/xcg/ - XCOM General

So are voice pack mods all working A-OK? Or are some broke and some not?

You're not supposed to be doing that until Apocalypse.

haha, yeah user

>got paycheck yesterday
>buy game
>crashing constantly on tactical map
I don't have a ton of mods, and no graphical ones.

try that with elder's most loyal champion and activating twin pods while blowing up the relay
thank Jake for reapers

>sitrep: lost
>supply tagging mission
>assassin bitch shows up
>p->extract

do none of these chosen retards realize that the commander is legitimately more important to the elders than all three of them combined

>Building network tower in region
>Supply raid comes up
>Skip it, thinking I'll just miss out on supplies
>Region gets decontacted
what the fuck

>tfw Capnbubs updates his mod without you even knowing until you see the new shit

Anyone let all three chosen survive to Waterworld yet?

what'd he add

Is there any mod for a Batman suit?

I'm tempted. Listening to their banter on the geoscape is fun and I like having to deal with the extra complication when one comes crashing into a mission. Killing them feels like a bit of a shame.

Brought back the Warden helmets and added a new one, Warden 3, along with it. Also looks like he fixed the issue where some helmets went missing.

if it helps you feel any better Im 70% sure all time based things stop while a chosen is on the field
That should apply to them taking turns to mark crates

this feels better than sex

>protect the device mission
>lost in the area
>alium taking free shots on zombie guys who stand around
>lost aggro
>run towards me
>run closer to me on their turn despite being spawned right next to alium
remind me what was the point of a third faction again?

also
>random conventional rifle miss causes a car on the other side of the map to explode
>lmao here's more zombies

Only banter I enjoy is Hunter's
His is the most whimsical and not just I'm EVIL AND CONDESCENDING and I think everything you do is RETARDED
You legit hear him questioning alot of shit, on both his side and your side so he seems to be the most depthful as well as amusing

it doesnt
haha

i know that feeling

Purge all mods, wipe the slate clean

I'm not saying you should if you want to play as Jake intended, but there IS a mod to lower their targeting priority to 50/50
as it stands its 30/70 with the odds of them attacking you in advent's favor

>my templar waifus just slaughtered the assasin while everyone else shot the monolith

How do you get the alt mod manager to actually load the mods? It just starts up in vanilla.

Yeah, Hunter is fantastic. I like the Warlock's bombastic pantomime villain act as well though. The only dud is the Assassin, but at least you can farm her for free ability points.

>Hunter looks like the most shit chosen during previews
>Ends up the coolest one
>Reaper looks like the shittest of the new classes
>Ends up being the more useful

R E A L L Y made me ponder.

didn't know that existed, I'll consider it, thanks

Well fuck let the crates go, I'm hunkering down
lord knows I need the AP
Assassin makes up for it by tending to fuck you the hardest though

>You can farm her

HOW?! She's been kicking the shit out of me I need help.

Indonesia can go fuck itself

>pic related is all i'm using

It was more the fact that I had 4 dudes because it was the start of month three and I couldn't even explosion spam at her because lolswarm

I thought the same way about bitch before release but she's grown on me. I can't say I dislike any of the Chosen.

To be fair, new classes are equally useful. But templars become doomslayer-tier if they get bladestorm, outshining every other hero class.

>outshining every other hero class.
Nah. Only class they outshine is skirmishers. Nothing replaces the Reaper.

>Assassin makes up for it by tending to fuck you the hardest though

She's kind of a joke, I've found. The Hunter at least forces you to move with Tracking Shot, which can occasionally be an annoyance as you try to reach him, and the Warlock's mind control spam can be an absolute nightmare if you aren't prepared for him. The Assassin tends to run in, crit one of your soldiers, then die the next turn.

I haven't managed to get my templar to the higher levels yet.
As for the reapers, I got TWO recruitment missions in a row and found out how to make surgical missions: tailgate until two or three pods get together, claymore, repeat.

If I had to guess I'd assume it involves understanding her AI and using a reaper/scanners, or a combination of the 3
i.e. she will always run out of LoS after stunning someone so if you go to a congested area with a high density of walls you can essentially make her play herself by running nearby into the fog
That or fall back immediately to a place you can reccy because she comin fo yo booty and the farther you run through your own ground the more familiar ground you have to work with as opposed to getting fucked by unactivated pods

Does suppression count as an overwatch shot? Sounds bretty gud with this

>get second reaper
>he gets BERSERKED on his first mission and nearly dies
I felt bad about that one.

>HOW?! She's been kicking the shit out of me I need help.

Battle Scanners and Scanning Protocol to flush her out, then run up to point blank range and apply Shotgun to face. Drop a grenade or two on her head first to get rid of her armour if needed. Obviously their strengths and advantages can create hiccups but she's been something of a joke thus far.

CC definitely helps in this regard
can't fucking get enough rangers and I KNOW i need the most of them to take the most risks and kick the most shit when the grenades run low

>get XCOM 2 with dlc on a sale
>spend 1-2 hours customizing my squad, coming up with back stories and personalities for all of them
>couple hours later game over. 1 successful mission, 7 failed
Overall pretty fun experience, time to get good I guess

>assassin maxes out on progress bar
>preparing to assault avenger
>covert action to cancel out avenger assault pops up
>complete that shit in 6 days
>Says avenger assault is countered, but bar is still full

So... how much time did I buy myself? Its still gonna happen unless I assault her stronghold first, right?

>Its still gonna happen unless I assault her stronghold first, right?
Pretty much

>Most Loyal asshole forces you to buy mindshields
>Bitch forces you to buy scanners
>Snarkybruv forces you to be decisive but with spacing
thanks Jake

>>couple hours later game over. 1 successful mission, 7 failed

What difficulty were you playing on?

it will probably happen next month

Concealed Reaper far ahead of your squad. Extremely likely she will flank herself.

Post a picture.

>Buy mindshields
Or bring psi-ops with solace. Though he was too busy teleporting away from my Squad to even try any mind control the only time I saw him. On that note, does Stand By Me also remove mind control?

Grim Horizon here, should I bite the bullet and reveal that third event?

25 intel is nothing but I don't think it could be much worse than Dark Tower unless it's no more concealment or some shit like that.

>25 Intel
>Biting the bullet

Dark Tower sounds brutal even without permanence

Jesus the assassin is just being a bitch today

>does Stand By Me also remove mind control?

I've heard from others who've played the game that it does, but haven't been able to test it myself.

I'd probably just kill Dark Tower, personally.

I always do it because I in general want to leave as few things to chance as possible
do you REALLY want to let it just be "NO CHOSEN WEAKNESSES"?

>landed UFO
>"Very Difficult™" mission
>Use Reaper to recon the area
>only two pods, one just outside the central chamber and one just outside the entrance on the same side
>sneak everyone around back and into the central chamber
>claymore basically wipes one pod without breaking concealment
>immediately disable the distress beacon
>easily wipe the second pod after Warlock shows up
Almost perfect

>beagle and the miscreants

Normal
I'm not a smart man

>Cheeki breekis blow up half the map without being seen

how can cucklars and shitmissers compete?

Guess I'll just wait till the ops actually pop up before blowing the intel.

>no more concealment
Right, wouldn't want that, h-haha...

I didn't save the nigger market just to blow intel elsewhere, user.

the assassin just got the teleport buff
but she wont teleport if she gets frost bombed right?

right?

>Psi-Op got fear of psionics
hm

>spend the intel
>A UFO hunts XCOM

>The monster was me all along

Miscreants

Bagle activity
He is having fun playing XCOM 2

>It's like I've had a enemy within all this time

On another note my Sniper got afraid of staying more than two turns without moving, thanks Jake.

This is fine.

>got afraid of staying more than two turns without moving
what the hell, next they'll fear running out of ammo
also just kill the Hunter and take his rifle

My condolences

The Purifier autopsy also gives the plated armor vest +1 armor as well bring it to 3+ hp and 2+ armor, pretty good on a vanilla SPARK

Oh god that's fucking funny.

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Man, I need to try Grim Horizon now. How does it affect Strategic events? Stuff that adds points to the Avatar project or reduces Retaliation timers?

>Titanfall gear
The ass was fat

That'd be real nice if it wasn't RNG on what you get.
I was hoping for easier ways to get gear this time around.

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Shame that they don't have a utility slot that would allow them to use it, well unless you use metal over flesh

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I wonder how does the Lost swarm actually work
it might even be useful if you bring ultrasonic lures
until the Chosen with soulstealer shows up

I hope nigel finishes up the titanfall ports he was working on for females

Goodluck commander.

I only just got my first spark and it's already catching up with my best ranked soldiers. No willpower faitgue + Quick repairs pretty much allows you to bring it on every mission provided you don't let it take too much damage in any one mission

How did you get her to frown like that?

I can't wait until mods allow Sparks to bond and get special abilities from the Training Center.

How the fuck am I supposed to deal with a gatekeeper on a lost mission

>someone tells me about The MOCX Initiative
>It doesn't work for WotC
>There are no videos of it on youtube
>somehow searching for it brings up a bunch of "Top 10 mods for Xcom 2" but they're all retarded Shreck Skins and Sonic the Hedgehog Helmets
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Don't be fooled by the kill count never seen a Lost in her life, this gal is death incarnate. I wish there was a way to see how much damage a soldier has done, all she does is blow up a pods cover and then one shot the big baddy of the pod.

>16 ability points
Templar faction orders MVP