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Feb 3, 2016 16:52
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DarkAvenger211 posted:I'm wondering if the Normal mode has that hidden shot modifier that makes the game easier if you keep missing shots like the first one. It felt kind of lame after finishing my first Normal run in the original when I heard about that. I would imagine that it does to some extent, just play classic
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Feb 3, 2016 16:53
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Is there any place to get the game cheaper than $60 that isn't sketchy as gently caress?
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I just got to the first Portent missions on EW Classic. Confirmed: Thin Men still gigantic assholes, but respond well to explosives 
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Long War is full of good ideas that are hamstrung by the developers' hubris of hard for the sake of hard and shoehorning in things that don't exactly work in the game engine. That said I appreciate the things they influenced for XCOM 2.
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Feb 3, 2016 16:58
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Didn't see this posted yet -- According to Steam's automated countdown, XCOM 2 will unlock midnight between Thu/Fri (i.e. 38 hours from now). That time is for southern US, not sure about other regions.
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Feb 3, 2016 16:58
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Pakled posted:Is there any place to get the game cheaper than $60 that isn't sketchy as gently caress? No. And when did $60 become too much for a game? I'm sure I bought PS:T and HOMM and poo poo for that price.
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a cow posted:No. And when did $60 become too much for a game? I'm sure I bought PS:T and HOMM and poo poo for that price. It's not "too much," but if I can legally get it for cheaper I see no reason not to jump on that.
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Feb 3, 2016 17:01
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a cow posted:No. And when did $60 become too much for a game? I'm sure I bought PS:T and HOMM and poo poo for that price. Don't try to shame people for trying to save a buck. What's wrong with you?
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Pakled posted:Is there any place to get the game cheaper than $60 that isn't sketchy as gently caress? Greemangaming is probably your best bet, they have a promotion that lands you the digital deluxe version for 23% off, 5 bucks cheaper than just the base game with no discounts.
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Feb 3, 2016 17:02
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I paid $60 because I bought it off of steam like an idiot, too lazy to refund it and rebuy it off of GMG. I'm okay with giving Jake Solomon more of my money.
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Feb 3, 2016 17:04
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Lewd Mangabey posted:Didn't see this posted yet -- According to Steam's automated countdown, XCOM 2 will unlock midnight between Thu/Fri (i.e. 38 hours from now). That time is for southern US, not sure about other regions. Firaxis has developed a tradition of midnight releases. They're last two big releases (Beyond Earth and Rising Tide) were both midnight releases. I think Starships was as well, and that might as well be a tablet game. So when Firaxis says the game comes out on "Friday the whatever" (they also do Friday releases now), Firaxis means you will be able to play that game starting Thursday Night and you really want to take that Friday off.  year199X posted:I paid $60 because I bought it off of steam like an idiot, too lazy to refund it and rebuy it off of GMG. I'm okay with giving Jake Solomon more of my money. Ditto, a mixture of laziness and convenience, the fact I'm flush with cash after doing way too much overtime, and wanting to support Firaxis and their XCom digital cocaine cartel made me just pay full price on Steam. Between pre-ordering and not searching for a deal, I'm a horrible consumer and I know it.
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Alkydere posted:Firaxis has developed a tradition of midnight releases. They're last two big releases (Beyond Earth and Rising Tide) were both midnight releases. I think Starships was as well, and that might as well be a tablet game. Do they usually adjust for region? Or does it all usually unlock at 00:00 EST all over the world or something?
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Feb 3, 2016 17:06
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Norns posted:Don't try to shame people for trying to save a buck. What's wrong with you? I guess I'm getting a little annoyed at "I'm not pirating but I'm happy to buy it for half-price at release from anywhere"
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Feb 3, 2016 17:07
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Miftan posted:Do they usually adjust for region? Or does it all usually unlock at 00:00 EST all over the world or something? They adjust for region. It probably won't be exactly for your timezone but I remember BE and RT splitting the world up into 3-4 sections so someone new got their copy every 6-8 hours.
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Alkydere posted:They adjust for region. It probably won't be exactly for your timezone but I remember BE and RT splitting the world up into 3-4 sections so someone new got their copy every 6-8 hours. Fair enough. I live in GMT so there's a fair chance it'll be adjusted for that.
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Feb 3, 2016 17:08
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Really, anybody who's trying to buy it on the cheap needs to use green man. That goes for any new release. I'm not one who usually goes for deluxe edition stuff, but for a game like this and cheaper than the standard $60? Yeah I'm in there
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a cow posted:I guess I'm getting a little annoyed at "I'm not pirating but I'm happy to buy it for half-price at release from anywhere" Well I wouldn't have bought it otherwise, and also I used the savings to buy the drat overpriced season pass. Chill out.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Well I wouldn't have bought it otherwise, and also I used the savings to buy the drat overpriced season pass. Chill out. I am super chill and not at all counting the seconds until the game unlocks!!!!
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Feb 3, 2016 17:11
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FraudulentEconomics posted:Greemangaming is probably your best bet, they have a promotion that lands you the digital deluxe version for 23% off, 5 bucks cheaper than just the base game with no discounts. I looked it up and found some voucher codes for XCOM 2 on GMG, but they've apparently expired. Is there one that's still active? E: Never mind, I found it. Just have to click the "VIP" link at the top of the main page when youre signed in. Pakled fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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Lewd Mangabey posted:Didn't see this posted yet -- According to Steam's automated countdown, XCOM 2 will unlock midnight between Thu/Fri (i.e. 38 hours from now). That time is for southern US, not sure about other regions. if im reading this right, on the west coast it comes out 9PM on THURSDAY?!?! hell yeeeeeaaaaaah
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Feb 3, 2016 17:13
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Miftan posted:Fair enough. I live in GMT so there's a fair chance it'll be adjusted for that. If you're available to play earlier/really need to get your fix sooner you might be able to set up a VPN and convince Steam that you just moved to Japan for 24 hours. Of course Steam seems to get wiser to that with every release (do NOT run Steam in online mode without the VPN activated until your actual unlock time has passed or the game will re-lock until you should get it normally).
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Alkydere posted:If you're available to play earlier/really need to get your fix sooner you might be able to set up a VPN and convince Steam that you just moved to Japan for 24 hours. Of course Steam seems to get wiser to that with every release (do NOT run Steam in online mode without the VPN activated until your actual unlock time has passed or the game will re-lock until you should get it normally). I'm not worried, I'm in uni for pretty much all of Thursday, and by the time I'm home I have to be up for work in 6 hours. There's no way I'm playing before friday afternoon anyway. I was mostly curious I can start downloading Thursday night and have it ready for me to play when I get home from work on friday!
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I just tried to play Enemy Unknown for the first time in years on Classic and got wiped on the first mission. Maybe I should try to get good before considering buying XCOM 2... Game looks great though, I am suitably hyped.
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I'm a responsible adult and took friday, monday, tuesday and wednesday off to marathon the poo poo out of this game. I fear that by the end i'll forget to eat.
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Feb 3, 2016 17:23
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Aaah, yes, now I remember why I didn't like Massive Chalice. Nobody can hit anything for poo poo at range. (yes, been playing other TBS games to satisfy me. Hard West good, Massive Chalice...okay... Dungeon of the Endless, great) Speedball fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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Feb 3, 2016 17:26
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I gotta say, I don't really dig Beagle's method of blowing the poo poo out of everything. I guess the cover system really encourages it, but...
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dogstile posted:I'm a responsible adult and took friday, monday, tuesday and wednesday off to marathon the poo poo out of this game. I fear that by the end i'll forget to eat. Drink water
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The Devil Tesla posted:Drink water What, does alcohol not count? I'm not going to kill myself via xcom don't worry
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E: way to act broken salr
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AlternateAccount posted:I gotta say, I don't really dig Beagle's method of blowing the poo poo out of everything. I guess the cover system really encourages it, but... It's worth it for that moment when he runs out of explosives a pod and a half into a mission and quiet desperation starts seeping into his dulcet tones 
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Alkydere posted:If you're available to play earlier/really need to get your fix sooner you might be able to set up a VPN and convince Steam that you just moved to Japan for 24 hours. Of course Steam seems to get wiser to that with every release (do NOT run Steam in online mode without the VPN activated until your actual unlock time has passed or the game will re-lock until you should get it normally). This is going to be once the game finishes preloading. Whenever it starts doing that.
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Sounds like it's going to probably be at Steam's update time, which is usually around 1:15pm, EST.
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AlternateAccount posted:I gotta say, I don't really dig Beagle's method of blowing the poo poo out of everything. I guess the cover system really encourages it, but... It's primarily because explosives are 100% reliable and getting good at and consistently winning in the highest difficulties of strategy games is mostly a matter of minimizing risk. We don't even have to deal with the 10% chance of a rocket firing off into nowhere this time like in EU/EW.
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5am Australian eastern daylight. 5th of February for Australians, what madness is this? 
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Kanos posted:It's primarily because explosives are 100% reliable and getting good at and consistently winning in the highest difficulties of strategy games is mostly a matter of minimizing risk. Pretty much this. There's RNG everywhere in XCOM (and will be in XCOM 2). This isn't bad on its own since it's generally rather reasonably set up. However the enemy gets to roll more dice than the player. The player generally has better dice to roll, but the player needs to keep consistently winning the dice rolls, while the computer only needs to win one or two dice rolls to really screw over the player. Tossing grenades can either replace a potentially bad roll by damaging enemies directly, or improve multiple other rolls by removing cover.
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AlternateAccount posted:I gotta say, I don't really dig Beagle's method of blowing the poo poo out of everything. I guess the cover system really encourages it, but... Something I learned from playing EW is that grenades/rockets are specifically there to remove cover. On Classic it's also nice how a grenade will kill Sectoids and with a Grenadier will kill Thin Men, but as the game goes on the main use is to give you flanking shots on unsuspecting aliens.
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a cow posted:I guess I'm getting a little annoyed at "I'm not pirating but I'm happy to buy it for half-price at release from anywhere" "if only everyone else could prove they Love The Product as hard as me, it makes me so angry" Pretty loving stupid emotions to have here. Normal Adult Human fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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a cow posted:I guess I'm getting a little annoyed at "I'm not pirating but I'm happy to buy it for half-price at release from anywhere" With the Canadian dollar so low... Seriously, I'm saving a solid additional 40% if I purchase helldivers, and that's the case with most games without regional pricing! XCOM has semidecent regional pricing mind you, but if I purchased off steam I'd still be saving around 10% or so compared to if I were paying USD. Ended up being cheaper to use that 27% GMG coupon, but still.
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Cat Army 