X-COM XCOM 2 + War of the Chosen Expansion Thread

[Space Satan]

I love the patch notes

- Significant updates to reinforcements and arrival timing to go along with increased mission timers. Decreased reinforcement rates on most missions on rookie and veteran. Reinforcements won't occur if more than 70 living enemies are on the map. Reinforcements of 10 and 12 enemies are now possible. Initial reinforcement pod strength will depend on infiltration %. Reinforcement Rate still depends primarily on region strength.

Because battles with 24 visible aliens, with 3 grenadiers, 3 heavy rocketeers and 6 vipers among them, were not exciting enough. That perfectly describes their understanding of reality.

 

[Raghar]

70 living enemies on map. What's a chance that 1/20 shot would hit?

 

[ArchAngel]

I love the patch notes

- Significant updates to reinforcements and arrival timing to go along with increased mission timers. Decreased reinforcement rates on most missions on rookie and veteran. Reinforcements won't occur if more than 70 living enemies are on the map. Reinforcements of 10 and 12 enemies are now possible. Initial reinforcement pod strength will depend on infiltration %. Reinforcement Rate still depends primarily on region strength.

Because battles with 24 visible aliens, with 3 grenadiers, 3 heavy rocketeers and 6 vipers among them, were not exciting enough. That perfectly describes their understanding of reality.

If you let number of enemies reach those numbers that is your own fault.

 

[Zep Zepo]

I played vanilla.

This LW 1 and 2 sounds like...

XCOM - Fuck You! You're Dead!

Zep--

 

[thesheeep]

This LW 1 and 2 sounds like...

XCOM - Fuck You! You're Dead!

It's really more of a "Fuck You! Those (non-threatening) monsters are too scary! I'm going to cry!".

 

[not an artichoke]

Never thought I'd see the day the Codex cried because a game with adjustable difficulty levels was too hard.

LW2 is amazing. If you don't like some of the things like reinforcement numbers you're an .ini edit away from perfecting your experience.

 

[Zero Credibility]

LW1 is good and is pretty much mandatory for me if I would ever play the game again. But LW2 feels like a step forward (randomised maps, finally!), two steps back. Way too many rough edges and fuck-you things that happen without even a chance of countering them (especially on the strategic level), while some things that I liked from the previous game/mod are missing or implemented only half-assed.

 

[ArchAngel]

After I got totally demolished in a Supply Raid mission by aliens way beyond my tech level - I only got basic Laser weapons and no armor and they had Muton Centurions and Heavy MECs - I learned that in 1.3 skipping Supply Raids is how you play now. In their attempt to stop everyone farming Supply Raids in 1.2 and below they went the other way now and made them almost impossible to do.

 

[Space Satan]

After I got totally demolished in a Supply Raid mission by aliens way beyond my tech level - I only got basic Laser weapons and no armor and they had Muton Centurions and Heavy MECs - I learned that in 1.3 skipping Supply Raids is how you play now. In their attempt to stop everyone farming Supply Raids in 1.2 and below they went the other way now and made them almost impossible to do.

100% infil? and less than 6 advent str in the region?

 

[ArchAngel]

Had 63% and region was 1 str but next one was 5.
In 1.2 I was able to do 0% inf

 

[Jimmious]

Something's up

 

[ArchAngel]

And we need to wait 4 days for it

 

[Morgoth]

Would love a standalone expansion with a Terror from the Deep setting.

 

[Space Satan]

THIRD REBOOT! NOW ALIENS COME TO COEXIST AND THEN ANOTHER ALIENS TO PERSECUTE FIRST ALIENS AND THEN THIRD ALIENS TO PERSECUTE THEM ALL

 

[Space Satan]

Anyway, should they ditch that cancerous turn timer for every mission, I'd be happy with the expansion.

 

[Mazisky]

Enemy within style expansion, it's obvious!

 

[Alienman]

The real war? I'm getting inception vibes. Are we finally outside the dream? Is the top spinning?

 

[Jimmious]

The real war? I'm getting inception vibes. Are we finally outside the dream? Is the top spinning?

 

[ArchAngel]

The real war? I'm getting inception vibes. Are we finally outside the dream? Is the top spinning?

Xcom 2 ends by you finding out Elders were preparing to fight someone. I guess now we get to fight that someone. I don't have a clue how it is going to work.

 

[Alienman]

Cthulhu, just to clash even more with Phoenix Point.

 

[Achilles]

I hope they remove the timers and rebalance the game. Fuck timers.

 

[Mazisky]

The real war? I'm getting inception vibes. Are we finally outside the dream? Is the top spinning?

Xcom 2 ends by you finding out Elders were preparing to fight someone. I guess now we get to fight that someone. I don't have a clue how it is going to work.

I doubt they make an expansion as a stand alone post vanilla, generally they do mid content with the same campaign

 

[Galdred]

What is your problem with timers? They are what make the game tense, and prevent you to wait 4 turns to reload every weapons, or move 1 dude at a time.

I'd rather have the pods removed instead.

 

[thesheeep]

What is your problem with timers? They are what make the game tense, and prevent you to wait 4 turns to reload every weapons, or move 1 dude at a time.

I'd rather have the pods removed instead.

The timers aren't always bad.
But each mission has them, which is just annoying to play.

Let some missions have them (where it makes sense), and have some without.
And, yeah, definitely remove that pod nonsense.

 

[Mazisky]

What is your problem with timers? They are what make the game tense, and prevent you to wait 4 turns to reload every weapons, or move 1 dude at a time.

I'd rather have the pods removed instead.

The timers aren't always bad.
But each mission has them, which is just annoying to play.

Let some missions have them (where it makes sense), and have some without.
And, yeah, definitely remove that pod nonsense.

I don't get timers complains in a turn based game, it's not like u have 1 min to end the turn, u can have a 10 turn timer and 4 days of free thinking before it expires lol