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[Graknorke]

Can grenadiers walk through buildings? No? That's what I thought.

Alternatively grab some codices (?) and use their unlimited teleport to be an obnoxious flanker.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Replace the Exosuits with Ghost suits?

Sadly, you can't customize your loadout to that extent, or I'd be tossing out Mimic Beacons and Flashbangs like candy. NEITHER OF WHICH YOU CAN USE IN MULTIPLAYER HNG

Use psi ops and mind control all the things.

That's my backup squad; two PsiOps and a Combat Hacker, in case they play a mech squad.

Can grenadiers walk through buildings? No? That's what I thought.

Alternatively grab some codices (?) and use their unlimited teleport to be an obnoxious flanker.

They can blow up buildings, which is close enough.
BRB gonna make a team of 5 Codexes.

[misko27]

My current problem: I want to download the Mod tools, but they are SO HUGE. So huge. Literally insane. I had to uninstall a bunch of other stuff to make it fit.

I'm now wondering if I can keep all or part of it on a flashdrive.

[Aklyon]

But sectopods are so expensive, and they provide one big, easy target for the enemy team to focus fire on, while three Grenadiers in Exosuits have enough grenades and rockets for each member of the enemy team and their cover.

They also have more armor than three grenadiers in exosuits and can blow the shit out of a team stupid enough to not get out of the way. Also they can gain a height advantage as a free action.

[SOLDIER First]

Plus automatic overwatch.
I'm really glad I never got past, say, the alien base in EU.

[Flying Dice]

Just realized that the difficulty setting got reverted when I had to go back to an older save to avoid a crash point. Herp. That's fixed now. Still not hard enough though, probably going to make it so more boss-tier enemies spawn in the normal/mook pools.

[umiman]

A friend and I are going to play multiplayer against each other, and I'm planning on using a three Demo Expert (with plasma grenades to round out the point count) and one Chryssalid team. Any advice?

Yeah. Don't.

The MP is currently in an almost unplayable state. It crashes constantly and do you know how stupid the process is to connect with one another?

To save you the grief, it's like this:

1. Both of you create a squad.
2. Both of you host a custom game room.
3. Both of you invite each other to the room. BOTH. So you invite him then when he accepts he invites you.

It took my friend and I an hour just to figure out how to join each other's game.

But don't worry because it'll crash every single time! Sometimes right at the beginning. Sometimes after a few turns. Sometimes near the climax.

Not to mention the netcode sucks ass and it can take up to 5 minute just to resolve a turn after you've done it.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Good to know. Thanks for the info. I was worried that the problems that I had had with randoms were on my side exclusively.

[Cthulhu]

Oh hey, protip.

There's a known bug in the Forge mission (you'll know it when you get there) that causes persistent crashes if you load a game inside the mission.  So save before the mission and if you have to reload reload that one.

Also, don't answer this, but I'm putting this here ahead of time so I have it when I turn out to be right.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dr. Vahlen is in the stasis pod, probably controlling the forge facility.

[EnigmaticHat]

Umm... and if I happen to be doing ironman?  Geez...  Guess I'll have to do it in one go.

[Rince Wind]

Went off to the final mission. The game crashed. This is Enemy Unknown all over again.

The forge mission was kinda easy. Though with maxed psi ops and colonels the others weren't very difficult either. The endgame is still too easy. Well, I'll see if those words will still be true for the last mission.

[Cthulhu]

The forge is kind of easy.  It feels bigger and sparser than some of the other missions.  Like the convoy ambush was a clusterfuck cause there were so many guys packed into it.  This one I was able to take each pod one at a time.

[Chiefwaffles]

Spoiler: Ending Spoilers/Future DLC+Sequel speculation (click to show/hide)

So there are three main unresolved plot points in XCOM 2:
Dr. Vahlen. The book talks about her apparently surviving and disappearing, and her status is frequently speculated on by Bradford & company. There is no way she won't appear later on, but the question is how and when? All I really hope is that it's a big thing. Like XCOM 3 or a big expansion.

The plague-thing mentioned in the book. I haven't read the book, but there's supposedly a weird crystalline infection thing that ADVENT is super scared of. It looks like it's briefly mentioned in a scanning opportunity but nowhere else in the game. I honestly have no idea what this means or when it could appear. It may even not appear later.

And finally, the sequel hook from the end of XCOM 2. The whole psionic energy blasting from under the sea thing.
I personally just see it as a definite hook into XCOM 3, which will likely be similar to either Apocalypse or TFTD. Since the psi-blast can be seen as the ecological disaster from the end of TFTD, hence giving XCOM 3 an Apocalypse-type setting, or it can be seen as something "awakening" in the seas, giving a TFTD-like scenario.
I mean, I would have preferred XCOM 3: SPACE, but at least it looks like there will be an XCOM 3.


Honestly, the numerous hooks left in are kind of annoying. Even though it's much better than XCOM: EU (mostly in general quality), XCOM 2's story is pretty straight-forward. Aliens are doing pretty much exactly what you expect, and you stop them. Not that much to it.
And then they give us all these cool hints that there may be a twist or "Act II" throwing some kind of curveball and changing the situation - like the crystal plague thing becoming a threat, or Vahlen appearing as the ADVENT head, taunting you (how could would that be) through the course of the game. Oh well.

EDIT: Didn't feel like making a new post, but sheesh. The XCOM 2 SDK is impressive. I just started looking at the quick start guide and it's extremely extensive.

[Toaster]

Spoiler: Psi ability comment (click to show/hide)

Fuse is crazy good.

1.  Blows up enemy explosive ordinance in their pockets.
2.  Grenades, MEC launcher ammo, anything the enemy has that goes boom.
3.  It's AOE.
4.  It shreds.
5.  It has no cooldown.
6.  It can target corpses.

I find myself constantly using it.  It's like having a reusable grenade.

[Urist Imiknorris]

The forge is kind of easy.  It feels bigger and sparser than some of the other missions.  Like the convoy ambush was a clusterfuck cause there were so many guys packed into it.  This one I was able to take each pod one at a time.

That mission had my first sectopod, and my hacker took over it immediately and I marched it straight to the objective, pausing only to see what sort of damage its lazor does. Three turns of complete mayhem.