/xcg/ - XCOM General

On to me, closely

Does building a power facility on a shielded power core give you more power (than it would building on a non-exposed-power-coil tile) in X2? I honestly can't remember

He cheated and did gatecrasher with a templar to make it through.

yeah
its the same mechanic as the steam vents in X1

A templar could solo Gatecrasher, he did it flawless at least right?

He started with a Templar to help things out and then his soldiers started actually hitting anyway so the Templar may not have even been needed.

nope

You've got to be kidding me

hah

Why do my units go from full will to tired in one mission every time?

Post Propaganda

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"muh muh timers"

The ride never ends.

aw Beags

>Legend Gatecrasher sectoid panics my rookie, sends her away, she fires at a pod I can't even see and haven't activated, crit one-shots the advent officer

Everything by the numbers, I guess!

That shit happened to me twice while I was rerolling the 2nd mission and the only way I managed to get past it is rolling a "defend the transmitter" mission where you have much more time. I fucking knew this would happen. Fuck mission timers. That's why that +2 turns order is a must.

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"IT WASN'T RED! IT WASN'T FUCKING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

The best bit is he could've moved to the other side of that wall on his last turn but elected to bitch boy into cover in case there was another pod in the room he'd blatantly cleared and scouted. His cowardliness cucked him AGAIN.

>there are double digit IQ subhumans that still don't play Honestman

It is so cool that they redid this screen from the original x-com. I am being pandered to and I love it. I want a desktop wallpaper of this.

Thanks bro

These new load times are unreal. I used to have to wait for at least five minutes in vanilla, bless you, Jake.

This has been the most entertaining stream i`ve watched in years

LUL I actually feel bad for him, that was BS.

How do I stop being stressed about the avatar project ? Am I supposed to actively go out and make contact with all the globe or can I make do with less contacts and just doing every mission that pops up ?

The best part is he would have made it if he didn't move his rookie into cover

Agreed, I have an SSD and it's almost instantaneous. Praise Jake, who fixed his game.

kek

The loading times are really nice, but now I seem to lag badly on the starting cutscenes and freeze.

>June
>still haven't built training facility
help, i may be retarded

How does Ever Vigilant interact with a sharpshooter's weapons? Does he go on long watch or just pistol overwatch?

I have some serious issues here and i played Xcom classic, xcom: terror from the deep, Xcom1, Xcom LW, finished Xcom2 vanilla recently. This shit is on a new level of artificial difficulty. When Mechs and Mutons appeared my whole squad is just getting 1 shoted, even if i manage a perfect setup from concealment, my weapons do no damage. Explosives tier 1 are a joke. Never mind miss chances, even if 100% hit that would maybe take down a mech and a muton barely, the rest just 1 shots everybody and then the champion appears. It's unbelievably hard, i had to miss some crucial research or was too slow with the progress, i don't know. Any one has issues like this ?

Just do avatar facility sabotage covert actions.

I'm gonna go on a limb and say pistol overwatch since when I use Aid protocol threat assessment they go on pistol.

I agree tier 1 grenades are terrible - maybe you are behind on some research. I believe the muton unlocks plasma grenades, may want to prioritize that.

Before I had those, I always took shredder on my grenadiers and took at least 2 to try to get enough armor shredding going on. A point blank blast from a ranger's shotgun can also often overwhelm muton/mec armor.

>Purposely let a 1hp Viper King run away to farm AP

>t is so cool that they redid this screen from the original x-com. I am being pandered to and I love it. I want a desktop wallpaper of this.
Oh nice, I didn't even notice. I want that wallpaper too.

do not bully the snek

>Got my Templar to Colonel
>Not a single Blademaster in sight
Fuck this gay Earth.

Unfortunately templars randomly draw from ranger sword skills, psion defensive abilities, and I've heard maybe sharpshooter pistol skills

Thanks. Likely not worth the ability points then.

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>and I've heard maybe sharpshooter pistol skills
I've unfortunately gotten three of those, it's quite annoying.

Free promotion to skirmisher or specialist?

M Skirmisher x F Reaper fapfic when

>the horde
who's ready for another gatecrasher

Luckily I got Bladestorm and Reaper, only gripe with reaper is that you can't use momentum so you need to roll deflect or you're boned.

just quoting this because i think everyone skipped the first few posts shitposting

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What does Kracsad translate to?
The way it is used in Lost and Abandoned mission imply it means Fucktard in alien.

Did someone build a fucking lawnmower in KSP?

>Killzone and Shredder on Dragunova
Fuck ye

>first free resistance op member
>expect him to suck ass like a rookie
>because I just researched plasma rifles he has one before we do
>every shot is a 90%+ to hit

>vss time
>puts on fucking savals
triggered

It means lover.

You could probably skip needle them

Puppet.

I always restart Gatecrasher if I get a Templar.
Its nothing personal, they just feel really weird to have that early into the game when shit is still so conventional otherwise.

whoops how did that get there commander haha guess i must've missed it haha

They're extremely good in the early game when you can oneshot Pectoids and Troopers with Rend and fall off during the midgame unless you get Bladestorm & Reaper. I haven't tried them in the lategame yet.

Busy month

they're sending bradford all the shit rookies

So I've been playing commander Honestman and I'm nearly done.
All in all, 10/10, very fun. I'm sure there is some unbalanced stuff, and who knows what it's like on Legendary (I'll fine out soon), but I know I had lots of fun with all the new mechanics.
I was really surprised that the New classes seem to be early game power houses, and then fall off, where the buffed vanilla classes with perks from both sides of the tree take over.
Grenadiers somehow are even more gods of death. Salvo + bonus explosive damage + holo-targetting + chainshot means they fire a nade and then can instantly kill a big enemy with chainshot. Early game they are weaker when they can't shoot very well and the lost are an issue, but then you hit tracer rounds + perception pcs + holo-targetting + scopes and they just never miss.
Psi-Ops are even stronger because they level even faster than everyone else and still kick ADVENT's shit in with all their guaranteed abilities.

Specialists feel better, but they still only really shine in tight situations when things are going to shit, so they still are only really good for the objectives, but even then, Reapers can help you get to objectives really quick.
Surprisingly enough, despite their poor damage, it seem like reapers are the only special class to not fall off. This is because their godlike stelath never stops being good, and the ranger was your vanilla spotter, but reapers do it ten times better, while still being able to blow up shit and shoot people, all while still concealed.
I have found myself not using rangers much, since grenadier gunners deal just as much single target damage with chainshot.
Skirmishers never felt excellent beyond early game. I think that's because you have to shove them into crazy situations to get the most of their abilities, but you don't really want to be doing that in the first place.
Marksmen earn their place early clearing out the Lost and then scale pretty well into late game.
/end blog

cocksucker

If he gets both, even more damage through armor.

>when the pods get in just the right position
Why is Remote Start so fucking good?

>Implying you will send some old failure your best when you know he suck ass without his general.

>Overwatching against the Lost
beagle is done.

Massive damage, doesn't break stealth, short cooldown.

THAT'S POWER SON, THAT'S POWER

oh man, is he playing lost and abandoned? that's going to take like 3 hours

Nah he's not good enough for that

How the fuck has that roof not fallen down yet.

[SOON]

Nice

The Lost are going to inflate kill counts more than LW2 ever dreamed of

Level with me niggas. Is the expansion worth $40 USD?

Fuel explosion can't melt steel beams.

It's worth $20 at most.

yeah

Absolutely

Yes

What's your favorite feature that it added?

>Reaper HQ keeps the Satellite data stacks long past 4 weeks

Jesus Christ even if I stay there for a second or so I gain 300+ intel

Is gatecrasher the first mission?

This beagle guy has been stuck for hours on the first mission?

More Xenos to kill.
Xenos you rarely saw showing up more frequently so there's more of them to kill.

More like art of Elena sucking or about to suck Mox's massive engorged Muton dna infused dick WHEN.

the different map variations that add verticality and different sight lines to the game, making your playstyle vary more per mission

All of them.
May sound like a copout, but the game plays differently because of how everything works togther. Fatigue/Tired changes up the entire game, the new classes are early game power-houses, Lost are actually mechanially fun zombies, so many mission types you are still getting "first time" mission prompts in mid game, Chosen actually fuck stuff up, all the new map environments, the Resistance ops, etc. etc. ect.
Oh and the Photo booth is just very fun.