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[Jacob/Lee]

A friend and I are going to play multiplayer against each other, and I'm planning on using a three Demo Expert (with plasma grenades to round out the point count) and one Chryssalid team. Any advice?

Yeah. Don't.

The MP is currently in an almost unplayable state. It crashes constantly and do you know how stupid the process is to connect with one another?

To save you the grief, it's like this:

1. Both of you create a squad.
2. Both of you host a custom game room.
3. Both of you invite each other to the room. BOTH. So you invite him then when he accepts he invites you.

It took my friend and I an hour just to figure out how to join each other's game.

But don't worry because it'll crash every single time! Sometimes right at the beginning. Sometimes after a few turns. Sometimes near the climax.

Not to mention the netcode sucks ass and it can take up to 5 minute just to resolve a turn after you've done it.

Weird. I played a few games with a friend and never had any of these issues aside from the horrible backlogging of actions. The camera bugged out and sometimes the start button had to be hammered before it reacted, but never any CTDs or disconnects.

Also: I wish they had a mode like battle generators in OpenXCom: A way to generate a single player campaign-like battle outside of a real campaign. Create your squad from the ground-up (pick your number, classes, ranks, gear, etc.), pick the mission, setting, enemy count, and enemy types, and fight it out like a normal battle.

[Egan_BW]

I think they showed something like that as part of the mod tools, so you don't have to start a whole campaign to test the battlescape.

[origamiscienceguy]

DO NOT TRY TO MELEE A SECTOPOD!

[KingofstarrySkies]

why would you try

[My Name is Immaterial]

Why would you not try

[Rolan7]

It's topheavy, slicing at those thin ankles makes more sense than shooting the armored bit!
(until we unlock the AR3 or whatever)

[KingofstarrySkies]

...Actually that makes hella sense. Slice one of the legs and run off giggling.

[Aklyon]

DO NOT TRY TO MELEE A SECTOPOD!

Nono, meleeing sectopods is fine. As long as you'll accept you're in the blast radius when it dies.

[Urist Imiknorris]

why would you try

RULES OF NATURE!

[KingofstarrySkies]

why would you try

RULES OF NATURE!

And yet again I am wrong. You win this round.

[Toaster]

In the base defense mission, there was a pack of Chrysalids lurking right behind the disruptor.  I somehow managed to hit the one tile where I could shoot it without waking them up; talk about a serious relief.

[Urist Imiknorris]

why would you try

RULES OF NATURE!

And yet again I am wrong. You win this round.

Just don't melee Gatekeepers.

[Majestic7]

Regarding future stuff, remember that there are three DLCs coming, according to the season pass thing. One is purely cosmetic for making prettier dudes, but one adds new enemies and blah, another new class and "new map".

[Chiefwaffles]

Probably new map type, which I can only hope to be something really cool. Problem with the three DLCs is that it seems that none of them are "big" DLCs. Shen's Gift and Alien Hunters both seem like they'll be reasonably-sized, but also seem like they each form 1/2 of something EW-sized.
If they address one of the sequel hooks I mentioned in my early spoiler, I really hope it's in something big. What's the point of doing a TWIIIST if it's just a one-off thing on the side?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Can I trouble somebody for an experiment? I'm trying to come up with some way to run this game on a GeForce GT330M, which only supports DirectX10.1. The game, at least the (ill-gotten) version I'm using, seems to have a -d3d11 commandline option baked in, which prevents me from trying to force it into opengl or d3d10. When I add -opengl to the commandline, the game crashes instantly on running (instead of struggling against a black screen for a few moments), and the log says that -d3d11 and -opengl are mutually exclusive and can't be used together, even though -opengl is the only option present.

Can somebody confirm that adding -opengl to the launch options shortcut causes an instant crash in the non-pirated version as well?