I hate the new format. I have never skipped so much of an episode of the Bombcast, having listened to the Bomb and Beastcast all year I know how they feel about these games already, I just want to hear how they fit into the various categories. And the shortening of the categories is a huge bummer. All in all a huge disappointment and I may just skip the end of the year stuff this year
Anyone who says they have played dozens of hours of this game and have not seen a technical issue is a liar or was playing a different game than I did. I've captured a lot of my plays and they reveal numerous issues. The most frustrating for me were those that happened during the tactical battles. Dan lists a few. I've seen many.
Troops that I put in overwatch will fire and when my turn begins again, they will have been teleported to entirely different portions of the map. In one case, my unit was placed below the level geometry. I was able to run around freely and fire into enemy units directly above me without being spotted. It was the most useful ability any of my soldiers have had in the game.
I've fired on enemies in adjacent spaces with a 100% success indicated and then missed. This has happened many times.
I've damaged enemy units who have had their damage reset on the next turn without any abilities being used on their side.
Then there are all the performance problems. I'm running on an i7 5820k with an r9 Fury X. My rig can play Witcher 3 at over 60fps in 1440p. It crawls into single digit framerates during large portions of XCOM 2. Unacceptable for a PC only release.
There's a great game in here, but it's marred by technical issues. I wouldn't call them severe, but I wouldn't call them infrequent either.
These are the complaints i find baffling. I've had several of the issues the people have reported such as the long load times, frame rate drops, pauses between turns. But then to read these reports of these crazy issues like troops teleporting, 1000% misses, and enemy health resets is just bizarre to me. Ive not seen any of this. Also are you sure the 100% miss wasn't a dodge?
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