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Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007
There really needs to be a Stargate mod, this idea of mounting 8 Jaffa staff-weapons on a HWP to create a gatling gun is ridiculous and wonderful

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Bremen
Jul 20, 2006

Our God..... is an awesome God

LolitaSama posted:

I just started enemy within and theres a mission called operation final knife with a vip that coughs and doesnt trust my squad. Its absurd. Ive killed like 10 aliens and they keep spawning. Is this mission supposed to be not possible? Theres way too many enemies that keep spawning.

That's the infamous Portent mission. It's noteable for being extremely difficult for the point in the game where you usually get it, and it's also the first of three missions in the Operation Progeny mission arc that comes with Enemy Within.

The Easy Rider
Sep 21, 2006

Corn Dogs- Deep Fried Proof Of A Loving God

VoLaTiLe posted:

Just been informed I am starting a 4 weeks training course come next monday :shepface:

Its residential so no xcom 2 for me :shepicide:

I'm in a similar boat; I took up a position on another continent, and won't have my hands on a computer that can run this until mid-June. At least I'll have some new hats to put on my troops thanks to the DLC and get whatever the XCOM 2 equivalent of "start building as many satellites as possible" essential strategies by then. :sigh:

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Kenshin posted:

There really needs to be a Stargate mod, this idea of mounting 8 Jaffa staff-weapons on a HWP to create a gatling gun is ridiculous and wonderful

Especially if you could go whole-hog on it and actually use the stargate to explore other worlds.

I dunno if it'd just be a thing where you like click the gate and you're tossed into a battle or if you'd actually have something you could do on different planets, that'd be a pretty huge total conversion mod.

But yeah just having some stargate units would be great.

My biggest thing (after wanting TFTD :cheeky:) is just wanting more enemy variety. Its cool to have these named guys I recognize like snakemen and mutons, but its supposed to be an alien invasion. I want to feel like the first time I was playing DOS X-COM and I had to do autopsies on enemy aliens to figure out what the gently caress they were. (Also bring back proper autopsy dossiers, the xcom cutscenes weren't as good)

I need some new stuff that is just totally out there. Hopefully the game has some surprises, (there's definitely some new aliens to Xcom2 that werne't in 1) but I don't think its going to be a ton of them. So hopefully mods add more and more and more after that.

You could also add the Protoss or the Zerg, or for that matter Tyranids or Eldar or Necrons or things like that.

Xenomorphs, Predators... :allears:

LordNat
May 16, 2009
Since our base in XCOM 2 is going to be a refitted space ship what are the odds that the Expansion Pack is going to be sending us into space after we retake the surface?

Woodstock
Sep 28, 2005

The Easy Rider posted:

essential strategies

amanasleep
May 21, 2008

LordNat posted:

Since our base in XCOM 2 is going to be a refitted space ship what are the odds that the Expansion Pack is going to be sending us into space after we retake the surface?

High.

Thyrork
Apr 21, 2010

"COME PLAY MECHS M'LANCER."

Or at least use Retrograde Mini's to make cool mechs and fantasy stuff.

:awesomelon:
Slippery Tilde

Bremen posted:

That's the infamous Portent mission. It's noteable for being extremely difficult for the point in the game where you usually get it, and it's also the first of three missions in the Operation Progeny mission arc that comes with Enemy Within.

That mission spelled doom for 4 of my 5 restarts before i got my golden game. :argh:

LordNat posted:

Since our base in XCOM 2 is going to be a refitted space ship what are the odds that the Expansion Pack is going to be sending us into space after we retake the surface?

I think Bradly has a base dialogue that pretty much says that. he got cut off tho, so I have no idea if one of the other crew replies with anything.

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

Bremen posted:

That's the infamous Portent mission. It's noteable for being extremely difficult for the point in the game where you usually get it, and it's also the first of three missions in the Operation Progeny mission arc that comes with Enemy Within.

Having a MEC helps. Knowing the spawn points and that the enemies spawn based on your movement and not based on time helps even more

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



The moon seems to be on the Geoscape, at least on one the Steam preview videos on the store page. :getin:

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters
XCOM 3 should just keep assuming we lost in the previous game. Okay so we failed in XCOM 2 again. Now lets stage an insurrection as Muton-esque enforcers during an invasion of another planet and prevent another Earth from happening!

binge crotching
Apr 2, 2010

Bremen posted:

That's the infamous Portent mission. It's noteable for being extremely difficult for the point in the game where you usually get it, and it's also the first of three missions in the Operation Progeny mission arc that comes with Enemy Within.

It's not bad once you realize the spawns are mostly static. There is a video somewhere of Beagle doing it and cheesing the two bad spawns. The hidden group of thinmen in the first alley you can nuke with a rocket from out of visual range, and the surprise guy that drops behind you once you reach that same alley on the way back you can cheese with an assault standing next to where it drops. Everything else is just one or two guys at a time, because you should only be moving in half/quarter turn moves so as to not trigger much at once.

Excelsiortothemax
Sep 9, 2006
Gonna take it to those loving moon men.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Excelsiortothemax posted:

Gonna take it to those loving moon men.

I don't know what to call the achievement, but the little picture for it should be Neil Armstrong's bootprint superimposed on a sectoid face.

e: Over the Moon: kill an alien on the lunar surface. Paired with Shooting the Moon (picture: a deck of cards, for the Hearts reference), downing an alien craft in lunar space.

Icon Of Sin fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Jan 29, 2016

Darkrenown
Jul 18, 2012
please give me anything to talk about besides the fact that democrats are allowing millions of americans to be evicted from their homes

Thyrork posted:

Hey, the Swoletoid got buff and all that, thats pretty weird too! Honestly, "The Ethereals are incompetent" remains my handwave of choice. :colbert:

The Ethereals whole thing is they want Psi powers and buff bodies and they keep experimenting on new races to try and perfect their mix. Sectoids had the same problem as the Eths - they could do Psi poo poo but their bodies sucked. In humans they finally found a race which could be Psi and pump iron, so it should not be a surprise they are blending in human genes to make them and the Sectoids buff.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Hahaha, what is this? Apocalypse? Laser Squad?

Captain Oblivious posted:

XCOM 3 should just keep assuming we lost in the previous game. Okay so we failed in XCOM 2 again. Now lets stage an insurrection as Muton-esque enforcers during an invasion of another planet and prevent another Earth from happening!

I would love it if they made an XCOM 3 that flipped the tables. You're in control of the aliens, invading Earth. Pesky XCOM keeps shooting down your craft and attacking, do your best to fight them off and rescue your wounded alien soldiers!

binge crotching
Apr 2, 2010

Zaphod42 posted:

Hahaha, what is this? Apocalypse? Laser Squad?

Apocalypse, and it's showing the most fun way to play.

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.

Zaphod42 posted:

Hahaha, what is this? Apocalypse? Laser Squad?
Apocalypse. The destructible envoronment hijinks in that game were something else.

Like, I had this mission in a water treatment plant or something, and a few aliens were holed up in this huge pipeline maze thing and just ganked anyone I sent in. So I figured I'd just blast open the part they were at and started shooting at the structure, and the entire loving eight-story mess of pipes promptly loving collapsed. After I sat there in stunned silence for a moment I got a pop-up saying "The remaining enemy units have fled the battlefield. You win."
The company that owned the plant wasn't too happy with me but they weren't anyone important so gently caress 'em.

Berious
Nov 13, 2005

Nordick posted:

Apocalypse. The destructible envoronment hijinks in that game were something else.

Like, I had this mission in a water treatment plant or something, and a few aliens were holed up in this huge pipeline maze thing and just ganked anyone I sent in. So I figured I'd just blast open the part they were at and started shooting at the structure, and the entire loving eight-story mess of pipes promptly loving collapsed. After I sat there in stunned silence for a moment I got a pop-up saying "The remaining enemy units have fled the battlefield. You win."
The company that owned the plant wasn't too happy with me but they weren't anyone important so gently caress 'em.

That game was cool, levelling apartment blocks was a much better strategy that sending your dudes to check 100 individual flats. Sorry civvies but I aint got time for that poo poo.

Junpei Hyde
Mar 15, 2013




I don't like this no Junpeis rule.

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

Junpei Hyde posted:

I don't like this no Junpeis rule.

That's okay, we can have one.

Junpei Hyde
Mar 15, 2013




Speedball posted:

That's okay, we can have one.

OK cool.

I still need to beat Enemy Unknown.

Trast
Oct 20, 2010

Three games, thousands of playthroughs. 90% of the players don't know I exist. Still a redhead saving the galaxy with a [Right Hook].

:edi:

Kenshin posted:

There really needs to be a Stargate mod, this idea of mounting 8 Jaffa staff-weapons on a HWP to create a gatling gun is ridiculous and wonderful

It's a shame that there wasn't ever a decent Stargate game.

Pomp
Apr 3, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Junpei Hyde posted:

I don't like this no Junpeis rule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbXjt_ZlVOE

poptart_fairy
Apr 8, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Purchased the special edition via GMG, for the same amount the normal one would cost over Steam.

Now I just wait a week... :negative:

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Was XCOM one of those games that required you to play in the region you bought it in or simply activate it?

I've been in the dark the past few months with XCom 2...and hell till I noticed the new thread I had no idea the release date was so soon...but it looks fantastic feature wise...so I want to buy it.

The Dipshit
Dec 21, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

Zaphod42 posted:

I dunno how people live with data caps.

I'd go through that poo poo in like a day.

Yeah, I have 2 ISP choices, Comcast with 300 GB caps or AT&T with 250 GB cap and 1/4 the speeds.


Monopolies suck, y'all.

Darkrenown
Jul 18, 2012
please give me anything to talk about besides the fact that democrats are allowing millions of americans to be evicted from their homes
What kind of 3rd world hellhole do you live in?

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007

Darkrenown posted:

What kind of 3rd world hellhole do you live in?

The United States of America

Excelsiortothemax
Sep 9, 2006

Kenshin posted:

The United States of America

AMERICA! gently caress YAH! COMING AGAI---


You have reached your monthly data cap. A surcharge of $5 per gigabyte over your limit will now be applied. Thank you for choosing Comcast.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

SeaTard posted:

Apocalypse, and it's showing the most fun way to play.

Figured, I barely played any Apocalypse at all. It came out and I thought it was kinda neat for a second, but then the whole realtime/turnbased combo seemed wonky and the fact that you were just in a megacity or whatever was just like, I dunno, too different for me at the time. I just played tons of TFTD instead.

Claverjoe posted:

Yeah, I have 2 ISP choices, Comcast with 300 GB caps or AT&T with 250 GB cap and 1/4 the speeds.


Monopolies suck, y'all.

Weird, I have AT&T with unlimited data and they just bumped my speed up to 48Mbps for free :v:

I think they're running scared because Google Fiber is coming to town.

Speedball
Apr 15, 2008

One thing Apocalypse could have stood to have is a little more transparancy about what factions did what within the city.

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Zaphod42 posted:

Weird, I have AT&T with unlimited data and they just bumped my speed up to 48Mbps for free :v:

I think they're running scared because Google Fiber is coming to town.
Google Fiber just needs to fart in more general directions so we all can have something resembling modern internet speeds

CrazyLoon
Aug 10, 2015

"..."

Speedball posted:

One thing Apocalypse could have stood to have is a little more transparancy about what factions did what within the city.

They had all that poo poo planned, but then had to abandon it. Julian Gollop pretty much stated he regretted aiming so drat high, without realizing just how long that poo poo would take to implement and that he wound up cutting them, to the point where the only notable ones were Cult of Sirius, Megapol and maybe 1 or 2 others. All the others were just there, like, whatever - so you could RP or something with attacking them, but had zero consequence whatsoever.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

Google Fiber just needs to fart in more general directions so we all can have something resembling modern internet speeds

Yep, they will deliver us unto the chosen land. But they're taking their sweet time.

I live in one of the first cities they're rolling out in, and even then its only available in ONE super loving rich neighborhood, because of course it is.

Strobe
Jun 30, 2014
GW BRAINWORMS CREW

Zaphod42 posted:

Yep, they will deliver us unto the chosen land. But they're taking their sweet time.

I live in one of the first cities they're rolling out in, and even then its only available in ONE super loving rich neighborhood, because of course it is.

Likewise, though my problem isn't that it's super exclusive, it's that it's available EVERYWHERE ELSE BUT loving HERE.

CrazyLoon
Aug 10, 2015

"..."
I thought US capitalism was supposed to be all like: "Competition gets us the best of the best." while in my socialist country there's only a few that just go wherever and whoever calls on them, cause the infrastructure was laid all across the country. But then again, our country is also tiny compared to the wide swathes of the US.

You'd really need state-limited ISPs TBH. A few for a handful of states to compete between each other, as opposed to just a few big country ones which can pick and choose which parts of the country come into the modern civilized world, and which are stuck in the sub 1MB/s dark ages.

CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jan 29, 2016

emTme3
Nov 7, 2012

by Hand Knit
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emTme3 fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Mar 31, 2022

Thyrork
Apr 21, 2010

"COME PLAY MECHS M'LANCER."

Or at least use Retrograde Mini's to make cool mechs and fantasy stuff.

:awesomelon:
Slippery Tilde
One the final council mission (would you believe i got van doorn's mission last? It was magical. :allears:) thinmen still managed to be dangerous enough to give me pause, and i was rocking full plasma + titan with gene mods sprinkled here and there and a fully powered MCH.

Its incredible how they are just so sodding dangerous. Always flank crits from half the map aways. Always.

E: Why dont we have a thinmen emote? :xcom:'s not enough. :dunkedon:

Thyrork fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jan 29, 2016

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Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CrazyLoon posted:

I thought US capitalism was supposed to be all like: "Competition gets us the best of the best." while in my socialist country there's only a few that just go wherever and whoever calls on them, cause the infrastructure was laid all across the country. But then again, our country is also tiny compared to the wide swathes of the US.

You'd really need state-limited ISPs TBH. A few for a handful of states to compete between each other, as opposed to just a few big country ones which can pick and choose which parts of the country come into the modern civilized world, and which are stuck in the sub 1MB/s dark ages.

People need FIOS. That's the issue. Uncapped and when wired to the computer I'm getting like 7mbs.

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