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Name: Reign Evil Gender: Male Appearance: Doesn't matter what I look like just make sure I have a ton of red on. Class: Sharpshooter Trust me I'll hit that 70% shot I won't even blink on it. Reaper is definitely our best option for starting so I'm gonna be contrarian and suggest we go Templar. reignofevil fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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I wanna speak up for early game skirmishers. Specifically, their ability to yank an enemy over TOWARD you is invaluable on the first mission because under normal circumstances getting close enough to have a near guaranteed shot at the enemy means activating the second pod with the officer.
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Apr 12, 2020 20:51
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Wow we are starting with a pretty good resistance order!
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Apr 13, 2020 01:58
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Had you hired me and put me in we wouldn't be having these missed shots coach!
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Apr 14, 2020 18:59
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One thing I think I might like, from an audience perspective, is if you didn't tell me things like "having an extra action would have been super useful" until it comes up in the mission that we needed it. The suspense is half the fun!
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Apr 15, 2020 17:45
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For what it's worth I think you made the right call. Not picking feedback immediately. I respect the balls on that decision even if I disagree with it! reignofevil fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Apr 15, 2020 |
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Apr 15, 2020 18:02
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megane posted:I feel like they introduce the Chosen way too early. This is what, the third mission of the campaign? You get four guys, and you're lucky if they're all squaddies. Now, fight this crazy teleporting murder machine with a million HP who gets seven actions a round and can easily disable two of your soldiers a turn, from anywhere, without exposing herself to danger. And she'll probably attack while you're fighting another pod. Obviously it's supposed to set them up as this terrifying threat, but it's mostly just ridiculous. On classic I'd describe your first chosen fight as usually manageable. The occasional bad map + grapple + sniping tomfoolery aside. On Legendary though you just have to get in that crucial first strike, with the Assassin that means gigantic double moves in the direction you expect her to be coming from so that you make first contact, which would have risked revealing the other two aliens somewhere on the map here. Not really any good options but that's why it's the hardest difficulty. I can't speak to legendary difficulty but on classic if you have the more "story oriented" campaign enabled for WoTC your first encounter with the chosen will be a heavily scripted mission in which the assassin has about two thirds of her health available. Also you'll have more soldiers available. On the downside the Assassin will have arguably her most over-powered of the randomly drawn chosen strengths, immunity to overwatch shots. Which makes her even more difficult over the course of the campaign, so it's a tradeoff.
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Apr 15, 2020 20:50
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Grapplejack posted:ONE point off that +20 lmao Well I mean you can pick up a promotion that ups it to 100% and gives you an extra two damage on top. On classic this means pretty much one hit kills on any sectoids.
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Apr 16, 2020 18:11
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If we weren't leaning so heavy on our templar for some of these missions we wouldn't be in nearly so deep with these mental conditions. Now as best I can tell we're gonna have to pick and send some rookies out without much equipment or backup to cover for them. Not a spot I envy to be honest. Personally I tend to send an entire squad of rookies out (on whatever version of that lost mission we got a couple videos ago that the game serves me up) so I can fill up on promotions before we get into situations like this where there's a good chance we're gonna be forced to take on the Assassin again but with our Templar out due to exhaustion.
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Apr 16, 2020 19:25
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The key to skirmishers is really the key to all of Xcom since we still don't actually have proper procedural map generation, memorizing the maps and playing so often that you know roughly which corner the enemy will be standing in even if you don't know precisely which squares.
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Apr 16, 2020 23:46
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A skirmishers' best abilities are gated behind needing to be used on a humanoid enemy, which I thought really sucked until I remembered that the final battle happens to be decided by how fast you can murder three humanoid enemies who happen to be gigantic dicks about teleporting around after you land a hit on them
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Apr 17, 2020 02:03
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Crazy Achmed posted:It seems like if you didn't literally bee-line it to the objective, you fail the objective. This is correct and was my major criticism of Xcom 2, however War of the Chosen offers several attractive options for mitigating this problem that we can pursue later if we wish.
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Apr 17, 2020 13:00
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Xelkelvos posted:Everyone should be thinking of alternate nicknames for you character "Sir not appearing in this film" :p I kid I kid.
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Apr 17, 2020 21:23
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Fan-Fuckin-Tastic mission there. I'd be careful on your next couple of outings tho because with all of the amazing rolls you pulled off there re: crits and stunlancers I think it's pretty likely you're in for a real rough turn of luck soon.
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Apr 19, 2020 04:19
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Munin posted:Natch, one day away from being ready to be blown up again. By investigating a faction's location at the resistance ring they automatically grant you a free unit from their faction. If one of them gets blown up or killed you can get one more by doing another mission at the resistance ring. If a chosen bar maxes out they get a chance to shoot down the avenger with a gigantic fuckoff cannon and you get to send out 12 dudes to blow up a whole bunch of enemies, some alien vehicles, the giant gun and the chosen who shot you down... It's fun!
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Apr 19, 2020 16:02
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There is no way I could be harder on you here than you were on yourself. I hope the next one goes better for you, if you do decide to pick up extra soldiers and I'm on the draw feel free to spec me out as a grenadier or a ranger since it looks like we're gonna need those.
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Apr 19, 2020 23:08
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A good mission. My only advice would be that Specters ain't no thing if you just prioritize revival protocol over hacking mecs. Your unconscious soldier pops right up eager to shoot that dumb nanobot conglomerate in its dumb alien face and the only time you might find this trick doesn't work is when weird vertical parts of the map mean the specter is only a few tiles away but several floors above you.
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Apr 27, 2020 18:04
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I can't help but feel like the decision to delay encountering the rulers for as long as possible and the decision not to get the bolt caster are going hand in hand here.
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Apr 28, 2020 06:53
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Dancer posted:e: holy poo poo
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Apr 29, 2020 17:02
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Never buying EMP grenades, which when upgraded to EMP bombs and paired with a grenadier with the two-grenades promotion and biggest booms are THE hard counter to all specter shenanigans and also neutralize the two most powerful non-boss units in the game
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Apr 30, 2020 18:23
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Send two conceal rangers on the ambush keep to the second floor of the buildings near you bing bing bong.
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May 4, 2020 03:03
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