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Revitalized posted:Is there a way to have the rookie pool only pull from the Import Character list initially? Yes, in the config folder, DefaultGameData.ini, change the line InitialSoldiersCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_Mixed to InitialSoldiersCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_PoolOnly Oh and for buyable recruits you should add the line: RecruitsCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_PoolOnly - might not work if the game needs more options than you have characters in your pool.
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RBA Starblade posted:I lied the plasma caster is the shittiest power weapon. It's cool looking but that's where the fun stops. I tried messing with the cone of attack on the the wrist weapons but nothing ever sticks.
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Mar 5, 2016 19:23
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Dexanth posted:Does the 'Assorted Loot' scan simply not work? Every time I complete it I check my inventory and I've gotten nothing. Never works for me either. Grenade+ammo does, assorted loot never does.
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Mar 5, 2016 19:31
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GoneWithTheTornado posted:Modding it so that squad size progression goes from 6 to 8 instead of 4 to 6 and generally increasing enemy count to a high enough degree might help out in ironing out the difficulty curve to make more bearable in the beginning and more interesting in the late game. I want a mod that starts at 8 squad size but then reduces down to 6 squad size 
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Dogen posted:Never works for me either. Grenade+ammo does, assorted loot never does. I think I got a plasma caster from that my last campaign. It's how I learned it's garbage. The game's really a lot harder when you don't get shredders, shredstorms, or blaster launchers. Please give me more cores XCOM 2.
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Mar 5, 2016 19:33
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Total honesty required. First relatiation on legend, is there any reason not to skip it entirely? You lose some supplies and absolutely nothing else right...
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Mar 5, 2016 19:42
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MorsAnima posted:Total honesty required. First relatiation on legend, is there any reason not to skip it entirely? You lose some supplies and absolutely nothing else right... Yes, skip it if you think you're gonna lose soldiers.
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Mar 5, 2016 19:47
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MorsAnima posted:Total honesty required. First relatiation on legend, is there any reason not to skip it entirely? You lose some supplies and absolutely nothing else right... Well, it affects your income, yeah, and will continue to affect your income for all subsequent months, which will eventually add up. Also: it'll have faceless to kill and turn into mimic beacons. Which are really necessary on the harder difficulties because they save your rear end from multi-pod activations and other such bullshit. Your call. If you don't have enough good troops to pull it off...
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Mar 5, 2016 19:47
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gently caress this pussy poo poo, you get out there and kill those xenos, even if it means you drown them in your own goddamned blood.
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Mar 5, 2016 20:06
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RBA Starblade posted:I think I got a plasma caster from that my last campaign. It's how I learned it's garbage. I think 'Heavy Weapon' is different than 'assorted loot' - the latter gives you weapon mods / PCS stuff, and it's the one that doesn't seem to work.
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Mar 5, 2016 20:07
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Speedball posted:Well, it affects your income, yeah, and will continue to affect your income for all subsequent months, which will eventually add up. Also: it'll have faceless to kill and turn into mimic beacons. Which are really necessary on the harder difficulties because they save your rear end from multi-pod activations and other such bullshit. IIRC there's no faceless on the first retaliation, which means you lose maybe 25 supplies per month and that's it?
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Mar 5, 2016 20:12
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MorsAnima posted:IIRC there's no faceless on the first retaliation, which means you lose maybe 25 supplies per month and that's it? you're pretty wrong, I thinkg, the first Retaliation is when the faceless first show up. There's a cutscene showing them and everything. e: unless that's a concession SOLELY for Legend mode, which seems odd.
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Mar 5, 2016 20:15
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Monathin posted:you're pretty wrong, I thinkg, the first Retaliation is when the faceless first show up. There's a cutscene showing them and everything. Ahhh poo poo. I had it in my head that they didn't show on retaliation #1 and I've skipped it. Who even needs cheese beacons anyway 
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Mar 5, 2016 20:19
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On Legend difficulty, the first 2 retaliations will both have 2 facelesses. You need 4 corpses for your first Mimic beacon, 1 for research and 3 for construction (on Legend, it's 2 on lower difficulties). So with that and the experience you can get, you should probably not skip the first retaliation, though I generally play them to lose and just slowly overwatch creep the map. VV That's weird, was sure I needed 3 for construction the other day, but the gamefiles back you up and like you said, it takes 2 retaliations anyway. Autsj fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Mar 5, 2016 |
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Mimic beacons only cost two corpses on legendary actually but it still means you have to finish the first two retaliations to get your first.
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Autsj posted:On Legend difficulty, the first 2 retaliations will both have 2 facelesses. You need 4 corpses for your first Mimic beacon, 1 for research and 3 for construction (on Legend, it's 2 on lower difficulties). So with that and the experience you can get, you should probably not skip the first retaliation, though I generally play them to lose and just slowly overwatch creep the map.
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Mar 5, 2016 21:59
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On my first run. Been watching a lot of beaglerush and playing a lot of EW, so I picked veteran difficulty. Savescummed a few times, but have been trying to avoid the urge. Anyways, is the first UFO attack mandatory? I was nowhere near it when the attack happened, and it's been proving to be pretty tough. Also, what advice can be given for those missions?
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Basic Chunnel posted:I'm nearing a first finish of XCOM2 and while I recognize that it's a really cool game with legs, I'm not seeing myself play it all that much again, because it's currently unoptimized (Hopefully all that can be fixed!) but more because it definitely feels rife with what was pointed out earlier by some game designer on his blog, the "snowball effect" of either getting your rear end kicked at the start and never recovering, or kicking rear end and kicking rear end forevermore. In this game I've been kicking rear end on normal difficulty to an insane degree (savescumming rarely beyond glitches or deceptive UI or cursor slip mistakes) and I'm going into the endgame with maybe 18 colonels and 6 full magus psychics and 10k+ supplies and every item in the game. Yeah, up the difficulty and see if you still have the same experience. I'm nearing the finish of my first Commander run and the difficulty curve stayed pretty even throughout the majority of it. Steam says I've got nearly 50 hours into the game and I would say that at least 35 of that is this campaign and I'm only just now, on the last half dozen missions or so, getting to the point where I'm 100% confident in my team's ability to handle anything that gets thrown at them. It has gotten easier but I wouldn't say its "easy". A late game Avenger defense got pretty hairy and the RNG can lead to some oh poo poo moments with even the most solid tactics. I have pretty much stopped needing mimic beacons to get through the majority of missions, though. I'd say that in my game the difficulty spiked in the very beginning and again in the late mid game when I started getting multiple pods of Andromedons, Codices and Archons. I think what happens is that people seem to forget the dozens of hours of challenging gameplay from early game through late-mid game (at least on Commander or Legendary, maybe Veteran is really easy? idk) because the last bit of the game lets you gently caress around for as long as you want to level people, stuff rookies into the psi tanks and drop elerium cores into the proving grounds slot machine. Maybe the best way to fix that difficulty curve drop off in the end is to force people to complete the story missions to stall the doom clock after taking down x number of blacksites? That one developer guy had a couple of good ideas, too, but I don't think those would actually change much of the late game. Jake Solomon had mentioned something about changing the way the Advent timer works so you can't ride it indefinitely.
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Mr Tastee posted:On my first run. Been watching a lot of beaglerush and playing a lot of EW, so I picked veteran difficulty. Savescummed a few times, but have been trying to avoid the urge. The one where you get downed? It won't happen every game (but will happen on most of them). It's also pretty random when it occurs. It can happen early, or super-late in the game. If you have a ranger with Phantom, keep them in concealment while the rest of your troops weather down the first aliens. Once you've cleared the first couple pods, use the scout as a point-man. Try to push forward quickly but carefully, until you spot the beacon. Squadsight snipers are your friend also. You get 6 troops initially, even without any upgrades, and reinforcements will keep coming out until you have 10 soldiers. But enemy reinforcements will also come in frequently, eventually arriving every single turn. It's a tough mission, but you only have to do it the once.
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RBA Starblade posted:I think I got a plasma caster from that my last campaign. It's how I learned it's garbage. Yeah that's the heavy weapon one where it's like a rusted out tank or something. There is one that just says assorted loot and is like a dude sitting by a campfire who claims to have worked with xcom in the first war. Must be a traitor since it says he gives you stuff but it doesn't make it into the inventory.
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many johnnys posted:The one where you get downed? It won't happen every game (but will happen on most of them). It's also pretty random when it occurs. It can happen early, or super-late in the game. You can be shot down multiple times in a campaign. Ask me how I know.  Actually the second time was stupid easy because the target started within range of blaster launchers. I didn't even have to leave the ramp.
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Mar 5, 2016 22:37
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Deuce posted:You can be shot down multiple times in a campaign. Ask me how I know. Shiiit
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Deuce posted:You can be shot down multiple times in a campaign. Ask me how I know. Awww yis. Also how?
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Deuce posted:You can be shot down multiple times in a campaign. Ask me how I know. bradford is one hell of a crack pilot huh
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I avoided getting shot down on my first campaign, but second time around on Commander I got nailed in either the first or second month, which was great because I'd rushed mag weapons. For the cost of a few injuries I got a promotion for nearly everyone that ran down the ramp. This game seems like it's a little more finicky than the first one in terms of activating pods. Either that or I just completely fell out of practice. I think it's the fact that there's more time limits, I always feel rushed and push ahead even when I shouldn't. I like the time limits, though. What I really hate are the survivor counts on the reprisal missions. Saving six survivors is a huge pain when they start shooting them from basically turn one.
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Dinictus posted:Awww yis.
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CapnAndy posted:A Dark Event puts a UFO on your tail, also the aliens will just launch one sometimes.  I'll keep that in mind.
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Mar 5, 2016 23:11
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Donald Trump is now a voice pack. Two voice packs, actually. It's kind of surprising how well his lines fit 
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I just got attacked by a ufo for the second time this run, but when I clicked evasive maneuvers, the Avenger actually shook the ufo. I was actually a little disappointed because I had an upgraded defense matrix and wanted to see how it performs.
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Dr Christmas posted:I just got attacked by a ufo for the second time this run, but when I clicked evasive maneuvers, the Avenger actually shook the ufo. I was actually a little disappointed because I had an upgraded defense matrix and wanted to see how it performs. I evaded a UFO four times before I got shot down my first campaign. I wonder what the odds are to evade. I just sort of assumed they were really high.
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Dexanth posted:I think 'Heavy Weapon' is different than 'assorted loot' - the latter gives you weapon mods / PCS stuff, and it's the one that doesn't seem to work. It worked for me in my current campaign. Got a weapon mod and a PCS.
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Dinictus posted:Awww yis. InfinityComplex posted:bradford is one hell of a crack pilot huh  That's how!
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The only thing I don't like about the UFO chase thing is that you have no real control or options to do with it. It's seemingly random as to whether it detects you or not and there's no options for your evasive maneuvers or anything it's just completely hidden RNG fuckery. Like the game doesn't have enough visible RNG fuckery.
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Melanion posted:Did you do exactly the same actions in exactly the same order after the reload? I'm fairly sure hacking has a randomization element tied to the seed system just like shots.  )SynthOrange posted:I suspect x2ed has a memory leak because the load times to start it up keep getting longer and longer with each edit, currently approaching 5 minutes on my current work session and operations inside it also take much longer. :|  RBA Starblade posted:So that's where the Gollop Chamber comes from. How does he feel about the remakes in general? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8zZsecTRfM Dinictus posted:Awww yis.
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Taffer posted:It worked for me in my current campaign. Got a weapon mod and a PCS. Did you see if they were in your inventory?
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My ini edits aren't working. I saved them through notepad ++ and they worked with mods in my second veteran run, but not applying at all to my commander run. This also includes the increased soldiers mod, it's just not being applied.
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Basic Chunnel posted:Is there a mod set at this early juncture that balances the swingy power curve out somehow? This is the mod I use -- partially because it allows you to play indefinitely, partially because playing indefinitely means you always have a chance to come back. Rather than removing the Doom Clock from the avatar project completely, it just makes it so that all the progress pips are assigned to facilities, and none (other than the initial 3, which can be undone by story missions) to the generic "avatar project" source itself. As a result, the avatar project never builds up to a point where it can't be stopped -- if you were to take out every facility at once, it'd be back to 0. These alien facilities build and upgrade a little more often, but being able to always hold it off means it's much easier to claw your way back up from a huge setback if you need to. If you wanted to combine this with cheaper rookies you basically always have a chance to push on, so there's always a chance to fight back. I don't think it really helps the snowball effect in reverse, though. If you're steamrolling too hard it won't do much.
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malhavok posted:Is exp just per kill or does the enemy type matter? Per kill. Behind the curtain, there is no 'xp', only 'kills' and 'kill assists' which are worth a quarter kill.
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RBA Starblade posted:So that's where the Gollop Chamber comes from. How does he feel about the remakes in general? Honestly, the worst thing about XCOM 2 is that there is no equivalent Gollop Chamber in this one.
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