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I've a hankering for playing some XCOM 2 now. Anyone have QoL mods for WoTC?
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Hwurmp posted:2K's marketing director, apparently. He's been on every non-tutorial Operation Gatecrasher I've ever played. He's the Marketing Director of 2K. EDIT: You found it before I posted. Shame on me.
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Apr 18, 2020 04:11
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Apr 20, 2020 04:37
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They're posting little gameplay snips now. https://twitter.com/XCOM/status/1252712743892738049
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https://www.gameinformer.com/exclusive-interview/2020/04/22/firaxis-on-how-chimera-squad-ties-into-the-larger-xcom-universeSummary posted:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LrKCoOlkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy5wxhgWw5I Also  Kelly knows your secret folder Commander.
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Apr 23, 2020 19:57
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Apr 23, 2020 23:05
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Peachfart posted:They mean 'take care' as in social programs, not eliminate. Crazy Ferret posted:Sasssy Sssocialist Snek No, she means "take care" as in "kill". Torque's entire thing is that she's racist towards ship-born aliens, and that only the ones born on Earth like herself deserve to live here.
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Apr 23, 2020 23:19
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Crazy Ferret posted:Oh well then... What a loving swerve I love it.
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Apr 23, 2020 23:24
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I like her being racist to non-Earth-born aliens because it's a very interesting bit of world building and an unique angle to go at in terms of an alien character in a post-XCOM 2 world, and that it's such a swerve from what most people were expecting for a snek waifu character. It makes her a lot more interesting than if she was just "token snek girl". The people who unironically say she's great purely because they identify with her being racist are scum though.
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Apr 24, 2020 01:48
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Rorahusky posted:I imagine that if Breaching does come to XCOM3, it'll be for missions like taking a landed UFO or assaulting an alien base, and we'll have normal XCOM style combat for less structured missions like terror missions. The lovely thing about new character mods is that they won't have the conversations in between missions with the other characters, if they even have voice work at all. Actually depending on how they do it they might still be able to have em, just no voice work. Also I want a mod that makes it so all stuns hit for 2 turns so it actually does something. The 1 turn stuns etc are loving worthless.
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Apr 25, 2020 10:39
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Pharmaskittle posted:It's hilarious that you can take faceless alive, and that they're even around. I mean look, I'm all for integrating aliens into society, but c'mon! Those are just monsters! That's racist. Look, one of them's getting three cats out of trees. 
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Apr 26, 2020 03:55
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CRISPYBABY posted:Dumb question: what do civilians in the game even do? They're never a mission objective and they seem to run away when either me or an enemy gets near. I remember seeing one tooltip about them but can't remember what it said. Make sure they don't die or you get penalized. Enemies don't deliberately target them and they run away from enemies if they get too close. If one of your guys gets close to them, they'll head out the exit and off the level. IMO they're mostly there so you can't always throw explosives around willy nilly and to be chryssalid targets (who do deliberately target civvies). EDIT: More posters    
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Apr 26, 2020 04:11
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Lord Lambeth posted:Looks like a movie poster, like Jaws. Interesting that even though earth is a integrated society of aliens and humans, there are still aliens that in general can't be trusted (chrysalids? haven't gotten that far into the campaign) The religious ex-ADVENT faction uses chyrssalids as attack animals.
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Apr 26, 2020 04:12
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THIN MEN FASHION MODELS
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Apr 26, 2020 10:04
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Internet Kraken posted:I really wanna know how Faceless fared after the invasion. It was never clear how intelligent they were, but to work as undercover agents they'd have to be able to pass as humans in more than just looks, so there's gotta be some intelligence. Well, they're intelligent enough to get posters targeted at them.
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Mr. Grapes! posted:It is also kind of strange that this is supposed to be, what, 5 years after these aliens wiped out like 80% of the entire human race, and performed hosed up experiments and generally did everything 10x worse than the Nazis ever hoped to, and everyone is suddenly okay with them being just getting armed up and entrusted to be Englightened Cops, when we just deposed the Happily Enlightened Advent Regime that they all committed genocide to keep in place. Keep in mind, for 90% of the humans on the planet the ADVENT regime was a benevolent and good one. All the hosed up poo poo was hidden away.
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Apr 27, 2020 10:20
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BobTheJanitor posted:What I don't get is how Jane Kelly, who looked like she was probably in her 20s in X2, now has grey streaks in her hair. This is a continuity error that I cannot countenance, and furthermore The stress of war makes you age prematurely.
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Apr 27, 2020 19:31
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Can someone help me troubleshoot this? WotC was running fine last night but now when I try to start it it won't open. I press play from the launcher but it never starts, I can see it in the task manager but that's it.
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Apr 28, 2020 01:27
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v1ld posted:Try removing or moving your config files. They're in Documents\My Games\XCOM2 War of the Chosen\XComGame\Config for WotC. Safe to remove, the game will create them again when you restart, though you may have to go through Options again. I got it working after I restarted my computer, but thanks anyway!
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Apr 28, 2020 09:28
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Terminal has a conversation with Godmother where it's implied she's lowkey suicidal, given she doesn't expect to live past 5 years.
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Apr 29, 2020 22:37
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People saying Torque's VA saying she didn't know she was playing a snake is bad voice direction yet she herself thinks otherwise. https://twitter.com/ericalindbeck/status/1255565324767772672
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ErKeL posted:It would've been cool to see 31PD active in some of the missions. Could have been a few extra mission types like backing them up getting stuck in a poo poo show, or having the reverse they could provide support while you're hustling out of an evac. I had a fun moment where a farmer with a shotgun wrecked some alien on his own. I headcanon'd that one of the next batch of recruits was him getting hired on the spot.
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Ravenfood posted:Depends. Iridar's Stormrider and Akimbo classes are both good but not super broken. Fuze, Shocktrooper, and Heavy Gunner, at least, all seemed fairly in-line with regular classes as well. A Better Barracks classes all might be a bit weaker than the baseline classes, actually. I haven't played with many of the others. I can recommend the Warden class. Fun and balanced implementation of psychic melee.
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Bizarre Echo posted:I've got the same feeling. At first I justified it by telling myself that Chimera Squad is a military unit, not actually police, but...sending military in to do the job of policing actually feels worse. But you're not being sent in against police targets, you're being sent in against paramilitary forces. Like out of all of them Grey Phoenix is the closest to being topical, what with being the minority group wanting better for themselves (by loving off in a spaceship). Chimera Squad's premise is definitely iffy especially with everything happening nowadays, but you're not violently suppressing peaceful protests with "nonlethal" weaponry, you're fighting heavily armed insurgents with access to military weaponry. Hell, during Grey Phoenix's investigation peaceful protests (and presumably the violent suppression) were going on, however Chimera Squad had no part in that. I mean you could make the argument it's normalizing that sort of thing, but you're explicitly not part of the regular police force. skaianDestiny fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jun 3, 2020 |
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Torque has very few actions that aren't police brutality, she's basically a massive lawsuit waiting to happen. Dick size doesn't matter if you can literally mind gently caress your partner to orgasm.
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Internet Kraken posted:Verge can't satisfy anyone until he's built up his neural network with 5 other partners. I'd like to see that sort of mod actually.
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Shoenin posted:It'll be one looooong orgasm since Verge takes a while to finally finish. I really don't see how that's a downside.
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The Hunter is my favorite out of all the Chosen. Just a real fun personality.
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I got the Mechatronic Warfare mod and it vastly improves the SPARKs. Highly recommend.
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Anyway here's the only mod that matters for XCOM 2. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2105749504  quote:Chiseled rock hard abs for your Xcom girl operators. Recently it was brought to my attention that no one had made a mod like this in the 4+ years now that Xcom 2 has been out, so i figured i'd take on the challenge as a fun little experiment.
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aegof posted:Wrong, idiot. Counterpoint: I'm a lesbian and extremely buff dudes does gently caress all for me.
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ZearothK posted:Thinking of jumping back on XCOM 2 after a few years. What are some contemporary or classic gameplay mods to add spice to the game? For WotC, naturally. Mechatronic mod is mandatory for making Sparks way more fun to play/level up. EDIT: This mod is mandatory: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2105749504 skaianDestiny fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Austen Tassletine posted:Just started playing this and am a bit confused about the dlc. Not sure if I'm just being stupid and missing something obvious, but I can't seem to get the dlc missions to function. My first go with the tutorial turned on the missions came up like they are apparently supposed to, but on starting a new campaign they don't. Make sure you turned off "Integrated DLC" when you make a new game.
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Every XCOM fan should try out Troubleshooters. It's a great take on the genre and if you liked Chimera Squad's combat you'd like Troubleshooters' if you're fine with some anime story and a small bit of indie jank. It's about the cost of Chimera Squad but like the length and expansiveness of the main XCOM games. I'm 120 hours in and I'm still getting new systems to learn about. It does the difficulty curve better than XCOM too IMO since the enemies also escalate in bullshit the same amount as you. So you're still gonna be challenged even with your super OP units, but not to the extent that you don't feel powerful. skaianDestiny fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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Best Friends posted:I liked troubleshooter too but let's get real: the jank levels are substantial. Eh, at launch probably, but they've been making a lot of the jank better.
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Can second on "it's good, but not an XCOM-like".
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Bremen posted:Considering there's a line about her eating Canadians I have to really wonder who she thought she was voicing. I mean there's plenty of options besides "snake".
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Speaking of fantasy!XCOM I had a game concept where you essentially lead an XCOM-like organization that's a coalition of various fantasy races against a necromancer threat. You'd start off with generic unnamed mook units divided up into certain classes, with the upgrade tree being the same across members of the same class. Once they gain enough experience or did a notable feat, they'd be promoted to a hero unit, which would have in addition to the core upgrade tree additional upgrade trees based on the feats they pulled off. For example, an archer that repeatedly hit long range low accuracy shots would on promotion get an upgrade tree focused on boosting long range attacks, while an archer that did lots of close range attacks would get one suited for that, a soldier who survived brawls with a lot of enemy units would get upgrades related to fighting hordes, and someone who kept missing every high accuracy attack would get an upgrade tree based on still achieving damage despite misses. In this way each one of your heroes would be unique and play into the personal narrative the player makes for every XCOM moment. You would also have a relationship system between heroes. For example, two heroes who get the "lovers" trait may get bonuses depending on proximity and protecting the other from harm, while two heroes with the "rivals" trait will get bonuses from seeing the other in combat in an attempt to one up the other. You also be able to have heroes mentor a mook in order to have a bit more control over making more heroes, with the mentor giving one of their upgrade trees to the mook they're mentoring. I think playing into the less advanced setting would also be a good idea. Since travel times would be longer, in order to respond to threats you'd need to establish multiple bases, and in order to staff them you'll need to spread out your roster of heroes and mooks. This means missions will always have different people fighting, since your garrison in the mountains may have lots of close range fighters while the one near the coast has more ranged magic users, meaning even if you're facing the same threat you'll have to react to them differently.
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