XCOM V4: "Svinnik - Why is Shen's daughter asian, when Shen is black?"
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[QUOTE=CGNick;49720342]Rangers are definitely OP compared to other classes. Ironically how the sniper in EU was the dominant late game class, I'd actually put the sniper at the bottom of the usefulness list for XCOM 2.[/QUOTE]
I'd say the class balance is at least better overall now than previously. My long-range sniper is my MVP in most games with the most overall kills, but rangers are of course pure beasts and specialist hacking and healing is just too good, and heavy with the shred. I don't think there's any class that I could live without.
Killzone would be a lot more useful if snipers could hold more ammo. I always seem to activate it when I have 1 or 2 shots left
[QUOTE=Dr.C;49720389]Killzone would be a lot more useful if snipers could hold more ammo. I always seem to activate it when I have 1 or 2 shots left[/QUOTE]
give your snipers advanced magazines
suddenly you have 6 shots
Killzones can be really useful seeing as you can get multiple shots in one single turn. I think that's a huge advantage.
Bonus points if you get crits.
[QUOTE=RaTcHeT302;49720417]Killzones can be really OP seeing as you can get multiple shots in one single turn. I think that's a huge advantage.
Bonus points if you get crits.[/QUOTE]
You can't get crits on killzone, since sniper's don't get Opportunist overwatch.
[QUOTE=CGNick;49720429]You can't get crits on killzone, since sniper's don't get Opportunist overwatch.[/QUOTE]
Ah, lame, I presumed you could eventually. It's not too bad either anyway, aliens out of cover die so quickly.
It's incredibly situational though, I never get to use it too often. That's the biggest downside about it, your sniper might also just miss all of his shots so you wasted a turn not doing much damage.
Okay maybe shooting aliens in their face works better :v:
So that C&C Renegade Nod audio mod might be a bit delayed because I'm gonna have to sift through a couple thousand audio files because Westwood never bothered setting up separate folders for their data files
[QUOTE=lintz;49720354]my sniper with kill zone can't fucking hit anything while my ranger hits everything
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My top sniper is way better with a pistol (3 pistol shots is OP) than he is with a rifle. Seriously, pistol is a last resort weapon, why the fuck does base pistol have the potential to do more damage than a gauss rifle? And it's infinite too. May as well give the marksmen two pistols instead of a rifle and have them shoot from both hands, call them cowboys.
[QUOTE=gudman;49720512]My top sniper is way better with a pistol (3 pistol shots is OP) than he is with a rifle. Seriously, pistol is a last resort weapon, why the fuck does base pistol have the potential to do more damage than a gauss rifle? And it's infinite too. May as well give the marksmen two pistols instead of a rifle and have them shoot from both hands, call them cowboys.[/QUOTE]
revolver ocelot singlehandedly took down the alien incursion
[QUOTE=gudman;49720512]My top sniper is way better with a pistol (3 pistol shots is OP) than he is with a rifle. Seriously, pistol is a last resort weapon, why the fuck does base pistol have the potential to do more damage than a gauss rifle? And it's infinite too. [B]May as well give the marksmen two pistols instead of a rifle and have them shoot from both hands, call them cowboys[/B].[/QUOTE]
I'd ready for this mod, spurs on the shoes included
[QUOTE=gudman;49720512]My top sniper is way better with a pistol (3 pistol shots is OP) than he is with a rifle. Seriously, pistol is a last resort weapon, why the fuck does base pistol have the potential to do more damage than a gauss rifle? And it's infinite too. May as well give the marksmen two pistols instead of a rifle and have them shoot from both hands, call them cowboys.[/QUOTE]
My sniper with Kill Zone or Serial tho
Deadeye also saved my ass before, but it REALLY needs height advantage
[QUOTE=mralexs;49720446]So that C&C Renegade Nod audio mod might be a bit delayed because I'm gonna have to sift through a couple thousand audio files because Westwood never bothered setting up separate folders for their data files[/QUOTE]
Westwood's .dat files are best .dat files, because it's basically the whole goddamn game, asset-wise, like a Doom .wad.
Been working today on learning to edit and create new plots, parcels and PCP's for the game to choose from in level generation.
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Making a new ADVENT checkpoint for the SmallTown set first, here's where I'm at so far.
On my current campaign I was about one pip from the avatar tracker hitting the limit, and I had just got access to an alien facility, but a Dark VIP assassination went to shit and left my entire A-Team wounded only a few days before
So I used the advice I got from here and made a suicide squad with the plan to just rush the objective and place the charge.
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The redshirt lineup. Katz is based on my volunteer from my first XCOM EU playthrough.
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The first pod I come across is a Muton/Trooper/Shield pod, and with concealment I manage to ambush and wipe them out. After a bit more skulking around the edge of the map, a 2 Sectoid and Trooper pod shows up.
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With some help from a pair of frags, I destroy the cover of a Sectoid and Trooper, then rinse them with magnetically propelled bullets. The last Sectoid runs away.
I trigger another pod when I'm getting close to the perimeter of the facility, including a MEC which I expect is going to be pretty nasty, but it gets gunned down in overwatch.
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I breach the facility to find more Sectoids and a Viper, which get triggered by my last man. I gun down the Viper with a crit by some miracle and then brace for return fire.
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The Sheriff gets gunned down by multiple sectoid shots from behind full cover. Probably because he's the only one without beginners luck.
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Noone panics, and a few grenades and potshots later, the facility is set to blow. The squad avoids dealing with the reinforcements and opts to just retreat, after an overwatch party failed to hit anything. I was stretching my luck a little bit by that point.
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[QUOTE=Beacon;49720579]Been working today on learning to edit and create new plots, parcels and PCP's for the game to choose from in level generation.
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Making a new ADVENT checkpoint for the SmallTown set first, here's where I'm at so far.[/QUOTE]
How easy is the SDK to use? Cause that looks... Enticing
[QUOTE=gudman;49720512]My top sniper is way better with a pistol (3 pistol shots is OP) than he is with a rifle. Seriously, pistol is a last resort weapon, why the fuck does base pistol have the potential to do more damage than a gauss rifle? And it's infinite too. May as well give the marksmen two pistols instead of a rifle and have them shoot from both hands, call them cowboys.[/QUOTE]
I used the 1 cost pistol shot, lightning hands, and face off to kill an entire pod with Bradford using a magnetic pistol. The first shot crit for 12 fucking damage, and the two enemies he didn't outright kill were killed on their turn because he was using venom rounds.
I've killed fully armoured gatekeepers with one sharpshooter because you can shoot them 5 times with the pistol if you have the 1 cost pistol shot, lightning hands, and fan fire.
The ayy's know true fear when fighting against a gunslinger sharpshooter.
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;49720654]The ayy's know true fear when fighting against a gunslinger sharpshooter.[/QUOTE]
The ayy's won't know anything when shotgunslinger ranger ambush-crits them from ridiculous distance and then gets concealed again.
Any tips on keep progress on the Avatar Project low?
[QUOTE=jackattack;49720719]Any tips on keep progress on the Avatar Project low?[/QUOTE]
When you get a chance to lower the avatar project's progress, take it. Ignore everything else. Hack everything in the guerilla missions and you can set back the progress of dark events and very rarely find avatar project facilities.
[QUOTE=RaTcHeT302;49720139]
Should I link this instead?
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(he missed)[/QUOTE]
You should rename him Stevie Wonder.
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[QUOTE=jackattack;49720719]Any tips on keep progress on the Avatar Project low?[/QUOTE]
Prioritize facilities that make the most progress.
Anyone get this message from Central yet?
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is it just me or does the avatar project stop being threatening after a while?
the aliens are only gaining 1 blip per month.
[QUOTE=gufu;49720567]Westwood's .dat files are best .dat files, because it's basically the whole goddamn game, asset-wise, like a Doom .wad.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but its a pain in the butt since the XCC mixer will only let you extract ONE FILE AT A TIME
[QUOTE=Sector 7;49720868]is it just me or does the avatar project stop being threatening after a while?
the aliens are only gaining 1 blip per month.[/QUOTE]
Everyone I watch play just ignores it until the final countdown blips up, and even then sometimes the wait until like 5 days are left. Seems it could have benefited with a 50% timer reduction for each time the timer was triggered.
So I got a count of how many wav files I have from Renegade: 10,011
:suicide:
So... Sniper's AOE overwatch is great for ambushes, by the way. It means the sniper fires on the initial Overwatch salvo at most every one of the aliens, AND THEN if they find cover inside the cone they'll trigger it again on their own turn.
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