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Every other difficulty seems far too easy, after you defeat legend and go back for achievements.

So the 2nd of the Reinforcement Pack DLC's, Alien Hunters, is out now:

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Yes, Bradford does sortie personally for the new mission. :eek:

Also, my impressions of the weapons and armor from the DLC:

Spoiler for Impressions:

- The Bolt Caster is exactly how I imagined an anti-materiel rifle to be: high-damage, high-accuracy, one-shot magazine, though the stun chance and it being undodgeable is an awesome addition. Also, the Plasma Bolt Caster actually launches light bolts at an enemy, which you can see forming on the weapon before it fires, though the actual firing effect looks more like a standard beam weapon. Note that you cannot equip weapon mods on the Bolt Caster, which kinda sucks.

- The Shadowkeeper is quite the situational weapon: it really isn't a weapon you'll give to a Sniper-build Sharpshooter, but for a Gunslinger the ability to return to concealment is awesome. The Shadowfall ability that allows this is a 1-use-per-mission ability which is guaranteed to hit the target.

- The Hunter's Axe is simply the standard sword in terms of most stats, except for the Throw Axe ability, which is a 1-use-per-mission ability that allows you to... well, throw an axe at an enemy. It pairs really well with Reaper due to the fact that it's a free action, so you can use it to hit another enemy before you continue your hacking and slashing spree.

- Frost Bomb: Don't leave home without it, at least if you're expecting to go up against Rulers. In normal combat though, I find its radius too small to be of much utility.

- Of the new armors, the Icarus Armor is my current favorite, due to its Icarus Jump ability: you get two charges per mission, and it's a free action that essentially allows the soldier to teleport to any location within squad vision. On a Sniper-build Sharpshooter Icarus Jump does wonders for tactical positioning: you can get the Sniper to an ideal high ground within a single bound so long as you can see it, and still have them be able to fire their rifle immediately on landing. And if the Sniper is too far away from the squad, just make them fly closer to the action. It's also a medium armor, so it has two utility slots.

- The Rage Suit looks the manliest of the armors (I think that Crysis helmet mod would look great with it, for that Nanosuit look), and Rage Strike is a small AoE dash + melee that you can chain with either a shotgun blast or another melee for some awesome damage. It can also carry a heavy weapon.

- The Serpent Suit is a hilarious armor, due to the Frostbite ability (1 charge, free action) that's basically someone mixing together Scorpion with Sub Zero, not only freezing enemies, but also pulling humanoid ADVENT out of cover. It also has an awesomely large dodge chance of 40, which means you'll be the one bullshitting the aliens with your dodge chance. And to top it off, it has the ADVENT Captain's awesome cape. On a female soldier though, the included Serpent helmet kinda makes them look like Maleficent or something.

While I haven't personally seen the story mission since my current save file was too far along into the campaign for it to trigger, I've seen videos of it, and...

Spoiler for Alien Hunters story:

Has anyone found a mod that will increase the total number of aliens on the map (or an endless wave style encounter, like when the avenger crashes and you need to take out the beacon)?

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Originally Posted by Keila (Post 5856722)

Has anyone found a mod that will increase the total number of aliens on the map (or an endless wave style encounter, like when the avenger crashes and you need to take out the beacon)?

Increased Enemy Squad Size
Increased Enemy Squad Size Plus
Wave COM

Has anyone figured out an 'easy' way to rename characters in the character pool?

Context:
Units in the character pool need to have unique names (otherwise they're considered to be the same unit), that's why you can't just export/import the same unit over and over and have all your characters as that unit (you need to rename them slightly differently).

What I was trying to do
• Make a template character (eg. Misaka Imouto [Index])
• Export/Import the same character template multiple times
• Give all of the characters a name with a slight variation (eg. Misaka 10031, Misaka 10032).

Hoping that there is some method without resorting to writing a script to search for a text string and then 'find & replace' with an incremental variable.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LoweGear (Post 5868491)

[XCOM] XCOM 2 coming to PS4 and XBoxOne on September 6.

Self explanatory link.

Any other links about whether consoles (will/will not) have mod support? → I'm assuming it's no, but curiosity reasons mainly.

SURPRISE! Shen's Last Gift launches... TODAY! No warning, no one-week wait, it's out upon announcement! :eek:

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JOHNNY FIVE IS ALIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!! :D:D

It's a 3.4Gb download. Also, accompanying patch notes:

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Originally Posted by Patch Notes

Gameplay – Base Game
•Fixed an issue where units would not have their mission starting abilities and Gremlins would not follow
•Fixed an issue with Wet Work where kills were not being tracked for the correct unit
•Fixed an issue where Burning and Poisoned damage was causing free kills
•Damage caused by Psi abilities will now ignore armor
•Faceoff may now only target units that are not mind-controlled (by the shooter’s team)
•Fixed damage preview for abilities that modify damage based on incoming damage amount
•Fixed an exploit where replacing a PCS would not always remove the value it gave when equipping
•Magnetic Swords are now referred to “Magnetic” rather than “Conventional”
•Fixed an issue where the unit flag would not properly show a unit as concealed when loading a save game
•Fixed a crash that could occur after selecting an AOE ability and then another (disabled) ability
•Fixed an issue where Proximity Mines were not damaging every unit in a group move situation
•Blademaster grants +10 Aim to melee and Hunter’s Instinct grants +15 to melee crit
•[MP] Matches will no longer immediately end for the user when winning during the transition before their turn
Gameplay – Alien Hunters
•Fixes instances of Alien Ruler soft hangs
•Avenger Defense no longer fails if a Ruler is in the evac zone
•Fixed an issue where the Skulljack objective caused MECs to stop appearing in tactical
•Fixed a crash that would occur after the Archon King completes an Icarus Drop
•Alien Hunter weapons have range bonuses/penalties applied
•Fixed an issue where Alien Rulers were missing health after increasing the difficulty during a playthrough
•Fixed an issue where Alien Hunter weapons would be lost after upgrading through GTS
•Central can no longer bleed out on the Nest mission due to it causing a soft-fail state
•Removed Freezing Lash’s minimum range of 3 tiles which prevented units from using the ability when standing next to an enemy
•Berserker Queen’s Faithbreaker ability no long targets robotic units
•Removed “Return to Resistance HQ” button from the Hunter Weapons POI complete popup to prevent players from getting into a state where project times are incorrect
Performance Improvements
•Fixed an issue with Effects being ticked twice a frame
•Optimizations to path solving memory footprint and performance
•Fixed an issue where unnecessary game states were created on the Geoscape
System Support
•Updates to allow Steam Workshop DLC to be enumerated before native script packages are loaded. Will allow mods that override XComGame.upk to work through Steam Workshop
Steam Controller
•Removed button labels in save/load list that are not hooked up to anything
Modding
•New flag bForceReselectAllGroupsForSpawn for use with multi-part mission schedules
•Armor hit rolls have been deprecated as the game treats armor as 100% chance to absorb damage◦Armor is now handled directly by ApplyWeaponDamage
◦ApplyWeaponDamage now has a bIgnoreArmor flag so that psionic abilities properly ignore armor

•Tactical Quick Launch menu now supports the grenade slot correctly
•Debug command X2ShowFullObject to display a game state object’s data
•Bonus weapon ammo (e.g. Heavy Ordnance and Field Medic) is now handled through a delegate on ability templates: GetBonusWeaponAmmoFn
•X2DownloadableContentInfo has new hooks:◦AbilityTagExpandHandler, so new localization tags can be added
◦FinalizeUnitAbilitiesForInit, which allows special manipulation of a unit's ability list before the abilities are created in a tactical match

•Effects now have the ability to be redirected from their initial target◦EffectShouldRedirect figures out who gets the redirected effect

•New character template flag, bDiesWhenCaptured
•Character templates can now have forced first, last, and nick names
•Character templates can implement the delegate GetPhotographerPawnNameFn so as not to be forced to use soldier pawns for pictures in the strategy game
•Countries can now be hidden from character customization
•Deprecated X2AbilityMultiTarget_SoldierBonusRadius (though it continues to work for now). Base classes X2AbilityMultiTarget_Radius, _Cone, and _Line now support increasing the AOE range based on passive abilities in a generic fashion.
•Effects may add projectiles to a volley conditionally by registering in the EffectsForProjectileVolleys array and implementing the function GetProjectileVolleyTemplate. Effects that are always on should still use the perk system, but this callback allows for game state checks to add or not add the projectile to a volley.
•X2Effect_GenerateCover can now generate cover for mobile units, instead of forcing it to disappear when the unit moves

The buff to melee with Blademaster and Hunter's Instinct is most appreciated.

I knew the Shen's Last Gift class was going to be MECs. Didn't expect them to be fully robotic MECs though.

^Well, they don't have access to Meld in XCOM2 and that is what made Gene Mods and the original MECs possible in the first place so it makes sense I guess?

Johnny No. 5 has gone badass. lol

i was about to pick this up during summer sale, but then I read that a lot of bugs and also a lot of time constraint mission? in a strategy game? that's really turned me off

The timed missions in Legendary are brutal but in Commander or below they're not THAT bad. And if you really can't stand it, just download the Steam Workshop mods that disables mods. Badda-bing, badda-boom.

I downloaded the Workshop mods for Delta Squad and Star Wars helmets, paired with the ADVENT armor mod. Looks almost exactly like they appear in Republic Commando:

Spoiler for RC-1207 "Sev":

Edit: I also made some ARC Troopers, I have "Fives", "Echo", and "Hevy" (they all look the same):

Spoiler for ARC-5555 "Fives":

FYI: The class is a modded one. Lucubration's Infantry class. I also modded my .ini files so they they level up extremely quickly for my screw-around Easy run, lol.

I prefer the Halo mods, which are more complete including the helmets and the actual armors, and even the weapons. There's even mods that'll allow you to completely recreate Noble Team, from their unique armors to their voices. :heh:

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Originally Posted by LoweGear (Post 5891913)

I've seen them. They're pretty cool, though my character pool is growing to ridiculous proportions. I barely use half the characters in my pool as it is. :p

This is how pros do it:

Long War 2 Mod Coming to XCOM 2 on PC

Yes, it's an announcement for Long War 2 on the official XCOM site.

Time to schedule psychiatric counseling again, because the PTSD is back. :eek:

Jake Solomon and Garth DeAngelis playing Long War 2:

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Really nice to see Firaxis endorsing Long War 2 so much that they're the first ones to stream it online. The mod looks quite hefty, and it's supposed to be coming out "soon".