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[Neonivek]

Am I reading this right? A 1.8 GIG patch today? WTF!

It REALLY needed it.

[LoSboccacc]

I was just one hour from unlock, then patch happened

[Mephansteras]

Patch Notes thread is up on the 2k Forums.

Spoiler: Copied Patch Notes (click to show/hide)

•Various visibility/hiding optimizations
•Multiplayer text chat support (press J to activate)
•Mouse button 4/5 will switch soldiers in the Barracks
•ESC hides the movement grid, if you do not want to commit to a move while it is activated
•Squad Sight ability optimization
•Fixed issue when equipping two grenades with Deep Pockets.
•Fixed Rapid Fire sometimes consuming too much ammo.
•SHIVs that are damaged will no longer become unusable.
•Fixed some hangs/soft crashes in tactical combat.
•Replaced software cursor with the operating system cursor to reduce lag and framerate dependence.
•Fixed rendering bug which causes some soldier’s hair to appear as if it is rendering on top of environment fog.
•1080p movies are now used at all times on the PC.

[MorleyDev]

File size seems to be due to changes to the main texture files, which are all bundled together in a way that's efficient for running the game but not for patching xD

[Smitehappy]

GAH! Talon Prime (after 27 missions and 65 kills) just bit the bullet, along with the rest of his squad, because the game decided that the incline of a ramp is enough cover to completely hide a tower death machine. Damn Sectopods to hell!

[Thexor]

So, turns out UFO rooftops... are a terrible place to position your soldiers.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

On one UFO (a supply ship), I send my Sniper onto the roof. There's a low barricade on the edge of the roof, and since high-ranking Snipers treat low cover as full cover, I thought that was an ideal position.
Then, a Sectoid Commander directly below me shoots me through the ceiling. As a flanking attack. Because apparently, magic shots that travel through the ceiling managed to hit him from behind.


Second situation: different supply ship, this time with most of my team up on the roof. (I'd ganged up on an Ethereal.) I have two guys on the edge of the roof, on different barricades, watching for the Heavy Mutons I know are down there. I see nothing, so I move my guy away from the edge. He takes one step, and reaction fire from a H. Muton under the roof flies up and hits him. At no point during this exchange did I gain visibility on the Muton, yet somehow he got off a shot.


Third situation: moments after the previous one. I station three guys on the opposite end of the roof (no barricades, a small overhang). I cannot gain visibility on the ground not 2 meters straight down. Apparently, leaning forwards is a concept my troops have yet to master.

TL;DR: Rooftops might be good for Squadsight Snipers at the far end of the map, but everybody else should stay the heck off the ceilings. Unless you like the AI getting ridiculous angles through solid metal. 

[Tarran]

Woah, you can rotate your camera with the latest patch. Yay!

[kilakan]

So I though I was doing pretty good in the game... right up to my first crashed battleship battle.  28 enemies almost all of which are either sectopods, heavy mutons, or etherals.  My 6 man elite squad never stood a chance qq

[Aqizzar]

I'm going to echo that the one and only glaring problem with the game is the lack of ability to expand your reach.  No matter how many soldiers, how much money, how much technology you ever acquire, you can still only respond to one call for help at time.  On Classic and Impossible difficulty, this turns the game into a race against the clock, because no matter how well you perform, every abduction becomes a one-step-forward two-steps-back fight against the tide of terror sweeping the world.

I think it would be a great mark of achievement in the higher difficulty levels, when you finally have the resources to act in more than one place at a time.  C'mon Firaxis, you know that a stupid fucking idea.

I would say that the base building descriptions could be a little more clear too.  I hobbled myself well into the fourth month because I didn't realize that building a workship gives you engineers.  I thought it just... gave you space for more of them.  Like in the old days.

BTW, the project codename for the Floater autopsy is "Crimson Cape".  That was well appreciated.

[Smitehappy]

I've been one nation away from total doomsday for half of my game. Lost the entirety of South America but I've got every remaining nation covered by a satellite so I've managed to stave off defeat. I do agree that's it's lame not being able to deploy more than one Ranger at a time. The whole "Pick one, lose two" thing is utter crap on Classic. I want to fail because I physically don't have the soldiers or Rangers to respond, not because the game pigeon holes me into it.

[Glowcat]

I'm going to echo that the one and only glaring problem with the game is the lack of ability to expand your reach.  No matter how many soldiers, how much money, how much technology you ever acquire, you can still only respond to one call for help at time.  On Classic and Impossible difficulty, this turns the game into a race against the clock, because no matter how well you perform, every abduction becomes a one-step-forward two-steps-back fight against the tide of terror sweeping the world.

While it is a bit arbitrary, the sense of racing against the clock does contribute to the feel of the alien invasion.

[Mephansteras]

I'm going to echo that the one and only glaring problem with the game is the lack of ability to expand your reach.  No matter how many soldiers, how much money, how much technology you ever acquire, you can still only respond to one call for help at time.  On Classic and Impossible difficulty, this turns the game into a race against the clock, because no matter how well you perform, every abduction becomes a one-step-forward two-steps-back fight against the tide of terror sweeping the world.

While it is a bit arbitrary, the sense of racing against the clock does contribute to the feel of the alien invasion.

I like the race against the clock feel, I just wish it had been implemented in a less heavy-handed fashion.

[Sirus]

Just came back from my first encounter with Berserkers...
Aside from taking an inordinate number of shots to bring down, they really didn't bother me much. I even managed to capture one.
However, this was in a relatively open area with my entire squad ready to shoot. I assume they'd be far more dangerous in other situations.

Also, I keep trying to have Hellsing and Grande psi-tested. Sadly, they keep getting dragged back out for terror missions and landed UFOs, where I need my very best murder machines

[kilakan]

So I got my first max-psy ranked soldier, only to have him blown to very tiny bits halfway through his first mission where he could use mind control.  Fuck you sectopods and your ability to launch missile silos that deal way too fucking much damage.

[612DwarfAvenue]

Woah, you can rotate your camera with the latest patch. Yay!

Pretty sure it was possible to rotate the camera before the patch, unless i'm mistaken.

Anyway, game unlocked for me an hour ago though i slept in a bit so i got on after it unlocked, but since it's downloading the patch it means my first personal experience will be that little bit less buggy.


Though of course it's gonna take somewhere under half an hour to download. WHY MUST YOU TEASE ME SO?