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BlazetheInferno posted:So uhh, question before I head into what I assume is the second-last mission. No, you get to pick the next squad from every soldier you have, including these and wounded. Also they might carry over some bonuses, my specialist brought over concealment he never broke
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Feb 10, 2016 13:13
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How early should I research magnetic weapons? It takes a while to research, and the upfront cost in supplies in pretty steep, but it's also a significant upgrade to weapons.
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Feb 10, 2016 13:14
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For fucks sake. My second ranger ALSO got lightning reflexes from the AWC :/
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Feb 10, 2016 13:16
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After going through the early game twice I think my early game research priorities in the future are going to be body armor, then mag weapons, then Faceless autopsy as soon as I have three Faceless corpses around. I'd prioritize armor over weapons simply because the health boost is huge considering every random ADVENT rear end in a top hat can one-shot a rookie and upgrading all weapons takes a lot of supplies, which early on are in short, well, supply.
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Feb 10, 2016 13:17
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Out of curiosity, since Dropbox doesn't let you see any sort of download count, I'm wondering if anyone's d/l'd my G.I. Joe's in the OP, and what they think?
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Feb 10, 2016 13:24
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Sjonkel posted:How early should I research magnetic weapons? It takes a while to research, and the upfront cost in supplies in pretty steep, but it's also a significant upgrade to weapons. Earlier the better. None of the autopsies come close to giving you the same benefit and the story advancement projects can all be put off for quite a while. Weapons/Armor research in this game is even more useful than in EU, since you don't need to build multiples in order to equip your squad, just the research followed by one upfront payment and the improved gear is unlocked for everyone from that point on.
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Feb 10, 2016 13:28
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Pomp posted:this omen bodes ill hurrah for savescum! Also, does anyone know where to edit the pool of perks you get through the AWC?
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Feb 10, 2016 13:31
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toasterwarrior posted:hurrah for savescum! On that topic, is there a mod yet that makes the chance to receive an AWC perk 100%? Kind of a bummer having to sideline my favorite Ranger because she didn't get a lucky with the RNG at levelup.
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Feb 10, 2016 13:35
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Skippy McPants posted:On that topic, is there a mod yet that makes the chance to receive an AWC perk 100%? Kind of a bummer having to sideline my favorite Ranger because she didn't get a lucky with the RNG at levelup. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=620586407&searchtext=awc
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Feb 10, 2016 13:38
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Skippy McPants posted:On that topic, is there a mod yet that makes the chance to receive an AWC perk 100%? Kind of a bummer having to sideline my favorite Ranger because she didn't get a lucky with the RNG at levelup. I kinda wish I could put a person in for AWC training, maybe for ~75 supply and 10-15 days. Heck, if you want to make it limited for balancing reasoning, just have it consume some of these extra Codex brains, I've got loads and noth9ing to do with them (I think). Perhaps they have encryption keys/one-time-pads for advanced sim training, I dunno.
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Feb 10, 2016 13:42
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Zomborgon posted:I kinda wish I could put a person in for AWC training, maybe for ~75 supply and 10-15 days. Heck, if you want to make it limited for balancing reasoning, just have it consume some of these extra Codex brains, I've got loads and noth9ing to do with them (I think). Perhaps they have encryption keys/one-time-pads for advanced sim training, I dunno. TBH, I kinda wanted to disable the AWC since having soldiers with useless perks on them just kills me. Yeah, I'm being a baby about it but whateverrrr
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Feb 10, 2016 13:44
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Oh. So every soldier is supposed to get an AWC perk, but they don't always because of a bug? Figures.
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toasterwarrior posted:TBH, I kinda wanted to disable the AWC since having soldiers with useless perks on them just kills me. Yeah, I'm being a baby about it but whateverrrr I feel like the pool of genuinely useless perks is small enough that this isn't a huge deal. I mean, even something like Blast Padding on a Squadsight Sharpshooter or Salvo on a Specialist isn't useless, just situational. Not everything can be Serial Rangers!
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Feb 10, 2016 13:45
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Skippy McPants posted:I feel like the pool of genuinely useless perks is small enough that this isn't a huge deal. I mean, even something like Blast Padding on a Squadsight Sharpshooter or Salvo on a Specialist isn't useless, just situational. The only useless thing is probably the aim bonus on hunker down from snipers. Rest, you can always find an use for. I got run&gun on my 'nadier, and even with salvo there are times when you can utilize it to move around AND then go introduce advent to a hiex nade.
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Feb 10, 2016 13:49
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Salvo on any class that's not Grenadier just means they get to shoot their wrist mounted Shredder and then their real gun. I guess it's too situational on an actual sniper because the rifle takes two actions to fire but on a Gunslinger? Shred a crowd of aliens, which destroys cover and armor, then hit Face-Off. Getting Salvo as bonus perk means getting first dibs on EXO/WAR suits  My other gunslinger got the one that gives you a bonus move when you kill a guy. Implacable? It encourages risky play, but it's fun to run into a risky flanking position, start unloading with the pistol, then walk away like a boss. The straight up best I got so far is chain-shot on a Ranger though, because at shotgun ranges the -15 aim matters very little and double firing the shotgun is amazing against some of these sacks of hitpoints. That's not even situational, that's just Rapid Fire. If I got Lightning Reflexes on a Ranger I'd just retrain from Shadow Step into Shadow Strike or something. Most of the time when there's only one enemy overwatching, triggering and forcing a miss is more convenient for the rest of the team than just not triggering overwatch. I only see enemy Overwatch in like 3 specific situations: MECs frequently overwatch when coming off a transport, people who are on fire and can't use skills may occasionally just hit overwatch, or an Archon is using Pinions and all his buddies go into overwatch to be dicks about it. That last one is the only one where I'd prefer Shadowstep over Reflexes on a character, and at this point in the campaign it rarely comes up. Psykmoe fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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Feb 10, 2016 13:51
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Skippy McPants posted:Oh. So every soldier is supposed to get an AWC perk, but they don't always because of a bug? Figures. It feels to me like they shouldn't get a free perk, but that is a thing I can live with honestly.
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Feb 10, 2016 13:57
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Skippy McPants posted:Oh. So every soldier is supposed to get an AWC perk, but they don't always because of a bug? Figures. Yeah, if you train up a rookie after building an AWC, they're guaranteed to get a perk from it. Otherwise, there's a very good chance they "missed" their AWC perk level. I'm tempted to install this because my favorite Ranger was at Captain rank before I managed to build an AWC and I don't have a lot of faith that he's going to nab a free perk in the remaining two levels. But also, I'm extremely hesitant to install any mod. This guy seems pretty sure that if you install the "load without mod" mod if you need to turn this one off and/or it gets pulled from the workshop, your save will load fine, but I really don't want to throw away a promising campaign (or roll it back to before I installed the mod) if I can help it. I'll probably do it though, and then things will gently caress up, and I'll emptyquote this post later.
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If anyone among us is a talented god at writing UC script, then it would be great if you could take a look at this. I will expand my Hidden Potential mod over the next days, but Eladdv202 on the Nexus forums is already working on a remake of "Not Created Equally" and we are kind stuck about getting the random rolls for Rookies working again. The Xcomgamestate_unit.uc has this though: quote:function RandomizeStats() This is probably how the original Second Wave option worked. Now the question is how to get that function working for Rookies.
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Lunethex posted:There's a mod on the workshop now that makes the AWC retroactive so everyone will get their hidden perk no matter what. This is the first XCOM2 mod I downloaded because how that works is dumb and screws every soldier I currently have out of it.
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Skippy McPants posted:Oh. So every soldier is supposed to get an AWC perk, but they don't always because of a bug? Figures. Not really a bug, but I understand what you're saying. I want to believe that they wanted to make training new soldiers worthwhile in order to make sure they get the perks, but this is a pretty silly way to go about it.
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Sekenr posted:Is there some weird trick to get a lot of alien alloys? I can't research or build anything Local opportunity event and the Black Market. This assumes spending time scanning for a reward or spending your intel, respectively.
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This is a really good game. It seems like the resource management is not nearly as much of a concern in this one though. Maybe I was traumatized by Long War and forgot what the vanilla EW was like, but I seem to remember being strained for resources pretty regularly. In 2 I almost never encountered that. Coming into the game blind on commander/iron man, supplies and intel were the only things that occasionally bottlenecked. Intel stopped being an issue as soon as the skulljack was available, and the black market completely takes care of supply shortages because of the abundance of elerium and fragments. I regularly sold 200-300 worth of resources and never came close to running out. I think having the weapon/armor tier upgrades occur squad-wide is the source of it. There's just not enough expenses to put pressure on your stocks if you're regularly completing the optional missions. Not really a big deal though. It's overall a great improvement over an already top-tier game. Already got my little video game weiner hard as heck for mods and expansions.
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Final mission: So the Mind Control you get isn't permanent, huh? Well, that's a reload. I guess at least I finally saw a Gatekeeper outside of its pokéball. Wizard Styles fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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 *kills off every black metal celebrity he can think of*
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Wizard Styles posted:Final mission: Haha! It's funny how many of the late-game enemies whose abilities you never get to see, because letting them survive past the point of contact basically counts as a mission failure. I still have no idea what the hell Sectopods do in this game, other than soak up a ton of damage.
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Fat Samurai posted:Not really a bug, but I understand what you're saying. I want to believe that they wanted to make training new soldiers worthwhile in order to make sure they get the perks, but this is a pretty silly way to go about it. It seems like it would have made more sense to have every existing soldier either just get one or get one on the next level up. As it stands I only had one soldier get a perk so far. I'll wait until someone hits max level to see if anyone else gets one and if not I'm flipping on that mod (because I'm still concerned about save corruption).
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Skippy McPants posted:Haha! It's funny how many of the late-game enemies whose abilities you never get to see, because letting them survive past the point of contact basically counts as a mission failure. That's why hacking and domination is fun, all the abilities with none of the downsides.
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Feb 10, 2016 14:28
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Why do I sometimes have one plasma grenade on my grenadier and sometimes more? On this mission right now I have 2 gas grenades and 1 plasma. Is it tied to the placement of the grenades in the loadout?
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Feb 10, 2016 14:33
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Azazell0 posted:Why do I sometimes have one plasma grenade on my grenadier and sometimes more? On this mission right now I have 2 gas grenades and 1 plasma. Is it tied to the placement of the grenades in the loadout? Yeah. Grenadiers have that one skill that turns their utility slots into a dedicated grenade slot, and grenades slotted in it get an extra charge.
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That's what I thought. The equipping of various grenades is sometimes quite cryptic, with all the "you can only equip one grenade" error messages. I gotta try to switch them to the 3rd slot.
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Wizard Styles posted:Just imagine having Bone Wheels in this. Please do not mod Bone Wheels into XCOM 2.
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Azazell0 posted:That's what I thought. The equipping of various grenades is sometimes quite cryptic, with all the "you can only equip one grenade" error messages. I gotta try to switch them to the 3rd slot. FractalSandwich fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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QuantaStarFire posted:Please do not mod Bone Wheels into XCOM 2. An enemy that could melee you and then runaway on the same action would be pretty cool actually.
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QuantaStarFire posted:Please do not mod Bone Wheels into XCOM 2. Stun lancers are basically bonewheels
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Wizard Styles posted:Just imagine having Bone Wheels in this. The Nito Project is nearing completion Commander!
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Y'know, XCOM 2 got a lot easier once I realized that I was playing like a stupid idiot and not like a smart person who doesn't suck at XCOM 2. Though I am still a bit salty about my so-far-only death this campaign. Ended up pulling two pods during a supply raid, one of which was four sectoids and a viper. Sniped the viper, killed all but two sectoids. One of them mind controlled one of my specialists. The next turn? Every shot against the mind-controller missed, and so my specialist proceeded to flank my other, higher-level specialist and crit him to death. Broken Cog posted:Stun lancers are basically bonewheels I hate Stun Lancers so much. It's like they exist to suicide-charge into my group and make sure I don't get out of a mission without someone taking 2 damage and becoming gravely wounded. Harrow fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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Skippy McPants posted:Haha! It's funny how many of the late-game enemies whose abilities you never get to see, because letting them survive past the point of contact basically counts as a mission failure. I'm a little disappointed with Sectopod v2.0 tbh. EU sectopods were much scarier with auto-overwatch and the giant fusion laser cannon they could fire twice for splash damage and cover destruction. I've never seen the new ones fire their doom cannon because you can just stasis or hack them first. Watching them kool-aid their way through walls will always be great though.
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Harrow posted:I hate Stun Lancers so much. It's like they exist to suicide-charge into my group and make sure I don't get out of a mission without someone taking 2 damage and becoming gravely wounded. The only time they've ever hurt me was when they realized they have guns (something I did not) and they just shot my grenadier in the face. I know the pain train's coming but it's been derailed for now. Incidentally if they do stun someone do they get up on their own or do they need to be revived?
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RBA Starblade posted:The only time they've ever hurt me was when they realized they have guns (something I did not) and they just shot my grenadier in the face. I know the pain train's coming but it's been derailed for now. If they get *Stunned*, they're just out for a turn or two. If they get knocked unconscious, they're out for the rest of the mission unless you can revive them.
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