I'm not a professional at this!!! I suck, and I'll be making a lot of dumb choices that will make you want to pull your hair out. People will die, I'll gladly march someone out to die if they annoy me. I'll make risky moves that won't pay off. I'll sacrifice a rookie to get meld. If you want someone who agonizes over every tile then I recommend watching 
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Mission 1 below ------------------------------------------- Dinictus's thoughts on Cedric's favorite past time, and new nickname:  Wheany is going to get rich by teaching our snipers one weird trick.  I streamed XCOM 2! Here it is: Part 1 | Youtube Link Part 2 | Youtube Link Part 3 | Youtube Link Part 4 | Youtube Link ------------------------------------------- Mission 1 and Base Management 1(Please forgive the 'hollow' audio. It will sound like this for this video, and video 2. I'm changing audio recording methods which should improve voices (Except for Kidneyman's, because it seems like his voice is perfect no matter HOW I record it.) First thing we do is choose where we want our base. Each country gives a small bonus (or you can choose no bonus), and all continent bonuses are only earned on full satellite coverage. Bonuses Bonuses are there to tweak difficulty, and aren't really balanced against each other. From what I understand, some bonuses are there to offset how bad it is to perform interceptions in that country (such as Australia and Russia). I'm choosing Mexico's Legacy of Uxmal, this is because I'm pretty confident of my game on Classic Difficulty, and it should also reduce the grind in the late game. I can also get Air Superiority before the end of the first month. There's a couple sneaky bonuses that seem great but probably aren't, such as Canada's Advanced Preparations: This bonus prevents you from getting full satellite coverage unless you tear down one of the buildings near the beginning, if you don't tear down the buildings, then your adjacency bonuses later will suffer. Abilties Showcase Gunner v. Rocketeer The heavy class has been split into gunners and rocketeers. The gunner class is one of those 'always good' classes, because even if your aim is junk, you can still suppress bad guys. Typically I use my gunners for officers, and they provide an amazing base of fire. I see three or four viable builds in the gunner. I typically make 2.5 builds, that is, officer gunners have some of the properties of anti-armor gunners, but with more defensive/tank options. There's the full on offensive anti-armor gunner, and the 'bullet wizard' shredder gunner. The gunner is an almost mandatory class for any squad. I try to have at least five anti-armor gunners in the roster, four of which will be officers. The Rocketeer class isn't bad, it just requires a little bit of TLC to get it going, with this in mind I typically avoid making specialist rocketeers. Three great paths for the rocketeer: The rifleman path, the overwatch path, and the 'rocket-teer'(All rockets all the time), and every one of these classes has access to some sort of aim buffing perk (Fire in the Hole and/or Platform stability). A difference between prior betas is that any rocketeer path can take HEAT warheads, and shooting a rocket grants 1 mobility, and taking the 'shock and awe' perk (2 free rockets) doesn't keep you from getting perks like Danger Zone. I personally prefer better rifleman over better rocketeers as explosives tend to destroy artifacts and corpses. Scout v. Sniper Classes that can be played completely opposite from each other, or very similar to each other. The Scout in this case is extremely good early game, and can help keep a squad of rookies on the offensive, by busting through overwatch with lightning reflexes. The sniper is a great class, but needs aim buffing items and good forethought to use correctly. Interestingly, the sniper starts with 'squadsight' instead of 'head shot' (or, in long war, precision shot). Gives you insight in to what Firaxis believes snipers do (one-shot enemies) versus the Long War devs (shoot from far away). I use scouts almost the entire game, I don't care what the haters have to say, but with the beta 15 changes I'm not certain my exact plan with them. It seems we have crit scouts, support scouts, and scouty-scouts. Snipers are great, but need a little push to be especially useful (aim buffing items especially). Three basic classes I use: The Crit sniper, the Disabling sniper, and the In the Zone monster sniper. Engineer v. Medic Engineers are kind of the 'super rookie' class at specialist. They get to carry four grenades, which means they're always good. Later on they can move on to support engineers, 'extra explodey' (sapper) engineers, and dedicated anti-armor engineers. I prefer support engineers, but I'll build a combination of support engineers and sapper engineers. Medics are important, I love medics, but in the early game its much more important to train people up. If I have to take a relatively experienced squad, I'll likely opt to take a new guy with medkits over a medic, unless its a long-haul mission, such as a landed large UFO. Once I increase squad size the medics take a more permanent role. I'm still working out what to do with the new medic tree, but the intended paths seem to be the rifleman medic, support medic, and Medic Medic. I'll likely do support medics and combination rifleman/Medic medics. Infantry v. Assault In this case, the assault is the 'always good' class, but run 'n gun can get you in trouble if you're not careful. When I'm starting to take specialists on missions, I try to have at least one assault, and because they tend to get hurt more often than other classes that means I'm pulling six or seven assaults by the end of the second month. There are likely many intended paths for the assault, but I stick with the 'Crit assault', and the 'Hybrid tank assault' (as opposed to full-tank assault). I start with hybrid tanks exclusively, start building crit assaults, then near the end game go back to the hybrids. The assault class is drat good and can pretty much carry your squad. Infantry are amazing soldiers, and start with 'Light 'em up' (Vanilla's bulletswarm). This means their early game accuracy can be offset by sheer volume of fire, provided they are positioned well. I tend to make two infantry officers, and I have three classes, the 'officer' infantry, which is a hybrid of the 'overwatch' infantry, who, as you can guess, has a good overwatch, then finally the 'critfantry', which was my favourite type of infantry in beta 14, but with the changes to aim I'm not so sure now. Both the Assault and Infantry can be viable at specialist even in the late game - maybe they won't be as amazing, but you don't have to worry about aim when you can just shove the shotgun into a Muton's mouth. -------------- Beta 15b came out after recording this video. Because we're still in the extremely early game, I can upgrade without troubles, and I double-checked that earlier today. We plan on doing some recording this weekend, so please volunteer now so things are more interesting! ProfessorBooty fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 13, 2016 |
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Allow me to be the first volenteer,  I'll be any gender (Alien killing doesn't know sex discrimination) or any class (if it has a trigger, I'll pull it). So... yeah.
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Mar 13, 2015 05:29
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I have enough loving trouble with the base game to try playing a harder mod, but I'm looking forward to seeing how you get through this. I wouldn't mind being a redshirt, no preference for class, gender, etc other than to ask that they're australian.
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Mar 13, 2015 05:38
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Keepin' an eye on this specifically because I love Beaglerush so goddamn much, but motherfucker LOVES counting. Since I pretty much have my pick of the litter, I'll toss my hat in as a Crit-Monster Sniper. I know it might take a while to see the real killing power, but I'm willing to wait. I love Snipers in the base game. Gender and hair are unimportant to me.
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Mar 13, 2015 05:45
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I am ready to die for the cause!
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Mar 13, 2015 05:45
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I volunteer, Born to DIE!!!!! I'll take whatever class, gender and/or nationality you throw my name on!
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Mar 13, 2015 05:59
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Also, you can activate an action like throwing a grenade by pressing space.
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Mar 13, 2015 06:06
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Good to see someone other than Beagle doing this. Don't get me wrong, I love his videos, but I think he makes it look too easy. In any case, toss me into the meat blender!
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Mar 13, 2015 06:26
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I've never volunteered in a thread like this. Reporting for duty! Chinese female, door-kicker and point-(wo)man. Which I guess makes her infantry or assault, whichever fits your plan better.
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Mar 13, 2015 06:32
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I'll sign up to be cannon fodder. Assault or Engineer, Scottish or Irish if possible, with orange guile hair if you got it. And bright red armour, because da red ones go fasta.
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Mar 13, 2015 06:33
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Sign me up. I'd like to be a sniper/sharpshooter if at all possible.
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Mar 13, 2015 06:39
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Sign me up for the war for Earth, sir. I am not picky for any sort of classes, but French, Canadian, or French Canadian will be probably appropriate. Mind you, I always wished to become a wizard. A bullet wizard build might be wonderful! Cosmic Afro fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 06:42
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Sign me up, as a scout wearing a helmet if that's alright.
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Mar 13, 2015 06:56
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I'll toss my hat in to be fresh meat. Put me in as whatever, though it'd be cool to eventually get MEC'd. Also everything pink. Hot pink. Evil Kit fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 07:05
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I'll take an American Rocketeer or Gunner and if Guile Hair still exists you know what to do.
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Mar 13, 2015 07:06
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Sign me up as a bald Russian gunner.
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Mar 13, 2015 07:10
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I volunteer as Engineer! For CC, I ask to be a White guy and have the head be the beanie with the googles and the headset (if it's not an option, then a helmet, don't care what kind). Is there a Turkish voice option? If so, then can you use that? If there isn't, then just go with American. SgtSteel91 fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 07:18
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The voice packs in the base game are just from the translated versions - French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, and Polish. Long War B15 added some accented voice packs as well - British, Irish, Australian, and I believe a Chinese-accented English pack as well. They're all surprisingly good, since they actually got Firaxis's help with the sound filters. Sadly, no Turkish option though.
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Mar 13, 2015 07:39
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Sign me right up! I'll be a Assault with whichever build you think i fit the most. Pretty glad to see someone playing LW since it's a pretty cool thing!
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Mar 13, 2015 07:45
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Oh wow, I didn't even know this game had mods. I gotta try this out sometime, because IW was already pretty loving good. Sign me up as a Sniper with a glorious Canadian mullet!
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Fister Roboto posted:The voice packs in the base game are just from the translated versions - French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, and Polish. Long War B15 added some accented voice packs as well - British, Irish, Australian, and I believe a Chinese-accented English pack as well. They're all surprisingly good, since they actually got Firaxis's help with the sound filters. Then American voice it is. But can you change the flag on the back of your guy? Is so, then can it be the Turkish flag?
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Mar 13, 2015 08:00
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Strangely, Turkey was not one of the nations that soldiers could be from the in the vanilla game. Fortunately, Long War adds pretty much every nation on the face of the Earth.
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Mar 13, 2015 08:21
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Totally volunteering to die for the X-COM cause, with no preference to colour, hairstyle or class.
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Mar 13, 2015 08:53
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I volunteer to die for X-Com. Give me a british voice, Guile Hair, in the brightest most obnoxious color you can. (With purple Chuckya armor.)
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Mar 13, 2015 09:18
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I'd like to a Gunner if at all possible. Also if your Gunners don't all have the  Skull Helmet I don't even know what to say
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Mar 13, 2015 09:35
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I volunteer for duty, give me one of the english speaking voices, other than that it's up to you.
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Mar 13, 2015 09:46
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Looking forward to seeing all the stuff that they changed for LW. Speaking of, sign me up as the most anime soldier you can make.
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Mar 13, 2015 09:49
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I submit myself to the cause! Whatever soldier type is needed, I'm fine with. But for patriotic reasons, I'd prefer either Scottish, either that or Italian, if the latter is available. P.S. If you'd want pilots, you can call him 'Dead Meat'. Samovar fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 09:55
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I will also be any solder. Sign me up sir.
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Mar 13, 2015 09:58
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Sign me up. Make me whatever with the dumbest hair color/style possible, otherwise for the other stuff I don't care.
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Mar 13, 2015 10:16
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Sign me up! Make me a Spanish door-kicker. Male, Guile hair and Sunglasses. Just like in real life.
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Mar 13, 2015 11:50
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Sign me up for whatever causes the biggest explosions. Don't really care about the face but I want the cowboy hat. Oh, and male. Nationality anything but Russian. edit: Hopefully my guy will live up to his ancestor's mass murdering reputation set by the Apocalypse LP. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 12:00
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Sign Me up Any soldier
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Mar 13, 2015 12:03
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Sign me up as a lady, any class.
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Mar 13, 2015 12:16
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Sign me up too (just "Puukko" will do), any class, nationality and gender will do.
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Mar 13, 2015 12:23
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I'd like to sign up as a Chinese male scouty-scout.
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Mar 13, 2015 12:34
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This sounds cool as poo poo. Please sign me up as a female anything. Rookies gonna... Rook?
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Mar 13, 2015 12:37
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I'll volunteer. Just please, don't make me German.
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Sign me up as a pilot! We must be ready to serve our country, but dying is another matter entirely.
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