Xcom 2 thread

[Timonk]

>on the second easiest difficulty
>getting my ass kicked big time
Yep, fair

[Shaps-cloud]

The game cheats in your favor in so many ways on Veteran, how are you getting your ass kicked?

Anyway, I've been dumping a ton of time into Long War of the Chosen as of late, it's amazing amounts of fun if you don't mind the masochism of it all

[SpaceManiac]

I found that difficulty easy to the point where the game was literally skipping story events because I was faffing about consequence-free, as well as trivially cheesing some missions, but the game is so long I haven't returned to it yet. (Played XCOM:EW four times though)

[Timonk]

You asking how I'm losin?

I place my squaddies right into the middle of hidden enemies with crazy accuracy that kill them in 1 round, me not being able to do anything against it

No joke I missed a Advent officer like 5 times with 40% hit chance yesterday

[cacogen]

Are you running into the fog of war impatiently instead of carefully advancing, trying to cover as many points of entry as possible?

[Shaps-cloud]

I found that difficulty easy to the point where the game was literally skipping story events because I was faffing about consequence-free, as well as trivially cheesing some missions, but the game is so long I haven't returned to it yet. (Played XCOM:EW four times though)

Yeah I never actually finished my original playthrough of vanilla from when the game launched, it really is a loooong game for how much replayability there actually is. Chimera Squad was much more appealing in that sense, much more snack sized which fit better with the pacing of new mechanics and enemies. I did manage to beat it recently with LWOTC which adds a bunch of depth and mechanics throughout the game, but even with all that added stuff it's still generally agreed that the end quarter of the game is really sparse.

As far as tips for gitting gud, check these out:

• Don't charge blindly ahead with yellow moves while there are still enemies around, lest you activate a bunch of them and have no way to pull back
• Don't put yourself in a position where any one or two bad rolls of the dice can make or break things. You'd be surprised how many clutch situations can be avoided by just falling back and setting up overwatch.
• if all else fails, just spam meme beacons

[iksyp]

No joke I missed a Advent officer like 5 times with 40% hit chance yesterday

why the fuck are you taking 40% shots and not throwing grenades or flanking or getting height advantage

[Timonk]

No joke I missed a Advent officer like 5 times with 40% hit chance yesterday

why the fuck are you taking 40% shots and not throwing grenades or flanking or getting height advantage

There was no height advantage and I didn't want to waste my grenade on the officer when there was something much more dangerous around the corner

[Timonk]

Are you running into the fog of war impatiently instead of carefully advancing, trying to cover as many points of entry as possible?

Maybe

[cacogen]

It's been awhile since I've played but iirc you have to bore yourself to death in order to be good

[Super Aggro Crag]

Xcom 2 isnt as good as xcom 1 and the fact that it retconned the story of xcom 1 makes me dislike it from a gameplay AND a storyline standpoint

[Timonk]

I never played xcom 1

[Timonk]

ah yes, very fair:

>do the blacksite mission a third time
>be very good at the stealthies
>i get discovered anyway because patrol decided to go off path
>1 solider gets an instant 8 crit from a robot and dies
>the chosen bitch arrives
>i retrieve the vial and run into the opposite direction of the enemies, running into a 3 man patrol
>3 more enemy soliders arrive
> vial carrier surrounded by like 10 enemies (meanwhile another solider dies)
>gets easily ganged on
>damn, its an escape without the vial again
>losses: 3 soliders (1 corporal and 2 squaddies)
>the worst part: i would have probably gotten away with it if i only sent 1 solider
is this supposed to be fair?

[Timonk]

meanwhile in the 5th attempt, solid snake lookin ass gets captured

[Shaps-cloud]

>2 corporals and a squaddie

broh

[Shaps-cloud]

ONE CORPORAL TWO SQUADDIES

WHY ARE YOUR TROOPS TRASH

[Armhulen]

>2 corporals and a squaddie

broh

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[Timonk]

because they die off early, the surviving one was a corporeal too

[Armhulen]

because they die off early, the surviving one was a corporeal too

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[MMMiracles]

get mag weapons or plated armor before doing the first blacksite, both if you want to be 100% sure
pods will naturally curve towards between you and the objective, even when you're in stealth

also xcom 1 is just overwatch camping till the ayys walk into your death pit on their turn, 2 is better solely because you can't do that as effectively. 1 has better atmosphere tho

[Timonk]

1. Ok thanks for reminding that the ai cheats
2. The avatar project is 4 thingies away from being finished and they literally have an agenda where when they finish it they instantly get 1 block

[cacogen]

Xcom is too slow-paced for my liking but this thread does make me feel like I'm missing out

[Timonk]

Update: started a second campaign, ran good so far but avatar is 2 steps from being finished and I haven't even visited the first blacksite

[XivilaiAnaxes]

Update: started a second campaign, ran good so far but avatar is 2 steps from being finished and I haven't even visited the first blacksite

...how?

Like are you just letting the base avatar progress go without doing anything?

BTW if memory serves the first blacksite isn't actually a black site and just cuts avatar progress by a set amount like any if the other story missions.

[Domitius]

THAT'S XCOM BABY WHEEEEEEEW

Spoiler:

[Timonk]

Update: started a second campaign, ran good so far but avatar is 2 steps from being finished and I haven't even visited the first blacksite

...how?

Like are you just letting the base avatar progress go without doing anything?

BTW if memory serves the first blacksite isn't actually a black site and just cuts avatar progress by a set amount like any if the other story missions.

I couldn't get an engineer until avatar was already completed

[XivilaiAnaxes]

You're supposed to take the first engineer from guerilla actions you can find - you should get one in the first action or 2

[Timonk]

i didnt

[Farquaar]

XCOM 2 was a fun game. Took all the good things about the first (remake) and made it 10 times better.

[NoxVS]

I fucking miss MECs though. SPARKs weren't the same.

You have MECs, humans who have sacrificed any hope of normalcy to fuck up the xenos

And then you have a boring robot whose death means nothing

I loved the moment in XCOM where I realized how alien my soldiers must be, space wizards with guns, almost invisible supersoldier snipers who can jump massive distances, literally just dreadnoughts from warhammer. I really miss all of the stuff like that.

[XivilaiAnaxes]

I fucking miss MECs though. SPARKs weren't the same.

You have MECs, humans who have sacrificed any hope of normalcy to fuck up the xenos

And then you have a boring robot whose death means nothing

I loved the moment in XCOM where I realized how alien my soldiers must be, space wizards with guns, almost invisible supersoldier snipers who can jump massive distances, literally just dreadnoughts from warhammer. I really miss all of the stuff like that.

My favorite was the massive powerfist on the MECs.
Custom animation for beating the shit out of large ayyys
On smaller ones just:
Please assume the position.