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Chin Strap posted:Running on a poo poo integrated video laptop but it is running OK at minimum settings. The only really annoying part is there is like 20 seconds between the last alien move and when I can go again every turn. Don't know if it is just the tutorial or if it will always be this bad, but it doesn't seem to be a graphics card issue as the graphics stay responsive during the whole time, it is just like there is this giant pause in scripting. Guess I can have hope with my GTX 440 then. Though somehow that ran the Division Beta in high...so perhaps it's all just shifty optimization.
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Has anyone done the Avenger Defence mission? It is an absolute nightmare. 20 turns and 50+ enemies later... - You cannot let an enemy enter your base - You must destroy an object across the map - 3-5 Advent are dropped in each turn - There are also enemies already populated on the map You do get to use injured soldiers, and you get to use 6 + a few reinforcements. But this mission is such a slog. You will spend most of your turns shooting enemies because you can't take any risks, and progress is so slow towards the objective due to Advent drops. I am playing on commander so I don't know what that changes, but I sure hope I don't have to do one of these again!
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Danaru posted:I've been getting lucky with melee accuracy, in that ADVENT stun troopers keep whiffing when they try to whap my dudes. You lucky poo poo, every time I see a stun lancer, he'll run the gauntlet of overwatch, hit a dude, who will proceed to get knocked the gently caress out.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:I had the impression from the mission intro video that these people aren't members of the Resistance as much as peaceful people off the grid that sometimes communicates with them and gives them supplies. I thought the same thing, basically they're collaborators rather than actual resistance members. Farmers, carpenters, anyone who can provide basic necessities to XCOM in the form of supplies. The soldiers among them were probably killed fighting the oncoming retaliation before the Skyranger got there 
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Feb 5, 2016 14:45
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 at "lorem ipsum" being legible on cutscene computer monitors.
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Feb 5, 2016 14:46
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What reason is it that the game is so huge (24gb)? I mean with Fallout 4 it made sense being large open world and Bethesda...but I'm a bit confused here.
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this is helpful for messing with the ini http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-tweak-xcom-2-ini-files-for-fun-and-danger/ I increased the default squad size to 6 (8 with officer training school equivalent), added an extra enemy to every pod, and changed the weapons around so ranger/specialist/psi-op can now all use rifles, smgs, and shotguns. also that slowing people down when they're carrying bodies thing. I might adjust the enemy aim so it's like the original game, I'll have to try it out some more at the default. that is basically the tip of the iceberg and all just reasonable first game stuff. you can really gently caress with things and deploy 30+ troops or start editing hp and damage values and stuff like that. Mr. Unlucky fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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As an "easy" mode casual guy, I've no shame asking for a in-mission x3 or x4 longer counter timer to be able to wander around and overwatch each turn with my operatives.
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Feb 5, 2016 14:52
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How are the aliens justifying terror missions now? Are they saying they're "sympathizers" or what Is it a false flag thing?
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Feb 5, 2016 14:53
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Don't use the sword against Mutons. Muton at 3 hp sitting on top of loot. Get my ranger in there with an Arc Blade. Already hyped about this glorious kill. Suddenly, counter-attack out of nowhere. Kills soldier. Yep, reloading.
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jtm33 posted:Has anyone done the Avenger Defence mission? It is an absolute nightmare. 20 turns and 50+ enemies later... Dear God that's basically a LW mission. quote:Don't use the sword against Mutons. He played college ball you know! He could break the commander in two...with his bare hands! RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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Grapplejack posted:How are the aliens justifying terror missions now? Are they saying they're "sympathizers" or what Pretty much yeah, they claim they're clamping down on terrorism while keeping the missions themselves under wraps. They're also blaming abductions on XCOM terrorists too. ADVENT's got a pretty good propaganda machine running.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:For those able to play and experiencing bad framerates, is it the result of the game being really graphically demanding or is it just poorly optimized? I'm really hoping this is the case. I've got an HD7950 on an i5 3570 and 16gigs of ram. I was getting <10fps in base view, and 20-25 average in game. I do have everything set to maximum, but in all seriousness a 7950 is pretty much an R9 280, and should be performing much better than it is. I also tried whacking settings down a few notches but didn't see a noticeable gain in fps. Also, the game client ended up chewing up 8 gigs of ram on me last night. Sheesh.
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jtm33 posted:Has anyone done the Avenger Defence mission? It is an absolute nightmare. 20 turns and 50+ enemies later... I had one of these about to end, seven men in extraction, jammer destroyed...and then realized my mid-field casualty was unconscious and not dead. I look over my bleeding, battered squad...once more into the breech, dear friends.
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Feb 5, 2016 15:02
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Is there an obvious way of telling whether one of your troops is unconcious? Also for that matter, is there any reason to pick up a dead soldier? I thought being able to pick them up meant they were still alive, but
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Danaru posted:Is there an obvious way of telling whether one of your troops is unconcious? Also for that matter, is there any reason to pick up a dead soldier? I thought being able to pick them up meant they were still alive, but If you evac without picking up a dead soldier you lose their gear AFAIK
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It's nowhere near as hard as it's being worked up to be here. If they're dead, it will say they've been killed in the bottom right of the screen, and you will see the pool of blood. If they are unconscious, it says 'unconscious' next to them when they are rendered as such. As for carrying dead or incapacitated people - if the mission ends with an evac (either prematurely due to FUBAR, or because it's part of the mission), you must carry anybody who died unless you want to lose their stuff. If it doesn't, you can leave the dead and unconscious on the floor.
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Danaru posted:I thought the same thing, basically they're collaborators rather than actual resistance members. Farmers, carpenters, anyone who can provide basic necessities to XCOM in the form of supplies. You could have it crop up as a rare event. In fact, having a bunch of these kinds of events crop up every so often would be neat. Some ideas: - captured soldiers can sometimes be found with Sectoid pods. Killing the Sectoid rescues your soldier, though you'll want to make sure everything else is dead so he doesn't immediately get shot by ADVENT. - you can sometimes find some resistance members running their own op on a mission. Helping them complete THEIR objective gives you something nice, like a small bit of intel or maybe some supplies or something. - VIPs can sometimes be Faceless infiltrators, which can have repercussions if you don't figure it out in time, like damage to a facility or a loss of resources. The worst thing would be finding out that the star soldier you rescued last month turned out to be a Faceless and transforms on you during a critical moment.
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ShiroTheSniper posted:As an "easy" mode casual guy, I've no shame asking for a in-mission x3 or x4 longer counter timer to be able to wander around and overwatch each turn with my operatives. I'm surprised this wasn't the default in easy.
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The easiest way to see if a soldier is unconscious or dead is to see if they still have a health bar.
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I hope that there is a cutscene where Randy Quaid gets in an old junked interceptor and saves the Avenger from a ufo.
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Is there some intro cutscene where it explains your backstory? Everybody is talking about the rescue a la getting Neo out of the matrix like I should know what they're talking about. I saw the very first cutscene with the newsreaders though so I'm not sure...
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jtm33 posted:Has anyone done the Avenger Defence mission? It is an absolute nightmare. 20 turns and 50+ enemies later... It is really a rough map, especially considering that the reenforcements don't come in with any gear or items equipped if you put them all on your A-team. The key to getting in and out relatively fast is realizing that you are trying to destroy the relay, not hack or cap it, and it doesn't have as much health as you think. If you can move up a couple of guys or even have a spotter for two snipers in the back then you can burn it down in a couple of turns and then GTFO. An important thing is that shots against it have a 100% chance of hitting, so even if your snipers are six miles away they will still hit it consistently, same with shotguns at long range. If you can see it then you can hit it every time.
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gonadic io posted:Is there some intro cutscene where it explains your backstory? Everybody is talking about the rescue a la getting Neo out of the matrix like I should know what they're talking about. I saw the very first cutscene with the newsreaders though so I'm not sure... Did you skip the tutorial?
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gonadic io posted:Is there some intro cutscene where it explains your backstory? The tutorial missions do that.
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gonadic io posted:Is there some intro cutscene where it explains your backstory? Everybody is talking about the rescue a la getting Neo out of the matrix like I should know what they're talking about. I saw the very first cutscene with the newsreaders though so I'm not sure... It's the tutorial mission. If you opt out of the tutorial, you end up doing Gatecrasher. If you opt into the tutorial, you play the mission to rescue the Commander (i.e. you) from stasis inside a gene therapy clinic, with Gatecrasher providing the distraction that draws the bulk of the soldiers away.
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Started on Commander difficulty, am now up to 2 dead from the tutorial, 4 from the first three regular missions, 1 captured ( it turns out the evac zone can be switched on you if you use grenades nearby and if that puts it out of reach on you, tough poo poo), and 1 gravely wounded. Also now facing a total squad wipe on the first retaliation mission that just came up. I'm loving it.
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Does this support cloud save? I'd like to keep the same save synced between laptop and desktop if possible.
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So, what's the counter to Lancers? Because currently they're making the game unplayably tedious. Every mission I'm losing most of my squad as each enemy group has 2 lancers that run across the field and one shot my dudes, and I just don't have the firepower to deal with their 7 health each before their turns start.
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Pluskut Tukker posted:Started on Commander difficulty, am now up to 2 dead from the tutorial Those are scripted and impossible to let live.
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MorphineMike posted:So, what's the counter to Lancers? Because currently they're making the game unplayably tedious. Every mission I'm losing most of my squad as each enemy group has 2 lancers that run across the field and one shot my dudes, and I just don't have the firepower to deal with their 7 health each before their turns start. Overwatch.
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Broken Cog posted:You know what this game needed? An enemy that can empty the guns of multiple of your characters at once, can teleport at will (which ignores Overwatch), can oneshot your characters from said teleport location, and gets multiple moves per turn. Yeah I made the accident of triggering that first one at the end of an otherwise normal mission and still lost a dude getting out despite getting some very lucky shots in and taking half its health in the first round. I can't imagine the pain (yes I can, it's called ragequit) if you were to fire it off slam in the middle of a mission or with other enemies around. You also forgot the part where it clones itself every turn.
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Elliotw2 posted:Overwatch. Doesn't improve my firepower. Lancers take 2-3 hits to kill, and with 5 guys even taking safe shots I average below that in an entire turn of shooting/overwatching, not to mention the fact the MEC or Viper or whatever else is in the squad can move and then boom goes the overwatch.
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dogstile posted:Jesus christ gently caress the faceless, you're going to transform on your turn and slash my dude next to the car. Oh its ok he's alive still. OH NO THE loving CAR BLEW UP gently caress YOU, gently caress YOU AND YOUR STUPID loving FACE. This is pretty much exactly how I got my first casualty. Saved a civilian with my Ranger by heroically slicing a Sectoid hiding behind a car. Of course the civilian turned into a loving monster, attacked his savior and blew up the car in the process. 
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MorphineMike posted:Doesn't improve my firepower. Lancers take 2-3 hits to kill, and with 5 guys even taking safe shots I average below that in an entire turn of shooting/overwatching, not to mention the fact the MEC or Viper or whatever else is in the squad can move and then boom goes the overwatch. Are you doing ambushes? As in all on overwatch then shooting with the last person? Lancers are extremely aggressive and tend to pull shots as a result
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Are you doing ambushes? As in all on overwatch then shooting with the last person? Lancers are extremely aggressive and tend to pull shots as a result Can't ambush on an Evac mission. And even then, that only deals with one of the three enemy squads on the mission, leaving 4 Lancers on the map unambushable.
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Couple of frustrations. First, my username is too long for a nickname. Second, the character editor cannot capture the full  of my scraggly scraggly neckbeard. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rdxt1l1sj6915cd/alpha_destroy.bin?dl=0 Also, my bio is super awkwardly written. I should really rewrite that sentence with Beloved and Home in it.
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MorphineMike posted:Can't ambush on an Evac mission. And even then, that only deals with one of the three enemy squads on the mission, leaving 4 Lancers on the map unambushable. Play on an easier difficulty then.
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