Free-to-play games about clashes of clans and crushings of candy are still the most successful types of titles on touchscreen devices, and that's not changing soon. Future games from XCOM's developer Firaxis will almost certainly be designed from the beginning with the iPad in mind.īut, at least in the foreseeable future, these big releases will be few and far between. You will see a couple of other publishers use the success of the iOS version of XCOM as a justification for ports of their own titles. If even one more publisher decides to release a high-quality iOS port of a successful PC or console game, I'm going to have to ditch that XCOM install. XCOM 2 Collection Articles Top 25 best console and PC conversions for iPhone and iPad (iOS) The best new mobile game of the week: Exorcist in Island - 4 March. But despite this, I'm down to just 1 GB of space left on my 16 GB iPad for all the games on there. I don't download music, movies or books to my iPad – I use Spotify, Netflix and a Kindle Paperwhite instead. If you've got a 16 GB or even 32 GB tablet, that's a serious chunk of storage. I'm fairly sure it's possible because I think I did it by. How can I do waypoint movements in XCOM-2 seems to cover this for PC, and How can I do waypoint movements in XCOM 2 (console version) addresses it on home consoles, but neither cover iOS.
There's also an infrastructure problem facing other publishers of big games on mobile devices. I can't figure out how to set waypoints in the iOS (i'm on iPad specifically) version of XCOM 2. This is not a situation that publishers of games often find themselves in. XCOM already had a perfect combination of tablet-friendly gameplay and high popularity.