TLDR: Welcome to 3rd person X-com where your sniper is your best friend, why not equip your allies with them too; :) The world is at war, first line of attack: communication. Places of the world are surviving and need your help. You're a troubled alcoholic coming to terms with your past, and a piece of Myron Faulke as your chief and the organization linked to you not being there for your family when they needed you most, is dark; The world is a grimace, and you have a permanent frown from the start but slowly ease up. You're a tactician SPACEBAR to into battle mode- as your agents level up, they can new perks - abilities to use during combat; Shift to Cover; Cover is super important, Move your allies to cover first always in the heat/start of a new battle; you explore fairly linear environments with small tokens of dialog into the current missions, or your past/your allies - Must pay attention to the sound clues; Grok helps either way; :)
The pacing of the game is not difficult this far, if you take the cautious route everytime, flanking, battle tactics, and taking your time with spacebar if things get swarmed too quickly. .I think only you can throw grenades in this game? unless it's an ability; by level 5 most agents are OP , so doing missions is the flex of this game. Help USA BGA :) via absorbing their knowledge, which they only believed were decades ahead - but they are at least a millenia behind, considering their technology of this era and how slow it still was, communities and word-of-mouth days; Mobsters; Dons; Alcohol on the loose; Everyone wants their piece
insane game without Physx on- It would crash at the same time, every time, on trying to exit the building, level 0.1 -> intro to Xcom 3rd person; This game is an ace, if you can stomach aliens, get your snipers ready, and play Xcom Sniper Massive effect; :P DLL of Physx in the directory crashing, so a game this dated did not get it's own physX engine updated to match newest Physx drivers, tried a whole investigation at least ONCE to make it work, via nvcp, and it still crashed on the exact same place; GPU has high OC +450 on VRAM; and only 90 on core; so I will not do an Activision-COD-artifact-fixer for a game this aged; :) No changes attempted on removing OC to make physx work on 3rd attempt, Turned it off; Game said restart; I said ♥♥♥♥ you and played 14 hrs, in-out, alt-tabbing as necessary to do whatever else; or you can borderless windows;
Error; None; Visible; Event Viewer says: "PhysX: on; caused this crash: on DX11 mode;
Faulting application name: theBUREAU.exe, version: 0.1.0.15143, time stamp: 0x523bae03
Faulting module name: PhysXCore.dll, version: 2.8.4.6, time stamp: 0x501aa63d
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0004bc97
Faulting process id: 0x26EB8
Faulting application start time: 0x01DB95DD6892C
Faulting application path: F:\SteamLibrary\4\steamapps\common\The BUREAU\binaries\win32\theBUREAU.exe
Faulting module path: F:\SteamLibrary\4\steamapps\common\The BUREAU\binaries\win32\PhysXCore.dll
Report Id: 7709961b-6b1a-4cb9-88e2-0cdb51fb7ad6
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
"
Those blanks, are real blanks;
Default nvidia setting: CUDA - GPUs - All
CUDA - Sysmem Fallback Policy Driver default;
Manage 3D Settings for The BUREAU XU - Changed these:
Anisotropic Filtering: 16X as per in-game;
Texture Filtering: Anisotropic Sample Options - ALLOW
CHANGED OPENGL GDI compatibility to Prefer Performance;
OPENGL RENDERING GPU - default to EXPLICITLY stating my GPU;
Texture Filtering - NEGATIVE LOD BIAS; ALLOWED
Configure Surround/PhysX;
No change; already on PhysX Process: GTX 1070;
Testing again;
it has no more crashes, 0 crashes now; :) Tested in i5 10400f GTX1070
first time x-comming so hard hahah iin 3rd person
it said to restart when I turned it off, i said ♥♥♥♥ you and ran the game the entirety of my work day, and now
im pausing and going
alt tab;
back, at least 6 times
Fix the bugged Physx, Amen.
otherwise, the game looks amazing for the age; Reflections are great, shooting is responsive, albeit sensitive, but you can spam a semi-auto rifle well into combo EXP's
I also :) Love those sexy women from this era; Can't wait for them to tag along; XD
another remarkable thing was low power draw, like 44-50W/h whether idle, or playing , or full on cut scenes;
You get a lot of cutscenes/cinematics in this game, enjoy the ride.
it's also old-school , so enjoy it for that, take note of the details; you might need them ;? or RIght click and skip the parts you don't care for, or subtitle on and read it faster than them;
F5 to guide you during missions , the levels are 'linear' but have small explorations; notes to read, pictures to investigate;
Reached the observatory, and cannot get through the door...finally restarting the game, first time this day. Alt tabable, when you want, on demand. Can perform better with Steam overlay off; Restarted game, and made it through the door. Glad it didn't break the whole save; Pause menu in-game says I'm only 2h 49min into this; :) Lots more to come!
I love the mission take-offs :D
