I still hate dodge as a mechanic. No reason for it to be there imo. Percentages are percentages.
I'm not sure how I how to feel about Xcom's difficulty curve. I love the feeling of steamrolling everything and just shooting towards the end; but almost all of the tension disspears once you unlock tier 3 equipment.
[QUOTE=Inspector Jones;52711995]I'm not sure how I how to feel about Xcom's difficulty curve. I love the feeling of steamrolling everything and just shooting towards the end; but almost all of the tension disspears once you unlock tier 3 equipment.[/QUOTE]
I think part of that is just habituation. A lot of the campaign curve is just about suddenly adapting to new threats, even if you've done before. Can't have infinite new enemies. But part of it is for sure getting rapid fire and death from above on your colonel assault with a plasma storm gun with a superior scope and laser sight with infinite health from covops.
So if you get mox out the skyranger in the group shots, the game gives him the ordinary soldier facial animations.
[t]https://i.imgur.com/hzthZhC.jpg[/t]
Just a [I]tiny [/I]bit creepy.
Oh are we posting Propaganda again?
Photoboth is still brilliant- Going through my posters just now Ive realised that my starting Reaper is in 90% of them and has become the literal poster boy for my most recent XCOM.
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xcom has the power of god and anime on its side
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Finally managed to do another facility, this time with the final Ruler in play on it.
Reapers are completely broken for facilities and it's the best.
I stopped playing X-Com: EU because of one mission where my top members get killed no matter what I did. Looking through this I made a mistake. Once the paycheck comes in I'm getting X-Com 2 and the expansion.
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Freaking awesome jacket. I like how soldier customization was beefed up in this game.
[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;52713708]I stopped playing X-Com: EU because of one mission where my top members get killed no matter what I did.[/QUOTE]
That wouldn't happen to be the "blow up the cargo ship" mission with endless Chrysalids, would it? Cause that's where I quit on my second game as well (first game didn't go very far, cause I didn't know what the hell I was doing). My third game and second attempt on that mission went a lot better, and I was able to get my full squad back to the evac zone on the last turn. I'm playing on normal, though - I can't imagine how much that mission sucks on classic+
On that Chrysalid mission I lost only my 3rd best guy and a rookie while the others were back at base. The mission in particular had a ton of mutons, two Sectoid commanders, a Japanese porn star, and those disc things while taking place at a rest stop with tons of gas stations. On top of that I had to bring out all of the best guys on it because skipping it meant I lose support in one country and almost a game over. Then there was the med-kit shortage and everyone hadn't healed up for the mission...on normal.
So what do you guys think about the WotC soundtrack? I thought they did a pretty good job on it. The game isn't so much about sneaky beaky guerilla combat anymore, but rather about a group of totally badass soldiers fighting equally badass enemies and bosses, and I think the music captured the feel well.
I love me some [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyK8iK71Pg&t=27m13s"]shadow domain[/URL], that song got stuck in my head for quite a while.
So, I just had a weird issue with the Assassin. It was a network hack mission where I got a free concealment for every member of the squad. On my first move I was revealed my a civilian (fucking snitches, I don't even bother trying to avoid collateral damage any more), so I had to use the concealment to move my squad up.
The problem is when I was revealed the Assassin showed up. When I moved up a couple of turns later she moved into position and [i]I[/i] revealed [i]her[/i] because she moved into a spot where one of my guys was flanking her. APPARENTLY this gave her permission to just know where my guys were. On the next turn, despite my guys being concealed, she ran up, slashed my grenadier, and fucked off. This attack knocked my grenadier out of cover and triggered 2 pods.
So I try to move my team away from the pods and try to find the assassin (who ran behind my guys). On the next turn the Assassin popped out again and did that dumb psi-wave attack and stunned all of my guys. She nearly wiped my squad with that, and on the next turn she hit my specialist for 12 damage, not even a crit.
What the fuck is happening? This is the second time she's shown up on this campaign and the first time she was a little bitch. Not counting the scripted mission, where she was a dumbass who took cover next to a car when her weakness is explosives.
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Game bugged out, I really need some help here.
Basically, my Colonel ranger was on the objective spot for an alien facility mission (only 1 on the entire map for some reason) but then gets melee'd by the Chosen Assassin and starts to bleed out. Even after I stabilize her, I don't have the option to carry her out, and I can't even get to the objective space. So my only option is to evac everyone, even though I killed all the goddamn enemies and leave my Col. ranger to die. And to top it all off, I only have 3 days until game over on the strategy layer so as soon as I leave, I'm pretty much fucked. Does anyone know a fix to this, or possibly any mod/savefile fuckery that can save my ass here?
[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;52714043]On that Chrysalid mission I lost only my 3rd best guy and a rookie while the others were back at base. The mission in particular had a ton of mutons, two Sectoid commanders, a Japanese porn star, and those disc things while taking place at a rest stop with tons of gas stations. On top of that I had to bring out all of the best guys on it because skipping it meant I lose support in one country and almost a game over. Then there was the med-kit shortage and everyone hadn't healed up for the mission...on normal.[/QUOTE]
Turns out I beat said suicide mission. I vaguely remember what happened since I haven't touched the game in two years. All I do know is that my best MEC is no longer with me. RIP "Optimus Prime." :cry:
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Must be ADVENT !
Finally finished WotC. I think this is the first xcom game I beat. The endgame was so lackluster, and much of the magic is gone now that I know what I missed by quitting vanilla halfway through. I prefer the early game I think, it felt more fun.
Sooo it turns out that I had the wrong game. That mission I went on to say I'd lose my best guys no matter what? That was on Enemy Within, and I only lost one of my best soldiers after replaying it once. And that had three Alien mechs, a commander, two berserkers, two mutons, and a sectoid.
Oops.
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It's ok no one likes Annette anyway. She's got nothing on Zhang.
[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;52718110]It's ok no one likes Annette anyway. She's got nothing on Zhang.[/QUOTE]
I remember her starting out with lower health then all the other soldiers. What was that about?
[QUOTE=Dr.Pootis;52718267]I remember her starting out with lower health then all the other soldiers. What was that about?[/QUOTE]
Trade-off for the higher will I guess. Glass-cannon build?
[QUOTE=Dr.Pootis;52718267]I remember her starting out with lower health then all the other soldiers. What was that about?[/QUOTE]
The only things she's guarenteed to have is high will and PSY.
[del]Outside of that everything she rolls seems to be random, once time I had her pick sniper with aim lower than a support, another time she had assault with zhang health.[/del]
Looking at UFOpaedia she has her own strange stat rolls, seemingly based on the fact she's just a civilian and not combat trained.
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[sp]If you're feeling a bit lazy or don't want to risk your a-team in the late game because of fatigue/wounded the solo Reaper strat works well enough on neutralise target missions to stop you from losing a region[/sp]
[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;52718110]It's ok no one likes Annette anyway. She's got nothing on Zhang.[/QUOTE]
Different abilities for different uses. I gave Annette a G36 with Reaper Rounds as a personal defense weapon and used her mostly for psionic attacks.
[editline]26th September 2017[/editline]
I wish the game also let you preset armor types in the character creator, so I can set the T2 and T3 uniforms too.
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;52714389]Hey guys just an heads up, Malwarebytes is detecting this page is trying to divert this outbound to a site called cubeupload.[/QUOTE]
Whoops that's me.
I ended up making Zhang into a Mek trooper since he had 2 less HP than every other soldier at his level. It was a good choice, because he had very high accuracy, and was a punching machine afterward.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;52720113]Different abilities for different uses. I gave Annette a G36 with Reaper Rounds as a personal defense weapon and used her mostly for psionic attacks.
[editline]26th September 2017[/editline]
I wish the game also let you preset armor types in the character creator, so I can set the T2 and T3 uniforms too.[/QUOTE]
Oh my issue is almost purely with her voice acting not the skills / stats she posseses, she just rubs me up the wrong way, the icing on the cake is that she's not as reliable as a standard trooper untill you get PSY which depending on when she shows up can be a long way off.
anyone else getting crashs when a soldier do a melee attack?
Is WotC worth getting now, or holding off for a sale. I can already get it at a reduced price but I'm just uming and ahing now.
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