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upgunned shitpost
Jan 21, 2015

Dunno if it's been posted, but there's a Russian voice pack from the game files up in the workshop now.

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ssb
Feb 16, 2006

WOULD YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON A BRISK WALK? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!


jfood posted:

Dunno if it's been posted, but there's a Russian voice pack from the game files up in the workshop now.

ooooo

How is it, quality-wise? Or is it literally from the game files but wasn't enabled for whatever reason?

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



Taffer posted:

I'm turtling super hard at the endgame so that I can bring 6 psi troops to the final mission. Is this a bad idea

Ehhh...

It'll take super long, and I don't think six psi troopers have that much more benefit than three, as long as you use your Dominates well.

But psis are crazy good, and the last mission really favors regenerating specials over one use. So, it's not all bad.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
I would heavily and strongly recommend one Rapid Fire or any unit that can deal 20+ damage at once, because the last part of the final mission will drive you crazy otherwise.

Taffer
Oct 15, 2010


chiasaur11 posted:

Ehhh...

It'll take super long, and I don't think six psi troopers have that much more benefit than three, as long as you use your Dominates well.

But psis are crazy good, and the last mission really favors regenerating specials over one use. So, it's not all bad.

Well, I have 4 already. There are fewer-and-fewer missions you have to take as you take over more of the globe, so it goes kinda fast.

Tempest_56
Mar 14, 2009

Lotish posted:

Oh man Shredder on a pistolero would be great.

I got that on my current run. It's as absurd as you think it is. Nothing has any armor, ever.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
I wish I could pay someone to insert the voice clips in the mod tools because when I tried to do it, my eyes just glazed over and deleted it once I saw all the instructions just to get it running.

Psykmoe
Oct 28, 2008

Vib Rib posted:

I've never seen a vest that really looked worth it VS what could potentially go in a small item slot in its place. I guess if there was a dedicated underarmor slot?

There's one that gives the wearer 2 health regeneration per round which I found reasonably useful, but I've only even got it once now, and the other vests aren't good enough to make me comfortable gambling elerium cores on getting it.

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

shortspecialbus posted:

ooooo

How is it, quality-wise? Or is it literally from the game files but wasn't enabled for whatever reason?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YECBJsO6pls

ssb
Feb 16, 2006

WOULD YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON A BRISK WALK? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!



That's actually pretty decent sounding on its own. Maybe it's jarring in game or something. I'll give it a shot. So far I'm sticking with only Workshop mods.

eleven extra elephants
Feb 16, 2007

Menschliches! Allzumenschliches!!
Fucks sake, this game is optimized like poo poo, about 20 hours in and now every time I get a crash when trying to finish this one mission.

khy
Aug 15, 2005

Okay, that was a first.

A civilian I was not in rescue range of shifted into a faceless, then immediately walked over and slapped my grenadier for a lot of damage. I didn't think they could shift unless all other aliens were dead OR you move into rescue range?

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice

khy posted:

Okay, that was a first.

A civilian I was not in rescue range of shifted into a faceless, then immediately walked over and slapped my grenadier for a lot of damage. I didn't think they could shift unless all other aliens were dead OR you move into rescue range?
Just another tick in the 'this one thing does not act the way other similar things act' column.

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused

Does this voice pack include him screaming :byodood: GRENADA :byodood: whenever he throws a grenade? Wouldn't be STALKER without that.

khy posted:

Okay, that was a first.

A civilian I was not in rescue range of shifted into a faceless, then immediately walked over and slapped my grenadier for a lot of damage. I didn't think they could shift unless all other aliens were dead OR you move into rescue range?

Nope, if you get within in a certain range of faceless civs they always activate. Otherwise they wouldn't be much of a threat. If you ever end a turn near a civ you haven't scanned, ask yourself how bad it would be if they turned out to be a faceless. Remember that while their attacks might not hurt that much, they do destroy cover including the car you may be hiding behind.

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious
Just got a bug where a Viper dragged a soldier through fire... and when I shot them, they not only wouldn't let go of their constricted target, but they refused to return control to my squad.

Rookersh
Aug 19, 2010
what the gently caress.

Midgame, fighting a bunch of normal enemies. See an Advent Officer.

He marks my Sniper. Whatever. He then on the same turn marks my Specialist. Uh, ok. He then proceeds to mark everyone else on my team, without stopping.

Then he fires on my Sniper. Kills her. Okkkkkk.

Keeps getting turns until he kills my entire team. He just keeps repositioning himself as if the turn "ended" and then got another turn.

Did I encounter a new type of Advent Officer, or is this game buggier then I thought.

e: Like he'd move into a dash move, and settle in as if his turn was finished, and then it'd take control away from him, but then cycle back to him rather then moving to the next alien/me. Like the thing that gets the AI to change who it's using broke entirely and just gave up, so it kept giving him more and more turns.

Rookersh fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Feb 14, 2016

counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.
Finally beat the game. The only thing I was disappointed in was where the gently caress was Valen? I was 100% convinced she would be there in the end, doing experiments and interrogations for the aliens. At least we know what the DLC will cover I guess.

Also, gently caress the last level. Forever.

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
This game needs a terror from the deep expansion

The Little Kielbasa
Mar 29, 2001

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

You might like this mod, it removes the blinding flash of light animation.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=622774299

Thanks, that's really nice.

Good Lord Fisher!
Jul 14, 2006

Groovy!

khy posted:

Okay, that was a first.

A civilian I was not in rescue range of shifted into a faceless, then immediately walked over and slapped my grenadier for a lot of damage. I didn't think they could shift unless all other aliens were dead OR you move into rescue range?

One will get bored and shift every 3-4 turns if no other conditions for them to shift are met.

edit: as long as you're in visual range of him

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Does identifying a faceless via scanner force them to reveal themselves or do you still have to trigger them? Can they attack on your turn if you trigger them by trying to rescue?

Strong Sauce
Jul 2, 2003

You know I am not really your father.





Ciaphas posted:

Does identifying a faceless via scanner force them to reveal themselves or do you still have to trigger them? Can they attack on your turn if you trigger them by trying to rescue?

Yes. No. Once they are revealed they attack on the enemy's turn.

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused

Ciaphas posted:

Does identifying a faceless via scanner force them to reveal themselves or do you still have to trigger them? Can they attack on your turn if you trigger them by trying to rescue?

Triggering them with a battle scanner will cause them to reveal and advance on you as if you activated them normally. If you trigger them on your turn they don't get a move, but as soon as its the alien turn they are free to do whatever they want.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Yeah afaik they're activated by standing in their rescue zone or scanners, or having a soldier in attack range during their turn.

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


So assuming there's no battle scanners available and you're not in a crunch for civilians yet, I guess you overwatch all the time if you're anywhere near civs, yeah?

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!

Ciaphas posted:

So assuming there's no battle scanners available and you're not in a crunch for civilians yet, I guess you overwatch all the time if you're anywhere near civs, yeah?

Kill all the enemies, the faceless will appear automatically.

Strong Sauce
Jul 2, 2003

You know I am not really your father.





I just beat the game late last night of Commander.

Couple questions last mission: the first part of the network stage, did anyone just go with 3 rangers with wraith armor? Basically I went with 1 ranger 2 heavies and I probably would have died if not for my ranger ghosting to the terminal.


Also on the last mission I ended up proxy mining the gateways and at just the right time the warp-in with an avatar came in and just annihilated an entire section including draining the hero down to 1 life. It definitely saved me as I was getting low on grenades (brought 3 grenadiers) and two of my guys were getting way too low on life.

Definitely going to dominate the gatekeepers next run through.


Overall I felt the game was pretty good. I think it kinda suffers from the same thing the original EU/EW had which was the beginning was way too difficult and the end ended up being way too easy.

Getting the higher-level grenades pretty much is a guaranteed death for almost everything that is organic (~3-5 damage from incendiary grenade burns after dealing 9+ damage is insane). I barely even used mimic beacons though.

Easiest example is that faceless were immensely difficult to deal with using normal bullet weapons. Once you get to the late game one of your soldiers can easily deal with a faceless, especially since they never head for cover.

Also part of the problem with early game. If you lose one person in your 4 person squad you are probably screwed for that mission. Your team can barely deal with pods at that point so losing one of them really screws you over.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Oh hey so I found out that you dont need to rescue 6 civilians. You can just avenge them by killing all the aliens. Not a great mission success but not an outright failure. :v:

Mymla
Aug 12, 2010
This game needs a mod that replaces Bradford with the narrator from darkest dungeon.

winterwerefox
Apr 23, 2010

The next movie better not make me shave anything :(

Beat the game. Killed the last special enemy in the final mission with a 1 damage improved stock miss from my medic specialist personal character :) Dominate is the tits. Having aliens tank for you is just too good. Rarely used mimic beacons. I only built 1. Now its time to mod.

Have some fan art

Kiranamos
Sep 27, 2007

STATUS: SCOTT IS AN IDIOT

Mymla posted:

This game needs a mod that replaces Bradford with the narrator from darkest dungeon.

Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

But Not Tonight
May 22, 2006

I could show you around the sights.

Ciaphas posted:

Does identifying a faceless via scanner force them to reveal themselves or do you still have to trigger them? Can they attack on your turn if you trigger them by trying to rescue?

also, do you have to land the scanner right on top of the faceless disguised as a civ, or is it just when you toss one out?

Jintor
May 19, 2014

Peewi posted:

I've uploaded the new version of my mod


I'm pretty happy with it now and if I make any further visual changes it'd probably just be to the icons.

just wanted to say this is sick as gently caress, and thank you

BlazetheInferno
Jun 6, 2015
Well, I hope to find a way to do it properly, but for now, I've improvised by just upping my starting supplies by 100 and adding 4 extra rookies to the recruitable pool.

If there isn't a way to increase the actual starting roster of rookies already in your barracks, I will be both upset, and CONFUSED.

Vargs
Mar 27, 2010

Currently my A-team is 6 dudes in WAR suits, with 3 of those being grenadiers. Each map looks like a nuke hit it by the time I'm finished.

I've got a reaper ranger and a gunslinger in there as well, and they do a fantastic job of cleaning up all of the nearly-dead aliens that have been bombarded by explosives. It's pretty cool.

Insert name here
Nov 10, 2009

Oh.
Oh Dear.
:ohdear:

shortspecialbus posted:

Edit 2: I'm also afraid to use modular weapon upgrades because I feel they should maybe go on more advanced weapons so I end up saving them all for a later that never comes, much like how I used to end Final Fantasy 4 with 100 elixirs.
Weapon attachments automatically move themselves up to the higher tier of weapon when you get them.

ssb
Feb 16, 2006

WOULD YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON A BRISK WALK? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!


Insert name here posted:

Weapon attachments automatically move themselves up to the higher tier of weapon when you get them.

oh loving christ it could have explained that. If it did that in x-com, I forgot it, and the blurb when you attach one doesn't make mention of that. Or if it does I'm blind.

Thank you.

Mr.Pibbleton
Feb 3, 2006

Aleuts rock, chummer.

shortspecialbus posted:

oh loving christ it could have explained that. If it did that in x-com, I forgot it, and the blurb when you attach one doesn't make mention of that. Or if it does I'm blind.

Thank you.

Also you can get continent bonuses that let you swap them out and one that gives you an extra upgrade slot (higher tiers have 2 to start).

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012
So I got this from a scan.

No, that's not a character in my pool.

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BlazetheInferno
Jun 6, 2015
Tell me he came with an afro. I'm BEGGING you.

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