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  1. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Not as great as some of the repeater stories I've read on reddit but that's pretty awesome.
  2. Gavinmad

    The Flash

    Well on Earth 2 maybe Bruce, Hal, and Diana aren't superheroes. I mean as powerful as Zoom is, you'd think Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman could do something about him.
  3. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    I realized something about that video right before I went to bed last night. What really went wrong was when that soldier got critically hit and killed by the viper that wasn't even flanking her, which is when the failure cascade actually started. I realize hindsight is 20/20 but instead of...
  4. Gavinmad

    Sports Entertainment

    One concussion was enough to convince me to give up falling down flights of stairs at high speeds, I can't imagine 10 much less 30-40.
  5. Gavinmad

    The Flash

    Yeah I'm surprised Barry didn't double take at that, or even a quick Snart cameo. Floyd Lawton had me rolling though, especially with the whole Deadshot gimmick reversed.
  6. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    lmfao THAT'S XCOM BABY
  7. Gavinmad

    The Flash

    yeah the Cisco mirror moment was hilarious, too bad it didn't last.
  8. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    stolen from reddit, it's long so I spoilered it, and bolded a couple I thought were important Also, according to reddit pistols DO get the benefit of weapon upgrades, which means there is finally someone the repeater is worthwhile to use on. Apparently Shadowstrike only requires that you...
  9. Gavinmad

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Supergirl? Do you need a good divorce lawyer?
  10. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    I found this really hilarious, which probably means I need a nap. *WARNING* You cannot un-hear this, and it will likely affect every future playthrough of XCom 2, so watch at your own risk.
  11. Gavinmad

    The Shannara Chronicles

    Why couldn't they have just taken the story straight from the book, glossed over the army vs army scenes if they needed to save the cgi budget which I assume was always the plan, and then inserted their Twilightisms to it? It really says something when the awkward teen romancy stuff is the least...
  12. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Just because I didn't have Iron Man enabled doesn't mean I was save scumming. I did a bit early on while I was testing out how various things worked, but I didn't scum my way through the whole game. Pretty sure more than one person on this forum alone has had their Iron Man playthrough messed...
  13. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Well that hasn't changed, nor should it. You have to win both the strategic and the tactical game, not just one or the other.
  14. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    It's not a facelift it's a transplant. This is what the Alien geoscape looked like during EU.
  15. Gavinmad

    Health Problems

    Brings new meaning to the concept of the stranger. Anyway my sinuses always get irritated and bloody during the winter. This year we had an incredibly mild winter, barely even dipped below freezing. Then one day it was bitter ass single digit cold, stayed that way for over a week, and my...
  16. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Constant pressure from the smaller creatures with lots of ways to guarantee trades favor you would be my guess.
  17. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    See I thought the bonuses didn't look the same on my second playthrough, but my first one didn't get very far so I wasn't sure. and yeah, I got armed to the teeth early on in my successful campaign and that third upgrade slot makes quite a bit of difference. Looks like that's the only bonus...
  18. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    No, I didn't know that. Granted, they still won't be very useful until they've unlocked the right powers which you can't control the order of, but yeah that definitely changes things. I assume leadership training is the same way. Yeah that changes things significantly, especially if you get the...
  19. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    I was still feeling the game out on normal. or whatever normal is called in this one and I played pretty conservatively. Plus I always took two grenadiers and plenty of shred so when I did activate more than one pod it wasn't very dangerous. Long War Iron Man drills into your head the...
  20. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    It's an ability sectoids have to create psi zombies, never knew it works on your own dead since I haven't had someone die. Working on a mimic beacon is pretty damn funny though.
  21. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Yeah it would take a lot of time and elerium cores to get that many shredstorm cannons, I finished my game with 2 so I did 2 shredstorms until I started fielding a third war suit which was usually equipped with a blaster launcher.
  22. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Yeah Shredders/Shredstorms are unreal. and no, Psi-Ops absolutely do not need to be nerfed considering how long it takes to train one, the fact that you can't use them during that long training process, and the fact that the order they get their powers is completely random so you have to train...
  23. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    They were part of the EU release, they were just turned off in the ini until one of the patches.
  24. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    So right after the Van Doorn mission, Beagle had a crop of recruits show up and he named one after Van Doorn. Long story short, the RNG gods smiled upon Van Doorn. He survived certain death, made impossible shots, and in general just saved the fucking day whenever it needed saved. He was epic...
  25. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Do you not know the legend of Peter 'Doom' Van Doorn and Private Friendly?!?!?
  26. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Just keep doing the story missions. So I beat it, went to start a new game, and saw that there were no second wave options. Seriously? They decided to just say fuck it and let modders handle it?
  27. Gavinmad

    The Shannara Chronicles

    Well if they kill Allanon they can't really do Wishsong unless they're turning him into a spirit early. Which would be yet another dumb and pointless departure from the books. And no it definitely looked like pointless and inane crazy torturer trope guy had those wires clipped to her...
  28. Gavinmad

    Sports Entertainment

    I'll believe Daniel Bryan is retired when he's in a box.
  29. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    Well if you want to change druids you have to take away mana ramping and rebalance them around that, but Blizzard obviously isn't going to do that. If you nerf force/roar and maybe even nerf some of their other classic stuff on top of that, nothing you release in the next expansion is going to...
  30. Gavinmad

    The Shannara Chronicles

    Finally got around to watching it and this show is fucking awful. I don't mind the Twilight style terrible romance bullshit, but what the fuck is with all these wild ass departures from the books? And honestly I think Slanter is the worst one. SLANTER IS FROM FUCKING WISHSONG NOT ELFSTONES. This...
  31. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Burning says it prevents some abilities from being used, but I assume you'd have to look at the text for each ability to see exactly what it prevents.
  32. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Yeah blowing up the roof is one of my favorite ways to break concealment. Powered heavy weapons are absurd. Like crazy absurd. Especially the Shredstorm cannon.
  33. Gavinmad

    Hearthstone

    10 bucks says druids are shit tier for at least a year
  34. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    I didn't use one for the first half of the game or so, until I got a LT sharpshooter as a reward. Between kill zone and serial, she sure as fuck is catching up though.
  35. Gavinmad

    X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

    It would probably look fine if it wasn't in slow motion. Slowing it down rather dramatically emphasizes how incompatible her rotation and falling speed are with the laws of physics. She's falling too slow and rotating forward too slow.
  36. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    You juice them up with every +accuracy mod you can get (scope upgrade, tracer ammo, perception PCS) then park them on high ground with commanding LoS of where you expect to be fighting, and then rain down death. I think pistoliers are better for the first chunk of the game, but once you get one...
  37. Gavinmad

    DC's Legends of Tomorrow

    Show is continuing to be rather mediocre. Oh and I finally figured it out. Even though it's still paradoxical, if they continually go back in time after Savage he will get less and less prepared for them. If they keep going forward in time, he'll be more prepared for them every time.
  38. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    Proving ground. You have enough starting power for two facilities before you need to build a relay, and you won't even be able to buy the first squad size upgrade for a couple weeks anyway since it requires a SGT. Facility order for a basic opening should be proving, gts, power, radio *edit*...
  39. Gavinmad

    DC's Legends of Tomorrow

    No shit.
  40. Gavinmad

    XCOM 2

    SMGs are terrible. The extra movement is mostly irrelevant because if you actually need that extra mobility when slash lets you use both your blue and yellow move, you're either running way too far forward and risking extra pod activation or your blademaster was way out of position in the first...