XCOM General - /xcg/

I can't wait til you meet the other 2 :)

My hard drive died.

Post XCOM memes.

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I am not good. My only prior experience is playing Enemy Within on normal while savescumming, though I'm trying to not be as huge of a babby baddy this time around and failing

Just you wait

Don't feel too bad, soon enough you'll find the game so easy you'll install difficulty mods.

Which .ini do you edit to change shit like interceptor repair times and psi probability?

DefaultGameCore.ini

I assume you're talking long war since you're concerned about the repair times, so just so you know psi training performs a will check against a roll to determine success. It's no longer a "gift/no gift" test.

>install difficulty mods.
I mean, if I were to get really good at the game, got better than that, and then put together a PC that isn't a potato and could run XCOM2 then maybe, but as it stands no

Mission difficulty was easy
So I brought some of my weaker soldiers to try and beef them up

>Frozen
>poisoned
>bound

>Frozen
>Poisoned
>bound
>critted

But then I finally got a chance to damage the fuck

>Missed an 80% flanking shot
But then Hair Trigger Procced

>DODGED:GRAZED

then my game crashed.
My Last save was almost an hour ago

gg

They can show up on retaliation missions too.

The ones with the walking tumors?

OH FUCK THAT

is the bureau worth getting boys

Out-fucking-skilled.

That's why you don't activate them so early.

For cheap? Yeah, its worth a shot. Its a pile of wasted potential but the story is actually half-decent.

Thanks commander

Wew what hair is that?

user that's a render, not gameplay

Looks like lightning's hair but like said its a render

it's strange how you can basically make that girl in the picture minus the armour, but if someone ports it in then its definitely do-able

Oh
I just really want good customization mods pls don't judge me

well, the lightning hair is a mod already so you got that part at least

FUCK THE ARCHON KING

>Initiate retrieval mission
>Everything going fine and dandy
>only 3 turns left while iam fending off some stragglers.
>Decide to book my tech guy to the computer since the map was basically cleared.
>Even if he popped another pod they wouldnt be able to stop him
>He yellow moved literally two inches away from box with two turns left
>Suddenly Archon King.
>Flies in and grabs my guy before he can interact with box
>No LoS on king
>King slams
>Suddenly Archon King
>Slams my guy into ground
>Disoriented.........cant interact with box
>SKREEEEEEEEEEE as box blows up while my guy is literally right next to it
>Archon then moves to do his FUCKING STUPID DEVASTATE
>Eventually flees, no dead but i failed mission and everyone got wounded.
>Next mission i immediately pop him
>His group consists of 1 sectoid, 1 archomaton, and at least one archon

FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THE KING! Berserker and Viper were nothing but the Archon has so many bullshit mechanics that work way too well with his ruler passive.

Devastate is complete bullshit. It's the one thing in XCOM2 that gets me genuinely mad, because you can't mitigate it through careful play. You ARE going to take damage on at least some of your soldiers, even if you spread out, and you ARE going to have most of your cover destroyed into the bargain.

>it's a "devastate hits 4 soldiers because you can only move one" episode

I hate that queer

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Frost grenades also only freeze him for 1 turn as opposed to 2 on the other rulers.

Sacrifice SPARKS counter it.

>All those hostiles

No not again

You deserve it for starting Rulers so early. Whatever rape the Viper gives you will be nothing compared to the Archon King.

Its easy actually, first you bully him

build the shadow chamber asap, it doesn't allow you to see if a ruler is on a map BUT if the ruler's base type (viper, etc) is on the map and there's a small amount of enemies, the ruelr is guaranteed to spawn

And when you're done bullying him..

user I didnt know
I'm slightly aroused looking at this
I dont know what this is.
I'm shitter user I never know whats happening

Then you're getting the true XCOM experience.

why do i keep running out of money and I can't fucking research anything and i can't build what I need to and my soldiers keep dying

>that poor, stranded satellite uplink

You blew your entire budget on labs and workshops

>That fucking layout
>Sats not adjacent
>3 damn labs

should i just start over?

Round 2 with Viper Kang

>2 soldiers frozen
>1 unconcious
>1 giving the succ to a snek grill
My only able bodied fighter is a rookie with no nades left who missed an 89% shot to release my bound ranger

T-that's xcom baby

Yes.

why did you freeze your own soldiers

I really can't stand that dude's face or accent

That was Gammaboi's idea of a social experiment

My game crashes randomly loading up a UFO mission, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And then when I do get into the game, it crashes a few turns in. Should I just revert back to geoscape and restart the mission?

Just leave him alone

Remember user, losing is fun. It's all a learning process for the next playthrough.

Don't ever live in England, they all look like that. The women are worse.

Good thing all the hot chicks ran to the glorious USA

I would if i could
It's all part of the plan.

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I'd try that, maybe try switching soldiers around.

I've had cases where one particular soldier being on the squad caused the game to crash on that mission alone.

frotting seems like such a meme experience

same shit with footjobs, it just looks way too complex and unstimulating

Post snek ravaging
All my soldiers are dead except for the ex German Goo Girl

>sneak through most of the Blacksite
>evac doesn't change after getting vial
>have to fight all the way back to the start
>every pod swarms over at once
>Berserker Queen, shitloads of Mutons, Viper Elites, a pod of 3 heavy MECs, various Advent Elites
>all at once

Go fuck yourself long dong, thank you for finally destroying my desire to keep playing with one fucking retarded change.

And why the fuck does Concussive rocket give THEM the smoke? In what magnificent world does it make sense to deliberately give the aliens more defense?

Your wish is my command

le exkscam babi:D MAGNIFICENT

>Go fuck yourself long dong, thank you for finally destroying my desire to keep playing with one fucking retarded change.

Odd. Is that a bug, or did they change it in an update? The evac point shifted to just outside the refinery like normal when I played it a while back.

And Concussion Rockets are pretty awful, yeah. Do they damage cover? I suppose they could be used like a giant smoke grenade, albeit one you have to fire first then advance into.

Is there a worse feeling than loseing 5 soldiers at once

I'm thinking that's a bug

Losing 10.

I know it used too, so I'm not really sure if it was changed or a glitch. But either way it's completely fucked the playthrough. I'm already in the pit too much to salvage a total wipe of my A team

Losing 12 soldiers at once AND the campaign because your dumb ass decided to send everyone good out on infiltration with all the gear.

>train hijack mission
>First pod of 2 advent, a mek, and a drone starts right on top of me
>One advent runs after the rest die, go full overwatch because I can't see the other side of the train
>Runner comes back with 10 fucking advent in tow
>Overwatch cuts down 3, most of the rest fall within a couple turns
>Then a pack of 5 mutons join in
>Sacrifice my SPARK to nearly wipe them out in a protracted battle
>Then a pack of 5 mutons, 4 meks, and an advent protector strolls in
Jesus fuck why do I insist on playing LW2

Train raids are notoriously brutal since you rarely get much chance to infiltrate them. You basically have to go in hard and play them like a Facility/ADVENT HQ assault.

...I am English user

Just not where he is

I really should've considering I'd done one before but I totally forgot and only brought 6 guys including a fresh SPARK. Mistakes were made, but I'm proud of how well they held out considering the odds.

>fire up a new long dong 2 campaign
>perfect gatecrasher, no wounded
>forgot to take off not created equally

cant you do that in the optons

not after finishing gatecrasher/after first turn

now my starting troops stats are fucked up

my sympathies

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Just turn it off. They'll return to normal.

I swear.

you mean before promoting them famalamafamagamma?

i'll try

How do you even get squads that big

>only enough cash for 1 recruit

I had to make it count

long dong 2 or ini editing

Long Dong 2.

Long war

Is it worth picking up Reinforcement pack on sale?

you were right my dude

thanks, now i won't have to crash the gate again

Yes.

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I think it's psychologically arousing.

I don't know, I'm an unloved virgin

>cunt panics
>moves away from extract
>gets left behind to get gangraped by the ayys

Panic is do dumb sometimes

Is LW2 supposed to have 8 person squads?

>Raid advent base mission
>5 days infiltrating
>start mission
>no concealment

M A G N I F I C I E N T

If I can run XCom, should I be able to run XCom 2 almost as well?

Also, should I play on normal or ironmane?

>Almost as well
Depends on what you have. Chances are the answer will be no.

60 fps in xcom2 takes an act of god.
Or a higher tier up to date gaming computer.
It is not optimized by any stretch of the imagination.

I just started long war 2, and I did my first infiltration mission
>extremely light resistance
>oh alright i'll send 4 rookies
>4 pods all next to each other

why

probably not, there's a significant leap between the 2. I recall my 770 struggling with it on max, had to turn lots down.

always ironmang