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I just had the greatest thing ever happen. Encountered a pod of 7 chryssalids and a gatekeeper. popped my last grenade got them to about 6 or 7 hp each and had 4 other dudes go to town on the gatekeeper. then had my hanzo steel wielding ranger pop reaper and killed all of them in one turn. i am so sad i wasnt recording that. You weirdos who hate on xcom swords are dumb because they are incredible.
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Internet Kraken posted:It feels like every mission I find a new ridiculous bug. Animation bugs out often on melee attacks, I had a stun lancer try to stab bladestorm ranger and get killed, what actually got shown: lancer gets up in his cover, falls over and then his dead body gets catapulted past ranger. I think all of insanity effects last for 2 turns.
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Feb 9, 2016 08:17
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Just managed an avenger defence in 2 turns. Blaster bombed it first, ran up a concealment ranger wearing a wraith suit, an smg and a speed PCS, hacked a sectopod, ran back.
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Feb 9, 2016 08:19
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I'm still going through my first game on veteran. I actually failed to rescue enough civilians on my second retaliation mission. The third came up while my game was bugged and none of the enemies moved at all, allowing me to complete missions with impunity. That was when I was first encountered chrysalids. So my fourth mission comes up, see chrysalids, and even though I'm at the top of the tech tree, I'm nervous about rescuing enough civilians to succeed. I load the mission, and I immediately see just northwest of my starting point: None of them were Faceless. 
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Feb 9, 2016 08:19
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Elliotw2 posted:Lightning Hands is so good that I even take it on my sniper snipers. The minor extra damage from Deadeye isn't good enough to offset a free damage every 3 turns. Yep, and this is exactly why while I wish I liked sniper snipers more (and gently caress I love Killzone), Gunslinger is just plain better. Pistols may not be a ton of damage but they are several points of pretty reliable damage per round that you can spread out to several enemies to clean up with.
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Feb 9, 2016 08:22
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I put Bluescreen bullets on my Gunslinger and she ended up being an absolute murder machine-machine murderer, easily top 1 or 2 MVP soldier. The game's worst enemies are almost all mechanical and it so, so satisfying to slaughter a sectopod or gatekeeper with a single Fan Fire. You can get 5 shots off in a single round, which is generally enough to kill anything that moves. Only downside to Gunslingers I find is that Faceoff can be buggy and sometimes just shoots one guy. Scoss fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Feb 9, 2016 08:29
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Kenshin posted:Yep, and this is exactly why while I wish I liked sniper snipers more (and gently caress I love Killzone), Gunslinger is just plain better. Pistols may not be a ton of damage but they are several points of pretty reliable damage per round that you can spread out to several enemies to clean up with. best feeling is group firing 7 codex with emp rounds.
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Feb 9, 2016 08:30
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MikeC posted:-Its too bad the end game where you can field multiple colonels and have the crazy experimental and heavy gear to kit them out is so short. Early game is fine but feels RNGish where as the final 1/4 to 1/5 of the game is where the game can activate multiple pods on your rear end but your killer squad has all the tools it needs to get out of the jam.
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Feb 9, 2016 08:32
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Ahhh now I remember why XCOM 1 used to frustrate me. 50% means 0%!
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Gridlocked posted:Ahhh now I remember why XCOM 1 used to frustrate me. 50% does mean zero. It's like low cover, it's a trap. Shots to take: Enemy's cover blown up by grenadier, or enemy flanked, or free overwatch shots when enemy pod discovers you/you ambush them, or bullshit special abilities. Otherwise? Basic shots for dudes in cover? I plan for every shot missing or I'm moving to get a better shot. (this does not excuse my entire fireteam from missing a single sectopod two rounds in a row, gently caress you game)
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Feb 9, 2016 08:35
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Sniper Snipers are still insanely good if you stack aim+height bonuses, they are basically old school XCOM 1 snipers. This time, however, they have access to grapples, death from above, killzone, and serial, which makes them absolutely nuts.
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Feb 9, 2016 08:37
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I like that Gunslingers are as strong and versatile as they are, pure Snipers were absurdly good in the previous game.
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Feb 9, 2016 08:38
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What the gently caress, I just had a patrol trip my concealed dude and he got a shot as the pod activated? How the gently caress does that work? I keep finding new rules that I don't know about that get my dudes thrown in the medbay 
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Feb 9, 2016 08:41
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T.G. Xarbala posted:I like that Gunslingers are as strong and versatile as they are, pure Snipers were absurdly good in the previous game. Yeah the gunslinger is a really good class, though I'd say until you get faceoff they are only ok, and when you get fan fire they become absolute monsters. Pure sniper is crazy strong from the start but you have to have the aim tech to compensate for it (aim PCS, tracer rounds, etc)
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Feb 9, 2016 08:42
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I've been stacking crit on one of my rangers and it's just absurd how much damage they deal. Super laser sights, talon rounds, and the 10% boost from guerrilla tactics add up to over 100% chance to crit on close enemies. I kind of regret not getting rapid fire on her since I assume that would be even more busted.
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Feb 9, 2016 08:46
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Microcline posted:PSA if no one else has posted this: This works on timed missions you just have to get near your target. The AI cheats and will almost always move towards you unless its stuck. Dr Christmas posted:I'm still going through my first game on veteran. I actually failed to rescue enough civilians on my second retaliation mission. The third came up while my game was bugged and none of the enemies moved at all, allowing me to complete missions with impunity. That was when I was first encountered chrysalids. So my fourth mission comes up, see chrysalids, and even though I'm at the top of the tech tree, I'm nervous about rescuing enough civilians to succeed. I load the mission, and I immediately see just northwest of my starting point: Just ignore civilians on retaliations and try to see them like turns. Sometimes you get lucky and they miss the civilian. Faceless do not count on the civilian counter so there is always +2 more. Move up and kill pods. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Feb 9, 2016 08:53
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victrix posted:What the gently caress, I just had a patrol trip my concealed dude and he got a shot as the pod activated? How the gently caress does that work?
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Feb 9, 2016 08:54
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Feb 9, 2016 08:59
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I dropped my Bladestorm ranger into an ADVENT facility to plant a bomb, woke up three snakes. They all try to hug me, they all die, I plant the bomb and leave.
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Feb 9, 2016 09:06
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I am awful at this. 3 missions failed on Ironman in a row. Thank you Sectoid mind-control. Apparently if they mind control one of your units with Overwatch on, it stays on and kills your dudes.
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Feb 9, 2016 09:07
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Phew just completed my first game on Commander difficulty. What a great, stressful game. (Some savescumming towards the end, I'm afraid. What can I say, I got a bit tired/hasty...) MVPs: Demo, a grenadier who rolled *rapid fire*. You can imagine how much fun this is with shredder, holotargetting, and some plus aim. Cowboy was ironically my rifle sniper. Killzone was incredible as an initiator from concealment, also rolled Hail of Bullets, which curiously allowed him to move and fire (at 100% accuracy too) with the rifle. Albeit not with squad sight. Freak was my unfortunately named psi trooper. Holy crap guys psi is amazing. Special tip - null lances penetrate but do not harm walls. This rocks about as much as you think.
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Feb 9, 2016 09:10
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Dumb question but does the AWC just give each person one perk or can you get multiple?
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Tenzarin posted:This works on timed missions you just have to get near your target. The AI cheats and will almost always move towards you unless its stuck. This is just confirmation bias. Multiple times I've ended up chasing AI halfway across the map just trying to set up overwatch traps. The AI follows a random patrol path, that is all. Once you get better abilities, many of your characters end up with better things to do than a concealed overwatch, anyway. Setting your entire team to over watch is too slow, also.
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Fangz posted:This is just confirmation bias. Multiple times I've ended up chasing AI halfway across the map just trying to set up overwatch traps. The AI follows a random patrol path, that is all. Go into a map, sneak around a group. Then on your turn move one guy away and overwatch. They will follow him where ever he moves. I learned about it trying to solid snake missions. They wont even walk away if you just sit there either.
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Tenzarin posted:Go into a map, sneak around a group. Then on your turn move one guy away and overwatch. They will follow him where ever he moves. Nope. Dude, I've played this game.
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Feb 9, 2016 09:18
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If you heal a dude to full during a mission, does that have any bearing on the severity of post battle wounds, or is it totally random once wounded period? Just wondering if I should waste time with unnecessary heals or not.
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Progress! I forgot to change the description away from the example mod description, heh So when you purchase Magnetic assault rifles, it'll add in a second conventional AR with the Mag rifle's stats, allowing you to pick and choose which model of rifle you want if you don't like the look of one or the other. All weapon attachments will stay on the same model so upgrading to magnetic weapons will move your AR's attachments to the "Assault Rifle (M)" (which is what it's called in my files now), and when you get beams the attachments will go to the "Assault Rifle (B)". Best I can do given I have no clue how to do something more complex. Now I just have to do this with every other weapon, as well as add in the lines so attachments will display properly 
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victrix posted:If you heal a dude to full during a mission, does that have any bearing on the severity of post battle wounds, or is it totally random once wounded period? Just wondering if I should waste time with unnecessary heals or not. Nope he was wounded.
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Feb 9, 2016 09:21
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Rhymenoserous posted:So no spoilers but holy poo poo does the end cutscene lay it on thick as to what the next game/expansion is going to be. People said the same about XCOM 1 
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Feb 9, 2016 09:22
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victrix posted:If you heal a dude to full during a mission, does that have any bearing on the severity of post battle wounds, or is it totally random once wounded period? Just wondering if I should waste time with unnecessary heals or not. Healing during battle keeps them in the fight but has no impact on their post-battle wounds. One is mid-battle drugs and clotting factor and the other is long term recuperation.
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victrix posted:If you heal a dude to full during a mission, does that have any bearing on the severity of post battle wounds, or is it totally random once wounded period? Just wondering if I should waste time with unnecessary heals or not. I believe recovery time is based on the minimum level your HP reached, so no, healing like that won't help.
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Feb 9, 2016 09:23
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Insert name here posted:Progress! That's neat. So if you have custom upgrades on one weapon when you research the next tier it will make a NEW weapon with exactly the same upgrades for you to use?
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Feb 9, 2016 09:25
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I want a mod that gives us back the original Mutons/Berserkers/Ethereals/Sectopods in place of their XCOM 2 variants. They were iconic in a way that the homo-sapiens-DNA-studded future just isn't.
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Gridlocked posted:That's neat. So if you have custom upgrades on one weapon when you research the next tier it will make a NEW weapon with exactly the same upgrades for you to use?
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Feb 9, 2016 09:31
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Berserker's do look weird as hell in this game. They look like roided up old nekkid dudes. Muton's origionally looked human-ish so I dont mind Slender Mutons.
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Insert name here posted:It works exactly the same as it does in the base game, but instead of having your attachments automatically moved from "Conventional -> Mag -> Beam" weapons it'll move them to the new weapon with the upgraded stats. So it goes "Conventional -> Conventional (Mag stats) -> Conventional (Beam stats)", so you can keep using bullet weapons throughout the entire game while still upping your damage. Will it keep them on a copy of the Mag/Beam versions as well? Like if I like having a particular dude with a ConventionalSniper but then I want the BeamSniper model on another character; will the upgrades also appear on the upgraded model?
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Insert name here posted:Progress! Aces, dude. Do you think it's possible to do the same with the EXO/WAR suit wrist-launcher? I posted about it on the More Armor Customization mod's page (Steamname: jake, though here he's the dude with the Quake 1 Ranger face), and turns out that piece is a weapon entry, not a part of the armor.
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Feb 9, 2016 09:35
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I just realized the shadow chamber lets you see an estimation of enemy types and total amount before launching a mission. This is awsome.
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Shoenin posted:Berserker's do look weird as hell in this game. They look like roided up old nekkid dudes. Berserkers are the females! 
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