Yeah I can't believe I even played 20 hours of this game already. It hasn't felt like that at all. My overall sentiment has gone from deathly afraid of the early missions, to "I'm getting back out there to fuck these aliens up!"
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XCOM 2 |OT| Be Aggressive! Be Be Aggressive!
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Yeah I can't believe I even played 20 hours of this game already. It hasn't felt like that at all. My overall sentiment has gone from deathly afraid of the early missions, to "I'm getting back out there to fuck these aliens up!"
Calcium
Banned
CIVILIANS ARE DYING LEFT AND RIGHT, COMMANDER!
Kane Zakharov
Banned
COMMANDER, THE AVATAR PROJECT PROGRESS BAR MOVED UP ONE BLOCK!
I completely a Forge mission and knocked two blocks off the thing, and Punished Bradford started telling me to hurry up and get working on knocking out facilities. The aliens moved up one block when I knocked them back two
I'm so glad to see so many soldiers I commanded back in the fray! Sober, are you doing a full on LP? I won't have time for months.
Lady Siara
Member
Is there a way to skip these mission dialogue blurbs? I'm getting quite annoyed with the game's forced waiting between people talking and watching the alien reveal scenes every time I see a unit. It's great the first time you encounter a new unit but every single one? Do I really need to watch a turret spin 30 degrees when I first have vision of it?
marvelharvey
Member
I'm guessing there's no Bradford-removal-mod yet?
frontieruk
Member
I started a new game with GAF-COM and look at who showed up!
I look forward togetting all of you killedleveled up to kick some alien butt!
God help you if I'm the explosives expert... I tend to blow up petrol stations ...
TheCthultist
Member
You monster. That man helped save your life or something.
masterkajo
Member
Done my duty and sent in my recruit for GAF-COM. See you on the battlefield.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I'm at the last mission and all of a sudden the performance is dropping and I am encountering huge bugs and graphical glitches... in the last stretch of it all.
I closed the process after I saw this...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=619738435
edit:
minor spoiler in pic, but its mostly just half pink, half red rubbish (none of the map is supposed to be those colors!
I closed the process after I saw this...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=619738435
edit:
minor spoiler in pic, but its mostly just half pink, half red rubbish (none of the map is supposed to be those colors!
lastflowers
Banned
FUck this game.
that is all.
that is all.
Spoiler won't stop mobile users from seeing that. Just make it a normal link.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Right, getting the feeling I'm nearing the endgame now?
Got a mission and a locked autopsy to do currently, and am now encountering Andromedas and Chrysallids D:
Wut? ._.
Shiiiiit...
Got a mission and a locked autopsy to do currently, and am now encountering Andromedas and Chrysallids D:
Wut? ._.
Shiiiiit...
So I started a new campaign, and apparently caught the Advent by surprise this time:
So I grenaded 5 of them, killed 4, missed an overwatch shot, then killed the the last two.
The mission screen amused me. Based on what happened, I missed 1/3 of my shots, but I guessthat final screen does not take overwatch into account.
So I grenaded 5 of them, killed 4, missed an overwatch shot, then killed the the last two.
The mission screen amused me. Based on what happened, I missed 1/3 of my shots, but I guessthat final screen does not take overwatch into account.
Stiler
Member
Does this game ever slow down in throwing missions at you? I can't seem to get a break or even attempt to use my at-base scanning bonus because literally my map is just constantly full and new things pop up even before I can finish doing another thing.
Literally every single time I try to go somewhere to scan I get like 2-3 new missions pop up and it's driving me insane.
It's like mission overload and no breathing room to plan out anything.
Literally every single time I try to go somewhere to scan I get like 2-3 new missions pop up and it's driving me insane.
It's like mission overload and no breathing room to plan out anything.
Performance drop in that last segment was insane, was getting the same graphical glitches as you, crazy drops in framerate during
spawning enemies. Using the Rift abilities just tanked it even further.
Incendiary
Banned
Never underestimate the power of Aid Protocol.
So I nearly made a blunder that cost me my best Ranger - I moved him forward up a roof to get a better vantage point - and three Advent soldiers were waiting at the top. The rest of my team wasn't in a good position to get to him. The soldiers didn't scatter and my guy had Implacable with a decent chance to one-shot Slash one of them, so I figured I would kill one and then retreat back down where the other guys would run after him into the waiting ambush at the bottom of the building.
Turns out, the Slash didn't kill the soldier, so my Ranger ended up standing in the middle of three soldiers like a doofus with no help - except my Specialist can send up an Aid Protocol with the Gremlin. I go to the alien turn and hope for the best - and my Ranger pulls off three successive Matrix dodges on the rooftop from all three soldier attacks while standing smack dab center in the middle of them.
Next turn I wiped the floor with the soldiers as their adjustments put them in range of my snipers, and my Ranger finished off the asshole that originally survived his first Slash with a shotgun to the face.
XCOM, baby.
So I nearly made a blunder that cost me my best Ranger - I moved him forward up a roof to get a better vantage point - and three Advent soldiers were waiting at the top. The rest of my team wasn't in a good position to get to him. The soldiers didn't scatter and my guy had Implacable with a decent chance to one-shot Slash one of them, so I figured I would kill one and then retreat back down where the other guys would run after him into the waiting ambush at the bottom of the building.
Turns out, the Slash didn't kill the soldier, so my Ranger ended up standing in the middle of three soldiers like a doofus with no help - except my Specialist can send up an Aid Protocol with the Gremlin. I go to the alien turn and hope for the best - and my Ranger pulls off three successive Matrix dodges on the rooftop from all three soldier attacks while standing smack dab center in the middle of them.
Next turn I wiped the floor with the soldiers as their adjustments put them in range of my snipers, and my Ranger finished off the asshole that originally survived his first Slash with a shotgun to the face.
XCOM, baby.
RandomSeed
Member
Has anyone gone to the 3 day scan to pick up your monthly supplies and not had it interrupted? Ever?
AHA-Lambda
Member
I know XCOM is supposed to be hard and I am coming at this from the perspective of someone with next to no experience of strategy games but man it can really be too much at times here.
EU was not this difficult from what I remember.
LurkerPrime
Member
You know, as much as it pains me to say this, it's the missions that go bad that end up being the most fun--if I can recover. The tension and sheer tactics at play are remarkable stuff, times where everything matters.
Like losing an entire team in a blacksite mission and having one guy limp to the finish, being fired at on all sides. Or a guerilla raid gone wrong where half of my elites are slaughtered, and it becomes a desperate struggle to survive. Or even a VIP escort mission where I'm revealed at the very worst time, lose 4/6 of my squad, and still manage to limp to the finish like, VIP in tow. It's some of the most intense gaming I've had and I can't get enough of it.
XCOM's mastery of randomness is a beautiful thing.
XCOM pls
There's a continent bonus reducing the cost from 25 to 10, I think. I wish I had it... so bad.
Like losing an entire team in a blacksite mission and having one guy limp to the finish, being fired at on all sides. Or a guerilla raid gone wrong where half of my elites are slaughtered, and it becomes a desperate struggle to survive. Or even a VIP escort mission where I'm revealed at the very worst time, lose 4/6 of my squad, and still manage to limp to the finish like, VIP in tow. It's some of the most intense gaming I've had and I can't get enough of it.
XCOM's mastery of randomness is a beautiful thing.
Specialists are absolutely invaluable. It's why losing all of them has been so heartbreaking to me; they always die saving everyone else. (see above)
XCOM pls
There's a continent bonus reducing the cost from 25 to 10, I think. I wish I had it... so bad.
I don't mean that, I mean how at the end of the month you get like access to a random engineer, scientist, or "veteran" soldier at the HQ, but they cost like nearly 200 supplies. Hardly makes them feel like a reward.
I love lightning hands even on my long range sniper. Especially if you give them an ammo item, easy application of something like Burning.
Dead Eye is fairly situational and oriented around good gear / weapon add ons / stims and high level stats. I'd take LH while levelling and maybe try Dead Eye out later with retraining from the ACS.
LurkerPrime
Member
That Sharpshooter skill that counterattacks with the pistol, is it supposed to activate before an enemy attacks, or after? Because I've seen it happen both ways.
Early on they could be a decisive advantage (not that spenting those supplies elsewhere wouldn't be more beneficial), but yeah I'd agree otherwise. Maybe an engineer if you have a huge surplus, but even then it's iffy.
Oooh.
Early on they could be a decisive advantage (not that spenting those supplies elsewhere wouldn't be more beneficial), but yeah I'd agree otherwise. Maybe an engineer if you have a huge surplus, but even then it's iffy.
From what I remember of the original XCOM it was exactly at this point where you'd find yourself outclassed and outnumbered with your best soldiers dead.
I wish my Mac was strong enough to handle this game.
Incendiary
Banned
I got Dead Eye for my all Sniper tree Sharpshooter, and haven't used it once. I got Lightning Hands for my all Gunslinger tree Sharpshooter and abuse it constantly. I'd go with Lightning Hands.
Really liked Lightning Hands in almost all situations. A free action point is soo important. Dead Eye revolves around having the right weapon mods and PCS which makes it dependent on which drops you're getting.
The fact that monthly reports instead of offering you rewards, offers you the opportunity to buy rewards or take time to pick up supplies, hurts me deep inside
It annoys me that councilguy is still such a condescending shithead. Hi, you're not a representative of my funding anymore. Don't exactly need to know that I exceeded your high expectations.
Aztechnology
Member
Soooo.
I'm going to see how long I can ride this out before something crazy happens, I'm thinking I might crash from the sheer amount of bodies.
Men can only earn a promotion once per mission right?
Edit: Ok interesting, alot more mechs are showing up now. I might actually have to pull out soon.
I'm beginning to think a lot of people that had a tough time in the game just rushed through the research projects that progress the story (Exclamation mark) forcing harder events earlier in the game then they may have been ready for. I haven't lost a soldier yet (or even come close) I just got downed by the UFO, and my men all have fully upgraded third tier weapons, they have at least exo suits if not Wraith/War suits. Currently I'm abusing the mission because it doesn't require you to leave. I'm just having my guys sit inside extraction and they only drop 1 ship every turn which I'm easily able to handle. Currently I'm at 64 enemies killed, and 17 drop ships.
Men can only earn a promotion once per mission right?
Edit: Ok interesting, alot more mechs are showing up now. I might actually have to pull out soon.
Shake Appeal
Member
Pro tip: Press Caps Lock to speed up loading times in the Skyranger.
I'm not even joking.
I'm not even joking.
Dick Justice
Banned
Tygen's got such a dull voice. And yeah, it's too goddamn slow.
Not letting you get on with the mission while Bradford blathers away the same old shit whenever a civilian dies/you see the objective gets real fucking old. Hopefully that gets patched, or even modded out.
LurkerPrime
Member
Central's dialog during civ deaths in retaliation missions has to be a bug meant for, like, losing over half or something.
Saw this in the performance thread. Still don't believe it. Just, whyyyyy would this ever work?!
...I'll try it next time I launch XCOM.
Saw this in the performance thread. Still don't believe it. Just, whyyyyy would this ever work?!
...I'll try it next time I launch XCOM.
TheCthultist
Member
Just got around to sending in my GAF-COM soldier. I can only hope he ends up being a sharpshooter, for anyone who gets to him. Otherwise the bio might seem a tad off... May it do ya fine.
roadrunn3r
Member
Same here, Lightning Hands even on my sniper, the rest are from the sniper tree. Kill zone + 6 ammo extended magazine + 15 aim is some other level shit. Combine that with spider armor and Serial, which is a bit more situational cause you need guaranteed kills, and that's a killing machine. The last 3 skills on the sniper tree are really strong imo. Read some comments here calling them weak, well try the above.
I went gunslinger on my (only) sniper and I have to admit it's hilarious. Free pistol shot, 1st action shot free pistol shot, counter-strike pistol shot and then you have the whats-the-name skill where she shoots once at every target in range. Had to give her the cowboy hat with bullets on because damn, girl has a mean trigger.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
After launching the game again and trying to finish the rest of the last mission without any technical issues... I somehow managed to pull it off. The last mission is incredibly difficult... btw. I had music drop out and the ending cinematic didn't have audio... but w/e.
Now that I have beaten it on commander + ironman without modding even slightly, I think I want to go again but upping the difficulty a bit. The campaign started off difficult. But somewhere around mid-game things got easier. The enemy count didn't really rise much at all, and while the enemies got harder, I didn't find the challenge to be all THAT much harder.
So... I am wondering how I should go about this. Maybe I'll just jump into legendary though.
Now that I have beaten it on commander + ironman without modding even slightly, I think I want to go again but upping the difficulty a bit. The campaign started off difficult. But somewhere around mid-game things got easier. The enemy count didn't really rise much at all, and while the enemies got harder, I didn't find the challenge to be all THAT much harder.
So... I am wondering how I should go about this. Maybe I'll just jump into legendary though.
Whom_Gods_Annoy
Banned
I have a question. Is there a way to replace the model of one of your soldiers in your games with someone you created in the character creation? Because I just started my second campaign and want to replace the four random soldiers from the first mission with my veterans that I had from my last game of Enemy Within.
Cymbal Head
Banned
So how does the map randomization work? I just got an absolutely impossible retaliation mission handed to me; can I reload my last save and have the initial conditions come out differently?
Aztechnology
Member
Is there a maximum to bodies on screen at once? Spoilerish picture
I've killed alot more enemies than are bodies, so I'm just curious as I don't want to crash if I continue this... research.
I've killed alot more enemies than are bodies, so I'm just curious as I don't want to crash if I continue this... research.
Aztechnology
Member
edit: double post
I usually roll with 2 Sharpshooters, one with each. The Dead Eye guy is GREAT for taking something like a Sectopod down 10-15 points in one shot. The Lightning Hands guy is good for plinking at a crowd since he can fire his pistol and sniper each turn. Together they wreck shop.