XCOM: Enemy Unknown

jpinard · 2013-11-11T20:48:55.000Z

OK, game will unlock in 15 minutes. So… what mods should we look for to make the experience better LOL?

Balasarius · 2013-11-11T21:09:10.000Z

So, um. I registered the GMG key in Steam, and Steam said I was good to go. EW shows up as DLC for XCOM. There was a tiny patch to XCOM when I re-launched Steam. But, um, I have no idea how to access EW. When I launch XCOM is starts up EU.

jpinard · 2013-11-11T21:19:46.000Z

You should have gotten a 7.2 Gig patch (in addition to the 4 Gig one). What a stupid way to kill my download cap. 4 Gig download for the base game which at best is some xml changes?

olaf · 2013-11-11T21:28:09.000Z

I have been hankering for some XCOM again but I don’t like this price point.

Balasarius · 2013-11-11T21:34:40.000Z

jpinard:

You should have gotten a 7.2 Gig patch (in addition to the 4 Gig one). What a stupid way to kill my download cap. 4 Gig download for the base game which at best is some xml changes?

Nope, nothing. According to the Steam forum – for whatever it’s worth – many people are affected, and only those who purchased through GMG.

Quaro · 2013-11-11T21:37:00.000Z

There are two major gameplay mods for XCOM that dramatically change game balance, every single class, everything, but I expect it will take weeks or months for them to update and rebalance everything for the expansion. The two mods are Long War and Warspace.

Long War example: http://imgur.com/a/LxXSO (note how soldiers need to rest after missions even if they aren’t injured, so you need more than one squad).

jpinard · 2013-11-11T21:44:36.000Z

Quaro:

There are two major gameplay mods for XCOM that dramatically change game balance, every single class, everything, but I expect it will take weeks or months for them to update and rebalance everything for the expansion. The two mods are Long War and Warspace.

Long War example: http://imgur.com/a/LxXSO (note how soldiers need to rest after missions even if they aren’t injured, so you need more than one squad).

OMG that is so cool!!! Arghh, I want that now. Needing 2 fulls squads. Cool.

Sorry to hear that Balasarius, I would be pretty bummed. :(

Alan_Dunkin · 2013-11-11T22:08:08.000Z

Dang it, if I had only checked this thread, oh, two minutes ago.

— Alan

jpinard · 2013-11-11T22:21:47.000Z

SWEET. I have second wave options!

jpinard · 2013-11-11T22:33:37.000Z

Darn, bugs already. Units speaking in the upper right window aren’t animating, its’ just a placeholder image.

and… the game CTD’s in Ironman mode corrupting my savegame already. My computer never crashes except in Sims 3 - but that’s due to a million expansions.

Can’t post bugs on forum since the forum won’t send me a password reset :(

Forgot just how much I LOVE this game.

I have Americans speaking German, Poles speaking English, and other characters switching to random alt languages in the middle of battle.

tgb123 · 2013-11-12T02:34:23.000Z

I think I’ll wait a month and get it during a sale.

Wo1verine · 2013-11-12T03:41:54.000Z

Knowing 2k, it’ll take more than a month to fix the bugs. It’ll take that long before they’ll admit it is a bug.

Reemul · 2013-11-12T03:51:35.000Z

Have any of the reviews mentioned bugs, ive not seen any mentioned.

Wolff · 2013-11-12T03:52:28.000Z

I have a bunch of second wave options as well. Perhaps folks not seeing them never beat the campaign? Also only got to play the starter mission twice (steam vent under satellite uplink rage!). Excited to play more ci later this week.

tgb123 · 2013-11-12T04:06:01.000Z

Reemul:

Have any of the reviews mentioned bugs, ive not seen any mentioned.

3 posts above you.

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2013-11-12T04:37:18.000Z

Quaro:

There are two major gameplay mods for XCOM that dramatically change game balance, every single class, everything, but I expect it will take weeks or months for them to update and rebalance everything for the expansion. The two mods are Long War and Warspace.

Where do find these? I wasn’t aware there were any mods at all for XCom.

thither · 2013-11-12T06:00:16.000Z

Downloaded the 4GB patch, but the game wouldn’t start up on Mac, I got a “failed to find default engine .ini file to retrieve My Documents subdirectory to use” error. So I decided to delete the local content and redownload, not really remembering that Steams’s servers are probably slammed by every other X-Com player downloading the patch right now. So now I’m redownloading all 12GB of the full game at 1MB/s. Blah.

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2013-11-12T06:15:53.000Z

Often, “Verify local files” will repair problems like that without forcing you to download everything.

Reemul · 2013-11-12T06:40:37.000Z

tgb123:

3 posts above you.

Outside of just the one, id like to see it confirmed more than once before I start to worry about it.

Wo1verine · 2013-11-12T06:47:30.000Z

Very few reviews actually spotted the rounding bugs and teleporting aliens in the original game, so don’t expect much. I’ll let this one settle down and keep an eye of comments in forums like this one before jumping in.