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Is it just me or does the difficulty start to feel extremely unfair later on...I just had a mission to defend one of those radio beacons and I had to fight 12 enemies at once: 1 MEC, 3 Archons, 2 Andromedans, a Gatekeeper and 5 Advent troops including a Shield Bearer. There was no way to win. Usually I can pick off groups one at a time, but I had to rush to the beacon because it was being attacked for 20% of its HP every turn.
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Feb 2016 08:29 Post subject: |
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What gear do you have? You should have tier 3 gear by that point (plasma weapons, warden armour).
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Feb 2016 08:47 Post subject: |
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| DCB wrote: | | What gear do you have? You should have tier 3 gear by that point (plasma weapons, warden armour). |
I have plasma weapons, one War Suit, one Exo suit and the rest are the second tier armor.
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Stige
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Feb 2016 08:50 Post subject: |
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Exo Suits are basically free, I had 6 of them before I had nearly anything else in the game.
Now I have 5 + one War Suit.
Game is a breeze.
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Feb 2016 12:16 Post subject: |
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| HubU wrote: | | Buggy as fuck but game is still Xcom, still awesome. I just showed ADVENT how big my dick is in operation "Bone Lord". |
Ah you're fucking lucky you've gotten that far. I just got the dreaded "you're fucked in the neck, please restart the campaign" bug, where you can no longer use the geoscape. Seems to be directly linked to the tutorial and the first "rescue civilians" mission. How the fuck that passed QA I have no idea.
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Stige
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Feb 2016 12:35 Post subject: |
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Well glad I skipped the tutorial straight away lol
Didn't see much point in it having played previous games.
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earawen
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Stige
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Feb 2016 13:48 Post subject: |
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| DCB wrote: | Just finished it.
 Spoiler: | Hah, I fucking knew it. Terror from the Deep is next. Presumably for XCOM 3, I doubt they'd do it as an expansion. |
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meh | Spoiler: | id like to take the fight to an alien planet  |
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Feb 2016 13:52 Post subject: |
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Got to learn to crawl before you can walk. Baby steps. There's always XCOM 4 for that.
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Nodrim
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Feb 2016 16:34 Post subject: |
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| DCB wrote: | | Got to learn to crawl before you can walk. Baby steps. There's always XCOM 4 for that. |
I bet we will still be able to shoot through walls in that game.
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Kaltern
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| Posted: Wed, 10th Feb 2016 19:36 Post subject: |
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People still bitching? 
Look, some spoilers I've discovered while playing to ease suffering.
| Spoiler: | * Make sure you research the following quite early on, otherwise you really will not get far in the game, and you'll be missing the storyline (such as it is): Implant, alien encryption, shadow chamber, alien encryption (again), codex brain, all corpses, especially mutons for armour, psi training (this is optional but really useful). radio masts (utterly invaluable as Intel costs for contacting resistance gets to silly numbers otherwise).
All the rest are as you can afford - the GWC is needed for increasing squad number so get that asap too. |
I find that the tech tree is practically identical to XCOM1, but the order you research is a lot more important.
Oh and don't be afraid to put off the alien base raids until you're strong enough, the counter can be left to halfway before you would need to stress 
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Feb 2016 04:26 Post subject: |
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| Kaltern wrote: | | Make sure you research the following quite early on, otherwise you really will not get far in the game, and you'll be missing the storyline (such as it is) |
Actually, no, you do not want to rush some of those, otherwise you will end up like randir14 and be facing end-game enemies before you have all the gear to deal with them. Just like with EU, the game progression is gated by certain research, and you are better off pacing yourself, making sure you have all the best equipment. As long as you get resistance comms so you can make contact with more areas and gain access to the blacksites, you can keep the Avatar project counter under control and you really don't need to rush (despite what Bradford might keep telling you).
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Feb 2016 10:27 Post subject: |
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| JBeckman wrote: | | So that's how it is, I thought it was like the two original games were time progress escalated the aliens attacks. |
There is some time progression in that the Avatar clock will increase as time goes on, but that is easy enough to counter because even after you destroy all the Blacksites more will eventually spawn again. It's possible that ADVENT enemies may increase in rank over time, I'm not entirely sure. However, certain high level alien types are absolutely gated by research and their related missions.
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Feb 2016 12:07 Post subject: |
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@ellen still waiting for a fully working release since the game is to expensive ATM
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Feb 2016 12:10 Post subject: |
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There is a release since game launched..and it works perfectly fine. Some even finished.
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Feb 2016 12:21 Post subject: |
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i've been following the game thread on rin and many of them seem to have trigger issues, or missing sounds, sam's crack is now V2 with some more triggers removed
Edit: guess i'll give it a go after i finish dying light
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Feb 2016 13:33 Post subject: |
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| Bob Barnsen wrote: | | Where are all those high end enemies?! |
Most people probably campaign wipe long before they appear.
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VonMisk
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Feb 2016 13:33 Post subject: |
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There is also a statistic that the majority of players don't finish games they've bought. So in correlation to that the XCOM 2 statistics might be really close to truth.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
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| Posted: Thu, 11th Feb 2016 13:37 Post subject: |
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The interesting thing is that Rangers are the class with the most kills, but shotguns are the weapons with the least kills. Lots of sword action going on? The highest is assault rifles, so I assume that means a lot of rookies.
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