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[Flying Dice]

Hehehe. Remembered that I can just switch over to Legend difficulty without starting a new game. So I buffed swords, increased squad size to 5-7, and edited alien pods so that they all have more enemies, as well as adding Psi Witches/Avatars to both the BossLeader and Open pools, and replaced a lot of weaker spawn pools with BossLeader. Meaning that I could theoretically get pods consisting of five of them, and that I'll be seeing them, Gatekeepers, Sectopods, and such in a lot more missions.

But yeah, I seriously buffed swords. Increased damage, crit chance, and damage on both of the upgrades, as well as pierce and shred on the beamsword. Also perfect accuracy. I want to play with high-risk high-reward cyberninjas, damn it. I also added two more stealth charges and a boost to Shadowstrike's crit chance to make me more likely to bother using that tree. Also gave the second utility slot back to the heavy armor sets, because more and tougher enemies calls for extra grenades.

[Chiefwaffles]

Spoiler: Ending Spoilers (click to show/hide)

IT WAS TERROR FROM THE DEEP ALL THIS TIME
OH MY GOD

EDIT:

Spoiler: More Spoilers/Ending Discussion (click to show/hide)

Considering the fact that the Ethereals call you "Betrayer" and say things along the lines of "we will take back what we have given", the theory that the Commander is the ethereal from the Bureau seems pretty likely.

Then that sequel hook. Apocalypse remake? Terror from the Deep? Something else? IT CAN MEAN SO MANY THINGS

[Wiles]

Aaargh.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So I decided it was time to build the defense matrix - I had a feeling a UFO was going to come get me soon. 1 day left on the building of the matrix and suuuure enough a UFO shows up and disables my engines 

[Neonivek]

I have to say... all my ideas of what the Avatar project was...

Were way better then what it turns out the Avatar project actually was...

For example my two big theories were
1) They were planning on combining the psi-energy of everyone on the network in order to create an unstoppable psionic entity
2) They were going to override everyone's will

[Drakale]

About the defense matrix...

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The defense matrix have been pretty pathetic in my first game, 2 lousy turret on the ground mission after getting shot down, they barely even got to shoot since the fight was too far away. Definitely not worth the investment.

My last mission finished in the strangest way. I was having a pretty bad time, lots of wounded, lots of mistakes on my part, and one pod remaining somewhere on the map. I'm going real slow because I'm almost out of resources and I could easily lose the team on a single bad trigger. Finally my elite grenadier(who is 'shaken') spot 2 lancer and a sectoid chilling out in a room on the second story of a building. Strangely enough they don't move after being spotted and stay in a tight group, so I count my blessing and fling my very last grenade in there. The game freeze for a good 2 seconds and then I hear the horrible death rattle of like 6 civilians. Turn out the aliens didn't move because they couldn't, smothered by the terrified family fleeing the horrible xcom terrorists.

The funniest thing is after returning to base the grenadier got over her shaken status, despite her heavy wounded status and killing 6 civilians. I like to think she is just insane now, so I got her a nice bunch of scars and a brand new psycho mask.

[Majestic7]

So many games have so shitty writing. Is it so hard to get an actual writer do it instead of having some intern just wing it?

Anyway, regarding the game - anyone annoyed a little by the excessive parkour? I can't help noticing guys jumping from third floor with no ill effects. It would be cool if superparkour was the effect of certain perks and/or armor. Likewise, it is silly that random scientists and other VIPs can climb drain pipes to the roofs of buildings. Another nice twist would be if VIPs were unable to do all those crazy stunts and would need to, you know, use the stairs and stuff.

[Sensei]

Anyway, regarding the game - anyone annoyed a little by the excessive parkour? I can't help noticing guys jumping from third floor with no ill effects.

I'd be more annoyed by not being able to jump off buildings with impunity, even if the animation's not very believable (it'd look better if they slid down a rope or something).

[Majestic7]

If spider armor allowed you to do all that jumping/climbing shit instead, it would be worthwhile. Oh well, can't have everything. Though of course now we get 13-year-olds jumping from roofs and dying because they play XCOM!11!!1!!1!

[Rolan7]

I haven't been opening the ending spoilers (though curse this forum for making me almost instinctively click on spoiler tags!) and I haven't got to the end, but I'd like to share my theory.  I'll spoil it just in case, I guess.

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It's going to be the Volunteer basically, right?  Except loyal to aliens.  Because I'm pretty sure they mentioned that the Volunteer would be coming back in this.

The aliens always wanted humans for our wonderfully balanced DNA...  Psionic ability while being physically adequate.  It's completely obvious that the Avatar project involves human DNA, but my bet is that it's mostly or entirely human - with tweaks to unlock potential.

Like Annette and the other captives in XCOM 1, except hopefully better after 20-some years of development.

Also that "9 things you should know before starting XCOM 2" guide pseudo-spoiled me that filling the doom counter isn't an instant game over, just starts a timer.  Which seems like a bit of a dick move, honestly.  But at the same time it had a ton of info that REALLY should have been explained in-game.  I played the long kinda frustrating tutorial specifically to get updated on new mechanics, and it was pretty much useless.  Just decent fluff.

[Neyvn]

I just remembered my tangle with the UFO (The one that triggers the shot down cutscene).
I had originally moved to prevent any active hunting from a Dark Event and things were going well, I had run out of Intel and was planning to move onto a Facility in the Mexico Region so I was at HQ (set in West Russia) when I get a sudden warning alert that one was chassing me. I thought, well at least this is a Random event so maybe it isn't set in stone like a Dark Event. But nope. The Avenger flew to East Russia and then sat floating the the air there, for like 2mins of REAL TIME before the UFO finally appeared on the map flying at me...

The Battle was INTENSE. Though it wasn't difficult, cause I had reached the point of where all my guys were suited up with EXO suits and Mag Weapons and such, the aliens died quickly, they just didn't stop coming. One would touch down, if they were not killed on landing I would scramble to hunt them down when they moved out of safe range and then on the OTHER SIDE OF THE AO ANOTHER WOULD LIGHT UP! It was literally impossible to move forwards towards the EMP Generator to blow it up without missing out on killing a threat. Mow down one force and another would take its place. I eventually risked leaving a couple of weaker guys just to take it down and then suddenly the speed of attack doubled, it literally tuned into an event where the moment I got in control of my team after a group of aliens dropped down another flare would light up. Meaning constant forces pouring down on me...

After a while I think I was starting to use them to Grind...

Also had a moment of worry. Flying through Indonesia back to get some Intel after a Supply Drop. I saw a UFO patrolling from one side to the other of the region area, making it like a sliding deathzone. Luckily the Avenger slipped passed twice. Another drop appeared in Australia...

[Chiefwaffles]

Is Avenger Defense really a one-time thing? I was under the impression it was rare but possible to happen multiple times. Because after I got shot down, I never got the dark event again.
Kind of disappointing, if so.

[Neyvn]

Is Avenger Defense really a one-time thing? I was under the impression it was rare but possible to happen multiple times. Because after I got shot down, I never got the dark event again.
Kind of disappointing, if so.

I don't know. I just know that there was no UFO Hunting Darkevent running at the time I was shot down...
It really was a random event. ACTUALLY now that I think about it, it happened again, BUT we avoided it...

EDIT: AND, there is a facility that fields Defenses with those missions too after you unlock one of the Mech autopsy...

[Flying Dice]

Is Avenger Defense really a one-time thing? I was under the impression it was rare but possible to happen multiple times. Because after I got shot down, I never got the dark event again.
Kind of disappointing, if so.

I'm pretty sure I remember reading that it was weighted such that you'd average one Defense per campaign. I'll see if I get another in my neverending one.

Speaking of that, had to undo the extra item slot on heavy armor, pretty sure it caused a crash. No big loss.

Oh! In regard to things that should really be explained: Holding LCtrl while you make movement orders allows you to set up waypoints so your troopers run the path you want them to.

[Rolan7]

Does that work for performing sword moves, or is there any way to?  They seem to prefer ending in cover, I think, but maybe not when it involves moving past the enemy a little.  That lack of control has me training up scout-recons instead.

[Chiefwaffles]

If you mouse over next to the border of an enemy (within movement range, of course) and an adjacent tile, you can right click to move your soldier to that adjacent tile to attack the enemy. It's fairly obvious when you do it. (The adjacent tile gets a melee symbol on it)