{"id":7967,"date":"2012-10-23T18:31:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T22:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2013-01-07T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T16:11:42","slug":"xcom-enemy-unknown-first-dlc-slingshot-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/xcom-enemy-unknown-first-dlc-slingshot-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"XCOM Enemy Unknown: First DLC &#8220;Slingshot&#8221; Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/xcom_dlc_slingshot.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"xcom_dlc_slingshot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7968\" title=\"xcom_dlc_slingshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/xcom_dlc_slingshot1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Firaxis Games and 2K announced &#8220;Slingshot&#8221;, the first DLC to be released for XCOM: Enemy Unknown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Slingshot Content Pack&#8221;, as 2K calls the DLC, will be available for PC, XBox 360 and PS3 and it will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 new council missions and completely new (and regional based) maps after diverting an alien ship&#8217;s course, and do battle with the aliens in the skies over China\u00a0(not available in multiplayer)<\/li>\n<li>A new playable squad character with a unique story and voice<\/li>\n<li>New character customization options<\/li>\n<li>Missions successful completion unlock an existing piece of tech earlier in the game (Blaster Launcher).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The release date and pricing details for this first DLC are unknown at the moment but are expected to be released soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There&#8217;s a second DLC envisaged<\/strong> in addition to this &#8220;Slingshot&#8221; DLC but no details were given about that one. And this excludes <strong>a third DLC<\/strong>, already available: the &#8220;Elite Soldiers Pack&#8221; which was\u00a0previously available for people who pre-ordered the game and that is now <a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/209811\/\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a> to everybody for $4.99\/\u20ac4.49.<\/p>\n<p>Content from press release <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2012\/10\/23\/firaxis-talks-future-xcom-content-slingshot-dlc-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\">via Joystiq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely I was hoping for a different kind of extension. More storyline, more \u00a0aliens, the &#8220;<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/xcom-enemy-unknown-review\/comment-page-1\/#comment-278404\" target=\"_blank\">second wave<\/a>&#8221; options ready to boost replayability perhaps. However, three new distinct maps are nice though not sure if it&#8217;s worth it, depends on the price.<\/p>\n<p>And, I sincerely hope more patches will be released by the time the DLC releases. There&#8217;s still a lot of issues they need to iron out before starting to ask people for more money. Especially the camera glitches and the semi-broken SHIVs need to be fixed asap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firaxis Games and 2K announced &#8220;Slingshot&#8221;, the first DLC to be released for XCOM: Enemy Unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[742,835,741,1171,751],"class_list":["post-7967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-2k-games","tag-dlc","tag-firaxis-games","tag-slingshot-content-pack","tag-xcom-enemy-unknown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}