/xcg/ - XCOM General

Still defending trashheap Bore of The Chosen?

sad

>templar with bladestorm

jej

>Thats why I specifically mentioned in Firefights, where the person tracked could Suppressed or there could be Overwatches on the field from enemy's in High Cover.

You'd just use stock or combat protocol to break overwatch/suppression. Or worst case scenario grenades. And the only time I see multiple enemies go on overwatch rather than shoot is when they're disoriented and have too low of a chance to hit anyway. It's too specific of a situation.

It'd be better if his range were increased so you'd have to dash away from the shot. It would rob that soldier of a turn which would be bad but not devastating. It's kind of what the Warlock does already; you have to use your turn to kill his dumb zombies instead of doing something useful.

Same

Why does bluescreen ammo deal increased damage to spectres but a skirmisher's whiplash doesn't? Fucking hell, Jake.

The XCOM project is thereby terminated.

Once you get plasma and can set them on fire, yes. Also works against Crysalids since they can't melee when on fire. Also works against you, never run through fire for a melee strike.

What is the hardest mission type and why is it the crate collection

Bladestorm and Implacable are kinda broken

I do ;_;

what?

It was the first time a Muton had appeared this campaign

anyways now I have a base defense and have lost another good soldier, this campaign seems pretty dead-set on failure

Here have some advent
Here have some lost
Here have a chosen

Here have a garbage reward for living through this

It's pretty easy if you aren't a greedy cunt and focus on just ending the enemy.
Just give on 4 crates.

On legend what month do you guys usually get mag weapons at?

Different damage flags on the unit.

How long until WOTC compatiable playable ayys?

>crate collection
>hard

If shit hits the fan you can grab just a single crate and evac for it to be a success. Field Commander assassination, though, that's some bullshit unless the map is very open.

Protect the transmitter.
Free win early game and literally impossible late game.

You can't cheese it with 1 concealed soldier.

So the Fusion Sword/Ripjack/Axe lose the ability to Stun enemies the way the Ionic ones did, right? That seems like a big downgrade to me.

>He doesn't have a reaper to use

>What is the hardest mission type
>Sit Rep: Surgical, The Lost
>Chosen appear and its the assassin

>Field Commander assassination

Really? These are piss easy
Then again i don't play Legendary

Same reason that Gatekeepers and Codex take extra damage from Bluescreen. Funny enough, Bluescreen also bypasses shields, making them a good counter against Kinetic Plating.

i just had one last night in sewers

>chosen shows up

ah fuck this is gonna suck

>chosen uses teleport ally on the commander right into a flanked position for sharpshooter with high ground

no wonder the etheREEEEEEEEEEEEEEls are pissed

>Field Commander assassination, though, that's some bullshit unless the map is very open.

It's actually not that bad once you realize that the Commander has to get to the evac zone and doesn't automatically leave in 4 turns. Just camp near the zone.

Wait so if you get the breakthrough to increase damage of all base weapons by 1, you literally get free mag weapons?

Month 4, roughly. My personal research priority is modded weps -> biotech -> captain autopsy -> nanoscale vest -> faceless autopsy -> mag weapons. By then I probably have 2-3 scientists and I can snag mag weapons in month 4 and plated armor in month 5. That sates me for a while, then I try to get psionics/elerium, relevant autopsies, and trend towards beam weapons. Once you have mag weapons, you're good until andromedons start showing up. You have a bit of breathing room.

>just lost another good unit on the base defense
>had high ground, full cover, AND aid protocols up
>dies in one hit

fuck off aliens

MOR BALATAN

TOUCAN SAFARI

Burning is much better than stun. It imposes huge aim penalties and prevents them from doing the things that make them dangerous in the first place. A burning muton can be safely melee'd.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN IN AYY?

Don't tell me the creators take inspiration from Islam Allah Akbar and its simply Praise the Elders. Because that would be hilarious

They still have 1 more dmg

It would be nice to have burning and stun though.

Mag weapons have better crits, one more slot and still higher damage.
More importantly, you can't get the same breakthrough twice so its pointless in the end game.

Is anyone else getting crashes when trying to customize the WotC characters?

That must be an interesting way to begin interrogating a possible suspect who BEEPBEEPBEEPED the Alien TSA Scanner

Once you realize Tygan is shitting you when he said the breakthrough never going to proc ever again if you ignore it, you can ignore breakthroughs during early game during the rush for mag weapons. All breakthroughs you haven't researched yet going to keep proc during end game until you researched them

If you have 8 gb of ram only, either downgrade your setting or buy more ram cards.
Shit, 16gb ram cards are fucking cheap these days.

Nope. Only bugs I've been getting are mod and cosmetic related.

post mods

WHY is this expansion so HARD

How do I get good, I beat the base game on legendary / ironman I know there's a non-shitter buried somewhere inside me

>Don't tell me the creators take inspiration from Islam Allah Akbar and its simply Praise the Elders. Because that would be hilarious

in what way is that a characteristic exclusive to islam
youtube.com/watch?v=vdhF4O54YjU

>all those cheats

Pleb

No, but I did just crash five minutes ago while I tried to stab a Viper with Bradford.

>bloatvent
0/10

It's just the three character types added in the expansion. My other soldiers are fine, but if I try to customize any of the new units, the game crashes when I try to go back to the armory.

>using a better advent 2

Completely unbalanced setup.

Why did jake lower will increase so much per promotion? My first colonel had 57 fucking will are you kidding me and with this bullshit tired mechanic he starts wimpering like a puppy halfway through a semi long mission GODDAMMIT JAKE DO YOU EVEN PLAY YOUR OWN GAME

>a better bloat

Lol get fucked

Mods conflicts then?

I thought so, but I haven't added any mods, and this just started this morning.

I have the same problem too, but only in the character pool for whatever reason.

Also don't look at the turn count please.

Because being a higher rank don't make him any less of a lazy fuck.

>130 turns network cooldown

pleb

>130 turns

lmao

Fuck me.
Guerilla Op vs the Chosen have no weakness with low profile and I only have 3 ppl below or on sergeant. Difficulty is medium but the Warlock decided to spawn immediately.

How do I salvage?

Kill it.

Evac and fuck off.

So should I use better AI instead?

As for the rest I'll figure out how bad those are some time after I finally manage to complete the fucking gatecrasher with 4 retards against 15+ ayys spreading out and covering each others flanks.

youtube.com/watch?v=l6UmoezKk3c

>130 turns

Do anyone autistic enough yet to make a list of things that affect will loss in the battlefield in concrete form?

If so, where?

Probably "submit" or "kneel down" or something, based on the way its used in the prologue.

>Makes the AI not completely retarded
>Takes away the game cheating for you
>Increases enemy count
>Adds new enemy types that actually do something
What exactly is not to like here? I don't have it on right now personally because I'm doing first WotC campaign vanilla but the base game campaign I did with it was great.

t. mod developer

The AI isn't actually better in a Better AI except for mimic beacon behavior (i.e., mutons will just shoot at it instead of run into the open to melee it). But it also takes away the Stunlancers' shtick and they mostly just shoot.

It's just unnecessary.

>Makes the AI not completely retarded
enjoy when you get to andromedons and they literally do not do anything but commit suicide dashing at you and sometimes overwatching and MECs opting to shoot at a Lost halfway across the map instead of rocketing four of your troops clumped together
but hey man at least sectoids shoot more often

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The WotC version doesn't have most of the shit that made base game ABA2 good right now. It should be avoided.

wotc mod library update when?

i get enjoyment from the /xcg/ text mod

Oh well if the WotC one is currently bork'ed then fair enough. But the vanilla game version did everything it said it does.

Thanks my dude.

I dropped textures down, that seems to have fixed it.

The enemies are not unique enough to justify them. The only one I liked is the specialist ADVENT or whatever it is that can explode your own grenades. With the addition of new enemy types in WOTC I see no reason why anyone would use it.

Increased enemy count is also completely unbalanced even if you use a ton of mods to try to fix it. Too many corpses, too much experience, timer adjustments are either too much or too little, etc.

The cheating also only applies if you're on non-Legend.

ABA has way too many gimmicky and useless enemies.

It's a defend the relay mission

> Horror
>HorrorM1WillRollData=(WillLossChance=8,\\

What the hell is that?
Is it from meeting the Lost?

Like it or not at this fucking rate ABA will be the only significant additional enemy option if Pavonis never gets off their ass.

Yes, press P and then fuck off.

Horror is a specter ability.

I think some guy has actually been taking it upon himself to update the Long War mods, hopefully he gets around to the Perk Pack and Alien Pack.

Wtf I keep "killing" the VIP when I just subdue them and evac, it keeps happening wtf.

>gatekeeper spawns right next to transmitter
>it's tunnels

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1128718069

Honestly all the game needs at this point are 1-2 more lategame enemies to help the ayys be a little more threatening

Just give me the fucking Perk Pack honestly. I forgot how limited on variety vanilla class options are, its abhorrent.

has anyone made a virgin xcom vs chad resistance member yet?

PERK PACK NOW

NOOOOOOOOOW

Y'all got any waifu operators?