AAs a console gamer…I hate you all so very much right now.
My Plex server could play it, but I have no graphics card for it :\
I’ll plaster this place with screenshots bruv.
All jokes aside this is how I felt when Bloodborne came out, I know that pain.
Is everyone too busy playing to comment or wtf?
So lots of good stuff, a lot less irritating stuff and a lot of stuff in general. I don’t want to get all crazy about it if the thread is dead.
In honor of WasteofTape and since he can’t play the game on a console I put him in the game. Behold!
There’s Walt “WasteOfTape” Chewoski laying into a Muton with his sword…let me tell you it didn’t go well but he survived.
And that’s his bio. You’ll notice in the top right corner he was Gravely Wounded. That was the outcome of the Muton swordfight, heh.
That’s about as close as I could get to his likeness.
I hope you aren’t pissed Waste, I just thought it would be cool if you could fuck some aliens up until they hopefully pull the trigger on a console port so you can enjoy it for yourself.
To be honest he’s pretty fucking badass compare to my other rangers, I’m not sure why but he’s always getting beat to shit and making it out alive.
Oh and the biography says when Advent outlawed alcohol and raided your homebrew stash the officer called it “mediocre”. When the backup arrived they found the entire team dead and the Officer in a keg.
I was going to make Codename too but I haven’t unlocked a T-Rex head yet.
That’s awesome. My poor Macbook Pro probably can’t handle this so I’m stuck waiting on a console port as well.
*sigh*
AWhen I get home, if I post my server build can someone tell me if I could play it, or if I could add some graphics card and be able to.
I’m pretty sure Mongy could or any of the other PC Master Race horde here. I didn’t even bother checking the specs and it’s defaulted with just about everything maxed out (I think). Then again I didn’t even realize my monitor resolution was fucked until Mongy mentioned it. Meh.
The gameplay itself has been fine, no crashes and the fps is smooth. During the transitional screens, I’m assuming it’s when the game is loading it’s choppy as fuck though. It takes nothing away from the game though since the cutscenes have all been fine too.
Drop your cock and grab your socks. You’re going boots on the ground. I swear to god I’ll put every chewer in this game goddamn it.
It’s a Plex server, it’s got the specs to run the game, I just have no idea about the graphics side of things:
http://pcpartpicker.com/b/MNtJ7P
My laptop’s specs are too low :\
AIt dropped already? Bummer, I’m going to have to wait until after mid-month.
AI wish this game wasn’t so buggy. Was getting crashes in the first couple of hours. Mid way through I’d run into an odd scripting bug on the emergency missions where triggers wouldn’t execute the next mission bits. Game performance isn’t all that great even with an uber pc of the ages. And then at the end of all things (running two unique save files, playing from different points in time before the finale) the game won’t trigger the last boss fight sequence in the game. I’m just stuck wandering around the empty arena going wtf Firaxis?
This is in need of a patch or two. I was enjoying it when it wasn’t a fucking jankfest, but shit has taken it down a few notches when next years goty lists become a thing.
AI haven’t seen any real bugs so far (after about 7 hours play) but reports I’ve read have been all over the place in terms of the severity of the issues. Maybe I’ve just been lucky so far, though I have noticed the game straining a bit here and there performance-wise. I did notice a 600-or-so-MB patch dropped yesterday, but haven’t had a chance to play again yet.
Apart from that, the time I have had with the game has been great. Still trying to get my head around the turn limits and changed pace of the game, but it’s fun. The character pool is a stroke of genius and restores the fun of renaming characters: now going to the trouble of editing soldiers isn’t a total waste when they get wiped out in their first mission, and they’re saved permanently so they can keep coming back in subsequent games.
I think I broke the game.
My last Advent mission the last three enemies froze on me for some reason, they just growl and point. So I figured it’s a bug, mowed them down and went on my merry way. Back at base everything was fine and I went through the busy work, building, etc. I got a raid mission, suited the squad up and headed out so I started with my typical conceal/screening run with a couple rangers and spot a few enemies right off the bat. I grab high ground with the rest of my squad, set a few on overwatch to pot shot the runners after my heavy drops a grenade in the middle of them and then all HELL BREAKS LOO…nope it doesn’t. They don’t trigger the overwatch and they just stand there, pointing and growling. If they’re all stuck it looks like my Commander+Ironman playthrough is going to be preeeeeeeetty easy.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I was hyped up to be playing too after doing Dad stuff all day and the kids are knocked out.
I chatted with some helpful posters/people and did some more research and decided to try running this without a dedicated graphics card.
Running okay so far. Yeah, it’s not the prettiest, but I don’t need it to be. It is a little slow when the computer is thinking about something, but at least I can play it until I upgrade my laptop someday or it ports to consoles.
My biggest issue right now is my wireless mouse/keyboard. I have this: [http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-…+and+mouse](Amazon.com)
but the range is about nothing. I’d like to keep my server where it is, about 20’ from my couch, but I don’t seem to get half that range - I had to move the server to test everything out :\
Awesome. It’s fun even if it doesn’t look that great. I played the first one on my phone too and it didn’t look as good as the pc version but it was still fun…made my phone hot though.
Only my mouse is wireless. It’s a Logitech G602. It works alright for around 20’, I haven’t had any issues and there’s no noticeable latency.
If you turn the tutorial off you can play on a higher difficult if that’s your thing.
I’ve got a Commander + Ironman game going and one on normal, I think it’s Veteran. The normal playthrough is pretty breezy right now, I haven’t lost anyone outside the tutorial soldier that gets smeared. In Commander though, heh, lots of dead assholes that miss 75-99% shots.
I talked my girlfriend into starting a game on easy and I don’t think she’ll be finishing, it stresses her out.
AI’ve seen people needing to do a verify files step in Steam. Mine was breaking when trying to promote until I did that. Two files were broken/missing.
Life got in the way over the weekend so I only got to play about two hours last night.
This game doesn’t even lube up first or anything. First proper mission I did post-tutorial I only had one survivor. Mission afterwards my squad gets taken out completely. X-COM BABY!
I see a few restarts in my future. Although I was pretty fucking tired last night so my tactical acumen may have left something to be desired. Will give it some proper love tonight.
Game has been playing well hooked up to the TV. Have only played a few more missions.
Since I’ve had trouble with my mouse and keyboard, I decided to try RDPing to it from my laptop, but XCom just bombs out when I try to do that. Would be nice to move the server back out of sight and be able to play while also watching TV.
I’ve been having really strange issues with the steam overlay and the game. For some reason when I hit f12 to print screen it’s reading it as Alt+Control+F12 in Xcom2. So that turns on recording in Afterburner. I got on my rig today and saw I was 250gb short on my steam HDD and thought, “Hmm that’s weird.” So I started snooping around and I had a folder full of gameplay videos that when I started watching them I realized were the times I was trying to take screenshots. So yeah, very strange. I uploaded a video but it’s out of sync and I’ve deleted the videos from my drive so meh. BUT, it did level my steam profile up for sharing a video so go me, I guess.
I haven’t had any issues outside of the framerate dropping now and then. -knocks on wood-
Been having a ball. You really feel like you’re just hanging on at all times and spread even more thin than EU/EW. Still, so far, so good.
And may I just say:
FUCK STUN LANCERS