X-COM XCOM 2 + War of the Chosen Expansion Thread

[LESS T_T]

Modders will fix it™: http://www.pcgamer.com/why-xcom-2-is-going-to-be-huge-for-modders/

"We're providing a tool for Steam that anyone who buys the game will be able to get," McFall tells the audience. "It works kind of like the mod tools for Civilization." XCOM 2 players will have access to a Visual Studio isolated shell app that can build mod projects. Going further, Firaxis will ship the Unreal editor that they used to build the game. Finally, the studio will provide the script source code and around 50GB of game assets.

"The key for us is that you guys, when XCOM 2 comes out, have the same game that we have when we developed it," Solomon tells the crowd. "You have the same tools that we have; you use the editor that we use; you have all the assets that the incredible content team created. We want you guys to help us make XCOM 2 better."

During a Q&A at the end of the panel, one fan asked if the tools would be flexible enough to create a co-op mod. And it turns out that yes, they would. Modders would need to supply their own matchmaking server, but otherwise, the possibility is there.

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

Fucking mages man, they are the worst.
What game is that anyway?
Oh waiit....

Age of Wonders 6

Archon Floater

Alignment: Pure Good

Type: Highman Unit

Level / Upkeep: 4 / 16

Cost: - / 26
No Medal

3

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8

30

20
Silver Medal

4

6

9

9

30

21
Gold Medal

5

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10

30

22

Abilties: Death Immunity, Floating, Holy Strike, Holy Wrath, Holy Bolts, Holy immunity, Strike, Vision III, Turn Undead.

 

[Disgruntled]

Finishing up an EW run recently got my Xcom 2 hype up, especially with the new random system and campaign map. My only complaint is keeping the sterile art style but I should hopefully get over it once this playthrough is well behind me.

 

[Havoc]

The angel feels like the aliens started to go with psychological warfare. Angel, an embodiment of good and justice, coming to reap humanity.

 

[Space Satan]

"We should widen game audience"

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

"We should widen game audience"

Eh, if it means I get an EVA unit on my team, I'm happy.
I just want to suplex a 100 foot tall muton, is that so hard to ask for?

 

[Zeriel]

"We should widen game audience"

Well, if what they are saying about the modkit is true, old aliens will be added back in pretty quickly. Hopefully that 50GB of art assets they promised includes EU/EW art.

 

[Neckbeard Shitlord]

New enemy types

https://xcom.com/news/dangerous-deity-the-archon-in-xcom-2

https://xcom.com/news/the-advent-shieldbearer-stands-its-ground-in-xcom-2

The archon looks like something from bayonetta

That ain't no XCOM unit I ever seen.
I can't do pulp fiction. Fuck it.

Archon and shitbeater are really pushing this game into a weird area.

The lumpy dude and other stupid meme shit from the first one don't help anything either. They really could not have screwed up the monsters more - or so I thought. Now it's even worse

 

[Zeriel]

other stupid meme shit from the first one

You're going to have to explain this one.

 

[Neckbeard Shitlord]

You're going to have to explain this one.

Like thin man and WoW Orc as a Muton?

 

[Zeriel]

Like thin man and WoW Orc as a Muton?

X-Files is meme shit now? And mutons predate World of Warcraft by about 10 years. They were muscled purple dudes in skintight jumpsuits in the original. All that really changed was that they look less human in XCOM and have the jumpsuits replaced by armor.

I've touched on this before, but I really feel like if X-COM were released in this day and age everyone here would be ripping apart its artstyle. Just about every "cartoony" complaint I saw about XCOM applies just as much to the original.

 

[Neckbeard Shitlord]

X-Files is meme shit now? I'm not even going to touch on the muton bit, since mutons predate World of Warcraft by about 10 years.

X files made up thin man? lol

Original Mutons were Orcs? double lol

 

[Zombra]

1994

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Yeah, old mutons did look pretty silly.
I prefer the 2012 Mutons, to be honest.

The new muton is a dickhead. No, really, his head looks like a glans. I cannot take him seriously.
Also, lol at Gears of War-bayonet-style plasma rifles.

 

[ColCol]

Man, I don't want to keep spoiling the aliens for myself, but I can't help it.

 

[Zeriel]

Yeah, old mutons did look pretty silly.
I prefer the 2012 Mutons, to be honest.

The new muton is a dickhead. No, really, his head looks like a glans. I cannot take him seriously.
Also, lol at Gears of War-bayonet-style plasma rifles.

The concept art looked a lot better:

Aside from making him smaller, the biggest alteration was changing the head/face. Not sure why they went the way they did. Then again, I remember the XCOM screenshots were always hideous to me. Then when you played the game it pulled together in a way that felt alright.

 

[bonescraper]

I don't know what you are talking about, it looks pretty much identical but brighter.

 

[Zeriel]

Yeah, I was going to add, it mostly seems to be a coloration problem. Bright pink just doesn't work very well in that context. Fits them being a human hybrid though.

 

[Space Satan]

They may have shitty game mechanic decisions but my I don't have any trubles about art style. It is bloody and not cartoonish, somewhat Animu-Mecha, but so were Ufo Defense. Archon had a logical explanation behind new looks so it is ok for me. If anything art style is the last thing to complain anout nuXcom, given other controversial issues at hand.

 

[Zeriel]

Does anyone else get reminded of NOD laser troopers whenever they show the Advent soldiers?

I want there to be a GDI/NOD campaign mod for XCOM 2 so badly.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Does anyone else get reminded of NOD laser troopers whenever they show the Advent soldiers?

I want there to be a GDI/NOD campaign mod for XCOM 2 so badly.

Yeah, they totally look like NOD soldiers.
I've been making that comparison for ages.

RIP Westwood, Pre RA3 and TW C&C games were awesome.

 

[Zombra]

Firaxis getting lazy with the worldbuilding on the alien language.

Let's see YOU decrypt it, smart guy!

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Maybe its a hybrid between alien and western?
Sort of like how Romanji is Romanization of Japanese words?

 

[Zeriel]

It sounded like some weird mixture of slavic and latin to me, but I don't think they want it to sound like anything in particular, just "different".

 

[Mozg]

All video game languages are simple substitution ciphers because they want to get slightly autistic teenagers to drink their ovaltine