Poll: XCOM 2 is Nigh - Prepare Your RNG Holes

[ThatOtherGirl]

I am so excited for this game. I have cleared out my weekend just so I could play this game.

Gonna be playing it on normal to start. I always like to make my initial play through of strategy games like this fairly easy so I can feel free to experiment and try options that sound sub par on paper. Also so I can be reckless.

I am also going to be taking a really good look at the modding tools.

 

[LetalisK]

Gah! I don't want to hear this. I don't have the money for this. Tell me about how it's an awful game and I'm not missing anything.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Gah! I don't want to hear this. I don't have the money for this. Tell me about how it's an awful game and I'm not missing anything.

Total Biscuit WAS squealing a lot during his review. It's possible he was in great distress, and that terms like "masterpiece" and "triumph" are just British slang for rubbish.

 

[DoPo]

Tell me about how it's an awful game and I'm not missing anything.

This is an awful game and you're not missing anything. After all, I can't even play it yet - there is literally nothing you're missing.

Does that help?

 

[SweetShark]

WARNING! WARNING!
XCOM 2 Steam keys is available for download right now!!!
I got the Keys from GreenMan Gaming and they are working!!!
Go and Download them NOW!!!!
Thank you and lets enjoy this game.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

I believe that what Sweet Shark means is that pre-loading has started now. Still no word on exact release hour on the 5th.

 

[SweetShark]

I believe that what Sweet Shark means is that pre-loading has started now. Still no word on exact release hour on the 5th.

Ah yes, this I mean. Sorry for raising high hope to play the game right now.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I believe that what Sweet Shark means is that pre-loading has started now. Still no word on exact release hour on the 5th.

Still good to know that preloading is on and codes are out.

GMG didn't get some codes, like Witcher 3 or the new Anno game, out until many days after release.

 

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

I believe that what Sweet Shark means is that pre-loading has started now. Still no word on exact release hour on the 5th.

On the steam community page they have the unlock times posted. Its being done in three steps: Australasia, Europe/Russia/Africa and the Americas.

Spoiler: Release Schedule

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I believe that what Sweet Shark means is that pre-loading has started now. Still no word on exact release hour on the 5th.

On the steam community page they have the unlock times posted. Its being done in three steps: Australasia, Europe/Russia/Africa and the Americas.

Spoiler: Release Schedule

I hate when they do this, all it takes is a simple vpn to play at the earliest time, I've done that countless times before in the past to circumvent this annoying schedule.

 

[stormtrooper9091]

perhaps I might run it now, perhaps I might need to pay up for new graphics. Either way, I'll wait a bit, not really feeling like giving a crapton of money even if it is XCOM

 

[Amaror]

3. Highly disappointed in $20 pre-order DLC that is just skins. This same type of DLC was given for free if your pre-ordered the first game and even then, it should have just been included. It's mostly just skins, not content, and it isn't even that many skins. I refuse to buy it because they are just art assets being held ransom from the fanbase. There is no reason to do DLC like that other than to try to sell your game for higher than $60 and apply a tax to being a fan. This isn't a map pack, or even a small mission based DLC like Slingshot - its skins.

I hear the game got delayed to really play up customization since it was so popular in the first one. Then we see the Day 1 DLC is focused on customization and costs $20 when it comes out. Which makes it look like they delayed the release of the game for DLC, which does make it look like they are disecting parts of the game out to bulk up the DLC. I can't prove it but the parallels do make me suspicious.

What are you talking about?
There are two buyable dlc's for Xcom 2 at this moment.
1. The Resistance Warrior Pack, which is all skins and comes free with every preorder. We don't know how much this will cost outside of the game yet.
2. The Reinforcement Pack, which costs 20$, yes, but isn't one dlc but rather just a sort-of Season Pass. It comes with 3 dlcs.
The Anarchy Pack, which is, again, just skins and will release in spring of this year.
Alien Hunters, which is supposed to feature new "Elite" aliens and new missions. I think the missions will be dedicated to hunting these aliens, though the descriptions isn't 100% clear on that. Release Summer 2016.
Shen's Last Gift, which is supposed to introduce a new soldier class with unique weapons, armor and also new missions. Also release Summer 2016.

The Resistance Warrior Pack doesn't cost 20$ and the Reinforcement Pack will feature content and skins. Not only skins. Additionally all the dlc of the Reinforcement pack will release after the main game, so I don't know how you come to the conclusion that they pushed the game back to sell skins.

 

[pookie101]

4 more hours until release are going slow and curse the person who thought lets release this at 5 am in australia

 

[Elfgore]

Thanks to the best Co-worker ever, I could afford this game. Only about 17 more hours until I can play it here in the U.S. Will most likely take a quick nap, wake up at 5, and play all day!

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Thanks to the best Co-worker ever, I could afford this game. Only about 17 more hours until I can play it here in the U.S. Will most likely take a quick nap, wake up at 5, and play all day!

Welcome back, Commander.

 

[Zhukov]

Got a couple hours in before work.

(Insomnia has its benefits I guess.)

It's pretty sweet. The strategic layer is miles ahead of the first game, and it feels like you get more options sooner at the tactical level.

Only complaint is that it... stutters. For lack of a better word. There are these constant pauses of a couple of seconds between you taking an action and getting a response. So, for example, you attack and break concealment and everyone just stands still for a bit before you get the "we're spotted" notifications and the aliens do their activation animations and run for cover. It has no mechanical implications, it's just distracting and stands out like a sore thumb.

Oh, and the tutorial is total arse. Same irritating hand-holding bullshit that forces you to lose troops like in the first game, but takes even longer to introduce stuff. But I was expecting that. Only ticked the box on my first run out of morbid curiosity and a touch of psychotic completionism.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Oh, and the tutorial is total arse. Same irritating hand-holding bullshit that forces you to lose troops like in the first game, but takes even longer to introduce stuff. But I was expecting that. Only ticked the box on my first run out of morbid curiosity and a touch of psychotic completionism.

In EU, doing the tutorial netted the player an extra satellite. Anything like that here? Or should it be skipped?

 

[Zhukov]

Oh, and the tutorial is total arse. Same irritating hand-holding bullshit that forces you to lose troops like in the first game, but takes even longer to introduce stuff. But I was expecting that. Only ticked the box on my first run out of morbid curiosity and a touch of psychotic completionism.

In EU, doing the tutorial netted the player an extra satellite. Anything like that here? Or should it be skipped?

Oh, I couldn't tell you. I haven't played without the tutorial.

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In other news, you know how a bunch of people got their panties in a severe twist over how the sequal starts off by assuming XCOM lost in the first game? Well, a lot of people will probably miss this, but it's implied that any of the Commander's memories to the contrary (ie the player's memories) were just a bunch of simulations that Advent were running in his/her brain while in stasis prison.

Yeah. We're gonna need a bigger salt shaker.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Oh, I couldn't tell you. I haven't played without the tutorial.

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In other news, you know how a bunch of people got their panties in a severe twist over how the sequal starts off by assuming XCOM lost in the first game? Well, a lot of people will probably miss this, but it's implied that any of the Commander's memories to the contrary (ie the player's memories) were just a bunch of simulations that Advent were running in his/her brain while in stasis prison.

Yeah. We're gonna need a bigger salt shaker.

Bahahaha...that's amazing.

You should try turning the AA off when you play again. TB intimated it caused some pretty hideous performance problems. Might be the cause of your "stuttering".