/xcg/ - XCOM General

xth for really good nicknames

He's a big boy

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When do I want to do Shen's funtime adventure on Legend? As soon as I get Gauss and Predator?

Preferably

You actually bothered to get Brad's faces out of that pic?

Jesus Christ I finally realize how much of a toaster I'm running. I'm ashamed.

>this is on the front page of XCOM 2s Workshop

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=738751056

Fucking agreed

ALL HAIL TO JAKE

xth for snek

Dude
SFW sneks please

If anybody has an answer, I'd appreciate it

It's not the flanking mechanics, some (most) roofs just don't block los at all. I'd love for someone to fix all of the see-through walls, but modders are too busy making unironic cheats.

Define retool.
You want a crit bonus when you have elevation on a target?
You want to be considered in cover when you have higher elevation?

I'm rather disappointed nobody's done it yet. I really want to utilize all these sexy buildings to get those vertical elements in there (one of the things I was really excited about per-release), but I can't because ADVENT's infrastructure is McMansion-tier.

The latter, if anything. I really just want them to function like solid structures and not invisible walls, like described. There's no reason an ADVENT trooper should be able to get a crit on a soldier who's down the street, two floors up, and behind half cover.

Pistols are Useful.

>blatant cheating
At any rate, giving a defense boost is trivial. I forgot where it's stored exactly, but I recall one of the inis having a line about increased defense against targets at lower elevation commented out, you'd just have to enable it again.
I assume reducing crit chance as well is easily achievable.
I'm actually looking through them right now, I'll see if I can find that part again.

Always bet on S N E K.
Help her defeat those horrible HComs trying to overthrow the rightful ADVENT government!

Definitely a good snek.
He cropped it, it's fine.

Pistols are confusing.

Not that user, but this doesn't really solve the biggest issue.
Also, it's in DefaultGameCore.ini, ctrl+f HeightDisadvantage.

>tfw no DefaultGameCore.ini in real life

>tfw no savescumming in real life

I don't even know which values I would modify if I could. I would spend so long deciding which to modify that I have to wonder if there are any that would stand out that I'd change on the spot.
Then again I would definitely take savescumming over ini modifications if I could. Provided I had at least two save slots. One for a back up way in the past, and another for fucking around on a daily basis.

>tfw no Commander that will tell you, without fail, the correct course of action in any situation in real life

What i mean is all we got are porn tier sneks
Where did our nice sneks go ?

Imagine a dating sim starring Commander and Brads.

Niche tier waifu in a niche genre game. There's still usually something new every week or so if you look around enough. I'm surprised she's gotten as much attention as she has all things considered.

Yeah, I was reading through it right now.
Fun fact: in addition to getting a bonus to hit chance if you miss too many shots in a row while on lower difficulties, there's also a malus if you hit too many times in a row.
In easy.
Is this Jake's way of fucking with people?

Is there something like that for crits?

"We're here if you need us, Commander."

One thing
Monmusu
Snek girls, and monstergirls in general are getting much love.
THAT'S A GOOD THING

Please don't compare monstergirls to sneks, thanks.

Monster Musume is significantly more normie tier though. They're human girls with lower half of a monster, and pretty much all of them even have human vags. Most of them probably wouldn't like Miia if she had a cloaca.

I'm playing Long Dong for the first time and I have to say that I expected something else. I know it's gonna get way harder later but the first 2 months are fairly slow. I hate to use this word but it's almost comfy, building the base at your own pace, training rookies on weak ayys and generally just having a chill time with no rush for satellites like in vanilla.

Enjoy it while it lasts, user.

Nope. Actually, I've yet to find the base 40 crit for flanking.

>normie tier
A shame, i enjoyed my niche fetish
Still /mggg/ isn't a normie place user
Why ?

You weren't talking /mggg/ though, you were talking Monster Musume. MM specifically is normie tier since all of the girls are just human with with monster bottoms slapped on. I mean they don't even have monster vags, what the fuck is the point? In the monster girl game general at least they're more MONSTER than girl.

Monstergirls are for normies and weeaboos.
Sneks are for degenerates and furries.

This desu.

It's more or less related.
Some are monster tier, some are cosplay tier
see : Chrome/succubus/...

Well i guess i'm all that :^)

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Enjoy your incoming ban from the Elder admins faggot, I'm reporting you straight the ADVENT network team for this heresy against a peaceful snek patrol officer!

>psss...Wanna buy some intel?

I'm thinking going back to the long dong lads

I don't know how long I can stop myself for

>I don't know how long I can stop myself for
Why stop yourself at all?

Hey kid

Ever try PCS?

fresh

>a malus if you hit too many times in a row
>easy mode only
literally why

I like some of the AC DLC equipment, I don't get all the negative feedback it gets.

probably because it was 15 dollars for basically stuff you could have modded in for free

>unironically using the non-shiny Warden armor
>that helmet
>those textures
>that insane DoF
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Wait, that was a DLC?
I thought that was a fucking mod, unbelievable that firaxis would make something that edgy.

Because most of us expected/wanted operatan shit
We got Mom's gonna freak shit
Pretty much only butthurt but still
Do you even play this game lad

I'm playing long dong RN, I didn't buy XCOM 2 yet.

sorry then
But yea, the edgy shit is from firaxis

It had enough stuff in it that I didn't mind it. It wasn't as nice as it could have been, but I don't see why it always gets blown out.
>those textures
>that insane DoF
Settings are literally max other than only using MSAA 4x instead of 8x. Not sure what the problem is.
I don't really care about tacti/k/ool though, but I get what you're saying.

Speak for yourself, I wanted more scifi /retrofuturistic shit. Mods got /k/ autism covered anyway.

Point is most of us wanted something ELSE

>retrofuturistic

my nig

okay what the fuck, i've been downloading xcom 2 for like 12 hours now and i unchecked the dlcs because i want my first run to be vanilla and the download went from 80% to zero. why jake? why?

do you feel punished?

Yeah, fair enough. AC has some real nifty designs, but most of it just feels jarringly out of place.

Those 80% were dlcs. :^)

I just wanted more hair tbchwyf

Faces would be better. If they added like three faces for each race I'd have bought it in a heartbeat.

Why risk it? Set the Anarchy slider to zero, leave the dlc missions active but don't do them, and you're set.
You only get the alien weapons with the first scan and the rulers don't appear until you do the mission.
Same for Shen's gift, until you do the mission absolutely nothing happens.

Has anyone ever had an issue where a soldier starting a retaliation mission with phantom won't be selected with tab/shift and when manually selected won't display move ranges and can't move at all? I'm using LW toolkit to mess with squad sizes, but all the other soldiers I put in work just fine. I'm wondering if that one soldier is bugged in some way.

i didnt know any of it
maybe its my punishment for refunding the game when i bought it full price and it kept crashing on my toaster
i fucking bet :^)

An additional point to add for - scan for the weapons, even if you're not going to use them. If you scan for the weapons too late the other missions will literally never pop up from scanning. Seems like they didn't really test players ignoring the scan until August or something.

>doing really well in Long War
>first cyberdisc hits the field
>HEAT gunner keeps missing
>it wipes the whole squad of 7
>second cyberdisc
>HEAT keeps missing
>4/7 dead

there's no fucking way to stop it from just endlessly flying past my cover and assfucking everyone from the flank

Probably because the weapons are pretty cool. Mostly the axe

I didn't know the first scan was just weapons when playing through it the first time. I thought it would activate the rulers immediately, and wanted to avoid it until mag weapons. I can't imagine they'll ever fix said bug, but I also can't imagine too many people are ever affected by it (and each person only will be once, so eh).

Shredder, smoke or suppression. Smoke eliminates the exposed crit bonus.

What can I turn off or tone down in this game to keep it looking decently but give me a better framerate? I just want it to run at 50-60 without look worse than EW

>steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=620508289
Read through this, gives a nice breakdown of pretty much everything with expected FPS gains or losses. Includes screenshots to see what you're potentially missing out on.

Get rid of SSAO and DoF. Set shadows to Medium.
Try disabling screen-space reflections, but I'm not sure if that'll be much help.

Nah, first scan only gives you the weapon, you can just stash them somewhere and ignore them if you want to skip the dlcs. Later on you get two more scans, one for the rulers and one for Shen. The scans themselves don't expire (although if you leave halfway through it says it will in 9 days, don't know what happens if you actually do let them expire) and you can safely do that as well.
Only after you actually scan the PoI it will prompt you to go on mission, and until you actually complete them, you're playing vanilla.

Yes, I understand that now. Hence why I said first time. Doesn't change the fact that they made it so that if you scan for it too late you're fucked out of later missions since they do not pop. I scanned for the first item in August because of reasons, and even scanning all the way until December I never got another mission from the Alien Ruler DLC.

It's a non-issue in the long run, like I said. Each person will only be affected by it once, and I can't imagine too many people ignore it as long as I did.

Hey /xcg/ are the performance issues that plagued X-Com 2 on release been patched yet, or does it still run like hot garbage?
I have a 4690k and a 3.5GB 970.

If its better and since its currently on sale at half price, i'll probably pick it up since i sank a ton of time into Enemy Within.

I think so.
Runs on stable 60 fps for me now, on high settings with meme shit disabled. GTX 680.

>Smoke eliminates the exposed crit bonus.

I wish it would have told me that. Although really, the thing probably does enough damage to kill without the crits. I'm still stuck on basic kevlar armor.

Thats good news.

>meme shit disabled
Meme shit being?

>Kevlar
>Cyberdisc
You need more than just more and bigger dakka, Commander.

It's a long war addition. I think it's in the description as well as a tooltip.

Just suppress and take potshots. Suppression is absolutely godlike in X1, and Disks that are suppressed in my experience will always overwatch. Be warned though your suppressor should be in full cover, trying to suppress from low will have the disk fire at you instead. It's not a great shot by any means, but you can still get XCOMd

>Tfw you won't experience "PERFORMANCE ISSUES" again in the near future because you have an Nvidia 1070GTX, a 4GHz i7 6700K and 16 GB of RAM

So this is the power of not playing videogames on a laptop

>It's not a great shot by any means
While technically true, you gonna get meme'd on every time you suppress from half cover desu.

SSAO, DoF, the overkill AA.

>PICCOLO DIMENSION

Going back to LW, is there anything you guys edit besides airgame repair times being 3 months long?

I like LW but the "it was designed to not be beaten" gets a bit heavy at times

Personal edit is to force five steam vents to spawn and then only pretend that two of them exist. Because I couldn't be arsed to deal with a base that puts both vents on the very bottom floor and on the opposite sides.