New XCOM 2 previews/hands-ons
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Fragamemnon
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There's an opportunity cost there in that if you play defensive like that you might chew up just enough time to not complete the mission objective.
The timers are going to be super divisive and wreck players playing above their skill band. I love the timers as I think creates great tension with concealment phase but I expect to see plenty of people with no business near the top two difficultly levels getting fussy over them.
If you have something like that you just put it on the troop that more or less always has something to do. If it goes off, they just move to the next action, whatever that may be.
The game has plenty of fully deterministic items and abilities for when you can't afford to leave things up to the dice, just like EU2012 had.
The thing that I've always loved about XCOM is that it thrives on unpredictability. This seems like a bad idea for a tactics game but it clicks when you take the global strategic layer into account. The hard percentages all over the combat scenarios ensure that the RNG will eventually ruin your day, and that's OK because half of the game is about preparing for that inevitability.
lol spend 20 minutes customizing a soldier that will die in 20 seconds.
You keep them now though, in the "Character Pool". Probably can't be used again in a playthrough but could be used in others. They can also appear as VIPs!
C'est la vie, mon ami. C'est la vie.
mikefrails
Banned
Is the first one pretty good? I'm big on games on Final Fantasy Tactics.
TC McQueen
Member
Yup, although playing it with the EW expansion pack is the best way to experience it. This one will be better.
You aren't lying. From there until like 5:49 is basically the reason to play XCOM. Was nearly jumping out of my chair just watchin' it.
Saw that. It is interesting.
Some exploit of the rather mediocre vanilla game shouldn't be the reason for that. Sure wasn't present in Long War.
I'd suggest watching the Matt Lee video that's been linked a few times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZAP3c5xikA
Only a small portion of the video discusses the time limits but the entire thing is worth watching.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
You can save your characters and they may appear in your next playthrough as new soldiers or VIPs. It looks like it only saves the customizations and the class, but not the weapons or skills tho.
Basically every time the game needs to put a new character it may create a new random soldier or take one from your character pool.
Yep. So basically you can spend 20 minutes customizing a character, creating a bio and so on because it won't be lost if he dies or you finish that playthrough. It can appear again in the future.
Hey now im doing a impossible ironman in xcom 1 right now and I havent lost anyone yet, 12 hours in and still rocking my original squad. Never say never until that bullshit round comes along that leaves you screaming in pure "i cant believe that just happened", rolling your face in your hands wishing you could quick load to save everyone....and yes the investigate the port mission has just come up so doom is incoming.
Psychoward
Banned
Hmm, I wish instead of that you could save certain visual character customization stuff to presets that you could load in new games. So for example I could create a person who looked exactly like my friend and add tattoos or a visor or whatever, save that preset, and then when he gets gutted by a chrysalid I don't have to remake him in my next game.
That's exactly it, tho.
I'm not even sure it saves the class; I think it is only the visuals, the name/nickname and the bio.
Really looking forward to this game, I am so glad the went PC only route (or a least a first release) I enjoyed the remake, but just felt it was just a bit to mainstream to make it a classic, but it certainly revived the turn-based squad genre.
Hopefully they will make it longer this time and more variety in missions, and locations. I don't tend to bother with previews and reviews as I tend to know I will enjoy an games based on settings and style (works 95% of the time)
Hopefully they will make it longer this time and more variety in missions, and locations. I don't tend to bother with previews and reviews as I tend to know I will enjoy an games based on settings and style (works 95% of the time)
Comfort Jones
Banned
Crazy how moddable this is. Insane to see this and then hear Doom of all games isn't getting mod tools. GET WITH THE TIMES, DEVS.
Haven't been this excited for a game in a loooong time. Kinda funny to think even if I don't love it, there's a good chance I can try to improve it by myself!
Haven't been this excited for a game in a loooong time. Kinda funny to think even if I don't love it, there's a good chance I can try to improve it by myself!
Pretty good video from Northernlion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4rBWk1mt0c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4rBWk1mt0c
The eggscum is my favourite youtube. Been watching AGDQ all week so didn't know he had started an XCOM 2 let's play already.
Shake Appeal
Member
The port is easy in vanilla, though! Unlike the LW version, nothing shoots back at you. Just bring a sniper and put them on the boat.
Psychoward
Banned
Yeah but it seems to do it at random instead of being an option to load in or not?
What's going wrong? I just installed XCOM on a new Windows 10 installation and both Enemy Unknown and Enemy Within are working properly.
Yeah, but afaik you don't hire soldiers blindly anymore, they are rewards from missions and you can preview them before going on the mission. So the odds are better than completely randomness.
Still, an option to maybe choose your initial four rookies from the pool would be nice.
This was my thought as well. Having your customized character maybe randomly appear as a new recruit in another game is well and good, but I'd rather have customized templates (looks & bio only, obviously) permanently saved and available instantaneously for deployment in new games.
Seems like it would give all that customization effort more meaning and practical future use.
TC McQueen
Member
That would be kind of cool, but I think that if XCOM2 is as long as it seems to be, odds are that any characters loaded into the pool will eventually show up.
Psychoward
Banned
Hmm, yeah here's hoping for a mod to fix that then. Not only would I want to be able to load them in at will there might also be times I don't wanna see my created soldiers again and go all random or something.
It will briefly say Running on Steam but never actually launch.
I've tried: Deleting everything, redownloading/reinstalling. Verifying integrity of the game cache. Running in compatibility mode/as an administrator. Which leads to: "can't start because MSVCP100.dll is missing from your computer" and "...MSVCR100.dll..." I've tried manually copying and pasting these files into the game's Binaries folders, which leads to "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)."
piratepwnsninja
Member
It says I already have them and gives me the option to repair or uninstall. I repaired both and nada. I'm about to give up and buy it on the wife's tablet.
Try what epmode suggested above.
MrCompletely
Member
Was thinking the same thing. I remember, the demo required that you go through a tutorial map, and then let you play one or two more maps...only they were always the same. If XCOM 2 has a demo, and it supports procedural maps, it should keep us well-occupied until release.
The press build has embargoed story cut scenes and seems to be about 1/4 of the game, I highly doubt it will be that.
darkwing-buck
Member
So are their timers in this game now?
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Yes majority of missions must be completed in 6-8 turns.
StarlordDial
Member
Is GMG with the percent off the cheapest right now to buy XCOM2? is the deluxe worth it ?
TC McQueen
Member
No, but it might be the cheapest 100% legit way to get it.
It looks like you will only have to modify a .ini.
Psychoward
Banned
Majority and must be are my issues. If it was something like meld where it was optional to go after but highly recommended I'd be fine.
Yep - but they can also become a part of other peoples games as well. That is part of what I don't quite understand since I haven't looked through all the coverage. I imagine you can choose between a private pool and public pool and the public one can bring in other users creations
Here's the VOD for Beagle's last session, in which he shows why he modded the game in the first place
http://www.twitch.tv/miss_jamball/v/34344796
he doesn't even get hit in the entire session, it looks like all the matches ended with a flawless rating.
http://www.twitch.tv/miss_jamball/v/34344796
bigboss370
Member
you know, with all this talk about how the xcom oragnization is now a low tier rebel force, i really hope thats only the beginning of the narrative. hopefully you don't feel stuck in that role, and as you complete missions the organization grows into something formidable. So instead of just disrupting the aliens' plans you actually become the opposing military force against them. And hopefully it reflects in gameplay with you getting actual armor(not just the cloth armor we've seen thus far) and higher tier weapons. Would like to see psi powers make a return as well since that was the end game of the last game.