EPTWhat is everyone's opinion on the Shen DLC? Just one new class with some side mission to unlock the mechs. Seems kind of lackluster as I would have liked at least something new with the enemies too. Though there appears to be a mod where Advent gets a weaker version of your mech class.
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BlackMagister
United States5834 Posts
What is everyone's opinion on the Shen DLC? Just one new class with some side mission to unlock the mechs. Seems kind of lackluster as I would have liked at least something new with the enemies too. Though there appears to be a mod where Advent gets a weaker version of your mech class. | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
Story and new mission spoilers + Show Spoiler + I really liked that it was a 3-part mission. My favorite part got to be the second part with the toxic gas It is doable ASAP, but it is hard. If you are going to, at least make sure you have the new weapons from alien hunters, as well as having an AWC ready after so that your soldiers can heal I think naming the facility AI Julian was intentional. After the maker of the original XCOM | ||
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sacrilegious
Canada863 Posts
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Dranak
United States464 Posts
Shen DLC seems okay, new class, special mission, more customization stuff. Pretty much standard for a DLC thus far. | ||
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Xsyq
143 Posts
There's also supposed to be an alien pack coming out soon, and I've heard there's some returning enemies from XCOM 1 in it, so that will spice up the difficulty a bit. http://www.longwarstudios.com/news.htm | ||
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SagaZ
France3460 Posts
aliens rulers was a lot better imo | ||
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ref4
2933 Posts
On July 10 2016 22:39 sacrilegious wrote: Anyone with the low end PC's who had the performance issues on day 1 played the game since? I haven't touched it since the end of February, because of how painful it was playing it with FPS no more than around 20-25. Have they fixed this issue since? changing shadow from "all" to "directional" or "static" only will give you a huge FPS increase the thing that eats into FPS the most in this game is shadow effect and fire oh and if you have a xbox controller plugged in it also eats into the fps somehow from my experience -- this game's optimization is all over the fucking place | ||
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Latham
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On July 13 2016 00:02 Latham wrote: Hey guys, just wanted to pop in and ask whether the DLCs are worth buying? They got pretty bad reviews on steam, except for Shen's one. People overly sensitive and butthurt or are they really a waste of money? One of the packs is a cosmetic one. I am surprised why people are butthurt over that one given that Firaxis said from the beginning that the first pack would be cosmetic. Haven't played enough of Alien Hunters yet, but so far so good The unique mission in Shen's Last Gift is awesome. That alone makes that DLC worth it imo | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21654 Posts
Shen, its an extra class that doesn't add that much to the game and 1 mission. You can get it if you want but you won't miss out on anything. Anarchy's Children is just a bunch of character customization stuff. Most of em are ugly imo and you can find tons of customization for free in the workshop anyway. The reinforcement pack is all 3 combined. if you plan to get Alien Hunters and Shen you might aswell get this instead and get Anarchy's Children for almost nothing. | ||
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
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Spazer
Canada8031 Posts
The good angle bonus existed in the base game. I think there are even preview videos that specifically point out that feature, since it makes the game more intuitive for new players ("why isn't this a flank" is a pretty common complaint among the uninitiated, after all). It's a buff for the player since the aliens can't get the good angle bonus. However, it's really not that big of a buff. I mean, if you really want to kill the aliens turn 1 (and you should, considering this has been a staple strategy in EU/EW/LW), you can just grenade them out of cover and whatnot. | ||
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DaCruise
Denmark2457 Posts
The freeze grenade is huge especially later on. Hardest parts of legendary havnt changed though imo, like the insane research and construction times. Also the timed missions where you have just 8 turns to complete them are still really challenging. | ||
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
https://xcom.com/news/long-war-2-mod-coming-to-xcom-2-on-pc not sure when yet | ||
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Sermokala
United States13906 Posts
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On January 06 2017 04:09 Sermokala wrote: I hope that they're getting a sweatheart deal with ubi for this. They were talking about making their own game and I assumed that they got a decent payday for their xcom 2 packs. But shit if i'm complaining about getting long war 2 baby! What does Ubi have to do with this  Anyway, I am excited for this, especially how it will play out with ProcGen | ||
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On January 06 2017 04:09 Sermokala wrote: I hope that they're getting a sweatheart deal with ubi for this. They were talking about making their own game and I assumed that they got a decent payday for their xcom 2 packs. But shit if i'm complaining about getting long war 2 baby! 2k is likely giving them a deal, considering how close firaxis and LWS have been working on the Long War mods for XCOM 2. I'm happy to see them take a shot at LW2 because I've been waiting for someone to make a mod in a similar vein to what LW was for EU/EW, and it never really materialized. I do wonder if they're still working on their own game, though, or if that's fallen through at this point. Hopefully not! | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On January 06 2017 05:35 goiflin wrote: 2k is likely giving them a deal, considering how close firaxis and LWS have been working on the Long War mods for XCOM 2. I'm happy to see them take a shot at LW2 because I've been waiting for someone to make a mod in a similar vein to what LW was for EU/EW, and it never really materialized. I do wonder if they're still working on their own game, though, or if that's fallen through at this point. Hopefully not! I find it very likely that Pavonis Interactive/LWS has some kind of deal with 2K/Firaxis, given that they get lots of promotion on the official XCOM social media pages and that they were to make launch mods for the game. Since we don't know much about Terra Invicta (their own grand strategy game) beyond the high-concept, I think it is safe to assume that they are still working on it. Because it is so early on lots of things can change | ||
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Disengaged
United States6994 Posts
Remember, the Long War devs said that weren't going to do a Long War for Xcom 2 or rather they weren't planning on doing it. So, they are getting paid to do this. Its also going to be free. I've been seeing people say whether or not it'll be paid DLC/etc, but they have said its going to be free. While I'm happy about that, I wouldn't mind paying for it because they deserve it. | ||
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Sermokala
United States13906 Posts
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