RandomSeed
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Meant to fucking be a fuckity fucking joke.
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XCOM 2 |OT| Be Aggressive! Be Be Aggressive!
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Meant to fucking be a fuckity fucking joke.
Don't mind it too much. To not have it would make things too easy. What I do have a problem with is certain enemies getting to attack you as soon as they appear, with no reasonable chance for the player to actually prepare (e.g. faceless, chryssalids).
Also, ballistic goggles now available on the workshop.
Raised goggles coming soon apparently.
Are the cigarettes mods too? Now I want to make a Danger 5 squad.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
No, they are in the game already
Yeah. The headset in the bottom left pic is part of the same pack now too. Guy's a machine.
I feel like a lot of players are going to wind up overlooking the bluescreen gear, since it shows up so much earlier than the point at which robots become widespread. But it's super good, and I don't leave home without it.
Wait, how do you upgrade psy abilities?
Slackbladder
Member
Not the abilities as such but the Psi Amps can be upgraded. Also any Will+ PCS's you find should go to your Psi Soldier. Higher will = higher attack chance.
TouchMyBox
Member
Anybody know if anybody is working on more face models? I'm quite disappointed by the lack of them. Even if only having the ones from the first game added since I was able to make two soldiers look exactly like 2 of my friends to an uncanny degree in Enemy Unknown and now I can't in 2. 
Human Resources
Member
You left your computer during the enemy turn? I sit there with my hands clenched and whisper "fuck you....fuck you.........OH FUCK YOU"
Anybody know if anybody is working on more face models? I'm quite disappointed by the lack of them. Even if only having the ones from the first game added since I was able to make two soldiers look exactly like 2 of my friends to an uncanny degree in Enemy Unknown and now I can't in 2.
Yeah, the face customization was definitely better in EU
Maybe it's just me but at lower detail/graphics settings they don't seem as varied as I remember EU's being. At times I wish they just put in a Bethesda-esque face sliders, even if it ends up getting us hilarious and horrific slider monstrosities.
Tbh that was my hope
even if you have no ability to make faces someone else will and they'll make magic
RandomSeed
Member
LOL, that Ugly Shepard stuff is classic.
A ok, and here I was dreaming of an even more powerful Null Lance...
The only downside to full face customization is it probably takes a lot more polys to do, especially for a game where you might not see the faces too often. But still, I wish there was at least like more preset face pieces you could put together.
I love cloning codex. More codex, more brains.
You could use flashbang too. It makes enemies disoriented, so they can't use their abilities(teleport, clone, etc), just normal actions.
LurkerPrime
Member
I've been using flashbangs pretty much every mission and it never occurred to me it prevents enemies from using their abilities. Does it stop viper grabs and sectoid mind control/panic too?
Well, there's that, and the automatically created soldiers would turn into monstrosities.
Yup. And if you're disoriented you can't use abilities or even grenades either.
LurkerPrime
Member
Yes. Especially useful if the enemy is out of reach or difficult to hit. And dat AoE.
GOAT grenade.
my soldiers become semi-monstrosities already.
a lot of female soldiers that I've made in the character pool show up in game with all features intact...except they for some reason have Guile hair.
Why do this Firaxis
I already made a Guile character and put him in the pool
What more must I give
a lot of female soldiers that I've made in the character pool show up in game with all features intact...except they for some reason have Guile hair.
Why do this Firaxis
I already made a Guile character and put him in the pool
What more must I give
Yup. That's how I can survive without plasma guns/grenades and psi troops, against the avatar and ****ing hell gatekeeper.
Don't know how I've never noticed that. I've pretty much done it to fuck with their aim and since it seemed to make them do stupid shit.. but I guess that stupid shit is not using their abilities
Good to know.
I feel like the game chooses this hairstyle on random characters way more often than anything else
Don't know how I've never noticed that. I've pretty much done it to fuck with their aim and since it seemed to make them do stupid shit.. but I guess that stupid shit is not using their abilities
Good to know.
I feel like the game chooses this hairstyle on random characters way more often than anything else
Guile hair must go with everything
Try changing them from the rebel soldier outfit back to kevlar. They'll come in with normal hair.
ISee
Member
While training your psi operative you can sometime choose to add an additional effect to an ability instead of training a new one.
LurkerPrime
Member
And done.
The A team.
Amazing. Dude #3 is too good for this world.
darkwing-buck
Member
And done.
The A team.
What camo you using? shits nice
Lanrutcon
Member
Incendiary
Banned
Can you do anything with codex brains besides story-related plot points? 'Cause I collect one or two every mission it seems and I feel like I should be able to do things with them.
Semi-related, but I feel like the corpses in this game don't seem to be as used/useful. Same for elerium/alloys. In EU and EW, I was consistently debating whether to sell corpses for money depending on what I could use them for. In this the only constraint I've run into is Intel/supplies and every time I go to the Black Market I just sell whatever.
darkwing-buck
Member
Nice, gonna check out that mod.
Well, when I was trolling for more appearance mods I did find this:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=621939908&searchtext=hair
Which might not quite be what you're looking for.
Judging by the mods I guess customizing soldiers is really popular? Its so weird I barely even engage with it. Seems to take way too much time when one stray shot and that soldier is gone. The only thing I do is color code my armor so I can easy tell the class type when I am picking troopers.
Lanrutcon
Member
You are doing it wrong.
No. Wait. You are doing it completely wrong.
Make those soldiers your own. Is your sniper hardcore? or does she listen to smooth jazz as she pops heads? Does your grenadier spout one liners as he blows down structures, or does he silently light a cigarette as the place goes up? Half the fun is getting attached.
I have a hundred custom soldiers in my character pool. Additionally, I have it so only characters from my character pool are in my game. So, if I lose someone, it's no big deal I've got a replacement in the wings.
It also helps that appearance mods don't break your save games.
Oh who am I kidding, I'm screaming at the screen every time one of them dies.
Character pool, man.
LurkerPrime
Member
I made the Persona 4 Investigation Team and the leads of Fullmetal Alchemist, and I won't stop there...
Customisation gives a lot more weight to an already weighty mechanic. Expanding it with the character pool was a really good addition--though an easier way to share, like a Sims style lobby thing, would be the system at its best.
afreaknamedpete
Member
Nope. Works like hacking in that regard. Enemies also get to move immediately after breaking free.
so you're better off just killing them yourself in your next turn?
That reminds me, I need to make more characters. I could probably add another matrix character or three and I think I'll do Stargate SG-1 as well
Note that abilities include melee attacks, so a disoriented berserker spends his turn comically running around and a disoriented lancer shoots with his 65 base aim further debuffed by the disorient.
The only things that obsoletes the flashbang is a Psi Op with Void Rift. It's like a reusable flashbang, except you can also panic or mind control instead of disorient.
I have to figure out a facility and research order to net an early Psi Op.