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DarkAvenger211 posted:Yeah I figure it would be a little too hard. So I think I want to go in the other direction and add something to make the game just a little harder to compensate. Any suggestions? New Enemy types? Mechanics? Something I can add right in the middle of a running campaign. for extra enemies I use: Pathfinders (this adds a bunch of stuff - enemies, items, weapons, cosmetics), Flame Vipers, Archon pack, Advent Duelist, and a couple other things I don't remember off the top of my head
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Anyone have a good purist/QoL/vanilla+ mod list? I want to play through again with all the dlc as well as the legacy pack.
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Phigs posted:If I wasn't huge on XCOM and likely won't be huge on XCOM2 but might as well grab it on sale for a playthrough, what DLC should I get for the full experience? Any must-haves? War of the Chosen completely updates the game from beginning to end and is the definitive experience. The others are nice but not as fundamental to the overall gameplay experience as War of the Chosen.
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If you wanna get deep into mods I would suggest getting all the DLC, but outside of wotc it's fairly optional yeah. xcom 2 - good plus dlc - better plus wotc - insane good plus mods - never uninstalling this
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zenguitarman posted:How many gigs is WotC on top of the base game? Would love to finally pick it up, but I don't think there's any way to cram it onto my SSD without some serious shuffling. Big. My copy of XCOM2 + WotC and some mods comes in at just shy of 75 gigs.
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if you install wotc, it actually installs a second copy of the game. plus wotc on top of that. that's not a joke. I guess it's so you can play either but...it seems a bit extreme.
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Light Gun Man posted:if you install wotc, it actually installs a second copy of the game. plus wotc on top of that. that's not a joke. I guess it's so you can play either but...it seems a bit extreme. That seems dumb. But explains why my whole install + mods is like 96gb. On a 128 ssd no less.
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Found in spaceflight thread: https://twitter.com/SolomonJake/status/1126116362320076801
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NASA set to demonstrate X-ray communications in space quote:A new experimental type of deep space communications technology is scheduled to be demonstrated on the International Space Station this spring.
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someone at nasa was having a real fuckin laugh when he dropped in “COMMUNICO CONFIDO”
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X-rays spotted.
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X-RAY DOWN to the receiving station
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May 21, 2019 01:54
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That's it. ADVENT is next. Mark my words.
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Node posted:That's it. ADVENT is next. Mark my words. ADVanced Electronic Neutrino Tracker?
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i hope the test signal they send is ‘fix your game jake’
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Node posted:That's it. ADVENT is next. Mark my words. What do you mean "next?" To me, Advent always parsed as basically being just the Republican party turned up to 11, but with aliens and alien hybrids instead of psychotic rich assholes and MAGA chuds. The Evil Philip DeFranco type guy you keep hearing after missions is just the main anchor on Alien Fox News. e: You can basically substitute "Elders" in for "job creators" in any given political statement and it starts to sound like something Evil DeFranco would say Angry Diplomat fucked around with this message at 04:00 on May 21, 2019 |
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the next xcom-related nasa thing. chill
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Angry Diplomat posted:What do you mean "next?" To me, Advent always parsed as basically being just the Republican party turned up to 11, but with aliens and alien hybrids instead of psychotic rich assholes and MAGA chuds. The Evil Philip DeFranco type guy you keep hearing after missions is just the main anchor on Alien Fox News. TK-42-1 posted:the next xcom-related nasa thing. chill this is one of the funniest loving exchanges in this thread
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Angry Diplomat posted:What do you mean "next?" To me, Advent always parsed as basically being just the Republican party turned up to 11, but with aliens and alien hybrids instead of psychotic rich assholes and MAGA chuds. The Evil Philip DeFranco type guy you keep hearing after missions is just the main anchor on Alien Fox News. Please don't.
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It *is* kinda depressing that the occupying future tech psychic interstellar empire still didn't end capitalism
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That's what XCOM is for, baby!
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One thing that did stick in my craw was that I don’t think anyone ever referred to XCOM as terrorists
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Basic Chunnel posted:One thing that did stick in my craw was that I don’t think anyone ever referred to XCOM as terrorists Imagine if "Guerrilla Ops" were called "Terror Missions"
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I've never played this game or XCOM 1, or really any turn based strategy, but it's on sale with a bunch of dlc for $35. I used to play the hell out of Starcraft, DoW, Warhammer: Total War, and stuff like that, but I've never so much as touched this. I did like Darkest Dungeon, which I know isn't the same, but I'm a pretty big fan of brutally difficult strategy games. Will I like this?
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:I've never played this game or XCOM 1, or really any turn based strategy, but it's on sale with a bunch of dlc for $35. I used to play the hell out of Starcraft, DoW, Warhammer: Total War, and stuff like that, but I've never so much as touched this. I did like Darkest Dungeon, which I know isn't the same, but I'm a pretty big fan of brutally difficult strategy games. Will I like this? None of those games are like x-com 2 so who knows. All I can tell you is that this game is really fun and a lot of thought was put into its development to make it a good game. I'd buy it.
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Yeah I figured it would be hard to compare to, but it does look fun.
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Enjoy hunting for the perfect pixel to aim your grenade at! (no, I'm not bitter)
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Yeah I figured it would be hard to compare to, but it does look fun. The first game has (tutorial + simple mission) demo if you want to try it out. The basic gameplay is having bunch of options and making constant risk analysis ("should I try to shoot him with 90% accuracy or just use a grenade, or maybe I try to flank but...") which isn't for everyone, but I love 'em.
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it’s way more tactical in the majority of gameplay. if you’ve played turn based tactical games and enjoyed them Xcom2 is high up the list of the best ones.
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I like those games and I like this game. It’s a good game. Buy it!
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if you're a fan of brutally difficult strategy games you're going to at least be pleased with XCOM. i would hesitate from calling it brutally difficult (the game can get quite formulaic after you know what's going on, until then it can get pretty hairy) but darkest dungeon's character investment backdrop was inspired directly by XCOM. basically Bogart posted:I like those games and I like this game. It’s a good game. Buy it!
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Xcom also has an addictive quality of just one more mission or one more research project etc. It's hard to explain why, but there is always something coming up. It's very easy to think you'll play 1 mission for half an hour and then 3 hours later and it's way past your bed time.
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:I've never played this game or XCOM 1, or really any turn based strategy, but it's on sale with a bunch of dlc for $35. I used to play the hell out of Starcraft, DoW, Warhammer: Total War, and stuff like that, but I've never so much as touched this. I did like Darkest Dungeon, which I know isn't the same, but I'm a pretty big fan of brutally difficult strategy games. Will I like this? The game is challenging and can make you feel like a genius when you win flawlessly. XCOM 2 has more ways of wounding and killing your bespoke army men and women than XCOM but how crushingly difficult you want it is up to you. I'd suggest not doing a Legendary difficulty Ironman run on your first playthrough - It'll ruin the fun and gets pretty tedious.
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A Perfect Twist posted:The game is challenging and can make you feel like a genius when you win flawlessly. XCOM 2 has more ways of wounding and killing your bespoke army men and women than XCOM but how crushingly difficult you want it is up to you. I'd suggest not doing a Legendary difficulty Ironman run on your first playthrough - It'll ruin the fun and gets pretty tedious. I've been playing this game for years and still play veteran
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Captain Foo posted:I've been playing this game for years and still play veteran same. i can only take so much punishment daddy. i mean central. i mean.... i’m so confused. thing with xcom is that it’s frontloaded difficulty. you’re going to gently caress up a lot in the beginning but eventually you’ll figure out what you’re supposed to be doing and while hard there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
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