/xcg/ - XCOM General

Thats Mox

The fuck did you do to Mox?

disgusting mongrel

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I got him this way

Pretty sure that's the default Mox.

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What continent is the best to start on for EW/LW?
Europe and its reduced cost + upkeep on workshops seems really appealing to me.

How do we fix the late game difficulty, /xcg/?

>play on veteran because wotc is big and last time i played was during x2 release
>lose one or two rookies in the beginning
>manage quite well until berserker queen takes my alien ruler virginity
>one soldier goes down, before i take any more losses, she ports away
>kill her in the next two encounters without a problem
>two chosen also down
>flawless after flawless mission
>get better equip, psy ops
its boring.
i did a big mistake with veteran difficulty. and i did another mistake by playing wotc. but what where they thinking by cutting the dlc story missions out of the game?

anyway, should i wait for the lw2 update or start with commander difficulty + some mods?

The Fireteam poses are literally the best.

murrica for the extra early money

>mismatched camo and armor
>shit textures
>one soldier has the rail gun from MGS2 and the other has a miniature M249
>blue text doesn't match rest of poster

0/10 would not join xcom

remove frost bombs
get rid of the "only one gatekeeper/sectopod a mission" rule I don't think even EU was dumb enough to do this
stop pussying out by thinking that a pod of 3 mutons is threatening lategame and give us pods of 3 andromedons

>first time playing legend
>first lost mission
>its a horde sitrep
>only get 4 turns to reach the guy at the turret
>full dash every turn in a straight line
>still didn't make it

What the fuck was i supposed to do? Why is the timer so low? Is legend just complete bullshit?

You literally have the option of choosing to play with the DLC story missions on or off. And it's easy to roll through the game on Legend, of course starting on Veteran was a mistake.

cursed image

you ignored dozens of consoles on the way. shoot them.

A pod of 3 Mutons WOULD be threatening lategame if Muton elites still existed.

Not sure what your problem was, there user. I'm guessing there was a shorter route to take. I've done a number of those missions on Legend and with dashes I usually have a ranger there on the 3rd or 4th turn. It can get close, but I've always been able to make it.

The mission doesn't even end when the timer runs out. What's the problem?

of course, X2 is really lacking a generic but threatening lategame enemy (Advent just aren't good enough). I feel like they also need to make pod sizes bigger by lategame

>And it's easy to roll through the game on Legend
If you survive the first two months, yeah.
Which is why Commander+your own difficulty tweaks is the ultimate solution.

A pod of 6 Muton Centurions lead by an Elite ended my LW2 ironman campaign

Alien Pack really needs to come back

What am I meant to use Templars for?

They seem pretty dreadful at single target damage but also can't do groups of enemies.

>Yes I am this retarded and yes I do want help.

It's not a hacking one with nodes for extra turns it's the mission with the VIP at the car you need to reach before the turret runs out of ammo.

I ran in a straight line and was still one dash away when i ran out of time, maybe I got a bad map

The lost kill the VIP because I can't move him and I was far away enough that my shots were sub 70% so I missed several and got overwhelmed

Guaranteed massive damage if you build up your Focus.
With Reaper and Arc Wave they can take on groups of enemies.
See that Berserker? You can parry her.

Apart from getting screwed by unlucky RNG, I don't usually have more than one or two deaths after the first couple of months on Legend. If you want less health on enemies, shorter build times, etc, then just play on Commander. If you're consistently struggling on the Legend early game, you should probably not blame difficulty setting.

It will be right now Pavonis are focusing on making a Standalone for Lasers and Coils for WotC.

To further expand on this, it is a LW2 Weapons pack and is going to be a unified pack including Lasers, Coil and SMGs - apparently no individual mods for each of those for WotC.

Somebody should make a WoTC version of the other LW1 weapons that got remade for 2 ages ago

>porting the pointless weapons instead of ayys that will change up the gameplay
LUMP

>railgun from MGS2

ADVENT Snoipah and Bio troopers are out. Thats a start.

So are the Archon Warriors/Shamans

I hope they port the celatid at some point, I could do with more weird looking ayys

To be fair to Johnny "RNG decides if you can win my mod" Lump, they can probably get the weapons out much faster than the Aliens. Still, we have no official confirmation they're working on the Alien Pack. If they end up deciding it is too much work, I hope someone at least ports over the old one.

WHERE'S THE SLAV MOD user?
WHERE THE FUCK IS IT

They're working on it, going by the comments on the workshop page, but it is apparently slightly more broken due to WotC, and they're also taking the opportunity to tune up aspects of the mod.

Feel the POWAH user.

This I'd also like to know

Have you guys been playing with those mods? What are your impressions?

So uh
How much harder will Commander be if you don't get the squad size upgrades?

I know they're definitely going to need a large rebalance to the Perk Pack.

I've seen him somewhere.

Done with that "x-com calendar".
Fuck Bradford for putting that idea in my mind...

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Degenerate commanders WILL hang.

I got the sniper and bio troops. It makes the engagements more interesting. Of course, if they are on the map. The sniper has high accuracy and long watch, which it tends to use a lot. Bio troopers bring a lot of diffrent bullshit to the mix to make everything more fun. Regular Bio troops are stronger versions of regular troopers with Gas Grenades and toxic immunity. Assault troopers can enter statis when they have 1 pip of health left and they regenerate health. Bio MECs replace their grenade launcher with an Acid one. Basicaly, they bring new spice to the table.

thats a woman, user

MOOOOODDSSSS
WE NEED EVAC
NOW

golly

Everybody needs a hobby I suppose.

>niggers

so what's the most broken class with all their skills maxed out

ranger or templar

Thanks user.

I guess I should be building to improve focus at generation as quick as I can.

Mine doesn't have reaper yet so maybe that's the issue.

Sharpshooter + Hunter weapons is the strongest class in the game bar none.

Put it on imgur or something dummy

Sounds interesting enough. I might give them a go in my next playthrough.

That was the plan. I forgot the mods here can be a bit...ticklish

There: i.imgur.com/55F8Res.jpg

It's more for fun than anything else

Reapers in general. I feel dirty for using them.
Rangers and Templars are stupid strong if they get the right XCOM abilities.

Reapers. But you need superior weapon mods to make them break the game.

Psi ops.
I wish they were incapable of concealment to balance it out a little

Ticklish? It's supposed to be a SFW board, lad, I don't think enforcing the rules counts as ticklish.

Still, nice work.

Amazing

>soldier becomes shaken
>he's unavailable for around a month

This.
>Highest single target damage in the game via Lightning Hands, Fanfire, then a Deadeye shot, the only thing that can match it is a Reaper banishing with Superior Mag but they can only do it once a mission, Sharps get to pull this bullshit on a Cooldown
>Give them a Wraith Suit and they don't even need Serial to wipe out waves of one-shottable enemies because Death From Above lmao
>Deals their damage from positions that are hard for the enemy to do anything about, whether its completely out of LoS or up high at max range
>Long Watch+rolling Covering Fire is pure bullshit
>Cheese any destructible objectives via Squadsight

Nice job user, makes me want to finish mine too.

Quality work user
Can't wait to make a censored version and put it in the OP

First encounter with a preist. How do you deal with stasis? Was rescuing mox and a preist and a lancer dropped. The preist, in full cover at the limit of my vision, put one guy in stasis and then boosted the lancer. Lancer tanked 2 overwatch shots and hit me and then the guy in stasis was put in stasis for the next 3 turns as we ran to the evac.

Is it a guaranteed hit? I had a soldier next to him and he couldn't "help" him out of it.

>Brought a maxed out, aim stacked, Wraith Suit Sharpshooter on Waterworld
>mfw all those random rafters in the battlefield leading up the Avatars

>put it in the OP
MISCREANT
RESTRAIN YOURSELF

My 2 least favorite classes in vanilla were sniper and sword ranger. But with the Vhosen weapons and multiple abilities they've become insane

>remove frost bombs

Frost bombs don't really have anything to do with it. They make the game easier sure but it's easy even if you don't use them.

Blue Board Ready :^)

Now that I think about it, non-grenade grenadier has become completely useless. I've got shredder and holo targeting on my sniper and healer

>when your gunslinger solos entire Lost missions by himself

Saturation fire

How the fuck do I deal with an avatar?

It can miss so its trash

>miss!
>miss!
>miss!

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This is quite sad really.

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It's like they've all been lined up against a wall to be executed.

Well that's sad

>tfw superior scope and perception on grenadiers with all their skills

I didn't even think to use psi skills to detonate the claymore

In the final room? I spammed Rend on a templar with good mobility and advanced team work.

Do large amounts of damage in single attacks

They were 2 groups patrolling for a while but I guess killing the nearby mutons spooked them. I really needed it since it was an exquisite timing run and only had magnetic weapons.

>electricity flips back on
THE ELDERS EMPOWER ME TO FIGHT ON