If it's a facility and not a blacksite(there's a difference), it's not actually all that hard in comparison. Just send in the rooks with whatever vets you have available.
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XCOM 2 |OT| Be Aggressive! Be Be Aggressive!
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If it's a facility and not a blacksite(there's a difference), it's not actually all that hard in comparison. Just send in the rooks with whatever vets you have available.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I think looking at the avatar facilities and the thing in the ocean indicates how close they are to progressing. And whenever a facility is build, it ticks up as well so check the dark events to see when the next is being built.
The more facilities they have, the faster it fills of course. And the thing in the ocean cannot be stopped.
Relativ9
Member
So I tried starting up a Legend/Ironman playthrough last night, I ended up restarting a couple of times because I discovered that there's basically no way you can make it unless you get at least one squaddie unharmed out of the first mission. The amount of luck (or the lack of) involved in the early game of Legend is insane. You can only mitigate it so much, just aggroing one group at a time can be next to impossible if you're unfortunate with the randomized map generator.
So I've encountered the fabled game breaking bug on the final mission on ironman.
Screen started flashing all sorts of violent colours nearly giving me a seizure. There were invisible walls preventing me from attacking enemies, so I tried to reload. Game crashes everytime.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
I love this game but man, it is NOT worth this amount of money with all these bugs. Having the final mission glitch out like that is unacceptable. It really should not have been put on the market until at least another couple of months.
Happened on my first run too, but wasn't playing ironman, reloaded and then it worked. Now not so much.
Screen started flashing all sorts of violent colours nearly giving me a seizure. There were invisible walls preventing me from attacking enemies, so I tried to reload. Game crashes everytime.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
I love this game but man, it is NOT worth this amount of money with all these bugs. Having the final mission glitch out like that is unacceptable. It really should not have been put on the market until at least another couple of months.
Happened on my first run too, but wasn't playing ironman, reloaded and then it worked. Now not so much.
GoodCoffeeJoey
Banned
This has probably already been posted, but if you end a battle with enemies mind-controlled, you won't get the bodies for those enemies.
Also if any baddie is hacked or mind controlled and then killed by another baddie, you don't get their bodies either.
Last mission
That was brutal. I didn't lose any soldier. But honestly i had a lot of luck. My guys are being swarmed.
Only one avatar left with almost full health. He teleports to a place next to my specialist.
Said specialist did nothing worthwhile so far. Chances are 29%. I take the shot. EXECUTED. Wew...
Only one avatar left with almost full health. He teleports to a place next to my specialist.
Said specialist did nothing worthwhile so far. Chances are 29%. I take the shot. EXECUTED. Wew...
Aztechnology
Member
I'm finally through the hard part. Have magnetic weapons and predator armor. Facilities are coming along and I'm winning fights without being gravely injured. But damn if a chunk of my guys aren't shaken and still inured from previous missions.
Someone should make a mod where mind controlled enemies come back to the avenger and hang out with your soldiers.
That's all fine and dandy until your mind controller goes to sleep without disabling her new pet Muton, breaks the psychic connection and by morning everyone is dead.
I was disappointed this didn't happen or you didn't get a bonus for mind controlled enemies somehow.
Aka, PUT THEM IN THE TORTURE CHAMBER TYGAN
toastyToast
Member
What the hell is up with the codex? Regularly dodges attacks with over 90% chance to hit and even with over 100% it can still dodge and only take graze damage. I restarted on Commander after flubbing my first Veteran playthrough. I can't remember the last time I managed to deal full damage to one.
toastyToast
Member
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Does anyone remember if saturation fire works with a stock (+ damage even on miss upgrade)? If so, I wanna try it with a repeater.
Relativ9
Member
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Dodge seems to be completely independent of your chance to hit it. I think only "guaranteed" damage ignores the dodge chance.
My approach is to hit it once, trigger the clone, and then the clone counts as robotic (at least vulnerable to that specialist shock attack) and often teleports in on a spot that can be flanked easily. Vipers also seem to have high dodge. I just try to be prepared to overkill them due to dodge. Or grenades. At least vipers have only 8 or so hp.
With the mod I am using atm, I regularly encounter 3 codex pods in addition to an archon. I don't have many auto-loaders so I've had some risky situations due to their psionic ability.
Empty Space
Member
How does the Europe bonus work exactly? I tried swapping out both stims and weapon upgrades, but they all disappeared when I used them.
I don't know the answer to your question because I never got that bonus, just to say that continent bonuses are randomized each playthrough, so there is no single european bonus.
Also, unlike EU, you do not get the bonus by starting on the continent, so maybe you haven't earned it.
Sniper plus Bluescreen ammo.
Empty Space
Member
Oh I didn't know that! I got a bonus that say PCS and Weapon Upgrades are now reusable, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe I'm doing something wrong or misinterpreting it?
manfestival
Member
your boy boon come from futurama?
Do you know if you really have the bonus? The bonus name should be in green, and you can see a tooltip that says so if you hover your mouse over it. You not only need to contact all regions, but you also have to build one or two radio relays.
Advanced Rayman Condition
Empty Space
Member
Yup its highlighted green.
... Wow, that was embarassing. Don't know how I misread that.
*takes another drink of coffee*
toastyToast
Member
Not literally but I had 100% already with an elevation bonus on top and it was in the wide open with its pants down etc
Just had a fucked up VIP mission where the engineer was imprisoned on the other side of the planet and I had 8 turns to pick them up and get to an evac zone that was another 2 turns worth of sprinting from there. By the end all but one off my crew were literally one square outside of the evac zone. Mothertruck. Guess I'm gonna have to do it again.
edit: reloaded the mission. this map is half the size of the last one smh
JurassicUtility
Member
Something I found out by accident is that flash grenades will prevent codex from using their clone ability. Still a pain in the ass to kill though. Last mission I played, I had to take out a codex and a handful of advanced advent soldiers. So I threw a flash grenade at her, and then moved in to flank with five soldiers. It took a full turn with all five of my soldiers firing at her with flanked shots of 90% or better to finally take her down.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
IIRC you can modify an ini file and delete all the possible starting locations except the one that you want
and done. Horribnle last mission (super buggy and awful performance coupled with a RNG-based fight (because
) made it a terrible end in my opinion) soured me a little on the game, but not enough to not think its a great game, and a great sequel. Loved almost all of it (like I just said lol), and cant wait for the dlc or a proper expansion (was that a
?). Also, the game is ripe for another long war style mod.
Anyway, setting it aside for now until the summer, other stuff to play (dat Street Fighter son!) and I dont replay games right away anyway. If I was reviewing it, I would probably give it a 4/5 or 8/10, the technical stuff really hurts the game (and I didnt even have that many problems throughout like alot of people) and its a little shorter than I expected (you can easily finish it in 30 hours or less, I stretched it out A LOT), otherwise its good old xcom with some great classes and nice variety in maps compared to the first.
you cant guess where the avatars will teleport to when hit
terror from the deep nod at the end, I didnt play the original but wasnt it ocean-based
Anyway, setting it aside for now until the summer, other stuff to play (dat Street Fighter son!) and I dont replay games right away anyway. If I was reviewing it, I would probably give it a 4/5 or 8/10, the technical stuff really hurts the game (and I didnt even have that many problems throughout like alot of people) and its a little shorter than I expected (you can easily finish it in 30 hours or less, I stretched it out A LOT), otherwise its good old xcom with some great classes and nice variety in maps compared to the first.
CrankyKong
Member
This game is just so brutal.
I'm going to have to set it down to rookie difficulty because my squad is constantly undermanned.
So embarrassing and shameful
I'm going to have to set it down to rookie difficulty because my squad is constantly undermanned.
So embarrassing and shameful
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
You might have to Google around for those terms. I think I saw it on reddit
ISee
Member
Don't be. The game is brutal, especially if you're new and on your first playthrough.
Royal_Phalanx
Member
Can't even research Bluescreen Protocol because I have no Elerium Cores and can't get any more :/
Been on the rampage in vet for a while now, tier 3 everything, researched everything, only thing really holding me up is the mandatory psi pipeline and the random research proving grounds. Still got a poor Sarge sniper killed by my own abject stupidity, but still.
By the way, that intel system on the mission I just mentioned seems like something which should've been implemented for all missions.
Tower is right up ahead. I'm guessing it's either the last or the second-last mission, yeah? I'm waiting to get some more intel before I go in.
By the way, that intel system on the mission I just mentioned seems like something which should've been implemented for all missions.
Wow the last mission was a piece of cake.
. I suppose it's because I was on Veteran difficulty but oh boy it felt like they were suicidal.
Didn't know that an ennemy controlled with Domination counted as a soldier for the stat. Since I sacrified the Gatekeeper I was controlling, it counted as a dead soldier at the end of the mission.
Avatars were teleporting in the middle of my soldiers after shooting them
Didn't know that an ennemy controlled with Domination counted as a soldier for the stat. Since I sacrified the Gatekeeper I was controlling, it counted as a dead soldier at the end of the mission.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Started the game finally, and it's running great for me so far! Playing on veteran, and my first intel search had poison rounds and corrosive grenades. I'm told this is unusual and corrosive grenades are very useful, although I don't have any armored targets to fight against.
Setting up a perfect overwatch trap and setting it off with a crit sniper shot is so good.
I need to get my GafCom going.
Setting up a perfect overwatch trap and setting it off with a crit sniper shot is so good.
I need to get my GafCom going.
I had exactly the same issue, I bottle necked the last fight in to a corridor I could control and it tanked the frame rate and caused graphical glitches with the enemies on the screen. I'm since taking a break from round 2 till they get their shit in order.
I had the same issue except worse as the enemies I needed to kill never appeared. ended up watching the ending on youtube
Glitchesarecool
Member
Is there some way I can stop the 2k thing from popping up? I've hit "decline all" three times now.
MonorailCat
Member
Same thing happenend to me. Rainbow colors --> save and exit --> loading the save crashes the game
In my case it was a buried chryssalid or chryssalid cocoon thats crashing the save. Nothing I can do.