XCOM2

[PogoP]

Me too mate! Can't wait.

[Sprony]

First reviews are out... so HYPED!!!

If you think you are hyped now, go read this

[TheOnlyDoubleF]

I'm loving it so far. I got my ass kicked on the first game, but I'm starting a stronger one. I'm gonna create some Mapcorians in my squad to add a load of awesomeness 

[Bastion]

Looking forward to playing it, still going through Enemy unknown at the moment, once I get my new power supply in I can beat the game in a weekend and go to Xcom 2

[Skybex]

Been a little hesitant to get this right now as supposedly the performance issues are quite bad. Will definitely be picking it up once some of the early issues have been sorted out.

Looking forward to trying to recreate my EW squad from my more recent play through. But a bit sad to hear that gene mods didn't make it into this version

[Puddy]

THIS IS SO FUCKING HARD.

D:

[Erratic]

Rruns bad, lots of visual glitches, impeccable design. 

10/10 perfect PC game.

[PogoP]

I'm not getting any performance issues and I'm loving it. It's fucking difficult though. 

[2d-chris]

Man, first mission was brutal, not a fan of the time restricted fail conditions I must say, other than that it's solid as a rock! (if not balanced by somebody who played too much of the first game and thinks it's easy) 

[Vilham]

The time restrictions are like the meld in the xcom dlc, designed to force you forwards rather than sitting behind snipers. I think its a fairly good solution. Can see it getting tiring after a while though.

Edited February 7, 2016 by Vilham

[Puddy]

I am really glad that almost everything is on a timer now. I got really bored inching forward and overwatching in the first one.

[2d-chris]

Well it's pretty much what Starcraft 2 campaign did, it works well but the occasional reset to the old design is fun, you know the ability to really take your time and plan out everything (deathball or in xcoms case overwatch abuse :P) 

The more I play the better xcom2 is, those first two missions should not be so brutal though.

[Vilham]

So there are missions where you don't have time limits.

[Mazy]

I am really glad that almost everything is on a timer now. I got really bored inching forward and overwatching in the first one.

This a hundred times.

My classic Ironman runs in the previous XCOM, though mostly very intense, also had crazy long lulls where the beginning of every mission (and throughout most missions) would consist of moving one soldier forward at a time with everybody else hanging back in overwatch, which was crazy dull and uninteresting in hindsight. I love the changes they've made to the beginning of missions with timed objectives in that they're forcing your hand to make clever and hard choices from the beginning but still give you a slight upper hand when you can ambush them. Makes the missions much more exciting from the get go, and looking back then that was honestly the biggest flaw in the previous XCOM (apart from the lack of procedural maps) .

Haven't really played this new one enough though, only spent like 2-3 hours on it, nearly no time for it between work, life and everything else, but it's not going anywhere . So far it looks like it'll be easy to pour 100+ hours in this one as well

[WD]

Been playing this game way more than I should have. Mostly because it's so damn intense! So fucking brutal missions and the "doomsday" timer just keeps ticking away... I always have to send my best guys in only to get them back in a body bag or with their limbs barely hanging on.

Loving the procedural generated levels and how you can destroy pretty much anything in them from making small peep holes to shoot from to breaking walls and leveling buildings to a rubble.

I've only had one mission which kept crashing on me constantly but other than that the game has been running great for me.