That was Square Enix. This is Firaxis. Apart from the games they merely publish, Squeenix is a terrible developer in both business practices and game design. Firaxis has been a pretty good company thus far apart from their at-times-questionable DLC practices.
GAMEPLAY! THAT ISN'T CRAPPY STREAM FOOTAGE! WOO! @tehtrekd This is supposed to be your news thread ya lazy sod .
It's the same gameplay as the Stream though, just with in-game sounds instead of the developer talking. Speaking of in-game sounds, the music was pretty good (though I doubt it'll time itself like that in the actual game.) Also, why aren't the soldiers actually taking cover? They just crouch a few centimeters behind the cover.
Oh goody. Chryssalids are back. Now instead of having a "impregnate" ability, their strikes are poisonous. If your soldier dies when they're poisoned, they'll turn into a cocoon. If you don't destroy the cocoon in x amount of turns, a new chryssalid pops out. Oh and they can burrow underground and become essentially invisible to you unless you have some ground-radar thingy. F*ck. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xcom-2-exclusive-class-reveal-the-chryssalid/1100-6429038/ Oh and Mutons now have chainsaw bayonets, because f*ck you:
Man, those aliens look really good! The detailing on the Chryssalid is particularly great. Although it's kinda weird how the Muton looks a little like a Locust from Gears of War. It even has a chainsaw bayonet! Or who knows? Maybe XCOM 2 is a prequel story to Gears of War!! Probably not though.
Screenshots! http://www.vg247.com/2015/08/06/xco...ome-base-soldier-customisation-research-more/ Those look interesting! ALL the customization! I can't wait for this game.
The more I see and hear about XCOM 2 the more hyped I become for it. Especially looking forward to the mod support side of things as well EDIT: Incase it wasn't obvious by now I'm generally a massive advocate for mod support in games.
F*CK. I KNEW IT. I WAS HAVING A PRETTY GOOD F*CKING WEEK. I KNEW SOMETHING HORRIBLE WAS GOING TO HAPPEN! AND HERE IT IS! F*CK!
The delay has been made up for, YOU CAN NAME YOUR WEAPONS!!! This feature is UNBELIEVABLY pointless, but for some reason I'm really glad it's there and will likely spend several minutes agonizing over what to name my weapons.
