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Cosmic Afro posted:To be fair, 'dash then attack' is something all melee attackers can do. Your ranger can do it. ADVENT Stun Lancers can do it. I'm pretty sure zombies can't, but they might be the only ones. edit: And the faceless too... fspades fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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I too witnessed the one magical moment when everyone was banned.
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Lotish posted:Did this happen to anyone else? Pomp posted:what happened
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Zomborgon posted:So, multiplayer's going to be bugged again? ![]()
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Lotish posted:Did this happen to anyone else? Yes, in every thread.
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Bremen posted:To those not watching, the devs just had a soldier run up to a corner, revealed a chryssalid, and it ran over to the soldier and stabbed him on its reveal move. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.
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ADVENT is on to us. Stay safe comrades. ![]()
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DrManiac posted:It's like they had a big list of optimal strategies for each enemy in the last game. Well they were Beaglerush fans. They had detailed examples of dealing with every enemy in every conceivable scenario without losing anyone.
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I mean, "run away from the melee death machine charging towards you" isn't exactly next-level strats.
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Do we know the release time yet? Need to know if it is worth cashing in sick time.
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Pomp posted:what happened Big thing is that chrysallids can charge into a melee attack on their dash move like every other melee unit including XCOM rangers. On Legendary they have something like 12 health and 1 armor, and the new dash rules means that they can come barreling out of the fog of war and still get a melee attack off. Melee attacks still poison and can also score critical hits. They have some degree of dodge like Vipers do, so half damage hits aren't uncommon on legendary. They can burrow somewhere and if you discover them on your turn they unburrow and get one action which they can use to charge in and melee your soldiers. If they kill a unit (including a civilian) it turns into a cocoon with a ridiculous amount of health on Legendary difficulty that pops out one baby chrysallid per turn for the next three turns unless destroyed, though baby chrysallids only have half the health of the adults (and might have some other reduced stats, I'm not sure). Basically they're a lot scarier this time around, though a bladestorm ranger might stand a little bit more of a chance provided the ranger doesn't miss.
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LightWarden posted:Big thing is that chrysallids can charge into a melee attack on their dash move like every other melee unit including XCOM rangers. On Legendary they have something like 12 health and 1 armor, and the new dash rules means that they can come barreling out of the fog of war and still get a melee attack off. Melee attacks still poison and can also score critical hits. They have some degree of dodge like Vipers do, so half damage hits aren't uncommon on legendary. They can burrow somewhere and if you discover them on your turn they unburrow and get one action which they can use to charge in and melee your soldiers. If they kill a unit (including a civilian) it turns into a cocoon with a ridiculous amount of health on Legendary difficulty that pops out one baby chrysallid per turn for the next three turns unless destroyed, though baby chrysallids only have half the health of the adults (and might have some other reduced stats, I'm not sure). That sounds scary as gently caress. I think I might just play my first game on normal...
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Its more than likely that beagle will rise on the third day and present us all with strategies to beat back the Aliens with.
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Josef bugman posted:Its more than likely that beagle will rise on the third day and present us all with strategies to beat back the Aliens with. Even were that to happen, the trick then is in how you execute them on constantly randomized maps. And under the pressure of chryssalids threatening to slice and dice your mom out in the field, or something.
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The best is gonna be when you run up to save a civilian from a Cryssalid and it's a Faceless. LOL welcome to X-COM Lyfe you sorry son of a bitch. Edit: still a ranger with Blade Storm and a good sword can clown the 'Lids all day.
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LightWarden posted:They have some degree of dodge like Vipers do, so half damage hits aren't uncommon on legendary. They can burrow somewhere and if you discover them on your turn they unburrow and get one action which they can use to charge in and melee your soldiers.
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"Why aren't the poison rounds working? So useless!" "Uh, Chryssalids are immune to poison" "D'oh!"
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For those of you wondering about the artbook RE spoilers, there doesn't seem to be anything in there that they haven't shown publicly, except maybe the final picture of the book, which is unlabeled but might depict a contagion zone area, as described in the novelization.
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Bremen posted:To those not watching, the devs just had a soldier run up to a corner, revealed a chryssalid, and it ran over to the soldier and stabbed him on its reveal move. Yesssss ![]() I want it to be like the original x-com. Brutal as loving poo poo unless you're encased in the best armor in the game. I've been thrown through the Darkest Dungeon gauntlet and I'm totally ready to ironman and see all my guys die permanently. Once more into the breach, soldiers! The one with the rifle shoots, when the one with the rifle gets killed, the one following him picks it up and shoots! ![]() Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The best is gonna be when you run up to save a civilian from a Cryssalid and it's a Faceless. LOL welcome to X-COM Lyfe you sorry son of a bitch. ![]() ![]() Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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i want ot play this game
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Pomp posted:i want ot play this game
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Pomp posted:i want ot play this game It's gonna be so good
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Where's the cheapest place to get it right now? I heard a few places were selling it for 25-30% off and wondered where the most reputable deal was.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:Where's the cheapest place to get it right now? I heard a few places were selling it for 25-30% off and wondered where the most reputable deal was. GMG, might not get it in time to preload
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Zaphod42 posted:Yesssss Why not, lets go full imperial guard on these Xenos mother fuckers.
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I want a TFTD mod so bad. I'm a programmer though and what it needs most are art assets.
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Bremen posted:To those not watching, the devs just had a soldier run up to a corner, revealed a chryssalid, and it ran over to the soldier and stabbed him on its reveal move. Ok I'm gonna avoid any missions that take place in Newfoundland TYVM.
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There's probably going to be a mod to work undersea stuff into the base game. X-Com: Rising Tide.
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"Terrorists From the Deep" is still the better thread title imo.
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Kai Tave posted:"Terrorists From the Deep" is still the better thread title imo.
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for anyone else binging on EW/Long War before launch, someone has just modded up an XCOM2-style LOS indicator ![]() http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/666/
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Kai Tave posted:"Terrorists From the Deep" is still the better thread title imo. He can save that one for the TFTD DLC
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TFTD would be really good with some space-y ambient music instead of action movie type stuff we have now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTXeWIL1vhA idk what youcould do for combat though. definitely something leaning towards downbeat edit:wrong link
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Sharrow posted:for anyone else binging on EW/Long War before launch, someone has just modded up an XCOM2-style LOS indicator Muchos thanks. Might even be bearable to do that last playthrough now...eventually.
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Pomp posted:TFTD would be really good with some space-y ambient music instead of action movie type stuff we have now. Or just stick with the original, which holds up nicely.
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Sharrow posted:for anyone else binging on EW/Long War before launch, someone has just modded up an XCOM2-style LOS indicator Has anyone done up a "this is the overwatching rear end in a top hat, right here" indicator outside of LW yet, because god drat I just lost a Colonel to a mistake about which alien was overwatching and quit in goddamned self-disgust ![]()
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I want this game an unreasonable amount.
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I will...play the game.
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# ? Mar 8, 2021 03:19 |
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Joust posted:I will...play the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_5O-nUiZ_0 "It's so eeeea-sy. When you know the rules. It's so eeeea-sy. All you have to do is ayy lmao."
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