XCOM General - /xcg/

Go in super slowly get some kills and evac the second shit goes down.

You can take on everything in that map if you do it one pod at a time but if you hit the pod of 5 outsiders get the hell out of there.

X-Com on console is Fun

but y tho

Brainwashed Vipers to become our wives when?

post favorite alien

Already did senpai. Andromedons are top tier

More like andromedork

If only he wasn't such a dick. Disorient not disabling his acid bomb is horrible.

its literally not possible to beat a squad of 6 outsiders in march

wrong

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Wrong

>mind control an andromedon and proceed to fuck the aliens out of cover
>they finally put him down and the suit gets back up
>specialist hacks the suit immediately
>he fists every single alien left
best memory of the network tower mission

I love stomping through everything.

Jus is ha

Can I have Xenonauts air game in my XCOM? Please?

Guys how do I git gud and brutally rape both the tactical and strategic LW2 layers (vaginal and anal) on legend?

After grabbing most of the first timer recommended stuff from the modlist I also picked up a bunch of the cosmetic stuff. Why is this in particular causing a conflict? I'm not a modder by any means but I can't see why a cosmetic armour mod would be changing UI classes.

A detected "conflict" doesn't necessarrily mean anything is actually wrong. Chances are, if it's not already a reported conflict, in the mod comments or in the description, and it doesn't seem logical, there probably won't be anything. Just load it up and see if you notice anything, but I doubt there will be any problems. Of course, watch everything break now that I said that.

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What mod launcher is dis?

The one the pastebin said was the best to use.

Alternate mod launcher. Infinitely superior to the standard one. Check the modding pastebin, should be a link.

>the squad suits up and walks to the Skyranger after the Gollop Chamber gets activated
>memories of the long, long war flood through them
>slow pan of the piles and piles of bodies in the base as this plays

youtube.com/watch?v=2atlpj7AGXU

Is there a way to get my units to stop being retards and placing their fat ass thumb over one of the hack rewards so that I can't even read what it does?

suck my ass lump

I have literally never seen what you have described

I thought I had a screenshot of it but I don't, have a shitty MSpaint appoximation. It's happened both times I've done a hack thing so far, both in the tutorial and in that mission with the generator thing. The little tablet will come up and the troops right hand will be like in the image.

thats pretty funny

It is but it's also annoying since it's not like I'm a vet of the game who knows what the reward is from the tiny amount of text left unblocked, makes it impossible to tell what it is. I'm off the game now so I'm hoping it won't be doing it whenever I'm next playing and have to hack something.

well based off my own experience i have yet to see that issue so maybe its not very common

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camping the whale is so fun

Why did I really like EW but hated and got bored of xcom2 after like 2 ingame months?

Surely you would have some idea about what you did not enjoy. It's not like xcom2 was delicate about its changes.

I dont know its just weird maybe it was the little things like I didnt like the characters as much and the timed missions and what not. Oh well.

not that user but those aspects didn't bother me so much. I enjoyed xcom 2 a lot and still play it, but I liked the setting of EW better, with more ayys and council funding, etc.

Alot of people don't like timers, most common complaint. The weaker cast is not unfounded. Personally, I like Tygan, though not everyone does, and Shen jr. is disputably a weaker character compared to her Father. Even Bradford of course is different, though that never bothered me.

it's definitely andromedon. the alien that had no inspiration in ufo and actually is an improvement over ufo designs, AND also fits very sell with the setting of alien occupation of earth.

muton close second, great redesign over retarded generic brutes of xcom 1 and purple gorillas of ufo.

Does bradford ever get his sweater back?

no

I like Tygan as a character but his research reports are not as enjoyable to read as Vahlen and her team's reports. With a few exceptions (namely mag/plasma weapons and powered armor).

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because you're a fucking idiot. gameplay wise xcom 2 is an improvement.

alien designs are a WAST improvement in genereal.

design of xcom itself on the other had is pretty meh, and this is the only problem of xcom 2. we should've stayed the international intergovermental military organisation, not the fucking isis.

my issue is that they didnt even go full isis they look like Halloween costumes in alot of cases

>>Hair physics is still a long way to go.

That kind of explains some stuff. OK, can certainly wait.

what are you talking about? war suits are amazing looking, mostly because of new engine. eh there are blinkenlichten all over the suits but can you honestly tell me that this looks worse than uninspired shitty titan armor?

plasma weapons are beautiful to behold, plasma beam effects are amazing and i despise the fact that they replaced lasers with shitty mags, because lasers would look amazing too.

the only problem is the design of xcom itself- shitty characters, retarded fucking flying base.

no i think titan armor looks better than that shit tier 3 is pretty weak in xcom 2

your picture is generic as fuck. at least the armor i posted looks like an actual armor, unlike titan which looks like something a grade schooler would come up with.

quite literally the only memorable and unique feature of titan designs was the neck guard.

still both titan and war are far outdone by ufo power armor, and i wish we could have that bulky suit remade in new xcom, but alas, general consumer wouldn't like it.

>at least the armor i posted looks like an actual armor,
bullshit

>but alas, general consumer wouldn't like it.
double bulllshit

Not that I find XCOM2 tier 3 to be bad, but it doesn't fit with the theme of the rest of the game.

was about to say this

God that gorget looks so fucking sexy

It's a shame there isn't a similar one on warden armor.

the jump form tier 2 to 3 is too much

t3 should have been the material that t2 is made of but in the way of a full body suit instead of just padded pieces

i just want it to look like armor and not a metal leotard

It is made of the same material, it's just the alien alloy plates have been custom fabricated rather than scavenged.

They look lubricated too if you know what I mean

we both know that you have actually made a conscious effort to make this screenshot look ridiculous.

i pulled these from google

Polished you mean?

The plating laid on top of the muscle suits is pearlescent in a sense.

maybe the idea behind that jump is to evoke a feeling of xcom transitioning from ragtag freedom fighters to actual military organization ready to fight one on one with Advent
it still looks out of place tho

maybe but the jump makes them look some thing that is neither xcom or advent

I seem to be in the minority here regarding T3

I really like it.

thats fine we are just having a discussion about what tastes we have

actually now that im looking at this more i think the issue many of us have with tier 3 is the lack of options we have for it compared to tier one and tier 2

I have the same qualm with T2, at least with predator armor. Fortunately someone was kind enough to port over Carapace so I have a few more options on that front.

On a side note I love the aesthetic of coil guns as well

>i never asked for this
>*beam cannon charges*
>TOUCAN SAFARIIIiiii~...

is that a lego sword?

It's a "vibroblade," the upgrade for a gunner's combat knife.

Not really useful as a weapon but it's kinda cool.

>ayy my stun lancer buddy is dead
>better go to the exact same spot he did, there's no way xcom is still there

>Not really useful as a weapon
I have seen otherwise but, having not tested it personally, I do respect your opinion.

I should be clear; the knife is useful for its intended role as a backup weapon, but not something you charge into combat with.

It's really good for dealing with stun lancers and then taking a shot at something else, since it only takes one action.

I like to kill bugs.

EU lids are the best

youtube.com/watch?v=DjVYQkmxDNA

Their kill animations are better but the model/design in xcom 2 is superior.

there's only one true chryssalid. get your gay ass shit out of my sight, son. you have disgraced the family.

>unironically liking UFO lids

they are personification of psychotic rape and genuinely make me afraid.

the grin is a topping. ufo chryssalid wails on the alin turn, runs out, rapes your scouts and all the while he's grinning.

>this can never happen in X2 again
fuck
but that game me an idea, how about a mod that makes it so that there is a chance that a lid cocoon wont spew a lid every turn but instead will spawn a high tier lid at end of turn 3

There is a charm to there goofiness. More importantly, the original lids were ten times scarier on the battlefield than the newer games. If I had to pick one visual design though, I would still go with XCOM1 lids.

advent general, huh? looks cool actually.

why the fuck kubikiri doesn't work on him?

What is Kubikiri even for? It sounds cool as shit when you read the tooltip, but if it doesn't work on the enemies that one would logically want to use it on, then what's the fucking point?

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Really cool.

1. why the fuck retratining takes a month? i could understand 4 days in vanilla where you're not bombarded with missions and you technically needed to respec gremlin shock into medkit and lightnong hands into headshot once you leveled up, but why the fuck even have a delay in lw?
2. is there a console command to invoke respek on soldier? i want to get rid of shitty fucking red circles from close encounters and from this dogshit fucking broken kubikiri.

I feel like editing the time down in an .ini for the re-speccing would be much more likely to work. You could probably make it a few days, an hour, maybe instantaneous.

So in long war which starting nation is the best?

france

The extra soldiers or the better council requests?