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Stephen9001 posted:We got a video! Them constantly referring to EU as "the first XCOM" gets me more than it maybe should.
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Aug 6, 2015 18:07
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Aug 6, 2015 18:15
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Coolguye posted:I'm not gonna get too excited about that until we see more of the skill loadouts. Even as an irrepressible optimist, I'm forced to notice that most of the skills we've seen so far have to do with accentuating class features, such as the Specialist's Gremlin. Which means that, unless they're gonna give you the option to issue Gremlins to Rangers or something, half of the skills you could potentially cross-pollinate with are useless. Modders will fix that.
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Aug 6, 2015 18:18
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Lunethex posted:Modders will fix that. Yeah but then you can only take out a soldier once per month because the strain of training is just too great
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Aug 6, 2015 18:19
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Speaking of strain. Steam servers said something about strain so I can't play my XCOM. Imma try to do it offline because I can't seem to get to my first exalt mission without crashing. EDIT: Yep, still can't play.
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Dezztroy posted:Them constantly referring to EU as "the first XCOM" gets me more than it maybe should. 
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Aug 6, 2015 18:39
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The Iron Rose posted:holy crap you can get cross class skills. Do you wait until you have the cash to buy 4 or so interceptors before launching a satellite on that continent or just have a few and deal with it? How many yellow circles indicate 50% damage because I've seen a bunch of them when I've swamped a craft and haven't bothered to count. monster on a stick fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Aug 6, 2015 |
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Aug 6, 2015 18:53
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If Vahlen switched sides because I used too many grenades then she can gently caress off. First against the wall she'll be.
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Aug 6, 2015 19:04
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monster on a stick posted:Do you wait until you have the cash to buy 4 or so interceptors before launching a satellite on that continent or just have a few and deal with it? If they're bouncing all over the craft that's enough. They'll be all over the screen. It'll be really obvious when it happens. also I usually wait till I get 4 interceptors up and running, but it's not the end of the world if you don't and if you need to get a request or it's the end of the month or something do what you need to do. You usually want to wait until you have the cash to buy all four since there's the maintenance cost.
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Aug 6, 2015 19:44
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Those XCOM2 screenshots look a bit meh... there's a typo in the smoke grenade description 
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Aug 6, 2015 19:54
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So far it's looking like firaxis is doing an amazing job of making Xcom 2 new and yet instantly recognizable. I'm feeling really good about this.
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Aug 6, 2015 19:55
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Those XCOM2 screenshots look a bit meh... there's a typo in the smoke grenade description Oh my god there is a string bug in an alpha version of a game? gently caress THIS poo poo
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:If Vahlen switched sides because I used too many grenades then she can gently caress off. First against the wall she'll be. Hyperbole aside, I doubt they're going to kill Vahlen. I think the player base genuinely likes her under the grousing. She'd be a great deus ex machina to arrive with a game-changer in X-COM's darkest hour.
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Aug 6, 2015 19:59
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Those XCOM2 screenshots look a bit meh... there's a typo in the smoke grenade description There's a few things that are obviously going to change once it goes by an editor. If you look closely at the soldier screen they show off, when they highlight the soldier skills selector, the tooltip uses 'his', even though the soldier they're showing off is a woman. This mostly amused me because I can see one of the businesspeople noticing this during the presentations, bringing it up at the next stand-up meeting or something, and some unlucky programmer dying a little bit inside because now he knows he has to waste part of his day modifying string resources. 
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Aug 6, 2015 20:01
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On the subject of the Shotgun reloader mod, I saw that it's only good for the first reload, so that seems fair. I might have preferred if it a single-use, no-action item instead.
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Aug 6, 2015 20:07
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That's what I was thinking. I sure hope it allows you to choose when to use that free reload. But eh, it's not out yet, who can tell. Still thinking the scope will win out in most situations, even if it gets buffed before launch - more aim is always important. Quite frankly it might have the same issue you have with EW scopes - you just stick it on everything.
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Aug 6, 2015 20:10
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I don't know, depending on the prevalence of abilities like double tap and rapid fire, if you can choose when to use the free reload it could be very handy for those "Kill that thing NOWNOWNOW" situations.
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Aug 6, 2015 20:23
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Cythereal posted:Hyperbole aside, I doubt they're going to kill Vahlen. I think the player base genuinely likes her under the grousing. She'd be a great deus ex machina to arrive with a game-changer in X-COM's darkest hour. This is absolutely what I expect Vahlen's role to be, though I'd say less 'arrive with a game changer' and more 'get broken out and provide the blueprints to our hail mary play'.
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Aug 6, 2015 20:28
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fargom posted:Oh my god there is a string bug in an alpha version of a game? i think this is somewhat of an overreaction
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Aug 6, 2015 20:32
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If Chief Shen isn't all "MOM!?" when Vahlen inevitably shows up I'm gonna be sad.
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Aug 6, 2015 20:36
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So presuming I didn't mishear, the part of the Commander's brain that device Tygan removed was attached to is the part that is responsible for visual processing. Something tells me the Commander wasn't only stuck in stasis those 20 years since Enemy Unknown.
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Aug 6, 2015 20:37
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Commander senpai, you're seeing things, we're here to help you
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Aug 6, 2015 20:41
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Actually, I'm really surprised Lily is Shen's daughter and not his granddaughter. Shen looks pretty old to me in EU, and add twenty years to that.
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Aug 6, 2015 20:47
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Cythereal posted:Actually, I'm really surprised Lily is Shen's daughter and not his granddaughter. Shen looks pretty old to me in EU, and add twenty years to that. This is what happens when you have "Holy poo poo the aliens are coming for us!" sex with an intern in a broom closet.
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Aug 6, 2015 21:19
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Cythereal posted:Actually, I'm really surprised Lily is Shen's daughter and not his granddaughter. Shen looks pretty old to me in EU, and add twenty years to that. She looks like she's in her late 20's, and I figure Shen was in his 50's in EU/EW, so maybe he had her in his 40's? Doesn't seem out of the question.
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Aug 6, 2015 21:25
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Ah, just had a very nice LW Supply Barge experience. Yes, my back-up Medic inadvisedly double moved, triggered a pod of 'lids, and got eaten despite the efforts of the rest of my team to save him. And yes, my two SHIVs rolled out of the mission with five hit points left between them. But storming the bridge and the six Outsiders, including one double HP super Outsider, went perfectly. I hit one of the side doors, and four of them hid behind the flight computer and a fifth behind the power source in the middle. Then I popped open the middle door and let 'em have it with my Rocketeer with Ranger and Mayhem, and killed two of them and maimed the rest. My Infantry girl critted and killed two more with back to back Light 'em up shots on the now coverless Outsiders, my Gunner critted and killed the only healthy one from the other side door, and my two mangled SHIVs double teamed the Big Outsider for the win. It was awesome! Nothing's going to stop me.... What was that? You say that Confounding Light just triggered with my entire A Team and half my SHIVs either wounded, damaged, or fatigued? That I'm going to have to do Confounding Light AND Gangplank with only my B Team and C Teams and a couple of SHIVs?  
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MELD is basically pure antioxidants. She probably just has the *skin* of a 20 year old. Oh god. It's Vahlen. She took the skin of Shen's daughter and wears it as a suit now. She needs you to keep bringing home ADVENT bodies to sustain it.
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Aug 6, 2015 21:32
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKYXvG0_ls
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Aug 6, 2015 21:34
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Strategy layer and antfarm look amazing. I know I'm way late but I mean with a feature list like this in the video how could I not be excited afresh anyway:
So what if I'm late to the party, this is one party I want to stay at forever.  The heavier focus on changes and unpredictability is great, especially when it comes to replay value. I loved Training Roulette, more stuff like that is incredible.
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Aug 6, 2015 21:44
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Yeah I think the Dark Missions are great. Hopefully there's no "Panic timer" though. The only timer I want is the amount of Sectopods stomping on my soldiers heads per mission!
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Aug 6, 2015 21:49
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fargom posted:Oh my god there is a string bug in an alpha version of a game? See this guy gets me
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I really like the idea of emergent strategy versus knowing exactly what you're gunning for and just dividing up foundry and research projects based on whether you get more engineers or scientists first. This feels like it's going to be uphill until you break even with the Aliens and then they ramp it up to match your new toys. Probably will transition from survive > grow > exterminate and the aliens will most likely have progressively harder and more intense dark events as you go. gently caress November can't get here soon enough, between this and Fallout 4.
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Vib Rib posted:[*]You can staff facilities with soldiers, scientists, and engineers on an individual basis, which will improve the facility (e.g. faster wound recovery, research, etc) Yeah. This is one of the reasons I paid for Massive Chalice. It's not enough 'game' and it didn't turn out to be as fun to play as I hoped, but the basic idea of it was something I wanted to succeed so we'd see this more often. Now, the only barrier, IMO, is that they didn't go to the natural conclusion; if they were imitating MC in Xcom 2, everybody should fight, science, engineer, doctor, and so forth. You assign the field medic to the base hospital when they're experienced. You take your engineer along on dangerous missions because he's great with field repairs. Your training supervisor is also good in the field. When you're desperate, you might need to take your lead scientist into the field because you need more bodies. It's closer to that, though, since you have different staff to assign around and a slightly randomized effectiveness to your various paths, which make you have to rebalance and strategize each game. You won't necessarily always have the same wrote start of all-satellites or whatever.
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amanasleep posted:She looks like she's in her late 20's, and I figure Shen was in his 50's in EU/EW, so maybe he had her in his 40's? Doesn't seem out of the question. There's a guy I work out with at the gym who is mid 60s and his daughter is about 5. Shen doesn't strike me as being quite the rake he is, but all the same, go Shen. In my mind now, Shen was a wrestler and bodybuilder in college, like Neil DeGrasse Tyson. If the aliens had come sooner, he'd have been on the front lines, kicking rear end. marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Aug 6, 2015 |
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Aug 6, 2015 22:02
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We have lots of customization for soldiers, but what about scientists and engineers? Could anyone tell if we can edit their name or appearance?
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Aug 6, 2015 22:10
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Yeah. Like can I have a clipboard slider? I love my scientists to have huge loving clipboards. So big they have back problems. They can barely hold it while they try to take notes. Yeah. And thick glasses. Like coke bottles. Mmmm. That's some science.
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Lotish posted:We have lots of customization for soldiers, but what about scientists and engineers? Could anyone tell if we can edit their name or appearance? Not sure, but I know there will be a file that contains all the generated names and we might be able to edit them. So we could make Beagle or JhonnyLump as an engineer working on the Latrines or something.
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Fun fact: if you miss one of the valves on Deluge and enter the "extraction" zone, the end sequence will not trigger but the zone disappears and the mission becomes unwinnable.
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