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[miauw62]

More like Oldford amirite?

XCOM 2 = tWoOtA confirmed.

[puke]

Since the Advent expose highlighted the commander and described his various abilities, this drives home my suspicion that the final unannounced class is a leadership type.

They might go the LW route and let you promote any troop to an officer role, but I suspect they'll give it a dedicated class instead.


...one of the things that bums me out, is that their new fancy "stealth" mechanics seem to be all or nothing.  Once you alert them to your presence, the action starts.

Would be nice if you could use part of the squad as a diversion while keeping your machete-ninja concealed.  Or use one guy with a long range support weapons as a diversion and keep the entire rest of your squad concealed for an end-run or ambush.

[PanH]

...one of the things that bums me out, is that their new fancy "stealth" mechanics seem to be all or nothing.  Once you alert them to your presence, the action starts.

Would be nice if you could use part of the squad as a diversion while keeping your machete-ninja concealed.  Or use one guy with a long range support weapons as a diversion and keep the entire rest of your squad concealed for an end-run or ambush.

Wouldn't that already be in as part of the vision system ? I mean, unless the AI is cheating, it needs to have vision too, though now that you're revealed, it would be harder to hide one of your guy.

Also, having a leadership class would be weird, I'd prefer something like LW.

[puke]

Also, having a leadership class would be weird, I'd prefer something like LW.

I would as well, but my suspicion is on a dedicated class.

My /hope/ is that the next class is a heavy gunner of some sort, but by guess is that it is a squad leader.

Of course, it could also be a mount.  some big dude in a fur suit or pony costume that your other squadies can ride into battle.

[scrdest]

...one of the things that bums me out, is that their new fancy "stealth" mechanics seem to be all or nothing.  Once you alert them to your presence, the action starts.

Would be nice if you could use part of the squad as a diversion while keeping your machete-ninja concealed.  Or use one guy with a long range support weapons as a diversion and keep the entire rest of your squad concealed for an end-run or ambush.

Wouldn't that already be in as part of the vision system ? I mean, unless the AI is cheating, it needs to have vision too, though now that you're revealed, it would be harder to hide one of your guy.

It is. Regular sneaking represents enemies assuming an all-clear, so they aren't that focused on seeing any individual threat. Once you trigger them, even if they don't see your other guys NOW, they know there are hostiles on the scene and exercise caution. You could get your diversion squad in one position, your other squad sneaking further and spring the distraction squad once someone runs or risks running into sight zone to protect your rear.

[sambojin]

Stealth lamp-posts FTW! They'll never see you coming (until they see you coming).

And, um, voice acting. They totally captured the nuisances of various peoples, didn't they?

Also, hidden conspiracy pt 472: Firaxis is both racist and xenophobic. Only the black people and aliens died. Assuming Yuri is just overcome with affection after a boobsnake cuddle, and all the baddies were aliens. It's not a very good conspiracy theory, admittedly.

[Chiefwaffles]

More stuff, yay!
Looks to me like more fluff-kind of stuff, but it is new.

On a (somehow) much more minor note, apparently the voice actor for EU's Bradford neither confirmed nor denied that he would be featured in XCOM2. I'm willing to bet that we'll get some kind of "where it went wrong" cinematic at the beginning of XCOM2, and he'll be in there. It just seems natural.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I wonder if Sectopods will be used as like, police-enforcers.

[Remalle]

I love fan art, and I cannot wait see what people do with our characters, like The Viper in this demo. Seeing that fan art, man, nothing gets me more jazzed.

Uh huh.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Solomon confirmed jazzed over snek r34.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I mean, I tried to not make an ejaculation joke, but it was just sitting there. It was so hard.

[IronyOwl]

Snek34 confirmed canon, or at least high-caliber.

I'm also super excited about the easily modded gameplay-affecting weather effects. Soon you too can fight all of your battles in hellish storms of various and unnatural origin!

[Sean Mirrsen]

I wonder if Sectopods will be used as like, police-enforcers.

Maybe in Detroit.

[miauw62]

I wonder if Sectopods will be used as like, police-enforcers.

ED-209s?

E:

NINJAS

[EnigmaticHat]

I wonder if Sectopods will be used as like, police-enforcers.

For the differing force requirements of police work, in the future sectopods will come in all sizes.  There will be super sectopods (as seen in LW), normal sectopods, mini sectopods (still larger than a human), and special model "shoulder sectopods" to advise ADVENT personal.