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[Flying Dice]

I'm just baffled, as others were earlier, by how a fandom which praised Enemy Within so heavily is busy shitting on literally the exact same thing for nuCOM 2.

[Toaster]

It's extremely early to be calling a new class "OP" since we don't know their capabilities.  You still have to not take an old-style class when taking one of them.

[Graknorke]

I'm just baffled, as others were earlier, by how a fandom which praised Enemy Within so heavily is busy shitting on literally the exact same thing for nuCOM 2.

Enemy Within had to rebalance a bunch of stuff (and the game needed it as well) to make its content work, since it was actually added content. It changed each part of the game by some degree in order to improve it. This is something that's been planned and designed around from the start and Firaxis just want to sell it on top of the price of the "full" game.

[Chiefwaffles]

The expansions add more content. Weapons and armor is a good way to add new content, and people generally like upgrading things even further.
Besides, I'm sure the aliens added in the expansion  offset the abilities of the armor.
Also when it's single player, I don't think it's matter even if it was play-to-win. If it was, it'd be similar-ish to the rewards from slingshot.

Also Graknorke, why are you assuming this won't be balanced like you say Enemy Within was? It's starting to seem like people are looking for reasons to hate the game again.  And Enemy Within wasn't even that balanced!

[Furtuka]

Spoiler: Oh so thats what happened to the Sectopods (click to show/hide)

[Neonivek]

I still kind of want a Alien Hybrid class, but I know that it would make no sense in this game.

Since even if there are Alien Hybrids who dislike the regime enough to fight against them. There is no way in the frosty wastes that Xcom would ever trust them.

[Graknorke]

Also Graknorke, why are you assuming this won't be balanced like you say Enemy Within was? It's starting to seem like people are looking for reasons to hate the game again.  And Enemy Within wasn't even that balanced!

Because EW was to fix problems they'd identified after release, but SLG is already planned out, so it couldn't do that. And "looking for reasons to hate the game"? You should probably try and keep that persecution complex in check. I think the game will be pretty good, I just don't appreciate publishers trying to gouge extra money from their customers and spinning it as doing them a favour.

Spoiler: Oh so thats what happened to the Sectopods (click to show/hide)

Well cock.

There is no way in the frosty wastes that Xcom would ever trust them.

vigilo confido

[Chiefwaffles]

Wow. That got hostile.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Spoiler: Oh so thats what happened to the Sectopods (click to show/hide)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Graknorke]

Hey looking at it, that alien gun in the second picture doesn't look like any we've seen before. Despite coming from a terrorist organisation this time, it actually looks sleeker than anything from EU/EW. Maybe a new weapon type?

[Aklyon]

...couldn't you just blow off one of those tiny leg attachment points in the first pic instead of shooting at the doombot?

[teoleo]

i want to play this game....before the 5th feb  :O))

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Third pic also shows what looks like either a laser sword or a HF sword. I'm hoping for the latter, anything that makes this more Rules of Nature is welcomed.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Exactly what I was thinking. I dearly hope I'll be able to make Raiden, with or without mods.

[scrdest]

why are you assuming this won't be balanced like you say Enemy Within was?

Honestly, if the game is balanced *for* them being there from the get-go, then the DLC is just holding your gameplay for ransom, (since the design assumption is the class is in the game), and if it isn't, well, it's a P2W feature, or an underpowered one.

Of course, there's the possibility to do it right, e.g. by the rebalances being part of the patch that includes the new class or something. Or, y'know, introducing it as a part of a large content update that changes up a huge chunk of balance en masse and is broad enough in scope to be able to significantly upset a lot of stuff to make it work in the context of gameplay,  *cough*expansion pack*cough*.