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Sylphosaurus posted:Yeah, a lot of players really need to learn when it's time to cut your losses and evacuate but I guess it goes against the whole "must ace all missions Annoyingly, the one time this campaign where I went "well this is hosed, time to go" was a VIP escort mission where I couldn't just EVAC. I might have lost everyone, but the alien AI bugged out and all of them stopped moving. They wouldn't even scramble-on-reveal  That's how I managed to skulljack a Codex, and defeat the Avatar. Cheesy as all hell, but the game owed it to me for putting the objective all the way across the map guarded by enormous blocks of HP.HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Just grab the upgrade that increases the likelyhood of downings instead of deaths. You can't grab that upgrade until you have a soldier reach Major, which is dumb. By the time I have a Major, my troops aren't regularly dropping dead. Mod plz
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Steelion posted:Enemies with melee attacks just constantly gently caress me over and it sucks Set them on fire with incendiary grenades or dragon rounds- being on fire stops them from using their best abilities.
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Alkydere posted:I love Psi-Soldiers, holy poo poo. Hit a pair of Archons with the vortex ability and both hist procced Insanity, which both procced Mind Control (and damage because I have the skill that makes Insanity do damage). This has saved my bacon a few times, let me tell you! Psi Operatives are an immense force multiplier, the game ramps up difficulty enough that you pretty much always want the ability to take over at least some types of enemies. Also, once aliens that spray acid everywhere start showing up, having a soldier with the passive ability to neutralize elemental attacks is amazing.
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I feel like half the time I nade to reveal the game just breaks and the aliens stand there crying.
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Psi-ops in general are loving amazing and have a power for literally any situation. And the damage they do scales with their amp. So endgame you have multiple guarenteed sources of damage on one trooper that ignore all armor, and Psi-Lance does 10-14 damage in a long rear end line which is ridiculous. Then you can use fuse to blow up a roof and drop an enemy for fall damage, or to wipe out their cover. And don't even get me started on Domination, aka get a free meme beacon/broken alien ability. Like shield trooper to give your dudes ablative 5 HP, or Mark to give your dudes a huge aim bonus, or everything an Andromedon can do.
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Having a strange problem with one/a combination of the three mods I'm running, TimerTweaks, Free Camera Rotation, or Strip Primary Weapons. Oftentimes when I finish a mission and get past the post-mission stats, to where you'd normally see your soldiers and pick promotions, I get a zoomed-in view of the bottom left section of the Avenger. I can't do anything from here, I have to quit and restart the game, reloading from the last turn of the mission, and hope that it works. Anyone seen this?
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Am i doing something wrong for the character pool? I spent like 2 hours hand crafting a ton of characters. Only to start a new game and only have 2 of my characters actually show up. The rest are just random rookies. I changed these two lines: code:
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Holy poo poo did they buff explosives in this game. There are no downsides to killing using explosives anymore, they shred armor, grenadiers add huge AOE and range, goddamn. Running around with 2 grenadiers + exo suit + rocket gives me 8 explosives to use with just 2 units, and each explosive is the equivalent of an XCOM1 rocket. Insanely good.
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Ciaphas posted:Having a strange problem with one/a combination of the three mods I'm running, TimerTweaks, Free Camera Rotation, or Strip Primary Weapons. Oftentimes when I finish a mission and get past the post-mission stats, to where you'd normally see your soldiers and pick promotions, I get a zoomed-in view of the bottom left section of the Avenger. I can't do anything from here, I have to quit and restart the game, reloading from the last turn of the mission, and hope that it works. It's a bug with the strip primary weapons, hope you have a recent enough unmodded save to remove it.
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You can also use specialty grenade for even more fun. I quite like the Incendiary grenades for their massive AoE that hurts more than a plasma and gives burning. gently caress Chrysalids, cleanse it with fire.
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Elliotw2 posted:It's a bug with the strip primary weapons, hope you have a recent enough unmodded save to remove it. Nope. RIP this campaign, then, right? That's really annoying that removing mods invalidates your campaign entirely.
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Units killed by explosives don't drop loot, which is minor but still A Thing.
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Is anyone else having the faceless just randomly turn and swipe your guys? I usually ignore the civvys for the aliens, but i was in the middle of a firefight with a few troopers and he just spawned. Nobody was near him, enemies were still alive. E: Also I kind of like having my blokes get grabbed by the snaketits because the damage is poo poo and it takes the snaketits out of the fight until i'm ready to deal with it, poisons way more annoying.
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Ciaphas posted:Nope. RIP this campaign, then, right? That's really annoying that removing mods invalidates your campaign entirely. If you're playing on non-ironman just make a save before you shoot the last enemy, and relaunch the game.
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UberJumper posted:Am i doing something wrong for the character pool? I spent like 2 hours hand crafting a ton of characters. Only to start a new game and only have 2 of my characters actually show up. The rest are just random rookies. Do you have the tutorial enabled? I noticed this behavior when starting the tutorial for the first time, but deleting it out and starting the tutorial again seemed to correct the problem for my current runthrough.
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I feel like a idiot. All this time I thought you had to have the shadow chamber before you could do the black sites.
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Elliotw2 posted:If you're playing on non-ironman just make a save before you shoot the last enemy, and relaunch the game. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna have to do until he updates the mod, I suppose. Still pretty irritating, but at least I don't lose the campaign this way.
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My shotgun ranger just got Serial  Now I just need a +move pcs a laser sight and the +crit ammo.
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Lima posted:My shotgun ranger just got Serial it's amazing, as 100 kill ranger Sarah "Hound Dog" White will attest it doesn't seem to work with rapid fire, though 
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Oh, boooo. I just lost a campaign that I was doing great on, minimal wounded, no deaths. I lose it because with one turn left I didn't realize that going to the front of a computer I'm supposed to hack into is NO GOOD, since I guess it was facing a square diagonal to it. I didn't have enough turns to get to the back of the computer so gently caress me, mission failed.
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Two questions: 1. Is there a time limit on the Blacksite mission? 2. How worried should I be that the Avatar countdown is already at 5 pips and I don't even have a Psi Operative yet? Time to panic?
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Harrow posted:Two questions: 5 pips is nothing. Once you start doing story missions and facilities, those pips are gonna go down fast. Edit: Also no time limit on blacksite missions unless it specifically says so.
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You can let the blacksite mission sit for months, that's what I did
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Viridiant posted:Oh, boooo. I just lost a campaign that I was doing great on, minimal wounded, no deaths. I lose it because with one turn left I didn't realize that going to the front of a computer I'm supposed to hack into is NO GOOD, since I guess it was facing a square diagonal to it. I didn't have enough turns to get to the back of the computer so gently caress me, mission failed. you can handle a few losses in this game, it's nothing catastrophic.
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Ha, my friend usually hates TBS games but she's fallen in love with this.  She sent me a screenshot that's kinda depressing though. I know soldiers visit each other in the sickbay, but.. 
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Mejwell posted:Do you have the tutorial enabled? I noticed this behavior when starting the tutorial for the first time, but deleting it out and starting the tutorial again seemed to correct the problem for my current runthrough. No tutorial enabled. I made the tweak in "my games/XCOM2/XComGame/config/XcomGameData.ini", should i be doing it somewhere else?
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The best thing about psi-troopers is the array of voice lines they have. I've got two and one says lines like "The flesh melts away!"  While the other one cheerfully goes "I'm inside your head! 
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Ciaphas posted:Yeah, that's what I'm gonna have to do until he updates the mod, I suppose. Still pretty irritating, but at least I don't lose the campaign this way. If he doesn't update it in, uh, 6-7 hours I will at least comment his changes out and save a mod named the same thing.
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I have absolutely no idea what he says, but German voice pack 2 and 'Intense' as a Psi-Op is the greatest goddamn thing ever.
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I kind of want to roll with six psi troopers and just mind control six enemies
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I kind of want to roll with six psi troopers and just mind control six enemies It would probably work pretty drat well, but it would take a long time to train all of them.
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Wow I'm getting some utterly insane LoS issues in an extraction mission. I had sight on a stun lancer, I bring up my ranger to a diagonally adjacent tile and he completely disappears. After my turn finishes he reappears and runs into the corner of a room. I go to kill him, and it activates a pod through a fully solid wall with no windows or breaks. Next turn, the pod comes through the solid wall and kills me.
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Lima posted:My shotgun ranger just got Serial serial rangers hell yeah
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Pomp posted:you can handle a few losses in this game, it's nothing catastrophic. Yeah, it's just a dumb little thing. Plus it was a Dark Event, so now I gotta avoid this dumb little UFO. What happens if it catches you?
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Viridiant posted:Yeah, it's just a dumb little thing. Plus it was a Dark Event, so now I gotta avoid this dumb little UFO. What happens if it catches you? You fight a
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I kind of want to roll with six psi troopers and just mind control six enemies So the once a mission limit is per operative, not per team? If so, that's hilarious. I'm just going into my Avenger defence and I am rolling both my psi ops for the first time.
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