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Nordick posted:So I only just now noticed that a soldier's attitude customization setting also affects the lines they speak. I switched Jane Kelly to "Twitchy" and in the next battle I heard a couple kinda nervous sounding lines I haven't heard before. And now that I think about it, my other soldiers' lines also fit their attitudes. It's fun. American Voice 10 female twitchy I'm pretty sure is my main assault and they are so unsure of everything. Like they stutter over questioning my command for half a second than say "I guess that's okay". When they kill stuff "It's dead, it has to be." with desperation or "I hope it's dead" type things. It's great. Do all the voice's get the same lines for each attitude, or is their variance in that?
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Alkydere posted:Also, turrets tend to be on roofs: try destroying the floors beneath them if you're having trouble. Or just go around them. You know, a tactically interesting choice between using worse terrain/playing the time limit tighter, or fighting a mildly tough enemy instead.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:18
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Can someone explain to me exactly how the DoT effects work? Do they take damage randomly or what? Can I rely on someone dying when at 1HP while also being on fire?
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Feb 7, 2016 04:19
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DStecks posted:Holy loving poo poo, does this game ever become fun? I find myself wishing for new enemy types to get introduced, only to immediately regret it. "Meet the Sectoid! He's completely ineffectual 90% of the time but will gently caress you sideways that remaining 10%." "Meet the stun trooper! He'll run up to you and instakill you because gently caress you." "Meet the turret! It has a shitload of health and whether or not it can shoot you is completely glitched out!" "Meet the Codex! She can teleport and shoot in the same turn because gently caress you with a chainsaw!" Ehh... codices I find to not be too difficult. When you come on a group, grenade, like everything else, and when they split up have a gunslinger pick 'em off. Gunslingers seem to be more or less a hard counter to cloning codices. Face off, lightning hands, quick draw. Doesn't matter if they split into two or three, you can still shoot all of them.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:20
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Grapplejack posted:It would slow the game down too much. See: long war for an example, even though I love that mod. I'd much prefer a slightly slower game over "whoops, you lost two guys and now you are hosed".
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Feb 7, 2016 04:20
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Doctor_Acula posted:Shen's face has started artifacting so hard it's covering the entire Avenger. That's the really weird thing though. I have had no bugs or crashes and no glitches either, having played the game for almost 20 hours. The worst thing I get is bad FPS at scene transitions, especially the beginning of cutscenes, but the game itself runs very smoothly and apart from the camera during the alien activation having been wonky and sometimes just going black I've had zero problems. However, for a friend of mine, this game has been a bug and glitch-fest, doing weird stuff with LOS and the FOW and activations, and really weird things with vipers when they try to tongue grab troopers, like the shifting several spaces and a floor or two when it is successful and stuff like that. Really weird that it would be that different.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:22
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Okay so do we have a list of Things You Should Know? Because there are a few, things like; -You can use the Evac option after a dash. - You can hover over the red down/green up arrows on a soldier's name to see the status effects currently in play on that unit. - Activating a Battle Scanner/Scanning Protocol on a Retaliation Mission will immediately uncover and activate every hidden unit (Faceless and buried Chryssalid) around. - In that vein, as well as the Faceless activating when all enemies are dead, they will ALSO activate if the only enemies left alive are Shutdown mechanical enemies. I found this out to my cost when Haywire Protocoling a Heavy MEC as my last action of the turn. - ADVENT Trooper Corpses are not to be sold because they're necessary for upgrades. - You need to research the Skullmining project in the Proving Grounds before you can use the Skulljack on non-Objective enemies. - Disorientation, from any source (Flashbangs, Insanity, Capacitor Discharge) interrupts any ongoing psychic effects like zombies or mind control. Jury's out on Codex rifts because I haven't tried it. - Setting fire to an Archon after Blazing Pinions has been fired but before the attack lands will stop it ever landing. - There's no warning for when Hacked units will revert to the enemy side. And they get a turn as soon as they do. Keep your pet robots at a distance. - Things that reduce the Avatar Count (except assaulting Avatar facilities), in story order: Retreiving the Blacksite Vial, Skulljacking an ADVENT Officer for the first time, Codex Site Mission, ADVENT Forge Mission, Skulljacking a Codex. - Andromedons killed for the first time during the Enemy Turn will still get back up and punch you that same turn. - It's entirely possible to fire off Killzone twice if you're using it to ambush a pod. Once on your turn when activating the pod, and again on their turn if they move. - Spamming the Overwatch key too fast can somehow disable the Overwatch button for the rest of the turn. Jake, game, fix. In addition I'd also like to know what actions are unavailable under Mind Control because I was most displeased at not being able to use Mark Target with my pet ADVENT Officer.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:22
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Sword rangers are hilariously good for killing Codices. I took out a group of 3 during the final mission by throwing a grenade to make them split into 6, then pop Reaper on my ranger and mopping all of them up in a single turn.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:23
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I really think they should have put the 4/6-man thing to bed for XCOM2. It had a handwavy reason for existing because of console versions in the first game, but all you have to do for XCOM2 is point at the Avenger Defense missions to show it's perfectly feasible for the game to handle double that. I think doing away with the original xcom's swarm of soldiers that you took on missions was probably the single best decision EU made.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:23
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hey have a mod that eliminates the avatar project It should make it so the doom bar never increases. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=618059450&searchtext= Don't forget you can't remove mods from a save
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Feb 7, 2016 04:24
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Feb 7, 2016 04:25
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Broken Cog posted:I just watched some videos of the last XCOM, and it made me realize just how bad the health bars in XCOM 2 are. Yah I agree with this a lot. It's way too hard to quickly eyeball how much health something has, and stopping to count pip's when planning your turn isn't exciting.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:27
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The Iron Rose posted:hey have a mod that eliminates the avatar project I guess its functionally the same, but I prefer the feel of having it there with better control. I assume eventually you run out of options to reduce the bar and have to end the game SOMETIME, and I want that, but yeah...
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Feb 7, 2016 04:28
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So I've finally made it home and opened up Steam, but XCOM 2 has been sitting at 97% with no change. The download window says it has .6 GB left to download, but it ain't downloading. I can press Play, but it just brings up a window that says "Ready to launch in X" seconds and keeps counting up. Do I need to verify the cache; delete and start over (which is going to fuuuuuuck my bandwidth for the month) or is there something else going on?
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Feb 7, 2016 04:28
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Got a good screenshot of this insanity. [timg]http://i.imgur.com/ucE3AUx.jpg[/url][/timg] Keep your face out of my bridge, Shen. It also goes quite a while where it is totally fine, and then starts crashing constantly.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:29
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The Avatar project is a lot easier to handle when you realize that allowing it to go into countdown mode makes your actions that set it back do so even further back than normal, allowing you to get extra mileage out of every setback.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:29
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So Im assuming I should have that 5th spot open and upgraded weapons at the very least before tackling the first black site cause, uh, goons got pasted all over the dirt out there just now when I tried to do it. 
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Feb 7, 2016 04:31
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First time a faceless showed up he used his free turn to walk up and crit two guys with a single swipe through a wall. Rookie died other guy had 1 hp
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Furnaceface posted:So Im assuming I should have that 5th spot open and upgraded weapons at the very least before tackling the first black site cause, uh, goons got pasted all over the dirt out there just now when I tried to do it. ...I have six squad members, a major, and plasma grenades. I might have put it off too long.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:32
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1st mission. Loaded with Lowtax in tow, this can only end poorly. Edit: He crit kills an officer to start his career. My god. Edit 2: No casualties, Kelly got wounded off of a lucky officer shot but managed to gut two troopers. Lowtax is my first Grenadier  . Aedil, you're my Sniper. And Tri-run, you're my specialist. GODSPEED.
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LibbyM posted:It's fun. American Voice 10 female twitchy I'm pretty sure is my main assault and they are so unsure of everything. Like they stutter over questioning my command for half a second than say "I guess that's okay". When they kill stuff "It's dead, it has to be." with desperation or "I hope it's dead" type things. It's great. Well my Kelly has American 1 and she said those same things (more or less) so apparently there is some overlap at least. Gonna keep shuffling the attitudes around for a bit.
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64bitrobot posted:...I have six squad members, a major, and plasma grenades. I might have put it off too long. I went in with six people all in top armor and plasma weapons. Normal difficult 
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Feb 7, 2016 04:34
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Am I effectively missing out on bonuses if I don't build the AWC as soon as possible?
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DStecks posted:Holy loving poo poo, does this game ever become fun? I find myself wishing for new enemy types to get introduced, only to immediately regret it. "Meet the Sectoid! He's completely ineffectual 90% of the time but will gently caress you sideways that remaining 10%." "Meet the stun trooper! He'll run up to you and instakill you because gently caress you." "Meet the turret! It has a shitload of health and whether or not it can shoot you is completely glitched out!" "Meet the Codex! She can teleport and shoot in the same turn because gently caress you with a chainsaw!" you can gently caress over all of these one way or another
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Feb 7, 2016 04:36
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I just realized that the only achievement-related thing for ironman seems to be beating the game on commander (or legend) with ironman on. So there's that.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:37
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Fister Roboto posted:Am I effectively missing out on bonuses if I don't build the AWC as soon as possible? Potentially, yes. The chance of getting one seem pretty low (I'd say it's around 15% mark), but it has the potential to make some really broken characters.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:38
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64bitrobot posted:...I have six squad members, a major, and plasma grenades. I might have put it off too long. No that seems pretty much required for the 20 enemies and 5 new aliens I discovered waltzing in there. I guess when the difficulty says "Difficult" I should listen and assume Im actually rushing in too early (I only have 4 bars full on the doom clock).
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Feb 7, 2016 04:41
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I still have no idea what the following enemies even do: Archon, Heavy MEC, Berserker, Andromeda Whenever I see one it's time to see how many acid grenades and wrist rockets I can fire in one turn.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:42
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Broken Cog posted:Potentially, yes. Nah you're not. Its 100% guaranteed as long as that soldier has a promotion left. What's random is when they get it, but they will get the free perk. It totally does make some broken fun characters though.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:42
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Fister Roboto posted:Am I effectively missing out on bonuses if I don't build the AWC as soon as possible? AFAIK, every soldier gets one bonus skill, on one of their level ups. If you build it when one of your guys is a Major, then they're guaranteed to get it on their final promotion. You still do want to build it early, because faster healing is really really useful, and getting some high-level skills early can be a gamechanger, but you're not permanently missing out on anything by putting it off for a little bit.
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Eimi posted:Nah you're not. Its 100% guaranteed as long as that soldier has a promotion left. What's random is when they get it, but they will get the free perk. It totally does make some broken fun characters though. Are you sure? I'm fairly certain I have at least one character that made it to Colonel without getting a bonus skill. I suppose it might have been a low impact one so I just forgot about it.
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Tae posted:You basically get two free missions, a scientist, and engineer. It might conceivably lock you out of the "don't lose anybody" achievement (lol good loving luck), I guess.
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FallenGod posted:I still have no idea what the following enemies even do: Archon, Heavy MEC, Berserker, Andromeda Archons melee things and fly. Berserkers melee things on the ground. Heavy MECs are pretty much the same except with an AOE attack sometimes. Haven't met an Andromedan yet.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:48
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The AWC is great. I have a Ranger with Kill Zone from the AWC and Bladestorm, and she single-handedly mops up entire Chryssalid packs. Shotgun blast on approach, any that survive that meet the sword. She has a Superior Scope and an +Aim PCS (which also seems to affect the sword?), so she is a goddamn surgeon with that shotgun. And a Superior Expanded Mag for even more Kill Zone. Also carries AP ammo and Rapid Fire to serve as the designated Sectopod fucker-upper.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:49
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So after the Foundry Mission This dude in the suit is the template for an Ethereal, isn't it? 
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