The Firaxis XCOM Series

Is Muton counter always trigger when melee-attacked? I remember slashing a Muton once without problem...

Other questions: Who strikes first, and if the Muton strikes last, is it prevented if your strike is fatal?

IIRC the Muton's melee counter will deny you a chance to hit if it procs.

Fun fact: You can still Bladestorm any Muton who runs into bayonet range and not get countered this way.

Bladestorm, when you look at. It, basically a counter-attack anyway. Also, it seems that when connect, counter -attack will get priority over normal melee attack.

Someone on a forum Elsewhere reported that terrain destruction caused a forklift to fall through a collapsing ceiling and instantly crush a Gatekeeper to death.

Ding, Dong, The Wicked Orb of ADVENT is now dead!

...Should find better reference now.

My reaction to that was WRYYYYYYYYY~

With the stasis power, you could even have the ZA WARUDO to hold it in place for a turn before dropping the forklift. :D

What was a forklift doing on the roof.

Also stasis makes you imortal so it wont work.

I meant stasis on the turn before dropping it, just like in the meme, where the time stop ends before dropping a heavy vehicle on top of the target.

I have never seen the meme >.<

I made one based on a character who is partially based on myself. Does that count? Haven't had much of a chance to use her, though, thanks to character pool RNG.

I've just gotten to near end-game, and damn, Councilman went out like a total Bad Ass. Game seems somewhat easy once you get the final armor upgrades on normal mode, so I'll definitely be playing on Veteran next. Along with whatever other options are unlocked after beating the game.

Power of mods

Yes, Shrek mods exist in the Workshop

I guess XCOM ran out of ominous names for their operations.

Just to note, you CAN melee mutons successfully, but I have no clue when does counterattack trigger :P So like is it when attack misses or is it like dodge so its additional chance to happen when you hit one?

Apparently, there's a 1/500 chance of the Operation name just including Chicken. The programmer even wrote a note for its code saying sometimes they just want to use chicken.

I think it's just a flat random chance whether the muton counters or not.

Finally beat my first playthrough on Veteran :D

Stalled out a bit to get total global coverage and all the regional bonuses.

Just met my first sectopod. It was intimidating at first, but then it stood up. This basically summarizes my reaction.

The mimic beacon basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSqNHp4zfw

Seriously, build more of them guys.

Question: Do they explain how the victory ending of EU led to the aliens winning, or do they assume that you got your ass kicked in the last game (not a bad assumption, considering I'm gonna try Classic Ironman soon...)?

Is there any way to guarantee a Codex spawn? I need to skulljack one.

^ XCOM 2 takes place in a continuity where Xcom lost the war. Details are vague but from what I can tell:

• The main divergence point is that you lost the base defense.
• Xcom lost before they could field skeleton suits.
• ME Cs were already planned, but never made.
• They had seen berserkers, chryssalids, and Ethereals.

edited 14th Feb '16 2:28:15 PM by Spirit

Can you skulljack a Codex? I thought it only worked with ADVENT troops. Maybe you are confusing things? If it is part of the quest that makes you build a skulljack in the first place then you need to use it on an officer. Then a Codex will spawn for you to kill.