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[KaelGotDwarves]

You have the paintballer's wet dream tacticool army helmets with too much stuff on them, and then you have the skull-on-bandanas ro-ro-FIGHT DA POWAH ridiculous teenage outfits.

And then you can put these outfits on 50 year old suburban mom types and have them shoot missiles at aliens. XCOM2

PS: monocles + Guile's hair on everyone.

[Flying Dice]

If you're a real pro you use the skull bandana over the skull facepaint.

[scrdest]

If you're a real pro you use the skull bandana over the skull facepaint.

Which, let us not forget, is painted over an actual skull.

[Sirus]

If you're a real pro you use the skull bandana over the skull facepaint.

Skull bandana, skull facepaint, and an off-white bandana tied over the top of the head. Spooky scary skeleton.

[KaelGotDwarves]

What's with the monocle but no top hat? That's pretty weird. You'd think if they're putting in silly shit they might as well have it match.

[Cthulhu]

Fucking sectoids, dude.

I mean yeah, they like to waste turns with useless moves, but that's the only thing holding them back.  Every turn they don't waste just fucks you over.  I don't know how many missions I've had going like clockwork until a sectoid mind controlled my dude and threw everything into chaos.

Plus you can't tell how far the zombies are going to be able to move.  It's like the only really non-transparent thing in the game, and it just makes hte sectoids even more frustrating.

[EnigmaticHat]

Stun lancers are the new thin men.  Holy shit.  Just had a squad wipe where pretty much everyone was panicking and getting whacked by near unavoidable stun damage every single turn.

Although to be fair my agents rolled horribly on their resist panic/mindfray rolls.

Edit: I am now going to a terror mission with all 5 of my remaining soldiers, none of whom have any extra gear except for like two weapon upgrades.  Welp, here goes nothing.

Double edit: Made it out with only a graze and two faceless hits.  Both those hits were on the same turn as reveal and against the same soldier (Mr. Receding Hairline from my first mission, who's a badass BTW), but he survived thanks to healing.  I really needed that.

[Greenbane]

There's probably more to it than anti-alias, but I found this interesting bit on XCOM 2's AA settings...

So you’ve got your shiny new GTX 970 or your Radeon R9 390, and you’ve booted up a simple turn-based tactical strategy game and found you can’t max it with a decent frame rate. Disappoint right? But not the end of the world. It’s exclusively because the Maximum preset in XCOM 2 is set at 8x MSAA. This is the most demanding form of antialiasing in existence, and you’ll see frame rates drop into single digits even on a GTX 970 at 1080p.

The reason for this is that MSAA 8x is literally rendering at 8x 1080p resolution, before downsampling. That’s basically equal to rendering at 6K resolution, which is going to crumble all but the mightiest graphics cards.

Just because you think you have a decent graphics card, doesn’t mean you can max the settings. It doesn’t mean XCOM 2 is unoptimised, and it doesn’t mean your graphics card isn’t any good. MSAA 8x is just a theoretical maximum that at least somewhat future-proofs XCOM 2. Turn this off and you'll see your frame rate jump 8x. Your best bet is FXAA.

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[Chiefwaffles]

I've had graphics set to high and haven't had any performance drops with a 3570k i5 CPU and R9 270 GPU. Well, other than the occasional FPS drop to ~20 when doing intensive loading (skyranger, etc.)
I heard that the performance issues have to do with RAM, so I guess it helps that I have 16gb of ram?

[Flying Dice]

Fucking sectoids, dude.

I mean yeah, they like to waste turns with useless moves, but that's the only thing holding them back.  Every turn they don't waste just fucks you over.  I don't know how many missions I've had going like clockwork until a sectoid mind controlled my dude and threw everything into chaos.

Plus you can't tell how far the zombies are going to be able to move.  It's like the only really non-transparent thing in the game, and it just makes hte sectoids even more frustrating.

My typical approach has been thus: if nothing worse than a Captain is nearby, kill the Sectoid first. If there is, kill that first (since there's good odds the Sectoid will zombie it instead of something useful), then kill the Sectoid before the zombie can act.

I've only lost the two forced losses so far, and that's wholly because I've gotten lucky kept up a steady tempo to leave the ayys on the back foot forever.

[Sonlirain]

Apparently sectoids usually try to raise a zombie above using any other psi powers so apparently you can get away with leaving a sectoid alive for 1 turn and eliminate advent troopers/officers first.
Sectoids will busy themselves with animating zombies before doing something actually damaging (like mind controlling your best soldier).

[Aklyon]

My typical approach has been this:
1. Can Ace hit it? Shoot it with the free pistol shot.
2. Kill the sneks and stun lancers first. Or Mutons if I see any more of those.

[Neonivek]

Neonivek will always find a complaint about a game.  If the game were perfect he would reorganize his definitions so "perfect" means "bad."

Well no.

That is really my only complaint storywise. It feels like a cop-out a way to sidestep making you have the feels since your killing innocent citizens.

[scrdest]

Also PSA on pectoids: disorienting them apparently breaks their mind control/zombie raising.

Caveat emptor, though, that's just what I read as an ersatz for being able to play.

[Urist Imiknorris]

WELP, got shot down. Now to have dinner and then figure out what the hell I'm going to do about it.