/xcg/ - XCOM General

>REINFORCEMENTS
This is it. XCOM is finished.

Would probably be slightly more manageable if the game were less opaque. Apparently you can only melee after a dash if you do it in one command, and Implacable seems to be almost entirely non-functional.

sounds magnificent, brah

This is a really fun map, same deal with the mansion another mod adds

Sneks have high dodge. Dodge also causes grazes. Graze band applies in addition to Dodge.

Example: Graze band is at 10. ADVENT Trooper has 0 Dodge and you have a 70% on him. chances are 60% normal damage, 20% Graze, 20% miss.

Your situation: Snek has whatever Dodge. You have 100% on him. You have (x=Dodge) chance to Graze, (100 - x) to deal normal damage.

In Vanilla (if you somehow had Double-Barrels in Vanilla), that would have been a Dodge:Memed complete miss.

>tfw i finally found out how to stop having recluits with negative defense and dodge
>tfw Not Created Equally is finally fun to use

Fuck getting shot though full cover while hunking down and fuck whoever thought that having negative defense was a good idea.

pls share

Because seriously, fuck vipers 360 noscoping full cover soldiers from across the map.

Go to
XComLW_Toolbox.ini in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\268500\844674609\Config

Then use the search function of notepad and look for this
>StatDown=eStat_Defense
>StatDown=eStat_Dodge

Next to each line of code, there is one that says:
>StatDown_Amount=

Change each value to 1 for all the StatDown=eStat_Defense and StatDown=eStat_Dodge and then you are done, enjoy having soldiers with positive defense.

>extremely light mission
>send three dudes
>immediately two pods of 2 and 3 vipers, one soldier each.

Yeah, no. Fuck that. Fuck everything about that. Fuck everything that looks like that. Fuck everything remotely similar to that.

>Operation Wildcard Starter
>not expecting the ultimate bullshit of wildcard vipers

>Reinforcements were just a trooper and a commander

>More reinforcements being called on the next turn

Yeah I know i'm a shitter, I just started playing this game.

But it is so frustrating difficult early game in EW getting satellites up. by the time I've gotten enough engineers to build a sat uplink, and money to buy more satellites there's already like 3 countries full panic.

Like I could take the abduction for 3 engineers from a country with 0 panic, or get 200 bucks from a country with yellow panic.

What am I doing wrong?

What was the first time you've felt the magnificent long dong when playing long war 2?

Fuck me if it sounds like I'm shilling, but I have yet to encounter the unwinnable situation that I can't (at least retroactively) attribute to user error.

This shit is hard, but I'm gitting guder with every failure.

Guerilla War+All Pods Activate=Fuck Stealth?

Thanks!
That gif.
>when your team is spotted by two mutons, three vipers, and two mecs first turn in a VIP escort
>evac is on the other side of the planet
Popping two pods of vipers and two pods of soldiers on turn three of a hacking mission with a three turn evac. Sent out eight men and three came back. Both the spawn and objective were against the south wall and I had no where to run.

>the guy drinking through his gasmask
>cigarettes in the ashtray, suggesting he's been smoking through it too
>the bartender just glaring angrily at Bradford
>"Fucker knows those are my favorites and that was the last one. Fucking 'you know I started XCOM so I deserve it' bullshit."

>Late night Viper shows.

Some mod is fucking my missions over making enemies and objectives not spawn

However, I'm not sure which mod it is. Should I just disable everything but long war 2?

Everything off and trail and error your gamechanging shit back in,.
long war designed with only itself in mind and is not compatible with anything unless it is cosmetic or the mod author made it long war compatible

This is a region Liberation mission, right? I know it says it there but I don't trust Long War to actually be straight forward anymore, plus if I want to get this done I have to call off at least one raid too. What happens if I skip it for now?

>mfw I pulled off a two-man train robbery purely because of a clutch 23% mec hack that bought Firebrand enough time to get us the fuck outta there

Holy fuck that was intense.

>I know it says it there
LW2 is honest about things when it tells you them. Its issue is that it doesn't tell you things too frequently. That's a Liberation mission, go win it. If you skip it, you'll get another Liberation mission later, but it might take awhile. I wouldn't skip it.

Can I even run this fucking game
imgur.com/RTo1b45

Yes, this is the third part of the Liberation chain. After this the next mission you get for it will be the final stretch in Liberation, BE PREPARED.

Any good LW-compatible weapon mods/reskins yet?

XCOM EU/EW/LW you should be able to, but certainly not XCOM 2

jesus christ i just took out two sectopods and two heavy mecs in one turn on legendary vanilla

Just Reach right now. Waiting on modern weapons so I can operate completely.

Why do I still get spotted when I move here?

Anyone else have their pistol models randomly disappear?

LOS is fucked up at the moment both for stealth and shooting. Squares that say fine are sometimes not. It's been so long since I played vanilla that I don't know if it's LW2 or just XCOM2.

What happens a Haven gets to 0 personnel from a truly fucked Retaliation? Does it just accumulate a few more people eventually or is it permanently fucked?

Soldier haven leaders recruit.

how are you being revealed?
someone spots you or does the game treats you as if you broke a window?

Nothing, optimal play is to take engineer abductions and sat according to panic levels. You can't realistically save all countries on impossible because too many panic, but for other difficulties you should be able to sat up everything red at the end of the month. But you really can't prevent the rise in panic, parallel abductions make it impossible - you just rush sats to save countries from falling.

The issue with EU/EW is that the first two months are the hardest, after that you snowball. LW fixes that.

Had that happen to me on my last terribly fucked-up Scientist rescue. Managed to finagle it into everybody except a Rookie getting captured rathen than everybody getting fukken ded, but I did notice that the pistol I put on my Sharpshooter just wasn't there. He still shot and everything, but he shot a nonexistent gun.

Probably some magnificence concerning pistols being utility items rather than secondary weapons, no doubt.

Just finished my first play through of the campaign after getting the game about a week ago. This game is sick. What mods do you guys recommend? All I've been using so far is sassy vipers and a few voice packs. Also is the DLC worth it? Just what is Long War?

I should have been more specific, the game is XCOM 2

MADSEN LMG PORT WHEN

Despite being a BF1 port the Brazilian police still use the Madsen to this day

Long war was the first mod for XCOM EU/EW. A game that wasn't meant to be modded. It was basically a fan expansion pack with a focus on a longer campaign, harder game, a large rotating roster of soldiers to call upon, and magnificent design.

The mod kept XCOM EU/EW alive longer than the expiration date, and kept people interested until XCOM 2 leading Firaxis games to commission the developers from the mod to mod XCOM 2 in the same way they modded XCOM EU/EW to drum up sales indirectly.

Uninstall all content based mods (cosmetic/UI mods are usually fine), and install the Long War 2 mod. I'd say it's in a rough state right now though compared to the first long war.

>not having negative defense tank assaults
you what mate
it's like you want your squishy damage dealers to get blat-blat'd

Long war is a longer, more hardcore version of xcom. The devs say it should take you about 100-150 missions to complete it. It also expands the classes and perk trees.

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=848571873&searchtext=
Send em' down to hell screaming

>What mods do you guys recommend?
Overwatch All, Evac All, Better Tactical Zoom Out, Gotcha, Stop Wasting My Time, Instant Avenger Menus, Perfect Information, Show Health Values, Clean Cinematic, Military Camouflage Patterns, Capnbubs Accessories, Custom Facepaints, Free the Hood, Ink and Paint, More Random Backstories, XCOM Patch Tattoos, Equestria Nationality, Firebat Voice Pack, Bob Ross Voice Pack, More Armor Colors, More Hair Colors, Cost-based Ability Colors, Blackmarket Usage, and World Expansion Project: ADVENT.

>Also is the DLC worth it?
Meh. I have yet to get far enough for SPARKS, and Alien Hunters is not my cup of tea, honestly.

>Just what is Long War?
Hell.

>Sassy Vipers
Anyone know if it works with Long War 2?

wew that guys face!

Not really hard, in vanilla by the time you first encounter a sectopod your squad should be able to alpha strike everything

>decide to pass on the rescue a defector mission to try and get a scientist/engineer reward instead of a soldier
>by the time one finally pops advent strength has gone up from 3 to 7
greed may have been a mistake

why do your screens only have dudes user. chicks can operate too

they were making new madsens into the 1950s the Brazilians must have like them i guess

Because I like traditional dude operator teams.
And this armor doesn't work for females. I require uniforms.

they look like they're about to drop the hottest album of 2035

Thanks bruh,

I'm drooling at the mouth already. I'll play with mods a bit and wait for DLC to go on sale. Steam keeps telling me I should have the dlc before trying Long War.

you don't need the DLC.

I hate sharing my sniper towers

I've been lied to by Steam yet again...

From the LW2 workshop page

It's a lot of fun but has some issues.

>mfw the balance and bugs are finally ironed out

Emeeeeeeeeeergency induction port

>Last mission
>final avatar
>run n gun crit ranger adjacent to avatar
>rapid fire at 90%
>lmao prepare to hold my dick bitch

>Missed!
>Missed!

haha

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We can actually drink through gas masks. The inner drinking nozzle stabs you in the face all the time always.

Rip

your soldiers are all fucking white males

where is the diversity?

...

the korean dude

There is clearly a black dude in that pic

Under rated post.

I base soldier race off the MILLIONS OF VOICE PACKS I have. A lot of white dudes, a good number of black dudes, a decent amount of asians, surprisingly not many hispanic voice packs.

There are also two black dudes and a korean in that picture.

Gas masks look cool but they are nothing but bad memories for me so I need to ruin the fun for everyone else.

How do you get the flag to show up in the arm like that?

>equestria nationality

hmmm

That's the RB6 siege armor

Only the R6S armor does that, like how the BF4 helmets have it on the back of some(all?) of the helmets.

FUCK YOU. I have heard that "lol you must be fun at parties" at least a hundred times. GET FUCKING ORIGINAL. Jesus fucking christ. Stop saying the same fucking thing over and over and over again. Just because you don't agree with me DOES NOT HAVE SHIT TO DO WITH PARTIES. What the fuck. Do you fucking fart at parties or something? If so I don't want to go to your shitty-ass parties in the first place. I'll stick to my wine and cheese dinners, you know, REAL FUCKING PARTIES. I downvoted you because not one thing you said was original. You're just a robot programmed to say these phrases over and over again to feel connected to 1s and 0s on the internet. You've never been to a party. That's why you say those things. WELL I'M FUCKING tired. of it. I'm tired. Say that to me one more fucking time and I will find you. I'm taking a stand. I am so sick of the stupid "parties" comeback. It's not fun. It's not clever. It's really fucking hurtful. Thanks a lot, dick. So what if you don't like what I said. Is that any reason to dismiss my entire comment and quote a little comeback. What's next, you're going to explain to me with crayons or call out my bullshit by how I overcomplicating things? If I see one more fucking party comment, I'm going to lose it. I'm going off the fucking chain and fucking report all you motherfuckers who think it's funny to comment about being fun at parties. Try me. I will do it. I will go STRAIGHT TO THE FUCKING TOP and then I'll be the one laughing while you beg for my mercy. Then you know what I'll say while you come to me crying and begging to die so you can stop the agony? I'll say "You must be fun at parties." So yeah, If you must know, I am pretty fun at parties. Not that you'll ever find out, dick.

You wouldn't happen to have the full picture that user posted a while ago do you?

Are there different armors for the different CTUs? Not like I care, I'd just use the SAS armor anyway.

Just SAS at the moment. There is another mod with a lot of helmets and IQ's full set, but they're weirdly low quality.

I do, I drew it :^)

it's on rule34.pahael under the X-COM and Annette_Durand tag

What about the other one you haven't posted yet?

The codex one? When long war dropped my classes picked up at the same time, so they're both competing for time.

If I find the time and motivation I'll finish it.

No I mean this one.

fuze steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=847698425&searchtext=

>one more mission before bed
>game crashes

okay

i'm tempted to finish my LW1 campaign (just got gauss IIRC) before i continue with this LW2 campaign though, just so i can get my squad from LW1 into the character pool

God damn it I didn't think anyone in the Trump general would recognize that.

I finished that a while ago, I'll put it on pahael after I get home tomorrow.

kool

This map is quite something, but i think i would've been forced to abort the mission right at the start if i wasn't using true concealment. It took me a million turns just to realize there was no way up other than going inside, and i wouldn't have been able to go inside from the side i started the mission because there was a muton and an advent gunner on the second floor with tons of heavy cover they could use.

lol you must be fun at parties

Do you get instant autopsies in LW2 after collecting shitton of corpses like in vanilla?