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Colapops posted:This is something you'd see hanging on the wall of a Long John Silver's. The Onion's got you covered.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:It's worth remembering that when they first revealed the bureau it was just straight up called XCOM, and when some executive/marketer was asked why they were making a shooter out of that IP, they basically said that no one wanted to play turn-based games. I'm not sure if Enemy Unknown had even been greenlit at that time. Were there any successful turn based games around then? I know 4X games like Civ were doing well, but I don't remember any big hits with something like XCOM.
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Llama Chomp is about to storm the Temple Ship in his LW campaign. http://www.twitch.tv/llamachomp
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Chin Strap posted:So I just tried to play LW on my first mission and was a total party wipe. What do I need to differently to not die so much (normal difficulty, using the easier ini and all the second wave options suggested by Iron Rose). You are playing LW correctly. Keep playing until someone survives, then turn up difficulty. Repeat as needed.
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Spiritus Nox posted:...What even happens in the last few days of AAA (...well, maybe AA for X-COM. I'm sure they have resources but they're not COD or anything) game dev, anyway? Just days of non-stop, hardcore smoke tests and frantically coding patches for anything that breaks? Day 1 patch, day 2 patch (when you find out what wasn't actually tested or is horribly imbalanced), DLC, and probably another team is already looking at XCOM 3 whose backstory is what happens if you lost the first two games.
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Uncle Jam posted:Man when I mentioned Jake said he was taking ideas from LW in the thread I got loving demolished. A grindy end game, just what I always wanted 
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Ramadu posted:If you never accidentally overwatch killed the final boss in EU/EW then you never truly played the game! I do believe you mean "killed the final boss with Neural Feedback" 
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Intimdated by the original Long War mod making things grognardily difficult for no real reason other than because they could, much like I was when I considered trying LW? Then you should love XCOM 2.
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Feb 4, 2016 03:39
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Malachite_Dragon posted:XCOM 2 at least will give us difficulty options, LW didn't get a less grognard-hard version until later. You interpreted correctly the second time, 2 looks pretty grognard. They definitely took a lot of notes from the LW book.
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Klyith posted:They took a bunch of notes from LW. They took some notes from watching people obsessively play the game and how they broke EU/EW (same as how they added stuff like Meld in EW after seeing the Beaglerush style of ultra-conservative play). I think they even took some notes from the xcom boardgame. The one-use projects that give you a single reward or piece of equipment feel like burning a research card for an ability in that. I liked what EW did to encourage you to play the game more aggressively. I don't like timed missions; I don't even know if that discourages missions from taking longer (in clock time, not turns.) Confounding Light always took me a bit longer because the penalties for getting it wrong were severe so it ended up taking even longer having to plan soldier loadout/positioning/etc. exactly right. I don't even liked timed segments in platforms or whatever. So yeah, timed missions make me 
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I caved.Beagle's PC Gamer article posted:I made the mistake of selling all my Trooper corpses early on, because as previously discussed, the black market is awesome. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Predator Armor requires 12 Trooper corpses to build! Ha ha, what a great moment. (Note: It was actually a terrible moment.) 12 corpses per armor set?
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What's the consensus so far, or is everyone too busy playing pretty princess with their soldiers?
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Feb 4, 2016 22:43
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Who is the "survivor of the old war" from the pre-order bonus anyway?TG-Chrono posted:The majority of missions I've played have had some kind of objective timer. 
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Feb 5, 2016 03:29
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Eimi posted:I asked this earlier but maybe it might be seen now. I preordered this through Steam but found out about the GMG voucher and wanted to cancel. 24 hours later they still haven't contacted me. This is my first time using the Steam refund feature, does it usually take this long for them to authorize a refund? I don't want to wake up tomorrow with them not having responded and have to decide to just buy the GMG one before work and before the voucher expires or not. It takes a few hours. I'd just buy it through GMG. My whole reason to buy through Steam was to see if I still liked the game 2 hours in, so I can buy through GMG to save $$.
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Eimi posted:I put in the request over 24 hours and they haven't even authorized it, is why I'm worried. And there's no way to contact them apparently. Weird, the two times I asked for a refund it was turned around quicker than that. Now I'm worried that my scheme will backfire 
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Feb 5, 2016 03:43
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Eimi posted:The only thing I can think of is I bought it at the same time a few other items? Still this is pretty poo poo that there's no way to contact them. In the same transaction? Yeah there's no reason to do that ever, since it makes the refunds more complicated. One thing per transaction, unless you are buying a bunch of CK2 horse armor DLC.
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Broken Cog posted:Just got an "easy" mission with an 8-round limit, getting to an access point on the opposite side of the map, with 2 turrets, 2 stun lancers, 2 sectoids and 3 normal advent troopers in between.  Also they are procedurally generated maps, I would be shocked if there weren't issues with the game not taking into account distance, obstacles, and enemy count.
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First mission gave me an eight turn limit to cross the map and fight two squads, barely made it. Also holy hell the frame rate issues, I'm running a GTX 970 on 1920x1080 but sometimes it gets so choppy I can count the frames.
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 My ranger's foot clipped through a wall and that triggered an overwatch. FIX YOUR GAME JAKE  LOS for that mission was wonky - I triggered the person I was supposed to rescue somehow (LOS through concrete) which triggered another pod. Someone else got shot via bad LOS and two soldiers are out wounded, one gravely.
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Jessant posted:Your lucky! My first mission had me rush into a building then spawned two squads coming from different directions, I thought it was a dramatic escape sequence so ran to the roof and evac'd out and got a game over! To be fair, what I've played so far was mostly fun, but of the three missions (except the very first one): * timed "get to the thing on a truck before it blows up", 8 turns, 2 squads * timed "get to the thing in a church before the aliens shoot it for reasons", ? turns (they kept shooting it every turn, I'm guessing also 8), 2 squads + reinforcements * timed "rescue the guy", 11 turns before forced retreat, with the wacky LOS like the bare foot triggering overwatch, which hurts (I think someone was down to around half health and that was "gravely wounded."), 2 squads + reinforcements Performance is pretty lovely, I wonder if they are using TressFX (the hair does look pretty good.) You also can't zoom out very far; I was trying to get a soldier in a position to shoot a mind-controlling pectoid, but literally could not put both on the screen at once (and you need to see the pectoid to see if it has the crosshairs meaning you can shoot.) I'm playing on babby (and beat EW on Classic and LW on Normal), I wouldn't say the game is hard, but either I rolled bad dice and picked all timed missions, or the game is full of them. The procedurally generated maps, LOS bugs, and bizarre overwatch triggers make this something that I'd want to wait for the patch to fix. If you haven't bought yet and have Amazon Prime, they're going to have the base game or deluxe one on sale for another 2 weeks at 20% off, and I'd just wait to see if Jake fixes his game, because that last mission was full of bullshit. Also give us some goddamn Asian voices. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, something, my Japanese soldier shouldn't be picking Australian because that's "close enough."
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Broken Cog posted:What exactly does the "Launches a UFO to hunt XCOM" Dark Event do? Just add a random attack on the base once in a while? Isn't that supposed to be the base defense mission?
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For a laugh, go to the XCOM 2 Steam forums. They've pinned so many threads to the front page that there are only two actual visible discussions  Fix your Steam forum, Jake.
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Elliotw2 posted:Also the trick to timed missions is to not kill everything, do the objective and then worry about aliens or just get the gently caress out, you don't even get corpses from evac missions. The problem is for the three missions I mentioned: * if you just "did the objective" on the first, you'd have gotten flanked by Advent * the only way to "do the objective" in the second was to kill all the aliens because they were shooting the thingamabob * the third was a civilian escort mission with basically no cover from the escort's location to evac outside of a few explosive cars and a bus shelter. Actually there were a few pillars but Advent was taking that cover already so Speedball posted:I need to upgrade to El Capitan OSX to play this game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrgNgnkvrA0&t=31s
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immortal flow posted:People even with ludicrously beastly machines are reporting getting inexplicably shite framerates, how on earth did Firaxis miss this during development? May I share the story of a game that was so horribly optimized, the manual said "if this game runs slowly, you may need to buy a new computer"? 
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Eimi posted:The only thing I can think of is I bought it at the same time a few other items? Still this is pretty poo poo that there's no way to contact them. FYI my refund went was accepted 90 minutes after asking. 
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ShiroTheSniper posted:As an "easy" mode casual guy, I've no shame asking for a in-mission x3 or x4 longer counter timer to be able to wander around and overwatch each turn with my operatives. I'm surprised this wasn't the default in easy.
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Fintilgin posted:DAMMIT, Firaxis! I just lost three soldiers because your LOS code is still all bugged up. Just turn the difficulty down to easy, scrub 
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Furnaceface posted:As someone playing on babby difficulty, there is still a huge amount of I was being a bit sarcastic, sorry. started on Easy to get a handle on the new mechanics, but it doesn't feel that way. Mission timers should at least have been relaxed. The LOS problems I had in the last mission (activations/overwatches through solid walls), though, that's just not excusable when one of your selling points is "we fixed the LOS stuff from EU." Also not a big fan of mind control that early into the game - it's one thing when the enemy can deny you one member of a six person squad (which is what you should have had in EU by the time you stormed the alien base and met your first Sectoid Commander), it's another thing to get it in the third mission when you only have I wonder what kind of hot garbage this game was back in November.
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Are the aliens supposed to always do their "activation cutscene" if they see you and will move against you next turn?
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Coolguye posted:Yeah, lovely wording. Better question: what is the time limit on Veteran, does anyone know? Even on Easy I was getting 8 turns for the second tutorial mission and 11 turns for a civilian extraction, so I don't think difficulty impacts the number of turns you get. VVVV - Reddit says it's just the soundtrack
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Dongattack posted:Bleh, doing a LW playthrough before the XCOM2 release was a really dumb idea in hindsight. I find myself just getting annoyed with the game and a little bit bored. A really really REALLY dumb idea. It's only 200 missions. 
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enraged_camel posted:The point is that it takes away choices from the player and enforces one type of playstyle. You can, and should, just buy it on Steam and play it for ~two hours (which should be 2-3 missions) to see if you are fine with the timer. I didn't like them but I'm glad I tried the game out at least.
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Internet Kraken posted:Also isn't there supposed to be a way to see what units you'll be able to shoot after you make a move? I can't figure it out. A little crosshairs will appear next to the enemies you can see if you move there.
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Deuce posted:It's hard to...trust, anybody who has so many.... dramatic pauses when they... speak. But that's... everyone. All the... time. Except Shen.
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ShadowMar posted:are there any streamers/youtubers who are awful players but aren't annoying to watch personality wise. i need to see their misery. LlamaChomp is entertaining to watch and while he was pretty decent at LW, has struggled a bit to find his footing in XCOM 2 (today's stream ended in a squad wipe.)
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Underwhelmed posted:Hello new engineer. I hear you are one of the best and brightest Earth has to offer. Please go clean and pick up all the garbage in that room over there. I went to engineering school and one of the first things we learned to do was clear rooms and using AutoCAD.
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Geisladisk posted:Is performance loving abysmal for anyone else? I've got a Gtx970, a i5 processor, running the game on a SSD, and I had to put the game down to low to get even remotely acceptable performance. I also have the 970 and an otherwise good machine (3570K, that ran Witcher 3 great and can run DA:I on ultra very nicely), and performance was poo poo. It was most obvious during soldier loadout.
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Pork Pie Hat posted:I'm really, really tempted by XCOM2, but I always played the first game very slowly and cautiously. Some of the things I've read about the new game's turn limits has me concerned that I'm just going to suck horribly/not enjoy it as much. Am I wrong? There are mods now that let you disable or dial back the turn limits. Note I haven't tried it. Limits are very hit and miss - on easy my third mission was a huge map and I made the evac zone on the last turn. I was watching Llama's stream yesterday and he had a similar mission (go into building, knock out person, take them to evac) and ended up with a wall of enemies between him and the evac point including a MEC, (I think) two codices and a bunch of Advent with something like three turns left. I'm still surprised that even though turn limits are the #1 complaint (judging from Steam reviews and all the complaining in the Steam forums/Reddit) they didn't give the player more relaxed limits on easier difficulties. Going from 8 to 12 turns still makes overwatch camping not a good strategy and forces the player to get going, and helps paper over any lovely procedural maps. You can always buy, play for two hours (which gave me the two tutorial missions and two regular, short missions) and then return if you don't like. I'm glad I did, but even if the turn limits weren't a thing, I was hit by a bunch of BS LOS issues in my last mission and probably would have returned it anyway.
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Furnaceface posted:I think a big part of it is that everyone that knew how good beagle was just figured they could turn the difficulty down to find something that suits them and it turns out even rookie throws insane amount of I think difficulty just changes enemy density, right? Not composition, maps, geoscape...?
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