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Previous Mission: >>135934531

News:
(a) Anarchy's Children is out NOW, for the moment only for the owners of the Reinforcement Pack.
(b) Julian Gollop is doing 'Something' in the likes of “Turn based tactical combat – world based strategy.”
>https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/03/18/new-x-com-game/

Mandatory Reading of /xcg/.
>http://pastebin.com/Rd2nfr3n

<<¡XCOM 2 Links!>>
>http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=616682629
Essential improvements (Skip intros, fix stuttering, multi monitor support, resolutions past 1080p)
>https://mega.nz/#F!kZwQCCST!Sbr0_URdKG5-kzWUmGPyLg
Current Modlists:
>>http://pastebin.com/4Hdthmpi
>>http://pastebin.com/SERg72a5
hugely detailed spreadsheet:
>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13CvoSAyapnC2p9a_r9SV5cHK7Qd6iqtsAazTg2_be4/edit#gid=970853268
Mandatory Watching
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pJHto4YWms
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEoGrbKAyKE

XCOM EW/LW Legacy Links (full information, all links):
Long War download link:
>http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/88/
/xcg/ Recomended Mod List
>http://pastebin.com/rzzMpkqE
Extra perks to add for Training Roulette:
>http://pastebin.com/cUjBbaFM
Namelist generator:
>http://daiz.io/xcom-namegen/
Wiki:
>http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Long_War
/xcg/'s Long War FAQ (new players read this shit):
>http://pastebin.com/YmaXBKpN
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xth for argon
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why the fuck can you miss the objective when taking non-regular shots?
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butt
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>>136007308
3rd for hiss
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>>136007308
fifth for sneks are for hugging
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5 for YOU HAVE FAIL ME /XCG/
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>>136007487
>>136007512
I could not predict this outcome, though it is intriguing
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>>136007480
Why do so many ayys have tits
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rare snek edition thread when ?
I need to get some in my folder
here, i'll invest this one
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Let's talk about ARGON, /xgc/.
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>>136007630
through the magnificent design principles laid out by the Elders

>>136007681
top fucking kek
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>>136007308
Post A-Teams
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>>136007480

blades and butts
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VIGILO CONFIDO
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>>136007480
>>136007891
Reminder that codexiiiescesi canonically have ghetto-tier fat booties
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>>136007480
Best ayylien waifu.
Still needs to be removed from our planet though, just like the rest of them.
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>>136007702
andromedon space world argon or acid argon?
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>>136007865
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>>136007865

>one
>two
>three
>four
>five
>Gerard
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Reminder that the concept art for a codex without the distortion has nipples.
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>>136008117
Six died when a gatekeeper lasered her ass. Everyone hates Gerard.
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>>136008117
typical gerard
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Guys, I'm really having problems. I'm on my 120th campaign and I can't get past the first blacksite, mission-wise. The furthest I've gotten is predator armor / magnet weaponry, I wipe soon after I get one of them and the other is on the way. So I restart. I'm playing on Commander and even tried going back to veteran, and while the earlygame was insultingly easy I still managed to wipe at the same exact stage of the game ( advent mecs / stun lancers / sometimes I see a muton. ) Then it's just over. I lose all of my promoted units and have to continue with 5 rookies ( i usually rush for the squad size upgrade, doesn't take too much time away from other upgrades because you at least need alloys to buy them )

What the fuck? I still haven't even seen a chryssalid
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>>136008350
See >>136008167
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>>136008350
I usually just hold off all the story missions til I have T3 shit
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>>136008017
>psi ops use insanity
>the codex is transferred into the room of a random /xcg/ anon
>he begins thanking TRUMP for making his waifu real
>she trys to teleport but only clones and excites the anon
>she continues to attempt to teleport to safety as he begins to hold her in his grease encrusted grip that has been tempered by years of snek posting
>as her clones attempt to commit suicide or make the mistake of teleporting she awakes to a PSI OP stealing all of advent burgers supplies and getting a free refill even though it is not allowed.
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>>136007865
Many dead Colonels and Majors led to this team.
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>>136008490
>Codex tries to become an hero
>DODGE: GRAZED!
>Now there are two suicidally-depressed Codices
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>>136008659
>they try again
>now there are four
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>>136008521
>go through portal
>squad select shows skyranger ready to deply
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>>136008521
>codices
WOW THE RIGHT PLURAL
GREAT JOB
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=648410303

is this mod essential, /xcg/?
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>>136008117
Fucking Gerard.
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>>136009107
It's essential you don't install this mod, because mods are cheating
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>>136009006

>implying Firebrand isn't going out on her own, to distract herself with flying so she won't worry about the portal team
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>>136009187
even the meme text mods?
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>>136009305
yes
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>>136009187
Even Bob Ross? Not Bob Ross, anon…
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>>136009305
Yes, because a text mod allows you to have fun, and XCOM isn't XCOM until you're doing nothing but suffering
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>>136009217
I thought she was fucking Tygan during that mission?
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>>136007865
One (mad)man army
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>>135947102
>>135947293
What mod adds the skull as a lower face prop? Or did you do this yourself?
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>>136009438
That's what Shen's for.
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>It's a timed mission
>With 6+ pods
>With codices in it
>Soldiers don't have good enough equipment to get them out of the way and evac on time
This is why I will never feel bad about savescumming.
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>>136009378
>Bob's soothing voice and helpful advice make you better at the game

might as well change to Rookie difficulty, anon
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>>136009559
For Tygan or for Firebrand pls be for firebrand
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>>136009517
It's the DLC
you know, the one with edgy punks in it
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>>136009601
>Bob Ross' advice is cheating
SHUT YO MOUF
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>>136009645
I know that, but I only have it as a hat, not lower face like in the pictures.
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>>136009628
For Tygan, dummy.

Firebrand is not for sexual.
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>>136009710
loadsamoney voicepack when
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>>136009849
>no pure lesbian sex
dropped
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>>136009710
>implying bob ross is not the ultimate cheat
>implying he doesn't do his show simply to give advice while pretending to be teaching you how to paint
>implying i can into art
RUINED
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>>136009950
>yuri
SNOOORE
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>>136009950
Purity is end game lad we gota start with vanilla business men fetish before we go lewd.
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>>136009601
Fuck, I thought I had just suddenly got gud
Back to being a twitchy nervous wreck over-analyzing every move.
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>>136010041
>SNOOORE
It must suck having such bad taste
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>>136010201
>It must suck having such bad taste
Surely it must, why don't you tell us how bad it feels?
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>>136010201
>>136010310
Now kids, isn't it time you go to bed
Also 4chan is 18+
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Post your favorite Ayy design and there most fitting theme music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUhVCoTsBaM
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>>136009954
>mod has a secret effect where his calming voice reduces enemy will and aim and boosts the rest of the team's
Sneaky goddamn mod community.
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>>136009710
he tells you everything is going to be alright
and everything goes well indeed
hows that not cheating? you dont even have to play the game
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>>136010609
https://youtu.be/kwNHPnuwINs
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>>136010860
THATS NOT THE LINK I POSTED WHAT THE FUCK LOL ITS SUPPOSED TO BE THIS https://youtu.be/Y8DekFFCE5c?list=LLRxGeotl3v23f3OSWYqQNhw
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>>136010860
>>136011165
Anon, what? Do you have depression?
Please don't kill self.
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>>136011203
Can't find it with google
Mind telling me if it's yours ?
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>>136011483
>1433486406215.png
Dont think it's his famalam
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>try game off friend's shared library
>doing fine
>get attatched to troops, but they rape face so k
>upgrade all my troops with mag weapons, upgrades, a few have pcs and one has an exo suit
>do first blacksite mission because timer running low
>get wiped, manage to extract my highest-veterancy unit, a sniper, with 1 health
>wait a bit, get resources
>ufo landing
>icandothis.jpg
>kill 3 advent troopers and have specialist check inside ufo
>literally millions of sectoids and 2 vipers
>get wiped of all my best troops
wat happen
fuck this game is hard and/or bullshit
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>>136011617
>wiped by sectoids
>sending a specialist to scout
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>>136011578
right, i'm dumb
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>>136011739
the first step is admitting it
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>>136010860
Depression hurts but you don't have to
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>>136011617

git accustomed to the idea that XCOM is a game about loss. Losing soldiers, losing missions, losing entire campaign. There aren't many games that let you fail on such a scale, and that's part of the appeal.
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>>136011617
Everybody's shit at first.
Don't stress the countdown timer, even if it fills you get a few weeks before your game's nuked. Just make sure you have access to a blacksite or can get to one quickly.
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>>136011727
I had a sniper, grenadier in exo, and a rookie besides. I thought I would just have the specialist dip his head in and lure em back out into the open so the rest of my guys could do work
then the vipers grabbed everyone, a sectoid mind-controlled the exo and the specialist, and i came back with 4 kia
>>136011884
>>136012157
Will I recover from this? I have like 5 rookies and a few squaddies left. Im on ironman mode; savescumming is what killed xcom eu's appeal for me
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>>136012262

you can recover but you need to essentially mainline your best troops all the time until they're all max rank. you can cheese a lot of encounters with grenadiers and specialists config'd for overwatch camping. gunslinger is also quite good without any real gear.
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>>136012262

You might recover, or you might fade out. Either way, the attempt should make for a memorable experience.
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does the mod that lets you keep T1 armor customization on later armor work after the DLC?
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>>136012262
>Will I recover from this?
I'unno. I've never recovered from a full A-squad wipe once I'm a few months in but I suck.
Going down swinging is how Bradford would want it, though.
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>>136011884
>Videogame
>Supposed to be a source of entertainment
>Is a source of frustration instead
Oh boy I can't wait to spend my time off not having fun at a singleplayer game
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>>136008463
isn't that cheating?

Does playing on legendary punish you for this in any way? It would be neat if the longer you went without attacking a blacksite, the faster aliens progress to a tougher type of enemy / elites / whatever.
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>>136013152
>constantly shitposting
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>>136013152
Its not really a source of frustration, if you want a game thats 0 frustration try a skinner box mmo
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>>136013152
You did not pick up X:COM without hearing about how punishing it is. It's refreshing. Most games that are released nowadays make it impossible to really ' lose ' anything. You don't lose progress. You don't lose power. You lose a counter or equally meaningless points that gauge how well you did, because everyone wins. Maybe you should check out one of those?
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>>136013310
That was a legit post.

>>136013335
EW was fun as hell and it wasn't as absurdly frustrating as XCOM 2.

>>136013421
>It's refreshing.
Sure it is, but it stops being refreshing and starts being annoying when punishment is what you get most our of your hobby, especially when it's the only game you're interested in in this shitty industry. I'm not saying it should be a hugbox everyone-gets-a-prize game, but sometimes I just want to be able to bring my soldiers home before the timer runs our without having to deal with 300 pods all activating at once right in front of the EVAC zone.
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>>136009107
Snoogans. Props, anon. I appreciate it.
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>>136013730
I don't see whats more frustrating about Xcom2 over EW, you can't overwatch camp anymore I guess?
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>>136013730
XCom 2 early game is extremely different from EW for some reason, and is probably more difficult. But the mid to late game is much easier than EW and is probably more fun because you get grenades and exosuits and Psis that make everything piss easy.
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>>136013730
>sometimes I just want to be able to bring my soldiers home before the timer runs our without having to deal with 300 pods all activating at once right in front of the EVAC zone
Then you need to get good. The first step is stopping the pointless whining and figuring out what YOU are doing wrong.
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>>136013903
Nah I don't abuse overwatch. I prefer shooting ayys straight up rather than waiting for them to move. Thing is, in times missions, I either have to waste yellow tiles to go fast, or risk losing the whole mission to the timer because turtling with blue tiles takes eons.
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>>136013152

Let me put it this way. When you play Uncharted or Bioshock or GTA or Skyrim or The Witcher, etc, failure is only ever a temporary setback. If you die, you respawn somewhere or reload your latest save, because it's the only way to proceed from failure.

XCOM, meanwhile, makes failure a part of itself. You can lose the entire game. It's like if Mass Effect made it possible for the player to fuck up half-way through the story and have the Reapers rape the galaxy to death. There is a tension and excitement that can only come from the very real awareness that you can lose at any time. Every failure has a consequence. Sure, this means that sometimes the game is cruel and unreasonable and fickle, but it hurts us because it loves us.
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Anyone got some writefag greentext ideas/suggestions
Probably will crank some more out tonight tbqh senpai
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>>136014192
You start in concealment, use yellows to get into position, the maps are fairly small so you can easily do the objective before the timer runs out. Remember you can use specialist drones to complete hack objectives.
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>>136014192

Then grab a mod that extends the timers by 2 or 3 turns. /xcg/ will gurgle about cheating, but the game is yours to do with as you please.
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>>136014418
Sole survivor greentexts are always fun, maybe the thoughts flying back alone
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>>136014341
>have the Reapers rape the galaxy to death
You can actually get a bad ME3 ending, if you don't bother with the sidequests, fuck up story choices and generally make shit decisions you get locked into a destroy ending where the destruction destroys everything in Sol and devastates the rest of the galaxy with it heavily implied by admiral whatever that recovery isn't really possible.
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>>136014442
>You start in concealment
Not in VIP extraction and Retaliation missions. I took a specialist with 3 scanning abilities and still couldn't find all the pods in the mission because there so fucking many. Fucking Codexi, Vipers and Stun Lancers everywhere.
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>>136014418
Patsy helps a Sectoid shop for clothes.
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>>136014674

Well, sure, but that's the ending. The XCOM 2 equivalent would be if Earth continued to be subjugated and the resistance was crushed in the last cutscene if you failed too many retaliation missions or something. It's not really the same thing.
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>>136014341
>There is a tension and excitement that can only come from the very real awareness that you can lose at any time.
Not really. It's just a videogame that can be reset at any time. All I feel is either hope that my plays will work out, or frustration when they don't, and then comes the boredom of having to recruit rookies and train them from the ground up again.
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>>136014690
>killing everything in extraction missions
>struggling to find pods in time on retaliation
Theres normally 6 people you can save that are close enough and enemy positions display during their turn if they aim at a civilian.
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>>136014690
>Codexi
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>>136014820
heresy
>>136014648
I like the after the fact perspective. Will probably go with that.
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>>136013007
>>136012680
>>136012471
I hate the idea of cheesing but hey, I'll bite. Time to trudge on
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>>136014956
>killing everything in extraction missions
I have to when the map is literally a corridor from point A to point B and all the pods are right in your way. 12 turns ain't exactly enough time to make detours and circle around them, though I wish I could.

>struggling to find pods in time on retaliation
I don't, actually. I'm just pointing out that retaliation missions don't give concealment. I go straight for ADVENT in those.
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>>136014690
>codexi
Cosfishes
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>>136014882
play in ironman scrublord
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So, why didn't the patch fix the problem with Character Pool characters not leveling into the selected class?
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>>136015398
its a feature
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>want to start a new campaign
>dont want to go through the disappointment of having to switch from Kevlar to Warden again
>mods that fix this all broke from the DLC
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Did I just get an ayy defector?
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>>136015567
nice cheat
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>>136015478
>Spend fuckloads of time customising modded outfits
>Upgrade to next armour tier
>Gets compeltely fucked up

Boy am I glad to get the uniform mod working
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Are there any sings of Johnny Cuck working on another mod?
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>>136015398

I don't know and it's bugging the shit out of me. I know the game favors classes that you're lacking, but it doesn't even pick the right soldiers for mission rewards with that in mind
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>a high ranking Psi operative running the mess hall
Kek'd at the idea
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>>136015661
Well "Long War Studios" has 466 hours on the development tools. What else can they be doing?
>http://steamcommunity.com/id/longwarstudios
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>>136015398
>Problem
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>>136015567
YOU HAVE FUTBOL
MUTON JOIN
FIGHT FOR FUTBOL
GIVE MUTON FUTBOL WHEN WIN WAR
DEAL WITH MUTON?
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>sniper rolled Phantom in the AWC
>can't use Kill Zone in Overwatch ambushes anymore because she won't shoot since she's still concealed
>if I get the mod that makes Overwatch abilities shoot regardless of concealment, my soldier with Ever Vigilant will fuck up my stealth every mission
Playthrough ruined. Thanks, Jake. Is there a way to strip abilities from your soldiers?
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>>136007308
Mega-milk anon here, is the anon that was looking for me last thread here?
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NAH BRO IT'S OVER THE LINE
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>>136016257
Yes, Muton. All the futbol, after we kick the Ethereals out of futbol field.
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>>136016257
Why have you betrayed us? We have the soccer you desire.
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>>136016553
Yes, I'm here. Could I make a request, if you're not busy?
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>>136016803
Sure, what is it?
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>>136016593
OVERDRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>136016885
Give it a colossal dick bulge
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>>136016885
A Patsy/Codex version of pic related.
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>>136017050
>no one will ever be this happy to see me
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>you will never play futbol with a Muton buddy

It hurts.
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Reminder that snek and filthy ayys should be offered in sacrifice to Commander and His most Holy Prophet.
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>>136017050
>operator-chan
excellent taste, my man. I'll do a Patsy edit, for some reason I can't draw a Codex to save my life

>>136017004
/d/ pls
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>>136017401
they'll be happy to see you gone though
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>>136017050
>>136017507
YUSH

Also dammit, now I'll have to go back to monitoring these threads 24/7
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>>136016593
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>>136016885
A muton and female xcom soldier playing football please.
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>>136017050
have my attempt
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>>136017603
anon pls


:(
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>>136017507
Hey, thanks. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

>>136017482
>>136016257
Should we think up something about mutons? All we have is that they're the brutish futbol lovers of ADVENT forces along with Berserkers, right?
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>>136015828
Yes, problem. Kind of irritating when you get that sweet psycho you spent time building in Gatecrasher, and he becomes a fucking Specialist instead of a Ranger.
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>>136016478
>sniper rolled Phantom in the AWC
And your first thought wasn't "Huh. I should respec her into a close-range Gunslinger Scout"?

Get the fuck good.
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>>136018124

You can force it with the console.

MakeSoldierAClass "Bane Bigguy" Ranger

It's a cumbersome and annoying procedure, but it works.
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>>136018256
I don't want to respec my perfectly-good monster of a Sniper just because I rolled an inappropriate perk completely out of my control.
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>>136018547
what the fuck, there's a console?
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>>136017637
don't bother just yet, it won't be done for a bit since school is tearing me a new one right now

>>136017779
no problem famigo

>>136017703
I might do it after this one, no promises though
it always helps if your requests are best-waifu related if you want me to take them

>>136017651
>"Smokey, this is not 'nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
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>Ranger rolls Guardian
>Sharpshooter rolls deep cover
>Support rolls Holo Targeting

Am i lucky or am i fucked?
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>>136019089
The Sharpshooter and Support got lucky
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>>136018942

Yes, but you need to enable it via launch parameters
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>gatecrasher rookies come out of character pool
>1 of each class from previous campaigns
>neato
>promote them afterwards
>they all get a completely different class
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Hey Xcom, wanna play ball?
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>>136019089

>Ranger guardian, not bad if you're using a ranger that doesn't rely on concealment
>Sharpshooter deep cover, what use is deep cover anyway? It's a waste of time on any class.
>Specialist holo-targeting, holo-targeting is always good.
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>still no plague doctor mask
I just wanna remake my Darkest Dungeon A team... I wanna make it up to them for feeding half of them to the heart
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>>136019396
>Firaxis will never make futbol-loving Mutons/Berserkers canon
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>>136019595
Yay/nay on DD? It's on the backlog but it's been looking more and more tempting since the official release.
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>>136019745
>implying the aliens haven't replaced all sports teams with Mutons
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>hack a street sign and get control of a random enemy unit
>its a pectoid
>mindspin a lancer and gain control of him
>hack an enemy turret and gain control of it
>also gain control of an enemy viper
>only thing advent has left under their control is a single advent trooper
So now that I have complete control of the enemy force what do I do?
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>>136020576
>Mutons on F1 cars
>Bersekers in bycicles
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Legend IESS doesn't fuck around. Got my shit slapped in that retaliation defense mission, then got a guerilla op that I had to do with 3 soldiers and a rookie, that was going fine until a CQC battle in house against enemies ending in a squadwipe thanks to mind control and 2 missed infantry shots.
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My troops cant overwatch for shit

Why

Xcom 2
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>>136021142
If you have perfect information mod, you'll notice how many overwatches you're taking are like 20% chance to hi
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>>136021324
Wat. Okay. Its weird how the system works. I think im on veteran
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>>136020816

>Place an evac
>Send them home.
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>>136015567
I love how close up the picture is. Like it just got right up in the cameraman's face.

>>136015705
>I know the game favors classes that you're lacking
So that's why all the month reward and black market soldiers were Specialists.

>>136016660
kek

>>136017482
...how did you get giant sectoids?
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>>136021562
Overwatch is -30 chance to hit, and I'm not sure if X2 still has that thing EU had where your overwatch chance also took into account what cover the enemy was leaving
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>>136021615
don't actually do this or you'll lose control and the remaining soldiers will be in a pickle.
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>>136018548
>I don't want to
Tough shit. You think Charlayy gives a flying fuck about what you want? Roll with the punches.
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>>136009517
Two hours late but:
>D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\XCOM 2\XComGame\DLC\DLC_1\Config\XComContent.ini
>Mess around with what the hats are classified as
>Copypaste so you keep the hats while also now having lower/upper face bits
Enjoy.
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I'm going to post some stuff I found on tumblr.
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>>136021324
You'll also notice how many 20-40% shots ADVENT nails.
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advent anon

wheres my titanfall shit
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>>136021324
how does this work? I thought overwatch values were ALWAYS your chance to hit multiplied by .7

What cover does it take into account, when? How much does the enemy dashing help them?
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>miss a 75% hack at the start of a mission
>reinforcements called in on a 2 story building right beside me
>it was the last action of my turn
>they proceed to instantly get in position flanking me
>alerts the pod on the other side of me
I feel like hacking has such meager rewards for the risks it has.
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>>136022096

>Sanic the Chrysalid?
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>>136021820

it doesnt, i hit a muton running out of cover with overwatch right after i ended my turn after seeing the shot against him was 27% in full cover, so 37 to hit after he left it or zero if it kept the cover bonus active.

i'm not sure if covering fire takes into account the enemy cover though, if they're acting and not moving. i'd have to test it but i'm honestly not sure how.
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>>136022214
Talk about fast.
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>>136022197

If the enemy are moving they don't have cover buddy. Apart from that you get a worse chance to hit unless you're in concealment.
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>>136022320
Isn't that from the same guy who draw chibi snek?
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>>136022178
pic related
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>>136022421
So then how does overwatch hit you with a -30 penalty?
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>>136022573

Wut?
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>>136020908
>yfw the world chess champion is a muton
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>>136022573
das xcum babe
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>>136022562
I'll buy all of them. Seriously. I get the whole confirmation bias thing, but they hit them shits like it's payday. Pissed me right the fuck off when my guys die two-by-two to 35% shots. Why the hell did I even bother with the heavy cover?
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>>136022214
why are his arms purple?
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>>136022663
>>136022692
i don't think that's accurate at all
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>>136022668
>Berseker and Muton ice ballet
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>>136022797

TOO MUCH FAST
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>>136022797
LID ARMS ARE NOT PURPLE
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>>136020528
its good but there are times that feel artificially hard or grindy, so there will be times you pull your hair out, but the ride is worth it but even when you win, you don't really win
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>>136022320
i want more codex
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>>136023164
RARE
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>>136023146
DON'T CALL ANYONE
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>>136022034
Fuck I had no idea that stuff was handled in ini's and not classes, thanks.
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>>136023257
I'll bump it up the backlog, sounds right up my alley. Thanks mate
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>tfw almost no Ethereal art
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>>136020816
>The spectoid getting hit counted as a wounded soldier in the after action report
I find this more amusing than I should
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>Late game Very Difficult Protect the Device on Legend ironmeme

MAXIMUM CHEESY MEME TIME
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>>136023903
>Those thighs
Mama mia Firaxis
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>>136023703
I found this, that's the last of the Xcom stuff on tumblr.

Gonna go diving in the Deviantart dumpster for stuff.
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[Poisoned!]
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>>136024280
UGH
COUGH COUGH
THAT DIDN'T FEEL GOOD
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>>136024280
I THINK IM GONNA BE SICK
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>>136024246
Godspeed, good Anon.
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>>136023164
That is a rare snek indeed.

>>136023703
>>136024246
I could dump what I've got, but I'm pretty sure I got it all from DA myself.

Oh. Except this.
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Thin men are fucking cancer

Ironman Impossible EW, have had 5 fatalities, all caused by a soldier getting crit oneshotted by a thin man who runs up out of the fog and dodges overwatch. What am i doing wrong

This is extremely frustrating
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:(
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Alright no, fuck DA. I got this before I had enough, if you want more you can deal with that disgusting interface yourself.
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>>136024603
>Female Ethereal
>Everyone goes crazy over Snek but no one bats an eye at Angelis
Pity. I thought her voice was nice.
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>>136024815

I had a look too, now I'm kind of worried I may have contracted autism before I shut the tab down.
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>>136024815
>>136025284
All right, I'll dump what I found a few weeks ago when I anesthetized myself with alcohol.
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>>136024815
>>136025284

There isn't much to look at if you look for Ethereal XCOM.

And I don't have nohere near the courage I'd need to look for just "Ethereal". It's vague enough a word that it's probably catch a couple dozen pages of elven husbando fanart
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>>136025575

I just typed in "Xcom 2"
>All I got was pic related
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do enemy turrets not count as Ayys? i had a mission where i had to kill all the enemies and i hadnt killed the turret yet but it just completed when i killed the last Codex
rip amazing butt computer babe
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>>136025848
Turret? NO THANKS
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>>136025848

They count if you kill them, if you don't kill them they just sit there going "Beep boop" so no.
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>>136025848
I think turrets stand in a category of their own since they're the only things in the game that are completely immobile.
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>>136025985
Beeboop, booboobop?
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>>136025741
Well not everything is unsalvageable.
Most things are.
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does /xcg/ have a steam group?
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>tfw you kill the last alien of what you believed to be the final pod and the mission doesn't end
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>>136026271
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Whats your strategy for dealing with Archons?
Is it just EMPTY EVERY GUN INTO IT THE TURN ITS POD POPS AND HOPE TO GOD YOU DONT GET DODE:MEME´D
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>>136026532
i want to make some of these
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>>136015103
Are you kill friendo?
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>>136026534
grenade the fuck out of them.
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>>136026534

That and cross your fingers and hope they go for Blazing Pinions instead of fucking your dudes up with their rhythm stick.
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>>136026534
>Whats your strategy for dealing with Archons?
Shoot em
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>>136024047
>8 man squad

May as well play on easy you casual.
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>>136026657
Anybody have some Heroes from there own campaigns that want me to make one of these posters for them? Sounds like fun
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>>136024990
Yeah, me too. Shame she wouldn't be in her original body though.
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guys i finally did it my first dark vip mission
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>>136026462
>it's andromedon and two mutons

>it's that or a sectopod and two sectoids
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So uh, what is XCOM short for?

>put 300 hours into the games and don't know this
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>>136026532
The DeviantArt XCOM community seems evenly split between just uploading in-game renders or static images, like the XCOM 2 loading screens, and re-imagining the game's cast as ponies.
In a way, that is not entirely unexpected.

>>136026657
There are a handful of those, but they're somewhat lower quality. I can post them if you want.
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>>136026909
Straight off the wiki

X-COM (an abbreviation of "Extraterrestrial Combat Unit")
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Do you need Haywire Protocol to remotely hack chests and shit for those "Don't let this blow up in a box" missions? Or "Hack this shit" missions?
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>>136027254
no
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>>136027254
No. Normal Specialist hacking works just fine.
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>>136026923
Oh nevermind, I've reached the point where the community is entirely dominated by scantily dressed Thin Men in suggestive poses.
Unexpected.
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>>136027371
>>136027394
then why take it unless you're save fagging? Seems like even my "shutdown" odds are fucking %55 and lower
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>>136026462
>sabotage mission
>it'll be ez
>walk up to knock on the door
>sectopod, andromedon, shieldbearer, officer, 2 lancers, 2 turrets, and a troper
haha
>fighting
>Hello! I'm an andromedon with two sectoid friends, can we play?
>kill them all
>enter building expecting something minimal
>ANOTHER SECTOPOD
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>>136027702
>save fagging
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>>136027587
It never ends. So many shirtless Thin Men.
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>>136026909
XCOM is a play on military command designations
For instance, PACOM is Pacific Command. A more familiar one is SOCOM, Special Operations Command.
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>>136027254
>Hack this shit mission
>It's on a train
>At the other end of the map
>2 cpls and 2 rookies in charge of this shit.
>No explosives remain when I reach the traincar to make an entrance
>Don't have vision on it to hack
>Have to sprint inside on the final turn to disarm it and hope the pod sitting on it didn't shit on the poor Rookie who charged in.

The map layout can be so bullshit sometimes.
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>>136027702
>Not being lucky enough to get 4 successful enemy protocols
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