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[Sean Mirrsen]

Speaking of getting rekt, two Faceless on that Retaliation mission. I was very lucky to not have triggered them until after everyone else was gone. The shaken grenadier who got a panic-crit on a Muton killed another Muton during the fight, and I discovered that the ADVENT officer Marking targets counts as an attack and triggers Return Fire. And everyone who survived got promotions, which was, surprisingly, everyone but that highly unlucky Ranger.

I seem to be hemorraging Rangers lately. Lost another one earlier to a very, very inconveniently timed Shock Lancer and very bad team positioning, during a VIP capture mission. She was covering the team with overwatch fire as reinforcements moved in, two turns before the timer ran out (I had to deal with a Codex on that mission). Other Ranger - the one I recently lost - carries the VIP off to evac, rest of the team lines up behind a car ready to dash into evac as well. Enemy turn, officer runs up to the car because they can't see my team from where they are, misses the shot, stands in the way. Shock lancer one runs up to the car, misses the stab, adds to path blockage. Shock lancer two runs up to the cover the ranger is sitting behind, eats the reaction fire, and stuns her unconscious. One turn left to evac, she's too far to be carried to it in one turn thanks to path blockage, only one of my team who can reach evac and fire is a Sharpshooter and he can't do much. Ended up having to evac and leave her to be captured.

[TherosPherae]

Got my graphics card and have lost most of this week's free time to killing ayys (and savescumming like a bitch) on Veteran. It's a lot of fun generally. There's a few bugs that get on my nerves (burrowing chryssalids breakin' mah save files) and a few mechanics that you have to try out to learn, but otherwise it's great.

[EnigmaticHat]

Am I the only one who mixes up veteran and commander?  I've been playing on commander but I've told some people that I'm playing on veteran...

[Majestic7]

Does anyone else feel that the game has a pacing problem?

It starts fine and you feel like you are progresssing, encountering new cool enemies and so forth. Then you suddenly get plasma weapons and power armor, there are suddenly gatekeepers on every mission and nothing left to research. Instead of a steady progress and development, you just suddenly jump to the maximum level. After that I just sort of grinded the game to an end, I didn't really feel it had anything interesting to give me anymore.

[Neonivek]

Does anyone else feel that the game has a pacing problem?

It starts fine and you feel like you are progresssing, encountering new cool enemies and so forth. Then you suddenly get plasma weapons and power armor, there are suddenly gatekeepers on every mission and nothing left to research. Instead of a steady progress and development, you just suddenly jump to the maximum level. After that I just sort of grinded the game to an end, I didn't really feel it had anything interesting to give me anymore.

No I think you are pretty right.

Heck the start of the game feels drastically different from where you got mag weapons and actual armor.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, it moves much too fast, especially on lower difficulties. That's why I started difficulty and length modding before I even finished my first campaign.

Incidentally, you can get multiple landed UFO missions in one campaign. I just got my second after close to an ingame-year of play.

[Rince Wind]

In my unmodded veteran playthrough I had 3 or 4 landed UFOs.

[Darkening Kaos]

    Well, that's me done.  That final mission was an endurance test, had to quit twice when the graphics went berserk on me as the Surface was pushed beyond the limit.  Don't think I can play again until I get a more capable machine.

[Rince Wind]

I want a mod, or an addon, that takes place after the ending of XCOM2, but...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

...this time around you play Advent. You are the Speaker and in control of a single city. You need to keep the populace from rebelling, which you can do with Advent troopers. But as the psionic link to the elders is severed you also need to field some of the aliens that are still here with you troops to keep THEM under control. You have a pool of troops at the beginning but you can't make new ones. And you have to balance them patrolling the living areas and protecting the more valuable assets. You'll need to find and rebuild a forge before you can get new soldiers, and even then you'll need to feed it humans. Abducting can only bring in so many, so you might have to use your own populace, who will grow suspicious and even more unruly as friends and family members disappear. XCOM can't be everywhere (might be similar in mechanics to EWs Exalt), and there is more than one city not yet under their control, even though communications are cut. Most of your fights will be against rebels that are a way worse than XCOM and you have to try and stay under the radar until you can reestablish communication with the elders (who of course did not put all eggs in one basket/underwater facility). Once you have done this they might send you the occasional alien to bolster your ranks. On another front you need to contact the other cities and try to coordinate things with them to make sure that XCOM is busy and can't respond to everything. You'll also need to somehow complete the Avatar project or something similar before XCOM smashes you and before that other threat comes by and destroys everything.

[Chiefwaffles]

I'm only kind of sorry for more spoiler-stuff on the same topic.

Spoiler: YET EVEN MORE (overall) SPOILERS (click to show/hide)

So it turns out that a ton of the scanning events hint at - no, outright scream about - Vahlen. You can find a neglected captive ADVENT trooper. You can also apparently find (haven't seen this one) a dissection/interrogation report and the picture associated with the report shows Vahlen's name in writing on the top of this makeshift dissection report. (As in, "by vahlen").
There's also apparently a scanning event where you find a makeshift lab with some alien technology. "VAHLEN" is also seen here. (At the bottom of thepaper illuminated by the lamp in that picture.)

So if it wasn't already obvious, Vahlen is definitely returning, and Firaxis is trying to set it up. Only question at this point is: Sequel, or Expansion?

[misko27]

I have a rather game-breaking bug going on, but a rather, unusual one.

The aliens don't move anymore. At all. Under any circumstance. Not on their turn, not when their pod is revealed, not even when I break concealment for the first time. I tried an overwatch ambush, only for it to be useless because "standing perfectly still, minding their own business" isn't enough to set it off. It started on the previous mission (a downed UFO), but I hoped that it would only last for a single mission. Nope. I feel like I'm beating up children now. Even attacking the Sectopod feels like a violation. (Although I did skulljack a codex, and the thing that popped out had so much dodge it managed to survive for a while despite me apparently turning off the aliens.

It started when I ran a Heavy MEC full force at the enemy and micro-missiled itself. I think that's it. I get VERY weird bugs whenever I do that. Once all the animations stopped and the game wouldn't continue, and this time, well, this happened.

Fortunately it wasn't Ironman, so I can still deal with this in any case.

[BFEL]

OH LORD.
These operation names XD

I can chose between operation VENGEFUL VENGEANCE or operation NIGHT STANK right now. The lol is real.

[EnigmaticHat]

Does anyone else feel that the game has a pacing problem?

Soloman and his team just can't balance lategame in their games.  Xcom gets too many incremental upgrades and it just adds up to the player entering godmode.  I mean let's look at one aspect of a soldier, their aim.  You get an aim boost for mag weapons, and then for plasma weapons.  Every single promotion gives an aim boost.  You can mount a scope for an aim boost.  Tracer ammo and holo-targetting boost aim even further.  And that's not even counting the elevation and distance bonuses.  Everything in the game works like that.  There are like 4 different grenade launcher upgrades and once you have them all you barely need guns any more.

What they really need to do next time is divide their game in half, so the earlygame and the lategame can be balanced separately.  Something like "you can't get the next tier of weapons till the alien base.  The next tier of weapons is vastly higher damage then before, but also has significantly lower aim."  And like the first half of the game is mostly ADVENT or weak aliens and then once you attack the base (or equivalent story milestone) its mostly strong aliens, but if you don't attack the alien base the game starts adding in strong aliens to the first half as a soft time limit.

[Cthulhu]

Now that I'm full plasma even when I bring rookies in I usually see 90% or more accuracy rate.

Also snipers are pretty much exactly the same as they were in EU, maybe worse.  Snipers never die, they rarely even take damage, and as a result they get way overleveled and gobble up all the experience.  I've got three colonel snipers now, two of whom were in my original roster on day 1, and any one of them will usually get half the kills in a given mission.

[umiman]

Now that I'm full plasma even when I bring rookies in I usually see 90% or more accuracy rate.

Also snipers are pretty much exactly the same as they were in EU, maybe worse.  Snipers never die, they rarely even take damage, and as a result they get way overleveled and gobble up all the experience.  I've got three colonel snipers now, two of whom were in my original roster on day 1, and any one of them will usually get half the kills in a given mission.

Snipers are super strong right now simply because there aren't any invis tentacle monsters to molest them this time. So yeah, just like EU. So they just chill no big deal at spawn and blow everyone to pieces. Give them armor piercing and everything dies. Then you combine kill zone with superior ammo.... holeee fuuuckkkk.

They don't even need armor either. Just give them the grappling hook and they're gravy.

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I've stopped playing until more mods and dlc come out. I did the same thing with XCOM: EU as well. It's always nice to enjoy the game more when there's more fleshed out shit. Like hopefully giant robots with rocket fists.

Besides, I've already proven I'm a superior human by being one of the first in the world to beat it on legendary ironman MWAHAHAHAHAHA *cough*.