[QUOTE=Kommodore;50326478]did anyone else not buy Alien Hunters[/QUOTE]
I only got it because I have the season pass, something I'm [I]really[/I] regretting paying extra for.
Hopefully Shen's Last Gift won't turn out to be as bad as Alien Hunters.
[QUOTE=Kommodore;50326478]did anyone else not buy Alien Hunters[/QUOTE]
I'll probably buy it at some point but this DLC isn't exciting enough to make me want to immediately play XCOM right now.
I might have if the armours didn't look so goofy though.
Ive just got the viper suit and it actually looks pretty cool If you customise it. you can change that god awful colour scheme and remove the dorky hood.
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Looks less "GI Joe baddie" and more "Mortal combat character".
Also it seems ive missed all of the story added by alien hunters, Didn't get any lair missions, rulers just started showing up at random. Possibly because I enabled it on an already active campaign.
Yeah, for the lair mission you need a new campaign, otherwise shit just gets added.
[QUOTE=fulgrim;50328081]Ive just got the viper suit and it actually looks pretty cool If you customise it. you can change that god awful colour scheme and remove the dorky hood.
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Looks less "GI Joe baddie" and more "Mortal combat character".
Also it seems ive missed all of the story added by alien hunters, Didn't get any lair missions, rulers just started showing up at random. Possibly because I enabled it on an already active campaign.[/QUOTE]
Alternatively, you can do this to it [t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/495771811055725413/6FD41CFABEFAC3A1556F348D5ECD2C80D209FBE8/[/t]
Because who doesn't want their Lime Green Pikachu Snake Suit
I am so disappointed with the armor in this... I wanted stuff more in line with the base game's designs, not fucking viper kigurumis.
I actually love the viper set, without the hood obviously. Im eager to see what customisations I can do with the other sets, especially the muton one.
Ive already encountered the Muton queen once but It beat the shit out of all of my best guys then ran away. fingers crossed for next time.
[QUOTE=Skyward;50328366]I am so disappointed with the armor in this... I wanted stuff more in line with the base game's designs, not fucking viper kigurumis.[/QUOTE]
In all honesty, you can make some decent looking stuff with the Viper set if you try. Can't speak for the other two, but the Archon King's is probably alright as well.
It is odd that both DLC packs so far have been so... eccentric, though. I figured that after Anarchy's Children it would be back to more fitting stuff. At least there's always mods I suppose?
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Central Officer John "Central" "8 Reaper Kills And No Fucks Given" "Try Shooting Me Again, Reptile" "Sexual Officer" Bradford
the Viper King froze him, and then proceeded to freeze him again instead of actually doing any damage to him and then just fucked off
In my first attempt everyone except Bradford died, he didn't take any damage since he had untouchable every time he was attacked.
The thing about fighting off an alien invasion is that it has a way of putting old grudges in perspective.
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I don't know if this is caused by mods or what but I'm having a strange glitch. Half the time when I finish a mission and load back to base the landing cutscene doesn't play and I get stuck staring at the bases' landing gear with no after action report loading, my menu is active however like I'm on the base screen.
if it happens I'm forced to exit the game and reload the last save, reloading without restarting the game doesn't fix it. please advise.
[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;50332829]I don't know if this is caused by mods or what but I'm having a strange glitch. Half the time when I finish a mission and load back to base the landing cutscene doesn't play and I get stuck staring at the bases' landing gear with no after action report loading, my menu is active however like I'm on the base screen.
if it happens I'm forced to exit the game and reload the last save, reloading without restarting the game doesn't fix it. please advise.[/QUOTE]
It's a mod problem. What mods do you have enabled? Mod list is:
C:\Documents\My Games\XCOM2\XComGame\Config\XComModOptions.ini
The mod that caused the problem for me was (if I'm not mistaken) the Random Nickname thing, where you can go to the character info and randomly generate backgrounds, nicknames, etc...
Blademaster + Accurate Swords mod is a wonderful thing, killing everything that tries to hit you and snatch you from a distance is just awesome.
Its been a while since I booted up X-com 2, Its nice to see that our xeno scum exterminating simulator is now the story of a bunch of mad max characters who get flung into the far future to fight genetically enhanced snakes in order to wear their skin.
I'm still waiting for a mod that adds morph suits
Dear XCOM: Please do not spawn a Berserker Queen when I'm doing an extraction mission with 6 turns left and barely have Magnetic weapons.
So whenever I got to the Alien Nest mission, I managed to kill the King Viper before he fled. Mmmmm feels good to be lucky. :smile:
heres some info about shens last gift
[QUOTE]So I was modding around today and was browsing the XCom2SDK folders when i stumbled upon a folder called: DLC3 - which some of you know is going to be Shen's Last Gift. I got curious and dug around some more, first finding the: XCOM 2 SDK\XComGame\Content\DLC\DLC_3\GameData\Weapons\Spark_Rifle and XCOM 2 SDK\XComGame\Content\DLC\DLC_3\GameData\Perks\Spark folders. But then i stumbled upon my biggest discovery: XCOM 2 SDK\XComGame\Content\DLC\DLC_3\Packages\FX\SPARK_MEC
So yes it seems that Shen was building some MEC suits for XCom, and they are all around some mechanic called Spark, i have not further details and i hope the good guys at firaxis take it well that i spoiled their big reveal... Sorry guys
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mec confirmed
YES
Interestingly, there's actually a bit of a theme to these two DLCs.
Alien Rulers is all about [sp]Vahlen genetically modifying the fuck out of some aliens and regretting it,[/sp] while Shen's Last Gift will presumably be about MECs.
Both being [sp]what Vahlen and Shen advocated for upon the discovery of Meld in Enemy Within.[/sp]
[QUOTE=zipziggy;50344951]heres some info about shens last gift
mec confirmed[/QUOTE]
Just to add on to this, the reason a lot of classmods were (temporarily) broken by the May 12th patch is because the classes have to have a config thing that specifies that they use "soldier" armor, implying that there is something other than soldier armor.
[QUOTE=zipziggy;50344951]heres some info about shens last gift
mec confirmed[/QUOTE]
as someone who never played the xcomeu expansion that added all that cool stuff, I found it extremely strange that a lot of it never carried over.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;50345938]as someone who never played the xcomeu expansion that added all that cool stuff, I found it extremely strange that a lot of it never carried over.[/QUOTE]
A lot of that technology hadn't been developed by the time XCOM lost in this timeline.
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On the topic of Shen's last gift - Shen's last gift is probably a bunch of prototypes that he never managed to finish or something, or he died before managing to finish, or perhaps a better version of the MEC that doesn't require you to chop your freaking arms and legs off, that he started work on but also never managed to finish.
[QUOTE=jonu67;50345969]A lot of that technology hadn't been developed by the time XCOM lost in this timeline.
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On the topic of Shen's last gift - Shen's last gift is probably a bunch of prototypes that he never managed to finish or something, or he died before managing to finish, or perhaps a better version of the MEC that doesn't require you to chop your freaking arms and legs off, that he started work on but also never managed to finish.[/QUOTE]
It just isn't the same without Shen gleefully describing how he'll mutilate your soldiers.
"A cut here, a cut there..." Jesus Shen, chill the fuck out.
[QUOTE=MadHattington;50347474]It just isn't the same without Shen gleefully describing how he'll mutilate your soldiers.
"A cut here, a cut there..." Jesus Shen, chill the fuck out.[/QUOTE]
Then theres Vahlen, whos all "HEY COMMANDER LETS EXPERIMENT ON THE ALIENS THIS WON'T END BADLY [I]AT ALL[/I]!" :facemelt:
[QUOTE=mralexs;50347507]Then theres Vahlen, whos all "HEY COMMANDER LETS EXPERIMENT ON THE ALIENS THIS WON'T END BADLY [I]AT ALL[/I]!" :facemelt:[/QUOTE]
Well, it didn't.
For a top-secret paramilitary organization tasked with exterminating all alien life on Earth XCOM was and is pretty tame.
So the way vahlen talks about "If only the commander were here to control my ambition" stuff it sounds like the actual cannon loss time for x-com was probably before they could create the mechs with shen but after the discovery and some use of meld.
So the Viper King pops back up in a Retaliation, so I fucking annihilate it. Woo, one alien ruler down.
[I]THE VERY NEXT MISSION[/I]
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The Berserker Queen jumps off a roof, stuns and kills two mutons, and then proceeds to savage my squad. Thankfully, after she fucks off, the remaining three man squad of ADVENT have broken AI and do fucking nothing, allowing my three survivors with 1/1/2 health kill them with relative ease.
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