XCOM General - /xcg/

Boardgame Edition

Previous Mission: News:
1) XCOM2 has released for consolefriends

2) Long War Studios has released the Long War Alien Pack:
>steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=577474474

3) Julian Gollop is FUCKING STILL working on his new game Phoenix Point. It's a turn-based tactical game with strategy elements, destructible terrain, geoscape and character progression. He was recently nterviewed by Eurogamer about it.
>phoenixpoint.info/
>eurogamer.net/articles/2016-06-29-watch-we-ask-the-creator-of-xcom-about-his-next-game-phoenix-point

The /xcg/ Mandatory Read:
>pastebin.com/k9pT8zx4

/xcg/ XCOM 2 Character Pool:
>docs.google.com/document/d/12XvY-C-RoQZUexxauBXcCsw1jElq-g8TaCNpLgG2atM/edit

Image Library of /xcg/:
>imgur.com/a/S1qfx

XCOM2 modlist, updated as of this thread!
>pastebin.com/pTMatP5Z

MEGA Mod Repository, now contains all of the mods in the modlist!
>mega.nz/#F!HlgWjCqR!STJ0c0kW8Fs6jKynqKyerw

Modlist Steam Collection - Contains 99% of the mods in the modlist:
>steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=756115171

Assorted improvements (Skip intros, alleviate stuttering, multi monitor support, and resolutions past 1080p):
>steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=616682629

/xcg/'s Long War Library (New LW players read this shit or you will be ignored):
>pastebin.com/YmaXBKpN (embed)
Piratez mod for OpenXCom:
>openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3626.0.html

Stuff while playing them boardgames:
>youtube.com/watch?v=Hx8Mhzq6lME
>youtube.com/watch?v=rENhOxhk5WE
>youtube.com/watch?v=T0cFIFtFcw8

Other urls found in this thread:

loverslab.com/topic/57070-lewd-mods-and-xcom-2/page-43
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

First for airgame revival

pistols are useful

anyone got the expansion pack?

Which one?

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Gets It.

it hasn't released yet
i just checked the fantasyflightgames store

oh, my bad, i must have thought it was out when they had only announced it

How the fuck am I supposed to get flawless 1st missions on Long War? It's like I keep getting the shittiest pod spawns or I'm too far away from any good height advantage

You aren't

but muh boi beags.

you will never have beagleluck

Long War is better than XCOM2. By a lot.

How would one increase how much and easily fire spreads?

I really like the destructible terrain and buildings but I want even more

Git gud. I don't think it's that hard to do if you do basic shit like:
- pay attention to which guy has what gear
- don't place your guys in anywhere but hard cover or out of los
- move out of alien los and overwatch -- this one always gets the sectoids

Your aim will suck so really the only advantages you can get at that point are nades, terrain, flanking and moving out of los and overwatching.

What's wrong with comissioning art of your furry OC?

Don't you guys do that??

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Yes please

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AIR GAME A SHIT

PISTOLS ARE NOT USEFUL

>PISTOLS ARE NOT USEFUL

U wot m8

Nice webms friend! Here's my Breivik!

is this an actual pistol in the game

thanks mr skeltal

Yes

I wonder if the real Kolibri actually could kill someone IRL... I've yet to see a video where they test shoot with one.

Might actually be dangerous if it hits really soft tissue like an eyeball but otherwise even clothing can noticeably protect against it

Yeah that's pretty much what I thought, but the gun itself is impressive nontheless!

Yeah, I think it was more to show off the gunsmith's skill instead of having an intended use.

Unless it was a children's toy. People seemed to give 0 fucks back in the day

>Kexx said on steam that he's been working on stuff for a December release
>check loverslab
>he made a new release a few days ago

loverslab.com/topic/57070-lewd-mods-and-xcom-2/page-43

People who add porn elements to games just for the sake of having porn should kill themselves.

>DUDE WHAT IF BOOBS LMAO

>implying skyrim porn isn't gr8 and immersive

For RPGs like TES it's fine because you're actually interacting with characters.

When you're just slapping a bad nude texture on Shen, that's just fucking sad.

yeah i agree

Neptunia ports WHEN?

Never ever

Why do people like Neptunia anyways

Mostly because of the characters.

I don't understand what people get out of this.

NEW SNEKGUY STORY WHEN?
SNEK 4 WHEN?

>DUDE WHAT IF BOOBS LMAO
so firaxis should kill themselves for putting boobs on the snakemen?

got em

Maybe.

Snekfags should definitely neck themselves however.

BF1 PORTS WHEN

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That Miranda Lawson screenshot actually looks pretty good!

no

If you stop spamming every thread, then I promise I'll take a look at the first pistol and see if I can make it happen.
/capnbubs

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>is capnbubs

But user, capnbubs is with the LW team and hasn't put out an independent mod in months

I'm just tired of your constant BF1 posting :(

Bad user >:(

Fucking kek

;O

i can guess what the original material was, but can someone post it anyway

Riddle me this:

How does Garrus survive having his shit pushed in by an angry mob at the end of the game? It's quite clear he gets mobbed and yet he shows up to give you shit on the last mission. What the heck?

More than one speaker obviously. What point would there be in turning ALL the thin men back into Vipers? Keep a few thousand around for manipulating humans, going to events and being the "face" of the elders.

I hope speakers get introduced in an expansion as another Advent unit above captains, so you can personally wreck their shit.

Does the game show him getting actually beat by the mob? Not really. He probably just jumped right out of there.

>UFO defence
>airgame
>apoc
>airgame
>xcom EU/EW
>airgame
>xcom LW
>>>>>airgame
>xenonauts
>airgame

>UFO series
>no airgame
>Xcom2
>NO AIRGAME

Lightning Reflexes

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>>XCom is more like space marines, Xenonauts could be more like Imperial guard.

Agreed. XCOM has moved more to the super-soldier side with special units like Psy (Librarians), MEC/SPARK (Dreadnoughts) and Gene mods making every operative into practically Space Marines. Adding vehicles/air strikes to this, while potentially awesome, could detract a bit too much for the core of the type of game XCOM is going for: A Unit of Elite -Operatives- fighting against the all odds.

It's Xenonauts the one who could really benefit from getting much more vehicles into the mix as it will help the series to differentiate itself from XCOM. If they really want to claim that "Global Defense" in their title they really need to go the route of Rapid-Response Elite -Army- fighting against an invading alien army.

Who is Julian Shen's voice actor? Still Garrus?

He is a viper, and he had Advent guards, i don't think a mob of normal people would be able to take him down.

never

I'd swear it's the guy who voices Magnus the Red in If The Emperor Had A Text-to-Speech Device. Sounds way too much like him.

He had his rifle hidden behind the screen

The characters. The pretense that the series is a parody of the game industry is long gone.

>tfw no Half-Life ports

I hate aliens

Aren't the textures pretty low quality?

I love aliens

we are at an impasse i see

To my knowledge Black Mesa is still in development senpai, and looks pretty good. If you want HL2 stuff there're tons of HD versions of them on the internet. I would try to make them myself but downloading that 45 gb modding tool would take me more than a week

jeez where do you live

In a not well developed middle eastern country. On top of that, I live in like a village that's even worse than the country's urban areas

But where? Now I really want to know.

Easy solution; you get to kill aliens except for the vipers.

The cutscene ends with a first-person view from him of the mob wrestling him to the ground, and ends with somebody about to curbstomp his face.

Just making sure, you know there's ports of all the combine armor on the workshop, right?

Ninja Nub is awesome for porting some cool shit, but he abandoned xcom modding months ago to port ARMA models to the stalker mod CoC. He even had some hl1 marines, zombies, and alyx ported, but never released.

A shame, really.

That snek's tail looks like a crumpled up sock instead of a powerful crushing tool. I blame her diet of Advent burgers and XCOM rookies.

Now that's what I call retro quality!

the reports of vipers consuming rebels rather than turning them in for interrogation are entirely unsubstantiated.

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Have a compilation of never ever

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>Bradford having shit taste in waifus
As expected

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DA pls...

>that sectiod

Bradford's only waifu is the Commander

What is this

Sauce?

That alyx model makes me wish even harder for some decent jeans and hoodies.

>Not having your waifu be an entire planet.

excellent work, user

>Tfw just played shen last gift for the first time
>Tfw that fucking OST
This should have been the default combat theme

Somebody get E3245 on the horn, you're on to something here

>the angry thud of the spark gun

Are you great at photoshopping or an actual modder?