/xcg/ - XCOM General

Time to take on the warlock, I hope it goes better than my assassin assult

no its a trap

Bonds are useful if utilised correctly. Training Centre isn't an immediate purchase, you won't get much value until your troops are Lieutenants roughly.

RELEASE IT

Robots are useful

>Assault the chosen Stronghold
>But you have to fight 3 pods extremely close to each other in the first part
>Then you fight the chosen ASSASIN which is bullshit on its own along with another pod and ANOTHER POD that is summoned by her
>Then after you kill everything you have to kill a 60hp slate that needs 8-10 hits to be destroyed
>And you only have 4 turns to destroy it
>And while you are at it you are thrown Archons and Berserkers every single turn
>And if you dont do it in time the ASSASIN comes back and facefucks another one of your guys

This mission wouldnt be so fucking stupid if the ASSASIN wasnt so fucking bullshit on its own, just running in, fucking break one of your guys
legs and fucking off to the other side of the planet just pisses me off so fucking much.

>can't complete this mission without crashing
it's over

It's only useful once you have level 2 bonds and a decent amount of AP on your soldiers, which will take a while.

Jesus that is nice

>Do some Advent facility
>Going around, killed a group of aliens
>Suddenly a Berserker with what appears to be ~50 HP runs out
>Panic
>Shoot at it with my sniper
>He hits
>Suddenly the fucker gets an extra turn
>Runs forward, stuns two guys
>I shoot at him again
>He gets ANOTHER turn
>Runs forward and hits one of my guys
>Have one of my dudes retreat and take another shot
>He opens a portal and runs away

What the fuck was that? Some bigass berserker nearly killed my entire squad and then ran away.

>not gts first

lmao are you retarded?

you need the squad upgrade asap

should be GTS, infirmary, resistance ring, power relay

Alien hunters DLC
Surprised you've never played it before

Do i have to uncheck the alien hunters box if i dont want to do that mission but still want to fight them and get the new armors?

Berserker Queen, alien ruler. Pay attention when the game tells you a big badass alien is protecting a facility.

He already has a GTS and resistance ring built though.

That would be the ayy hunters DLC

Get loads of cc equipment and lock the thing in place to shred. Frost bomb and flashbang are your best friends in this matchup

My Skirmisher wasn't pulled from my character pool. FUCK

I played XCOM2 at release, but stopped before any DLC came out. I got all the DLC and the new expansion for a new playthrough.

How am I supposed to kill this thing? Does it retain its HP through missions? Otherwise it feels physically impossible to kill because it opened a portal the very same turn I encountered it.

I didn't know what that is what it meant, I thought it was talking about some high level enemy was gonna be there, not some sort of boss.

I shit my pants.

What kind of armor does your sniper have? Is that a mod?

Whats your uniform? Mine is 94+64+blots

Just wait until you encounter the big red Archon

You can make uniforms ?

I have a uniform per class, with optional accessories.

It's one of the Alien Rulers. I'm on my first WoTC run myself and it seems like they did away with the missions for the Alien Hunters/Shen's Last Gift DLCs or squirreled them away somewhere, so you don't really get much of a warning about their existance until you assault a facility (which is now where they show up instead of a random chance to be on any mission after completing the Viper's Nest mission).

You just got your face rocked by the Berserker Queen. Consider yourself lucky - before WoTC they got to act against you on EVERY SINGLE ACTION. Including reloading your goddamn gun.

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69 + 69
Simple but appealing

It retains all the damage you did to it on previous missions. It gets a turn after EVERY one of your actions.
Just wait til you get to the next guy...

By the great and merciful gods no it does not recover HP. But it and the Viper King/Archon Queen all take a turn every time a squad member takes an action. so lock them down and take them out fast. At least that how it works in vanilla, apparently it's easier in wotc like said

Alright /xcg/ rate my semi A team

Instant region contacting is so damn broken, I got got 2 continents in 1 week

>throw a grenade
>follow-up with a lure
>a horde of zombies spawns right on top of your poor ADVENT boys and /or girls
This is a goddamn game-changer is what it is.

30+22+Flecktarn

Wut, can you get Berserker Queen first now?

Look on the bright side. At least now you know what the warning means and you know where the rulers will be because of it. If you were doing regular X2 with just the first two DLC they could turn up on literally any mission completely at random once you did the intro mission.

I did the unlock mission completely unprepared with basic ballistics and armor and then encountered the viper king when I went to do the blacksite. Mistakes were made on that playthrough

You can have more than 1 up at once if you have multiple facilities on the map

>cosplay group outfit planning miscommunication

Ha, Assassin used to control the majority of Asia/Europe but the Hunter took over some of her territory and now she can only appear in missions in my starting zone. Meanwhile the Warlock took over America and Africa

Pretty cool looking Skirmisher

...

Wew, this guy was fast. Just what I was thinking!

>When a Codex procs Psionic Rift and one of the soldiers that got caught in it gets paralized by a Priest

Had a mod to do it on vanilla but I forgot what it was. Do it manually at the moment.

I like it

Is Flecktarn from a mod? I don't see it.

On to Waterworld.
I must say, felt really weird having to decide who to actually bring for my A-Team since I have such a substantial roster.

i made a thing

Well that went better in just about every way possible

Is there a neckguard (as in just a neckguard, no TAC mask) mod?

Chosen can take other chosen territory?

Guys how do I into this mission? I have to rescue Mox. Do I just ignore the enemy soldiers alltogether?

Yeah military camouflage mod, it hasn't been updated but works without bugs in WOTC.

Yep.

Is there any better feeling than your Legendary Ironman going swimmingly?

Only had one wound, 100% success rate, and I didn't even have to reset gatecrasher more than once.

Highpoint so far was a mission where one of my guys got crit-shot (despite being in cover+aid protocol) from full to dying, and I finished the mission with a low ranking pistolero + squaddie sniper took out 4 guys, mostly with the pistolero moving on point and abusing return fire, and the fact that enemies don't shoot at you when you are paniced/mindcoontrolled, and the other sniper being too far for that.

.... and right as I type this, almost squadwiped on a supply raid mission where everything went wrong. Fucking amazing.

Also I'm playing on iron man so there's no do-overs if I fuck this up.

Yeah you can, I did that. It's pretty hard when shit hits the fan I must say.

Did you fight a Chosen yet?

>tfw your templar only rolls useless pistol shit instead of bladestorm so your specialist decides to pick up the slack.

Wish I had figured that out before I got my first WotC campaign buttraped by the Queen's area KO spam attack.

Is there a list of exactly what XCom actions do / don't trigger a Ruler action?

I use character pool uniforms, it is a little broken because certain items will randomly not be equipped but it works for the most part.

anybody know how to get the debug camera to work with wotc please help

>sneak to back of facility
>grenade the walls
go back into stealth to be sure or if enemies are around
>call skyranger
>evac
>make poster of squad standing next to burning hole in the wall
>PARTY

I give you an A for effort.

what does zip mode do

forgot pic related

Animations run faster

This was my second encounter with one, and it lead to everything going to shit.

I'm real fucking tired of ms shadow the edgehog appearing exclusively on lost maps where every single grenade triggers an army of lost.

ruh roh

>ever allowing lancers to attack

BEHOLD THE POWER

>Playing on Legendary
>Savage Sitrep
>Doing okay
>Chosen Assassin appears
>Fuck, I have my pants down
>Dazes my reaper
>Extracts knowledge
>Goes Away
Oh fuck thank god she left, I was so fucked.

They still turn up on random missions once you've encountered them at a facility.

REV UP THOSE FLASHBANGS

Does remote start have a cooldown?

1 turn.

1 turn, technically 2 if you count the enemy's turn.

Why is war of the chosen so expensive?

Wait you mean to tell me I can go around nuking all these pods at no risk?

>Difficulty: Difficult
>Sit-Rep: Location Scout
>only 6 enemies
>2 of them are purishitters
>difficult

jake pls

H-HAYAI

Man snipers are really shit in xcom 2.

>can't move and shoot
>even if you find a good spot overlooking the map you get raped by squadsight penalty

yes

>Neutralize all enemy targets
>With Lost on the map
Only bad thing about this expansion desu

It's been years, /xcg/, what did you have for Soldier Customisation in vanilla XCOM EU, as in no DLC or mods whatsoever?

Am I a shitter for using the brutal fix mod or is that actually a bug?

>Having a Reaper with a superior expanded magazine and superior repeater using banish on an Avatar
>Also have the breakthrough that increases the effectiveness of weapon attachments so you get more ammo and increased chance of repeater triggering
>mfw

Who else glad they didn't cave to the hype and buy it? it's worse than LW2.

5/10 it's okay

Noice!

Snipers might be shit, but marksman sure aren't

LW2 is shit though.

The MGS BDU and Warden Gear mods both add scarves. One face paint mod adds a collar tattoo that fills in the helmet gap with black

Well snore of teh bozen iz worse XD