If you have passed up on Wasteland 2: Director's Cut before you may want to take a look now, as it's having a free weekend on Steam.
I really need to give the game a proper go. Every time I try it something about it just fails to hook me in. Does anyone else have that issue with it? To be fair though, I haven't properly tried it since they revamped it in the last big update.
It's not only free weekend, it's also 50% off, so if you like what you see now is a good time to pick it up on the cheap.
About the game (From Steam)
From the Producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2, the sequel to the first-ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG.
The Wasteland's hellish landscape is waiting for you to make your mark... or die trying. With over 80 hours of gameplay, you will deck out your Desert Ranger squad with the most devastating weaponry this side of the fallout zone, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the wasteland.
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Stupendous Man 10 Jun 2016
I don't believe it's the Director's Cut that free to play, but the original version of Wasteland 2. I have no idea what the differences are, but people on the Steam forums say there are several differences. Also, you can't carry your save over if you buy the Director's Cut, so don't get too invested in your game this weekend.
I'm considering buying it, I love good isometric RPGs and this one does seem like a great game. I just can't sit down and play anything for any length of time these days, it's 38+ degrees C outside and I prefer to just sit in the shade on the terrace reading books...
Who knows, maybe it'll be 75% off when autumn arrives.
I'm considering buying it, I love good isometric RPGs and this one does seem like a great game. I just can't sit down and play anything for any length of time these days, it's 38+ degrees C outside and I prefer to just sit in the shade on the terrace reading books...
Who knows, maybe it'll be 75% off when autumn arrives.
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It is the Directors's Cut that is free to play for the weekend, you can see it yourself on the store page directly.
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It is the only game in my library which has performance issues. It stutters like mad, whatever settings I try. Maybe forcing the game to sync with the screen could resolve this problem, got to investigate. But at the time I am so hooked by other titles that I won't try too soon...
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I don't believe it's the Director's Cut that free to play, but the original version of Wasteland 2. I have no idea what the differences are, but people on the Steam forums say there are several differences.
One most important difference for me is that Director's Cut brings controller support, including Dualshock 4 controller.
It is the only game in my library which has performance issues.
I have very poor rig, so it is not the only one that has performance issues for me, but it is playable on minimum.
Anyway, my colleague really loves this game, so I don't want to have poor entertainment because of low graphical settings, so I will play this one after hardware upgrade.
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It crashes as soon as I hit "New game". The menu looks nice though...
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After 5 patches, it is still so buggy and unplayable using Mesa radeonsi driver that I had to play on Windows: it is so buggy also on Windows that I had to force a flag to not use DirectX 10 to play (is a known issue with AMD graphics cards). Done that, it worked well without a single crash.
That said, I played all the first part of the game (set in Arizona) and now I started to play the second set in California. It's not a great game, the setting is anonymous, there's not a single place I can remember or that impressed me. What I mean is that if you played ie Skyrim there are places in the game that are so well done that you can say "let me go to that temple". Not in this game.
Characters are anonymous too, apart from Scotchmo, an alcoholist hobo, which has some funny lines. The story? The usual "we are the survivors, we are the good, fight the evils". As a RPG isn't that great too: there are some moral choices to do, but the world you live feels static.
Fights are usually unbalanced: or you are too strong (and the game become boring) or the opponents are too strong (and the game become frustrating). You can't avoid fights, once started: sometimes you can meet some super strongs opponents that kill your party, completely random. Fights are turn based, but you can't plan the fight: you can't carefully place your party before fighting the overwhelming opponents.
Why am I still playing it? I don't know, maybe the old school feel.
My vote is 6.5 on 10.
That said, I played all the first part of the game (set in Arizona) and now I started to play the second set in California. It's not a great game, the setting is anonymous, there's not a single place I can remember or that impressed me. What I mean is that if you played ie Skyrim there are places in the game that are so well done that you can say "let me go to that temple". Not in this game.
Characters are anonymous too, apart from Scotchmo, an alcoholist hobo, which has some funny lines. The story? The usual "we are the survivors, we are the good, fight the evils". As a RPG isn't that great too: there are some moral choices to do, but the world you live feels static.
Fights are usually unbalanced: or you are too strong (and the game become boring) or the opponents are too strong (and the game become frustrating). You can't avoid fights, once started: sometimes you can meet some super strongs opponents that kill your party, completely random. Fights are turn based, but you can't plan the fight: you can't carefully place your party before fighting the overwhelming opponents.
Why am I still playing it? I don't know, maybe the old school feel.
My vote is 6.5 on 10.
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Stupendous Man 10 Jun 2016
It is the Directors's Cut that is free to play for the weekend, you can see it yourself on the store page directly.On the store page yes, but that's not what gets installed. If you look in the Steam library menu, it says Wasteland 2; had it been the DC, it would say so.
At least this is how it is on my PC, maybe you have been able to get the correct version? I know there are other people on the Steam forums with the same problem.
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it crashed after selecting "new game", i'm on AMD
i solved this problem checking the log file at
~/.config/unity3d/inXile/Wasteland2/Player.log
(every unity game log a file in there)
it says that this file is corrupted and creates problems:
'/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Wasteland2/Linux/WL2_Data/Streaming/Scenes/MainMenu.unity3d'
after removing it i was able to launch a new game and select some characters, anyway i end up having no hud, a lot of graphical issues with the 4 charcters, no sound and the game stucks, only the esc button works..
i'll try again tomorrow also with wine gallium-nine
i solved this problem checking the log file at
~/.config/unity3d/inXile/Wasteland2/Player.log
(every unity game log a file in there)
it says that this file is corrupted and creates problems:
'/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Wasteland2/Linux/WL2_Data/Streaming/Scenes/MainMenu.unity3d'
after removing it i was able to launch a new game and select some characters, anyway i end up having no hud, a lot of graphical issues with the 4 charcters, no sound and the game stucks, only the esc button works..
i'll try again tomorrow also with wine gallium-nine
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If that is the case then they need to sort their downloads and advertising out. One of them is wrong then.It is the Directors's Cut that is free to play for the weekend, you can see it yourself on the store page directly.On the store page yes, but that's not what gets installed. If you look in the Steam library menu, it says Wasteland 2; had it been the DC, it would say so.
At least this is how it is on my PC, maybe you have been able to get the correct version? I know there are other people on the Steam forums with the same problem.
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it crashed after selecting "new game", i'm on AMD
i solved this problem checking the log file at
~/.config/unity3d/inXile/Wasteland2/Player.log
(every unity game log a file in there)
it says that this file is corrupted and creates problems:
'/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Wasteland2/Linux/WL2_Data/Streaming/Scenes/MainMenu.unity3d'
after removing it i was able to launch a new game and select some characters, anyway i end up having no hud, a lot of graphical issues with the 4 charcters, no sound and the game stucks, only the esc button works..
i'll try again tomorrow also with wine gallium-nine
This should help
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metro2033fanboy 10 Jun 2016
Not that big sale, still playing it so far so good!
goVEGAN
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it crashed after selecting "new game", i'm on AMD
i solved this problem checking the log file at
~/.config/unity3d/inXile/Wasteland2/Player.log
(every unity game log a file in there)
it says that this file is corrupted and creates problems:
'/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Wasteland2/Linux/WL2_Data/Streaming/Scenes/MainMenu.unity3d'
after removing it i was able to launch a new game and select some characters, anyway i end up having no hud, a lot of graphical issues with the 4 charcters, no sound and the game stucks, only the esc button works..
i'll try again tomorrow also with wine gallium-nine
This should help
I have the same issue and was hopeful that changing the file limits would help, but it did not. It loads the "new game" dialog but crashes about 2 seconds later.
My Player.log ends with:
The file '/home/micah/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Wasteland 2/Linux/WL2_Data/Streaming/Items/ItemTemplates_CharacterCreate.unity3d' is corrupted! Remove it and launch unity again!
[Position out of bounds! 275080 > 274792]
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The developers have put up this post about it to explain the error about it not being the Director's Cut.. Valve claim it's not possible, but the comments already say otherwise.
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You can install the Director's Cut by following this link and then clicking the green button in the top right labeled "Free".
https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=https://steamdb.info/app/404730/
https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=https://steamdb.info/app/404730/
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Installing the Director's Cut fixed my load issues! So far it is running great.
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it crashed after selecting "new game", i'm on AMD
.....
This should help
that didn't help unfortunately..
anyway the director's cut works fine, i just had to rename the infamous libstdc++.so.6 to get the game to start
it looks nice, anyway i still need to play the classics CRPG before this one
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I just can't sit down and play anything for any length of time these days, it's 38+ degrees C outside and I prefer to just sit in the shade on the terrace reading books...
Who knows, maybe it'll be 75% off when autumn arrives.
Nothing wrong with that. Gaming is only one part of entertainment / life :)
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