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Little Mac posted:I've spent the last few days tweaking settings and now the tactical battles are running pretty smoothly, mostly 60FPS. The Avenger, end-of-battle promotions screen, and the Geoscape are slogs and often-times slideshows. Why is THAT the most intensive part of the game?! It's making the game unplayable. I don't know but i have about a one in three chance of crashing after missions, it is killing enjoyment of the game right now.
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Eonwe posted:Any mods I should run the first time Yeah, my mods that add Denmark, Finland and Sweden.  I just got done adding custom name lists to them. Now it's time for me to actually play the game.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwO9z-XxMNU&t=45s
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Feb 7, 2016 21:10
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Third campaign ruined by things completely outside of my control. I dunno, this game feels randomly unfair in a way X-COM EU / EW did not. I'm not even playing on hard. 
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Feb 7, 2016 21:11
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Peewi posted:Yeah, my mods that add Denmark, Finland and Sweden. How do you even open up a .UPK? I know its with some version of unreal editor, but I don't know which version to use, and the documentation is missing that information.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:13
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I installed the strip weapons mod and the more customizations mods and now the game gets stuck going back to the avenger unless I quit the game and restart it from the final turn of the previous mission.IShallRiseAgain posted:How do you even open up a .UPK? I know its with some version of unreal editor, but I don't know which version to use, and the documentation is missing that information. The XCOM2 editor might be able to open it, otherwise you might want umodel to rip it.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:18
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wtf chrysalids get to strike when they unborrow? pretty brutal
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Feb 7, 2016 21:20
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Has anyone ever been able to take control of a Heavy MEC using Haywire Protocol? I've even tried save scumming to do it, I have never had it succeed, in multiple missions. I'm using a colonel specialist with a gremlin mk III and a skullmining skulljack, he has 145 hacking and I still can't loving get one. RNGesus I guess. 
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Feb 7, 2016 21:20
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Elliotw2 posted:I installed the strip weapons mod and the more customizations mods and now the game gets stuck going back to the avenger unless I quit the game and restart it from the final turn of the previous mission. It's the weapons one, I installed it and ever since it's doing exactly that.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:22
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Kenshin posted:Has anyone ever been able to take control of a Heavy MEC using Haywire Protocol? I've even tried save scumming to do it, I have never had it succeed, in multiple missions. I'm using a colonel specialist with a gremlin mk III and a skullmining skulljack, he has 145 hacking and I still can't loving get one. I've done it. They're just regular MECs with more HP/armor. But yeah, you're just getting RNGed.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:24
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Dog Fat Man Chaser posted:It's the weapons one, I installed it and ever since it's doing exactly that. Same, too bad i saved. It's random though, and if i reload just before i finished the mission and try again it will eventually work. I think it depends on the ship returns cutscene?
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Feb 7, 2016 21:25
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Kenshin posted:Has anyone ever been able to take control of a Heavy MEC using Haywire Protocol? I've even tried save scumming to do it, I have never had it succeed, in multiple missions. I'm using a colonel specialist with a gremlin mk III and a skullmining skulljack, he has 145 hacking and I still can't loving get one. In EU/EW at the very least, the game saved your RNG seed to discourage scumming individual shots. I would not be surprised if XCOM 2 behaves the same way.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:25
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how me a frog posted:Third campaign ruined by things completely outside of my control. I dunno, this game feels randomly unfair in a way X-COM EU / EW did not. I have a pretty good idea how to tackle a second campaign, but yeah, risk management is a thing. You need to learn when to bail on missions, and when to skip missions. The penalties aren't nearly as bad as the WARNING WARNING  would have you believe.What is unrecoverable is losing all your dudes and their gear repeatedly. Going into a failure spiral from getting crushed by horrendous rng feels pretty poo poo though. I don't recall that ever happening in XCOM 1 unless I really made stupid moves. Here I'm using all the tools at my disposal and still wiping out. I fought tooth and nail to hang on after early wipes and the doom clock redlining, and came back from the brink three times, but in the end I simply couldn't keep pace with enemy forces, despite reaching plasma tech. Rookies couldn't handle combat against high end enemies, a single hit would cause a panic spiral, and I couldn't get enough resources to recruit vets in any significant numbers. With a shot accuracy average of 70%, it's not like I was overwatch creeping and lobbing shots at targets behind hard cover, but when I really really needed those shots to hit or not to get hit, welp,  That average was closer to 80% before the last few missions that torpedoed that campaign, rookies can't hang with sectopods and whatever that orb of doom is.I have to give them credit for the difficulty spikes though, I don't think I've ever failed so many missions within steps of the finish (sometimes literally, nothing like losing your final evacuee as he sprints to the evac point and dies to a single overwatch shot because gently caress you). I also detest how badly you can get hosed by your last soldier move to what you think is a safe space that isn't revealing new los. Nope, you moved to the one square in the middle of your other five troopers that can see through two windows and three floors to another squad of enemies,  your team.And again for emphasis, I failed every hack from tier 1 to tier 3. That's spectacularly loving poo poo luck.
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Peewi posted:Yeah, my mods that add Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Cool! Do I need a new game for these?
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Feb 7, 2016 21:27
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The health pips are really hard to count in this game. Hopefully a mod will arrange them in groups of 10 for quicker readability.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:29
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Hey I keep crashing during the cutscene that plays before the final mission, I can't seem to skip it so I can't actually finish the game. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
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Feb 7, 2016 21:29
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Thank god for the strip weapons mod that was really bugging me.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:32
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I was having a run where I had like 20 flawless missions. Then, an event was ongoing that made enemies easier to detect me. Cue civie rescue mission. Literally 1 tile forward, I trigger 3 pods of enemies and a faceless. I lost half my crew, including my maxed out Sniper. Then the very next mission was a VIP mission which wiped all but 2 units because a grenade blew up the evac roof. Literally the only thing that was going through my head was "I don't have enough to make another mimic beacon."
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Feb 7, 2016 21:34
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Gentwise posted:The health pips are really hard to count in this game. Hopefully a mod will arrange them in groups of 10 for quicker readability. This is a UI change that I don't know why they made, since huge health bars were much easier to read in EU/EW and naturally stacked instead of just being one bar with a billion millimeter-sized pips.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:34
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Kanos posted:This is a UI change that I don't know why they made, since huge health bars were much easier to read in EU/EW and naturally stacked instead of just being one bar with a billion millimeter-sized pips. Yeah I'm missing that, and a status screen for my dudes. Unless I'm missing one somewhere? I just want a page summary of their gear/buffs/debuffs/stats/etc while in combat. My dudes don't last long enough for me to remember who has what, much less bother customizing them. War is hell recruits.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:35
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This game is loving infuriating.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:40
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Peewi posted:Yeah, my mods that add Denmark, Finland and Sweden. add austria please. my heart is bleeding for some austrian soldiers
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Feb 7, 2016 21:41
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ADVENT should get some firewalls on their poo poo, because I just won a relay mission through four consecutive 30-40% capture hacks on two turrets and two MECs and another hack on a squad crit bonus  I was thinking of switching one of my Specialists for a Grenadier right before that fight too, but turns out that that little ol' drone is one of the best new toys XCOM gets. Not to mention the higher aim growth and fantastic Overwatch perks kinda makes them a bit more consistent in drawn-out fights. Also, I swear this game is stacking the percentages somehow. I can remember a fair amount of aliens shooting past smokescreens and flashbangs, and on the other hand I've managed to pull off some bullshit hacks like the above. poo poo's weird.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:42
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But those are the flags for Denmark, Finland and Iceland. I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned this in about 100 pages but it's sort of sad how few choices of language there are for your soldiers. Even weirder that Australian is an option and there's a northern irish UK choice but no Japan, Nigeria, China or whatever. I really don't like my characters from countries to have american accents. Especially since your tutorial person is Irish! I savescum entirely so I've not lost any soldiers but man I do feel like they stay wounded for a REALLY long time. I didn't realise that you could make it go faster by building a facility. It's strange that the first game introduces each building and tells you what it does but this one just drops every single one on you at once!
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Feb 7, 2016 21:46
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Any tips on the civ rescue missions? I feel like in order to save the 6 that you need you are almost required to put yourself in harms way by rushing through the map quickly. If you don't rescue at least 6, what are the consequences?
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Feb 7, 2016 21:47
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Taear posted:But those are the flags for Denmark, Finland and Iceland. I agree about country choices, but Chen does kinda tell you what each room does but it's easily skippable.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:48
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Covering Fire vs Threat Assessment? My soldier is a battle medic but Threat Assessment has saved my Ranger a bunch of times so I'm thinking that is more valuable.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:50
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Is there a tech tree anywhere? I've spent the last hour or so searching the Internet for one and I've come up dry. I'd even settle for a breakdown on a wiki page or something that says what I need to research to get Plated Armor or Exo Suits or anything like that. Feel like I'm just researching in the dark here.
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Kanos posted:This is a UI change that I don't know why they made, since huge health bars were much easier to read in EU/EW and naturally stacked instead of just being one bar with a billion millimeter-sized pips. Honestly, I would prefer a little number. That or Legend of Zelda hearts. One of those two.
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Taear posted:I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned this in about 100 pages but it's sort of sad how few choices of language there are for your soldiers. Even weirder that Australian is an option and there's a northern irish UK choice but no Japan, Nigeria, China or whatever. I really don't like my characters from countries to have american accents. Especially since your tutorial person is Irish! This is pretty much the same voice selection that was in EW, and they probably did the same thing (record US/UK/AU voices, and also voices for various languages the game was localised into, and let everyone use them all). Ironically enough I really miss Long War's custom voice packs (particularly their Euro and SE Asian accented English packs), but there's already a (woefully incomplete) custom one on the Workshop so eventually there may be more selection.
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Is there a way to see buffs/debuffs on a unit like in EU? Also a timer for conditions?
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victrix posted:Yeah I'm missing that, and a status screen for my dudes. Unless I'm missing one somewhere? I just want a page summary of their gear/buffs/debuffs/stats/etc while in combat. My dudes don't last long enough for me to remember who has what, much less bother customizing them. War is hell recruits. Hover over your soldier's names when they're selected for their stats. And before you ask, I don't think you missed anything, I only discovered that because I noticed something faintly popping up when I was moving my cursor and spent a few minutes trying to figure out what I saw before I realized what I was seeing.
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Is there a way to use those LW voice packs in vanilla? Couldn't find anything on mod nexus searching for 'voice' other than some ~rad~ gears of war voice packs etc.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:55
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It would be awesome if that grenade I very carefully aimed not to blow up my cover didn't actually blow up that cover.
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Feb 7, 2016 21:56
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I think it's hilarious that unconscious is pretty much a lot worse than flat out death, because it will cripple -two- of your soldiers unless you're resigned to leave the unconscious one for dead. Or are they supposed to wake up at some point and I just got hosed by the RNG?
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=618077830&searchtext= This is a brilliant mod that stries a nice balance with timers... it's such a simple idea hat I think it has a lot of merit. Basically as long as your team is still concealed, the timer won't tick down. It's only after enemies are alerted to your presence that you have a time limit. It's frankly an elegant solution to the issue, and I'm sorta amazed it wasn't a default feature.
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Dallan Invictus posted:This is pretty much the same voice selection that was in EW, and they probably did the same thing (record US/UK/AU voices, and also voices for various languages the game was localised into, and let everyone use them all). I thought EW had Russian? It's just a bizzare thing to me to see Italian and not Japanese I guess. I haven't even SEEN any Italian troopers although I converted my Ukrainian into one. I'm genuinely surprised the game has been made in German, Spanish, French and Italian but not into Russian.
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So, Panic on your guys seems to be 90% good beyond wasting a turn and only 10% "OH GOD WHY" situtations. While the Aliens seem reversed. Had a psychic vortex hit an Adromedon and Sectoid and panicked them both. Of course didn't matter for the Sectoid because the Andromedon promptly put a plasma bolt through his skull. 
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SuicideSnowman posted:Any tips on the civ rescue missions? I feel like in order to save the 6 that you need you are almost required to put yourself in harms way by rushing through the map quickly. If you don't rescue at least 6, what are the consequences? Grab what you can safely, but I have had better luck putting priority on killing the bad guys and just hoping for some of the civies to survive. Flashbangs can be used to "test" for Clayface wannabes. Embrace failure. Also realize that your dudes and their stuff is the most valuable thing in the mission most of the time.
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