/xcg/ - XCOM General

I'm enjoying Commander difficulty, but admittedly even though I'm only up to mid May, its feeling a little easy.
Although, I've done some save scumming here and there though (mostly just sudden full cover crit deaths that booty bothered me) so maybe I just need to not be as big of a bitch and let it be harder just through that.

I've never done Ironman though, maybe I should start over and turn that on instead of going to Legendary.
I'd worry about unfair shitty bugs ruining the experience though.

Is there a mod that make the Lost always target the nearest non-Lost unit? No aggro percentages, just going for the closest flesh like proper zombies.

>Commander difficulty
>Predator armour and mag weapons
>Assassin just filled up her knowledge meter
>have access to her base, but even savescumming to before the mission I have a tough time getting past the first stage
>got to the second stage just to see what it's like and simply can't think of any way to beat it with my current forces

I must be fucking retarded.

It's a recover item mission too, so pain ahead

Midnight Warrior face paint looks sweet with Tac Masks and Bandanas.

Just need some self-control, honestman is where it's at.
But yeah, save-scumming when something unexpected or bs gets thrown your way will suck the difficulty at of xcom very quickly if you are at least competent.

oh sweet summer child, google "line of play".

>Sorry, India, maybe next time

Why is Warlock such a fucking faggot

So how do I get a spark to show up in training center? Cycling doesn't seem to be working.

As a former relentless savescummer that eventually broke the habit and learned to love the struggle of Impossible/Legend, you really do just have to let everything happen. The more I savescummed, the more that it felt like I wasn't even playing a game, I was just solving a puzzle where you can always just rearrange a piece if it doesn't fit the first time. I got bored fast. Sometimes you'll be surprised how many losses you can take and still power through.
Try the EU Aim Rolls mod if you're getting tired of the crits, XCOM 2's default system makes crits happen more often especially in full cover.

save scumming in legend also makes it a breeze.

next time try letting your mistakes be punished and it'll feel awesome if you can get yourself out of the shit situation. A couple deaths or failed missions won't ruin the campaign anyways. Play how you want tho it's 2017 after all

Forgot to mention, it'll also make you a much better play. I used to make so many shitty moves and dashes because I'd go "oh not fair" if I revealed something and savescummed. You'll learn to drop that fast when it's losing you campaigns very early on.

the game's more fun with your failures and living with them

with that said even if you're playing ironman keep a copy of your save to either ween off the habit of savescumming 24/7 or make sure you have a backup in case you get a campaign halting bug

I FUCKING HATE T2 PLATED ARMOR I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

So you can't break warlock's mind control?

It really depends on group comp and skills your troops have. I went in same level as you, except with ONE plasma rifle, though the guy barely shot it, so it doesn't make that much a difference.

Anyway, as long as your group comp is solid, you can handle most anything it throws at you in there. Final rooms were easy since I have a Ranger with both Chain Shot and Rapid Fire and Mox just keeps giving him actions to pump out the damage. Nothing survives for long.

Am I the only one that hates the look of the T3 weapons?

Did they make psionics harder to reach? I haven't a single one in my roster and I just realized nobody's even mentioned them in a long while

Only with Bonds and Solace.

I like the Rifle and Sniper. HATE the cannon.

I hate T3 armor and weapons, hopefully E3245's pack has enough standins for them even if they're just IW rips.

Still the same sectoid autopsy->psionics->build psi lab->put rookie in microwave and learn magic powers

It's because the Hero classes make them less incentivized to get. You are also building a lot of other things. So while it isn't hard to get, you would be delaying thing you might need. A psi rush in vanilla was possible and while it might be in WotC, it's less viable.

I don't think you'll find any who disagrees, thankfully there's plenty of cosmetic mods that are wotc compatible now.

>encounter hunter in sewers
>use a grenade on first turn to blow up his cover
>he then proceeds to stand in the open for two turns straight summoning troopers while I get flanking shots on him

Fantastic AI.

I miss the human-ish designs, the T3 gear looks to alien, I remember X-Com EU's weapons and gear retaining some human-ish design aspects besides the Plasma Rifles/ Pistols.

>Archon King grabbed a Lost instead of one of my troops

Oh that's funny

You guys are right.
Alright fuck it, downloaded a couple more fun cosmetic mods and shit, I'm gonna restart.
No iron man. I'm just going to try to play honestly.

Stick with Commander you think and save Legendary for another time, or just hope right in?
Don't really know what to expect. Except suffering.

Strange, he should have at least tried to move away. I know when he can't grapple he tends to run out of Line of Sight. Maybe his pathing got bugged out and he thought he couldn't move. I've had units do that, just sit in the open and shoot after being grenaded.

WEAPON MOD WHEN?
HELGHAST WHEN?

You can't even begin to understand the depths of his tactical genius.

Alright /xcg/ I need quick confirmation on if Combat Protocol still does extra damage against a Codex. Lives are riding on it.

>Hunter grapples up to a nearby rooftop
>"Heheh I've got u in my sights nothin' personnel"
>Proceeds to jump off the roof and run back to the exact same spot he started at.
>Turn ends
Really makes you think.

>Stick with Commander you think and save Legendary for another time
I'd do this. Nothing burns you out quicker than bashing your head against legendary. Get the hang of not savescumming, play a moderately challenging campaign, have the satisfaction of a victory under you belt and familiarity with all the new mechanics before moving on.

No.

Legend can get a bit tedious sometimes. Just go with Commander, get a feel for taking losses and how you can recover and go from there.

>mfw this blacksite is a WW1 Trench Warfare Simulator

Nope, they lost the "is a robot" tag. They just take extra damage from Bluescreen.

Joey mod when?

Play PirateZ instead

For the love of god, don't line up like that, you are asking to be grenaded.

this was me advancing on their base. Here's their base when I moved in.

Just clean up now

>Assassin kidnaps my most handsome soldier who only wore Daisy Duke shorts
>she'll likely sexually torture him while gaining an appreciation for the human male body in all its sexiness
>when I break into her citadel to kill her for good odds are high I'll interrupt her riding him senseless on the interrogation table demanding he tell her where the Avenger is hiding or she won't let him orgasm for the thirty-seventh time

Do proxy mines break concealment when they go off?

Psi-Ops are really difficult to get now. You need to go Ring -> Hospital before you can even start. You need psionics research. You need early game elerium to build the psi chamber. If you go ring -> hospital -> psilab, then that means no gts, training, proving grounds, resistance comms, etc.

>Need elerium to build psi chamber
>Not building the chamber over a power coil

Fucking christ Steam needs a WOTC tag for its shit

The workshop does have a WOTC tag but people aren't using it

You would basically need a miracle to happen. Inspired research on Psi, Breakthrough instant excavation for fast elerium, Breakthrough for reduced cost to build it all one after the other.

fucking why

For Long War 2, do Archons count as robotic or nonrobotic aliens with respect to bluescreen rounds?

only like half of my first page of 17 pages of mods has been updated. I don't think I can back to vanilla. but I want to play. REEEEE.

That's what I want to know, the tag has been there since the release day but only a few people are using it for some reason

>Chosen shows up, memes hard
>Use a Templar to swap them out in the open
EZ DUNKS LADS

Yes

>Chosen shows up
>Hides behind something explosive
>*unzips reaper*
>A нy, чики-бpики и в дaмки
>Chosen instantly killed

Stalkers are the best.

>tfw Reapers are so OP that a pod of three mutons and a Spectre become paste in one shot without even revealing her.

>guerilla op to stop the container from exploding
>get the sitrep where you can see the whole map
>mission item is on a train
>one of the cars is showing up as an option for remote start
>do it
>it nukes half the street, takes out at least half of the building next to it
>12 damage to every enemy and civilian around it
>other enemies on the map just resume their patrols as normal
>tfw I committed a terrorist act
>tfw I didn't record it

It was the best explosion I've ever seen in XCOM. They must have been transporting a nuke in that fucking thing

What exactly is the difference between V-Sync and Framerate Smoothing options?

Did WOTC make bleedouts more likely? In vanilla I got like one bleedout per 100 hours of play but every other soldier in WOTC seems to bleedout instead of die. Not using the resistance order either.

Reaper is best waifu

All the way to the gate without any damage. It's only downhill from here.

>no ranger

I'm surprised. Rapid Fire is still the most damaging ability you could possibly have by then. Why did you decide against it? Tell me the Grenadier at least as Rupture.

Two completely different things. V-sync locks the game to your monitors refresh rate to prevent screen tearing. Framerate Smoothing tries to dynamicly adjust settings to make sure the framerate stays somewhat concistant rather the a jittering mess.

Tags don't work with the SDK unless you manually go and edit a file, most people don't know this because it isn't supposed to work that way, so people put tags on their mod, but the SDK doesn't uh "upload" them i guess unless they are manually added.

And a lot of people that know don't go through the effort of adding tags because it takes effort. In other words, tags are useless and there are thousands of tagless mods buried in there.

>when your best grenadier ends up rolling rapid fire as a perk to take

>No iron man. I'm just going to try to play honestly.
Fuck off, Click on that iron man you gigantic faggot. if you don't you're just gonna savescum the first time something hard hits you.

You can still savescum on ironman, just end the xcom process and re-do the last turn

It and Chain shot have the same Aim Malus, so nothing is different. Just the fact that you have the other skill when the other is on cooldown. My Ranger has both as well, it's pretty nice.

I would actually have been more pleased if they had buffed Demolition, since using grenades for cover destruction can be a bad idea when it comes to the Lost.

They are considered bio

Any good longsword mods? Or sword mods in general? I know about the axe/katana pack.

How often do you guys contact new regions? It just occurred to me how late I tend to put it off. I usually don't expand at all until I have full gauss.

sparks dont get special training shit as far as I know?

>tfw you plaster the bitch only to find out there's a phase two
Definitely wanted all my hero classes, specialist was needed for heals, sharpshooter is my highest ranking, and grenadier for Chosen's blast weakness. With the weapon mods on the Skirmisher's bullpup (along with bond extra action), she could outdo my ranking ranger.

I tried to expand as soon as I could since that means extra supplies. While that was always a good thing in vanilla, it's actually a little bad now, since it means you might 'activate' a new chosen and they can start messing with you and gathering information.

So I would say just do it once you feel comfortable with it. Resistance orders can take care of Avatar Progress, so almost no reason to try to B-line for facilities. Only reason to expand and find new chosen is so that you can start hunting them, which might net you a free promotion, which is a huge power increase.

I got lucky and my Ranger rolled Chain shot and Rupture. So he had to come, 3 extra damage and then Mox can give him extra actions for 5 attacks total? I would be crazy not to.

Supposedly there's a way to trick the game. I suspect someone just edited an ini though.

>One more mission
>Just one more
>Ah shit its 5 AM
This FUCKING GAME

>first armor upgrade in July

who needs armor anyway

r8 my faction crew

>complete mission
>go back to installing relay
>installing the relay picks up supply drop on the other side of the planet while building the relay
Thanks, Jake.

>Finally get plasma in august
>No elerium to upgrade though
>None to research beyond rifle upgrades too
t-this is fine

>tfw after plastering her sleeping bag you find out there's a phase three
>tfw the first move reveals her and you turn her into paste.

Only one wounded. Bueno.

I was focusing on blast damage, scouting ability, and bonds. It all worked out in the end.

Stalkers are wildly OP. They're basically invisible, can turn cars into tactical nukes and have an anti-matter grenade.

You have yet to experience the power of this fully operational Pod wiper. Just wait till you get Banish and hope you get Tac Rigging so you can put ammo on her.

Get out of here, Stalker

I like vipers

Nice hair.

>skirmisher smacks sectoid
>its corpse pops skyward and takes several seconds to fall back down
I love this class

Agreed. I just wish I could have more than 2 Claymores. Can you ever upgrade them?

>Tac Rigging
>Talon Round
>Weapon with Superior Laser Sight
>Superior Mag
>Banish

Can pretty much kill a Chosen instantly.

You get three with homing claymore.