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XCOM: Enemy Within announced, coming November 12th

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Sleeplessnights

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http://www.destructoid.com/xcom-enemy-within-announced-for-november-12--260465.phtml

XCOM Enemy Unknown expansion pack

New soldier abilities allow you to research Gene Mods to augment your fighters' physical capabilities, and the Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuit. MECs can use flamethrowers or grenade launchers, because it is cool when mechs use those things. New weapons and equipment will also bolster your assets.

New enemies will also rear their ugly heads, with the Mechtoid the first to be unveiled. An alien resource known as MELD, fresh tactical challenges and a whole 47 new maps are also on the cards. You'll also get more multiplayer environments, units, and powers, as well as stuff yet to be announced.
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Pooya

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trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzse2KpOG-c


NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– 2K and Firaxis Games announced today that XCOM®: Enemy Within, the expanded experience of the Game of the Year* award-winning strategy title XCOM: Enemy Unknown, will be available in North America on November 12, 2013 and internationally on November 15, 2013 for Windows PC, Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Mac® (distributed by Feral Interactive).

XCOM: Enemy Within takes the incredible experience from XCOM: Enemy Unknown and adds an array of new abilities, upgrades, and weapons to combat new enemy threats. The expansion also provides players with all-new maps, tactical and strategic gameplay, and multiplayer content. There is no better way to experience XCOM than with the massive amount of new content added in XCOM: Enemy Within. Fans will experience an additional three to four playthroughs on average before encountering all of the new material included in XCOM: Enemy Within, providing nearly limitless replayability.

“The incredible critical and consumer response to XCOM: Enemy Unknown inspired us to offer new content that would deepen the strong bond that has been created for our XCOM brand,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “Firaxis Games is renowned for delivering massive, highly immersive PC expansions in the Civilization series, and XCOM: Enemy Within builds on that lineage and expands the experience for console gamers as well.”

“We promised gamers that we would deliver the same Enemy Unknown experience on both PC and console last fall, and we’re doing it again with Enemy Within,” said Ananda Gupta, lead designer at Firaxis Games. “The Commander Edition of XCOM: Enemy Within expands the already amazing XCOM experience for our console fans who are looking forward to even more of the game they love. It’s also a great point of entry for new fans just joining the XCOM fight.”

XCOM: Enemy Within vastly improves upon the experience of XCOM: Enemy Unknown with an incredible amount of new content. On PC** and Mac**, XCOM: Enemy Within features additional content that can be enjoyed with previously purchased copies of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. XCOM: Enemy Within will also be available on Xbox 360 and PS3™ system as the XCOM: Enemy Within – Commander Edition** – a standalone pack that expands the XCOM: Enemy Unknown experience featuring the new XCOM: Enemy Within content and the add-on content that was previously released for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, including the Elite Soldier Pack and Slingshot Content Pack.

Key features for XCOM: Enemy Within will include:

  • New Soldier Abilities: Research a new alien technology to advance the capabilities of operatives:
  • Gene Mods: Construct the Genetics Lab to physically enhance operatives’ abilities, including augmentations to the chest, brain, eyes, skin and legs.
  • MECs: Build the Cybernetics Lab to enable the construction of the new Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuit, or MEC. The new MEC Trooper class has specialized abilities and each suit can be upgraded with new weapons including the flamethrower, grenade launcher and more.
  • New Weapons and Equipment: Give operatives an extra tactical edge with new projects from the engineering team in the Foundry;
  • New Enemy Threats: Adopt new tactics to counter the threats from a host of new enemies, including the Mechtoid;
  • New Strategic Resource: A valuable new alien resource, known as Meld, has been discovered. Secure it on the battlefield and use it carefully back at base to unlock new research and upgrades;
  • New Tactical Challenges and Maps: Face new tactical challenges, on nearly 50% more maps;
  • New Multiplayer Maps, Units and Abilities: Create custom squad from a wider array of options and dominate opponents in intense, one-on-one, turn-based matches.


XCOM: Enemy Within is rated M for Mature by the ESRB and will be available in North America on November 12, 2013 and internationally on November 15, 2013. XCOM: Enemy Within will be available for Windows PC and Mac for $29.99, and will be available for Xbox 360 and PS3™ system for $39.99 as the XCOM: Enemy Within – Commander Edition. For more information on XCOM: Enemy Within, become a fan on Facebook, follow 2K on Twitter and visit the official web site at http://www.xcom.com.
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40 bucks for console, 30 bucks for PC.
 
BigTnaples

BigTnaples

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What. Awesome. I really have to play this. (Own it on Steam).


Played hundreds of hours of the original Xcom.
 
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duckroll

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Niiiice. XCOM + Mechs = My Body Is Ready.

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Pooya

Member
the PR says "incredible amount of new content" but that list actually doesn't sound all that substantial, 50% more maps? how many is that exactly?

kinda underwhelming.
 
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Cade

Member
Incredible stuff. XCOM EU was one of my favorite games in recent years, and this looks to ramp up the amount of awesome going on in a major way. I'm down.
 
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Shinta

Banned
Hopefully it makes it so it's playable on PS3, because the base game barely was with all the slowdown. I'd get this if they fix that.
 
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Firebrand

Member
Sounds great, though I hope there's signficant changes to the strategy bit as that what was needed the most. I also would probably have preferred an alternate campaign that spins the story in another direction, but eh.

Will start another XCOM run in November then... maybe I'll finish it on Classic this time, but I'm still not sure I want to commit to Ironman due to inevitable glitches (and me misclicking). :p
 
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Pooya

Member
Totakeke said:
No new story is disappointing if true, but where are you guys reading that?
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There is no mention of new story mode in the feature list. Safe to assume there is none. It's only new features for the regular game, sounds like they will release it as DLC too as well as standalone game.
 
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CecilRousso

Member
Sounds fantastic. More content for the orginal campaign is exactly what I wanted.

I just hope that there is enough changes for the strategy part. I hope the new projects make it challenging to research/build everything.
 
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zkylon

zkylewd
sounds good but it would've been nice to have more story and to be able to use my old team

oh well

at 30 bucks I'm not getting it on release anyways
 
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FlyingSaucer

Banned
I hope by 47 new maps they don't mean 10-something new maps and lots of minor variations.

But other than that, I'm so going to but this expansion as soon as it's released. I'm thrilled to see 2K is continuing to develop and expand their reboot of X-com !
 
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duckroll

Member
Muchi Muchi Pink said:
Did someone really care for the story here? Anyway going to play the shit out of this.
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It's not really about the story, but rather having a new campaign. The campaign in XCOM Enemy Unknown is very much scripted to lead the player through the various major research milestones, and escalation of the conflict, leading to the finale. If they're putting effort into making 47 new maps, a bunch of new weapons and equipment, brand new upgrade types, alien types, etc, it makes very little sense why there isn't a new campaign to showcase all this properly.
 
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zkylon

zkylewd
duckroll said:
Wait, there's really no new campaign? It's just a bunch of stuff being added into the original campaign? Whaaaaaaaaat?
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it's weird how they're phrasing it, in the rev4 interview it certainly made it sound like you had to start over so I figured there'd be a new campaign but now I'm not so sure...

it'd be pretty underwhelming if you have to start from scratch and do the same stuff but with biomechs
 
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Meia

Member
duckroll said:
Wait, there's really no new campaign? It's just a bunch of stuff being added into the original campaign? Whaaaaaaaaat?
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Not good if true. Price is way too high for what amounts to DLC then.



Then again, I still haven't beaten the first one(had unlocked the last mission on Normal, but instead of trying it bumped up a difficulty and never have gotten to the same point again), so maybe I'm best holding out until this comes out if it can be just a DLC for those of us that already bought it.
 
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Pooya

Member
Meia said:
Not good if true. Price is way too high for what amounts to DLC then.
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it is DLC actually for PC. It just won't be released as DLC for consoles.
On PC** and Mac**, XCOM: Enemy Within features additional content that can be enjoyed with previously purchased copies of XCOM: Enemy Unknown

**XCOM: Enemy Within for PC and Mac requires XCOM: Enemy Unknown to play. XCOM: Enemy Within – Commander Edition is a standalone expanded experience that includes all XCOM: Enemy Unknown content and two add-on content packs: the Elite Soldier Pack the Slingshot Content Pack. XCOM: Enemy Within – Commander Edition does not require XCOM: Enemy Unknown to play.
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so I take it 30 bucks is for the standalone version and addon version cost less?
 
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mullet2000

Member
Huh. Pretty disappointing that there's no new campaign.

That brought the expansion from "Day One" to "wait for steam sale" for me. The additions look pretty cool but I'm not sure they're $30-$40 cool.
 
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clockpunk

Member
I do hope that this content can be bought digitally and aded to the base game... but that press release bears no pricepoint, other than the separate full-game release, which does not bode well.

I enjoyed X-Com very much, but not so much I'll buy it again at that price.
 
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