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Hyped?
yes but the price is a bit insane.
Hey /v/ what games should I play before playing this one? Are there any xcom games nessesary to the story?
>>320246494
no, not really. xcom one (the remake one) was ok, but nothing like the goold old version
No. It's shit, just like XCOM.
Just play the original, tftd or Xenonauts
>>320247119
>M-muh nostalgia
Fuck off
>>320247119
NEVER PLAYED IT BUT ITS SHIT
>80% of /v/
>>320247119
(You)
>>320247119
But Xenonauts is literally XCOM but with worse graphics.
Just play Long War.
Wait for the modders to fix the mess that X2 will be.
>Day 1 DLC
Day 1 pirate
>>320246743
This one continues off EU/EW. Before that the UFO defense series didn't really have continuity.
>>320246494
Yeah, I love nigger scientist geniuses, and aliens that look like giant cobras. Very realistic.
>>320247119
Every thread every day this nigga posts.
>>320247640
Yeah, I'm an alien and I'm offended by our depiction in this series. Not realistic in the slightest.
>>320247119
>it's shit
>play tftd
palette swaps are not decent games and never have been
I'm on my first ever XCOM:EU playthrough
Can I just let the main mission sit there while I build up my shit?
>>320247654
>>320247119
>played UFO defense and Terror From the Deep
>Heard Xenonauts is really good
>pirate it and see what it is
>the fucking aliens are humans with different colored shirts on
>its a carbon copy of UFO defense except for air game and less ground game shit to mess with
Thank god I didn't buy that fucking bootleg
>>320246494
I pre-ordered it as soon as it was available to do so.
I just noticed they seem to have updated their store/site art though. Edgy much?
>>320247772
Short answer yes with an if. Long answer no with a but.
>>320247640
>xcom
>realism
>>320247640
Same series where all soldiers had flattops that fired grenade machineguns at floating stomachs dropped off by flying saucers piloted by gorilla men in green spandex
>>320247975
>grenade machineguns
A visual of a grenade that explodes into machineguns entered my head when you said this.
>>320247654
W-what game is that from?
![2-xcom252[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/X9Svldb.png "2-xcom252[1].png")
>>320247640
>>320247640
>realistic
>xcom
>>320248042
Well I did have a glitch once where I had a guy who fired cattle prods out of a rocket before
So with that goofy game who fucking knows
>>320247889
It's definitely more interesting than yet another guy with a gun walking towards or away from the camera.
>>320248085
Wild from Wild Sheep Studio, it's not out yet.
>>320247640
>Xcom
>realistic in anyway
Clearly never played any game in the series
>>320247891
It's been a while since I played but I think I just did the mission on the ship (Gangplank, I believe) as well as getting the Chinese hero dude and infiltrating the first EXALT base
Is that a good point to start filling all my building slots and upgrading my team?
>>320247654
>literally human with scale
Disgusting.
>>320248163
How else would we know it's GOTY material if the protagonist with the gun over his shoulder isn't walking into the sunset?
>>320247889
>join us or become them
If there's snake tits in the offing, I'll take the second option.
>>320248297
You misunderstand. Those are tits on the snake. They're human skulls embedded to make it look like the snake has tits. 'Become them'.
>>320247889
>Baseline humans already genetically superior to every alien race
>They try to steal our DNA to fix their broken selves
>Still fuck it up
Remember the fallen.
So apparently MIA soldiers have a chance of being added to the reward pool for guerilla missions, giving you a chance of rescuing them.
>>320248289
>not walking under the moonlight for dem ATMUSCHPHERE
pleb.
>>320247578
I think I'll be joining you on that
This is the first I've heard of it
What's the story and gameplay gonna be like?
>>320248363
>I can become the snaketits
Where do I sign?
>>320248227
>survival game set 10,000 years
>giant snake ladies
I don't get it, but I'm looking forward to it.
I'm ready to lose a coin flip five times in a row and then lose my most decorated, highest experience squad member to a critical hit from behind heavy cover and a smoke screen. Definitely.
I will be savescumming.
Would there be anyway to link/read saves and maybe come across your XCOM soldiers in a rescue mission? That would neat
>>320248374
>>320247889
The cover is bretty cool
>>320248543
Nothing wrong with that on your first go through or so.
Once you get a campaign win or two under your belt then you can bust out the Ironman mode.
>>320248365
Well actuallyAssuming XCOM EW and XCOM2 are using the same backstory, the Etherals made us and all life on earth. They have come to "harvest" what they seem interested in and thats humans. We obviously evolved on our own and they seek to expand on their DNA pool like they did with all the other harvest species
Basically they are trying to make Ubermetch to (assumingly) combat the inter-dimensional blood demons from Apocalypse
>>320248483
Story - the aliums have conquered Earth, you need to galvanize the resistance and kick them out before they finish some kind of secret project
Gameplay - turn based tactics with persistent units on procedurally generated maps, supported by a global strategy layer
>>320248374
Man I love webms.
>>320248714
>the Etherals made us and all life on earth
Where did that come up?
>>320248727
>Gameplay - turn based tactics with persistent units on procedurally generated maps, supported by a global strategy layer
Heh, guess I kidna walked into that one
I mainly meant enemy types and technology levels
>>320248483
Aliens win
XCOM loses
you get rescued and thawed out to fight the fags
Basically its gurilla/jihad similator
>>320248796
UFO defense
Aka the original game
XCOM:EW is literally a remake with the same plot minus some difference
In the original one you go to mars instead of a temple ship and find THE BIG BRAIN who is basically the equivalent of an army major simply doing its job, while in EW its a rouge ethereal group
Slight changes
>>320247578
Oh, they added DLC? Well, it's probably just cosmet-
>Additional missions
>$20
>Summer release
Okay, that's pretty gross indeed. I'll still get the base game, but literally zero reason to buy that.
>>320248654
Depends on the mode in my opinion
I play long war exclusively and find some of the bugs to be game breaking
Like Super Skyranger not giving me extra men or enemies spawning in walls or me not being able to end my turn
I'd say as long as its scouts honor or vanilla then yeah but if you play long war(or any future balls to the walls mod that is buggy) I wouldn't recommend it
Depending on how much tech you had as XCOM, how did ayys conquer so fast considering end game XCOM could start shooting down large ships and assault temples with Etherals?
Only way it works is if Long War was canon with how fucking hard it is compared to Vanilla
>>320248584
>we've found one of the original XCOM units
>she used to a be sniper and was even made a Colonel
>after so many battles though she was critically injured and the Commander decided to turn her in a MEC
>she's go insane though, make sure that particle cannon doesn't hit you and stun her to bring her in
>>320248802
Check out some of the gameplay videos on youtube.
>>320249125
I actually looked into it
>3 extra missions/mission lines
>1 at start, 2 at summer
I'm assuming its shit they didnt make like the last one, though as per usual
>pirate to see if its worth it
>>320249194
Most people barely got passed 2 months on hardest difficulty, it's pretty much based on that.
>>320249194
Ironmam Impossible is canon
Though considering how the devs love Long War, I'd say both
>day 1 dlc isnt snek related
preorder cancelled
>>320249194
XCOM never got near endgame level technology.The reason for that is that the commander got abducted early on and, judging by his performance in the tutorial, Bradford couldn't strategize his way out of a wet paper bag.
>>320246494
>Hyped?
Getting hyped is what causes you to hate every game that you play stupid.
I just preordered the deluxe edition for 57 buckos.
God have mercy on my soul. Last games I got hyped for were phantom pain and BioShock infinite
>>320249308
Something something 1.1% of people actually beat I/I mode, so I wonder what would play out i the majority beat it
>Terror from the deep remake
A man can dream
>>320249347
>twitch memes
post cancelled
>>320249269
One of the DLCs adds an extra class that's probably MECs.
>>320246743
it's essentially a reboot of a reboot
XCOM EU/EW rebooted XCOM and XCOM 2 is ignoring the events of EU/EW and has the world under alien occupation
>Last mission.
>Your ship-base got shot down.
>People except A-team jump ship.
>Because you will land on ayy-HQ.
>Fight to the control room.
>Broad cast to all of humanity how the Ayys are turning them to hybrids or some shit.
>The game keeps going.
>Your team is still stranded.
>Fight to the death with endless waves of Ayys.
>Special item for this level only.
>"Suicide Vest"
No prisoners, we die MARTYRS
VIGILO CONFIDO
>>320246494
ayyyyy lmao
>>320248886
>liens win
>XCOM loses
>you get rescued and thawed out to fight the fags
>Basically its gurilla/jihad similator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy4BdOVsZI
>>320249334
Long War feels like the better of the two as XCOM doesn't instantly bust, but gets slowly whittled down with resource troubles.
>>320248483
XCOM 2;
You ended up losing the war, turns out that "mothership" you downed was just a tiny one being used to prod Earths defenses, once destroyed the real alien army came down and promptly obliterated any resistance with ease.
The game takes place so and so years after this all happened, the aliens have integrated into our society and created a "Utopia", behind the scenes though shit ain't so peachy, they're using/killing/breeding us for their own agenda.
XCOM is pretty much seen as a terrorist organisation and they plan to take back the planet, the new base of operations is a giant airship (think the one in theGAYvengers movie)
post ssnake
>>320249668
>breeding us
Screw XCom, bring on the snake ladies.
>>320249668
>turns out that "mothership" you downed was just a tiny one being used to prod Earths defenses, once destroyed the real alien army came down and promptly obliterated any resistance with ease.
You didn't down shit. There's a reason you start with ballistic weapons in 2.
>>320249713
>post ssnake
>>320249470
Holy crap I never saw the similarities
>red and black decor
>assassinating people
>they all do so in your name
Kane is the XCOM commander
BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT THE COMMANDER
>>320249713
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5CF15xt_88
>>320249668
>HQ is a giant airship
>can't be easily spotted
>won't blow up if you just look at it
Genius.
>Decide to play iron man Xcom for the first time
>It's going really well, only lost one guy in five missions
>Doing a rescue the survivor mission
>He gets critted by a thin man right before I rescue him
>Ragequit with alt-f4
>Open the game up later when I've calmed down and it's reset to earlier when he was still alive
Does this count as cheating?
>>320249554
Depends
While I agree shit gets bad slowly, shit hits the fan at a constant rate in reality because the aliens are so strong and fucking everywhere it makes it hard to fend them all off
I just retook the US but about to lose japan while the fags are harvesting shit and attacking Aussieland
if I fuck up any of those missions GG no re for asia
>>320250173
Yes
I WAS, until they decided to make me wait 5 extra months so they could charge for day 1 DLC. Pirate for sure at this point.
>>320250339
It has the exact same day 1 DLC Enemy Unknown had. Some cosmetic preorder shit.
Doing my first playthrough of XCOM EU on Normal difficulty.
It's really fucking fun.
What should I do next, classic or impossible?
Or should I just jump to Enemy Within or Long War?
>>320250663
You shouldn't play EU without EW in the first place
>>320250503
And I bought that whole game as a package on sale for $10. If they decide to stop being fucking faggots they can collect their $60 from me.
Hyped after those few mandatory DLC and expansions that fix the base game are out, it will probably be a lot more reasonably priced by then too
>>320248374
This is a really well done thing kind of wasted on a niche alien killing game.
>>320248132
is the thing on the snakeman's face huge goofy rodent teeth or is it a gas/environment mask? I could never figure it out
>>320246743
Just play enemy within. If you like that you should like 2 even better.
if that's too easy then try the long war mod.
>>320250663
Long War isn't really all that amazing to be honest. It's just hyped up.
I'd play UFO defense instead if you haven't. There's that emulation shit for it now that fixed all the bugs too.
>>320250809
Maybe it was put there by the guy doing the autopsy to keep the mouth open?
>>320250748
Why not?
I only am because I didn't feel like dropping more than $30 on a game I wasn't sure would jive with me.
>>320247772
Yup. It's actually worth letting it sit because you get a huge panic reduction in all countries for finishing it.
>>320247578
this
if it has dlcs i won't buy it even for 5$ on sale, because i like to have the full package
yeah, the firaxis XCOM was my favourite game of the last few years
really looking forward to this
>>320250173
yes
>>320247568
>Just play Long War
no thanks I like to enjoy myself a little
>>320248714
the funny thing iswe completely ruin the niggas from apocalypse too,and they even got so desperate after the whole having their commanding brain guy get wrekt that they tried to awaken cthulhu in tftd which would have been just about as bad
How is that Mass Effect ripoff with the XCOM name?
>>320250663
Classic Ironman is what you should be playing
you can either go through Vanilla till Impossible or switch over to long war after you complete this run
Though with long war, brace your anus
>>320250989
Not him but if you want to ever play the best version of long war, you need that expac and its objectively better than vanilla even if you dont want long war
>>320247607
Actually they changed it to an alternative universe where xcom was never activated because people were complaining about 1 being pointless
>>320250782
>niche alien game
u wot
>>320247578
Except it's not Day 1 DLC, can we stop with the retarded disinformation? It's just some pre-order bullshit that's all cosmetic, including the "Survivor of the old war" which is just armour from the old game in this.
Hardly something worth giving a shit about.
>>320251370
>>320251436
Thanks guys
>>320251518
redditors think any game that isn't highly advertised and AAA is niche
test
>>320246494
I haven't been this hyped for a video game since, well, I haven't been this hyped for anything since I last thought I wasn't going to die a fucking virgin.
Here's hoping Firaxis delivers better than I could.
>>320251569
Look, anon, if you like the taste of dicks in your mouth that's fine and what you do in your own home is your business, which is why you really shouldn't go around telling everyone else how much you love the taste of dick.
>>320246494
Yes I'm hypedfor snek
>>320251364
Actually looking into the research of the games(I mean the real obscure shit) it suggests that the aliens of terror from the deep had their own plans but they were related to the ones you fought up above(cousins, in some ways)
I'd assume that Etherials and Big Brain was harvesting us for them, as you can clearly see the majority of T'leth aliens use human bodies as their pawns or at least some form of terrestial beings.
Also T'leth got the last laugh, as they fucked all of our seas and oceans in one go and we barely beat the blood demon/aliens with stolen tech from the Ethereals
Why didn't the XCOM style of game take off anyway?
All the other games like XCOM are all really low-key. Like, I quite enjoyed Warhammer: Chaos Gate, which was basically W40k XCOM, but I've never seen anyone mention it online. Just seems weird considering how fun this kind of tactics game is.
>>320251706
Or you can stop being a faggot and lying about shit, as well as explain why anyone should give a shit about some crappy cosmetic armour as "Pre-order bonus".
Can you come up with an actually valid complaint or are you going to shitpost like so many other retards on /v/ just to "fit in"?
>>320250027
>>320251704
Who did he fuck to get the engie daughter?
>>320249443
[NASHEED INTENSIFIES]
>>320251874
If fitting in means I'm not paying an extra $15 for day 1 DLC on a game that was delayed for half a fucking year, then you bet your ass I'm going to fit in. Enjoy your dicks, dick-lover.
>>320249443
You can do that in Xenonauts.
>play Ironman
>lose most of my A-team to get to the final mission
>final mission is the assassination of the alien leader mind-controlling the rest on bord of his mothership
>strict timelimit, have to make a detour to power the life-pods
>decide I can't take the risk
>blow up his ass and get into defensive position
>get swarmed by aliens
>everyone dead but two soldiers
>equip c4 in hand, set the timer on 1 turn and charge the enemy.
>>320251451
>>320247607
>XCOM never really had continuity
What?
>Aliums invade earth for our bones
>We beat them
>underwater space niggers wake up from sleep
>we beat them but their nigger juice turns ocean purple and kills everything
>inter-dimensional blood monsters invade and we kick their ass
Each game has a laid back plot, but if you sent your scientists to research random shit, you get ALOT of fucking info on whats going on
>>320251973
"It's Day 1 DLC, but delayed half a year."
Or you could, I don't know, just call it DLC. How is this so fucking difficult for you, you mongoloid?
Will there ever be TFTD remake?
It's all I want from the industry. Atmospheric TFTD remake.
>>320251973
>paying an extra $15 for day 1 DLC
You literally could not do that if you wanted to.
>>320247578
>>320248450
>>320249125
>>320251229
You guys are idiots.
>>320251569
Exactly.
Everything else is just pre-buying DLC stuff available mid next year normally. As far as I'm aware there's no advantage to buying it now or waiting like a normal human.
>>320252129
Underwater is hard
Making a underwater turn based game would be VERY hard
Then there is molecular control and shit and wiggling peoples bodies out of them
Also considering how surprisingly well coded that game was, I dunno if they could recreate how hard that game was
I can beat UFO Defense on Superhuman in less than an hour, but holy fuck is Terror from the deep on Superhuman hard
>>320247475
>(you)
Shit always fucking gets me. I miss the days when people hadn't caught on about that yet.
>>320252114
>"game that was delayed for half a year" means "dlc that was delayed half a year"
All that dick loving must have fucked up your reading comprehension, somehow.
Look, I don't care if you're a firaxis shill or just a regular dick-loving faggot, but either way I'm not paying for this jewfest game. Deal with it
>>320251973
>paying an extra $15 for day 1 DLC
Show me where this exists?
Reinforcement pack is just the game's regularly scheduled dlc bundled. You can buy it normally next summer too.
>>320252297
>Making a underwater turn based game would be VERY hard
I don't understand this reasoning at all
what makes underwater levels hard is they are stuck in games that teach you a certain set of controls then suddenly change the rules and systems you've been learning
how would those difficulties apply to a game designed entirely around underwater gameplay (especially in a turn based capacity, where direct input isn't even a factor at all?)
>>320252502
Never asked you too.
All I did was pointing out a retarded lie. If you're that much of a cockgobbler that you have to repeat the acronyms and terms you've seen on /v/ with little to no thought about it, you might as well go to reddit.
Are you so autistic that you can't even get it into your mind that it's just DLC, nothing outright cut from the game? There's no must to buy the DLC and if you actually had some brain capacity to make a valid argument, you'd argue that the DLC isn't worth the price based on the content.
Just buy the base game if you like the game, or don't if you dislike it or don't like the marketing practice of DLC, but don't be the type of retard that spreads misinformation just because you're that lazy of a fucktard that you cannot even read up on shit.
>>320252502
He just gave you a little too much credit, that's all. Because that DLC you don't want to buy doesn't actually release on the same day as the base game. It's bog standard DLC you can preorder.
>>320251436
I disagree there. I bought both at once, and I played through most of EU first to get a feel for the game and tactics. With EW, the difficulty is ramped up, with new unknown benefits given to XCOM to compensate. At that point it's better to be prepared and flexible. I also enjoyed the new mechanics moreso this way
