X-COM XCOM 2 + War of the Chosen Expansion Thread

This all sounds suspiciously like that thing Grunker was talking about

 

No, this is just noobs whining.

 

True, but I use 4-rookies as my baseline test. I've completed Impossible/Ironman Terror missions in XCOM with such a squad as you can more or less gameify things way too easily.

I think the big fuckaradoo aren't the aliens, but the little drones that scoot around zapping, stunning, and disorienting your guys.

 

This is not standard Xcom. It has a new mechanic Infiltration that you need to take into account for every mission. It is not designed to play whatever and hope for the best. That is how Firaxis version is played and why people bash them for years.

 

I can attest to this - threw a couple of guys into my first mission with no infiltration and ended up in a mass shootout I couldn't win.

I'm wondering if it might be possible to sneak as far as possible, hit the objective and then leave. Does anyone know if all the pods on the map converge on you or could I safely avoid some?

 

I think I saw a perk like that among the first perks grenadiers can choose from. Along with one that makes grenades avoid destroying loot and whatever the third was.

When I was to rescue a few resistance fighters I'd almost made it to the cells with my 5 people unseen when I was tempted to grenade a clustered advent group. One of the visible advent groups was moving away from me as well, so I might have been able to make it all the way to the cells without anyone noticing. I expect they converge when you break the prisoners out though?

 

Well yeah, I get that. But it's a new LW so things are still worth testing/poking/prodding.

 

Nah, just the filthy casuals need to get gud.

Yeah, I've done a few VIP extractions with just 1-2 Shinobi

 

Oh I agree. Test and prod away. Just that I got an impression you were complaining about it, and some other people here already started screeming bloody murder because of posts like yours.
If you are just testing everything and reporting back finding, that is cool.

 

So pure stealth runs are feasible?

 

Original UFO:EU could have even 200.

Especially when you count interception as a mission. There were so many missions that shooting UFO over water to have only one ground mission per week, or landing with wounded soldiers look around if all alliens are dead by damage in air, and when not evacuate and receive less negative points because of at least trying, were necessary for finishing it before your beard was too long.

 

Not in All Kill missions

 

I don't know how you finished Commander and found it "easy" if you are not used to pod management. I guess grenades carried you? So far I haven't found it particularly hard, just different with cover destruction being so rare.

 

Always used lot of explosives and also i had 2 OP frost grenades every mission.

I found it easy expecially after the first\2nd month, where i started snowballing without control

Only mod i used was Alien pack and A bettter AI, so i had vanilla perks but better enemies

Of course i reloaded many saves, but i only saved on geoscape between missions (had 30 different saves end game)

If the game stayed like early (in terms of difficulty) till the end, it would be perfect for me

 

Alien hunter pack also means these 2 frost grenades.

I played veteran ironman and finished in on first playthrough. Higher difficulties are more about luck and early missions. If you go into it without knowing details, tech tree, decisions and other stuff, it's quite hard and more enjoyable on veteran.

 

Well shit, True Concealment is not yet compatible with LW2. Did they put something similar into LW2 and if not, why not?

 

They create some abilities and options to freeze timers a bit

 

It seems like the LW2 timers are a little more generous than vanilla but it's been so long since I played unmodded Xcom 2 I can't really remember. I do wish True Concealment was compatible though.

 

I wonder if they gave up with the expansion and this is the end of Xcom 2

 

So, in LW you have to craft each gun individually, but then they are nailed to one soldier which refuses to share?

 

Only this month X2 sold 100K copies after a stalemate, dunno if cause LW2 or Humble bundle.

 

speaking of which, i'm still begging for a copy here :V my credit card is still being refused and nobody can give me an explanation why =_=

 

Where are you trying to purchase? Are you in a different country from your billing address?

 

Don't know if it's been posted yet but here's a mod compatibility list:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0KYKP0J-c9vcksxLXBTUkFzdE0/view

 

nope, i'm using the same card i've been using last year on steam and amazon on christmas and on the same humble site months ago, it has money on it and no new kind of online usage restriction. the transaction for the monthly is just refused without explanation. for three days now.