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I'll name one of my heavies Duke Nukem and he'll make those alien bastards pay, baby! It's time to kick rear end and I'm all out of ambiguity baby
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Great game so far, my man Zackarie Attacke is getting the job done. Seems a bit harder than the last one, or it just drops you in the thick of it faster before you have the cooler stuff. Panicking rookies galore. Question, are civilians on the map that aren't in the objectives of any use? Can you rescue them or anything? I saw a few civilians off to the side once in either the second or third mission, died, played it again and won but didn't run into any civilians. Also in the first VIP escort mission, I notice "bad" civilians, some scientisty guy with a red circle around him who keeps walking away when I go near them. Should I kill them? (Assuming they might do bad stuff)
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Feb 6, 2016 23:21
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Fulchrum posted:Now can someone answer my actual question - is there anything in this game you couldn't do with a ps4 controller? It would be fine on consoles, sure. And in an interview recently they said the ol' vague "but we'd like it to be played by as many people as possible, naturally" or something like that, so who knows it mind end up getting ported at some point. But for now it's a PC game.
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Feb 6, 2016 23:36
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Monolith. posted:This thread moves way too fast but here's another mook for the pool. My poor GTX 760 That's fancy in my book, I'm playing on a 560 ti, that's how I roll. Saxophone posted:So I'm about to start playing through XCOM: Enemy Unknown. This game looks cool, but I can't justify buying 2 at 60 bucks when I've only put like 2 hours into the first one. I also hear the modding scene is decent. Are there any QoL mods I should grab? Or mods in general? The only real thing that kind of bugged me if I'm even remembering correctly is that I could run out of time, which I'm not a huge fan of (I like my tactics like FF tactics, though I acknowledge that people are gonna permanently die horribly) I'd say you don't need any QoL mods, the game is great as is. It's doable on the first try, at least on normal difficulty. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Feb 7, 2016 03:21
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Loving the game, man is it intense. It's roughing me up more than the last one, pretty tough. I'm around April 18th 2035 at the moment, haven't had much breathing room to buy more than a few recruits, and things to get more for free haven't been popping up much. I only have 9 soldiers at the moment, two injured, five are rookies. 11 dead so far. I have 31 supplies, income of 115. Only big things I've bought are the Guerrilla school to get a bigger squad recently and the proving ground for the skulljack mission (had to run from the first one of those situations). Still 0 armor for everybody, all starting weapons etc. Any advice on the money management side, and how many soldiers you think you need to have around?
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Feb 7, 2016 19:18
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Wizard Styles posted:You can recruit new ones instantly, so as many as you need to field a full squad. Having 10 or so for the eventual base defense isn't the worst thing, though. I only have enough supplies to buy one rookie at the moment, so just feels like one tough month could destroy me, if I spent too much of my income on something fancy etc.
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Feb 7, 2016 19:30
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Wizard Styles posted:Check the Black Market, sometimes you can get a promoted soldier for intel. Thanks, good call, that could help in a pinch. I've got 222 intel, haven't bought much with it, though I know you need to keep some to contact new rebel groups etc.
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Feb 7, 2016 19:35
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Kanos posted:Specialists can hack from range, so any hack objective is as simple as blowing the wall in front of the objective open and having your specialist hack from 8 miles away before cleaning up the enemies. Just for the record, un-upgraded specialists for me have failed hacking all of the time so far. The hacking is not very enticing when the success rate is so low. Also, on a mission where you had to get to a laptop and hit the hack button on it, my specialist wasn't able to select that from far away, only could select a couple tower thingies. Had to have a soldier go into the room manually and stand on the tile with the green star on it (which triggered respawns etc). Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Feb 8, 2016 04:16
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Kanos posted:You can get rid of turrets instantly by nading the floor they're on; they'll fall through and die immediately. Three pods close together like that is a dream because it means your explosives get to do massive amounts of work and you can flashbang like 5 guys at once. I know you can't fail the objective hacks, those being displayed as 100%. Any other hacking I've failed every time, I should've specified. You're saying the other bit I mentioned is a bug, and usually that should work? That's good to know.
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Feb 8, 2016 04:28
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Thanks for that earlier tip about line of site gremlin hacking, really saved my bacon just now. Blew off the side of a van, managed to hack the thingy inside with only a couple turns left there. I'll say one thing these games need is John Woo style, some double gun action. Though I think I did see a bird fly by one time.
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Feb 8, 2016 05:10
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So I can stop the Advent troops from all having poison rounds for a month, or stop intel costs from doubling for a month. Or stop a mystery third thing. This is a toughie. Anybody have to deal with Advent troops having poison rounds for a month? Was it rough? Is every bullet shot at you for a month a poison attack, or does it have a small % chance etc?
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Feb 8, 2016 08:48
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Just got my first doomsday clock, 21 days til kabloomy. I'm in June, my best are mostly gravely wounded etc (just a usual mission with codec, snake women etc). I have the first blacksite open to do, and also I could do an alien facility in another territory that I got by hacking an intel lead or something. Any guess which one would be easier? Also, do they both reset me to zero red bars and stop the clock?
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Feb 8, 2016 22:37
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Lima posted:The facility icons should have some pips underneath them that shows how many bars they'll remove. The blacksite removes 2 bars iirc. For me the alien facility has two red pips under it, but the blacksite just has a glowing white hexagon around it without any red pips there. Any guess on which would be more difficult? I guess I could try them both see what happens.
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Feb 8, 2016 22:48
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Elliotw2 posted:The blacksite is a Plot, Plot removes 2 pips everytime you do one. All normal Facilities will have the pips under them. Thanks
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Feb 8, 2016 22:52
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Random question, is there an upgrade for flashbangs, and if so how do you get it?
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Feb 9, 2016 01:22
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LightWarden posted:Muton Autopsy for the Plasma Grenade and High Explosives projects at the proving grounds. Plasma Grenade upgrades the damage of frag grenades by 2 and radius by 1, High Explosives does the same for almost every other form of grenade by turning it into a "____ bomb" instead of a "____ grenade". Flashbangs seem to be the exception. Thanks, I just recently unlocked the Advanced Explosives project. Surprised there's no upgrade for the flashbang itself though, maybe giving it a bigger radius etc.
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Feb 9, 2016 01:31
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I gotta say, it's annoying how you lose a region whenever you skip a mission. I lost the East Coast because I couldn't do the Retaliation mission, so I re-bought it for 66 intel or so, then within a couple weeks there's a standard strike first get some supplies council mission thingy that if I skip, I have to make contact with the East Coast for a third time. Plus I only have 18 intel, and I'm just trying to do a little prep to do a blacksite (10 days until extinction folks). And the blacksite is in that region. Enemy Unknown gave you a lot more breathing room in the campaign, I beat that on my first attempt somehow (though with some reloading).
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Feb 9, 2016 01:36
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how me a frog posted:No loss to anyone unless you decide to stick around and poo poo up the thread with your retarted rear end opinions, so go for that refund girlfriend! Is a refund girlfriend somebody who goes out with you and gives you refunds on games? Where do I sign?
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Feb 9, 2016 01:44
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Dongattack posted:If you don't like a game, don't come posting into a thread with a whole lot of people that like the game and then get upset when they don't see things your way. It's a giant waste of time lol We don't "like" the game, we love it like a big burly woman that slaps us around and belittles us. Or maybe that's just me.
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Feb 9, 2016 01:53
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I just finally beat the first blacksite, wowsers that was tough. 20 enemies, evaced as the last 3 arrived, only one gravely wounded survivor. For the record, the first blacksite only removed one pip on the doom bar after stopping the countdown. I have one other facility available because of intel, welp, I'm gonna be at 95% Doomsday bar for the foreseeable future. This game plays for keeps!
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Feb 9, 2016 07:32
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madmac posted:So Blacksites. I feel like I don't have a rhythm for this phase of the game yet. I did the story chain and took out the first blacksite. Then I skulljacked some random dude and got a lucky unlock for a Blacksite on another continent, which was neat I guess. Make contact on the worldmap with new areas, put radios in, then you can go to futher places on the map where more of those plot thingies are. And by doing research on things you uncover more stuff, like being able to build a Shadow Chamber. (I haven't built that yet) My issue is I think I procrastinated too long on expanding, so I just don't quite have enough money or intel to expand and keep up with the doomsday bar too well. That and all the dying.
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Feb 14, 2016 00:35
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RBA Starblade posted:Wow, Berserkers can't do poo poo anymore. Also I got the "three kills one turn no explosives" 'cheevo on my Gunslinger. They still worry me though. If I'm shooting at them that means there are a bunch of other jerk aliens I may not be shooting at!
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Feb 14, 2016 00:43
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BlazetheInferno posted:Especially when combined with mods. I remember her, she was my girlfriend on the spaceships Normandy! I hope she's not cheating on my John Spaceship.... edit: can I get a do-over on this post? I've got better jokes, it said 80% Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Feb 14, 2016 |
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Feb 14, 2016 08:13
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Everybody posting the game beaten screen with like 5 or less deaths, what is going on. You're not playing it right if you have that few deaths, you gotta be more bad and sloppy like me.
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Feb 14, 2016 23:42
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So those missions where you protect some device, those don't make sense to me. You arrive and move one turn, then in the fog some enemy shoots it for eight damage immediately. I guess we arrived just in time for when the enemy decided to slowly have one guy shoot at this thing thing halfheartedly.
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Seems like an oversight that you can't build medkits after upgrading to the nanomedit. I could use any medkits (since I've lost some along the way), but I don't have any viper corpses at the moment so I can't build any. Anyways, my overall feeling on this game is that it's not quite as good as the last one. Enemy Unknown had better difficulty balance for me, much less punishing. Still had fun with this one, but I'm about done with it for now.
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