War of the ((((Chosen))))

If this expansion makes Xcom2 actually good then i consider pirating it. I have at least a shred of hope considering that the first Xcom was kinda shitty too until they released Enemy within.

Also, where´s the snek porn

Just play Open X-Com.

Jewtube nigger, its exclusive to Ign though

But i do

Just how many hours do you figure a faggot can clock in Ufo Defence before completely losing his mind?

With all the mods that it has?
6 million at least.

Wow this resembles Firaxcom more than I wanted it to.
Also exclusive to ign my ass.

I will say that I like the whole limb based damage it has going for it, and the fact that reaction fire is a thing again.

I'm strangely OK with that.

You got a time stamp for me? I have to admit I can't be arsed to watch the whole thing.

I'd say the same about tetris but it's nice to try new things now and then.

I miss X-Com commander breads.

Same

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Didn't really sound interesting enough to get me to install the thing again.

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My apologies, check 16:00

Thanks but I think you're reading that wrong. All I've seen are overwatch and return fire and both of those are XCOM mechanics. Reaction fire was something else entirely.

Huh, I guess you're right, my bad.

You'd think with a whole trailer they'd be able to convey exactly what the fuck this actually is, but I still have no idea what this is going to be
They've got new enemies, gear, and story, but it's not at all clear what form that will take
It could be anything from a couple side missions to an entire game-spanning thing, anything from a minor story break from the main stuff to an entirely separate alternate universe campaign

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face it, nucom 2 was a fucking trainwreck

LOL

From what I can see of the expansion, it's not going to solve the three core problems of nuCOM 2. It just looks like they're going to add shit without really thinking about it (like fucking Rulers) or it's going to make the game even more terribly balanced. I'm still going to at least try it out since I'm too much of a die hard fan of these fucking games to give it up but at least it will give modders a ton of resources to completely squander on. At least Phoenix Point might be alright but it's too early to properly judge.

I can always do one if you niggers want. I might consider Apocalypse.

I'll sum up all the features for you.
From what I can tell it's not going to have as much of an impact or be as interesting as the shift from EU to EW.

saging for double post.

It won't.
XCOM wasn't great but it had its charm despite being horribly streamlined and plebbified. For some reason they took everything that was just okay in XCOM, copypasted it into XCOM 2, and either made existing mechanics worse or added horrible mechanics that shat up the game even harder, like the timer.

The only thing that could save XCOM 2 is a total conversion mod. The only reason I still have XCOM installed is for Long War, but 2 is beyond redemption. It DEFINITELY won't be redeemed by the developers themselves cranking out content considering they're the ones who fucked shit up in the first place and don't understand what people want or what good or bad design decisions are, for a game that's been heavily well established for decades now.

Takes a special kind of fucking stupid to screw up XCOM but they managed it anyway.

Mec's were a much more interesting addition to original nuCom, this trailer doesn't make me excited at all for the new additions.

That sounds kinda neat
I haven't played the game since it first came out, so hopefully this and the rest of the DLC combined with mods will be enough to make the experience fresh

The worst thing was that they teased us that they were going to come back, but then the DLC hit and it was just turning the shitty drones into bipedal Wall-Es
Modern technology has ruined fucking everything about cyberpunk/sci-fi

To be fair it's not like anyone has managed to make a worthy (spiritual) sequel to the original in all these years.

Im digging the sniper rife design in the trailer, looks like SVD, and looks normal sized, with is good because im sick and tired of oversized shitty Xcom weapons that look like straight out of cartoon
New armors look kinda neat too

End State when?

Looks nice but where are the ayys
Any game with limb based damage is alright by me.

Wasn't that one canceled or something? I haven't seen an update in months.

Its still alive and kicking, check the devblog

BUT WHERE ARE THE AYYLIENS?

Just pretend that the humons that you are killing are undercover ayys and thinmen

fairly sure this is the first full expansion to Xcom 2, the other 2 were just small dlc stuff.

im curious what these are, I can think of plenty of wrong with the game but I dont know what these 3 core problems are. could you tell me what they are?

I was thinking about saving this for a jewtube video essay thing or something else as equally gay but I'll quickly highlight them.

The first issue is entirely game balance. Biggest highlights are that basically Grenadiers are just completely broken from start to finish, Psionics don't seemed to have even been through a balance pass and relying on RNG to balance them out (First rank domination, anyone?). And of course, timers. Second being the lack of a strategy layer or more specifically a lack of any meaningful decision making or planning. Lastly, unpredictability or what is a much longer way of phrasing it; "The missing quirks of both UFO Defense and nuCOM."

I originally would have included technical issues (like optimization) as my last core issue but it's something that's much more straight forward and easier to point out. There's a LOT of minor problems I can easily list off but I would be here all do and I could elaborate on these three core issues but I'll have to do it later since I'll be away soon. Let's say I was disappointed in nuCOM 2 even though I was kind of alright with the direction the franchise was going.

It´s a shame that Xcom2 made so much things better than the first one, like a fuck ton of quality of life and customization improvements. But then they fucked up the core gameplay. The strategy layer feels the same every campaign, and the tech tree is boring and way too linear. Balancing could probably be fixed more easily, they just have to nerf the grenadier and make him more into a cover removal unit, like LW2 did. I´m actually fine with the psionic troops being incredible powerful, considering that you only get them really late into the game.

So my core issues with Xcom2 are probably the boring tech tree and the strategy layer. If the expansion can fix these things i happily reinstall it again. And i have to admit i still had lots of fun with the sequel despite its glaring flaws.

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nucom 2 is so easy that even watching Beagle's ironman impossible was boring as fuck.
BORING AS FUCK

At least it made for pretty hilarious disturbing episodes, like the Avenger defense mission.

Yeah I was looking forward to it and he just blaster bombed the shit.

But wait there is more!

Don't forget the bullshit "Enemy gets a free turn in the middle of your turn if they find you"

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Don't remind me.

At least there are some ways around it.

Did you seriously just "ree", dude? Get a grip, man, this isn't Reddit.

I mean early on the strategy is to just Overwatch rape them, but when there's multiple pods in a level and they ALL activate, it's pretty annoying, I was sorta pissed that a game built around "stealth" didn't give you an option to get in close to kills some ayys for a stealth kill that doesn't activate the pods

Source?

8ch.net

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please stop

Truth hurts, don't it.

What did that one guy playing Vermintide do to deserve this?

At least let me pretend that half this website doesn't go to Reddit.

why? I mean I get why, but why would you stay? The chat? the chat was terrible. I was there and jesus christ was it bad. You know the chat that goes in every E3 stream? It was like that, except it was three guys doing the talking and one I think was a tranny

I don't.

4 years clean now
Just imagine memes

The fact that a steam group even exists tells you all you need to know about the state of the board.

Yea who could have seen that coming.

So when's Xenonauts 2 anyways?

It sucks because I went in thinking it would be like finding Warbros again and esentially just having someone to have in depth discussions about vidya in a faster format.

Do it faggot. DO IT NOW.

Sounds like bullshit, they never mentioned this stuff anywhere. Source please
I want these to be true

back when monolith was good…

Here, it was the first site that popped up, but it has all that shit from what I skimmed of it:
archive.is/onEdE

wew
Honestly, they should have let you spend intel to make missions easier. Don't know why they only let you do it on one mission.

I really love a lot of the QoL improvements they brought in but every time I played it just makes me want to go back to my LW1 campaign and then quit it because I'm burnt out on LW. The only real variance I found is maybe rushing psionics but it's almost always better just to go down the very same route every time. And I only really have a problem with psionics because it also brings into light a lot of features they added in that just doesn't seem to make much sense other than to add artificial replayability or worse: grinding. Something that if you've played LW will know far too well.

At least the destructibility is pretty impressive this time around so it just encourages an explosives approach to every situation. I don't think anyone cares if they blow up attachments in comparison to the much more strategic value of corpses. I don't believe the game is oriented towards stealth rather than it's a means to get to the objective. The concealment isn't for pure stealthy approaches (That belongs to LW2 although I've heard they've made stealthing impractical now) but just for speeding up the initial stage of the game and give you some time to plan out your initial attack. The latter not even mattering if you're on Commander/Legendary because of how short the timer is.

I'll probably start around the weekend. Although this will be like my second campaign so expect everything to go terribly.

You can also check Jake's twitter since he seems to be very approachable when it comes to talking about it.

Judging by the E3 "gameplay" of Shadow of War, I can tell the series is going to be nothing but wasted potential.

bump

So just that I'm clear, what are some ayy removing simulators that are supposed to be coming out?
This shitfest
Xenonauts 2
That one long war standalone game
Phoenix Point
Shock Tactics
what else?
what will actually be good?

Looks like a whole load of posts just fucking disappeared. wew lad. I'm gonna sage since this is basically ded anyway.

I'll be starting up tomorrow but I'm going to start off with UFO Defense and work my way up. Let's see if I'll stick with it or get bored before then.

And then they all fucking appeared.
CODENIGGER!

nice numbers there my dude.

any good mods that has to do with snake girls yet?

plenty of mods already that let you recruit them.
nexusmods.com/xcom2/mods/392/?

pretty cool
now where is the lewd mods

Hey look its the Tau!

None of them. All (spiritual) sequels to X-COM have been shit, I fail to see why the newest batch would be any different.

Screw the lewd mods, where are the snek marriage mods?

You need to go choke to death on all of the dicks. Then be revived so you can be choked to death again and again and again.

This.

There's not enough dick for him on this world or any other.

absolutely disgusting.

The Long War dev's standalone game was going to be a grand strategy game wasn't it?

Tried translating them? :^)

Don't even think about it. It'll never happen.

Must be the RX-78[G] then, because those were just glorified GMs