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  1. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    You can if your enemy is within blue move range, otherwise no I don't think you can. Also, holy fucking shit at one of the late game enemies.
  2. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Rag is absolutely better than Antonidas in Tempo Mage, I have no idea where this obsession with running Antonidas in Tempo came from. Hell even Rhonin is better than Antonidas in Tempo. Alex is a safe craft even if she gets changed because you'll get full dust value if she ends up unplayable.
  3. Gavinmad

    Marvel Heroes 20xx

    GoK price is stable. Only thing that has fallen off almost completely is Lizard.
  4. Gavinmad

    Deadpool (2016)

    Who the fuck goes to a Deadpool movie to see the villains?
  5. Gavinmad

    Arrow

    I mean we all knew it was coming, but I still think Felicity's dad just happening to be a supervillain is pretty dumb. Not as fucking dumb as Merlyn is for not killing Nyssa, or at least locking her in an actual fucking dungeon. And why the fuck did she need that dumbass little dagger to kill...
  6. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    I'm planning to try faceless/frost/charge post rotation. Should be plenty of room with death's bite, shield maiden, and dr boom going byebye. Probably won't run Grom at all, much harder to activate and Dog already wasn't running him in the list mine will be based off of.
  7. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    With so many deathrattle minions cycling out, gorehowl will be really good again. Zoo isn't terrible, just a bad matchup. I'd say it's between 55/45 and 60/40 in favor of Zoo. Really depends on you drawing two weapons early and them not getting a really good set up for Argus. Brawl is going to...
  8. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Like I said, I do a 1/1 split on blademaster/phantom. My blademaster takes conceal while my phantom takes run & gun. When my phantom eventually gets revealed, I can pop my blademaster back into concealment and continue to have a scout. I used an SMG for a while on my blademaster, but I Found...
  9. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    It is, but I imagine it's a lot better if you've teched in a pair of revenges.
  10. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    If you want cards from the new expansion, buy packs from the new expansion. The only way buying classic packs would be worth it is if something like 75% of the classic set was offering full dust value.
  11. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    He doesn't even have to hang back, as long as he's still in cover relative to any enemies when concealment is broken he'll stay concealed. Phantom is really good but I always take blademaster on my first ranger, among other things a guaranteed kill on a full health sectoid is super powerful in...
  12. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    yeah you get 3 weeks, although its good to know that the timer resets every time you knock bars off. Decided not to abandon my campaign just yet although I'm gonna be battling from behind for awhile. I figured out that I was neglecting my supply economy early on, which then caused me to waste a...
  13. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    That wonderful feeling during a retaliation mission when you decide a civilian is an acceptable casualty, fire your heavy weapon, and it turns out he was a faceless. and yeah I noticed the lack of inspect very early on, really annoying. *edit* heh, dirty trick to use against berserkers...
  14. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    yeah thats another reason why I didn't jump straight into Iron Man. When I played Long War on Iron Man, I periodically made a copy of my save file on the desktop so I had a backup.
  15. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Yeah Stun Lancers have to be a priority, since they also have a chance to stun or KO you. *edit* Well shit, might be time for campaign #3 already. Avatar project just hit max, giving me 3 weeks to knock a bar off. I was already in the middle of contacting a region to hit a black site, but...
  16. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    lol. My specialist got a permanent +20 hacking from a council mission chest, and I just finished the skullmining project which gives you +25 hacking with a skulljack equipped. Hacking strength 160 atm. HACK THE PLANET!!!
  17. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Finally got my pistolero high enough level to not suck. Breaking concealment by taking a shot at every single visible enemy with toxin rounds equipped is quite potent.
  18. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Blacksites only reduce the avatar progress by 1 afaik. There are other ways to knock a bar off here and there, but the game has a fairly strict timer compared to EU/EW where you could play forever once you stabilized the air game.
  19. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    The only one I've tried so far, the mech got a fairly significant buff on a failed hack. Obviously not as bad as buffing the entire enemy team, or generating an extra reinforcement pod, or what have you. Easy robot hack stuns it, hard hack mind controls it for 2 turns. Still, giving something...
  20. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Depends on the difficulty. So far hacking seems profoundly not worth it the majority of the time. The benefits are usually pretty minor but the consequences for failure can be horrific. When you have to hack as a mission objective (i.e. no chance of failure) make sure you bring a specialist...
  21. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    What general stuff? I haven't seen anything aside from corpses, which still drop when you use explosives. I did see a 'such and such has been destroyed' message once early in my last campaign that I assume was the pick up gear that would have dropped when he died.
  22. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    In my experience only one enemy per mission can drop loot and it's only destroyed if an explosive deals the death blow. I pretty much always take two grenadiers, between the cover destruction, longer range on the launcher, and experimental grenades, I think they're probably the best all around...
  23. Gavinmad

    Marvel's Jessica Jones

    Are you shitting me? The roadrunner chase is hysterical. You should watch Shaolin Soccer, it isn't as good but it's still really funny. My favorite moment in the movie is when Coolie catches the lighter before it lands on the two girls drenched in gas.
  24. Gavinmad

    Marvel's Jessica Jones

    and I thought the English dub was terrible.
  25. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Advanced Warfare WITH an engineer staffing it speeds up heals. It also allows you to respec soldiers, and gives you a chance to get a random free perk on ranking up. The perks are super random, often useless, and not terribly common. The proving ground is the first facility you have to build to...
  26. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    I went ahead and started over. Campaign might have been fine since I hadn't taken any soldier losses yet, but whatever. I've decided the warfare center rush was a huge waste. Beagle was either getting incredibly lucky or else he modded the random ability list, because he was pretty consistently...
  27. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Oh I don't know why this wasn't covered in the tactical tutorial (I always play the tutorial once just to see it) but there is also a waypoint system for movement. Hold down ctrl and you can dictate the exact path your soldier takes if you're trying to avoid being spotted. *edit* Also for...
  28. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Also there are TONS more alien types. I'd say I'm maybe halfway through a campaign (thats when they said Centurions should start showing up) and I'd say I've already seen as many different enemy types as there were in all of EW/EU.
  29. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    The game is much faster paced, most of the missions are timed. As far as the geoscape goes, it's basically what I imagine the alien geoscape looked like during EU/EW. Instead of starting with the whole world and trying to defend it, you start with a single region and have to spread out. There...
  30. Gavinmad

    Marvel's Jessica Jones

    I seem to recall her being fine brawling with Luke Cage and being hit by a van. Must have been a kryptonite 2x4.
  31. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Good chance I'm going to fail my first playthrough, spent so much time dicking around and looking at everything that I wasn't making contact so my income stayed pretty low, and now the Avatar project is damn near finished already so I have to absolutely scramble to start knocking bars off the...
  32. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    lol, nice. I really dig the new complexity of the choose one or the other for dark event counters. I just had one where I really would have rather had an engineer instead of a cpl sharpshooter, but I decided I'd rather deal with a shortened retaliation cycle instead of an entire month of...
  33. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Lotta new mechanics to get used too also, concealment is a bit complicated. *edit* and this is why I rushed the warfare center, even though it's likely going to delay my proving ground by close to 2 months
  34. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Well you have to build the facility that lets you train leaders, you don't start with it built, and yeah the description for the centurion said he shows up around the midpoint of the campaign.
  35. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Well if you're a pussy you might not want to play with the Muton Centurion turned on. Turning on the mods immediately gave my existing campaign access to the SMG, so I guess I'll keep going until I get guerilla tactics built and see if the leader class is in there. *edit* my tactical UI...
  36. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    rofl totally forgot about the LWS mods, so I'm probably gonna have to start over. Only a couple missions in anyway.
  37. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Owl is one of the most broken cards in the game. They undoubtedly won't change it, but it needs it badly. Spellbreaker is roughly what a balanced neutral silence looks like. Keeper of the Grove is what a powerful class silence looks like.
  38. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    That seems more like a question for Shen, not us.
  39. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Bah. And it was saving 60 bucks. Allegedly.