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After reloading it a few times to figure out what it wants you to do I've got it. With psionic transmitters: -Ignore all enemies at all costs until you get to a relay. If you engage a squad, ignore it. You don't have time. Take potshots with a unit or two, send everyone else up. -There is only one or two relays on your half of the map. There are three or four near the bomb. -The objectives are worded poorly. You only need to put the bomb on the transmitter to stop the countdown (for some reason). You can kill everyone later. -If it's a sewer level every now and then send a soldier back to the start of the map. The line of sight is busted and you may have missed a relay or two. I finished on my fourth try with one turn left. Basically the transmitter missions expect you to unlearn XCOM 2 and relearn what you did on Bomb missions in XCOM 1, but with a third of the time and relays. Also, are priests broken? I engaged one right at the start and it never did anything but double move in circles. e: BTW don't try to be clever and slap a Will PCS mod on a unit who's about to tire out or get a negative trait. It doesn't work. 
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When I did the relay mission there were plenty of relays on the map. It didn't seem very mad.
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Aug 30, 2017 05:56
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Internet Kraken posted:When I did the relay mission there were plenty of relays on the map. It didn't seem very mad. Maybe I just got a real fucker of one then, but I've been hearing similar comments from other people. I've never had a problem with timers before now lol. I may need to restart this campaign anyway. Too few soldiers and I forgot to pump rookies into the GTS.
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Aug 30, 2017 06:05
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I can't really tell if the Chosen DLC is active or not. I'm about 2-3 hours into a new game and so far everything seems exactly the same as the last time I played XCOM2.
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Aug 30, 2017 06:26
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Just started a game, skipped the tutorial, and since the 'archaic weapons' are available as a research option I'm guessing the Alien Hunter DLC quest line isn't going to show up, just the non-story aspects? Was kind of wanting to have that and SLG as part of it. I saw the options at the beginning but they confused me.
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Aug 30, 2017 06:29
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Overdrift posted:I can't really tell if the Chosen DLC is active or not. I'm about 2-3 hours into a new game and so far everything seems exactly the same as the last time I played XCOM2. If you're not sure, then it's not active. Trust me, they make it VERY obvious that you've loaded it, right from the title screen. Bruceski posted:Look for the button on the launcher. It's a toggle. -------- LaserShark posted:Just started a game, skipped the tutorial, and since the 'archaic weapons' are available as a research option I'm guessing the Alien Hunter DLC quest line isn't going to show up, just the non-story aspects? Was kind of wanting to have that and SLG as part of it. I saw the options at the beginning but they confused me. If you want to play through the story aspects, then un-select "Integrated DLC" when starting a new campaign; that will allow you to activate the Alien Nest and Lost Towers story missions. Otherwise, they're adjusted to fit their gameplay content into the game without the story mission. Playing around with the fatigue mechanics now, I can see why they would have wanted to disable those by default. Those missions will play absolute hell with your soldiers' stamina. BlazetheInferno fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Aug 30, 2017 06:30
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Y'all need to use the double mission timers. Your blood pressure will thank you for it and it attenuates the problems in battlescape since you have time to move more methodically.
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Aug 30, 2017 06:33
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Overdrift posted:I can't really tell if the Chosen DLC is active or not. I'm about 2-3 hours into a new game and so far everything seems exactly the same as the last time I played XCOM2. Are you on Mac? Steam let my wife buy the DLC but turns out it doesn't work for OSX yet!
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Aug 30, 2017 06:39
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How bad is it to send tired soldiers out again? I just hit my first haven defense and its in chosen territory. I really want my best guys in the fight.
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Aug 30, 2017 06:45
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BlazetheInferno posted:If you're not sure, then it's not active. Trust me, they make it VERY obvious that you've loaded it, right from the title screen. Thanks. God knows how many more hours I would have wasted.
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Aug 30, 2017 06:49
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MikeC posted:How bad is it to send tired soldiers out again? I just hit my first haven defense and its in chosen territory. I really want my best guys in the fight. Its not that bad. Sending tired soldiers out more means they are gonna take longer to get back to peak condition and are more likely to develop negative issues. If you can afford to give them more time off after the mission its not a big deal, but if you are gonna need to keep using them it won't work out.
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Aug 30, 2017 06:57
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I think they may have piled on a few too many mechanics this time around. Feels like it's groaning under the weight of it all.
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What's the deal with the VIP extraction mission you get early on where the chosen spawns right next to the VIP and proceeds to immediately splatter him 
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Been enjoying this very much. Then this happened. https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/863984115679832658/5B5A6A233D10027A1A36A285FDE3455E2D8BED52/ And everything was great. Then. https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/863984115679833146/8E2A5FAACFFEDD0402F8CA94B05E8780B0304FD8/ I have none to blame but myself. Reaper is a Nonbo with Momentum. You lose the momentum move. 64bitrobot fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Aug 30, 2017 07:51
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Any point to playing the tutorial? Is it changed? I've finished the original half a dozen times
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rabidsquid posted:the chosen not pausing the mission timer on the supply raid missions is beyond annoying and made it impossible to finish the mission with a decent amount of supplies. I ran into a Chosen on a supply raid mission before I even touched the first crate, and Advent didn't lift a single crate out for the entire map, I think because I didn't grab any until I had killed the Chosen and every pod on the map. It might've been a bug, but I think the answer here is to take your time before you claim the first crate, and make sure you know if a Chosen will show up or not.
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Aug 30, 2017 08:47
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Good game, but holy poo poo gently caress the Chosen boss fights. I'm not sure if they expect you to go in fully maxed out, but my whole squad ended up as crippled, nervous wrecks after that fight. Two enemies spawning per turn, including a berzerker and an archon while also having to burn down the stupid sarcophagus with its 8,000,000 hp.
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Aug 30, 2017 09:17
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My chosen got the reaper and explosives weaknesses so every time she shows up I melt her because a single claymore does 14 damage.
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I love the fact that your propaganda posters get plastered all over the Avenger  I wonder if you find them in Resistance Havens as well....
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Overdrift posted:I can't really tell if the Chosen DLC is active or not. I'm about 2-3 hours into a new game and so far everything seems exactly the same as the last time I played XCOM2. my dude, did you not select war of the chosen from the game launcher? theres a little box at the bottom to switch between the two. the mission to rescue my little advent stun lancer hasnt popped up yet
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RBA Starblade posted:
Hey, I also finished on my fourth try (or so)! I was stupid and didn't pay attention to the instructions though, so I thought the nodes were explosives and beelined the transmitter with a Reaper. This went better than expected at least after gratuitous save scumming. I only had to sacrifice a rookie (who made for a glorious shirtless memorial poster) and kite 2 pods of MECs, purifiers, and priests.
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vosk posted:what the hell does the 'workshop construction' research do? After I completed it, workshop still cost 150 supplies, 40 days, 3 power. (it's actually more power than in regular xcom2? workshop got nerfed? thought it was 1 in vanilla) It does what it says on the tin, it's just that Workshops cost 300 supplies now.
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MadJackMcJack posted:I love the fact that your propaganda posters get plastered all over the Avenger I was fighting some advent in the sewers and when one of them took a shot at me I noticed that they were standing right next to one of my posters plastered on the wall. Your propaganda really gets around.
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DrManiac posted:My chosen got the reaper and explosives weaknesses so every time she shows up I melt her because a single claymore does 14 damage. Mine too. It's the assassin and besides the scripted capture she has been clowned every time she has appeared. Once I set off the claymore with a SPARK rocket just to double gently caress her. I think I was pretty luck with research. I got improved conventional weapons as like my third research, which was great, but it was slightly diminished by getting Mag weapon breakthrough as something like my 5th tech. Welcome to earth, fuckos. Also my character pool includes both me and my dog. First mission together we turned out to have the highest cohesion 
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So I decided to play with the tutorial stuff since I hadn't touched XCOM 2 since it first came out. But it kind of sucks because it's like hours of scripts and story missions and so on before you get to feel like you start playing.
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So uh, that first challenge mission was a bit of a doozy. Did anyone have a particularly good performance they want to brag about?
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Has anyone found a mod/option that prevents the camera from zooming itself back in after every shot/enemy turn? It's getting kind of frustrating having to zoom out constantly.
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Are you guaranteed to get an opportunity to rescue a captured operative (from being left behind on a mission, not by the chosen)? My Skirmisher got knocked out by a spectre on the rooftop of an extraction mission with 1 turn left and my squad was so beat up that I didn't want to risk losing anymore of them. I know I can do a covert op to get another one but levelling them up is kind of a pain and he was pretty levelled up. Also, could I have used revival protocol on him to get him up and get rid of the copy or do you have to kill the copy/spectre? Not really sure about what they do, I usually make them top priority so they get a cascade of missiles and grenades to the face, this one just came in quite late and hosed me up.
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You can revive Spectered troops, although the copy stays up too. Covert ops giving promotions is pretty nuts. I got an LT and then put him on 3 Ops each giving a promotion and taking 4-7 days and now I have a Colonel 
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Dang, so I could have just revived him and extracted on the same turn with a specialist and then had him run and extract. Oh well, thanks. That's something to remember. That was probably the worst mission I've had in an Xcom game. Had to bring my mid tier guys cause of tiredness/injury and a surprise MEC rocket barrage took half of them down to 1 HP so the rest of the mission was a cautious creep up and then run to the extraction job.
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Seriously it blows me away how good this DLC is:
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Alkydere posted:
I would be okay with this one if the game would just stop spamming me with monologues from all the loving bad guys. Oh my god I turned off ambient narrative I don't need to hear a minutes speech every time a chosen shows up or I get back to base.
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So the Colonel level Specialist skill that flies around healing and reviving everyone? Does not removed Dazed UNLESS they are also injured. Kinda annoying and seems like it might be a bug, since I am fairly sure Revival protocol does remove Dazed.
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Does anyone have any idea what they're doing with the base layout now because I don't. My upper level is the Ring, GTS, Power in that order. Workshop would be under GTS with power and radio on left and right but it costs way more now so welp. Guess I'll renovate in the future. Also is it possible to get more than one Reaper?
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Aug 30, 2017 12:58
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RBA Starblade posted:Also is it possible to get more than one Reaper? Yeah. There's random covert actions that pop up to recruit the resistance classes.
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GTS does not benefit from being adjacent to a workshop. You want facilities that can slot in engineers for that. If you want more faction heroes, you need to raise influence to high with their respective faction. Then you need to go on a covert ops to get them. Oppurtunity costs have prevented me getting more so far though. Been concentrating on raising influence for more order slots and reducing avatar progress.
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RBA Starblade posted:Also is it possible to get more than one Reaper? Yes it is possible to get more than one of each of the hero classes. You will need to improve your influence with the faction (say, help to hunt their paired-off chosen), and then perform a covert ops to actually aquire them. Two of each unit type is the hard cap however.
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A quick way to tell if war of the chosen is installed correctly? It's been three in game weeks and I've yet to see anything I haven't before.
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ditty bout my clitty posted:A quick way to tell if war of the chosen is installed correctly? It's been three in game weeks and I've yet to see anything I haven't before. Do you have the ability to make propaganda posters of your squad after each mission? If so, you should be running WotC. If not, see here.
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I kind of regret preordering this. It's so good, they've made so many great changes, but until a couple quality of life mods update actually playing it is insanely frustrating. Why the hell isn't Gotcha a baseline UI piece? C'mon Jake. ditty bout my clitty posted:A quick way to tell if war of the chosen is installed correctly? It's been three in game weeks and I've yet to see anything I haven't before. Look at the launcher more carefully. You launched the base game.
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