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It’s also why Darkest Dungeon looms so large in my mind over its pretenders, filling a similar space in my mind as the often brutally difficult XCOM 2.Īll of that feels right at home on PS5 after years of bad port horror stories. There’s a physical pain and prowess in those key details. Listening to lasers sizzle deep into the armor. My leapfrogging triumphs feels so good partly because getting hit feels so bad. Besides that, there’s a sense of “impact” in XCOM and other beloved tactics games like BattleTech, which other attempts don’t always match. But the game still lacks that crucial enemy variety. The Phoenix Point: Festering Skies DLC just added new air-to-air combat to that game’s old school tactics vibe. I hemmed, hawed, and hoped for a game to fill the XCOM shaped hole in my heart. Then again, the PlayStation 5 has cloud saves, so I think I’m safe. Hopefully I just won’t hit a corrupted save. I tend to play on Iron Man anyway, where you can’t reload after a bad run. It seems like more of an issue with the game than the port.

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At least not compared to the still-pretty-long loads on my PC with an SSD. zombie) missions that many players on Reddit report. I haven’t run into any of the crashes during Lost (i.e. Otherwise it’s the same tactics game I know and love. You need to enter settings and turn it on permanently to see which foes your brave little soldiers can hit after a move.

There’s no hotkey for a target preview, for example. Playing with a controller is still a bit… gloopy. Whether thanks to brute horsepower or updates over time, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen runs about as well as I could hope. The PS5 seems to take it on the chin, however. The console ports just bore the brunt of it. The game just isn’t a technical masterpiece. Much of this is also true on even modern PCs.

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can take up to a full minute to make decisions. It runs like a small dog constantly stopping to sniff something vile. XCOM 2, and particularly War of the Chosen, has a poor reputation for console ports. So I started up a console save on the side - specifically on my PS5.

But I couldn’t get enough playing just once or twice a week. I’ve mostly been playing again on PC (while streaming to the lovely Fanbyte community). Online multiplayer on console requires Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Live Gold (subscription sold separately). Until the game throws new enemies with new tricks your way. Just one fight against the occupying invaders can be the domino that turns you into a tactical genius with all the right tools. The overwhelming sense of power progression, as you develop from some nearsighted goobers with knives to psychic hunter-killers with robots and rayguns, against ever-escalating weird creatures is one-of-a-kind. But its War of the Chosen expansion - which practically transforms the alien resistance sim into an entirely new, more story-driven game - had me hooked for longer than I care to remember. The top-down, turn-based tactics game from 2016 has been through its share of ups and downs.