human operatives, aliens vs aliens.
>>125581735
>name scouts after video game characters i dislike
>don't feel as bad when they die
>>125578142
Full remake of original x-com games. Then i can play the original in an hd 2016 graphics update.
Going through the Xcom 2 trailer again, does anyone have any idea what the new facilities will be?
I recognise the armory research room and a lab of some kind, maybe a workshop on the left - but those two purple rooms? Some kind of psi testing? or Psi training rooms perhaps? (considering in Xcom psi=purple)
>>125584337
Where's the Sexnasium?
>>125584548
Over here, in engineering once I've drilled lady Shens little ass into submission.
>>125584721
>Clear alien machinery
>Reward
f-free money?
>>125584337
The lower purple room is alien containment - it's where Tygan watches the Pectoid explode in one of the trailers.
>>125584854
>Wanting to have sex with a downie
>>125584983
>That's why paper bags where invented.
>>125584937
I think it's more like free resources you get from salvaging stuff out of the room as you clear it.
>>125584937
Its likely you have to spend some sort of resource to clear rooms? The reward is just what you manage to recycle while clearing all the junk out.
>>125584983
I think that's a tranny.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
>>125581735
>assault_face_when_floaters.jpg
>>125585186
Fuck those civs just blow it all to hell
>>125585186
>Implying civs can block rockets
>>125585186
Hurricane Street is gon give it to ya
How do I stop ethereals and sectopods from kicking my ass?
>>125585182
Great, means you can fuck as hard as you want without risk of pregnancy
How can I warn them???
>>125586063
Kick their ass first.
>>125586180
I was trying but I had to fall back because 5 mutons show up out of nowhere on my flank. So I dealt with the mutons and both sectopods barraged my rocketeer
>>125586173
I don't know about you but I am not gay anon.
>>125586063
rapid fire
>pick this game up again after wondering why I put it down
>instantly remember why I quit
those big guys always kill my dudes and i was trying for a no death run......is a no death run actually possible?
>>125586949
Yea, I got 1 soldier dead in my second classic ironman campaign (and no countries left the project), and I wouldn't consider myself an xcom genius.
But I would never actually go into a campaign with that attitude, your just begging to get kicked in the hypothetical balls.
>>125586063
rapid fire.
I don't get it, the ayys can be so smart with their ambushes and then do dumb shit like this a few turns later.
>>125586949
Yes if you play really slowly or get really lucky it is possible. At least on impossible. Classic and below it's more manageable.
>>125587161
fair enough, thanks for the advice.
>>125585112
>>125585138
Watch "clearing alien machinery" be a mission to go in and fight all the sectopods that are nesting in the abandoned parts of the ship.
>>125587460
Yeah, just for reference, my campaign right before that I lost 10-12 soldiers, and only one sniper made it out of the first 2 months. I still completed that campaign.
Soldier deaths are acceptable, but losing missions aren't.
>>125587767
is it normal to take like 20 attempts to take down the large ufo from month 2 with no bonuses to my jets?
>>125566959
The real question is if you can attach a repeater to a revolver
>>125588060
I don't know why your trying to take a large ufo that early. Just send out an interceptor to check it out and then abort the mission.
(Y) HATE SECTOPODS
I hope firaxis did balance the foundry upgrades. There is stuff I never used in EW.
>>125588060
Long War? I'm surprised you can take it down with 20 attempts
XCOM complete edition is on sale for $10 on Amazon right now for anyone who wants the game cheap/not on steam.
Includes all additional content.
>its a cyberdisc mission
>>125590869
when do I start using targeting modules
>>125588616
>Claudia "Freud"
>31 missions
>8 kills
She seems to rather be anAnal woman.
>>125592073
They're not really necessary, bring em on gives so much extra damage to crit builds targeting modules are marginal gains at best.
>>125592212
She's a psi medic. The nickname was a funny coincidence.
Holy fuck just how long is this game?
>>125592521
about 20-25 hours vanilla
remove snek
remove ayy
remove advent
>Eggsalt just drained $2 from our reserves
OH...NO!!!!
>finally get past a hard mission
>next mission all the enemies are lazer guided to killing my medic first.
I get that its a good tactic but please.
>>125592926
Fucking hell. We have to remove them! Get the battle ship ready, it's payback time.
>>125592926
Bastards stole my lunch money and hacked the commander's private files on Vahlen. Get em
>>125593178
>Savescumming
Disgusting.
>>125593410
this game is literally impossible without it.
or at least i cant get out of month 2 without.
>>125592316
They look like a nice item but I'm too used to just slapping scopes/laser/grenades/plates on everyone and don't even consider them, so I was wondering if anon has a go-to usage.
>>125593547
Your going to learn a lot more from your short ironman campaigns than a full campaign of savescumming.
>>125593896
yes....that this game is ass
>>125593547Git________________Gud
>>125593896
Truer words never spoken.
>>125574029
>get image in my head of bradford going "NUH-UH THAT'S CHEATING" when aliens bring more than a few dozen ayys to an engagement and fire whenever they damn well please
I don't know why but I laughed so hard.
>>125593970
>game is shit so I have to cheat to make it fun
>>125594706
how is savescumming cheating
hacking is cheating
if saving wasnt meant to be a function then it would just autosave, in a similar manner to that of darkest dungeon.
Playing i/i on vanilla and I didn't have the possibility to get some scientists as reward for the second abduction mission. Armor research is around 40 days now, but I don't know what to get else. What do?
>>125594770
>Soldiers deaths are permanent
>"No it's not cheating if I reload until they don't die in my turn."
>>125594770
>infinite retries
>not cheating
how does it feel to have no morals?
>>125595186
i fail to see your point
have you ever played fire emblem on hard?
have you played, say, tactics ogre? or any other tactics game?
>>125595312
so what would you suggest? a coin system like arcades have?
maybe you have to re-buy the game if you fail too many times?
>>125595656
Invisible Inc gave you three rewinds per level.
>>125595828
thats stealth.
this is tactics
one you can practice
the other is an rpg
>>125594770
I wouldn't say its cheatingsince as you pointed out its built into the gamebut honestly your gimping your game experience. If you erase all your failures its makes the victory hollow.
x-com is best experienced with those high and lows, and overcoming despite the obstacles and road blocks.
Also its very possible so your not smashing your head into a wall.
>>125595416
Nah I play xcom. What's your point?
>>125595828
And you can get infinite rewinds in a custom game.
>>125595656
I would suggest to live with the missplays you've made. If you fuck up, start all over again.
>>125596109
pretty much every other tactics game have unique interactions because its a challenge to keep your main characters alive. and thats usually how youre able to get through the higher difficulties.
I guess that would be more of a thing for this if there were unique characters.
>>125595991
for your, and my sake, I will attempt to do a game saving after every battle regaurdless of the outcome. It just goes against every built in nature ive learned from all other tactics games.
>>125595991
>x-com is best experienced with those lows, and no overcoming because of the obstacles and road blocks.
FTFY
>>125583934
Speaking of expendable scouts, I once had these two brothers. Straight from the get go both were named Lee. One was a scout, other guy officer critfantry. Needless to say the scout was dead come october, so it's my headcanon the other dude as an officer assigned him to scout because he hated his guts and wanted him dead to get his fuckhuge sum of inheritance.
I get tired of blankslate characters, sue me.
>>125596373
>for your, and my sake, you should attempt to do a game saving after every move regaurdless of the outcome
That's Ironman mode
>>125596545
Not that guy, but
>i am literally trash at the game and can not beat it without savescumming so i rationalize my obviously inferior style of play to others even though it completely guts the whole point of a dice-roll roleplaying game
Fuck off
>>125596809
so like.
why isnt it built into the game.
im just saying, its like playing pokemon as a nuzlocke.
>try to numb the pain of not having a PC for XCOM 2 by replaying EW
>get 3/4 of the way through before realizing the game has no replay value
Suffering.
>>125578142
camera mod
>>125596976
Not that guy, but I actually meant that what I said. Even the part with "best experience". I fucking love XCOM and if I don't finish the game in i/i until 5th of february I'm going to cry.
51 dayys until you can stick yourswordin a snek
>>125596981
It isn't, really. Part of what makes XCom so enjoyable is the triumph through adversity; you're supposed to feel like you're losing things. Savescumming removes the risk ans suspense element altogether. There is literally no chance you're going to lose ANYTHING ever if everything that goes wrong can be retried infinite times until it works. Nothing is stacked against you, and the victory feels less meaningful because of it. When you've trudged through a tough campaign, your memorial is coming up on like forty and a lot of soldiers you saw rise through the ranks and perform bravados or complete fuckups have died for you to be at that fucking temple ship proxy mining this piece of fuck ethereal to kingdom come it actually has sentimental value to you when the credits roll. Then you can sit there wondering who you could have saved, or reminisce over that retard rocketeer who never hit anywhere near his mark but someone made it to master sergeant anyway until finally getting hilariously mauled by a berserker for blowing up half his team. You - or at least, I - don't get that with savescumming.
>>125596981
Because you might fuck up horribly and lose your whole A-Squad after 25 hours of gameplay and the causal player won't tolerate this. But this is a general on /vg/ and not some xcom thread on steam.
Or because of those bugs.
I don't give a shit tho.
>Whole squad gets whiped by some LOS bullshit after my heavy moved instead of shooting and triggered 2 more pots because of that.
That's xcom, baby, restart, replay and lose again.
>>125597420
Then I am sorry I was rude and I'm glad you enjoy your game anon.n-no homo
>leave after the release date change
>come back three months later
>there's a new influx of assholes bickering about whether saves cumming is cheating or not, even though this exact argument was thrashed to death months ago and everyone stopped caring about it
>some new meme about LOS, replacing the vastly superior meme about explosives
>2 is still seven weeks away
even snakeposting was better than this. see you guys at release.
>>125597817
I see
well this type of view is the reason I came here
I'm pretty bull headed when it comes to my games so i just think theyre bullshit when you cant perfect them. but as im learning thats not how the game is meant to be.
thanks for changing my point of view.
>>125596976
>my style of play is "superior" to another
>I'm gonna brag about that and call that guy a shitter
Dude, calm the fuck down.
>>125597698
Well spoken, Commander.
>>125597945
We'll always wait for you, anon-kun!
So is XCOM 2 basically a what-if scenario for whenever Beagle ditched his Ironman Impossible campaigns and let the Ayys win, or did that supposed second wave the Uber-Ethereal mentioned just come and demolish everything?
>>125597835
>No homo
>Stuttering
I don't trust you
help! the ayys are assaulting xcom HQ and I'm not sure if a mayhem or ITZ sniper will be more useful.
>>125597698
He gets it.
>>125596981
I have wondered this so many sleepless nights.
Just like with nuzlocke it vastly improves the experience. Really I believe permadeath in every game only enriches the experience, minus a few exceptions like linear gamespermadeah call of duty sounds awful.
The only answer I have ever come up that isn't memery like 'casuals' is that its just what people expect.
The thrill of an Ironman save is not something many people enjoy. Many play games to relax and just have fun, which in itself is subjective. Many don't like the emotional rollercoasters Ironman games tend to produce.
Why is isn't default Ironman with the option to turn it off is beyond me, though.
>>125598160
Xcom lost extremely early in the xcom2 universe. They only shot down two ufos, didn't get to lasers, and shen was just starting to prototype mecs.
>>125597835
Thanks~
>>125597993
>thanks for changing my point of view.
Errr...okay...
>>125598160
The former. This raises an important question though, where ARE the aliens the Uber Ethereal was talking about? Weren't the Ethereal's army on the run and enslaving races so they could combat them?
>>125598623
Have you not heard of the contagion yet anon? It is basically tiberium and the ayys are terrified of it.
>>125597945
Explosives aren't a meme, though.
>>125598623
some crystal nonsense will show up in XCOM 2.
"what lies ahead" is almost inevitably gonna be uploading ethereals into human bodies, though. odds are the contagion was one of their fuckups in the narcissism quests.
>>125597698
This, XCOM taught me the joys of Ironman
I really like Firaxis' xcom devs. Mostly because they seem to like their own game so much.
Are sneks not popular in /xcg/ ?
>>125599460
Go away Commander Cobra.
>>125599460
Get out, snekfucker.
>>125599460
No they are not you degenerate. Is it so hard to find a girl that would tolerate your weird ass?
>>125599460
yes and no
>>125598160
The real question is what's the point of rescuing the commander if they sucked so bad they couldn't even unlock laser weaponry before having 8 countries leave the project.
>>125599460
PURGE
ALIEN
FETISHISTS
>>125599791
apparently XCOM was outright betrayed by the countries. They were doing alright before the council shut down on them out of the blue.
>>125599676
yes
>>125599791
They probably could have rebounded if the commander wasn't kidnapped in a really early base defense.
WHAT
HOW? HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS GAME
>>125600007
Dis kitty is cryng :C
>>125600204
AYYY
>>125600204
Gauss snipers fuck shit up.
>>125600331
ayy yo dat pussy be dripping wet
>>125599460
>>125600007
Don't worry! there's a cutting edge cure for xenophiliacs like you.
swing by your local rehabilitation centerconcentration campand start loving human women today!
You know what would make me happy?
If XCOM3 was set underwater, TFTD remake.
And then XCOM4 set in space. Salvaging old wrecks on the galactic tactical map and fighting that big bad ayys are so scared of.
Would I be wasting a satellite by giving it Mexico here? I'm not fully knowledgeable of how the whole satellite mechanic plays out in LW.
Feels good to have a height advantage on floaters for once.
>>125601561
solomon's already made it clear he's not interested in doign TFTD
>>125601561
TFTD was a mistake.
>>125601848
He wasn't before, but now they have 2 successful games set on Earth's soil.
They'll have to search for fresh setting.
>have very little money
>a few days away from month's end
>save
>fuck it lets skip a few days see what happens
>6 small ships
>2 terror ships
>1 terror mission
>cancel cancel cancel cancel cancel cancel
>month ends
>"Everyone is fucking pleased! Especially the ones that send in the most money"
>have even more money than I had hoped to get
Soooo should I save?
>>125602124
There are tons of fresh settings possible, like a journey into the depths of the earth, or another dimension, or a contagion-overtaken earth, or maybe even space early.
>>125602185
time to restart on ironman mode, savescum
>>125602302
Or a journey inside your mother's infested vagina.
Oh, sorry, that would take at least 2 full games with DLC's.
>>125578142
All these replies and not a single one has mentioned the most obvious and needed mod.REVERSETERRORMISSIONS
>>125602442
Its my first time playing anon don't be mean.
>>125602549
>being mean
>>125602597
That would just be terror missions anon.
>>125593253
>>125593389
They stole bradford's starbucks tip money
>>125602682
At least I'm not shitposting, but providing a worthwhile ideas.
The final mission would be aborting you before you are born.
In Beagles first XCOM videos he mentions
>If this was classic I would look for the best cover around the map and trade shots, but since we're playing on impossible we better keep looking for a good place to engage.
And some videos later, same series he says
>Sorry for waiting so long for the next video, I played on my other savegame and discovered some overpowered things (ie. Stealth Armor)
The first statement implied, that he knew what it is like to play classic, therefore he must have played a classic campaign before.
But the second statement says that he didn't knew about xcom's lategame.
Did beagle play xcom on impossible right away without finishing the game at least once on classic? Is he a born tactical master.
>>125603170
>insulting others isn't shitposting
>>125603170
>I'm not shitposting
>>125603463
You don't play your games in the higher difficulty?
>>125601616
Absolutely not a waste, it will delay the ayy from claiming the country for a month. This means they will start getting resources and research from it later than they usually would. Directly it means your next month will have less UFOs in it than it would have if they had the country.
You will lose the satellite, but you may get more activity in that country than usual, meaning more interception chances (which at this stage aren't really worth taking, but still..).
Usually when you do this the AI uses an expensive mission like a terror or infiltration to finish the country off, which means that terror mission isn't being aimed at your other countries. That alone is worth $200 imo.
>>125603721
I did start EU on classic, fucked up, tried again, fucked up, tried again, fucked up again, tried on normal, got bored quarter way through, tried on classic, finally succeeded and replayed EW 2 times on classic after that but I didn't start with impossible. After 100 hours I felt brave enough to do.
>>125603463
it is already established that beagle is a top secret project by the Australian government to create the ultimate tactical shitposter
>>125603463
I usually jump into games on the highest difficulty I can access at the start. Sink or swim.
So tomorrow's stream is going to be Garth playing through the blacksite mission in his own unique way with Solomon critiquing him along the way.
>>125603463
I played the first 2-3 months on classic, then repeated the first mission on impossible like 200 times, then a year later finally started a campaign on classic for a cinematic playthrough to the end (and had to force myself for it). Vanilla is pretty boring after the first months.
Fuck whichever long war dev thought it was a good idea to swap the muton in the zhang escort mission with a cryssalid, that damn thing triggered off a series of clusterfuck that resulted in one of my snipers getting murderized, turning into a zombie, smoking my grenadier, and then escalating to a 1hp thin man shooting zhang in the face when he was hunkered down across the map and covered in acid.On that note, anyone have that kingsmen thin man gif? I can't find it fucking anywhere
>>125600204
not bad dmg
you should get rapid fire
mmm...thanks rng
>>125606080
Well, that is a perfectly valid way to play through vanilla...
>>125605924
Also I may have sacrified said sniper to cryssalid satan knowingly so I could smoke two other thin men who were on my ass.
>>125603463
Beags probably did his first playthrough pretty conservatively rather than trying everything, considering vanilla EU was short as fuck.
Is the base layout you get from doing the tutorial shit?
>>125606056
Rapid fire-mayhem-precision shot would be insane
I've also come to notice that in long war ethereals are massive assholes. My archangel tac sense infantry got critwounded by the ethereal that showed up later on in the defense. I thought defense bonuses helped protect from psi lance.
>>125607205
Yes
>>125605924
Ayy just so you know nigga that lid is in the base game. Not a muton.
>>125605924
It's a chryssalid in the main game too.
>>125607294
Ethereals fire a shot but their will is substituted for their aim
your defense reduces the chance to be hit
your will reduces the damage you take if youre hit
Does anyone else really wish XCOM had more build diversity?
>>125608592
Just break LOS and you can do whatever you want.
>>125608592
are you playing vanilla?
long war has about 5 viable build paths for all 8 classes. not even talking about mecs.
>>125608592
xcom2 is looking to have 10 different builds, 2 for each class.
>>125608592
The problem is you get one build for each class when you min/max. One perk is usually the best, and the time where you there is an actual choice in perks it doesn't change how that class i played. LW might have doubled the classes and had 3 perks per class, but it still felt like you were railroaded into certain choices.
>>125608592
not rly, I can already barely settle on builds in LW
>>125609185
lmao
LW has so many build paths you can go through.
the only forced path is probably jaeger.
because it's only useful on that particular skillset.
>>125568598
Augmented Reality HUD (this is canonically how S.C.O.P.Es work and why they provide an Aim/Crit bonus despite not literally being a scope) and just the sniper themselves being able to make those shots.
Presumably, other soldiers are informed of ayy locations and that's why they can move accordingly, but can't shoot them because holy shit it's a fucking speck, I can't see that nigger how you expect me to hit him
>>125609185
you're always minmaxing, the fun part is when the builds are complicated enough to make it so different people think different things are "max", if they can decide on one thing at all
>>125609185
>The problem is you get one build for each class when you min/max.
what if the perks were
hold for it
what if
what
if
the perks were
b a l a n c e d
>>125609318
As I said, when you min/max. An example of this is the rocketeer. Yes there is the explosive infantry build for them, but you are better bringing a rocketeer with all the aim bonuses or an actual infantry.
FUCKING CAPTCHA
>>125609660
list perks
I can guarantee there's atleast 2 different builds people use and it works well
>>125608927
I don't think it's a requirement to go full one way or the other. So you can hybridize. Though I don't think we've really seen enough to make such statements.
>>125610781
From what I have seen the perks are either boosting your primary or secondary weapon. There will probably be perks like squad sight in vanilla, but for the most part you will be able to do two builds that cause the class to play very differently. Like the ranger, whose trees look like they are split into either being a ninja or someone who dashes all over the battlefield fucking things up.
>>125610781
They're probably like two A E S T H E T I C S per class, like how Assault is divided up into defensive or offensive perks, or how heavies are geared towards either making dudes easier to hit for others (holo target, rockets, grenadier) or just making them more dead or otherwise indisposed (bullet swarm, suppression, danger zone, mayhem, etc). or snipers as close range pick u off types vs long range squad sight guys, or supports as medics vs actually useful members of the team
>>125607205
No. Just break los and it'll be fine.
>>125611517
>A E S T H E T I C S
Is this some hot new meme I'm missing out on. I still don't know what people mean by t. name
>>125611693
>new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DERtyxZ-mLU
its old and busted tbqh and was never good
>>>/mu/
>>125578142
I plan to add the special weapons from Mega Man Legends in as heavy weapons for the mec suits
Also maybe a robotic canine unit that you can build
I don't know, depends on if I'm too retarded to learn their modding tools. Might do more.
>>125611462
>>125611517
from the footage I've watched, squad sight is the Sniper starter perk. but second anon seems ot have the right idea, though medics seem to have vastly more use as they can remotely heal people with the Gremlin as well as provide defensive buffs.
Every time I see someone take a medkit in XCOM, I die a little inside
All you're doing by taking a medkit is admitting that you're so garbage that you're letting guys get hit/downed. Same with armor that doesn't add extra abilities. Body Armor > Skeleton Suit > Ghost Armor, that's the only valid progression.
>>125611929
>i'm clearly talking about EU/EW
>"W-WELL IN THE NEW VIDEOS--"
i would deck you in the face if we were speaking irl, youve only said one thing and im already sick of you're shit
>Decide to finally watch this LnI shit you fags are so hot on
>finally get to the episode where beagles talks about breaking up with shacktac
He sounded so sad and broken.
>>125612007
>use goliath + medic + 6 glass cannons with defense stacking
>not taking medkits w/ savior
you're fucked in the head mate
>>125612189
I'm the other anon he responded to and I was talking about the new videos. The post you responded to was talking about xcom2. Calm the fuck down.
>>125612189
The reply chain starts off of >>125608927
which was talking about XCOM2.
EU/EW wasn't what the conversation branch was about you fucking retard.
>>125612269
Women ruin everything.
>>125612308
on the other hand,
>moving such that you can ever get hit
you're shit, brah
s h i t
>>125612269
Wich episode was it ?
>>125612907
>use something that doesn't care about getting hit to get hit
>have damage for days, could destroy 3 sectopods and 2 ethereals
>mec takes like 40 dmg, no injury lel
>medic heals it up in 1 turn
>>125613114
#83: Auto Ambush
After he completes the mission.
>>125613151
>getting shot
you're gay
and your posting is bad
suck my dilz
But seriously, you are kinda garbage at XCOM if your guys are being hit at all.
Good evening and welcome to yet another episode of THIS IS SUCH FUCKING BULLSHIT!
What the fuck is wrong with these people? I just stumbled upon a Cyberdick Dreadnought with 45 or 50 health. I couldn't tell because it was obscured by the health bars of hojilion drones. I had an Outsider Overlord with 40 health. I actually paused and counted it by hand, it was that unbelievable. I had a MEC miss (which was expected, this is after all Long Dong out of fuck you over) and destroy the cover for 2 of his mates. I had cover collapsing on soldiers hiding behind it. I had an invisible Sectopod that would appear out of this air when approached.
This is such fucking bullshit.
Anyone has any tips for clearing out large ships? I tried going around it and picking off pods that patrol the along the flanks but that takes forever. Being forced to move slowly and taking almost three hours to clear a ship is not fun. In most cases I am left in front the pilots cabin where I get assaulted the moment I open the doors from every which way. The cover crumbles within a couple of turns and then it's a pure slugging match and luck.
>>125613342
im getting baited but whatever
>garbage at xcom
>1 death so far in classic run
>it was base rookie anyways
>im in january
>garbage at xcom
>0 missions failed
>already getting plasma tech
>i only have goliaths medics and rapid fire classes
>garbage at xcom
>ayys never even get to see my glass units until they get fucked thoroughly while they are busy scratching my mec
>15 countries sat'd, 1 ayy base left
>basically finished the campaign
>garbage at xcom
>says the fag who can't even finish vanilla normal with savescum
ahahahahahah this vip broke all this doors and now he gonna die
>>125613659
SOL kaerb
>>125613659
break los
>>125613757
>says the fag who can't even finish vanilla normal with savescum
that's a big assumption homie
>classic run
>being a baby who plays baby difficulties
lmao
>>125613993
>being a baby who plays baby difficulties
that's a big assumption homie :^)
>>125613659
>more shitter noob tears from someone who can't break los
Maybe tactics games arent for you... hahahahahaha love those noob tears, slurp slup, theyre like sugar sap :)
Cry more about RNG for me, bitch boy!
>XCOM 2 lets you play as the unholy lovechild of Delta Green and ISIS
Hype. Has anyone posted the class upgrade trees yet?
>>125614083
Classic is literally for children.
>>125590869
>its a cyberdisc mission
Good thing you have guns!
>>125611895
>MML
I'm naming my first combat hacker Tron Bonne. You fucking make this happen.
>>125613659
LW is all about pod activation. If you are able to activate them properly, you will have an easy time. If RNG decides to say fuck you, you will have a bad time.
>>125613659
>Being forced to move slowly and taking almost three hours to clear a ship is not fun
Act like a professional, or die like a chode.
Friendly reminder to roll two Specialists and no Sharpshooters.
>>125614592
>have no fun
it's possible to make slow, methodical games, but XCOM is not one of those games. There's way too much dead air to make it tolerable to play XCOM slowly, having only about ten seconds of actual player control for every minute of gameplay is ludicrous.
If they'd remove alien activation cutscenes or increase the general speed of the game, it'd be okay, but as it stands, if you're not one-turn wiping everything every turn, you're not just bad at the game, you must have some kind of brain disorder and legitimately hate fun.
If I wanted to watch aliens do alien things for two hours and do nothing about it, I'd rent a sci-fi movie, not play a video game.
>>125614885
Friendly reminder that LW is bad and you're a fraud who probably edits the .ini to remove all difficulty
>>125615086
I'm talking about 2, you stupid shit.
>>125615086
>specialist
>sharpshooter
>LW
have you not been paying attention to any XCOM news
There's this one shitposter with every second post just parrots shit he gets told when he complains about the game.
His mother clearly didnt give him enough attention.
>>125615449
No because XCOM 2 is just a rape fanfic and EW is for casuals who need japanese mecha to take out drones.
>>125613659
Break LOS, man. I don't know what else to tell you. Maybe you should play something else if you're too dumb to get this game.
>>125613757
>1 ayy base left
>basically finished the campaign
You literally aren't even done the first act.
>>125615545
>Trying to cover up the fact you saw an XCOM 2 post and responded with "LEL LONG WAR IS BAD" by spewing nonsense
Is that you, Shitposter Classic?
>>125616034
>I am a huge fraud, please do not rape my face
>>125614910
You're talking about Long War, and how you can't have fun because you aren't able to LEEROY JENKINS your way through one of the hardest type of missions in Long War.
It's not that you aren't having fun because of the pace, you just aren't having fun because you suck at Long War.
make a new thread faggots
>>125616508
>It's not that you aren't having fun because of the pace,
No, it's the pace. It takes ten hours for anything to happen and it's frustrating for that and that alone.
Getting only seconds of play time out of hours of running the game is dumb as hell.
>>125616606
Nah
>>125616606
I'm on it.
>>125616712
So, waitaminute. Are you now implying that EVERY mission in Long War forces you to play like that? Because I was under the impression that we were originally talking about Large ship missions.
Larges are hard. REALLY fucking hard. Everything about the way they were implemented in LW is designed to make you slow down, not take risks, play cautiously and ALWAYS have an exit strategy.
If you're honestly trying to say that ALL missions in LW are like that, then you're just a fucking liar.
New Campaign:
>>125617138
>>125617138
>>125617138
>>125578142
Find the Faceless mode
![[BombardsInternally].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xvDC5pc.jpg "[BombardsInternally]")
