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"That's X-Com, baby!"New DLC just around the corner. But I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm certainly not forking out 40€ for an expansion. So unless it will be available for less trough other channels I'm sitting it out. I want to see how it turns out. Alien overlords was a disaster, Shen's last gift was OK, but very short.
I decided to collect the most annoying things about the game. So here starting from least annoying:
Don't get the wrong idea, I love the game, but at times it can make me livid.
- When scanning times turn into the upper end of the proposed interval (which it does almost always)
- When timed missions appear right before you could finish scanning something, you just need one second to finish but you have to leave to not forfeit the mission.
- When you desperately want to build some upgrade or equipment but you miss a fraction from one of the dozen pre-requisite materials, and the black market has everything but that
- When you're just one square too far from the ideal position
- When you try to close the distance between your soldier and enemies but the soldier cannot attack from the new position which you never know in advance.
- When overwatch is not triggered even though the enemy seems to be waltzing back and forth in front of your soldiers
- When overwatch is triggered in a way that the least powerful enemy with no armour gets hit by all the shredder units
- When the hit only falls one bar short from taking out an enemy, meaning you have to waste another action on it.
- When you choose the 90% certain hacking reward, the bar goes almost full, when you choose the 30% certain one, the bar barely starts to move
- When trying to flank the enemy reveals another, more dangerous group of enemies
- When multiple (meaning 3-4) overwatch shots miss in succession
- When multiple high percentage (75+) shots miss in quick succession
- When the enemy scores a hit on your soldier in full cover from half the map away
- When the enemy scores a critical hit on your soldier in full cover from half the map away
- When everything seems to conspire against you, and everything turns to shit, and your soldiers barely can get 20-30% certain shots off at the enemy that of course all miss. And in the next turn the enemy scores multiple hits easy from the same distance.
- When you already lost two soldiers and two more decide to panic just to make a hopeless situation completely impossible.
New DLC just around the corner. But I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm certainly not forking out 40€ for an expansion. So unless it will be available for less trough other channels I'm sitting it out. I want to see how it turns out. Alien overlords was a disaster, Shen's last gift was OK, but very short.
I decided to collect the most annoying things about the game. So here starting from least annoying:
Don't get the wrong idea, I love the game, but at times it can make me livid.
- When scanning times turn into the upper end of the proposed interval (which it does almost always)
- When timed missions appear right before you could finish scanning something, you just need one second to finish but you have to leave to not forfeit the mission.
- When you desperately want to build some upgrade or equipment but you miss a fraction from one of the dozen pre-requisite materials, and the black market has everything but that
- When you're just one square too far from the ideal position
- When you try to close the distance between your soldier and enemies but the soldier cannot attack from the new position which you never know in advance.
- When overwatch is not triggered even though the enemy seems to be waltzing back and forth in front of your soldiers
- When overwatch is triggered in a way that the least powerful enemy with no armour gets hit by all the shredder units
- When the hit only falls one bar short from taking out an enemy, meaning you have to waste another action on it.
- When you choose the 90% certain hacking reward, the bar goes almost full, when you choose the 30% certain one, the bar barely starts to move
- When trying to flank the enemy reveals another, more dangerous group of enemies
- When multiple (meaning 3-4) overwatch shots miss in succession
- When multiple high percentage (75+) shots miss in quick succession
- When the enemy scores a hit on your soldier in full cover from half the map away
- When the enemy scores a critical hit on your soldier in full cover from half the map away
- When everything seems to conspire against you, and everything turns to shit, and your soldiers barely can get 20-30% certain shots off at the enemy that of course all miss. And in the next turn the enemy scores multiple hits easy from the same distance.
- When you already lost two soldiers and two more decide to panic just to make a hopeless situation completely impossible.
New DLC just around the corner. But I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm certainly not forking out 40€ for an expansion. So unless it will be available for less trough other channels I'm sitting it out. I want to see how it turns out. Alien overlords was a disaster, Shen's last gift was OK, but very short.
I decided to collect the most annoying things about the game. So here starting from least annoying:
Don't get the wrong idea, I love the game, but at times it can make me livid.
- When scanning times turn into the upper end of the proposed interval (which it does almost always)
- When timed missions appear right before you could finish scanning something, you just need one second to finish but you have to leave to not forfeit the mission.
- When you desperately want to build some upgrade or equipment but you miss a fraction from one of the dozen pre-requisite materials, and the black market has everything but that
- When you're just one square too far from the ideal position
- When you try to close the distance between your soldier and enemies but the soldier cannot attack from the new position which you never know in advance.
- When overwatch is not triggered even though the enemy seems to be waltzing back and forth in front of your soldiers
- When overwatch is triggered in a way that the least powerful enemy with no armour gets hit by all the shredder units
- When the hit only falls one bar short from taking out an enemy, meaning you have to waste another action on it.
- When you choose the 90% certain hacking reward, the bar goes almost full, when you choose the 30% certain one, the bar barely starts to move
- When trying to flank the enemy reveals another, more dangerous group of enemies
- When multiple (meaning 3-4) overwatch shots miss in succession
- When multiple high percentage (75+) shots miss in quick succession
- When the enemy scores a hit on your soldier in full cover from half the map away
- When the enemy scores a critical hit on your soldier in full cover from half the map away
- When everything seems to conspire against you, and everything turns to shit, and your soldiers barely can get 20-30% certain shots off at the enemy that of course all miss. And in the next turn the enemy scores multiple hits easy from the same distance.
- When you already lost two soldiers and two more decide to panic just to make a hopeless situation completely impossible.
I would be willing to pay that much for an EW type expansion. That was worth the price of admission for sure.I just don't get the legendary editions of games anymore, it rarely pays out. This one may have been worth it though, and 40 bucks for this expansion? Jeez! Let's hope its as good as Enemy Within!
Any reviewers out there yet? TotalBiscuit report? Any youtubers playing this yet? I aint forking out $40 until I know what Im getting!I would be willing to pay that much for an EW type expansion. That was worth the price of admission for sure.
One absolutely, perfectly ridiculous turn in XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/29/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-single-turn/
Any reviewers out there yet? TotalBiscuit report? Any youtubers playing this yet? I aint forking out $40 until I know what Im getting!
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It's a must have if you liked the game, but you might wanna hold off until at least a patch comes out.
I hope I don't get any more missions like that first one. It was crazy. 6 turn limit. When it takes at least three turns just to get to the objective even if you don't do anything just use all your actions on moving. And there are multiple enemy groups on the way there. I think 4 groups of 2. And the target you have to kill has huge health (for a first mission) and huge dodge stats. I almost gave up trying, after about five times, when I got extremely lucky and could do it with not a single action to spare.
I didn't have any issues with any of the missions, definitely none that were that hard to complete and none that were all or nothing so far. Not even sure what mission that is you are talking about unless it's literally the very first story mission and that one I completed without ever having to load a save and without even getting injured. I have yet to have many issues with any of the Chosen. It might just be the strategy you were using.
As for the other issues. I did have one crash, but so far that has been it and I have played a fair amount of the campaign so far. Other than that I actually do recommend buying it. It adds a substantial amount to the game, including a variety of strategies and options not available in the original. The added mission types are pretty fun and it definitely makes the overall game feel more polished. I will say for the most part it still seems a bit easy, but that has been the norm for the new breed of XCOM. They are trying to get more people to play. But as always increasing the difficult level and doing Ironman, can make it more challenging. Can't wait to see a LW2 mod for it as well.
My one complaint is how much you have to do to get access to the new soldier types (other than the obligatory one of each prototypes).
It made me rage quit again. How can an advent officer kill my soldier in full + side cover, from two rooms and two screens away, with two walls between them? Fuck this game. I need to take time off from it.
BTW about the assassination mission, when I've started a new campaign with the tutorial on, I again got the assassination mission as the first guerilla op. And this time the target was alone, and not on the other end of the map, but only a few moves away, it could easily be taken out even before the timer started. So this is how consistent chance is in the game. I've been thinking about how I would implement an algorith that calculates chances like this, because I'm pretty sure the one in the game doesn't really work as it should. If the game calculate everything as it does hacking chances, then it seems to me the whole thing is a single random number generator. Which is highly inadequate to accurately represent chances and it would explain why the game seems so random and unfair.Chance, the same way you can kill enemies under the same conditions, especially when you have squadsight.
This games been out for awhile. Thinking about picking it up for $20 on humblebundle. Thoughts?
I've put close to 700 hours in the game since it came out. It's really addictive. I keep coming back to try new play-troughs to see if I can do better, or different.This games been out for awhile. Thinking about picking it up for $20 on humblebundle. Thoughts?
This games been out for awhile. Thinking about picking it up for $20 on humblebundle. Thoughts?
BTW there is a 2K sale going on on Greenmangaming now, so you can get it for like 10 with the extra coupon code 2K20.This games been out for awhile. Thinking about picking it up for $20 on humblebundle. Thoughts?
BTW there is a 2K sale going on on Greenmangaming now, so you can get it for like 10 with the extra coupon code 2K20.
I think it's enough to get the base game for starters, it has plenty of content and it's good to familiraize yourself with the mechanics before diving into the deep water with the DLCs.
Are they ripping you off on exchange rates or the coupon wasn't applied? It should've been around 15.8 before the 20% off coupon.Thanks. Picked it up for $15.84 with that discount code. I'll give the game a try tonight
Are they ripping you off on exchange rates or the coupon wasn't applied? It should've been around 15.8 before the 20% off coupon.
Finished my first run of the game with all DLC but no expansion. Loved it, but my god those freaking Alien Ruler bosses are absolutely insane when you're undergeared. Hell even when you're moderately geared.
Part of it was my fault due to not understanding what I was doing, but the other part was the game not making it terribly clear when you're accessing DLC content. I think I ran Shen's Last gift before I even accessed the first advent Blacksite.
Definitely a great game and I wish there was another to get. But till then I'll grab War of the Chosen.
Which Alien rulers? I found the ending a bit easy to be honest. Unless you mean the replay which has the Viper King.
The War of the Chosen actually adds quite a bit to it. I really like the extra stuff in War of the Chosen, although it can be hard to get more of the special classes. You have to max out your reputation with that branch before you can get recruits from them, and then you still need to run a random mission for them to get the recruit.
I meant the Viper king, berserker queen, and archon king. Their auto-counter made them a royal bitch to fight when they started popping up randomly and you're still on the base weapons and minimally leveled characters.
Well it shows the price as GBP for me, and it's 11.55 before the coupon. Which at the current exchange rate comes to about $15.5.Don't believe so. XCOM 2 is on sale for $19.80 when I click on the link above. The coupon code 2K20 takes off an additional 20% = $15.84. Unless I missed something else
I don't know how is the berserker doable, it can knock out / stun the entire squad in one move. It can move trough the entire map, and has three lines of hp. That's just a complete non-starter. It's not even worth trying.Yeah, I don't think they are a part of the first campaign, I thought they were only activated via replay. The first play through I felt was somewhat challenging for newer players, but not too bad. Replays with the Viper King are insanely difficult, even if you add the various add-ons and have 12 man teams. The reaction for every action is OP. The Viper King is relatively easy, the berserker queen is hard, but doable, the Archon King is just ridiculous.
I don't know how is the berserker doable, it can knock out / stun the entire squad in one move. It can move trough the entire map, and has three lines of hp. That's just a complete non-starter. It's not even worth trying.
And I seem to have encountered some kind of bug in the game, the stun gun has disappeared. I can no longer equip it on any soldier.
well it just appeared in a mission, and as soon as it appeared it ran into the middle of my squad, and 3 out of 5 was immediately out of action. Then one move and a fourth was dead. There was not even time to do anything, besides it decided to reveal itself when I was already engaged by 5 other enemies. It gets a reaction even to movement not just attacks, so how do you position your squad strategically? By the end of a single turn everyone is either dead or unconscious. You might have a chance if your squad is already on a high level, and all equipment upgrades are purchased but not in the first quarter of the campaign, when I don't even have plated armour. And at least the chosen suspend mission timers, with these you don't even get that benefit.There are several ways you can beat the beserker, I have typically just done it with strategic positioning, some overwatch magic and massive damage. The berserker cannot move across the entire map, nor can the beserker take out the entire squad with one move if you are playing strategically. You can also lure the beserker into traps, like gas stations and barrels that explode. There are also some bugs that cause the beserker to get stuck or act strangely giving you free actions.
well it just appeared in a mission, and as soon as it appeared it ran into the middle of my squad, and 3 out of 5 was immediately out of action. Then one move and a fourth was dead. There was not even time to do anything, besides it decided to reveal itself when I was already engaged by 5 other enemies. It gets a reaction even to movement not just attacks, so how do you position your squad strategically? By the end of a single turn everyone is either dead or unconscious. You might have a chance if your squad is already on a high level, and all equipment upgrades are purchased but not in the first quarter of the campaign, when I don't even have plated armour. And at least the chosen suspend mission timers, with these you don't even get that benefit.
well it just appeared in a mission, and as soon as it appeared it ran into the middle of my squad, and 3 out of 5 was immediately out of action. Then one move and a fourth was dead. There was not even time to do anything, besides it decided to reveal itself when I was already engaged by 5 other enemies. It gets a reaction even to movement not just attacks, so how do you position your squad strategically? By the end of a single turn everyone is either dead or unconscious. You might have a chance if your squad is already on a high level, and all equipment upgrades are purchased but not in the first quarter of the campaign, when I don't even have plated armour. And at least the chosen suspend mission timers, with these you don't even get that benefit.