Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
For anyone who wants this style of game, but doesn’t want to support this, Xenonauts 2 released version 1.0 a few months ago. It’s trying to be more classic X-COM, rather than modern XCOM, like what this game is copying (and simplifying even more). It’s easily the best of the genre I’ve played, and it’ll also run on pretty much any system you’ve got fine.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 days ago
Eh, played the shit out of it and happy to give them money. But holy shit is the late game kinda poop.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I haven’t played much of XCOM 2, but the late game of all of these games is usually not the best. Honestly, this is true for most strategy games. How many Paradox games actually make it to the end, for example?
It’s essentially something that’s impossible to balance in a fair way. Either the game scales automatically to match you, in which case your effort is meaningless, or it doesn’t, and it’s either trivial or impossible.
I just started a new game recently though. When I last played the end game didn’t even exist IIRC, so I can’t comment on it.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 days ago
This one is just a drag even compared to others, there is just something missing altogether vs even old xcom.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Maybe Xenonauts 3 will fix it, or whatever they do next. It’s still far better than Modern XCOM, from what I recall. Modern XCOM does some things well, but it’s also dumbed down.