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People called Romanes they go the house?
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XCOM 2: War of the Chosen |OT| Mario + Rabbids + Autopsies
- Thread starter Jintor
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The last couple missions are supposed to be a jump in difficulty, I think if you fail the final mission you get to retry even on Ironman. I like that it's a bump though because you get a chance to pull out all the stops, but I think it's a tad too long and is way too samey for replays. It also becomes a lot less threatening when you
bring a Psi-Ops dude to permanently nab a Gatekeeper or Andromedon and keep mind controlling with your own Avatar. Also realizing that using a flashbang on an Avatar makes it so they can't teleport.
I'm still knee deep in vanilla XCOM 2 so it'll be a while before I pick this up, and I watched an embarrassing amount of pre-release gameplay so I'd like to forget at least some of it. It looks fantastic though.
Forerunner
Member
Welp.
I started downloading the base game today which is 29GB and I'm almost done with that. I guess I'll just leave it on overnight and finish the next 30GB.
EarlyEarly
Member
Why is it that I always find out something new is coming out for X-COM 2 the day before it drops from GAF.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
On some level I kinda wonder if creating this as an 'expansion' yet tying it to the base game is really the best idea.
On one hand, I get that people with the other DLC needs to be taken into account without giving the new people the access for 'free' (or at least without calling it a GotY edition or w/e), but I can't for the life of me imagine there being 30 gigs worth of new content that should need to be re-downloaded, here.
On one hand, I get that people with the other DLC needs to be taken into account without giving the new people the access for 'free' (or at least without calling it a GotY edition or w/e), but I can't for the life of me imagine there being 30 gigs worth of new content that should need to be re-downloaded, here.
Sinh_Magnus
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Still no keys here either.
This is way I should pay the price and be done with it.
This is way I should pay the price and be done with it.
SmiteOfHand
Member
69.5 GB total size fully installed. No mods. Vanilla was installed prior to download. Not sure if it would make any difference as a clean install.
Right? I can't remember the last time they provided keys so late.
LurkerPrime
Member
Are there new voices for soldiers or anything?
Can't imagine what's taking up so much space, if it's not audio.
1GB per zom... Lost.
Same here, I've got so used to some mods I forgot they weren't part of the base game and only realised last night when I unsubscribed from them all prior to uninstalling the game (my net connection is ridiculous and I'll download the full game in a few hours).
I can see me going back to a few of them once my first run is done bit I always try to play a game as the devs intended it before adding stuff
GrimmGrinn
Member
Holy hell, 30 gigs...
How's the performance? Is it improved? I got an old computer, and I struggle to play the vanilla.
How's the performance? Is it improved? I got an old computer, and I struggle to play the vanilla.
Based on YouTube there's been a definite performance improvement, I really hope they fixed the save corruption bug, I stopped playing the game for months due to that one.
More that 80% of the file size are the massive movie files.
I imagine the size of actual game content added is about 2 gigs.
Mods I'll miss the most are the cosmetic ones, to be honest, not just the clothes and stuff, but also things like random buttons for appearance and the option for rookies already to start with tattoos or scars.
Playing with rookies who don't even have tattoos unless I go and tell them a direct order as their commander to have it? Madness!
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At least I'll have anarchy children, otherwise my soldiers would look like soldiers and who the hell wants that?
Playing with rookies who don't even have tattoos unless I go and tell them a direct order as their commander to have it? Madness!
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At least I'll have anarchy children, otherwise my soldiers would look like soldiers and who the hell wants that?
Sinh_Magnus
Member
I hope they have included some new faces to the editor, it's a bit annoying to have so many cosmetics but so little options to make charactes look different
LurkerPrime
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the what
But anyways, Alien Hunters adds some strong new "hero" aliens that are really tough, alongside some new weapons and research. It's a nice addition but super hard, though WotC toned it down and I'm not sure where the difficulty stands now. I'd recommend it.
Shen's Last Gift adds SPARKs and an accompanying mission. They're giant robots and pretty awesome. This one has also been affected by WotC apparently, but I don't know the extent of it. I highly recommend this one.
Anarchy's Children and Resistance Warrior Pack are cosmetics and easily skippable. There's some nice stuff but it's really not worth the money. Do not recommend.
Uuuunfortunately, buying the Reinforcement Pack (aka Season Pass containing all four of the above) is generally cheaper than buying the first two I listed standalone. It's currently half off on Steam and a solid deal.
Anarchy Children is purely cosmetic, so, you know, take a look at some screenshots and decide for yourself.
Alien Hunters add very powerful new weapons (which are kind of hard to get in the expansion because you need the proving grounds, where in vanilla, you could get them very early in the game) and also very powerful enemies who some people think break the game, but I love them.
Shen's Last Gift is a new class, a mech called spark that you can either build or do a story mission to get it and I also love it, but it is more of an early/mid-game unit, it starts very powerful, but eventually it gets overshadowed by your regular units. Still, it's a different class and by being a mech, it doesn't get tired and can also go to battle even when wounded, which makes it a good target.
Both DLCs have an optional story mission that affects the game in subtle, but important ways (like having the rulers DLC mission enabled, you can control when these powerful enemies start to appear). The game rebalances these kind of things with an "integrated additional content" (or something) checkbox that is on by default, but you can mess with the options.
tl;dr
Anarchy Children: Half naked soldiers with silly hairs
Alien Rulers: OP weapons for you, OP enemies for them
Shen's Last Gift: Robot friends
IlGialloMondadori
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Didn't finish xcom 2 and loved it, so I reinstalled. Now I'm getting non-stop crashing and blue screening. I was all hyped to wrap the game and grab the dlc, now...well, it's unplayable. Only game this happens to. So annoying.
Well, the donwload is finishing. I will go play the game now. And I will be happy, because I will be experiencing pleasant things that you don't have access to. And you could be happy to, if only you didn't bought the game on GMG. But oh well, you did. So now you are sad. There is something missing in your life. People are experiencing good things that you are not.
Good luck commanders! May you have flawless gatecrashers!
Good luck commanders! May you have flawless gatecrashers!
Sinh_Magnus
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Ugh. Looks like GMG doesn't have it live this evening
I think it's not only GMG.
Honestly I wouldn't have problems with it if not were for the size of the expansion.
Haha, enjoy it
Sinh_Magnus
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Well I asked for a refund and used the money to buy cheaper psn store cards. That way I don't lose much paying an extra 10 in steam.
Now to wait some hours until it downloads those 30gb.
Now to wait some hours until it downloads those 30gb.
illusionary
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My order status has just changed back to "pre-ordered". An hour ago, it was saying keys by 8pm tomorrow.
Edit: I have my key now at last. Given the download size, it'll probably be Wednesday before I get the chance to spend much time with it - a chance to complete my Uncharted platinum and maybe give Mario+Rabbids a try.
FIrst time I've had issues with this, but then again, literally the only game I have preordered in years.
bobnowhere
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They are, supposedly, coming in the next few hours, something went wrong when the time elapsed and they didn't send out the keys and now, for some bizarre reason, they have to process all the requested refunds first before issuing keys.
Spacecowboy77
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Response from GMG
LurkerPrime
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Huh, that propaganda center demo vanished from my Steam library when XCOM 2 released. Now I can't uninstall it as easily.
How annoying.
Everything goes into the same campaign.
How annoying.
Everything goes into the same campaign.
Slackbladder
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Okay. Been playing for around 4 hours and done 4 or 5 missions. There's a lot of changes, in missions and elsewhere. I think the only mission I've done that's the same as vanilla Xcom 2 was the first one to blow up the statue and that was on a new map.
I've only scratched the surface but it already makes the game feel fresh, even after 700hrs+ on default Xcom 2.
As for performance. Generally it is better though there are still weird issues. I'd say the game actually looks a tad better. With everything max and FXAA I can often hit 60fps@4K but it usually hovers somewhere just below. That said on the soldier select screen it drops all the way to 45fps. And the fire effects still have a tendency of murdering the frame rate.
And I can see where the 30GB's come from. There's a lot of dialogue and cut-scenes. It suggests a more involved, coherent story. Looking forward to the rest of the game.
And I would suggest great care in adding current mods. It crashed on me with a few modded models so no idea what does or doesn't. Then again I intended to play through vanilla first.
I've only scratched the surface but it already makes the game feel fresh, even after 700hrs+ on default Xcom 2.
As for performance. Generally it is better though there are still weird issues. I'd say the game actually looks a tad better. With everything max and FXAA I can often hit 60fps@4K but it usually hovers somewhere just below. That said on the soldier select screen it drops all the way to 45fps. And the fire effects still have a tendency of murdering the frame rate.
And I can see where the 30GB's come from. There's a lot of dialogue and cut-scenes. It suggests a more involved, coherent story. Looking forward to the rest of the game.
And I would suggest great care in adding current mods. It crashed on me with a few modded models so no idea what does or doesn't. Then again I intended to play through vanilla first.