XCOM 2

If it follows the same EU/EW formula I expect an expansion to sneak in some nice story missions to change up the pacing.

As long as there is no fucking chrysalis whale-bursting - fuck that map. Nuke that shit from orbit.

I'd like it if the Faceless came out after Vipers. "They no longer need to hide their forms" "Turns out we're wrong, look at these aboms!" "Thinmen are back; apparently we were wrong about the snakemen and that they are in fact a separate species and thinmen are indeed still cool and creepy and here to stay."

Vipers stopped needing to masquerade as Thin Men after the war was won, but the Ayys needed a more sophisticated infiltrator to deal with the resistance. Or maybe sophisticated isn't the right word, but they needed something that could actually pass for human up close, which Thin Men could not. Faceless are a more recent and specialized development.

Twilight Sparkle_sl said:

Vipers stopped needing to masquerade as Thin Men after the war was won, but the Ayys needed a more sophisticated infiltrator to deal with the resistance. Or maybe sophisticated isn't the right word, but they needed something that could actually pass for human up close, which Thin Men could not. Faceless are a more recent and specialized development.

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That actually makes sense. Thanks.

Thin Men are still cool though.

What new LWS mods were you talking about Gavin?

Laser Pack and Perk Pack. Laser pack creates a new weapon tier between magnetic and plasma, but it's basically worthless. They're gorgeous though so I used another mod to replace plasma with them. The Perk pack splits the 4 base classes off into 7 classes, and gives each one a third perk tree.

I never got into the sadism of Long War, but wasn't it set in a similar manner and each tier filled a niche role? Or did they not tweak that nuance into the game like SMG'S for your non-combatants?

They didn't fill a niche role, the campaign was rebalanced so that you would naturally progress through each weapon tier, although it was pretty common to skip gauss. Or for the supremely ballsy, skip beam and pulse lasers.

Maybe you played before they added the super steep crafting requirements to tier 5 weapons. In addition to each weapon costing an assload of resources, each one also had to be built off of a captured alien weapon. Not that big a deal for carbines, rifles, and shotties, but every single marksman/sniper rifle, saw/lmg, mec, or shiv weapon required an alien heavy, which meant you had to successfully capture an elite for each one.

Yeah I never went anywhere without an arc thrower either. Doesn't change the fact that capturing elites is a nightmare. But props if you were able to skip pulse. I always rushed beams, then mostly skipped gauss for pulse. Although they did buff gauss a bit, I still don't think there was ever a better starting strat than the beam rush. Significant jump in potency in both the ground and the air, and you can upgrade all your beam interceptors to pulse in a single foundry project once you've unlocked the weapon tier.

With my laptop dead an me out of town for two weeks I guess I'll have to wait and look at the specifics of the mod to see if it's worthwhile. As is, Xcom 2 tech pacing is a bit off. You can upgrade weapons or armor near immediately them is a long stretch until t3. Lasers would fix part of that, but I think the whole thing is busted with the "underdog" mentality if you don't get stuck using T1 for any reasonable time (although with my [lack of]skill level and game balance I suppose I am happy how easy it is to hit t2).

Yeah I've been meaning to do another playthrough, just too much other stuff atm.

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they are looking for co-op beta testers

Oh Dragonpunk isn't Long War. Props to them for their ambition but I'll be very impressed if they deliver even half of what they're aiming for.