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Xoidanor posted:What's the point of pre-loading if it's going to spend 3 hours unpacking the files. Yeah I don't get this either, I thought that a Steam pre-order would just be, y'know, download the game but Steam doesn't let you play it until the unlock date. I've got it unpacking now, I had to go to the store page for XCOM2 and repeatedly hit the "You own this game, play now" button until Steam finally realized "huh oh yeah it's a half hour past the release date isn't it."
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Furnaceface posted:This post terrifies me. I dont mind timed missions as a way of breaking up the pace, but having it be the majority of them is going to get tedious quick, even when I set it to babby difficulty. YOU WILL BE FORGED BY FIRE INTO THE ULTIMATE XCOM 2 PLAYER.
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PantsBandit posted:YOU WILL BE FORGED BY FIRE INTO THE ULTIMATE XCOM 2 PLAYER. Or it will turn me into a scrooge that mods out timed missions. 
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Feb 5, 2016 06:39
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You know, these timed missions could easily bump up the limit by 1-2 rounds and still give a decent challenge. As it stands it's way too easy to get screwed over by the layout and enemy placements. Edit: There are a lot of timed missions.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:40
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I spent an hour making 40 Bogans and some celebrities this morning and then after starting to play somehow I lost 7 hours and one Australian actor pretending to be a Canadian superhero. Game is fun and I feel like I've barely even dipped my toes into it. Doomsday clock is pretty oppressive on the emotions though.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:41
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I played the tutorial to get back into the mindset and immediately failed the first mission because all my squad panicked. It's good to be back.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:43
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Don't worry about the timed missions... Completing the timed objective is what counters the dark event, which is hardly necessary to beat the campaign. Killing all the bad guys is what wins most missions regardless of how long you take. The exception to that rule is the forced evacuation missions but those are the same frequency as council missions in EU.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:43
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For a laugh, go to the XCOM 2 Steam forums. They've pinned so many threads to the front page that there are only two actual visible discussions  Fix your Steam forum, Jake.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:45
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 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34545437/Coolguy.bin Here's me!
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Glad to know I'm not the only one who ragequit over the timed missions I get it now, the timer is not to be trifled with, but man I had 3 really good dudes who were literally 2 spaces away from the evac, and they all got captured. Super loving frustrating. I think the worst part is that the aliens who dropped in on the last round dropped in in an entirely surrounded, flanked position
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monster on a stick posted:Performance is pretty lovely, I wonder if they are using TressFX (the hair does look pretty good.) You also can't zoom out very far; I was trying to get a soldier in a position to shoot a mind-controlling pectoid, but literally could not put both on the screen at once (and you need to see the pectoid to see if it has the crosshairs meaning you can shoot.) It's worth noting that the mousewheel isn't zoom, zoom is holding Z or using T and G, you can get pretty far out like that. Also the trick to timed missions is to not kill everything, do the objective and then worry about aliens or just get the gently caress out, you don't even get corpses from evac missions.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:50
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...I loving love that bio. You are a cool guy, Coolguye.
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You know I think this dude might not be fond of aliens.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:51
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Is anyone else getting a thing where none of their graphic settings changes stick? Also I lost my saves from earlier but i'm assuming that has something to do with playing in offline mode?
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Feb 5, 2016 06:52
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Speedball posted:...I loving love that bio. You are a cool guy, Coolguye. The line you can't see which is just off screen is: "Let me at the aliens. The worst that they have. Not even death will save them from me." Because, you know, quoting Harlan Ellison wasn't enough.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:53
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Is there a way to paste text into the bio field or do you have to do it by hand for every soldier? Anyway, heres a shitload of dumb goofy soldiers for you guys https://www.dropbox.com/s/k942tha9qwitmf4/Idiots.bin?dl=0
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Feb 5, 2016 06:54
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You have to do it by hand and the text box is not big. It's about 500 characters.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:56
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I need to upgrade to El Capitan OSX to play this game? FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHrrhrhrahrahrrhar. NNggh. NRAAAAAGGHAHHAAHA. gently caress it. Going to sleep now.
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Feb 5, 2016 06:58
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That's a bit annoying. I wanted to make a sharpshooter with that Navy Seals Sniper with 300 confirmed kills quote but typing it all out could take almost 2 minutes! For real guys, you gotta be making the dumbest soldiers possible. 
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Feb 5, 2016 06:58
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man all y'all are wimps timed missions are fabulous. it means you actually have to dash the first few turns so you're not screwed. But yeah I'm playing basically ironman on commander and I haven't been screwed over by the timed missions yet. Never had it come down to under two turns so far  then again maybe I just lucked out on the randomized maps
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Elliotw2 posted:Also the trick to timed missions is to not kill everything, do the objective and then worry about aliens or just get the gently caress out, you don't even get corpses from evac missions. The problem is for the three missions I mentioned: * if you just "did the objective" on the first, you'd have gotten flanked by Advent * the only way to "do the objective" in the second was to kill all the aliens because they were shooting the thingamabob * the third was a civilian escort mission with basically no cover from the escort's location to evac outside of a few explosive cars and a bus shelter. Actually there were a few pillars but Advent was taking that cover already so Speedball posted:I need to upgrade to El Capitan OSX to play this game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrgNgnkvrA0&t=31s
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Feb 5, 2016 07:00
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PantsBandit posted:Where do I put the character pool file once this poo poo finishes unpacking? Documents\My Games\XCOM2\XComGame\CharacterPool\Importable
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Feb 5, 2016 07:00
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I'm over 99% sure that timed missions get easier once you figure out how to prioritize enemies and set up pro ambushes at the right times.
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Feb 5, 2016 07:01
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Wow, this game is terribly optimized  The only graphics setting that actually makes a difference is the anti-aliasing, even so it's chugging at 20-45 fps.People even with ludicrously beastly machines are reporting getting inexplicably shite framerates, how on earth did Firaxis miss this during development?
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Feb 5, 2016 07:05
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Trained my first psi trooper. Got domination as the first ability. ...and the soldier looks like this 
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The timed missions aren't that bad. The objective ones are a little finnicky, but they're there to encourage you to move and and not just super sneakily abuse concealment. If you get a read on the map though (or save scum) you can blitz past a lot of things. and sneak your way to an objective to hack/blow it up, and then go kill the aliens. I like the timed extraction ones, to a certain extent. I'm sure it can be very frustrating if it doesn't work or you lose dudes by a few squares, but when it works it's great fun. I actually had an awful blacksite mission where I lose two dudes, but managed to get a Codex and managed to grab the macguffin and flee as the reinforcements landed. I feel some of the timers are dumb and too short, and should be longer, because I enjoy getting to skip enemies and EVAC and I don't need the timer telling me to do it. What I'd like to see in a mod is for certain timed missions to have shorter times, but not have the time start UNTIL you go and break concealment or activate the objective. Like some of the timed extraction ones don't start until you break concealment or get the VIP. And if they start without concealment then the timer is longer. What I really want is a Shut Up Bradford mod, so he'll stop telling me things I already know and stop withholding control because TOO MANY CIVILIANS ARE DYING when the first one dies. EW did that poo poo too and it so fuckin annoying, I don't know who at firaxis though tit was a good idea to have it happen constantly. immortal flow posted:Wow, this game is terribly optimized they spent that time making pretty soldier men
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I can't seem to get it to open, after opening it from the little menu button it just sort of goes to a black screen and hangs there.
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Feb 5, 2016 07:07
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You know what this game needed? An enemy that can empty the guns of multiple of your characters at once, can teleport at will (which ignores Overwatch), can oneshot your characters from said teleport location, and gets multiple moves per turn. I'm sure it'll be easier once my characters can survive the 7 crit shots this thing shits out, but until then I feel it's gonna be a pain.
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I really hope these goon characters are self-portraits because these are some seriously dorky looking dudes
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immortal flow posted:Wow, this game is terribly optimized It's running great on my computer, after I turned Vsync off. The only issue I have is that my poo poo hard drive takes a while to load all the big pretty textures.
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I have a pretty good computer (GTX 970, 16GB RAM, 6700k) and I'm barely maintaining 60FPS on high, and I plummet to mid forties in the base view thing. This game isn't pretty enough to be running so lovely.
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PantsBandit posted:I really hope these goon characters are self-portraits because these are some seriously dorky looking dudes I rock the Guile hairdo IRL. Makes interacting with patients at work super fun.
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immortal flow posted:People even with ludicrously beastly machines are reporting getting inexplicably shite framerates, how on earth did Firaxis miss this during development? May I share the story of a game that was so horribly optimized, the manual said "if this game runs slowly, you may need to buy a new computer"? 
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Feb 5, 2016 07:19
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Feb 5, 2016 07:19
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Anything I can do about the game seemingly having no sound? Verified the game cache, had two files missing, but apparently those weren't the sound files.
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Feb 5, 2016 07:20
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Sent in my Goonpool submission. Probably could've done better, but eh Now to actually play the drat game.
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Feb 5, 2016 07:21
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How bad is it that instead of actually playing this game I'm sitting in the character pool screen making stupid poo poo
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Just four minutes to go before unlocking is complete, assuming something else doesn't gently caress up along the way. Wish me luck.
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Deuce posted:Trained my first psi trooper. Got domination as the first ability. Her grandpa must be Jean Pierre Polnareff
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I tried to look up a solution but it said that the steam servers were too busy to process my request which was error 41. Can anyone help, I am really confused!
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