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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified - 08-23-2013, 11:03 | posts: 10,275 | Location: England I couldn't find a thread for this game, so apologises if I've missed it. I bought it yesterday after watching Giant Bomb's 50 minute Quick Look video on YouTube and thinking it looked interesting in spite of the bugs. Their game crashed a couple of times and they had performance issues... Anyway, the game unlocked at midnight here in the UK so I played about 45 minutes of it. I enjoyed what little I saw of it, the combat system is very interesting IMO, being more like Mass Effect than XCOM: Enemy Unknown so if you're the impatient type that doesn't like turn-based games then this might be your thing! The game is also set in the 1960s so it immediately has a B-Movie vibe to it, which is different and refreshing IMO.
The game also looks fantastic for a multiformat release with a range of options, including DX9 and DX11 support, with the latter offering tessellation. I believe it uses Unreal Engine 3 and it does have anti-aliasing support (yeah!) but it's the crappy FXAA-type by the looks of things (nay!). The unfortunate thing is though that the performance is dreadful on my system with everything maxed at 1920x1200 and not what I was expecting from a UE3 game at all, even using DX11. Movement feels very sluggish and while I didn't have EVGA Precision X's OSD running at the time, I swear the framerate was as low as 20 fps at times. For the most part it is perfectly playable but I was expecting flawless 50+ fps performance from my setup.
Does anyone else have the game and also experience poor performance?
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08-23-2013, 11:28 | posts: 10,275 | Location: England Thanks Jonas. I did see someone else suggest that and I actually did turn it off last night but the loss of reflections does take some of the (no pun intended!) shine out of the game IMO so I left it on. Looks like I may have to compromise. A shame really as the game really does look very nice for a UE3 game in terms of detail and period atmosphere. I only got as far as finishing the tutorial section and that had a lot of smoke/particle effects so I was thinking that they were crippling the framerate. I was hoping that it was simply a case of the drivers not being optimized for the game. Maybe a patch and a new driver can optimize the performance further so we can use this screen space real-time reflection setting?
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@ Jonas - Almost forgot... but does your game hitch/stutter badly when it auto-saves because mine does and it is very distracting?
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08-23-2013, 12:44 | posts: 10,275 | Location: England It's a spin-off of the XCOM games hence why it is called The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and not XCOM: The Bureau. It's aimed at people who want a pacier Mass Effect-style tactical game rather than a turn-based strategy game IMO and on that score it seems to achieve that, although the A.I. does seem to be a bit iffy from my admittedly brief play so far. I like it and I suspect that people who enjoy Mass Effect will too.
The game has mostly been getting positive reviews in the 65-70% range so it is by no means a bad game. I suspect a lot of die-hard XCOM fans were hoping for a follow-up to Enemy Unknown and this game is nothing like that. It reminds me a lot of the graphical style of Mafia II with its period atmosphere, i.e. gorgeous, married to Mass Effect 1 (which had more tactical options in the PC port). The game even features the same dialogue wheel system.
It's really the kind of game that needs a demo IMO as a lot of people will unfairly dismiss it on the basis of negative reviews from XCOM strategy fans.
08-24-2013, 11:57 | posts: 1,006 I got the game as pre-order, just so I can play XCOM: Enemy Unknown (which I haven't played before). XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a blast.
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