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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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Thyrork posted:The aliens blame alot on XCOM. As for the book itself, its serviceable but completely passable. Cut and dry military stuff with an xcom paintjob. The really interesting part is the contagion and the zones that have been flagged as such. It'll be a shame if that's not a plot point in the game. The art book seems to indicate that the contagion zones are indeed a thing, and may have something to do with the Avatar Project.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:It looks like you can choose some exo-suit looking things as customization options but they're only cosmetic? I assume there must be some kind of research/engineering development along those lines, though. The exo suit is a mundane armor type you can develop. Lets you carry a heavy weapon like a rocket launcher or flamethrower. The other armor types give you a second accessory slot or a grappling hook.
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Besides, we all know the key to stopping the Avatar Project is going to be talking Vahlen into coming back to X-COM.
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Kanos posted:I don't know how to break this to you, but... Word of warning: anyone killed by this thing's death explosion gets turned into a zombie. Apparently including civilians.
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Maluco Marinero posted:The real answer is because then there'd be no game, but otherwise let's explain it away by saying they need to move the Commander close to combat zones to properly make use of them, cause otherwise you'd stuff them in a black site under 50 sectopods. Or the aliens figured that there's a million gene clinics around the world and it's better to hide the Commander as a needle in a haystack. If they stuffed her in a Blacksite, well, X-COM knows from the security that Blacksites have goodies inside.
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Internet Kraken posted:Please, there's no proof of this anywhere. Nah, I think we finally found out what happened to Reapers in the reboot.
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I hate training roulette in Enemy Within sometimes. Is there a wrong choice between Sprinter and HEAT Ammo on a sniper?
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RBA Starblade posted:That's a tough one but I'd have to go with HEAT ammo to make the nastier things non-issues. Yeah, chose HEAT. Won't be useful for a while, this was my sniper's sergeant level, but I expect it will be great when the time comes. Was if anything a harder pick than, say, my assault choosing between holo-targeting and covering fire. Rest of the squad's picks are less impressive so far. Heavy with close combat specialist, support with extra conditioning, and assault with holo-targeting.
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I think my current game of Enemy Unknown has spat out the best training roulette sniper I've seen yet. Alessandra packs Headshot, Squad Sight, HEAT Ammo, Disabling Shot, Aggression, Sentinel, and Double Tap.
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Speedball posted:Clearly they're saving her for the Enemy Within version of XCOM 2 or something. She'll show up in the X-COM 2/Civilization: Beyond Earth crossover expansion at the helm of an INTEGR Aquilon. An Aquilon is this thing:  The weird dude on the left is the standard foot soldier if you're going the route that has you building Aquilons.
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I finally picked up the game on sale this weekend and... I think my Sectoids are broken relative to what I've seen and heard. Despite providing them with plenty of corpses, of five sectoids I've seen that have lived long enough to do anything, I've only seen one zombie. They adore mind-controlling my grenadier and shooting people with their plasma bracers, though.
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Alkydere posted:The AI favored zombie raising to a comically high degree when the game came out so Firaxis edited their preferences. They'll still raise zombies fairly regularly (you're probably having a bad run of luck) but they're now much more likely to use their mindspin or even attack. They really love mindspinning my lead grenadier, and have mind controlled her twice. I felt compelled to change poor Sasha's nickname from "Big Nasty" to "Manchurian" after one particularly awful mission where she gravely wounded two of the other four troopers before I could kill the sectoid - Sasha being the one with the flashbangs. 
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I do love the emergent story that goes with X-COM. Just thinking about how and why my Russian sniper picked up Hail of Bullets from the AWC...
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Alkydere posted:I got a Support with Kill Zone. I hope I can get some fire/poison ammo for him so I can rely on his stock to guarantee that poisons/ignites enemies with his stock. So far I have a Specialist with Run and Gun, a Sharpshooter (built mainly as a sniper) with Hail of Bullets, and a Grenadier with Guardian. Only just got the proving grounds up and running. Game is enjoyably challenging on Veteran difficulty as I ease into the game, only one death so far and that was on the Blacksite getting crit through full cover by a MEC.
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Question for the vets - is it worth it to build radio towers in every sector? I towered all of South America and Europe for the useful continent bonuses (I started in Africa) and am looking to expand into Asia but the supplies cost is getting a bit much when I've just researched plasma rifles and want those more but they're expensive and it looks like the other plasma guns will be, too.
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Zoran posted:You should only ever put one radio tower in the two-sector continents and two towers in the larger continents—exactly enough to get the continent bonus. You don't need a tower in every sector on a continent. Oh, didn't realize that. Thought it was the same deal as Enemy Unknown. That helps a bunch while I save for plasma, thanks.
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I've discovered a really neat trick to my sniper picking up Haill of Bullets - it's a pseudo-snap shot. As long as it's not on cooldown and he has the ammo, he can shoot off a Hail sniper shot as his orange move after moving or reloading.
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Crosspeice posted:The great thing about Sniper's learning extra abilities is that they use the Sniper Rifle, sure, but don't require two actions to fire like most Sniper abilities, letting you move and use them at the cost of not being usable through Squadsight. I've gotten Rupture on two Snipers before, unfortunately not in the same campaign, but would I like to hit for 18 damage after moving? Yes please! Nice to know, I'm only using one sniper for now but I scored Rupture on one of my specialists and it's been very handy. I have yet to see my Heavy's pickup of Guardian happen, ever. Either she misses entirely or she kills in one hit. Also, where have you been all my life, acid grenades? Edit: Just had a funny base defense. The Avenger landed up on some cliffs, with all the aliens and ADVENT down below. Their ranks included a sectopod that clearly wanted to rush the Avenger, but couldn't get up. It walked to the nearest lowland point to the Avenger and spent the entire mission waddling back and forth on a three tile path unable to comprehend that it couldn't scale the cliff. It never tried to raise up and completely ignored my soldiers moving past it towards the spike. Cythereal fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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In retrospect, I should have known better than to skulljack that codex before everything else was dead.
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Finished my first playthrough, Veteran non-iron man. I suppose I'll post my overall thoughts on the game. The Good * Battlescape gameplay significantly improved. Every class had interesting options and I got a dozen troopers up to Captain playing with different builds. Enemies were similarly diverse and each had their own way of making things interesting (except the ADVENT troopers). The prevalence of mission timers took a lot of getting used to, but I came to appreciate how it kept the pressure on and forced me to stay aggressive. This new emphasis on aggressive play and mobility caused a lot of abilities and perks I would normally have overlooked to come into play a lot more often, especially the gunslinger option on sharpshooters. I think I prefer the more patient, methodical structure of Enemy Unknown, but X-COM 2 is designed very well with the new play style it demands of you. * I didn't hate the geoscape, and that's something very new for me in this series. Lots of flavor and setting in the random events you can find, and things felt much less frantic and random than air combat and panic management.* Base management was much less annoying than it's ever been. Manufacturing new weapons as a net upgrade for the entire squad was a very welcome change. * Where have you been all my life, acid grenades? The Mixed * I liked most of the new alien designs, with the codex and gatekeeper being standouts for me, but a few were big misses with me. The new mutons felt incredibly goofy and awkward to me, I think something about their proportions, and the berserkers nailed the proportions much better but their textures looked incredibly silly to me. I think the advanced ADVENT troops were also a huge missed opportunity, they're visually identical to the more basic models and I don't know why Firaxis didn't take the opportunity to make the advanced and elite ADVENT more visibly threatening, either with visible genetic enhancements and alien influence, bigger and heavier armor, or the like. I think heavy MECs had a few small model changes in addition to their new paintjob, but I was expecting heavy MECs to look more like baby sectopods or be cyberdisk-influenced. Also, I could never take avatars seriously. That hair man, and Tali's face mask. * That final mission... it felt appropriately tough to be sure, and I can respect the series tradition of the villains infodumping on you in the final mission, but the place was visually uninteresting until the final room (a complaint I also had about Enemy Unknown) and I was expecting something a bit more impressive than fighting three avatars one by one - though if you can end up with more than one on your hands if you don't kill them fast enough then that would add some much needed spice to the final confrontation. * I'm ambivalent about this game's implementation of psionics. I like that you can get them early on if you prioritize them and my psi-troopers were useful without question, but I don't know if they needed to be a full class and I ended up building the psi lab fairly late in the game. I felt like I always had more important rooms to be building like comm centers, power relays until I got the conduits, and the guerilla school/AWC/shadow chamber/etc. Like the proving grounds non-plot stuff, psionics ultimately felt like a nice luxury but nothing essential. * Skullmining is  as all hell and I occasionally used it purely offensively to gib pesky ADVENT, but aside from its plot uses it felt very uninteresting and limited. I'd have preferred keeping the series' staple of capturing aliens alive, I think.The Bad * In short, the setting. I felt it was all too alien and weird for the feel of secret wars in the shadows of the modern day like Enemy Unknown had, too mundane and down to earth to feel like an interesting sci-fi world. The only times I got interested in the setting were some of the little vignettes from geoscape sites. * His habit of never shutting up on missions aside, I think the new central human cast was a big step down from Enemy Unknown. Dorky Bradford, Shen, and Vahlen had a chemistry and group dynamic that edgy Bradford, Tygan, and Lily simply didn't have. I didn't dislike any of them per se, again bar Bradford's incessant whining on missions, but they were completely unmemorable to me. * I want Terror From The Deep, drat it. TLDR: Gameplay fun, story and characters bad. All things considered, X-COM 2 is significantly more *fun* than Enemy Unknown in my opinion, but far less *memorable*. Cythereal fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Alkydere posted:Yes, the story is dumb as rocks, but as you said the game is fun as hell so it gets a pass. Thinking about it, I think Jake Solomon's stated goal of making the aliens the stars of the enemy show was, at best, a mixed bag. With two exceptions (gatekeepers and sectopods), I usually found myself targeting the aliens last because I felt the ADVENT were more dangerous aside from the troopers, especially the lancers and officers. Shieldbearers also extremely annoying. I also barely saw any mutons, berserkers, or chryssalids all game, I think I saw single digits of each all game and that's including the final mission. Archons and andromedans, on the other hand, were goddamn everywhere once they started showing up.
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" Though the city maps EW introduced for UFO raids were baller as could be with the player picking through the rubble after a downed alien spacecraft plowed through a bunch of buildings. But yeah, game is vastly more replayable than EU/EW just for that, and that's before you add the modding.
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I'm looking back at my completed first game of X-COM 2 and specifically how I picked skills and equipment for my a-team if anyone has any suggestions. Posted in order of kills: 1: Ranger Slash Phantom Shadowstep Run and Gun Implacable Untouchable Rapid Fire Shotgun: laser sight, hair trigger WAR Suit, plasma blaster, talon rounds Never picked up an AWC ability, but this guy lead the team on kills with good reason. I almost never used his sword, instead relying on his ability to simply delete hostiles with remarkable safety between Run and Gun, Rapid Fire, Implacable, and Untouchable. I gave him talon rounds and was never disappointed. The plasma blaster also came in handy on several occasions, giving him the ability to reach out and touch someone beyond shotgun range. 2. Grenadier Launch Grenade Shredder Suppression Holo Targeting Chain Shot Hail of Bullets Rupture Guardian (AWC) Cannon: scope, extended magazine WAR suit, blaster launcher, flashbang grenade, acid bomb The cannoneer build seems to be talked about much less than going for maximum boom, but she was priceless throughout the game and I think exceeded my ranger on kills in the final mission. From the start she excelled at making everyone else's jobs easier, then once she hit major and got a superior scope, she started turning aliens into swiss cheese, especially heavily armored enemies. The blaster was probably a little redundant on a grenadier, but it made a hell of an opening statement from concealment. Grabbed one of the avatars in the final mission thanks to Hail of Bullets saying "gently caress your dodge nonsense." 3. Specialist Aid Protocol Combat Protocol Haywire Protocol Scanning Protocol Covering Fire Ever Vigilant Capacitor Discharge Run and Gun (AWC) Rifle: stock, hair trigger Wraith suit, skulljack/battle scanner depending on mission I thought this lady was just kind of there for most of the game until I started handing out t3 armor and realized just how many kills she had. The way I was using her, the Covering Fire/Ever Vigilant combo was incredibly useful and accounted for a substantial number of kills throughout the game. Lots of valuable utility skills, too, there was always something for her to do and she bagged one of the avatars in the final mission with combat protocol. 4. Sharpshooter Squadsight Long Watch Lightning Hands Death From Above Killzone Steady Hands Serial Hail of Bullets (AWC) Sniper Rifle: scope, extended magazine Wraith suit, tracer rounds For reliable termination of low-health enemies, this was the man I called. Hail of Bullets was a great pickup due to the sniper rifle's innate damage and how it can function as a pseudo-snap shot if you have the ammo. He was much better on some missions than others, depending on terrain and line of sight availability. When he was good, he was great, but more often he was kind of mediocre. 5. Grenadier Launch Grenade Shredder Demolition Heavy Ordnance Volatile Mix Salvo Saturation Fire Untouchable (AWC) Cannon: stock, hair trigger Warden armor, plasma grenade, dragon rounds, acid bomb My second grenadier went for the boom-boom approach, and it paid off handsomely. He didn't get as many kills as the front three, but he excelled at softening up enemies and making holes for everyone else to exploit. Untouchable was nice when it happened (and it did happen a fair number of times), but it wouldn't have been my first choice for this guy. 6. Specialist Aid Protocol Medical Protocol Revival Protocol Field Medic Covering Fire Ever Vigilant Capacitor Discharge Rupture (AWC) Rifle: scope, stock Warden armor, medkit, battle scanner Like my sharpshooter, this lady was more useful on some missions than others and like my second grenadier, she was better at enhancing and helping the team than she was at scoring her own kills. Covering Fire and Ever Vigilant were just as good on her as on my other specialist and Rupture was a great pick-up that helped on many occasions, but by and large I felt she wasn't generally needed, but when she was needed, she was really, really needed. Any observations from the vets about what to do next time? I barely played with psi at all due to how late I got the lab up and running. Cythereal fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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I'm playing a second game, trying some different approaches like a samurai ranger and gunslinger marksman. Just one problem, though. Where are my acid bombs? I don't know how to fight armored enemies without my acid bombs.
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jadebullet posted:Well, I finally got around to playing XCOM 2. I was a little rusty so I started with the tutorial enabled. Well, I got to the first mission, was a bit reckless due to the time limit, and one of my team got killed. This caused another team member to freak the hell out, climb on top of the truck, and grenade himself, and the rest of the team, completely wiping the mission. 
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WillyTheNewGuy posted:Just wanted to mention that Repeater weapon mods (5/10/15% chance to kill any opponent regardless of remaining hit points) work on Alien rulers. This happened in the ongoing LP, during the first encounter with the archon king.
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DrManiac posted:Link? That sounds hilarious Video and thread.
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm imagining Terror from the Deep ocean liner missions scaled up to modern super cruise-ship size. Could probably mix them up with oil rigs, cargo ships, and maybe even military ships - sure, I'd take a mission to board and destroy an ADVENT aircraft carrier.
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Zore posted:Some of this sounds absolutely terrible. Building individual arms when you're encouraging like 100 soldiers with multiple missions running at once in particular sounds really loving stupid. Tedious micromanagement bullshit in Long War? Say it ain't so!
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BlazetheInferno posted:A few things I hate on that list: Long War 1 seemed to really hate anything that provided consistent, reliable damage or consistent, predictable use. Long War 2 looks like it will be the same way. The modders seem to loathe the idea of being able to count on something to do what it's nominally supposed to. I'm in the same boat, Long War 1 had a few ideas I thought were cool and good and then saddled them down with so much stuff I hated. Going to give Long War 2 a pass from the get go unless the modders surprise me.
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I'm wondering if we're going to get a good DLC/expansion down the road, though. Alien Hunters was... divisive... and I found Shen's Last Gift pretty meh. Fun mission, but I don't like MECs in Enemy Within and don't like Sparks now.
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Psycho Landlord posted:What the hell is wrong with you I never found them very useful? They're a great early game crutch and I use them as such - the flamethrower's panic is great - but I find myself phasing them out around the time I'm outfitting everyone with lasers and carapace and the first suites of gene mods. Everything a MEC can do, gene troopers can do better in my experience, and have better aim while costing less meld that can be saved for things like giving people mimetic skin.
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Hawgh posted:They can punch aliens into tractors that then explode! And yet MECs don't end up turning X-COM into a video game adaptation of Predator, starring genetically engineered alien super soldiers as the badasses-turned-slasher-victims.
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Ornamented Death posted:It is consistent, though. The tip says something like "you only get corpses on missions where you don't evac or leave immediately after the battle." It's pretty consistent with that that you can't hang around a highly-secure Advent facility, even if you just killed everyone there. Advent is surely sending in an army to lock that place down. Awkward, though, when the Advent Tower and Resistance HQ are in the same territory. Been long enough since I played that I don't remember if it's like that all the time, but it was my first successful campaign.
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Apoplexy posted:It's more of an unofficial expansion than it is a mod even. It's so all-encompassing in what changes there are to the game that was XCOM2 Still hoping for a good expansion, unofficial or otherwise, to happen.
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Long War 2, much like Long War 1, seems very hostile to letting the player control and deliberately orchestrate anything. Everything is more RNG, more hidden mechanics, anything with guaranteed or at least predictable outcomes like grenades are nerfed or changed. For some people, I'm sure the constant uncertainty and lack of control is challenging, exciting, and fun, but it's certainly not for everyone.
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Bholder posted:It's like LW1, so yes That, or most people just aren't playing Long War and have no opinion on it.
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Mandatory Assembly posted:It's the most popular mod on Steam Workshop so it must be at least somewhat popular among the small subset of players who install mods. And people who play mods are a pretty small subset. I, for one, didn't particularly enjoy X-COM 2 and Long War does nothing to fix the issues I have with the game so I'm giving it a pass.
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Toebone posted:Are the DLCs worth picking up? Depends on if you want MEC-lites or moderately bullshit special extra bossfights that randomly appear in missions.
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