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STEAM | January 2017 - Time to get GAMEDUMPED

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maty

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Great monthly bundle, don't own any of the games offered so I'm very pleased. Glad I subscribed again in November.
 
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Baron_Calamity

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Ozium said:
how does XCOM 2 compare to the first one?
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For the most part, it's way better than the first. Its also a lot harder. The first game if you wanted to play on the easiest level and mow down everything with heavies, you could still win the game. Xcom2 will have none of that. On the upper difficulties it will laugh at Dark Souls as it will shred you most complex strategies. If you decide to buy the alien hunters dlc, the game will gladly rip your balls off and feed them to you. And you will like it. When the game launch, there were a number of technical issues but they have been cleaned up.

There are a few negatives.
Xcom2 requires a more powerful computer. Way more than it should. Visually, Xcom Enemy Within running at 4K looks and runs better than Xcom 2. I think the issue is from Xcom2 having much larger maps and more variety of artwork. The characters are a bit more detailed but zoomed out, you don't notice it. Thats my guess.
Xcom 2 leans way more into characters popping up on your screen to comment on something.

Still, its awesome,
 
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Rockin' Ranger

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Have some XCOM.

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Anno

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Wow, great monthly and a crazy early unlock. With this and the Long War 2 announcement yesterday I wonder where they are on a full blown expansion. It seems crazy not to make one.
 
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Vastag

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Anno said:
Wow, great monthly and a crazy early unlock. With this and the Long War 2 announcement yesterday I wonder where they are on a full blown expansion. It seems crazy not to make one.
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I'm also kinda surprised that they haven't announced an expansion after they were done with the console ports.

Baron_Calamity said:
If you decide to buy the alien hunters dlc, the game will gladly rip your balls off and feed them to you. And you will like it.
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On the plus side, after killing and skinning those bastards you can look like Serpentor.

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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
happy for Jotun, Mother Russia Bleeds and Neon, Project Cars I guess I can see how pretty it is.

XCOM2 is crazy but I own it boo
 
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Orgen

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GAMEPROFF said:
LOL, so everyone was wrong :D


I dont know why, but I had to laugh.

I think its the zoom.
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I remember it was a "key" point in the games' unveiling but in the end the dog was only used in a couple of missions IIRC. I think there were more boring space missions than dog missions... man, what an average game :|
 
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zkylon

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i kind of been wanting to get back into xcom 2 for a while. i really liked the game and almost all the chagnes they made to it (even tho it's now even more stressful to play) but the performance is so fucking bad i can't in good conscience waste the bandwidth to download it

i hope people made some decent modding tutorials, i remember reading the firaxis pdfs and those were a fucking joke lol

i really want to actually release a mod for it, but i find unreal engine so freaking daunting to even look at
 
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Emperor_EL

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Played Rocket League for a few hours & I really like it but I don't think I'll ever be good at it though.

XCOM 2 for 12 bucks is hella tempting but I trying to save up for Nier: Automata...
 
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Rhaknar

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Vamphuntr said:
Pretty good bundle. Xcom 2, TITS FC, Project Car, Mother Russia,.

Still waiting on that Gampump >.>
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xcom 2 isnt the same bundle as TitS, Cars and MRB

also, totally unrelated, but did Last Guardian bomb or something? its already down to 39.99€ on PSN, thats actually super tempting
 
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Ludens

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Rhaknar said:
xcom 2 isnt the same bundle as TitS, Cars and MRB

also, totally unrelated, but did Last Guardian bomb or something? its already down to 39.99€ on PSN, thats actually super tempting
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The game is awesome, but it has some issues (mostly controls and fluctuating framerate). As experience, it's fantastic. It was 40€ in Italy too from Gamestop, the Steelbook version.
I think it didn't sell so much sadly.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
Ludens said:
The game is awesome, but it has some issues (mostly controls and fluctuating framerate). As experience, it's fantastic. It was 40€ in Italy too from Gamestop, the Steelbook version.
I think it didn't sell so much sadly.
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Im pretty sure I still have some credit on PSN aswell hmm.

Anyway 5mins until Gamepump disapointment yay >_>
 
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Rhaknar

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SQUARE ENIX EUROPE ‏@SQUARE_ENIX_EU 3h3 hours ago
Sorry about that folks, that shouldn’t have happened. Thanks for your support and understanding over the past few hours!

what happened?
 
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