Starting with all the Meld stuff in EW, I kind of don't get Firaxis' efforts to take out the "thinking tactically" portion of the game. There's a time and place for acting quickly and decisively (hostage situation or a flanking maneuver, for instance), but the whole making _everything_ time sensitive seems to me like persuading players to act recklessly so they can get on with losing people.

On the other hand some of the best missions in EW were time sensitive. The bomb disposals and the one where you had to place the transponder on the train. The big alien ship missions got a bit too long I think and could easily encourage you to get sloppy and walk into a bad situation simply because moving and going to overwatch on every turn was too cumbersome. 

 

I think terror missions were meant to be time sensitive in that civilians died inside the fog of war every turn but mostly because of the spawn system going after them in a concerted manner was never worth the risk so you were essentially just fighting the aliens and if you happened to walk into a civilian or two to rescue, great.

 

I'd like to see a little of both so you don't have to sacrifice combat effectiveness to complete objectives in every mission. That would be going too far. It all depends on how well the missions are crafted I guess. 

Starting with all the Meld stuff in EW, I kind of don't get Firaxis' efforts to take out the "thinking tactically" portion of the game. There's a time and place for acting quickly and decisively (hostage situation or a flanking maneuver, for instance), but the whole making _everything_ time sensitive seems to me like persuading players to act recklessly so they can get on with losing people.

It's a turn-based strategy game. There's no such thing as "Quickly" - without analyzing a situation and making sound tactical calls, you'll likely be toast on higher difficulties. What Firaxis is trying to prevent is abusing the game's mechanics in a way which degenerates gameplay, like moving 3 tiles a turn because of how pack triggering worked in the original games. If anything, the concealment mechanic should give you a lot more tactical options than EU and EW ever did.

Edited January 11, 201610 yr by Fenixp

I am a bit hyped for XCOM2. The reboot XCOM fit my taste with mix of easy tactical, strateg layer cut to only important stuff, and a bit of plot with characters. The way dr Vahlen talk about speciment being useful before it expired was most delighful.

 

And it seems XCOM2 is just old stuff but improved.

Wow, his crew got the promotions that best fit their appearances: the rugged girl with the bandanna became the ranger, the guy hidden in the half face mask became the sharpshooter, and the nerd in glasses became the specialist.

Edited January 13, 201610 yr by ktchong

Yeah that was funny

 

Ha! I never made the connection. V. Lols.

 

 

 

For Leferd

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX3Lrcp0eZlxDDCt-yK9j4fuiy3ct83ej

 

(will add more videos to the playlist later)

Edited January 19, 201610 yr by melkathi

The last bit from PAX. I'd say it's a dream of PC master race and modders:

 

http://www.twitch.tv/pax2/v/38694034

 

 

 

EDIT: A part of me wants someone talented to mod the **** ouf of this and create Wasteland 2 or Pillars of Eternity in it. :D

Edited January 31, 20169 yr by Darkpriest

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/02/01/xcom2-review/

 

 

Will wait for sale. (CAD is tanked)

N/M.

Edited February 1, 20169 yr by ktchong

Whelp, I'm on the hype train.  I pre-purchased (for no reason in particular) and have a plan that involves me hiding out with my computer on Friday to get a good start on the game.  I'm pretty pumped, I played a few missions of Enemy Within to get in the mood, I was thinking about tanking to get the right feel.

Thanks for the reminder to take Friday off

Thanks for the reminder to take Friday off

 

I have a staff development day, so I may try sitting in the back of the meeting and getting a few turns in.

XXCOM2-DIGDUL-23PERC

 

23% off digital deluxe version from Green Manga Ming

Edited February 3, 20169 yr by ShadySands

Damn it, looks like I won't be able to play this.

Ok, I tanked for a couple months and got the council taken over by aliens.  I'm now up with the current canon.  

GMG just send me my key. Nice that they did manage to send them out early enough

So hyped.... it is happening:

 

 

after 41 reviews it sits at 91 points on metacritic. highest rated PC AAA game among TW3 and MGS V

 

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/xcom-2?ref=hp

Edited February 4, 20169 yr by Darkpriest

We'll see. I like to have a few real world reports before I spend money. Real people, not reviewers and game sites. 

I'll play some before going to bed and report first impressions for you. That's what I call sacrifice

My copy is in the mail and it's probably a 50:50 chance it even gets here before the weekend. But if it doesn't, eh, I've been pushing my Long War campaign as far as possible because it's the first time I've gotten to the point of fielding MECs and psions. Would be a shame to abandon that save cold turkey but we'll see I guess.

A shame you can't import a few sqaddies from EW. They made that a DLC. Cheap bastards. 

A shame you can't import a few sqaddies from EW. They made that a DLC. Cheap bastards. 

 

I can't find anything on that.  It just sounds like they have a character creator tool that lets you create custom soldiers, and then import them into the game.  Do you have a source?

It's in the DLC pack description. You get some EW war 'survivors'. They don't actually import from EW, they are just high level operatives you can customise. That's what I think anyway. 

It's in the DLC pack description. You get some EW war 'survivors'. They don't actually import from EW, they are just high level operatives you can customise. That's what I think anyway. 

 

It's just one soldier with some special look. Similar to how their previous game had the old UFO haircut as a dlc.