Honestly, I’m confident that my problems with XCOM 2 lie in this inferior port. Repetition and artificial difficulty are bad enough as is, and together, they form a potent cocktail of anti-fun mediocrity. The tedium sets in early on, and the further you go, the clearer it becomes that the scenario writers ran out of ideas early on in production. Most of them are timed, and objectives fall along the lines of, “hack X thing” or “destroy X thing,” with some occasional “save X amount of people” thrown in. On top of that, the missions are dull repetitions of each other. XCOM 2’s problem is that its difficulty is an unsolvable, randomly generated enigma compounded by outright terrible artificial difficulty. It’s not that the game is “too hard,” because I think “too hard” is an illegitimate complaint. The RNG in this game is horribly imbalanced and makes the experience woefully unfun. From my understanding, the balancing in XCOM 2 has also been patched on the PC, leaving me to think that the console version is the only one suffering from this problem. To put it simply, using strategy in a strategy game actually puts you at a disadvantage. Playing poorly actually got me further, which was disappointing. Regardless of the difficulty levels I attempted, the result was always the same-random garbage either making me lose or making me win. I missed several times in a row on enemies I had a good chance of hitting. Strong units got one-shotted from across the map from enemies I couldn’t see, instantly killing them. When I did manage to get invested in some missions, I found myself rewarded with cheap deaths, busted enemy AI, and mechanics outright refusing to work. The result is a poor version of a better game.
#XCOM 2 PC STUTTERING PC#
Considering that the PC version’s been patched several times over, it feels like the studio handling this version of XCOM 2 has been doing things independently of Firaxis. Physics freak out at the drop of a hat, turns feel oddly laggy and slow, cover is often irrelevant… I could go on and on. Characters take entirely moronic routes from point A to point B.
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The camera awkwardly snags on things and obscures your vision.
#XCOM 2 PC STUTTERING CRACK#
Gameplay-wise, it’s the same strategy system we saw in Firaxis’ first crack at the bat, just with everything significantly more sluggish and less functional than before.