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Uugughghghhg Alien Hunters DLC on, but it was so bad. Also not going to use the Long War Team's mods  ? Oh well TIME TO DIE FOR XCOM! If you haven't got Capnbub's Accessories Pack you should totally get it too. Lots of sweet custom made accessories. There's also the Advent Armour Pack take takes the armour models used for Advent troops and lets you use them too. I loved making my own defectors. Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jul 11, 2016 |
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JadeStar please also remember to edit the list that mission names can be generated from so we can have Operation: Goon Christmas and Operation: Dick Butt
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Jul 11, 2016 06:44
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Veloxyll posted:Long War is bad and you should feel bad for suggesting it. I did not expect such vile things to come from your mouth. And I have a Pauline Hanson avatar!
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Jul 11, 2016 09:31
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Spudd posted:poo poo I never thought of an AusPol XCOM, I'm gonna do this for my new playthrough, thank you friend. Jacqui Lambie as an XCOM soldier. Uuuugh.
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Jul 11, 2016 12:12
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Veloxyll posted:If Jade is using his stream team as well, there is already a scientist Tony Abbott. Denies alien induced climate change.
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Jul 11, 2016 12:25
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Jade Star posted:By now i have a few more than capnbubs cosmetic pack, but yes like it was said, include a link to a cosmetic only workshop mod and I'll include it if its not super spergy realism all members of NATO camouflage patterns. Awww I wanted the Australian Camo pattern on my guy. Lotish posted:I already sent my app, but I think the Titanfall Gear adds some pretty cool outfits. I especially like the pants in this screenshot: Jeeeze 166 megabytes for a visual mod.
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Jul 12, 2016 02:42
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Blind Sally posted:tbh, my application was Isobel Guitierrez Bad news Sally. MECs didn't make the cut for XCOM 2
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Oh man I wanna change my dude now How can we change our submission JadeStar? Edit: Also JadeStar once you have all the characters made can you share the Character Pool file? I want goons in my game too! Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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Jul 12, 2016 06:14
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Drakenel posted:Your character pool must look incredibly bizarre by now. I am very much looking forward to importing it.
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Jul 13, 2016 00:22
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Angry Lobster posted:So, I'm the only idiot who picked Intense? I forgot to pick my attitude! Guess that makes my duder Normal.
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RBA Starblade posted:My shining moment in X-Com was being mind controlled and shooting Commander 50 Cent in the back of the head. Then doing it again to someone else the next mission. I was a star soldier in the LP of XCOM: Apoc. And a reasonable officer in Professor Booty's LP of Long War. I'm hoping Doctor Gridlocked manages to be useful in XCOM 2 for Jade.
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Jul 13, 2016 06:12
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Kurieg posted:And Alien Hunters is the people he recruited from the Bars raiding Tygan's medical waste bin. I look forward to seeing the fight over who gets the Hunters DLC gear.
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Jul 13, 2016 15:38
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Kurieg posted:Even before that, Alien Hunters unlocks salvaged alien helmets/heads for use as headgear in soldier customization. "Oh good here comes Bill with the reinforcements they will help us deal with those pesky XCOM resistance fighters." "Wait what's wrong with Bill? Why is he a foot taller than.... OH MY GOD HE'S WEARING BILL ON HIS HEAD!"
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Heading to Evac, Activate another pod, Goodbye Rookies
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Jul 14, 2016 03:27
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Aces High posted:are we still stuck with only 4 squadmates, upgradeable to 6? It will never be like original XCOM until we can fill the Skyranger with a full platoon again Base game has 4, then upgradable to 5 and 6. I bet JadeStar will be rushing out the squad upgrades fast though.
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Jul 14, 2016 04:43
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Got Goons in my squad! What could possibly go wrong? gently caress, why do you keep missing?!
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Jul 14, 2016 05:12
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Jade Star posted:Not only are squad upgrades good in the sense of more mens means easier fights, but yes, I'll be prioritizing squad upgrades simply to rotate more soldiers through for the LP. I did the same thing in my unmodded campaign. More dudes fighting means easier fights and more dudes leveling up faster thus even easier fights.
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Jul 14, 2016 06:09
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Canuck-Errant posted:Worst come to worst, you can always install the LW Toolbox, crank squad size up to max, and see if a squad of 10-12 rookies with base gear can take on a Very Difficult mission without all dying~ LW Toolbox is currently buggy and makes the game unplayable.
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Jul 14, 2016 06:18
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Canuck-Errant posted:I haven't had any problems with the Toolbox installed and a ridiculous number of non-LW mods. Causes weird flickering for me. Well 3 days ago it did.
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Jul 14, 2016 06:33
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Jade Star posted:Stop paying attention to my logging in and out of steam friends to determine when I am recording. (A habit i picked up cause Guava steam bombed me in Borderlands) ETA on the first one?
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Jul 14, 2016 07:19
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Blind Sally posted:surely there needs to be a new carbonated beverage to talk about this game around. new XCOM, new soda. ginger beer chat? cola chat? i, for one, hope we are able to chat about the highest of quality hand-crafted small-batch gluten-free ethically-made vegan organic colas. Creaming soda chat. The best soft drink except maybe cola. Alternate health chat: Juice chat, and why grapefruit juice is the king of all juices.
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I move on target, Oh poo poo! Three loving pods! Mimic Beacon go! 
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Jade Star posted:Oh right, also i cleared out the long list of sign up emails, so if you missed out, go ahead and send in sign ups again. Only 8 soldiers have been pulled from the sign ups so far. How do we know if we got missed? Our dooders just won't appear in the first vid?
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chiasaur11 posted:New patch is released. Activate the pod, Use psyker to Mind Control Use puppet to tank
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The tutorial mission was GREAT for the story, especially compared to XCOM's original "Fight the Sectoids" one. I wish they extended the story missions out a bit more though to include capturing the Avenger so we could feel like it was something we achieved not a given, but I understand the constraints the game already had with pacing the more involved story VS the classic X-Com free play. Art discussion. Re: the statue. I liked how in one of the pre-release dev interviews someone stated that they liked the idea that the Sectoid-Dude statue could be interpreted in two ways. The first is what you discussed, with the propaganda being "Here is the Sectoid/Alien Representation, see how he helps humanity." But the other is if you consider that the Sectoid is letting go of the human's hand, and moving away; thus representing using humanity and leaving him behind. One thing you missed JadeStar was concealment gives you a bonus hit/crit for your first attack coming out of it IIRC. I can't remember if this is because the first attack always counts as a flank or if it's a regardless thing but yeah its there somehow. Also worth noting that while those loot drops have a 3 turn timer, if you finish the mission while they are still on the ground you get the loot even if you don't send someone to pick it up; nice little quality of life design decision. Re mod chat: I found the True Concealment mod to be a bit touch and go personally. It did make the game feel more like stealth mattered, and your terrorist actions were more then coming in guns blazing with a army of power armored dudes late game; but the base classes are really iffy on how good stealth is and many times you end up having to pop stealth early so you can get rid of that double Arachon+Shielder pod before you accidentally uncover anything else. I haven't tried it with my Long War Perk Pack (which changes up the classes and adds 2 more) but considering there is an actual dedicated stealth/scout class in it I can see True Concealment potentially gaining more value there. Edit: There is really fun mod called Grimy's Loot Mod that adds locked chests to the ADVENT/Alien loot tables; they cost X days research to unlock but come with a modded weapon/armour/gadget inside. Could be a bit overpowered for the base game but it makes it feel like you're salvaging actual usable weapons rather then random attachments. Highly recommended for anyone's 2nd/mod game. Grimy created a bunch of other mods that combo with it including adding in additional custom classes but I haven't tried them as I am using the Long War Perk Pack which doesn't play nice with other custom class mods. Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jul 16, 2016 |
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Ahhh Jade stop putting the "-" in the new XCOM!Kurieg posted:My favorite line of Tygans is the one about him being poo poo at actual therapeutic medicine so he's glad you send him a steady stream of corpses to practice on. He says he and the crew are glad he gets to practice on corpses first because by his own admission his knowledge of therapeutic medicine up-till-recently was entirely theoretical. He also states a similar reason for wanting you to recruit more scientists, he is a chemist/biologist by trade and wants all the help he can get. I really wish Tygan got flesh out a bit more because I like that he was the defector who was never revealed as a mole; he was totally true to XCOM the whole time. Hell story line where there was a mole with Lilly constantly accusing Tygan and Bradford trying to be neutral; only to have Tygan end up being the hero would have been welcomed as some real development. Cythereal posted:Essentially, ADVENT has placed certain areas off-limits to absolutely everyone and X-COM saw really weird poo poo coming out of these contagion zones - animals made of glass and other bizarre stuff. They saw ADVENT forces going into these zones armed with flamethrowers, which the book notes are not standard ADVENT equipment. Well remember at the end of Enemy Unknown the Ethereals point out they were running from something. Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Jul 16, 2016 |
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Scribbleykins posted:My bet is someone out there made an alien AI with poorly defined priorities or foolishly breached into dimensions where they found something that happily started breaching back. Maybe some combination of the two. This is Let's Play XCOM2, not Stellaris!
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Alkydere posted:Sniper tree: slow burn and starts with a horrible skill early on (my problem isn't doing more damage, it's hitting the assholes in the first place to do damage) but ends up as a monster. When I did my vanilla play though I used 2 Snipers, 1 Gunslinger and I preferred my snipers. Squadsight to shoot those "Destroy the X" objectives was amazingly useful.
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Ahhh actually Guava there IS a mod that shows you what things you can get from hacking, I have it.... But don't ask which one is doing it because I don't know. At a guess it's Gotcha (Flank Preview Evolved)
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Zomborgon posted:I think we've covered that topic. Funnily enough I DON'T have that mod. The same stuff must be built into another one that I use.
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Jade Star posted:I have never hacked a lamp post with the intention of failing. That's simply not a thing that's crossed my mind. It would be dependent on the effect of the failure I suppose. One of the more common failed hack results is an entirely new pod of aliens dropping onto the map. There's never been a point where I thought to myself 'hey, this mission needs more aliens'. That is an interesting idea, because I suppose as intended you trigger ADVENT to run into an overwatch trap, and as a 'failure' you get the best hack reward the lamp post had to offer. Kind of a strange situation. I guess it's for people with supreme confidence in their ability to win extra pod or not, but who want to pad out their squads rank with the 3 bonus kills.
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Veloxyll posted:Otherwise known as the World Of Warcraft style of dice rolling. There is a mod to fix this too  But remember, it means YOU will also crit less with those 50 to hit 45 to crit shots.
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That idea of having a Med-Kit/Med Specialist decrease the geoscape heal time of injured soldiers comes up in the Long War class mod. There's a Captain level ability for the Specialists that causes all injured soldiers on a mission they are present on to have less time in the med bay if they return wounded; this can decrease the amount of time down to 0 based on soldier armour/max HP going in. I had a Ranger take a full Muton punch to the face and come back ready to go on a 2nd mission with no down time because of it.
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JAIDs is a deadly virus.
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Why Hitler The Diddler Flexomatic Pepsi Cola Nuffle Crotch Snake Slam Jammer Pocket Sand Liquid Jake Starchy
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Godnnelg posted:I paid the 25 intel cost to reveal the 3rd event. Which one do you prevent, which two do you let through?
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Jade Star posted:Good thing i streamed that to find all of the poo poo that broke. Like the mission names, and all of the mods that aren't voice packs. No idea what caused everything to start breaking down. Stop having JAIDs
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Just watched the VOD of the JadeStream featuring GoonCom soldiers.  Brutal time for poor Jade. The big lesson we learn't here is that the AI director knows when you put too many soldiers in a cluster, and will use explosives on them; for some reason it appears to preference this when they are on roofs or other easily destroyed platforms that will lead to fall damage: In .gif form!   Edit 2: Question, I didn't realize the Resistance armour was an actual equip-able and not just a prop. Are there Resistance models of the higher tier armours too? Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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Jade Star posted:How did that grenade even detonate on the underside of the ceiling?! I would have expected the MEC to jump up to the roof to the left and attack with the mortar.
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Cythereal posted:Rewatching this episode, it sounds like stun lancers are the new chryssalids in terms of gameplay. No zombies, but a blindingly fast and suicidally aggressive melee unit that deals huge amounts of damage while not being particularly durable, forcing you to focus fire on it rather than the ranged enemies it screens. Stun Lancers are the first in a line of units-who-melee, as XCOM 2 puts a bigger emphasis on that than EU/EW, and they are great. Unlike Chryssalids from EU/EW they also have some really great AI, they will move into and attack from cover with their sword so retaliation against them is harder; and they will also take shots with their rifle if they are out of range of the dash'n'slash.
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