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I wonder if there's a mod to make the snakes and codexes not look like fetish porn.
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If there was gonna be one, they would've made it by now.
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Jul 8, 2016 01:27
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natetimm posted:So I guess I hosed myself taking the Last Gift mission while still using gunpowder weapons and no armor? Got through it fine but I've really got no way to kill the loving sectopod. Shen shoves herself on the mission no matter what because she's got unlimited uses of both Combat Protocol and Capacitor Discharge. These will ignore the armor on Julian and do double damage. Just cycle recharges. Sparks come with innate Shred, overdrive on the first turn can remove three ticks of armor. Grenades, grenades, and more grenades.
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Jul 8, 2016 01:28
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Lurdiak posted:I wonder if there's a mod to make the snakes and codexes not look like fetish porn. the "live a little" mod
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Jul 8, 2016 01:32
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Lurdiak posted:I wonder if there's a mod to make the snakes and codexes not look like fetish porn. There's a mod to change the Vipers, but it kinda goes in the opposite direction...
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Jul 8, 2016 01:35
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Alkydere posted:Shen shoves herself on the mission no matter what because she's got unlimited uses of both Combat Protocol and Capacitor Discharge. These will ignore the armor on Julian and do double damage. Just cycle recharges. Don't forget, THE GENERATORS EXPLODE.
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Jul 8, 2016 02:33
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BlazetheInferno posted:There's a mod to change the Vipers, but it kinda goes in the opposite direction... That mod is a requirement of every mod collection worth its salt.
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Jul 8, 2016 02:43
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It's weird that faceless are immune to frost grenades if they're undercover. Also sparks are loving terrible at hacking. 15 hack skill lmao
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Jul 8, 2016 04:15
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Lunethex posted:That mod is a requirement of every mod collection worth its salt. Link? I'm asking out of curiosity,of course.
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Jul 8, 2016 04:35
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Steam is dropping a 503 error upon me. Type in "sassy" in the XCOM 2 workshop and you'll have your answer 
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Jul 8, 2016 04:36
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So wait, do I have this right? If I start a new game with Alien Hunters ticked, but just don't do their mission (but grab the basic-tier weapons), they will never show up? It's only if you untick it that they show up randomly? 
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Jul 8, 2016 05:21
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Every single radio and contact taking maximum time to complete combined with UFO Hunt and Major Breakthrough showing up every single time on top of faceless dodging a billion overwatch shots to crit 3 guys two missions in a row is making for a real loving harrowing experience let me tell you. I just want my god damned exo suits go away resistance.
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Jul 8, 2016 05:48
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Yeah, that horseshit is what got me to hunt down the mod that makes most scan times 1 day. "Scan time: 1-4 days" should not loving be "4 days, every time, all the goddamn time".
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Jul 8, 2016 05:54
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natetimm posted:So I guess I hosed myself taking the Last Gift mission while still using gunpowder weapons and no armor? Got through it fine but I've really got no way to kill the loving sectopod. I was having the same problem and it made me quit playing. All of my grenades and resources are used because holy poo poo this mission is long and here I am with like a 50+ hp 6 armor sectopod. This is the third mission I've done in the entire campaign, to kill it I have to have the spark shoot as often as possible so that Shen can do damage (someone above posted that her skills ignore armor but they're not for me, they show a full damage number but only reduce the sectopod's HP by the full damage number minus his remaining armor). Best-case scenario is it's going to take me three turns to remove the armor and then another 3-4 assuming no misses and everything doing maximum damage to kill it, but Shen or SPARK dying are both fail conditions and he always kills one of the two in the first two turns. I'd just hide them and sacrifice my real soldiers instead but they're the only two who can do anything against the boss 
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Jul 8, 2016 06:15
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You should be hacking the boss immediately
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Jul 8, 2016 06:26
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It's really really easy for Shen to stun the sectopod with hacking, and then you can have the SPARK wail on it with its armor-shredding cannon. Also remember that Shen is a max rank, offensive Specialist and all those fairly weak abilities are like triple damage against robots
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Jul 8, 2016 07:02
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So I heard people wanted better SPARKs.
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Hello duders, I picked this up during the steam sale and after finishing up my other games I want to get stuck in. Would commander-ironman be equivalentish difficulty to classic ironman in xcom1? I tried the first mission last night, and after easily killing the first patrol the next immediately annihilated my four rookies. Just curious if I'm really setting myself up for unnecessary dick-punching or if commander is a reasonable challenge.
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Jul 8, 2016 11:37
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If you're familiar with the first xcom, then commander is a good start. It's tough, but also pretty exhilarating first time through.
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Jul 8, 2016 12:01
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Crosspeice posted:If you're familiar with the first xcom, then commander is a good start. It's tough, but also pretty exhilarating first time through. Nice, I'm not afraid to restart if I'm losing, but I found impossible to be not-fine so looking for that compromise.
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Jul 8, 2016 12:09
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Where is the upgrade to install a rocket into my SPARKs punch ?
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Jul 8, 2016 12:22
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Crosspeice posted:If you're familiar with the first xcom, then commander is a good start. It's tough, but also pretty exhilarating first time through. I think it's good to have a single veteran game before stepping up to commander.
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Jul 8, 2016 14:37
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I've just got the Avenger Defence mission, and I hadn't built a Defence Matrix. Is there any point in building one after this mission (assuming I survive it?) or is there only one Defence mission, ala Enemy Within?
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Jul 8, 2016 15:36
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Yoshimo posted:I've just got the Avenger Defence mission, and I hadn't built a Defence Matrix. Is there any point in building one after this mission (assuming I survive it?) or is there only one Defence mission, ala Enemy Within? Defence missions are random and theoretically infinite but you'd be extraordinarily unlucky to have more than one or two per campaign. Also Defence Matrices are basically useless. Even if you get the alien hunting event there's a chance you avoid the shootdown. I had Bradford show off his sick dodging skills 3 times one campaign before I finally got shot down.
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Jul 8, 2016 15:59
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You might build a defense matrix if you've upgraded everything to plasma tech and have nothing else to buy, but no they're basically useless. They're not even that great on the mission itself. If you don't have a Phantom Ranger to use as a scout, then the turrets can give you some peace of mind as you move your squad toward the spike. But that's about it.
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Jul 8, 2016 16:04
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if you have a defense matrix, upgraded, with an engineer on the job, the turrets are pretty ballin' actually however as you might expect from that explanation, the d-matrix is gold plating on the avenger, do not worry about it really
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Jul 8, 2016 16:16
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Coolguye posted:if you have a defense matrix, upgraded, with an engineer on the job, the turrets are pretty ballin' actually Exactly why I'm wondering if I'll need to build them again! My first play through I built the Defence Matrix and had it staffed, and when I got the Defence mission I had four turrets that could fire twice a round at something like 75% a piece, for a ridiculous amount of damage. It definitely made the difference on that playthrough - I got lucky this time round and didn't face anything tougher than ADVENT troops and maybe one Muton, so I didn't need its ridiculous sentry farm.
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Jul 8, 2016 16:42
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https://xcom.com/news/en-xcom-2-gets-new-lws-perk-and-laser-pack-mods Long War Studios are releasing a new 2.5 weapon-only tier (laser, between mag and plasma). Base classes are broken into 7 classes à la Long War, with 70 new perks or so (you get to choose between 3 perks at every level). e : here's the perk pack https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=719109968 also new PCS ee: new abilities description : http://pastebin.com/KFzB1Yv7 Eraflure fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jul 8, 2016 |
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Jul 8, 2016 18:26
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Yoshimo posted:Exactly why I'm wondering if I'll need to build them again! My first play through I built the Defence Matrix and had it staffed, and when I got the Defence mission I had four turrets that could fire twice a round at something like 75% a piece, for a ridiculous amount of damage. It definitely made the difference on that playthrough - I got lucky this time round and didn't face anything tougher than ADVENT troops and maybe one Muton, so I didn't need its ridiculous sentry farm. You probably don't. It's theoretically possible to get another defense mission, but in practical terms you'll likely be clowning all over the xenos before they can launch another one. If you get to the end of the tech tree and you've got extra bitcoins, then sure, go ahead - if nothing else it looks awesome. But on your list of priorities, I'd file this one way toward the bottom.
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Yoshimo posted:Exactly why I'm wondering if I'll need to build them again! My first play through I built the Defence Matrix and had it staffed, and when I got the Defence mission I had four turrets that could fire twice a round at something like 75% a piece, for a ridiculous amount of damage. It definitely made the difference on that playthrough - I got lucky this time round and didn't face anything tougher than ADVENT troops and maybe one Muton, so I didn't need its ridiculous sentry farm. On Vanilla defense missions are pretty rare enough that unless you expect to get super unlucky, you don't really need the matrix. If you're running something like Additional Dark Events that ups your chances of getting multiple missions, it may become a more worthwhile investment, though so far I've been getting lucky with that. Well I say lucky but it's more that the game tends to pull out more events that makes my life hell on the tacticalscape instead of events that makes my life hell on the geoscape since there's more of the former than the latter.
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Shakill OReal posted:I was having the same problem and it made me quit playing. All of my grenades and resources are used because holy poo poo this mission is long and here I am with like a 50+ hp 6 armor sectopod. This is the third mission I've done in the entire campaign, to kill it I have to have the spark shoot as often as possible so that Shen can do damage (someone above posted that her skills ignore armor but they're not for me, they show a full damage number but only reduce the sectopod's HP by the full damage number minus his remaining armor). Best-case scenario is it's going to take me three turns to remove the armor and then another 3-4 assuming no misses and everything doing maximum damage to kill it, but Shen or SPARK dying are both fail conditions and he always kills one of the two in the first two turns. I'd just hide them and sacrifice my real soldiers instead but they're the only two who can do anything against the boss Just want to quote this as I also had an issue where Shen's skills were still being affected by Julian's armor.
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So stunlancers break my mods bad enough that I want to remove them and replace them with headhunters https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=710122811&searchtext=advent+headhunter How would I go about doing that?
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Jul 8, 2016 19:00
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Eraflure posted:https://xcom.com/news/en-xcom-2-gets-new-lws-perk-and-laser-pack-mods That looks amazing, thank you!
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Jul 8, 2016 19:08
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I finally get the instant proving ground bonus, realize EXO suits don't even apply for it, then watch as it gives me almost nothing but flamethrowers for heavy weapons. gently caress you XCOM.
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Jul 8, 2016 19:36
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Eraflure posted:https://xcom.com/news/en-xcom-2-gets-new-lws-perk-and-laser-pack-mods Looks fantastic but you are gunna be mowing through aliens like no one's business until there's a solid difficulty increase mod that isn't a better advent. Which is great don't get me wrong. But not entirely sufficient.
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Jul 8, 2016 19:53
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Jul 8, 2016 19:55
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The Iron Rose posted:Looks fantastic but you are gunna be mowing through aliens like no one's business until there's a solid difficulty increase mod that isn't a better advent. From Amineri's comments on the modding discord, they're perfectly aware of that and plan to rectify that problem with their Alien Pack.
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Jul 8, 2016 20:11
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That class pack looks exactly the thing I wanted to frankenstein from all manner of class mods. Now I feel bad for not being able to use those anymore, I'm gonna miss the Grimy classes 
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Exposure posted:From Amineri's comments on the modding discord, they're perfectly aware of that and plan to rectify that problem with their Alien Pack. YEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Which I think is the weakest aspect of Vanilla XCOM 2, actually. The endgame is basically Archons, Andromedons, Gatekeepers and Sectopods. Gets really boring after a while.
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Finally doing the snake mission. Twelve snakes grouped up for me. My sniper has faceoff, dragon rounds, and 100% hit to all of them.  Dez Orwell posted:There's two different Proving Grounds continent bonuses, one for ammo/grenades, the other for armor/exo-spider-war-wraith suits. 
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