'>>1699449
These brutish nomads are as strong as they are stupid.';

'Why don't they just make a tank out of indestructible blue crab shells?';

'>>1699815
They aren't indestructible 14mm can puncture them.
They'd probably be good for use as spacers on heavier tanks, since they're thick enough to trigger HEAT and pretty durable.';

'What genre of music is Cannon Angel?';

'>>1699815
a deep ones lobstertank would be so fucking sick beyond belief';

'>>1700224
Post it';

'>>1700295
It's the new battlescape music in piratez.';

'>>1700295
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STVktGM-MG8';

'>>1700239
>lobsterman shell to deflect concussive damage
>sonic cannon to let it demolish terrain and enemies alike
>usable underwater
Fund it.';

'>>1700239
The lobsters are already basically tanks.';

'>>1700432
*very light reconnaissance vehicles that are small enough to avoid inaccurate heavy weapons';

'so what exactly is this "DEMONIC INCURSION" with a massive negative sell score but also zero size? UFO pedia doesn't say anything about incoming base invasions or negative scores.';

'>>1700547
Pretty sure it has a script attached to it where demon retaliation missions get generated if the item is present in any base';

'>>1700308
Sort of industrial metal, but a little less intense probably due to being entirely synth, but not quite industrial synth because it' not as unce-unce-y';

'>>1699449
With the more recent updates, they changed it so that inventory resets between battles unless you configure it at the base. Is there any way to set it back to where changes made prebattle stick? I'm getting tired of sifting through my entire goddamn base's inventory instead of the equipment subsets I load onto the ship.';

'>>1700566
>free missions
That's a bad thing?';

'>jackass captain
>cats4life
>have a dungeon in your fighter base
>shoot down absolutely everything around other bases, but let UFOs fly around that particular base freely
>have a large barracks in said base absolutely filled with bikini catgirls
>get hundreds of glamour per crackdown';

'>>1700684
Glamour in general is super easy to get now, if you get the little bird up and shoot down all the bandit traffic you get 12+ glamour + ~250 infamy per crash and train up your soldiers on a bunch of poorly equipped bandits. This gravy train lasts even longer if you avoid crafts weapon milestones until you have interceptor bases up to tackle the real air traffic. Makes getting the bounty badges and astrosensorium/glamour recruits a breeze and trains up your lokknars on missions that aren't cave deathtraps';

'>>1700642
yes';

'>>1700719
Isn't each point of glamour also a few thousands of dollars when factoring the infamy and sell price in?';

'>>1700425
It should have a massive version of the pipes of doom as it's main weapon. And the firing sound is twelve max volume bagpipes, rather than just one.';

'>>1700650
Assuming you can handle the difficulty, no.
Assuming you can't, you may lose the base.
Somewhat concerning to receive if it occurs at you're WE'RE ALL THAT'S LEFT base where you got some barely trained retards';

'>>1700650
Depends on which kind of demon retaliation it is. There are two.
The first has a lot of dudes and a few imps and pinkies. The second has a lot of spiderdemons and cacos. You don't want the second.';

'>>1701349
There are cacodemons in this game?
Those, I'm guessing are significantly more scary than when you're a guy with 100 health, 100 armor, and a very fast firing gun?';

'>>1701388
They have next to no resistances to anything and no armor, but they also have 500 HP. They also have a hard hitting plasma attack that shoots with relatively low accuracy.
So yeah, in the confines of a base, shooting them with a very fast firing gun pays dividends. Same if you do so with a very big shotgun. See if you ogres can carry Mammoth Chainshotguns have them hose the hallways.';

'>>1701388
Cacodemons are a mild fuck you to endgame geared parties since you're likely using lasers for armor piercing and laser is dogshit at killing cacodemons or really any of the doom monsters with high hp.';

'>>1701398
>>1701403
I'm going to guess the Spider Masterminds are more scary.';

'>>1701388
Cacodemons aren't that bad. They're huge damage sponges, and the plasma attack hurts if it hits, but they're ultimately not difficult to fight. No special tricks. Use shotguns, high volume auto weapons or explosives.
Spiderdemons are the real nasties. They're even more durable, and their plasma weapon has autorire and can spew out like 12 bolts per turn.
>>1701403
That's why you gotta diversify your weapons! By the time you got lasers, you've also got OGRE shotguns and Arena slaughter cannons, and it's worth it having someone in the party carry one.';

'>>1701747
There are warnings to carry a variety of weapons, so fair.';

'>>1701715
They also have a shitton of hp and will autofire plasma as a reaction. Very dangerous if you're in line of sight and not a tank. Explosives work very well since they do quad damage to 2x2s';

'>>1701747
What about insane melee operatives?';

'>>1701798
Melee works against anything, right until your melee fighter dies like a moron because you sent her too far forward.';

'>>1701820
I usually use a version of bounding, where the melee operator is never further forward from the frontline firing position than they can run back in half a turn (mostly so the shooters can draw reaction fire from anyone or waste the melee can't approach)
Not perfect, but the mod isn't perfect either, so it works in a lot of cases.';

'>having the bookworm trait can give you schoolbooks by event
I guess there's one more alternative to joining the Mutant Alliance.';

'>>1702349
I bet the chances for that are like pulling syn from junk but that's cool anyway.';

'>>1702352
It's much higher, actually; it appears to be 1/24 chance from the event. You can also get a skyforge book/arcane tome/liber occultis from the event';

'>>1702382
I actually found an arcane tome just already sitting in my hideout. One of the "mystery door" events.';

'>>1702382
Unless that's new I never got anything good from that event in any of my runs.';

'>>1702475
1/24 is still pretty low.
Also obligatory: there could be a 99 chance for something to happen and it could never happen over multiple runs.';

'Any of you guys played these mods with Brutal AI? Is it worth the hassle? I have been thinking of using it to get a more dynamic playing experience and because I just hate when the AI gets stuck on a corner of the map and I have to waste 20 turns to finally find them, but I am scared of just making things worse.';

'I just put up my second base. Built it at the start of the month, got a sec corridor buffer, an outpost, and the plantations started all before month's end. Transferred over a gal and 3 peasants with basic gear to hold it down temporarily. Month rolls over and on day 2 I get 3 back to back base raids on the new base on the SAME FUCKING DAY followed by an academy hit on my main also on the same day. Fuck.';

'>>1702756
Yes.
I recommend tweaking the settings to suit your purposes, because I find even a nerfed version of Brutal AI is enough to keep the enemy from hiding like a bitch.';

'>>1702894
Sometimes it feels like the enemies specifically target your weakest base.';

'>>1699449
OP's pic stolen from the Wesnoth codex made me think - did anyone was crazy enough to remake Spellcross in the OXC/XP engine yet?';

'New 40K update dropped and what in the crispy heretic hell is this beast?';

'>>1703083
did they fix the codex yet?';

'>>1703092
The changelogs of both 40K and ROSIGMA mention some codex fixes but I have no idea if that is what you mean';

'>>1703100
rosigma codex was utterly unusable and completely broken, ill give it another spin and see myself';

'>>1703083
That's a land raider.';

'>>1703228
Its actually a CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT';

'>>1703017
I have found that it seems like they favor the most active base and the weakest base.
I know it's supposed to be something like
Retaliation chance rises proportionally with number of facilities in each base.';

'Yes I like sending teams out in V8s.';

'>>1703452
Retaliation almost never hit my main base with the most activity. It's always some backwaters.';

'>>1703519
Just my experience.
Doesn't mean it's factual.';

'Oh minigun, how I love thee, I don't need to have shit for aiming, and get tons of luck promotions';

'>>1703602
I love that Rotogun or whatever that shitty first 'MG' is that drops.';

'Can it possibly be worth it?';

'>>1704000
>can it possibly
Yes
>Do I find it worth it if I'm not doing one of my Gobbo challenge runs
Rarely.';

'come da fuck on, every fucking time these gabbagoos, wack 4 chrissies right outta the car, but there's apparently one in the back that spawned surrounded by civilians';

'I see a 'Sickbay Rel. Bonus' in Anal for the Mess hall.
What does 0.35 mean? An extra .35 recovery/day?';

'>>1704000
They're more worthwhile than UAC shelters but still a tremendous pain in the ass, especially of you get the pipe tunnel start';

'>>1704058
https://xpedia.netlify.app/##FACILITIES
Relative bonus is percent of max HP per day, absolute is flat value';

'>>1704061
Thanks friendly data reader.';

'>>1702756
It's alright, but I wish it was more customizable. There's a lot of annoying things like enemies being able to attack instantly upon waking up.';

'>>1704116
Enemies being able to attack upon waking up is BS.
But other than that I like most of the mod's changes.
Enemies not being cowardly when (90% of the time) they outnumber you is great.';

'>>1704154
It's not BS, it's straight up cheating because you aren't supposed to have TUs when you wake up.';

'>>1704166
Same concept, different name.';

'>>1704166
>>1704179
YOu know what is bullshit? You can't fan the Silver Snake.';

'So in piratez, what is the actual endgame best money maker for your runts?';

'>>1704228
battle tanks iirc. for stuff that has no required inputs its improved hellerium distilling';

'I do like some of the obscure links the community has with the rest of itself. Like hints of x-files golden goddess being the same golden lady that spawned the academy.';

'The Earthworm Jim music in here is pretty rad.';

'>>1704398
heavy metal duck tales made me smile the first time';

'>>1704383
Dio and Solar share so many assets and concepts that I more less consider it the same setting.';

'ZOmbie hunts are just free combat experience for peasants, SS, and Lokknars, right?';

'>>1704438
If no Troopers, Singers or Strixes are present, yes. Also a fantastic source of reaction fire training.';

'>>1704441
Zombie Hunts don't have those, as far as I can tell, unless it's a 'they show up later in the game' kind of deal.';

'>>1704443
You'll find them pretty quick. I had them showing up in the second tier of zombie missions.
On that note, I love to death that you can randomly find zombies have eaten your original targets. Also great is the occasional little surprise hidden in transport jackings when somebody aint what they seem.';

'Ok, so I get automatic fire, and am using it to great effect with setting waypoints with multiple waypoints, but what is meant by vehicle "strafing" is that the same thing, or is there some way to move and auto fire i'm missing.';

'>>1704486
I've had Singers and Strix and other fun stuff show up on regular missions when the zombies replace them.
But on Zombie Hunts (the very early basic missions they toss at you) I don't even think they throw Funkies at you.';

'I was surprised to get the note that high level enemies dying don't impact enemy morale more than other deaths. I guess it was just me assuming that doing that was causing mass panics.';

'Everytime I come back to this mod i'm shocked there is still (hinted) loli/shota content. That seems like such a remnant of the 90's that nobody is losing their shit over that.';

'>>1704504
The main thing is that most high level enemies (and doggos) can't surrender, so they give everyone else time to get over their panic attacks.';

'>>1704509
>(hinted)
Oh, I thought it was explicit. Not gonna bother with this mod then. What are the recommended loli/shota mods?';

'>>1704383
There's also stuff like the academy coming from black lotus/osiron and church of sirius coming from church of dagon, with hints that the high leadership of the church still worships dagon';

'On the half-topic of Xfiles, does anyone know how you get the materials or are able to get any of the transformations like Kyberism and Helix Knight?
I feel like I may have rushed through too many of the sub-factions by early '99';

'>>1704632
helix knight requires 4 previous transformations
bio enhancement from red dawn
martial arts from lotus
pilot training from one of the promotions
TNI from zombie troopers in one of the magma missions
and helix knight itself from syndicate ceo
kyberism requires completion of the dimension x line, the last mission is assaulting a huge battleship';

'>>1704634
Huh didn't realize that with Helix, I beat the Battleship. It says I have the materials for it in all bases but no valid soldiers, I don't get it.';

'>>1704636
You sure you have this tech?
https://xpedia.netlify.app/xcf##STR_KYBERISM
Only baseline soldiers with TNI installed count if you transformed them to olympians or zombies or something else it won't work.';

'>>1704636
Did you do something silly like dagonize or blood boost everyone?';

'>>1704637
>>1704638
Wow, I'm actually too retarded and am lazy to have paid proper attention to the TNI-Kyberism prerequisite. Working on them rn.';

'What's the deal with the robotic spider events? Is it that Canadian cunt again?';

'>>1704789
Just a way to fuck with people playing meme difficulty, no connection to anything else besides that.';

'>>1704486
zombies can lick my left nut but the first little t-surprise had me shitting myself
11/10 would defecate again';

'>>1704791
what meme? I just chose what looked like the medium setting since they fixed the original difficulty bug.';

'>>1704794
Did you loose 200k and 400 infamy? Because that happens on js and there was a bug some versions in the past which fired js version of spiders on lower difficulties.';

'>>1704797
No, it was relatively little, and I'm on blackbeard, I was just curious about the plot behind them';

'>>1704804
There is no plot. Just one pedia entry.';

'>>1704804
No they're just a minor aspect of the world that is kind of spooky and annoying.';

'Man throwing items fuck hard';

'>>1704866
Flasks of Acid and Javelins are a legit form of AT weapon.';

'>>1704874
Pointy stick is the best starting gun.';

'>>1704866
I've killed tanks with throwing hammers before and nobody uses throwing hammers.';

'>>1704866
>give shurikens to a wild gnome
>sit back and watch as they 1shot everything with 100+ damage 460% accuracy hits';

'>>1704909
>give future bows to wild gnomes and wild girls
They go hard, but they really don't like being indoors.';

'>>1704912
I think the reason they go hard is because they get nerfed in forests, indoors, and other bullshit.';

'>>1704909
speaking of gnomes, the ability to use the mining suit from the B rank bounty mission is insane, you don't need any special research and the drill lets you completely ignore walls';

'>>1704974
It's also impenetrable to earlygame enemies. The gun ammo is kind of hard to get early though and without it the suit has no real way to attack. It's also slow as fuck.';

'>>1705267
>gun ammo is hard to get early though
But drawing gunfire for people who can be hurt is nice.';

'>>1705267
You don't need light cannon ammo, just walk behind and give em the drill. Unless you're trying to drill ninjas or highly competent enemies you'll kill them eventually (drill is only 8 TUs)';

'>>1705312
>Ninjas
The main point of attacking them with someone so heavily armored is to waste their reactions anyway.';

'I just noticed how fucked some of the armor penetration is for most of the early guns in Xfiles is, 5.45/5.56 AP rounds are king (even BlackOps only has close values) to it. It's retarded that 7.62 AP is worse than it, shit makes no sense.
Some mid-game guns have shit for pen too. Maybe I ought to update to 3.2';

'>>1705554
the gun in x files are balanced by tard aka solar
he is no gun faggot who get all his experience from memes
some guns are straight jokes
like sks(sound like SEX) with 69% accuracy';

'>>1705554
Damage is armor penetration, that's how Xcom works. There's is no point at which e.g an M-16 does more damage than a M-14 and in fact the more heavily armored you are the worse the M-16 is by comparison. You can open up the Gun Profiler at https://xcf.trigramreactor.net/master and see for yourself.

For most guns, "Armor Effectiveness" is best thought of as relative only to similar damage guns and is trumped simply by higher damage. It's just there to add variety and its effect is negligible except when it's used as a negative modifier for "flesh-only"guns like the Nitro Express Rifle, or when armor is so high we're seeing negligible damage anyway. When you compare armor-piercing guns like the P-90 or 5.56 rifles against their equivalents there's little difference.';

'We need a Muslim path in this game.';

'>>1706126
I once suggested suicidal armors for slave soldiers like revenant variant where they're given such a high dosage of combat drugs they'd die at the end of battle and/or after a certain number of turns but Dio got mad at me.';

'>>1706151
To be a true Muslim path would give you infamy bonuses for every unit that dies since they're martyrs.';

'>>1706151
You can carry pre-primed dynamite, crate of violence etc. on any and all units. No need for a special Bomber /SS (and Bomber /Pea? Bomber /Dog?) outfit unless you want a built in special bomb.';

'>>1706170
Would be nice to have a throwable landmine so you don't have to run up to a location and then back from it.';

'>>1706174
Since when have Landmines been unthrowable?';

'>>1706177
You can set them by throwing them?';

'>>1706178
Just set them pre-battle then throw them afterward?';

'>>1706181
I just assumed they were like IRL landmines and had to be set down and then armed.';

'>>1706184
Lolno, if you do that the mine goes off when you step away. Pre-prime from the inventory screen then discus-throw those landmines out. If they don't explode then you get them back free.
They're especially great for maps like Prepper Camp where you know enemies will be funneled through some points. Hallucinogen mines are great against civilians and gas mines against deep ones, especially if you bring gas protection for yourself. Fire mines and WP mines are great at night.';

'>>1706170
The main problem is that suicide bombers scale like shit. Among decent bomb carriers there's basically just dogs. Peasants and and SS are more expensive and slower and still ridiculously fragile, you don't want to use trained units for suicide missions so their stats are going to be just horrid and render them incapable of rendering any combat use beyond dying, making them very hard to justify the crewspace cost. You can't even give them decent armor because armor is wasted when a unit dies and neither the armor nor the unit are priced to be used as one battle consumables. A suicide armor would ideally fix this problem by giving you either a unit-consuming armor that warrants the cost, or a self-and-unit-consuming armor that warrants their combined costs, and is actually valid outside earlygame/base defense.';

'I don't like any of these overhauls. I just like seeing new features added to the base game. Like UFO's being able to intercept your crafts. Playing with alien weapon destruction and a modified tech tree that takes longer to climb through. That kind of thing.';

'>>1706249
So FMP or TWOTS were made just for you, these are nothing but vanilla+ experiences.';

'>>1706260
No, I've seen 'em and I don't like them. TWOTS (that's TFTD isn't it?) maybe, but I'm very particular with EU setup at this point. It's just right.';

'>>1706126
Every path is Muslim path if you're a dog.';

'>>1707367
There are options to render dogs less expendable now
https://xpedia.netlify.app/##STR_DOG_TAC_ARMOR_UC';

'>Early Sci Books after a second round of probing a Gnome
Future friendship with Saya ended, now random event prison gnome is my best friend.';

'I always skip the Mutant Alliance but still try to do all the Pogroms
Am I retarded?';

'>>1708384
If there's loot there's a will.';

'>>1708384
Even the first one where you can get unlucky and it's an armored car where you have almost nothing that can reliably kill it?';

'>>1708920
Hammer
Gothic raygun';

'>>1708920
easy enough to just loot the rpg off of the highwayman carrying it, if you're lucky it'll have all 3 shots still
Alternatively, take the ghoul chem weapons and chip the armor that way';

'>>1708920
Early on I always just melee the Armored Cars to death';

'>>1709219
Based';

'>moving in for a stun
>reaction fire from a cyberdisk through a window I couldn't see
>dead instantly
Fuck this shit game';

'>>1709331
Students are not worth stunning. They all panic after a while anyway.';

'>>1709332
Sure, but then they calm down again, and pick a plasma rifle off the ground.';

'>>1709333
Gotta go fast.';

'>>1709334
With cyberdisks around? Yeah, I think I'll rather lose one gal than eight.';

'>>1709348
Hit the disks first. Then anyone who has a gun or picks up one';

'>>1709167
>Hammer
>>1709219
>melee
tell me how you savescum without saying you savescum';

'>>1709352
Of course I hit the disks first, but those fuckers are hiding behind the buildings.';

'>>1709358
You're ironmanning the meme mod with unstable balance depending on release version?';

'>>1709388
well yes
sometimes one or a dozen people die and we have a sad time';

'>>1709394
I scum less the later in game I get
Losing 5/6 of the starting gang in an early pogrom is not acceptable';

'>>1709332
I just massacre everyone except the espers and scientists and they usually panic and surrender if you're fast enough
also a great way to get the 7 kills in a turn commendation by drawing fire on a tank and hitting the cluster of morons with an 85mm shell';

'>>1709358
Sorry, anon
I like to play aggressively and fast
No time for fairness';

'>>1709332
>not worth stunning
They can use guns that can put a gal in the hospital for months or the grave for longer.';

'>>1709637
NTA, but that's precisely why they're not worth stunning. You hang back and shoot them dead instead. Especially on Campus Carnage when there's four or five cyberdiscs with their absurd accuracy, reactions and instant death plasma cannon.';

'>>1709660
At that point, they're probably exploded from a cyberdisc taking a fatal shot and killing everything in the tristate area, though?
I'd still say stun the feckers if they live they're worth a few sheqels.';

'>>1709669
By the time you're able to do campus you don't need to risk it for money. You will get plenty anyway from mass panic if you do things right.';

'i love the warhammer 40k mod, especially playing as the guard.';

'>>1709762
>step out of the Valkyrie
>one of those women wearing rags packing rocket launchers reaction fires
>kills half the team, wounds the rest
Ah, the Guard.';

'>>1709782
>Not taking the Chimeras everywhere
Easy mistake, Valks are for when you finally assemble a platoon of Kasrkins.
Chimeras are for your disposable conscripts you paid a nickel for. They need that extra overwatch protection.';

'>doing the black sun missions
>kill count on each mission is reaching almost triple digits
this is getting ridiculous, thank god for hovertanks and MP N-laser cannons letting me delete everything but black knights from existence';

'>>1709951
>black sun missions in plural
What do you mean? There are missions other than X's Mansion with Black Knights?';

'>>1709953
X mansion is the easy one';

'>>1709953
There sure are. You need to go a specific route with Dr. X to unlock them and you'd best come prepared for extended battles';

'>>1709953
With dr x you can go to the moon for even more cancer than x mansion. Way more. Though I never wen't to the further missions than the first moonbase because I usually get bored with the run before it happens so no idea how bullshit they are (probably a lot).';

'>>1709997
>no idea how bullshit they are
Do you like:
>multiple sniping battle tanks (same kind as the B rank bounty)
>double digit vehicles on the surface
>reinforcements
and that's only the first part, the second half involves a 3 layer interior with even more reinforcements and requires you to make a smash and grab because you'll get overrun otherwise';

'>>1710139
Pretty much what I expected. Good thing I will probably never get far enough to do that before I'm bored and start again.';

'Does anyone know if the new patch is dropping anytime soon? Is this a good time to start a new run?';

'Gotta say I really like the new Juggernaut sprite. Last time I reached this tech level, it kind of looked like ass.';

'>>1710262
Oh I forgot to mention I meant x-piratez update.';

'>>1710272
Not any time soon, I don't think. Last I heard, Dio was taking a break.';

'>>1710299
he said on the matrix server he was';

'>>1710536
>>1710299
>>1710272
>>1710262
If Dio is taking a break it's probably because US/Russia/Ukraine accidentally sent a drone strike to his neighborhood and he has to help the babushka down the lane chop wood to build a new house.';

'>>1710697
Incredible things are happening in Poland';

'>>1710697
Should have built air defences.';

'>>1710732
I forgot option four: POland may have airstruck itself for a fake casus belli to get involved in the war. They remember WW2 with bitterness.';

'>>1710697
Fault';

'Has anyone ever built and used the Necroplane line of interceptors?
By the time you need a speed/range upgrade for the LITTLEBIRD you're pretty much in the position to push out aircars/piranhas with 25mm/50mm and an accidental interegation or two away from your codex locked shadow tech units.';

'>>1710265
Thanks, I do my best fren'';

'>>1711059
The big selling point of necroplanes is the performance in combat, less so their speed and range. Especially in the case of the Daredevil, the twin 14mm cannons have more than double the damage output of an aircar with a single 25mm, allowing it to reliably intercept necropirate planes and bandit/raider airships (yielding a crash site worth about 500 points each, and further necroplane parts to scrap for 14mm ammo). Whether or not that's worth a tech skip to shadow craft/Krazy Hanna's 25mm is up to you.

Buckaroo is in an awkward spot. It can carry an absurd amount of low tech firepower, but has a high opportunity cost to research and build airballs/divebombs as well as getting a skilled soldier to fly it. Theoretically a player could loiter in the path of an enemy escort/gunboat and force an interception with their h/k behaviour, but who does that. In practice, players on Jack Sparrow can use them to farm ninja APCs so they don't game over to score death in September.';

'>>1711059
Yes.
I don't always build the Little Bird, and sometimes I need a weak enemy scrubber for remote bases.';

'>>1711161
>game over to score death in September
>JS
If your overall mission score is that low you shouldn't be playing on JS in the first place';

'>>1711184
>You shouldn't be playing on JS in the first place.
Fixed that, for you.';

'undefined';

'>start a new game with the cat path
>beeline for the nekomimi transport because it looks great on paper
>it's fourth month and I have a space capable craft with an actual gun which can shoot down pretty much anything flying that early
>it costs 30k in fuel just to leave the hangar, ten times that if it actually has to chase something and expel ammo
Yeah, not gonna use that as the main transport any time soon and to ass insult to the injury the ramp on it is awfully exposed. I've got the (unique?) gnome bus which is awfully slow, but goddamn the sniper spots in the second floor are nice.';

'>>1710265
I find it weird you still have LASSes onboard.';

'>>1711392
Or a cannon with regular cannonballs';

'>>1711393
>random shawl on a juggernaut
>scoped magnum instead of super magnum';

'>>1711392
>>1711393
>>1711397
Look, I'm trying to run a pirate enterprise here. I don't have time to go through every item in the craft to see if they're still viable to use.
Or go through every item in a gal's inventory to see if they're still providing any benefit.
Or research super magnums.';

'>>1711573
To be fair the LASS still probably has decent purpose as a light anti-armor weapon even very late anyway.';

'>>1711365
I love her';

'Tried to run Openxcom through Retroarch to get those sweet shaders';

'>>1711810
these overlays are beyond stupid, don't tell me people really play games like that';

'>>1711810
That's not good at all. Completely missing the slight blur you get with a CRT screen.';

'>>1711810
Is that the prospector ship? I've never seen that craft layout';

'>>1711843
That's worm. Green exclusive.';

'I have discovered that a Hyena Gal can absolutely kill an armored car with a pike. I have also discovered that the pike is not a melee weapon for "Armored Cars don't explode" purposes.

Lessons learned.';

'>>1711921
That the pike deals stabbing damage. Stab is not a safe damage type.';

'>>1712030
Stabbing being excluded from this really seems like an odd choice.';

'>>1712030
Is this even correct? Pretty sure I dropped armored car with throwing hammer and it didn't explode. Can someone confirm?';

'>>1712769
It does seem strange, I checked the list of stabbing items and aside from the fletchette gun and aqua bullets it's almost entirely melee';

'>>1712788
Throwing hammer has the "ignore self-destruct" flag, so yeah, it would work.
I guess the list can't say "melee and thrown", since grenades are thrown weapons.';

'>interceptor assembly just around the corner
>a wild nekomimi starfighter has docked
>oof, that's like four days of research
>what the hell go for it
>lol this thing is endgame tier, speed 6k, dodge +40%, gun with 130 damage 70% accuracy and 60 rounds
Is this guaranteed on cats 4 life or did I just get lucky?';

'>>1712769
Cutting, Stabbing, and Laser should all trigger explosions since they can cause sparks.';

'>>1714513
1% chance';

'>>1714537
Like, per month or for the whole game? I tried to peek at the events.rul but can't make heads or tails about the numbers.';

'>>1714549
per cat employed
I am making shit up its guaranteed';

'>>1714513
I got that event, but I'm not even on the cat path.
I'm somewhat farther in the game, though. I can't research the fighter because I'm going all in on quantum mechanics right now.';

'>>1714513
Anyone can get it, supposedly it has higher chance on cat path, same as puma sisters.';

'>be on reject the power path
>realize the only way to get shadowtech researched is through the gnome roulette
Better put brainers to poke one nonstop I guess.';

'>>1714687
Make sure you tackle the small researches first and old earth books so you don't waste research time just to get chocolate instead of something useful';

'Just three big burly half naked dudes in totally non-homoerotic costumes rubbing their wounded pal with phallic stones.';

'>>1714749';

'>>1715028
Also of note, some new zombie type added since I last played literally one-shotted 154 health ogre of mine. Like not zombified, just one whack -> dead. Paperdoll had a helmet and gauntlets of some sort. My guy was wearing pyroman with shield so 40-50 armor IIRC so not much, but still, goddamn 154 health in one swing. I'm gonna dissect this mf asap.';

'>>1715101
Yep, that's a buster zombie for ya. Their damage range is from 80-240 concussive with the melee so I don't recommend being close to one';

'>>1715104
Meh, it was my fault mostly, had grown complacent to ogres being able to just eat some heavy hits and using them as meat shields for my gnomes and cats if and when advantageous. One melee swing just outright killing one surprised me desu.';

'Is Peasant Revolution the best actual path since it gives you such a useful facility, even though it bars you from early hands?';

'>>1715638
Yeah. Hq is too useful, nothing like that on other paths.';

'>>1715638
Yeah it's likely the best one.';

'>>1715638
>guaranteed monthly recruits for your path (including assault clones)
>monthly scavenge (which can have a hero as a reward)
>global detection
you bet';

'>>1715638
Peasant Rev is definitely the strongest path. If you're judicious about taking Red Lantern Villas and Distress Calls and others then you can loot enough castaways and young ubers to get by.';

'>>1715816
Global detection is kinda redundant, given you will have global radar coverage anyway within a year unless you're purposefully gimping yourself for some weird challenge run or are new to the game.';

'>>1716019
The main thing is doing away with the annoyance from shit flying in and out of radar circles. Never losing track of anything is a massive reduction in popups. It's something like 3% detection chance, so even with eight it's not super reliable for actually detecting shit.';

'>>1716019
Like the other anon said, it's not for actual detection but for keeping things detected. Especially good for things like excavators that go to wilderness locations and land';

'Took way too fucking long but I finally updated my Clear Condemnations mod for the latest update, on the off chance anyone gave a shit when I first posted it 6 months ago.
https://files.catbox.moe/pa5y2i.7z';

'>>1716118
i use it, but honestly it doesnt make much of a difference.';

'>>1699449
Why has no one started work on importing the code for this mod to Xcom2?';

'>>1716134
Be the change you want to see in the world.';

'>>1716160
I dont know which file to modify to get the mod to work for xcom2.';

'>>1716162
>which file
It's a really straightforward answer: yes';

'>>1716118
Nice. I appreciate it.';

'>>1716134
most of the things in this mod are only possible because it's not xcom 2
are you retarded?';

'>>1716118
Based the 'third iron skull' nonsense doesn't make sense to me.';

'>>1716134';

'>>1716134
Make an open source clone of xcom2 first.';

'>>1716118
Any chance of showing explicitly what weapons count for the condemnation? Some are very unintuitive, like great clubs count for bomber. Yes I can reference it but it'd nice to just show up in game.';

'>>1716556
It's certainly *possible* for most, if time-consuming to transcribe and eventually update, but several of the eligible weapon lists are so long I'm not sure if it would even fit in the screen. I'll need to test it, and if it doesn't break the 'pedia I'll put out a new version in the next few days.';

'>>1716556
You're better off using online pedia for that.';

'>>1716567
The only way to do that that wouldn't make you want to kill yourself every update is to beg Meridian to add such functionality to oxce, but I doubt he'll agree.';

'>>1716582
Nta but for me it looks like something that would be somewhat straightforward to automate.';

'>>1716553
This.';

'Yeah I'm not listing every single weapon that qualifies for a condemnation. I'll just give pointers.';

'>>1717044
Do you guys not know you can just look this up on the online xpedia?';

'>>1717052
It's nice to have info in-game. That's why I made the mod in the first place, so I *wouldn't* have to look things up.';

'>>1700308
Intro sounds like a John Carpenter score. I like it a lot. Drum samples give me Home Improvement vibes thoughever.';

'Is X-Come Files finished yet?';

'Certain condemnations now also give a general idea of what is needed to get them. In exchange for my lack of will to list every possible weapon needed, I've made a separate mod (bundled with CC, make sure to activate both) that lists the researches you need to get the time-sensitive captain's log events. I made them separate researches to not interfere with the existing captain's log researches that actually do things, mod-added ones lacks the #
https://files.catbox.moe/r0v8mu.7z';

'>>1717121
Always has been, Cydonia has always been there. Updates just make it longer and longer and longer to get there.';

'>>1717139
>which weapons are these?
>answers the quizz itself
Darn, anon, you could at least delete all of those lines alluding to some mystery in your mod if you aren't going to keep it.';

'>pick jackass captain
>random event "rampage"
>captain brings back home a cyberdisc wreck
what the fuck captain';

'>>1717874
There's a reason why the captain never sees direct combat. Gotta make it fair for the Star Gods or it's just unsporting.';

'>>1717874
Captain can also kill a chryssalid/celatid/boomasaur by themselves, never underestimate their power';

'>>1717884
She embraces the glory of combat.';

'>>1717874
I wish I could pick jackass and red and also get the chaos events.';

'Fucking pallet of original intro man. I wish It had some blue';

'>>1717904
So can all of my gals.';

'>>1717139
its worthless then';

'>>1718067
Without taking a gun out of your storage?';

'>mission looks like it will take more than five turns to clear or has some retarded non-standard objective
>instant ctrl-d ctrl-j';

'>>1718575
I activate debug mode as soon as 90% of the enemies are done, I don't want to spend 3 years tracking down some dipshit in a shed';

'>>1718634
I have the bughunt mode edited to kick in from turn one, no matter the amount of enemies.';

'If Dio hit sme with two ninja -1000 infamy events or two stolen money events in one month I instantly debug the next five missions of import.';

'>>1718742
Stolen money events only happen if you have too much money in the end of month. Buy gold bars or alenium if you have that unlocked and keep it under a million or two. It's a dumb mechanic but atleast it's trivial to avoid.';

'>>1718748
It's even easier: Just cheat when Dio cheats.';

'>>1718749
Or just remove those events.';

'>glowniggers attack my weed farm base
>get punished for defending it
Thanks dio!';

'>>1718752
When government forces attack, aim to capture them. The infamy hit sucks, but the ransoms usually make up for it.';

'>>1718753
That was my secondary base with bare minimum peasant/doggo force defending it, there were exactly zero opportunities for captures. Besides the one hostage I took by accident was seemingly worth even more penalty live than dead.';

'>eurosyndicate troops
Jesus fuck';

'One gigachad post in honor of xpiratez before the event ends.';

'>rosigma updates to 3.0
>orkz are now playable';

'is there like a wiki or guide for the warhammer 40k mod. i don't understand how the tech works. what is requisition? what do i do with imperial tokens?';

'>>1718752
Just like real life.';

'>>1718752
>beat the glownigger crackdown
>lose infamy
>meaning you get positive reputation
What do you mean? It makes perfect sense.';

'>one of the peasants was randomly named Lucia Cypher';

'>>1718859
>what is requisition?
Money

>what do i do with imperial tokens?
You can spend them to upgrade your dudes

>i don't understand how the tech works
Welcome to the Mechanicus';

'>>1718752
Your alliance is supposed to be a secret that only you and the top levels of the world governments know about, so they can't openly support you. They expect you to deal with their forces nonlethally even if they're actively trying to kill you.';

'Would it break XPiratez if I cheated another Codex, Personality, or the Chaos Saint path? I hate exclusivity paths ngl';

'>>1719408
picking two personalitys should be enough to unlock the chaos saint content.
multiple codexes requires some file editing because of how the unlocks work (ex green_or_grey, red_or_gold) and because the codexes disable each other.';

'>>1719071
Seeing as we embody the Chaotic alignment, fitting.';

'Am I pussy if I have line of fire turned for psionics?';

'>>1719408
Mod enabling all the content would be great. When the mod takes 9001 hours to play through there's very few sane reasons to limit your options. Nobody isn't going "yeah let's go for another run, this time with a different codex" after finishing a run.';

'>>1719879
>Nobody isn't going "yeah let's go for another run, this time with a different codex" after finishing a run.
guess I'm nobody for playing x-piratez with every codex type, every personality type, every difficulty level including the baby mode and the jack sparrow and every path with exception of cats because I didn't get around to it yet';

'>>1719884
You might legitimately and unironically be autistic, the run is like 99% same regardless of your choices.';

'>>1719886
>the run is like 99%
it's not but no point in elaborating if all you're going to do is call me autistic for enjoying the game';

'>>1719889
nta, but what's so different in the gameplay?
codex is mostly a choice of shadowtech ships with a few unique weapons/armors (Grey Spellbook, El Admiral etc.) while personality is just random events.
recruit path is the most impactful, if only because of the big differences in playstyle between Uber Gals versus peasants/SS
having done most of these, i find myself agreeing with the other anon that it's mostly the same stuff.';

'>>1720057
maybe it's just me but the game feels way different to play when I'm running gold codex with huge early game boosts compared to late game green codex where I take far more risks with zombie gals because I know I can resurrect them at any time
and the difference between like gal path and peasant path should be obvious, early access to a 20 crew ship is game changing and you'd have to be blind to think it's "99% same" as you hauling your troops in the 6 man airbus or any of the codex ships
no codex also plays way different because your air game is dependent on gnome rng you get to appreciate shit you'd otherwise never use like piranhas or shark jetbikes
or even switching your combat gear from all rounder assault rifles, to indirect fire approach with mortars or grenade launchers to ooga booga muscle powered weapons only is a big gameplay difference, ever destroyed a tank with a throwing hammer? didn't think so but I did
gals play different from peasants which play different from lokks which also play different from catgirls
or difficulty setting, early ninjas on jack sparrow provide huge pressure on the player and the geoscape becomes a maze of dodging your way through countless ninja outposts, which is more annoying than fun but it is different
I could go on and on and on there are countless examples and you have to be an incredibly boring player if you think recruit paths, codexes, captain types or difficulties are 99% the same';

'Is Xpirtatez dead?';

'>>1720160
Works on my machine.';

'>>1720160
>in the middle of in-depth discussions on tactics and strats
>"is it dead??"
you must be retarded.';

'>>1720057
no codex is a major difference in that you have to do the primal hunts in order to be crowned, the last one being super nasty';

'>>1720227
Frogs (I assume that's the one you mean because the rest are easy) are nasty only the first time when you don't know what to expect.';

'>>1720233
In no codex you have 5th primal hunt where you fight canny gals.';

'>>1720235
Oh wow, didn't know no codex have exclusive hunt mission. I gotta do that run someday. Maybe next big version.';

'>>1720233
Nah, I'm referring to the one with the canny gals, their javelins absolutely murder people. Not a big deal if you rush a camp on the coast but a lucky roll can 1shot a gal';

'>>1720235
>canny gals
what's the problem here? just javelin the bitches.';

'>>1720242
Can't take javelin, stone age only, so pointy sticks at best. I would probably just bumrush the jav cunny gals with stone axes.';

'>>1720242
Like the other anon said, best you get is pointy sticks. I had one person with an axe in melee to disrupt reaction shots and a gal with a spear stab them, and then you get to start being the one javelinning';

'>>1720242
>what's the problem here?
Just 20 armor and like 120hp worth of beef to go through when you're limited to shittiest possible weapons in your arsenal? You're also limited to 8 people, maybe 12 if you somehow get that improved hunt party early on so you're outnumbered and outgunned on an open field. Not seeing any problems whatsoever.';

'>>1720254
it's a mirror match on final destination
>use camo and fire/smoke to limit sightlines
>use javelins because they're the strongest ranged primitive weapon
these combined mean that your loadout is a Canny Gal knockoff, so all you have to do is prove that you're the better Canny Gal.';

'Catgirls can beat canny gals in a camo war.';

'>>1720281
Only at night though due to Canny Gals' shitty NV. Daytime they spot eachother at pretty similar ranges and cannies can delete cats that they see.';

'>>1720271
You don't get javelins on primal hunts. The tips are metal, so they're not allowed. Though I guess you can take them from the cannies.';

'>>1720966
Wrong thread, sister.';

'I must say I LOVE this new ignore feature when not playing peasant path.';

'>>1720245
>>1720252
>>1720254
Pipes of doom';

'>>1719408
Sadly not, the very idea of unlocking second codex is against everything Dioxine belives to be true, good and righteous. If you made a submod, he would almost certainly insert a crashcode into the next release to prevent anyone form using it.';

'>>1721054
>insert a crashcode
Dio may be autistic but he's not retarded like starsector trannies.';

'>>1719886
Why would you be playing PirateZ if you aren't autistic? It's a game by autists for autists.';

'>>1720156
>gold codex
Great allrounder
>gray/green
Mystical voodoo for meme purposes/high IQ plays
>red
Brute force the stargods with demon rage
Cool on paper, grindy in reality
>you'll never use piranhas or jetbikes
Literally the opposite
Slap a plasma cannon or two and youll be set for dealing with annoying little shits fast
>20 crew bullshit
You don't need more than 8, max
Imagine having to spend half an hour making one turn
>mortars, GLs
Mortars are OP';

'Rosigma is a lot more greener than I remember';

'>>1721464
dat lukz liek a fun mod';

'>>1700308
>>1700224
Old tracker tunes.
https://youtu.be/OPqZfo243pA?si=X8xZrRIdfig9ErQS
https://youtu.be/-gx2TAYkIIQ?si=faWSPxypVrpNZ5l8';

'>>1721061
You missed when he was doing that very same thing when people were pissed about Ninja spam.';

'>>1721464
These look like some proper gitz';

'>>1721564
That's a wild hallucination you've had anon.';

'undefined';

'>>1721649
for me it's the blackmarch smg, only downside is how expensive it is early on';

'>>1721649
What's wrong with that gun? It's really good for the early game.';

'>>1721061
he is polish
he was born retarded';

'>>1721718
nothing wrong and yes
its just deflaut gun when you out of ammo for some looted extras';

'>>1719411
Trying to figure this out rn, went with Gold and Lazy-Ass where would I add the accompanying traits/researches in?';

'>>1721028
It's been there like forever. Or was some other way added than ctrl-click?';

'LMAO, I can't believe Dio went with AI slop. Academy entries is all slop too.';

'>>1721883
the hodgepodge of stolen art was way better than the current AI art';

'>>1721883
I do find it funny how you can immediately tell which ones are AI pictures, they just stand out so much.';

'>>1721919
That's the plastic-y pseudorealistic stuff, it's not like you HAVE to generate that kind of aesthetics. There are few pics far more in tune with the general aesthetics which can't be posted to a blue board unfortunately. Check wild gnome for example.';

'>>1709331
mod name?';

'>>1721957
found it';

'>>1721914
Isn't the Wild Gnome pic just some old 3d render? Does the online bootypedia have an old picture?
I think the Applenomics picture might be AI, and that one's all right. I still prefer the hodgepodge of stolen art, though.';

'>>1722007
Meant this, I just assumed actual wild gnome bootypedia article uses pic named as wild gnome.';

'I unlocked missile strikes a bit too early and one of my plantation bases got targeted, aptly named "unlucky station" was reduced to this. I actually want this base destroyed because I shipped a poltergeist here but this pile of rubble is just indestructible and this base eats like 10 missile strikes per month, they really like this base in particular with nothing in it.';

'>>1718024
What the hell is this from?';

'>>1722236
i think thats by brian for his own mod. he has also contributed to piratez and files.';

'>>1721883
that look bad
like so bad that is just sad';

'>>1722650
Such are the woes of AI. Unfortunately, they're unlikely to stop any time soon. Heavy Metal printed only so many mags in the 80s.';

'>>1722653
they could feed heavy metal and try to make ai do things in HM style instead of this slop
i think some canadian pajeet attached itself to dio';

'>>1721880
It was? Well fuck me. Took him long enough to write #number that told me about it.';

'>>1722694
Just checked, it's been oxce feature since 2016.';

'>>1722654
It really can’t. AI lacks soul and by soul I mean human grade world-model.';

'>>1722712
I wonder how many other features I have no idea about because of oxce non existent documentation.';

'I savescummed the space freighter. Some of those Marsec drones are pretty brutal.';

'>>1722745
Did you know about the latest feature that stops weapon from reaction fire? Ctrl + right click on a weapon and a red dot should show up and now rpg won't randomly go off in a snap shot killing half of your own dudes. I've been asking for this shit for years, YEARS.';

'>>1722763
Holy shit, that's fantastic. Can't wait to read about it in game two years from now.';

'>>1722763
That's just cheating. If you can't be bothered to micromanage your TU, you DESERVE to have your squad blown up by a rocket.';

'>>1722926
Honestly it is completely redundant. It achieves absolutely nothing that zeroing your TUs won't. Atleast equipping a pistol and right clicking has a point. If your other hand is empty and you forbid your main weapon from firing, only difference from zeroing TUs is niche case of being able to react with bad melee attack in case someone literally walks into your face.';

'>>1722926
>micromanage
Yes that's exactly what megamods need, more micromanagement we just don't have enough please make me do more busywork that's what I play xcom for, busywork.
>>1722929
>It achieves absolutely nothing that zeroing your TUs won't.
I don't have to micromanage the rocket launcher retard every turn for every fight for entire rest of the game. Wow that sounds like it achieves nothing right?
>only difference from zeroing TUs is niche case of
A niche case of having full TUs on your rocket launcher dude when you will need him the most, I can't count how many times putting away the sidearm blocking the rocket launcher made me ~1 TU short of firing aimed rocket that turn.';

'>>1722931
So basically you're an adhd addled sperg incapable of planning 15 seconds into the future, check.';

'>>1722935
If I saved 1 second per turn of xcom due to QOL feature instead of needless micromanagement that will save hours if not days of playtime over the length of your average megamod campaign.
But sure I'll take being a sperg if that means enjoying time saving features.';

'>>1722763
i've done this probably a hundred times inadvertently and had no idea what the red dot actually signified';

'>>1722929
>bad melee attack
The vast majority of enemies in the game can be punched into submission.';

'>>1722931
>I can't count how many times putting away the sidearm blocking the rocket launcher made me ~1 TU short of firing aimed rocket that turn.
Like just don't block the rocket launcher until everyone's moved and you're ready to end the turn';

'So if you red dot empty hand does it mean you can finally force reaction melee with bayonet on self charger? I'm few tokens short of chargers atm so can someone test it?';

'What does the white dot from normal R-click do?';

'>>1723110
prioritizes reaction attacks with that hand, but you can still react with the other hand if the weapon in the white dot hand cannot react.';

'I'm sorry Rosigma, I just don't think floating enemies that throw fireballs that then spawn a little demon fella who also explodes when he dies is good early game enemy design.';

'>>1723126
At least it's not Nurglites.';

'>>1723093
no
ranged weapons use snap for reaction';

'I've been giving XCF a lot of shit when I played it but I appreciate now some of its simplicity. I've been replaying pirates now and it really drags me down that I have to keep track of so many races and soldiers and special equipment and special crafts and special conditions and so on and on and on.
The XCF agent in kitsune can go pretty much anywhere and I miss that luxury which I've taken for granted.';

'May
1st year
I'm getting huge infamy hits despite consistently clearing out missions and research
help..pppp
I hate DIO';

'>>1723982
Check for enemy bases. One or more might be eating your score.';

'>>1723984
Fuck me, I forgot how to look for bases
Do I need a ground vehicle? or will the airbus cut it?';

'>>1723986
If the airbus wanders into enemy base radar coverage, it won't outrun the interception. And I honestly don't know if the ground vehicles can spot enemy bases.
Keep playing, take the negative infamy month and try to make up in the next';

'>>1723989
If I hit the negatives again I'm walking the table...';

'>>1724011
you can always increase the amount of negative infamy for losing condition';

'>>1722233
>dedicated missile bait base
That's one way to do air defence.';

'>>1723986
You can't take an enemy base in May 2601 anyway. You'll just have to hope they chill out a bit and try to do well in other missions.';

'>>1724849
>You can't take an enemy base in May 2601 anyway.
You could theoretically have the Convoy by then, I'm pretty sure. 24 hands/peasants would make it doable. A hell of a challenge, you'd lose a bunch, and you'd need to have gotten lucky looting lasers/chem grenades/recoilless rifles to take out the big turrets, but it's theoretically doable.
But yeah. Don't.';

'>>1723982
>>1723984
>>1723986
>>1723989
>>1724011
>>1724057
>>1724849
>>1724923
I made 4k in June
We are so back galssssss';

'anons, honest query. if a new xcomlike came out today, would you rather it have:
A - "nameless" soldiers that you can hire and can have different stats/roles, depending on the game. they can die permanently(or get out of action sometimes?)
B - "unique" characters that are one of a kind and you can't buy them in a traditional sense. each one is different when handling them on the field. they can't die, but get knocked out of action or something when they "die" in battlescape.

in other words, do you think troubleshooter sucks?';

'>>1725759
Both approaches are fine. I enjoy piratez as well as troubleshooter.';

'>>1725759
Fuck off troubleshooter is great.
Best way is to have both of those while not letting uniques outshine the carefully cultivated randos';

'>>1725759
troubleshooter and xcom are both good and nothing alike.
a game with unique units that cannot permanently die is going to be different from a game with generic units that can permanently die is going to be different from a game with unique units that can permanently die in many ways';

'>>1721883
AI is based if you know how to use it';

'>>1726197
>original vs sequel';

'>>1725809
that seems like an impossible idea, honestly';

'>>1725759
mix of both. one or two 'hero' units and a squad of mooks is the best.';

'woag !';

'>>1725759
Both, because Tactics Ogre is the peak of this genre.';

'>>1723903
It's trivial to edit out the race and craft restrictions from the missions. That's just one of dio's autistic idiosyncracies you have to work your way around. Funniest one is that landing alert is force disabled. Like you literally can stare any shipping on 5s and send a craft the moment it lands, but nooooo can't have alert about it, would be against intended experience.';

'>>1726197
Oh absolutely. I use it for reference poses.';

'>>1727106
never played tactics ogre, what do you mean?';

'>>1727173
Wrong thread for that so I'll keep to the context of the original question. Tactics Ogre has both generic units you can hire at any time and that can die, and unique heroes you get as part of the story progression or in side missions. There are some intermediate types like named generics and semi-uniques, but the point is that it uses both generic and unique units in harmony, and I think that's the best solution to this problem.';

'>>1727254
NTA but I'd argue that xpiratez actually does that to a certain degree: heroes/apostates of apocalypse, princesses of war/ice queens, and the unipuma sisters are basically the "non-generic" versions of recruitables';

'What would you do if you had a hero with 150 strength? I happen to be on red codex, I gave him war blessing and he just naturally had a lot of strength and gave him the unique red codex armor. Electro claw does 176 cutting damage sure but he's slow at 80 TU and cannot run due to armor, there's bound to be a better way to make use of this strength.';

'>>1727391
Anchor or longbow. It wouldn't be good, but it would definitely leave an impression.';

'>>1727391
What's that thing in jew slot? Is it a new thing? Never saw that before.';

'>>1727410
Looks like a rebreather.';

'>>1727410
Yeah it's a new sort of side grade to a gas mask but fits in jew slot? Usually I keep it empty this gives a bit of resistances more or less for free and I don't care about energy drain.';

'>>1726184
That doesn't look like the Irene I know';

'>>1721883
Pretty based of him to go AI over whatever shitty porn crops he used for these';

'>>1720156
Based xpiratez enjoyer';

'>>1722763
Interesting, I'd just use the burn all TUs hotkey before this';

'>>1727254
So like Disgaea as well?';

'New update is soon (ish)
Probably';

'I can never figure out what to do in early game in piratez there's just so many options, what do anons do in the first year or before teching up to back to school what's your gameplan? What's the tech you want as fast as possible, how do you build bases past your first one?';

'>>1729182
Honestly it just boils down to whatever I feel like doing. Early arms, early melee. Sometimes its dictated by research gains but so long as you have something that deals with issues early on you are gold to go nuts.';

'>>1729182
your first priorities are bounty hunting, warehouse wars, monster hunts, a combat craft, a mess hall, and an extractor. very doable by the end of feb if youre good.
next will be the sick bay, personal labs, workshop, car thieves, underwater missions, underground missions, toppling towers, codex craft, and C rank bounty hunting
after all of those are knocked out your next big stops are back to school, krazy hannah, hellerium craft, space missions, and your menace class

expanding is limited by money, both in affording new bases and buildings and the troops to defend them. defending becomes much harder once you hit boss rank, but before then mooks with smgs/shotguns and dogs with mines can handle it. lately ive been idling at a lower rank by holding off on either the solar courier or social hierarchy, setting up all my bases, and moving to boss once i am confident i can deal with crackdowns at every base.';

'>>1729157
Thank you for this, anon, I need my next tier slutsuit for gnomes. The war jacket line is a bit too heavy for general use...';

'>>1729157
Uooooooh
Gnome tummy';

'>>1727391
The magic hammer thing';

'undefined';

'I hate Dio sometimes for making me-redraw shit for 9000 times, but eh. I hope he'll be happy, this nigga deserves it.
>>1729204
It's has flamethrower, red shield and jet pack, hope you'd enjoy it.';

'>>1729617
i expect this will be very strong because only gnomes are allowed to have early shielded armor that isnt dogshit';

'anons, quick question.
i need a transport type that's not a bilion dollar military style ship, but something for a small, poor organization, but capable of housing around 10 combatants, so not a car(or a clown car) and capable of moving relatively quickly in a, say, state-wide area. so far the only thing that i thought of that fits is some sort of magical transporter';

'>>1729677
why not just a helicopter?';

'>>1729690
i'm shooting for something akin to a postapo world, so a working helicopter seems like a stretch, but i'll write this one down, thanks.';

'>>1729695
>postapo';

'>>1729698
that's... an idea, yeah.
i was also thinking some sort of a dragon, griffin or some such as an interceptor.';

'>>1729677
Feels like Hard Truck Apocalypse could help you out with the designs. Ural and Belaz are sure big enough to carry 10 units and they are based on real vehicles so they are cheap\down to earth enough for a postapo setting. Though the Belaz kinda looks like one of Convoy vehicles already.
>not a car
It's a truck and an industrial vehicle with the driver's cabin being smaller than one tire. Both are quite bigger than a car.
I suppose you could draw something akin to a land boat, with wheels and sails but that seems like a complete dead weight the moment the wind stops. Actual sailing ships could work but would be tied to waterways. Hard to imagine something half decent without at least a combustion engine, and if you do bring it in then a helicopter isn't that much of a stretch.
>>1729702
>something for a small, poor organization
>the only thing that i thought of that fits is some sort of magical transporter
>postapo
>sort of a dragon, griffin or some such as an interceptor.
Just what exactly are you cooking in there man?';

'>>1729768
thanks, i was thinking some sort of big-wheeled military truck nicked from somewhere would fit the setting nicely
>Just what exactly are you cooking in there man?
something something dimensional merge, something something pocket dimenstions, something something anime demon girls with guns';

'Is there a use case for lokks anymore? Cats make better pilots and gnomes can go wherever lokks can.';

'>>1730076
They're trivial to recruit and perfectly expendable scouts because of it. Anyone who explores caves and abandoned metro tunnels with a gnome is insane or stupid for not sending lokks and dogs in first. Lokks also have absurd camo values and this makes them immune to reaction fire on open maps in the early game.';

'>>1730089
I just use dogs in tunnels, and cats have great camo as well.';

'>>1729572
Nah, noobtrap
Dio expects you to be constantly on the wheel unless you want to irremediably sabotage yourself 40 hours in';

'How would you guys make a troop type tier list?(if its even possible)
Like, Gals are A tier, very versatile, good variety in armors, some of the best frontline troops and so on.';

'>>1730076
you dont have enough gnomes. using lokks is necessary for underground missions sooner or later. otherwise, yes they are considerably inferior to cats and gnomes and dio is aware of this.';

'>>1729157
>>1729617
I jizzed a bit.
You better make the flamethrower as good as Rosigma's flamer my man.';

'>>1730696
I don't think tier list is needed or appropriate here, I can just list my opinions about every soldier type
>Uber Gal
Jack of all trades while also master of all of them gal can be good at every role the only downside is relatively low freshness cap compared to other soldiers.
>Ogre
Tougher and stronger than uber gal but only good at shooting, heavy guns are their forte. Only available in limited numbers because of 1 per month recruitment cap. For me they've replaced 2x2 units as heavy weapon platforms, they're great.
>Catgirl
Similar to uber gal but they trade toughness for more mobility, arguably better at melee than gals at cost of being much more brittle, high reaction cap also makes them good with guns and piloting, unique piloting suits are cat exclusives. If last mission wasn't a 5 stage long ultra marathon these would likely make core of my army but new cydonia demands toughness and longevity and catgirls just don't have it.
>Gnome
Despite nerfs still the vehicle king(queen?), in one of the recent patches the deepminer suit you can steal is awesome, as a unique unit gnome bypasses nearly all limitations, they can be deployed to I believe every single mission in the game except x-prison, even more limited numbers than ogre but it is farmable from the B level mission. Obviously good with any weapon scaling with bravery but I rarely use them outside of vehicles.
>Syn
The ultimate in melee and mobility, having a unit with 200 TU just feels great to use however their availability is the lowest of all soldiers, you may go through entire game without seeing one, in the luckiest run I've ever had I had 3 syns there are no reliable farmable sources
>Lokk narr
Their stealth gimmick was nerfed until they've become worthless, the only reason to use them is for tight cavern missions and aircraft pilot duty, they're only slightly worse than catgirls at it.';

'>Peasant
Surprisingly useful soldier, their gimmick is potential because while they start the weakest out of all classes they have potential to be the best voodoo users, good snipers and can attend many missions where gals or other better classes aren't allowed including most witch or undercover quests. Peasant path also happens to be the strongest now and peasants make for great base defenders since they're cheap and disposable.
>Bugeye
A unit I want to like but I just can't, they start with innate voodoo capabilities and can trivialize some megapol or merecenary missions however all of their armor options suck, runt is peasant tier, cybermage coming in too late, loader disabling voodoo they just can't catch a break.
>Slave soldier
A truly useless class, they excel at nothing and they are easily replaceable by peasants while having the worst path out of available 4. A random hero can be fun to use but that's about it.
>Pirate dog
Yep no longer an aux but actual class, great for early game base defenses the barking drains TUs but I wouldn't have them in a regular team.
>Pirate blood hound
A dog but bigger and more expensive, in latest patch metal armor combined with gladiatorial training greatly extends their usefulness, but still I'd only use them for base defense duty.
>Chort
These barely exist, I've never assembled one legitimately you probably need to savescum gambling, play for a long time or get exceptionally lucky.
>Destroid
A red codex exclusive, really fun to use with in built sectopod like laser, does not gain stats or experience and you'll likely only have one or two.

tier list doesn't really make sense but here's an attempt, from best to worst
>cydonia tier
Uber gal, Gnome, Ogre, Catgirl
>fun but rare tier
Syn, Chort, Destroid, Hero
>base defense garrison tier
Dog, blood hound, Peasant
>forced to use them tier
Lokk narr
>almost good tier
Bugeye
>why do you exist tier
Slave soldier';

'>>1729677
Like a Cessna or a Sherpa?';

'>>1730724
>>1730725
Great writeup, I agree with all of these and never knew Ogres could be that useful.';

'>>1730715
Balancing is up to dio, I only make gfx for him.';

'>>1730789
tell him he should make the flamethrower suck absolute shit, that way he'll make it really good.';

'>>1730725
Isn't the slave soldier's gimmick that they can spend 9001+ turns on a mission without going bonkers?';

'>>1730831
They still get freshness decay';

'I went on too many missions where you have to save DILDOs and thus I have too many of them. What do I do? Pimp them? I already have a full squad.';

'>>1730831
Their gimmick is being base defense fodder because they have better base stats than peasants. Zone stalkers/apostates/commandos are also pretty good, the 2nd one having gal level of TUs';

'>>1729677
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercraft
scale it';

'>>1730923
>>1730744
thanks anons, a plane of this type can't really land on a battlescape like a skyranger, but the hovercraft seems like an idea that could be expanded upon, thanks a lot\it's funny that you don't rmeember about some options/ideas until somebody else mentions them and you think "well yeah, why didn't i think of that".';

'>>1730948
>a plane of this type can't really land on a battlescape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMVjYT6laKo';

'>>1730951
elmao';

'>>1730725
You forgot xenforcer, which is even more rare than syn while also slow as fuck. However it talks.';

'>>1700642
That sounds really good, it's really annoying to set things up properly once but then have missions requiring other gear trashing that.';

'>>1709388
It's absolutely doable anon, git gud, I have saves w/ lots of success and _very_ few losses on fourth difficulty. It's absolutely doable, and I'm not even that good, especially with overall strategy, build orders and all that jazz. Though I am also a very careful player!';

'Cats are gods in the earlygame but cat path's midgame is held back pretty hard by their poor armor selection and most of their research stipulating "you have to research the uber version first and then get a whole additional tech or two to use it on cats", which is a pain in the ass since I really wanted an excuse not to invest in researching uber gear.';

'>>1732726
how do you feel about paying 250k for a suit of catgirl armor?';

'How is the UNEXCOM series? Playable?';

'>>1732763
I think oni might have a niche for a heavy gunner since it gives moderate protection, 50% THV on top of cat's already strong vision stats, and is net negative weight. Hard for me to stomach that cost on "might" though, especially since the shit under armor and full piercing/concussive damage means that said gunner might die in a single grenade or bad roll against a rifle burst, losing the expensive armor at the same time as the expensive unit.';

'to be honest i'm just waiting for the cat stuff to continue expanding and growing to the point that it separates via mitosis into it's own spinoff megamod.';

'>>1732763
I think you could hire 50 peasants for that 250k, or 14 peasants with the durasuit armor. Now that I post this I realize how expensive the suit is compared to the peasant's life.';

'where do i find avalanche missiles in x-piratez?';

'>>1732836
There's a humanist mission that spawns them. You have to assault a weapons cache. Unfortunately, more often than not, a stray shot will hit the missiles, detonating all of them.';

'>>1732842
those are seagull missiles, not avalanches
but this is weird, I never got stuck on avalanches before but simultaneously I can't remember where the fuck do you even get them and the wiki doesn't seem to help either the topic just directs to craft weapon stats';

'>>1732844
I think you can buy them from one of the dealers.';

'The entire cat spinoff armor research line is ridiculous. You basically have to research every uber armor twice to get access to the catgirl versions.
>adapting outfits for catgirls>bikini design>mini bikini>guerrilla gear>light guerrilla gear>tactical armor>catical armor>grav harness>innovative grav harness>synthmuscle suit>mini synthmuscle suit>blitz armor>catgirl blitz armor>annihilator>catgirl annihilator
The only skippable researches in this sequence are light guerrilla and mini synthmuscle suit, which you probably will need anyway, and annihilator isn't even the final catgirl armor. None of the catgirl-specific armor researches are cheap either, most have a research cost close to that of the armor they are copying.';

'>>1732856
Again you can buy seagull missiles from authorized dealers, avalanches can never be bought but you can't make them until you loot them first, question is where do you loot an avalanche missile?';

'>>1732859
Considering how bad it is I might actually have to just pay out the ass for fuso armors and hope it will last me until I can buy nekomimi equipment. A couple million bucks vs like 100 brainer turns.';

'>>1732844
>>1732865
you get like 20 of them from the deep ones defense bounty mission, assuming you don't somehow find a way to accidentally blow up the giant fortress you start in.';

'>>1732881
that's it thanks anon, I've been skipping that mission since I got aquamen from the underwater mission and completely forgot about avalanches
is this really the only source? I think some ninja missions had these but in this run I unlocked ninjas so late I blew out their mobile fortress out of the sky so they pretty much don't exist';

'>>1732844
>I never got stuck on avalanches before but simultaneously I can't remember where the fuck do you even get them
Same. I think there might be a random event where you just find some in a closet in your base, but I'm not sure if those are actually Avalanches or just more Seagulls.';

'>>1732859
It really do be like that. I'm postponing them forever';

'>>1732771
who';

'>>1732726
>>1732859
Catgirls are pretty much the opposite of ubers. Ubers have very high stat potentials but they're a pain in the ass to get going, either needing a lot of training to excel at something (their stats aren't very specialized from the start and their high strength doesn't help them shoot human sized guns any better), having to research and custom build most of their gear, getting put out of commission for months on end if they get hurt even with basic medical infrastructure, and so on. Meanwhile all cats need is basic gun training, a suppressed pistol, and camo paint or guerrilla armor to be a solid unit for the entire earlygame and arguably even midgame. A fresh recruit catgirl with camo paint can assassinate mercs either day or night with a poison dagger, with a risk of being instakilled if you misplay or get unlucky, but the matchup is ultimately favorable. They're strong units right from recruitment, a dojo alone is enough to cap their HP and STR, but their progression beyond that is expensive for several reasons.
>reactions scaling weapon options as good as the suppressed pistol and poison dagger are very rare
>catgirl armor is expensive to buy or research, and tends to give up their strong utilities like camo/SPOT or stats for protection
>catgirls are arguably the most mission-restricted race, limited to mostly the same missions as ubers except they can't go underwater either, and get cold easily
>can't use big guns due to low STR cap
>they get less powerful transformations and voodoo options than ubers
>they are prone to getting killed if things go wrong, even if you get them armor, making it hard to justify commendation dumping them or otherwise treating them as elite soldiers
tl;dr if peasants are redshirts then catgirls are Jagen units. The main exceptions are the ones with special titles, like outlaws/catwarriors/ace pilots, since those give a shitload of bonus stats.';

'There are ways to circumvent the tactical armor research line, at least for the early and mid game.
>pre BTS
Camo, Fuso armor, armored cars, miner gnomes, gals medieval/boss armor, aggressor, holosuit.
>post BTS
Loaders, tanks, personal shields, nekomimi armors.';

'Guys sorry, is building a new base in xpiratez locked behind some research or is there something wrong with my game?';

'>>1733392
yeah it is now';

'and it's in';

'>>1733168
C4L cats not getting outlaw is pretty bogus. The tech even specifically says the nekomimi will be sending you outlaws, but you only get tourists instead.';

'>>1733392
Yeah but it's rather early research';

'>>1733443
I've been meaning to find a reason to put flamethrowers on gnomes. Hopefully before red shields level tech.';

'Why the hell did Dr. X think giving a bunch of interns some baseball bats and air rifles was good enough to take down some crazy lab bred psychos';

'holy kino';

'>>1733449
cats 4 life does let you buy outlaws. they lack the commendation because purchased troops cannot have commendations';

'>>1733579
If you read the lore you'd find out that she didn't give them shit, the equipment of nurses was whatever they could get.';

'>>1732796
The expensive part on a peasant usually isn't their life, it's the officer promotion fees.';

'>>1733398
>>1733457
Thank you anons!';

'Are expeditions worth it';

'Everything will be fire.';

'Wow it sure is crowded down here.';

'Great level design for this to be the spawn point for next phase, totally not a death trap or anything that could get hit by a blaster bomb.';

'>>1733854
Yeah, gives you quick research';

'>>1733907
What armor is that, the black one?';

'>>1733919
Triarius for human soldiers, actually pretty sweet I felt like centurion was too weak as a final armor for them, triarius maybe borderline op since I consider it to be about equal to annihilator but without freshness drain penalty.';

'>>1733920
Could you show the research for it?';

'>>1733922
In the tech tree it's positioned right around school graduation/power suit fabrication/harbinger power armor.';

'Moving 30 something troops one by one sure is pain in the nuts let me tell you that much.';

'>>1733927
Nice';

'>>1733938
You'll like w40k mod with IG faction.';

'>>1733854
Recon expeditions are country researches with some bonus loot, expeditions are your best way of doing underwater missions before you get the blowfish (which is probably only a month or two but getting the oscillator from a USO early on is huge)';

'>>1727656
He could've rolled something less plasticky. I tried to roll some 90's anime style the other day for lulz and even that would've been a better fit for xpiratez than those.';

'>>1733997
Gross lower body.';

'>>1734001
These weren't particularly curated, it's simply to point out that you don't need to make plastic action dolls pretending be humans. But there is no coherent art direction in xpiratez anyway so my ramblings are kinda moot.';

'>>1734003
dio likes that though, his horrible taste is world class.';

'And it's over, even when you know what to do where to go and how to do this mission it's still an absolutely miserable experience. This mission can go fuck itself, next time when I build a conqueror I'll consider the campaign won so I never have to do this garbage ever again.';

'>>1734019
What enemies are there that can challenge so many end tier gals in end tier armor with end tier guns?';

'>>1734020
In this last phase of cydonia there are 3 unique enemies
One of them just seems to have ludicrous of shields or hp or resistances, I think it took like 30 elite plasma hits, 2 blaster bombs and 2 bfgs shots before he went down. Also has enough psi mastery to mind control a pre screened gal that rolled maximum voodoo power, nobody in this mission has voodoo power lower than 60.
Second one is a guy with this voodoo ray weapon that seems to one shot you regardless of shields, resistances or hp, I think that weapon has some cheaty bullshit in it since it ignored gold shield and it should not do that since it's mind type but aside from one shots he can just be bursted down in one turn.
Third is a special muton with power armor, but he's harmless.
Fourth is that it's a FIVE STAGE MISSION and on my way here you had to slaughter enemies by the hundreds, last stage also has extra freshness drain on top of annihilator so you gotta go fast
Fifth whoever playtested this did not expect player to bring tanks along, bringing any 2x2 is a death wish they do not work in this mission at all. And of course the player has no way to know this beforehand other than meta knowledge.
Oh and I brought 36 soldiers, got 12 of them killed or abandoned.
Not that this mission is some impossible challenge but the way it's made is as unfun as possible, this is some of the worst xcom content I've ever seen and trust me I played a lot of xcom.';

'>>1734028
>Also has enough psi mastery to mind control a pre screened gal that rolled maximum voodoo power, nobody in this mission has voodoo power lower than 60
Voodoo power alone doesn't tell much, your armor has large effect on voodoo and so has bravery and your current morale. But I assume at this point your every gal sits well over hundred bravery from all the commendations. But on long missions like this, morale can be the killer due low freshness.';

'>>1734033
"large effect on voodoo _defense_", I meant';

'>>1734033
This is the person that got mind controlled, voodooo power says 43 because annihilator takes 20 away. But let's see this soldier had 26 + 50 + 32 + 20 + 43 = 171 VDEF, dio sets "unmindonctrollable" units to psi defense 200 like turrets or other mechanical units that are supposed to be mind control immune. This is as high as psi protection gets without grinding condemnations. So either that star god has insane stats or there's some cheaty script bullshit that just mind controls you guaranteed.';

'Okay, rookie question time: when and how to cover the planet with bases\outposts in XPiratez? It's July but I can't build anything better than an angry bird, well car thieves are also close.';

'>>1734057
build a second base early on for plantations
build a third once you get large radar and a fighter or aircar
start spamming bases once you can build a Still';

'>>1734028
>bringing any 2x2 is a death wish
Why? It looks like the corridors are wide enough.';

'Is there some optimal way or flow to research? By the second month there's so much shit to research I've no idea what to pick, it's impossible to tell what's useful or not without spending hours researching the tech tree and tiat's no fun, I know to focus on warehouse wars, bounty hunting and monster hunts first but after that I'm lost, I guess what I'm asking is: Is it possible to screw myself in the long run by researching the wrong things?';

'>>1734094
You'll want to start working towards a workshop, personal labs, and captain's log #1, you can only screw yourself longterm by doing something stupid like selling the codex before crowning';

'>>1734094
you're going to need Tools & Blades, Poisons & Acids, Post-Apocalyptic Cuisine, Intricate Gunsmithing, Medicine, Sickbay, Alchemy';

'You wot m8';

'>>1734116
>-1 TUs
NEVER use ol' anythings, I guess.';

'>>1734094
It's heavily contextual since your early choices can inform later choices. For example cat path will make you want to research camo ASAP. Gals Are Superior will make medical stuff a higher priority since gals get knocked out for long times instead of dying outright like a more fragile unit will. Peasant path has its own priorities. Gunwagon is nice to have early. Firearms Training is incredible if you're using cats or peasants or male touch. Contact Merchants for double shotguns or Primitive Weapons for javelins. You might get a fast Shadowmasters off researching Experiment Victims and beeline codex craft (keep in mind you need to build an extra extractor). The research tree is pretty freeform and incrementally designed.

>>1734105
>have a design philosophy that heavily encourages researching random things
>put in an event series that awards the players points for researching a predesigned sequence of technologies
What did Dio mean by this?';

'Getting ready to get back to piratez, thinking i will go peasant revolution this time.
How do i make peasants less bad, I have only ever used them for garrison. What to aim for the early game?
Codex wise green is bestest but also very dull, what would the more experienced revolutionaries recommend?';

'>>1734117
It's basically -1 TUs only if you totally drain your TUs, which is almost never unless you're specifically using the command or max moving every turn. Technically a positive commendation, albeit barely, unlike fucking Pyromaniac.';

'>>1734130
>How do i make peasants less bad
Firearms Training, Militia Training, and normal Training, plus outfits like Camo or Fusilier
use custom initial base and leave room for a 3x3 Revolution HQ, build that ASAP and use it to train many peasants
>Codex
Dumbass Grey';

'>ratman rodeo month 1
>ratman brigand with a double barrel shotgun staring at the window of the airbus and mob lieutenant with a skorpion staring into the cockpit
>positioned perfectly so that my gals can't shoot at them without moving';

'>>1733469
You get free outfeat when you research the suit, so hope this will help in a way.
>>1733907
Blame Kato for that. He said that when he tested New Cydonia he expect for player to take heavy causalities, at this point. But I like the final room with shit tons of enemies.';

'Wait, there are more captain personalities types beyond lazyass, jackass, soreass, and dumbass?';

'>>1734152
You can also go none of that, which gives you access to some unique buildings and several repeating random bad events. I tried that route for the first time in current run and it's not worth it.';

'>>1734137
>Dumbass Grey
Could you go more in depth on this.
I am concerned about the witch quests and the very high score hits for failures.
Whats the big advantage of it?';

'>>1734170
>Whats the big advantage of it?
Unique content like CBT Tournament event arc and VIP Club facility
Chaos Saint is least painful on a peasant revolution run';

'>>1734170
dumbass is a meme that forces you to go through rng roulette to get access to an inferior analytics room. the chain has some further events on gray codex.

if you want chaos saint peasant rev, which is not a bad idea by any means, i would go green jackass. green helps smooth your early game a lot, and you get the peasant-only biotank to help in the field until you can build real tanks.

peasants themselves are pretty bad until you get some trainings and armor for them. legion armor is when they really come into their own. peasant rev helps with the additional transformation and the trickle of experienced recruits.';

'Great, my performance is so "great" that my main objective is to farm enough money for payday of 13 brainers. It's not really a problem but more than 1 mil per month? That's really some meta balance moment.';

'>>1734176
>biotank to help in the field until you can build real tanks.
how the fuck are you supposed to get communion voodoo before tanks';

'Why yes I am a january pogrom enjoyer, how could you tell?';

'>>1734178
They generate a lot of their own pay through research infamy so their salary is less than on paper.';

'>>1734130
gold codex';

'>>1734178
It looks scary, but research generates score, so they do at least partially pay for themselves. Once you've got plantations and beehives, it's way less of an issue, since the bases can more or less pay for themselves and their garrisons at that point too.';

'>>1734133
Which is a pity. Gals got a need to BURN.';

'Research cost has a randomization component right?';

'>>1734076
To make the long story short getting a tank alive from phase 2 spawn point to phase 2 exit tiles is really hard and by really hard I mean borderline impossible. You have an option of a zigzag maze of instagib turrets or make 2 tile wide hole in a wall and somehow sneak past a different set of instagib turrets.
>just kill the turrets bro
Yeah they have like 750 shields and the game is spawning 5-8 reinforcement mercenaries behind your back every turn, you're stuck in a pincer move and you have to leave the spawn point as fast as possible.
Either way your odds of getting a tank alive past phase 2 are slim and death of a tank counts as if you got 4 people killed and also tank's freshness does not regenerate it's hard to carry tank reloads depending on which one you bring and this is a marathon of a mission so your tank will either run out of freshness or ammo or both.';

'>>1734323
Yeah the research cost stated in wiki or in the tech tree preview is the average cost, so let's say you have a topic that costs 10 days, as soon you click start research this number gets randomized between 50% to 150% of that value so depending on luck it'll take 5 to 15 research days to complete, 1 scientist always generates 1 day worth of research there's no random factor there. There's no way to know exactly how much you rolled without cheating, so unless you dedicate 1 scientist to every topic there will be some waste involved but that's to be expected, later topics can take as much as 1000 research days to complete. If in doubt how many scientists should you assign to a topic, 1 if it's low priority but no more than 50% of original cost seems to be the way to go unless it's some critical research then sometimes it might be worth it to just throw everyone you can at it.';

'>>1734200
>Once you've got plantations and beehives, it's way less of an issue, since the bases can more or less pay for themselves and their garrisons at that point too.
>plantations and beehives
How to fight the urge to build literal plantations instead of bases, fitting as much plots as possible? One plantation "building" takes up 4 squares on its own. 1 plantation of any kind as a token per base? inb4: depends on difficulty and luck of your run
>>1734348
Do those difficulty signs and progress states "poor-average-good-excellent" really help or random shuffles card way too much?';

'>>1734448
One is always worth it in the first couple years just to provide access the Bee Hives, which are: a) 1x1, b) worth three plantations worth of upkeep reduction, and c) spawn a bunch of free base defenders.
Otherwise, I tend to start bases as plantation bases and then specialize them later. What I usually do is entrance, one hanger, because otherwise you get shit spawning in the sewers, and then seven tiles of useful buildings and shit. Radar, crew quarters, vaults, the aforementioned beehives, et cetera. That leaves room for a decent sized garrison and six plantations. That pays for itself and a decent number of defenders as well, and if you throw an Onsen in (and you should), the more useful parts will be sitting training in the background.
Then later on you can switch out plantations as necessary for whatever you need. I usually start trying to get more crafting space in once I've gotten to weed farming and the cigar, since that needs a Culture building (like the Onsen) which kinda restricts available space in the seven free slots, but is a shitload of money once you get production rolling.';

'>>1734448
>Do those difficulty signs and progress states "poor-average-good-excellent" really help or random shuffles card way too much?
They help a little, what tends to work is adding or subtracting one scientist until it goes up or down one stage so from poor to average or from excellent to good etc.';

'>>1734146
Reminder';

'>>1734497
But my infamy';

'>>1732885
>in this run I unlocked ninjas so late I blew out their mobile fortress out of the sky so they pretty much don't exist
What even, I remember Ninjas being mad early, with even just airfields being tough to do without casualties at the point where I had several crop up.';

'>>1734028
>but the way it's made is as unfun as possible
yeah, dio is a dumb wanker';

'>>1734497
Me every time I see ratman pogrom.';

'Is there even a point to gunwagon when angry bird exists? I guess if you win the lottery it can get you a land vehicle race win?';