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Infinity Gaia posted:Are you considering your upkeep costs as well? I think there's a breakdown somewhere, I remember seeing it. I believe the breakdown is in the commander's room on the Avenger.
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RBA Starblade posted:Beagles squaddie squad flailing at an equally ineffective warlock was a highlight of last night. I watched about 5 minutes of him going 'I'm not owned' and restarting gatecrasher before I stopped and went back to my own game
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:I watched about 5 minutes of him going 'I'm not owned' and restarting gatecrasher before I stopped and went back to my own game I mean, as ever gatecrasher is one of the hardest possible missions in the game e: Also I really like the callback that chosen strongholds are all gridmap with specific facilities like ye olde xcom bases. Figured I'd mention it since I'm going to kill the last one b/c the warlock summoning eight goddamn enemies resulted in me having 6 wounded people on the last mission and im DONE with that poo poo
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Sep 1, 2017 22:36
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Sylink posted:Game is actually insanely easy once you get into the office ranks with a few guys and covert ops power leveling. If you can just stay alive on the facilities and get squad size up, then you can do w/e and abuse covert ops. I'm playing on Commander and I have to do a decent chunk of bouncing around to keep my soldiers from getting too tired and to keep bond-mates mostly together. I'm working on plasma weaponry and I've had to buy a handful of rookies to fill out a mission because I need to fill a few holes, and I've only lost like 3 guys. There is one mission I had to NOPE out on so loving hard: assassinate commander where the map was populated with mainly Andromedons and Specters. gently caress Specters so hard. Also, why do Advent's REMF's love abandoned subways so much?
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Sep 1, 2017 22:39
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So it looks like the best way to get an uber soldier in this game is to just spam the poo poo out of covert ops. I've been sending one gal on pretty much every covert mission all game, always making sure that she is the one to gain the bonus stat. She finally got pulled into an ambush, and, well, it was absurd. I hadn't even assigned her levels, but she was colonel rank, with twice the will and movement of any of my a team, and an aim bonus that was essentially 'she cannot miss.'
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Sep 1, 2017 22:49
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:I watched about 5 minutes of him going 'I'm not owned' and restarting gatecrasher before I stopped and went back to my own game It happened over and over. A couple times he got through Gatecrasher and wiped in the second mission and restarted. Eventually he gave up on doing the introductory story mission, and on that restart got a Templar that carried the first couple missions and started having fun again.
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aegof posted:It happened over and over. A couple times he got through Gatecrasher and wiped in the second mission and restarted. Eventually he gave up on doing the introductory story mission, and on that restart got a Templar that carried the first couple missions and started having fun again. Only one I saw was when jamball got popped on the last move of gatecrasher
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Sep 1, 2017 22:51
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Just about to kill my last Chosen forever and I still haven't even researched Plasma weapons. There's so many more interesting things to research now, and with the DLC / Chosen weapons / Sparks it's added a whole new bunch of layers to the midgame that was sorely needed.
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Sep 1, 2017 22:54
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oswald ownenstein posted:Can you use mindshields to counter negative quirks? As far as I'm aware: no. They seem to use a completely different system, so no using mind-shields to cheese the upgraded "will broken" system. They're still the best damned thing against the Chosen.
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Sep 1, 2017 22:57
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aegof posted:It happened over and over. A couple times he got through Gatecrasher and wiped in the second mission and restarted. Eventually he gave up on doing the introductory story mission, and on that restart got a Templar that carried the first couple missions and started having fun again. I'm telling you they added some gently caress you code - the number of high aim shots I miss combined with the number of consistent hits through bullshit like high cover + flashbang is just beyond anything in 300 hours of LW2 on legend I'm not surprised he was struggling with the new Gatecrasher considering this new revelation 
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Sep 1, 2017 23:00
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Sep 1, 2017 23:04
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remote start being usable every 3 turns and not revealing concealment is insane
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Sep 1, 2017 23:13
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Real talk tho they did something to gatecrasher making you spawn closer to the target and all the pods are closer too which makes it a pretty rough mission
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Verviticus posted:remote start being usable every 3 turns and not revealing concealment is insane Yeah, on the other hand its incredibly situational. I keep gettin 0 explosives on my maps I bring a Reaper. oswald ownenstein posted:Real talk tho they did something to gatecrasher making you spawn closer to the target and all the pods are closer too which makes it a pretty rough mission Yeah but you have a non-rookie now. Skirmishers and Templar trivialize it
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True but it doesn't trivialize it Also I'm forgetting LW2 buffed cover - even heavy cover is pretty poo poo in vanilla, and half cover may as well be no cover
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Sep 1, 2017 23:20
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I had a rookie bleed out instead of dying on gate crasher. I must have played the first level dozens of times (hundreds if you count restarting) and that never happened
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Sep 1, 2017 23:21
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Spamming Lost beacons on Andromedons seems to be the best way to crash the game 
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Sep 1, 2017 23:25
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Huh, I've just noticed that bleed-out deaths seem to count as friendly fire on the memorial wall. I've had a couple of people die to bleed-out it says that they killed themselves.
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Sep 1, 2017 23:27
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So has anyone put out mods to let SPARKs bond and go on Covert Ops, and to let faction soldiers be able to do Combat Intelligence ops? (gently caress you, Standard intelligence Templar) I don't know where the heck I'm supposed to be looking to change those myself.
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Sep 1, 2017 23:28
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Veotax posted:Huh, I've just noticed that bleed-out deaths seem to count as friendly fire on the memorial wall. I've had a couple of people die to bleed-out it says that they killed themselves. They killed themselves by being too weak to plug their dumb broken arteries.
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Sep 1, 2017 23:29
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DrManiac posted:I had a rookie bleed out instead of dying on gate crasher. I must have played the first level dozens of times (hundreds if you count restarting) and that never happened They fixed the stupid math that made bleed out based on will and therefore anyone below Sgt was literally impossible to do anything but die
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Sep 1, 2017 23:29
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Gunslinger swarm is as you would expect with buffed pistols, superfun
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Sharpshooters are one of the best classes to take on lost heavy missions, whereas Grenadieres are kinda poo poo Nice way of balancing the classes IMO
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Sep 1, 2017 23:48
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Has anyone figured out when soldiers Shatter yet? Is it based on fatigue?
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The assassin shot my plane down and I've got 12 dudes, what's the best strat for this
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Basic Chunnel posted:The assassin shot my plane down and I've got 12 dudes, what's the best strat for this Kill her with the 12 dudes.
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Bogart posted:https://discord.gg/yYAnAq8 edit: disregard - clicking the link reports it as expired, but adding the link directly into discord worked. Taratang fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Infinity Gaia posted:Are you considering your upkeep costs as well? I think there's a breakdown somewhere, I remember seeing it. Aha, that's probably it. Doesn't seem like the upkeep costs are summed anywhere, but you can see it room by room in the Commander's room -> Avenger report. E: Actually, no. Adding up my expenses comes to 490. My Total region income comes to 714. That leaves 224, which matches what shows in the "income" field on the map, but when the month ticks over I get like 60  Also a Templar with 3 Focus pips and Bladestorm can kill literally infinite Lost. Had a Horde Sitrep, parked the Templar where the swarms were appearing, and proceeded to ignore Bradford crying about how we had to evak or get overrun. Picked up 80+ kills before I got bored, it was amusing to see the piled bodies. Darkrenown fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Sep 2, 2017 |
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Sep 1, 2017 23:55
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Any tips for the bossfight with the assassin? Struggling real bad. Loving/hating how they managed to make such a good atagonist!
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So when did beagle stop playing last night? I fell asleep after the base defense.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Why did these lads need me again? I swear these resistance fighters do better than me. Yeah, the local resistance fighters can be vicious as all hell. My last Retaliation was in coastal China and named Operation God Father. I can only assume that that place was a loving Triad hideout, because the whole thing turned into a re-enactment of The Raid for those poor ADVENT.
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Basic Chunnel posted:The assassin shot my plane down and I've got 12 dudes, what's the best strat for this Wait until she tries her hit and run bullshit, and put all your rangers right in her goddamn face. Also yeah, why are these lovely resistance fighters hitting more consistent bullshit shots than my fully kitted vets?
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:Wait until she tries her hit and run bullshit, and put all your rangers right in her goddamn face. There's a continent bonus that will randomly give you one of those resistance fighters on a missions. This chick is wearing short shorts and a sports bra, sporting a plasma rifle. She is death incarnate.
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:Also yeah, why are these lovely resistance fighters hitting more consistent bullshit shots than my fully kitted vets? While standing out in the open with no cover at all. My first missions with the resistance, my team spent the entire mission moving to where the resistance fighters where kicking rear end and taking names, managing only two final overwatch shots and one sword to the ADVENT face before it ended.
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:Wait until she tries her hit and run bullshit, and put all your rangers right in her goddamn face. Because they have 95 natural aim, apparently.
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Holy poo poo, those Chosen Avenger assault missions don't gently caress about. I knew I was in trouble when I got given ten people  MarquiseMindfang posted:Because they have 95 natural aim, apparently. Then why aren't we recruiting them instead of the chumps we get stuck with?
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vosk posted:There's a continent bonus that will randomly give you one of those resistance fighters on a missions. This chick is wearing short shorts and a sports bra, sporting a plasma rifle. She is death incarnate. Is there a good resource of information of stuff like the talent tree and continent bonuses are? All the wikis are seemingly crazy out of date.
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Sep 2, 2017 00:47
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I would assume the continent bonuses are generated, much like the Chosen stats. I am more than likely wrong though
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MadJackMcJack posted:Then why aren't we recruiting them instead of the chumps we get stuck with? Unlike our soldiers who have to fly around the world all the time and learn how to do things like hack lamp posts, shoot grenades, and wield hanzo steel, the resistance fighters literally do nothing all day besides target practice with assault rifles.
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