/xcg/ - XCOM General

>so insecure and afraid he has to make his video game characters pale

>For a price

Pretty sure you have to do specific covert ops missions to hunt the Chosen down until you get a mission to kill them permanently.

Expansion seems pretty excellent so far. New tilesets are nice, but sometimes a little wonky. Assassinating an advent general in a sewer as he desperately runs to his evac point to be airlifted out of the shitter is a bit odd. Game is still a huge memory hog and even though the framerate is perfect with everything cranked, my RAM is too reedy and it gets crash-prone unless I turn shit down. New mechanics seem pretty fun.

The only downside is now I have to wait for porn pictures of the Chosen. Maybe porn of the stalker chick and the ayy lmao defector during that mission, too. "Oh you dirty ayy keep your genetically enhanced penis away from me" "I cannot help it, the elders bred us to become turgid at the scent of a swamp pussy and living rough in the ruins for years has left you most pungent" *Bond increased*

No I mean when you encounter them on missions themselves, do they stay until their health depletes or do they run away after taking a certain amount of damage?

>Use old character pool for WotC
>The game randomizes things like hair and accessories
How do I stop this shit?

Until it depletes.

did those characters use mods if so the modded piece will be randomly switched out

Oh dear god, looks like 100% flawless runs are a thing of the past

I didn't use mods

Also I ended up with the best rookie. Nuthugger short-shorts, an open ratty military shirt with a couple shoulderpads with feathers sticking out, and the X-com guile hair with a big bushy beard. Looks like a skanky hobo from the first war out of retirement to shoot some ayys. Was my favorite the instant I laid eyes on him and I am confident he's going to go the distance.

Smart Overwatch all and EU rolls have Wotc versions up now

get jake'd nerd

Fuck GMG, if they had sent out keys on time I could be playing right now.

>Wedding ring mod works
Great

>get one mission done
>spend the rest of the night hitting "randomize"

I wish the resistance armor was part of the kevlar set

Wow

>tfw max focus Templar are the stun lancers

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Sparks are actually pretty good now.

Oh, it also gives you +1 soldier deployment as well it seems

bradford

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It shouldn't

In retrospect, doing a Shadow Ops run before WotC came out was a mistake. Vanilla classes feel so uninteresting compared to Shadow Ops or LWPP ones.

Heads up, if you get an instant autopsy and an inspired or breakthrough research, you can do the autopsy and the inspiration/breakthrough will still be there.

>T-Time for a comfy game of xcom 2!

The only thing this expansion really made me notice is how strange the Grenadier looks holding that huge-ass machinegun like it's just another rifle.

Any good cosmetic mod up or are they all still FUBAR?

Just finished the Reaper/Skirmisher intro mission.

Anyone else a bit overwhelmed?
I dunno what the fuck to even do. All dese options on top of the options I already had from the basegame holy fuck agh.

This will be the first time I will have killed the King Cobra outside of the cavern you see normally see him in

FUBAR. Wait for their modders to update them and if they are discontinued then you are SOL.

Help!

I'm trying to figure out which mods to disable to prevent crashing on startup. I have everything but cosmetics and voice packs disabled, but I'm still crashing.

There two warning pop out in the log, but I have no idea which mod they're part of:
>Warning: Warning, Failed to load 'LW_XCGS_ModOptions': Can't find file 'LW_XCGS_ModOptions'

> Warning: Warning, The Outer object (Package SulzDevXPACK.Cubes) for 'SulzDevXPACK.Cubes.PlayaSunriseFixed' couldn't be loaded [while loading package SulzDevXPACK]: Invalid linker index [couldn't load Package SulzDevXPACK.Cubes]?
[0008.24] Warning: Warning, Failed to load 'TextureCube SulzDevXPACK.Cubes.PlayaSunriseFixed': Failed to find object 'TextureCube SulzDevXPACK.Cubes.PlayaSunriseFixed'

RATE my assassin

isnt the change pretty much +1 armour base, +2 health and +30 aim?

It's great isn't it?

Turn them off

>go to armory
>make all soldiers female

I wish I bothered to put kevlar on before I got to level 2 armor, it looks so much better

Shut it ALL down.

Kitbashes still work fine, as does the mod that lets Predator/Warden look like Kevlar and symmetrical Kevlar arms.

Capnbub released a WotC version of his mod, just gotta wait for other cosmetic mods to follow suite.

Yeah, they don't fucking miss all the time now plus you can attach a scope on them.

Are posters you make in wotc saved like they were in the demo? I can't find them anywhere.

This makes you have full view of the map and there is no fog of war

Mods working when?

Halo Reach Marines and MJOLNIR Armor work fine (the Baseline MJOLNIR and 4/5 Armors DO NOT)
Capnbubs made a new separate WotC mod for Accessories

Capnbubs is working, and even though its not updated, Arms and Shoulders works 100% fine with WoTC.
And so do any mods that use Arms and Shoulders, far as I can tell.

heh

>Game now crashes on menu despite working fine a month ago
10/10 great expansion Firaxis best $40 spent

Holy shit
If I was late on the screenshot button that was a 3% chance

>unison ass shot

My docs/my games/WotC/ Photobooth

Have you tried Disabling your mods

so to whoever is already playing the expansion
should i get it? is it really as good as they say? or should i just spend my money with DOOM

It is really good. If you have waited on DOOM this long, I hope you are going to buy it on sale.

People seem to really like it. It's been a while since I've come back to /xcg/ but the threads seem to be filling up really quickly. I don't have the money for 40 bucks for an expansion, though...pray for me until it goes on sale ;_;

>ETA 1d 12h

I will personally fax you the $40 back if you find it isn't worth it

It might be just me, but I'm convinced Jake pushed the overdrive button on the Advanced MEC stats. Generally some units seem to tank more shots and avoid more damage windows

Yes it is and it's one time use. Same with Banish for the Reaper. Make sure what you are using it on is worth it. Battle Lord takes a lot of planning to make work well as well as assuming where enemies will move to on their turn.

Christ I'm not sure if I just got worse but Commander difficulty seems way harder then I remembered it being. Maybe it's just the early game.

I'm having a lot of fun so far but man am I feeling overwhelmed, tons of shit demands attention and soldiers to do it. Any advice on what to tackle first? Cause good lord I'm feeling stretched thin.

Also cannot fucking wait for an updated shut the fuck up Bradford mod.

don't spam nades like a monkey on zombie maps

He actually comments on how often he talks now, says something like "And you thought I talked too much Commander. How about these Chosen, eh?"

Might camp on the blacksite for 30 minutes to see if they actually did fix stealth universaly

Gathered that after the Assassin showed up weak to nades, had to make a call and while she didn't do shit, things got really fucking hairy with the hoards.

Question, Xcom skill points are only used to unlock Xcom extra skills right? I don't want to blow them on accident.

>Return Fire
Oh shit, you fucked. Have fun missing that 99% shot when you have her flanked, only for her to turn around and shoot her own shotgun in your face. It has innate armor shred too.

>Groundling
While she is normally on the ground, you didn't roll an extra damaging thing on her which would have made early encounters a joke. I got Brittle, so every 3rd hit on her makes her take +3 extra damage. Combine with weakness to Reaper and she gets fucked hard.

What are your teams looking like anons.

Besides whats shown here I have a bonded Lt. Grenadier and Ranger. I also have a Templar who's just been getting all the covert ops bonus stats so I'm sure he'll be unkillable when I finally use him.

>Civilians Rescued: 8/19
>Rating: Flawless
Thanks Bradford!

No

Is there any working squad size/enemy pod size upgrade?

They're used as a universal extra pool for your soldiers when they don't have enough points on their own.

It's a little bit harder then I remember when you first start out, but after that it's nothing. I'm destroying everything. Assassin and Hunter don't really seem that scary, just idiots that don't know how to fight them and freaking out at everything they do, or engaging them in areas that aren't favorable.

Three times so far I have fought the Assassin and every time I just reveal her when she does her invis shit and then dunk on her. It's sad.

I actually have a problem with the Assassin if she spawns really far, I use battle scanners to reveal her but then she's usually out of my LOS so when it's her turn she does a mad dash and fucking crits one of my guys. Can't even overwatch trap because she has shadow step.

>workshop GREMLINs have the name of the engineer giving them
Noice

Good to know, thanks.

Don't know about you, but I played fairly evasively in the early game, not sticking around to fight chosen and a bunch of reinforcements.

Gremlins doubling as engineers? How the fuck do you do that?

Post your progress lads!

Mine's immune to melee and weak to close range...

You just have to pay attention to your surroundings more. Watch for open doors, broken windows. If you think you won't be able to engage against her when you reveal her, then you should back up and wait a moment. A full dash away and she can't catch up. Now she's a blue move away from you and in usually an even worse position.

>not fighting the chosen
>not getting those sweet sweet XCOM points

What despotic third-world country do you live in?

PISTOLS

Why don't I have one of these?

How do I not have a shot on this guy?

Close range means that anything in 3 tiles of distance. So it's really amazing for your shotgunner. Shame about immune to melee though, that's how I beat her the second time I fought her. Took three rangers to a lost horde mission and just rushed her.

Cuckifornia, Burgerstan

It's always been like that. Workshop.

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Doom is excellent, but like the other user said if you've waited this long you may as well wait another month or two. It'll absolutely be $15-20 or better during the winter sale and it'll likely go on sale before then.

Expansion's pretty great too. No idea if it's still $30 at GMG or not but if you're in the mood for some Xcom 2 it seems like a bigger leap forward than Enemy Within was for Enemy Unknown.

I'll pray for you user. Though since it isn't Denuvo I wouldn't be surprised if it's already pirated if that's your bag.