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I thought I was doing really well in my first playthrough but the avatar project is halfway done and I'm just now finding I need to build a resistance comms center in order to make contact to attack a facility. Things are by no means unsalvageable but learning by doing is proving to be a bit of a rollercoaster. Has anybody seen Vahlen yet? I'm kind of holding out hope she sold us out for ADVENT and is offscreen yelling at the troopers every time they use explosives against me.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:14
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Fojar38 posted:I dunno why people are complaining that the mission timers are some sort of odd and unexpected thing. You're waging a guerrilla war against a foe massively more powerful than you and one of the chief aspects of asymmetric warfare is getting in with a surprise, completing your objective, and leaving before the enemy can bring its massively superior forces to bear. I like to think the sectoids were still young in EU and now they are older and developed.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:14
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Retaliation mission marked as 'very hard' (or something similar), so I bring my all star team out to play. I'm engaging an Officer/Shieldbearer/Heavy Lancer/Heavy Lancer pod, when a second pod of a Berserker/Muton/Muton paths into us. Hurray! I start to fall back, and trigger a Viper/Sectoid/Sectoid pod out of the area where my battle scanner was. gently caress. Time to evac. Desperately try to break LOS.... and sigh of course that civilian is a Faceless. Anyway, now I don't have an A-team anymore.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:14
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btw Steam doin a sale and the XCOM EU/EW's are up for cheap if for some reason you are reading this and don't have them already ($10 for the complete package, ~4 for that FPS if you were curious about that)
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Feb 6, 2016 00:15
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Indecisive posted:btw Steam doin a sale and the XCOM EU/EW's are up for cheap if for some reason you are reading this and don't have them already ($10 for the complete package, ~4 for that FPS if you were curious about that) The fps wasn't that bad, its basically a mass effect combat clone if you like that combat.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:16
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So... what am I missing, or are you supposed to be pushing 100% clearing and building nothing but power relays and radios, early on? Because it seems like if you don't- even on easy- every facility will be placed too far away from you to get to in a reasonable time frame. I've literally missed multiple supply drops because I keep sprinting from one corner of the world to desperately try to contact one region so I can contact a second region so I can contact a third region which will then, after several weeks 100% focused effort, let me attack the first facility. By which point the second facility has popped up two regions beyond my frontier too. So I am nothing but picking up enough engineers to build things quickly enough to keep the avatar timer from hitting full throttle, and I still can't do it. Ain't got time for retaliation missions. Ain't got time to... really do anything. Even on easy, this game is stressful-hard, and not fun-hard like the first one was.  Edit: Oh. Y'all are upset that the game's too easy, I read. Um. I'll show myself out.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:16
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I'm not sure this is a safe place for the civilian to be standing.
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Fojar38 posted:I dunno why people are complaining that the mission timers are some sort of odd and unexpected thing. You're waging a guerrilla war against a foe massively more powerful than you and one of the chief aspects of asymmetric warfare is getting in with a surprise, completing your objective, and leaving before the enemy can bring its massively superior forces to bear. I am super mad, I am going to form a Steam "Timer Police" group and call out every game on Steam that forces me to be a slave to a timer.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:17
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Kanos posted:More pods on missions, aliens have more health, and it takes substantially more experience to level soldiers up. poptart_fairy posted:Hmm, ADVENT have the HP buff with no dark events but I'm definitely on Commander. Exposure posted:With default values, Commander is still somewhat cheating for you. It's still nudging pods away from you once you get in a big enough fight and surprisingly enough, it still has part of the background aim adjuster active when you miss enough shots.  situations. Pod nudging especially, now that pods don't teleport between spawns that's probably what keeps them spread out so you don't have all the aliens in one spot. With mission timers camping the objective can be kinda unwinnable.Though I am pretty surprised by the miss streak aim bonus being in Commander. I wish they hadn't done that, it's kinda exploitable.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:17
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Jake Solomon was my first casualty, he somehow made it to Sergeant with only 6 kills. 
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Feb 6, 2016 00:21
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RBA Starblade posted:I love the big balls the Councilman has in this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIRDb_O6qXA "XCOM lives." 
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Feb 6, 2016 00:21
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Yeah, I'm having a hard enough time with Commander as it is. The pod nudging makes sense, I'm 15+ hours into my campaign and I don't remember a situation where a pod would've engaged me while I was still engaged with another one outside of my own stupidity in revealing Fog of War. My sniper is way too much of an Oakley rather than a Shade to believe there's some aim adjustment stuff going on. 
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Feb 6, 2016 00:22
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=616857663 A mod for babies who can't handle Jake's magnificent timers.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:22
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Mukaikubo posted:So... what am I missing, or are you supposed to be pushing 100% clearing and building nothing but power relays and radios, early on? Because it seems like if you don't- even on easy- every facility will be placed too far away from you to get to in a reasonable time frame. I've literally missed multiple supply drops because I keep sprinting from one corner of the world to desperately try to contact one region so I can contact a second region so I can contact a third region which will then, after several weeks 100% focused effort, let me attack the first facility. By which point the second facility has popped up two regions beyond my frontier too. So I am nothing but picking up enough engineers to build things quickly enough to keep the avatar timer from hitting full throttle, and I still can't do it. Ain't got time for retaliation missions. Ain't got time to... really do anything. You're stressing out about contacting regions too much. Research some guns, some armor, don't over-extend yourself, don't move things too fast. The Avatar Project timer isn't a hard-stop. When it maxes out, you'll have a little while to attack a Blacksite and bump it back down.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:22
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Kenshin posted:You're stressing out about contacting regions too much. Research some guns, some armor, don't over-extend yourself, don't move things too fast. The Avatar Project timer isn't a hard-stop. When it maxes out, you'll have a little while to attack a Blacksite and bump it back down. Wait, really? The game's making it sound like JESUS CHRIST loving DROP EVERYTHING THE TIMER IS ACCELERATING YOU'RE LOSING THE GAME GO GO GO WHY ARE YOU LOOTING A SUPPLY DROP THERE'S A FACILITY UNDESTROYED  I mean... I still haven't built the shadow facility, and it's been over a month since I got the mission to do that, because I've been frantically trying to keep being able to open up regions to get to black sites. e: wait, so it's like Central having a stroke at you moving so slowly in every goddamn retaliation mission when the first civilian dies in the first turn, despite there being literally nothing you can do to stop it? I love so much about this game, but there's some... weird decisions going on, mostly about difficulty, that I just don't understand.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:25
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Mukaikubo posted:Wait, really? The game's making it sound like JESUS CHRIST loving DROP EVERYTHING THE TIMER IS ACCELERATING YOU'RE LOSING THE GAME GO GO GO WHY ARE YOU LOOTING A SUPPLY DROP THERE'S A FACILITY UNDESTROYED Yep. It's supposed to be stressing you out. 
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Feb 6, 2016 00:28
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Kenshin posted:Yep. It's supposed to be stressing you out. ...wow, I really have different ideas of fun than the devs, then.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:29
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Mukaikubo posted:...wow, I really have different ideas of fun than the devs, then. Just ignore Command telling you what to do and do what you want, it's cool.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:30
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Goonpool has now been updated with all the people I received or caught in the thread and was able to import up to this point.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:30
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Is there something I can edit to have all the customization options unlocked for squaddies by default?
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Feb 6, 2016 00:30
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They're not there to freak you out (though tension is definitely part of it), they're there so that you don't literally forget that there's something about to lose you the game. When all the pips fill up, you'll have a couple weeks to actually engage the next site. I'm two pips from full on the timer, and I have yet to actually do the first Blacksite. I also have full gauss/mag weapons, just started building my Psi lab, and finished my second experimental ammo and started my second experimental grenade project. Talon and Dragon rounds, and gas grenades. Haven't even built a Skulljack yet!
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Feb 6, 2016 00:31
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Wow, performance is loving awful. Nothing is consistent. I can have explosions and particle effects everywhere with no framerate drops but then I move someone into cover and it turns into a slideshow.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:31
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So uh is the game supposed to be burning 5 gigs of ram, or is there a memory leak?
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Feb 6, 2016 00:31
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That first black site mission is a fucker, eh? Pretty much "stuck" at the end of it due to my four operatives having run out of consumables and not really being skilled enough to fight off eight bastarding enemies at a time, can you call the Skyranger for an alterative evac point or do you have to use the one provided?
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Feb 6, 2016 00:32
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Red Mundus posted:Wow, performance is loving awful. Nothing is consistent. I can have explosions and particle effects everywhere with no framerate drops but then I move someone into cover and it turns into a slideshow. Turn anti-aliasing all the way off
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Feb 6, 2016 00:32
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Good to know I wasn't loving up by the numbers as much as I thought with letting the Avatar project advance that far. My Avatar progress bar was one pip from completing when I finally, finally got the communications necessary to expand past the initial three sectors. I did notice that there's a couple of hidden ways to reduce the Avatar project progress as well. Dealing with the super happy funtimes that happen when you first Skulljack an officer will chop a pip off the bar.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:32
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Klyith posted:Also a bunch of other tweaks designed to gently caress you over. Time between reinforcement call-ins, use of special powers, a bunch of little things like that. For example on Commander and lower, cover that your own soldiers are using won't get blown up from normal missed shots! Maybe. They've had 4 HP since the start though, so I dunno. Man, I was so proud of my record - diving right in at Classic awww yeah, turns out that Commander isn't quite that amazing.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:33
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Mukaikubo posted:Wait, really? The game's making it sound like JESUS CHRIST loving DROP EVERYTHING THE TIMER IS ACCELERATING YOU'RE LOSING THE GAME GO GO GO WHY ARE YOU LOOTING A SUPPLY DROP THERE'S A FACILITY UNDESTROYED If you read the text it isn't that bad. If you're getting this triggered by a flashing red screen...
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Feb 6, 2016 00:34
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Alkydere posted:Good to know I wasn't loving up by the numbers as much as I thought with letting the Avatar project advance that far. My Avatar progress bar was one pip from completing when I finally, finally got the communications necessary to expand past the initial three sectors. Pretty much! I just linked up all of Africa, and it's annoying, because I got "All In" as the continent bonus but one of the dark events is to cut supplies by half.  Haven't even tried building the satellite uplink analogue to expand into Western Europe to blow up the nearest research place.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:34
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Huh, Steam is offering 40% off the Steam Controller if you bought Xcom through them. I think this is the first time I've seen a game with that kind of discount, they must really be pushing for it.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:35
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Where do I recruit scientists and engineers? The monthly report always lists one or two being available for recruitment but I haven't been able to find the screen to recruit anything but Soldiers. I'm like 4 months in and still have one engineer and two scientists
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Feb 6, 2016 00:36
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Hick Magnet posted:Where do I recruit scientists and engineers? The monthly report always lists one or two being available for recruitment but I haven't been able to find the screen to recruit anything but Soldiers. I'm like 4 months in and still have one engineer and two scientists
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Feb 6, 2016 00:37
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Fojar38 posted:I dunno why people are complaining that the mission timers are some sort of odd and unexpected thing. You're waging a guerrilla war against a foe massively more powerful than you and one of the chief aspects of asymmetric warfare is getting in with a surprise, completing your objective, and leaving before the enemy can bring its massively superior forces to bear. It's also, more importantly, a great addition to gameplay because it means you can't play it safe and dick around in Overwatch for 56 turns to win a battle.
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Mister Adequate posted:It's also, more importantly, a great addition to gameplay because it means you can't play it safe and dick around in Overwatch for 56 turns to win a battle. I actually am liking the battlescape stuff, but not so much the geoscape stuff, even though it's the same thing meant for the same purpose.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:38
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Huh, Steam is offering 40% off the Steam Controller if you bought Xcom through them. I think this is the first time I've seen a game with that kind of discount, they must really be pushing for it. No kidding. I might go ahead and pick one up then, I almost grabbed one off Amazon a few days ago just for this purpose.
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Tenzarin posted:I like to think the sectoids were still young in EU and now they are older and developed. 
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Apparently the goal of my Commander playthrough is to see if there is a limit to the number of portraits that show up in the Memorial/Bar.
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