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

Grenades can destroy cars, there's just a 1 turn delay before it explodes. Even when it explodes, the car will still count as cover. This is even if it detonates instantly due to a rocket.
I have never encountered a wall that a grenade can't destroy. If a grenade can't destroy it, neither can a rocket.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of Long War? Apparently that mod changes how terrain destruction works.

 

Well, this thread has taught us that ArchAngel definitely deserves his tag.

Throwing in my two cents because I'm almost done with a unmodded Impossible playthrough: explosives are super common once you get your squad developed and I use them all the time. I feel like I use explosives more in nu XCOM than I ever did in old X-COM, perhaps because they are a recharging ability that is effortless to use as compared to explosives being actual items in the old games, not to mention free aim was available to get rid of cover/terrain in old X-COM.

I feel they're fine as-is and maybe are too plentiful/too strong, but that's probably a result of the cover system, not explosives themselves.

 

Are you using them to blow holes in walls and destroy cover before meeting aliens or after you meet them but not damaging them at same time?

I finished original Xcom on impossible hardcore multiple times (done it without mind control and blaster launchers), and compared to that game nuXcom use of explosives is pathetic.

 

*Graphics look better than Fallout 4.

 

**Not saying much.

But that spotlight does have some nice screenshots! I wasn't expecting such a post-apocalypse vibe, but it makes perfect sense. These environments will make a great contrast to the city maps.

 

I hope (and i'm pretty sure) this game will have the same huge amount of props as Cities Skyline in terms of new buildings, veichles, and all environmental stuff.

in 2017 we'll basically have a free xpac through mods

and ofcourse a "darker nights" mod 1 week after release, as usual


PS: next and last blog update is "shanty towns", the old xcom cities

 

I'm hoping they include assets from XCOM 1 in their asset pack. That would be pretty cool. There's a lot of high quality models in EW and the Slingshot DLC that could be reused. The base defense map in particular was criminally underused.

 

They could use classic assets to re-create a classic X-com with the new engine, only problem is the completely changed strategic layer

 

CLASSIC TOWNS : Jesus, those look really good, so much X-com classic vibe

 

Oooh that does look much better than the ADVENT cities.

 

The aliens may be world-conquerors that literally assimilate the defeated population into their genome, but they're intelligent enough to know that no-one likes to live in a hive world shit-covered planet.

 

That is some cool looking areas.

 

I was saying that the alien city weird art direction was on purpose and the old cities would be very different, but no one believed me.

 

I don't blame them.

 

Are all old-world cities gonna look like something out of Kwa? Would love to see things that look like Eastern Europe, or Latin America, or Japan, or Europe.

 

Good question. I know the cities in the first xcom were generic as hell. No street vendors, cows blocking off paths, piles of garbage and cow shit whenever a mission took place in India. I was not immersed.

 

They will be generic too in x-com 2, too much work to create regional assets.

At least we have terrain and time of day based on geoscape morphology and time when we go on mission, still a huge improvement from EU

 

Mods will add cows and shit. No worries A_P.

 

Xenonauts had some nice little map diversity from what I remember. Anyone remember all these times some random Abdul with an AK managed to kill off an alien or even two? That's just

 

Don't all countries have Irish pubs anyway?

 

Pretty sure the US has more Irish pubs than Ireland.

 

Xenonauts was really funny sometimes. Any UFO crashed in Sweden/Scandinavia was almost always arctic environment, even if it crashed in the southern parts.

You started to think that 98% of the population in the Xenonaut timeline must be men with a red jacket, walking around equipped with a shotgun a la MacReady.

 

New class revealed : Rookie bomb

 

Well there are more Irish-Americans than Irishmen.