[Pc 2016] XCOM 2

[Strigon 13]

So far Commander difficulty is kicking my sorry butt, had 2 close Code Black (one of them in the first retaliation mission) and my veterans are out of the game, aside from 3:

-Delta 2/Argentine Heavy (tought ironically he is a Specialist here)
-Peter "El General" Van Doorn (not the hero Van Doorn, but the one that's roaming in /xcg/, Heavy)
-Jay "Deadbolt" Harris (Sharpshooter; in my last EW classic/ironman he was a sniper with 72 kills not counting the ones on the Temple Ship)

2nd month, low on supplies and intel, and Avatar project has 6 bars.

[LoweGear]

So someone made this in another forum:

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*also my game DL is freaking slow ;-; *

[Duo Maxwell]

There seems to be a lot of technical issues with the game currently. I think I will wait for awhile until everything is stable before making my purchase.

[Spectacular_Insanity]

What technical issues? I haven't had any other than one time my game got frozen on the Mission Start screen when I was changing a soldier's loadout. And I've played 15 hours thus far.

[Strigon 13]

Originally Posted by Spectacular_Insanity

What technical issues? I haven't had any other than one time my game got frozen on the Mission Start screen when I was changing a soldier's loadout. And I've played 15 hours thus far.

Duo reffers to the overall optimization, several people has problem with the game running like shit, aka loss of FPS, bugged textures in lower settings, the like.

They have already posted some working fixes (that are almost the same that worked back in EW), but still not a single word from Firaxis about a patch.

[Duo Maxwell]

I've seen people getting the game hanged, crashed, fps drop significantly, stuttering, game freezing here and there. It didn't even look like isolated issues either.

Games design looks pretty great, but I can't really say the same about game's performance. It's better to wait until they have addressed all the problems so I can enjoy the game to its fullest instead of feeling irritating while playing.

[Terrestrial Dream]

Change the settings a bit and it should be fine. I have GTX 960 and I got like 30fps before, after lowering AA and other stuff a bit I get constant 60fps.

I had two crashes but that was only when I was loading a save file. So overall, there are performance issues but if you have decent rig you should be able to play smoothly.

[ImperialKnight]

Yah the game doesn't seem to be fully optimized. I can still run it decently.

This game is hard even on normal Plus the save scumming which I'm guilty of but sue me.

I'm taking it easy and building up my squad to 6 but I've noticed the Avatar project so I'm guessing to delay it you just attack those facility sites and such?

Game isn't exactly forthcoming on the details but I noticed that when I killed a CODEX the avatar progress went down one.

So far I'm liking it. The specialists with the Combat protocols is super useful when you're up against mechs as it's got bonus attack plus it's useful against those damn vipers.

Blademasters...I'm loving the swords.

With the snipers I regret not getting kill zones to get the best usage.

Grenadiers...man I love them so much because I never thought how much I needed guys who can blow away cover it's not even funny.

On that matter with weapon mods they don't transfer do they? I'm using magnetic weapons but I'm guessing plasma is the end game so I'm hesitating to use the mods until I get to the plasma.

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by ImperialKnight

On that matter with weapon mods they don't transfer do they?

They do actually. Any weapon mods you've installed will be retained upon upgrading to the next tier. Said weapon will lose any name and color customizations you've given it though.

[Chosen_Hero]

Sadly as a console XCOM fan I will have to wait and see IF they ever decide to make a port, so for now i'm stuck just watching playthroughs and playing XCOM EW on my PS3 for my fix.

With that said I wonder if they will at some point add an EXALT storyline or something, it would be cool to see their designs in XCOM 2.

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Originally Posted by Chosen_Hero

Sadly as a console XCOM fan I will have to wait and see IF they ever decide to make a port, so for now i'm stuck just watching playthroughs and playing XCOM EW on my PS3 for my fix.

With that said I wonder if they will at some point add an EXALT storyline or something, it would be cool to see their designs in XCOM 2.

EXALT doesn't exist anymore. They became a part of the ADVENT Coalition when the aliens took over.



I'm running a GTX 980ti and I sometimes get framerate drops on loading screens, but it's usually performing at around 110-120 FPS for me (though I don't get why they locked cutscenes to 29 FPS. It's kinda weird.). I have *mostly* maxed settings, though I turned ambient occlusion to Tile AO and Anti-Aliasing to FXAA because the setting right above each tanked my performance but didn't really add anything to noticeably improve the visuals. I also turned off Depth of Field, not because it impacted my performance, but because it annoys me.

[Strigon 13]

Well, managed to finish the game in normal

Spoiler:

This part of the ending always gets me

Spoiler:

Also, holy shit, that final scene.

TFTD remake hype?

[ImperialKnight]

So I'm taking it slow and expanding and I'm 3 bars short of the avatar completion but I've got two alien facilities in my grasp so is it better to attack those now or wait until its full to fully reduce it?

[Keila]

Originally Posted by ImperialKnight

So I'm taking it slow and expanding and I'm 3 bars short of the avatar completion but I've got two alien facilities in my grasp so is it better to attack those now or wait until its full to fully reduce it?

Each 'facility' should show you how many bars it will reduce. That being said, attack now, the last thing you want is for the project to suddenly jump 3 bars.

[LoweGear]

Spoiler for Za Ending:

So a while back I was wondering why the Avatar looked like the byproduct of a Chuuni Ethereal, what with the spikey Super-Saiyan-like bleached hair and all.

And then suddenly the Commander was an Avatar.

So the Avatar was not in fact the byproduct of a Chuuni Ethereal. Since the aliens have had 20 years to dissect his brain, maybe they got the idea off the Commander.

The Commander is Chuuni!

All that aside, I like how much more climactic and dynamic the ending is compared to Enemy Unknown, mainly for the fact that there's a pre-final mission, and then there's the actual finale. I really loved the ADVENT Network Tower tileset, which I realized upon reloading the mission that it's also randomized like the rest of the maps. It's also the only mission in the game which seems designed for a one-man stealth pacifist run if you use Wraith Armor, despite the randomness of the maps.

The last mission is structurally similar to EU's finale, but the map is a lot larger with more room to maneuver, and the final battle is a lot more exciting with all the stuff being thrown your way. Still, the map does actually seem a bit too big for the amount of aliens you initially encounter, though I imagine it was mostly due to my tactics: mind control/hack the strongest enemy that comes this way, let them scout for the team to activate pods, then let said pods run into overwatch traps. Many times, it felt like my team was playing catch up with my pet Sectopod/Andromedon/Gatekeeper (!) I sent to the front lines for humanity.

Finally, I like to imagine that the Council Spokesman used the skills he learned from the Agency as he whipped out his Silver Ballers to dispose of the ADVENT who came his way, and then returned to his true profession:

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Spoiler for Another thing:

So the threat the Ethereals were trying to fight against....

... were Kaiju?

Instead of all this psionic Avatar crap the Ethereals did they should've just let humanity's imagination loose to create Jaegers!

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Spoiler for Another thing:

So the threat the Ethereals were trying to fight against....

... were Kaiju?

Instead of all this psionic Avatar crap the Ethereals did they should've just let humanity's imagination loose to create Jaegers!

Spoiler for response to another thing:

I think it was, as others have said, a teaser for a potential Terror From the Deep remake. Which is canonically appropriate.

[Strigon 13]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Spoiler for Another thing:

So the threat the Ethereals were trying to fight against....

... were Kaiju?

Instead of all this psionic Avatar crap the Ethereals did they should've just let humanity's imagination loose to create Jaegers!

Spoiler for Response for that:

Not kaiju, but actually Cthulhu and his merry band of friends.

A midly-related vid:

What the Advent say?

[MrTerrorist]

^
"Great Tits Ahoy!"
"Hug that Shit!"
lol

[Kyero Fox]

I died at the Tits part XD

[FlareKnight]

Spoiler for Ending:

Yeah, I did enjoy the ending a bit more this time though it is very much a similar mission. I think the impact just means more with the aliens trying to reach out and lure the Commander instead of just 'random soldier who just happened to be qualified to be a psychic trooper.' Made 'your' character a much more central figure for the whole story. There was a reason the aliens went after you, a reason that UFO attack was just to disable the ship, and just made sense that your character was the person most qualified to lead the final attack.

Not to mention it was pretty interesting seeing the scenes of mock rooms for humans they had set up or just the crazy wash of enemies in the last area. Got pretty lucky that the second attacking Avatar got one-shot instant killed by an Overwatch and so I only really had to fight two of these things with a degree of difficulty.

Am curious to see things really change with a possible/likely sequel. The big focus on the aliens trying to prepare for something overwhelming (that I presume wasn't just their medical condition).

Bring on more XCOM, this was just fun.

Will just say, wow this was tough though. Props to the creative team, they made this so much harder than the previous game. I might dive it down to the easiest setting so I can try to get psychic troops next time. I just never found the time/resources to prioritize that rather than just focusing on getting better guns/armor.