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

[Grunker]

My Long War playthrough continues. This is just a great game. Typical missions have 5 soldiers minimum, often 6, sometimes 7 and a few times 8. There is a huge variety of mission types with all the special missions on top of the basic ones, and the infiltration system is fantastic.

What I love the most is that this is an XCOM-like that actually forces you to use an incredibly deep roster of varied soldiers built very different. This is my current roster:

Spoiler

You need all those guys because you'll want to be running 2-3 ops at any given time + you need soldiers for very tasks like covert ops, haven advisors etc.

The above roster has even been cut down some since I just had a fairly catastrophic mission leaving my memorial like this:

Spoiler

Because I'm playing completely blind on Ironman, I lost a few guys.

Anyway, huge fun. Can recommend. Very polished.

You are so many years late but better late then never. This is how I felt right after Xcom 2 release once first Long War was released.

Being late is a strategy. LWotC just got an update this winter, and it's a pretty great one. I'm enjoying the changes.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

My Long War playthrough continues. This is just a great game. Typical missions have 5 soldiers minimum, often 6, sometimes 7 and a few times 8. There is a huge variety of mission types with all the special missions on top of the basic ones, and the infiltration system is fantastic.

What I love the most is that this is an XCOM-like that actually forces you to use an incredibly deep roster of varied soldiers built very different. This is my current roster:

Spoiler

You need all those guys because you'll want to be running 2-3 ops at any given time + you need soldiers for very tasks like covert ops, haven advisors etc.

The above roster has even been cut down some since I just had a fairly catastrophic mission leaving my memorial like this:

Spoiler

Because I'm playing completely blind on Ironman, I lost a few guys.

Anyway, huge fun. Can recommend. Very polished.

Yo you got quite a few celebrities on that roster.
Seriously though, damsel nines?

 

[Grunker]

My Long War playthrough continues. This is just a great game. Typical missions have 5 soldiers minimum, often 6, sometimes 7 and a few times 8. There is a huge variety of mission types with all the special missions on top of the basic ones, and the infiltration system is fantastic.

What I love the most is that this is an XCOM-like that actually forces you to use an incredibly deep roster of varied soldiers built very different. This is my current roster:

Spoiler

You need all those guys because you'll want to be running 2-3 ops at any given time + you need soldiers for very tasks like covert ops, haven advisors etc.

The above roster has even been cut down some since I just had a fairly catastrophic mission leaving my memorial like this:

Spoiler

Because I'm playing completely blind on Ironman, I lost a few guys.

Anyway, huge fun. Can recommend. Very polished.

Yo you got quite a few celebrities on that roster.
Seriously though, damsel nines?

Had no idea what to use for last name lol. Unfortunately can’t leave it blank. That’s why Morte is 3x Morte :D

(also thank you to whoever made a skeleton mod allowing me a flying skull)

 

[Cael]

My Long War playthrough continues. This is just a great game. Typical missions have 5 soldiers minimum, often 6, sometimes 7 and a few times 8. There is a huge variety of mission types with all the special missions on top of the basic ones, and the infiltration system is fantastic.

What I love the most is that this is an XCOM-like that actually forces you to use an incredibly deep roster of varied soldiers built very different. This is my current roster:

Spoiler

You need all those guys because you'll want to be running 2-3 ops at any given time + you need soldiers for very tasks like covert ops, haven advisors etc.

The above roster has even been cut down some since I just had a fairly catastrophic mission leaving my memorial like this:

Spoiler

Because I'm playing completely blind on Ironman, I lost a few guys.

Anyway, huge fun. Can recommend. Very polished.

Yo you got quite a few celebrities on that roster.
Seriously though, damsel nines?

Had no idea what to use for last name lol. Unfortunately can’t leave it blank. That’s why Morte is 3x Morte :D

(also thank you to whoever made a skeleton mod allowing me a flying skull)

Damsel "Commiebitch" Damsel works for me...

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Unfortunately can’t leave it blank

Could probably just drop an underscore bruv.

I think if I get past this commander run I oughta hit lwotc. Also I should probably rotate the ranger and templar alternately so I have a proper meleefella for every mission.
Kinda weird how my ranger has been promoted every mission and he's already made major. Didn't happen that fast on veteran.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I think if I get past this commander run I oughta hit lwotc. Also I should probably rotate the ranger and templar alternately so I have a proper meleefella for every mission.
Kinda weird how my ranger has been promoted every mission and he's already made major. Didn't happen that fast on veteran.

Nevermind dudes, this run and next both got banjaxxed by the Ultima Eleventeen. I dunno if the avatar timer gets more aggressive with difficulty but it was rising consistently without a blacksite in reach.
Ah hell, I'm gonna extend the time and see if I catch a break this time.

Damn you Grunker , I put in like a 100+ hrs this week on this thanks to you bumping this threads.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

XCOM 3 WHEN?! I must reunite Jane Kelly and Tori Black.

Jane Kelly is lowkey my favorite female video game protagonist, because she's a throw away tutorial character who many turned God.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

XCOM 3 WHEN?! I must reunite Jane Kelly and Tori Black.

Jane Kelly is lowkey my favorite female video game protagonist, because she's a throw away tutorial character who many turned God.

Not heard of Chimera Squad, have you?

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

That's not part 3. Also I hate anime crap.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Nu XCOM is dead baby, XCOM is dead...

 

[Infinitron]

 

[gurugeorge]

Playing LWR - so far it seems really good with a hell of a lot of possible variability in tactics and builds, although I'm only cruising through on a Classic run atm. Years ago, I did a LW Impossible run up to getting plasma and big mecs, and I think this is maybe better than plain LW. There seems to be less getting-bogged-down in it, and it has QOL touches out the wazoo, it feels very complete as a game experience.

Very much not nuXCOM in terms of totally nixing Overwatch creep, pulling to Overwatch, etc., which is a bit jarring at first, but you get used to it. (Basically you can only enter Overwatch once combat has started and some enemy is in LoS), and there are enough Overwatch (well, what used to be called "Opportunist" type + Sentinel) specializations in some of the classes to make it still viable within the not-out-of-combat limitation. Infantry in particular are absolute beasts for Overwatch.

It strikes me that with LW and the LW variants, you're getting about as far away as you can get from that initial highly abstracted, board-gamey aspect of EU - the combat and flow feel much more simulationist. But as always, I wonder whether it's really the right type of engine for that (especially when I compare it to JA3, which I'm also playing off and on atm, which feels more simmy from the ground up).

 

[mastroego]

I've been saying that for a long time by now, LWR is the way to go at this point, but codexers never seemed very interested.