XCOM 2 - PS4/XB1 - September 29, 2016
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Only played a bit of XCOM Enemy Unknown, assuming this is close to that.
If so, I'd like it and play it. Looks good!
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Why the heck are they not releasing it on console as well this time? They don't like making money? I loved this on PS3, played the hell out of it. A sequel is an insta-buy for me. Seriously, did the first one not sell well on console?
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It didn't apparently. I just read ~3 million on steam vs a bit over 100K on all consoles combined.SuperDuperFox wrote: ↑Seriously, did the first one not sell well on console?
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Games that are not 3rd person shooters or CoD doesn't sell too well on consoles.
Loved the other Xcom games, definitely picking this one up
Loved the other Xcom games, definitely picking this one up
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Which is a shame but yeah, that's the market. I played Enemy Unknown on PS3 then Enemy Within on PC during Steam's summer sale last year, was a blast both times. Looking forward to the sequel.SpectralMeat wrote: ↑Games that are not 3rd person shooters or CoD doesn't sell too well on consoles.
Loved the other Xcom games, definitely picking this one up
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I really enjoyed the recent versions but there were a few details that really bugged me that caused me to stop playing. One was the highly inaccurate shot %... somehow 90% shots nearly always ended up with 2-3 misses in a row. Aliens sniping me while I had high ground and neither of us moved was annoying. And the worst for me was not being able to sneak up on a lot of xenos like you could in the originals. This negated a ton of possible tactical moves and devolved my strats to just running in because it made no difference. It got too predictable that you'd move and xeno would spawn on the edge of your fog of war, then they get an extra chance to move away regardless if they actually would have seen you or not.
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Awesome news! Thanks OP.
Very happy it's a PC exclusive too. They can just do more without having to worry about making it workable on a console.
Very happy it's a PC exclusive too. They can just do more without having to worry about making it workable on a console.
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The only estimates I've seen are ~2.6m owners on Steam (Steamspy) vs ~1.1m combined 360/ps3 (VGchartz).
The 2.6m on Steam also includes all of the copies that have been give away for free last year. It may also be impacted by the free weekend the game had.
It seems a bit odd that they wouldn't release a console version (though they might eventually). I'm a little worried that this will wind up being an F2P game.
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Totally love Xcom Enemy Unknown and Within. Unbelievable replay value and one of my favorite games of all time. I hope the Xcom 3 will take place in the Alien Homeworld. "Procedurally-generated levels". Awesome!
Man I wished they would team up with Bioware and create a turn base Mass Effect.
Man I wished they would team up with Bioware and create a turn base Mass Effect.
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It'll likely make it's way to console at some point, but I'm really happy this game got a second, even if it doesn't. Great game.
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It is surprising that they are not releasing on console as well. I thought they did pretty decent numbers there. No complaints from me though, the original didn't seem to be held back too much due to being released on consoles as well. Who knows if it will make its way there eventually.
Hopefully the base building and strategy side of things will be fleshed out more in this one.
It is surprising that they are not releasing on console as well. I thought they did pretty decent numbers there. No complaints from me though, the original didn't seem to be held back too much due to being released on consoles as well. Who knows if it will make its way there eventually.
Hopefully the base building and strategy side of things will be fleshed out more in this one.
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Pretty sure they'll release a console and tablet version in the future, probably just want to focus on developing on the PC platform first then convert it after. I'm assuming that's easier and cheaper to do versus developing the PC, console and tablet versions simultaneously.
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This is going to be great. Procedurally-generated levels and modding supports. Need to really know what kind of modding they will be supporting. I still want my Mass Effect mods onto Xcom.
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Awesome, this was one of my favorite games, played it several times and there are some great mods (Long War) for it.
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A little too cartoony for my taste but we will wait and see. The modding and procedural maps should be interesting.
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Pretty good, what I see is a control scheme similar to Enemy Unknown, which means hopefully they will include gamepad support.
I thought it was going to be a complete overhaul of the interface, but this looks basically like the same control setup.
I thought it was going to be a complete overhaul of the interface, but this looks basically like the same control setup.
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I didn't watch the whole gameplay video, but what I've seen it looked like whoever was playing using a controller not a mouse.
If I remember correctly in the PC version when you were ordering your squad around you could see the mouse cursor, if you were using a controller than no mouse cursor and the move point jumped from tile to tile exactly like in this video.
Again I did not watch the whole thing only the beginning so maybe they were using a m+kb not sure.
If I remember correctly in the PC version when you were ordering your squad around you could see the mouse cursor, if you were using a controller than no mouse cursor and the move point jumped from tile to tile exactly like in this video.
Again I did not watch the whole thing only the beginning so maybe they were using a m+kb not sure.
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Ahhh the article states it has pics of base building but I am not seeing any. Will be interesting to see what they do for the base building
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