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Using recruitable aliens in the photobooth can have some amusing results.
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Stefan Prodan posted:xcom ww2 aka silent storm was fun someone should do that again I really do miss levelling entire buildings with heavy machine gun fire.
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Windows update broke Enemy Within and I am baffled as to how this happened.
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Apr 4, 2021 02:21
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Deuce posted:Windows update broke Enemy Within and I am baffled as to how this happened. Goddamn EXALT covert infiltrators! 
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Apr 4, 2021 12:58
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Having just put 150+ hours into Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and now playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (which is better than I thought), I'm apparently just on a huge Turn Based Strategy game kick. I bought XCOM 2 last year, but it barely ran on my lovely laptop so I returned it. I want to give it a go, and I see that it is available on both Playstation and Switch. I have a PS5 and a Switch, and I was wondering which the thread would recommend out of the two? All things being equal, I would prefer to get it on the Switch since Turn Based Strategy games are perfect for mobile gaming. However, if the Switch port has any problems with running the game, or looks significantly worse, I'd rather do it on Playstation. I'm basically home all the time because pandemic, but even being able to play games on the Switch laying in my bed is pretty great.
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Apr 4, 2021 20:59
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Both platforms are fine, but if you care about frame rate and such go for the PS5 version. On switch it drops fps sometimes and the graphics are a bit downgraded compared to PS5. Here's some side by sides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUKjwsSxXvE
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Apr 4, 2021 21:09
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It also looks like the Switch version comes with “War of the Chosen”, but on PS4 it’s currently $60 for base game and $40 for the expansion. I could probably go to GameStop and get the switch one for $20.
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Apr 4, 2021 21:23
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I will note, if possible, I would recommend it on the PC over any console ports, simply for the fact of having access to mods and the Steam Workshop. Mods can add thousands of hours of replayability to the game. But if that's simply not an option, it sounds like it comes down to quality or cost, Playstation or Switch. I'll mirror Sam's suggestion and say that if you care about graphical quality, go for the playstation; I haven't heard good things about the Switch Port, to be perfectly honest.
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Apr 4, 2021 21:38
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BlazetheInferno posted:I will note, if possible, I would recommend it on the PC over any console ports, simply for the fact of having access to mods and the Steam Workshop. Mods can add thousands of hours of replayability to the game. I have it on PS4 and Switch. The switch is definitely a graphical downgrade, but being able to play it on the go is nice. Initially on the Switch there was a pretty bad spawning bug for the nodes in the psionic transmitter missions, but there was a patch that improved that. There's some sort of issue when playing ironman games on the switch port which can lock up the game and eat the save. Also when you get to a high mission count, it takes some time to load, but I recall that also happening in the PS4 version.
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Apr 4, 2021 21:49
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I think I’ll go with Switch. I don’t really mind the graphical downgrade, and it’s currently $20 on Amazon for all DLC. Reviews online seem to suggest just playing WOTC because it has performance improvements over vanilla. Is WOTC a totally different campaign, or does it just add stuff to the main game? Yorkshire Pudding fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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Apr 4, 2021 21:54
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Hopefully you haven’t already bought it on Switch, cause that version of the game has a pretty bad bug where Squadsight, the Sniper class’ core feature, just straight up doesn’t work.
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Apr 4, 2021 22:09
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:I think I’ll go with Switch. I don’t really mind the graphical downgrade, and it’s currently $20 on Amazon for all DLC. It's adds stuff to the main game, but it adds a lot and changes/rebalances a couple of powers so it's almost a different game. Literally the only things I miss from vanilla are that you can't check what weapon mods you have on your dudes mid mission, so you need to memorise the graphics changes on your little weapon graphic, and Rapid Fire is less busted (which is probably objectively good, but I miss just firing twice constantly). Similar to Enemy Within, I don't think I'd ever go back to the base game.
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Apr 4, 2021 23:13
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Scrap Dragon posted:Hopefully you haven’t already bought it on Switch, cause that version of the game has a pretty bad bug where Squadsight, the Sniper class’ core feature, just straight up doesn’t work. lmao what also Rohan Kishibe posted:It's adds stuff to the main game, but it adds a lot and changes/rebalances a couple of powers so it's almost a different game. in my game I can just hover over the weapon and it shows the mods? I don't think that's being enabled by any mod I have
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Apr 4, 2021 23:24
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It might just be an issue with the PS4 port of Wotc, I suppose. There's also no way to check which ammo types you have on what soldier either, aside from context of the damage numbers, crit chances etc, I just remembered.
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Apr 4, 2021 23:38
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For $20 I’ll deal with whatever bugs the port has. I’m just craving some turn based combat satisfaction.
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Apr 5, 2021 04:36
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:For $20 I’ll deal with whatever bugs the port has. I’m just craving some turn based combat satisfaction. Squadsight not working isn’t like, “oh hey that guy just floated off into the ether spinning wildly” type bugs, it’s a “this class does not function and it’s gonna kick the game balance in the nards” type of bug.
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Apr 5, 2021 07:25
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Squadsight not working isn’t like, “oh hey that guy just floated off into the ether spinning wildly” type bugs, it’s a “this class does not function and it’s gonna kick the game balance in the nards” type of bug. Eh, I don't know if it would be that bad. It would be annoying, sure. But you could just make all your snipers into gunslingers instead. Of course you would miss out on the victory lap when you get the hunter's rifle and your best sniper can take out half the map in one turn. Which, by that point in the game you really don't need it, but it's always so satisfying.
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BobTheJanitor posted:Eh, I don't know if it would be that bad. It would be annoying, sure. But you could just make all your snipers into gunslingers instead. Of course you would miss out on the victory lap when you get the hunter's rifle and your best sniper can take out half the map in one turn. Which, by that point in the game you really don't need it, but it's always so satisfying. I hadn't noticed Squadsight was broken until these posts, but now it makes sense. I figured somehow the line of sight was broken on the things I was thinking I should have been able to hit with Squadsight 
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Apr 6, 2021 00:35
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BobTheJanitor posted:Eh, I don't know if it would be that bad. It would be annoying, sure. But you could just make all your snipers into gunslingers instead. Of course you would miss out on the victory lap when you get the hunter's rifle and your best sniper can take out half the map in one turn. Which, by that point in the game you really don't need it, but it's always so satisfying. A squadsight sniper is already a god before you give them the Hunter's rifle. After you give that to your god-tier sniper, they're an angry, vengeful god dispensing their wrath to the deserving from on high  Between the Chosen weapons and the TLP weapons, I had an utterly disgusting squad of murderers by the end* *I just tech up to having what is effectively a Deathwatch Kill Team, and run missions from there.
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Apr 6, 2021 01:03
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A colonel sniper with the hunter's rifle is just incredibly broken. In a properly balanced game, there wouldn't be anything near that powerful. That said, if anyone ever tried to change it I would bite their fingers off.
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Apr 6, 2021 21:47
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In the x-piratez mod end game you have plasma guns that shoot explosive bullets that do so much damage you can break through rock walls in cydonia easily and enough money that you can literally buy any prisoner you need to research end game tech and units with so many TUs that you can walk halfway across the map and still autofire that plasma gun. Unfortunately, you spend about 8 months at that point building the ship for the cydonia assault.
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Apr 6, 2021 21:55
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Man, everyone is raving about the rifle and I'm just sitting here saying his pistol is my comically broken weapon of choice. Meanwhile the other two chosen both give you one weapon that's just kind of strong.
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Apr 6, 2021 22:13
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The Assasin's katana is such a good weapon that I don't blame FoolyChared for forgetting about her shotgun.
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Apr 6, 2021 22:16
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I'm still sad that they come one at a time during the final mission if you dont boot down their door. How loving awesome would a cage match with all three chosen be
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Apr 6, 2021 22:28
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Played Xcom 2 some years back, didn't really like it, despite loving and playing the hell ouf of the first. Everpresent time limits and added bullshit made it feel like it was twisting my arm to force mistakes. Also, it ran terribly on my laptop. Friends told me WotC made it better, so I got it on a sale. Also have a new notebook, 16gb memory and all. Thought to give it another chance. It still runs like garbage. Even with setting on low. Anyone else encountered this?
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Apr 7, 2021 00:55
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Sephyr posted:Played Xcom 2 some years back, didn't really like it, despite loving and playing the hell ouf of the first. Everpresent time limits and added bullshit made it feel like it was twisting my arm to force mistakes. Also, it ran terribly on my laptop. Change the resolution, that has a weirdly outsized impact on performance
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Apr 7, 2021 01:21
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Zore posted:Change the resolution, that has a weirdly outsized impact on performance Also put it in Windowed Fullscreen if you can. If it's just Fullscreen, in my experience, it is more crash happy.
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If I play it on my Lenovo yoga with integrated graphics it runs like poo poo on anything that isn't the native resolution which feels weird as hell But if it works and looks better that's definitely a win
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Lowering quality plus windowed mode has fixed most of the issues. However, now the 2k launcher is the one that keeps crashing or failing to load. Is there another way to start the game without going through this step?
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Apr 8, 2021 16:10
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Sephyr posted:Lowering quality plus windowed mode has fixed most of the issues. Yeah, use the Alternate Mod Launcher. Even without any mods its a hell of a lot more stable https://github.com/X2CommunityCore/xcom2-launcher
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I played XCOM 2 a bunch when it released, but never had the time to finish the game. I saw that it got ported to Mobile, and the mobile port of EU was very well done. Has anyone played the mobile version of 2? I'd love to give this game another go and I just don't have the time to sit at a computer.
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Apr 8, 2021 20:55
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Danaru posted:I'm still sad that they come one at a time during the final mission if you dont boot down their door. How loving awesome would a cage match with all three chosen be This really should've happened. Maybe get the Alien Rulers in too, if they're around.
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Having fun with this about 3 hours in on switch. It can be laggy, which really kills the tension when you come to a critical “they better hit in this 68%!” As it just kind of skips around. No major bugs yet. I unlocked the two special classes, but I know theres a psi-blade dude and I want them. Does that just unlock later? It’s not as hard as I thought also, granted I’m very early in. Honestly I miss the fire emblem “rewind time” thing because moving the cursor with an analog stick is kind of janky, and several times my bro’s have just ran out into the street on accident.
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Cant Ride A Bus posted:I played XCOM 2 a bunch when it released, but never had the time to finish the game. I saw that it got ported to Mobile, and the mobile port of EU was very well done. Has anyone played the mobile version of 2? I'd love to give this game another go and I just don't have the time to sit at a computer. On my second play through on iOS, only disappointment is tactical legacy is not included.
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:I unlocked the two special classes, but I know theres a psi-blade dude and I want them. Does that just unlock later? Yeah you get them in a set order if you have the WotC tutorial or whatever turned on. If you turn off the stuff with Mox and the sword chosen you get them in a random order, and you can force one of them to be your starting faction if you go in to the campaign options.
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Apr 10, 2021 07:09
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illectro posted:On my second play through on iOS, only disappointment is tactical legacy is not included. Is the iOS port worth it then? I love EW on iOS but X2 is about 3 times the price (£24)
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Count Uvula posted:Yeah you get them in a set order if you have the WotC tutorial or whatever turned on. If you turn off the stuff with Mox and the sword chosen you get them in a random order, and you can force one of them to be your starting faction if you go in to the campaign options. So I turned on the “integrated dlc” or whatever it was, not really understanding how it works. I’ve gotten the 2 factions and the Chosen are all up my rear end now, so I know it’s on. I guess that just integrated it into the overall game without me having to do all DLC missions as stand alone things?
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Integrated DLC mostly means that the missions that would normally be used to start the Alien Ruler and Spark content are turned off, so Sparks are built in the Proving Ground and Alien Rulers will start camping facilities.
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If you really want a templar, I think even with Lost and Abandoned on, you need to do the "Contact Faction" mission in the resistance ring.
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