Wasteland 3

I backed it and played the beta. Similar to WL2 but improved in most ways. UI, mechanics, production value, etc. This should be great.

If there is a way to join the Gippers (worshippers of Ronald Reagan) I'm in.

Springbok said:

Hope it has UW 21:9 support - just got a new monitor and want to put it through its paces with this game

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One thing I wish it had but don't think it does is cross save from PC Gamepass to Xbone. (Edit: Found confirmation from inXile on reddit, it is not a Play Anywhere title. )

Downloaded it off gamepass. I don't like the windows store much, but man, gamepass has some crazy value since it actually gives access to brand new $60 games. This is a game I would have bought anyways, so getting it for "free" on gamepass is like getting 5ish months of gamepass for free. Since a new game I want to play is usually out every 4-5 months, the service kind of pays for itself. With MS buying up so many studios and having a focus on any xbox exclusive also being on PC, the service will most likely only get better as well.

I don't think they're doing themselves a favour with that price tag.

It seems to be unlocked now at least on PC

I spent like 30 mins making my characters and then after doing the intro bit spent another 45 mins REMAKING my characters...

On a related sidenote the faces they have are terrible.

Watched Cohn play for a bit. Looks amazing. I didn't actually play wasteland2. (or 1)

Caliane said:

Watched Cohn play for a bit. Looks amazing. I didn't actually play wasteland2. (or 1)

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Wasteland 2 is absolutely worth it. Really good game, though quite large. 60-80+ hours. (Do not need to play it to play this, it just fleshes out backstory/events from what I've heard)

I played this for just a few hours. Tried it with a controller as well. Automatically picks up you are using a PS4 controller (like Wasteland 2 did) and uses the right icons which is a plus. Better inventory and control management than 2 as well. The only UI issues I have is that changing between icons is not instant ( delays for a few seconds before showing the item + description when marking a new item ) and in character creation, when using a controller, selecting a face puts you at the next selection (skin tone), however, to select a new face you need to either L2 or R2 to swap pages of the faces, or press back (square or B) which puts you back to the menu having to select face again. Not a big issue, but annoying. Thankfully not noticed anything when actually playing it / in the inventory, that had the same problems. So controller seems to work just fine and not something to worry about if anyone is considering a console version.

A++++ feature = shared inventory. No more having to inventory management swap bullets around to characters that use different weapons and such. That was a hassle in Wasteland 2. Don't think there is a weight management system in this, not that I've noticed yet at least.

PS: Cohh found a bug yesterday with skill books (Brian Fargo was in his chat, and saw the bug, it will get fixed).

Skills require more points as you get more of them, so level 3 = 3 points, then Level 4 = 6, then 5= 9 or some such. When using a skill book, it automatically gives +1 level regardless of points required for next level. What Cohh noticed is that if you for instance have 3 levels in mechanic, then +2 from two accessories, when you use a skill book, you get +1 level but it counts the points from the level after the +2. So you don't get a "level" per se, but as many "points" required to level you to to the next one. Those points are then added to your base stats.

At level 3 + 2, he used a skill book and suddenly was at level 8 because the points required for level 6 was enough to fill in 2 previous levels.

If I start out with a pre-made team, am I going to gimp myself? I'm sure there will soon be, if not already, some min/max guides out there, but does it really matter? Was just going to go with the father/daughter team to get some melee + sniper action going? That bad?

Whether it really matters much depends on what difficulty you're playing, but characters without quirks are definitely gimped.

Droigan said:

Downloaded it off gamepass. I don't like the windows store much, but man, gamepass has some crazy value since it actually gives access to brand new $60 games. This is a game I would have bought anyways, so getting it for "free" on gamepass is like getting 5ish months of gamepass for free. Since a new game I want to play is usually out every 4-5 months, the service kind of pays for itself. With MS buying up so many studios and having a focus on any xbox exclusive also being on PC, the service will most likely only get better as well.

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Somewhat OT; but you should really not use your MS account for *anything*. They're just as unreasonable on account termination as twitch is

German, but probably worth the read through google translate:

best part is a guy whose actual last name violates their word filter, therefore he found his decade old account one day renamed at random and he can't change it back. There is no support, no human interaction, no human supervision, and they decide you've done something wrong within one service, they'll lock you out of all services. No phone number on skype? Locked out of xbox live.