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XCOM 2 |OT| Be Aggressive! Be Be Aggressive!
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Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I never heard about the janky ass action cam thing before.
I feel cheated on.
Fuck me.
I feel cheated on.
Fuck me.
Kindof:
- AA in the game is choice between none, FXAA and MSAA. TB doesn't like FXAA, so he picked MSAA and the performance (predictably) tanked.
- the action cam is bugged in the version he had, we've no idea whether that will be improved for release. (it's very hard to 'fix' it, but it could obviously work better than it does).
For the most part, the game is relatively bug-free, and I've no problem with a few mostly graphical glitches that can be worked out over time.
I really like the action cam and don't see myself turning it off unless the risk of "gamebreaking" becomes way too real.
I even like the (unintentional?) delay that snipers had on their overwatch cam on EU. And the new overwatch mechanics also make for far more entertaining overwatch cam action.
I even like the (unintentional?) delay that snipers had on their overwatch cam on EU. And the new overwatch mechanics also make for far more entertaining overwatch cam action.
King Tubby
Member
Super ready for this. Most exciting thing about this game honestly is the modding potential.
I've been watching Beaglerush and Jamball stream their gameplay of XCOM 2, with the nice side bonus that members of Firaxis, 2K, and Long War Studios sometimes pop in and answer questions. Amineri in particular, one of the main people behind the Long War mod for XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within answered a lot of questions regarding just how moddable the game is.
In short, the hardest part about adding new things to the game really is just making the graphical assets for them. There's lots of flexibility for modders to add new units, weapons, abilities, classes, voice packs, even things like new regions to the Geoscape or building blocks for the map procedural generator. It seems like LWS has some ideas in the pipeline for this game, in addition to the three mods the game will launch with. Obviously you can't just completely change the game into a FPS but the possibilities for new and exciting mods appear to be wide open.
I've been watching Beaglerush and Jamball stream their gameplay of XCOM 2, with the nice side bonus that members of Firaxis, 2K, and Long War Studios sometimes pop in and answer questions. Amineri in particular, one of the main people behind the Long War mod for XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within answered a lot of questions regarding just how moddable the game is.
In short, the hardest part about adding new things to the game really is just making the graphical assets for them. There's lots of flexibility for modders to add new units, weapons, abilities, classes, voice packs, even things like new regions to the Geoscape or building blocks for the map procedural generator. It seems like LWS has some ideas in the pipeline for this game, in addition to the three mods the game will launch with. Obviously you can't just completely change the game into a FPS but the possibilities for new and exciting mods appear to be wide open.
TheThunder
Member
Does Steam preloads still require double the space of the game files to unpack ?
I only have ~55GB left, if it still does then I guess I'm gonna have to wait and download it on release with my slow ass internet.
I only have ~55GB left, if it still does then I guess I'm gonna have to wait and download it on release with my slow ass internet.
Review scores can only convey so much information.
GwyndolinCinder
Member
Connected through NZ vpn and it still says 19 hours till launch.
Mister Sloane
Member
Like last time, I was intending to wait and pick the game up a while after release. Like last time, I buckled and its preordered. No will power.
Have been wondering about using the SMG one as felt it offers a little more tactical variety without drastically changing things - leaning towards using it.
Although I was tempted to go with the other two as well, think I would prefer to get to grips with the vanilla version first.
Have been wondering about using the SMG one as felt it offers a little more tactical variety without drastically changing things - leaning towards using it.
Although I was tempted to go with the other two as well, think I would prefer to get to grips with the vanilla version first.
Yeah,you can. it saves you SO much time in the first XCOM.
I think it varies from game to game now because they fixed/changed it, but some games still pretty much require double space. For example Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Muskieratboi
Member
Aw, maaan... I know the aliens are evil and shit, but why do they all have to look so sexy? Damnit..
I loved XCOM1 but towards the end of it I started to feel like everything was very repetitive and I could just use the same tactics over and over and over for like the last 10 missions/side missions.
I ended up just wanting to hurry and finally complete the game before I grew completely bored of it. I'm not sure if the expansion helped this as I never played it.
I really hope this doesn't happen to me in XCOM 2 :/
I ended up just wanting to hurry and finally complete the game before I grew completely bored of it. I'm not sure if the expansion helped this as I never played it.
I really hope this doesn't happen to me in XCOM 2 :/
Pre-load data is now split into ~1GB chunks that are decrypted and deleted on-the-fly. No game requires ~twice the amount of space these days -- just the stated installation size (not download size) plus roughly a gig. This change was made last May (or last June if you don't use the beta).
If you've pre-loaded XCOM 2, then your SteamApps\depotcache folder will look like this.
TheThunder
Member
Good to know. Last game I preloaded was GTA V and I didn't know about the double size thing, so I had to delete and move some things around to get an additional 60GB so it can unpack which was annoying.
ScientificPizza
Banned
it should only be seven hours now
Yeah, GTAV caught a few people by surprise due to its huge size, particularly SSD users.
The countdown is tied to your store region, not IP address.
Well, I can't say if it will or won't happen, but it seems the dev team worked to adress that in particular.
And if it still does happens, it's time to up that difficulty.
Intrigued by the pacing changes; there was a fair amount of pushback against Codename STEAM when the reinforcement rules in that game pushed players forward more rapidly than many were comfortable with, I wonder if there will be a similar reaction in some quarters for this, too.
(Speaking personally, I definitely have a tendency to play things overly slowly, so this will push me right out of my comfort zone - but on the other hand, I'd say that's probably a good thing, even if it does leave me uncomfortable!)
(Speaking personally, I definitely have a tendency to play things overly slowly, so this will push me right out of my comfort zone - but on the other hand, I'd say that's probably a good thing, even if it does leave me uncomfortable!)
You talking about that display or the actual unlock time?
Because right now I'm in Asia and I'll be legit mad if I can't play it tonight.
literally PREORDER CANCELLED mad
cripterion
Member
A controller and co-op mod for this game will set me for life!
Just display, afaik. Pretty sure my game unlocked the last time I played around with a VPN even though my store region was still set to Finland and said x hours until release.
You can just change the store region in the settings, anyway.
I was so ready to cancel my preorder and change my store setting before re-preordering too.
MrCompletely
Member
I really want to enable the leadership mod and the submachine gun mods initially. Do mods disable achievements?
According to reddit the game has steam controller support, and I think the devs have said they may look at normal controller support. (due to the nature of this, it probably needs to be done by the developers).
In theory it should be possible for a team to create a "co-op tactical" mode of some sort, based on the existing multiplayer. But, obviously the strategy layer wouldn't really work in co-op.
GwyndolinCinder
Member
Going to be a long 6 hours...
cripterion
Member
Yeah I'm not asking for a deep co-op experience, just a way for me and a buddy to experience the tension of the missions together.
And yeah I'm aware about the support for the Steam controller, unfortunately I don't think so many pc gamers own or want one. I was fine with playing EU with a 360 controller, if they can put the same controls back in, I'm game. (wanna play this game on my 4K tv set).
Not really - this game assumes you lost the first one really, humiliatingly early.
If you ever intend to play it, you might as well give it a spin, because by all accounts XCOM2 is superior in every way to XCOM so it may be hard to go back once you've played XCOM2.
To answer your question though, other than some fanservice returning characters and the premise of 'lol you lost in XCOM' it seems to be something you can jump into from the get go.
No, they don't.
People are already on it if this site is to be believed (which I honestly couldn't say):
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/xcom-2-co-op-mode-already-works-thanks-modders-504011
I know they changed it and I checked the preload data but what I'm saying is that their fix didn't work, at least not with every game. Rise of the Tomb Raider still required over 18 gigabytes of free space to unlock (and the game is less than 19GB). I had slightly less than 18 GB free on my SSD when RotTR started unlocking and it couldn't unlock completely, I had to make room for the unlock process to continue and complete. After the decryption finished, I had over 20GB free (the original ~18GB + the few extra gigabytes I made room when the decryption halted).
I remember similar incident late last year, maybe with Just Cause 3.. or Fallout 4? Whatever the game was, it didn't require exactly double, but whatever 20+ gigabytes space I had back then wasn't enough for the unlock. Again I had to move files back and forth to make more room and afterwards I had plenty of room again when the decryption was done.
ldcommando
Banned
Let me update you on the story: the aliens won
You are now all caught up and ready for xcom 2
Pheace
Member
Apparently they don't. I wouldn't have considered using them if that had been the case.
https://twitter.com/SolomonJake/status/694632074150412288
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
+1
I'm even keen to buy a Steam Controller specifically for this game - I prefer my XCOM from the couch for sure, hopefully there's a UI scaler so it's not too small for Steam Controller players though... that's my only concern.
Now, if Steam only sold their controllers in New Zealand (not sure why they don't): Amazon seems a pretty safe bet though.
Novum_Veritas
Member
You should be glad I didn't have the time to make a joke OT filled with a bunch of really bad and tasteless jokes.
The former.
It's impossible for a specific game to be pre-loaded differently. It sounds like your files aren't properly being deleted for some reason; I pre-loaded all three games you've mentioned and as best I can recall all were pre-loaded into a collection of files up to ~1GB in size that gradually disappeared from the depotcache folder, plus you're the only person I've seen mention that the updated pre-load system hasn't actually solved anything. I'll try to remember to keep an eye on things when XCOM 2 is decrypting.
Edit: After a light went off in my head, I managed to dig up this:
I agree with this. Anyone can overwatch camp every round, you separate men from the boys when you need to move quickly around the map.