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Lotish posted:I dunno. It seems to me you could have a colored sphere not unlike the free-aiming AoE sphere that deforms based on cover and follows the cursor when you select a unit to move (or only appears when you click on a spot, along with a "confirm move" dialogue). Obviously the game knows where you can shoot and what is in that mathematically calculated radius, so putting a visual to it makes sense. There was a panel where they went over rejected ideas, and one of them was basically this- it would show you who you could see at any given point, along with range and CTH. Problem was that it looked like a mess (like 10 candycane lines coming out of your mouse.) I still think they should have added it as a button press or something.
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On one hand, 7 gig patch. On the other, more time to play EU4!
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Is anyone else not seeing cover icons near their mouse?
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Fledgling Gulps posted:Medals seem cool and the new hats are neato. Squad wipe on the first council mission, think I'll restart tomorrow.  Was doin' just fine til I forgot about a Thin Man on overwatch, killed my assault, support panicks, flanks support while the other guy's can't see him, crits my heavy, then kills my sniper.
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gently caress that first council mission, I've wiped to it twice now.
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Davin Valkri posted:Oh, that's nice, the Base Defense operation name is a poetry reference! That's pretty cool. Just cleared the whale mission at the cost of my entire squad except one lieutenant sniper running like hell with two lids on her tail, woulda gotten her next turn. e: oh god i only have 4 guys left and 3 are snipers StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Nov 14, 2013 |
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How many sats fo you guys have ny month 2? I had 5 up but no money for Mechs which meant I wiped Progeny and thus didn't have the resources to handle the rest of the game.
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RBA Starblade posted:Oh you fuckers want me to get every single squadmember to the evac point and not just one of them. This mission is amazing and terrifying. You can abort ahead of time, it just leaves everyone behind.
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Do Council missions ever throw Seekers at you? They're always the best place to bring SS snipers.
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Nov 16, 2013 09:10
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In other news, I'm doing the Van Doorn extraction. He's yelling "Get over here! Not fair if I have all the fun" as my team is forced to watch an experienced veteran slowly bleeding out. What a dick.
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Nov 16, 2013 09:20
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Does Double Tap work with pistols?
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Nov 30, 2013 19:16
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Coolguye posted:These are all extremely important questions and I demand they be answered. Read Timothy Zahn's Cobra, it's a novel about what happens when supersoldiers have to go back to civilian life. Nothing about Bradford's sweater, though.
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Nov 30, 2013 23:08
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SeaTard posted:I agree, gently caress the hats and all that other cosmetic bullshit. It was fun for the first game or two, but I usually just leave everyone at the default now. I would make hats but it doesn't remember their hairstyle. e: mech in beret + sunglasses is pretty boss though.
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Lost an EXALT mission when one of the badguys shot and blew up the transmitter 
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Is the EXALT base easier/harder/the same as the EXALT missions?
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Anyone else been having weird LOS bugs with destroying cover? I shot a rocket at a bunch of EXALT dudes on the base assault and they all disappeared from my ITZ sniper's view.
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:I don't know, but there should be. I was ranking up a new Assault earlier today, and her last name was Warren. The nickname she got was "Wardog." e: Away all Goats posted:Man training roulette sucks sometimes. What is my squadsight, sentinel, opportunist sniper supposed to do with Grenadier? It should work on Ghost Grenades, right?
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poptart_fairy posted:Someone sell me on the MEC ability that turns them into full cover. It seems extremely situational. I use it to grant cover to people who get flanked. For example, I tripped a Mechtoid and a couple Sectoids and he moved to the point where he was gonna flank my Heavy. I used the Heavy to shoot a rocket and then moved the mec to cover her flank.
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Which class should I put Bioelectric Skin on? I'm thinking a Support and then give Mimetic Skin to everyone else.
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jng2058 posted:I like it on Snipers. I tend to use Squadsight Snipers who are far back from the rest of the squad. Bioelectric Skin keeps them from getting strangled while they're all alone in back, and the invisibility of Mimetic Skin matters less for them because they're usually too far away from enemies to be seen anyway. I was planning to put it on a close-up soldier for use in breach-and-clears in discovering enemy spawns. I already had a tense moment where I tripped a bunch of spawns I wasn't expecting in a UFO.
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Kiggles posted:The point is not to detect enemies, but to prevent yo isolates sniper from being strangled by Seekers. Memetic Skin is generally more useful for scouting, since the bioelectric effect is basically only as large as your view radius (if even that), so it is only useful in closed quarters, where simply being invisible would probably be more useful anyway. See, I know Mimetic Skin is more useful for scouting, but I was planning on having one designated guy have Bioelectric entirely for breaching so I can see where the enemies are on the other side of a wall.
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I'm pretty sure Solomon said that he doesn't want to do TFTD because he prefers the terror of 'there are aliens in my backyard and they're shooting up the 7-11 down the road' to the more otherworldy terror of the ocean. But I wouldn't be surprised if a sequel of some stripe comes out.
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Coolguye posted:Yeah, they lost the rights to this game after Alien Crossfire, which was super lame. That doesn't stop them from just slapping a new coat of paint on it and calling it Sid Meier's Beta Ceti or whatever, though, and arguably this would be a better route than trying to wring more mileage out of "Lal and Yang are dicks to eachother and also Miriam hates everyone and is more dangerous than the psycho survivalist chick". It turns out that's exactly what they did!
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Anonymous Robot posted:What's the use of the MEC's "one for all" ability? Does the MEC still count as cover after it takes a second action? It seems like a bit of a waste to forego an action on your MEC just to become cover, which isn't scarce in X-Com, but I could see it being kind of convenient if you could shoot/reload/whatever and still count as two blocks of full cover. I like it for when I have a guy that trips a pack of aliens by accident.
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folgore posted:ITS NOT FAIR IF I HAVE ALL THE FUN *star soldier lying bleeding out on the ground, gasping her last breath as her teammates watch in horror*
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Normal Long War doesn't have gambler's luck, right?
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Is there any word on the not-so-long-war option? Long War sounds fantastic but a standard campaign of XCom is testing my patience.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:The part that's really weird in terms of story is how you need to reassemble the star lions in order to fight the Robeast that appears in Japan during month 9. When you eventually get aboard the orbiting attack barge, Prince Lotor is there, and sure, you manage to kill him using the yamato cannon, but where's Mumra during all this? You only get an inkling that he's on Limbo with Melodia, but Mon*Star is conspicuously absent? During the Exalt final confrontation, if you rotate the camera down to its lowest angle while looking out at the back balcony area, you can see what looks like Sky-runner, riderless, flying in front of the moon. I AM A DELUSIONAL SHITHEAD DO NOT ARGUE WITH ME (  )
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So how long is Long War? Vanilla X-Com was kinda trying my patience by the end, is this significantly longer?
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Looking at that HP bloat is just  though.
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EW should let you change it in the customization screen, although note that it's just the languages it was localized in, so no British English or Asian languages.
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Can't wait to see the streams tommorrow, XCOM had really great pre-release coverage Cythereal posted:1. The setting. I do not like the premise of an underground guerilla movement in a cyberpunk-ish future where the aliens and their collaborators won. this is literally the worst opinion in the thread
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ProfessorBooty posted:XCOM 2: You play as ISIS sign me up for the Space Viet Cong
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Broken Loose posted:I was sold by the trailer, but Jake Solomon's "I'd wear the feminist propaganda badge with honor" comment and the Mospeada comparison have me wanting to preorder the drat thing. I keep thinking Mospeada is a Latin American guerrilla organization .
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To people talking about TFTD: the stated reason they don't want to do it is Solomon feels XCOM is more 'about' aliens invading people's normal lives and the otherworldly TFTD environments take away from thatMister Bates posted:Am I the only one who actually thinks it sounds really cool? I loving love asymetrical warfare and insurgencies in games so I'm super pumped for this
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I like the idea of a guerrilla-tactics game, it's actually something I've been pining for a long-rear end time and have never been able to find one to scratch the itch. JA2 was close, but the way mercs worked in the game meant that you basically had to savescum, as you can't afford to lose more than five or six soldiers over the course of the campaign.
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When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man, He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can. But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Spudd posted:If I find the snakelady attractive am I a bad person? No, no, just fine. *scribbles name in black notebook* e: Zomborgon posted:Kinda reminds me of Space Alert. General impressions I got from people who'd played it was "It's not bad but why aren't you just playing Space Alert instead?"
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no thread turn back
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so this is a honeypot thread right
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smh if you're not excited to join the space IRA
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