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News:
1)Shen's Last Gift DLC Rleased!!!
2)
XCOM 2 officially coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on September 6th.
>https://twitter.com/XCOM/status/740181548419272705
3)
Julian Gollop is working on his new game Phoenix Point. It's a turn-based tactical game with strategy elements, destructible terrain, geoscape and character progression much akin to XCOM. Lobstermen are confirmed.
>https://twitter.com/Phoenix_Point
>http://www.phoenixpoint.info/
>http://www.pcgamer.com/julian-gollop-announces-new-game-phoenix-point/
4)
Long War Studios are working on more mods for XCOM2. The first in a planned series of five is live on Workshop + Nexus now, and is called Long War Toolbox.
>https://xcom.com/news/en-long-war-studios-creating-more-xcom-2-mods
>http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674832831
Also cosmetic mod author Capnbubs - maker of the most endorsed mod on the workshop - has been signed onto the LWS team to model stuff.
The /xcg/ Mandatory Read:
>http://pastebin.com/k9pT8zx4
Piratez mod for OpenXCom: http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3626.0.html
<<Helpful XCOM 2 Links!>>
Assorted improvements (Skip intros, alleviate stuttering, multi monitor support, and resolutions past 1080p)
>http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=616682629
XCOM2 NEW AND IMPROVED MODLIST, updated regularly:
>http://pastebin.com/pTMatP5Z
NEW MEGA MOD LIBRARY - Contains all 180 mods from the new modlist:
>https://mega.nz/#F!HlgWjCqR!STJ0c0kW8Fs6jKynqKyerw
/xcg/'s Long War Library (New LW players read this shit or you will be ignored):
>http://pastebin.com/YmaXBKpN
Image Library of /xcg/:
>http://imgur.com/a/S1qfx
first for ayy lmao
YOUR RECENT ACTIONS HAVE BEEN BEYOND OUR EXPECTATIONS, COMMANDER
Wow, fuck, where's the rest of the thread?
Ok, so I know we can make SPARKs in the Character Pool. but I haven't finished my first campaign with them yet, so can someone tell me how the Character Pool affects SPARKs?
For example, if you set your options for a game to "Character Pool only," does the game actually draw SPARKs from the pool whenever you build one in the Proving Grounds?
>>147635979
Welcome to a fresh thread.
>>147635943
COMMANDER YOUR PERFORMANCE HAS BEENMEDIOCRE
>>147636093
Well, i build one and got the one of my character pool, so i am going to assume yes.
They dont have enough customization for it to be worthwhile though
>>147636818
I'm gonna assume the proper way to continue that sentence is "unless you use mods"
>tfw no guerrilla warfare mod
Snek?
Snek!
Sneeeeeeeek!
>>147637321
REMOVE?
REMOVE!
REMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!
>>147636948
I like thethreeSPARK mods, but their customization are just Arms, Legs, Body and Heads, is pretty much nothing compared to normal soldiers
>>147635070
Look, the fact is there is nowhere in the skill saying the soldier will be out for 2 turns. Unless you are fucking clairvoyant, you have no way of knowing the soldier will be out for 2 turns by reading the explanation.
Long story short, it is not self explanatory.
>want to have a bit more engineers than medics
>make high-will guys into medics because PSI
>make high-mob guys into medics because paramedic
>make high-health guys into medics because medkit guy duying is bad, and engis already get more base health
>end up with 6 medics 1-2 engineers
>>147640012
Commander's Curse
>>147640012
engineers can make decent secondary psi troopers, you just have to lower your will threshold sometimes
>Almost done clearing out landed UFO
>Looks to be one more pod left behind a door, not sure what it could be
>Set up the squad to ventilate whatever is behind it, places everyone!
>Open the door
>No pod, just the berserker queen.
>ohshit.jpg
>Manage to drive it off before nearly getting my shit pushed in
Gotta love the surprises in this game.
>>147637321
R A R Esaved
Snek STINKS!
>>147641473
I don't know man, she looks pretty hot there to me.
>2 Stun Lancers and an Officer
>2 Stun Lancers and an Officer
>2 Stun Lancers anda Sectoid
Is this how they made Legend hard? Just wave after wave of these bullshit enemies?
>>147641667
Snek is blasphemy my boy
>>147641702
Just shoot them
>>147641702
>Just wave after wave of these bullshit enemies?
Welcome to xcom,havefun
>>147641981
I've beaten Commander a few times and never ran into this many early game, just one flashbang was fine.
>>147641702
>barely got plate armour
>Advanced Lancers with 10+ HP, 1 armour and dodge chance
wew now
>>147641473
Im with this guy
>it is better to put a concealed squad in overwatch for the enemy to reveal on THEIR turn then put your squad in overwatch and then attack with someone on YOUR turn, breaking concealement
This is true, right?
>>147643697
A concealed soldier won't fire on overwatch unless the ayys spot him. Additionally if the Ayys spot your dude by flanking them there's a chance that they'll shoot.
>>147643697
yes
>>147643880
>if the Ayys spot your dude by flanking them
which they added because the tactic is instant win if you can safely overwatch in the open
>>147635319
I've been gone for about a week, did I miss any new spicy memes?
>>147637321
R A R E
>>147637424
>>147641473
>>147641839_____no u_____
>>147636481
NOT WITNESSED
>Update computer to 8.1
>Fucks my xcom in the ass
>mod launcher won't work when launched from steam
>redscreen's during gameplay
just fuck me in the ass sempai
>>147644870
>Update computer to 8.1
Surely you don't mean windows 8
>>147644870
>reinstall
>3rd party mod launcher
>-noredscreens in launch options
>>147645415
It's what im stuck with sempai, im not pulling the trigger on windows 10 and its blatant spyware. I'd rather keep the spyware low key.
>>147645449
It's what I am doing now, if this bricked all my shit though I am going to be pissed since it took 4-5 days before it finally decided to update after I refreshed windows.
>>147645415
>Impyling windows 8 is better than 8.1
>>147646065
He never implied that.
>>147646065
No, I'm implying why would anyone (given the choice) upgrade to windows 8, any variation of.
>>147646175
>>147646193
>>147645596
Windows 10 is fine, but it makes sense that XSCUM agents would be Luddites.
>>147646543
ADVENT pls go.
r8 my new robot
>>147646991
My computer is a brick but even it looks better that your game
>>147647063
After last gift, for some reason, I can only play it with minimal stats without the computer crashing.
I have no idea why, but I assume it's some GPU shit that I don't have the props to solve. Any tips recommended (I did the ini edits already, and at least the game stopped stuttering like hell)
>>147646991
looks like shit desu senpai
>>147646991
am i going to have to put the LOD settings on the textures to -1 so low settings gets at least 512x512?
>>147646543
Windows 98 is for the true OGs at xcom
ADVENT can keep that win 10 shit
>>147647890
>he doesn't run XP
>laughing_patsy.png
>>147648039
>he doesn't run ME
>They run windows
>Not using DOS
>Not just using your imagination
>>147648467
anything else is cheating thqh
>>147648327
>DOS
LOL get out of the 80s grandpa, it's all about Linux now
>he doesn't emulate DOS by emulating Windows through Linux
Do you even computer bro?
On a neutralize VIP mission, what happens if you kill the VIP? The mission gives supplies and intel, I'm guessing you just lose the intel?
>>147649897
Yes
Pistols are Useful.
>>147635319
>>Rleased!!!
Can't believe my typo is still there...
Is there any leeway for losing missions on Legend? In almost every timed mission so far I'll complete the objective with 1 turn remaining.
>>147653081
You can lose a mission or maybe two, but not squad members at the same time.
>>147653081
Legend difficulty curve is just like EU impossible, you absolutely must win the early missions but once you reach a certain point it hardly matters (and you can straight up skip them). In EU that point was getting a colonel sniper, in 2 it's probably just simply getting psionics up and running. It's also pretty hard to lose with a full squad of grenadiers. Legend just happens to be more drawn out so that will also affect the scales.
>>147653081
It's not the end of the world
If it's a guerrilla op, losing to the timer means you lose out on the reward(sometimes pitiful, sometimes good), a dark event gets through, and the councilman calls you mediocre. Council missions however, best case you somehow manage to get the entire squad extracted and gain absolutely nothing. If you're struggling on the timer, that's rarely going to happen forever, so you'll be forced to evac with 2+ guys on the field. That is worse, but still manageable, as you can fill in the slots with people from HQ/Black market, although you have to dish out considerable supplies/intel.
All in all, painful, but manageable. Don't do it repetedly
>Viper King got away
I almost had him...
(also I was not prepared for this mission)
Now that the dlcs are all out, is it time to come back?
Should i wait for long war?
>Got the season pass
>Heard mixed about it
>Anarchy's children is fucking awful
>Seriously
>Alium hunters, haven't gotten far yet, found "unique" weapons which seems OP as shit
>Shen's Last Gift
Fucking robutts everywhere, thinking of restarting my ironman run and just bring tech guys.
>>147654413
Probably. Seems like the return points would be:
All dlc released, expansion, long war overhaul equivalent(s).
>>147654735
alight time to lose
>tfw toaster can't even run the game with just official addons without multi-minute load times
Black Friday can't get here soon enough.
>>147655249
>Your brain still recognizes the pic
Memes are a wonderful thing.
>>147655389
the human mind is some whack ass amazing shit, yeah
"modlauncherwpf has stopped responding"
What the fuck is this shit.
EXALT
X
A
L
T
Will hacking a door cost both action points?
>>147656590
No, it's a turn ending action, like shooting a rifle. You can take a blue action first. If you hack as your blue action, you are fucked though, so don't do that.
>>147656835
All right, thanks
I'll grenade the ayy lmaos to death and open the door next round then and not sacrifice my grenadier that is out in the open
>>147656897
An excellent plan. Carry on, commander.
>>147657031
I made it out on the last turn with all soldiers alive and unharmed
Even took down an officer just before extracting
Will I get fucked hard in the ass if I go do the initial mission from Shen's Last Gift as early as possible?
>>147657981
Could be. The enemies have lot's of armor, especially the sectopod.
>>147657981
I found it pretty hard with only conventional weapons
>>147658023
So that's a "yes, you should wait until later" I take it?
>>147658129
People have done it earlier, but then immediately recommended waiting till mag weapons.
How the fuck do I fix the stutter I get at the start of the mission in the fast rope cutscene and at the end when returning to avenger?
Don't forget to bring a fusion torch to make UFO breaches easier.
>>147658990
You don't, it's called shitty optimization/engine.
>>147657981
>Never stop
>You can sprint and use the elevator on the same turn
>You can hack the sectopod to take control of all robits
>Wait until you see 4 robits and the one in the back
>Hack sectopod
>run all the robits to the sectopod in alluh ackbar mode near a generator
>Cap discharge bomb the sectopod
Did over half its health this way. You can also overcharge Spark to burn 3 armor, plus 3 frags hopefully saved to burn the rest so you can actually damage it while you wait for the mechs to appear.
>>147662380
>Trying to convince someone to go to early and get rekt
Just what a Faceless would say!
>>147662487
What, you gonna tell me you didn't stop the large ufo invasion in the first month in long war?
>>147662602
Fundamental difference is that your talking about a mission with a limited windo. You can take on Shen's robot rodeo anytime you want.
>>147662380
>you can hack the sectopod to take control of all robits
what, i never bothered trying to hack it because i assumed it would be like hacking a normal sectopod, shutting it down or taking control of him
now i feel silly for never trying it before
Avatars are the true waifus.
>>147662906
But that would involve waiting around in the first month playing with your dick
you gonna tell me you dont like action?i cant even play the game right now because window update to 8.1 fucked my game and I have no idea how to fix it
>>147662968
It kinda bugged the game out doing it, since the game registers each robit alluh ackbar as an individual damage. So it takes like 2 minutes to go through the aftermath of the cap discharge.
>>147663002
>he unironically thinks avatars are the best waifus
wew, they don't even have art
>>147657981
I just did. I wouldn't recommend
>>147663187
>i cant even play the game right now because window update to 8.1 fucked my game and I have no idea how to fix it
Rollback
>>147663187
>But that would involve waiting around in the first month playing with your dick
Legendary keeps me plenty busy thank you
>>147663615
For giggles, this is the menu I get when I launch the game.
>Play modern Xcom
Geoscape is watered down.
>Play X com UFO defense
Battlescape is tedious and overly clunky.
Is there any game that has the best of both? I miss the old geoscape, but I think TUs are a dumb idea compaired to modern Xcom's movement system (although I admit the AI could be improved so gameplay does not revolve around killing pods the same turn they appear on)
>>147664115
>Battlescape is tedious and overly clunky.
git gud
>but I think TUs are a dumb idea
git gud
But honestly I don't know of any game that does both better then og-xcom. Long War has a geo-scape game with the new x-com gameplay.
>base defense
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Welp, the only solution is to restore systems and start over again. No fun allowed.
>>147665316
Seriously, the AI has a hard-on for my North American base, they've already destroyed it twice by catching me off guard, I don't know how they find it so fast, I don't even launch ships from it.
>>147663750
PssstPress the "Final Shell Menus" button to get to the normal main menu
>>147666859
I know. Game is bricked through, have constant redscreen issues popping up for debugging. Shit don't work right, so why bother fucking with it when I gotta start new again anyways since it bricked my drivers? Can't update drivers.
>>147636481
IMPERATOR, YOU HAVE BEEN WITNESSED, ANDIT IS MEDIOCRE
>>147644023
>>147643880
Tactic still works for SPARKS because they are designed for tanking in mind so they don't mind getting shot once or twice.
>>147640219
Give them less abilities that scale with psi and you're golden. Most of my engineers are the squad aura bots, together with my rocketeers.
>>147646991
Looks like a The Desolate Hope screenshot.
>>147666665
Could have been worse.
Any mod out there that only changes a soldiers appearance as I want to, not when changing from one tier to the next?
I've been using the uniform mod but it's a pain having to set it up on each character of a new campaign
>>147670495
no idea senpai
that would be super awesome though
>>147670495
>Have a nice list of aesthetic mods
>The moment you get T2 armor all goes to shit
I hate it
>>147664407
Long war still won't let you build more than one base or micromanage air combat.
>>147671624
Get the classic armor mods.
No ayys
>>147671705
Sssilly Anon, sssnek is for love not for remove.
>>147671838
no, snek am for remove
>>147671838
Snek sux mang
>>147673530
>advent_gangbang_interrupted_by_xcom.jpg
>>147666665
I swear the openxcom AI's logic/aggression for attacking xcom bases is way different from the original DOS games. Like it'll hammer your shit like the fist of the north star, there's something wrong with it.
I think the last time I had an OpenXcom playthrough, base defenses were like one of the most common missions I had to play because they just couldn't stop trying to raid my bases. I didn't even have any of the OXC options like the aggressive scanning on or anything.
>>147673530
Is it just me or are those troopers glossier than usual?
Was shens he last dlc/expansion?
>>147673530
like can we be real, snek isn't even good at being an alien, it's literally an Earth snake with tits and arms glued on
![C907B4CE46C0C396B55503E536B2D785655694B1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/f8OUpli.jpg "C907B4CE46C0C396B55503E536B2D785655694B1[1].jpg")
>>147655870EXALTXALT
>>147673870
Those are Snipers.
>>147671838
>mfw
>>147674385
DELETE THIS
Anyone have the gif/webm of a sharpshooter taking out about half a dozen aliens in one turn with his pistol?
>>147673870
They are advent snipers from a better advent
>>147675126
Its true though snek deserved to be shot
>>147677332
Ayyyy this guy gets it
i was so hyped for this game and then i dropped it mid 1st campaign.
>>147677782
What happen
>>147677864
someone set us up the bomb
>>147677962
!!!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=718776109 Wonder how this is going to pan out
>>147677782
Why?
>>147678210
The way I'd do it is to create a slot in the Laboratory that you can slot a soldier into to give them a gene mod. Gene mods are just unique perks that add abilities or static effects, depending. That's how I'd run it, anyway.
Humancyclops mod when
>>147679775
go away already, you got a robot now piss off with your fetish shit
>>147659050
>playing modded o-x-com
>>147678047
Enforcer SPARK mod when?
>>147677864
>>147679296
i just stopped or it got boring i dont know why
>>147680371
That would be fuckin sweet
spark classes when?
>steamrolled through the snek and berserker rulers
>some time later go on a council mission to rescue a guy
>get in the jail
>walk under the ladder to the roof, turns out the Archon King is up there and sees me
>activates and stays on the roof
>got full actions, should be ez
>frost grenade #1, see Frozen: 1
>no panic yet, throw free axe, miss, use the shredder gun
>frost grenade #2, overdrive SPARK fires and hits
>use viper kings armor freeze ability, miss, panic and use SPARKs second shot(hits)
>Archon decides to grab my sharpshooter from below and to smack him
>In the process of raising him up, he activates another pod on the roof
>free him, and use a grenade to get the ADVENT down from the roof for my Serial sniper
>devastate is used
>sniper kills who he can(can't see everyone), and tries a deadeye shot on the Archon which would force a retreat
>misses, still have actions left, no worrie-
>devastate hits, shuts down the SPARK, stuns the remaining squad, and leaves only the VIP who can move
>ADVENT can now flank at will, and the Archon can continue his rampage
I'd add a screenshot to show how badly I was fucked but I ragequit. I'm all up for some magnificence in the campaign but that just overdoes it by a mile, it's almost ludicrous as to how rapid that difficulty difference is between the Archon King and the other rulers
Thanks for subscribing to my blog
>tfw started first Long War playthrough on classic and now everything is going to shit
>july
>most of my men injured
>6 countries have left
>no laser or gauss weapons yet
>no mecs or gene lab yet
>always broke
>UFO's and abductions just keep coming
>one shot chrysalids and cyberdisks are starting to appear everywhere
Should I just give up and restart? Is this salvageable?
>>147683000
literally how do you not have lasers, gauss, mecs, OR a gene lab up yet?
>>147683203
Because I have no money for anything. I'm just a few days from laser weapons though, and a few weeks from a gene lab. I have caparace armor too....
I think I'll see how this month goes, and just start over if I start getting BTFO.
>>147683539
>actually going for armor first
Complete madman
>>147682651
Sacrifice fucks the archon king's AI.
>>147683795
>tfw the armor doesn't help at all against anything that's not a thin man or sectoid
I've JUSTed myself unfortunately. The only thing that will save me now is RNG and luck. I hope nothing major happens until I get lasers and some gene soldiers.
>>147680916
Seems silly that you got excited, this game wore what was on its sleeve.
Do you recommend this one lads? Game's starting to get boring for me.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685702241&searchtext=turn
>>147685151
Never tried it. Give it a shot and report on how it works!
Speaking of other things we haven't heard much about, has anyone tried the WaveCom mod for X2?
>>147683539
>>147683795
>Going for armor
This is your problem right here. A lot of things that were good ideas in EU/EW will fuck you over in LW.
If you try to spam satellites you won't be able to afford anything, and if you try to rush carapace you won't have any tech. Start over and break all the habits you learned from EU/EW.
>>147686143
it isn't even a good idea in EU/EW, as getting lasers will ensure you can actually kill things and therefore not actually need armor as badly
going for carapace first... literally why?
>>147685440
Haven't played it myself, but someone on Youtube has a playthrough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQwNY04lhUc
Anyone else having problems with getting their SPARK repaired? Mine has been in engineering for two weeks and his health hasn't changed at all. Is this a bug or a known conflict with a mod?
>>147686791
Ehh, I always skip lasers in EU/EW because light plasma is free and gives +10 accuracy.
>>147687895
i dunno, i always take the more damage route even if it's slightly less accurate.
then again, light plasma having +10 accuracy is inherently bullshit
So I'm using the numeric health display mod and I can't figure out how to get rid of these grey bars behind the displays.
I've edited the mod's config but it doesn't seem to remove them. Are they a separate object elsewhere? Where would I find the config for this?
just posting to say Inappropriate Operation Names and ayylmao 2 sync up really well for shifting the game's tone towards something actually funny
>>147688225
Light plasma has the same damage as lasers, is a prequsite for regular plasma, AND gets the bullshit +10 accuracy bonus.
Thin men and outsiders will use the +10 to hit to oneshot your rookies, you should too.
>>147688446
that
that is just the most bullshit thing and god the fact that i haven't played EU/EW in awhile in showing
why the fuck is a light plasma required for regular!? that makes no goddamn sense and UGH
>>147687812
Conflicts with It's Just a Scratch
Playing XCOM2 again now that Shen's Last Gift is out has given me a newfound respect for the Shredder heavy weapon. It's fantastic watching an entire side of a house just vanish along with the pod of advent troops inside.
>>147688803
I guess it's because light plasma rifles are probably "simple" when compared to the rest of the plasma arsenal.
>>147680260
>not playing modded x-com
>not using mods known as overhauls
>not getting entirely new (yet comfortably familar) x-com for free
>>147679364
Same I discuseed this with someone ob steam a few months ago.
Im really digging this anti snek chatter further up the thread
>>147693731
>>147693836
>>147688884
>can't recover save even after disabling mod
>>147680234
Robo no enuff
>Play Commander
>too easy
>Play Legend
>too hard
>>147694272
That's odd, I no other people have had that issue and just disabled the mod no problem.
>>147695002
Just push through legend. It took me like three-four campaigns to make it through the early game. Alternatively just bump up some numbers on Commander to get it closer to, but be "not" legendary.
>>147695002
>>147695080
Working on a mod that changes a couple things from legendary to be a better inbetween
>inb4 why not make Commander harder?
its easier to scale legendary down a tiny than to buff Commander a shit ton.
>>147635319
>those textures
>those jagged edges
>that resolution
UPGRADE YOUR TOASTER OR DON'T POST YOUR SCREENSHOTS EVER AGAIN
>>147644064
Did you miss the threads around Shen's Last Gift launch? The ones where a quarter of the thread was arguing about military aircraft, and then after Shen's Last Gift launched, at least a quarter of a thread arguing about whether robots should have hands.
>>147659050
PRO TIP
>>147663002
They don't even have faces, man, how can you waifu someone without a face?
>>147695080
Game crashes everytime I try to load the save without the mod. Looks like I'm starting a new game.
>>147674617
Nice.
>>147677782
Same, except I finished a campaign. Have zero desire to ever play it again, even with mods. Even thinking about it hurts.
I've learned an important lesson. Never get hyped.
>>147697806
that sucks desu
>completely remodel the MECs that a professional artist at firaxis made for a salary so that I can have slightly less blocky textures in a top down strategy game
>>147659050
Also just learned that the power mace can knock down both exterior and interior UFO walls (and floors).
![790D764B86D68A50158506A8CC59B35E7F6B4907[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hGcceKL.jpg "790D764B86D68A50158506A8CC59B35E7F6B4907[1].jpg")
Damn brought the wrong pants
>>147700585
the worst is when you have soldiers who have no head, arms, or legs
goddamn cosmetics bugs
>>147700585
He looks cold.
>>147702284
Probably, but think of the freedom of movement!
Requesting pics of ded sneks.
>>147703310
y u do dis
>>147703310
>>ded sneks.
>>147703852
Please do not post dad-humor desu
Boy these Battleborn are cool andfunto play but Gearbox seriously forgot to invest more into the QT factor or, at the very least, make a few more QT-bait characters besides the mecha-penguin.
>>147703310
Im sorry but I have exhausted my ded snek reserves
>>147704448
dozo
When should I do the blacksite on Legend?
>>147704585
Right now
>>147697806
Laughing harder than I have in a good while at this gif
Man goldies are dumb
>game doesn't make my computer howl anymore
Thanks for fixing your game, Jake
So what SLG mods are rumored right now? Cause SPARKs just ain't cutting it for me.
>>147704695
I think I'll wait for mag and plate.
>>147705370
They do make for some great reaction images.
>>147705980
Goldens are great but yeah they can be kinda dumb
>>147706330
>>147705980
>having tiny baby dogs
When is it a good idea to make contact with other regions on non-Legendary difficulties?
>>147706410
I want a huge dog so bad it will make being 6'8 even better
>>147703310
remove ayy
Anyone have any memorial pics, on Legend at about gauss weapons. Curious how bad I'm doing.
>>147706932
>>147705576
mag is fine
its an easy mission
>no timer
>3x3 pods
>2x2 pods
>2 reinforcements
>2 turrets
lots of juicy XP to have
>>147706932
lost 2 rangers so far
why are there no male sneks?
>>147709023
They were destroyed when they turned on their master
>>147707024
>rookies by june
>>147709686
For the memes bro
>tfw you just want a game exactly like xcom but with 0 aliens
I'd be happy fighting advent troopers all day, I just want a turn based strategy PMC simulator that isn't jagged alliance.
Fuck stun lancers. How many flashbangs should I take?
every time I get to a defense mission I lose all will to play the game
Is there a mod that makes stealth reactivate for the squad if you kill all woken enemies the same turn it's broken?
Had a pretty nice activation just now
>>147711083
Staring into your soul.
>tfw you lose half of your squad to ayy lmaos coming out of nowhere and chain-grabbing the same dudes
Thanks, Jake
>>147710768
Just make sure to get a defense matrix.
>>147710905
not that i know of.
if that's acu, it's the most decent ive seen
>>147710768
Why? They're the easiest missions in the game, that let you promote pretty much every single unit in your squad.
>>147711439
Damn. That's the one gameplay change I've been itching for. And yes, thanks.
Verdammt Deutsche.
Why are the H&K's the only Kraut guns on the workshop? The war demands Kraut Space Magic.
Other than Halo team and "whatever looks cool" what are some good squad themes?
>>147713218
theme around the military? army, marines, other countries, whatever. modern operator with big beards and ballcaps? valkyrie/siren team? tacticool with gasmasks? my favorite is no names, just callsigns and serial numbers, all in the same face-concealing uniform.
>>147713218
Everything usingBIGBLOCKYA R M O R
>>147713218
Most of my times don't usually have any females in them because it feels a little more realisticlolnotanymorebut I wholly agree with bearded operators and faceless legion.And Halo.
>>147683539
The thing with armor rush in LW is that it's overkill. You can get 7hp (on a 4hp rookie) from day one, which is enough to survive any sectoid shot in cover and most of the flanking crits too. Ranked up soldiers will be 8hp (unless it's a squishy class that started as a 3hp rookie), and that's enough to slug it out with non-flanking thin men or floaters. With alien materials you can boost that to 9; there's no reason to go any deeper, what does having 10 base HP give you that 9 already doesn't? Nothing can hit that high.
Well, you do get biotanks (which are amazing except on council missions) and overall more mobility, but I doubt anon was going for that.
>>147687895
Skipping laser on vanilla I/I is suicide. It's the opposite problem there; even with armor the thin mints oneshot you, but at least with laser you can oneshot them too..
>>147713483
>>147713861
I like modern operators. Team of Billy Waugh, Dalton Fury, Dusty Hammer, Sean Walker, and Daniel Busch. I'm okay with a single gendered roster.
>>147713527
Most of the decent looking big blocky armor is Halo, sadly. Not against Halo, just bored of it.
I wish the guy who ports EU stuff would port the Tier 1 armor. I know the Resistance Warrior armor is in, but I'd rather it not destroyed and all fucked up. I miss my old squad.
>>147683000
also
>starting LW on classic
XCOM EW in XCOM 2 engine when
>>147714147
seconded. i loved the default armor design in EU.
>>147713861
How many woman are front line even today? I can't imagine that many out of total percentage of front line troops. I guess we are looking at 20 years from now, however.Which likely will make basically no difference to those numbers.
>>147713218
I go with what I think looks fun. I don't particularly care about being tacti/k/ool. If I like the combination, they go in with it. Same reason I don't care if women are in my squad. Fun trumps realism for me most of the time.
>>147714310
Infantry pretty recently opened up. The first real ones hit the fleet maybe a year ago? I know AFSOC just opened like six months ago because my brother was at Lackland for basic and the first female PJ candidate was there at the same time.I was at Camp Lejeune when the first females graduated SOI East (and were promptly assigned a non-combat MOS anyway). I was none too impressed and neither was anyone in the training command, from what I heard.
>The 'Lance' ability works like XCOM's Skulljack. They pick a target, activate the ability, roll the result, then run to the target and try to hit them.
>Because the ability is activated before they move, it is affected by the -50% hit chance Suppression modifier, even AFTER they've moved.
Dis real?
Why does all the late game armor look so god damned stupid.
I regret upgrading to that spandex shit so much.
>>147714612
Eh, as long as they can pass the required training, without watering down said training specifically so they can pass, I see no issue. It's a tough job, but if they can pass the requirements they should be honored for it.
>>147714906
Most of the issue comes from lower platoon performance in integrated platoons versus traditional. On top of that, the most pressing issue, their physical standards are not equal and there's a big mess saying how it could endanger the platoon if a female can't live up to a male's standards. You got 65lbs of gear on, your buddy has 65lbs of gear on, you weigh 120lbs and he weighs 180lbs, he gets shot, you gotta carry him at a jog for 200 yards. God forbid your buddy is a machinegunner or a SMAW gunner. Not many women can do it so people call it an endangerment.
Plus the Marines actually just removed pullups from the female PFT so they can do pushups instead, making it easier and exacerbating the worry. It's all a big mess right now.
>>147715186Not surprising. They did this for firefighters too, lowering training requirements, also a remarkably physically intensive job. I seriously don't understand why they want these women in these positions when they are literally physically incapable of meeting the job requirements.There are likely plenty of women who could meet, or nearly meet, the physical requirements of the job. Why not wait for them to apply? I seriously don't understand these people. I wonder how many unnecessary deaths it will take for them to stop pushing this hard on their ideology.
I guess we shouldn't push too far into that territory though. That's a whole other can of worms.
>>147714898
Get mods, be happy. ADVENT gear, Halo gear, whatever, there's plenty ways to make the power armor tier much more bulkier.
>>147715327
I'm not entirely against females in the infantry as long as they can meet a flat rigorous standard, no special cuts. The infantry is no place to push an agenda cause it's just going to get people killed. All the same, yes, agreed. Less of that and more XCOM.
Anyway, long story short, I like my roster to be all male cause I can make my old weapons platoon with the few people I really liked and the whole bunch of other idiots.The only issue being a weapons platoon is a really weird class mixture.
>>147710727
What's wrong with JA2?
Tried Silent Storm?
>>147712909
F L E C K T A R N
>>147714310
40-45% of Kurdish fighters are female, I think because their lives and freedom are on the line. If the shit hit the fan like the crapsack world Firaxis is trying to make 2035 out to be I think you'd see similar numbers.
But yeah, even though more and more militaries are opening all positions/MOSs to women, I don't think the percentage of females in front line jobs will get that high.
>>147715186
Is this true? I remember reading an article about the first women to graduate from ranger school and they specifically stated the requirements were not changed.
anyone else get like -20 fps on urban and retaliation maps? Those I get like 40 fps but everything else are like 50 - 60 fps. Even after followed optimization guides like this one https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=620508289
FFS fix your broken game Solomon
>Windows update kills my xcom yesterday
>Reinstall windows delete everything
>Reinstall xcom
>Get no error message and crashes to desktop
Works fine on my system :)
>>147717639
What OS and what updates were installed?
So by implementing the 'essential improvements', specifically the stuttering fixes, from the Steam community thing:
>http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=616682629
My FPS actually went down a little bit. Not a whole like, like 5 FPS or so, but that's still odd. Is this expected?
>ADVENT officer runs up to my SPARK
>SPARK has bulwark
>ADVENT officer takes cover behind my SPARK and is now considered to be in cover from my SPARK even if the SPARK is the one shooting at him
>>147719609
ayy lmao my friend
>>147719609
Is there a place for a filthy pirate to get mods like Grimy's stuff that's only on the workshop?
