LurkerPrime
Member
XCOM 2 started unpacking while I was playing Resident Evil 5. Suddenly my framerate went to the dogs and I thought my GPU was dying or something... spooky.
Augh.
Augh.
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XCOM 2 |OT| Be Aggressive! Be Be Aggressive!
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glad I did the VPN thing. Also glad that Veteran is no joke.
Protip: escort missions have time limits...2 soldiers and the scientist made it out, lost one to a bad mind control and my sniper ended up 1 tile from the evac zone when time ran out.
Could have gone far worse if that sniper hadn't landed a 31% shot on that sectoid...hope I can rescue him one day.
Protip: escort missions have time limits...2 soldiers and the scientist made it out, lost one to a bad mind control and my sniper ended up 1 tile from the evac zone when time ran out.
Could have gone far worse if that sniper hadn't landed a 31% shot on that sectoid...hope I can rescue him one day.
Kane Zakharov
Banned
Yup, that is some bullshit.
LurkerPrime
Member
They're in the Steam Workshop. Should be a link directly from XCOM 2 in your library to it.
As I understand it, just subscribe to what you want, Steam will download and install them, then you're good to go.
been out in some regions for like 12 hours now
been out in all regions since a bit under a hour ago
SuperSonic1305
Member
Even with MSAAx8 there are tons of jaggies. Can't remember the last time i've seen such bad AA in a game.
Just had this happen a few times, normal difficulty. Soldiers were leveled up once though.
I don't think they've uploaded the data to Steam yet
Picking this up later today. Gonna go ironman and legendary, never did that in the first one so will probably be over pretty quick
One change I want to do though on my first run is to reduce retraining time, so I can try out different builds.
Anyone done this, if so was it easy?
One change I want to do though on my first run is to reduce retraining time, so I can try out different builds.
Anyone done this, if so was it easy?
Creating a 2nd campaign is when I saw it. Or maybe with tutorial turned off.
User 85168
Banned
Anyone having CTD problems...?
You have to opt out of the tutorial before you get the option to go ironman (it will show up after you select your difficulty).
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Anyone else having issues where it makes you go to the upper right of the base overview and won't let you look anywhere outside of clicking on Research/Hanger/etc?
What the fuck...
What the fuck...
Incendiary
Banned
One of my first attempts in the character creator:
Goddamn I'm having so much fun with this game already.
Goddamn I'm having so much fun with this game already.
It's fiiiiiiiiiiiiiine
You can get missions to retrieve captured soldiers, which is actually kinda interesting
Well, I played longer than expected, and I have to get up at 6AM the next morning o_o That's XCOM for you.
Also, the game is a lot easier than I thought it would be. If it's anything like XCOM 1
Also, the game is a lot easier than I thought it would be. If it's anything like XCOM 1
does +1 difficulty give the ADVENT soldiers 1 extra health, so they survive grenades? Sectoids in XCOM 1 had that and it was infuriating, but definitely changed my approach from spamming grenades in the early game
How urgent is the first Blacksite mission? Does that trigger something really mean?
Because my mostly A-Team is recovered and I think it's about time to go on a house call. Gonna go double Grenadier for it, I think, so I can blow things up and shred turrets. My Sharpshooter will have to sit it out since he got hurt. I need another Sharpshooter, but the GTS is under construction, so that should be fine. Not taking a rookie on the Blacksite mission, though.
I'm haing fun, I just unlocked the Doom Tracker, so now the race is on. Doing the Blacksite should knock it down by one, right?
Because my mostly A-Team is recovered and I think it's about time to go on a house call. Gonna go double Grenadier for it, I think, so I can blow things up and shred turrets. My Sharpshooter will have to sit it out since he got hurt. I need another Sharpshooter, but the GTS is under construction, so that should be fine. Not taking a rookie on the Blacksite mission, though.
I'm haing fun, I just unlocked the Doom Tracker, so now the race is on. Doing the Blacksite should knock it down by one, right?
Go to the character creator outside the game (outside the campaign I mean), you will see every customization option in the game
You choose the difficulty after the tutorial it seems, you dont need to restart
mr teaspoon
Member
For anyone running under minimum specs, it seems to be working really well for me on a 940M.
My thoughts exactly. Ranger ended up as Greandier...
My game is stuck on this screen:
Time is ticking down but I can not move anything, can not open any menu etc.
This happened right after I rescued some civilians. Restarting / Loading the game does not help
Aaand timer running did not help, and ideas?
pigmemonkey
Neo Member
I don't know why but this game can barely get through the cut scenes of the ship going to the missions with out freezing for 30 seconds at a time only to go to a black screen for 2 minutes then finally get to the loading screen. And am I missing something or is there no update for geforce experience for this game?
Gravely Wounded simply means month-long recovery instead of the 1-1.5 weeks when returning with smaller woundsSo I got a soldier gravely wounded at base, but I see no sort of medbay? I don't wanna lose her
Got some time in before work. It's taxing my 660 pretty hard, even on minimum settings (but native since I don't roll any other way). Looking forward to an upgrade soon, native 1440p is too much for it in almost any game now.
Anyway, seems like a ton of fun. The mouse and keyboard controls are slightly improved from the first, but so far I haven't really seen a reason for why gamepad couldn't be an option. Feels much better at least, I couldn't stomach them in the first game and went for the gamepad. They could still throw in some UI improvements like mouse scrolling and locking a text window if left clicked on.
I enjoy how the millions of hours players spent in the first game are used as combat simulations by the aliens to improve their own tactics, lol. Pretty great.
Also had a nice Xcom moment in a mission when I was trying to flank an engaged officer and forgot to keep an eye on the surroundings. I activated another pod and had to backtrack immediately, losing a soldier, haha. Still beat the shit out of them, as should be expected on easy missions (at least on Veteran difficuly, I'll probably up it after my first failure). The timers in the missions really have kept me on my toes so far, but in general I've never really gotten the dislike some people have for timers in games. Setting up ambushes feels great.
It's going to be a great weekend~
Anyway, seems like a ton of fun. The mouse and keyboard controls are slightly improved from the first, but so far I haven't really seen a reason for why gamepad couldn't be an option. Feels much better at least, I couldn't stomach them in the first game and went for the gamepad. They could still throw in some UI improvements like mouse scrolling and locking a text window if left clicked on.
I enjoy how the millions of hours players spent in the first game are used as combat simulations by the aliens to improve their own tactics, lol. Pretty great.
Also had a nice Xcom moment in a mission when I was trying to flank an engaged officer and forgot to keep an eye on the surroundings. I activated another pod and had to backtrack immediately, losing a soldier, haha. Still beat the shit out of them, as should be expected on easy missions (at least on Veteran difficuly, I'll probably up it after my first failure). The timers in the missions really have kept me on my toes so far, but in general I've never really gotten the dislike some people have for timers in games. Setting up ambushes feels great.
It's going to be a great weekend~
31GhostsIV
Banned
I'm exactly the same. I have a 13" 2014 Macbook Pro and it only has the Intel Iris graphics in it. It runs Enemy Unknown on low settings badly enough to stop me from buying XCom 2 right now and I just can't justify dropping a few hundred on a decent gaming PC just for this.
Very jealous of all of you enjoying the game right now!
LurkerPrime
Member
Bugwatch: A sharpshooter taking cover on top of some alien tower took aim, stepped up, and walked three meters into the sky for a clear shot. Alas it happened too fast for me to get a screenshot of it. And yes, she hit her target.
I've only been in two missions but it's been a blast so far. I chickened out and went Ironman Veteran (the second easiest difficulty) and have yet to lose anyone. I've probably jinxed myself.
The concealment stuff plus the time limits make for some very tense missions, I think. It's really cool.
I've only been in two missions but it's been a blast so far. I chickened out and went Ironman Veteran (the second easiest difficulty) and have yet to lose anyone. I've probably jinxed myself.
The concealment stuff plus the time limits make for some very tense missions, I think. It's really cool.
Experiencing the voice delay issue. Haven't had any crackling sounds yet.
the option to gather intel at the hq down in new mexico should always be there and passes time
GrandHarrier
Member
Setting up glorious ambushes against a squad of enemies in X-Com 2 is one of life's greatest pleasures.
manfestival
Member
the first mission was hard till i realized that I could set up an easy ambush for the first patrol. the second patrol was a little harder to get to because of time constraints but it eventually all came into place like a master plan
darkwing-buck
Member
THIS GAME IS SO FUCKING COOL :')