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Cythereal posted:Start with a Skirmisher. WE'RE BACK BABY Name: Grapplejack Gender: Female Appearance: grey hair, asian, same as last game. Give me the exalt bandanna tho, I love that thing. tiger camo on my armor, keep it olive like in the last game. maybe some nice arm tats to go with my new gun. Class: Grenadier e: this entire xpac is basically swarming with star trek alum, frakes and john de lancie are in here as well as denise crosby. Grapplejack fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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I see fairgame has carried his absurd luck over from longwar
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Apr 14, 2020 01:48
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you weren't kidding about the ps4 not being able to handle lost swarms, holy poo poo lmao FPS: 2
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Apr 14, 2020 20:50
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Wow, that was a bummer. the assassin is an rear end in a top hat, especially early game. I think out of all of the chosen the assassin is the one that stays the most dangerous through the entire game, mostly because of her absurd movement range.
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Apr 15, 2020 17:49
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I'm glad I get to keep in character by being extremely slow to show up as a soldier
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Apr 16, 2020 03:15
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Akratic Method posted:Hey, the game has smiled upon my character and dumped him into the roster. I'm digging the dreads, thanks. But do re-equip me with the Resistance Kevlar if you get a chance! I want to get shot wearing a dumpy sweatshirt, not some ballistic vest. Your dude looks like takeshi69 lol
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Apr 16, 2020 07:35
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ONE point off that +20 lmao also I never use the sword on rangers, ever. 90% fuckin sucks. seeing you go for it was wild considering how averse you are normally to risky plays like that Grapplejack fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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Apr 16, 2020 17:48
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I think the mental maluses are good tbh, since they do what long war wanted to do with the forced medbay after being tired. You can still use the units but it's a risk and the penalty for mistakes while taking that risk are escalated.
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Apr 16, 2020 19:22
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Skirmishers are incredibly good but you have to be willing to use them. They're troops for players who play extremely aggressively, because they can yeet themselves and enemies around the map easily, not to mention their abilities that let them gently caress with turn orders.
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Apr 16, 2020 21:16
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I'm not one to pooh-pooh you but you really misused achmed here, this could have gone way worse.
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Apr 19, 2020 06:45
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reapers look really weird without the face mask imo but I think I just really like the aesthetic they're going for e: if Vahlen was still here we'd get an ability that let us scanners-explode advent officers in the field  Tygan has no taste for war crimes!
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Apr 19, 2020 20:19
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Poison lasts 3-5 turns FYI, sokw0134 posted:The missed shots were rubbish though. That was like a combined 10% chance of all those shots missing. 
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Apr 20, 2020 00:30
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FairGame posted:I mean...I said in my post that it's not cheating. It's my personal viewpoint. Not an uncommon sentiment, mind you, though I'm definitely in the minority and I don't begrudge someone else using them. They're just not for me. It's a lot better since they nerfed the everloving gently caress out of them. They don't get cover and aliens have a 100% chance to hit them, so they'll burn through the 12 HP pretty quickly. Mimic beacons are basically your 'oh poo poo' button, one per mission
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Apr 20, 2020 18:39
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The worst one is probably surgical, which i'm sure we'll see and pass over during the campaign.
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Apr 20, 2020 22:31
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Crazy Achmed posted:Ohhh OK, I was thinking that there might be some bullshit like covert ops appearing this early with a risk of soldiers outright dying. It's a flat 50/50 chance iirc, 100% with explosives.
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Apr 21, 2020 15:01
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Feel free to use mimic grenades or frost bombs for the rulers, they were basically designed around the overpowered poo poo that came in the pack with them they're loving awful lol
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Apr 21, 2020 20:55
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I think all of the heavy weapons are pretty good tbh. Even the weakest one has its uses.
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Apr 22, 2020 22:26
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I spotted me on the rookie list, yay I do find it kind of funny that the timer stops, like I get it mechanically but I assume lore-wise she basically hijacks literally everything and tells advent to gently caress off while she's in town. basically it's like when the president shows up only instead of you having to put down hundreds of extra cops you're banned from having any on the streets at all
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Apr 23, 2020 18:21
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Zernach posted:Your sharpshooters really are determined to piss you off in this campaign by channeling maximum Sharpshooters are your carry class basically, just wait until we get to captain and our snipers get SUPER OVERWATCH
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Apr 23, 2020 20:46
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Genuinely I cannot get over how often you use swords, that poo poo is madness to me. madness
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Apr 25, 2020 20:00
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Chuu posted:Are we behind on weapons research? It felt like everyone had a toy gun in that last mission. We are not. This is roughly where you'd be in a normal campaign anyway, it's just that legend aliens have way more HP.
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Apr 26, 2020 01:37
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I got one of these in a late-game mission where the aliens blew up the device in three turns lol. I loving hate device protection, it's awful.
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Apr 26, 2020 19:03
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Dead Reckoning posted:Huh. On PC, you can cancel and re-order proving grounds projects at will. The maluses are pretty goddamned good, especially if you can tag more than one person with them. Poison is -30 aim and -6 movement iirc, and burning, as you've already seen, basically forces enemies to shoot or hunker since all of their other poo poo is turned off.
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Apr 27, 2020 05:25
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It's really not that big of a deal, you have a lot of opportunities to reduce the timer. I'm kind of surprised he didn't go for the blacksite mission but doing it with only 5 people is... not great lol, especially with a ruler hanging out there.
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Apr 27, 2020 21:07
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100% the correct decision
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Apr 28, 2020 14:33
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Munin posted:That turret shot was pretty bullshit... that happens, turrets can get an extra square or two of vision because of their height advantage
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Apr 29, 2020 02:01
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kw0134 posted:An enemy unit that can stealth, incapacitate a unit in a single turn AND create a hostile duplicate in its place? That's patently unfair. I loving hate Spectres. They're stupid, they're kind of confusing lore-wise, they get lightning reflexes, and they get to turn invisible. They'd be less awful if they didn't get to turn invisible after cloning someone imo, that's what really tips them over into 'gently caress off' territory.
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Apr 29, 2020 19:24
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megane posted:The worst thing about WotC (well, XCOM2 in general) for me is how nearly every enemy is just a normal-rear end humanoid. All the different kinds of Advent infantry, specters, codices, the lost, the Chosen, the various shadows that get summoned... even sectoids and mutons are way more human-shaped than in EU. I think the only enemy we've seen that couldn't be played by a human in a rubber suit is the viper. We'll meet some friends who are more alien later
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Apr 29, 2020 21:07
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Akratic Method posted:Even if you do have to kill them, if you want to just cheese them with a reaper and sniper(s) and make letting them move/act a bonus video , I won't complain. I thought you were going to talk about the Jade Star LP, where he executed the archon king when it had 110 HP left
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Wild Hunt is 'the chosen appear constantly' so not that big of a deal for this campaign considering we've only met one of them e: ooh nevermind we just met sniperman. He's really easy lol. In terms of difficulty I'd probably rank them (guy we haven't seen yet) > assassin > sniper Grapplejack fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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Apr 30, 2020 18:26
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Most of the various ammo types are good with pistoleers though you'll probably just end up using AP rounds since they're always useful. Venom rounds are probably the closest to being super useful because of the aim malus, I think.
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Apr 30, 2020 22:57
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I'm kind of surprised you didn't go for the psionics rush. it's not as good as it could be but it's still a pretty sizable cut off a long research project.
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May 1, 2020 22:47
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eating only apples posted:I hope we see an ambush at some point, I've only done one before and they're hard. It's always in the same order.
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May 3, 2020 23:28
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I don't remember if this is higher difficulty only or if it's something that always happens but please note that the advent lancer now has an armor pip in addition to his health boost.
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May 4, 2020 16:32
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I actually don't think you're going to get an avenger defense this month, unless it can spawn a chosen defense mission without the chosen.
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May 5, 2020 16:23
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FairGame posted:This is, ah...extremely incorrect. Excited to see them wheel out the half dead assassin for this one
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May 5, 2020 21:33
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Hopefully we can finish Asia soon so we can get more bodies on the roster
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May 5, 2020 22:36
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Blast padding is one of my favorite bonus perks to get, because man that +1 armor is real good I'm also shocked you aren't picking up LR, it's a must-have on literally anyone, even if they're a sniper. It's that loving strong, and it's very rare.
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May 6, 2020 05:02
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eating only apples posted:I understand that this mission was very stressful and annoying and long, and I was tired of it too by the end, but then I saw this, rewound, and Grenadier Motto: Bombs + Bullets = solved problems
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I only realize now that I should have been a skirmisher instead of a heavy, what with my name. 
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