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Second Wave Content available later today for free for XCOM
Posted: 08.01.2013 07:10 by JonahFalcon Comments: 15
Firaxis has announced that the third downloadable content pack for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, called Second Wave Content, will be released today for free on Steam, Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network. The Second Wave Content DLC allows fans to replay the campaign after finishing it with new modifiers.


The Second Wave content includes the following options to change gameplay:

• Damage Roulette: Weapons have a wider range of damage.
• New Economy: Randomized council member funding.
• Not Created Equally: Rookies will have random starting stats.
• Hidden Potential: As a soldier is promoted, stats increase randomly.
• Red Fog: Combat wounds will degrade the soldier's mission stats.
• Absolutely Critical: A flanking shot guarantees a critical hit.
• The Greater Good: Psionics can only be learned from interrogating a psionic alien.
• Marathon: The game takes considerably longer to complete.
• Results Driven: A country offers less funding as its panic level increases.
• High Stakes: Random rewards for stopping alien abductions.
• Diminishing Returns: Increased cost of satellite construction.
• More Than Human: The psionic gift is extremely rare.

The Second Wave Content DLC is the third DLC pack available to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, following the Elite Soldier Pack and the Slingshot Mission Pack.

Comments

By danfreeman (SI Core) on Jan 08, 2013
danfreeman
Um,half of that stuff was in a mod firaxis,how about you also say where you got those ideas eh?
By Kres (SI Elite) on Jan 08, 2013
Kres
Yea played it already. It is free anyway.
By danfreeman (SI Core) on Jan 08, 2013
danfreeman
I know but they should still give credit to the one who came up with the idea in the first place,either way i don`t much like this dlc,too much stuff left at random so you could get something great if you`re lucky or absolute crap if you`re not,how is that fair?
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Jan 08, 2013
SirRoderick
Free? Well lovely, thanksies ^^

And Dan, it's not like they want you to pay for it! Lighten up :P
By Kres (SI Elite) on Jan 08, 2013
Kres
Yeah I'm sure some credits will be given.
By stuntkid (SI Elite) on Jan 08, 2013
stuntkid
Also great for those playing on consoles who don't have access to mods like pc gamers
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jan 08, 2013
herodotus
Damn I need this game, or a friend to buy from overseas. Bloody hell it's expensive here.
*rant...rave...expletive..."

Sorry guys, I'll stop now.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Jan 08, 2013
JonahFalcon
Steam sales. They're your best friend.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jan 08, 2013
herodotus
No, the Steam Sales sucked arse this Summer (or your Winter) and the price was prohibitive even on sale. Then our only relief site GreenManGaming sold out to 2K and upped their prices to above Retail prices here...just for a Steam code (and received massive backlash in their Forums, Facebook page and at the checkout). I can buy "Borderlands 2" as a boxed copy with disc and printed manual for $40 here, yet it's $70 on Steam and $72 on GMG - bloody ridiculous.

I really am quite concerned that the Steam Sales were a let-down this year, and worry for the future (and I'm not the only one judging by many comments in the Forums). Greed is really taking over from good business sense.
By Hammerjinx (SI Veteran Member) on Jan 08, 2013
Hammerjinx
A lot of the savings were pretty good... just mostly on stuff I already owned. I can see your point tho. There were a few titles at 50 or 66% off where really they should have been 75% off. A few of those had been 75% off in previous sales. XCom got a fairly meager discount also. I guess they'd argue that it's still brand new, but there were a lot of new titles that had bigger discounts.

I think it might be Star Trek syndrome. They feel like the high price is warranted because the people who are going to buy it are fans and will pay what they ask, and the rest prolly wouldn't buy it even at half the price. I don't think this is at all true in this case, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that this is their pricing strategy.
By Hammerjinx (SI Veteran Member) on Jan 08, 2013
Hammerjinx
I'm pretty stoked to have won XCom in the comp. I honestly would not have bought it yet with the prices the way they are here.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jan 08, 2013
herodotus
yet another stab to the heart of fair gaming prices is re-visualised by your last past Hammer. Oh well.
Actually there were better deals on Gamersgate, and many didn't require Steam which actually can be a bonus at times (especially when there is already DRM present like UPlay).
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jan 10, 2013
herodotus
PS. Went into EB Games this morning and they have the retail boxed version with disc for $57 and "Borderlands 2" for $47. Crazy!
By Hammerjinx (SI Veteran Member) on Jan 10, 2013
Hammerjinx
Nice. Bit nuts when a bricks and mortar can undercut an online vendor - esp when you can potentially sell your disc copy when you're done with it, but Steam copies are yours for life, no backsies. It's a shrinking world and retailers, distributors, and producers of all goods need to see that they can't keep screwing with people and price-gouging based on where you live. If the price gets too broad in difference people will work out a way around it, and once they've worked that out they'll just keep doing it that way.

TV stations are just starting to work this out. I've only recently stopped downloading shows, because it's become easier and about as timely to just make Foxtel record them for me. I used to buy the shows I downloaded when they became available on DVD, but that didn't do the TV stations any good. I only started downloading because I missed an episode when the station made a sudden change to the timeslot - and I found out how easy it was, and how good quality, and how there was about 10 episodes ahead online. If the TV ppl hadn't dicked me around, I'd have never gotten into downloads in the first place.

The retail system also needs to pull its head out of its arse and get with the new millenium.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jan 10, 2013
herodotus
Just one thing I'd disagree with you on there, Hammer. Steam games are NOT yours for life. You don't own them, you are merely renting them and your account can be closed to you by Valve whenever they wish it. Pfffft....gone.

I prefer stand-alone, no DRM these days and have become distinctly anti-Steam.