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how me a frog posted: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. You can revive them, if you leave them on an evac mission they get captured and you'll eventually get a mission to rescue them. If they're bleeding out there's a timer for that!
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Gotta med them back up afaik. Always bring a medkit or two for revival, if not healing. Later you get the 'more bleedouts' perk too, and saving your troops xp is a big deal.Fuzz posted:http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=618077830&searchtext= Not really? This encourages you to play sneaky stealth game until you're really close to the objective, then ambush the nearest group and tackle the objective with way less time pressure - but more tedium slowly sneaking your whole squad to that point. I had a lot of really unpleasant experiences with the core game, but very very few were ever caused by timer pressure that I didn't inflict on myself by dawdling or pushing over-aggressively (a handful of times I did get hosed by a late move reveal, but hey, that's what scanner grenades and protocol are for). victrix fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Feb 7, 2016 22:02
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Dallan Invictus posted: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. You mean the ones that all sound like robots talking into a headset mic?
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Feb 7, 2016 22:03
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My Grenadier is randomly setting on fire, even when nothing is shooting her. Is this a hilarious feature from equipping fire bombs or just a weird bug?
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Feb 7, 2016 22:06
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I'm still laughing at my sniper shooting an enemy out in the open with her pistol, causing a nearby brick wall far off to her left to explode  Although these little glitches would be much less painful-funny and more funny-funny if they didn't come with the potential for wiping half your squad due to LoS activation issues 
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Feb 7, 2016 22:10
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splifyphus posted:Welp, just skulljacked a codex. I managed to win with a squad of 8, including my pet sectoid and his pet advent. I sort of knew something was coming but not what, and ended off being underprepared. It mind controlled my elite heavy and then teleported away, then I had to distract the heavy with 2 mimetic beacons while I chased it down. My gunslinger got the kill with face off, on the last move of the last turn with a 50% chance on each shot. I seriously never got a chance to see what those things can do, because I just hit them with overwhelming force every time I encountered one. I think my first one actually decided to spawn in next to my sword Ranger and got Bladestormed for the trouble. Then I shoved a Rapid Fire down its throat.
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how me a frog posted: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. Well only on a mission where you have to extract. If it's a kill everything one then it's just very annoying but yeah I've had a baton guy be responsible for my two worst mission performances just cause he sprinted through my overwatch fire out of the fog and hit my specialist who has all the med packs (most of the time, you don't need em, but when you do you really need them).
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Feb 7, 2016 22:10
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I think I'm going to try a lot more hunker down and a lot less overwatch on campaign #2. Overwatch blows. Does hunker down still work if you get flanked and/or meleed?
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Feb 7, 2016 22:12
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If it works as it did in Enemy Unknown, it does not, as it doubles your cover bonus, and you don't have cover versus flanks, and it doesn't apply in melee.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:15
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victrix posted:I think I'm going to try a lot more hunker down and a lot less overwatch on campaign #2. Overwatch blows. My worst overwatch so far has been we were all in concealment and overwatching. I shot a rocket at a group of three Vipers. Another group spawns and ALL my shots are done at those. Then the rocketed group moved, after we'd all shot. So incredibly irritating. To follow it up I then missed 4 94% attacks on one of those vipers. Aaaahhh.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:15
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Overwatch is good if you're not stupid unlucky.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:16
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I love the design of Archons. And the sound design on them. Seriously the sound designer does not get enough praise in this game.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:16
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Holy poo poo, the Gremlin's Attack Protocol ignores armor \o/ Also I must be stupid or missed the VA about that but how do I expand the amount of available contacts?
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Feb 7, 2016 22:21
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I honestly have overwatched like 5% of the time I did in XCOM 1. I use it to set up the concealment ambush, but otherwise I'm barreling towards an objective all the time and running and gunning it, and everyone has more abilities that seem to be better to be using all the time. Playing the non-timed missions and realizing how much slower things go with overwatch creeping was a revelation.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:21
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Furism posted:Holy poo poo, the Gremlin's Attack Protocol ignores armor \o/ Research "Resistance Comms," build a Comm facility inside your base, staff it. You might need more than one if you want to cover the globe.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:21
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This is probably super obvious but I just found out that Killzone works in both the turn you set it and in the following alien turn. My sniper killed 3 out of 4 aliens in a pod and emptied her 6-round magazine while doing so 
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Feb 7, 2016 22:22
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Anyone else sort of weirded out Flight seems to have been cut as a mechanic? Archons/Gatekeepers float just off the ground and when you MC them theres no way to lift them off to fly deliberately (Archons kinda do with the Pinion attack but immediately track back to the ground). No flying armor either. Really weird coming off of EW with Seekers/Drones/Floaters/H. Floaters/Cyberdiscs/Archangel/Hover Shivs.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:23
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splifyphus posted:Welp, just skulljacked a codex. I managed to win with a squad of 8, including my pet sectoid and his pet advent. I sort of knew something was coming but not what, and ended off being underprepared. It mind controlled my elite heavy and then teleported away, then I had to distract the heavy with 2 mimetic beacons while I chased it down. My gunslinger got the kill with face off, on the last move of the last turn with a 50% chance on each shot. I had a Codex take cover right next to my Specialist early in a Retaliation mission. She was right there, what was I supposed to do, not skulljack her? Thankfully, I had already Dominated a Berserker, who put his fists to good use
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Feb 7, 2016 22:24
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I know in the first game everyone loved squadsight but I never ever picked it and I'm super sad that the snipers can't move and shoot now. It just means I never use them, I'm constantly mobile and I can't deal with having to stand around!
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Feb 7, 2016 22:26
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Thread moves fast so apologies if this has been asked before but, how do you get more intel? I need to make contact with another region because there's a blacksite there and the avatar project is two pips away from counting down but I don't have enough intel to unlock it.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:26
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I dominated an Archon. He could barely hit the enemies I pointed him at (another archon and a codex) but he served me well as a lure that prevented other aliens from targeting my troops. Sadly, I lost my best sniper that mission, but recovered the body before we blew up the site. As thanks for helping me out, I let the Archon live. (psychics are amazing)
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Feb 7, 2016 22:27
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Taear posted:I know in the first game everyone loved squadsight but I never ever picked it and I'm super sad that the snipers can't move and shoot now. It just means I never use them, I'm constantly mobile and I can't deal with having to stand around! Go gunslinger. Its strong as gently caress and yoy never need to reload! And it benefits from ammo mods. Seriously the pistol is really good.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:27
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Oh, for gently caress's sake. I now have two Specialists with Volatile Mix.
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Turn timers are only a problem if you suck at the tactical game, and can't take out pods efficiently. All the strats from EU/EW apply to XCOM2. Grenades to take out cover. Always go for the guaranteed kill, not whittle away at a stronger enemy (unless you can take them out with 2/3 soldiers in 1 turn). Flashbang/debuff what you can't kill. And use concealment over cover (as in, hiding out of LOS, not the beginning of mission concealment).
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Feb 7, 2016 22:29
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Can you keep killing (late game enemy) Avatars (lol they even look like supersayans) to set the Avatar program back? 3 pips backwards was some cool poo poo.
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Orgophlax posted:Turn timers are only a problem if you suck at the tactical game, and can't take out pods efficiently. The smug of this post is hilarious. I have no real problem in EW/LW on Impossible with creeping and cover. That's fine because I can take 40 turns. When I have three pods all activate at once, 6 turns total, and have to cross the map... that's difficult, if not legitimately impossible. If this is a challenge you do not "suck at the tactical game", it's that the tactical game is significantly different when under the pressure of a timer and there are some scenarios that are either unwinnable outright OR unwinnable without significant cost in manpower.
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What is safe to sell on the black market? What is the minimum of X I should keep in stock for future research? I just completed the first Black Site mission, all I have left to research for now are the tech 3 weapons and the Alien Encryption I just got from completing the black site. I'm starving for cash :/Speedball posted:Research "Resistance Comms," build a Comm facility inside your base, staff it. You might need more than one if you want to cover the globe. Ah yes! I remember now. Thanks!
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Furism posted:What is safe to sell on the black market? What is the minimum of X I should keep in stock for future research? I just completed the first Black Site mission, all I have left to research for now are the tech 3 weapons and the Alien Encryption I just got from completing the black site. I'm starving for cash :/ How the heck are you just now finishing the first Black Site with Tech 3 weapons?! What month are you in?
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Feb 7, 2016 22:33
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A sectoid just reanimated a corpse from my team. The problem: It was a mimic beacon
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Hey goons, I built a thing. Please be so kind and have a look at it. At it's core it's a re-creation of Hidden Potential (random stat growth) from Second Wave. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=618826129&searchtext=
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I hope someone comes up with a tier 3 armor can use tier 2 armor cosmetics mod alongside with everyone uses tier 1. I didn't mind the tier 2, and while I love the glowy lines on tier 3, overall it looks too clean, shiny, and not bulky enough for what I like. Also while I like how the plasma beam look now, seriously its super cool, the guns themselves are rubbish. I hope more cosmetic mods come sooner. 
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sicarius posted:How the heck are you just now finishing the first Black Site with Tech 3 weapons?! What month are you in? The game doesn't make you do the blacksite, since the facilities are completely unrelated.
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Hammerstein posted:Hey goons, I built a thing. Please be so kind and have a look at it. At it's core it's a re-creation of Hidden Potential (random stat growth) from Second Wave. Yoink. Gonna install on campaign #2.
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Elliotw2 posted:The game doesn't make you do the blacksite, since the facilities are completely unrelated. Interesting. So you can ignore the Black Site and it doesn't lead to Avatar problems? Weeeeird.
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sicarius posted:How the heck are you just now finishing the first Black Site with Tech 3 weapons?! What month are you in? No I have the tech 2 weapons, the tech 3 I have to research still. Can't remember which month I'm in now, I've been delaying the black site assault on purpose but I'm thinking I've done too much of that because I have only 3 PIP left on the Avatar project. I want to tackle the next two sites now but I need monies to make contact, hence my previous question.
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I'm not sure but I think knocking back the Avatar Project progress reduces enemy pod strength. Might be my imagination. It WOULD be cool if that was a feature. I know destroying alien bases not only takes pips off the doom counter but slows the rate of new pips showing up for a while. I think it even resets Dark Events for the month.
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sicarius posted:Interesting. So you can ignore the Black Site and it doesn't lead to Avatar problems? Weeeeird. I'm in october with full plasma/warden armor and I still haven't done the first blacksite because rushing it directly led to my first campaign failing.
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Speedball posted:I'm not sure but I think knocking back the Avatar Project progress reduces enemy pod strength. Might be my imagination. Maybe I was unlucky because after my first black site mission, which took off a pip, I got a pop-up saying the project made progress and I got the pip right back. 
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I just did the blacksite mission with predator armor and magnetic rifles, but it cost me my best soldier. I thought it was going to reset the avatar meter but it only took one square off so now im thinking I probably should have attacked an avatar site instead.
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