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Tenzarin posted:If it's crashing on launch, make sure steam set the language and it isn't blank. It just gives me a blank screen from the streaming client and never starts properly. Do I need to run it once on the streaming box?
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Six hours in you should be rocking some decent weapons and armor so yeah. The game will continually throw enemies at you during the mission so rather than trying to kill all of them you should try to shoot the target from range and gtfo I think I may have just been researching completely the wrong things then since I think I have only unlocked an upgrade for the sword and drone... Managed to beat it by turtling a hell of a lot more than I was doing before, but the spawns did seem kinder this time.
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Does the beags have a lost of all the mods/changes he's made I want to customize all my soldiers that much
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One more question, are adjacency bonuses still a thing in this one or can I build what I want where I want?
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What does everyone think about Combat Protocol? I used it pretty effectively in my first (abandoned) campaign, nice to finish off a near dead enemy or clear an overwatch preventing you from moving to a good flanking position. I didn't even upgrade my gremlin but I imagine it doesn't get too strong. Is giving up Medical Protocol worth it? Maybe only if you're going to run 2 specialists on your team? I wish it worked like the other gremlin abilities and didn't end your turn.
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Me, upgrading my first medic specialist to Colonel: Well, Restoration seems like a good "oh poo poo" button, but I doubt it'll ever REALLY end up healing my entire squad Me, the very next mission, after a Gatekeeper floats into the middle of my formation and unleashes an attack that deals ~10 damage to everyone seemingly regardless of cover: Oh.
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Pakled posted:Me, upgrading my first medic specialist to Colonel: Well, Restoration seems like a good "oh poo poo" button, but I doubt it'll ever REALLY end up healing my entire squad Youre learning
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Just had a Viper poison my entire squad because I didn't realize moving healthy guys next to poisoned guys caused the poison to spread. My A Team is in the hospital, minimum 7 days now. 
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RVWinkle posted:I imagine there are multiple dissertations about RNG because it's such a fascinating topic. The human brain excels at finding patterns in things so it has a really hard time with truly random events. This explains why in every game ever, someone has declared that the pattern they witnessed proves the existence of some sort of bug or conspiracy.
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Seriously why the flying gently caress did they remove the F1 screen Jake, fix your game
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sighnoceros posted:What does everyone think about Combat Protocol? I used it pretty effectively in my first (abandoned) campaign, nice to finish off a near dead enemy or clear an overwatch preventing you from moving to a good flanking position. I didn't even upgrade my gremlin but I imagine it doesn't get too strong. Is giving up Medical Protocol worth it? Maybe only if you're going to run 2 specialists on your team? I wish it worked like the other gremlin abilities and didn't end your turn. Combat Protocol is a godsend, I barely ever get panicked or disoriented but absolutely need to finish things off all the time.
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Medical Protocol is the one that lets you use medkits at range  I'm all for giving up Revival for Haywire because stunning/hacking enemies is amazing and you can always just carry someone home. But I think not being able to heal at range would be brutal.
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You will wish you had revival protocol when someone falls unconscious. Frankly I think I'm always gonna have to run two specialists just because both paths of the tree are insanely useful.
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Internet Kraken posted:You will wish you had revival protocol when someone falls unconscious. But then you're not running two Grenadiers!
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Internet Kraken posted:You will wish you had revival protocol when someone falls unconscious. Every character has just straight up died in my games
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I can see the utility of Combat Protocol, but Medical Protocol has saved my rear end a couple times. I'm gonna combine it with Field Medic for a one-man healing-at-a-distance badass.
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sighnoceros posted:Medical Protocol is the one that lets you use medkits at range Oh whoops I was thinking of recovery protocol or something then. I have one of each of those guys.
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Yeah, Combat Protocol *and* Medical Protocol are both amazing. The solution is to just bring two specialists, one who's good at zapping stuff and one who's good at healing stuff. And once you have an idea of what enemies you'll be facing you'll know better how you can get by without a medical specialist (any mission with chryssalids or vipers, for example).
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Captain No-mates posted:One more question, are adjacency bonuses still a thing in this one or can I build what I want where I want? Nope, there's no adjacency bonus. You'll want to build a Workshop in one of the two central spots though, so it'll have contact with four other rooms.
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Oh yeah, I guess once you get the Shadow Chamber you can probably drop one of the specialists depending on what enemies are around. I just always had 2 specialists in my first campaign and with everyone talking about how great grenadiers and gunslingers are I was thinking of trying to double up some others. Then throw psy ops in and it's harder to justify dragging along an extra specialist just because you want to be able to heal AND zap.
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Internet Kraken posted:You will wish you had revival protocol when someone falls unconscious. That's what I ended up doing in my first campaign win. 1 of each, plus 2 specialists. Probably could've skipped healing if I played better, though. I also clued into overwatch stuff way, way late. e: the only healing requiring enemy I've faced in my first campaign were andromedans. Rest I could've ran around without healing and I'd probably be fine.
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Combat protocol is my preferred early game skill because doing two guaranteed damage is huge. After you get a few sergeant+ level guys though I respec into medical. Medkits also don't do much in the early game since your guys tend to just die outright and you can only heal once which might not even matter if that soldier gets hit again and just dies anyway.
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For me, the late game appeal of specialists comes more from them being able to overwatch without ending their turn via aid protocol. Then with guardian their overwatches can become absurd.
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sighnoceros posted:What does everyone think about Combat Protocol? I used it pretty effectively in my first (abandoned) campaign, nice to finish off a near dead enemy or clear an overwatch preventing you from moving to a good flanking position. I didn't even upgrade my gremlin but I imagine it doesn't get too strong. Is giving up Medical Protocol worth it? Maybe only if you're going to run 2 specialists on your team? I wish it worked like the other gremlin abilities and didn't end your turn. I tend to go for combat protocol instead of medical, since my main thoughts on tactics is 'don't get hit, and then you don't need to heal'. Combat protocol does scale as you upgrade your gremlin, towards the end it does I think 6 dam, increasing to 10-12 vs mechanical enemies. My late game specialists are mainly there to use haywire protocol. On the other hand, I saved one mission by chaining stabilisation protocol into revival protocol, which let my downed sharpshooter get up and kill a bunch of enemies and a gatekeeper, so there's that I guess. EDIT: For those posters who wonder where all their luck for hacking went, it's me, I got it all. Fangz fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Combat Protocol also completely ignores armor, so against high armor targets that haven't been shredded yet it can be one of your most powerful attacks.
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Welp, I think I'm gonna take a break. I just lost a mission because a reinforcement deployment got called down in the middle of my group, and Every. Single. Shot. missed. I set up overwatch with all my guys first, every one of those missed. Then I used a grenade first move next turn to blow up their cover, and take flanking shots on the enemies. Every single of those flanking shots missed, at 75-90% hit chance each. Then the two stun lancers knocked two of my dudes unconcious. Edit: I mean, at this point it's not even strategy.
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Fangz posted:EDIT: For those posters who wonder where all their luck for hacking went, it's me, I got it all. You bastard.  Second campaign isn't lucky with hacking nor continent bonuses, but I got like 6 free power and 1 free comm relay from resistance popups so I can't complain.  And this is from the first campaign. Being able to poo poo out heavy armor instantly saved my rear end in the first Avatar fight.
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LordNat posted:There is a downed UFO mission that can pop. I think it is a alternate/rare version of the Supply Raid mission. That mission was my introduction to Sectopods.
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Fangz posted:I tend to go for combat protocol instead of medical, since my main thoughts on tactics is 'don't get hit, and then you don't need to heal'. Combat protocol does scale as you upgrade your gremlin, towards the end it does I think 6 dam, increasing to 10-12 vs mechanical enemies. My late game specialists are mainly there to use haywire protocol. I agree with this line of tactical thinking except for that the overwatch stuff for the medical side of the tree is pretty amazing as well. With what I know now and looking at the skill trees you could make a pretty amazing overwatch monster specialist by choosing: Combat Protocol, Haywire Protocol, Scanning Protocol, Covering Fire, Ever Vigilant, Capacitor Discharge. Though I suppose the choice between Ever Vigilant and Guardian comes down to play-style...
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Broken Cog posted:Welp, I think I'm gonna take a break. I just lost a mission because a reinforcement deployment got called down in the middle of my group, and Every. Single. Shot. missed. I set up overwatch with all my guys first, every one of those missed. Then I used a grenade first move next turn to blow up their cover, and take flanking shots on the enemies. Every single of those flanking shots missed, at 75-90% hit chance each. Bring a memetic beacon.
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Guaranteed heals vs. guaranteed damage are balanced very well in this game now compared to EU/EW. I almost never bothered with healing and status effect mitigation because upgrading armor fixed that soon enough later on. It would be interesting if we could have an RNG based heal mechanic possible as an item. EW had it in a sense with genetic mods, but randomly getting an extra bit of health you didn't count on similar to how weapon mods work would be a good touch.sighnoceros posted:What does everyone think about Combat Protocol? I used it pretty effectively in my first (abandoned) campaign, nice to finish off a near dead enemy or clear an overwatch preventing you from moving to a good flanking position. I didn't even upgrade my gremlin but I imagine it doesn't get too strong. Is giving up Medical Protocol worth it? Maybe only if you're going to run 2 specialists on your team? I wish it worked like the other gremlin abilities and didn't end your turn.
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Fangz posted:Bring a memetic beacon. This is early in the campaign, I don't have that yet.
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Insert name here posted:XCOM 2: bought it thinking it was fps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1pyJxcETmc
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I should get around to building the proving ground and the skulljack one of these days.
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Is there an arc thrower equivalent? Come to think of it, can you even take aliens alive in this one?
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Have this great bug going on in a retaliation mission where a Berserker stomped on screen, did the cinematic with shaky camera, and the camera has stayed shaky. Makes even mundane actions seem overdramatic as hell
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necrobobsledder posted:Guaranteed heals vs. guaranteed damage are balanced very well in this game now compared to EU/EW. I almost never bothered with healing and status effect mitigation because upgrading armor fixed that soon enough later on. It would be interesting if we could have an RNG based heal mechanic possible as an item. EW had it in a sense with genetic mods, but randomly getting an extra bit of health you didn't count on similar to how weapon mods work would be a good touch.
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PantsBandit posted:Is there an arc thrower equivalent? Nope gently caress em
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PantsBandit posted:Is there an arc thrower equivalent? The new XCOM takes no prisoners 
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