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

[Alienman]

Chimera Squad is cool, going by the world-building (if you care about the lore stuff), and gameplay. However, the characters are hit or miss, very Marvel tier.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

going by the world-building (if you care about the lore stuff), and gameplay.

You should give Phoenix Point a try, with the now fully released Terror from the Void mod.

 

[Alienman]

going by the world-building (if you care about the lore stuff), and gameplay.

You should give Phoenix Point a try, with the now fully released Terror from the Void mod.

Not played the void mod, but I have played PP. Didn't like it too much, but I enjoyed the setting, and general “cosmic horror” atmosphere.

 

[mastroego]

I didn't have XCOM + Enemy Within

Then I suggest you play it perhaps once with the Long War mod, and then consider to make the jump to Long War Rebalanced, even though it's been worked on still.
I personally never played Vanilla, despite having 1400+ hours with the game (not a badge of honor or anything, but I do have a certain experience with these mods).

 

[Fargus]

Already have and played everything except Chlamydia Squad because playing xcom game with a bunch of predefined cringy woketards coexisting with aliens? lol just no.

Tried Penis Point and it was fun for some time but midgame it becomes very boring and tedious. Just can't force myself to finish it.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Wow! GOG is missing more than a few:
XCOM: Enemy Within


Oh wait... my bad on that one

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Complete Pack includes XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the following DLCs: XCOM: Enemy Within, XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Elite Soldier Pack, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack.

XCOM 2: Reinforcement Pack

Description

Bolster your ranks with three themed DLC packs available together for an amazing discounted value. Each themed content pack will add unique new twists to the core game experience:

• Anarchy’s Children: Rebellion-themed content with more dramatic soldier customizations.
• ALIEN HUNTERS introduces new soldier customizations and gameplay themed around XCOM as an elite alien hunting unit. Face off against “Ruler” aliens with new, more powerful weapons and armor. Experience a new dramatic mission & confrontation.
• SHEN’S LAST GIFT introduces a new soldier class with unique upgradeable weapons, armor and customization features, and a new narrative-driven mission and map.

Still, that's a helluva discount. Pity you don't get full steam point value and only the paltry discount in points.

I imagine steam has more mods readily available than GOG.

 

[FreshCorpse]

That's a steep discount.

The only pieces I don't have are the Slingshot pack for XCOM (2012) and Chimera Squad. What am I missing not having them?

I thought Slingshot was a fun little series of missions with a decent extra soldier.

I still haven't tried Chimera Squad, but it looks awful compared to the other games.

Weird to imagine playing nuXCOM 1 without Zhang. He's in my A-team in every campaign I run. First guy I chop to become a mech as well, if I'm going down that route.

 

[*-*/\--/\~]

The entire nu-XCOM collection is on sale on steam with a super discount of 96%

Shows up as 81% discount to me for some reason.

Anyway, I played enough of the regular xcoms and chimera squad was shit, dropped it after an hour.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Played em all to death, except Chimera. That one is shit

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Yeah, don't bother with Chimera. It's a prime example of that shitty, irreverent millennial writing with shit gameplay to boot. Completely misses what made X-Com great.

 

[jackofshadows]

Disagree on Chimera's gameplay. I think it's pretty good, liked the new breach mechanic, overall plays decently but yeah the characters are absolutely obnoxious as the whole game's premise.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

No permadeath or geoscape, and it uses a linear set of missions. So it's not x-com, just a generic tactics game with firaxcom paint. I will admit that the breach mechanic is really cool, it just doesn't belong in an x-com game. They should have just made a tactical police game, like a SWAT TBS.
I dropped it after the game broke and refused to spawn a trigger needed for progression. Because testing for game-breaking bugs is apparently too hard for most companies these days.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Human and half alien / alien quirky SWAT team really turned me off.

 

[Galdred]

Human and half alien / alien quirky SWAT team really turned me off.

The worst is that there was already a simple way to do it without butchering the settings, just by playing Advent.

The breaching mechanisms was not worth the removal of permadeath and geoscape IMO.