XCOM General - /xcg/

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>have perfect info "cheat" mod
>missing 100% shots
>aliens critting me through full cover while flashbanged

okay

What about Ayys under mental servitude?

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Under mental servitude they'd remove themselves if you wanted.

Good

Have you guys had any success in rushing coilguns and skipping magnetics after lasers?

Still hoping someone would pick up the Dr. Vahlen in an xcom virgin killer sweater.

Well. If we had any drawfriends.

Wakaliwood voice mod when

youtube.com/watch?v=KEoGrbKAyKE

savescumming to the rescue.
game is playing dirty, why shouldn't I?

>start using teams of 2-3 Shinobi doing the very light/extremely light intel missions
>just dashing in and out
>start putting them in all-black uniforms with red visors
>name their squad Cerberus

The edge is real but

they're actually kinda cool
>tfw can't do a squad screenshot because they're literally always out on missions

more like
>tfw cant do a squad screenshot because they are that good at hiding

Does anybody have the image of the clip art/stock photo of the soldiers looking through the doorway with this guy and a snake through it? I remember seeing it so long ago on /xcg/ and can't find it even on the imgur archive.

I used to clear out vanilla facility sabotage missions that way

What would you guys like in a dog mod?
My basic idea is giving it 4 extra moves tiles and have all cover be treated like full cover and can grab on to enemies to hold them.

Damn, I know exactly what your are talking about too.

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thx

If you think that's OP you need to try Ghost Grenades, Ghost Armor and Mimetic Skin.

Fun Times.

>enemies can be in the fog on overwatch without the game showing you in EW

holy fuck this is dumb

>ADVENT Captains with squadsight Holotarget
Thank god they don't exist.

It let's the player do the same exact thing so why wouldn't it let the AI do it as well?

clear the fog with your scout, user

I know I'm a bit late...
but I finally got to Temple Ship in LW (on normal)

The last 20 or so missions were just me running my OP squad into the fray and obliterating everything while I waited for my psi lady to finish her training. Meanwhile the longer I played the more broken the game became, especially when it came to cyberdisks. Many times the game just crashed or the disk decided to fly across the whole map and activate on the other side among civilians. Fuck terror missions.

It certainly was a ride

Good job user, not many finish the Long Ride.

Wait a minute...
>Tygan DLC revealed
>have to go into the ADVENT network/matrix and acquire some valuable intel/research
>digital warfare.jpg
>digitally infiltrate ADVENT network with holo-soldiers
>come across ayy lmaos in the matrix
>codex muton
>codex viper
>codex stunlancer
>codex chrysallid
>mfw we shadowrunners

>codex chryssalid splits into clones when damaged
>can teleport

>playing EW for first time after xcom 2
>first chrysallid
>92% miss
>84% miss
>72% miss
>crits my guy for one hit kill
>uninstall

>yfw there are alternate versions of the in-game EU ost that haven't been modded in
>youtu.be/c83QEeaM9SM
>youtu.be/vytvfOq5jdE

these are fucking amazing

What's the best way to play UFO Defense on steam? That one link to the Steam forum has disappeared.

Good new user! They're including Advent Sniper captains in the next LW2 update!

Anyone skip lasers and go straight for mag?

If so, how's it playing out? Good? Shit?

>purchase game
>use files to play openxcom.org

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>168170750
What the fucking shit is that?

These are bretty gud

Worked WONDERS for me. Probably because I had 4 scientists by month 2 so Laser and Mag popped at the same time for me, only took 6 more days too.

Thanks. Where do I install that shit?

C'est magnifique, mon ami

>openxcom.org

Ya I downloaded OpenXcomEx.exe and the readme but I have no idea where to put it. Doesn't say anywhere online

Nevrrmind I DL the wrong file

So the 5 aim meme and resource costs weren't too big of a deal then?

I'm in my 2nd month with 2 rounds of basic research and 3 scientists. 3 alloys away from jumping straight into lasers but finding the dosh to buy the alloys is suffering.

>strength 6
>all these enemies on >"light" missions

wew

What aliens are the worst idea to melee?

muttons then sectopods

all of them

you have guns for a reason

Where is the stealth meme coming from in Long Dong 2? Let's look at the downsides:

>lose out on experience (both kill xp and mission xp until 3 troops)
>no loot, including stuff like elerium cores which you really need
>always at risk of being revealed by a patrolling drone or a civ hiding somewhere
>utterly fucked if something goes wrong (and this is fucking xcom so that's pretty likely)
>welp, there's a pod sitting on the objective, guess I can't do the mission

Obviously you don't want to engage the whole map if you can help it, but I feel like everything's a lot easier if you can take at least 4 guys so you can potentially take out a pod or hold out until extraction.

Do people just feel like they have to take every mission, then savescum until their shinobi survives? I can see why people would think that's boring. But I just don't take those missions and I seem to be doing fine in the mid game so far. It's really fun so far desu

How about Chryssalid pods?

No dangerous than anything else honestly.

>>Tygan DLC revealed

I think that's going to be more Gene Mod (and Vahlen) related but that could be a good start.

Then, as you research deeper into the ADVENT files, you come across sealed DNA strands, aka, Rulers of all the other classes of enemies in the game...

explosives and shotguns

you wanna wack this thing with a sword go right the fuck ahead

Misunderstood.

Id say its a tie between mutons and chryssalids

jl defeated beagle

he won

The mag weapons were such a massive leap early that I only had to invest in 1 of each type + arc swords, since if I hit anything would die instantly.

Main menus?

Hello taliban

Mutons are way worse because of parry-counterstrike, user.

Do lids get that?

>Workshop isn't letting me add items to collection anymore
GG, Gabe.

You have to pay first. Modders need to be payed you know :^)

Are AH and SLG missions based off infiltration as well in LW2 or do you just go ahead and do them normally?

>EW has no los indicator or overwatch symbol over enemies

fucking hell is there a mod for this

git

gud

kill yourself

LOS you're out of luck, I think. Overwatch indicators, though, are added by Long War.

abloo bloo

oughta highlight the best move for you too right

Do you gain XP for farming the reinforcements?

vanilla yes

LW2 no

WTF? I can only bring 5 dudes on the network tower mission in LW2?

nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/666/

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that's fucking sick. is that a prebuilt theme?

The map is tiny, more than five men makes it too easy.

So which classes make the Brest officers? Rangers and specialists?

shinobi are good too for those VIP extract missions.

later on I just trained everyone into officers to have maximum overlap.

>Get the dlc
>Start a new game
>Do Shen's gift as soon as it appears
>Killing an 80 health sectopod with 6 armor with a squad of squaddies and a rookie

Long story short, everyone except Shen and Spark died.

Are the hunter's weapons any good? Do I get a replacement spark if he dies doing stupid shit?

vanilla: they're good
LW2: 2 of them are good

you can build more sparks in proving grounds.

I find the frost bomb useful against targets that love flanking or have dangerous movements such as captains early, lids and stun lancers. I haven't used the rifle or pistol yet.

The hunter weapons are pretty good, two of them are a straight upgrade while the other is a damage boost + stun chance. Frost bombs are tremendously useful against rulers and aliens alike.

As far as sparks, if they die you need to build a new one.

BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT XCOM

>but at what cost?

who?

>Finally my game is so unfun hardcore even Beaglerush has been defeated

>advent attack liberated region
>have to destroy a relay 100 miles away
>civs getting killed on their turn with no recourse by each and every unactivated enemy including triple action sectopod
>immediately encounter powerful pods that quickly necessitate expending grenades
>can't push too far forward because reinforcements are dropping behind you almost every turn
>try to get in a slightly better position? lol here's another two pods you couldn't have possibly thought would remain

This is bullshit. What do they want you to do here, just sit and overwatch trap until you reach an equilibrium, with everyone dying on a DEFENSIVE mission? Fuck you lump you piece of subhuman trash.

Did they fuck over the Bolt Caster? That was my favorite weapon.

bolt just doesn't really suit LW2's SMG guerilla hit and run metagame. it's decent on untimed missions but not anything outstanding because of regular reinforcement intervals either.

does anyone feel like they don't their hacking awards?

I just successfully hacked for 33% reduced contact cost but it's not applied on any uncontacted region.

i don't know about hacking awards but this one time i accidentally a coke bottle