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Eau de MacGowan posted:how do i assign scientists to help out with research, theyre just sitting around I think it's automatic, isn't it? That's why additional scientists give you less and less research bonus speed Or have I just been the worst player ever.
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Just to be clear, Sectoids almost never shoot right? So I should kill everything else first before focusing on those things?DreamShipWrecked posted:I think it's automatic, isn't it? That's why additional scientists give you less and less research bonus speed You make a laboratory and put scientists there.
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Sometime yesterday, some kind soul posted a way to modify the .ini to make it so your pool characters all show up first before the random ones do. Unfortunately today I find there are hundreds of posts between now and then and I can't seem to find it. Can anyone please repost that info? Thanks.
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CapnAndy posted:Yeah, exactly this. Bradford is practically in love with you, "oh you were never the original Commander" is completely implausible. I still want to know what he says to you after you get back to the base after the first tutorial mission, I had to get the door. 
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Feb 5, 2016 20:07
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Fintilgin posted:Love the game, but I just got stunlanced through an undamaged wall. I had a stun lancer run through a 3 inch tall slit in a wall. They're really living up to the ninja look.
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Quick character creation question... What does the "Rookie" class mean vs choosing a class during creation? I'm new to XCOM.
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Tae posted:You make a laboratory and put scientists there. What have I done
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Feb 5, 2016 20:09
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HondaCivet posted:Quick character creation question... What does the "Rookie" class mean vs choosing a class during creation? I'm new to XCOM. It means they have no class, and cannot identify a dessert fork or a soup spoon. Also, they'll get some class once they've done some murders or five days of unbroken pull-ups. Edit: Joking aside, dunno what it means in terms of character creation from scratch.
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I'd guess it means that your character would always show up as a rookie instead of having a chance to show as a pre-promoted character.
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Dude McAwesome posted:Hey all, sorry if this has already been answered/discussed. (I'm trying to avoid spoilers) I posted about it yesterday, but I'm running it on a mid-2013 Macbook Air. I have it on low detail and it runs ok. Load times are hideous, and I have had a few crashes, but otherwise it's ok.
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Kennel posted:
You lost 4 soldiers and the last turned into a midget. CapnAndy posted:Yeah, exactly this. Bradford is practically in love with you, "oh you were never the original Commander" is completely implausible. I dont know how I would feel if they didnt end every cutscene with the word "commander".
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HondaCivet posted:Quick character creation question... What does the "Rookie" class mean vs choosing a class during creation? I'm new to XCOM. Okay so from my experience if you choose a class for someone who appears in your starting forces, that chosen class means nothing. You'll still get a random roll. However, if you later get them as an already leveled up character (usually as a reward), they'll show up as whatever you selected. Rookie means unclassed level 0 character who will then promote into one of the main classes.
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Minor nitpick of the day: If that chip was implanted in the commander's Occipital Lobe...that's the back of the brain, right? So...why did the aliens and the doctor put it in/take it out from the front? That seems like remarkably poor brain surgery, even before considering the fact that it was done with Science Tweezers.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:12
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Spiritus Nox posted:Minor nitpick of the day: If that chip was implanted in the commander's Occipital Lobe...that's the back of the brain, right? So...why did the aliens and the doctor put it in/take it out from the front? That seems like remarkably poor brain surgery, even before considering the fact that it was done with Science Tweezers. They even showed the skull pic with the chip in the back of the skull! That bugged me a bit too.
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Tae posted:Just to be clear, Sectoids almost never shoot right? So I should kill everything else first before focusing on those things? Sectoids don't shoot, true, but they can mind control and panic. Everythings great when they just reanimate, that's usually a minor problem, it's the other things that suck.
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Any tips for performance? I have a 980ti and the game likes to randomly dip to single digit frames. Can still hit 60 with down sampling though. Very strange.
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nessin posted:Sectoids don't shoot, true, but they can mind control and panic. Everythings great when they just reanimate, that's usually a minor problem, it's the other things that suck. Sectoids will absolutely shoot you if you give them a flank. Liquid Penguins posted:Any tips for performance? I have a 980ti and the game likes to randomly dip to single digit frames. Can still hit 60 with down sampling though. Very strange. Turn off AA and maybe vsync. Also it sounds more like a loading thing than actual issues so maybe turn down textures or buy a SSD.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:14
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Back from work, cannon fodder sent for addition to the goonpool. Now to get playing (after mucking about with the dress up for another hour or several).
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jng2058 posted:They even showed the skull pic with the chip in the back of the skull! That bugged me a bit too. And when you autopsy the Advent Leader guy, it shows the data cord running out the back of his head. Hell, even the database entry on the leaders mentions the scar on the back of their skulls. I guess you could argue that they had to place it so the prongs went through the other parts of the brain, but in reality it's the only way to show the thing actually being pulled out
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Feb 5, 2016 20:16
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jng2058 posted:Okay so from my experience if you choose a class for someone who appears in your starting forces, that chosen class means nothing. You'll still get a random roll. However, if you later get them as an already leveled up character (usually as a reward), they'll show up as whatever you selected. Ok awesome, that makes sense. Thanks!
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Feb 5, 2016 20:16
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If this game is really moddable I wonder if someone could make a DEFINITELY NOT NECROMUNDA IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM mod
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Spiritus Nox posted:Minor nitpick of the day: If that chip was implanted in the commander's Occipital Lobe...that's the back of the brain, right? So...why did the aliens and the doctor put it in/take it out from the front? That seems like remarkably poor brain surgery, even before considering the fact that it was done with Science Tweezers. It's because they can't show the commander so they have to show something besides people sticking tweezers inside of a diving suit.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:17
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This game is very cool and good. Something really needs to be done about the geoscape though, there's no reason it should be dropping me to 20 FPS when I can run everything else at 40.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:18
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Welp, the VIP I was escorting just took a completely different route to her destination than what was shown, running straight through an area of poison that got her killed.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:18
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How do I actually attach a weapon mod to a weapon? I feel dumb asking but I can't find the option for this.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:20
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Internet Kraken posted:How do I actually attach a weapon mod to a weapon? I feel dumb asking but I can't find the option for this. There is a weapon customization option when you go to edit the soldier
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For the people asking about the cannon ending of xcom 1, it was said probably 40-50 pages ago or so. Xcom during the course of the first game was around long enough to shoot down a couple of UFOs (up to and including the supply ship your team uses in Xcom 2) before poo poo started going sour. An unnamed Council country pulls out and sells you out to the aliens before you're able to even invade the alien base. The EW X-Com Base Invasion happens basically at the end of the first month / month and a half at that point and absolutely crushes Xcom. You as the commander get captured, locked in a tank, and are basically forced to play XCom EW for the last 20 years as training simulations for their own men before you get yanked from the tank and Xcom 2 happens.
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Grapplejack posted:wouldn't that mean that long war was some rear end in a top hat programmer playing a mean prank on you? 
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Basic Chunnel posted:What's a good early game strategy for tech / Intel / supply seeking? I think I may have hosed myself because I'm facing tons of lancers every mission and it's like I'm hitting the tanker with starting equipment, I'm just getting destroyed Beaglerush wrote some starting strategies (with some minor spoilers)
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I just noticed that at the main menu it pulls your squad roster to use for soldiers.
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Rookersh posted:No. I don't know where you're getting this from, but it's obviously not the case since it's completely contradictory to everything in the game.
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Minor mods needed: 1. For swords, when you kill a fleshy enemy, they shouldn't play their death animation until after the blade is fully re-sheathed 2. Also swords. Killing robotic enemies should be accompanied by RULES OF NATURE
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I love the Operation names this game generates. Operation Witch Slap
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You can make custom weapons and trade them around holy poo poo. Too bad the models don't change to apply scopes or anything, though I'm not sure where you'd put the scope on XCOM's minigun. e: Do I need to research something to use PCS? I found one. e: oh my god it does goty e: The Resistance Warrior Kevlar Armor is just the basic armor from EU but beat up.
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Been playing around with an untimed mission and am disappointed to learn that the enemy AI is definitely using some ESP to direct the patrols. Wherever I send my squad the whole map shifts to patrol in their general direction. I've run it dozens of times, they follow me every time. 
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Space Skeleton posted:Been playing around with an untimed mission and am disappointed to learn that the enemy AI is definitely using some ESP to direct the patrols. Wherever I send my squad the whole map shifts to patrol in their general direction. I've run it dozens of times, they follow me every time. I found its better to not metal gear solid the maps by sneaking to the objective. You will find yourself activating 3 pods at the same time.
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DeathSandwich posted:and are basically forced to play XCom EW for the last 20 years as training simulations for their own men Grapplejack posted:wouldn't that mean that long war was some rear end in a top hat programmer playing a mean prank on you? Obviously the ADVENT assembled a team of psionic research scientists to 'enhance' the program, with the goal of fully breaking the last remnants of the commander's willpower. This is canon.
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So I loaded my game this morning and of my custom soldiers, about 5 have somehow reset to default appearance. I have no idea how or why; if I load a game from the mission prior, their appearance is fine. But in my latest save, they lose the details I've given them and reverted to default. What the hell? Assuming this is a bug I can't do anything about... Is there any way to "load" or import a custom look onto an existing character from the pool, or do I have to remake them manually?
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I feel like the experimental round types are tons better than grenades on almost everyone except the grenadier. The fire and poison rounds effectively add two damage, as they add one damage on the attack then one on the enemies turn. I prefer the poison rounds as there are lots of other methods for dealing with mech enemies. The randomness of the fire rounds in exchange for working on everything just doesn't seem worth it. This means a rookie that hits a advent captain will routinely kill them in one turn, and always kill a grunt.
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So I read there's supposed to be a battle replay feature for this game. Is it yet to be implemented, or is it multiplayer only, or have I just not found it?
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