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Capnbub's users: The mod has apparently been updated for WOTC, but he's having trouble getting it uploaded to the Workshop. It is, however, avalaible on the Nexus: http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom2/mods/116/
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funkymonks posted:I'm sure this has been asked a dozen times. I haven't played either Xcom or Xcom 2. Which should I jump into and should I do a first run of either with the xpacs installed? XCOM EW is worth playing on its own, an can probably be found for dirt cheap.
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Internet Kraken posted:The alien hunters weapons are now tied to the proving ground Hmm. In theory there's nothing wrong with that, but I hope it's not one of those situations where the material / opportunity cost is so disproportionately high there's never a reason to bother with them.
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Slapped together a Discord channel. Think I did everything right.  https://discord.gg/yYAnAq8
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So don't be like me and assume the crappy broken down cars in the abandoned cities don't explode, because they still do. RIP rookie, died to his own grenade.
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Pakled posted:I'm pretty sure you can uncheck the War of the Chosen DLC on the Steam launch page and be able to play your old campaign. Not even, it's an option on the launcher to start vanilla, and keeps different modlists. 
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I know there was some talk of buffing SPARKs. Did they include a buff to their hack score? Because it's kind of hilarious, but annoying, to have a hacker unit that's so bad at it. Julian's smug hacking lines are weirdly wasted.
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So as someone who only played halfway into a XCOM 2 campaign. I remember the go to back in the day was "play once on normal, then play again with EU because they play so differently." Is that still the goon recommendation? Or does this feel like more of a huge expansion to the base game.
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Jetrauben posted:I know there was some talk of buffing SPARKs. Did they include a buff to their hack score? Because it's kind of hilarious, but annoying, to have a hacker unit that's so bad at it. Julian's smug hacking lines are weirdly wasted. No hack buff, but now they have the second best base aim of any unit after Sharpshooters, an HP buff and you can mod their weapons. They're pretty good.
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So lemme try to understand how leveling works now; -Regular soldiers progress in levels and get promotions like normal. -However, you now also gain ability points which can unlock additional skills, including ones from past promotions or random hidden ones. -Faction soldiers do not get any skills on promotion and can only gain them through ability points. -You have a shared pool of ability points earned through various actions, and a separate pool exclusive to each soldier. -Each soldier has a randomized intelligence stat that makes them earn personal AP faster. Is that all correct? Jetrauben posted:I know there was some talk of buffing SPARKs. Did they include a buff to their hack score? Because it's kind of hilarious, but annoying, to have a hacker unit that's so bad at it. Julian's smug hacking lines are weirdly wasted. Yeah I never understood why Sparks are even capable of hacking. They are so hopeless at it you should never even bother unless you don't have a specialist available to reach an objective. Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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How do you enable Second Wave? I didn't get the option to at new game. e: Nvm I'm dumb, didn't see you can launch old XCOM 2 by default, and did so. e: Where the hell is my random stats second wave option 
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I started playing a fresh game on the expansion. Did they tweak the AI a bit? Just the second mission to retrieve the power core, and every overwatch shot missed, and every enemy shot hit and killed, even on the two soldiers hunkered behind full cover a couple of turns later. Did things get dramatically more difficult, or is this just an X-com moment?
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NeurosisHead posted:I started playing a fresh game on the expansion. Did they tweak the AI a bit? thats xcom!
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Internet Kraken posted:Yeah I never understood why Sparks are even capable of hacking. They are so hopeless at it you should never even bother unless you don't have a specialist available to reach an objective.
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NeurosisHead posted:I started playing a fresh game on the expansion. Did they tweak the AI a bit? Early game overwatch has always been that useless. As far as the enemy shots go - while I was playing LW2 on PC, I bought XCOM2 on the xbone a few months ago when it was on sale. I'm pretty good at XCOM2, and on xbone I had to re-start the first mission like 10 times...not because I lost one unit; I got squadwiped the first 9 times I tried. On normal difficulty. (and, BTW...xbone loading times are ridiculous.) So...yeah; that's XCOM. I uninstalled all mods and as I am waiting for this game to download I am struck by the memory of just how much I don't want to listen to anybody but Tygan. Shen's pissed-off cheerleader voice drives me loving batty and Michael Ironside really needed to give up smoking like 15 years ago. KaiserSchnitzel fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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How's everyone playing btw? I'm doing the tutorials just for all the content, and re-enabled everything. Left Second Wave off for now though. They didn't seem that interesting except the grenade damage falloff.
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My camera zoom resets after every turn and i can't take it anymore. Any idea which mod i used for OG Xcom2 that made it not reset?
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I must have spent 20 percent of my playtime in the poster editor, holy poo poo. RBA Starblade posted:How's everyone playing btw? I'm doing the tutorials just for all the content, and re-enabled everything. Left Second Wave off for now though. They didn't seem that interesting except the grenade damage falloff. Tutorials, integrated DLC, Commander, double timers in everything because I love to take my time in both geoscape and battlescape.
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Wow, so uhh, I just had a mission to plant X4 charges on a Psionic transmitter, with the option to delay the timer by shooting little 2hp power relays. By the time I got a chance to shoot my first relay, I had one turn left. The extra turn that bought me did NOT give me time to find and shoot another one. Holy poo poo, gently caress these timers. I may just bite the bullet and turn on that "double timers" thing. (but that means sitting through the drat tutorial again... if only because I refuse to have the game bitch at me about it supposedly being my first time every loving time I start a new campaign... when does it stop doing that, anyway?)
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I'm not entirely sure that my DLC has installed properly - even though steam shows that it has, and I've verified the files. When I start a new game I don't see War of the Chosen in the list - only Hunters and Shen's gift. When I actually start the game I get a regular blow-up-the-statue mission instead of blowing up the stage. Any ideas?
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gonadic io posted:I'm not entirely sure that my DLC has installed properly - even though steam shows that it has, and I've verified the files. When I start a new game I don't see War of the Chosen in the list - only Hunters and Shen's gift. When I actually start the game I get a regular blow-up-the-statue mission instead of blowing up the stage. Any ideas? On the launcher, there are buttons to choose between normal game and War of the Chosen. You launched the normal game.
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Game was running great up until I had my reaper use her remote detonate ability. Then the game crashed in a bizarre way where it refused to close and wouldn't let me access other programs until I restarted my computer. so Jake's game is still not completely fixed, no surprise there.RBA Starblade posted:How's everyone playing btw? I'm doing the tutorials just for all the content, and re-enabled everything. Left Second Wave off for now though. They didn't seem that interesting except the grenade damage falloff. Playing on commander with the Lost mission and integrated DLC. Will move back to regular impossible once getting through a campaign like this. As much as I'd like a challenge I'd also like to see the new content without squad wiping 10 times in the first 2 months.
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BlazetheInferno posted:On the launcher, there are buttons to choose between normal game and War of the Chosen. You launched the normal game.  What do other people see?
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gonadic io posted:I'm not entirely sure that my DLC has installed properly - even though steam shows that it has, and I've verified the files. When I start a new game I don't see War of the Chosen in the list - only Hunters and Shen's gift. When I actually start the game I get a regular blow-up-the-statue mission instead of blowing up the stage. Any ideas? In the launcher when you start the game, you have to be sure to select War of the Chosen - it won't be selected by default, so you just click on the War of the Chosen image in the lower left corner, similar to launching Enemy Within. I THINK that the launcher window background will turn red if WotC is selected. edit: oh, this is on a Mac (or Linux)? Are those versions even out yet? Survey says no: https://twitter.com/feralgames/status/902469076181803008 Dallan Invictus fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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BlazetheInferno posted:if only because I refuse to have the game bitch at me about it supposedly being my first time every loving time I start a new campaign... when does it stop doing that, anyway?) It never stops. It goes on and on and on. Seriously - end-gameplay when you might have a few extra engineers - with literally nowhere to place them - Shen will still come at you with the passive-aggressive "Commander - um, I appreciate all of the resources allocated to the engineering team, but blah blah blah." Only Tygan is mildly entertaining because I kind of think he sounds like an adult Stimpy.
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KaiserSchnitzel posted:It never stops. It goes on and on and on. Seriously - end-gameplay when you might have a few extra engineers - with literally nowhere to place them - Shen will still come at you with the passive-aggressive "Commander - um, I appreciate all of the resources allocated to the engineering team, but blah blah blah." No no no, I mean when you go to start a new game with the tutorial disabled, it goes "HAY SINCE THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME YOU SHOULD PLAY WITH THE TUTORIAL ON, KAY?!" with an annoying popup.
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What the gently caress, that I did not expect. So be it.
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Someone tell me if anything changes with the tutorial off, the game crashes on my first move now so I guess some of these mods don't work at all. Weird I got so far in though.  e: lol I missed every flank shot on Gatecrasher and wiped. 
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I won't be able to play this for another month, are there any good video playthroughs or streamers to watch? Good skills and non-annoying voice, please. I looked up Beaglerush for old times' sake and he's a PUBG streamer now?
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Bradford why do you keep forwarding me messages from this purple lady? Just stop answering the phone when she calls.CharlieFoxtrot posted:I won't be able to play this for another month, are there any good video playthroughs or streamers to watch? Good skills and non-annoying voice, please. Beagle still streams Xcom on thursday nights (usually) but yeah he mostly streams PUBG now. Which sucks since I find that game boring as hell to watch.
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is there any good guide to playing well? im rusty as heck and have no idea which skills are good anymore
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The most horrible, aggrivating, minor bug has happened to me. Everyone retains their original eyebrow color permanently when you change their hair color From some quick googling, this bug has been around for a while, and nobody ever actually managed to find a fix - if it happens to you, no number of reinstalls or setting changes will fix it.  .It's so minor, but it looks so dumb that it drives me crazy.
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If a ranger kills a lost with their sword, do they get a bonus headshot action? I've been meaning to try it but each time the extra actions have been critical so I've stuck to shooting
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Zyla posted:is there any good guide to playing well? im rusty as heck and have no idea which skills are good anymore 
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Inevitablelongshot posted:If a ranger kills a lost with their sword, do they get a bonus headshot action? I've been meaning to try it but each time the extra actions have been critical so I've stuck to shooting No experience myself but apparently the headshot only procs when firing weapons, not swords or abilities. Which is kinda bs
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Inevitablelongshot posted:If a ranger kills a lost with their sword, do they get a bonus headshot action? I've been meaning to try it but each time the extra actions have been critical so I've stuck to shooting Only kills with regular shots grant a bonus action.
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Inevitablelongshot posted:If a ranger kills a lost with their sword, do they get a bonus headshot action? I've been meaning to try it but each time the extra actions have been critical so I've stuck to shooting Sadly, as far as I know/can tell, "headshot" only applies to guns. Also, hnnng, Templar, so fun! I never realized "Starcraft Zealot + SMG" was such a good combination.
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