WotC geoscope is a mess

[Bullett00th]

Maybe I just don't remember well from vanilla, but it seems like I can't even scan a given location for a day without something new (and often urgent) coming up. This removes any kind of forward thinking from the strategic layer and turns it into a rush between the most urgent site scans, where the only decision making is which one has less time left so it has to be scanned immediately.

I remember having a similar issue in vanilla, but not to the extent of having a screen full of scan sites that pop up faster than missions go.

Is there a way to deal with this or do I just consciously skip half of them?

[berrako]

You can't scan everything, you need to prioritize based in what you need more in the moment.

Sometimes is even better to ignore pois, if you need to contact quickly or even because you need to scan in one of the resistance bases (for example is you need a building asap, you can scan in the skirmisher base for reduce building times or if you have a lot of wounds and need faster recovering in the Templar base)

If you think the standard if a mess, try to counter the dark event that increase scan times, it sucks 😬

[Deathraven13]

Most of the time you'll always have things to scan, you don't need to scan everything so only scan what you need.

[Perplex]

It is like that in the beginning. When i played the first time i almsot quit because of how annoying it was that stuff poped up 24/7 but nowdays i learned that the begining is not as crucial as it seems when you start. For example, you can totaly skip the first retaliation mission and you dont need to do the guerilla ops at all if you dont want to.

[orion winterfire]

I skip most of the rumors after the first couple months. Few of them are worth the time, esp on legend, where for most of the game you'd be better off hanging out at skirmisher hq if nothing else.

[Mhblis]

No its the same in vanilla. Early on you feel constantly bombarded by stuff.

[talemore]

The resistance tumblr posting so ignore them until you made the first outpost.

[red255]

Originally posted by berrako:

You can't scan everything, you need to prioritize based in what you need more in the moment.

if you get avenger scanning time reduced for the next 4 weeks and contact with new regions made instantly, you can generally scan everything.

[Abrakadabra]

Originally posted by Bullett00th:

Maybe I just don't remember well from vanilla, but it seems like I can't even scan a given location for a day without something new (and often urgent) coming up. This removes any kind of forward thinking from the strategic layer and turns it into a rush between the most urgent site scans, where the only decision making is which one has less time left so it has to be scanned immediately.

I remember having a similar issue in vanilla, but not to the extent of having a screen full of scan sites that pop up faster than missions go.

Is there a way to deal with this or do I just consciously skip half of them?

Actually, in this game and wotc it is watered down considerably to make it much, much less stressful. Imagine being the one person and group that has any success in such a conflict and everybody knows that youre the only one that can tackle the hardest parts of what needs to be done. You think youd get just a few ppl contacting you?

No.

Youd get a thousand times as many ppl that call for help that offer assistance and youd have to make much, much x kazillion harder choices what to do with your time. Who to help. What kind of ressources and help you choose to get.

If anything, they made it very very chill cause they only had the fun in mind.

id like there to be much harder choices in terms of what to do between missions.

I mean, in xcom 2/wotc, there really arent that many hard choices in terms of what to scan/where to fly. You check what you need at a given time. What you need most and thats what you scan. You need engineers desperately? Then you take that scan. You are starved for intel and really need to expand to 2 new regions to reach faciliy and only have 2 ticks left on doom clock?

You take the intel scan between missions.

Youre about to get to mag/gauss/predator or plasma weapons.....then you take the alloys/elyrium scans.

Its not actually stressful cause theres only a very small number of ressources that you need to balance. You simply check what you need right now and go for that scan and ignore all other scans. Its quite easy.

In reality it would be ten billions times more stressful and youd have to make way and over the top harder choices.

[red255]

I almost never get what i need from scans.

except engineers and resistance contacts. I don't get alloys/elerium until much later in the game.

I get my alloys from digging alien machinery.

and intel spent to the black market.

I get my INTEL from diverting research to decrypting alien cache.

[Abrakadabra]

Originally posted by red255:

I almost never get what i need from scans.

except engineers and resistance contacts. I don't get alloys/elerium until much later in the game.

I get my alloys from digging alien machinery.

and intel spent to the black market.

Scans saved my life so often.

Early engineer scan is invaluable. Several facility lead scans saved my butt prolly half a dozen times. Alloys/Crystal scans allowed me to field much tougher squads with considerably more armor/firepower when I would have had to fight with much weaker equipped squads for several missions without such scans. Intel scans are a life saver often times. Actually.....almost all scans are great.

[Bullett00th]

Originally posted by iluvpumpum:

Originally posted by Bullett00th:

Maybe I just don't remember well from vanilla, but it seems like I can't even scan a given location for a day without something new (and often urgent) coming up. This removes any kind of forward thinking from the strategic layer and turns it into a rush between the most urgent site scans, where the only decision making is which one has less time left so it has to be scanned immediately.

I remember having a similar issue in vanilla, but not to the extent of having a screen full of scan sites that pop up faster than missions go.

Is there a way to deal with this or do I just consciously skip half of them?

Actually, in this game and wotc it is watered down considerably to make it much, much less stressful.

It's not about being stressful, due to being overwhelming, more like too much choice. I probably should get into the mindset that it doesn't all have to be scanned though.

[Abrakadabra]

Originally posted by Bullett00th:

Originally posted by iluvpumpum:

Actually, in this game and wotc it is watered down considerably to make it much, much less stressful.

It's not about being stressful, due to being overwhelming, more like too much choice. I probably should get into the mindset that it doesn't all have to be scanned though.

Yeah, definitely dont scan everything.

Focus most of your scan efforts to immediately reach regions with facilities. If you have access to doom reducing regions with facilities, still have the blacksite and maybe even avatar timer reducing resistance ring missions then you got time to scan for other stuff. Youll get a feel for it, but if you have only 2 ticks left and cant reduce doom via RR and you still have to reach a region then dont scan for anything else and only focus on reaching the region(s) with facilities. Id actually focus on that sooner.

Therell be enough chances to scan for stuff.