Quoting: Eike(With a Steam controller, the package is waiting for me today! Yeah!)

Enjoy the Steam Controller, man. I got mine through the same deal, and while it does take a bit to get the hang of it, it's awesome once you do.

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Quoting: wolfyrionI want to believe that is still too early to judge Vulkan API.

Vulkan API has to be superior or at least on par with DirectX otherwise cant see the point of a new API :(
10 FPS More than OpenGL is disappointing. Oh well lets hope things will be better...

The important thing is that, going by that graph, Vulkan could put Linux performance almost on par with DX11, solving what is currently the one biggest weakness for the platform in comparison to Windows.

That's impressive for a brand new release. I expect we'll see even more improvements as the API matures.

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WELL HELL! :><:

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Perfect timing. My Steam controller comes in today, and I hated the idea of having to bounce into big picture mode to make any changes to it.

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I found this a couple days back, and it made a MASSIVE amount of difference for me, from unplayable, to perfectly fine with everything up, save texture detail, which I have to set to Medium to prevent stutter, even with the .ini tweaks.

According to the ingame FPS counter, which you can access from the Feral launcher by going to the Advanced tab, entering -showtestpanel, then enabling it in the new tab that shows up immediately to the right of it, I'm getting a consistent 45-50 FPS in mission

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Yeah, I bet you whiffed that shot.

Hell, I missed three 97% shots in a row today. That's enough to make you want to punch things in the face with your fists.

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Quoting: TealYou know that when the bars fill there's still multiple weeks delay before you lose, and if you complete any one of the blacksite missions it drops back to bars again, right?

I knew completing a blacksite mission would drop the bar back a notch, but I didn't know it gave you a buffer once it filled up.

Oh well. I've already deleted my old saves, and I'm kicking so much as s in my new game, I don't even care all that much. :D

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Quoting: GuestThe timed missions in XCOM EU/EW were okay, but I had the most fun with the non-timed missions so I'm not sure how much I'll like XCOM 2. Until the game is patched though, and until the price for the full game is reasonable, I will be playing a copy for free or will be playing something else.

Honestly, the timed missions aren't all that terrible. At least from my experiences, it's usually just a single objective that's timed, rather than the mission as a whole. Like you have to stop a broadcast from going through by destroying a communications relay, and clear out all hostiles in the area once that's done. When you complete the former, the timer is lifted, so you can take as long as you want to with the latter.

There are missions where the game demands you to fulfill all objectives within a certain amount of time, but they're not that common, and usually give you a generous amount of turns to complete it.

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Quoting: Shutup-FoolI feel so left out. My potato laptop can't handle XCOM 2 :(

It might be time for you to buy a rutabaga, cuz XCOM2 is GRAND AWESOME GOOD FUN!

...shame I screwed up my first game by thinking I could ignore the Avatar Project to build more cool stuff. By the time I got around to taking it on, it was just three bars away from completion. I might've kicked some ass during the Blacksite missions, but there was no way I could fly around the world to keep up.

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If any of you are having stuttering issues, try this [External Link]. Yeah, it's the same .ini tweaks people have been using to patch up all UE3 games since time immemorial. I still have to play it on medium/highish settings with some of the fancier effects turned down to get a perfectly smooth game, but it's so, SO much better than it once was. My herky-jerky bases are herky-jerky no more!

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