Hotfix City. XCOM 2 Now Playable!

The good news is that XCOM 2 was patched on February 17th and now appears to be stable.  I loaded my previously corrupt save files and finished off the last aliens with no problems.  The hotfix promised to fix several of the larger problems that have been plaguing some players and to improve performance.  I did notice that certain parts of the game that had been running very slowly were running much more smoothly--notably the briefing scenes that take place on the Skyranger before/after missions.  I was thrilled to be able to continue playing but others were not and claimed that the performance tweaks didn't go far enough.

Back to alien slaying.

I have been fairly lucky in that I have had few issues with games that I have pre-ordered.  I was upset that I couldn't play for awhile, but I am glad that Firaxis/2K was very responsive to complaints.  My support tickets were answered very promptly (which shocked me) and they gave me great advice about other things I could fix that might be causing problems.  Where ever you are Sean C. from 2K support, you have my thanks!

I'm not sure how to feel about this whole fiasco.  It was disappointing that the game had so many issues even after it was delayed.  Why are so many games released with issues that could possibly make them unplayable?  It has become so commonplace that games are released with these problems that we should just expect them (or we could rebel!  But I don't really see people--including myself--stopping pre-ordering or not buying any more games).  Maybe I will learn from this experience...but probably not.  Maybe the industry will change...probably not.

I know one thing...I will definitely be killing more aliens in XCOM 2.

Addendum 2/19/16:  I played quite awhile longer last night and had some issues with crashing.  The crashes would occur while loading in the middle of missions.  I haven't had another mission where I have encountered chrysalids.  My poor squad is struggling as I have had some soldiers who have gotten wounded and had long recovery times.  I am currently experiencing an acute shortage of rangers as my short-range warriors keep getting mauled.