/xcg/ - XCOM General

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Previous mission: News:
1)LW2 will NOT be ported to WotC by Pavonis
>pavonisinteractive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=26982

2)EXPANSION is out NOW
>xcom.com/war-of-the-chosen
>youtube.com/watch?v=n3bENBYSucQ
>pastebin.com/8prFHUNj

3)Julian Gallop Phoenix Point News (New Update: 8/30/2017)
>phoenixpoint.info/blog/2017/8/29/geoscape-ballistics-and-more
>pastebin.com/PZWh2Zr1
>youtube.com/watch?v=iuN9g502cYM

4)Jake spoke at PAX East on March 10th on the growing pains of rebooting XCOM
>pvplive.net/c/pax-east-jake-solomon-xcom-3

The /xcg/ Mandatory Read:
>pastebin.com/k9pT8zx4

/xcg/ XCOM 2 Character Pool:
>docs.google.com/document/d/12XvY-C-RoQZUexxauBXcCsw1jElq-g8TaCNpLgG2atM/edit

Image Library of /xcg/:
>imgur.com/a/S1qfx

List of compatible mods for Long War 2
>drive.google.com/file/d/0B0KYKP0J-c9vcksxLXBTUkFzdE0/view

XCOM2 modlist, updated long before WOTC (Out of Date)
>pastebin.com/pTMatP5Z

MEGA Mod Repository, now contains all of the mods in the modlist
>mega.nz/#F!HlgWjCqR!STJ0c0kW8Fs6jKynqKyerw

/xcg/'s Long War Library (New LW players read this shit or you will be ignored):
>pastebin.com/YmaXBKpN

Piratez mod for OpenXCom:
>openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3626.0.html

The X-COM Files for OpenXCom:
>openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=4595.0

/xcg/ neither condemns nor condones that which is lewd
>pastebin.com/DwwGRCUH

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ah shit, firefox has betrayed me

pistols are useful

I want to mate with The Assassin and have half human/half alien babies

>hahaha fuck you, calc is the only class i ever failed, and i got a 35/36 on the ACT. everyone has different ways of thinking, different strengths and weaknesses.
but you failed calculus

lol

>Failed Calculus

Absolutely disgusting. Hunter is the only lovable Chosen.

MISCREANT

meh, it's not important, you don't need to understand it to succeed in life. I turned out fine.

>i turned out fine

He said on a Nepalese suturing symposium

trufax
Cannot stand those fucking monologues, but he just has sick one liners.

He said on a burmese dark web partyline

There is nothing maladjusted about visiting a Zimbabwean pigeon enthusiast bottle message exchange.

I want to lock Bradford and the Warlock in a room and only let them out if they manage to shut up for longer than 5 minutes.

That's the Elders' Warlock. They say he's almost as dangerous with psionic energy as they are.

Do MEC troopers get to park in handicap spots?

What if they just end up fusing into Warford and double their chitchat.

Then we shall put a Bradlock on the door and trap that ungodly abomination there for the rest of eternity, or at least for a couple hundred years.

but you failed calculus!

Only if they don't have their combat suit equipped

>tfw you kill a purifier in melee for the first time and they explode

>accidentally lock in a melee attack against a purifier
>they don't explode

>purifier next to enemy
>doesn't explode when you kill it

>last enemy is a purifier
>somewhat close to one of my soldiers
>fire at it with one that's further away so that I can use the closer one to finish it off if this one misses
>it explodes and kills the other soldier
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>purifier on mission with Lost
>always explodes

>mind control purifier
>muton melees it, destroying the gas tank behind him as it detonates

>purifier next to enemy
>explodes but doesn't kill the other enemy
>A Lost Swarm is nearby!

>purifier drops in as reinforcements
>nothing special happens

>play long war 2
>there are no purifiers

>play vanilla
>no purifiers
>sigh in relief but then the beserker queen shows up and rapes my squad with ruler reaction because i didn't research acid grenade yet

>play EW
>wish there were purifiers

>play the bureau
>i am the purifier

>play xenonauts
>stop playing and play xcom instead

>play college
>fail calculus

>get laughed at by engineer anons
>make weak "I-I didn't need it anyway!" rationalization

How difficult would it be to port some of the outfits from the Bureau into 2? I want some snazzy suits but the EXALT one doesn't work for WOTC

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What the fuck, it doesn't work on my end

>female exalt
By some coincidence EW exalt is literally only white males, ain't that just crazy.

I just pretend she was doing desk work and the uniform was forced on everybody, she is a specialist after all

What is it with all "le edgy black ops groups" and retarded uniforms+endless radio static?

>purifier appears
>he's impure
>paradox occurs and universe ends

What actually happens is that right when he dies he realizes his impurity and allahu akbars all over your lost sitrep mission

ancient combo breaker

Anyone has a 1.0 builds for LW1?

EXALT are THE top tier faction.

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>XCOM is an international organization supporting countries from around the world as well as recruiting soldiers of countries and ethnic groups from every corner of the world
>EXALT are nothing but white males wearing suits and ties; their base is at the top of a corporate skyscraper and is filled with gaudy decorations and busts

>EXALT Base has been in Canada every campaign I've done without fail
Its all coming together now

Oh how I hate late game protect the device

Oh how I hate the eighth page.

So fill me in please, since pavonis isn't porting long war, does this mean we can expect a port sometime soon from other sources? Do we know if anyone is actively working on it? I wanted to wait to try long war till wotc dropped but now I'm just sitting here with my dick in my hands.

>we can expect a port sometime soon from other sources
nah, you're fucked buddy

some guy on reddit announced that he got permissioin from Pavonis to port LW2 over to WotC, he's currently recruiting more people

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>SpokenText="I often wonder Commander if you told them what you saw in the Elders' chamber. The truth of what's to come. No, you couldn't have. They'd be home screaming now if you did."

Newfag here. X COM 2 with the Reinforcements Pack is on sale on PSN for $30 maple dollars.

Is this a good deal? I never played the first one.

the first xcom is legitimately great and defined an entire genre of turn-based tactical games

If you can, get it on PC, you get more bang for your buck there seeing as how mod can extend your playtime.

Otherwise, I would spring for WTOC, the Reinforcement pack is mostly cosmetic.

Are you telling me to buy X COM 1 on PS4 instead?

No PC. Poorfag.

Still, spring for WOTC, it's 100% more worth it because the base game with the DLC has some problems.

The Alien Rulers pack being one of them witht eh bullshit bosses that have a chance of showing up.

no, buy X-COM on PlayStation

I'm going to miss him

There's the original PC/PS1 X Com, then there was the reboot X COM Enemy Unknown, and now X Com 2.

It's fine to just get X Com 2, especially as a PS4 user.

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Advent burger wrappers

>first gorilla op is sabotage transmitter
>with reinforcements
>map is town where the nodes are spread out over 2 different sides of a building

Killing the Warlock and Hunter always feels like such a waste, they're too much fun not to have around. The Assassin is trash-tier though.

Would you guys buy WOTC for 25eur? Or should I wait a bit more?
GMG has it on sale right now and I'm really feeling the XCOM itch. Unfortunately the base game's performance was dogshit so that kind of left a sour taste in my mouth... I hear that's changed.
BUY/NO BUY?

I bought it full price and felt it was absolutely worth the money, so yeah. Go ahead and pick it up.

It is unfortunate, /xcg/, that your post rate has been so...mediocre.

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Post yourself you UN pencil-pusher

So i just logged onto steam and saw this.

Any big mods updating?

0-4 play old long dong
5-9 try to get my bf (male) buy me the new expansion

give him the pussy and you will get expansion
t. bf

>bf (male)
No really?
Here was I thinking that boyfriends are usually women.

i-is boypussy okay?

Some feminine boys have vaginas and boobs and are female user.

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>boys are female
What the fuck am I reading.

girls aren't real. everyone is a boy.

uh
ok?

Give me uses or missions for the sawed-off shotgun (LW1)

Assassin has a nice death quote though

NewFoundland I guess. The mobility penalty always makes me hesitate to use it.

sure I guess

I prefer girls tho

I played through the game a couple times after the initial release. Is War of the Chosen really worth the full price? Steam has it on sale for $30 currently.

Enemy Within added a decent chunk of content but I wouldn't have paid the same price as a full game for it.

War of the Chosen is much bigger than EW. All i can tell you is that i paid full price for it and i don't regret it.

Yeah It's well worth it.

To add to this post, I haven't found any use for autopistols either. In fact I barely ever build any pistols, the standard one is just fine, especially with ranger.

pistols are good for captures mostly

I was like you until I realized that the plain laser pistol is the only upgrade until plasma. It's reasonably cheap, you get an aim bonus for using it, it's nice to have.

Regarding machine pistols, I mainly use them on infantry. You equip a battle rifle and a heater and now your infantry has a backup assault rifle instead of having to reload after his first double shot. But you have to plan from this loadout from the rookie picking stage, it is miserable trying to run negative mobility items on guys with low base mobility or ones that have so little health that they have to use heavy armor.

I hate airgame so much.

I don't research lasers anymore, but when I did the laser pistol was nice for sure especially on shotgun scouts.

But -2 mobility on infantry man that sucks, I'm a mobility oriented player and just equipping the battle rifle is bad enough, although the gauss variant is definitely worth it. I pick lock and load over sharpshooter on infantry, and I tend to use gauss for majority of the game, I haven't found ammo to be really ever a problem, but that's an interesting approach, I wouldn't even consider that a possibility.

>I haven't found ammo to be really ever a problem
Considering Gauss gets +1 ammo, I see why it wouldn't be an issue for you.

This run will have 8 scouts 0 snipers. This is fine.

Do you play with hidden potential ? Low starting aim doesn't mean useless snipers then. Besides 11 mobility scout is even worse than a low aim sniper.

The worst is an interception over russia

If WOTC is standalone, why cant I just buy it standalone?

Because it's not standalone. Where did you get that idea?