XCOM 2 (PC/PS4/XB1)

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XCOM 2 coming this November exclusively to PC


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XCOM 2, a sequel to 2012's celebrated turn-based strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown, will be released this November, reports IGN.

It will be available only on Windows PC.

[Blitz1942]

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New classes, procedural maps, mod support.

Yep, this is a day 1 buy for me.

[TheBleedingRed21]

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PC exclusive? Hmm. Didn't expect that. Luckily I was gonna get it on PC

[redsrule]

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Fantastic. From what I've heard, it was a giant pain in the butt for modders on EU and EW, which limited what you could do on Long War.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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I'm not surprised it is PC only. The last 2 XCom games didn't sell well on consoles, these type of games never do. Day 1 buy for me.

[mrclutch]

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Well that stinks. No gaming PC so I guess I'm left out.

[Russell_SCEA]

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I'm not surprised it is PC only. The last 2 XCom games didn't sell well on consoles, these type of games never do. Day 1 buy for me.

It sold over 1M combined on Xbox and PS3 those are good numbers. Especially considering the PC version moved over 600k copies.

[fistofrage]

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[Candyman5]

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Well that stinks. No gaming PC so I guess I'm left out.

Yeah, kind of a slap in the face. Love Xcom as well. I got a PC but its annoyances are annoying me.

[fistofrage]

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It sold over 1M combined on Xbox and PS3 those are good numbers. Especially considering the PC version moved over 600k copies.

I'm pretty surprised they won't be bringing it to consoles those numbers would seem to warrant it. I had X-Com on the Xbox even though I own a gaming PC. Given the choice between PC and Console I choose console. I thought the controls were just fine on a controller and never had it crash. My PC crashes too often for whatever reason.

[Flawless]

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It sold over 1M combined on Xbox and PS3 those are good numbers. Especially considering the PC version moved over 600k copies.

Where are you getting these numbers from? Please don't tell me you're using VGChartz.

Steamspy shows over 2.5M for PC.

http://steamspy.com/app/200510

It sold 114K in its debut month on consoles in the U.S. If we're being generous, it maybe sold 200K worldwide its first month. If it had the legs to eventually go on to sell 1M on consoles, Take-Two would have definitely mentioned it.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/11/08/nba-2k13-leads-october-u-s-sales.aspx

[Cyros]

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I imagined the console numbers were better with how much love the game seemed to get on the internet.

[cjkool69]

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They plan on having a deeper level of modding support this time around, which is something you cant do on the console.

[Phobia]

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I imagined the console numbers were better with how much love the game seemed to get on the internet.

It was also given away on both consoles by MS and Sony, plus it saw a big price cut early on, so the numbers might be a tad skewed.

[Flawless]

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Out of every success in Enemy Unknown, Solomon considers the soldier customization and the personal attachment that comes from that to be among the biggest, and has set out to push it further in XCOM 2. “We have some really cool-looking soldiers,” he promised. “They can have big beards, they can have really awesome haircuts, they can have some cool stuff that gives them a lot of character and fits this idea of they’re this sort of hardened group, they’re not fresh-out-of-the-barracks Johnny Soldier; this is really more of a Sons of Anarchy-type of squad.”

We can now swap genders and set nationalities to our liking – if you want an all-female, all-Portuguese team, you can do that. What’s more, we’ll be able to tweak the look of the right and left arms, torso, pants, and headgear individually, drawing from a larger selection of pieces designed to give this version of XCOM a more ragtag, scavenged look and feel.

Thanks to a new concealment system and waypoints that’ll allow you to precisely guide your troops’ movement within their two-move radius, setting up the battle will be a big part of what Firaxis intends XCOM 2 to be about. “You have a lot of control over when the engagement starts,” Solomon explained. “Of course, a lot of times you’ll blunder or do something wrong, like come around the corner and get revealed. We give the player the ability to jump the enemy first, and that feels very resistance-y, very guerilla tactics.”

With Firaxis’ new system, we’ll see maps drastically change each time we encounter them, drawing from a large pool of components like buildings, roads, and different types of terrain to create battlefields that look good, are more destructible than ever (including by fire that spreads, acid that melts through floors, and exploding barrels), and offer well-placed cover.

“When you encounter aliens out in the field, your soldiers are not going to go toe-to-toe with them. Certainly not in the beginning of the game,” promised Solomon. “In these past 20 years, they’ve grown very strong. The important thing about the aliens is that soldiers are no longer a one-to-one match; there is no way to take on aliens without teamwork.”