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So, I just now read about XCom: Enemy Within from the latest GameInformer, and it sounds awesome. Any word on what all the changes for MP is going to be? While I love the single player version, multiplayer was hella fun, too.
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Sep 18, 2013 17:35
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Well, I just pre-purchased Enemy Within and jumped in there... and there's nobody 
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Oct 3, 2013 19:34
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immortal flow posted:The steam page doesn't have a release date... is it already out? Went to play multiplayer to curbstomp some pubbies. Gotta love my three-man team of blitzkrieging destruction.
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Oct 3, 2013 19:47
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So, it looks like they've changed the movement outline to be more clear, good. It's kind of iffy in some places as it stands because everything's rounded, now you'll be able to clearly see the edges.
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Oct 10, 2013 01:05
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I, for one, can't wait to try out EXALT in Multiplatyer. Also that there's a way to counter/find out where people using Ghost Armor are at without having to resort to looking at move-spaces.
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Oct 10, 2013 20:16
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Metrohunter posted:units that don't rely on cover will be able to enter overwatch when spotted Well, now that sounds a little more like Old School XCOM.
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Oct 11, 2013 21:35
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amuayse posted:Well the DE:HR OST is certainly appropriate. Now he just has to get a gravelly voice and cyber shades. Dr. Shen never asked for this 
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Oct 12, 2013 05:06
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Vengarr posted:Is it my imagination, or is that the Uber Ethereal in the Alien Containment chamber in the Security Breach trailer? I think that's actually from the Ethereal Interrogation scene, if I recall correctly. Edit: Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6YQJWi0b30
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Oct 13, 2013 03:21
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Mr Dog posted:I'm guessing that means "If you can get an Arc Thrower shot off", since I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume they didn't add a dialog tree system to this game. Sounds like we can expect the equivalent of an early-game Ethereal battle to go with the early-game Battleship raid from Slingshot, granting a unique early Psionic soldier to go with your early Blaster Launcher. It'll probably a stage-wise battle where she'll periodically retreat and a wave of EXALT will need to be fought off. I could see it working differently--not dialogue trees, but it could fold nicely into the EXALT Covert Op system, in that you have to track down the specific EXALT Cell that has Annette, and if you ignore it/don't find the right one in time, bad things happen
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Oct 14, 2013 18:32
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I don't know if Squadsights going to be as all powerful as it was before, though, what with them taking out critical hits on Squadsight. You might actually have a reason to take Snapshot now. At least it's more of a choice than that for Gunslinger or drat Good Ground, which gets even more weight in it's favor with the undercover work now. I don't know if I need to spoiler tag gameplay elements or not...
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Oct 14, 2013 21:59
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I'm hoping this gives a boost to Multiplayer, that was my favorite part of the game after I beat the campaign. It's just really, really fun.
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Oct 15, 2013 15:48
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Who said they don't make boneheaded moves in classic? That just happened on the first mission of my latest classic campaign. To be honest, I thought I was gonna lose a guy at first--that sectoid charged into two separate overwatches and fired on my one health guy who was hiding behind a pillar, right in front of where my cursor is, that was destroyed instead. Really, really odd that it moved there instead of behind the counter. Edit: Welp, as I was alt-tabbing to post that, I was hit by this odd bug.  I tried to fix it in graphics options, but that just made the hud move even more off screen. DMW45 fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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Oct 17, 2013 18:31
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Andre Banzai posted:http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/23/4867186/making-heroics-matter-making-death-sadder-in-xcom-enemy-within Edit: Wait, misunderstood that. Nvm.
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Oct 23, 2013 15:16
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I kinda like how they made it so you'll just have random soldiers in that mission. It's neat.
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Oct 23, 2013 22:59
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Your base HP does get better with rank, though. So at Colonel you're healing up to like 9-10 HP rather than 6.
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Oct 24, 2013 15:21
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Looking at the wiki, some of the new items look really interesting. I especially like the Mimic Beacon,quote:An item which tossed similar to a grenade that emits a signal that tricks aliens into thinking it's human, drawing them towards it and away from any nearby player units; the beacon won't fool robotic or psionic aliens. And Reaper Rounds might, depending on how cheap/early they're available may make heading for armor first more interesting, quote:Adds 20% to critical chance against organic targets. Doubles the weapon's range penalty. Only affects conventional weapons.
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Oct 25, 2013 15:45
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heckyeahpathy posted:I would honestly love to see some kind of chryssalid spore grenade. Affects a wide area, sticks around for about 5 turns, if you don't get your squad the gently caress out of the way in like a turn or two they're infected and you have to either medkit them or finish the mission before they burst. It would force you to think about having to displace in the middle of a less-than-ideal situation, and it would bring back the idea of serious consequences to the late game. Eh, that would be too annoying to deal with. The Sectopod getting free overwatches and 50% damage resistance is kinda enough, I think.
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Oct 25, 2013 17:55
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toasterwarrior posted:I wish the modding tweaks they did would be enough for new weapons to pop up. Kinetics beat energy weapons any day in my book; hell, I would've rather had it gone so that X-COM never actually gets to use Plasma weapons. Instead, you turn those super-light alloys and laser batteries into a sick-nasty railgun so that the world will know that green phlegm bad, badass smoke trails good. Well, to be honest, I think we could see new custom weapons from mods down the line--there's gonna be more weapon models floating about because of EXALT. They have their own version of Laser Weapons, possibly even Plasma Weapons. Just takes a mod to adjust the stats.
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Oct 25, 2013 20:30
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zylche posted:I was typing up all the skills that had potential, but it turned into me writing 80% of the skills that aren't weapon-specific. Here's the weapon-specific ones I know of: I don't think they'd add Danger Zone or Mayhem--I don't think they'd let you get Mayhem or Danger Zone, anything that requires you to have another ability wouldn't work because you might not have that ability.
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Oct 29, 2013 17:16
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Looking at gene mods, once EW hits, a Snap Shot sniper with drat Good Ground might actually be good with a few gene mods--Depth Perception and Boosted Muscle Fiber. Jump up onto a roof and you'd get +15 Aim, +5 Crit, and +10 Defense, more than enough to counter the Snap Shot penalty. It could probably stand to have a small buff or two, though.
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Oct 31, 2013 15:46
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poptart_fairy posted:
Yep. That's pretty much how I handle the first slingshot mission--even when the chryssalid drops and tries charging for me I typically bring it down with everyone's reaction fire.
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Nov 2, 2013 14:29
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Gato posted:At least you can finally customise him with bright pink armour in EW, or make him into a MEC trooper. I never really got the complaints about him being a Mary Sue or whatever - sure it sucks that Slingshot was 3 scripted missions, but Zhang's basically no different from Anna Sing or Thomas Hutch or the other named VIPs, except that he joins you. Eh, I think it's mostly just his intro scene--he shows up your guys, and that's not cool.
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Nov 6, 2013 19:12
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Coq au Nandos posted:He's about a week from being ex-limbed. Disarmed 
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Nov 7, 2013 00:40
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Mzbundifund posted:My question about Exalt is, how frequently do they do their actions? Like, are we looking at two covert ops a month? Three? One every two months? Assuming that the devs didn't space out the alien missions more to compensate for adding a new mission source, it might become necessary to have a couple standing squads, just so you have guys available for fighting Exalt while your alien-busting crew is in hospital from the last UFO crash. Well, it's more determined by player agency, simply because it's not random, it's based on what EXALT Cells about or whether they're there at all or if they're exposed or not. If you take initiative, do some intel scans and take out every cell as they come up and they won't be able to annoy you. If you're asking how often EXALT Cells spawn, though, we don't know yet.
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Nov 7, 2013 13:24
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Kanos posted:Depending on how EXALT is implemented I can see them being hugely debilitating depending on the timing of their attacks. Having EXALT make their entrance by resetting your Beam Weapons research right before the first terror mission lands would be a bullet-sweating moment. From what I can gather from the previews, you'll get a warning cutscene when they first appear, and if you can keep on top of them, they should never be able to get off an attack on you--but the problem is keeping on top of them means intel scans, and intel scans cost cash.
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Nov 7, 2013 17:54
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Demiurge4 posted:If EW lets you keep the second wave options I'm considering making my first game a marathon. Think that'd be a good idea? I don't know about that. EW is supposed to mess with promotion rates and other things to keep Gene Mods and MECs balanced, so you'll not only be without lasers for longer, your guys will be weaker than they would in EU.
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Nov 7, 2013 19:20
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Yeah, four health. Way better than the vest. It's one of my favorite items for MP.
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Nov 7, 2013 22:58
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amanasleep posted:Need to look more closely to try to match up Exalt prices with abilities, but it seems at first blush that you can recreate most Exalt soldier ability packages with XCOM soldier builds. I don't think that'll be the case with the Exalt Elite, as they said in the demos they get gene mods XCOM won't. Also, isn't the case with Mimetic Skin that you need to both be in full cover and concealment for it to work? That's a little more balanced, I think.
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Nov 8, 2013 21:03
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FoolyCharged posted:Not to my knowledge from what we have seen. The only check on the cloak we've seen in gameplay footage is from before the move is started. It seems to be for moving forward/opening doors with low risk. Like I said, concealment and full cover.
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Nov 9, 2013 00:15
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Section Z posted:Poking at the multiplayer again, I've been reminded just how much the Bar Map favors the guys who start right by the ladder to the roof, while the other guy starts IN THE loving MIDDLE OF AN OPEN PARKING LOT! Eh, that's not so bad. They typically don't expect you to do more than cautiously go through the parking lot into the inside of the building. I make a mad dash towards the other ladder to the roof and typically catch them off guard. Section Z posted:EDIT: MOTHER FUCKER. I hope, if they fix any loving MP bugs in the expansion, they fix when it steals your second action. Losing track of the times where I move to flank someone well within the blue, but it decides NOPE that's your only action. If you can't move a guy beyond your normal move zone, you'll be hit with a bug. Try switching back and forth with another guy, or going into firing mode and back out a few times to fix it. As for why Bar's so popular, when you click on quick match, and there's not one available, it makes a new match for you--defaulting to the bar map.
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Ladder guy can climb some guys onto the roof on turn one, parking lot guy can't even reach the outer wall of the bar with a sprint for a lot of units on the first turn.
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Section Z posted:Moronic gimmick trip report number whatever. Eh, my favorite teams never had squad sight or alloy cannons or even psychic powers. Though they were mobile as hell.
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Nov 10, 2013 22:32
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Darkrenown posted:Kind of a waste then, surely? He could just play the full version. Not impossible though I suppose. I mean, to post it. Otherwise he'd have to wait a couple of weeks to play it, then get footage and edit it. 
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Why did my computer wait for today, of all days, for my RAM to go bad? Oh, well. It's fixed now and EW is downloading 
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Nov 12, 2013 22:58
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TalonDemonKing posted:Just finished the Base invade and got the last medal. The Star of Terra - Either grants everyone in the squad +5 defense and +5 will or grants 25% bonus experience to squadmates under lieutenant. Is... is that a Mass Effect reference? It's been years since I played ME1, but iirc that's the medal that War Hero Shepard got.
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Nov 14, 2013 04:39
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So, I'm working on my Classic game. For the first month I got 4 satellites in the air, an OTS, a Cybernetics Lab, and two MECs, and I didn't lose a single country. In month two I just finished researching Beam Weapons, but it looks like I'm gonna lose Europe. Like, the whole thing. I had to make a choice because an engineer and power deficit meant I couldn't make another uplink in time. I chose Africa over Europe.
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Why do people keep saying it's hard to get Meld? I'm at the start of Month 3 in my first classic game, and I haven't missed a Meld Cannister yet. In fact I was more hamstrung by the fact I wound up selling all my alloys in the first month to help get Five Sats in the air. My first terror mission was fun, too. It was a small map so the Chryssalids pretty much ran at me in the first Alien turn, stopping right in front of my lead MEC. Who had Flamethrower.  I love panicking Chryssalids.Oh, and Germany and France are wusses and didn't wanna be in the XCom Club with 5 panic.
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Just ran into my first pair of Mutons on my classic run. I gave one a Kinetic Uppercut and the other I finished off with a Flamethrower to the face. Whoever recommended two MECs, you're awesome. Edit: And I just got the Newfoundland Council Mission. Welp. This is gonna be crazy. Good thing my Assault just learned Close Combat Specialist.
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