Hi,

I am making a new XCOM game called Ghost Tactics and I have an early version on itch.io.

I would very much appreciate and value any feedback from you guys.

It is playable in browser here: https://machinefall.itch.io/ghost-tactics

Thanks, Jan

This operation almost ended in disaster I lost two soldiers one of them being my IRL cousin who's survived every campaign up until now.

I've actually never experienced a squad wipe before, and I never want to again. I now got a difficult Terror mission with 2 assault squaddies and rookies. Can't buy any gear because I don't have many engineers. Send me prayers.

Okay so if you've seen my absolute neurodivergent infodump about What If Firaxis stopped hoarding the XCOM IP and finally gave us TFTD then you'll remember I mentioned how I remixed some of the TFDT Aliens. Well what is an ADHD addled mind to do with a hyperfixation but to bust out the coloring pencils and somehow manage to draw with a finger brace due to a hand fracture (don't ask).

Aquatoid: You know them, you probably love them and you'll definitely shoot them in the face it's the Aquatoid! I actually wanted to give them the appearance of being more professional than the Elder's menagerie, specifically that the Aquatoids were the ones in charge because they have actual uniforms compared to the others.

Gilman: The Earthborn Traitors from the Ocean, they are a crafty bunch as they have been repurposing the trash humans have been throwing into the ocean for years, and to take the pain on land they carry water tanks on their back that they can take a sip from when the time calls for it.

Crustacean: A genetically modified lobster who now packs the punch of a Muton, they have the size to match and I specifically imagine an animation similar to the MEC Trooper vs Mectoid. Their pants are resized sweatpants and they are usually chained by the neck when not in combat.

Tasoth: The Invader's specialized soldier for defending their underwater assets, their uniforms are usually too small for them so they have to wear them in an ample V-neck. They are usually fed the scraps and remains of whatever human experiment the Aquatoids have deemed a failure.

Bio-Drone: An alien brain of dubious origin that serves as an air assault terror unit that is often seen during Beachside Defense missions. Being a Bio-Drone is actually a type of punishment for failure, often a threat to keep other Invaders in line.

Diver Man: I should explain that during Deep Offense missions you will sometimes have to save civilian divers who are either at the wrong place and wrong time or were treasure hunters who thought an Invader Facility was actually an ancient ruin. The Invaders noticed this and began to experiment on humans until they gave birth to a living sludge with a brain and stuffed it in a diving suit so as to give it shape. Because of their semiliquid nature, Diver Men can pack a heavy hit capable of cracking bones (this means that they can crit your Aquanauts in melee).

Oceanborn: The "Failed" experiments of the Invaders who were still useful enough to not be fed to the Tasoth. Cannon fodder by nature they actually still have a human respiratory system so that small tank is filled with vital oxygen, their intelligence has been artificially reduced so they never question the fact their oxygen tanks are of inappropriate size and in suboptimal positions.

Cryofloat: Genetically modified jellyfish armed with special sacks that have can generate a chemical similar to that of the Ice Bombs and they have a special ability called "Ice Spear" which is like a Sharpshooter's sniper shot but with an added FREEZE effect.

Tentaculat: I'll admit that I definitely took some inspiration in the Elder Brains from D&D and The Brain of Cthulhu but if we are gonna make flying Chryssalids we better make them freaking terrifying. Also they have some level of Psionics which is why they can fly in Beachside Defense missions, "But isn't that kinda unfair?" Yeah, suffer.

Xarquid: I'll admit that I was running out of ideas for this one but I decided to lean into that as these things have a cybernetic implant that gives them gravity defying abilities which allowed the Invaders to stuff it to the gills (which I'm pretty sure the animal that was modified into the Xarquid doesn't have, irony) with enough weapons to turn cover into dust.

Scylla: The Invaders elite hybrid unit. You all have no idea how much furry art, actual shark photos and Hungry Shark World promotional art I had to look at to finally figure out the head structure of the Scylla. Fun Furry Artist Fact: Apparently something Furry artists have to take into account when drawing anthro characters is that the neck has to be thickened to be proportionate to the size of the animal head, and this even applies to XCOM's own Vipers (seriously look at a Viper's neck in proportion to its body).

I'm gonna be starting a new run on veteran where I stream XCOM 2 WOTC with commentary and wanted some pointers to avoid getting my guys killed.

First time playing Long War, Dynamic War and in August I started to run out of alloys. I am blocked on research and building gear and am waiting for UFOs to appear that I can shoot down for the alloys. I want gauss weapons and carapace armor for an entire squad, but haven’t been able to afford it. Is this normal or was there something I could have done to avoid this situation?

For context:

I regret not doing Alien Metallurgy in the Foundry earlier (+20% Alloys recovered). Also, I probably sold ~100 alloys in the early months when I had 300+ and nothing to spend it on, but that’s only 3 gauss weapons, so it’s not ideal, but I probably need 600+ alloys for all the stuff I want.

I have ~8 Interceptors with Laser Cannons and 11 satellites on 3 continents, but aren’t upgraded enough to down large UFOs. I only remember encountering 2 landed large UFOs at this point, so perhaps I’ve been unlucky.

I’ve been experimenting with MECs, so I have 5 MEC soldiers, 1 MEC suit, and 1 alloy SHIV.

Since this is my first run, I was hoping to build a bit of everything to try it all, but may have to abandon this plan now that resources are limited.

I’m doing my first Alien Base Assault at the end of September with mostly Lasers, because I need the resources and lack the alloys to build gauss.

I haven’t been tracking my alloys expenditures. After I ran low, I noticed my Alloy SHIV cost 80 alloys. That’s a lot, but I think it was worth it.

EDIT: only 8 laser cannons, not 15.

Howdy! Noob to Long war. Got that up and running with the mod manager, but tried to add the LOS mod from nexus https://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/666?tab=description And it doesn't seem to work via the mod manager, OR the guiloader. Not sure what im doing wrong but it's the only mod i really think i want to run on my first LW attempt. Any ideas why it wont work?

Fresh install, windows 10, steam.

I downed a UFO,landed,and then it just booted me to the end screen

I got Alien Alloy from this

Is this a thing that just happen sometimes?

I bought, played and really enjoyed the android post of Xcom 2 and wanted to spice up a new playthrough and was wondering of there are anyway to get Long War of the Chosen to work on the android port of the game?

So I've been a fan of the games for a while, and I think 2 still holds up easily. A part of that has been this custom class idea floating around in my head for a while. The Witch!

The idea behind the Witch is serving as an alternative to the Psi Operative more focused around Area Denial than straight control. They'd have abilities like a psionic fireball or frostbolt that does damage, and with another ability can explode in an AOE and inflict burn/freeze respectively with cool downs, a black hole AOE that damages and pulls enemies out of cover, a heal, and teleportation, both for yourself, and your allies, and unlike with the Templar, you don't need to swap places with said ally that you're rewarping.

First off, does this sound too OP, and second, if it doesn't, how would I go about making it a thing with accompanying animations? (Instead of a Psi Amp they'd obviously have a staff BTW)

¿Podrías recomendarme algún mod cosmético, como conjuntos de armadura, que no desentone con el juego? He probado mods basados ​​en *Halo*, *Gears of War* y *Titanfall*, pero no encajaban bien con *Long War of the Chosen*. No sé si me explico bien, pero no me daban la sensación de estar liderando un grupo de resistencia. Lo que deseo es que mi grupo no se vea de SCI-FI.

Any thoughts on this DLC? I just started it yesterday and I'm really enjoying it, can't believe I slept on this. I like the replay value of improving your scores.

I kinda got confused. Did aliens kidnap and transform humans into aliens, hence creating the monsters we are fighting today? Or various alien species were conquered, genetically engineered and utilized as slaves via Etherials via mind control?

Hello everyone! It's me again with another post. I started my sixth playthrough which currently runs in November. This is my best run so far. I had 18 dead in total, most of them during the first months. I have 3 continents, 27 interceptors, 16 with lasers. This time around I have a smaller rooster, 55 men with stay frosty. I also keep around 15 shivs. I use them for Exalt missions and sometimes I throw one in with heat ammo and laser on regular missions to get me some extra damage. I have 4 augmented soldiers and 2 mec bodies with flamethrower laser lance. Armor type is carepace but I'm looking to upgrade, I have gauss weapons. I take prisoners on half the missions I'm on, this way I can get some nice rewards (not sure if this affect anything.) The aliens have 5 countries, 2 joined at the beginning of this month (they keep doing terror missions in the same country until it flips). So things are pretty good on missions, then suddenly I had a base defense. (I was getting 18 meld from a container just before, therefore the aliens should have 180 resources).

I'm not going to lie it got so bad I had to download a mod to use console commands and kill all aliens on the first wave. The last time I played through this game was 8 years ago and that was not LW. I had this idea to use mecs, gunners and infantry, supported by medics with medpacs only and engineers with arc throwers only. Then the game picked 1 mec, 2 medics, 2 infanry, 1 eng, 2 blueshirts, against muton commander, 3 mechtoids, the larger type of sectoid, crystallids and regular sectoids. I couldn't deal enough damage for the life of me. Carapace at this point was not holding up well. Crystallids, mectoids, muton commander had one attack kills, so basically they could have been wearing underwear at this point.

I'm going to play through after the cheat. This is my 6th run and I want to see the rest of the game. Don't really know what would have been the best choice in this situation. With hindsight knowledge I could have picked all the high damage dealers and only the high damage dealers (rocketeers, gunners with double tap, 2 mechs), send them out to die in a blaze of glory and perhaps I could have won with like 8 dead soldiers. But losing that many high damage dealers would have been bad. Or B I pick my lowest rank soldiers and some shivs, let them die, but then the aliens get more resources and I lose material, credits and personnel. The way I see it I would have been bad either way.

What I'm curious about is how to get the aliens on low resources and keep the threat level low? I was winning almost every mission. Sometimes I chose to EVAC because I was in danger of losing valuable men. Most small and medium UFOs were shot down except a destroyer that kept haunting me and some lucky cases. What I noticed that I had almost zero landed ufos in my territory. For some reason the aliens did all resource gathering missions outside my turf. In other playthrough there was a bunch. I was warned not to have a lot of interceptors before. But with 3 continents you need 18, and I bought more to have some spare planes. I had 12 after the third month, then 18 in August, then I went to 22 in October, 27 in November.

So it might sound stupid but I don't see what I did wrong that would get me a base defense this early. xD In retrospect to earlier playthroughs, basically every challenge I faced was the result of poor decisions that I made before. I'm wondering what went wrong here In case I decide to have another playthrough after this one concludes. Thank you in advance!

I've played Xcom: EU/EW and Xcom 2/WOTC so much, yet I still want more Xcom - does anyone know if the older games (found on GOG) like "XCOM UFO Defense", "Terror from the Deep" are worth playing if I like EU/EW and 2/WOTC?

Thanks!

Hey guys thanks for the feedback on my sketches... since then I been hard at work modelling this guy based off the Exalt concept sketches I made.

For the model I decided to re-create the most preferred sketches in 3D and fuse their designs into one.

I would be grateful for any feedback and improvements I could make on the model.

(Model extremely WIP)

It's always "oh shit, it's a sectopod", never "oh shit, how is the sectopod"

I got decently dar in enemy within but idk I'm just feeling a bit defeated. No matter what I do I feel like I'm getting stomped on easy. I know the games are tough and just can accept I'm not always gonna win but I just feel like I can't get a foothold ever. I thought maybe it's an old game Quirk but apparently 2 is even harder and it just made me wonder.......am I just not built for this game series?

I love the plot and the look and the concept and the game play. Fresh off Star Wars Zero Company I wanted this so much but now I feel stuck. I can take a game beating on me a bit but I just feel like it ain't getting better

Any tips, suggestions, or comments would be appreciated. If the answer is that I just suck, that's OK, but like I just need to know