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Obama 2012 posted:What is the optimal strategy for radio towers? I've thus far stuck to building them in every other territory just to keep Intel costs down, but with the income increase they give I wonder if it's not better to spam them everywhere all the time. Diminishing returns on them, build one every two regions.
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Radio towers get more expensive the more you build. I generally build enough for the continent bonus and that's it.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:01
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Fangz posted:Radio towers get more expensive the more you build. I generally build enough for the continent bonus and that's it.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:05
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CapnAndy posted:On my last game I was eventually staring at 2000+ supplies in the bank with literally nothing left to build but scrapping for every bit of intel I could get, so I say build 'em every other territory. Never pay more than 60 intel for a contact, intel is simply much more valuable than supplies. Eventually, sure, but the game is lost and won in the short run.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:11
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I build a radio tower in regions connected to 2 uncontacted regions OR if the next region over would cost more than 60 intel.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:15
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My Grenadier and Specialist both got run and gun last night and it's a very special time for me.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:15
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Liquid Penguins posted:I get 20 fps in xcom 2 but Wizard Styles posted:Does this game have some issues with Intel CPUs? Because I have an AMD processor in that range and a GTX 650, and I can run the game at nearly max settings. xcom EU didn't have problems because they stuck to stock unreal engine graphics and aimed down for consoles. xcom 2 looks much nicer, I especially like the PBR surfaces which are key for making all the shiny & glossy armor stuff look real this time instead of looking like plastic action figures like in EU. but it was made by firaxis, they're not out there looking for john carmack level engine guys.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:18
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peak debt posted:One cool thing about swords: being out of LOS also procs shadowstrike as well, as was discovered during a beaglerush stream. still doesn't fix blade rangers with the stock damage swords but it's helpful
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Feb 23, 2016 01:23
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Thanks you for whoever pointed out that the Advent armor makes a great t3 replacement.  STRIKE FROM THE SKIES BATTLE BROTHERS! 
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Feb 23, 2016 01:26
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Captain Gordon posted:And dont forget that you can just drop an evac zone on a flanked/out of cover dude and get the hell out of dodge even after you have already spent 2 actions. gently caress me I keep forgetting to do this. I should try it more often. I'm constantly teetering at not having enough dudes in my army in this run. I'm doing slightly better financially but I didn't have quite enough scientists, so for once I had to build a laboratory to make the ones I did have more effective.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:27
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Magni posted:So if we treat the bios in the Developer charater pool as canon, Advent actually banned beer. Yeah. Now I want someone to make some Prohibition-era styles of clothing and hats so I can deck out my squad in them Oh man that sounds great right now
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Feb 23, 2016 01:34
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How exactly does Ironman work? EU/EW Ironman saved automatically after the start of each player turn. I heard this game saves the moment you input any action on a soldier. The difference being that in cases of buggy bullshit (and, I assure you, only in cases of buggy bullshit) I could force close the game in EW and start my player turn fresh. But if this game saves after every little thing I'd have to live with whatever teleporting-pod cover-not-in-the-AoE-still-exploding etc. bullshit the game might spit out. And I do not want that, sir, I do not.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:38
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SuperKlaus posted:How exactly does Ironman work? EU/EW Ironman saved automatically after the start of each player turn. I heard this game saves the moment you input any action on a soldier. The difference being that in cases of buggy bullshit (and, I assure you, only in cases of buggy bullshit) I could force close the game in EW and start my player turn fresh. But if this game saves after every little thing I'd have to live with whatever teleporting-pod cover-not-in-the-AoE-still-exploding etc. bullshit the game might spit out. And I do not want that, sir, I do not.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:41
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I haven't tried Ironman myself, but I've heard some people saying that if you alt-f4 out of the game immediately, you can prevent an action from being saved in the event of like, a misclick.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:43
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Klyith posted:turn off msaa when I said I got 20fps I meant after turning off msaa :V 1080p as well, nothing too crazy. I think nvidia might need to fix something on their end as well.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:48
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Pakled posted:I haven't tried Ironman myself, but I've heard some people saying that if you alt-f4 out of the game immediately, you can prevent an action from being saved in the event of like, a misclick. It saves at the start of your turn, if you alt-f4 anytime before the Aliens Turn completes you will load at that earlier point. Exiting out normally has the save at the exact point you hit Exit. Basically the Auto save for Ironman works the same as for non Ironman but instead of using a 3 turn rolling save with a Strategy Layer save it just keeps one save overwriting whenever the save would normally trigger.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:50
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That's actually not how it works. It saves at the beginning of every player turn, and if you quit through the menu or load a game it saves before doing so. But if you Alt-F4 it skips that and you can roll back to the beginning of your turn, even if you misclick or whatever. edit: beaten, yeah it works like Madhat and pakled say, not like CapnAndy says. Dallan Invictus fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Feb 23, 2016 01:51
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Man what the gently caress. Defend transmitter missions are impossible now. The thing is 2 sprints away, andromedon hits it every turn kills it in about 4 turns, 2 pods in between me and the objective. I think this mission is actually impossible. I even made it up to the andromedon pod and threw a mimic. The andromedon charged the transmitter killing it. That's not challenging that's cheap.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:54
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Liquid Penguins posted:when I said I got 20fps I meant after turning off msaa :V Do you have MSAA forced on in the nVidia driver configuration panel? I banged my head on that one for a few hours 
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Feb 23, 2016 01:55
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Klyith posted:being out of LOS also procs shadowstrike as well, as was discovered during a beaglerush stream. Hang on, that works if you slash from around a blind corner? In general, I'm a big fan of shadowstrike for phantom conceal Rangers. Overwatch is easy to counter this game if you fling HE everywhere. shadowstrike is a way for me to go up and delete any mob I want, easy to get 100% hit and crit chance if a mob flanks itself. Funnily enough, I haven't really used run and gun even when it's a great ability, I value the scouting and flexibility of a phantom conceal Ranger. My loadout this run has been 1 of each basic class, 3 grenadiers, of which one gets replaced by a psi ops once they have stasis and domination. Don't need a run and gunner to flank and shotgun crit if they end up flanked by plasma grenades.
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Shadowlz posted:Man what the gently caress. Defend transmitter missions are impossible now. The thing is 2 sprints away, andromedon hits it every turn kills it in about 4 turns, 2 pods in between me and the objective. I think this mission is actually impossible. I even made it up to the andromedon pod and threw a mimic. The andromedon charged the transmitter killing it. That's not challenging that's cheap. I had to restart a transmitter mission once because of that. Lategame aliens dont gently caress around and if it spawns far enough away you're doomed. 
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Phobophilia posted:Hang on, that works if you slash from around a blind corner? Yep, even though (obviously) you have to move to someplace where you can be seen in order to stab them.
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Hey at least it wasn't the defense boost
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Feb 23, 2016 02:24
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Is using the Retroactive AWC mod unbalanced and cheaty?
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poo poo. Well, is it a mission where you can harvest the bodies at least? Then you get something for your trouble. I notice on some missions if I take too long securing the objective reinforcements get called in. Seems to depend on the mission type. Other times, reinforcements get called in because I secured the mission objective (rescuing a VIP) and now need to get the hell out of there. On blacksites and alien facility missons, reinforcements seem to always pour in whenever I kill all the targets in the base, but also whenever I plant the X4.
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Gridlocked posted:Is using the Retroactive AWC mod unbalanced and cheaty? No. Literally all it does is make your first couple soldiers as strong as later soldiers, if they're unlucky enough to overlevel their AWC ability before you build it.
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At a certain point in the game, reinforcements are just more meat for the grinder
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Gridlocked posted:Is using the Retroactive AWC mod unbalanced and cheaty? I'm using it and don't really feel that way. It just lets you keep your original soldiers and not feel like they're gimped just for being with you at the start.
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Speedball posted:On blacksites and alien facility missons, reinforcements seem to always pour in whenever I kill all the targets in the base, but also whenever I plant the X4. I was able to evac off the roof of a facility and leave the newly-dropped reinforcements for the explosion. The cutscene made me happy, but I really wanted to see bodies go flying. Dogen posted:At a certain point in the game, reinforcements are just more meat for the grinder Watching units get dropped into an overwatch kill zone also makes up for some of the RNG bullshit in this game.
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Just finished my first full campaign on Veteran, zero losses, only 3 missed flawless missions in total, and I think 2 of those were the final missions because I only remember loving up one along the way. The final mission was basically carried by my Ranger who rapid fire double crit not one but 2 Avatars. Rapid fire has to be up there with the best abilities in the game, because it just does an absolute gently caress-ton of single target damage whenever and where ever you need it.
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Right now my A-team (indeed, my only team ) is a pistol sharpshooter, a medic specialist, a hacking specialist, a phantom/shotgun ranger, a grenadier and a psi ops. Is there much reason to change from that? I'm feeling like dropping the medic specialist and taking a second psi ops might be good because holy poo poo those dudes, but what do you all think of team comps? I'm on merely Veteran so I guess it doesn't matter much, but I like learning 
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Ciaphas posted:Right now my A-team (indeed, my only team If you are save scumming at all then a medic is completely unnecessary. The last mission was the only one that I took any damage on, but even then I was able to work around most of it to the point I didn't lose anyone (although it was close). I ran my entire veteran run with the same squad: 2 grenadiers (both explosives focused), 2 Rangers (one of each full tree to test things out), 1 combat specialist, and one full sniper sharpshooter. I got some sweet AWC rolls along the way so that Sniper had Serial as did the Bladestorm ranger. I was pretty late on getting my Psi Ops, only having 1 for the final missions. Looking back getting 2 early is probably a game changer, since a good pair of dominates will break a lot of missions wide open. Mazz fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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I like missing out on 'flawless' missions because my mind controlled/hacked minions took damage (or were employed as suicide murder troopers/parked on top of poximity mines for lancers and things to chase)
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Honestly I think a medic would be FAR more useful if the healing done by him negated the injury time applied at the end of the mission. Right now a medic seems useless since he won't stop the game from loving you over with healing time regardless of what he does. Better off just slotting another full offensive dude in there and killing things faster.
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I'm of the other opinion. I feel not having a medic is bad enough that you always want one. I've tried hackers and their best ability is Combat Protocol. I just like that security blanket. I guess Scanning Protocol has some utility on retaliation missions, but 4 heals, revive, and the ability to save a bleeding out soldier without losing 2, (one carrying them to evac) is amazing. Also Revival Protocol deals with unconscious or other control poo poo. And its not like a medic misses out on the overwatch goodies. Basically I feel medic is not as guaranteed to be useful, but when you don't have a medic and you need it, you will feel its loss much more than not having a combat hacker.
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So why is it that all the localized voices haven't been made into a voice pack yet? Would be nice to have some asian/nonwestern europe voices. Or am I assuming too much that localization was done outside of western europe?
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Revive Protocol is just stupidly important in this game, also being able to stabilize from a distance. I had a character get knocked unconscious at the beginning of a mission today, didn't have anyone who could revive so welp I guess I'm a soldier down! Combat Specialists just can't compete with that in my eyes.Obama 2012 posted:What is the optimal strategy for radio towers? I've thus far stuck to building them in every other territory just to keep Intel costs down, but with the income increase they give I wonder if it's not better to spam them everywhere all the time. I've waited to finish doing radio towers until I see a region bonus that I really want. Don't feel like I've ever really been that short on supplies doing it that way. PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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I started using Scanning protocol more often and it makes setting up ambushes and avoiding springing pods you dont intend to way better.
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I put AP on my Shredder Gunner for whenever I see a single target with huge HP+Armor. Open with that and your shots bypass all that armor, PLUS they get shredded so the rest of your squad can gently caress them up. Edit: I go Hybrid Medic... skip Revival for Haywire, then take the Overwatch stuff. With Aim PCSes, they can be beastly. My main beef with injuries is that armor doesn't compute separately like in the first game, so even if you only took a few grazes to drop you less than what armor gives, you still end up in the sickbay. There's a mod that tries to fix this but the side that made it changed other poo poo too. loving feature creep. 
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