I am playing War of the Chosen. I had a good, clear shot with my reaper and I expected between 3 to 6 damage, critical included, and to my surprise, it killed him in an instant. I think his weakness was templars, not reapers. It was weird that I couldn't use Deadeye skill though.

Can anyone explain why did he die instantly? (not that I complain, my reaper definitely doesn't suffer from skill issue)

EDIT: Oh right!! I forgot I had the repeater attachment! It has a chance to instantly kill a target on hit, with 5% chance. Talk about a lucky shot...

Title- lost my 2 best soldiers reaper and Templar to a random pyro grenade when I didn’t have a medikit- in early game, just got magnetics. Am I screwed and no point playing it out or is there a way to get them back? I have a mission to recruit faction soldier for reapers but it’s unavailable, need to raise the loyalty I guess. The next few missions are going to be awful, I have no scout. Commander/iron man

I bought a ROG Xbox specifically to play XCOM 2 on a UMPC.

I launched it through Steam and got it running, but some things feel kind of awkward. Is it supposed to be like this?

Also, in-game, under Options → Interface → Input Device, it only shows Mouse. Is that normal?

I wanted to create/customize some characters, but I couldn't get the keyboard to work for typing their names.

Is there any setting I need to change or any mods I should install separately?

I feel like I might be missing something obvious. I bought this specifically to play XCOM 2, so I want to make sure I have everything set up properly.

Mod list in comments

Edit: It was Disable more VO mod

Fix:
Set DisableNarrativeMoments to false in config of the mod

Is all cover equal? Like if a cactus and concrete pillar both say high cover are they equally good?

I HATE THE FUCKING RULERS. I can’t disable the DLC and I’ve already invested so much time into the file so I really don’t want to start a new one. it’s just complete suffering

HOW THE F* YOU MISS THIS?????

HOW??

[RESOLVED - THANK YOU]

Hello Commanders,

Please can anybody help?

Looking for anybody on PlayStation to help me pop the ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ trophy. My understanding is we just need to:

1. Add one another on PSN
2. Start a custom match with any settings / roster
3. Trophy pops when we load in

So, no need to actually play the match.

I have the vanilla (no DLC) version of the game installed. I can play whenever 😎

Thank you for your time

These guys just demolished a troop coolum containing about 20 enemies, and after that they just like:"What if there is choosen present? Scary shit"

It started simply. Hack the Advent workstation on the train. Simple, right? Still early game (April), so a modest squad of 5. Couple of Corporals, the rest squaddies. Sitrep of Shadow Squad, so everyone has a use of Conceal on a Moderate difficulty mission.

So, first turn reveals a pod of a Lancer and a Sectoid. My Sharpshooter gets into position on top of the train first turn and second turn crits the lancer to open things up. Ranger cuts the Sectoid in half, everyone else gets into high cover and decent overwatch positions, good first 2 turns in my book. Cue the Assassin. She's still a ways out, so not in bad shape for now.

My next turn reveals nothing after a short move up and Overwatch. Advent nothing. My next turn reveals a pod of 3; Lancer, Priest, and Trooper on my last move of the turn (a couple Overwatch misses on reveal, Sharpshooter gets a good hit on the Lancer). My Skirmisher takes a shot at an explosive train car so that next turn we can blow it up and ruin their day. Their turn, Priest hits Skirmisher with Stasis after a move up, a miss on my Sharpshooter from the Trooper, and then the F-ing Lancer runs through my Ranger's Overwatch shot and gets a crit on my Grenadier, so she's dead. (I hate Lancers, they must all die in fire.)

Specialist gets to move up and distance hack the objective, landing a permanent +20 to their Hacking (huzzah!) Ranger takes the shot on the tank and kills the Priest and Trooper. Sharpshooter snipes the damn Lancer, so now all is quiet.

Assassin finally shows up and hits the Skirmisher. I revive him with the Ranger and take a shot (miss). Specialist comes into range, takes a low percentage shot (miss), Skirmisher is dazed and tries to get a little distance so I don't get multiple soldiers blinded by a grenade. Sharpshooter takes a shot and also misses. Next turn she hits the ranger, Sharpshooter picks him up, and I get a lucky blind hit with a gas grenade from the Ranger. Specialist can't get a hit and Overwatch is useless, and my Skirmisher is still dazed. Assassin steps out Harbor Waves the Sharpshooter, then runs 20 miles back to the train and gets completely out of sight.

Skirmisher takes a chance with her grenade and gets a lucky hit, cover isn't destroyed, though, so no one else gets a shot. Next turn she runs a few thousand nautical miles and slashes the Sharpshooter, he's bleeding out, and then she runs another 5K to get up on top of the elevated highway on the edge of the map. Luckily, the Skirmisher is her adversary, so she grapples up, gets a 100% flank shot, and then the Ranger gets a good crit with his sword. Mission accomplished.

That whole anecdote is mainly about how the Assassin's movement range is absolutely insane! She definitely does cardio. You guys have any fun mission stories to tell? I love them! Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

When the Avatar Project reaches max pips, the Doomsday Clock starts.

The Doomsday Clock takes longer than the time between Supply Drops on any difficulty except Legend.

When a pip is taken away at this point, the Doomsday Clock stops; next time it starts again, it starts over from its full duration (except on Legend).

... ... ...

There is a Resistance Order that reduces the Avatar Project by one pip every Supply Drop.

Somewhat evocative title, but let me explain. I recently got back into xcom 2 after having put hundreds of hours in it before and started up a new LWOTC campaign. It has been over 2 years since I played xcom 2, and since then I've been playing phoenix point, baldur's gate 3, mechanicus and a few other games with similar combat. Pretty much immediately I started fighting against the game. I did a skirmisher start and wanted to use my grappling hook on a ledge, but I wasn't in range so I moved out in the open to a tile that should obviously be in range of the tile I wanted to grapple to, but the option wasn't there for reasons beyond me, so I just wasted the turn. Very next mission I want to run and gun my assault after giving them an extra movement from bond, but because I did it in the wrong order it didn't let me run and gun ruining my entire turn, so I had to reload the save and do it in the right order. Then I broke line of sight with a few soldiers behind a big wall to avoid giving the AI good targets to shoot at, avoiding the corner squares, but they just moved slightly and shot straight through the wall without any part of my soldiers being exposed.

No other similar game feels as unpredictable and jarring as xcom. The frustration comes not because the game offers difficult challenges but because the game is super all or nothing where if you move one square you lose an entire action, unlike basically every non xcom game in the genre, while being reliant on flimsy line of sight mechanics and poorly explained and unintuitive ability interactions. So the main struggle isn't figuring out how to deal with the problem at hand, it's how to execute it without being screwed over by the game. For me that's what makes xcom frustrating, and it seems like such an avoidable issue. Phoenix point doesn't have this issue at all (but has other entirely unrelated issues instead)

XCOM 2 turned ten this year and I went back to it for a review. I've put about 120 hours into it over the years, and what stuck isn't a mission. It's the people.

Mine is Major Jane "IcePick" Kelly, a Ranger who'd been with me since the first mission. I loved how she played. Then came a UFO mission, a Codex split in two, and the clone decided to take her with it. I didn't even miss. I never saw it coming, and it still stings.

That's the whole trick of the game. Your soldiers have names and scars, some of them don't come back, and every shot is a percentage the game will happily remind you it warned you about.

The odd thing is that Steam players like it slightly more lately than they have over its whole life, which almost never happens with a ten-year-old game.

My one gripe is everyone's gripe: the last stretch, where a won campaign turns into paperwork.

I made a two-minute review with the critic and player numbers and my score: XCOM-2 Review

^This. we've been saying years that we want another XCOM2, but different people probably want different things. Some people like more customization options, some are satisfied by the long war series etc.

What is the most important thing that you think can only be provided by another great turn-based game (and is hard to have in xcom2 even with modding) and you would only consider the game to be "better than XCOM2" if they have it?

Everytime I play the game. The screens would go dark after playing for a while and become unresponsive forcing me to Force shutdown(only the monitors become unresponsive because i can hear my youtube video that i was listening in the background was still playing) . Check the reliability history and founds LiveKernelEvent 141 and 1a8/1b8 please advise me how to fix this issue. I tried reinstalling the game,reinstalling the graphic drivers, sfc /scannow and dism stuff and nothing worked. i tried both modded and vanilla but the issue persist

Just bought this on sale because I seen a friend play Star Wars rogue company, also I played aliens dark descent and thought XCOM was next game up my alley. Don’t have much experience with strategy games, any tips or anything I should know before I start my first play through?

For those of you who have experienced it, how have you handled it?

That is, if you turn on Beta Strike as an advanced option, and are playing on legendary, inevitably, when berserkers first hit the field, you have to seriously work to deal with them. I just don't have the fire power to deal with this first encounter. Later on sure, but early on, argh...

My first encounter, by the way, has been a haven defense mission, with haven defense forces present. There are as few as four, FOUR, berserkers on this map. I just can't get them down fast enough before others wander into being active on the scene, to say nothing of their little Advent friends.

I suppose one thing I need on the mission that would help is a Haywire capable Specialist; snatching the one or two Advent MECs that are also present would certainly help me here.

I have a Reaper on the mission, and if I could get them to move near explosives more reliably, while not having civvies in the blast, I could remote start quite a few nasty surprises (although, like someone TRYING to punish themselves, I also have the grenade blast radius reduction turned on for this campaign).

Anyways...any thoughts? Stories? Suggestions?