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Seems like something where the bonus to let the GTS train straight to sergeant would be helpful. Train up a squad specifically for those missions, whenever someone gets promoted you can train up a replacement.
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I got a prophet with bladestorm. Despite joining my squad late that prophet became my playthrough's first major. At one point in the blacksite mission she wiped a whole ADVENT re-enforcement wave because I parked her on the red smoke and one of the new troops was a purifier. So between that explosion and her attacks she wiped the pod. Bad. rear end.
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Sep 14, 2017 04:35
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Shoefish posted:Time to start a new C/I campaign after my other one disappeared after a crash, this time i'll be be backing up periodically, is there anything i need to backup other then the save_IRONMAN- file in users/me/..../savedata? Nope, that file contains everything it needs. Honestly it's worth everyone doing just in case between play sessions. Losing saves to bugs sucks.
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Sep 14, 2017 04:57
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I've got a mission to "download psionic training from exposed access point" but there doesn't seem to be a prompt at the computer...any ideas? There's a red lock that randomly pops up when I move the cursor on it, but no green square to initiate the download.
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Sep 14, 2017 05:00
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Heaven Spacey posted:Yeah, my first encounter with him was just really rough because my Skirmisher was convalescing and "spam explosives once they inevitably use a car/exploding barrel for cover" had been my anti-chosen strat for the game up until that encounter. I finally got him by doing what you describe and blowing a floor out from under him, but not before he had completely sapped my entire squad's will and plugged a bunch of my guys full of holes. The single best tactic I use for the Hunter is bring a Templar with Invert. It's not available until they're a Captain, but once you have it you get a 100% chance (for 1 AP and 1 Focus) to swap places with your target. All of a sudden the Hunter goes from being on top of a tall building with full cover to standing in the middle of your mosh pit of death. For extra comedy you can even then Volt or Amplify with your Templar if you've got the Focus for it.
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Sep 14, 2017 05:51
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Really want to see a sniper with faceoff get completely surrounded by 100s of Lost. Bonus points for using Between the Eyes, and protect them with statis a few times to really build up the hoard
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Sep 14, 2017 05:51
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Shumagorath posted:I'd be shocked if I could even field a squad for LoPro right now. That said if you buy six rookies and kit them out with end-game gear you can probably do it, however ugly. Depends if your assets in that continent are worth ~$150. 6 sergeants could probably beat an endgame map after a ton of trouble, but actually completing the objective in time is the issue. Even if I was willing to sacrifice a bunch of sergeants it wouldn't matter if they can't complete the objective in time. Like in that case, how was i gonna protect the relay? That requires crossing the map quickly and dealing with the pods adjacent to it. Endgame relay missions are actually one of the hardest ops because the relay HP doesn't scale relative to the damage output of endgame enemies. If the sectopod on the map spawned near the relay I'd be screwed from turn 1.
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Sep 14, 2017 05:56
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Gadzuko posted:My favorite bug so far was when I used Banish to execute the archon ruler and a turret on the other side of the screen spontaneously exploded. This just happened again except this time the reaper killed a sectopod, a purifier, a trooper and a shieldbearer. I had hit them with a blaster bomb first so they were injured, but, uhh... wow. Even without the bugs I nominate Banish as the single most OP ability in the game currently, with exmags and a repeater it's just a straight up delete button for whatever you want.
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Most of the chosen seem to stay in their spawn area and never move until I sight them. It makes it easy to surround and pin them down. Is that happening in other people's games? The hunter sits in his corner, occasionally doing tracking shot. Once I sight him, he does grapple and shoot. But he isn't that mobile because my squads have him surrounded. I rarely get chosen that move. Maybe its a difficulty thing. I've seen him swing out and shoot a few times, looks cool. But he rarely does more than standard daze stuff. The warlock and assassin tend to be more active.
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Sep 14, 2017 06:02
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I just discovered that a reaper can plant a claymore, shoot it, and not break stealth or squad concealment. GOTY other than a few weird brief lockups
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temple posted:Most of the chosen seem to stay in their spawn area and never move until I sight them. It makes it easy to surround and pin them down. Is that happening in other people's games? The hunter sits in his corner, occasionally doing tracking shot. Once I sight him, he does grapple and shoot. But he isn't that mobile because my squads have him surrounded. I rarely get chosen that move. Maybe its a difficulty thing. I've seen him swing out and shoot a few times, looks cool. But he rarely does more than standard daze stuff. The Assassin is the only chosen that actively pursues you from the start. The Warlock and Hunter are both coded to hang back and pester you with with abilities that span the entire map. The Warlock summons spectral zombies to bog you down while the Hunter will use tracking shot if he can get unobstructed sight on a unit. Once you actually make visual contact with them, they stop using those abilities and actually engage you in proper combat. They do wander around a bit but those two usually won't fight you until the end of a mission.
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Sep 14, 2017 06:09
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So does it make sense to try and knock out a chosen as soon as possible? As in would it be a reasonable fight to kill the assassin with tier 2 gear and a 6 man squad.
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Sep 14, 2017 06:18
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Posted a few up about this but I can't figure out how to hack this thing for the life of me. Is it bugged or is there something I don't understand about this objective? Am I supposed to do more than just stand near it and use a hack prompt? I can't get anything to pop up.
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Sep 14, 2017 06:19
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Hunt11 posted:So does it make sense to try and knock out a chosen as soon as possible? As in would it be a reasonable fight to kill the assassin with tier 2 gear and a 6 man squad. I managed it just fine with that setup, fwiw, and it wasn't especially difficult. (Everyone was shaken at the end, and I got a few scratches, but there was never any point at which I felt like "oh crap, I might actually lose this").
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jerry seinfel posted:I just discovered that a reaper can plant a claymore, shoot it, and not break stealth or squad concealment. Can also do the blow up environmental thing without reveal. Assassinate VIP missions get weird.
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dud root posted:Really want to see a sniper with faceoff get completely surrounded by 100s of Lost. Bonus points for using Between the Eyes, and protect them with statis a few times to really build up the hoard You don't need stasis. Just stand in front of a ladder and you can accumulate as many lost as you want.
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I can't remember if there was some version of this in vanilla, but I like how the enemy antagonizes you with anti-XCOM propaganda and messages from the Chosen after missions and while you're on base. I don't like how hard it is to make out interiors sometimes when a reaper's in shadow mode.
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oswald ownenstein posted:Just had the most ridiculously XCOM moment ever on an ambush agreed whenever i take a 30% shot i hit it
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So last I played, I was a little frustrated that the third difficulty was too easy and the hardest difficulty was pretty much impossible. Has the expansion changed the difficulties any? Is the third difficulty level any different, or is it mostly unchanged?
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Dr. Stab posted:You don't need stasis. Just stand in front of a ladder and you can accumulate as many lost as you want. Also don't forget to block off all other ladders on the roof/platform you're standing on. It'd be pretty silly if you got swarmed by the Lost because you forgot to keep a person in front of a random pipe in a corner of a building.
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Node posted:So last I played, I was a little frustrated that the third difficulty was too easy and the hardest difficulty was pretty much impossible. Has the expansion changed the difficulties any? Is the third difficulty level any different, or is it mostly unchanged? The difficulties haven't changed so much. I would recommend doing the expac on C/I, with integrated DLC option if you've played with them already. L/I has an adjusted difficulty curve where Gatecrasher is a little easier than before but the first retaliation mission at the end of the first month is now a massive roadblock. Basically if you make it through L/I's first month without too many losses I feel the game is pretty unloseable. I never did L/I on vanilla but I also hated the poo poo out of doing gatecrasher, at least in wotc it's more bearable. If L/I still doesn't sound fun after finishing C/I you could also just enable the Grim Horizon second wave option, which should be closer to an intermediate difficulty.
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veni veni veni posted:Posted a few up about this but I can't figure out how to hack this thing for the life of me. Is it bugged or is there something I don't understand about this objective? Am I supposed to do more than just stand near it and use a hack prompt? I can't get anything to pop up. looks like you might need a spec to do that which is weird, havent seen that before edit: tbh ive never seen a hack in the second floor of a building either
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veni veni veni posted:Posted a few up about this but I can't figure out how to hack this thing for the life of me. Is it bugged or is there something I don't understand about this objective? Am I supposed to do more than just stand near it and use a hack prompt? I can't get anything to pop up. By that screenshot there should be a hacking prompt. Looks like a bug  ^^ same. I'm thinking a spawn bug because on 2nd level
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Trying to fight a pod of Codex, two Advent pods, and the Assassin = what the fuhhuck
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Ersatz posted:That said, some of the hacking rewards are really powerful. Like, 50% off avenger scan times, which can set you up for a nice snowball. I had a tower that gave everyone in my squad all their action points back that turn as the easier reward. That was a prety fun one-off. I seem to be doing loads of hacking though. Even as a near guaranteed two turn stun I find haywire useful. Although I only just got those bluescreen rounds, so possibly not so effective now.
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I just realized my GTS never offered a bunch of things like vulture and wetwork.
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Most of the bonuses that used to be in the GTS are Resistance Orders now. Vulture is with the Skirmishers, all the Wetwork type ones (more xp, faster ability point gain) are through the Templars.
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jfood posted:Most of the bonuses that used to be in the GTS are Resistance Orders now. Vulture is with the Skirmishers, all the Wetwork type ones (more xp, faster ability point gain) are through the Templars. 
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Last night, I bonded a Sharpshooter and Grenadier, both of them rolled Phantom, so I had the Sneaky Buddies. First mission out with the Sneaky Buddies, and the Warlock kills the other three. He then proceeds to mind control my Grenadier, and summon two ADVENT troopers. Sharpshooter manages to take out both troopers with his pistol, and gets into position to murder the Warlock. Then the Warlock mind controlled my sharpshooter, and ended the mission 
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So I have an assload of mods going and almost everything is going well so far, shockingly so even. But for some reason the mods that add more color choices don't seem to do anything. The "one million colors" mod does work but only for like guns? Is that normal? The "more skin colors", "more hair colors" etc aren't doing anything at all. I remember them working in the base game, and comments say they work for WOTC, but I'm getting nothing. I've unsubbed and resubbed a few times now. Anyone successfully using these?
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oswald ownenstein posted:Just had the most ridiculously XCOM moment ever on an ambush This may help: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/probability-library Hats Wouldnt Fly fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Sep 14, 2017 |
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Playing without mods, how do you see your squad member's stats during a mission? Like if you want to check who has the highest hacking score? And if the answer is, inexplicably, that you can't... what mod do I need?
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Gravy Jones posted:Playing without mods, how do you see your squad member's stats during a mission? Like if you want to check who has the highest hacking score? Yet Another F1 can do that - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=934236622
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Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:Yet Another F1 can do that - Perfect, thanks. Some off this UI stuff seems a little baffling given how much attention to detail there is elsewhere in the game. In general the tools for sorting/filtering/managing your squad are terrible... and by "tools" I mean a list you can sort, that immediately reverts to being unsorted when you take your eyes off it for a second.
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Gravy Jones posted:Like if you want to check who has the highest hacking score?
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Gravy Jones posted:Perfect, thanks. Some off this UI stuff seems a little baffling given how much attention to detail there is elsewhere in the game. In general the tools for sorting/filtering/managing your squad are terrible... and by "tools" I mean a list you can sort, that immediately reverts to being unsorted when you take your eyes off it for a second. I know you're trying to keep light on mods, but: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1128263618 This one lets you see everyone's stats in the armory without clicking on them http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1124175584 This one color codes bonds so they're easier to sort through http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1122974240 And this one is a better squad select screen that displays stats and makes it a little easier to mess with loadouts. Read the warnings on this, there's some known issues, but they're easy to avoid triggering.
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Thanks, I'll investigate some of them. Usually save mods for a second playthrough unless I discover a particular annoyance.Pyromancer posted:Your specialist, and if you have more than one specialist or no specialist in the squad, what are you doing? Living on the edge by occasionally having two specialists 
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This game sure can make you feel like a lord of cheese. First retaliation on L/I, warlock arrives with 30 hp and two armour against my four man squad. Shredded his armour with two grenades, hit him with his Templar weakness then again the same turn with his buddy action for around 29 damage total. Love this game.
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Gravy Jones posted:Thanks, I'll investigate some of them. Usually save mods for a second playthrough unless I discover a particular annoyance. I had an inspiration that gave assault rifles bonus damage, so I ran 3 specialists once.
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Gravy Jones posted:Playing without mods, how do you see your squad member's stats during a mission? Like if you want to check who has the highest hacking score?
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