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Veotax posted:The GMG page for Xcom 2 lists 2K games as the source for the keys, so they probably are an authorised distributor for this game.  I just felt really burned when pre-ordering Battlefront from them, but my love of XCOM and my love of discounts has me giving them a second chance
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I got my Rise of the Tomb Raider key today from GMG (it releases tomorrow) and it included pre-order stuff for Steam. They've always been good for me, though of course it's only from personal experience.
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Was the recent Long War patch significant? I just started a new game after not playing for over a year so I'm curious what I'm in for.
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Jan 27, 2016 22:17
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The Shortest Path posted:Was the recent Long War patch significant? I just started a new game after not playing for over a year so I'm curious what I'm in for. If it's been over a year then you were probably coming from some flavor of Beta 14. Beta 15 (and V1.0) have some very significant changes. Look here for the changes that debuted in Beta 15 and later.
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Affi posted:So can I turn off ironman in long war? I've just spent so much time now that if a save fucks up I'll cry Yeah. Use the console, setmedalpowerA and then whatever number ironman is should do the trick.
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Affi posted:So can I turn off ironman in long war? I've just spent so much time now that if a save fucks up I'll cry You reeaaallly shouldn't have ironman on with a bloaty mod like that. Use the honor-system ironman so you can reload in case of crashes or glitchy bullshit. For some reason, about half of every time one of my xcoms gets maimed and falls down, his or her bleeding body gets flung into the sky and can't be hit or stabilized by a medic standing next to their tile. When I save and re-load, the squaddie body falls down from the heavens and flops around a little and I can revive it again. Shrug.
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Jan 27, 2016 22:42
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CrazyLoon posted:To clarify, you download the game FIRST via Steam and the order number you get 3-4 days in advance and THEN you input the key to unlock it on the date of release. It won't work before that date, but you will have downloaded the game already so you won't have to wait on that. At least, I think that's how it went with Enemy Unknown and it definitely allowed me to preload it, but it was 3 years ago and I could be misremembering the details, so Iron Rose will prolly know more on this than me. This is not nor has ever been how Steam works  CharlieFoxtrot posted:Like mentioned earlier, Green Man Gaming has changed their policies in a number of ways since the last few years, which includes not giving keys for most games ahead of time, and thus not enabling pre-loading. Actually, I am not even sure if you will qualify for the pre-order bonus content, since I know that for "authorised distributor" keys they actually source a lot them the day of release so they are not technically pre-order even if you pay GMG ahead of time. Pre-orders are hit or miss on GMG, but they mention the pre-order bonuses in the store page. Usually if they do that it means they're pretty sure they'll have the pre-order bonuses. Whats really shady is sometimes GMG sells keys and just says its the game and half the people get pre-order bonuses and half don't, just have to treat it as a 'nice to have' but nothing that was guaranteed. Like I said before, GMG isn't steam. That said the store page says they're getting XCOM2 keys straight from the distributor so the pre-order should be good I think.
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GMG have always had the same policy for pre-loading- they'll give them out if they get given them by the publisher. For the last few 2K releases they have gotten keys before release and I see nothing that suggests otherwise for XCOM 2.
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Jan 27, 2016 23:00
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Zaphod42 posted:This is not nor has ever been how Steam works Okay, you got me.
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Jan 27, 2016 23:01
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I made this mistake once and they were perfectly happy to refund my purchase when I just said "Woops, sorry, I didn't see you guys weren't offering the pre-order bonuses, my mistake!"
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Jan 27, 2016 23:12
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Yeah, I would normally not mind getting the key on release date but if this game really is 45 gigs, I would need at least a day to download the game, geez
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Jan 27, 2016 23:50
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As long as we get the pre-order bonus I'll be okay at least. I mean they do advertise it.
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I think I'm losing the war in my longest war campaign. I keep just losing nations in the middle of the month. Aren't they supposed to leave at the end? I mean it can't all be the overseers? I guess I still have a solid roster and after a Base assault, landed assault carrier and landed supply barge I have resources out of my rear end and quite s few foundry projects coming in. Way too many injured after those missions though.
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Jan 28, 2016 00:31
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Yeah, I would normally not mind getting the key on release date but if this game really is 45 gigs, I would need at least a day to download the game, geez Pretty sure the 45GB listed is just how much hard drive space you need to install the game, which also includes the space needed to unpack game files. Basically the actual download size won't actually be 45GB and will potentially be significantly smaller.
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Jan 28, 2016 00:43
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http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=h...&authorName=why Has this been done yet? I assume it has. If not, why does this mash up so well.
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Rookersh posted:http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=h...&authorName=why Not really. Better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRJ7eCiWY7M
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Jan 28, 2016 03:16
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I remember when Max Payne 3 came out and everyone was HOLY poo poo 30GB
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monster on a stick posted:I remember when Max Payne 3 came out and everyone was HOLY poo poo 30GB And they were right because IIRC it was mostly multiple copies of uncompressed pre-rendered cutscenes that only had the subtitles/language changed. It took me a an entire week (~72 hours, can't use the internet while downloading) to download GTA V. PC gaming blows when you have bad internet. Morzhovyye fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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Jan 28, 2016 04:04
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I don't want to be spoiled too much so I'm just looking for a yes or no answer. In the preview material we definitely know what happens to a few of the characters from XCOM1, but have they mentioned anything about Vahlen
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I don't want to be spoiled too much so I'm just looking for a yes or no answer. In the preview material we definitely know what happens to a few of the characters from XCOM1, but have they mentioned anything about Vahlen No.
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VDay posted:Pretty sure the 45GB listed is just how much hard drive space you need to install the game, which also includes the space needed to unpack game files. Basically the actual download size won't actually be 45GB and will potentially be significantly smaller. Eh? My general Steam experience is that it's the opposite: the listed hard drive space is what the final game will take up. and isn't the space the compressed files that have been downloaded (and the space required for that is doubled for decryption if one is preloading) takes up. Like I think GTA V was a noticeable demonstrator of this since even its compressed download size was 59GB out of the 65GB required, so those that pre-loaded found out they needed over 100GB free for Steam to successfully decrypt the game and make it functional. It's possible Firaxis will have much better compression on XCOM 2 for whatever reason, but personally I'd rather not take any chances.
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Zoran posted:No. Thanks! Yeah, on the hard drive space issue the original XCOM store page says 20 gigs, which is how big the directory on my hard drive is. the XCOM2 page says 45. I guess the assets must be of much higher quality/quantity!
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Yeah I was mixing some things up, but point stands that the actual download should be smaller than the 45GB listed, which is what the person was worried about. Granted, it might be like a 43GB download instead of 45, but still.
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Jan 28, 2016 04:47
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Jan 28, 2016 04:50
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I finally finished EW for the first time with about a week to spare. Not a bad final level but it ended up being very anticlimactic for me. I got into the final room with the Ethereals and the Mutons, started setting up along the railing, got all my psychic defenses in place, fired a rocket... and then my sniper with 120 Aim got a critical headshot on the final boss and killed it in one hit. Psionics are really fun to play with, I'm excited that they're gonna be a major part of the second one.
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Jan 28, 2016 04:57
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Will there be a mapmaker?
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amuayse posted:Will there be a mapmaker? Not as far as we know, maps are randomly generated this time.
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Rochallor posted:I finally finished EW for the first time with about a week to spare. Not a bad final level but it ended up being very anticlimactic for me. I got into the final room with the Ethereals and the Mutons, started setting up along the railing, got all my psychic defenses in place, fired a rocket... and then my sniper with 120 Aim got a critical headshot on the final boss and killed it in one hit. This is the proper ending.
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BenRGamer posted:Not as far as we know, maps are randomly generated this time. Actually they did say you could make static maps and the random generator uses pre-made setpieces you can make in the UDK they'll provide.
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Jan 28, 2016 06:31
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Not allowing for static custom maps would let a lot of air out of the TC / story mods they're trying to facilitate
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Re: Greenmangaming. I purchased the game after getting the 27% off code. When I went to the check out, I noticed it was $80 and assumed that it was $AUD since it was selling me an ANZ code and that's about what you'd expect for a 27% discount on a $110 game.. It wasn't and I paid $80 US for a 27% discounted copy of a game that I can get for $75 US on steam. At least we can use this as a case study on how good they are at refunds I guess.
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Yes - 2K games have poo poo awful pricing for ANZ on GMG - they're usually way more expensive than the US price AND they charge in USD rather than AUD or NZD.
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Yeah for any other ANZ buyers take a look at ozgameshop or just go straight from steam, GMG is pretty fukt for us now
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Jan 28, 2016 07:41
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I got a mate of mine in the states to buy me the game and season pass from GMG. Think it came to about 80 aud that way?
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Jan 28, 2016 07:49
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I got it from G2A for 53 AUD, but G2A's pretty shifty from what I've heard. So I don't know if I'll even end up with it.
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Ideally, a South American goon would buy it from Nuuvem at half the price.
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Ragingsheep posted:Ideally, a South American goon would buy it from Nuuvem at half the price. Sadly, since last monday their XCOM 2 keys only activate in Brasil, but if you bought the game before that the keys are supposed to be region free.
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amuayse posted:Will there be a mapmaker?
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Heliotic posted:Re: Greenmangaming. They are fine with it as long as you have not got/used the key. I already refunded Xcom2 from them, took a day (decided to get the deluxe version instead when it was announced).
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Where did GMG say they wouldn't be giving out keys in time for pre-load? I had a look and couldn't find any statement from them saying this?
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