Otherwise minor nitpicks which can be annoying the game refuses to save resolution settings, defaulting back to 1280x768 at every opportunity, and I've run into a bug where I couldn't do anything except pan the camera until I reset my key bindings. I'm manually doing backups of my save like a maniac because I'm doing Ironman so if my save gets fucked I'll probably flip a table. Frequent crashes (tip: turning off Steam overlay helps a lot, so I suspect some of the problem might actually be with Steam, but even then you still get random crashes) and I've read about saves being corrupted though it hasn't happened to me yet. I'm a huge XCOM fan so I'll get it eventually, shame they had to mess up the launch. How bad are the optimization issues? I've been holding back on buying because my computer's not very good and I don't wanna drop money on a game just to wait for patches. But you know what even with the firepower advantage, the turn timers on missions actually forced me to play more aggressive and not as passive, and that leads to interesting situations and the tension which makes XCOM great. In XCOM 2 I got my mag/Gauss weapons by May, which is I honestly believe to be ahead of the tech curve since the enemies clearly weren't prepared to deal with my squad. In EW/EU you basically won the game after the first 2 or 3 months then it was just a matter of slogging it through to the end knowing there was only a miniscule chance you would lose. You actually have to take risks now even with your soldiers fully kitted out. More controversially, the turn timers which stops you from using the (frankly boring) playstyle of EW/EU which is overwatch creeping. I really like the concealment mechanic, which allows for carefully planned and executed ambushes.

Will probably hold off until I run out of Blacksites to do. Done two Blacksites so far to stop Alien victory, but otherwise I haven't even done the Skulljack objective. II, plasma nades, upgraded launchers, stunblades I'm only missing the mag pistol but my Sharpshooters aren't gunslinging so fuck that). On my third 'serious' playthrough on Legendary/Ironman (I failed two quite horribly, one because I got squad wiped by a dumb move and the other because of the strategic layer, plus a few before that to learn the new mechanics) in July, full squad (6 2 Grenadiers, 1 Sharpshooter specced for sniping, 1 Combat Specialist, 1 Phantom Ranger & 1 ninja Ranger, though I might ditch the ninja, retraining her for a spare Phantom, for a gunslinger since swords seem to be falling off pretty fast at this stage of the game) kitted out with Gauss/mag weaponry+the works (Gremlin Mk. Still some optimisation issues (runs poorly and crashes frequently on some systems), but the base gameplay is just awesome enough for me not to care that much (plus Firaxis already said they're working on a patch to fix those).

No threads on this gem of a game so far? Must say I'm surprised.

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