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The final room in the final mission is difficult enough without adding those 3 to the roster. I've never played a campaign where they weren't all 3 dead by the time I finished, though.
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It is funny how you are starting to hate Grenadiers and warm up to Sharpshooters, because that is literally how the power curve works in XCOM2. At the beginning Grenadiers are the best as cover removal and guaranteed damage is incredible, while Sharpshooters are worse than rookies. However, by the mid game the lack of any accuracy on levels makes Grenadiers kind of annoying to use(which is why I put my stocks on them to at the very least use them as finishers) and now that Sharpshooters are accurate as heck and have access to various types of rounds for extra damage, they are now quite useful.
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May 8, 2020 19:13
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Oh and of the base classes Rangers are always the best. I love the Ranger and the insanely OP shotgun.
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May 8, 2020 19:17
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Peachfart posted:Oh and of the base classes Rangers are always the best. I love the Ranger and the insanely OP shotgun. Because of the alpha strike nature of XCOM2, Rangers, whose whole thing is alpha striking, are the best since no one else does that sort of job as well as they do.
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May 8, 2020 19:22
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Xelkelvos posted:Because of the alpha strike nature of XCOM2, Rangers, whose whole thing is alpha striking, are the best since no one else does that sort of job as well as they do. This is true, which is why Chimera Squad is interesting as the interleaved turns reduce the alpha strike nature a bit. Though I still think I enjoy XCOM2's battle system more as a whole, it is a super fun take on XCOM.
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May 8, 2020 19:30
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Screw it, let's do 2 today. It's Friday.
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May 8, 2020 20:09
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FairGame posted:The final room in the final mission is difficult enough without adding those 3 to the roster. I've never played a campaign where they weren't all 3 dead by the time I finished, though. I did a run of that mission on Legendary with all three chosen still around (This was the game with that "hates-Templar-but-immune-to-Rend" Hunter). It was... unpleasant. Especially the final room, which is already an endurance run.
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May 8, 2020 20:24
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There's something amusing/annoying about how civilians react (like around ~23:00) Squad of weirdos that got kicked out of a larp convention, having a shootout with alien spacepolice? Cool, imma cower over here. Someone standing within 2m of me? AHH! LEISURELY STROLL AWAY!!
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May 8, 2020 20:54
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E: Curious, did you name the video after the movie, or the Marathon level? Welp, RIP Carlos. Two missions, four kills, one extended stay in medbay, one indefinite stay six feet under. Might have lived had you not stood too close to a Blazing Pinion, or procced battle frenzy. Or been repeatedly shot, poisoned, or slashed. Really, we should have seen this coming when someone nicknamed you "Dead." RIP Kozma. You were definitely under-leveled for this mission. RIP Sincx. While the skulljack is a loss, we will miss your hat most of all. Hope Bob lives up to the toll. Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 21:24 on May 8, 2020 |
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May 8, 2020 21:12
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That splash damage with Rend seems more or a liability than an asset given how much fiddling you seem to do with not hitting people or certain objects and then the AOE blasting open things that reveal more pods.
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May 8, 2020 21:36
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So you remember that dreadful sequence at the end of Saving Private Ryan where old Ryan is questioning his entire life and its value as he recalls the deaths of the men sent to bring him home? Really got that vibe right now. I mean, that did not go well. Not a total disaster, to be fair, but the permanent loss of the frost bomb is probably worse than the loss of three soldiers and the addition of a shop-soiled Ranger is not much compensation. Then there'll be another rescue mission. I'm sorry it turned out this way.
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May 8, 2020 22:08
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Xelkelvos posted:That splash damage with Rend seems more or a liability than an asset given how much fiddling you seem to do with not hitting people or certain objects and then the AOE blasting open things that reveal more pods. I will not sacrifice my artistic integrity for petty tactical concerns 
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May 8, 2020 22:11
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That was really rough. RIP guys. I hope you can get Din back really soon, her hair trigger has really been doing work these last few missions. Congrats on being our first colonel, Munin! e: yessss I am notably good at covert ops, as you well know
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May 8, 2020 23:01
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It might have been worth hacking the mech and blowing up the extraction to see if it'd give you somewhere better. e: I loving hate spectres, they're wildly overpowered IMO. ee: bob 'punished' deadford, a hero strained by cloth Also god bless Vahlen, I really want her back in xcom 3, I don't care how. eee: fairgame what the gently caress you have to finish asia Grapplejack fucked around with this message at 23:50 on May 8, 2020 |
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May 8, 2020 23:23
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Xelkelvos posted:That splash damage with Rend seems more or a liability than an asset given how much fiddling you seem to do with not hitting people or certain objects and then the AOE blasting open things that reveal more pods. As someone who bought and has gotten fairly into XCOM 2 and WotC from this LP alone, yea, considering how Megane's Rend splash has hit another enemy once? twice maybe? for all the times it's caused problems, that's convinced me to avoid it at all costs. 
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May 8, 2020 23:24
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I personally like it, because it can't miss, and works really well when you hit a pod in the flank or on enemies like chrysallids and lost that like to bunch up. If you roll a Templar with Reaper, it's godlike.
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eating only apples posted:That was really rough. RIP guys. I hope you can get Din back really soon, her hair trigger has really been doing work these last few missions. Congrats on being our first colonel, Munin! Looking forward to seeing how long I last now that I have the narrative crosshair on my back...  [edit] I also kinda feel as if i had an off-screen training montage. Munin fucked around with this message at 00:06 on May 9, 2020 |
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May 9, 2020 00:02
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Munin posted:[edit] I also kinda feel as if i had an off-screen training montage. Deadford was lost, and you stepped up to become the new Deadford, and then during the last phase of your montage, we got Deadford back. Meanwhile I'm loafing around med bay discussing my feelings and why they make me panic sometimes, just generally not being a worthwhile ranger. Edit: no, apparently just regular loafing around med bay. Lightly wounded, 3 days, as of the covert op listing. Akratic Method fucked around with this message at 00:33 on May 9, 2020 |
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May 9, 2020 00:11
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Akratic Method posted:Deadford was lost, and you stepped up to become the new Deadford, and then during the last phase of your montage, we got Deadford back. I thought Vaughn was New Deadford, but FairGame hasn't actually bought Serial on him yet (presumably for fear of him dying early). Once he gets that he will be Deadford+. Prove yourself, Deadford! You too Munin! Good luck Method, there's a looooot of ranger competition right now. Better hope for some bad missions. Me though, my competition is, what, Roth? I like Roth though, I like her entire look. I also like not getting shot a lot. Hang in there, Roth! 
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May 9, 2020 00:36
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Does having a skirmisher captured by advent mean FairGame can recruit a second one, or does that only work when they're kidnapped by Chosen? (and/or got patched out?)
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silentsnack posted:Does having a skirmisher captured by advent mean FairGame can recruit a second one, or does that only work when they're kidnapped by Chosen? (and/or got patched out?) I could get another skirmisher if I'm lucky.
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May 9, 2020 00:45
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FairGame posted:I could get another skirmisher if I'm lucky. More "GET OVER HERE!" is always welcome when it takes annoying or otherwise bullshit enemies out faster like the specter.
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May 9, 2020 01:10
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Part of me wonders if some of those free promotions from the Resistance Ring might have been better spent on bringing more of those squaddies cluttering up the bottom of your roster up to snuff instead of making your already good units better. The part of me who's too cowardly to actually play this game on higher level difficulties or on ironman just slapped that part of me upside the head and told it to shut the gently caress up.
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May 9, 2020 01:22
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SugarAddict posted:More "GET OVER HERE!" is always welcome when it takes annoying or otherwise bullshit enemies out faster like the specter. Just drag an enemy halfway across the map with dual Justices. If you picked up the Exchange skill on a Templar, you could also take advantage of Wrath or Justice to put the Skirmisher next to an enemy and then Exchange to Rend or Autopistol. Depending on which action that was for the Skirmisher, they can potentially Grapple into a different position or do some other thing if they didn't already.
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W.T. Fits posted:Part of me wonders if some of those free promotions from the Resistance Ring might have been better spent on bringing more of those squaddies cluttering up the bottom of your roster up to snuff instead of making your already good units better. Actually, his roster is pretty dang thin for Legendary, and now that will get even worse. So, maybe?
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eating only apples posted:Mediocre, my rear end! gently caress you council guy Yeah, when you play this game, you have to get used to telling Spokesman to go suck Muton dick sometimes. Some months are about launching non-stop assaults against the aliens, and some months are about bunkering down, consolidating our gains and bolstering our forces for the next assault. You know jackshit about tactics, Smokesy, that's why you had to bust my rear end out of psychic prison to lead this show. (EDIT: While it's true you probably don't want two specialists except for very specific missions, Psi Soldiers also use ARs, so it isn't necessarily a bad call to have two modded rifles if you aren't going to build the Bolt Caster.) Gothsheep fucked around with this message at 02:22 on May 9, 2020 |
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Peachfart posted:Actually, his roster is pretty dang thin for Legendary, and now that will get even worse. So, maybe? Yeah unlike long war it's looking like he's gonna need extra troops just to dilute the willpower drain, because this fatigue/trauma/neurosis spiral is starting to look like Rimworld.
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I am like a week away from churning out a SGT every 10 days, and I can also build another SPARK if I’m so inclined. It’s fine. Just gotta not get anyone else killed, and my being in a weird spot with research makes that a little dicey. I’m like 95 percent confident we are winning this campaign, though.
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silentsnack posted:Yeah unlike long war it's looking like he's gonna need extra troops just to dilute the willpower drain, because this fatigue/trauma/neurosis spiral is starting to look like Rimworld. Thank god for mind shields, I guess. That mission would have been a total wipe for sure if Megane had panicked.
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May 9, 2020 02:33
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Yeah, and from experience having "a rough month" turn into "three rough months in a row" doesn't always turn the campaign into a still-winnable-but-torturously-unfun meatgrinder slog, but it isn't necessarily bad to insure against it.
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Akratic Method posted:Thank god for mind shields, I guess. That mission would have been a total wipe for sure if Megane had panicked. Yeah, Mind Shield was definitely the MVP of that mission. I am a little worried you're going to get slowed down enough by those losses to have to make some tough decisions about slowing down Avatar progress vs. Chosen research.
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Well that was a mission. I've grown some numb to hearing 'this is going to be a wipe' that it was hard to believe how fast that went downhill expecting the usual miraculous save. Also another example of how terribly designed Specters are. I guess we'll see how bad Deadford's survivor's guilt is going to be after that one. Chuu fucked around with this message at 05:44 on May 9, 2020 |
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It's also telling that it wasn't even really worth engaging the archons. High dodge and tons of HP make them just irritating and unsatisfying to fight. Also my french isn't very good and I'm not sure what Vaughn is saying in that one line, but it most likely ends in ", chef", meaning chief. I think, anyway.
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Another clutch mission and another several squad members in the med bay. What you need is more people, like a rather dashing young blond Russian whose willing to take up the cause and fight on the front lines. drat the scan times, finish Asia, and start cranking out the sargents.
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Mods, name change to Half-eaten Reckoning pls. Gone to Ground is a brutal dark event, especially since they make you scan for the black market again at the end. It's survivable, though. I once had to choose between that and High Alert (XCOM does not start with concealment) and welp.
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Is frost bomb something you get from ranking up a grenadier and that's why you won't be using that one?
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Kibayasu posted:Is frost bomb something you get from ranking up a grenadier and that's why you won't be using that one? It's a unique item that was added with the Alien Rulers DLC. You're only ever allowed to build one throughout the entire campaign. And most unique equipment like that is lost for good if the soldier carrying it dies and you don't recover their body before the end of the mission.
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