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XCOM 2 |OT| Be Aggressive! Be Be Aggressive!

Salsa

Member
man

for some pressure reasons I just now built the Psi lab

im pretty late game

am I just screwed?

can't either find rookies nor if I did I dont think I could level them up
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
man

for some pressure reasons I just now built the Psi lab

im pretty late game

am I just screwed?

can't either find rookies nor if I did I dont think I could level them up

You can buy rookies from the armory screen. You also don't need to worry about leveling them up in the traditional manner. You'll see.
 
Ok, so word is is that Carmau (Behind the More Eye Colors and More Skin Colors mods) fucked up and accidentally uploaded a faulty update to MSC into his MEC mod. Installing More Skin Colors apparently fixes it though.
 

Salsa

Member
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first Psi recruit straight outta Uruguay where im from

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she readyyyy
 
In OTHER bug news though, I'm still trying to figure out why the hell the Avenger is devoid of life save for Shen, Tygan, and a single Engineer in a power relay.
 
The hell happened? All my characters have become irrevocably black after an update, with the skin color menu broken and no way to switch skin color at all.



I've got people saying they disabled all their mods and still can't fix it, even on a new game, so I don't know what's up here. I myself only caught this because I keep my Psi Troopers helmetless (Generic Mook Uniform for everyone else!), and now I'm probably going to have to Helmet them too since their skin is unnaturally dark now.

God help us if some modder with a ton of subscribers to one of his things decided to go rogue on a bunch of people and cause this to peoples campaigns which have a dependency on their mod.
Wait what race would they be otherwise? Sucks you got them stuck on the default tho
 
Played a bit more since the patch. Avenger interface is so much smoother now. No longer seeing constant frame drops when transitioning between menus.
 

Trey

Member
they're gonna straight up populate the game now arent they

holy fuckin cheapness batman

nah.

i got lucky on my first avatar activation. he took a crit to the face from my untouchable ranger, and teleported right next to my other ranger. killed him in one turn.
 

Salsa

Member
WOW

used the serial ability

pressed TAB to change to another soldier, quickly tab again to change back

now it's on cooldown. And I didnt get to use it

what the actual fuck

in what world is that not complete and utter bullshit
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
WOW

used the serial ability

pressed TAB to change to another soldier, quickly tab again to change back

now it's on cooldown. And I didnt get to use it

what the actual fuck

in what world is that not complete and utter bullshit

I might be wrong, but I think you can still shoot, and as long as you kill your target, you can shoot again?
 

Salsa

Member
it didnt work, but maybe its because I used it after I moved

regardless the game didnt comunicate that well at all... it just showed up on cooldown and nothing indicating it was working after I changed to another soldier and back

it's just that between these and the glitches/bugs on a game where permadeath is the only way to play it really should be air tight

EU wasnt, but I dont think it was ever this bad
 

Erheller

Member
Yeah, I can't disagree with that. The UI hides and fails to convey a lot of things.

I'm pretty sure Serial only counts for kills made by your primary weapon, btw
 

Trey

Member
learning the subtle quirks of the game is half the battle. when i activated a pod because a gremlin crossed its line of sight, I knew what kind of game i was in for.
 

Erheller

Member
I see something end-run worthy there.

Powered armor before having all plasma weapons.

The hell are you doing?

Eh, in my commander ironman playthrough I got plasma shotguns and pistols before hitting powered armor (skipping sniper rifles, rifles, and cannons). My grenadiers and specialists didn't shoot enough to really justify spending the resources on upgrading their weapons (at that point I was pumping all of my supplies into comm towers and radio relays). For certain classes a weapon upgrade doesn't necessarily mean a significant boost in the damage you deal during a mission.

I can see how it would be doable to stay on gauss weapons for several months on Commander, since the enemies take a while to really ramp up. Plasma is really nice against Gatekeepers and Sectopods, but everything else is pretty manageable with gauss.
 

Salsa

Member
I see something end-run worthy there.

Powered armor before having all plasma weapons.

The hell are you doing?

I think that grenadier fired his main weapon like twice

went with the armor before since he was just blowin shit up with the launcher

either way im there now


managed to get back on my feet thanks to Psi-peeps

mind controlling andromedons allday

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Avatar is 2 squares away from full tho, and I need intel to contact a region where they have a base

if they pull some shit before I get 40 Intel I might be done :|

im basically at the hands of the game's randomness

but im done for tonight
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Avatar is 2 squares away from full tho, and I need intel to contact a region where they have a base

if they pull some shit before I get 40 Intel I might be done :|

im basically at the hands of the game's randomness

but im done for tonight

Completing some story objectives decreases avatar progress too.
 

Salsa

Member
ok now im done for the night

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fuckin Fatal got shot cause he was one square away from evac

you dumdum


also takin down this facility only took avatar down 1 square. shit
 

Sblargh

Banned
Welp, my would-be no death run L/I campaign ended with 5 deaths. :/
Now I don't want to start another because DLC is coming out tomorrow and I want my rookies to be already part of the proud german eletronic scene, so...

Yep, one day without XCOM.
My backlog sure is big right now.
Oh yeah.
I have plenty other games I could be playing.
...
...
...
I wonder if I can finish a commander campaign in one day.
 
Boy, this game sure looks a lot better at 1440p and Maximum settings (with SSAO/DoF ticked down). Still see some performance hitches outside of the tactical game, though, and it still does that weird thing where I see a blacked-out Avenger for a split-second after missions, before the Skyranger cutscene cues.
 

Sblargh

Banned
Boy, this game sure looks a lot better at 1440p and Maximum settings (with SSAO/DoF ticked down). Still see some performance hitches outside of the tactical game, though, and it still does that weird thing where I see a blacked-out Avenger for a split-second after missions, before the Skyranger cutscene cues.

That's what I'm going to do today.
Fiddle with graphic options.
...
I have a problem.
 

Salsa

Member
im playin with pretty average graphics but it's the only way I get decent performance

looks better than EU and that looked good enough to me
 

Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
The hell happened? All my characters have become irrevocably black after an update, with the skin color menu broken and no way to switch skin color at all.



I've got people saying they disabled all their mods and still can't fix it, even on a new game, so I don't know what's up here. I myself only caught this because I keep my Psi Troopers helmetless (Generic Mook Uniform for everyone else!), and now I'm probably going to have to Helmet them too since their skin is unnaturally dark now.

God help us if some modder with a ton of subscribers to one of his things decided to go rogue on a bunch of people and cause this to peoples campaigns which have a dependency on their mod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrh5YOQHvFw
 

Pooya

Member
I reaally hate the global map stuff. I can't finish ONE scan without the game interrupting with dozen of messages and finally pushing me to a 'time sensitive' mission, I can't get the supply, I can't get upgrades prepared, I get rekt in the mission. This game feels just so annoying to play overall. Dropped like a rock. I guess this game isn't for me.
 

Vex_

Banned
im playin with pretty average graphics but it's the only way I get decent performance

looks better than EU and that looked good enough to me

My rig can handle this game on high, but I choose not too. I'd like to not have to worry about the lifespan of my parts due to them sounding like a jet engine when playing this game.
 

Salsa

Member
I reaally hate the global map stuff. I can't finish ONE scan without the game interrupting with dozen of messages and finally pushing me to a 'time sensitive' mission, I can't get the supply, I can't get upgrades prepared, I get rekt in the mission. This game feels just so annoying to play overall. Dropped like a rock. I guess this game isn't for me.

I mean yeah that's the game

this time around it better fits the narrative that you'd be under constant stress

once you figure out the proper way to early game and start being careful on missions you get the hang of it

it's a stressful game that's for sure

My rig can handle this game on high, but I choose not too. I'd like to not have to worry about the lifespan of my parts due to them sounding like a jet engine when playing this game.

yeah.. even where im at it still goes nuts after a few hours with the fan sound
 

Salsa

Member
- avatar project 1 square away

- do random target mission that shows up

- hack thing with specialist

- 66 percent chance of lead on avatar facility

- OMG hit it

- I get it

- hit facility next day

- squares go bye bye


all is forgiven XCOM
 

Trey

Member
- avatar project 1 square away

- do random target mission that shows up

- hack thing with specialist

- 66 percent chance of lead on avatar facility

- OMG hit it

- I get it

- hit facility next day

- squares go bye bye


all is forgiven XCOM

I literally did a mission for intel just to make contact with the region the nearest facility was locked away in. between the flying and the contact time, i hit the facility with 5 HOURS LEFT ON THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK good lord.


Sometimes Xcom is merciful.
 

Salsa

Member
Wow, you really like the WAR suit. How are you supposed to carry a shit load of mimic beacons with those?

BLOW SHIT UP

I go 3 mimic beacons per mission and I ussually end up with one extra

still prefer to go in with a couple flashbangs too cause codex
 

Salsa

Member
im totally stalled on research and engineering stuff. running the clock

trying to set it back a bit before continuing story jic

but I think I hit a ceiling

Sharpshooter with deadeye and bluescreen rounds one-shot codexes.

funny cause that's exactly what that dude has

still. flash still cool to fuck up abilities
 
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