winterwerefox posted:

Beagle posted:

http://www.twitch.tv/pax2/v/38694034?t=2h17m30s

Replays and freecam (and tactical skirmish mode and more) confirmed for XCOM 2 on day 1 as part of Devmode. The replays feature an SC2-style feature where you can take over at any point in the replay and start playing the mission from that point. Keep in mind these replays are automatically generated even on Ironman missions and it will be possible to send these replays to people and host them online ala a lightweight savefile.

HenryEx posted:

Bradford can get mad at your troops leaving ADVENT burger wrappers everywhere. Perfect immersion.

RBA Starblade posted:

The ship ai kind of sounds like ADA from Zone of the Enders to me.

ImpAtom posted:

Modders please. You can even put tits on them I don't care.

Superstring posted:

Well, maybe not tits, but ahem something else.

Unlucky7 posted:

You may be thinking of dicks

Internet Kraken posted:

Kill them all

Mister Adequate posted:

Ho ho ho. You all need to get on my level.

For I, you see, am too disabled to leave the house. Some days, I'm even too disabled to shitpost.

What this means is I'll get to play XCOM 2 until I basically can't.

_{let me have this there has to be an upside}

DreamShipWrecked posted:

I am sure that this has been asked before, but is there a chance for VPN fun if GMG sends their keys out early? I am more than happy to become a 4-second citizen in exchange for Xcom early

Kanos posted:

Beagle was having to force himself to build a non-Gunslinger sharpshooter because gunslingers are very powerful. Pistols are weaker than normal main guns but benefit fully from special ammo types and generate a tremendous volume of attacks that no other weapon can match, so they're really strong.

Trilin posted:

The issue with blademaster is that while it is just a boring flat damage boost, it fuels so many of the other traits down the tree. Having +2 makes bladestorm better, it gets more mileage out of reaper and so on. Being flat damage means it becomes less and less of the final product as you move up in tiers, but with it your slash becomes the heaviest hitter for quite a long time. I think bringing a knife to a gunfight isn't as bad as beagle demonstrated.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Ok I'm gonna mod the Skryranger mission briefing to have classic rock songs playing from the PA.

Long Tall Sally and Fortunate Son is guaranteed, can I get some other suggestions?

Spudd posted:

Why can't you put modifications on SPARK's gun? Dude really needs a scope and autoloader.

dud root posted:

Give me a Spark, mech, or SHIV, and I'll kill it on its first mission

Am I just bad at managing units with no cover, or are they bullet magnets for everyone else?

Malachite_Dragon posted:

I never get the insta-kill effect on the loving repeaters. I just beat Alpha to death with my Ranger wearing Betas skin.

Mister Bates posted:

Just had a sharpshooter I'd been speccing as a straight Sniper, with an Advanced Scope, Tracer Rounds, and a Perception PCS, roll Rapid Fire as their AWC perk. It's like Deadeye, only a lot more damaging, with no cooldown. Sure, it burns more ammo, but that's what their expanded magazine is for.

BlazetheInferno posted:

Can you confirm that it activates Sniper overwatch, and not pistol?

GuavaMoment posted:

Yes. Or when you go in for that point blank guaranteed shot only to see "48% to hit? Why? High cover? From where -aaaaaaahhhhh!!!"

Don't take Bulwark. I was really disappointed with the majority of the left side SPARK tree in fact.

Lunethex posted:

I'm sure there's more I could add. The ones that aren't on were ones that ended up conflicting with better mods that included them, just haven't deleted them yet.

What I want is a mod that removes the helmet from the Archon King suit because it looks dumb. Also maybe a mod that makes it so if you use the "jump into the air and appear somewhere else" thing that it destroys ceilings when used inside.

Lurdiak posted:

I'm surprised no one's modded EU/EW units back into the game yet. I mean, maybe someone did a stat overhaul, but I'm talking models and everything.

Andre Banzai posted:

What I'd really like to see modded is some very classic alien mythology aliens.

Like gray aliens such as



I know those were supposed to be the Sectoids, but not really. Sectoids are "feral", basic, not THAT dangerous aliens in this game. I'd like them walking upright, teleporting and walking through walls, freezing loving time, mind controlling and causing mass hallucinations, you know, classic alien stuff from movies and abduction stories. I'd like them to be more terrifying them Ethereals and I'd like to encounter "leader grays", like the ones in the ending of "Close Encounters of the third Kind": tall, thin, horrible-looking nightmarish monstrosities that acted like an upgraded Ethereal (possibly with all your Psi Soldiers abilities plus the Grays' and acting 4 times per turn)



I'd love to be terrified of an alien like that, versatile, powerful and full of abilities that could catch you offguard. In a sense, if they froze time as an ability, reacting after each of your troops' turn would make a lot more sense.

Andre Banzai posted:

That's abolutely the best sequence in any alien movie ever, and yes I'm a huge fan of that movie, how did you know?

Bit offtopic here I know but one alien movie that I thought was really disturbing because it was so weird it was creepy, was "Communion": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ9SI7WShfU

Eraflure posted:

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

Lotish posted:

Those of you who make mods, is there a reason there don't seem to be any that add extra faces? You can get all sorts of stuff to put on your characters, and there are even mods that replace the heads entirely with things like Garrus from Mass Effect, but there don't seem to be any mods that add to the six or so basic faces.