XCOM General - /xcg/

>alien
>is pretty much human

What did he mean by this

Avatars don't have faces

>use humans to create new bodies
>Surprised when they look like humans

Do you get pissed off when floors made from wood look like wood too?

>95% chance to hit
>miss
>destroys a supply crate
>alien turn
>runs up to a gas pump
>something happens
>it blows up and he dies

Not sure how to feel desu

RIP

Lore should always come last in an xcom game imo. So there really is no reason it couldn't be 50% human 50% ethereal. If they decided to write in a more alien looking hybrid, it wouldn't contradict anything in the story thus far.
Not that I really care about how the Avatars look that much, but lore/plot arguments are pretty.

did you miss the floating ethereal right behind it?

No. Considering that it's just there to show you that the ethereal is "in" the body though, not really sure how that changes anything. It's a completely separate image of an ethereal just floating along, like a ghost possessing something.

>gamespot.com/videos/xcom-2s-new-expansion-lets-you-control-aliens-e3-2/2300-6439474/

>Russian I.Q. slips on ketchup

dumb avatarposter

Guard: Is that ketchup you spill on?

so much for green energy being safer

>Lore should always come last in an xcom game imo
nah, lore is a crucial cornerstone for how the aliens look and for how they all work together. The lore creates a reason for why aliens look and act the way they do, and gives us a reason for fighting them. Emotional investment is important for the player and the lore provides that. Having The Thing fighting alongside a cartoony sectoid from ogxcom would just be retarded and take you out of the game.

why is the debug camera so bad

Right, but I pointed out that having Avatars look alien would not contradict the story as it currently is leading up to their reveal in any way. You would just be changing one thing. In this case, you can literally go:
Enemy design -> fit it into plot
There's nothing there that says the avatars needs to look human. And ironically enough, your argument that if you didn't follow the lore things would look retarded falls really flat when discussing the Avatar which looks the goofiest and most out of place of any of the enemies.

Because you don't have mods for it?

but I do and the keyboard support one doesnt work for some reason now, and since lw2 disables all controller support I cant even use a controller for it

I don't have personal experience with it, so unfortunately can't really help you. I only know other people seem to use it fine.

>goofiest and most out of place when pectoids, snek tits, and gloopy gumbi exist.
Nah, the whole ethereal stand thing really ties it all together and avatar posters always crop the images so they can get rid of the best part of the design.

>Lore should always come last in an xcom game
Have you tried playing xenonauts?

what the FUCK is that

It's a big girl.

Are loot drops guaranteed for every mission? I've done several in a row with no loot drops and I didn't use explosives to kill anything. Also are Insectoids the best source of Elerium Cores outside of the Supply Raid missions?

berserker queen

it's good you caught it in concealment, ambushing helps

>numeric health display
shit taste

Miss Fister

The biggest and easiest one to deal with

>not using roman numerals
>not using tally marks
>not using binary notation
>not leaving the health bar blank then looking up the health value online every time you encounter an enemy

I want to pound Lily in her cute asian ass!

I want to suck her cute perky nipples!

I want to look down on her as she worships my cock with her mouth!

>when you just want to use the debug camera again but cant for the life of you figure out why the mod doesnt work

does anyone else here have any idea why it isnt working? is there any popular mods that conflict with it or something?

>Lore is dumb to justify bad design
>But I don't care about the design
Dumb avatar poster

That was fucking HELL

>mission is a "kidnap advent somebody"
>knock em out
>grab em
...
>move conceal girl up to it to see what it is
>it comes closer
>it spots my grabber
>comes charging up to my concealed, reveals her
>run her straight to the evac zone
>it charges into my pile of dudes who I had skirting round a building so I'd avoid the big girl
>knocks one unconscious
>run my grabber to evac
>there's an advent flare right next to it
>queen does the aoe panic
>grabber and pretty much everyone else panics
>grabber runs a mile away from the evac zone
>reinforcements land, MEC, advanced officer and advanced trooper
>berserker is just beating the shit out of everybody while they shit themselves in fear
>grabber stops panicking but overwatches galore
>send some squaddie to trigger them
>whoops, grabber had lightning reflexes, RIP squaddie
>reinforcements group moving closer and closer
>just sitting here with my guys grenading the queen hoping she fucks off
>she does
>acid grenade adv trooper and mec, break overwatch, pick up soldier and run away with her, leave one acid grenadier behind
>mec and trooper die to acid burns
>make it out with unconscious and other guy
>1 turn remaining
>advent officer vs acidman
>it's on overwatch
>run to the evac zone
>he misses
>safely evac on the final turn with only one loss
>normal difficulty

That thing was a total cunt and it threw everything into absolute chaos, it was awesome

It makes me sad that there are people who choose an uggo like Shen to fantasize over instead of an actual qt like Vahlen. This isn't even a debate, Shen is fucking 3/10 material and if we had any other female character in X2 Shen posting would disappear overnight.

Don't worry, the fun will be back next mission.

Does close and personal work with fleche? I just got a shinobi with it on the AWC.

but Xenonauts had autistic amounts of lore

good for a tabletop XCom game though

No

Well, at least I know to go shotgun shinobi anyway.

Agree to disagree on that point then, the stand stuff doesn't really improve the look of the avatars, they feel to very separate.

Have you tried playing X-COM? I mean really, it's pretty clear for x-com and XCOM that they just threw whatever enemies they wanted into the mix and cobbled the story together afterwards.

I'm not him, I just don't like the counter-arguments because they kinda suck. The design is meh. I would have preferred half to full alien myself.

What went wrong?

Is it worth buying GTA V again? I had it on PS3 a while back.

Ethereal super cancer

I think you got the wrong thread son

>make 20 characters
>set it to only take characters from the character pool
>start a game
>have several randoms in my initial available set of people and some of my characters aren't in the recruiting screen

Jesus H. Christ, why are these games so filled with fucking bugs and shit like this? Did the devs not even do basic troubleshooting and optimizing them before release?

works for me :)

I always get the initial set from the character pool with the exception of the bonus soldier.

Even in LW2 I don't have this issue. You sure it's not pebkac?

Works on my machine!!!

XCom 2, all the DLC so far. Game grabs random people from the character pool along with some random people for the initial mission and available troops, and then there's some randoms in the recruiting screen and not all of my characters are there. Has happened five times in a row and I've set it to Character Pool Only then exited and restarted the game.

>GTA V
Not sure if you accidentally posted in the wrong general, but from what I've seen it's not really worth it anymore. Either pay up to tremendously reduce the grind for meaningless stuff, or suffer through teenagers, hackers, and many other cancers alike for a decade. Want to just play with singleplayer mods and enjoy the game? Too late, they've already banned that.

I don't know what to tell you user. I've never experienced that before in 1005 hours.

Are pistols useful? I've got a sharpshooter with Quick Study, and I'm thinking about going holotargeting, center mass, and hunter's instincts for eventually +5 damage with better holotargeters. The biggest letdown is that literally none of the MSGT abilities work with pistols, but other than than it seems not that bad.

read post #3 in this thread

>trigger two pods after running into a civilian
>in a fucked spot
>nearby tower has a "restore all action points" thing I can easily get
>decide to just shoot as many people as I can before hacking it
>my squad ends up wiping out everyone in their first go

well then

Kind of felt like making an XCOM have the EXALT look.

...

nice!

You should use this then.
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=696566464

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=696566464

Speaking of tabletop, how about that board game eh?

I read that, in XCom 2, there are crates/boxes in the missions that you can open for loot. Is this true and are they in all missions or only certain types of missions?

There are non-locked crates in xcom2 but they don't contain anything

Bitch deployed, Commander.

you can see the SJW design philosophy seeping out of that ugly face

That trigger ain't gonna pull itself son.

she's a fucking alien

>playing black mesa
>on the rails chapter
>swear I hear a HECU soldier scream "X-Ray spotted!" when a vorigaunt teleports in

Probably misheard it but still kek.

>playing xenonauts
>foxtrot shoots down a ufo
>both condors tailing another
>skyranger clears the crash site
>on its way back a third ufo i forgot about shoots it down
>no way to redirect condors in time
>nothing i can do

While we're on the subject of organizing new squads, how do people set up their dudes early game in Xenonauts? I usually do two fire-teams, one close combat with a shield, two assaults, and a rifleman, and one cover element with three riflemen and a machine gunner.

Add these to the modlist:

loverslab.com/topic/57070-lewd-mods-and-xcom-2/page-43#entry1758739

these props add bikinis and very "interesting" torsos and legs as well as some scarfs, glasses on forehead and dogtags props.

loverslab.com/topic/57070-lewd-mods-and-xcom-2/page-32#entry1629318

this one adds new faces that actually look good.

These are actually listed in the lewd pastebin fyi

>step by step we get closer to sexcom
This is not good.

...

>new expansion has me hyped
>haven't played xcom2 since before Lw2 was a thing. Download it because I loved it on EU
>doing well like the new stuff
>end up with 4 strike teams of 6 troopers
>haven't even skull jacked an officer yet but have laser weapons and predator armor
>NEW MISSION I never seen before
>train assault no infiltration time have to go now
>all but 1 team is away. Send Dragoon Team my elite VIP rescue or assassination team
>Advent Level: Swarming
>eh probably not too many
>first move of a single soldier
>uncover 4 vipers, a train turret, 8 Advent troops of various types and a mec
>engage
>move third operative to a better position
>reveal 8 more Advent troopers and mec
>proceed to have a knock out drag ass fight
>xcom stands alone. Everyone alive. Two men are wounded by two points but only because they've been patched up. Out of medkits grenades and rockets entirely.
>there is no way there's more then a pod left.
>move forward
>another Advent mec fuck party
>fall back
>reveal another one
>bunker down in creek bed and engage
>alien activity
>3 mutons walk down the bed and see us
>reveals another pod of 3 vipers while engaging them
>proceed to call for evac TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE
>4 turns later evac arrives
>of my elite team one soldier has 1 health left and is dying from poison.
>carrying her friend with his bleeding out all along her back
>evac
>mission failed
>30 aliens of 62 killed

Jesus Christ.

Very nice, pairs up nicely with Vectorplexus' mod.

0% supply raids are a hell of a drug.

Gotta be careful or else you'll lose people though.

Honestly it was amazingly fun and my first real challenge. I'd had some close calls lost about 4 rookies since the start. But no major cockups. Until this.

Almost a code black and that was my favorite team as well. It was a grenidier a rocketeer a medic and 3 riflemen. Thank Christ for light em up. Without that we would have been over run immediatly.

Those faces look off to me. The faces in game mostly look off too, but that's beside the point.

do the alien kings show up with the shadow chamber?

I would imagine they do as they don't teleport in, but I'm not sure if they'd show up as ENEMY UNKNOWN or not if you encountered their base unit.

No, but there is a mod that allows them to do so

Combatives is useful.

I just found out that the "delay dark event by two weeks" hack is actually useful since it pushes all 3 of them back and stops new ones from popping up

i always thought it just meant that the current dark events would get delayed and then pop at the same time as the ones from two weeks later but no, its actually good, which is surprising
i regret skipping over it all the time

in vanilla no it wont, but there is a catch
there will always be less enemies on a mission with a ruler so if you notice a mission with an abnormally low enemy count there will probably be a ruler

Does anyone have a strategy guide for Long War 2? I can't git gud and keep losing to Avatar completion.

I wish it did. Even with Lore+ it's very barebones. Adding retarded technical explanations doesn't make the lore that rich.

I'm an engineer, I can make up retarded technical explanations by myself.

I hate it when that happens. I mean, honestly, let me send out my helicopters out with an escort.

Look up Beagle's strategy guide. The tactical guide is outdated.

How many soldiers do you guys usually have in a LW2 campaign? I feel like I can't gear up more than 20-25 soldiers but I keep seeing people with 50-60 even 100+ soldiers in a campaign all with mag/plasma and power armor on commander/legend difficulty...

You'll need up to 50-60. If you gear it up right, you can equip the old squads with your older gear. The extra missions you can do will give you enough resources to gear them up.

I think it's a go big or go home kind of thing. If you can win a lot of larger supply raid, corpse retrieving missions you can get the supplies from that mission, and even the worst corpse sells for 5, so just 12 corpses is an extra 60 supplies even if they were all trash.

Should I build six W.A.R. Suits and then research their weapons, or weapons first then W.A.R. Suits?