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Cosmic Afro posted:To be fair, 'dash then attack' is something all melee attackers can do. Your ranger can do it. ADVENT Stun Lancers can do it. I'm pretty sure zombies can't, but they might be the only ones. edit: And the faceless too... fspades fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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Jan 28, 2016 21:16
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ADVENT is on to us. Stay safe comrades. 
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JohnnyLump is there and they said they're going to show mods in action. Good chance they are going to show the new Long War. fspades fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jan 30, 2016 |
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Jan 30, 2016 19:34
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drat, this is really cool. They weren't joking around about modding.
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Jan 30, 2016 20:01
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XCOM 2 will bring closure to "video games" for me. From February 5th onward all I'm gonna play will be XCOM 2 and XCOM 2 mods. Until the day I die.
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Berious posted:I cant wait for the huge titted naked dickgirl snake mods "Let's put some boobs on thi-... wow they've already put it."
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Kanos posted:In addition to what Lotish said, they're a full-fledged class now with a huge list of powers instead of being a dinky template you stick on top of an existing soldier, and you seem to get them significantly earlier in the campaign instead of at the 2/3rds done point because IIRC you get them from either researching sectoid bodies or skulljacking a sectoid, and sectoids are one of the first enemies you ever see. However, according to Jake they are very hard to get and you'll be lucky if you have more than one in your roster.
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He's out of consumables and not even half-done with the mission he MUST win. This is getting pretty intense now.
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Feb 1, 2016 22:26
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Elliotw2 posted:He's mentioned a few times that the Sectoids can only use their Psi powers once, unless I've misunderstood. No, they are on a cooldown. In one of the previous streams a sectoid managed to mind control one of his soldiers (it was Jake "Hot Load" Solomon) twice.
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Feb 2, 2016 21:21
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texasmed posted:Why the gently caress are the alien ships still called UFOs when this game is supposed to take place 20 years after XCom1 EU/EW? Why do you think of alien spaceships instead of swamp gas when you hear the word UFO? Same reason.
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I'm about to pre-load but would this game benefit considerably from installing it on a SSD do you think?
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Hey can somebody notify this thread when Beags is on. I would have watched Jamball but she's far into the campaign and I don't want spoilers from endgame.
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Antti posted:I'm up to tutorial mission 3 and this is one of the rookies the game randomly spits at me. Are tutorial missions have anything interesting, story-wise?
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Feb 4, 2016 22:31
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Kiranamos posted:Is there not a way to tell if you can fire at an alien before moving to a specific spot? I just had the most ridiculous LOS bug where a guy hiding behind a tree can't shoot someone 3 squares away because reasons: Yes there is. You see that cross-hairs symbol to the left of enemy hp bar? That shows whether you are going to be able to see that unit from the location you are pointing your cursor at. In that case, that tree between you and him is blocking your sight. Hardly a LOS bug.
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Josef bugman posted:It's now 23.01 guys, why can I not get into X-com in the UK, I thought the sheet said we'd have access to it by now! Restart Steam. It's unlocking for me now 
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And now there is an extra 1.4 gb download. 
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Really loving the extreme amounts of  about the difficulty this game is causing on metacritic and steam reviews. My favorites are the one that complain about turn limits because they like to "take it slow and plan their moves"
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Yardbomb posted:Some of the griping feels pretty deserved though honestly. When the game feels like screwing you in a real not-fun way, the procedural map/mission stuff can whip up some terrible things when you've got limited turns. Any game that involves RNG will have moments where the game just screws you over and you can do nothing about it. Sometimes you have to accept you lost and move on, and XCOM 2 is more forgiving at recovering your losses than XCOM: EU, I feel. But if you reload over and over to get pass a mission (like some negative reviewers say they are doing), yeah I can see why it can be supremely frustrating. Bugs and performance issues are legit bad though.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Bullpoo poo it is. Individual replacement soldiers are expensive and/or rare as hell. XCOM:EU let you buy Rookies by the dozen to feed into the meatgrinder. But you can train those rookies to become squaddies for free, and replacement soldiers simply didn't exist in EU, with the exception of random mission rewards. Money is also more abundant. In EU I'd frequently find myself out of cash in the middle of the month and dozens of things still to do. This game throws supplies and intel (which you can exchange for more supplies) at you at frequent intervals.
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The timers are excellent. They create very tense situations and they require you to plan your moves more carefully, not less. Any feature that does that in a strategy game is a good idea.
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Caidin posted:Did the first launch like this? Yup. It's a Firaxis game. XCOM: EU launch had fun things like undiscovered enemy pods teleporting right into the middle of your squad.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:On top of this, I think equiping one gives you a flat bonus to your hacking skill. And they also insta-kill the victim, regardless of their hp. Skulljacks are great.
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Feb 7, 2016 22:54
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Red Mundus posted:What the gently caress? If I complete an objective but evac out I still fail? AFAIK if you have completed the main objective, you'll still get the mission rewards and loot but not the corpses. Just ignore the ratings.
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What, did I throw the objective data out the skyranger window because I feel like I didn't earn it or something?
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LordNat posted:My main problem with them is only a small chunk of the missions really allow for that. Mostly just Retaliation, Defend the Mcguffin, and sometimes supply raids. Proper snipers are only inadvisable in evac missions, in my experience. There is nothing preventing them to sit back and shoot across the map while others accomplish the objective.
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Substandard posted:Run 'n' Gun is amazing. I have it on everyone. I haven't even tried conceal though. Run n' Gun is still the same ability we love, but conceal is interesting for phantom rangers. Normally, you don't want your phantom ranger to get involved in an engagement, but that means you essentially have one less soldier in a firefight. Conceal lets you to use him once in a tough situation and still continue the mission with your concealed ranger. So it's a get out of jail card. Alternatively you can have conceal on your blademaster and have him work as a semi-scout? I'm not sure to be honest.
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PantsBandit posted:Haha yeah, and there were like 5 guys defending him. 3 of whom immediately peaced out as soon as they heard sirens. I think ADVENT didn't even know XCOM was still kicking around at that point. Who else would even expect a random clinic downtown was holding the legendary commander of a top-secret organization?
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Zore posted:Conceal works great on a blade ranger since they don't need rng. It lets you use them for the first engagement then recloak to figure out everything else, its p. great. Or its a huge escape button if you've over-extended them. Well, the problem is you need a phantom ranger scout during the early game. Blade rangers can't fulfill that role until Lieutenant.
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Toadsmash posted:So I just finished my first blacksite mission with literally two days left on plated armor research. Evac them if the mission allows it. It'll save the soldier. edit: Oh you are talking about the blacksite. Well, he's hosed then.  edit edit: Also, I've read getting a soldier into shallow water will put out burning. Haven't tested it though. fspades fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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LordNat posted:I have yet to used a Phantom Ranger at all. Why do you need them? They are invaluable for me during timed missions and missions where you start revealed. They make it so you are never surprised by an enemy pod and cover ground more quickly. Chair In A Basket posted:holy moly. hard luck healing specialist klaus goes ballistic on guardian overwatch. executes a full hp sectopod, double crits an elite trooper, then executes a 2nd trooper. Forget about gunslingers or rangers. Specialists are the real murder-machines. Mine got Serial from AWC and I gave him a superior scope so now he can take down an entire reinforcement pod single-handedly. 
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dyzzy posted:RIP. Don't play on ironman, folks. We should put this on the OP with flashing sirens.
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Kennel posted:Did they add new dlc achievement just recently or did I miss them before? Now that's interesting.
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Maluco Marinero posted:I think this will tie into tactical changes such as standard rifles being capable of light suppression, have to think more but basically there needs to be options that don't result in you losing a squad member because you didn't kill every enemy, which is the way tactical can work right now. Alternatively, change the strategy layer so that losing 1 or 2 soldiers in a mission is not a big deal. If getting experienced soldiers through other ways (esp. during the early game) was a bit easier and more reliable it would mitigate the downward spiral tendency the game currently has.
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