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Internet Kraken posted:You can't field a squad of little girls though. Just give them white hair    (Ok, Ocelot isn't supposed to be that old)
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Jesus, PSI operatives get so many abilities and they're all ridiculously strong. I don't know if there is a way to beeline for one early on, but I might try that when I do my second run. The fact that they train outside of combat and go from being wounded back to the PSI chamber automatically means their training is hands off beyond picking whatever skill sounds the most broken every few days.
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Feb 9, 2016 04:57
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Started an ironman game and about a hour into it I got a crash then my save file vanished. Guess its good that I was only an hour in.
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Feb 9, 2016 04:58
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Proud moments in Xcom: grenadier uses demolition, fails to destroy cover, somehow starts a fire under his own feet This is the second loving time that has happened. I don't think I'm gonna take demolition anymore. It'd be nice if it worked, but half the time it doesn't, and setting my soldier on fire is idiotic. I wouldn't be surprised if it could somehow destroy your own cover.
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Feb 9, 2016 04:58
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OK I have a little dilemma here. I'm finishing up the Avenger Defense and trying to extract all my guys. They're all on the ramp, I have one soldier carrying an unconscious guy, the Recover Soldiers counter says 0, but I'm getting the warning that I'm going to leave someone behind if I liftoff. Can you not extract unconscious soldiers, or is this a bug? I'm on Ironman and I'm afraid to click and see what happens. 
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Feb 9, 2016 05:01
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RBA Starblade posted:My specialist hacked a workstation for a mission, failed to get a useful bonus (the only one I've gotten so far was to disorient ADVENT for two turns, which would have been useful had the squad been anywhere near me), blew up the alien knockoff mec that is apparently invisible to scanners, and his reward was he got better grenades from the AWS. Nice. Disorient All Enemies is awesome because it will tell you the number and name of every single enemy left on the map.
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Feb 9, 2016 05:01
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^^ burning is such a rough mechanic. I wish general 'heal' would get rid of it, instead of needing to burn a 'revive' Rangers are just amazing with the conceal bonuses and shotguns have way more range than EU On the other hand, close range bonuses need some work. Tile-away point blank should be 100% unless there are some modifiers at play. Also, I need a mod that will get rid of most of the ponytail variations for male soldiers. They roll randomly with some kind of lame rear end lorenzo lamas wannabe haircuts far too often...which'll happen when you half of your haircut options are some ponytail variation
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Feb 9, 2016 05:02
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FuriousGeorge posted:OK I have a little dilemma here. Did you use mind control at any point in the mission? Bradford gets very attached to mind controlled aliens and will complain if you try to leave them behind. Even if they're dead. oswald ownenstein posted:^^ burning is such a rough mechanic. I wish general 'heal' would get rid of it, instead of needing to burn a 'revive' A regular Heal does cure burning, along with acid and poison.
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Feb 9, 2016 05:03
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1. How do I choose iron man mode? 2. Why do the cut scenes run at 30FPS? How can I fix this?
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Feb 9, 2016 05:05
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Megasabin posted:1. How do I choose iron man mode? Don't play Ironman mode, and don't care, in order. Seriously, can we change the thread title to DON"T PLAY IRONMAN YOU IDIOTS or something?
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Feb 9, 2016 05:06
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Megasabin posted:1. How do I choose iron man mode? 1. Disable the tutorial 2. No fix. Cutscenes seem to be handled using a keyframe method.
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Feb 9, 2016 05:07
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Vengarr posted:Did you use mind control at any point in the mission? Bradford gets very attached to mind controlled aliens and will complain if you try to leave them behind. Even if they're dead. Nope, that's very noble of him though.
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FuriousGeorge posted:OK I have a little dilemma here. What Vengarr said about mind control. I also got this bug because for some reason my GREMLIN was still out in the field after being used for haywire protocol, sending it to aid someone removed the message.
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Feb 9, 2016 05:08
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Nope, first thing I tried. I even got a mod that is supposed to allow you to force a load, but that isn't being enabled either. Verifying my games cache now though. Had a similar thing happen, verifying the cache and re-launching a couple times took care of it. Pretty sure it came about due to messing with the engine.ini file - which is where the steam mods paths get stored.
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FallenGod posted:Jesus, PSI operatives get so many abilities and they're all ridiculously strong. I don't know if there is a way to beeline for one early on, but I might try that when I do my second run. The fact that they train outside of combat and go from being wounded back to the PSI chamber automatically means their training is hands off beyond picking whatever skill sounds the most broken every few days. psi operatives are a genius implementation of shivs 
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Flawless legend tutorial, time to make a save of this so I don't have to do it again a third time! I don't understand how someone could ironman this, I have to fix my tactics so much.
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ZearothK posted:What Vengarr said about mind control. I also got this bug because for some reason my GREMLIN was still out in the field after being used for haywire protocol, sending it to aid someone removed the message. I think maybe Turrets count too? If you have a Defense Matrix. Speaking of which, I made sure to have a fully upgraded and staffed Defense Matrix...the turrets are a little underwhelming. Barely any health, sub-par accuracy and damage. If you can't win with nine of your finest asskickers out there, four dinky turrets aren't going to do much lifting.
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Henry Scorpio posted:Had a similar thing happen, verifying the cache and re-launching a couple times took care of it. Pretty sure it came about due to messing with the engine.ini file - which is where the steam mods paths get stored. Just managed to fix it actually. It looks like it's a problem with pressing the 'refresh' button on the launcher when you have mods enabled. You have to re-enable everything, launch the game, quit, deactivate everything, press the refresh button, and then re-enable everything.
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Feb 9, 2016 05:19
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Internet Kraken posted:Proud moments in Xcom: grenadier uses demolition, fails to destroy cover, somehow starts a fire under his own feet Suppression is just too good anyway, especially now that reloading doesn't end your turn. A heavy with suppression can keep a dangerous enemy locked down forever, though admittedly the couple of times I've done this to 'off tank' a muton while I deal with something else, the muton only puts up with it for a few turns before he dashes out anyway.
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Feb 9, 2016 05:19
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Elliotw2 posted:Don't play Ironman mode, and don't care, in order. Why would I not play the game the way it was intended to be played?
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Megasabin posted:Why would I not play the game the way it was intended to be played? Because your save might get corrupted without warning.
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Because at least 25% of this thread is people saying how they lost their ironman save to a bug that can't be solved except to restart.
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Vengarr posted:I think maybe Turrets count too? If you have a Defense Matrix. I solved this problem by always countering the UFO Hunt event. Fortunately, it hasn't come up against stiff competition in the "Holy poo poo that sounds horrible" games. Usually I counter the UFO Hunt, Vigilance (never again), or Infestation. Anything else is basically 'eh, I can live with it' even if it's not terribly pleasant. The reason for this particular fixation on not doing an Avenger defense is that I have neither a Sniper nor a Conceal Ranger. It would just be pain.
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Hmm. That sounds pretty awful. Perhaps I will wait for the first patch.
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The Iron Rose posted:[Haywire protocol is] by far the best specialist ability, bar none. The amount of poo poo ADVENT MECs have soaked up for me is crazy.
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Strobe posted:I solved this problem by always countering the UFO Hunt event. Fortunately, it hasn't come up against stiff competition in the "Holy poo poo that sounds horrible" games. Usually I counter the UFO Hunt, Vigilance (never again), or Infestation. Anything else is basically 'eh, I can live with it' even if it's not terribly pleasant. I never had a UFO Hunt Dark Event and it still spawned a UFO after I took out the Codex Brain site. I had already done the Forge site, so maybe it appears after you do both of them? Vib Rib posted:Too bad it goes up against revival protocol, right? I found that one particularly alluring. Especially since as far as I know it's the only thing that can cure unconsciousness, which can utterly gently caress up a mission, especially if it happens early on. I had a bunch of guys get knocked out early, so I rushed Revive Protocol aaand...never had anyone knocked out again. I would always grab Haywire, so many of the most dangerous enemies are mechanical. And for some dumb reason, Revival Protocol only gets one charge regardless of how many medkits you have. It's very situational whereas Haywire is going to be useful on every mission. Vengarr fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Jane "Snake" Kelly is very very good at hacking things to bits, especially stun lancers who are basically free experience. Not one has ever had a hit connect. 
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The biggest issue with the game right now imo (besides bugs and performance) is that early-game hit percentages are just too low. I understand that this is par for the course for x-com but even something as little as 2%-5% would do wonders in evening things out. Also enemies need more health as time goes by because once you get full mag weapons you can basically demolish enemies with decent tactics and 'nade spamming and enemies feel like they go down too easy. Red Mundus fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Strobe posted:I solved this problem by always countering the UFO Hunt event. Fortunately, it hasn't come up against stiff competition in the "Holy poo poo that sounds horrible" games. Usually I counter the UFO Hunt, Vigilance (never again), or Infestation. Anything else is basically 'eh, I can live with it' even if it's not terribly pleasant. You're worrying too much about the Avenger Defense. I had 3 people run ahead (2 Rangers, 1 Specialist) while everyone else manned the defense. The hardest part is reaching the target, but once you do it has hilariously low HP (about 10 if I remember correctly, gently caress those horrible health bars) and you can just NOPE right back to your buddies holding the ramp. I probably could have done it a turn faster if I'd replaced the Rangers with Grenadiers and their hilarious bombardment range.
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Jesus christ this was scary. So I sent my concealed ranger to flank that sectopod and pals after they got triggered from deeper in the facility. I figured that because the sectopod can see several soldiers, there's no way it would randomly walk in the direction of my ranger, right? Well I have no idea why but it did. It ignored all the targets in front of it and instead ran through the wall to the left. That's when I had the horrible realization that it was going to expose my ranger and also step on the car he was using as cover. So I get this horror movie-esque sequence in which one of my specalists fires 3 guardian overshots, desperately trying to save his comrade from the rampaging sectopod. Of course that doesn't kill it though. So after it blows up the car, the stun lancer tagging along runs up and clonks my ranger leaving him at 1 hp. So that could of been disastrous as opposed to just really bad. Managed to pull out without him getting killed but drat I never had a scare like that in lategame EW.  Sectopods are a menace when you don't get the drop on them. EDIT: Gee I wonder why 
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Any way to make backup saves? I really enjoy ironman and haven't had an issue yet, but save corruption is a concern and I wouldn't mind the ability to make periodic backups. Losing a few hours isn't too bad.
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ZearothK posted:What Vengarr said about mind control. I also got this bug because for some reason my GREMLIN was still out in the field after being used for haywire protocol, sending it to aid someone removed the message. Yeah I think it was a case of No GREMLINs Left Behind for me. Anyway I bit the bullet and didn't lose anyone so all good I guess.
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Internet Kraken posted:Jesus christ this was scary. That's an extremely appropriate mission name. Alkydere posted:You're worrying too much about the Avenger Defense. I had 3 people run ahead (2 Rangers, 1 Specialist) while everyone else manned the defense. The hardest part is reaching the target, but once you do it has hilariously low HP (about 10 if I remember correctly, gently caress those horrible health bars) and you can just NOPE right back to your buddies holding the ramp. I probably could have done it a turn faster if I'd replaced the Rangers with Grenadiers and their hilarious bombardment range. It has 11 health. Explicitly because the Blaster Bomb does a maximum of 10 damage and you can hit the spike with it from the spawn 
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i've already had one ironman save corrupted with an underneath the floor zombie, another ironman game end in abject failure, but my third ironman game is going well so far. i can't wait for the corruption to cause my own salty salty tears
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Feb 9, 2016 05:32
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Oh god Wraith armor is the best. I just walked into an alien base, planted X4 and left. No more story missions left, top of the tech tree. Time to finish this. Tomorrow.
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Feb 9, 2016 05:33
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Ravenfood posted:Any way to make backup saves? I really enjoy ironman and haven't had an issue yet, but save corruption is a concern and I wouldn't mind the ability to make periodic backups. Losing a few hours isn't too bad. If you head to X:\Users\USER\Documents\my games\XCOM2\XComGame\SaveData you'll see all your save files, and you can just periodically make a back up of whatever's in here and hope the game doesn't have any protection against it.
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I saved all the Shadow Project stuff till I had Plasma Weapons and Powered Armor etc and after doing them all in a big clump the Avatar Project counter got bumped down to 0 so now I'm just cruising around the Earth and making friends without any stress.
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Megasabin posted:1. How do I choose iron man mode? Disable the tutorial and then try to start the game, you'll get a popup asking if you want ironman or not. The second part is the one that tripped me up, and I suspect why it gets asked so much.
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Dongicus posted:oh cool Elliotw2 posted:I don't know, like half of the faces in this game look like they're in their mid 40's.
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Alkydere posted:You're worrying too much about the Avenger Defense. I had 3 people run ahead (2 Rangers, 1 Specialist) while everyone else manned the defense. The hardest part is reaching the target, but once you do it has hilariously low HP (about 10 if I remember correctly, gently caress those horrible health bars) and you can just NOPE right back to your buddies holding the ramp. I probably could have done it a turn faster if I'd replaced the Rangers with Grenadiers and their hilarious bombardment range. I absolutely am.  How are the enemies on the defense? I've started encountering Gatekeepers, and Sectopods are a once every mission (at least) enemy. I get the feeling, with powered armor and full plasma tier weapons that I'd have little more than a shooting gallery on my hands until I got bored and one-shotted the emitter with an acid bomb from the Avenger's ramp.
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