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[Sean Mirrsen]

The Panzerhosen (I'll borrow that term, thank ye kindly ) in Silent Storm were actually fairly easy to defeat - if you weren't fighting them on their own terms. They basically have APC armor, and everything you have in the game tends to be small arms and anti-personnel rifles. Their only real weakness is their pilot, I've personally never had a suit completely destroyed unless I didn't repair it for three missions straight.

What you do against Panzerhosen is catch them with their Hosen down. I have on many occasions defeated them by having my scout run up close to them, circle around, and shoot the pilot in the exposed legs and lower torso from behind with a handgun repeatedly. (you can aim at specific bodyparts with the numpad) Plus the suits can often be made to have no room to maneuver - their cannons are too long to shoot somebody right next to them.

Most later missions, I had just two or three suits on the field at most, for drawing fire and providing fire support, while my sniper(s) and scout(s) killed everybody. It was a hassle maintain them, and a pain to advance on the enemies with their slow pace.

[Hawk132]

XCOM 2's Exciting Modding Potential -- IGN First

[Puzzlemaker]

XCOM 2's Exciting Modding Potential -- IGN First

YESSS

GET HYPE

[Flying Dice]

XCOM 2's Exciting Modding Potential -- IGN First

YESSS

GET HYPE

HYPE ACQUIRED. STEP 2?


Seriously though, this all but confirms that whoever was speculating about paid mods was wrong.

[scriver]

I am hip to the hype

[10ebbor10]

On a side note. XCOM 2 will not have free-aim.

[scriver]

Personally, I would've assumed as much

[GiglameshDespair]

What you do against Panzerhosen is catch them with their Hosen down. I have on many occasions defeated them by having my scout run up close to them, circle around, and shoot the pilot in the exposed legs and lower torso from behind with a handgun repeatedly.

That seems quite the design flaw.

[Sean Mirrsen]

What you do against Panzerhosen is catch them with their Hosen down. I have on many occasions defeated them by having my scout run up close to them, circle around, and shoot the pilot in the exposed legs and lower torso from behind with a handgun repeatedly.

That seems quite the design flaw.

Apparently they sacrificed pilot safety in favor of pilots being able to get into and out of the things without outside help.

[Sonlirain]

What you do against Panzerhosen is catch them with their Hosen down. I have on many occasions defeated them by having my scout run up close to them, circle around, and shoot the pilot in the exposed legs and lower torso from behind with a handgun repeatedly. (you can aim at specific bodyparts with the numpad) Plus the suits can often be made to have no room to maneuver - their cannons are too long to shoot somebody right next to them.

I didn't know the back of their legs are exposed. I usually dealt with them by using the AT rifle you get from some rnadom mission in a specific country (It's a swiss mission i think) (i forgot the name but it can penetrate the tankpants) and lazor guns.
And then i got a set of angry pants for everyone in the squad complete with laser weapons so i can just roll over the entire game from that point onward.

There is nothing stopping you from having a whole squad of MEC troopers, and they're superior to normal humans. It's just that Meld is limiting.

Actually its not just the meld. Its the soldiers themselves.
You want to cut up the most experienced soldiers because a squaddie MEC is... pretty sucky.
If we are talking the base game only i could roll with 3-4 MEC1s before the alien base mission but if you want grenade launchers and other useful support abilities you are probably better off just getting 2 MEC-2s

[miauw62]

[hype intensifies]

[Zangi]

XCOM 2's Exciting Modding Potential -- IGN First

YESSS

GET HYPE

HYPE ACQUIRED. STEP 2?


Seriously though, this all but confirms that whoever was speculating about paid mods was wrong.

The article doesn't mention anything for or against it...  pessimism still at maximum setting.

Anyways, the PC only reason was pretty obvious to begin with, mods and /s PC master race.

[scrdest]

Only semi-related, but Solomon really sounds like a chill dude. I read a RPS interview with him from before EU was released an hour-ish ago too (don't ask why) and it seems pretty consistent chillaxitudiness.

[Retropunch]

ITS A TARRRRP!!!

I have to say that as exciting as this all sounds, I really can't believe there won't be some sort of catch. I definitely don't think they'll be paid mods as I think that would have popped up (and they MUST know that that doesn't work after the Valve Incident) but I do feel that they'll be something a miss.

Maximum pessimism, but I can see them massively cutting down on content and going 'but mods!!!!'

[Wimopy]

I love how the inspirational artwork starts with Half-Life.
On that note, here's hoping that Half-Life 3 will be confirmed to be a WIP project, but not out "within a year".

Pessimism: I don't see how it's good for the developer if the games are played long after their release. I don't think many sales come from that. Paid mods would explain it, but we'll see, I guess. I somehow feel they won't be taking that route.