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Brainamp posted:Counterpoint: Avoid using mods your first time around. It's apparently pretty easy to gently caress up your saves with them, so just play vanilla once to be on the safe side. That's not really an issue with the official example mods, though, just with new user-made ones that might change filenames around or otherwise break things mid-campaign. The three LW-team mods fit seamlessly into the game. SMGs are well designed visually and fully moddable, and fit right in. The new heavy Mutons are a nice mid-game enemy variant, and the leader skills at least give you something to do with your B-team and perk facility once you've bought most of the stuff you need.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:06
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I'd like some more elite variants on the basic aliens. Once you start getting gate keepers and stuff every mission you kinda miss the tactical relevance of vipers and sectoids and stuff, yet there's a room for them in the endgame that just isn't getting filled by the enemies that replace them.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:09
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Megasabin posted:I'm not even making it far enough where decisions like that come into play. Like I'm squad wiping with character who have only level up once. The fights are basically me in high cover vs. aliens in mid-high cover, and the aliens are just hitting more of their 50-70% shots than I am. Panic is consistently ruining my runs, as I feel like everytime I eat a shot, another solider panics, which starts a really bad downward spiral. I'm using grenades, flashbangs, and cover. Don't just trade fire from cover to cover. Try never taking a shot that's less than 80%.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:11
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Motherfucker posted:I'd like some more elite variants on the basic aliens. Once you start getting gate keepers and stuff every mission you kinda miss the tactical relevance of vipers and sectoids and stuff, yet there's a room for them in the endgame that just isn't getting filled by the enemies that replace them. Agreed. Some more mid/late game variants to keep every enemy type active would be an improvement. Perhaps a poison spit attack on Vipers, or more directly aggressive psi powers on Sectoids? Have them visually distinct from the regular variants, of course.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:12
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02-6611-0142-1 posted:Don't just trade fire from cover to cover. Try never taking a shot that's less than 80%. I think I just need to work on flanking more. When I have my greandes I generally do well, but after I've used them, then I do find myself doing cover to cover fights. I think I'm adverse to aggressive flanking maneuvers, because the first few times I've done them, I've ended up activating another pod.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:15
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Dominic White posted:Perhaps a poison spit attack on Vipers, or more directly aggressive psi powers on Sectoids? Have them visually distinct from the regular variants, of course. Vipers already spit poison! If they fail a tongue grab or can hit like 3 people at once with it, they'll do it.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:17
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Count Uvula posted:Vipers already spit poison! If they fail a tongue grab or can hit like 3 people at once with it, they'll do it. Haha, I've never seen them try it. They're always either shooting or tongue-grabbing. Guess it's because I tend to spread my squaddies out, especially after getting royally boned by grenades a couple times.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:19
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I don't know if better enemy variety would solve much, considering the tactics to blow poo poo up doesn't really care if the plan is to kill them before they get a turn. I think the AI would be interesting if it was more like Xcom 1 where they retreat a lot more and go into overwatch. The only times I really see overwatch are the commander mechs when they see my units.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:19
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I'm a tad disappointed with enemy variety too, though maybe its just the fact that it feels like ADVENT make up 75% of the enemies you face.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:26
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What are the consequences of ignoring council missions?
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Feb 13, 2016 06:34
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BlazetheInferno posted:Okay, random thought. To go along with this "increased squad size" mod, how might I go about increasing the size of the initial pool of rookies from the paltry *8* to something a bit more reasonable? Keeping in mind this will be my first time ever editing the files of a game like this Anyone got an answer for this? I'm holding off on my next campaign until I can start with more than 2 soldiers that aren't part of the initial mission. =\
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Feb 13, 2016 06:36
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Dominic White posted:Haha, I've never seen them try it. They're always either shooting or tongue-grabbing. Guess it's because I tend to spread my squaddies out, especially after getting royally boned by grenades a couple times. I've seen them spit poison one turn, and then tongue-coil the next so they were squeezing out a poisoned soldier for 3 HP/turn. Away all Goats posted:I'm a tad disappointed with enemy variety too, though maybe its just the fact that it feels like ADVENT make up 75% of the enemies you face. Once I got through about halfway I had missions where only one pod out of the 3-4 I'd see on a mission would have ADVENT. Later on the "boss" aliens become more and more prevalent. Of course there were still plenty of missions that were almost entirely ADVENT, but on average the split would eventually become 50/50 after a certain point it felt. The penultimate mission literally had 0 Advent on it for me. It honestly got to the point where I was happy to see Advent because most of the time they're so much easier than the full-on aliens. Yes the Elite Trooper may have more HP than a Sectoid, but even the Elite's version of the trooper's AI is very basic/dumb since all he's got is a gun and maybe a 1/4 chance to have a grenade. I think the worst pod I got was one with a single Muton and 2 Andromedons. Sure a Sectopod or Gatekeeper is probably a bigger threat than an Andromedon but there's something about an enemy that basically transforms from effectively an Elite Muton when you kill it into a full health Robo-Berserker that kinda terrifies me.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:37
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Feb 13, 2016 06:39
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Tenzarin posted:Got guardian on a heavy and holo targeting on a ranger, pretty nice. I just got the vaunted Rupture Sniper. 
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Motherfucker posted:I'd like some more elite variants on the basic aliens. Once you start getting gate keepers and stuff every mission you kinda miss the tactical relevance of vipers and sectoids and stuff, yet there's a room for them in the endgame that just isn't getting filled by the enemies that replace them. There's a mod for a bigger badder muton that might interest you. It's made by the Long War guys and looks real high quality: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=577474474
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Odobenidae posted:There's a mod for a bigger badder muton that might interest you. It's made by the Long War guys: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=577474474 As far as I noticed the Centurions really didn't do much besides have more HP/armor. Of course that alone is dangerous enough at times. Besides, I basically considered the Andromedons to be the "elite" version of Mutons: with more health, armor and attack and a nastier "grenade" attack (that can be used on a cooldown instead of just once), oh and that then become Berserkers when you kill them the first time.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:54
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Kin33 posted:About 3/4 through my 2nd campaign and I've NEVER had a VIP extract mission that wasn't possible. Some have looked very daunting but I play vanilla commander/ironman so I had to suck it up and they proved very doable. Like I start one corner, VIP is opposite corner, and extract in a third corner yet I still managed to make it with a turn to spare. does will actually do anything for them? i didnt notice when i was messing with it
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Feb 13, 2016 06:56
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Will is purely defensive, Psi is actual attack.
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Motherfucker posted:I'd like some more elite variants on the basic aliens. Once you start getting gate keepers and stuff every mission you kinda miss the tactical relevance of vipers and sectoids and stuff, yet there's a room for them in the endgame that just isn't getting filled by the enemies that replace them. The Alien Hunters DLC is almost certainly going to have this.
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I think the complaints about the difficulty are related to the fact that Firaxis did actually interesting things with soldier abilities now, versus very static and non game changers in EU/EW. I agree that it errs on the side of easy once you understand what's going on, but as this thread shows not everyone gets to that point. Also at least I feel that the 'internal' balance of classes feels good. I never once felt any of my soldiers was too strong, aside from my Psi-op, and the soldiers I thought are awful countless people have said are amazing. That's a pretty good balance at least. I think a lot of us also realize that we are used to playing LW which is by design harder than EW and had different design goals. While they cribbed some stuff from LW, they still have their own vision. If we want to see real fire fights the game does need LW's soldier health changes, in terms of armor interacting with wounds and the bigger pods and better cover. Maybe not a bigger squad size just because your base classes are so effective/interesting. For challenging someone like Beagle I think you have to do the insane mods he did, because he's so good. It's getting to be like world class raiders vs normal mmo players or something.  (I am legit sad we don't see upgraded aliens in the base game because they are the interesting enemies.) E: I also feel it's very important to point out the soldier classes are so much more FUN this time around. And that's important to keep. (Again except sniper for me because drat it I miss Double Tap.) Eimi fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Sorry if this was posted earlier and I missed it: In a world where killer aliens battle deadly special forces, one Commander will rise to lead the humans to victory... by constantly reloading his save file. (I won't tell if you don't.)"
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MisterBibs posted:Sorry if this was posted earlier and I missed it: I'm amazed this isn't some sort of conflict of interest.
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Speedball posted:I'm amazed this isn't some sort of conflict of interest. Except it's not a review or even remotely considered as journalism?
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Feb 13, 2016 07:39
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Yeah, all that is is a brilliant bit of stunt casting.
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I thought those honest trailers just got someone who could do a good imitation of trailer voice guy. I didn't realize it was trailer voice guy.
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Odobenidae posted:There's a mod for a bigger badder muton that might interest you. It's made by the Long War guys and looks real high quality: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=577474474 Yeah thats the mod that made me wonder why they didn't have more mid range aliens I mean they come on strong with psionics in that the most basic alien, sectoids, are throwing out insanity right off the bat but than... nothing? Not till gate keepers and avatars do you find other psychics and its like 'wheres my midgame?' I mean I only saw one berserker in my entire campeign ever, but I'd like for an armored melee powerhouse enemy in the endgame that isn't 'three archons', also andromedons don't count because their melee only opens up when they stand next to a dude for a turn. I'd argue elite sectoids should have solace and elite vipers should use poison ammo. Motherfucker fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Elliotw2 posted:The only difference between a faceless and a civilian is that the faceless don't run away if an alien walks through their rescue circle. This is wrong, even if it is a whole bunch of pages back. I had a faceless run from a pod that included an instant overwatch MEC. It triggered the overwatch as a civilian and was promptly revealed as a faceless with 1 hp left due to the overwatch shot.
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Feb 13, 2016 07:52
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In general I probably saw more Archons than I did Mutons my entire play through
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Feb 13, 2016 07:54
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Bolow posted:In general I probably saw more Archons than I did Mutons my entire play through SO MANY, I'm sick to gently caress of archons
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Yeah psionics in this game are kind of weird on the enemy side, lacking any sort of midgame presence. Unless you count the codexes teleporting and void rift. I feel like the enemy variety is better than EU where it was basically the same poo poo on literally every mission, with some enemies being relegated to permanent boss room duty. Also I feel like the late game enemies have nastier tricks compared to what the EU enemies could do, aside from Ethereals who were bullshit. I really miss mechtoids and cyberdisks though. Its also weird that they made an advanced version of every advent unit but none of the aliens get upgrades. Vipers could easily remain annoying throughout the entire game if they got a survivability boost. Bolow posted:In general I probably saw more Archons than I did Mutons my entire play through Archons are pretty much the only reason I didn't use bluescreen rounds over other ammo mods. At some point it felt like those assholes were the basic soldiers and dealing with their constant dodging was infuriating.
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I don't care about any of this poo poo, because in the rest of humanity, this game runs like serious rear end, and the turns take too GODDAMN long
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Feb 13, 2016 07:57
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Fargin Icehole posted:I don't care about any of this poo poo, because in the rest of humanity, this game runs like serious rear end, and the turns take too GODDAMN long yyyeah this too. I'm lovin' it of course but it needs some patches, also let me skip some poo poo because I am sick to gently caress of having my controls wrenched away so we can talk about loving trains again.
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The fact that the hack screen (and excavation!) takes a few seconds to cancel is my latest pet peeve. Ugh what a horrible design.
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Motherfucker posted:I mean I only saw one berserker in my entire campeign ever They're a terror unit like Chryssalids for some reason. I guess because Andromedons just straight up take their place in normal missions?
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dyzzy posted:The fact that the hack screen (and excavation!) takes a few seconds to cancel is my latest pet peeve. Ugh what a horrible design. Right? Especially when you gently caress it up and its like "OKAY gently caress YOU AND gently caress OFF OUT OF MY FACE RRRAAA"
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Feb 13, 2016 08:09
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Yeah I saw maybe two berserkers total before they disappeared completely. I do think Mutons get an upgrade somewhere along the timeline, I definitely remember seeing "Advanced Muton" in the shadow chamber sneak peeks that appear when you check out a mission.
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Supposedly berserkers are terror units like faceless and chrysalids but I only saw them on one terror mission. They never appeared again after that mission, unlike chrysalids and faceless which become staples of terror missions once they are introduced. They also have dark events associated with them so you might see them in other missions. So I guess the game needs a dark event where ADVENT will drop a berserker right in the middle of your squad on a random turn.
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I just had the  moment to beat them all. The game told me I had 103% chance to crit a Trooper.One-hundred-and-three percent. It failed to crit. The next mission after that ended like this:   "Some men are put off by Bleeding Caverns...Not me though!" "Just so long as they don't care about your Successful Shot percentage, right?"
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Unfortunately, it appears that dominating a codex is not a viable way to get one for easy skulljacking. Very sad, I'd love to see it throw itself onto my Omniblade. e: ...Unless you extract the Psychic, ending the domination. Zomborgon fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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