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Ciaphas posted:Teach me how to play aggressively, in the name of beating ~The Timers~, as an EU/EW player. Do you take half cover? Walk into fog to get a flank? Skip medkits and healing/support perks in favor of damage perks? Dash more? Use grenades. Keep using grenades. Don't stop using grenades. Get more grenades. Grenades grenades grenades grenades And I guess make sure to beeline weapon upgrades for when you run out of grenades.
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Soothing Vapors posted:it kind of bothers me that some modmaker can have a hissyfit like they do every 5 seconds on Nexus, delete his mod, and then all our saves are bricked This is my only major worry about the game really. I don't see a way around it though, blah.
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It has been three months and I still have one engineer. This is loving horrible. None at HQ after supply drops, none from scanning, none even available from missions.
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Feb 10, 2016 03:28
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I just ran into the Avatar after skull jacking a codex. 11 damage plasma weapon? Every turn rifts, and endless mind controls? 5 hp regeneration per turn? How the gently caress do you kill these things?!
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OxySnake posted:I just ran into the Avatar after skull jacking a codex. 11 damage plasma weapon? Every turn rifts, and endless mind controls? 5 hp regeneration per turn? How the gently caress do you kill these things?! Floodkiller posted:Use grenades. Keep using grenades. Don't stop using grenades. Get more grenades. Grenades grenades grenades grenades Though I actually just ran up to him with a shotgun ranger.
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Generally fight each battle assuming you win in one turn. Dont worry about being wide open without cover just to get a better grenade or flank shot. Use flash, mimic, hack stun on anything remaining.
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OxySnake posted:I just ran into the Avatar after skull jacking a codex. 11 damage plasma weapon? Every turn rifts, and endless mind controls? 5 hp regeneration per turn? How the gently caress do you kill these things?! It didn't like an acid grenade followed by two guys with rifles.
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OxySnake posted:I just ran into the Avatar after skull jacking a codex. 11 damage plasma weapon? Every turn rifts, and endless mind controls? 5 hp regeneration per turn? How the gently caress do you kill these things?! Bring more explosives, and if possible put aim PCS's and scopes on your dudes. I've never let one do anything more then mind control someone before I bury it in grenades and high elevation sniper fire.
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Feb 10, 2016 03:38
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Maybe it's just the map then. I didn't know what I was in for and activated it in a supply line raid. It became a game of shoot, have it move out of LOS then come back full health.
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OxySnake posted:Maybe it's just the map then. I didn't know what I was in for and activated it in a supply line raid. It became a game of shoot, have it move out of LOS then come back full health. Considering what happened the first time the game asked you to do something like this, I did my skull jacking in a rather controlled environment. I can see how it would be a pain in more hectic circumstance.
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OxySnake posted:Maybe it's just the map then. I didn't know what I was in for and activated it in a supply line raid. It became a game of shoot, have it move out of LOS then come back full health. I activated my first Avatar during a base defense. Fun times. Actually, it probably helped me out since I had more troops to deal with it immediately.
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Feb 10, 2016 03:46
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I did mine on a capture vault one and I forgot about the vault until 1 turn from it detonating.
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Searched the last 10 or so pages, doesn't look like anyone has posted this gem yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehLhqLx6Ak So glad there's a reference in there to Honest Trailers guy being the Spokesman/Informant In other news, holy moly are pistol gunslingers good. Mine has saved me so many times by shooting everything in sight for lethal damage after my other dudes decide that actually killing the aliens is silly. Between him and my combat hacker, I can usually clean up any situation I find myself in, which is nice.
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Feb 10, 2016 03:48
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Does the Dark Event "ADVENT gets poison rounds" apply to only ADVENT units, or all alien units? Because I can't remember the last time an ADVENT unit got off a shot. Or hit me. But if it's all units, that event sounds HORRIBLE and I will choose to kill it even though the reward isn't nearly as good as the other options.
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Kooriken posted:In other news, holy moly are pistol gunslingers good. Mine has saved me so many times by shooting everything in sight for lethal damage after my other dudes decide that actually killing the aliens is silly. Between him and my combat hacker, I can usually clean up any situation I find myself in, which is nice. I kind of wish there was an option to ditch the sniper rifle and just take two pistols. Because I would definitely roll with revolver ocelot all the time.
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Feb 10, 2016 03:56
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Just started playing this today. The way this game runs is embarrassingly bad. I really wish reviewers panned it just for that. Releasing games in this state is just lovely.
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Feb 10, 2016 04:02
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Feb 10, 2016 04:05
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Kooriken posted:Searched the last 10 or so pages, doesn't look like anyone has posted this gem yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehLhqLx6Ak
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Feb 10, 2016 04:06
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Internet Kraken posted:How the hell are archons not affected by bluescreen rounds? Because they're... not robots? They're just floaters with fancy clothes.
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Dear Goons, Please play my freshly updated "Hidden Potential" mod. All major bugs should be fixed as of today. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=618826129&searchtext= Love Hammerstein
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If anyone else is experiencing freezing while trying to deploy with a psi soldier, try verifying your game cache. My game was playable minus a few freezes requiring forced client restarts whenever I did certain things involving psi ops. Verified my cache just to make sure, and downloaded 2 files. Sorry if this has been mentioned already - the thread moves fast, and I didn't want anyone else to pull their hair out.
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Kooriken posted:Searched the last 10 or so pages, doesn't look like anyone has posted this gem yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehLhqLx6Ak Holy poo poo, that really is the Spokesman. I thought it was just someone doing an amazing impression.
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The character creator is both too fun and frustratingly limited at times. There are no wizard hats...which is probably a good thing really. Also, the nickname slot lacks the characters for "Archchancellor" which bugs me. Still, the best I could do was the Floppy Bonnie, and of course Ridcully would wear the version with bullets on it since he can't fit a crossbow in it. And purple is a fine and proper and traditional wizarding colour! I think Ridcully would have a blast with XCOM, plenty of specimens to hunt down, and a bigger specimen every other week! If Dr. Vahlen was still leading the show in the lab he'd probably have no issue bagging and tagging as many aliens as he could get is hands on at times.  Yes, that is the Bursar's actual name. Tried my best to make him not look like just an older, twitchier version of Ridcully, not sure I succeeded.  And of course the youngest member of the UU's faculty. And the only shaven one. Obviously he has to have HEX-patterned gear. 
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Clarste posted:Because they're... not robots? They're just floaters with fancy clothes. They're organics with significant machine components. If that didn't qualify something for bluescreen rounds then gatekeepers shouldn't be affected either.
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Feb 10, 2016 04:18
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I have a ranger who got Rupture as his bonus ability on his very first level up. I going to build him as a stealthy ranger rather than a sword so he can pop out and assassinate the gently caress out of harder targets.
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Internet Kraken posted:They're organics with significant machine components. If that didn't qualify something for bluescreen rounds then gatekeepers shouldn't be affected either. Yeah, I have no loving clue why Gatekeepers have the Bluescreen weakness when they're a squishy bag of psi-meat surrounded by a shell. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna take advantage of said weakness ruthlessly.
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So I see a lot of complaints about the automatic pathfinding. You guys know that if you hold left control when mapping out your moves it sets up waypoints for movement. So no more running through every tile of fire to sword a guy to death, or eunning 7 tiles out the way to activate a new pod.
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Alkydere posted:Yeah, I have no loving clue why Gatekeepers have the Bluescreen weakness when they're a squishy bag of psi-meat surrounded by a shell. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna take advantage of said weakness ruthlessly. Why are you even shooting gatekeepers? They're fantastic to keep as pets.
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Hammerstein posted:Dear Goons, Will adding mods stop achievements? I am going to try to collect the Commander completion run on this current campaign. Also how many guys are people losing in the Commander difficulty campaign. I am in month 3 and I have already lost 5 guys. I lost 5 guys all of Veteran the entire game. This last one hurt. Lost my 3rd best soldier on a kind of bullshit Snakeman shot in full cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-Hqg_hYUg Sorry Eimi. Alkydere posted:Yeah, I have no loving clue why Gatekeepers have the Bluescreen weakness when they're a squishy bag of psi-meat surrounded by a shell. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna take advantage of said weakness ruthlessly. Thats strange, because you can't hack them either.
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MikeC posted:Thats strange, because you can't hack them either. They also don't take bonus damage from Combat Protocol.
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For neutralize target missions do i get intel for killing the target or do I have to capture?
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XCOM 2 Pro Tip: Mouse over the name of your soldier to see what their stats are. You can also mouse over their perks underneath the name for tooltips explaining them. You can do the same for their weapon to show any equipped mods or special ammo. You can mouse over the green or red chevrons on enemies to see what their bonuses or penalties are, but I'm not sure if you can see their stats like you can your soldiers.
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Just had a snake grab+bind, then a second snake spit poison on my prize grenadier. Next turn Sniper was double-crit through heavy cover on elevation. loving WELP.
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MikeC posted:Will adding mods stop achievements? I am going to try to collect the Commander completion run on this current campaign. As far as I know mods don't break achievements.
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Vengarr posted:Holy poo poo, that really is the Spokesman. I thought it was just someone doing an amazing impression. E: Nope, you're right. Jon Bailey. Well drat, I was SO SURE too.
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Tenzarin posted:For neutralize target missions do i get intel for killing the target or do I have to capture? You don't get any intel if you kill them.
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Is there a way to reliably raise your hack stat? Using skull mine on advent troopers hasn't done anything besides getting me some intel.
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Mr. Whale posted:Is there a way to reliably raise your hack stat? Using skull mine on advent troopers hasn't done anything besides getting me some intel. Upgrade your Gremlin and equip the Skull Mine (upgraded Skulljack) the Mk. II and Mk. III Gremlins each have a higher hack stat, and when you do the project to turn Skulljacks into Skullmines they also give +25 hack stat. Oh, and each level gives about +5 Hack for your specialist...I think.
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Mr. Whale posted:Is there a way to reliably raise your hack stat? Using skull mine on advent troopers hasn't done anything besides getting me some intel. Missions that have a "hack the target" objective often have a hack stat raising bonus in the objective item. I've HEARD (but not confirmed) that similar such caches of loot are found inside some advent buildings randomly but don't quote me on that.
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