Installer is incomplete. On a fresh System there is a high chance that you will run into the missing Visual C++ Redistributables error. (Downloadable@Microsoft) Even after adding the missing redistributables the game just won't start at all (it actually crashes silently...) Checking Windows event logs for application errors shows that "XCOM 2\Binaries\Win64\common.dll" reproducibly crashes with exception 0xc0000409. Some people @forum could get it to run using GOG-Galaxy. Released in 2016 and in 2023 they still have not got their installer straight... For me this was the last time i wasted money on "Firaxis Games / 2K Games"
Game starts a launcher which uses a browser in kiosk mode (upper 80-90%). When i try to start it launcher only keeps spitting out java script errors followed by html error 404 (=Page not found). Can't get any further. At least i know now why GOG gave it away for free...
tl;dr: Tutorial is way too short. Combat system is a clicking nightmare. Healing takes ages and requires RNG-luck. Texts are plenty. Font is too small. Game also uses "Flat buttons" (e.g laurels). Standard buttons are not always in the same place so good luck finding all content. -- My first impression of the demo was actually good. Moody narrating, decisions that count. Albeit too much RNG. But then came the walls of text and ever more walls of text in just too small a font for someone that is not 20 anymore. I camped and suffered time and again party losses to critical RNG fails .. I was attacked, had my fighters severly wounded trying to make sense of the really bad combat action selection system. (I expect to click no more then once to select an attack unless the game needs a target.. but i have to click the button time and again. It could not be more annoying if they raised a popup asking "ARE YOU SURE" after every single freaking action...) I could never pick up any of the loot.. Apparently it is not enough to put weight restraints they also limit the number of slots and stacks. Forcing players to manually recombine 2-3 food stacks after every night is the topping on the cake. But well, who does not love to leave loot behind when you almost got killed for it? Healing is RNG roll related. After 4 nights of camping & using medicine a single Character regenerated whopping 2 of it's lost 8HP. Smells like savescum.. Demo ends before you can complete the quest that sent you out. No way to know about profit margins or how hard it is to replace lost personal Is there an actuall a way to heal your fightes back to full or will they just die next random combat? What should be improved ?: - Use a larger font - Single click attack (+target selection where necessary). - Buttons should look like -BUTTONS- - Standard buttons should be in standard places - Stick with a single restraint for carrying items - Auto combine stacks of the same type of item
According to the Games change log windows 10 support was added in 2016. For me the game however keeps crashing whenever im trying to launch a game. I tried compatibility modes and lots of other things but could not get it to run on a PC in 2022. So my game experience is actually 0/5.
