Most games with a lot of text based dialogue usually have the option to let scenes play out automatically. Persona 5 Strikers is a good example that does this well. This game does not have that feature meaning one has to manually skip through text boxes as conversations wrap up. It’s not a huge grievance but it would be nice to see upgra
Yeah. At the beginning of development, after we finished Enemy Unknown, the four of us, the Lead Producer, Creative Director, Lead Programmer and myself, we wrote where we wanted to go with XCOM 2 and similar site we had a little time to figure everything out. The very first thing was procedural levels; that was the very first thing we wanted to put in the game. We started ironing out all the little pieces we wanted to do – wanted to make it modable. Those were two of the biggest things we have to go towards, and after making Enemy Unknown, we knew how to do that.
There is no function to skip conversations entirely though which is a feature that usually is in games. One may want to skip scenes for myriad of reasons like playing the same story twice, or someone more interested in the RPG gameplay rather than the st
We saw the introduction of swords into combat. How does that affect the gameplay considering XCOM has always been a firefight heavy game when you have to be in cover all the time? What benefit is it to run out expose yourself?
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The game purposefully left the fate of Doctor Vahlen, the chief scientist from Enemy Unknown , a mystery throughout the game. While she was mentioned briefly, it looks like XCOM have been unable to establish communication with her. In the prequel novel for XCOM 2 , it was revealed that Vahlen escaped a brutal ADVENT attack on a research outpost by taking a boat to the sea. We have little doubt that Firaxis left her fate open for a reason, and we suspect she has been one of the first to work out that a new threat is due to emerge from the dep
The tactical and ever so nail-biting strategy game is back as Firaxis and 2K Games revealed XCOM 2 prior to E3 2015. Now players will be able to experience the deaths of even more comrades as their memorial continues to grow. While Enemy Unknown was a surprise hit, Firaxis is looking to up their game by introducing procedural maps, mods and even more to this PC exclusive. During our time at E3 this year, we sat down with Art Director Greg Foertsh at Firaxis Games to talk about their upcoming title.
This game, as it says in the beginning of the demo, is not messing around. Like Square Enix’s Bravely Default II demos, they too were cranked up in difficulty in the hopes of showing off the battle system at its fullest. It would seem then that based on the intro dialogue to this game, difficulty settings will be implanted in the final product. It’s sadly not a given though as many games still don’t offer these options for myriad reasons like Dark So
For the curious, the ending of Terror From The Deep resulted in a victory for XCOM , but it came at a price: the ecosystem of Earth is more or less destroyed, forcing most humans to move into urban city centers much like ADVENT had encouraged in XCOM 2 . This led into the plot from XCOM: Apocalypse , but we’re going to keep our speculation to one game at a time. Of course, it’s possible that Firaxis left the underwater glimpse as a massive misdirection for fans, but we doubt they would show alien technology underwater and abandon the subject entir
The Mutons are some of the most difficult enemies to defeat in every XCom game. Muton Elites are enhanced to make them even more formidable. They have some of the heaviest armor in the game, and a very high health rating. Muton Elites are armed with heavy plasma cannons; which can kill even a heavily armored soldier with one shot. Elites are also armed with explosive grenades which can negate the cover the player’s soldiers are using. They also have a suppression ability which can gives them an attack of opportunity during the player’s turn. Sometimes it seems like Muton Elites are invulnerable; which not only affects the morale of the player’s soldiers, but the morale of the pla
The Heavy Floater does not have the toughest armor, or a particularly high damage potential, but its special abilities more than make up for those deficiencies. The most exasperating ability is that Floaters can launch themselves to any location in the battle zone. This is annoying when a Heavy Floater is near death then launches out of range. They can also bombard an area, which usually negates the cover the player’s soldiers are hiding behind. Lastly, when they are airborne, a Heavy Floater can evade incoming fire; which lowers the accuracy of the player’s soldiers by