/xcg/ - XCOM General

>When you get 30+ kills from 1 mission

>That feel when can't BENCH a soldier like you would on Fire Emblem

It was a bittersweet feeling and i miss it

speaking of the vanilla game's retarded aim rolls, has that mod updated? I never actually checked

>Doing black site
>Killed chosen
>No wounds so far
>Doing super well
>Game crashes
>Last autosave was on the geoscape a week earlier
what the fuck JAKE

>30 kills

Is it worth playing the tutorial for WotC?

Having to suffer through the vanilla mission is a chore

Is there a mod where I can modify the armor options for the new DLC classes? I don't want to have the use Templar with the same shitty default armor. Please.

no but lost and abandoned is pretty cool

I like how a lot of the cutscenes are in engine and thus have your dudes moving around in them

You don't need to do the vanilla tutorial, just have Lost & Abandoned enabled.

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The Chosen can do three actions per Turn.

You can skip gatecrasher with the quick start mod

>Going into full cover just means its easier for ADVENT to crit you
The way I had hit chance explained to me was chance to dodge is an upper bounds on the roll and chance to crit is a lower bounds on the roll so full cover doesn't actually make it more likely that you'll suffer a crit. It just makes it more likely that if you are hit you will be crit because it only lowers the upper bounds.

So say if you roll a 1 you get crit, a 10 you dodge, and a 2-9 you take a normal hit outside of cover, but in cover it's 1, 6-10, and 2-5 then your chance to suffer a crit was always 10%, but your chance to suffer a crit if you take damage went from 11% to 20%.

Which kinda makes sense. Losing your extremities, ie hands, feet, and head, are going to suck the most in a fight and that's what's going to get shot from full cover.

four actions

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Are you sure about that? They only seem to do three things whenever I meet them.

If you get hit in full cover it's almost always a crit

Meanwhile ADVENT has no max weapon range, more troops on the field, and a much higher willingness to throw bullets at a wall in case something hits

That's what he said as he explained the mechanics of why that is the case.

They have four APs, I should say.

>Are you sure about that? They only seem to do three things whenever I meet them.
Some of the shit they can do is considered a free action I've heard.

>If you get hit in full cover it's almost always a crit
>If you get hit
See everything I just said about why that is. Cover will only lower your chance to take a crit if you can lower dodge bounds past the crit bounds. For example 90% chance to dodge 20% chance to crit would actually come out as 90% chance to dodge 10% chance to crit, 100% chance to crit if hit. And it will only increase your chance to crit if hit, potentially up to 100% as in this example.

Who thought this was a good idea?
It it just compensation for the AI?

>Vahlen's test site mission only has four or five poster locations, the Viper King's ice throne isn't even one of them
>Shen's Last Gift has exactly one poster location and it's the least photogenic you could find

I know they didn't want us to play these missions, but come on. It would have been so easy.

>a week earlier
>autosave
Ironman autosaves every turn for you :^)

Not in WOTC it doesn't

>Losing your extremities, ie hands, feet, and head, are going to suck the most in a fight and that's what's going to get shot from full cover.
Admittedly I may only think this because the game I played before XCOM2 was Sniper Elite 4 where I assure you, chance to crit if hit only scales with cover height unless you get one of those bullshit shots that deflects off the peak of the helmet.

Still, I can understand why you would want to mod this from a mechanical level for a strategy game.

well color me retarded and lucky my game didnt crash yet

Dumb luck best luck

Just turn off ironman if you got the achievement already it doesn't matter

It's been very inconsistent about saving, sometimes I've crashed, sometimes I've "crashed" and it's always a coinflip when I reload the game if I'll be in the same mission or back on the geoscape

>It it just compensation for the AI?
Your shots against the AI work the same. You are more likely to crit them if you hit them while they are in cover.

Beagle activity in a few minutes

whats the best group to start a new game with already recruited

>playing ironman for the sake of achievement
I play it for the thrill and because no tension=no attachment
>just another layer of RNG
that's fucking horrible

>literally looks like some shitty plasticine cosplay
ew

wizard

>have clear visibility on pod
>HAVE CLEAR VISIBILITY
>move
>HURF ME SEE YOU
>no you dont, because I'm behind full cover and saw the fucking floor and icon
>HUR ME SEE YOU ME GET FULL TURN NOW HEHEHE
>SUMMON CHOSEN
>ME STUN U
>ME MIND CONTROL U
>ME HIT N DAZE U
>HEHEHE SO GUD

Lad are you legit retarded just turn off ironman for the crash safety all you have to do for it to be just like ironman is to not load unless you crashed

just hunker down bro

dudes settings are muffed up i have the same mod and it looks fine

so holotargeting and all-inning a fullcover target is best?
oh fuck me the aussieshills are at awake

>teleport into the chosen chamber
>quickly focus her and kill ignoring pods
>enemies spawn everywhere, start getting overwhelmed
>bet everything on taking down the sarcophagus and hoping the mission ends
>mission doesnt end, chosen spawns in

FUCK IM FUCKED

hello?

Retarded? no I haven't crashed once since I started WotC
Game works so much better for me than before
I'm aware that isnt the case for all people but until it happens i dont care???

lmao people STILL don't know how the game works

did you go in with ballistics?

DELETE THIS

my favorite xcom game is "lets find the turret's blind spots!"

hi

>chosen hunter extermination mission
>destroy sarcophagus and he teleports in again
>makes a mad dash for the high ground in a corner I can't hit him
>gets shot by overwatch
>triggers planeswalker
>teleports within hugging distance of my templar

No wonder Warlock is the Elder's favourite

>>mission doesnt end, chosen spawns in
Bitch deployed, commander

How the fuck do you kill a Muton pod with ballistics? I made the mistake of playing fucking Legendary, and now I'm drowning in Berserkers, Mutons, and Mecs.

>watching Beagle's yesterday vod for the avenger defense
>mission is going pretty well(unfortunately)
>NO MORE HIDING COMMANDER, TODAY YOU FACE THE ELDERS'S CHAMPION!
>beagle calls him a cuck and makes fun of him
>instantly loses 2 squad members everyone panics and drops their spaghetti

TODAY THOU SHALL LEARN MISCREANTS

cannon and shotty

It's incredible how smoothly the game runs now and how fast everything loads, holy shit. Before it took a minute or two to load missions and the framerate never went above 15, now everything loads in less than 30 seconds and the framrate never drops below 60.

it is pretty fucking gr8 now if only it didn't crash for me all the time now

I still only have one skirmisher which sucks dick because I really enjoy how they play
how do I get more

The last few hours were a complete blast

>loses 2 to archon KANG
>takes memorial photo of dead skirmisher
>Shen: Needs more dead aliens
>takes a photo of the other dead guy
>Shen: Ooh, that's a cute pose

>Rush Bladestorm Rangers at absurd speed
>Build entire team around melee attacks and point-blank overwatch
>Assassin gets immunity to overwatch AND immunity to melee

Thanks Jake.

>every car is an even bigger death trap
>everything everything out of sight is still being watched
>every avenue of approach is a potential spot for a claymore
>advent will never see you unless you hug them
>all of earth becomes alien vietnam

The only way i noticed is through covert ops
And even then it happened only once -for a reaper- in a full playthrough

you can get kinda close with the RE wolfpack cosmetic packs on the workshop

also where the fuck is the weapon megapack? stop making me wait

>Warlock is the Elder's favourite
No that's what he says
They're apparently all affected by severe OCD or inclinations
>Hunter is insubordinate and apatheic to the cause
>Assassin is muh honorrabru and fights you, primarily seeking a challenge worthy of her skillllllz; in return for killing her she straight up tells you she hopes you win
>Warlock is pure psychosis and delusions because the Warp is overtaking him or some shit

>beat the assassin
>put her gear on my blademaster ranger
>unthinkingly ignore the fact that she's tired and take her to assault a facility immediately after
>berserker queen appears
>send her over to hit the queen with glorious nippon steel
>11 damage
>ruler reaction
>ruler being right next to her triggers bladestorm
>11 more damage
>queen runs over and does her aoe stomp
>one guy gets hit for 2 damage
>causes the blademaster to panic and go berserk
>unloads the 4 remaining shots in the arashi into the queen
>she's gone from full health to less than half in one ruler reaction
>limps away to the portal like a bitch while my soldiers point and laugh
>mfw

THATS
XCOM
BABY

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Jake put some stupid check in place.

>going all in
you played yourself and you can bet the game knew it and is punishing you for not being prepared for all contingencies

Who would win ?

1 edgy fuck with an outdated soviet rifle

VS

1 intergalactic empire of mind-controlling demi-gods

The avenger defense and Archon King fight back to back were peak Beagle

>It's a Tygan won't stop talking about burgers episode

Someone get this guy in a room with Code Talker.

Lel, I had the exact same thing happen. It's so neat they react to what you do.

>2 slashes and 4 shots gets her to half health
holy fuck how long did you delay alien hunters?
That archon is going to have like 6 armor, 120 health, 20 defense, and like 30-40 dodge

>so holotargeting and all-inning a fullcover target is best?
Holotargeting reduces your chance to crit if you hit because it increases your chance to hit.

Say you have 3 numbers x, y, and z.

x is the highest number you can roll and still crit
y is your shot roll.
z is the lowest number that will cause you to miss.

If y

>LOST
>crate tagging

should I just abandon?

I avoid Ironman so I don't get stuck with next level bullshit like enemies leaping through rooftops to flank or shooting through the ceiling with no LoS

>get a second colonel reaper from a covert op
>reaper gets captured while scouting for another chosen
>vanishes and I don't get any rescue missions even months after

do it for bradford commander

>bought WotC
>started playing
>forgot to turn on Iron man
WELP and there goes the first restart already!
Also: pic related best advanced options? I know I definitely want the longer mission timers (in base had a mod that added 2 turns I think) but I'm not sure about Avatar Project, I do enjoy a more laid back lengthy approach, but I'm afraid it might make it too easy.

Just don't use explosives user.

If you tag and bag one crate and evac it still counts as mission success.

Low Profile sitrep is fucking lame

Just tag one crate, how do people have problems with this mission?

Take a few then evac as soon as you see any sign of danger. It's very easy to get fucked up doing that mission, and you can still get some measure of success regardless of killing ayys.

>Had to fight a sectopod with squaddies

yeah i evacced that one

>All this talk of blademaster Rangers.

After running this build since vanilla release is it finally time for blademaster to get some appreciation?

>needing either of those options when there's easy ways to stop turn timers and reduce progress now

>Can't buy WoTC because poorfag and unemployed for 3 months
>Having shit luck finding job
>long distance bro out of no where buys me expansion

I am an undeserving human being and I want to cry.

Remove... Snek... Bros 4 Life

"Blademaster" rangers in WOTC benefit from the fact that they can also be sneakyshotty rangers at the same time. It's less "make sword ranger" and more "make cheekibreeki ranger who also murders ayys with sword when needed"

Don't forget you get ethereal coldsteel folded 1.38E+10 times when you kill bitch.

That's what blademaster ranger always was. Hell even with Reaper you can chain kill low health enemies then take a shot with your shotgun at the end

TRUE BRO

The assassin sword you get for killing her can't miss and ignores armor and you can unlock both skills for any tier with the ability points. Also with templar you have another melee focused unit that can potentially unlock bladestorm as well for double the fun.

Bladestorm is way stronger in WotC with shit like the Lost and melee units being more frequent