Xcom long war freeze loading user settings

#Xcom long war freeze loading user settings update#
#Xcom long war freeze loading user settings series#

That's official SM47 mythos canon anyway. Ok so technically Operation Avenger hasn't supposed to have happened in this timeline, but I can't accept that those soldiers died for nothing, so I've mentally retconned the final mission from the ultimate ending of the invasion into a generic nose-bloodying of the aliens. Twenty years nursing a grievance has left him as balding, unshaven & bitter as you can imagine.

I made the effort to finish off my Enemy Within game prior to release, ended up with a solitary final mission survivor, who I've dutifully 'imported' over. I'm constantly losing rookies and squaddies. Missions are relentlessly rated 'difficult'. 14 hours into my first campaign and the doom track is at 7. I think this is pretty great, although it's kicking my arse. TL DR Some of the things in the game which make it harder, I'm not used to yet It's all avoidable (by the player) and easily explained in game terms but it just caught me on the hop a bit. Oh and one other thing I find a bit of a shame is the automatic reinforcements when a 'thing' happens - pick up a VIP = reinforcements, switch something= reinforcements and what I find a bit annoying is the fact it's not at the end of the turn, so if you plan on picking up a VIP as your last move, the reinforcements are called, then appear on the next alien activity and if you've just HAD a fight, no one is on overwatch or out of ammo etc etc. I ended up doing some epic stealth missions on some of the level after using the auto save (or cheating, as it's otherwise known) so for my second run through it's good to know it's possible. As in literally one square to the side can then trigger another wave of bad guys if they were just standing out of view but I think I just need to use the battle scanners and stuff more often than I do. I admittedly couldn't bring to let some of my named troops die so I did use the autosaves a bit, although I still think I got robbed a few times and I'm not entirely convinced I like the way the enemies don't know where you are but at the same time they do. It's like they designed those before they designed everything else. Oh, and I wish the tier 3 weapons and armour weren't so at odds with the aesthetic of the rest of the game - you go from rag-tag sci-fi guerrillas to shiny Mass Effect supersoldiers. I just wish it had moreВ stuff in it - more random bios for recruits, more customisation options, more types of guerrilla op. Totally gripped me and it's a great game all round. How many people know you can set waypoints for movement by pressing control and right-clicking? Or that the tiny crosshair above an enemy indicates whether you can see it or not, and just moving the cursor around will show you via that crosshair whether enemies would be visible from that location? Lots of stuff like that. Also the game doesn't explain half its mechanics, even the quality-of-life improvements from the previous game are ignored completely. It's pretty cruel, really, that the tutorial railroads you into building the Proving Grounds when the Guerrilla Tactics School and Advanced Warfare Centre are both far more crucial early on, the GTS in particular. That wasВ my second attempt at a campaign, since my first one ended in a failure spiral in part due to not understanding the contacts/comms/relays mechanic and in part due to having been set up in a sub-optimal way by the goddamn tutorial, of all things. We shave off something like 30 seconds of loading! Think of all the things you could do in 30 seconds.I finished it last night on Veteran difficulty. You can watch us testing this out in the video below and it's remarkable to see what an immediate difference it makes. That's me pretending to understand how people make games, by the way. I've no idea what's going on here, but the game appears to be artificially extending its loading times, and at a guess, I'd say this Caps Lock shortcut is a remnant from the development build of the game. You know those post-mission loading screens in XCOM 2? The ones that give you a nice little summary of how the mission went, but tend to stick around for just a little too long? You can essentially skip them by pressing the Caps Lock key.

ORIGINAL STORY 10am: Well this is just daft. If you don't care about those adverse effects the synchronous load is faster.' This causes a massive hitch, and potentially could crash the game.

#Xcom long war freeze loading user settings series#

'Hitting the key, through a rube-goldberg-esque series of events, forces all outstanding load requests to be filled immediately in a single frame. Here's the developer's response to our query about if there's any reason players shouldn't use this trick:

#Xcom long war freeze loading user settings update#

UPDATE 8.07pm: Apparently mashing the Caps Lock key can cause the game to crash, developer Firaxis has explained.