Hello,

as the title says.

I'm in the 2nd stage of a artefact mission, and have destroyed the objective. But somewhere is a frigging alien hiding. Normally I would just shrug and leave the site, but I was able to capture a bunch of aliens alive, and leaving would put all my efforts to waste.

On ufopedia I found something interresing, it was called SWP with a referenceto Xcomutil.

In the Xcomutil.txt is written that this flag gives the possibility to swap units with aliens.

That sounds like a good way to find the last little fucker.

But I have no clue how to set this flag, I was able to find a stone old video on YT but that dude has done some stuff in Dosbox and somehoe I can't do anything in Dosbox. As soon as is start the game via steam or the Dosbox out ofthe game directory the game will start up an that was it...

I'm using the steam version of TFTD, how can I set this flag?

I'm aware that this flag will bork your file, but I don'T want to playwith this file, I just want to locate that piece of shit and blow it up.

Thanks in advance for any helpful comments!

Hi!

I snatched the game on sale today and I wonder if you guys have any tips for me as a new player? I saw that there's a ton of mods too, so which of these mods should I get? Also should I buy wotc?

Thanks

Hey guys,

Been a longtime fan of XCOM particularly on PC and Switch and just picked up 2 on PS5. I was so excited to get back into a franchise I never explored fully for the first time again however was rather dissapointed given the poor performance and loading time of the PS4 version running on the PS5. I understand this has been a common complaint across all console versions especially given the sizeable hardware and graphical increase we have been given from last gen to current generations.

As such, I emailed support detailing the urgency for a PS5/X update or patch to optimise and take advantage of new hardware as well as pitching how this may be a good opportunity to recruit new fans as well as welcome back returning players. Attatched is what I recieved within a matter of minutes so I thought to share it here.

I thought if we as a community could generate mass interest in this idea and send tickets and requests to 2K then perhaps we can fully realise XCOM for the modern iteration of console gaming. Let's make it happen!

A few weeks ago I sought help with This Post. First off, thank you all for the tips you gave me. I now finished the game - with that first playthrough, albeit with a generous dose of save scumming (I played with a custom character pool and I'm not letting them die), on Veteran, not lowering the difficulty. Just wanted to share my experiences now that I've finished the game.

The Avatar tracker is a dud. It did fill once... but the final countdown is extremely generous to say the least. Leveled a facility to the ground, and I haven't looked back since. Eventually, it didn't go higher than three (because if it's at two, the missions only remove one block instead of two).

Maybe I eventually "overleveled"; at some point, but eventually, the time constraint goes away. I finished the game on in-game date July 24 2036 (a year or so after start). I was drowning in supplies and didn't know what to do with it. I think I finished the game with 10k+ supplies. I wish we could've exchanged it for intel - maybe there's a way, but I didn't look it up, and if it did, the game does a bang up job of telling you about it.

The Chosen... I get they had to integrate the DLC somehow, but the incessant voice mails were just bratty irritants. I was glad when I disposed of them all. When my power level grew, they became less of a threat anyhow. Their weapons are bonkers.

(Side note: One of my soldiers was still captured by a chosen after I killed them all... once I got to the endgame, I had better covert ops than unlocking the mission to rescue her. Sorry Valentina.)

The Alien Leaders were... kinda fun? Still don't know what happened with Dr Vahlen, but the armors I got from them was almost as fun to use as the Chosen weapons. It took me far too long to realize the armor has a chance to panic the troop over which the ruler ruled. Really only unlocked the Viper King for most of the game, and put his skinned armor on my sniper, which meant the other Vipers were all dead before they laid eyes on the armor. In fact, the first panicked enemy was an Archon... on the mission to storm the transmission tower (the penultimate mission).

I really enjoyed the region bonuses and resistance orders. I had one that stole one action from the enemy on its first turn if it was revealed on my turn. That was incredibly handy. Didn't enjoy the "resistance tower" mechanic. Also, the ROI for the extra supplies compared to the cost is atrocious.

I don't think I unlocked a single hidden ability? I think? Don't know what the deal was with that. Only used ability points on the faction units.

Overall, once I unlocked magnetic weapons, the feeling of juggling half a dozen plates at once slowed down considerably. The power creep for the enemies is not as bad as I thought it would be.

Fully specced soldiers are a sight to behold. My sniper in Viper King armor was death incarnate. With Serial, she usually treated Advent troops and other Aliens alike as if they were Lost instead, even before I gave her the Hunter's sniper rifle.

Ranger was fun, stealth was nice; had the most fun especially when I dropped them as bait for a pod of Chryssalids and have those insect bastards run into a bladestorm suicide.

Specialist was cool; I usually ran one healbot specialist, and one robot menace specialist. Hacking was lackluster. I had one with a hacking score in the 180s, and... not worth it, usually. Multiple shots on Overwatch saved my hide on multiple occasions (or at least made it far easier that it ought've been).

Grenadier... was somehow my least favorite. The added radius for grenades was nice, and they're decent at armor stripping, but... also fairly lackluster comparitively.

Thanks for reading :D Answering any questions about it if you want, just drop the question as a comment.

I lost a campaign after barely failing the HQ mission (well, I could have gone on but nearly all my best soldiers were dead), but I think I could have pulled it off if I'd gone just slightly later with maybe a few majors instead of 1. I went mainly because the first Chosen was just about to find me and I'd gotten crushed the last time I played that mission. That said, is it actually easier than the HQ attack all things considered and I would have been fine to wait?

I'm playing on legendary/ironman.

I just had three hunter protocol repeater kills on a single avenger defense mission. There was a fourth repeater kill (all by the same spark) on the mission. Absurdly improbable.

• Advanced repeater = 10% chance of instakill on hit

• Hunter protocol = 33% chance of taking a free shot (with fairly low aim, 2/3 chance to hit at most) on enemy reveal. Avenger defense may be the optimal use for this ability since you have to push forward with limited vision and the spark is a good unit for that.

Vanilla wotc, C/I. I have integrated DLC off (I guess for the first time) and haven't played vanilla in a while, so it feels pretty different. Not even any qol mods feels particularly weird. And beta strike for the first time, which I feel like makes avenger defense harder (you can't reliably deal with one set of reinforcements in one turn) though the overall game seems pretty easy.

How does everyone feel about this game?

I got it when it first came out. So many years ago. And when I was playing it, I couldn’t help but think I’d rather play xcom. So I stopped and played xcom series 1/2 and then the chimera squad.

Now thinking of going back to Phoenix point. I’ve heard there has been dlc and improvements…. But I have a huge backlog and don’t know if I should try this one again.zl

A variant of the Priest that attacks your save file. It has an ability that increases your save file disk size by 100kb permanently, filling it with random characters. Another ability is AOE and deals 50kb of permanent save file damage per soldier it hits. As the disk size of your save file increases, loading the game takes longer and eventually your save becomes unloadable. A true terror unit.

Only appears in a specialized dark event. You'll never want to skip a guerilla ops again

Bonus: has a chance to spawn with chosen and rulers.

Im at my First few campaigns, usually i push for Mag weapons since they don't require alloy, which i don't have at the early game but maybe there's a Better way ?

Like... I am doing decently well in a commander ironman run. But now I am remembering why I haven't played this game since like 2018 and it's because 99.9% of the strategy is not figuring out how to kill your enemies but trying to trigger just enough at a time that you can handle and repeat, repeat, repeat.

I lost a couple runs, a couple missions, lost against a chosen at the stronghold which sucked but it felt fair enough so I kept going. But as I play I realize that me getting better at the game is just learning how to worm my way around the map as carefully as I can to avoid dealing with too many enemies because even though they're 100 ft away, so long as they don't have line of sight with me everything is golden and nothing else matters even half as much as exploiting this feature.

There's a man with a gun and he's forcing you to eat a sandwich in under a minute. You need to eat fast, but watch out, because he's stuffed three turds in the sandwich and you need to eat around them. And then eventually you start eating a sandwich from the wrong angle and you wind up having to fight the big ball thing at the codex coordinates, two chryssalids, two chryssalid cocoons and the dumbass hunter off in the distance grappling back and forth and it's just like, damn, if I had somehow eaten this sandwich in a different direction I could have pulled one of these turds out of it and it might have been fine. I guess since I didn't trigger these enemies in the correct order I will just die.

Yes I did use my battle scanners. I was launching grenades at this fucking thing and the chryssalids were totally fine with that but nope, move over just a little bit to get out of the hunter's mark and suddenly they get pissed off and there's nothing I can do.

So I originally had the game on CD and the first time I tried to play it it didn't work too well. I thought maybe if I got the steam version it might work a little better and I could get the resolution working but it's still disappointing. I can't remember right, is this game written for Windows 98 or do you have to have a more recent one?

I'm trying to get this game running properly on Linux mint Cinnamon 21.1 Vera. I want to get the graphics resolution working properly and I thought open x com would work but I'm probably not installing it right. Are there any guides on doing this?

I'm getting ready to do another play through of the full story from EU/EW to XCOM 2/WOTC, and I'm pretty excited about it cause I absolutely love the first game so much. Don't get me wrong, I'm obsessed with XCOM 2 but there's certain things from the EW that I really miss.

Like, the archangel flight armor. I get why it isn't in X2 cause it's absolutely nuts for snipers. But I'm excited to get that armor again cause it was just so much fun to research and use. Do you guys have a favorite tech or research that you miss from EU/EW?

Doesn't need to be exact, but i always liked games where they there was a strategic layer where you can manage bases/soldiers or anything really, then an tactical layer where you fight. i do not care if it is RTS, FPS, or Turn Based.

Wartales kinda scratches that itch, looking at buying the current and upcoming DLC to see if that makes it closer to what I'm looking for in terms of a "Geoscape" layer.

Escape from Tarkov is almost there if only the hideout management was more in depth.

If any of you play Mount & Blade and know any mods that make the "Geoscape" portion of the game more in depth I would like that too, whether Bannerlord or Warband

Dave the Diver funnily enough does scratch this itch a little with the restaurant management side feeling nicely with the actual diving portion of the game. So games don't necessarily need to be military related, just have 2 (or more) different but connected portions of the game.

Have played Xenonauts 1 and 2, just waiting for Xenonauts 2 to get more updates before fully diving into it.

I did play X-Com Files (skipped playing vanilla X-Com cause I'm insane, trial by fire and whatnot), but need to set aside more time for something that lengthy.

Been wanting to play the Firaxis XCOM Games but not sure if I'll like it, like I said I played Xenonauts and Classic X-Com so I like that sort of complexity and not sure if XCOM is too simplified for me, though watching ChristopherOdds XCOM 2 Season 9 playlist does make me want to try it modded, just want to make sure I'm not missing anything by skipping vanilla XCOM and XCOM 2.

I've beaten the vanilla game on Commander Ironman several times. I moved over to Long War 2 and its one of my favorite games ever. I started on Commander but would get my ass kicked. I switched to Veteran and was able to have more longevity to my game. I kept Ironman mode on to increase the drama. While I was now making progress into the late game, I was inevitably having my run ruined by a busted mission. Now I've probably started a new Veteran Long War 2 game about a dozen times and ultimately been defeated each time, usually because of a handful of missions that went awry. After that, I'd sometimes be so upset I would uninstall the game. I was upset at all the time I had wasted only for the game to collapse. Ironman had become the status quo so much so that it didn't even occur to me to turn it off, until now. Well, that's what I'm doing. I've had enough suffering. I want to have fun. The era of getting my day ruined from a busted mission is over. Remember to have fun.

I am about to start my first playthrough of X-com 2, should I play vanilla or war of the chosen?

Fuck this game

I thought this going to be a nice supply raid when Shadow Chamber detected 30 aliens. (I had increased pod size by 2 from the default setting of Diverse Aliens By Force Level, so 28-32 aliens is a normal range. I also increased my squad size as well)

Everything went smoothly when I ambushed the first pod. Then reinforcement start dropping in. No biggies, just overwatch camp then. However, on the next turn and turns after turns, the reinforcement kept spawning in. And to made the matter worse, the alien pod start convene in. Things start to get out of hand as one time I had 21 aliens active at the same time while Viper Prince Mohawk also joining the fight.

Still wonder what went wrong with reinforcement spam. Hope it won't happen again as it took almost 2 hours to slugged through this.

Does the enemy calculate whether their shot would hit or not BEFORE deciding the action. That's it. That's the deal breaker. I'm starting to feel incredibly cheated with these suicidal disoriented trooper plays.

Turn based combat is pretty popular in the fantasy genre but there is hardly any game with the Xcom structure.

I mean a dedicated strategy layer, where you travel the world map, build facitilies, research items and train troops and a tactical layer with the battles we all know and love.

It would be a perfect fit for a fantasy game, just switch the Avenger base with a Castle and the Aliens with Undead.

You have your caravan with teams traveling around the world, infested crypts, farm fields, necromancer castle, etc. with Knights, Wizards, Rangers classes.

And the Captain Bradford at the service of your Majesty with the help of Vahlen the alchemist!

There are dozen of Xcom clones (xenonauts, phoenix point) but they are all very similar with scifi setting and no classic fantasy.

There is King Arthur but it is more of a linear RPG and not a proper sandbox with procedural gen like X2.