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SagaZ
France3460 Posts
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JBright
Vancouver14381 Posts
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SagaZ
France3460 Posts
On June 02 2015 10:56 JBright wrote: I like one of the comments I saw on reddit. Something along the lines of a won campaign doesn't need a sequel. It's the lost ones that need to be saved. that's a pretty good one haha, very meta | ||
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Dranak
United States464 Posts
On June 02 2015 07:16 daemir wrote: Wait, did I miss something from the story? Why does x-com 2 start with aliens ruling everything? Didn't we just blow/blackhole their brainogizmodudes at the end of x-com 1? It's probably a case of winning that battle wasn't enough to actually win the war. It's quite possible XCOM won their little skirmishes but were outmaneuvered politically. Or the aliens just returned with overwhelming force. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On June 02 2015 11:54 Dranak wrote: It's probably a case of winning that battle wasn't enough to actually win the war. It's quite possible XCOM won their little skirmishes but were outmaneuvered politically. Or the aliens just returned with overwhelming force. or it was all a trap to get humans to delve into psychic powers and then the volunteer became the new alien king hell bent on overtaking Earth and purging it of all those who test negative for psychic powers in the chamber. That was the vibe I got from the story in game at least. | ||
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TheExile19
513 Posts
On June 02 2015 12:03 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: or it was all a trap to get humans to delve into psychic powers and then the volunteer became the new alien king hell bent on overtaking Earth and purging it of all those who test negative for psychic powers in the chamber. That was the vibe I got from the story in game at least. yeah I was about to post something like this, although I wouldn't say the evidence indicates it was specifically a trap so much as that the psychic powers XCOM discovers on the way to the gollop chamber might be what ends up saving humanity in the end, even though the project only defeats an expeditionary force of aliens and can't hold against the next waves. I'm curious if psi training will be available from the start of the sequel, i.e. the original XCOM's research survives in any fashion. | ||
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Disengaged
United States6994 Posts
I loved making my soldiers look like the badasses they are. This is one of the very few games where I don't give a damn about DLC. Imma buy em all when/if they release them. | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On June 02 2015 12:11 TheExile19 wrote: yeah I was about to post something like this, although I wouldn't say the evidence indicates it was specifically a trap so much as that the psychic powers XCOM discovers on the way to the gollop chamber might be what ends up saving humanity in the end, even though the project only defeats an expeditionary force of aliens and can't hold against the next waves. I'm curious if psi training will be available from the start of the sequel, i.e. the original XCOM's research survives in any fashion. Even if it does they can't exactly build a new chamber underground without any materials. If there is some stocked up underground lair of doom instead of a measly cave that the aliens somehow don't know about then I will be disappointed. | ||
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hfglgg
Germany5372 Posts
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Disengaged
United States6994 Posts
Frankly, its kind of annoying seeing people complain about the story of what we know so far for Xcom 2 when Enemy Unknown/Within had little to no story to begin with. Aliens show up to invade Earth and for what reasons? Absolutely no god damn clue until the very last mission. Its should be all about the gameplay because that is where it shines. The more they can add and change things up the better. I'm also excited how the tables have turned and instead of defending attacks from the Aliens we are gonna be doing the attacking(hopefully) like guerilla warfare and being on the move with our base. I wonder if they've learned some things from the Long War mod  because we all know they know about it lol | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10142 Posts
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Snotling
Germany885 Posts
Woulb be nice to be able to plan and execute strikes against the aliens/bad humans, instead of only reacting to their attacks. | ||
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xpldngmn
Austria265 Posts
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
On June 02 2015 10:56 JBright wrote: I like one of the comments I saw on reddit. Something along the lines of a won campaign doesn't need a sequel. It's the lost ones that need to be saved. I remember how angry I was when Warcraft 2 told me "Orcs won". | ||
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lpunatic
235 Posts
On June 02 2015 15:23 Disengaged wrote: I know, right? Frankly, its kind of annoying seeing people complain about the story of what we know so far for Xcom 2 when Enemy Unknown/Within had little to no story to begin with. Aliens show up to invade Earth and for what reasons? Absolutely no god damn clue until the very last mission. Its should be all about the gameplay because that is where it shines. The more they can add and change things up the better. I'm also excited how the tables have turned and instead of defending attacks from the Aliens we are gonna be doing the attacking(hopefully) like guerilla warfare and being on the move with our base. I wonder if they've learned some things from the Long War mod because we all know they know about it lolThe story might not be much, but I kind of dug the cheesy characters. I hope they aren't inspired to try to write deeper ones for the sequel. | ||
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urasyupi2
United States810 Posts
On June 02 2015 09:42 Kyhron wrote: Firaxis said something along the lines of its a continuation from the "bad" ending, but a lot more hostile. It's probably a continuation of how 90% of Long War campaigns end. | ||
Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
also iirc Firaxis said the ''Volunteer'' survived so he/she might be relevant. | ||
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On June 02 2015 19:11 FeyFey wrote: the alien activity phase isn't as scary as well. Especially if bgm worked perfectly together with an alien just shuffling around near a soldier but still in the darkness and you had no idea where they are just that its close somewhere. I remember how angry I was when Warcraft 2 told me "Orcs won". Yeah, UFO defense and TftD had amazing music for that sort of feeling. In XCOM:EU/EW, it's more of an "action-y" combat song, rather than the foreboding song of a thousand dead rookies. I don't mind it but I would love it if there was some sort of way to make that type of music work within the game. I think that'd require patrolling, active aliens though, instead of pods that aren't activated. That made half of the suspense of the original, since you'd never know when you were going to get shot at while exploring the landscape. | ||
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akatama
Romania982 Posts
Actually, when I think about it, the whole pod leader/navigator makes sense and I hope we see that in the base game. | ||
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Aocowns
Norway6070 Posts
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