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Does anyone know if going into overwatch drains more fatigue than just passing your turn?
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Aug 30, 2017 20:49
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Genius Specialists are amazing. You don't have to choose between medic specialist and hacker specialist!
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Aug 30, 2017 20:53
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Also having fought them all a bunch, the Assassin is the most obnoxious Chosen. The other two are kinda chumps but she is just such a pain to lock down.
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Aug 30, 2017 20:58
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Yeah, she can freaking move, that's for drat sure. Thankfully her stealth is awful at least.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:11
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Internet Kraken posted:Does anyone know if going into overwatch drains more fatigue than just passing your turn? I would honestly love it if the fatigue system was explained at all. Like, is it better to start an early firefight and have to slog through a tougher battle, or is it better to stay quiet for ten turns (when you have the luxury) and set up a series of perfect ambushes that delete enemy pods in a single turn. Backhand posted:Yeah, she can freaking move, that's for drat sure. Thankfully her stealth is awful at least. I like it when the reaper gets eyes on with the 'An enemy seen is always revealed' perk. She wasted an action on stealthing...only to be unstealthed because reapers.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:12
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I know the stamina bar isn't based on just killing, because my Outsider is always the most fatigue and she averages by far the least amount of shots or kills.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:13
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You loose a chunk on being fired upon.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:20
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64bitrobot posted:I would honestly love it if the fatigue system was explained at all. Like, is it better to start an early firefight and have to slog through a tougher battle, or is it better to stay quiet for ten turns (when you have the luxury) and set up a series of perfect ambushes that delete enemy pods in a single turn. Hopefully there will be a mod that just does floating Will damage numbers with icon whenever a soldier takes a will hit.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:23
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So the Warlock mind controls my soldier and I use a flashbang on them to make them mostly harmless. So instead of impotently shooting at my guys the mind controlled soldier instead randomly targets a fuel tank across the map. A fuel tank that my cloaked reaper is sitting by. gently caress you jake that's cheating 
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Aug 30, 2017 21:24
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It's encountering enemies generally: every enemy you encounter will cause a small bit of will drain. This stops taking effect once a unit has lost 1/3rd of their will. Civilians dying will also drain will. This stops working once a unit has lost 1/4th of their will. After that it's pretty much anything bad happening to the soldier or their squad (and will loss is scaled based on how bad it was), and those events are allowed to completely drain their will.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:27
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Bradford: 'And you thought I talked too much. How about these chosen, eh?' AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:27
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Covert operation for +1 damage to all shotguns.  Edit: Oh my god the +1 damage to assault rifles works for the bolt caster.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:31
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Is it a bad idea fatigue-wise to headshot endless hordes of lost? It's kind of fun to do that and rack up numbers, but I don't want to put key squaddies out of action for too long just for kicks.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:39
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:do us non-expanjsion-owners get the performance improvements because I really feel like we should It's not like there was a "BadLoadSpeed=1" entry in an ini file, they completely rebuilt the game. That's why it's a 30g download with a separate executable.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:41
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Is the Chosen's knowledge meter filling up an instant game over?
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Aug 30, 2017 21:42
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Internet Kraken posted:Is the Chosen's knowledge meter filling up an instant game over? I believe it just means they launch an attack that forces you to play the new Avenger Defense mode. When you beat it, they lose some knowledge.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:43
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So the lesson I learned today is never send squaddies or under on covert ops. You can't really outrun ADVENT without fighting something. Rip my other ranger. e: Also bring medkits because you're not going to dodge e: Actually maybe vests RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Aug 30, 2017 21:44
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RBA Starblade posted:So what do priests even do? They won't fight me. I've seen them use three abilities so far: Holy Warrior, which gives someone shielding, Stasis, which takes one of your guys out of action for a turn, and motherfucking Mind Control, which not only turns one of your own against you but apparently makes the rest of your squad decide that spray-and-pray is the way to go 
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Aug 30, 2017 21:45
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vosk posted:Bradford: While things like this are cute, I can't help but want to punch them for it. Like, if this was in the next expansion I'd get a laugh out of it. In this expansion it means they knew that the chosen weren't shutting the gently caress up, yet they still included the lines anyways. It feels like I'm playing diablo 3 at launch again. Complete with "Hahaha, you can't possibly destroy my hell rif- oh. Well you can't destroy tw-. Oh. Nevermind, I don't need hell rifts!" Seriously, just once I'd like the chosen to smack talk less when I push their poo poo in during the thirty second fight. It is a nice touch that they have special lines for the alien ruler equipment though.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:48
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If you have the time, researching the Purifier Autopsy is pretty nice. It gives a straight +1 HP Bonus to all vest type utility items, no proving grounds project needed.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:56
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Got the Warlock on a hordes of Advent defend the item mission. Warlock one shots my grenadier, grenadier's buddy goes berserk, one shots my reaper 
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Aug 30, 2017 21:57
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Aand the assassin just wiped my squad out.
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Aug 30, 2017 21:59
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This is really forcing me to keep a deep bench of soldiers and it's great. I just lost two good soldiers on the blacksite because the assassin showed up unexpectedly. That'd normally be discouraging, but I've been maintaining a lot of ok troops rather than an A team and a bunch of garbage people, so it's nbd.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:03
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If anything is too busy in the expansion it's the inside of the Avenger. I'm used to rushing the first power coil for my generator followed by a middle workshop, but now NESW AWC-Comms-Generator-Comms plan is all hosed up by the resistance ring...? Nevermind the defence matrix.Caros posted:It feels like I'm playing diablo 3 at launch again. Complete with "Hahaha, you can't possibly destroy my hell rif- oh. Well you can't destroy tw-. Oh. Nevermind, I don't need hell rifts!" Do you mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEyk63UaBI4 Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Aug 30, 2017 22:03
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loving assassin, no overwatch, three actions per turn, really hard to hit. Might as well play the starman theme on loop when she arrives.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:05
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Anyone tried baiting her with a parry Templar?
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Aug 30, 2017 22:07
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Also I upgraded to mag pistols just in time to take a full squad of sharpshooters on an all-lost mission and it owns.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:08
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Taking a shot at advent without breaking stealth on lost map leads to interesting results. Such as you get to watch purifyers actually do some purifying. And they are pretty decent at it actually. I just wish the lost would pay more atteñtion to advent in general, feels like they bumrush my guys excepy for maybe 2. As for the assasin, use the reaper just like it says in weaknesses? She is accurate enough to reliably hit, does extra damage and runs far enough to reach her hidey holes. And when I got sparks, he ripped the assassin to shreds. Sekenr fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Aug 30, 2017 |
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Aug 30, 2017 22:09
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So far, 3 sectoids have tried to mind control my poor rookies. Every time, the rookie has resisted, panicked, ran up and crit the sectoid killing it. You'd think the sectoids would learn by now.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:12
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deathbagel posted:So far, 3 sectoids have tried to mind control my poor rookies. Every time, the rookie has resisted, panicked, ran up and crit the sectoid killing it. You'd think the sectoids would learn by now. The continuous willpower drain makes their psionic attacks much more attractive and effective than before. But at least they're not shooting.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:16
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It turns out that Templar parry does not block the Sectopod pain cannon, or whatever the gently caress it's called.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:26
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Should I wait until I have beaten the game once without the expansion before picking it up? That is the impression that I am getting from it.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:28
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Captain Oblivious posted:If you have the time, researching the Purifier Autopsy is pretty nice. It gives a straight +1 HP Bonus to all vest type utility items, no proving grounds project needed. That would be really handy for covert operatives actually. You don't have time to slow down and heal up. e: VVVV If the Lost can't see you they will gently caress ADVENT up.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:30
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Sekenr posted:I just wish the lost would pay more atteñtion to advent in general, feels like they bumrush my guys excepy for maybe 2. There's a mod that makes the Lost target Advent at a 50% rate. According to the mod author, the unmodded game is normally weighted 70/30 in favor of attacking XCom. I think it was called Fair Lost or something like that. On the subject of mods, are there any working mods that smooth out the camera rotation? After playing LW2 for so long, I can't stand the giant camera swings that the default uses. I did find a CameraRotation entry in an .ini file, but changing it from 45 to 15 didn't seem to change anything.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:32
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Sekenr posted:I just wish the lost would pay more atteñtion to advent in general, feels like they bumrush my guys excepy for maybe 2. That's intended behaviour. Lost have 70% chance to target Xcom, with the remaining 30% chance to attack Advent. This is easily changed in the ini however, and a mod is already out if you don't want to install notepad++. E:FB
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Aug 30, 2017 22:34
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It's been two months and I haven't seen the Chosen Assassin again. Just how often do they attack you? Also I love that some missions are designed for actual stealth instead of the psuedostealth the original game had. Of course my specialist hosed up the hack, but it was the first one of the game so A for effort buddy.  The avatar timer feels way slower now btw. I'm still only at 4 pips.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:34
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Unlucky7 posted:Should I wait until I have beaten the game once without the expansion before picking it up? That is the impression that I am getting from it.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:34
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ugh, my game crashes when I try to reload a save. It starts the loading tune (the humming sound) but the screen remains frozen on the load game prompt once I alt-tab out it insta-closes. Tried veryfing and stuff, didn't help.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:34
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I think it only blocks 'directed' attacks. If ADVENT chucked a grenade, it would hit the templar. e: re 'Sectopod supergun penetrated Parry' also, discord for goons, snake bosoms: https://discord.gg/vvJu2y
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Aug 30, 2017 22:36
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Is EU Aim Rolls the mod everyone recommends or is there a better one for avoiding a hit being a crit? I kind of want to leave aim rules alone since the devs will have balanced around the new system but the modded mechanics seem much more intuitive.
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Aug 30, 2017 22:37
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