It's never stated outright, but that's almost certainly what they were going for.
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XCOM 2 |OT| Be Aggressive! Be Be Aggressive!
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It's never stated outright, but that's almost certainly what they were going for.
Honest Trailers X-COM
Wait is the honest trailers guy the voice actor in the game? At first I thought it was just a joke because they sound similar but he keeps hammering it in lol
Wait is the honest trailers guy the voice actor in the game? At first I thought it was just a joke because they sound similar but he keeps hammering it in lol
Xamtheking
Member
It's the same dude.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Had me at angry frisbee.
LurkerPrime
Member
Yes it was a story beat
Thanks.
I just blew up a car with my grenade launcher in a single turn.. how did I do that? Usually when things are going to explode it doesn't happen until the next turn.
They blow up instantly with grenades, I use that alot for extra damage on aliens taking cover (like they do to us fuckers)
toastyToast
Member
I really should have built the comm centre a lot sooner. A lot lot sooner. The game should straight up make you build it
Yup, I restarted because of that
Kane Zakharov
Banned
That moment when two of your soldiers are knocked unconscious by bullshit stun lancers, and your Specialist is busy getting strangled by a viper.
Kane Zakharov
Banned
Yeah it's about time I started using them.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Lol
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I gave up on legendary mode... I decided to go with commander + larger pod size mod + the LWS mods (minus the officer one).
So far going pretty good. I like the larger pod size, but maybe I should even increase it another unit tbh. After struggling to get far in legendary, commander seems quite easy even with the increased difficulty because your units heal, train, and level up fast enough that it doesn't feel like a loss to get a gravely wounded... even without the AWC.
So far going pretty good. I like the larger pod size, but maybe I should even increase it another unit tbh. After struggling to get far in legendary, commander seems quite easy even with the increased difficulty because your units heal, train, and level up fast enough that it doesn't feel like a loss to get a gravely wounded... even without the AWC.
Saren is Bad
Member
Man, I'm torn on this game. I love the on-the-ground stuff and tactics-esque gameplay. I find the metagame stuff really interesting. But damn, it's so stressful and you're being bombarded with choices that I feel like I'm constantly fucking up.
toastyToast
Member
I reckon I should too. I'm pretty much fucked atm. Avatar thing filled up because I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to contact New India, thought I was lacking intel or something. Now I've done India and Indonesia back to back and only managed to knock off 2 notches from the bar. My crew is thrashed to shit and there are at least 2 intermediate steps before I can contact South America.
Goodbye planet Earth.
It's pretty stressful early on when you're strapped for resources and the avatar clock is staring you down. The only advice I would give is don't feel too intimidated by the countdown and try to adequately research and build items so that the missions you do decide to take turn out successful.
Just beat the last mission. Thought my CPU was gonna melt. Never been above 60 degrees and it got to 76. Yooooo.
shadowstew
Member
Man, I feel like I can play XCOM 2 forever. Every mission has its moments...
Man, I feel like I can play XCOM 2 forever. Every mission has its moments...
To be fair your guy is disoriented. Can they even hit like they? Ive never them or disoriented enemies hit a shot
Disoriented applies a -20% aim malus on affected units, I think (Acid is -30% but doesn't prevent abilities). I learned the hard way that half cover is still no cover even against disoriented enemies
Finished the game on veteran.
Spoilers for the final mission:
Spoilers for the final mission:
Oh god I lost so many soldiers at the end. I thought the final section would be a cakewalk like it was in EU/EW so I used most of my consumables in the run up to the final fight. That was a mistake. Only 3 soldiers survived.
terrdactycalsrock
Member
Man, this game is so hard. I enjoy the gameplay, and the base building stuff. Its just hard to want to continue when you just see red text, followed by disappointing dialogue, followed by more red text. Im playing on the average, or what I think is probably "normal" difficulty setting too
Also, this seems like a super huge spoiler! The speaker is one of the more mysterious characters, that you would want to discover more info about
Also, this seems like a super huge spoiler! The speaker is one of the more mysterious characters, that you would want to discover more info about
Its not a spoiler, the speaker is not mysterious or important and youve already seen all there is to see of him in that one cut scene.
Also being fussy about story spoilers in this is extra silly, the game might aswell have no story for how little and how cliche it is. I mean in general, not you are being fussy in particular.
He's talking about the Advent spokesperson, not the "HELLO COMMANDER, YOUR RECENT RESULTS HAVE BEEN.... MEDIOCRE" dude.
terrdactycalsrock
Member
Okay, that makes me feel better. After I posted that, I thought to myself, "If you can wrap up a character arc in one sentence. Its probably not that important." Im just frustrated with how hard the game is! lol
Saren is Bad
Member
Do I ever get to a point where I can safely farm? That's what I really want to do but like I said, every couple days some crazy shit occurs and it feel like I'm borderline losing.
Yes. Half way through the game you will cruise through most missions on veteran with all the upgrades. Hell I have every continent with towers now just...because.
shadowstew
Member
Aztechnology
Member
Just finished the game. Didn't lose anyone and generally never felt stressed or particularly challenged as most combats ended the same round I encountered the aliens. Couple of times soldiers took hits but I never came that close to losing anyone outside the
I probably should have started on the difficulty above Veteran but I'm glad to have a much better understanding of the game for my next playthrough. Now the real fun begins. The question is should I go commander or legend? Anyone know how big the step up from Veteran to Commander difficulty is and what are the major differences?
tutorial guaranteed losses
I probably should have started on the difficulty above Veteran but I'm glad to have a much better understanding of the game for my next playthrough. Now the real fun begins. The question is should I go commander or legend? Anyone know how big the step up from Veteran to Commander difficulty is and what are the major differences?
Aztechnology
Member
I didn't realize, they can learn every single ability if you leave them in training long enough. My final mission I had 2...3 technically Psi Operatives. 2 That were fully trained, it was a joke because of it.
Based on that sentiment it sounds like I should try Legendary and then drop to Commander if I'm having too much trouble. What are the main differences per level? Enemies have more numbers, health, hit harder, and are harder to hit?
Or does it also entail longer research, more costly upgrades etc?
I thought you still had to choose just one from each side on each row?
Aztechnology
Member
Nope, if you leave them training they will learn both sides.
How much difficulty depends on your understanding of XCOM mechanics and enemy units.
If you were using a concealed Ranger + overwatch traps with Killzone, proper ammos with FanFire, Proxy mines on unactivated pods, and flanking consistently...
I'd still try the first 2-3 months on Commander. If you can get through that fine then you should be okay.
The main differences would be stuff like the jump of 3 to 4 heath on Advent grunts, you can imagine how much more you have to do just from that 1 HP increase. Late game stuff like Sectoids are 8-12HP, 12HP Codex, etc. Legendary is the only one that doesn't give you free accuracy (hidden in engine).
*Also 10HP sectoids on the first mission (X4 statue) lmao
Ive been training one and its been unlocking the various skills in the trees, I assumed I had to then put points into those skills like the other classes
Aztechnology
Member
Legendary Ironman... You can't stop me now!!! First two mission cleared without losing anyone. There's so many damn guys compared to Veteran.
But so I understand there's an aim penalty right? But it's hidden and not reflected in the chance to hit? That's kind of BS.
The second mission was literally more tense than the entire game on Veteran. This is exhilarating.