XCOM General - /xcg/

>finally take off my german accented templar's helmet
>he's wearing a fucking monocle

I don't know what I expected

>Hunter's pistol doesn't use the ammo type you have equipped

Almost got my sharpshooter killed. That just ruins it in my eyes. Time to go back to the Shadowkeeper.

Nope

>I don't know what I expected
What you should have expected was refinement

Just got the hunter sniper. Holy shot the sharpshooter becomes powerful

There's a fix for it on the workshop, assuming it is an actual bug

friends, i'm balls deep in this WOTC campaign with all the integrated and have not yet received any prompt leading to SPARKs. what gives? do i need to make contact with a certain region or some other meme in order for it to appear?

I'm not sure it is. The weapons are stupid OP already.

Build it in the proving ground you meme

I just found it in the Proving Grounds

Nothing is too powerful.

You just build them in the Proving Grounds. No mission involved.

Can I have some x-com reaction pics for my "reactions" folder?

You can have my old as sin reporter pics

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Excitement continues to build..

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Do you think your Psionic soldiers secretly do lewd things to you with Dominate and you just don't realize it?

>openly talking about psionic soldier habits
>implying that's not classified info

>Just want to call people Miscreants and remind them that you're the Elders Greatest Champion.
>Templars keep running at you and screeching "THIS WORLD IS OURS."

Are the faction weaknesses always the same? Is the Assassin always weak to Reapers, Hunter to Skirmishers and Warlock to Templars?

They're random, your first Chosen is always weak to the faction you started with though.

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>Actually like some of the lewd mod armor combinations
>Can't actually use them in game because I know it's a sin

>mocx fucking my shit up

FUCK

No, in my game Hunter was weak as fuck against Templars and had the brittle weakness making fighting him a joke. I saved him for last because I liked his bants but he was too easy to get rid of.

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Fucking your shit up in game or fucking it up with bugs?

More fuckable than I remembered

Gotcha.
For every later run I do, should I turn off that intergrated "Lost and Found" thing? I imagine that takes away some of the randomness and makes the start easier? On the upside, I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that it locks the Ayylmao Rulers to their facilities.

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Rapist Rulers are stuck in facilities as long as you have DLC Integration checked.

You didn't notice the first time?

No, Reapers are. Templars can definitely be stupid powerful, but they at least rely on the Training Center.

nothin personnel commander

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*turns off your power*

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>Somehow got the game to load (Just let Gatecrasher load for about 7 minutes)
>Seems to be working
>Until I find my first pod, which crashes the second it tries to take a turn in combat or I hit it with a grenade

It's progress at least I suppose. Though I don't know what the fuck would be causing the AI to die when 90% of the mods I have are purely cosmetic anyways.

I probably did since I can't resist a blonde, but I probably forgot.

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Does the game really revolve around killing shit the turn the pod activates?

My friend was telling me that late game is "easy" but shit can hit the fan fast if certain aliens get a turn.

Also, I am never taking off mind shields again. I removed them from all my soldiers to test other utility. Warlock shows up and mind scorches my whole fucking squad because I had them kind of close. The bounce range is nuts!!! I am never taking off mind shield. Luckily I had a spark with me.

I feel pigeon holed into using mind shields.

>He's on another level.
Nothing funnier than seeing EXECUTED on a full hp snek king.

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STOP USING SCANNERS

We need one for each Chosen

> STOP USING SCANNERS
> STOP USING MIND SHIELDS
> STOP ABUSING MY AI

Are faction missions safe to skip if I can't handle them?

>> STOP ABUSING MY AI
He does it to himself. ;_;

Thanks for the pics guys.

So Assassin's knowledge bar is full now. Waiting on plasma lance to finish researching so I can mag dump with reaper. It's still another 15 days out though.

Should I just do the stronghold mission before I get a game ending avenger defense mission?

Has anyone found the namelist for the Faction Units yet?

How do i change female/male rookie spawn chance?
I want to do 85 male and 15 female, but looks like in base game it's 50/50

>game ending avenger defense mission

It's not anywhere near that hard. You get two squads and Assassin is a joke by midgame with scanning protocol.

>game ending avenger defense mission
It's much easier than the regular one.

that mod is called "the Patriarchy", idk if it's been updated for WotC yet, though.

WHERE DID MY GUNS GO

WHY DID THE RESISTANCE FIREARMS MEGAPACK BREAK

THIS IS ON IRONMAN WHERE ARE THEY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>falling for that meme mod
lmao

I thought it's possible to change in ini's and i don't need a mod for it :c

We're really building the buzz now boys. Reaching levels of hype previously not thought possible.

He is sniper after all. Exactly like sniper players in every game, he's retarded and cannot deal with people at close range

The game is about balancing the action economy as much as possible, in your favor.

The strongest tactics revolve around removing chances for enemy action while increasing your own options.

>playing ironmeme with mods

Even with vanilla it's dangerous because of the bugs.

I'm trying to make it so that he plays keep-away with you taking rifle shots, and if you get close he'll try to get away and throw grenades to distract you, but his AI is so simplistic I pretty much have to rewrite all of it. The Assassin has three long AI branches, one of the longest of any enemy in the game, the Hunter has one tree that's smaller than some of the more complex regular enemies. I wonder if he got rushed through development.

Same happened to me just now.
Literally ruined a ironmeme run

To be fair, I can certainly see why would the Assassin need an AI more extensive than the other two jobbers.

I guess it's too early to ask when are you releasing this, right?

Is there a way to mod the stats of the prebuilt heroes? I want to change Dragunova and Mox. Is it just the default reaper/skirmisher stuff in characterstats?

Can you mind control Archons?

Yep

Are there any enemies that you can't mind control?

>tfw no mind controlled archon gf

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Assassin is Jake's waifu so they spent more time on her.

>make it so that he plays keep-away with you taking rifle shots

This is really good. It's inconsistent with his character that he tends to come towards you when activated and doesn't try to move away while fighting. He claims "close range isn't my style" but this isn't reflected at all mechanically besides pointless grapple spam.

Hoping to have something ready by the end of the week. I probably won't be doing much with the Assassin unless you guys think there's something particularly wrong with her, she seems fine to me.

Need any testers/help?

Avatars.

Can you mind control lids and zombies? I've never tried.

I wish I didn't kill the Hunter. I miss the bantz.

chosen

What's a lids?

>Can you mind control lids

Yes. Don't kill enemies with them; they'll spawn cocoons.

if they die, you wont control the suit though

>Hack the workstation mission
>Lost sitrep
>Sneak all the way to workstation with whole squad concealed while pods are focusing on the Lost on either side
>Suddenly the sectoid decided to beeline TOWARDS the lost and reveals my squad
>All other pods in the area don't get pod intros, and instantly activate and use their turns.
>Stunlancer stuns specialist, skirmisher is stasis'd, ranger is killed by double trooper RNG

What the fuck is that shit?

Those are Andromedons.

You can control lids, yeah. Don't know about zombies, but man, fuck zombies anyway.

Chryssalids, you uneducated mongoloid.

>Can you mind control lids and zombies?
One of the challenges was literally about mindocontrolling lids

I'm sorry user I just met them for the first time ever last night

I'll try to have something ready soon if any anons want to mess around with it, the only .ini files I've touched are DefaultAI and DefaultCharacterData_SoldierSkills so I can't imagine there being many conflicts with other mods.

Advent generals

Enemy AI is designed to follow you around to break your concealment in all missions except rescue where they follow routes.

The other pods didn't scamper because they were already activated by the lost.

Spectres
You can mind control codexes though