XCOM 2

It used to work, but the link is always dead now.

I'd love to have easy access to XCOM 2, but I can retrieve the PS4 from the loft if I'm desperate.

Love the show.

Matt...

And actually, that is quite a good game, too.

It's from a lot of ex-staffers that worked on the XCOM 2, which is also obviously quite good.

But they've just announced that Zero Company sold over 1 million units.

And the developer has actually been able to take back some of their development staff that they had to furlough before so it's good news to hear that people are being able to come back because it was just before the game released they furloughed almost the entire staff which is pretty wild when you think about it but that's just kind of speaks to how risky it is to make games in today's climate i guess right Especially for a big franchise license like that, I'm sure it's not very cheap to get your hands on a Star Wars license.

I think I would...

I know that a lot of people would wanna pick up an XCOM, XCOM 2, uh, comic book for the, the, the alien-fighting action, and I think you can have that.

But I would focus more on the characters and their-

Yeah

Or, or they've already taken over a lot of, like, the, the, the world or whatever.

So now I'm looking here.

Turns out that there was actually an XCOM 2 graphic novel released in 2018.

Wow.

Yeah, well, which was super easy and super cool It's one of things I like about painting video game based models because a lot like historicals there's a lot of reference material out there and I like treating them that way and

Yeah, so these alien miniatures are giving me anxiety, and it's because I remember playing XCOM 2, and just consistently getting hosed by especially these skinny businessman guys.

Yeah, the thin men are motherfuckers.

The aliens were easier to paint in a lot of ways because they just don't have as much going on.

Right.

But like as a person who's literally playing through a run of XCOM 2 and Star Wars

Zero Company right now, I live for an Iron Man mode, man.

That is one of my favorite