XCOM General - /xcg/

just encounted my first muton elite on commander

that wasn't fun

1.21 GIGAWATTS

Stunned 90% of them

WEW

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For the late comers to Xcom 1 or Xcom 2, did you play vanilla first or did you just instantly mod your game? For Xcom 1 I got it late so Long War was already established so I just got that and ran with it. For Xcom 2, I just waited until a sale and more mods came out.

Do you prefer XCOM 1's loadout music or XCOM 2's loadout music?

This is at the end of the very same turn.

Funny, I really like them - it's fun to settle in for a long, protracted siege with dozens of enemies to mow down. I just wish ADVENT Generals felt a bit more special to fight, they're a little unconvincing as a boss enemies.

What mod is that to have the pictures on top? Does it make unit selection easier?

I prefer EU's but they're both superb.

Yeah makes it definitely easier also this is the mod:
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=642371502

is void rift supposed to be balanced

They're all balanced.

that shit nearly ended my no deaths ironman run

How do i make my mod weapon reskins default weapons?
I hate to swap it for every fucking soldier.

I found this to fill in the short shotty hole. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=705577020 I have found nothing yet for a "machine pistol" like in LW1. I know LW2 has a sawed off shotty but I am not ready to dive deep into that yet. Rather finish my "vanilla" play through.

Anyone have any good machine pistol mods that go in the secondary slot?

This, they're comfy as shit. Just bring plenty of flashbangs and heavy ordnance for when the inevitable platoon of advent charges at you into half-cover.

youtu.be/DOSvLWK5Z2A

Fuck off please Mr Ufo

Hope you've already built that Defense Matrix.

I haven't been able to since all the ADVENT turrets have spawned on evac only missions...

the worst thing about xcom 2 is the frequency of loading screens and the shitty music that plays during them

Rangers. Amazing at high levels, less so until they reach TSGT.

I cheese those missions with 4 assaults and a shinobi. Stalk 2 to 3 pods with muh assaults, sneak to the objective with the shinobi, and eliminate half the map while they're still stunned.

I have super bad issues with loading times and I wonder if it is just me or others are experiencing it also. So I load a save file when the game launches. Ok I have a decent load time. As soon as I try and load another save, or I am in a mission and try to load back to another save within the mission, the load times are exponentially long. So long that it is faster for me to quit the game, and load the save file from the start. Is that just me? I do have a lot of mods but a good chunk of it is cosmetics I think.

They're really easy, mate. Sit in a corner with loads of high cover, kite the enemies with a sniper and a spotter shinobi, and just watch them die.

Ohhhhhh, you're GOING to them. Bad idea.

Well that was easy. Killed the thing on turn 3 and even made a friend.

>4/13 killed

Sentry faggots have explosion resist?
Cuz literally 3 times in a row this faggot got 1 dmg from grenade.
And it says 2 dmg is min

REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
This faggot ate 3(!!!) grenades with 1 damage each, dodged 6 shots, damaged 1 man through full cover and THAN game allowed me to finish him with 1(!!!) dmg graze.

In XCOM 2, have I just been using battle scanners incorrectly or do they not count for the purposes of squadsight?

is he in hte middle of the explosion? they do less the further the target is from the epicenter

Sadly they don't count anymore

Uncle Gunman if you're around here are the assets for the Ghillie Suit and Tracksuit from MWR

www.mediafire.com/file/7wwhji4y1yl123z/MWR+Russian+Ultranationalist+%2B+Villains+Collection.7z

mediafire.com/file/0tvec1mzbskq4yr/MWR Extras Collection.7z

Fuck, all this time I thought I just was messing up line of sight or something.

I think he was, he was 1 square away from center at max

Based on a quick google no, they do not work vanilla wise. After some searching, there is no current mod that adds this capability. Unless I missed something, shit sucks yo!

Could you guys post some of your own custom created characters?

>forgot weapon color

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>lightning reflexes or killer instinct

thats not funny at all

Any new goodies on the mod front?

Reflexes aren't as useful anymore thanks to damage breaking overwatch

Is there a helmet mod or something for Tygan's mask?

So I installed the jedi soldier class mod. They hold the lightsabers like rifles wat do?

>wat do?

post a pic of course

They're base assaults. They're supposed to be hard and long.

I wouldn't say that. Lightning reflexes is a godsend when swarmed or a pod activates with yellow alert overwatch.
youtu.be/oLl4ErdTeSM
youtu.be/eKhnRrRtORA

I think there's a dependcy called melee primary weapons and hq animations

Dumb question, did you install all the prereq mods? And are you using this new version? steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=944207594

>We live in a world where there is no Tygan unit who uses a chainsaw, exclusively, in battle. His attacks would trigger 200% more alien blood.

I think it's part of the alien hunters dlc

Jsleezy's Repurposed Gear, I think.

So how SHOULD you take out a fresh pod in concealment?

My tactic
>everyone in cover
>overwatch all but my Nade-bro
>launch grenade

How about you?

>vanilla xcom
fuck overwatching and have one of my soldiers who can do two actions start it off or have someone through a grenade. Then I have the rest of my squad move up and kill the remaining aliens
>LW
Beaglerush maneuver.

>Vanilla
Same as you
>Current mod run
Kill them with throwing knives and silent takedowns

I leave an overwatched spark out in the open with everybody else overwatching unless if it is two or more pods clumped up, then grenade overwatch.

>Beaglerush maneuver.
What is this?
t. newfag

have 1 bait troop pull a pod then lure the aliens into 30 xcom soldiers all on overwatch

repeat until extraction

technically the beaglerush maneuver involves putting every soldier in concealment and on overwatch, and allowing an enemy spot one of your soldiers in concealment, triggering a full squad close range overwatch against the enemy.

this tactic was patched early in the development of the game and enemies were able to shoot flanked soldiers when they spotted them from concealment.

In LW it's even worse, enemies get free actions if you activate them during their turn.

right before the xcom2 release beagle got an early copy and was streaming it. He found out that if you put your soldiers out in the open on overwatch in the patrol path of enemies during concealment it let him get off free overwatch and then a whole turn. It was patched out before the game was even released, but LW brought it back.

>giving aliens a free turn
Don't Do This™

I hate the fact that the cap fucks up the bobcut

youtube.com/watch?v=M1hZ5XnAmKE
This is some silly shit.

Then how do you do it?

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Easily! Thanks for asking.

not posting rosters as the quality is all over.

Fuck this shit, forgot to take alien data with my specialist and now i'm savescumming to survive this one turn i had to stay because of this.
(93% chance overwatch killing me all the time)

Why not just cheat? I mean you're savescumming anyway

Retard

I already was searching for cheat console, but then i found my key to victory.
It was FAILED DRONE HACK, lol, i did this and somehow i survived aliens turn.
Feeling bad, but i did everything good and it doesn't feel right to fuck up just because i forgot to press hack

you sound like my dad

>reduced avatar progress by 5

Yummy

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=961800020&searchtext=
Fuck yes! Some fallout power armor!

>fallout 3
ew

Call me back when it's the old school Enclave armour.

>APA soon
Fuck yes.
That said, these will probably look really odd in motion.

Do any stats matter for training psi ops in 2 or can I just whack anyone in there? Is will still important?

Everyone has the same stats as a rookie so use whoever you want.

So the new villains/heroes are pretty much the Ginyu Force/Slavic /k/ommandos?

Don't forget wizards and ninjas.

I seriously hope that hero units won't make your guys completely obsolete late game.

I dont think shes dead
How long will she be stunned for?
She took a faulty vibrator from a stun lancer

She won't wake up on her own. If that's what you've asked about.

if you're talking vanilla, no

if you're talking LW, you want to have someone with high psi offense, the generation is random between 2 psi offense all the way to 38 psi offense, if you see a rookie with 38 that's one ot become a super soldier

she's down for the rest of the mission unless you use something like a specialist's revival protocol

you will have to pick em up and drag em to the evac zone if you are forced to evac

Well shit can I wake her up in the mission? I could use the extra fire power.

tfw she is my medic specialist
Its a Retaliation mission so I should be alright with leaving her to her nap right?

Yeah, she'll be fine. Once you kill all the aliens the mission will end.

>psi operative's fortress ability is passive

holy fug why have I never bothered with psionics before, these things are completely busted and I love them

do gatekeepers appear automatically or do I have to do the portal mission?

Doing the mission lets you encounter them earlier, I think, but they'll start appearing eventually even if you don't do it.

Funnily enough the 2 Botched Facelifts were the easiest part of that mission

I dont care how bad my guy's aim is this should be a 100% shot no matter what