XCOM 2 is out, OK, THIS TIME FOR REAL

[DGuller]

[Crazy_Ivan80]

it could still dodge :p

[FunkMonk]

Finished a pretty cool mission in my latest play through.

Early game, destroy alien beacon mission. 8 turns to get across the map. Not usually a problem when I can walk straight to the objective but this map had two turrets right smack between me and the beacon so I had to use up several turns sneaking around the turrets.

Luckily there was a two story building adjacent to the building housing the objective. I climbed up to the roof and parked my entire squad up there. I get everyone in position just with 1 turn remaining. My plan is to lob grenades at the beacon to destroy it using my two grenadiers and have everyone else in covering positions. I open up the assault from concealment using my two man sniper team to attack a MEC and his stun lancer buddy. Unfortunately for me the stun lancer survives on 1 hp and the MEC jumps up onto the roof to flank my sniper team. It seems I might be royally fucked here.

I figure the only way out is grenading the MEC so that it falls through the roof and causing more damage, while my two grenadiers blow up the objective, which they do with much aplomb and without activating any other pods. Yay team.

On the alien turn the damaged MEC jumps back up onto the roof and shoots and panics my flanked sniper who couldn't move on my previous turn because she took the opening shot. She, my badass Russian sniper lady, survives on 1 hp, panic-moves one tile over to the corner of the building that blocks the ladder, and Return Fire procs, killing the offending MEC with much panache. Next the stun lancer tries to climb the ladder to the roof and stun lance the same sniper but because she's occupying the ladder tile on the roof he can't climb up. The game however still registers this as a shot on my sniper and Return Fire procs again in the same alien turn, killing the stun lancer. Badass Russian sniper lady just killed two enemies during the alien turn with only 1 hp remaining.

The rest of the map is just mop up at this point because my grenadiers and badass Russian sniper lady basically won the map in one turn, the very last turn remaining before mission failure.

Return Fire is amazing in the right conditions and with a little luck and having at least two grenadiers on destruction missions is always a good idea.

[Duque de Bragança]

First patch for XCOM 2, only 600 megs or so but the caps lock trick may be gone...

[FunkMonk]

Steam decided to make the likeness I made of Katmai as my XCOM launch profile picture. This is what I see every time I launch XCOM 2:

[garbon]

Also that's a fair amount of people playing xcom

[DGuller]

Beat the game on Veteran Ironman difficulty. Really not a fan of the last mission, though.

[Kleves]

I had a fun mission where I was down to my last turn to hack something or other. I couldn't get anyone close enough to the console to hack it, but I did have a specialist who, I hoped, would be able to hack it remotely. Unfortunately, she didn't have LOS on it, since it was inside a building. So I had my grenadiers blow the walls out so that she would have a clear LOS to hack the thing. This actually worked, which shows how cool this game is.

[Scipio]

Downloading. Got the digital deluxe on CDkeys.com for $49. Excited.

[Scipio]

Holy shit, this game escalates. WTF.

[HVC]

Fun game, but I still suck at it.  Thank god for the caps loading screen trick

[DGuller]

Does anyone know of a mod to speed up animations?  Waiting a couple of second for a reload gets old fast.

[Scipio]

BTW, Rangers are kickass.

[Scipio]

Had a weird-ass glitch where I cold-cocked the VIP, carried him to EVAc, and the mission scored him and the trooper carrying him as dead. WTF? Got dinged hard for that. Thanks, XCOM 2.

[Duque de Bragança]

Does anyone know of a mod to speed up animations?  Waiting a couple of second for a reload gets old fast.

Have you tried "Stop wasting my time"?

http://www.nexusmods.com/xcom2/mods/217/?

Was also accessible through Steam or the game.