The XCOM Thread: HOW DOES SNEK KICK DOOR?!

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The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

BlazetheInferno posted:

Worth noting: The Alien Rulers DLC weapons cannot be upgraded to magnetic/powered tiers until after the Alien Nest mission has been completed. So they're nice for early game, but it quickly becomes a tradeoff as your weapons upgrade if you delay the nest for a while.

so i nevevr played with alien rulers. how do you even get the dlc weapons before the nest mission?

# ¿ Jul 6, 2016 06:18

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 22:15

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

RBA Starblade posted:

I wonder if there are unique punchkill animations again to make up for it.

there are not

# ¿ Jul 7, 2016 14:58

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

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 � 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

Looks fantastic but you are gunna be mowing through aliens like no one's business until there's a solid difficulty increase mod that isn't a better advent.

Which is great don't get me wrong. But not entirely sufficient.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 19:53

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Spiderfist Island posted:

I'm looking more for something that shows upcoming abilities on a class's tree ahead of time, like with this mod promo image:

I have no idea how to force the game in debug mode to display those, so I don't know if my abilities and their localization files are working correctly.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=624408502&searchtext=

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 17:07

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Dinictus posted:

Well, poo poo, I have no idea what's causing my game to freeze on opening the soldier editor. But it freezes my game on any changes I make to any soldier in the soldier editor.

Longer Name has already been disabled, and I'm already dreading having to toggle every option off and on again one bit at a time to see what the culprit is.

Mind, this is after a fresh reinstall since I had some missing *.dll issues.

unsubscribe from all your mods, make sure they're deleted properly. Then resubscribe, and make sure you're launching from steam, not the mod launcher.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2016 19:16

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

Yeah, I just got a sniper rifle that gave run 'n gun, rapid fire, and shredding. Combine this with Snap Shot and Death From Above and you have an unstoppable juggernaut of death... which would be more notable if it weren't for the fact that half my team is like that because of More Perks.

Thanks for the recommendations everyone!

Which mod is more perks? can't seem to find it and i'm curious

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 20:23

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Panfilo posted:

Long War ? Not only adds tons of perks but gives you 3 to pick from each level.

Oh! The new perk pack. Did not realize it changed up the system that much.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 20:49

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Dancer posted:

No I mean I want LW builds for EW. Haven't found enough money to acquire XCOM 2 yet.

look on the xcom reddit for LW build advice, there are shittons of topics on the matter and go into great detail about exactly what you want.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 00:08

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Also throwing in a recommendation for Better Pods Plus if you're using A Better Advent: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=686642883

It works well in terms of increasing difficulty in leiu of the Long War Team's Aliens/EXALT mod, especially if you're using their perk mod, or have lots of other gameplay mods.

Also wanna throw in a rec for All The Enemies! - it basically takes all the mod-added enemies and dynamically adds them to spawn lists so you'll actually see the new enemies:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=690477767

# ¿ Jul 17, 2016 00:25

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

sparks are good now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ztvb9JsZ8

# ¿ Jul 21, 2016 22:36

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Parenthesis posted:

Just recently I had an enemy VIP extraction mission where I never encountered any pods.

It was the weirdest thing, creeping up on the target, knocking him out and getting away without anyone noticing.

What mods do you have? that's a known issue with Evac All, since it has to edit Missions.ini - anything else that edits missions.ini will conflict.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2016 15:11

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Spiritus Nox posted:

Thinking of picking this game back up after a long hiatus - what DLC/Mods might I want to pick up? More importantly, which DLC brings back robot soldiers?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=718267335

here's the two hundred and change that i'm running that are mostly compatible with one another.

you just need to delete Missions.ini in Evac All to get it to work with A Better Advent Better Pods.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 05:44

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

https://gfycat.com/AstonishingBrilliantEel

# ¿ Jul 26, 2016 00:26

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

MF_James posted:

xcom are not humanity's greatest soldiers, they are just the jerks that picked up guns and decided to fight.

Yeah, these guys are humanity's greatest soldiers and they have proceeded to kick my troops' collective rear end.

turns out your soldiers are really really loving lethal, like, way more so than aliens. You leave an enemy soldier alive, one of your guys is going home in a body bag. Especially if it's a ranger.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2016 19:57

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Sanctum posted:

Is the DLC even any good? I looked at it once and was underwhelmed by the descriptions. EW was a proper XCOM expansion and I like seeing games with full expansions because so many games have gone the way of half-assed DLC these days.

EW added a lot and changed enough that the campaign felt fresh even if the ultimate plot progression was identical. If all I got was 2 new council missions with Annette / Zhang and a new MEC class I'd be pretty disappointed.

Enemy Within probably amounts to a larger change than Xcom 2's DLC, if only because of the addition of EXALT. Still, MECs and Alien Rulers are hella cool nonetheless.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 05:55

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Deltasquid posted:

Strangely, not all of my mods seem to be loading in game now. Haven't played since early June so maybe the update broke them, but e.g. Cap'n Bub's accessories aren't loading, nor the LW toolbox. Despite them being activated in the advanced launcher.

Don't boot from the advanced launcher, cosmetic mods don't appear. Use it to check for conflicts.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 14:20

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Deuce posted:

No problem that cant be solved with sufficient explosives. Shredder rocket -> grenade -> command -> grenade

One cryssalid left standing, chose to go maul a civilian. The other was a victim of *cough* collateral damage. The floater pod lost two to overwatch fire on activation, the last one just sorta hosed off until I was done with the fourth cryssalid pod (activated turn two) and then came back, never fired a shot.

how in the ever loving gently caress did you save eighteen civilians in a LW terror mission

# ¿ Aug 12, 2016 18:07

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

veni veni veni posted:

Anyone know what button it is on PS4? I can't find the option at all.

Also will I take a penalty for calling Evac even if I finished the objective?

Nope, you shouldn't.

That's only ever happened to me in a mod-added mission, but if you completed the objectives and evac it'll treat it like normal

# ¿ Oct 3, 2016 06:29

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

If you guys want a modlist, here's my collection.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=718267335

275 mods, and they should all be compatible with one another. I've gone through the entire workshop and picked out everything that looked good.

Needless to say, being batshit insane, I'm using all 275 at once :v:

# ¿ Oct 13, 2016 21:17

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

I know the no kill option is better technically but killing dark VIPs is significantly more fun and actually makes the mission feel like a covert assassination, so I just mod or cheat in the Intel boost.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2016 05:43

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Oh hello, working co-op.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=792693587&searchtext=

Also glad you found the mod collection of use, Nordick!

# ¿ Nov 4, 2016 04:46

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 22:15

The Iron Rose: May 12, 2012; Cat Army

Angry Diplomat posted:

The funniest thing about this is the silent implication that the Ethereals - who are explicitly portrayed as omnifascist megalomaniacs bent on conquering and subjugating everyone and everything - looked at the acidic hellscape the Andromedons call home, looked at the egregious casualties resulting from initial forays against them, did some soul-searching, and finally decided, "you know what? gently caress it. Let's call off the invasion and just bribe these guys to be awful and terrifying at someone else. Nobody will know the difference."

Where are you getting all this from?

# ¿ Jun 3, 2019 16:52

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