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A gunslinger with bluescreen rounds can solo that sectopod too.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:29
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Harrow posted:[*]Larger pod sizes. You can already increase pod sizes in DefaultMissions.ini. One of the .ini files contains lines for upshifting and downshifting the AI (the AI .ini?) which somewhat addresses the pod engagement mechanics. Theres a cap on how many aliens you can engage at once before other pods actively avoid patrolling into your area. Likewise if you havent engaged a pod in so many turns they start getting more aggressive about hunting for you. Both of those are configurable, and setting the downshift limit high is essential if youre playing with bigger pods so you dont cap out at 1 pod.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:34
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RBA Starblade posted:A gunslinger with bluescreen rounds can solo that sectopod too. I preferred AP rounds to bluescreen on my gunslinger.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:36
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It's a bit weird to complain that XCOM 2 encourages you to try and engage the enemy piecemeal and concentrate firepower/use crowd control abilities to deplete the enemy's ability to respond. Because those are hardly unique to XCOM, or introduced by free moves or whatever! I mean that's actually the fundamental idea behind 99.9% of strategy games, isn't it? Whether you're playing this or Starcraft or Total War or Unity of Command or War in the East, if your plan is to charge straight forward into the enemy and get totally surrounded by as many of them as possible, and let them all do whatever they want unmolested... Well, good luck with that. Even in the original XCOM, it's not like the AI didn't have an aggro mechanic. It's just less transparent because it's larger than your visibility range.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:39
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Not a Step posted:I preferred AP rounds to bluescreen on my gunslinger. This guy gets it. I load up my Sniper Sharpshooters with AP rounds because having a super-accurate attack every turn becomes even more valuable when you don't have to shred armor beforehand. The aliens start packing some serious armor levels as the game goes along, enough that your plasma weapons can get their effectiveness halved. It's a drat good thing to be able to count on your dude to not only hit, but hit for all his damage anytime you need it. As a corollary, this also means grazing hits are loving terrible and I hate them.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:41
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Is there a place, maybe a workshop mod, that contains all of Beaglerush's changes so I don't have to keep a backup folder of the original .ini files? Or a place where he has all those altered .ini's at least so I don't have to puzzle through the default .ini's?
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Feb 18, 2016 16:42
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I didn't know ap rounds were things, I have venom rounds which I've never used, tracers, bluescreens, and dragon breaths (which are awesome). The sniper perpetually has tracer rounds to try to mitigate how bad he is at his job. The gunslinger goes between bluescreens and DBs depending on what I feel like.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:43
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Soulfucker posted:This but unironically It's good to make casualities matter less.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:43
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RBA Starblade posted:I didn't know ap rounds were things, I have venom rounds which I've never used, tracers, bluescreens, and dragon breaths (which are awesome). The sniper perpetually has tracer rounds to try to mitigate how bad he is at his job. The gunslinger goes between bluescreens and DBs depending on what I feel like. Goddamn I suppose I'm thankful I don't have your RNG luck with Snipers. Granted, I do give mine tracer rounds until Spider Suits, but still.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:48
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toasterwarrior posted:Goddamn I suppose I'm thankful I don't have your RNG luck with Snipers. Granted, I do give mine tracer rounds until Spider Suits, but still. The hilarious thing is he usually has 80-100% to hit now but he still only hits like 20% of the time. Killzone being bugged and only working on two enemies because it drains the rest of the mag for some reason isn't helping him out either. The gunslinger is the most lethal soldier by far with about 60 kills to his 30 (I do not know how he got 30).
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Feb 18, 2016 16:50
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I'd love to have tracer rounds. Stupid elerium core RNG 
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Feb 18, 2016 16:50
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RBA Starblade posted:I didn't know ap rounds were things, I have venom rounds which I've never used, tracers, bluescreens, and dragon breaths (which are awesome). The sniper perpetually has tracer rounds to try to mitigate how bad he is at his job. The gunslinger goes between bluescreens and DBs depending on what I feel like. High ground advantage + perception pcs + scope + grenadier cover removal will remove the need for tracers in most cases. I loaded bluescreens on my sniper because of how important it is to one shot Codexes. As a happy side effect I could also deadeye oneshot Andromedon suits, turrets, and most MECs.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:52
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Not a Step posted:High ground advantage + perception pcs + scope + grenadier cover removal will remove the need for tracers in most cases. I loaded bluescreens on my sniper because of how important it is to one shot Codexes. As a happy side effect I could also deadeye oneshot Andromedon suits, turrets, and most MECs. Still haven't seen the perception pcs, but with high ground, tracers, and no cover, he usually misses all but one shot in the opening attack. Are codices that big of a deal to people? On Veteran at least they've never accomplished anything. And aren't codices technically organic? Do bluescreens work on them?
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Feb 18, 2016 16:53
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RBA Starblade posted:The hilarious thing is he usually has 80-100% to hit now but he still only hits like 20% of the time. Killzone being bugged and only working on two enemies because it drains the rest of the mag for some reason isn't helping him out either. The gunslinger is the most lethal soldier by far with about 60 kills to his 30 (I do not know how he got 30). I think my understanding of Killzone isn't that it's bugged, it's that it uses 1 ammo for the ability itself, and then does one ammo per shot as normal. Hence you're getting two shots, while the guy with the extended mag is getting 5.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:53
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Bholder posted:Figuring out how to play optimally is hardly boring Grenadier opens with an explosive --> sniper kill zone --> 2 assaults + 1 support mops up --> psi trooper stasis if anything survives. Even if you accidentally pull another pod have the support or an assault throw a mimic beacon, the rinse and repeat next round with the additional pod. This works for every pod no matter what the enemy composition is. Every time. The downside of the entire tactical combat being a 1 note puzzle is that it stops being exciting when solved. This is on commander iron man. I guess I could try legendary after, but just having a slightly different puzzle to solve doesn't seem that appealing. I would much prefer a game where you are encouraged to get into back and forth firefights than one where you solve the same puzzle over and over.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:54
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Fangz posted:I think my understand of Killzone isn't that it's bugged, it's that it uses 1 ammo for the ability itself, and then does one ammo per shot as normal. Hence you're getting two shots, while the guy with the extended mag is getting 5. Ohhhh. That needs to be explained somewhere. I need to go hunt for more mags then. quote:Grenadier opens with an explosive --> sniper kill zone --> 2 assaults + 1 support mops up --> psi trooper stasis if anything survives. For me it's plasma grenade > lightning rounds > pistol shot > more grenades > try to dominate or haywire > fan fire if single target alive, Shoot Everything if not > run and gun flank > mimic beacon if somehow nothing died.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:55
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Megasabin posted:Grenadier opens with an explosive --> sniper kill zone --> 2 assaults + 1 support mops up --> psi trooper stasis if anything survives. Even if you accidentally pull another pod have the support or an assault throw a mimic beacon, the rinse and repeat next round with the additional pod. s/2 assaults/2 grenadiers, and yeah, that was the entirety of my mid to endgame experience
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Feb 18, 2016 16:56
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Honestly if I had enough of them I could just field three grenadiers and 3 gunslingers and grenade and lightning hand everything. I didn't think ahead enough though so I have nine high level units, 3 mid level, and 6 squaddies.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:58
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Megasabin posted:Grenadier opens with an explosive --> sniper kill zone --> 2 assaults + 1 support mops up --> psi trooper stasis if anything survives. I do think some abilities are overpowered (i.e. the ones you mention). But I don't really share your enthusiasm for 'back and forth firefights'. That just boils down to everyone rolls on the RNG until one side wins.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:58
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Not if you have some form of RNG manipulation, like X-Wing or Malifaux. That isn't very XCOM though.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:02
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Fangz posted:I think my understanding of Killzone isn't that it's bugged, it's that it uses 1 ammo for the ability itself, and then does one ammo per shot as normal. Hence you're getting two shots, while the guy with the extended mag is getting 5. Kill Zone's animation sometimes bugs out, too. I've seen my sniper take one Kill Zone shot, then seemingly not take any shots on the other enemies that she should have, but at the end of their moves, suddenly there are damage pop-ups. So I think it works, it's just that the ammo consumption isn't obvious and the animation fucks up sometimes. Megasabin posted:Grenadier opens with an explosive --> sniper kill zone --> 2 assaults + 1 support mops up --> psi trooper stasis if anything survives. Even if you accidentally pull another pod have the support or an assault throw a mimic beacon, the rinse and repeat next round with the additional pod. I agree that some greater tactical variety would be good, but I'm with Fangz in that I don't think back-and-forth firefights are the answer. Once you get to that, I think you change it to an opening just as you describe, and then every turn is "move to flank so you don't miss -> shoot -> pray you don't get flanked back because eventually you're going to run out of flashbangs/Aid Protocols/other defensive boosts." That's why most of my suggestions (of which you can already mod in some, like larger pod sizes) focus on making that initial "how do I kill them before they get to shoot me?" puzzle less predictable and, at the same time, less immediately crippling if you lose.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:05
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Two of my main soldiers are now shaken. Do I have to take zero damage AND get a kill in the same mission to remove it? Or is it a mix? One of them took damage in a mission but managed three kills but remains shaken.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:06
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Does anyone know of a fix to the glitch that makes enemies move in suuuuuper sloooooow mooooootion? It's the one that I see more than any other and it's really obnoxious having to wait 15+ seconds for an enemy to finish their animation.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:07
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RBA Starblade posted:Still haven't seen the perception pcs, but with high ground, tracers, and no cover, he usually misses all but one shot in the opening attack. Codexes are robots, and they get annoying with the cloning and also disabling everyones weapons and forcing your squad to flee from the big boom. A codex who gets a turn can really screw up an entire engagement.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:07
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Megasabin posted:Grenadier opens with an explosive --> sniper kill zone --> 2 assaults + 1 support mops up --> psi trooper stasis if anything survives. Even if you accidentally pull another pod have the support or an assault throw a mimic beacon, the rinse and repeat next round with the additional pod. Basically same here except I substituted one of your assaults for an overwatch support to make the opening salvo harder at the cost of having one fewer mop-up crew. There's very little that survives a size 6 mag killzone and a size 6 mag guardian overwatch if the opening trigger is a plasma grenade, shredstorm or some other form of AoE shred/damage.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:08
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RBA Starblade posted:Still haven't seen the perception pcs, but with high ground, tracers, and no cover, he usually misses all but one shot in the opening attack. I just grabbed a Perception PCS from the Black Market as my first purchase on my new campaign. It feels like an apology for never even showing me a single one last time. My shiny new sniper, Cameron "Sheriff" MacGregor, is having a great time with it. Codices are robotic, so bluescreens tear them up. They're also extremely nasty if they survive long enough to do something to you.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:09
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DatonKallandor posted:Basically same here except I substituted one of your assaults for an overwatch support to make the opening salvo harder at the cost of having one fewer mop-up crew. There's very little that survives a size 6 mag killzone and a size 6 mag guardian overwatch if the opening trigger is a plasma grenade, shredstorm or some other form of AoE shred/damage. I actually just got killzone on my grenadier from AWS. Probably will switch out the 2nd assault for a demolitions based grenadier, and respec the current to use holotargeting/killzone for an even nastier opening barrage.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:19
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Harrow posted:I just grabbed a Perception PCS from the Black Market as my first purchase on my new campaign. It feels like an apology for never even showing me a single one last time. My shiny new sniper, Cameron "Sheriff" MacGregor, is having a great time with it.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:21
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Megasabin posted:Grenadier opens with an explosive --> sniper kill zone --> 2 assaults + 1 support mops up --> psi trooper stasis if anything survives. Even if you accidentally pull another pod have the support or an assault throw a mimic beacon, the rinse and repeat next round with the additional pod. That is definitely something you could do every single pod. So maybe you could, I dunno, not do that? You've found the combo that makes everything a walk in the park, but the game is varied enough that you could choose something else instead of the same one note opener every time. The game's not making you use that combo to win, so if you don't like doing it, why do it?
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Erata posted:Is there a place, maybe a workshop mod, that contains all of Beaglerush's changes so I don't have to keep a backup folder of the original .ini files? Or a place where he has all those altered .ini's at least so I don't have to puzzle through the default .ini's? Yeah, mod collections are built into Steam. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=621266601 I don't think it's up to date.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:22
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Ravenfood posted:How on earth can you make any sharpshooter named "Sheriff" anything but a gunslinger? It's a struggle. I love having a Kill Zone sniper, but you're right, gunslinger is probably the better option for him. I haven't actually gotten to a level where I have to choose yet, though--I go Long Watch -> Lightning Hands for the first two for both snipers and gunslingers--so it isn't too late! He might just be a generalist. I like Kill Zone better than Faceoff (or, at least, I used Kill Zone a lot more on my last campaign than I used Faceoff), but I like Fan Fire more than Serial on a Sharpshooter (Serial on a Ranger > Serial on a Sharpshooter, just because of the accuracy/crit rate involved).
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Feb 18, 2016 17:26
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Ravenfood posted:How on earth can you make any sharpshooter named "Sheriff" anything but a gunslinger? Sheriffs would use rifles to shoot fleeing outlaws at pretty long ranges. I'd still make him a gunslinger tho
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Feb 18, 2016 17:29
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Harrow posted:Codices are robotic, so bluescreens tear them up. They're also extremely nasty if they survive long enough to do something to you. Yeah they just turned all my weapons off for the first time. Usually I can kill them when they teleport but none of my six overwatching guys felt like shooting, I guess.
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RVWinkle posted:Yeah, mod collections are built into Steam. Cool. That helps a lot. I just want the mods to be able to be toggled on and off easily for different campaign runs. I'm only guessing here, but I'm pretty sure that Better AI is probably one of the things he talked about in the ini changes... but idk. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=618390218 "-The AI now considers grenades against single targets (Except ADVENT troopers, that was way too mean.)" might be a difference between Beagle's changes and this mod though.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:32
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Is there a source for PCSs other than getting lucky on the Black Market? I'm in July and thus far I've gotten a single Will PCS and nothing else. Also, on the holomap are the timers for events how long until they're 'ready' or how long you have to actively idle there before getting them? I've been assuming the latter but I realized today I'd feel amazingly stupid if it was the former and I'd been wasting days at a time idling on things until they popped.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:33
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Melanion posted:Is there a source for PCSs other than getting lucky on the Black Market? I'm in July and thus far I've gotten a single Will PCS and nothing else. I get the majority of my PCS as random drops in missions. You could take the scavenger perk from the GTS if you want a better shot at finding them.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:36
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Kingtheninja posted:Two of my main soldiers are now shaken. Do I have to take zero damage AND get a kill in the same mission to remove it? Or is it a mix? One of them took damage in a mission but managed three kills but remains shaken. They just need to survive a mission without taking damage. They'll get a permanent boost to their will after this, even improving their own score!
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Feb 18, 2016 17:37
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Public Service Announcement Nvidia's latest drivers appear to cause cover icons to disappear. Reverting back to previous drivers fixes the problem.
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Deuce posted:Public Service Announcement Thanks, I was going to upgrade tonight but i'll hold off! RBA Starblade posted:Yeah they just turned all my weapons off for the first time. Usually I can kill them when they teleport but none of my six overwatching guys felt like shooting, I guess. That'll teach you to overwatch with everyone! 
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