Is it going to be good? Reminder that this studio's previous game was Civilization: Beyond Earth, though likely different people making it.
I really hope they don't fuck it up.
ayy lmao
Beyond earth wasnt bad. It just feesl too much like civ5.
i assume they are just taking the first game and tacking on some extra shit. that's all i really expect.
>>319218012
At least the alien aggro bullshit is fixed, there's some sort of vision mechanic now.
>>319218085
that is good news, already looking forward to it.
As >>319218012, it's not much more than XCOM2012 with shit tacked on. At first I was expecting it to go more along the lines of UFO:EU, but from what I've seen it's just XCOM2012 with a few things fixed up and a few bells & whistles added.
But XCOM2012 wasn't awful so it won't be the end of the world, especially since there are no constraints due to developing for multiple platforms.
Have you seen the new mechanics they put into it, this game will be great if only because of implied dedicated MOD support.
This game has their passion put into it, Civ5 was a dying franchise since the number crunching aspect of it must not have appealed to any of their designers.
I'm hype. Even if it's just EU/EW but brushed up I'd be happy. I had a blast with those. I haven't really been keeping up with it too closely so I don't go into maximum overhype and make the wait for feburary take forever. Still, the handful of things I know about it make me excited. Being able to get the jump on aliens, being terrorists, salvaging weapons and gear and whatnot while still being all shooty and chaotic and shit. Seems like fun.
Boy oh boy I sure hope XCOM has invested in a fucking firing range for their soldiers so they can actually fucking hit their enemies that are 50 fucking feet away.
>>319218012
thats exactly the opposite of what firaxis normally does for sequels
I don't think BE had much weight put behind it. Seems likely to me Firaxis had 3 concurrent development teams, one for Firaxis and two fro Civ. I'm guessing the latter because Ed Beach who did the CiV expansions is still at Firaxis but doesn't seem to have much involvement in BE (or XCOM).
>>319220554
*one for XCOM
>>319217632
I hope the delay pays of thats all.
February is criminally far away imo
>>319217632
>focus on stealth and gorilla warfare
>more modding support
>enemies don't get a free turn when you fire on them
>aliens are built to be extremely dangerous
>XCOM is essentially a terrorist orginization
It's gonna be good t.b.h.
>snackbar aliens
sounds fine by me
How long before a good jihad mod?
>>319220336
This is what you get when Ayyy Lmao impregnates human women.
>>319221818
They can have them, I just want some Muton pussy
>>319217632
"Our favorite Civilization is Revolutions" designers are not in XCOM2 thankfully.
>>319222207
>>319221731
i can see it.
>new unit
>suicide unit
>easy to make panic
>If unit kills a enemy boost team morale
>>319220336
So of the sectoids became more humanoid due to adding human DNA why do thinmen become snaketits
>>319223720
Well the snakemen were the original form of thinmints before the ethereals modified them to infiltrate human society.
As for the Tits supposedly female snakemen are larger and more aggressive than males so the ethereals use them more in combat and the tits are just a side effect of splicing femsneks with human DNA.
>>319221143
> gorilla warfare
but Jake Solomon is on the team. and he helped make the original XCOM.
I wonder if they will fix overwatch.
I hate it when EVERYONE wrecks a drone and not the fucking Cyberdisk or Sectopod behind it,
From everything, I've heard about it, it's going to be good. It's pretty much the only reason I haven't killed myself already, so it better be good.
>>319224936
Its confirmed that Overwatch works sequentially now, however you still can't choose which ayy to Overwatch, soldiers will still just fire on the first ayy that comes into their LOS first.
>>319217632
The formula has been made, it's not a story driven game. What's the worst they could do?
>>319224936
Literally one of the first things they announced, actually.
It now works that there are two kinds, the ambush kind and the regular kind. Damage is called prio ad if it would exceed one targt in range then remaining shots after exceeding that sum are put on the next target an so on.
>>319225497
so if an ayy dies your guys will hit the next ayy?
>>319225828
Yes
>>319217632
Firaxis already COMPLETELY missed the point of the original game with the remake, this one's just deviating further and further from what made UFO defense and TFTD so good
>>319226074
finally putting in shit from final fantasy 2... ayy
>>319223720
Because shut up and stop asking questions.
>>319225698
>it's not a story driven game
I'm worried it might become such considering they've started with the interquel novel nonsense already
>>319226659
Which was what, exactly?
You'll be deploying to Newfoundland this time.
What do?
>>319227457
get screeched in
>>319227457
sacrifice a rookie, gg
>>319227457
Newfoundland is only bad the first time you do it
The by far worst thing in the entire game are early council missions full of thinmen before you even have beam weapons
>>319226659
You mean meticulous supply management and bullshit difficulty?
>>319228276
If he wants that he can just play Long War
>>319227457
Shotguns and grenades make this fun.
>>319227234
The point was that you actually played in opposition to the aliens, who had their own rules and methods as opposed to just being cannon fodder on missions. Such as sending UFO's to scout out your bases, or deliberately luring you into getting your interceptors BTFO by their newest ship before launching a massive wave of UFO activity.
if UFO defense you're fighting a war with the aliens, and the game puts you at the forefront of every aspect of it. nu-XCOM's mission control is an absolute sham compared to the geoscape, nu-XCOM 2 probably won't even have one.
>>319217632
Jake "That's XCOM baby" Solomon is still in charge so it'll be EU but better
>>319228276
its only hard until you know what you're doing (like any good game)
don't give me that shit about UFO defense combat being bullshit when you know every single percent to hit display in xcom 2012 is a brazen lie
>>319228461
Oh so you mean just like Longwar?
I have spent about 3x as much time in longdong than vanilla its really altered my perceptions of newcom
>mid-game terror mission
>this shouldn't be too bad
>start working my way up the map
>see a few chryssalids
>more chryssalids arrive
>even more of them
>two zombies already
>floaters also there
>only brought one heavy with one rocket
>You will never convert them to your side.
>>319226963
>>319225698
Stoy happens, bros. All the other ufo tactic gamshave them too. At least it won't be QTEs.
Videogame novels suck. Only Nyguyen is decent writer.
>>319229425
I kinda liked the Halo books.
>>319229000
pretty good testament to how shitty your game is if takes a team of modders to make it as good as a 1994 game, and all they had to do was copy all the shit you forgot to.
>>319228976
>every single percent to hit display in xcom 2012 is a brazen lie
lol k
>>319217632
looks like shit, looks exactly like xcom 1 should just be a expansion pack.
maybe in 2 they'll make the miss animation look less retarded
like does my guy really have to fire ninety degrees away from the target for me to know that he fucked up?
>>319228976
You're anal ravaged by thinmen, aren't you?
XCOM 2 IS FUCKING TERROR FROM THE DEEP REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>319217632
i'm going to get it but it looks okay so far. only thing I don't like are the new enemy designs. they don't match the xcom aesthetic at all. kind of like they just chose random fantasy designs out of a book and slapped them on. that has been very dissapoint for me.
>>319229856
You've played neither games have you?
>>319231132
Omerta being my Iron Man run and the rest being an incredibly buttfrustrated superhuman run
now lets see yours.
>>319229038
>training roulette
>le close & personal, sprinter, shotgun man
training roulette is the only way to play the game
>>319230987
No, it's the sequel to XCOM
>>319232048
I still consider this a better game than nu-COM
>>319217632
If it isn't good I'll lose hope in humanity.
>>319232207
How the fuck can your taste be this bad?
What went wrong?
Looks awesome, most anticipated game of next year.
How is the XCOM series? Never played it because it looks like an RTS and RTS are objectively the worst genre.
What is it exactly?
>>319232408
It does its own shitty thing rather than just being an all around shit-tier ripoff of the originals
>>319232625
Turn based tactics
I expect it to be similar to the Xcom:EW but with new features and classes,
I expect the gameplay flow to be somewhat different and the strategy layer to be more about earth than your base.
I expect mods and I expect beagle to make fookin videos of it, the lazy piece of shit.
>>319230987
> implying it's not Apocalypse.
>>319232625
Turned based
And it's got a cool metagame where you start with shitty ass conventional weapons while fighting aliens with crazy plasma weapons and stuff, but as you play you reverse engineer the alien's equipment and get better weapons, armor, ships, tanks/drones, etc.
I hate that they're adding melee classes into the game
>>319232992
Really? I expect it to not even have cyber or genetic mods from EW and just start from EU and add a few things and a fresh coat of paint, identical to what Beyond Earth did. This company keeps taking shit away that was in expansions for the sequels. It's like The Sims.
You XCOM nostalgiafags are worse than the fallout classic nostalgiafags.
>>319232625
XCOM series is pretty neat. It's turn based tactics. Your soldiers have X amount of points per turn to move and shoot, then the aliens do it and it goes back and forth.
Old xcom games (and Xenonauts) have you building extra bases, more ships to move your units around, and shit like that. Was a little more expansive. XCOM:EU/EW changes it a little. You only have the one base and need to pick and choose missions to go on. It's balanced more for that. You're still pressed for resources when it comes to base building for the first couple months. Also combat is changed in the new one too, but unless you want a huge explanation the changes won't really make much sense.
It's worth giving them both a wack. You should start with one of the old XCOM games (Or Xenonauts) before trying EU/ew or XCOM2 when it hits.Both are tons of fun. As much as I dig classic XCOM, I still think the 2012 XCOM is incredible. Doubly so with the EW expansion.
>>319233471
NOT
A
SINGLE
AWARD
>>319233527
????
>>319232625
while first off its not RTS because its turn based you fucking retard
The first few games were about full scale war with aliens, you control every aspect of your base from deciding where it is to building the facilities. You research, buy, build and scavenge new gear to hand-equip the skyranger with. You then scan for UFO activity and then murder the shit out of alien fuckers. The game doesn't hold your hand at any point.
The remake is basically the same except with much less depth. IE in the originals you could have up to eight bases, in the new one you only get one. OG you could send 12 squad members out a mission, new one its only 4 until you upgrade your facilities. That and the new one has a much less complex geoscape, instead of missions being dictated by whether or not you manage to shoot down ufos, you're basically handed a list of missions every once in a while you can choose from. UFO hunts still exist but its nothing like the original.
>>319232992
Hate to rain on your parade, but they haven't announced any ability similar to mecs in the new version, nor psy abilities (probably explain it as, they have a shitty base now, and cannot afford those advancements).
Having said that, most people didnt care for the expansion anyways.
I personally would like the air game WORTH PLAYING, instead of a resource sink. Also, following some of the new alien releases, I see less and less use for the meelee unit, most of the enemies you dont want to get close to, wtf is the point of them?
>>319233471
get your fucking nu-xcom out of here. I bet you liked beyond earth you fucking queer. go back to playing civilization V and then why don't you go post on reddit about it.
>>319233471
There's a reason XCOM OG is regarded as one of the greatest games ever made.
There's a reason nu-XCOM isn't
>>319233318
gene mods should happen, it makes sense lore wise and it's not that much work to develop it
mechs may be cut
I think BE was a big fat fuckup, but I'm not going to assume fraxis is ruined as a whole.
Maybe BE was where they dumped the interns, call me overly hopeful.
>>319233681
>Having said that, most people didnt care for the expansion anyways.
I would say the opposite.
>>319233780
>That projection
I've never played a civ game
>>319233915
Nobodies ever even heard of the original XCOM, "one of the greatest" is a delusional fanboy title
>>319233681
I liked the expansion, you're right about the air game, but I'm not sure if that makes sense with them being on the run.
>>319233471
>Like both classic and new XCOM
>tfw CLASSICONLY shitters are out in full force already and it will only get worse as 2 creeps closer and closer
>tfw there will be hardly any decent discussion about 2 with all the classiconly shitposting
>>319234003
True. They even interviewed the BE devs beforehand who admitted they'd never made a Civ game yet I think.
Let's hope XCOM 2 is getting the A-team or we're gonna need someone to Endless Legend us up a real new XCOM.
>>319233471
dis
>>319233915
>There's a reason XCOM OG is regarded as one of the greatest games ever made.
Yeah? By who?
>>319217632
I'm kind of annoyed that they made the greys look like generic evil skull-faces now.
>>319233681
>most people didnt care for the expansion anyways
Where do you go to talk about XCOM? Everyone loved the EW expansion. There was the 'OH NOW THEY PUT IT IN' shitposting, but past that it seemed incredibly well received.
>>319234136
>Nobodies ever even heard of the original XCOM, "one of the greatest" is a delusional fanboy title
get this fucking underage out of here
>>319234269
>or we're gonna need someone to Endless Legend us up a real new XCOM.
damn right
>>319234491
can't wait for the pornmods
>>319234328
by people born before 1995 kiddo
>>319234491
>xcom2
>snaketits
>fraxis went insane
erry tim
>>319234726
Really? Let's see your "I speak for people born before 1995" badge, otherwise you're full of shit.
>>319232675
But it doesn't. It's literally a ME rip-off with the flank system attached.
And it's a shitty ME rip-off, for that matter.
>>319234269
>gonna need someone to Endless Legend us up
What does this mean
>>319234891
lets see your birth certificate so we know you were alive when the first xcom was released
>>319234960
it was a better "tactical" tps than me 1 2 3 ever were
I have completed every me on insane if you wanna ask.
>>319235098
Endless Legend is a X4 that's as good as Civ5 according to /vg/
connect the dots
>>319235349
"as good as civ 5" means its a steaming pile of shit anon
you just convinced me to never play endless legend, great job.
Im also leaving this thread right now so you can't fix it and you'll be stuck with the guilt for the rest of your life
>>319235349
...So you're saying we'll need an XCOM ripoff set in the Endless universe where you play as Pilgrims stealing technology from everybody fighting off the United Empire, Hissho, Cravers, Sowers and Harmony before kicking their teeth in with personal crystalline gluon-disruptor repeater cannons.
>>319235246
Seeing as you opted not to show any evidence whatsoever of your opinion being representative of anyone else's, I can only conclude that you're full of shit.
I'm glad we able to hash that out.
>>319232207
Qli yourself
Procedural levels with more destruction, PC oriented interface, a slightly updated base gameplay.
It's all I really want and expect, and it's fine.
>>319235246
>>319235628
You're both fucking retarded. Holy shit.
>>319235570
heh
So do we have any new info? Last I saw was the reveal of that one Alien in a Bio-suit.
lol, Firaxis nerds are so arrogant. I thought Souls-fags were bad.
>>319236139
The worst part is that it's not enough for the old-school lovers to trumpet their game, they can't tolerate people enjoying the newer ones too.
It's not enough to like the old games, you have to hate the new ones too. It's stupid, all they want is a circlejerk.
>>319233318
I'm pretty sure gene mods are a thing. I'm rewatching one of the trailers, and after the commander finishes talking to the scientist, you're told "Genetic research has come a long way since you've been gone. Given time and effort, there's no telling what kind of enhancements we'll be able to provide our soldiers"
That sounds like gene modding will be in there. Maaaaybe MECs, but I'm willing to bet gene mods will be available.
