I'm on PC and whilst the biggest stuff is still fine there are quirks and issues that are frustrating.

One of the most frequent ones is the movement border staying blue when it should be yellow, so you move and then lose a turn. Doesn't happen often but it usually is a result of stacked pod appearances, which can get confusing.

Also the Codex AoE animation sometimes disappears, which puts a bit of guesswork in dodging it. Other weird thing last night: able to run through fire, but the skulljack command seems to work similarly to overwatch, in that fire cancels it out. Had to reload because it fucked me right over.

Still, most of the time mistakes are the player's, such as the last mission where I repositioned a Ranger, triggering a second pod that included a gold bastard whilst I was dealing with a reinforcement drop. I wouldn't want to try ironman until I knew the engine in and out.

The Kid is one such hero, her pistol skills are remarkable, so many 50% clutch shots

If you've only got rookies to take on those enemies you're probably fucked.

You're fucked.

Building the room that lets you get extra squad members is pretty much first priority IIRC. Makes a big difference. Then it's the new weapons.

Finally onto the last mission and the very first enemy pod is a bunch of lancers who manage to avoid about 6 overwatch shots and knock my specialist unconscious, which means no healing for the whole thing. Hmmm.

Or if they just flat out missed they got that clover gene splicing.

Tempy wrote:

It's a bad feel lads

Read as Shrek.

FUUUUUCK

Stupid pod mechanic in this game is the worst at times. Totally
clearly, nothing in los, make a single move and trigger 2 pods, that's six troops, they're all behind cover and I can't hit shit, so that's me with 4 dead guys after a stunning first month.

Also missed my Muton corpse so I'm well behind the tech curve after the game didn't give me an engineer from an early mission that said it was going to give me one.

Might be game over.

Commander Ironman Run Two: failure

Edit: and three, christ I think i've seen more critical from regular Advent soldiers in the last 30 minutes than I did in the entire normal campaign

Edit: and that makes five

I'd have made this a new post but four in a row makes me seem like a mental.

Honestly I dunno If I have the fortitude for Commander difficulty, the game is so rigged it makes me laugh to think how hard Legendary must be.

Most of my failures were either on the first mission, which is understandable, but the rest were due to bullshit three pod pulls. The way the game works its pod reveal system is so fucked if you don't quite understand it, and I put myself in the category of not quite understanding. The mission that broke me, which I'll screenshot below was nothing short of horseshit. A VIP capture mission, with a fuck off huge building in the middle. I couldn't do anything but go through it, which showed me two pods to either side. Fair enough, I can split fire and then deal with them, that's easy enough. Except I miss two near certain shots, and chuck out a mimic beacon to save my bacon next turn. But the mimic beacon triggers another pod, so I have three pods attacking me, 9 enemies, no option to retreat, no chance of killing them because they've got so much health between them.


You can just about see the other Viper in the upper left


Not being able to call an EVAC makes me wonder if VIP missions are worth it after you've got both an engineer and a scientist. 

Fuck it, carry on. Next terror mission I manage flawless, next mission, is a Supply Raid: Excellent, mission after that goes poor because I can't remote hack the terminal because for some reasons trains have buggy as fuck line of sight in the game. Advent timer is up so I have to do the first story mission for breathing room. I take out a turret, a Muton wanders into range and I nearly kill him, which makes him run off. I tentatively chase him down, triggering a pod of troops, which I take out most of, but I can't scratch the Muton or his cover. So I have to run and gun, it's either that or take a plasma grenade or plasma shot. I run and gun into an area I have LoS on... and it triggers a cutscene for that mission, and then a pod of two Vipers and a Sectoid, which is when I hit ESC and quite to the desktop. Maybe I am just totally misunderstanding how the game plays, but when you trigger enemies who go into cover you have to move or be stuck eating shots whilst a Muton laughs with a 30% to hit stat... so how do you flank? I feel like I've got the tactical layer all wrong thanks to Veteran. Ah well. Could do with some JONB tips it seems.

what model of surface have you got it running on?

The same stuff as I know from XCOM then. I just need to be more disciplined. Got it downloaded and ready to play when (if?) I move flat.

interesting, the surface pro 5 should run it well.
might get one when I get a new contract

Can someone please tell Firaxis that adding all this Stargate SG-1 level plot to XCOM harpoons the shit out of the atmosphere.

Thanks pending.

I can’t help but think of a sausage. A huge, fat, glistening sausage, bulging with meat (or the nearest vegetarian equivalent) to the point that the innards have burst through the skin, forming deliciously fatty globules on the surface. There is surely no room for more, but nonetheless even more has been stuffed inside it. It clearly shouldn’t work. It’s almost obscene. It looks like it will fall apart or even explode if even the slightest pressure is applied. It is sausage-based madness. The sausage is XCOM 2: War of the Chosen [official site], and it is as delectable and satisfying as it absolutely bloody insane.

RPS: War of the Chosen Review

It sounds fucking incredible.

EG gave it a recommended but I don't their review is half as good as the RPS one.