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khwarezm posted:Could someone explains how this works to me? Every now and again a random extra soldier shows up in a mission with fairly weak stats, though the manpower is always useful. Is it a sitrep or something? Does Central comment on it? (I usually play without sound). The Chosen weapons are bugged and sometimes don't show up in the weapon menu unless you Make Weapons Available every time you look at someone. Maybe that's it?
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RBA Starblade posted:The Chosen weapons are bugged and sometimes don't show up in the weapon menu unless you Make Weapons Available every time you look at someone. Maybe that's it? I tried making weapons available tons of times, I also tried to put the last soldier that used it back into a squad. Nothing. Haven't seen it for like ten missions. Christ the glitchiness of this game really annoys me sometimes.
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Stupid question: are you using the scroll wheel to go through the weapon list? I find that the scroll interval is too big and has a tendency to cause you to miss items.
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khwarezm posted:Oh, it is a resistance order, I just double checked and that was active in that game. Resistance soldiers in general, including the ones that can show up with that order active, are deceptively powerful, so don't sell them short. They have no special gear or abilities, but their aim stat is obscenely good for what is essentially a rookie.
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Backhand posted:Resistance soldiers in general, including the ones that can show up with that order active, are deceptively powerful, so don't sell them short. They have no special gear or abilities, but their aim stat is obscenely good for what is essentially a rookie. Resistance soldiers damage seems to scale with your research in haven defenses (they went from 2 damage a shot to 4 for me), and they get magnetic or plasma weapons if they join in your squad accordingly too. ADVENT is a little shittier but an extra grenade/stun can come in handy.
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RBA Starblade posted:Resistance soldiers damage seems to scale with your research in haven defenses (they went from 2 damage a shot to 4 for me), and they get magnetic or plasma weapons if they join in your squad accordingly too. ADVENT is a little shittier but an extra grenade/stun can come in handy. They are like mimic beacons that shoot.
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Dec 7, 2017 21:57
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So what happens if you fail to kill the avatar when you skulljack a codex? The chosen assaulted the avenger and when I skulljacked the codex, the avatar did not appear.
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I don't know if this has been said before or not in the thread, I'm still crying from laughter. I ran into the greatest bug* in Xcom 2, get a Templar and upgrade them so they have a Wave attack with their melee hits, then luck out and get them to unlock the Bladestorm ability (auto melee hit dudes who run into you) then plant them on an advent reinforcement flare. The ragdolls are so good it took 30 seconds for the game to stop playing the animation of it falling to the ground. "One of these days Advent, BOOM, straight to the moon" - Templar doctrine *feature
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Zore posted:You can also get one that gives you either an Advent Trooper or Lancer. I got a Lancer once. A Spectre made a shadowclone of him and it crashed my game and made the save unplayable.
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grate deceiver posted:I got a Lancer once. A Spectre made a shadowclone of him and it crashed my game and made the save unplayable. Say what you will about Advent, but apparently they're not too humble to admit when they made something they're drat proud of.
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"Yeah those ADVENT dudes sure have big eyes huh" "You just spent two days carving one of them up, was that the only conclusion you were able to draw?" "... my dude do you want this throwable camera LOL" "Are you sure you're a doctor?"
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Sapozhnik posted:"Yeah those ADVENT dudes sure have big eyes huh" Tygan we're memorializing our lost friend shut the gently caress up about burgers
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Sapozhnik posted:"Yeah those ADVENT dudes sure have big eyes huh" "Look, he's a regular grunt. You have killed hundreds of these. They're nothing special to write home about, there are public research documents available for free on sectoid-human DNA-kerfucking and hybridization at this point because ADVENT stopped trying to hide the obvious poo poo they were doing with Sectoids. The only thing that's kinda-new is that the public doesn't realize the troopers are hybrids from the opposite direction. What do you want me to say? You want to hear something interesting, bring me something exotic like, I don't know, a viper." *brings back the Viper King* "WHHHHHY!?"
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Alkydere posted:"Look, he's a regular grunt. You have killed hundreds of these. They're nothing special to write home about, there are public research documents available for free on sectoid-human DNA-kerfucking and hybridization at this point because ADVENT stopped trying to hide the obvious poo poo they were doing with Sectoids. The only thing that's kinda-new is that the public doesn't realize the troopers are hybrids from the opposite direction. What do you want me to say? You want to hear something interesting, bring me something exotic like, I don't know, a viper." "This is just another grunt in slightly different armor, Jesus Christ."
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The best Tygan autopsy is the Andromedon since the notes say he's basically 'Jesus Christ, it's incredibly poisonous and corrosive, I ain't touching that it will probably kill me!' to which the commander is just like 'Listen Tygan we don't keep you around to fix the TV, put some toilet paper over your mouth and get to it!'
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malhavok posted:They are like mimic beacons that shoot. Yeah once concealment is broken, those guys don't get to move into cover ever.
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I can't get Alien Psi Amps because after two years I've only seen two Gatekeepers with corpses I can actually bring home, leaving me one short.  e: I finally got them and finished Legendary woo 
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Dec 15, 2017 02:13
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Mario Rabbids has me thirsty to pick this up for playing while the lady watches TV but I'm wondering, has anyone tried screen sharing to the Vita and playing it? How was it? Would I lose out on much?
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^burtle posted:Mario Rabbids has me thirsty to pick this up for playing while the lady watches TV but I'm wondering, has anyone tried screen sharing to the Vita and playing it? How was it? Would I lose out on much? Well you're buying a console version of XCOM 2, so you would be losing your patience with the dirt cheap port company 2K used either way.
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It's fine. The port isn't incredible, but it's servicable. I can't imagine Remote Play would do you that terribly.
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Just downloaded and started a new game. But for some reason the keyboard mostly doesn't work. I did a search, but I can't seem to find anything that addresses my particular problem. I can use Esc and tab, but I can't rotate the controller, or use numbers that correspond to my soldiers' moves. Sometimes the game freezes for a few seconds if I try to use E or Q to rotate the camera. I'm not running any mods. Anyone have experience with this problem?
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nickmeister posted:Just downloaded and started a new game. But for some reason the keyboard mostly doesn't work. I did a search, but I can't seem to find anything that addresses my particular problem. I can use Esc and tab, but I can't rotate the controller, or use numbers that correspond to my soldiers' moves. Sometimes the game freezes for a few seconds if I try to use E or Q to rotate the camera. I'm not running any mods. Anyone have experience with this problem? Do you have a controller plugged in?
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I did, but I closed the game an restarted with it unplugged.
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So I just bought War of The Chosen. Is there anything I should know before starting my campaign? Anything you wish you did differently? I've completed a Commander playthrough of vanilla + Hunters + Last gift Away all Goats fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Dec 22, 2017 |
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Away all Goats posted:Anything you wish you did differently? All the time. Good thing this is a game meant to be played repeatedly.
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Away all Goats posted:So I just bought War of The Chosen. Is there anything I should know before starting my campaign? Anything you wish you did differently? The only real thing that comes to mind is 1) turn on aim preview in options along with zip mode, of course, and 2) 
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Away all Goats posted:So I just bought War of The Chosen. Is there anything I should know before starting my campaign? Anything you wish you did differently? Without mods or tricking the game logic a little*, you have a limit on how many faction soldiers you can have at a time. For the faction you start with, you will get up to two, but the other two factions will only let you have one. I only mention this because it's a question that came up a lot. You really don't need to field a team of six faction soldiers at any time. Even one can be overkill. *If a faction soldier is captured, their faction can offer a mission for a replacement as if they were dead. If you then rescue the captured soldier, you'll have gotten around the limit. The rescue mission isn't guaranteed to happen any time soon, though, so I wouldn't try to abuse this.
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About to get WOTC. Anyone got an opinion on whether Skirmishers and SPARKs can fulfill the same "powerful anchor" role in a squad composition? Might get Shen's Last Gift too if SPARKs are also good.
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Get Shen’s, and definitely re: Sparks. Skirmishes have great mobility and battlefield control, but they lack the emergency button that Overdriving a Spark, rocket laucnhering, and shooting twice can. And sparks don’t get tired, which is huge.
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Skirmishers are not a powerful anchor class. They're a squishy mix between a grenadier and pistol sharpshooter. A fantastic pairing is a skirmisher you bring close to exploit (or, with grenades, make) holes in the enemy's lines and a specialist with overwatch skills, a scope and mag extender to cut off access to the skirmisher's flanks. And hell, since you brought them up, sparks make the perfect pillar to build a team with those two around.
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Awesome, time to get robots for XCOM then. Thanks guys!
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The Reinforcement pack gives you you Shen's Last Gift and the others for the same price as it by itself (drat sales) so you might as well just get that.
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So this is happening... she's a beast. 
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odiv posted:The Reinforcement pack gives you you Shen's Last Gift and the others for the same price as it by itself (drat sales) so you might as well just get that. Hell, in my region the package deal is actually cheaper so good call. Thanks!
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Pohl posted:So this is happening... she's a beast. Why are you retiring her? Sure she'll be spending a month getting therapy before you can send her out again but averaging 10 kills/mission means she should get to stay.
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With how my last campaign on Legendary ended with being able to fight three or four pods with turns to spare (blaster bombs and war suits: Good) I think legendary grim dawn beta strike is going to keep me busy the next few months. I think I'm going to start with reapers this time too, though skirmisher base building is hilariously good. The Chosen and Rulers will take loving forever to kill though. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Dec 23, 2017 |
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Alkydere posted:Why are you retiring her? Sure she'll be spending a month getting therapy before you can send her out again but averaging 10 kills/mission means she should get to stay. I'm not retiring her -- I must have accidentally hovered over the dismiss button when I took the screenshot! She's probably the best character I ever rolled, I'm not letting anything bad happen to her. --She'll probably die horribly and meaninglessly within moments of returning but I'll pick up her body and give her a proper burial. Until then 
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I want to go into WOTC with an 8-man squad. What's the recommended difficulty booster to compensate? A Better Advent or something that boosts pod sizes?
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Ironman Legend, Better Advent.
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