This game has severe problems with performance, game design and saving. It regularly "lost" my saves, only for me to start the campaign over. I was unable to proceed to the first story mission (after the unskippable tutorial), as the game would not let me progress. No error, no feedback, just nothing. Clicking on the button did not do anything and I was not able to either leave the system or load an earlier save. The game is _slow_, and by that I mean release-day XCom2 slow. Every animation seems to run at 75% speed, the camera zoom in for (not interesting kill shots) and there are just so many 1-2s breaks where control gets wrested from you for a camera pan or zoom, an animation, a title showing up, etc. The game also always runs at 100% GPU but it's really questionable why (it looks okay, but I've seen better). Loading times are horrible and some loading screens seem to miss an image or anything. All you get is a tiny progress loading indicator in the top left. 21:9 screens are half-assedly supported. There is quite a bit of information hidden in the UI but, again, it's not really explained. Why are my hit chances so low? What is the bar below the heat bar? What are the separated fields in the armor/HP bar? I think there might be a good game in there; I was really intrigued by the economic game and squad management but I never got there :( I'll wait until it's fully patched and has maybe one or two expansions before trying it again. PS: On the plus side: I've never been a fan of the inner sphere mech designs (just look at the drawings in the tech readouts, *shudder*) but HBS made them look really great in this game! PPS: preordered it, only to find that the game was discounted by 10% on launch day. Support gladly offered to refund the game, so I could repurchase it at a discount, however I turned that into a full refund after running into these game breaking bugs.
This game has severe problems with performance, game design and saving. It regularly "lost" my saves, only for me to start the campaign over. I was unable to proceed to the first story mission (after the unskippable tutorial), as the game would not let me progress. No error, no feedback, just nothing. Clicking on the button did not do anything and I was not able to either leave the system or load an earlier save. The game is _slow_, and by that I mean release-day XCom2 slow. Every animation seems to run at 75% speed, the camera zoom in for (not interesting kill shots) and there are just so many 1-2s breaks where control gets wrested from you for a camera pan or zoom, an animation, a title showing up, etc. The game also always runs at 100% GPU but it's really questionable why (it looks okay, but I've seen better). Loading times are horrible and some loading screens seem to miss an image or anything. All you get is a tiny progress loading indicator in the top left. 21:9 screens are half-assedly supported. There is quite a bit of information hidden in the UI but, again, it's not really explained. Why are my hit chances so low? What is the bar below the heat bar? What are the separated fields in the armor/HP bar? I think there might be a good game in there; I was really intrigued by the economic game and squad management but I never got there :( I'll wait until it's fully patched and has maybe one or two expansions before trying it again. PS: On the plus side: I've never been a fan of the inner sphere mech designs (just look at the drawings in the tech readouts, *shudder*) but HBS made them look really great in this game! PPS: preordered it, only to find that the game was discounted by 10% on launch day. Support gladly offered to refund the game, so I could repurchase it at a discount, however I turned that into a full refund after running into these game breaking bugs.
