XCOM V4: "Svinnik - Why is Shen's daughter asian, when Shen is black?"

[DeEz]

[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;49676927]The Sectoids are just there to fuck you up for that reason on the first two missions. It wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't two or more on some of them. The fact that they can just panic your troops and your rookies have no resist to it, combined with the fact that they can resurrect zombies that are tougher than the Advent soldiers that they normally come from. Then on top of all that, they can just straight up mind control your characters, and as I previously mentioned, none of your characters are going to have resistances to this yet makes them near impossible to deal with unless you can ambush both of them at the same time.

Then you still have to worry about the near instant reinforcement, absurd melee troops and short mission timers.[/QUOTE]

Flashbangs make Sectoids laughably trivial. Use them.

[_maverick_]

[QUOTE=Taggart;49676971][t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/314492958150678805/E8D4C98282A94BE8689EC92C59F2997F5B6AE4B4/[/t]

I am indeed ready for the character pool. Though I was too lazy to write a biography, which the game decided to circumvent by claiming my dude joined some UK resistance group called the "Warriors".[/QUOTE]

wait... you can give them an actual background...

[TheTalon]

'The internet was too valuable a tool to be left intact for the human race to use and communicate with, so the Aliens brought it down globally. Once he realized his shitposting days were over, Taggart joined the resistance'

I wrote it for you =D

[GarReaper]

[QUOTE=Inspector Jones;49676288]I can't even get the game fully download and installed. The game stopped at like 98% downloaded on my last attempt. I'm really frustrated.

EDIT: I'm fucking out of ideas, I deleted my steam folder and am now trying to reinstall steam and do a completely fresh install of Xcom 2.[/QUOTE]

It showed me 98% when it was decoding the preloaded files. All I did was to initiate the launch of the game and waited for the progress bar to finish:v:

[StrawberryClock]

What the fuck, isn't it possible to start the first mission with your own characters? Even if they're in the pool they never show up in the first mission!

[Taggart]

[QUOTE=TheTalon;49677073]'The internet was too valuable a tool to be left intact for the human race to use and communicate with, so the Aliens brought it down globally. Once he realized his shitposting days were over, Taggart joined the resistance'

I wrote it for you =D[/QUOTE]

Suggest running through an anti-Advent propaganda program. Possible Advent taint.

[CGNick]

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;49677087]What the fuck, isn't it possible to start the first mission with your own characters? Even if they're in the pool they never show up in the first mission![/QUOTE]

Cause you've probably not adjusted the configs to use only the character pool. By default it's a mix of Character pool and Randomly created.

[Archival]

Characters all ready to go, forgot to write a stereotypical bio about Australian spiders but im sure its a given.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Bf9f5z3.jpg[/t]

[editline]5th February 2016[/editline]

Anyone else having issues where the roof and walls dont fade out when your units are inside, I basically cant proceed with the [sp] black site [/sp] mission because I have to use the roof window to order my guys....
Also - dont know whats going on but my guys are consistently waiting for a lancer to attack before triggering their overwatch, as in he can run right past them and attack someone and THEN they fire the overwatch shots.

[Viper123_SWE]

JAAAAAAAAAA

[editline]5th February 2016[/editline]

The game now works, five hours later.

[GoogleyGareth]

[QUOTE=archival;49677104]
Anyone else having issues where the roof and walls dont fade out when your units are inside, I basically cant proceed with the [sp] black site [/sp] mission because I have to use the roof window to order my guys....
Also - dont know whats going on but my guys are consistently waiting for a lancer to attack before triggering their overwatch, as in he can run right past them and attack someone and THEN they fire the overwatch shots.[/QUOTE]

That explains why my sniper seemed to want my ranger to die.

[StrawberryClock]

[QUOTE=CGNick;49677092]Cause you've probably not adjusted the configs to use only the character pool. By default it's a mix of Character pool and Randomly created.[/QUOTE]

Where do I change the config for that?

[CGNick]

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;49677195]Where do I change the config for that?[/QUOTE]

Documents > My Games > XCOM2 > XComGame > Config > XComGameData.ini

In there, Ctrl+F and search for Character. You'll see 2 lines:

InitialSoldiersCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_Mixed
RewardUnitCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_Mixed

Change those to:

InitialSoldiersCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_PoolOnly
RewardUnitCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_PoolOnly

[ScottyWired]

[QUOTE=archival;49677104]Characters all ready to go, forgot to write a stereotypical bio about Australian spiders but im sure its a given.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Bf9f5z3.jpg[/t]
[/QUOTE]

Did someone say Australia

[t]http://i.imgur.com/pScSuzN.png[/t]

[LordMoldyButt]

I can't seem to download the soundtrack

[DeEz]

Any chance we could combine our characters into one single FP character pool?

[Chickens!]

[t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/312241321093503898/DA826070E982B592EE982FB4891AF052449D138C/[/t]

[t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/312241321093427259/15393762D711F92424C38F9301757DA4397B7961/[/t]

I've just been doing stupid shit.

[CGNick]

[QUOTE=DeEz;49677233]Any chance we could combine our characters into one single FP character pool?[/QUOTE]

That's what we're doing already. If you have a character, just PM him to me. Right now I'm collecting people's pools and later I'm going to combine it into a single file everyone can use.

[ScottyWired]

I don't understand the design choices of the lancer. From the ten missions I've done so far there doesn't seem to be any counters. Cover, distance, and usually overwatch doesn't faze them

One is an annoyance, but two is anti-fun because unless every shot on your turn hits then at least one is guaranteed to reach and guarantee a KO

[StrawberryClock]

[QUOTE=CGNick;49677206]Documents > My Games > XCOM2 > XComGame > Config > XComGameData.ini

In there, Ctrl+F and search for Character. You'll see 2 lines:

InitialSoldiersCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_Mixed
RewardUnitCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_Mixed

Change those to:

InitialSoldiersCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_PoolOnly
RewardUnitCharacterPoolSelectionMode=eCPSM_PoolOnly[/QUOTE]

Doesn't seem to change anything. I've restarted a new game like 4 times and I think maybe once I've seen one of the three characters I've made.

[Archival]

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;49677247]I don't understand the design choices of the lancer. From the ten missions I've done so far there doesn't seem to be any counters. Cover, distance, and usually overwatch doesn't faze them

One is an annoyance, but two is anti-fun because unless every shot on your turn hits then at least one is guaranteed to reach and guarantee a KO[/QUOTE]

Just wait untill you fight units that use explosives.
Oh are you on that roof all the way at the back of the fight? lolk here have a rocket and die from the fall damage.
Like verticality has gone from being something you always look for to something thats -always- there but is a huge risk all the time.

[Valiantttt]

Is it worth skipping magnetic weapons in favor of guass? I just researched magnetic weapons but now I could research guass in 8 days. Is it a straight upgrade?

Edit: Think I figured it out, Guass weapons are the more advanced version of magnetic weapons(aka the LMG and Sniper Rifle).

[Archival]

[QUOTE=Straya]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Bf9f5z3.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/pScSuzN.png[/t][/QUOTE]

I cant help but feel like these two belong in a comedy about xcom.

[Valiantttt]

Playing this song on the background whilst playing xcom 2 is pretty fun.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTLZjhHIEdw[/media]
until you miss that 99% shot on that mech and you hear "ayy lmao"

on a side note, the .ini is great for tweaking things including the time limits on certain things, hp for enemies etc.

for example i nerfed the stunlancers by halving their mobility and halving their hp. FUCK THEM!!

[DeEz]

They really need to work on optimizations. Even disabling some of the big performance hitters it still dips below 60.

[TheCumScoundrel]

first thing I made:
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[img_thumb]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/547554401648033811/0A2DA95784E0B8929CA0F22FE4C39E6E9C4D7EAF/[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/547554401648033982/E6D200C6637D2D4189A4A96B0BB100316F8C0977/[/img_thumb]

and for good measure
[img_thumb]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/547554401648034325/FD59DDDBCC740E3ABBA067FCD1F578F768BA421D/[/img_thumb]
[/quote]
Sheeit, haven't even played the actual game yet

[_maverick_]

[QUOTE=XanaToast.;49677374]first thing I made:
[t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/547554401648033811/0A2DA95784E0B8929CA0F22FE4C39E6E9C4D7EAF/[/t]

Sheeit, haven't even played the actual game yet[/QUOTE]

his tattoo must be of his wife :v:

[ScottyWired]

The second someone makes a mod that stops the Codex from cloning [I]during the player turn[/I] I am downloading that shit so hard. I thought it was an immensely fun thing to fight until it started spawning clones in flanking positions after all my team's actions had been spent and THEN had the alien turn happened. This happened with irritating frequency

[DeEz]

[QUOTE=CGNick;49677246]That's what we're doing already. If you have a character, just PM him to me. Right now I'm collecting people's pools and later I'm going to combine it into a single file everyone can use.[/QUOTE]

How would I go about doing this?

EDIT: [url=https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1502597&p=49670094&highlight=#post49670094]Nvm, I referred to one of your previous posts.[/url]

[Lowland]

Do you think the Digital Deluxe Steam version is worth the extra money?

[StrawberryClock]

God dammit, I just want to start my fucking campaign with my own characters but the ini file change doesn't fucking do shit.