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Nov 13, 2013 23:15
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So training roulette is awesome, but I have now reached a decisive moment with my corporal assault. Do I take low profile or extra conditioning....
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Nov 13, 2013 23:17
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WYA posted:How fast do you guys rush satellites? I follow the 5 sat at the end of the first month build order religiously, and try to maintain +1 uplink per month from there until full coverage.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:19
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WYA posted:How fast do you guys rush satellites? M1: 1 satellite (2/2) M2&3: Uplink + 3 satellites (5/5 followed by 8/8) M4: You best have a Nexus ready around now (14/14) M5: Finish up the last 2 Is my go-to path for satellite cover in classic. I haven't bothered with Impossible where losing countries is simply part of the game.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:22
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 What the christ.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:23
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Doctor Schnabel posted:That's a bit disappointing. Are any of the new variables interesting, at least? I take it alien progression didn't make it in there, yeah? You can find all the ini files in this folder in you Steam directory: ...\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown\XEW\XComGame\Config\
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Nov 13, 2013 23:25
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Sardonik posted:I follow the 5 sat at the end of the first month build order religiously, and try to maintain +1 uplink per month from there until full coverage. This is probably the way to do it. More than this and you spend too much money that you need for other things; less than this and you never get the money you need for other things, plus panic will spiral out of control. Since adjacent satellite uplinks give you +3 satellite slots each, if your goal is just to lock down continents from abduction panic you could focus on the smaller continents like Africa or the Americas. If your goal is to selectively use satellites as anti-panic buttons you can handle it that way too I guess, but you won't get continental bonuses any time soon. It's all situational. Since no two games are alike there's no totally optimal way of doing this. I'm finding South America really pays for itself now, since you get a lot more goodies for alien autopsies. You probably also should think about researching live capture sooner because I swear the beam weapons and such are much harder to research this time around; the live captures cut your research time in half.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:26
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SynthOrange posted:
If that bothers people then I've got a story about a man named Straker that involves some S.H.A.D.O. operatives to tell them. It goes a bit like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjaAiwro-og
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Nov 13, 2013 23:27
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Speedball posted:I'm finding South America really pays for itself now, since you get a lot more goodies for alien autopsies. You probably also should think about researching live capture sooner because I swear the beam weapons and such are much harder to research this time around; the live captures cut your research time in half. Yup. As soon as I finished beam weapons and saw the next set of research time I said gently caress that and started going for arc/captures. A South America start with an emphasis on unlocking gene poo poo instantly must be fun to do.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:37
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Kasonic posted:So after losing an entire game to one misclick (double-tap 5 wasn't Hunker Down on that class, it was toss a grenade at your feet, there goes the bomb timer), and now my only non-rookies over two missions, twice to Sectoids dodging two overwatches to crit a full health guy in full cover. Yeah, maybe one Ironman Classic run was enough for a lifetime. That was something I was hoping they would fix. The first 4 skills should always be fire, reload, overwatch, and hunker down. Just grey them out if they aren't available, but make 1-4 hard bound to those skills on every single soldier. After that, they can put in grenades, medkits, and armor/class specific skills. But 1-4 should never change under any circumstances for anyone.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:38
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Zore posted:They at least get a lot of neat upgrades now! Alternatively: they don't loving cost Meld. If you go for a gene-therapy heavy game, the SHIVs are a godsend because that doesn't leave much Meld left for your MECs. Edit: heck, since many upgrades also affect MECs, they're good then too.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:41
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So I am at the end of the game and have a max psy level soldier but they are only a Lt. Do they need to be a colonel to use the gallop chamber?
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Nov 13, 2013 23:51
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Does the UK count as a country not in Civ 5? (since it's England and Celts in that)
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Nov 13, 2013 23:52
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:M1: 1 satellite (2/2)
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Nov 13, 2013 23:52
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How do you get the ability to get more engineers?
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Nov 13, 2013 23:55
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cheesetriangles posted:So I am at the end of the game and have a max psy level soldier but they are only a Lt. Do they need to be a colonel to use the gallop chamber? They need to be wearing Psi Armor, I don't know if they need to be a high rank though.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:55
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WYA posted:How do you get the ability to get more engineers?
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Nov 13, 2013 23:56
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My primary MEC has the nickname 'Marvin'. Someone, somewhere, in engineering is laughing their dorky head off.WYA posted:How do you get the ability to get more engineers? Build workshops or hope for abduction rewards!
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Nov 13, 2013 23:56
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Veotax posted:They need to be wearing Psi Armor, I don't know if they need to be a high rank though. Any psi-capable soldier wearing the psi suit can do it, even a squaddie (never tried a rookie).
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Nov 13, 2013 23:57
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Are gas grenades worth using over frags? Also my heavy is now referred to as Strobe. I imagine this is because of all the bullets flying everywhere from her lmg. Most of them hit the air! e: I love how the news reports in the situation room have changed from "vague rumors of alien activity, say crazies" to "holy poo poo aliens are attacking us" and "why aren't our governments fighting the alien menace???" And that's at two and three panic. Chill out guys I got this. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Nov 14, 2013 |
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Nov 13, 2013 23:57
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poptart_fairy posted:
I cant build workshops for some reason
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Nov 13, 2013 23:59
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SynthOrange posted:What the christ. Oh my goodness, a reference to another Firaxis game. Whatever shall we do?
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Nov 14, 2013 00:00
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Holy crap are fully upgraded MEC troopers powerful but you pretty much pour everything into them. Doesn't really matter though when they are sniper, heavy and support all rolled into one. If they gave MECs Lightning Reflexes, then there's your legit god character right there.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:01
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WYA posted:I cant build workshops for some reason You need a certain number of engineers to unlock building workshops. Either put satellites over a country that will give you engineers at the end of the month or (much more likely), get engineers as an abduction mission reward. Its almost always worth it to take engineers as the reward for the first abduction mission, no matter where the other ones are.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:02
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WYA posted:I cant build workshops for some reason
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Nov 14, 2013 00:02
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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gatesealer posted:... with my corporeal assault... It would be much cooler to have an incorporeal assault.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:05
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SeaTard posted:That was something I was hoping they would fix. The first 4 skills should always be fire, reload, overwatch, and hunker down. Just grey them out if they aren't available, but make 1-4 hard bound to those skills on every single soldier. After that, they can put in grenades, medkits, and armor/class specific skills. But 1-4 should never change under any circumstances for anyone. Agreed. Hotkeys are sort of useless if you have no control over which action is tethered to which key, the actions change from soldier to soldier, and occasionally the actions shift around, even on the individual soldier. If I have to cautiously examine every hotkey's function every time I want to do something, it defeats a lot of the purpose of a hotkey.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:07
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Brainamp posted:Oh my goodness, a reference to another Firaxis game. Whatever shall we do? Complain about how it's immersion breaking bullshit that adds nothing to the game? [because it is] The exalt base is in a location where you can find the crisp refreshing taste of an ice cold Pepsi. Drink Pepsi.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:07
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Heliotic posted:Complain about how it's immersion breaking bullshit that adds nothing to the game? That clue doesn't help when I can enjoy the refreshing taste of an ice cold Pepsi Cola wherever I go, thanks to their convenient resealable bottles! Now if you had said "RC Cola", we could really narrow down the location.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:09
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:That clue doesn't help when I can enjoy the refreshing taste of an ice cold Pepsi Cola wherever I go, thanks to their convenient resealable bottles! Now if you had said "RC Cola", we could really narrow down the location. You can only unlock the convenient resealable bottles through a foundry upgrade 
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Nov 14, 2013 00:12
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All I know about Civ 5 is that you can play America, Egypt and Babylon in it. Maybe.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:12
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Heliotic posted:Complain about how it's immersion breaking bullshit that adds nothing to the game? Exalt liking Pepsi wouldn't be immersion breaking as only horrible people drink Pepsi.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:13
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SynthOrange posted:All I know about Civ 5 is that you can play America, Egypt and Babylon in it. Maybe. While I haven't gotten there, I'm pretty sure the lead designer said that the UI marks up countries ruled out by the clues automatically so you don't actually have to know them and it just seems like harmless flavor.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:14
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So, uh, confirmed. Vahlen is a psychopath who knows how to interrogate humans as well. 
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Nov 14, 2013 00:21
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27 hours til the game unlocks...but in the meantime I was busy and found this gem in the .ini. Seems the flamethrower will be very easy to adjust....burn....everything must burn... [XComGame.XGAction_FireCustom_Flamethrower] SweepAngle=60 ;The angle in degrees formed between the leftmost facing of a sweep and the rightmost facing Range=8 ;Range of the flame thrower in tiles NumSweeps=1 ;(Cosmetic) The number of times the unit will sweep the firing flamethrower back and forth over the target SweepFullCircle=False ;(Cosmetic) Specifies the type of motion the sweep will have ChanceToSetFire=0.00 ;A value between 0.0 and 1.0 that specifes the likelyhood that an environmental fire will be set FireProcessingInterval=1.2 ;Time in seconds between processing which tiles should be set on fire. Higher frequency produces more tiles on fire FireChance_Level1=1.0 ;The FireChance_XXX variables define the relative chance that environmental fires will use the various levels of fire FireChance_Level2=0.3 ;The FireChance_XXX variables define the relative chance that environmental fires will use the various levels of fire FireChance_Level3=0.2 ;The FireChance_XXX variables define the relative chance that environmental fires will use the various levels of fire LengthUpdateSpeed=0.1 ;This parameter controls the speed at which the length of the flame effect will grow / shrink to compensate for collisions (0.0 - 1.0)
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Nov 14, 2013 00:26
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poptart_fairy posted:So, uh, confirmed. Vahlen is a psychopath who knows how to interrogate humans as well. Ya I tazed and Xalt guy to see what would happen 
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Nov 14, 2013 00:28
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Hmm, on the modding front I found EXALT behavior settings for the Geoscape tied to the game's difficulty, but these settings are not in the DefaultGameCore.ini file. Instead these settings are in the file DefaultGameData.ini. Does anyone know if DefaultGameData is read locally from the config folder, or are those parameters embedded in a UPK file? I did not see the DefaultGameData embedded in the EW executable file. @ Uberjumper, I sent you this same question on the nexusmods forums. EDIT: Uberjumper and I tested and affirmed this DefaultGameData.ini file will take overrides to gameplay. nnnotime fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Nov 14, 2013 |
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Nov 14, 2013 00:33
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Have they ever revealed the characters for Zhang's name? I can't not read it as Ms. Zhang; though that is kind of funny.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:35
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poptart_fairy posted:So, uh, confirmed. Vahlen is a psychopath who knows how to interrogate humans as well. Hammerstein posted:27 hours til the game unlocks...but in the meantime I was busy and found this gem in the .ini. Seems the flamethrower will be very easy to adjust....burn....everything must burn... Unlock it now through a VPN - it takes about 2 minutes!
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Nov 14, 2013 00:39
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nnnotime posted:I don't know, yet, as my mod (Implassic) doesn't require me to scrutinize the variables in detail. I assume over upcoming weeks people will post details on new variables in the nexusmods forums.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:41
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