If folks are interested, I wrote up my review build impressions for Chimera Squad over in the dedicated thread.
Scotten
2832
Well I am just starting my first place of WOTC.
WOTC is good! It resolves most of the issues I had with base XCom 2 and did a number of things to make my life easier (like when I’ve upgraded my weapons, I pay the fee once instead of buying each rifle individually).
I thought that WotC was a big step forward in gameplay personally over vanilla Xcom2
Mark_L
2834
For me WOTC took something I loved and made me somehow love it even more, and for new reasons.
Scotten
2836
What I do not understand about XCom 2 is why it’s so taxing on my PC. I have a 1070Ti w/8GB of memory and it runs VERY hot with 100% continuous usage while playing. This game doesn’t seem as involved compared to a FPS but yet hammers the card very hard.
Thraeg
2837
I’ve had the same issue with a couple games, most recently with Fantasy General II. It will use up every cycle my GPU can throw at it, regardless of graphic settings, but doesn’t seem to look any better or run any more smoothly. I wound up using Afterburner to make a profile with a temperature limit of 70 degrees. It still looks and runs the same, but keeps the temperatures and fan speeds to a reasonable level.
Scotten
2838
Ahhh… so that’s purpose of temperature limit! I’m using something else (from Sapphire, I think) and the interface and tool tips are rough.
I’d been using it to kick the fans up to high but the temperature profile sounds much better.
RichVR
2839
I hate the term ‘savescum’, not just the way it’s a nasty brogamer thing, but because it messes with learning a game. I have read many forum comments, here and elsewhere, from people who say the early game is too hard. And I’m talking vanilla XCOM2.
If someone is having trouble in the first few missions, what they need to do is revert to an earlier save and try new things. Learn the game. If all you do is start the game over and make the same mistakes again you will not learn.
The meat of the game is the squad based fighting, at least for me. Learn early. Save often. And enjoy the game.
Hey folks, about to start a new campaign of WotC and I want to just install some very basic mods. Are these still good?
Don’t waste my Time
Evac All
According to this article there’s something called Missing Packages Fix, and something called Community Highlander Mod (I don’t understand what that one does apart from the fact that maybe it’s required for some others that sound interesting, like the soundtrack one described under minor mods toward the end of the article).
I don’t really want to install a lot of things (especially not anything that makes the game harder), but what do you all recommend?
If you just need basic mods, then evac all and don’t waste my time are good.
The highlander mod are used by other mods for scripts that fall outside the normal behaviour of the game, you don’t need it.
I think there is a mod that let’s you preview the enemies in your line of sight when you move the mouse to the location that you may want to travel to. I think that one is invaluable, can’t remember its name.
If you like you can friend me on Steam and look at my favorite-d mods.
JPR
2843
That should be Gotcha Again
Cool, thanks. I’m trying those legacy missions. Geez Louise they’re hard. First time I triggered all the baddies at once and it was “wipe city.” The second time I succeeded, but not before two of my people were down for the count.
Thank you. I’ve been thinking about posting and saying that this game brings out the worst savescum in me. I’ve found 2 reasons: 1) I find the spotting rules to be somewhat arbitrary: I feel the game decides that when you are a certain distance from the alien then it decides your soldiers are spotted. Line of sight doesn’t seen to apply. 2) I suck and make lots of mistakes. I didn’t mean to move my soldier there! I should have moved before I fired but I got all excited!
Soma
2846
I think savescumming is referring more to “I have a 33% to make a shot, I will reload until I land that shot” that kind of behaviour. All tactical mistakes can be made irrelevant if you do this kind of savescumming.
The line of sight does matter when “pod trigger” is activated. You can hide behind buildings to avoid triggering them.
BUT it is counter productive to trigger enemies when you are too close because, there will be other pods nearby, and it’s instant death when multiple pods are triggered. Mostly it is good to trigger pods as far away as possible.
By the end of my WotC game my squad was so powerful I would split it in two squads of three, trigger anything and just kick major ass. They were way OP in a very fun way.
I love it when your squad becomes OP. It is also when I hate the fatigue mechanism where they reduce your will so much that you can only bring them out for a mission before needing to rest.
That WotC mechanism is so contrived. But I could not find a way to disable the will reduction. It’s percentage based so you never get rid of it.
I had enough bad dudes that I could just alternate squads. As long as those insanely powerful weapons I looted off the chosen were on the field, the aliens were like pigs to the slaughter.
