XCOM 2 - First DLC Coming

The first DLC for XCOM 2, named Anarchy's Children is going to be available on the 17th of March.

Anarchy’s Children features over 100 new exotic customization options for your soldiers, including new hair styles, face paints, armor, lower face props, decals, helmets, masks and more. Your soldiers will strike fear into ADVENT and its alien overlords with menacing tactical styles that run the gamut from post-apocalyptic to the downright deranged.

If you don’t already own the Reinforcement Pack, which includes Anarchy’s Children and two future pieces of DLC, you can purchase Anarchy’s Children individually for $4.99 when it releases next week. If you have already purchased the Reinforcement Pack, do not also purchase Anarchy’s Children on its own, as you will be charged for it.

Additionally, we’re preparing a patch that will include performance optimizations and gameplay bug fixes. We will have more info to share on this very soon.

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So instead of fixing performance issues and other glaring bugs (Skylake/970 here) they choose to milk appearance options. Shame on you!

I hate this developer. I'm way above spec and the game chugs unless I play on medium-low settings in a small window. It's a freaking isometric game where ONE character moves at a time.

I trust IGN (9/10) and AusGamers (10/10).
Thus I don't believe any word previous two posters are saying. Can we have thumb down option please?

Originally Posted by joxer
I trust IGN (9/10) and AusGamers (10/10).
Thus I don't believe any word previous two posters are saying. Can we have thumb down option please?

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Sorry, I'm actually doing the happy dance over here

Hey enjoy your unfinished, unoptimized experience.

edit- oh wait… sarcasm??????

A series of performance optimizations in subsequent patches is what this game needs. Also fixes to the mod tools.
Firaxis did an admirable job assembling this game though, but framerate is horrible.

(Looks at what Myrthos quoted)

Is there some setting so that only I can see that last paragraph? Nobody else seems to have noticed it.

I think it's because they chose to do the others first rather than the optimizations and fixes which it needs more.

I'm waiting on those as well as optimization issues almost always show up in my setup and the fact that I'm not exactly running on anything close to a high end pc makes it all the more practical to wait.

So this is just appearance junk and no new content?

They've been working on this since pre-release (I assume) and the bug fixers are probably a separate team. Level designers and writers are not needed for performance optimisation…

No reason for them to delay this, except for showing some goodwill.

I can understand why there are no patches. For a game to support modding community well it needs to release patches as rarely as it can. Every patch probably fracks up mods that need to be changed to work with it.

So it is preferable to release a few huge patches with at least 1 month in between than many patches often to fix few bugs at a time.

Also the performance problems Xcom 2 have might be based on badly implemented features and it takes time to change it and test it.

@joxer: you're happy that people who paid $80 for a game aren't having their issues addressed and the developer is instead dropping a cosmetics DLC? You're a hard guy to figure out.