RandomSeed
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Replay value? Steam shows that I played it for 330 hoursssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Took me like a quarter of a day.
Took me like a quarter of a day.
On Mercury.
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XCOM 2 (PC/Mac/Linux, Firaxis, November 2015) announced [Up: New info/screens in OP]
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In December I got the deluxe edition on Nuuvem for $29 USD. Its currently still 10% off so the same price.
MIght be a better avenue to explore if you have the option. We don't get keys until release date tho it looks like.
But yeah, that price can't be beat. Also, the normal edition is ~$25.
Bonfires Down
Member
I love my macbook touchpad though.
RandomSeed
Member
I hope they get a S.H.I.V. mod out very soon after release. Those little guys are awesome, and I can't help but think of them as honey badgers while playing. They just don't give a shit and charge into anything.
What is happening
Beaglerush is happening
Poodlestrike
Banned
Basically Beaglerush modded the game to have 24 soldiers.
Here's a 48 soldier overwatch: https://a.pomf.cat/gcgtoc.webm
Here's a 48 soldier overwatch: https://a.pomf.cat/gcgtoc.webm
Poodlestrike
Banned
I'm gonna try that when I get the game, except I guarantee you that it'll have 48 misses.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
YO.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Ladies and gents, meet the Sectopod.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3kwmo2_xcom-2-sectopode_videogames
We fucked y'all.
Fortunately, it can be hacked. Unfortunately, it has so much health the UI seems inadequate.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ljqbl_xcom-2-sectopod-hacking_videogames
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3kwmo2_xcom-2-sectopode_videogames
We fucked y'all.
Fortunately, it can be hacked. Unfortunately, it has so much health the UI seems inadequate.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ljqbl_xcom-2-sectopod-hacking_videogames
Fuck. Just as I was still debating whether to spend a grand on a PC for this.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Have to say, the infos that most missions will have a timer is a bit worrying for me. I hate having a timer in games, especially in tactical games. Guess I'll wait and see, worst case scenario there will be a mod to get rid of it.
Poodlestrike
Banned
It's not like a TIMER, timer. There are objectives that you have to complete in a set number of turns on some missions. Other objectives (sometimes in that same mission) don't have a timer. That first rush of footage had a "hack a terminal" objective that you needed to complete inside of... I think 8 turns, and then you had to kill all the aliens which you could take your time on.
Sweet JESUS.
LurkerPrime
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Oh wow, didn't realise XCOM 2 had a shitty Season Pass-styled thing attached to it.
Get the whole game for the low, low price of CDN$95. (And thanks to how bad the loonie is sliding, this is actually becoming a deal. Dammit.)
XCOM 2 is my most expected game of 2016, and the greatest bummer of 2016, all in one handy bundle.
Get the whole game for the low, low price of CDN$95. (And thanks to how bad the loonie is sliding, this is actually becoming a deal. Dammit.)
XCOM 2 is my most expected game of 2016, and the greatest bummer of 2016, all in one handy bundle.
TC McQueen
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Season pass + digital OST (which might be the only release method).
Honestly, I'm more okay with this season pass than other ones, since the stuff Firaxis adds generally increases replayability for future playthroughs, as opposed to some other season passes. And if it can provide funding for an EW style expansion pack, then that's good too.
On the other hand, Civilization-like DLC support sounds good to me. EU let me down a bit in that respect, so I'm hoping they have a lot of post-release stuff for XCOM 2. I've honestly never bought a season pass once for any game because I know I won't come back to the game after I beat it - but I'll make an exception this time.
Also Canadian, I got it from Greenman for 25% off a while back. Still expensive though.
Nice! And it's actually 10% off at Nuuvem too. Man, this + Rise of the TR + New Homeworld + Dragons Dogma will destroy my wallet this month.
What was your config? It ran horribly for me unless I turned it to the absolute minimum which fucked with the touch detection.
ThoseDeafMutes
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I looked up the Xcom 2 specs on steam, it says:
Code:
Minimum:
OS: Windows® 7, 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom 9950 Quad Core 2.6 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5770, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or better
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 45 GB available spaceCPU should be ok, but the 460 will be too high for the integrated to handle. I mean, the reqs could be exaggerations so try it by all means, but I'm worried my dGPU surface book won't be good enough.
Xcom 1 requirements for comparison:
Code:
Minimum:
OS:Windows Vista
Processor:2 GHz Dual Core
Memory:2 GB RAM
Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater
DirectX®:9.0
Hard Drive:20 GB HD space8600 GT -> 460 is a very big jump in required performance.
roadrunn3r
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OMG that thing is beautiful! Mods can't come soon enough.
Thanks for the info. Very much obliged. Guess will have to play it mostly on main PC and hope for the best as to the surface.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Well, that is just in poor taste.
I guess it was too much to ask to win the first time around.
Really? The Slingshot pack and Elite Soldier pack were some hot garbage DLC for $12 and added basically zilch to the core experience. That season pass looks more up the same alley, I'd really suggest people don't go for it.
Oh, so then just like the "Disarm this bomb" missions from Xcom EU
Slingshot was pretty okay. For the first time. It became a chore on the umpteenth playthrough, same as base defense.
Procedural maps should help with that (assuming they apply to 'scenario' type missions) but a larger pool of different arcs to choose from to shake up playthroughs would be ideal.
Hoping Workshop integration helps with that. Custom scenarios/levels definitely helped games like Torchlight 2 without feeling out of place w.r.t. the base experience.
TC McQueen
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Elite soldier pack was neat little customization stuff that everyone got for free if they preordered, so it wasn't that big a deal.
I agree that Slingshot wasn't great, but it also A) an experiment by Firaxis to see if short, story focused paid DLC was a thing they could do and B) basically nothing but a few new maps, a Heavy, and the ability to get some tech earlier. Aside from the one pack of customization options, the DDE packs give you new enemies, a new soldier class, new weapons, new missions, and at least one new map. So you're at least getting some stuff that Enemy Within provided, which automatically makes this stuff better value.
HundredEyeMonk
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Just purchased new parts for a new PC for this game and my flight simming.
980 Ti.
i5-6600k.
Give me the frames.
980 Ti.
i5-6600k.
Give me the frames.
I have a 960 4GB, and finding it hard to justify getting a 980Ti for myself :/ I mean, the 960 will run the game fine at the resolutions I play at (typically 1280x800 windowed) but still...
HundredEyeMonk
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I'm coming from an Asus gaming laptop with a 770M. I could justify it easy enough lol.
My logical portion of the brain would say hang on to the 960 and wait to see what gets announced this year...
The much larger portion of my brain that doesn't do much else but impulse buy says "DO EEEEET."
Poodlestrike
Banned
Pretty much, but more of them, and with a longer initial time (but no way to extend it that I've seen).
Good news is drone can hack it from like 16 tiles away.
Also should be one of the first mods that comes out (increase or remove timer)
Poodlestrike
Banned
Also, you start in concealment, so you could probably swing getting to and completing the timed objective before combat even begins.
Remote hacking is a skill you need to unlock, though. I think it's Corporal, so not a big deal.
Hmmm? Can't you Gremlin hack from the moment you get Specialist?
But yeah I think making good time under concealment will be very important in those timed missions. I wonder how much work a Ranger can get done behind enemy lines with a few more points down that side of the tree.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Ah, that's right, I'd gotten mixed up. You need Haywire Protocol to hack robot enemies and turrets, but you can do terminals right from the get go.
StrangeADT
Banned
Holy crap, people should watch TotalBiscuits coverage of this game. Good lord, it looks awesome. I'm in.
roadrunn3r
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One of things I'm really liking is the transparency and confidence by FIraxis. We already know the game is good quite in advance and this doesn't happen too often with other games. Was just thinking about this the other day and wishing it becomes the norm although I know it wont.
Finished watching TB's coverage and yea quite looking forward to it now definitely liked the changes to the map seem a better way to handle stuff than in 1.
Seems like something forced on them from the publisher. The only one I might pick up is the new class but maybe a modder will just add that in to the base game.
Seems like something forced on them from the publisher. The only one I might pick up is the new class but maybe a modder will just add that in to the base game.
That seems like something they wouldn't allow
Lol, such hyperbole.
I have no issue paying for DLC if i like the game enough and Firaxis & Solomon's team is someone i really want to support.
How do you even know all this content in season pass would be done already and this is just a hoax to get more money out of you?
Lol.
it's crazy how much they are letting out there. It's actually kind of annoying, just watching ChristopherOdd's class breakdown videos and out of nowhere he casually shows off an enemy type I hadn't seen yet. I kinda wish I hadn't seen the
Faceless
Playing EU, there were only a couple of enemy types I didn't know about going in, and they were just enemies from the original game (Ethereals for example) that anyone could have predicted. The original game's most memorable aspect to me, was the 'what the HELL is that oh god' feeling when seeing a new enemy. I've at least managed to avoid information on actual enemy abilities though, I'll try to hold on to that. And I'm sure they've held a few units back.
But yeah, at this point I would be very surprised if we don't see a demo.
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