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Sounds good.
They look exactly the same.
Mist: I never played EW, what made it better?
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Mist: I never played EW, what made it better?
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Resource/currency/time management rebalancing, Mechs, cybernetics, enemy/mission variety, a background story that plays and interferes with the base game (honestly what EU should have been at release).
The fish village mission that was added with EW. Mein gott. Fuck playing that for the first time. Medic sacrificed himself for the squad!
The fish village mission that was added with EW. Mein gott. Fuck playing that for the first time. Medic sacrificed himself for the squad!
Gavinmad
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Yeah as cool as it was, I think that mission was actually pretty poorly designed. You're basically guaranteed to lose the guy you trigger the beacon with the first time you ever play that mission, then after that it becomes completely trivial to set your squad out to ensure that everyone extracts with no difficulty. But I guess the easily predictable scripting was the biggest problem with the difficulty in EU/EW. My biggest hope with XCom 2 is more dynamic mission gameplay.Resource/currency/time management rebalancing, Mechs, cybernetics, enemy/mission variety, a background story that plays and interferes with the base game (honestly what EU should have been at release).
The fish village mission that was added with EW. Mein gott. Fuck playing that for the first time. Medic sacrificed himself for the squad!
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In the twitch thing from weds, where Garth/whatshisface play the Blacksite mission, somewhere in there they do remark that the story type missions (of which Blacksite is one) are the least dynamic, but still fairly dynamic. Which is at least a big gain over story missions from EU/EW, which were almost completely static (or entirely so, I haven't played vanilla EU/EW since finding Long War, so I don't remember what's different... LW adds a lot of dynamic stuff in general).
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Yeah fair enough, I forgot they had that crap. I remember reading talk about it, and how it breaks balance, and said fuck it and ignored. But it sort of proves my point, none of that shit feels necessary. A 6th class can't NOT feel necessary in a game like XCOM. If it were the 15th class, I could give fewer shits.
Gavinmad
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Eh, Slingshot was both good and bad. The reward for the battleship mission definitely broke the economy of the game wide open, but it was a pretty damn hard mission, especially dealing with that cyberdisk. Honestly, I don't know how the hell I'll adjust back down to 5/6 classes in XCom 2 after the 16 classes in Long War.
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Yeah, I guess it's back to using duplicates every mission. I enjoyed the 8man squads in LW (although I wish it were 10) because it allowed 1 of each class, which satisfies my weird OCD. 10 would be ideal so you could have 8 humans and 2 MECs each mission!
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I've seen three Blacksite playthroughs now and none of them play out the same way for the main part of the mission (there's always reinforcements coming after you grab the objective, so the last short stretch was fairly similar even though the pods dropping in don't come the same place or even consist of the same enemies). I'm very encouraged with regards to the map variety. Gameplay wise it's probably always going to be similar to a certain degree, but then again, every game is.
The strategic map being dynamic and events not happening some preset schedule will add a tremendous amount to the longevity of the game for me I think.
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Watching the TB video - my god this is a real sequel. They stepped up their game in every regard outside of the core gameplay (which only seems tweaked) and actually learned something from the modders. Individual classes are actually distinctly different based off your ability choices and itemization.
When I was complaining about FO4 this is what I was looking for in terms of claiming sequel status.
When I was complaining about FO4 this is what I was looking for in terms of claiming sequel status.
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I chuckled when I read that PC Gamer article, #2 mentions customization. From what I've seen, there are 6 faces for your troops. Six. Everything else is above and beyond (and worth accolades), but SIX? Why in the world couldn't they just put in a face-creator/editor/whateverthefuck that most games use nowadays? My GF spends hours just fucking around with her new Sim's face for Sims 4 anytime she makes one.
Anyhoo, ultimately small issue, but seriously, wtf. Just one of those things that makes me scratch my head.
Anyhoo, ultimately small issue, but seriously, wtf. Just one of those things that makes me scratch my head.
Shit looks great. Pre-ordered the rip off version on steam so time to just wait for the release.
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XCOM 2 In Detail: How Much Has Changed? - YouTube
I can safely say XCOM 2 will not disappoint me like Fallout 4, Sword Coast and Blood Bowl 2 did.
Can't wait for February!
I can safely say XCOM 2 will not disappoint me like Fallout 4, Sword Coast and Blood Bowl 2 did.
Can't wait for February!