This thread now belongs to the Elder's, miscreants, i seek to fulfill my destiny by reminding you that I AM THE ELDER'S MOST LOYAL CHAMPION. Any who dares forget shall feel anguish until the end of their sad miserable lives.
Jacob Miller
This is not your path! Not your purpose! You need our guidance to hone this power… without us, what are you?
Henry Evans
Free
Benjamin Reyes
Not burgers.
Wyatt Cooper
/xgc/ barely survived the squadwipe
Kevin Brooks
never 4get
Brayden Nelson
>when the timer has 1 turn left That thread came close
Juan Johnson
And so it begins once more
Christopher Moore
SKIRMISHER
WAIFUS
NOW
Brody Ross
Xcom: The Early Years prequel >Run out of Bradford's garage >No troops, just Bradford, Commander, Vahlen and Shen and their recruitable brothers and sisters >Vahlen and Shen only have their bachelors degrees, Bradford is still in ROTC >They go out and explore haunted houses, look for bigfoot, interview psychics and interview self proclaimed alien abductees >Initially have to use Uber to get around >Eventually get enough money that Bradford can buy a used van >Shen is constantly upgrading the van based on how the missions run >End game they stumble onto a real UFO and capture a sectoid with a concussion and a broken leg >Government MIB comes and breaks up the group before Vahlen can stick her gloved finger up its butt Years later...
Adrian Rogers
>Xcom party van
>xcom mystery adventures
Shen needs to have a dog called Rover that gets btfo by Ayys
Austin Williams
This would be Shen Sr not Lily.
Easton Walker
Pappa Shen can have a dog named Rover. And a cat named Julian.
Nathaniel Powell
I actually really want this, complete with corny 80s music and clothing.
Colton Russell
Why do you think she gets so attached to the Gremlin? She watches the sectoid mind fuck the dog into suicide
Carter Turner
>Vahlen with big 80's hair and shoulder pads
Luis Ward
If I were only a billionaire I'd fund it and a live action xcom: Bureau movie
Colton Brooks
useful
Nicholas Peterson
>no teen hippie Vahlen skin
Luis Harris
And here I thought it was because she could throw a dildo on it and start flying on its body naked
Noah Gutierrez
Now you've made me sad this is not a thing.
Nicholas Butler
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Camden Jones
Li'l XCOM >Run out of Li'l Bradford's treehouse >Troops are the various kids from the neighboorhood >Li'l Vahlen's and Li'l Shen's parents are sicentists and engineers Li'l Bradford wants to be a soldier like his daddy. >They go and try to take back the playgrounds that are invaded by the mean kids >They have a bycicle with a trailer and cardboard wings attached to it that they call the skyranger. >Early weapons are slingshots and toy swords >They later uprade to nerf guns >At endgame Li'l Vahlen's researchers create experimental weaponry similiar the ones in KND >Council is their parents who give them their allowance.
Alexander Hill
>haunted houses Do you think that's why people keep calling Bradford about haunted houses in EW? They think they still running the whole Scooby-Doo business?
Ian Nguyen
Would be funny if it's something he's running on the side, desperate to prove that ghosts are real.
Jaxson Martin
Bradford is wearing a british wooly pully in EU/EW though
Dominic Lewis
There's not enough Muton porn in the world to sustain me.
Isaac Reed
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Isaac Evans
literally what.
B-but why.
Justin Young
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Jacob Scott
Yeah I saw it on the old thread but I still ask, what?
James Reed
Basically the guy who ruined LW2 :^)
Daniel Russell
>rouge
Parker Robinson
>B-but why. I'm kidding. I just wanted to post something weird.
Hudson Brown
Just imagine him trying to prove that the supernatural is real after the war when anything unsusual is explained by aliens >"But we all saw it and we could go through it. It must be a ghost." >"Nah probably some alien hologram tech left there after the war. We should call XCOM to collect it." >"Everybody who entered the house immidietaly had a sense of dread." >"Probably some sectiods playing mindtricks with people. We should call XCOM to exterminate them." >"People just disappear overnight" >"There must be som UFOs still around, kidnapping people. We should call XCOM to send some interceptors" >"That guy was using magic how else do you explain it." >"He probably just has the Gift. Or maybe he's using some alien tech. We should call XCOM to train him."
Evan Wood
Then he meets the warlock who can raise spirits.
David Jackson
group affecting psi induced halucinations. Better call in xcom
Matthew Rivera
The Xcom prequel plot really shows how you can make a good tv show/movie from the games. I would like a The bureau movie, the game trailers for it back then were so good, how carter was basically destroying all evidence of aliens.
Oliver Torres
>volk >Russian name >big beard >rough around the edges >pictured as tough guy
Of course we'll have him with a whimpy American hippie voice, that makes sense and is satisfying, right?
Fucki Firaxis' writers, they should all be shot, along with Jake.
Tyler Jackson
Psi troopers can summon damaging rifts and fire spears of energy, the spirits are just psionic manifestations, obviously.
>Frakes >wimpy hippie
Wow, just wow.
Jason Phillips
I AM THE ELDER'S MOST LOYAL CHAMPION
Jack Butler
>Wow, just wow.
Did you watch the one hour gameplay? You can hear him speak, he has that annoying high male voice and he speaks with a generic american accent, despite supposedly being Russian.
Nathaniel White
We watched different videos, clearly, his voice was fine to me.
And the name is Russian but that doesn't actually mean he is Russian or would have a Russian accent, plenty of russian emigres in the US and he may not have actually been raised around Russians to develop the accent much.
I know someone with the most stereotypically Hungarian name you could imagine and when they open their mouth they sound like they are from Glasgow (which they are)
Owen Phillips
>just got my first sectopod in lw2 80 health enemies on GOps is pretty magnificent desu
Benjamin Smith
We know who to blame when Bradford complains that his favourite ceral is gone.
Matthew Lopez
Julian did nothing wrong.
Owen Howard
>And the name is Russian but that doesn't actually mean he is Russian or would have a Russian accent, plenty of russian emigres in the US and he may not have actually been raised around Russians to develop the accent much. So this is the power of rule-of-anti-cool, huh. Really made me think, Jake.
Joshua Perez
Less power of the rule-of-anti-cool and more that they signed up a celebrity voice actor and didn't want to risk his fake russian accent being shitty.
Jose Perez
Maybe they should have instead signed up a good voice actor, I don't know.
Samuel Butler
Yeah, this.
I'm not sure why they decided so many TNG actors, but I can deal with it.
Andrew Long
You would call John Stewart shitty if they brought in him instead of Riker and played Volk and didn't do a russian accent, wouldn't you?
Gavin Walker
I'd call anyone shitty if they sound inappropriate for that role, as it sounds like they have no idea what they're doing. I guess it's better to say that Firaxs' voice director needs the bullet, rather than the voice actor.
Angel Thomas
Half the time when people get real Russians to do VA people complain about fake accents. You can never win.
Caleb Foster
I wouldn't care if the accent sounded fake personally, as long as it didn't sound phoned in or completely clashing with the character.
Isaiah Ortiz
>disable LW2 so I can go back to vanilla shit >game crashes at intro cinematic Is there no escape?
Ryan Price
Excitement continues to build
Owen Miller
Anyone play this game at 4k? How atrocious is performance? Does it scale well in terms of looks?
Levi Mitchell
Verify game files? Remember that it resets modification to mod .ini's as well
Samuel Garcia
It was a mod that required Long War 2. I'm all set now.
Carter Sullivan
>New rookie somehow appears in my barracks wearing the old school xcom armor and hair along with aviators and a balaclava
Looks awesome one free infantry comin- >Male Advent Voice
Has advent evolved it's spy tactics?
Jose Sullivan
It is alright performace, though I'm using a GTX 980 ti for the heavy lifting. I don't know what you mean by how well it scales in looks.
Brayden Sullivan
>Wooly pully
Ooh Rah
Jace Sanders
>implying Rover wouldn't btfo of ayys
William Gutierrez
So in that tweet Jake estimated $500,000 to commission including dogs in XCOM 2. Gofundme, kickstarter?
Oliver Cooper
>One of the random Templar logos has a freaky tentacle monster at the forefront So templars are basically confirmed to worship the thing that the Elders are afraid of, right.
Jonathan Thompson
I dont want dogs in Xcom desu, I don't want aliens to kill my doggos.
The emblems are randomly generated.
Evan Allen
>covert missions like the EXALT missions but more varied Nice.
Easton Reyes
>I don't want aliens to kill my doggos Git gud
Luke Green
Yeah I literally said that, one of the random logos has a tentacle monster on it. Jake confirmed all the logos take from a pool of images, and that's an extremely sinister thing to have in a logo. You're the idiot if you don't think that them literally having a freaky evil symbol we've never seen before doesn't indicate a darker aspect to the templars, especially since they're so knocked up with Psionic power, which seems to be connected to the evil force, it's coursing through their veins, like the Warlock, who we know is either crazy or will go crazy..
Adam Powell
Oh, huh, you're right, that video is evidence that Jake was telling the truth, the emblems are randomly generated.
Looks likely that the Exalt-ish one is just an easter egg then, lads, de-escalate your hype (those of you who actually thought there might be a connection)
But last thread people were speculating that the Templars get their Psi powers from the spooky glowy shit under the sea that the Elders are afraid of, maybe worship it as a god.
Eli Hernandez
I think that's a definite possibility now, now that we know an ominous, never-before seen tentacled shape is a potential image draw for the Templars.
Jose Hughes
I didn't see you saying its random. I guess Templars being crazy could be one of the reason why the other 2 factions hate them.
Daniel Jones
Yeah, it would make sense, and if the Warlock goes the same route, that could be interesting too, a little meta-narrative of the Favoured Son's descent as he tries to defeat the Commandy-One.
William Torres
Playing LW1, I had a soldier get critically wounded and his body morphed into the ground so I couldn't stabilize. I closed the game and re-opened, but now his body is nowhere on the map and I'm not even sure where I should be standing in order to stabilize him. Is there a console command to stop him from bleeding out? I don't want to lose Friendly ;_;
Parker Moore
I'am glad that retaliation missions will give you A.I soldiers, it was always retarded that a rebel base had no soldiers.
Michael Roberts
I wonder if Solace blocks Spectre bullshit.
It seems like all these new Psi based enemies make a Psi-Ops with Solace mandatory.
Jordan Butler
Spectre isn't Psi-based though, it uses a swarm of nanomachines that glow green. Watch the announce trailer.
Parker Anderson
I just hope that Retaliation missions get a bit harder to compensate. They already feel too easy as it is.
Ryder Sanchez
Actually, the one with AI defenders is apparently different than the normal retaliation mission. It's a defense thing instead of a go-around-the-map and save people terror mission thing. The old type is still in the game.
Mason Reyes
>It's a defense thing instead of a go-around-the-map and save people terror mission thing.
Oh, very cool. I'm looking forward to that.
Lucas Scott
Is there a way to change Sound Wave options before Gatecrasher starts so I'm not stuck with my rookies having what was on (Like NCE or HP)?
Jordan Hughes
You can turn NCE off before you issue your first order in Gatecrasher.
Joseph Martinez
Wouldn't the Rookies still have random stats since NCE is already on when they were generated though?
Brody Johnson
Nope, it sets their stats to the base rookie ones.
Noah Flores
Do any anons have experience with preordering on GMG? I preordered WOTC like a good goyim but I'm not entirely sure when you get the code to activate it, I only ask because I have a shitty internet connection with a download cap so I have to do all my downloading at the pub down the road. When preloading becomes available (assuming it does) I just want to know if I'll get my code before or during that time so I don't have to sit in a shitty pub on release day for 4+ hours waiting for it to download
tl;dr, when do you typically get your game code on GMG for a prerelease game?
Jace Wilson
Is there like a "teleport squad to cursor" console command? Anyway, I would just use the kill all aliens command to instantly end the mission.
Ryder Cox
TATC I believe
Luke Robinson
>Hey Lumpkin, I hope you don't mind completely rewriting your mod only half a year later. You signed a contract, remember?
William Garcia
JAKED A K E D
Tyler Wood
I'm actually not sure if this was in the contract. I'll be curious to see what they do. There isn't a huge rush though, WOTC should keep people busy for at least a while.
Isaiah Perez
Did anyone record the new music yet? Most videos I saw have too much commentary
Jonathan Evans
That's a bitchin' picture
Carson Hernandez
The gamespot one allows you to get some good listening in. The actual isolated tracks presumably won't come out until release.
Jonathan Clark
cheers, I'll check that out
Jace Sanders
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Tyler Jones
Is there a health difference between Commander and Legendary?