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Thanks for all the input. I ended up getting Hard West and figured what the gently caress, I'll get Darkest Dungeon, too, had some money left on a gift card. Looks like between the two of them I'll have what I'm looking for.
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3Romeo posted:Thanks for all the input. I ended up getting Hard West and figured what the gently caress, I'll get Darkest Dungeon, too, had some money left on a gift card. Looks like between the two of them I'll have what I'm looking for. Sure, it's not bad. I reckon it would've been better though if you had something more open ended with a decent sized squad of bandits or something. The Magnificent Seven of XCOM.  (Edit: maybe they even have that if I had stuck with the campaign, I certainly never got there though)
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So, in the interest of dressing up my space barbies the best to kill aliens when the expansion hits, what are some of the better mods out there for customization?
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Maluco Marinero posted:Sure, it's not bad. I reckon it would've been better though if you had something more open ended with a decent sized squad of bandits or something. The Magnificent Seven of XCOM. Or is it Sputnik fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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Captain Theron posted:So, in the interest of dressing up my space barbies the best to kill aliens when the expansion hits, what are some of the better mods out there for customization? capnbubs is the gold standard, titanfall gear has some interesting options, there's a new prosthetics mod out that's pretty cool I have far too many of these to do off the top of my head, so I'll fill in a big list later
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the titanfall stuff looks more appropriate for resistance soldiers than the default armour imo
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Jul 24, 2017 12:55
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Oh i think there's some really detailed Halo armor sets if you're into that
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Any good dress up packs for lategame gear? Most of them seem like they work best for T12/t2 stuff and those tiers, especially T1, has the most vanilla variety on top of that. I don't even mind the aesthetic of Warden armor, I just want more variety.
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Captain Theron posted:So, in the interest of dressing up my space barbies the best to kill aliens when the expansion hits, what are some of the better mods out there for customization?
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Ravenfood posted:Any good dress up packs for lategame gear? Most of them seem like they work best for T12/t2 stuff and those tiers, especially T1, has the most vanilla variety on top of that. I don't even mind the aesthetic of Warden armor, I just want more variety.
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Mr. Grumpybones posted:I like to put face-covering masks on my dudes so I don't have to see their stupid grins after successful missions. It's worth noting that there's now a mod that lets you replace arms and legs with prostheses. Might suit your need to tear off arms!
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The mod that adds praetor armor from Doom 2016 is good. There is a mod that adds Cerberus armor from Mass Effect but it is really low quality textures designed to look good with a very particular visual mod, but looks garbage on its own.
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The hi-def XCOM 1 armor models are the best. The one variant of the Titan Armor looks awesome.
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I think its really weird that you guys wanna wear trash to beat up aliens. We are men not raccoons
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There's a Sneak Suit mod and a Section 9 mod that are really good even if you don't care about their source material
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I dress everyone like GI Joe, the LW2 classes fit them perfectly.
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I like to dress my boys up in either the colors on their country's flag or Third Street Saints colors.
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After burning out on LW2 some months ago (like so many others have said, some of the ideas in that mod are great, but they're buried under a mountain of grognard-y bullshit), I decided to give A Better Advent a go. I'm having fun with it, but I do have one (relatively minor) complaint: I never get to see what some of the new enemy types do. It's cool that they've included a variant of the berserker called a firestarter, but my brain translates "firestarter" to "shoot this motherfucker first!"
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So I've been streaming a vanilla campaign of XCOM 2 with the DLC to kill some time with some goons from the Star Citizen thread and while it has been going pretty well I plan to keep playing and want to improve. Currently we're playing on commander mode and while I have restarted a mission or two because I usually end up pretty hammered toward the end of the session, we haven't made any super serious mistakes yet, I don't think. Would it be bad form to post the link next time I play to get some feed back?
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Ravenfood posted:Any good dress up packs for lategame gear? Most of them seem like they work best for T12/t2 stuff and those tiers, especially T1, has the most vanilla variety on top of that. I don't even mind the aesthetic of Warden armor, I just want more variety. Stenchfury's modular helmets and armors are really cool and good. The helmet bits let you build a lot of cool poo poo by mixing and matching with other props.
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Invisible, Inc. is also fantastic, but the emphasis is on stealth rather than combat.
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Ersatz posted:Invisible, Inc. is also fantastic, but the emphasis is on stealth rather than combat. Seconding this. I've put more time into Invisible than I have into vanilla XCOM.
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Ersatz posted:Invisible, Inc. is also fantastic, but the emphasis is on stealth rather than combat. I looked a little at this, and I'll probably get it after I finish Hard West, but right now Darkest Dungeon is really doing it for me. I guess I found out that while I like turn-based tactics, it's the  -style rng where I can easily lose some veteran dudes that I'm the most addicted to.
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I dress my soldiers in gold, silver, or garish hot pink armor depending on my mood, and then the under armor color is matched to their class (Purple for Psi, electric blue for supports, green for rangers, ect.) Stealth is optional 
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I also enjoyed Shock Tactics. It's a pretty solid take on Xcom, specifically the way it solves the timer aspect.
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Thanks for the replies, grabbed a bunch. Also seconding the Invisible Inc recommendation, it's a fantastic game.
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thank you for bringing me a chrysallid please never do it again oh whoops i burned this one Bogart fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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Bogart posted:thank you for bringing me a chrysallid please never do it again Yeah that one's the best. The entire page is more or less: "Congratulations, you now get a 10% damage bonus against Not that there aren't other jewels.
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Alkydere posted:Yeah that one's the best. The entire page is more or less: I had to look that up to share. Chief Scientist posted:I consider it prudent to preserve our captive alien specimens in case further analysis is required. The Reaper was an exception - I had it incinerated the moment we concluded our studies on it. The thought of a creature such as this breaking loose in our cramped underground facility is the stuff of nightmares.
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He also invents the internet AND sends a cat picture in one research, and then when you do the base upgrade he wonders why the soldiers and rest of the staff do not appreciate the cleaning-gel showers that were far, far more efficient than simple water. The chief scientist is basically the ultimate neck-beard (sans actual beard but you get the idea of the personality type) who would have invented Soylent if a research gave him the chance. He also makes himself a set of google glasses when you do the base upgrade.
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The Reaper report is tied with the final weapon tier research mainly because of how smug he is about outdoing Alien weapons tech, in my opinion. The accidental internet invention is a close third though.
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I feel like the specific part about engineering installing their new coffee machine right next to the Reaper holding tank doesn't get enough love.
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Isn't the research note for Mag guns basically him saying, "I could design a better energy weapon than what the aliens have, using alien material we don't have and research we can't spare, but that's dumb, alien weapons are dumb, especially when it's so much easier to design firearms that fling bullets 10x the speed of sound. I probably should of done this months ago."
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Cythereal posted:I had to look that up to share. Xenonauts really does have a lot of personality. I think the biggest shame for me is that the aliens are, aesthetically, really dull. One of the most common enemies looks vaguely like people in Christmas sweaters; every opponent (to my knowledge) is a bipedal humanoid of approximately the same size. I think the Reaper is actually the most "alien" of the bunch, but it's really not a crazy looking thing in its own right. It's funny to go from Xenonauts to something like X-Com Apocalypse, which had a zoo of veiny, pulpy mongoloids ranging from fat little "head crab" creatures to monstrosities the size of skyscrapers. Cream-of-Plenty fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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Back Hack posted:Isn't the research note for Mag guns basically him saying, "I could design a better energy weapon than what the aliens have, using alien material we don't have and research we can't spare, but that's dumb, alien weapons are dumb, especially when it's so much easier to design firearms that fling bullets 10x the speed of sound. I probably should of done this months ago."  People probably just remember it fondly because the whole idea of "Yeah we aped their tech for a bit, but in the end we just used it to make our own poo poo better than theirs" has that nice HUMANITY gently caress YEAH feel to it, even if the report itself isn't all that smug in tone.
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the report for researching a captured reaper is great. basically just the scientist going "why the gently caress would you take this into the base if it got out we would all die, anyways heres a lovely report+test we did before we incinerated it."
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3Romeo posted:Thanks for all the input. I ended up getting Hard West and figured what the gently caress, I'll get Darkest Dungeon, too, had some money left on a gift card. Looks like between the two of them I'll have what I'm looking for. With hard west, there was one part that made me give up on it (it was "ok" up until that point). It's a part where you're playing as one guy, you're ridiculously strong and by all accounts you should feel like a badass at that stage, but I got unlucky twice and it makes you do the entire first fight and cutscene again every time you die, so I refunded it. Granted I wasn't enjoying it that much anyway (nothing carries over) but that pushed me over the edge on it.
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Nordick posted:Nah, it's actually pretty sober: Huh, yeah, you're right. I swear he snarked like a motherfucker in there somewhere, maybe it was from one of that CE addon bits? 
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dogstile posted:With hard west, there was one part that made me give up on it (it was "ok" up until that point). It's a part where you're playing as one guy, you're ridiculously strong and by all accounts you should feel like a badass at that stage, but I got unlucky twice and it makes you do the entire first fight and cutscene again every time you die, so I refunded it. Yeah I didn't really enjoy that series of campaigns, I liked the weird side campaigns more.
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dogstile posted:With hard west, there was one part that made me give up on it ( Aha, but that's where you're wrong. Certain items or weapons found or developed in one mini campaign do carry over and can be purchased from the Fate Trader for a modest fee. The inventor guy's crazy weapons for example. Still, I can't fault you for not liking it if you didn't like it.
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