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[Flying Dice]

You mean you didn't just give newbies classic tan and hand out special colors to each operator when they earned their callsign?

[Aklyon]

If they lasted long enough to get a class, then they get the class color except for assaults, who got a hat instead. Assaults got their armor colored when they managed to get a callsign, because my assaults were danger-magnets usually.

[Krevsin]

I just made everyone glorious flourescent pink and differentiated their classes by headwear. Snipers got the hat, assaults the berets, supports the helmets and heavies the baseball cap. Rookies did not deserve a headdress. What am I, made of money?

[Mephansteras]

I usually did dedicated squads built to work off one another's abilities. People were added to a squad permanently when they got their call-sign, and each squad had its own color and sometimes uniform look. I then took the appropriate squad for the mission at hand.

[Gabeux]

You mean you didn't just give newbies classic tan and hand out special colors to each operator when they earned their callsign?

I did, also changing the armor/helmet (hat?) depending on the role.
I did have some patterns though, but they changed depending on the character. Generally my assaults would have more vivid colors (I was all about Assaults), Heavies usually red, Snipers black, Support always white with Archangel Armor. Psionics usually purple, of course, but I cared little for Psionics in this game than I did in the UFO game series (first game, Psi was just gamebreaking..but necessary).

I'd usually go with 2 Assaults, 1 Heavy, 1 Sniper, 2 Supports. I didn't like to abuse the OPness of Snipers, and my usual tactics was to make a front line with 2 Supports and the Heavy, have the Sniper insta-killing high-value targets, and the Assaults rushing like crazy, flanking and stealthing.

Also, I really liked Supports. With the S.C.O.P.E, one of my Supports fired better than everyone else, excluding my Sniper. And it saved my dudes so many times!

[KingofstarrySkies]

Anyone who was not a rookie got a helmet. It was rare that I gave people hats instead of full helmets. Also, I changed the 'Deco' thing depending on class.

[puke]

Did anyone ever edit the config files to create standard colors / outfits for different classes?

I wish there was a way to create template gear / colors for classes, so I didn't have to re-equip them each time or recolor whenever someone got promoted from rookie to squadie or however it goes.  Personally i couldn't be bothered with the customization so I just went with the standard Long War colors.

If I was only going to have 8 or 10 guys and squads were limited to 4 and I didn't have to worry about down time, I might have personalized more.  But when you've got a roster 40-60 deep and squads getting mixed and matched depending on who's available for any given mission, the personalization gets to be more annoying than useful.

On the other hand, I intend to start a new playthrough when the next version of LW drops, and sort of rush / cheese / cheat it.  I'll level up an initial 12 guys and they will be my elites and the foundation of the officer corps.  They might get customized in fancy hats and black armor and other silly nonsense.

[Sensei]

Arguably late, but...

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[forsaken1111]

Honestly they don't even look like boobs. They look like shifted pectoral muscles.

[timferius]

I make all my rookies red (obviously) and give them the helmet that looked like a paintball helmet. The idea was that until they earn a call sign, they are faceless mooks to me, to be thrown to the slaughter.

[EnigmaticHat]

I'm going to do at least one run of xcom 2 where everyone is wearing the assassin's outfits from Assassin's Creed.

[puke]

Honestly they don't even look like boobs. They look like shifted pectoral muscles.

Then the the artists failed at their puerile goals.  I don't know why people are defending them so vehemently, they are clearly advertised as "viper ladies" and their little midriff bearing boob armor even has a zipper down the middle, making it entirely unlike armor.  And they have female style protrusive hips, not male style flat hips or snake style atavistic pelvis that you can't even see without an xray or dissection.

I mean, you illustrate the problem perfectly, yourself:

Also hips? He doesn't even have legs. How can he have hips?

exactly this!  why the fuck did they draw them that way?  God I hope we're being trolled, but I suspect that the game art will be like this.

Also, I expect that they chose the hooded cobra as the model for similar reasons.  I'll just leave this here.  http://oglaf.com/naja/  NSFW.

[Aklyon]

I do not see these hips you guys are so bothered by.

[puke]

Who's bothered?  I just think its funny.  I'll be honest with you here, I think the only people that are bothered are the guys trying not to see it or making up reasons that it isn't there.  The rest of us are just having a good laugh.

[scrdest]

I kept all my standard troops black (the penultimate color scheme, as there are two black ones) for tacticool black-op ayy removal and all superhumans (psi and MECTs, gene-moddies don't count) scarlet. The former to make them less visible to the enemy, the latter to make them more visible to the enemy - both for obvious reasons. Also, because I like black/red color schemes.

By the way - I hated the standard tan, and having the black scheme have a completely out of place tan stripes on it grinded my gears like nothing else.