XCOM General - /xcg/

gatekeeper if you're a man

This.

Okidoki~

Gatekeeper is the only right choice.

Archon if its between those two. I prefer not to risk my controlled enemy turning on me the same turn he dies.

Hack a Sectopod and Mind Control a Gatekeeper
You do have a Specialist stacked with permanent hacking boost rewards and a skullminer right?

Specialist with 245 hacking skill, so I hope thats enough. She keeps rolling 10-20 on each hacking attempt since last 10 missions, tho.

To bad that hacking Sectopod is temporary.

t. Archon King victim

Rate my EXALT

>Glowing yellow eyes

>245 hacking skill
Holy shit I didn't even get mine that high and I was hacking Sectopods left and right. Blessing of good rolls upon you then.

Those genetic augmentations get pretty trippy after years without maintenance

Female tactical squads are pretty cool. I unironically like the punkhair

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How does actually Bureau connects with canon?

I mean, during the game, you meet enslaved Ethernal, who serve as power source for some psi network and you entouncer Asaru, which is purely energy being.

At the same time, during X2 final mission, one of the Ethernals says that their world was "first to fall and be consumed" when mentioning enslaved races of aliens that you encounter.

But Outsiders that appear in Buerau also appears in EU, but as "officers" and lower in rank than Ethernals.

I dont get something here.

x-com Apoclypse has a really good OST btw: youtube.com/watch?v=PBI01tdeII8&list=PLA94551885A87EFD2&index=1

I want a return of that uneasy tension/horror ost style of the original x-coms for XCOM 3.

NOT CANON

The first three X-COM games were practically Horror Tactics games to be honest.

The early Farmhouse demo for EU had that same tense horror vibe, it's a real shame they axed that.

So I found a paysafe card that still has a bunch of money on it, should I buy alien hunters or shens gift or both?

Or anarchys children

both

>Its a "game won't give you any more than 2 engineers so you literally can't do anything productive at all and are in a complete stalemate at base" run

Fuck this game sometimes.
No, a lot of the time.

Anarchy's is just cosmetics.

Alien Rulers adds bosses and new weapons, if you're a wussy pussy you don't want it.

Shen's last gift adds a new class and a mission.

There are more mods for shen's last gift than alien rulers so that's probably more bang for your buck.

Personally i liked all of them though.

gatecrasher is literally just RNG on whether you roll 3 or 4 damage on your shots/grenades

its fucking retarded

Alien Hunters has cool weapons, and adds the Frost Grenade which is just the most useful grenade you will ever have. I don't really use Sparks because they're amazing at first but then they fall off unless you have mods that let you mod their weapons.

>First invasion
>Ayys send week sectoids, gets their ass kicked
>They send stronger and stronger units, humans still kick their asses, reverse engineer their technology, kill one of their own and then blow up their main invasion ship
>Another game, Ayys steamroll from the start, wins for a time
>Keep adding human genes to their soldiers, improving them in every aspect, like transforming tiny frail grey dude into hulking freak
>Humans still kick everything on their way, hijack the aliun tech and once again triumph
>Even when losing, humanity still win

Now you know why aliens come stealth and capture one by one. They wouldnt risk doing it faster.

it's annoying that tactics games developers chose to take inspiration from pen and paper instead of board games. In board games it's less about RNG and just about positioning and tactics.

Just buy some, both on the Black Market and the HQ.

Do you really think I haven't tried both?
Black Market only has a soldier and a scientist.
Every god damn mission that gives me someone gives me a scientist.
Too many fucking scientists.

Reminds me of my own game. Third month and I still had only one engineer.

I hope you are aware both of those places get new stock monthly.

FUCK GATECRASHER FUCKING BULLSHIT REEEEEEEEEEEE

LMAO 50 PERCENT ROLLS LITERALLY DECIDE THE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN

FUCK YOU

Outsiders in X1 and the Bureau have no relation.
The ascended ethereals in the bureau and the ethereals in X1 and X2 are very different.

Become proficient

Yes, I am fucking aware, Bradford.
Suck my dick.

kys

>E3245 hasn't touched XCOM2 in weeks

Jake, why you made your game delude me with all those "8-10" damage? I want to know if my shoot will kill the enemy quickly, not "will kill if deal 10 damage" when it will never do and instead roll 8. It always roll lowest value anyway, so why lying?

LW2 is coming, we don't need any other modders. Just ship them off back to skyrim.

>I am not into statistics and risk management

I doubt LW2 will have more gun ports and tacticool clothing and Overwaifu ports

>LW2 is coming, we don't need any other modders.
Wrong.jpg

Screw off, you think that LW guys will mod any really cool suits, clothes and such? Or melee only class?

I want my VC classes in game!

We don't need any of that, all shall become one with the magnificence.

JL pls

>the real game is between the developer and the player
>if the player wins, I lose and that is not acceptable

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Nigel Thornberry, the guy who did the Halo mods, might be coming back and taking commissions. Hopefully

Aaand its over.

Veteran difficulty, game finished.

It was fun but also kinda sad that this is over ;_; I dont think Im good enough for higher difficulty levels.

Thanks for all your help :3

what happens if you squad wipe the final mission on ironman?

You can restart if you are a sore loser.

lose

God, I miss virtual shackles.

>that breach at the end

You know whats coming.

Old men, running the world.

>No captain skull on Hunter's Lodge

Lemme guess, ABA?

>melee vc classes
>not potentials for even more RNG
I'd kill for undodgeable shots anyone.

>Berserker Queen on a VIP escort mission
Sorry, East Asia, I'll get back to you eventually.

Come on, wouldnt you like to see Fencer or Armored Tech in game?

If I only knew anything about making animations...

Acquire skills.

lw is love, lw is life.

blow your brains out

>mixing weebshit with realistic tactical shit

literally worse than cyclopsfag

>No engineers again this month

Fuck this.
I'm restarting.
I already fucked myself over by putting only two engineers on a relay and comms where they can't escape now.

Oh well, lesson learned.

Think I'll play trying Not Created Equal this time.
Also considering LW2 Alien Pack but I hear its hard as balls, I might not be man enough for it yet.

Cry more.

For the weebs, grapeshot.

You could try getting individual alien mods first. Then LW alien pack, then ABA2.

I recommend Advent Sniper and Advent Priest, they're rage inducing.

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Is ABA2 actually any good?
The second I saw the number of new shit it adds I couldn't help but feel like quantity over quality Monster Mod style stupidity.

I've not played enough of it (I'm doing my first modded campaign that isn't just cosmetics and I keep finding other things a month into the campaign), but it's nice having a variety of enemies to face straight out of the gate. Couldn't say anything about Muton/Archon onwards.

>quantity over quality Monster Mod style stupidity
nailed it

It is good. The amount of new shit is only like that because the guy's been working on it for an entire year now.

>It is good
Sixty million recolors with slight differences is not a good enemy mod.

VC is pretty tactical on its own, you know?

It is a different story that in first game people were cheesing Scouts. It was improved in 2 and 3.

>It was improved in 2 and 3
You mean the games that went from charming weeb Europe style to highschool panty adventure with giant weapons?

Thats the setting of 2, but gameplay was improved (yes, I consider splitting the maps into smaller ones actually improvement over first game, since you could use all classes with success, not only scouts as the only guys, who could reach the points within reasonable time) and 3 balanced gameplay even more and provided much better plot and setting.

expansion when

Also, potentials are here already:

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=695216006&searchtext=potential

COACH

I AINT GOT NO LEGS

Confirmed for not playing it.

>Slight differences
>Slight

So, are you stupid or malicious? Only two options when spreading bullshit like that.

I think I've spent more time making characters than playing the game.
Any way to upload them?

Starting a new campaign with a lot of customization mods can get a little weird without a filled up character pool.

can someone please explain the backstory behind picrelated? did beagle get cucked or something?

>Slight differences
Ok so you have no idea what you're talking about. Good talk, contributed alot.

I don't think there was really a back story, some user just wanted to do a fun edit.

just a joke about the bants beagle and jake have

Each variety serves to fill a niche and each alien Pod Leader feels different to fight (ADVENT Captains also have a lot of variety, but with them it's more like "watch out for the eventual threat" because they generally don't live long enough for their class to matter).

There's also Prime enemies, which provide a very unique challenge and bridge the gap between normal enemies and Rulers.

ABA2 gets a permanent spot on my mod list. The things it does wrong aren't nearly enough to obfuscate the value it adds to the game.

Well, I suppose I could give it a try.
I'm kind of fucking around anyways since even though I'm new to the game kind of (first time doing the first Black Site), I'm waiting for LW2 for the real experience.

youtube.com/watch?v=GaE6QSs2ZD4

Stay mad famalam

>cringeworthy misspelling/10
>drumpf toupee/10

You get the chance to restart the mission, just like the first game.

This

Kill youareself

>misspelled solomon's name
Someone sucks in photoshop. That's the only backstory.

This is not my copy pasta, I disavow it.

Any news on the expansion AT ALL?