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Sharzak posted:How come people are so hyped for this? Is it purely based off of the last one? I liked the last one, only finished it once though. People are acting like this is going to be earth-shattering. A lot of people liked it more than that. Also the kind of mod support they're showing off is impressive.
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immortal flow posted:How can this possibly be 10 gigs larger than Wild Hunt?? Is it just freakishly oversized textures or something? Completely uncompressed out-of-engine video? My poor SSD No static maps so there are a ton of loose assets it need to generate the random ones.
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nessin posted:Any word on whether Shivs or MECs will be returning (or some equivalent)? Neither in the base game. Well, fully robotic MECs are as enemies. And you can hack them in mission to control them. One will almost certainly be returning in the announced DLC 'Shen's Last Gift', especially since MEC autopsy says they're based off of work he was doing before he died and the DLC is explicitly adding another class. My bet would be MECs or some kind of nu-MEC class, perhaps something more 'Iron Man' than 'Lifter Exosuit'. Personally really hoping for androids though. Zore fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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Lastgirl posted:I'm a bit behind on knowledge mostly because I want to learn in-game as I go along, but the sniper/sharpshooter doesn't need snap-shot to move around and gun like xcom 1? I know there's been ability changes and all that, just curious about the movement penalty/fire restriction on snipers There is no snap-shot equivalent, but Sharpshooters always have access to their pistol which no other class gets (other classes have Swords/Grenade Launcher/Gremlin as their secondaries).
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jng2058 posted:So hey, check me on this. Nothing in the Reinforcement Pack actually unlocks on Friday, right?? The earliest any of it is available is "Spring 2016" so there's no particular reason for me to drop $20 on it right now? Cosmetic stuff. We know for sure old school EU style uniforms and other stuff.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Anarchy's Children looks to be the purely cosmetic one but the other two claim to add a new alien type and a new soldier class in Alien Hunters and Shen's Last Gift, respectively. I just meant you got some cosmetic stuff right away.
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I honestly don't see what the bid deal is with Phantom. It honestly seems pretty lovely and I'm definitely taking Blademaster on all my dudes. The later skill that lets you activate concealment at will 1/mission I see in a much better light because that seems to open up a lot of tactical options. But concealment that lasts when the rest of your team un-conceals seems pointless and mostly seems to make you fight at a man down.  Like concealment is gamebreaking good to get you out of tight situations. But Phantom means the second you get into one it becomes useless.
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FirstPersonShitter posted:Are mecs in the game? As enemies
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DreamShipWrecked posted:I have no idea what a skull jack is or does but from descriptions I am envisioning being able to hack into robots with a three foot spike to the forehead Its like that but you do it to organic enemies and also you shove the claw through the bottom of their skull to the top.
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Ciaphas posted:For when I make my character tonight, what class should I be Creating a character doesn't lock them to a class, they can show up as a rookie who can promote to anything. You can also tag them to show up in the base as an engineer/scientist or in missions as a VIP.
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Its weird I exceed the mins but even on all the lowest settings I'm still getting everything really choppy. Might need to get a new laptop 
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Feb 5, 2016 01:01
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So something I just learned, enemies don't get aim bonuses for being close to your dudes. Which might explain some of the sectoid/advent trooper behavior where they don't shoot even when they're up your rear end sometimes, their aim is abysmal enough to override that flank shot.
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So something cool about weapon mods is they stay on a soldier's weapon even as you move up tiers. So dont be afraid to us them early because you want to save them for tier 2/3 weapons. You also unlock one more slot per tier.
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Feb 5, 2016 22:07
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LibbyM posted:Edit: I think I remembered this wrong actually, smoke jumpers were 1250 with light plasma, but also the maximum squad cost was 5000 instead of 10000, so codex are effectively cheaper. Max squad cost was 8000 not 5000. I remember because originally Ethereals were 8000 points and rolled face hilariously until theu were upped to 8500.
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Just hit Andromedons and a sectopod for the first time in the same timed mission. Also featured a fun pack of codexes 
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Pathos posted:Okay, am I retarded or is my poo poo broken? I scan at the Resistance HQ and it never generates any Intel. I'm starving for Intel at this point and everyone keeps telling me that I can gather it that way, but nothing's going. Am I doing something wrong or my poo poo totally hosed? Did you change what benefit scanning at HQ gets you? It costs 25 supply and you can switch between faster healing, faster build time and intel generation
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Strong Sauce posted:So feel free to answer via spoilers, if I use the skulljack on a mission, does some crazy poo poo go down? yeah, it'll spawn an enemy the first time you do it
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Pathos posted:Ah, I did change this to rapid healing. How do I change it back? Go to the buy screen on the base and pay the supply. Its right next to the scan button.
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Ciaphas posted:Dear Beagle and other pros please do a guide on How Not To Suck At Geoscape Ride the doomsday timer. Keep something that knocks off points in your back pocket (raiding the Black Site, raiding a research site, etc) and just use the 22 days you get after the final countdown as stress free time where you can let the aliens do whatever while you collect resources. then as you get near the end of your time pop one of the doomsday knock offs. rinse and repeat.
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So, interestingly, you can actually get some perks no class gets naturally through the advanced warfare center. Just had a Specialist roll Lightning Reflexes, not Shadowstep. I wonder what other EW perks are grandfathered in like that?
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So some of the enemy density seems off. I had one mission with Chryssalids or Berserkers and they now seem to be completely phased out in September. I'm still encountering almost everything else but... what the hell?
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Kanos posted:Use your shotgun and focus on stealth talents and rangers are great. The sword isn't worth the time or effort except for sick early game sectoid kills or whatever. You should really try out sword rangers. They come into their own in the late game and grabbing Conceal gives you better utility than Phantom.
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Kanos posted:I have had two colonel sword rangers and two colonel stealth rangers because I've been toodling along in a holding pattern at endgame checking out what can pop out of the proving grounds. Conceal is better than Phantom, but Phantom competes with a really mediocre skill while Conceal competes with a really good one. Not really? Blademaster is what allows a sword ranger to work and synergizes amazingly with everything about it. Blade Rangers also don't need run and gun because of the sword, while conceal rangers definitely want run and gun instead of conceal because their sword is poo poo. It makes sword rangers better scouts than conceal rangers if you build like that too since you can pop it any time, even between packs, while conceal rangers are stuck doing gently caress all early on or losing scouting later. I honestly think all blade skills plus conceal over rng is the best build for Rangers. Maybe with Rapid Fire over Reaper if the rest of your squad lacks single target damage (Answer to that is always an aim pumped chain gun Grenadier for me though). Zore fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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Kanos posted:I literally never want to sword a dude versus shooting them, though, even with Blademaster at range 1. Shotgun is more accurate and crits more and has special ammo(talon rounds on shotgun Counterpoint: Bladestorm. Also the higher tier swords can disorient then disorient/set on fire so maybe sword people more because those are good effects.
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). You can't run and gun every turn, but you've got a ranged weapon and probably a grappling hook, mobility armor, and a mobility PCS and a ranged weapon. You really, really don't need to run and gun every turn.
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Tae posted:My current strategy is to have my Grenadiers be the Scouts and cannon fodder. I basically have 10 spare Grenaiders in my barracks from training rooks via base. Because ultimately I just need their 3 frags and their skills are worse than the other classes. Uh, no they aren't. At least later on they're amazing and necessary when you have a ton of armor to shred off. Chain Gun sounds bad but its basically a dedicated 'kill Sectopod/MEC/Andromedon/Gatekeeper'' button since they have gently caress all defense and your second shot benefits from shredding the armor with your first. You can also get up to +25 aim between tracer rounds and a superior scope which is great. High rank grenadiers can rain down more death and destruction in a single turn than any other class in the game thanks to Salvo and Volatile mixture as well. When Im at squad 6 I run with one of each class and two grenadiers because destroying cover and armor is so important. Also both trees have an amazing ability to gently caress poo poo up (Always get Shredder thougb) Zore fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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Grapplejack posted:The game isn't letting me do skulljacks anymore. Is that a known issue right now? There are two plot skulljackings. To just slam into regular Advent you need to research Skullmining at the proving grounds. It'll pop up as another icon and also give the skull jack +25 tech power. You can skullmine and skulljack in the same mission. Skullmining just goves intel and insta-kills with 70% hit rate. You only ever get to use skulljacking on an Advent officer and a Codex once.
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Oh my god Wraith suits are the loving best. Especially in city maps. Hi Advent just going to run my Ranger through three solid walls and gently caress you all up. 
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Roobanguy posted:sectopods have never really been scary for me, because by the time they started showing up i've already trained a psi op, and stasising them while taking out the mooks so i can focus fire it next round has stopped them from getting shots off every time. Its not always the first skill they get. I had Jake 'Hot Load' Soloman start with Insanity and he didnt roll stasis until he'd about finished the entire goddamn tree. Psi Op randomness is cool but it can totally gently caress you over too.
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Capn Beeb posted:Something has got to be wrong here. Are you on Legendary? That doubles build times. Also you can have multiple engineers clear rooms and that'll cut it in half.
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Alkydere posted:is it just me or do Gatekeepers suffer from the weaknesses of both mechanical and cybernetic enemies? I've poisoned, burned and acid-ed them (though they may only be vulnerable when open) and yet the Bluescreen bullets will also do horrible things to their health pools. Codexes also have mechanical and biological weaknesses. Andromedons also do, but not as extreme. They're immune to acid/fire/poison but Psi powers can still affect them until the suit goes solo. And anti-mech stuff fucks them up hard in both forms.
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Capn Beeb posted:Nope, that's on normal with an engineer assigned. Somethings hosed up then, it should cap at 20 on level 2.
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Strong Sauce posted:so what does playing the blacksite trigger? Story and a reduction in the Avatar countdown. There are way more story missions than in EW so delaying the Black site is pretty dumb. Its pretty easy and the reward for doing it is really scaled to help you in the early game. Like if you've maxed out the tech tree before assaulting it you're going to be flying around for a month+ with your thumb up your rear end as you slowly unlock the other story missions and either grind through a slog of late game missions or tons of Avengers defenses. Zore fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Insert name here posted:Yeah, I was ok with the T3 looks in EU/EW (especially after they added the extra variations in the DLC) but I really don't like the look of the T3 weapons and armour in this one. I think the WAR suit looks alright but the Warden I don't like and the plasma weapons especially look terrible. I didn't mind plated armour's look but I didn't like how there was no customization options for the torso with it. Also someone should apply a red filter to the tier 3 weapon's beams. Its lasers turn to be the ultimate tech  Seriously though teal is loving awful.
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Someone who knows what they're doing hurry up and make a mod that just unlocks all cosmetic armour options for all the armours thanks.
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I wish I got good skills from the AWC. Both Rangers got the 50% chance to trigger a second overwatch if the first hits. Grenadier 1 (explosive spec) got Covering fire. Grenadier 2 got Lightning reflexes. Specialist got Hail of Bullets. Sharpshooter got something that doesn't work with pistols. No one got anything really cool or gamechanging. And I'm sad Psi Ops don't get the extra perk.
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Alkydere posted:From what I can tell, you get one easy hit on them and then they get that "battle rage" buff that apparently gives them a hefty amount of dodge. So now three out of every four hits that makes it past their defense is a grazing hit. Battle Rage just gives them an extra action point to use in combat, which just lets them use two moves before attacking. They're weird because they normally can't melee at the end of a dash, and need the buff to actually let them do something similar. You can test it all when you mind control one.
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nessin posted:Second overwatch shot for a Ranger can pay dividends in an overwatch trap around corners. Also some potential there to try a Rifle instead of Shotgun. Nah, the Grenadier actually got no-poo poo Lightning Reflexes from EW's Assault tree with triggering all overwatch and automatically dodging one overwatch per turn. And I think I mistyped the Specialist one, they got the shot that hits 100% of the time but costs 3 ammo which is... rarely useful with no riders like Shred or Holo-targetting. Admittedly the overwatching from my Rangers has been the most useful, but not really gamechanging in any way. Not like say getting RnG on a Grenadier, or Serial on a non-Sharpshooter.
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Anyone know where to find full perk lists? I'm trying to figure out everything the AWC can give you, and if there are any more unique holdovers from EW like Lightning Reflexes. I'd kill for Opportunist, or Bullet Swarm. I tried digging in the ini files and had no luck.
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Anyone else sort of weirded out Flight seems to have been cut as a mechanic? Archons/Gatekeepers float just off the ground and when you MC them theres no way to lift them off to fly deliberately (Archons kinda do with the Pinion attack but immediately track back to the ground). No flying armor either. Really weird coming off of EW with Seekers/Drones/Floaters/H. Floaters/Cyberdiscs/Archangel/Hover Shivs.
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Taear posted:I know in the first game everyone loved squadsight but I never ever picked it and I'm super sad that the snipers can't move and shoot now. It just means I never use them, I'm constantly mobile and I can't deal with having to stand around! Go gunslinger. Its strong as gently caress and yoy never need to reload! And it benefits from ammo mods. Seriously the pistol is really good.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:On top of this, I think equiping one gives you a flat bonus to your hacking skill. Yeah, +25 with skullmining unlocked. They also act as a free kill on any advent troop with Skullmining unlocked. Otherwise you have two plot skulljacks and only need it to trigger those and move the plot along.
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