XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

[CubFan23]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

A couple questions for you guys, how many soldiers have you lost so far in your campaign and whats the most you lost on a single mission?

For me, I have lost 5 on my current run which is only 4 missions in! lol! So tempted to restart but gonna try and rebound, the most I lost was 3 in one mission.

[Gotmadskillzson]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

A couple questions for you guys, how many soldiers have you lost so far in your campaign and whats the most you lost on a single mission?

For me, I have lost 5 on my current run which is only 4 missions in! lol! So tempted to restart but gonna try and rebound, the most I lost was 3 in one mission.

All time record.......30 soldiers on my 5th play through. On one mission, the entire squad, all 6 were killed.

[ImTellinTim]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

I'm on my 5th attempt, and this one is going well. I lost 4 soldiers early on. I think 2 were on 1 mission. I haven't even been close to losing one since and have two full squads of Colonels now along with 2 high level psi ops. Close to the end. I'll at least get a crack at the final mission in this playthrough. This is on Ironman Veteran.

[mestevo]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

I know the first is supposed to be great, but am I missing a lot of I just jump to the 2nd?

[bcruise]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

I know the first is supposed to be great, but am I missing a lot of I just jump to the 2nd?

You're missing nothing story-wise. In a nutshell, the first X-COM story was retconned, and we lost. It sets up the guerilla-type action of the second game - because you're a resistance trying to move against the aliens who are now the established power.

Gameplay wise, you can definitely learn a lot from the first game though. It's a bit more straightforward since most of the time the only main objective is "kill all the aliens". You move as a squad carefully, and engage each group as you meet them. The concealment mechanic of the second game changes everything, along with the mission objectives and turn timers.

[jeb4056]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

A couple questions for you guys, how many soldiers have you lost so far in your campaign and whats the most you lost on a single mission?

For me, I have lost 5 on my current run which is only 4 missions in! lol! So tempted to restart but gonna try and rebound, the most I lost was 3 in one mission.

On my first playthrough I probably lost 15-20 soldiers. And on one mission I lost 3 soldiers (first encounter with a sectopod) It was rought too, lost 2 captains and a Major...at the time they were 3 of top ranking soldiers.

Just started a second playthrough and lost 3 soliders on a mission (could only bring 5) My only sgt. and two corp. My Sgt was the first to die, then someone got poisoned so after a few turns he was evacuated. which left me with three soldiers, then on the next turn one was killed and another was knocked down to 1 HP, so he was evacuated. I was left with just my sniper who was on high ground behind full cover against two enemies. One advent and one Viper. She takes out the advent on her turn because the viper is out of range...then on the advent turn the darn Viper grabs her and does the "bound" so we sit through three turns of her being bound until she dies...

[CubFan23]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

On my first playthrough I probably lost 15-20 soldiers. And on one mission I lost 3 soldiers (first encounter with a sectopod) It was rought too, lost 2 captains and a Major...at the time they were 3 of top ranking soldiers.

Just started a second playthrough and lost 3 soliders on a mission (could only bring 5) My only sgt. and two corp. My Sgt was the first to die, then someone got poisoned so after a few turns he was evacuated. which left me with three soldiers, then on the next turn one was killed and another was knocked down to 1 HP, so he was evacuated. I was left with just my sniper who was on high ground behind full cover against two enemies. One advent and one Viper. She takes out the advent on her turn because the viper is out of range...then on the advent turn the darn Viper grabs her and does the "bound" so we sit through three turns of her being bound until she dies...

ouch! Had to hurt watching that!

[jeb4056]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

Just finished the Blacksite mission on my second playthrough...it's been pretty brutal. I have 11 soldiers, 10 of them are wounded and the other is in the "training" to become a Grenadier. The mission after the Blacksite my squad was 5 rookies. Three of them survived. Ironman mode is no joke.

[CubFan23]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

Im about to go through that same scenario, I have 7 injured, 1 in training and the rest are rookies and I know there's a mission about to break on me!

[CubFan23]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

Has anyone had one of your created soldiers that you put in your character pool keep reappearing in game? I had one of mine from the first mission and he has since been one of the rookies twice when you have to scan an area for a reward. I just changed his name and appearance but that shouldn't be happening

[bcruise]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

Big patch dropped today.

Performance

Added Zip Mode gameplay option. While Zip Mode is enabled animation (like step outs & gremlin movements) speeds are significantly increased. Normal movement animations are moderately increased
Fixed an issue where shadow rendering during glam cam shot transitions was slowing down performance
Support for nVidia SLI and AMD Crossfire
Removed MSAA options from default presets and adjusted autodetect to target 40FPS instead of 30FPS
Reworked Light Clipping Manager
Particle Vertex Buffer Reallocation
Optimization to shadows in the Avenger
Enable triple buffering to fix VSync performance
Shadowed light fade out within Avenger; Disabled Post & Pre Mission cinematic lights not being used
Disabled shadow casting from character lights w/in Avenger
Reduced High Shadow Resolution - Reduce shadow resolution when set to HIGH to 1536, instead of 2048
Reduces the impact count of the Avatar Rifle
Removed a hitch that occurs when the camera enables/disables building visualizer
Deferred profile saves to next tick. This prevents multiple calls within the same frame from creating multiple requests to save the profile
After changing graphics settings, based on the selected preset, extra crew will be capped
Character head mesh optimized


Balance

Mimic beacon rebalance: Price increased to 75
Mimic beacons can no longer take cover, and are guaranteed to be hit by enemy shots
Wet Work is no longer retroactive
Graze is no longer a chance for 100% shots. Targets being shot by a concealed attacker cannot dodge

Gameplay

Added a new recommended Steam Controller configuration with support for additional actions
Fixed an issue where VIP units would take damage when their origin location was damaged
Fixed an issue where Promotion Earned text appeared before action is seen on screen
Fixed an issue where civilians pathed to the base of ladders and blocked XCOM units
Fixed an issue where Character Pool choices like Class, Attitude, and props did not save
Fixed an issue where weapons did not keep names and customizations upon tier bump
Fixed an issue causing some scan timers to go into negative time
Engineering items that are full squad upgrades are now designated in the UI
Fixed an issue where strategy project timers reset if players started building a radio relay immediately after making contact with a region
Fixed an issue with POIs not spawning when first visiting the Geoscape if Beginner VO is turned off
Removed start-of-turn hang during certain missions where enemy units had fallen out of the world. Auto-saves (and ironman saves) made in these situations should now be playable
Minimized action camera obstructions
Minimized camera look-at hopping during AI abilities
Fixed an issue where Psi abilities did not trigger death cams
Kill Zone now respects concealment status
Fixed an issue where the Ever Vigilant AWC perk did not work for Sharpshooters
Buildings don't cut down when tabbing through units
Fixed an exploit that skips the AI turn by spamming the END/BACKSPACE button while the Player's last action is being visualized
Rapid Fire and Chain Shot visualization optimized to get the second shot to fire faster
Fixed an issue where shot HUD wings would fail to re-open after taking an action that required the wings to close
Fixed an issue where crit chance would be negatively affected by shots with a success chance greater than 100
Optimized Return Fire hits causing long delays
Optimized AI reveals causing long hangs
Optimized Wait actions causing long timeouts
Optimized falling unit visualization to timeout faster
Updated the Geoscape save description to use the localized HQ time, instead of previously used GMT game time
Fixed an issue with an invalid spawn point on a specific Retaliation mission plot
Destroyed cover does not take reduce % to-hit on enemies
Systems

New option to only use Character Pool creations until the pool is exhausted
Bulletproofing bad saves from causing main menu crashes
Fixed an issue causing hitches in strategy
Fixed an issue where armor customizations did not save


Graphics

Unit Highlighting Flash when targeting units

Multiplayer

MULTIPLAYER: Fixes slow communications with internet players resulting in delays between actions, turns, and end-of-game screen.
Added camera rotation to MP

Not surprised Firaxis swung the nerf bat at the mimic beacon.

[ImTellinTim]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

Mimic beacons needed to be toned down, but that's too far IMO. They should absolutely still have the same damage/cover rules as any other entity in the game. What they should have done is toned down the AI aggression towards them.

[bcruise]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

Performance definitely seems better post-patch. The medium preset that the game suggests for my PC is much more playable (that means all shadows are on, among other things). I don't think I'll need to turn them down anymore. The base picked up some FPS too.

[CubFan23]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

Don't know if this is post patch, but one of the rewards that was offered to me for scanning was Ammo and grenades, turned out to be dragon rounds and gas grenade. Anyone else have this?

[pdandy]

re: XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

Thank you Firaxis for Zip Mode!