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Generation Internet posted:As a dude who used to think that I was too good to watch other dudes play video games, I just wanna say that you work some kind of magic to make it so enjoyable to experience the RNG with ~8500 other dudes. Despite my current fatigue I am very happy to know I have entertained in that regard. Thank you!
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I don't have any sick days to use up because the company that hired me got bought out by another one and reset my hire date  so I get to work another whole year before I start accumulating sick days.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:00
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Beagle posted:Despite my current fatigue I am very happy to know I have entertained in that regard. Thank you! You are an incredible entertainer who kept me on the edge of my seat!
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Feb 2, 2016 03:06
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Beagle posted:Despite my current fatigue I am very happy to know I have entertained in that regard. Thank you! I thought you did a poor job of presenting the aliens' side of the story. Basically the whole stream was pro-human propaganda and I expect more objectivity in media figures 
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Feb 2, 2016 03:09
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Just to chime in, not many people have the gift to gab while also thinking fast on their feet and well enough. One can think fast and hard, but they can't yap to explain themselves well enough too. And one can yap, sure, but their mind goes completely sideways while doing so. But you Beags, can do both of that in spades as very few people on the planet can. Well done indeed and keep it up. 
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Feb 2, 2016 03:09
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Spiritus Nox posted:Can it really be that much bigger than one, do you think? Most of the changes I've seen, besides the stealth bit at the start of new missions, seem more like refinements of existing mechanics than something that would add that much of a processing headache. I mean, they'd have to tone the graphics down, sure, but that's not why I'm on board anyway so whatever. It's ~50 gigs. Regarding 'calling in sick' chat. Thankfully, I am lucky in that I do not have any class on Friday in which to skip to play XCOM. This is because I know I absolutely would not be able to resist. Beagle posted:Despite my current fatigue I am very happy to know I have entertained in that regard. Thank you! Unfortunately for me, I did in fact, have class today. And I was in fact, unable to resist watching the amazing stream.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:10
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So hey, check me on this. Nothing in the Reinforcement Pack actually unlocks on Friday, right?? The earliest any of it is available is "Spring 2016" so there's no particular reason for me to drop $20 on it right now?
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The impression I got is drop 20 on it now and get the DLC for free as they come, or pay 5-10 for each one as they come out. Or whatever the prices will be, I'm terrible at pricing things. It's basically a Season Pass with the name painted over and a new one stenciled in.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:15
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Cathode Raymond posted:I don't know if they said "never" but I remember one of the previews saying that they wanted to beef up the graphics and focus on PC versions and had no plans to bring it to iPad, so I think it would be way too optimistic to hope for a tablet port out a year after the PC release like we did with EU, if we even see one at all. You'll probably see ports in the future. All the interviews I've read indicated a good chunk of the PC-only release was that they felt they bit off more than they could chew in terms of support with EU's simultaneous release and the team size they had, and wanted to focus on their strongest market (and the one they have the most experience with) for the sequel's release. And 2K outsourced the tablet ports to another company anyway, and I'll be surprised if they don't have any eventual plans to do the same with XCOM 2 (and probably console ports as well) considering how they thought XCOM on mobile was a success.
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jng2058 posted:So hey, check me on this. Nothing in the Reinforcement Pack actually unlocks on Friday, right?? The earliest any of it is available is "Spring 2016" so there's no particular reason for me to drop $20 on it right now? Cosmetic stuff. We know for sure old school EU style uniforms and other stuff.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:19
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Anarchy's Children looks to be the purely cosmetic one but the other two claim to add a new alien type and a new soldier class in Alien Hunters and Shen's Last Gift, respectively.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Anarchy's Children looks to be the purely cosmetic one but the other two claim to add a new alien type and a new soldier class in Alien Hunters and Shen's Last Gift, respectively. I just meant you got some cosmetic stuff right away.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:25
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Beagle posted:Jockeying the doom ticker is definitely the ideal geoscape strategy because it creates new time out of thin air that you wouldn't otherwise have against the Avatar project Assuming Beagle is (hopefully) asleep, can someone who watched the Stream break down what this means exactly? 
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Ah, I see. Might wait on that, then. Thanks!
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Captain Oblivious posted:Assuming Beagle is (hopefully) asleep, can someone who watched the Stream break down what this means exactly? When the doom tracker maxes out, you have a number of days before real game over. If you destroy a black site to push back the doom tracker you buy yourself more time. Beagle kept repeatedly ignoring the doom tracker to get to the countdown stage.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Assuming Beagle is (hopefully) asleep, can someone who watched the Stream break down what this means exactly?
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Feb 2, 2016 03:34
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Speedball posted:When the doom tracker maxes out, you have a number of days before real game over. If you destroy a black site to push back the doom tracker you buy yourself more time. Beagle kept repeatedly ignoring the doom tracker to get to the countdown stage. Mod name: Our Finest Hour Half pips and countdown timer.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:37
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Yeah, basically when the doom tracker maxes out you have until the end of the month to do something that lowers it. While the tracker is maxed it obviously won't get any worse, so if you've played the game and know all the events that reduce the doom tracker and know that you have at least one of those events lined up then you can sit around and farm some extra missions or wait for upgrades, then knock the doom tracker down and start the whole cycle over again. This also means that if you're only a pip or two away from maxing the meter then having a bunch of things that max meter lying around aren't as much of a concern as they'd be for someone who's actually doing their best to keep on top of things and knock down the meter as fast as possible, since excess pips are wasted.
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Huh. So you let the tracker fill by concentrating on other missions, start the countdown, let the clock go down for awhile, then and only then bump the tracker back? I take it, then, that having dropped it down to 8/10, once the tracker goes back up to full you get a whole new countdown that you can exploit?
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Feb 2, 2016 03:39
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Yup. He let the countdown start twice so far and shows no sign of stopping. As long as he's got a way to rewind the clock in his back pocket then he can surf forever.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:43
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Huh. I'm kind of semi-disappointing that you can do that! Then again, I kind of imagine it must be harder and harder to find them as things goes on. I kind of imagine a mod or a patch to reduce the amount of time there is before the game 'ends' when you max the meter.
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Oddly conflicted about that. On the one hand, having a definite fail state for a game as long as an XCOM campaign makes me  ; on the other, this fix goes against the Doom Clock's intent, for sure.Wonder how difficult modding would be to remove the grace period. Probably not very.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:47
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Yeah I'm kinda surprised the counter is seemingly so large, like last I heard it was 12 days from one preview stream's experience with it, then was surprised when Beagle got 18, then even more when he got 22, and then he got another 22 day doom clock in the late middle of a month and I started to wonder if Beagleluck was kicking in again.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:48
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Gonna mod it so the game remembers where you left the Doom Count at 10 pips, and resumes it there next time you reach 10.
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Feb 2, 2016 03:49
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So I'm gonna guess I'm in the minority who admits he's a scared small child and appreciates that the timer resets when the pips get removed
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Beagle posted:Despite my current fatigue I am very happy to know I have entertained in that regard. Thank you! Don't start your streams at midnight on a weeknight, jerk. (thanks for the bits I saw, finally put down some money on this despite the awful exchange rate at the moment)
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Malachite_Dragon posted:So I'm gonna guess I'm in the minority who admits he's a scared small child and appreciates that the timer resets when the pips get removed I know that if the game doesn't have a way to kick me in the arse and get me moving, I'll stall forever.
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LightWarden posted:Yup. He let the countdown start twice so far and shows no sign of stopping. As long as he's got a way to rewind the clock in his back pocket then he can surf forever.
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MarquiseMindfang posted:I know that if the game doesn't have a way to kick me in the arse and get me moving, I'll stall forever. Yeah. I think any game where you can hit a grinding holding pattern is annoying, because you're essentially coerced into either a.) grinding or b.) knowing on every loss that you could have just sat in a holding pattern first and won. It looks like XCOM 2 is like XCOM EU where it's almost a roguelike but sacrifices some of the fundamentals for a more cinematic experience. This is what burned me out on EU (but after I cleared Classic Ironman a few times and got my moneys worth) but it's not even frustrating here because I can just mod it into being my dream replayable roguelike.
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Feb 2, 2016 04:04
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Nnnnnnnn. This is going to be an annoying 72 hours.
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Speedball posted:I hope Jamball uses Rules of Nature more than Beagle. So many opportunities for chopping stuff up missed! There is only one thing you need to know about karate. Guns beat karate, every time.
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Okay, how do you think Lily and Tygan compare to... gently caress, what's Shen Sr.'s first name? Anyway, do you like them better or worse then Shen Sr. and Vahlen?
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So Bradford's Sweater is just one of those British commando sweaters right? Cause I've been looking at those British wooly-pullies and they're not that expensive. I bet I could get one before X-Com 2 releases and takes me to THE PROMISED LAND. I will command in full Bradford cosplay.
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This weekend I have to go to a holiday house and enjoy drinking with friends at the local wineries and beach in sunny 35° weather instead of sweating in front of a computer shooting aliens behind knee high walls, gently caress
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Exposure posted:Yeah I'm kinda surprised the counter is seemingly so large, like last I heard it was 12 days from one preview stream's experience with it, then was surprised when Beagle got 18, then even more when he got 22, and then he got another 22 day doom clock in the late middle of a month and I started to wonder if Beagleluck was kicking in again. The counter seems to be "until the the start of 28th of the month"- it was 18 days and change when Beagle was on the 9th day of the month and 21 days and change when he was on the 6th. Edit: Oh, and he hit the timer one more time before he ended it, and it was 21 days and change on the 29th, so "until the start of the 21st of the month" if you're after the 28th. LightWarden fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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How many shenanigans will we be allowed to pull off to reset the timer before we run out? Run out of shenanigans, I mean.
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Ho ho ho. You all need to get on my level. For I, you see, am too disabled to leave the house. Some days, I'm even too disabled to shitpost. What this means is I'll get to play XCOM 2 until I basically can't. let me have this there has to be an upside
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I think this thread has conclusively proven that there is no such thing as "too disabled to shitpost".
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Mister Adequate posted:Ho ho ho. You all need to get on my level. I can always shitpost. What are you homebound for?
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Cathode Raymond posted:How many shenanigans will we be allowed to pull off to reset the timer before we run out? Basically, the Avatar-Project-setback missions will get more and more spread out as time passes. Which means you need MORE and more territory as the game goes. Which means dicking around for too long like Beagle did is not something you wanna do indefinitely.
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