The New X-Com by Firaxis Hype Thread

[Jiro]

wait they get it three days early? oh well. it comes out on my birthday. brill

[Pike]

If my information is correct, the Steam version actually unlocks before midnight. Have fun.

Moot point for me because I go to bed at 7pm, haha.

But I've got it now though!

[Slothy]

Tried to start it up and it told me I couldn't because of some corrupted game files. Tried verifying the integrity of the game cache and it did nothing for me. Just deleted it outright and am reinstalling now. Thank god I don't have a bandwidth cap. Even at 1.3-1.6MB/s this is taking a while.

[Pike]

GUYS THIS GAME

THIS GAME IS FANTASTIC

SERIOUSLY I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ACCOLADES

I hope it installs quickly for you, Vivi! And then works!

[Slothy]

smurf this game is big. Almost 3 hours later and it's at 98%. If it doesn't work this time I might just cry.

[Jiro]

I am crying so many tears of anticipation. never looked forward to a birthday like this before

[Slothy]

So it downloaded and did the same thing. I had taken a quick look around the games forum this morning but didn't see anyone with the same issue. Ended up going to the hub page for the game and found a topic about it. Guess what the solution is. No really, it's a good one, you might not get it.

Give up? (SPOILER)Restart Steam.

smurf...

[Pike]

So it downloaded and did the same thing. I had taken a quick look around the games forum this morning but didn't see anyone with the same issue. Ended up going to the hub page for the game and found a topic about it. Guess what the solution is. No really, it's a good one, you might not get it.

Give up? (SPOILER)Restart Steam.

smurf...

Ouch.

[Jiro]

DAMMIT VIVI MAN YOU CAN GET THIS TO WORK COME ON AND DO IT

[Skyblade]

And did it work?

Anyway, just got mine (stupid Gamestop not being open until 11:00 AM, grumble). Installing now. Yay.

[Slothy]

Oh yeah, it totally worked. I'm playing it right now.

I just wish I had found that this morning before I spent 3 hours downloading it again. Ah well, lesson learned.

[Elite Lord Sigma]

Just picked up my shiny new copy from the mailroom. I'll start playing it in a little bit.

[Madame Adequate]

This game is legitimately amazing so far. I just lost an Ironman Classic because this game is seriously taking no prisoners, and I love it. I mean I got picked up and had my back broken over the thing's knee, I was HUMBELLED. RIP in peace Molly Edwards, you were an Ellen Ripley-tier badass and you smurfed up those aliens something fierce.

Also, smurf Thin Men and the horses they rode in on.

[Slothy]

Spent a solid chunk of yesterday with it. This is probably my game of the year hands down.

[Skyblade]

This game is legitimately amazing so far. I just lost an Ironman Classic because this game is seriously taking no prisoners, and I love it. I mean I got picked up and had my back broken over the thing's knee, I was HUMBELLED. RIP in peace Molly Edwards, you were an Ellen Ripley-tier badass and you smurfed up those aliens something fierce.

Also, smurf Thin Men and the horses they rode in on.

Thin Men actually feel cheap, because there is no way to block or resist their poison spit (short of equipping everyone with medkits). Fortunately, they're easy to kill.

The other thing about the game that seems cheap is the three-way missions. You only ever get to pick one, and lose ground constantly because you have no way to respond to the other ones. Completing one gets you a reduction in panic in one country, failing to complete one (ie, both of the other two) result in an increase in panic across the continent. It really feels like it's just there to hamstring you.

If we had a second Skyranger, this game would be quite a bit more managable.


Also, there is something (which I'm calling a bug) in the way panic works that means that if one guy panics, there's a very good likelyhood that he'll shoot one of your team, that they'll panic, and shoot someone else, etcetera. Only happened once to me, but given how few times I've had people panic, it's worth nothing. Panic is more deadly to your team than aliens.