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Zore posted:You still get the Free Spark if you don't integrate the DLC. Yeah but then I have to deal with the month 2 Viper King ruining my life. No thanks.
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Internet Kraken posted:Yeah but then I have to deal with the month 2 Viper King ruining my life. No thanks. Viper King doesn't show up for waaay longer than that on Legendary. I wasn't running into him until after I hit my first Archon.
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Internet Kraken posted:Yeah but then I have to deal with the month 2 Viper King ruining my life. No thanks. If you turn integration off you'll never see the Viper King if you trigger but never actually do the mission.
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temple posted:They only get one skill per level. They don't use Xcom points, which could be a pro or con. It's a con. I'm currently victory lapping until I get my A team every possible skill and then go skullfuck all the Chosen, and now I'm disappointed my Spark can't be a part of it.
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potaties posted:I know people say SPARKs are too expensive but I just feel like they haven't used one as a point man with that "33% chance to take a reaction shot against uncovered enemies" perk. I've marched a SPARK into a pod and watched as it systematically destroyed every enemy inside of that pod and holy poo poo it's just so good. Also they never get tired and Overdrive is also loving strong. Shooting the warlock in the face three times on your turn is also very good. (Or twice and a rocket, to offset the stacking aim penalty.) I was about to demur on the DLC but I think this post convinced me to be a completionist and just get it. Is there a list of good quality-of-life-only mods (no gameplay changes)?
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Just lol if you've never put a blaster bomb on a rainmaker SPARK, they're worth it for that alone. In other news, reaper banish + superior extended mag + superior repeater is completely bonkers broken.
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SilkyP posted:I'm probably way late to the party here but does anyone know why XCom 2 runs like dog poo poo on the xbone? And is there any way to get it to run more smoothly? What I gathered from the reddit posts about it is that either whoever they hired to handle the console ports is very bad at their jobs, 2K is very bad at giving them proper time to port over the game, or XCOM 2 has mutilated Unreal Engine 3 enough that any hope of porting it over to consoles and having it run well is a fool's dream. (My money's on the second thing with a dash of the third.)
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Sep 21, 2017 20:35
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Operant posted:Just lol if you've never put a plasma caster on a rainmaker SPARK, they're worth it for that alone. That definitely was worth building one up for.
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Sep 21, 2017 20:37
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Used Banish for the first time last night, once to get rid of a sectopod on a a landed UFO and then for a gatekeeper that was being a pain in my rear end. I think those AP rounds were well placed on you Dragunova.
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Banish is extremely ftw although maybe the animation needs to be 2x as fast otherwise yeah if you don't have one of your dudes strike the killing blow on a Chosen by yelling  JOIN YOUR GODS and magdumping into their skull then you're doing it wrong
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Sep 21, 2017 20:57
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Holy poo poo how is War of the Chosen 30 GB
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Sapozhnik posted:otherwise yeah if you don't have one of your dudes strike the killing blow on a Chosen by yelling I like killing them with soulfire. Esp. the warlock.
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 Join your gods! CharlieFoxtrot posted:Holy poo poo how is War of the Chosen 30 GB It's probably the ton of new maps. They usually take up a lot of space in UE games.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I was about to demur on the DLC but I think this post convinced me to be a completionist and just get it. I don't know if you include bug fixes in QoL, but here's a list: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3762067&pagenumber=892&perpage=40#post476517609
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RBA Starblade posted:That definitely was worth building one up for. Plasma Blaster on a SPARK is just so good. INITIATING LASERFUCK.EXE
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Right now I just have the base game, I'm likely to get WOTC shortly, along with alien rulers and shens gift. What's everyone's opinion on integrated vs not? From what I've gathered lurking, it seems like rulers is better integrated, but shens is best off not? As a whole, which is the ideal way to go?
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Palleon posted:Right now I just have the base game, I'm likely to get WOTC shortly, along with alien rulers and shens gift. What's everyone's opinion on integrated vs not? From what I've gathered lurking, it seems like rulers is better integrated, but shens is best off not? As a whole, which is the ideal way to go? Unfortunately you need to integrate both or neither.
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My first time using Banish was against the Berskerer Queen. Of course the first shot was an execution shot which sent the corpse flying backwards.
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Palleon posted:Right now I just have the base game, I'm likely to get WOTC shortly, along with alien rulers and shens gift. What's everyone's opinion on integrated vs not? From what I've gathered lurking, it seems like rulers is better integrated, but shens is best off not? As a whole, which is the ideal way to go? Honestly, it's all a matter of opinion. It really comes down to a question: is getting the Hunter Weapons/First Spark for free worth getting your soldiers' stamina UTTERLY MURDERED by the Alien Nest/Lost Towers missions? And in the case of the Alien Nest mission, activating all three rulers at once instead of one at a time?
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Hunt11 posted:My first time using Banish was against the Berskerer Queen. Of course the first shot was an execution shot which sent the corpse flying backwards. I had an overwatch shot kill a chryssalid that was jumping up a cliff to eat a soldier before. It never came down. 
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I am going to play with non-integrated DLC my first time around so I can experience the full force of the lore and story
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I want to see what a Bladestorm ranger does to a Chryssalid zerg rush when armed with the Assassin's sword it's gonna be like that half life gif except with chryssalids instead of wooden boxes
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If you play without integrated DLC do you still get the Spark buffs or do they function like vanilla?Captain Oblivious posted:Plasma Blaster on a SPARK is just so good. Why would use use the plasma blaster though when the shredstorm cannon exists
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I have a modded class that somehow got bladestorm and the primary pistol equivalent so everytime they get anything near them it's probably fuckin dead. It rules. One of the SPARK upgrades has also made my robots do the same with their rifles which is...probably unbalanced as gently caress but I love it.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Holy poo poo how is War of the Chosen 30 GB It's basically the entire game again including the new stuff as a separate download and launcher.
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Internet Kraken posted:If you play without integrated DLC do you still get the Spark buffs or do they function like vanilla? Yeah, they still have the buffs
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Sapozhnik posted:I want to see what a Bladestorm ranger does to a Chryssalid zerg rush when armed with the Assassin's sword The corpses will pile up around them as they all die in one hit.
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I routinely have to remind myself that my rangers don't have Close Combat Specialist, and to therefore not place them in incredibly precarious situations. Goddamn I miss that skill.
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:I routinely have to remind myself that my rangers don't have Close Combat Specialist, and to therefore not place them in incredibly precarious situations. That's what bladestorm is for. Which of course leads to me screwing my inexperienced rangers over when I forget that they don't have it yet.
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Operant posted:Just lol if you've never put a blaster bomb on a rainmaker SPARK, they're worth it for that alone. Their upgrades are very expensive considering you'll probably at most have two of them. I mean, just compare them to the cost of the new faction units, who only need to upgrade their weapons and get those upgrades for a pretty low price. Of course, they're in even more limited supply than SPARKs, but still, they're so much cheaper. And SPARKs can't get extra abilities or gain stats from the Resistance Ring, so eventually regular soldiers will leave them in the dust. I like how they play but it's hard for me to justify the investment.
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I never remember which one of my rangers is the designated shooter and slasher.
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Internet Kraken posted:If you play without integrated DLC do you still get the Spark buffs or do they function like vanilla?
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Wizard Styles posted:Rainmaker and Overdrive are what makes a SPARK kind of a defensible choice to me, but ultimately they just have so many downsides. I lost my free SPARK in a vain attempt at a hail mary hack 1 turn before the mission was deemed a failure. Luckily I am knee deep in my post Chosen victory lap, and already have my second one up and running
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I decided to kill the Warlock last night because he just got so boring. The other two are much more entertaining. I think I'll take him out first next time.
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Internet Kraken posted:If you play without integrated DLC do you still get the Spark buffs or do they function like vanilla? Because the Shredstorm Cannon isn't meaningfully made better by Rainmaker. It's fantastic before, and after, and you probably only have a limited supply of them given the random nature of making heavy weapons. The Plasma Blaster goes from "mediocre" to "hilariously powerful" with Rainmaker. If you haven't tried it, you need to.
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:I never remember which one of my rangers is the designated shooter and slasher. That's what colour coding is for!
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I wish there was a button to add the mission name. It's in the random pool but seems oddly rare.     Man I was using a lot of the same dudes last night
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How did you get that suit in the last pic?
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Looks like a port of the EXALT outfit from XCOM:EW, so you should be able to find it easily by searching the workshop for EXALT 
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