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Posted September 19, 2014
Is your body ready to waste away in front of your computer?

Wasteland 2 Digital Deluxe Edition, inXile's epic post-apocalyptic RPG is here! The masterfully crafted continuation to the 1988s original post-apocalyptic RPG, is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux on GOG.com, for $59.99*.

Wasteland 2 Digital Deluxe Edition, is the direct sequel to 1988’s Wasteland, the first-ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG and the inspiration behind the Fallout series. Until Wasteland, no other cRPG had ever allowed players to control and command individual party members for tactical purposes or given them the chance to make moral choices that would directly affect the world around them. Wasteland was a pioneer in multi-path problem solving, dripping in choice and consequence and eschewing the typical one-key-per-lock puzzle solving methods of its peers, in favor of putting the power into players’ hands to advance based on their own particular play style. Now, the legend is back, resurrected by the power of thousands of gamers' combined will to visit the grim and dangerous, yet strangely mesmerizing future once again. Today, we celebrate nonlinearity, mature storytelling, and other best traditions of computer RPG design. Brian Fargo and his inXile team opens the doors to the post-apocalyptic future: let's challenge its many dangers, together!

On GOG.com Wasteland 2 Digital Deluxe Edition comes complete with a free copy of Wasteland - The Original Classic and inXile's cult fantasy RPG, The Bard's Tale. *$59.99 is the regular price for this title in the US. Other prices will apply in different countries. If you end up paying more than than the US price, we will reimburse the difference from our own pocket, giving it back to you in store credit (this is what we call the "Fair Price Package"). If you only want to dip your feet before taking the plunge, there's a Wasteland 2 Digital Classic Edition available (US price: $39.99), and it can be upgraded to Deluxe Edition later.
Post edited September 19, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted September 20, 2014
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JohnnyDollar: I've read a few complaints elsewhere about frame rate issues and lags with parts of the UI. You run into anything yet technical wise?
Hmm, I didn't notice anything significant. Man screen and character selection UI was kinda slow the first time I launch it. After restarting the application, it ran pretty smoothly on "Beautiful" settings (35-45 FPS) and my rig is a couple of years old (i5-2400, HD 6870, 8 GB RAM).

I am running it on HDD now, performance will be even better after I move it to my main disk, SSD. I want to do it mostly because loading screens takes over 5 seconds.
Post edited September 20, 2014 by Rinu
Posted September 20, 2014
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Rinu: Hmm, I didn't notice anything significant. Man screen and character selection UI was kinda slow the first time I launch it. After restarting the application, it ran pretty smoothly on "Beautiful" settings (35-45 FPS) and my rig is a couple of years old (i5-2400, HD 6870, 8 GB RAM).

I am running it on HDD now, I would performance will be even better after I move it to my main disk, SSD. I want to do it mostly because loading screens takes over 5 seconds.
Loading times was another complaint that I recall now that you mention it. Considering how much space the game files take up and a 64 bit OS is recommended, it's presumably loading up a good bit of textures into memory. Sounds like they should have released a 64 bit version too, assuming they didn't. Hopefully they can further optimize the game. Plus the Unity engine is probably not the most efficient out there.

Alright, thanks. Maybe that SSD will speed up those loading times for you. :)
Post edited September 20, 2014 by JohnnyDollar
Posted September 20, 2014
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JohnnyDollar: I've read a few complaints elsewhere about frame rate issues and lags with parts of the UI. You run into anything yet technical wise?
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Rinu: Hmm, I didn't notice anything significant. Man screen and character selection UI was kinda slow the first time I launch it. After restarting the application, it ran pretty smoothly on "Beautiful" settings (35-45 FPS) and my rig is a couple of years old (i5-2400, HD 6870, 8 GB RAM).

I am running it on HDD now, performance will be even better after I move it to my main disk, SSD. I want to do it mostly because loading screens takes over 5 seconds.
Good to know. I have a bit slower Hardware but with i5-2320, HD 7770 and 16GB RAM I assume it will work fine.

I intended to install it on the HDD as my SSD is a bit full. Maybe I'll clean the SSD now ;)
Posted September 20, 2014
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Pitboy2081: I intended to install it on the HDD as my SSD is a bit full. Maybe I'll clean the SSD now ;)
Afrer moving it to SSD, loading decreased as expected. Difference isn't as huge as in the case of Skyrim but I save a couple of seconds with each load.
Posted September 20, 2014
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F1ach: Maybe its a regional thing but a normal PC game release price here is €45, I don't get the hate for this. I have only read 2 reviews, 8 and 8.5/10, which sounds like a darn good game to me. Haven't got it yet myself (not working), but I hope to get it next week and even I think its a fair price.
At least for me. I've read a few news about Wasteland 2 and there it was claimed that the game will cost around 30. Then when they closed their site and it was only available via EA on Steam and as "Deluxe" (a digital version can not be deluxe imho ;p) with 45 €... I've read a few dozened pages of the price-thread ;)

There was still some claim that after release the standard editon will cost 30.

Now, after release:

DVD version indeed 30 on Amazon. It's steamed. Steam code on Amazon(.de) 30 Euro...

On steam it's 39,99!

On gog it's also 40 € but with credit of 9,60 (valid for one year)

Gog version is winning then. But still, the pricing is pretty bad.

Short: expections were a fine price. Now it's a very confusing, partly unfair pricing.
Posted September 20, 2014
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Pitboy2081: At least for me. I've read a few news about Wasteland 2 and there it was claimed that the game will cost around 30. Then when they closed their site and it was only available via EA on Steam and as "Deluxe" (a digital version can not be deluxe imho ;p) with 45 €... I've read a few dozened pages of the price-thread ;)

There was still some claim that after release the standard editon will cost 30.

Now, after release:

DVD version indeed 30 on Amazon. It's steamed. Steam code on Amazon(.de) 30 Euro...

On steam it's 39,99!

On gog it's also 40 € but with credit of 9,60 (valid for one year)

Gog version is winning then. But still, the pricing is pretty bad.

Short: expections were a fine price. Now it's a very confusing, partly unfair pricing.
From what I gather, redeeming the Steam code from the DVD will only net you the standard edition which has the manual+reference card, while the Classic Edition will also give you the soundtrack, the map, the concept art book and the Wasteland 1 gift code.
Post edited September 20, 2014 by Grargar
Posted September 20, 2014
The game still can't be downloaded for Linux and Mr. Gog still doesn't care at all.

I'm probably not going to be buying any more games from GOG this year as it's the only way that they're going to learn that you can't break downloads because something shiny came along.

Downloading should have been a no-brainer. Downloading files is essentially the same on all OSes and the fact that it won't even download using Windows says something about how little Mr. Gog cares about Linux users.
Posted September 20, 2014
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Pitboy2081: At least for me. I've read a few news about Wasteland 2 and there it was claimed that the game will cost around 30. Then when they closed their site and it was only available via EA on Steam and as "Deluxe" (a digital version can not be deluxe imho ;p) with 45 €... I've read a few dozened pages of the price-thread ;)

There was still some claim that after release the standard editon will cost 30.

Now, after release:
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Grargar: From what I gather, redeeming the Steam code from the DVD will only net you the standard edition which has the manual+reference card, while the Classic Edition will also give you the soundtrack, the map, the concept art book and the Wasteland 1 gift code.
I personaly do not care much about digital stuff. A real concept art book or novela or a figure would be something different ;)

As long as the game it self isn't different.

I really do disagree with exclusive ingame stuff.
Post edited September 20, 2014 by Pitboy2081
Posted September 20, 2014
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F1ach: Maybe its a regional thing but a normal PC game release price here is €45, I don't get the hate for this. I have only read 2 reviews, 8 and 8.5/10, which sounds like a darn good game to me. Haven't got it yet myself (not working), but I hope to get it next week and even I think its a fair price.
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Pitboy2081: At least for me. I've read a few news about Wasteland 2 and there it was claimed that the game will cost around 30. Then when they closed their site and it was only available via EA on Steam and as "Deluxe" (a digital version can not be deluxe imho ;p) with 45 €... I've read a few dozened pages of the price-thread ;)

There was still some claim that after release the standard editon will cost 30.

Now, after release:

DVD version indeed 30 on Amazon. It's steamed. Steam code on Amazon(.de) 30 Euro...

On steam it's 39,99!

On gog it's also 40 € but with credit of 9,60 (valid for one year)

Gog version is winning then. But still, the pricing is pretty bad.

Short: expections were a fine price. Now it's a very confusing, partly unfair pricing.
I personally have no idea about the price "history" I just consider 40€ to be a fair price for this amount of game, a normal PC game in a shop here is €45.

There was quite a discussion on the Steam game forum about what was promised price-wise, where people were convinced they saw it advertised by inXile for a particular price, one of the devs entered the discussion and debunked that theory.



Originally posted by Sergeant "STEINZAHN" Harker:
Yes, that's it. You can see that the comments state that the final game will cost $25 and that's what I remembered. But it looks like they edited the OP in August.

Brother None [developer] 19 Sep @ 1:31pm
This was never stated by an official spokesperson, just assumed by people. A late backer copy was $25, which made people assume that's how we'd sell it. We always communicated "more than the late backer cost, less than the digital deluxe", which is exactly what it is.
The Classic Edition is $40/€40/30 GBP, a reduced price from Digital Deluxe but more expensive than late backers.
Posted September 20, 2014
Sorry to ask again, but I could not find an answer... I have the kickstarter-standard-edition. If I buy the Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade do I get the soundtracks from the Classic edition or only the Novella books that are listed on the Digital Deluxe DLC page?
If I upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition I expect to get the complete edition with soundtracks included. But is that really the case?
Posted September 20, 2014
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mattymuc: Sorry to ask again, but I could not find an answer... I have the kickstarter-standard-edition. If I buy the Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade do I get the soundtracks from the Classic edition or only the Novella books that are listed on the Digital Deluxe DLC page?
If I upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition I expect to get the complete edition with soundtracks included. But is that really the case?
The soundtracks should be included in the DLC folder for the KS version of the game. Well, for the first key.

I have the artbook, sound track as flac and mp3 and wallpapers. I don't believe that the novels have been finished. But, the KS page suggests that it should be included.

Or at least for $30 and up.
Posted September 20, 2014
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mattymuc: Sorry to ask again, but I could not find an answer... I have the kickstarter-standard-edition. If I buy the Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade do I get the soundtracks from the Classic edition or only the Novella books that are listed on the Digital Deluxe DLC page?
If I upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition I expect to get the complete edition with soundtracks included. But is that really the case?
We still don´t know yet. I´m in the same situation. No word from GOG until now.
Posted September 20, 2014
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mattymuc: Sorry to ask again, but I could not find an answer... I have the kickstarter-standard-edition. If I buy the Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade do I get the soundtracks from the Classic edition or only the Novella books that are listed on the Digital Deluxe DLC page?
If I upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition I expect to get the complete edition with soundtracks included. But is that really the case?
Not currently, hopefully later. See this thread: http://www.gog.com/forum/wasteland_series/which_version_did_i_get
Posted September 20, 2014
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mattymuc: Sorry to ask again, but I could not find an answer... I have the kickstarter-standard-edition. If I buy the Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade do I get the soundtracks from the Classic edition or only the Novella books that are listed on the Digital Deluxe DLC page?
If I upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition I expect to get the complete edition with soundtracks included. But is that really the case?
There has been no official response. Someone posted in another thread that they spoke with inXile and they claimed that if someone with the standard version bought the upgrade that GOG would later manually add the other items to their account. Color me skeptical. No one from GOG or inXile has made an official answer in this thread (or anywhere else to my knowledge), and no one has posted in here that they've purchased the upgrade with the standard edition and reported the results. Until one of those things happens, no one really knows how it's going to work.
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mattymuc: Sorry to ask again, but I could not find an answer... I have the kickstarter-standard-edition. If I buy the Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade do I get the soundtracks from the Classic edition or only the Novella books that are listed on the Digital Deluxe DLC page?
If I upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition I expect to get the complete edition with soundtracks included. But is that really the case?
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hedwards: The soundtracks should be included in the DLC folder for the KS version of the game. Well, for the first key.

I have the artbook, sound track as flac and mp3 and wallpapers. I don't believe that the novels have been finished. But, the KS page suggests that it should be included.

Or at least for $30 and up.
He has the standard edition. He did not receive those items in his initial copy on GOG.
Post edited September 20, 2014 by yyahoo
Posted September 21, 2014
I didn't really keep up with this game. I know that one of the designers is Chris Avellone. He's been involved with some of the best RPG's ever made. No doubt that inXile have some patching to do with it. They'll probably work on some balance issues too. It won't surprise me if this game ends up being pretty solid. I imagine some are thinking that it's solid already.
Post edited September 21, 2014 by JohnnyDollar
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