XCOM 2

Well, the air game in EU/EW was absolute shit, not to mention really fucking annoying. I've actually done enough restarts to have the RNG kill my fighter in the first ufo fight once. I know he said no Meld, but can't remember him saying no MECs. We better get MECs at some point since the enemy has them.

As for the cinematic stuff, he said it was just, like, the tutorial and a couple story missions, just like the first game. I really can't see them cutting out the console port to avoid the limitations that puts on them, just to turn around and give us less of a game than Xcom 1.

I'm jealous of you guys going through the Long War. I'm trying my hand at Classic Ironman EW and I'm finding it a good level of challenge, can't really imagine LW.

Quick Q since it doesn't deserve an XCOM thread bump. I get my abduction missions, the US is at 5 panic, Egypt is at 4. I had planned to put a Satellite in the US by the end of the month because I want the bonus. If I ignore the US and the panic level is raised, do they immediately leave the council? I know normally it's at the end of the month when you get your report card, but I wanna verify that a 5-star paniced country that gets more panic-y doesn't peace out immediately.

Im pretty sure that in both Long War and Vanilla, countries only leave the council at the end of the month. The only exception is the country that is scripted to leave the council in the first month of Long War.

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And infiltration missions, but if you're so far behind the aliens that they have the resources to run an infiltration mission, your campaign is probably lost anyway.

Seananigans_sl said:

But yes, the modders will make it what it needs to be if necessary. The problem is, they perhaps won't even be able to if stuff like air game and MECs aren't even in the game at all. Correct me if I'm wrong!

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From what they have said about it, modders will be able to put anything in, so you don't have to worry about MECs possibly not being in the base game. Mods will be able to add pretty much anything, new models and all that is needed for different units included.

Funny stuff, Firaxis dev even said it was going around the office yesterday.

That was brilliant, thanks for the share.

Feature that was cut early in EU development (I guess the Long War guys took a stab at getting it working again?). Unlisted video from the audio lead on EU.

From what I remember, if you exit out of the Geoscape, then bring it back up, you can send a second interceptor out before the first one is back.

I didn't feel like searching for the XCom 1 thread because I'm lazy as fuck.

Anyway, this will be the last time I shill for Long War, because the mod is now feature complete! There are still a couple voice packs in the pipeline as well as some bug fixes, but the mod is essentially done and all that is left is polish. So if you want to wet your beak on something while you wait for XCom 2, give Long War a try!

"Takes XCOM to a new level." - Jake Solomon, XCOM lead designer, via Twitter

"We're basically a 20-hour tutorial for Long War, and that's okay." -- Solomon, via IGN

"This mod is the absolute best way to play XCOM" - Wired

"This is a collection of profound and surprisingly careful changes ... It's like a free expansion pack ... " - Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"Terrific ..." - Kokatu

"Turns XCOM: Enemy Within into nothing short of a serviceable turn-based military alien invasion strategy wargaming simulator." - Polygon

Named by PC Gamer one of the 15 most brutal mods of all time and in November 2014 was the site's Mod of the Week.

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Long War at XCOM Enemy Unknown Nexus - mods and community

This is for XCom 2, don't neg me bros!

XCOM 2 Exclusive Class Reveal: The Sharpshooter - GameSpot

Tidbits about the Sharpshooter, and about customizing your gear.

I'm not sure I like their design goal of making you overpowered towards endgame. I mean, that's the case with Xcom:EU/EW too, but I always enjoy the midgame more where you are behind in some aspects and struggling to make it. Once the aliens stop being ahead of your team and you psi/snipe/super-assault through hordes of them, it lose alot of charm.

Mr Creed_sl said:

I'm not sure I like their design goal of making you overpowered towards endgame. I mean, that's the case with Xcom:EU/EW too, but I always enjoy the midgame more where you are behind in some aspects and struggling to make it. Once the aliens stop being ahead of your team and you psi/snipe/super-assault through hordes of them, it lose alot of charm.

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I think it's very much necessary, I want to play a game where I can win and just before the end have my victory lap. If they kept you struggling and then rolled the credits without any space to play around, I guarantee that would be the first mod. Look how often people want NG+, this is pretty much it.

They could balance the difficulty settings to provide both game experiences, but that has not worked for EU/EW imo. Impossible is randomly ballbreaking early on and you still get over a hill at some point where you cannot really lose anymore. Although since they will have good mod support for XCOM2, maybe something like Long War comes out quickly.

I'd actually love a PVE XCOM online experience, where you run a base just like the single player game and the company provides regular, temporary content kinda like various mobile games. Think Puzzles&Dragons meets XCOM.

XCom 2 is supposed to be a bajillion times more moddable than the first, so you should be able to get whatever gameplay experience you desire, instead of your options being base game or Long War and nothing else.