XCOM2 - More like SyndiCOM

[ShadowDimentio]

I can't wait to kill some xenos/shitcurity the way god intended instead of laying in their bed like some unnamed scaly fuckbois in this forum

I also can't wait to miss 98% chance shots because god is sick of my hubris

[capi duffman]

Killing liggers tator style?

I think I may like this shit.

[Super Aggro Crag]

looks shittier than xcom 1

[capi duffman]

So, when you pay up for a new weapon or armor, EVERYONE, gets the stuff, instead of manufactoring one by one.
They intended purpose is for the player to customize those, so a good soldier has better gear than his peers, even if the standard is the same.
I saw an UFO raid, and in that, a new unit, some sort of techno ghost, apparently if you wound it, but fail to kill it in the turn, it clones itself. From what I saw, it's like the outsider (bullshit aim, if you kill it there is nithing left behind)

When the xenos complete the avatar project you're given a last chance to raid some scientific station, and blow it up so they won't win yet, sadly I couldn't see that, since the player was awful and unable to reach the location.

[DemonFiren]

This is going to be garbage.

They can't even lizard properly.

[capi duffman]

In the do or die missions, like defending the avenger, even wounded soldiers can be deployed.

I like it, it was bullshit to have dudes with only hours left till recovery not being able to defend their sorry lives should xenos strike.

Also, killing liggers is alway A-ok, Bradford approves.

[Zilenan91]

In Enemy Unknown I always made all my troopers into helmeted, faceless soldiers. They looked cool but they also had almost no individualism.

[Lumbermancer]

Why not just play Xenonauts?

It's closer to actually being X-com than any 'Xcom' game gets

Why not play X-COM Apocalypse, the best X-COM game ever.

[DemonFiren]

Can't wait to play Barbie Trooper dress up for five hours before getting to the first mission.

Oh, I know that feel.

Sukhomlinov effect, here I come.

[Steelpoint]

Xenonauts is quite fun, but is really more of a modern remake of the original Xcom. Nothing more or less.

Xcom 2 is a interesting way of advancing modern franchise in a unique way that also by chance expands the Geoscape strategy beyond looking pretty.

[capi duffman]

This game has freaking tentaculats. One of those xenos, called "Gatekeeper" can psyrape the troopers, and instantly raise the defeated as zombies for funnier raep.

[Reyouka]

They also have a AoE psyzombie raise and in their undeployed form have a beam cannon.

[capi duffman]

https://xcom.com/news/en-long-war-studi ... for-launch

It's been a while since I saw a support that big for the modding community.
Also, it's a very big step and advertisement for Terra Invicta, these guys won't have any trouble getting funding for their kickstarters.

[Kraso]

2 WEEKS LADS

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[MMMiracles]

I never actually played an XCOM game until recently, bought Enemy Unknown off the humble bundle.

Holy fuck this is probably the most fun I've had with a strategy game since Civ. I'm probably going to grab XCOM2 now after my experience so far with Enemy Unknown.

[Wyzack]

Buy xcom ufo defence on steam for maximum fun in the vein of dorf fort

[Screemonster]

Why not just play Xenonauts?

It's closer to actually being X-com than any 'Xcom' game gets

Why not play X-COM Apocalypse, the best X-COM game ever.

fuck ye

As soon as I got my hands on devastator cannons, I used to love sending thirty guys into a cult temple and just hosing down the entire building. Only people who I actually liked would get such luxuries as "giving a shit about collateral damage" during investigations.
Can't do that in new xcom and the game is worse for it.

[XSI]

The old X-com games just give you so much more options

At least Xcom 2 will innovate instead of trying (And failing hard) to emulate the old games

[Timbrewolf]

Play UFO Defense the Republican way:

Give everyone stun prods and try to maximize your profit per mission regardless of how many people it kills.

I like to imagine my XCOM soldiers are actually prisoners and other unfortunate people conscripted into service and forced to go out and capture stuff for XCOM at huge personal risk (like seriously 60%+ fatality rate per mission).
It ends up working out though if you know how to game the system producing profit in your workshops and selling off all the alium goodies you steal on a mission, failed or otherwise.

You can end up being pretty self-sustaining even if you are ordering a whole new compliment of soldiers after every mission because the last lot died.

[XSI]

Don't forget, stun rods are good, but you're going to want stun gas grenades too

And some guns for the stuff that just won't be profitable to stun. Like cyberdisks

[Anonmare]

Time to give every soldier a black/red/black-and-red colour scheme so I can roleplay as Syndicate High Command trying to outsmart those dastardly Nanotrasen fellows.

[Zilenan91]

I always make my soldiers faceless, helmeted, identical goons with guns.

[DemonFiren]

I used to make waifus, but they always died first.

[Maccus]

That's the game trying to tell you something

[Timbrewolf]

Anon, you're the reason all the soldiers who know how to use guns don't join the XCOM project.

Meh.

There's like, 6 billion potential grunts on this planet versus not even a few thousand aliens.

A war of attrition is our best bet.

[Wyzack]

>UFO Defence
>Mission 2
>Ship lands, verteran guy runs forward and down the hatch
>New recruit runs behind them
>Alium comes
>SOOPER RECRUIT panics
>Shoots the vet in the back
>Throws his gun down and runs away

Like you would think they would have even the most basic of military training, fucking hell

[Timbrewolf]

I've had worse.

>kit out my terminator squad
>top-tier MLG earth defenders with the latest and greatest in guns
>land at a terror site
>hatch opens
>toss a smoke grenade down out the back for cover, move my first squaddie into it
>reaction fire begins
>transport takes multiple hits
>explodes, killing everyone inside
>didn't even know that could happen
>pour glass of whiskey while uninstalling game

[DemonFiren]

That's the game trying to tell you something

Like what, that if I make a squad composed entirely of waifu clones the strongest will survive and emerge as legends?

[PKPenguin321]

I've had worse.

>kit out my terminator squad
>top-tier MLG earth defenders with the latest and greatest in guns
>land at a terror site
>hatch opens
>toss a smoke grenade down out the back for cover, move my first squaddie into it
>reaction fire begins
>transport takes multiple hits
>explodes, killing everyone inside
>didn't even know that could happen
>pour glass of whiskey while uninstalling game

Fuck terror missions honestly. This sounds awful and I feel genuinely bad for you.
First time I played the game I didn't realize it didn't autosave. I actually got really really far in one session and was doing stupidly well (although I didn't realize it at the time, I just thought the game was normally that easy). Eventually I got dealt some bullshit mission that had 0 cover down the center and swarms of enemies from all directions with loadsa cover, and RNG decided it no longer liked me. I lost my entire squad, and since I had never saved once, there was jack shit I could do about it.
RIP Duke Nukem, my favorite soldier. ;-;7

[capi duffman]

http://www.twitch.tv/miss_jamball

Mostly beaglerush purging the alien, now he does not need to hide anything other than tutorial (I guess gamer over and ending too)

[Timbrewolf]

Have you had a blaster bomb do that too yet? Also did the first squaddie live?

All dead no hope

[Wyzack]

I've had worse.

>kit out my terminator squad
>top-tier MLG earth defenders with the latest and greatest in guns
>land at a terror site
>hatch opens
>toss a smoke grenade down out the back for cover, move my first squaddie into it
>reaction fire begins
>transport takes multiple hits
>explodes, killing everyone inside
>didn't even know that could happen
>pour glass of whiskey while uninstalling game

This thread made me consider re-installing the game and trying it again, but this post has made me reconsider somewhat

[THE MIGHTY GALVATRON]

Ha I remember playing UFO defense and I had left most of my soliders on the skyranger while I had a few go scout things out. Well one of the guys on the ranger got mind controlled and happen to have a rocket launcher and ended up blowing everyone up on the plane.

Don't remember much after that, probably blacked out or something.

[DrPillzRedux]

Apparently the optimization is horrible.

[Takeguru]

Preloading all 25gbs of this fucking thing.

I might be able to play tonight if I do literally nothing else online.

[THE MIGHTY GALVATRON]

I went and pre-purchased like a fool, going to take 8 hours to download so I'll probably play it tomorrow morning.

[XSI]

>Pre purchasing
>Not getting to play on release because download stuff

This amuses me

[Takeguru]

I'd have to spend hours downloading it either way.

Better to get some of it done beforehand

[Gun Hog]

I have it fully preloaded, it did not really talk that long for me. Still waiting for it to unlock, though.

[Anonmare]

>Play XCOM2
>Melee enemies are fucking lucifer
>Get wiped by a single guy with a baton
Space Station 13 has taught me that the stunbaton memes aren't just memes anymore

[ShadowDimentio]

>Shitcurity is real

I knew this day would come

They didn't believe me, but here we are

[capi duffman]

Goddamit people, call your inner greyshit, table him or disarm him, or use a ranger flukeops with blademaster, so your op slashes the officer when he gets to CLOSE RANGE.

[Takeguru]

The first unofficial workshop mod: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=616324092

Ian would be proud

[ShadowDimentio]

Someone needs to do a playthrough and post the memes here like they did on the last thread for longer than two posts.

Also make me a sniper pls

[Wyzack]

Might run an oldschool UFO defence forumgame. Double fun because unlike dwarf fortress i am unabashedly terrible at this game. Frag your friends, run from your enemies, and accomplish nothing.

[Anonmare]

Someone needs to do a playthrough and post the memes here like they did on the last thread for longer than two posts.

Also make me a sniper pls

I might do one as soon as I develop something that could loosely be called "competency"

[DrPillzRedux]

It's actually really good once you tweak enough to fix the shitty FPS. There's so many quality of life improvements over the original along with the new stuff.

With how much modding support is being given I really think this game is gonna go places.

[Anonmare]

IT HAPPENED AGAIN

STUNBATONS OP NERF IMMEDIATELY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Takeguru]

I don't have any voiceover audio.

0/10 wouldn't buy again.

Verifying now though, maybe that'll fix it.

Haven't had any gameplay bugs and even though it pushes my GPU to 55c, that's not even close to dangerous.
Some people say it doesn't play well with AMD cards.

Oh yeah, and FUCK stun lancers

>deal 1 damage
>Soldier unconcious 5evr

[Timbrewolf]

I could start seeding people into my game and give you guys reports if you want.

So far I have two star soldiers:

#1) MACHO MAN Randy Savage looking dude who joined randomly wearing aviators with a handlebar mustache and a faux hawk. AMERICAN PATRIOT WARRIOR. I thought he would be fucking useless but at least worth a laugh, but he bro'ed out of control and gunned down two sectoids and a random ADVENT trooper during different overwatch setups during really clutch moments. Currently wounded.

#2) Tumblr-ite girl. She wears nerd glasses and has an undercut. Looks like she posts SJW shit all day long when she isn't fighting aliums. Probably has a blog dedicated to their different gender identities. She also has a gigantic fucking sniper rifle and is really fucking good with it. Also kills a lot of assholes during overwatch no fucks given. Has the highest killcount by a wide margin of the squad already. Also has the most followers and reblogs of anyone on the squad. Is Australian, for some reason.