XCOM General - /xcg/

>Long War
>About to lose Egypt
>Abduction mission in Egypt
>Bomb defusal mission in Egypt before council report
>Egypt goes from max panic back down to yellow

Sometimes things work in your favor.

If you hate the timer so much you may as well just play one difficulty lower.

For some people it's a psychological thing. You can do the missions within the time limit easy, but it still adds a bad sort of pressure.

1-2 turns extra balance would make 99% of those missions better.

Ok so that user last thread if he was a shitter for using timer tweaks in Vanilla.
I'm about to run ABA2 + LWPP and was wondering if I should run any Timer mods, ABA2 specifically recommends it but I'd like to hear from people here if its really needed.

I'd also like to ask if increased squad size is needed either

I like increased squad size because I like having a lot of soldiers, so I recommend it for the fun value. I definitely does make things easier though. I hear ABA2 is quite difficult though so I would definitely run a timer mod. True concealment is pretty fair in my book.

Is there any good armor mods for tier 2?

Is there a way to make twitch recorded video into WEBM?

ODST Mod

Is there a fucking way to turn off the DLC maps in Long War? The fucking dam and subway maps are absolute fucking cancer.

Hey, I like Confounding Light and Deluge.

Anyway I think you can comment the maps out in the DefaultMaps.ini

I savescum remorselessly with the air war and fuck you if you don't like it.

Whoever designed this shit should be shot. Your entire campaign being skullfucked because 5 interceptors can't touch a UFO in some 7 second engagement bullshit you have essentially 0 control over isn't fun or engaging.

See Pic.

LONG DONG

I use true concealment mod.

I really wish tier one-two lasted longer, shit is so fun.

>Menece ready to deploy!

What are you going to name your squad?

Slayyer

Halo: Tactics General

Mutons replaced with Brutes mod when?

Nobody likes the air game afaik

Retro snek?

Pls no

Not a problem with that.

From where comes the one on the right? This is not retro snek.

I made it, so we have a modern snek that fits in with the retro snek.

Pretty sure left is retro, right is X2 Viper in retro style.

Neat! Have you posted that on the oxc forum?

that's not bad. I like it

No, I only have that one frame, and if making a full sheet is anything like these ripped sheets are, it seems like it would be a nightmare segmenting it all.
Was mostly for fun, but I might continue with it later.

>LW2 doesn't introduce a dating sim aspect to the game
dropped

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>Reinforcement pod of 14 drops right on top of your two assaults with close combat specialist

Bradford is getting too old for your jokes, commander.

I got one exosuit and I gave it to my Gunner.
Solid plan yeah?

Also I got 5 corpses, should I just make more exosuits or get one more corpse and finally McFucking upgrade my armor to the 2nd tier?

The furthest right class icon in Menace doesn't seem familiar. Is it the Technical's icon?

>Viper pulls your assault onto high ground and immediate gets rekt by CCS
>Free high ground

This even happens with a Vanilla Ranger or LWP Shinobi with Bladestorm on either. At a certain point Vipers really do just kill themselves.

Talking about Vipers misusing their pulling skill, why don't any of them just bring a shotgun, grab someone, and fire at them point blank?

>Viper pulls your assault onto high ground and gets rekt by CCS
>Also pulls two more pods from fog of war, assault is alone on high ground in no cover
Mixed feels. Like, haha vipers are retarded, but also fuck you viper, you incidentally killed my assault you fuck.

That's a first

>two thousand and ten+five+two
>using sparks ever
laughingADVENT.webm

I think with the uniform mod you can make them have the look while wearing the higher tier armor?

Is this a LW2 screenshot or something that already exists?

It has the class symbol for the Technical in it, a LW2 class, so it's a LW2 screenshot. Source, and exactly what it is depicting, is unclear at present.

Ah, didn't notice that. I'm glad they're bringing back the old rank names.

is Zemalf our guy?

you've successfully shilled me your channel, gonna let your voice put me to sleep now

thanks zemalf

There's mods for him

source is PI forums, tons of info there

> xcom2
> gatecrasher
> miss almost every shot
> panic into terrible positions
> get hit nearly every time
> manage to wipe on gatecrasher

Jesus christ. If there was ever a sign that xcom is doomed, this is it.

Git gud

I just got this man in. I do not know how to feel about a sniper swordsman.

>can't equip Laser Sight + Scope on one weapon
fug

CLOSE RANGE?

CIVILIANS

GET SOME

lmao not even PI likes sparks, they're totally untouched.

Close Range All the Way, Bradford.

I wish Michael McCann had scored X2 as well. It just doesn't hold a candle to when you zoom out into the Geoscape for the first time with Act I's music.

>youtube.com/watch?v=1bpXfSxvp8E

McCann did ambience better but I love the combat tracks in 2. The transition and contrast of the music during your turn and theirs is GOAT.

>Alien Activity tracks aren't in the OST
JAAAAAAAAAAAAKE

*Hydrogen starts playing*

>mfw the best music the DLC tracks from Shen's Last Gift aren't released either
>youtube.com/watch?v=NEOuN4O5zBs

>not using Metal over flesh - Upgradeable SPARKS
>steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=720053228

Its actually fairly balanced, imo. Makes them play a lot more like MECs from the original game.

>Dead Eye on Shotgun
I love it.

dang this is good

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This is TOTALLY balanced right?

>Free random any psi ability in the game for everyone
>When every psi ability in X2 is a game changer
Thats broken as fuck.

>will never know what EXALT mecs look like

JUST

speak for yourself

How does your entire campaign get fucked by failing to shoot down an UFO? Only way to get "fucked" by that is if you lose the interceptors, and you get 100% control over that if you can restrain yourself from fighting UFOs out of your league..

>when you proxy mine viper kings crib

>when you get the regicide achievement during his reveal cutscene

How did you get proxy mines so early?

The mission never expires. You can do it anytime you like.

It just seems you still have conventional weapons.

If you do the mission any later than just getting gauss + plated, you're a pussy.

>t.viper king that wants to squad wipe low tech commanders
I will melt you down to your base fucking elements with plasma fire and white hot sharpenel by the tonne

Real talk, the dlc missions are balanced to be difficult but not too difficult when you get them. If you do them much later, they become trivial like in

>rulers
>balanced
its a shit dlc

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fuck off shen and take your shitty fake wannabe mecs

I just upgraded to t3 weapons and armor, using reach and titanfall skins. This is my first play through with aba2 on legendary so I left the rulers until near end game. I wasn't sure if there were changes made to them or how they would interact with more enemies, larger pods, etc.

I'd never tried mass mines on the rulers before, just saw it mentioned in xcg a while back.

I've only really ran thee campaigns, the first I scrapped (1/4 done-ish) when I saw that the Rulers where out after a long break from xcom. So begins the second campaign and the Rulers literally meme me to death and I was pissed. >tfw

Campaign is kill, start a third when shens last gift comes out, find out that I can wait forever and I did just that. While I completely regret not doing the shen mission earlier I regret nothing about the pure barbarism on I committed onto the Rulers

You hunt the biggest prey with the biggest guns and if your prey is too busy and stupid enough to spend all day in its harem do nothing then I will come along when I feel like it and butcher it as my discretion

Anarchy's Children has only 3 good things: facepaint, skintight pants and knuckle dusters. I wish I could disable the rest.

Fuck you, Jake can do no wrong. I bet you're a racist drumpft supporter too.

>Hating based trump
FUCKING LEAVE