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ZenVulgarity posted:Nope gently caress em The best change. Capturing aliens was the worst part of EU for me.
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PantsBandit posted:Is there an arc thrower equivalent? Nope. Closest thing is the Skulljack.
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Pakled posted:Nope. Closest thing is the Skulljack. Skullfucking is not close to taking them alive!
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Feb 9, 2016 20:51
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Aww, lame. I got a sadistic pleasure out of locking up aliens in an airtight tube to be poked and zapped until they gave up their deepest space-secrets. Who's in charge now, thin man?
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PantsBandit posted:Is there an arc thrower equivalent? Dr. Vahlen is MIA, so no war crimes'ing the aliens this time around. Your new scientist is only willing to cut up their dead bodies, not torture them.
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Tygan does get a hard on over the thought of capturing a faceless though iirc
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Skippy McPants posted:Dr. Vahlen is MIA, so no war crimes'ing the aliens this time around. Your new scientist is only willing to cut up their dead bodies, not torture them. Yanno, skulljacking is really close. Still nowhere near enough Vahlen's insanity. TASTE THE PAIN!! posted:Tygan does get a hard on over the thought of capturing a faceless though iirc Yeah and Shen just goes NOPE, don't even think about it doc.
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Broken Cog posted:This is early in the campaign, I don't have that yet. I don't really know what you have so it's hard to say what you should have done instead (If you had grenades on your other dudes and we are talking about basic stun lancers, you should have strongly considered using a second grenade to kill that group), but it sounds like you were reliant on 2 out of 3-5 shots hitting, and even at 75-90% odds that isn't a safe assumption to make. Don't forget that stun lancers have dodge also, so your actual chances of killing those dudes is lower than that, even. EDIT: Not saying you weren't unlucky, but you should have adjusted your plan once it becomes increasingly unlikely it would work. I mean if you are down to one last trooper trying to make an unreliable shot that would hopefully kill one of two enemies, and your first instinct is to take the shot, STOP AND THINK. Fangz fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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I love how Secotopods will demolish walls walking around even if you're in an ADVENT facility and you haven't come out of concealment yet.
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* Tygan goes to check on the Faceless they have in containment * "Oh, commander, how'd you get in there! What a mix-up" * Shen smacks Tygans hand before he can hit the release button. The Faceless stops pretending to be the commander and has an exasperated look on his mush-face * Shen (with a bemused expression): "That's our Tygan!" * roll credits *
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Feb 9, 2016 20:56
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"How many times did someone who hasn't got gud killed Soylent tonight"
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Dr Christmas posted:I love how Secotopods will demolish walls walking around even if you're in an ADVENT facility and you haven't come out of concealment yet. Advent are job creators.
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So I started on commander yesterday after beating Veteran the day before. It doesn't seem much harder to me than Veteran through the first couple of months, other than the fact that the grenades are now not a guaranteed kill on the basic advent troops. Of course, at this point I have rough ideas of what build order / guerrilla missions to undertake / squad composition I want to suit my playstyle, which I didn't before. I was losing about 1 guy every other mission early, but since I unlocked magnetic weapons it's been smoother. I did have a hugely harrowing UFO avenger assault in the beginning of month 2, which was very rough, but I think really managed to put me ahead of the power curve overall, because I ended up getting 20 kills on that mission spread out among all of my guys and didn't lose anyone. Considering missions generally have only had 6 or 8 enemies at this point it was a big advantage for getting troops ranked up quick. It was relatively low risk too since you can generally overwatch like 8 guys and then the aliens come at you about one pod per turn. I was literally just using 1 guy to pull pods if necessary and then retreat, while everyone else just reloaded and overwatched or picked off stragglers.
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Substandard posted:So I started on commander yesterday after beating Veteran the day before. I didn't actually realise you got reinforcements in that, and from what everyone said about it I was terrified of being overwhelmed by dozens of enemies, so I ended up rushing the objective and did it with about 5 enemies killed.
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Feb 9, 2016 21:03
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BAH! Trying to stream XCOM2 at work from the machine that drives our video wall and has a decent GPU, but that always puts it in the foreground where everyone can see, and THAT won't work for all the obvious reasons.
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Feb 9, 2016 21:03
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Are there any news about a possible performance patch/Nvidia game-specific drivers? I would like to play some more, but I also want to have the game stop stuttering.
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Feb 9, 2016 21:03
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Elswyyr posted:Are there any news about a possible performance patch/Nvidia game-specific drivers? I would like to play some more, but I also want to have the game stop stuttering. I am 99% sure that's the game being lovely and unoptimized
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Feb 9, 2016 21:05
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Elswyyr posted:Are there any news about a possible performance patch/Nvidia game-specific drivers? I would like to play some more, but I also want to have the game stop stuttering. You bought a modern AAA game. If it ran anything but lovely on mid/high end machines it'd be a miracle.
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Elswyyr posted:Are there any news about a possible performance patch/Nvidia game-specific drivers? I would like to play some more, but I also want to have the game stop stuttering. If you haven't yet, try turning AA down a bit. Doing that and knocking textures down to medium eliminated 99% of the stuttering for me. Didn't fix the general glitchiness of the game but not much can be done about that.
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Fangz posted:I don't really know what you have so it's hard to say what you should have done instead (If you had grenades on your other dudes and we are talking about basic stun lancers, you should have strongly considered using a second grenade to kill that group), but it sounds like you were reliant on 2 out of 3-5 shots hitting, and even at 75-90% odds that isn't a safe assumption to make. Don't forget that stun lancers have dodge also, so your actual chances of killing those dudes is lower than that, even. It was my last grenade. A reinforcement group was called down when I had already taken out every other group on the map, and only had the objective left. There wasn't a whole lot else I could do. And with the overwatch shots, it was more like 8-9 shots. Edit: I'm just venting at this point.
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I set the graphics to medium and all my performance problems went away. It looks about the same to my eye as far as quality goes and the skin textures actually look better on medium for some reason.
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Hey, if your grenadier suppresses an enemy who then teleports, does that mean you don't get reaction fire on them? I'm guessing you don't, because they could just teleport somewhere out of sight, right?
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Strong Sauce posted:Does proximity mine break your guys out of concealment? When it explodes it does, but not when you throw it.
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Finished my Commander run last night. gently caress Avatars right in their loving faces.
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Christ this final mission wore out it's welcome hoooours ago, it was fun at first, but now it's such a gigantic slog.
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Kenshin posted:When it explodes it does, but not when you throw it. Yes, they magically know who threw the mine even when they're separately concealed from the rest of your team.
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So, uh, if you manage to drop a heavy enemy on another enemy's head, it does damage.
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Kenshin posted:When it explodes it does, but not when you throw it. thanks
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Dongattack posted:Christ this final mission wore out it's welcome hoooours ago, it was fun at first, but now it's such a gigantic slog. The very end part annoyed the gently caress out of me
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Six grenadiers with upgraded launchers, heavy ordinance, and plasma grenades = "No, gently caress YOU, Jake."  Seriously, 18 upgraded plasma grenades is just bonkers. Huh... one stunlancer left standing with 1 hp and an 87% to hit. I don't like those odds. PLASMA GRENADE. I'm pretty sure I'm spoiling myself. I'm trying to cut back and take at least one or two other guys per mission who aren't grenadiers, just to level them up, but all the xp goes to my BOOM TROOPERS. Game is amazing. A huge step up from the first one. EDIT: I hope the complaints about the difficulty uptick and timers don't impact sales. 
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Fintilgin posted:Six grenadiers with upgraded launchers, heavy ordinance, and plasma grenades = "No, gently caress YOU, Jake." What difficulty is this? You would have to spend atleast 3-4 grenades per pack, you would run out of ammo.
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Does anyone know what was in this 631 meg patch? As far as I can tell the only change is that the game crashes now every other time I load a save
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Pipski posted:Hey, if your grenadier suppresses an enemy who then teleports, does that mean you don't get reaction fire on them? I'm guessing you don't, because they could just teleport somewhere out of sight, right? This is correct.
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Wow multiplayer looks hilarious. You can be a real rear end in a top hat with sectopods.  quote:MACHINE OF LABOUR DEFEND HARD WORKING XCOM PEOPLE AS EMBODIMENT OF GREAT IRON CURTAIN
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Tenzarin posted:What difficulty is this? You would have to spend atleast 3-4 grenades per pack, you would run out of ammo. In fairness, it's veteran. It got easy fast, but I feel emotionally committed to my team/ironman run now, so I'm going to finish it up before trying Commander again now that I know what I'm doing. 18 shots of~8 damage in a expanded radius goes a long way. You can usually get hit a whole pod at once, even after scatter. Two grenades does serious damage or kills most early/mid game stuff. Even 3 grenades a pod, that's six pods per mission that can be instantly vaporized.
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Fintilgin posted:EDIT: I hope the complaints about the difficulty uptick and timers don't impact sales. This was Firaxis' biggest launch weekend for any of their games by a huge margin if players are anything to go by, so things are looking good on that front.
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Godmachine posted:gently caress Avatars right in their loving faces. Rupture followed by Fanfire or Rapid Fire does exactly that.
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"Dragon Wagon", Bradford? You're calling the supply train raid operation "Dragon Wagon"?
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Whelp, had my first game-ending cascade failure. Avenger defense mission, and things went nearly perfect. Turn before I take out the device, Bradford gives me a reinforcement - my best Grenadier, who was down with light wounds and Shaken. No big deal though kinda not helpful, but I'm nearly done so I just have him hang out in the escape zone. Destroy the device, full sprint everyone to the exit and have those already there Overwatch from cover. End the turn with two outside the zone, and they're both half a move out - easy escape. One of the reinforcement pods that I'd been bailing from moves out of the fog and hits 3 of 3 shots on my Specialist who's in high cover and kills her. Mr. Shaken Grenadier panics, turns, straight-up murders my sniper and then runs to stand in the open field one square outside the escape zone. I make a risky (dumb) choice and decide that I can survive for one turn so I don't have to leave behind a third high-end soldier. So - everyone but him in cover, bunker down, overwatch up. First action of the alien turn? MEC comes stomping to the edge of range and artillery-grenades the escape zone. Suddenly I've got four more wounded and without cover, and three ADVENT troopers in firing position. Two turns and I've gone from a literally perfect mission with sure victory to five dead, two wounded and I now have no one over Squaddie on my entire roster that's healthy and alive. And Mr. Shaken is still panicked and won't get into the escape zone. Nice reinforcements, Bradford.
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