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XCOM 2: War of the Chosen |OT| Mario + Rabbids + Autopsies
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Spacecowboy77
Member
So what's the general opinion about the old DLCs (AH + SPARKS), turn on or off?
johancruijff
Banned
just received the key
30,1 GB
crash course tonight
30,1 GB
crash course tonight
StrikeFirst117
Banned
Ugh 10AM over here and still no key from GMG this is pretty ridiculous.
Sinh_Magnus
Member
I had forgotten how many quality of life mods I had installed. And to add to that, the characters in my pools looks so wrong without the cosmetics mods.
And no new faces for the editor either.
And no new faces for the editor either.
seems like none of the mods work at least that was my case
Dick Justice
Banned
Fucks sake, GMG.
Sinh_Magnus
Member
I can't believe this. For some reason when I execute Xcom 2 in my library, I don't start War of The Chosen, only Vanilla Xcom2. I have to look for the .exe in the installation folder to start it. Bye first mission with no deaths.
Edit: I didn't see that you can choose war of the chosen in the launcher. My bad.
Edit: I didn't see that you can choose war of the chosen in the launcher. My bad.
Sinh_Magnus
Member
Show health values doesn't seem to work. Free camera rotation does, though.
Zod the Bear
Member
Just got mine from GMG about 3 minutes ago. Would've been nice if it was before I left for the morning so I could start downloading. Will get to it this evening, I guess.
TC McQueen
Member
Finally got my fucking GMG key and started downloading, after making sure to get the full WOTC SDK.
Also, the devs seriously undersold the amount of code fuckery in WOTC, apparently. Can't wait to see the detailed breakdown of how they're handling class abilities now.
If you mean "disable them entirely," I'd say Alien Hunters would be the one to disable on the first go of WOTC. If you mean "turn the story mission on or off," I'd say turn the story missions on, then don't do them until you get mag weapons.
Also, the devs seriously undersold the amount of code fuckery in WOTC, apparently. Can't wait to see the detailed breakdown of how they're handling class abilities now.
LurkerPrime
Member
So the performance improvements are for real. I went from running vanilla XCOM 2 at like medium/medium-low for a mostly-stable 60fps, dropping when there was particle heavy situations, to running on maximum for a stable (not 100% locked) 60fps. Granted, I haven't hit any particle-heavy situations yet in my campaign, but I'd say WotC is now giving the performance one would've expected at release.
XCOM 2: WotC It looks great and runs well. Unless something terrible crops up later, I'd say Firaxis has redeemed themselves entirely; XCOM 2 is now an enduring classic that will stand the test of time.
No. WotC has changed everything. Any gameplay mod will need to be updated to ensure compatibility.
WotC even broke cosmetic mods, to give an idea of the scope of it.
Are the saves in the "My Documents/My Games/XCOM2/XComGame/SaveData" folder (default path), or were they nuked from there as well? Looking at the save structure (Profile, Save1, Save2, etc), they'll get overwritten next time you save, so back them up if you can.
Firaxis had better fix that.
XCOM 2: WotC It looks great and runs well. Unless something terrible crops up later, I'd say Firaxis has redeemed themselves entirely; XCOM 2 is now an enduring classic that will stand the test of time.
No. WotC has changed everything. Any gameplay mod will need to be updated to ensure compatibility.
WotC even broke cosmetic mods, to give an idea of the scope of it.
Are the saves in the "My Documents/My Games/XCOM2/XComGame/SaveData" folder (default path), or were they nuked from there as well? Looking at the save structure (Profile, Save1, Save2, etc), they'll get overwritten next time you save, so back them up if you can.
Firaxis had better fix that.
Dick Justice
Banned
Launching the game via Steam shows the vanilla launcher. Launching via the WOTC directory produces a red screen, and then this.
Sinh_Magnus
Member
Launching the game via Steam shows the vanilla launcher. Launching via the WOTC directory produces a red screen, and then this.
In the vanilla launcher, look at the left corner. There's an option to launch WOTC. It happened to me too.
Dick Justice
Banned
Vanilla launcher doesn't have the WOTC option. The exe in the WOTC folder does, but has this weird debug shit. Going to revalidate my files to see if that fixes it.
Yup goit mine as well. Now to wait for the download to finish...
LurkerPrime
Member
Launching the game via Steam shows the vanilla launcher. Launching via the WOTC directory produces a red screen, and then this.
Lmao is that like an E3 build? It's crazy that they left it in the game.
But anyways, verifying the game cache [right click on the game in Steam > Properties > Local Files > Verify Integrity of Game Files] might fix it if there's some kind of corrupt file. At the very least it will confirm that all non-profile-related files are where they're supposed to be.
Just got my key through from GMG so heading home at lunch to get this installed.
Have to admit that I have barely put two hours into vanilla XCOM 2; I found the almost-permanent mission timers and more hurried style hard to swallow. Hoping this mixes things up a bit and that I am a bit more determined to stick with the formula.
Have to admit that I have barely put two hours into vanilla XCOM 2; I found the almost-permanent mission timers and more hurried style hard to swallow. Hoping this mixes things up a bit and that I am a bit more determined to stick with the formula.
Slackbladder
Member
Yeah. Vanilla launcher should give you the option of playing WotC or default Xcom 2 -
Wonder why the debug is in there? Modding perhaps?
It looks like they were nuked. My saves in default Xcom are still there, but the war of the chosen folder is completely empty. I did notice that my "propaganda" posters were glitching out (older posters would become a .img jpeg like placeholder) I assumed that was a problem with the poster picture feature added to the game and not overall saves. I'm on SSD so I don't think it is my hard drive, especially when I have never had this problem with any other game. I wasn't too far in, but having to do the intro (reaper mission) again is going to be a real buzz kill.
bobnowhere
Member
Keep refreshing my account page and nothing.Shake Appeal
Member
Installed mine this morning. Finished right as I had to leave for work. Didn't even get to fire up a mission to look at framerates.
johancruijff
Banned
sadly no
Spacecowboy77
Member
My GMG key arrived 2 hours ago, guess they sold a hefty bunch if they're still sending
Shake Appeal
Member
Also I appreciate the cosmetic mod compatibility list on the previous page. Does anyone know what will happen to all the usual quality of life mods like Gotcha or Evac All?
Nothing for me, but good to know they're sending them out. Hopefully it'll arrive in the next hour or so, and I can set it downloading and go to bed.
Sentenza
Gold Member
Honestly I would advise anyone to play entirely without mods at first, but I'm also expecting to see most of the more popular mods being updated pretty quickly.
And by that I mean in the next couple of days max.
JacksUsername
Member
Was worried I was going to have to create all my characters over again as none of them were showing up in My Character Pool which I had in the regular game. It was a quick fix of just copying the Character Pool folder from base XCOM2 folder to War of the Chosen folder. Phew, that would have been a lot of time.
Only played the intro mission so far. Between this and Mario + Rabbids, I'm going to be busy for a while.
Only played the intro mission so far. Between this and Mario + Rabbids, I'm going to be busy for a while.
ShinySylvee
Member
Only a bit into it so far (haven't found any of the Chosen besides the Assassin so far and haven't messed with the Templar unit yet) but I'm really loving what I've seen. All of the new buildings make early game a lot more interesting. Before I usually ended up going for the Gurella Tactics school with the starting money for Squadie training and to get the upgrades early but now there's a lot more early-game options to the point where I feel like there's a lot of different ways you can play things out now. I got a breakthrough early on that halved the cost of Labs so I was able to pick up one of those cheaply early on. The breakthroughs and inspirations can incentivize you to go for something earlier then you normally would or cause other upgrades to be more desirable. The Resistance Ring also add a ton of depth as well as the options you can go for with them are extremely vast. All of the new tactical layer stuff adds both a ton of depth to the tactical layer game (which was in ways lacking in the base one) as well as a lot of variety. Assuming there's a decently sized pool of breakthroughs that are possible (or it's easy to mod more in) there's a lot of unique tech you could potentially get for each playthrough.
The actual combat has been massively shaken up too. In addition to the 3 new "classes" in game the Chosen and Lost fundamentally change the missions they appear on as well. The generated weaknesses and strengths for the Chosen hopefully make each one different enough between each playthrough. Also unlike the Alien Rulers I feel like they all probably won't be fought in more or less the exact same way as each other. All the new mission types and may types shake things up a lot too, at least in the short term.
The big thing that I'm loving is just how different everything is compared to the base game. The original Xcom 2 felt like an alright framework that kinda felt a bit bare without mods. War of the chosen feels like there's 3x as many decisions going on at any given time, which has made things a lot more interesting. I'm excited to see the rest of what the expansion has to offer since I feel like I've only seen a portion of all the new stuff in the game.
The actual combat has been massively shaken up too. In addition to the 3 new "classes" in game the Chosen and Lost fundamentally change the missions they appear on as well. The generated weaknesses and strengths for the Chosen hopefully make each one different enough between each playthrough. Also unlike the Alien Rulers I feel like they all probably won't be fought in more or less the exact same way as each other. All the new mission types and may types shake things up a lot too, at least in the short term.
The big thing that I'm loving is just how different everything is compared to the base game. The original Xcom 2 felt like an alright framework that kinda felt a bit bare without mods. War of the chosen feels like there's 3x as many decisions going on at any given time, which has made things a lot more interesting. I'm excited to see the rest of what the expansion has to offer since I feel like I've only seen a portion of all the new stuff in the game.
TC McQueen
Member
Why's it giving you the Debug version of the game? That should only show up if you've got the SDK.Launching the game via Steam shows the vanilla launcher. Launching via the WOTC directory produces a red screen, and then this.
Do the performance improvements apply if you have the expansion installed but you choose to launch the vanilla game?
Is that the option to double certain timers? I may wind up going with that one.
Is that the option to double certain timers? I may wind up going with that one.
Dick Justice
Banned
They still haven't fixed it so that soldiers actually spawn with different eye colours. A bit annoying.
I'm laughing my ass off with the photobooth. My poor XCOM casualties, now they'll be mocked forever.
Double health for everybody (and something like 50% extra time on timers)
Double health for everybody (and something like 50% extra time on timers)