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TheWeedNumber posted:I guess spider suits need another look heh. The mobility from spider suits is amazing, and even though they don't have as much armor/hp as the war suits, I think for general purpose use they are better.
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reignofevil posted:If you somehow get four to six soldiers kidnapped you should get to do a special story mission where they steal some guns and bust out of jail on their own. There was some mod I tried a year or two back that had a jail break mission for times like that. It was a hard as hell mission, but it was nice to get everyone back at once. If you didn't have enough captured soldiers it would toss random soldiers/engineers/scientists in there that you could rescue and recruit as well.
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TheWeedNumber posted:Did I gently caress up by doing a resistance ring first? The biggest reason to do GTS first is to get the fifth soldier in time for the terror mission. If you can handle the terror mission with just 4 soldiers you're better off long term with the Ring.
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^burtle posted:How was Chimera Squad? I guess with no DLC everyone cleared it and went back to 2? Played through it a couple of times. It was fun, but yeah I play WotC regularly still, and not Chimera Squad. For  it was a great deal, and it looks like it's only $7 right now on Steam.
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Serephina posted:Before Strix cross-posts it here; I mean, I would play through a campaign if someone paid me a ton of money for it, but yeah I completely understand your sentiment.
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^burtle posted:Just rolled the credits on Chimera Squad, I liked it a lot. I only played Normal since I was rusty but I was surprised that I was able to wrap the game without the full roster. Is that a length of time thing or did I miss something? There are a couple of mods that let you recruit everyone, but they aren't going to level if you're not bringing them.
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Fintilgin posted:Huh, hundreds of hours and I never saw this behavior before. Lost sitrep on a supply mission of some sort and I was in concealment watching as a group of lost attacked Advent. Advent refused to fire on them and just hopped back and forth over some barriers while the lost smacked at them. I felt like it was cheating to let the lost kill `em, so I started combat after a five rounds or so . If you are concealed and have vision of both the Lost and the Advent, they will activate and attack each other. Usually the Advent actually respond, but maybe their AI bugged out because it knew you were nearby and didn't want to expose the flank to you?
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Angry Diplomat posted:It's a bit less situational with a Templar in the squad. Stand next to an explosive thing, swap places with the Chosen, switch to the Reaper and watch the fireball Why have I never thought about trying this?
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FoolyCharged posted:That feeling when you spend a bunch of time setting up a massive overwatch trap for the berserker queen, but then the first one is her getting a repeater to the face. Repeater procs on bosses are the best.
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I just use a couple of mods with a ton of pregenerated characters because I'm a lazy rear end, so I never see the same one twice.
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Play X-COM 1 with the Enemy Within DLC (no need to do a vanilla run first; the content is integrated nicely alongside the base campaign) EW makes the base defense mission significantly more difficult, and although meld makes things a lot easier if you know what you're doing with it, it might be better to start with the base game. EW is integrated really well though, definitely a lot better than the mis-named 'integrate DLC' option in Xcom2
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Remalle posted:The base defense mission didn't even exist in EU, so yeah it got a lot harder in EW That tells you how bad my memory is, I thought it was there but the Mechs were the new part!
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Battletech is a great game, and there are all sorts of mods to tweak it if you want. I use a couple of small mods that add additional mechs without changing much about the gameplay, but there are a couple of big ones that dramatically change the way it works.
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TK-42-1 posted:Chimera Squad seems like a tech demo more than anything. It’s fun but seems unpolished. It definitely feels like a test to see how if the interleaved turns would work in a potential xcom3. It was a lot of fun though.
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With Xcom2 I often lose someone in the first half dozen missions, but after that it's very rare. I had a recent game where Jane Kelly (using the mod that force spawns her) died during Gatecrasher, and then I didn't lose anyone else for the rest of it.
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BlazetheInferno posted:Also I don't think you can evacuate from the Blacksite; it's a mission where the Evac zone is placed *for* you, and only after you achieve the objective. From what I remember you can call in an evac on that mission up to the point of grabbing the vial. There are only a couple of missions where you truly can't evac, and it's the hostage rescue where you have to hold out against waves of respawns, and the ones where the spawn is already preplaced. The black site doesn't have a preplaced evac until you grab the vial. E: or maybe it's the forge that doesn't have the preplaced? If so, ignore everything I just wrote.
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Phoenix Point is original xcom mechanics with new xcom squad sizes, and a unique aiming system. Same old inventory bullshit, same getting sniped from the fog, but with fewer rookies to soak damage, same convoluted tech system, same base management mess where you try to decide where to put them around the globe, and production is basically identical original xcom.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I never play Ironman because each time I've tried the game soft locks. Specifically at some random point doing a reinforcements drop for the enemy. There is an overwatch lockup bug (with a mod to fix it)
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Double Bill posted:I doesn't really even matter how good or bad it was. People were expecting a new XCOM but got a licensed Marvel game instead. There was no way Firaxis could win. Yep. As soon as I heard it was going to be a Marvel game I immediately ignored it.
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Apoc is probably my favorite of the 3 older games, but it 100% has to be played in realtime, turns/TUs don't work at all with a bunch of the units and weapons. I'd love a new version of it, which Chimera Squad kind of felt like it was the proof of concept for.
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There is one that I don't remember the name for that puts a statline above your soldiers, so you can see who your 100 aim gods are, and who the 65 aim chumps are.
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I always used to do the classic mode so you had to do the nest mission to spawn them, but at some point I just decided to do the integrated one and keep them parked at facilities until I was ready for them. Nest is too hard of a mission for how early it spawns, and too easy later to bother with.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:I did at least learn the value of more than 4 squad members. Finally finished the building that lets you bring more lol Every time I've tried to get that achievement for never upgrading the squad size I give up after the third terror mission because it turns into such a pain in the rear end.
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RVT posted:What spark mods do people use? Pretty sure the one I use is called Mechatronic Warfare.
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If it had been anything other marvel I most likely would have played it, but I've skipped the last dozen or two marvel movies because they just aren't interesting, so I had no desire to give them a ton of money for a game.
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JosefStalinator posted:This is all good advice - I'll probably start with vanilla or lightly modded WotC and try Long War if the ennui of Summer makes me want something longer and more punishing. Pretty much only the two previously listed mods of evac all and the gotcha one are mandatory for quality of life reasons. You might want to try mechatronic warfare to make your robots more fun, but I wouldn't really mod it more than that.
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BlazetheInferno posted:but it really does feel that Long War, at its core, is built on deep, seething hatred for the player This is 100% the Long War design.
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JosefStalinator posted:Mechanically and in terms of UI/quality of life, XCOM2 is superior to XCOM1 and I love playing it for that reason. The stealth stuff is fun too. I agree completely about the UI improvements in xcom2, which is why it's so hard to go back to xcom1. It would be pretty fun to try a mod that combines the two into xcom1 story with xcom2 QoL.
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Shyrka posted:Almost as sad as Jane Kelly being in two places at once and then being promoted as a specialist instead of a ranger. Use this mod to make her always spawn in Gatecrasher as a Ranger. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2336174862
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Sankara posted:It's hilariously busted, but I can't go back to playing without the mod that makes swords/templars work with the "headshot" mechanic on Lost. Your soldiers pinball all around the map, it's a delight. It's so broken but so much fun. I did tweak it a little to also make the spark and skirmisher melee skills headshot as well.
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dodgeblan posted:An incredibly cool game! Terrain deformation is a lot of fun. Having to exfil a VIP on the second floor of a building with a tight mission timer practically demands badass explosion and breach antics Sometimes it's helpful to blow up the exit if it's up top, it will respawn somewhere else. Usually a better location, but sometimes you shoot yourself in the foot and it's even further away.
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