Salty Catfish
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There shouldn't be any more enemies than the pod that sees you unless you're really sprinting forward recklessly....
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XCOM 2 |OT| Be Aggressive! Be Be Aggressive!
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There shouldn't be any more enemies than the pod that sees you unless you're really sprinting forward recklessly....
RandomSeed
Member
My hats off to those that played all the way through on commander difficulty. I'm later game (I guess) on commander and just feel like stopping. The combination of all the little things I'm not a fan of makes it more frustrating than fun. I don't feel satisfaction from making progress, but more like, "I'm glad that shit is over" after a mission.
I also have an in progress veteran save, and while it is kinda easy so far, I find it much more fun. Ah well, there's going to be mods that tweak balance, and I'll put a few hundred hours into the game after that.
Great mission guys, see ya in the med bay.
Graze, graze, and more graze.
Chance to hit with the sword was lower.
Gozer the Gozerian
Member
Ending spoilers
Maybe that ending Terror From The Deep tease will give you what you're looking for. Hopefully that's going to be another expansion and not an XCOM 3 that we'll have to wait another three or four years for
Sorry, thats what I meant. Getting them mixed up.
No, I just meant I'm on my third Ironman Campaign attempt after abandoning two previous runs.
I basically creep up with Rangers while using Overwatch for my snipers. and any other units.
frontieruk
Member
I just need to know, did I make it back off the bench coach???
THANK GOD
Camp Freddie
Member
PRO-TIP for newbies: The ignore button is your friend.
Caveat: If you get offered a proper tactical mission, you should accept it (assuming you have the troops). They don't last long (I think some disappear immediately) and you'll either get some penalty or miss a big reward if you ignore one.
Otherwise hit ignore. You really don't want to waste time travelling to every new resistance lead that turns out to be "scan for 7 days to get some alloys". That stuff can wait until you've finished your current scanning. In many/most cases they are not worth doing at all, ever.
These missions do not affect your reputation, they are just options for getting bonus stuff. The missions don't last forever, but there is no rush.
I think every soldier gets one skill, given at a random level.
I'm 90% sure it's retroactive too (so long as you aren't a Colonel yet), since levelling up my Cap./Maj. guys has a very high chance of giving a bonus skill, while Cpl/Sgt generally don't get anything.
My ranger just got the "kills refund the action point" sniper skill. I wonder what happens if I combine that with Run'n'gun and the "free sprint after a kill" skills.
I love how the balance in this game works by making everything 'overpowered'. Picking between the various 'overpowered' options is much more interesting than picking the boring "+10% to X" upgrades in most tactical/strategy games.
Caveat: If you get offered a proper tactical mission, you should accept it (assuming you have the troops). They don't last long (I think some disappear immediately) and you'll either get some penalty or miss a big reward if you ignore one.
Otherwise hit ignore. You really don't want to waste time travelling to every new resistance lead that turns out to be "scan for 7 days to get some alloys". That stuff can wait until you've finished your current scanning. In many/most cases they are not worth doing at all, ever.
These missions do not affect your reputation, they are just options for getting bonus stuff. The missions don't last forever, but there is no rush.
I think every soldier gets one skill, given at a random level.
I'm 90% sure it's retroactive too (so long as you aren't a Colonel yet), since levelling up my Cap./Maj. guys has a very high chance of giving a bonus skill, while Cpl/Sgt generally don't get anything.
My ranger just got the "kills refund the action point" sniper skill. I wonder what happens if I combine that with Run'n'gun and the "free sprint after a kill" skills.
I love how the balance in this game works by making everything 'overpowered'. Picking between the various 'overpowered' options is much more interesting than picking the boring "+10% to X" upgrades in most tactical/strategy games.
Completed the first advent site and am ready to do the second, but it only reduced the clock by one unit, not 5
just bombed 3 codexes, none of them die (but none of them cloned itself either which was weird), they all scatter for cover, I kill the nearest one and...the others are nowhere to be seen. wtf bugs
usually I wouldnt care but
usually I wouldnt care but
I need to skulljack one for the story lol
Lanrutcon
Member
Pretty much. The wave of reasonable balance mods has begun. Wake and attack enemies will get fixed.
I might be wrong on this, but I think the red blocks below each site represent how advanced it is, which in turn represents its input to the Avatar Project as a whole, and - what matters - represents the amount of red blocks that the overall Progress bar is reduced.
I'm unsure if, for each site, the greater the amount of red blocks = the more difficult the mission, but I'm assuming it does.
It doesn't actually seem that bad as it didn't in Enemy Unknown. I did a Veteran playthrough which felt kinda rough and I'm now in late game Commander play. I just lowered Avatar to 3, got plasma weapons, blaster launchers, 2 WAR suits, a Magus and some Colonels and the game somehow feels even easier than Veteran did.
I think the key was early engineers. I got 2 super fast and third one pretty fast too, and built all the good buildings really, really fast.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Anyone manage to get far or beat Legendary difficulty? Commander ended up feeling like a cakewalk (not really but towards the end, yeah)... but Legendary I cannot seem to manage to get very far. I've been trying to focus on getting the GTS up and a 5 man squad going... actually managed it once but my losses in terms of recruits was too high due to facelesses on retaliation number 1.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=620938730 (commander/ironman victory screen)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=620938730 (commander/ironman victory screen)
razgriz417
Member
Love the cross skill stuff. My main ranger got Shredder, so with a shotty, she completely obliterates armor. My Sniper lucked out with Chain Shot (take 2 shots at 15% reduced accuracy). She's taken out archons by herself using lightning hands and chain shot
wait this game has quicksave?
It didn't work the first few times I tried it for some reason. I didn't need it because of autosave usually though
Not to my knowledge beyond scouting. They're rather well designed though
STUN LANCERS CAN SUCK A BAG OF DICKS.
Their move range is insane. As soon as I see one, they basically get a free disorient or stun on one of my team members. This is on Veteran too - not even the harder difficulties.
Also, any tips on how to build the base? I'm going to start again on Ironman for a third time. I rushed the Guerrilla school but couldn't get an appropriately ranked soldier for so long that it was useless.
Had 2 flawless missions that finally got me a decent squad who then ALL died immediately afterwards due to stun lancer/faceless BS. Of course the one civilian I go out of position for ends up being a hidden enemy and alerting 5 random dudes to my presence...
Their move range is insane. As soon as I see one, they basically get a free disorient or stun on one of my team members. This is on Veteran too - not even the harder difficulties.
Also, any tips on how to build the base? I'm going to start again on Ironman for a third time. I rushed the Guerrilla school but couldn't get an appropriately ranked soldier for so long that it was useless.
Had 2 flawless missions that finally got me a decent squad who then ALL died immediately afterwards due to stun lancer/faceless BS. Of course the one civilian I go out of position for ends up being a hidden enemy and alerting 5 random dudes to my presence...
I like how you can extend the campaign as you please. im now just going around getting all the contacts (20/20 is the max right?) uncovering facilities and shit. Eventually you need to end it of course because those avatar projects in the middle of the ocean you cant do anything about, but destroying the facilities as you make new contacts takes the counter back 3 or 4 pips so you can keep doing your thing for awhile.
I have pretty much every upgrade now, except psi soldiers, im training a rookie now just to see what its like. Well taht and I just like to play the game and dont ant it to end
I did the
now after
so im guessing im very close to being able to finish the game
edit: also screw you guys, anime armor 4 life. look at these badasses
I have pretty much every upgrade now, except psi soldiers, im training a rookie now just to see what its like. Well taht and I just like to play the game and dont ant it to end
I did the
avatar autopsy
skulljacking a codex
edit: also screw you guys, anime armor 4 life. look at these badasses
RandomSeed
Member
I think my game may be really bugged. It plays OK for a month game time or so, but then I start seeing heavy civilian casualties. What should I do? Should I stop it?
bigdaddygamebot
Member
What happened to Beaglerush? Is he just too busy playing the game to put up more videos?
Yeah, I've been using it. Took a while to get used to the controls but they work fairly well. Left pad to pan the camera, right pad to control movement and the cursor. I wish the UI had a nice mode for the steam controller, but it's not really necessary.
edit: also screw you guys, anime armor 4 life. look at these badasses
I want a better shot of Rampart.
Should you stop killing civilians? Depends. Did they sell you out to the aliens during missions?
What?
Lister
Banned
Works fantastic. You cna start witht he recommended profile and tweak from there. I switched tactical camera movement to the left analog stick as that felt more naturla to me, and set camera ascending/descending and rotation to the left pad setup as a d-pad with touch input. Also se the tacitcal zoom out to the right grip.
I've been using it exclusively over mouse and keyboard so far.
Try blue rounds and say goodbye to mechs and sectopods.
LurkerPrime
Member
I failed a Dark VIP assassination mission because I extracted him.
Protip: pay attention, dummy.
Protip: pay attention, dummy.
RandomSeed
Member
Seeing is believing.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Been wondering the same thing, I can't imagine he's doing that much editing on this. Something must have gone wrong with his game or something.
Incendiary
Banned
I just got mine in the mail over lunch - going to try it out tonight after work and see how it compares. I'm normally a console guy but kb/m has been pretty good for me so far.
Semi-tangent - maybe I'm doing the legitimately good players a disservice for saying this, but I get the feeling more than a few Impossible/Ironman lets plays used a few backup saves. Unless it's also streamed live on Twitch (like Beags does), which of course removes all doubt.
But some playthroughs literally are divided up into missions with a "ok see you guys next time!" ending and a few days separation. Not to mention some really questionable tactical decisions/move orders from time to time that just so happen to work out.
edit: EU/EW, of course. Don't think there are that many Legend/Ironman plays yet.
But some playthroughs literally are divided up into missions with a "ok see you guys next time!" ending and a few days separation. Not to mention some really questionable tactical decisions/move orders from time to time that just so happen to work out.
edit: EU/EW, of course. Don't think there are that many Legend/Ironman plays yet.
MonorailCat
Member
He streamed xcom2 for 5 hours yesterday. He said he played almost exclusively Multiplayer the last days.
bigdaddygamebot
Member
ffejeromdiks
Banned
I keep forgetting there's even a multiplayer....never touched it in eu.
well, there is DLC so who knows.
