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anatoliy pltkrvkay posted:The game has pods move towards a line between you and the objective. Bumping into enemies is inevitable. Bumping in the sense that you don't activate more of them at once than you need / can manage. Of course you will eventually run into an enemy group.
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So just a heads up folks the next episode is likely to be late. We tried playing last night and had the best goddamn stealth-justifying mission where the Lost and Advent were too busy fighting each other to notice XCOM, and then my PC bluescreened and corrupted the entire recording  This was after two other false starts so by the time the bluescreen happened, I was already too drunk and it was late at night, so we just stopped.Turns out since the last attempt got to the end of the mission before exploding, the game autosaved when we got back to the Avenger, and I haven't been keeping up on manual saves, so we just have a lost episode that I can't go back and re-record Here's a look at what we'll be starting recording from tomorrow evening. For anyone running to the post button, the power relay is only temporary and will be moved below the workshop ASAP. We need the juice to get the resistance ring up though. We also prevented the Stiletto Rounds dark event from happening by blowing up the transmitter. If you still want some content, we played some random poo poo from the big rear end SNES rom folder I downloaded to cheer ourselves up. There's a LOT of weird poo poo in there.
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Sep 29, 2018 20:51
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Hooooly shiiiiittt I have never hosed up a mission that badly before and it was glorious to see! I mean once you were flanked on three sides you were basically hosed. That reload bug on your hacker was totally bullshit. Then when the chosen showed up it went from "gently caress this is bad" to "welp maybe unwinnable".
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Danaru posted:So just a heads up folks the next episode is likely to be late. We tried playing last night and had the best goddamn stealth-justifying mission where the Lost and Advent were too busy fighting each other to notice XCOM Ok, so stealth. It's bad. The enemy gets stronger as the clock ticks. As game time passes, enemy pods get larger, more dangerous enemies emerge, and the existing enemies get more health and armor. Your troops only get stronger by gaining ranks or new gear. They gain ranks by killing things and seeing things get killed by their buddies. They get new gear from research you do on the things you kill or gear you steal from said killed things. Even further, upgrades to your troops like larger squad sizes are locked behind achieving certain ranks. The game is just not designed for you to ghost missions. Only stealth as long as needed to get into position to kill xeno filth.
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Sep 29, 2018 23:54
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??? The purpose of stealth isn't to avoid combat. It's to set up favorable combat scenarios. Same goes for your phantom rangers. Ultimately you are meant to fight as many aliens with or without stealth.
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Sep 29, 2018 23:58
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Sep 30, 2018 00:21
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I get y'all are passionate, and I respect that, but for real it was one mission and I only tried to ghost it because I'd done it before. This is far from a pacifist run
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Sep 30, 2018 01:17
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Disregard them, i can watch a perfect run anytime. I like drinking, failure, Grace, and red pandas. Yolo
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Sep 30, 2018 01:41
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I HAVE OPINIONS But do whatevs it's fun to watch regardless.
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Sep 30, 2018 01:55
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Dan hire a dude Reaper and name him Big Boss and stealth all the things.
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Sep 30, 2018 02:45
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 New Episode!Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 11 - Where Do You Think YOU'RE Going? https://twitter.com/dril/status/520734184969867264?s=19
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I came to thread finally because of lost data and being told I shouldn't rag on Dan. So here I am. DAN MANUAL SAVE AND REPLACE YOUR RAM STICKS
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Oct 2, 2018 17:23
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That sniper is way less threatening than the first Chosen.
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Oct 2, 2018 17:59
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The worst thing about doing the story mode for the Chosen is that it gives the Assassin a really strong immunity (immune to overwatch) with the worst weakness (increased accuracy when you are attacking them from above).
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Oct 2, 2018 18:02
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loving lmao "Death approaches, who will die first????" "Dude YOU HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING THIS WHOLE MAP"
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Oct 2, 2018 20:38
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Good call on not going for psionics. It was a tough call but I think you did the right thing especially since it'll take for loving ever to get the bottom right panel excav'd. Also yeah that was a great fight. This locale isn't the best for the Hunter, he's an absolute PITA on the loving highway tileset for instance, and it's the best when you can blow out the floor out from under him.
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Oct 2, 2018 20:39
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In general I'd rate the Chosen Assassin > One we haven't seen yet > Hunter. The Hunter likes to sit around and just do his marking shot most of the time, which is only threatening if you get your squad in an Overwatch trap or something because you can just run out of the cone. The last one is more of a nuisance, forcing multiple members to move to avoid damage, creating additional enemies ex nihilo, and generally screwing up your carefully laid plans. And the Assassin loves to just run in and injure/daze half your squad before vanishing, over and over.
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Assassin is probably the most annoying unless you get lucky and catch her before she can do her melee attack. The camera often gives away where she's hiding so you can get the flank and start whittling her down. I have had the hunter completely wipe squads when everything aligns in his favor. If you're on a city map with a lot of roofs/vertical space he can easily grapple around and take flanking shots while you struggle to keep up with him. But if your squad is together/the map is mostly flat/you have the high ground/you can blow up his footing/etc etc etc he's pretty easy to handle.
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Oct 2, 2018 22:00
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Yeah the Assassin is basically your Rangers but on crack which is bad times because honestly Showdowstep and her own extreme HP bar cover a Ranger's downsides really well.
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The assassin is the reason I started carrying battle scanners outside of retaliations. Which, now that you have the predator armor, you don't need to give up grenades to do. It feels really good when you can just scan and catch her before she ever gets to do anything, though you have to have a good intuitive sense of how many turns of her movement it would take to get to you. SSNeoman posted:Yeah the Assassin is basically your Rangers but on crack which is bad times because honestly Showdowstep and her own extreme HP bar cover a Ranger's downsides really well. And the hunter was probably meant to be your sharpshooters on crack except that would be way too unfair to the player to just have shots from off the map occasionally murder you, so instead it's more like your sharpshooters on weed where they're good shots but mostly laze around and don't do a ton of anything.
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The Hunter is probably my favourite Chosen specifically because I love Rangers, and both this game and last time I played he has Brittle  If we had been able to stop Made Whole, Jane could have one shotted him with the axe. Also he's Nathan Drake and all his lines are smarmy and great  Assassin is easily the worst IMO because of her overwatch immunity and bending reed. The third one (DON'T READ THIS, GRACE)annoys me with that move where he forms psi troopers and is invincible until you kill them, but mainly because he'll hide behind a rock and scream for ten straight minutes about how horny he is about Ethereals and you can't actually play the loving game until he's done We have a real good idea of where he is though so I can hard counter him with brain shields at least.
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Danaru posted:mainly because he'll hide behind a rock and scream for ten straight minutes about how horny he is about Ethereals and you can't actually play the loving game until he's done But Dan, this is that chosen's best feature.
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Oct 3, 2018 02:43
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i miss this dumb good lp
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Awesome, a X-Com 2 LP with the War of the Chosen DLC. I've been missing my X-Com 2 fix since Jade Star finished his run of the base game. As a tribute, I would like to offer all the episode links (from episode 3 onwards) in one place, so you can quote this and copy/paste it into the OP if you so desire. Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 3 - It's Not Magic, It's Robots Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 4 - I'm Sick Of Getting Stabbed Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 5 - Bad Time Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 6 - Oops! All Snipers Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 7 - Sweet Kelly And Hella Zhuang Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 8 - Overwatch Queen Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 9 - Why Are They Not Missing Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 10 - gently caress Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 11 - Where Do You Think YOU'RE Going?
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Herr Tog posted:i miss this dumb good lp Sorry, some stuff came up during recording night meaning we had to stop recording after the second episode. I wanted to space it out a bit since we're not 100% sure when we're recording next  New Episode!Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 12 - Chicken Tenders And/Or Panda Pictures Depending on what kind of XCOM player you are, you'll either love or hate this episode. sincx posted:Awesome, a X-Com 2 LP with the War of the Chosen DLC. I've been missing my X-Com 2 fix since Jade Star finished his run of the base game. Hey thanks! I'm terrible at remembering to update the op
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You might wanna actually head into psionics, esp if you can get a few more engies. But yeah better guns means more better. I always forget how much the base guns suck.
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Danaru posted:Sorry, some stuff came up during recording night meaning we had to stop recording after the second episode. I wanted to space it out a bit since we're not 100% sure when we're recording next Grace got arrested and now Canada won't let him cross the border? You're just gonna have to switch to valkyria.
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SSNeoman posted:You might wanna actually head into psionics, esp if you can get a few more engies. But yeah better guns means more better. I always forget how much the base guns suck. The psi lab will be on the bottom corner since like hell if I'm eating the power cost of that thing, so we still have a ways to go before I can even build it. After mag weapons I'm planning on sacking up and doing some autopsies, especially because I want to get mimic beacons and battle scanners into the equipment rotation.
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Good news! We should be able to record tomorrow if nothing awful crops up! I'm working on being able to record Lost Towers and uhh the other one so we can post commentary the missions before the content becomes relevant, but... https://twitter.com/HetzerGonnaHetz/status/1049049814632214529 ...I may not have that footage by tomorrow.
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Oct 7, 2018 22:46
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Hang on, was that the first mission with a skirmisher from your design a soldier list? Can those get spawned in early?
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FoolyCharged posted:Hang on, was that the first mission with a skirmisher from your design a soldier list? Can those get spawned in early? If you uncheck the WOTC tutorial box in the beginning, you don't get the mission with Elena and Mox, and it randomly gives you someone from the three resistance factions. We left it checked since that mission owns narratively, but is kinda a waste of time if you've already played it and don't need to see it again
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Danaru posted:If you uncheck the WOTC tutorial box in the beginning, you don't get the mission with Elena and Mox, and it randomly gives you someone from the three resistance factions. We left it checked since that mission owns narratively, but is kinda a waste of time if you've already played it and don't need to see it again Holy crap that was a tutorial? Where did this option box come from? On a similar "holy crap. wait. what?" note: A dlc released today free for everyone with the game? Some kind of stand alone mission pack.
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For PC only sadly  still pretty rad though
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Oct 9, 2018 16:03
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Oh yeah, between this thread and someone else pestering me, I bought this game. I apparently suck at the multiplayer.
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New Episode! Let's Play XCOM 2 WOTC Episode 13 - She So Fast, She So Sneak ROCK. ROBOT ROCK.
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Dan you obv brought the skulljack because of its bonus to hacking which is what you were planning to use against the automated defenses! EDIT: that hack was bullshit EDIT 2: Yes, don't bother with Demolition. I actually think the ability is bugged on the version you're playing on. Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Oct 10, 2018 |
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SSNeoman posted:Dan you obv brought the skulljack because of its bonus to hacking which is what you were planning to use against the automated defenses! It only gets that after you do the skullmining project
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sincx posted:Awesome, a X-Com 2 LP with the War of the Chosen DLC. I've been missing my X-Com 2 fix since Jade Star finished his run of the base game.
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YAY ANOTHER D&G LP I'm not sure how you're still alive with that ruleset but I'm going to get to watching the episodes before you die of cirrhosis.
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