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Operation Brutal Misery is an amazing name for a retaliation mission. Good work Bradford.
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We haven't even seen the limits of what strategic options will be available to us, as within the next 6 months we'll have more DLC with extra weapons and a new character class.
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Feb 11, 2016 07:14
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Shen's last gift: Ultra-SHIV.
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Pomp posted:how do i get blaster bombs Research Powered Armor, then there's the powered weapons option in the proving grounds where you roll for a random weapon with the blaster bomb being one of the options. It's a fun upgrade to the rocket launcher, and it and the shredstorm cannon are probably the two best heavy weapons you can get from the proving grounds.
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SynthOrange posted:Shen's last gift: Ultra-SHIV. The ENFORCER
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SynthOrange posted:Shen's last gift: Ultra-SHIV. Little Shen notes in one of her reports that she is appalled by the idea of fully autonomous robots and would never create such a thing. Did nobody tell her about SHIVs?
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Internet Kraken posted:Little Shen notes in one of her reports that she is appalled by the idea of fully autonomous robots and would never create such a thing. One of Shen's musings aboard the Avenger is that she wanted to integrate the Gremlins with ADVENT MECs to create autonomous troops, but didn't want to bring it up with Tygan or Bradford until things calmed down
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I just picked this game up...does it seem a little bit unbalanced to anyone that the aliens get to move, and then possibly move and attack as soon as you see them? Is there a mod that fixes this or am I just supposed to play super cautious? Kind of hard when all the missions have a timer. Maybe this has been beaten to death and I'm late to the party but I don't remember the first new XCOM being quite so unforgiving.
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BeefThief posted:I just picked this game up...does it seem a little bit unbalanced to anyone that the aliens get to move, and then possibly move and attack as soon as you see them? Is there a mod that fixes this or am I just supposed to play super cautious? Kind of hard when all the missions have a timer. Maybe this has been beaten to death and I'm late to the party but I don't remember the first new XCOM being quite so unforgiving. It uses the same system as EU/EW: Enemies get to do a single move when they are revealed, usually into cover. If they are revealed on your turn they will get to have a full turn on their turn. If they are revealed on their own turn they will only get their move into cover.
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BeefThief posted:I just picked this game up...does it seem a little bit unbalanced to anyone that the aliens get to move, and then possibly move and attack as soon as you see them? Is there a mod that fixes this or am I just supposed to play super cautious? Kind of hard when all the missions have a timer. Maybe this has been beaten to death and I'm late to the party but I don't remember the first new XCOM being quite so unforgiving. If you activate aliens on your turn, they all get to run to cover. Exploring new tiles after youve already moved half your squad is generally a bad idea. Your best bet is to move everyone up one move, then cautiously advance a second move, keeping everyone behind the first unit. Always stay in cover, but low cover isn't that great. Explosives are your friend. Blow up everything. If aliens patrol into you on your turn they scatter but don't shoot, although I did have aliens patrol into me and shoot me on one mission and I don't know why.
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Protip: If you haven't mind controlled a Big Daddy and hacked a Sectopod by turn 3 of the final mission you're doing it wrong
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khy posted:Shredder vs Blast Padding is super difficult to decide. They're both just so very, very good. Shred is better but blast padding can be super useful in the early game So far I've been making my first grenadier get blast padding and go with shred for everyone after that. The survivablility helps me get an experienced grenadier earlier. The only thing that makes me doubt that shred is better is when you take blast padding and give a grenadier exo armor it suddenly stacks enough to be really survivable.
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Not a Step posted:If aliens patrol into you on your turn they scatter but don't shoot, although I did have aliens patrol into me and shoot me on one mission and I don't know why. Apparently they have a chance to take a shot when they patrol into you to discourage setting up Overwatch traps that the enemy walks into. Also apparently rushing mag weapon research is kind of bad because you don't have any alloys to build the mag weapons with yet. 
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BeefThief posted:I just picked this game up...does it seem a little bit unbalanced to anyone that the aliens get to move, and then possibly move and attack as soon as you see them? Is there a mod that fixes this or am I just supposed to play super cautious? Kind of hard when all the missions have a timer. Maybe this has been beaten to death and I'm late to the party but I don't remember the first new XCOM being quite so unforgiving. What this means in terms of gameplay is you usually want one or two units to move up first (using only one action, so they can fire or retreat if necessary), as a forward scout. Then when the enemy is spotted, you can move the rest of your team into position and attack. You don't often want to explore too much into the fog after you've already used up a unit or two, or risk activating more pods. Kin33 posted:Stocks don't work with killzone either. Kind of a bummer. 
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Feb 11, 2016 07:34
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khy posted:Shredder vs Blast Padding is super difficult to decide. They're both just so very, very good. Blast Padding sounds good...and it's not bad to be honest. It's a straight up, passive "this unit takes less damage from all attacks and espeically from explosions". It's just as you go on you find that 1 armor really isn't much. Especially compared to the 4-5 enemies can sport. And when you first look at that choice you haven't seen any armor at all. The problem is as you go through the game you start running into more enemies with more and more armor and you start wishing you'd have taken Shredder because as amazing as grenades are for shredding armor, even a Grenadier is only allowed to carry three.
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Blast Padding would be significantly better if there were more items that provided armour. Assault biotanks in Long War were obscenely powerful due to damage reduction; I one stuck one out in a room full of a dozen aliens and they took less than half their health in damage. Though armour can be shredded in Xcom 2, there's still a niche for a very tanky soldier who just soaks alien fire like no one's business. Problem is, of course, that far from diminishing returns, you get increasing returns the more armour you have. If there were enough sources for your grenadier to get 5 or 6 armour that'd be one thing, but as is there is not. The other thing is, of course, that injuries don't work the same way they do in EU/EW. Because damage to armour still results in injury time, the utility of a heavily up-armoured tanky unit is significantly decreased. To make blast padding competitive you'd have to increase the amount of armour available from other sources so you could obtain a meaningful amount in the endgame, and ensure injury timers only trigger if you take health damage, not armour damage.
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^^^^ I like extended mag and scope. Nothing sucks more than missing an early 90% shot during serial clean-up duty. Extended mag + auto-loader does let you serial into killzone effectively though. Idk when you'd ever need that much aoe firepower though.Not a Step posted:My favorite sharpshooter rolled shredder, which made me sad because I reserve him for clean up with Serial and Killzone. Armor busting is for grenadiers. My gunslinger sharpshooter got Implacable, which makes her badass at killing and then fading back into cover. My shredder sniper was a great opener combined with a grenadier and a phantom ranger. Ranger finds the pack, sniper kllzones a pack, grenadier grenades the pack. Specialists and psi ops clean up anything that remains which is usually nothing. Kin33 fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Not a Step posted:In the very early game 1 armor can knock a few days off the wound timer though, which can be huge in terms of accumulating ranks and having experienced grenadiers available for missions. Blast padding helps get your squads snowballing. Mid to late game definitely swap it out for shredder though. The AWC is the best thing. I had a soldier take two damage and get gravely wounded. Just accept that your people are gonna stay a while in the hospital and hire a few more.
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Yeah, recovery time doesn't seem to relate to the amount of damage the soldier actually took in any meaningful way. I had a guy get chunked down to 1 HP and come out merely wounded, another lady take two damage and get gravely wounded, and a third person take 4 damage and get lightly wounded in the same mission.
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Kanos posted:Yeah, recovery time doesn't seem to relate to the amount of damage the soldier actually took in any meaningful way. I had a guy get chunked down to 1 HP and come out merely wounded, another lady take two damage and get gravely wounded, and a third person take 4 damage and get lightly wounded in the same mission. It absolutely does relate, it's just that (especially in the early game) the die roll ends up mattering more than the exact amount of damage you take. If you take 1 damage on a mission, you will on average come out with less wound time than someone who took 4 damage, but that's just an average and there will be cases where the soldier who took 1 damage gets unlucky and vice versa.
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oswald ownenstein posted:Everyone gets 'gravely wounded' at the slightest damage This just happens to me on eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeery difficulty.
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Not a Step posted:In the very early game 1 armor can knock a few days off the wound timer though, which can be huge in terms of accumulating ranks and having experienced grenadiers available for missions. Blast padding helps get your squads snowballing. Mid to late game definitely swap it out for shredder though. The AWC is the best thing. Scopes are the best weapon mod and sharpshooters tend to need them more than the other classes. If you fail your first shot against a crowd of aliens it's a crisis but if you run out of ammo after killing six there probably isn't anyone left to shoot.
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Broken Cog posted:Whyyyyyyyy can troops panic from taking normal damage? Because they're been shot/mauled/sliced by a terrifying alien being. In my experience it's only when a mission is already going slightly pearshaped.
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Broken Cog posted:Whyyyyyyyy can troops panic from taking normal damage? Because  I'm not sure how this is even a question.
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Does healing your troops reduce recovery time at all? I do it anyways if I have any turns left in a mission or if it's not timed at all.
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Microcline posted:Scopes are the best weapon mod and sharpshooters tend to need them more than the other classes. If you fail your first shot against a crowd of aliens it's a crisis but if you run out of ammo after killing six there probably isn't anyone left to shoot. Just picked up a sweet +3 ammo magazine from the blackmarket. 6 shots at +15% aim should clear a room pretty effectively. Im hoping I get a laser sight by the time I get a beam sniper.
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Odobenidae posted:Does healing your troops reduce recovery time at all? I do it anyways if I have any turns left in a mission or if it's not timed at all. Wound time is based on the lowest health your soldier reached during the mission. So taking damage, healing them up, then taking more damage will mean less wound time than if you didn't heal them in the middle. But if they don't end up taking any further damage, it doesn't make a difference.
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Odobenidae posted:Does healing your troops reduce recovery time at all? I do it anyways if I have any turns left in a mission or if it's not timed at all. Its based on the lowest health they had during the mission.
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I'm too stubborn to go down to Veteran difficulty, but Commander is loving brutal early game  I wish you could be a bit more creative with concealment stealth. It's satisfying as hell to get that ambush, but with timed missions you have to do it with the first pack you see. It'd be nice to be able to choose your battles and infiltrate behind their lines.
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after I finish my current commander game I'm gunna try an ironman veteran campaign, once the first patch is out. Figure that the added difficulty of ironman will offset the lowered combat difficulty.
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So that Advent event that adds additional faceless to your missions apparently never goes away. I chose another event and even though that month(?) has now passed I'm still seeing two faceless every mission. Is this on purpose or am I hitting a bug or does it last longer than 1 month?
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I was so proud of myself for never having to learn what a Gatekeeper can do since I always saved a Stasis on any mission that has a big horrible end game monster listed. Tonight I found out what a Gatekeeper can do  ps gently caress burning pinions. here is my 'pinion, it is rude to demolish the entire rooftop I am using as cover
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early game advice on commander you want to lean on grenadiers a bunch due to cover destruction and guaranteed damage. give the others flashbangs, as they keep sectoids from panicking your dudes and are generally helpful. other roles get useful later, but an extra grenade with more range and radius is far more immediately useful than the other class skills. smoke grenades are helpful early as well. disoriented foes shooting into smoke will have a hell of a time doing damage. don't bother taking shots with less than 65% chance to hit unless you're freeing someone from a viper or something. throw something or overwatch. get the guerrilla training school up asap, as getting extra people to deploy with is very helpful, as is the ability to train rookies into more grenadiers (never, ever deploy a rookie if you can help it). after that, clear the middle square in floor two and put a workshop there and upgrade it; the supplies you will get from clearing rooms will pay for itself, and you really want a lot of engineers fast as that's a lot of free supplies to harvest in your ship. and don't hoard supplies, spend them. lategame advice: psionics. don't take one, take as many psionics as you can. chain stasis foes. laugh. then die of boredom after your nth "most fired upon: --" mission completion. Tiler Kiwi fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Strong Sauce posted:So that Advent event that adds additional faceless to your missions apparently never goes away. I chose another event and even though that month(?) has now passed I'm still seeing two faceless every mission. Is this on purpose or am I hitting a bug or does it last longer than 1 month? I'm pretty sure you can get multiple faceless anyway after the first retaliation. I've certainly had a few instances of that and I haven't had that dark event.
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Broken Cog posted:Whyyyyyyyy can troops panic from taking normal damage? Have you ever played Call of Cthulhu?
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Anyone know if it would be possible to mod the game to show the rolls when shooting, as you do with hacking?
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