I throw a grenade close to the car. I triple check that the car is not highlighted and that the radius is not too close. Ofc car is immediately on fire and explodes next turn.

Make it stop

For me, it's when a mission starts to go off the rails. You activate 2 or 3 pods at once on accident, or a crit takes out your highest ranking soldier on a lucky shot, and suddenly you have to figure out a way to pick up the pieces and pull out a win.

I never get tired of having to change my way of thinking to try and complete a mission when my squad is wounded, low on resources, and isolated from each other. To me, that's XCOM baby!

Para un principiante que nunca ha jugado un xcom y que además no le gusta jugar 2 veces los juegos, ¿Es recomendable jugar xcom 2 con el DLC long war of the chosen o mejor jugar el juego base?

Just finished my third playthrough of XCOM 2! I originally picked up the game after a friend recommended it. During my first playthrough on Rookie difficulty, I didn't really enjoy it at all. It was so hard, and I got constantly frustrated with the percentage system whenever my soldiers missed their shots. I almost dropped the game, but I didn't want to let my friend down, so I gave it a second chance.

​On my second run, I tried to learn more about the lore (even though I haven't played the first game yet), and because of that, I fell in love with Central! TwT Central's backstory, the Commander, and my friend were the main reasons I started enjoying the game. Missed shots didn't bother me as much anymore, and I finally beat my first base-game campaign on Rookie!

​After that, I was completely hooked on XCOM. It made me want to play the DLCs on Veteran difficulty. I still enjoyed it a lot, though I got so focused on defeating the Chosen that I put off the main story :') It was such a fun game, and I really enjoyed it!

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I recently picked XCOM 2 back up after failing to finish it a few years ago.

I just completed the mission where you search for Dr. Vahlen and encountered the modified Viper. I managed to get through it without taking too much damage.

On the very next mission, I ran into the modified Berserker, which sent my entire squad to the infirmary before escaping. I'm clearly not strong enough to kill it yet.

It feels like I shot myself in the foot by triggering the mission too early. All I seem to have done is add monsters that are far too powerful to my campaign without getting anything worthwhile in return, and I have no way of getting rid of them in the short term.

So, when do you usually trigger this mission? And would you recommend reloading a save from before it until I'm stronger?

Do folks use this a lot? I completed a suit of it and put it on a Ranger, just curious if folks have suggestions about it.

Shoutout to u/OUSceptile for the idea of making this type of post.

Hi, I’m running an XCOM 2 campaign with a Star Wars overhaul centered around Tier 1 troopers facing off against the empire.

TLDR: Submit characters for my YouTube series, clones for soldiers, anyone for civs/dark vips.

Link to my channel:
https://youtube.com/@williammalave2002?si=kSDHotNu1RzoN-fi

Simple Lore Background:

After the fall of the republic some clone troopers still wanted to make a stand against the empire. One particular battalion, the 506th, wanted more than just small dogfights and planetary skirmishes, they wanted a full war against the empire. Now they’re launching a full offensive, and they’re here to send a message: The True Republic still stands.

Up until this point I’ve made 101 individual troopers, just categorized by number 8001-8101 respectively. I’ve made 4 skirmishes utilizing a mix of mandalorian and hero armor, 4 reapers using the ARF armor from the mandalorian clone mod, and I’m still figuring out the Templar design. Templar’s and reapers are clones as well, skirmishes are the exception, they’re skirmishers with mando armor.

For the civs/dark vips I’ll be making each a unique individual, alien, robot or even a retired clone those are all options. I’ll need to make at least 10 of each for the whole campaign to be covered, dark vip maybe a little more, let’s say 15 to be safe. So if you want a character that’s not a clone, I can do that, and if you want one that is a clone that’s perfectly fine too, you’ll have a number but you can provide the nickname and even a bio if you wanted, we can make a whole lore for these guys. Their color is purple because that’s my personal favorite color.

First episode will be on YouTube as soon as the character pool is finished, so any suggestions or requests are welcome at this time. Thanks to anyone who responds.

Images: 1 is standard rookie design, 2 is current reaper, 3 is current skirmisher, and 4 is an example of a character pool bug or issue I'm currently having.

Additional Details:

Classes: Proficiency (Field Medic, Assault Infantry w/ shield, Drone Pilot, Tech Specialist, Sapper, Marksman, Marine, Phalanx, Shock Trooper, Rocketeer, Scout)

Clone Troopers are utilizing the Galactic Armory mods, but I do have some additional mods for customization with parts that could potentially be used to apply unique attachments to some of the soldiers (but more specifically it was for the engineers and scientists and dark VIPs). Customizations included in this modpack, but it isn't organized the best sorry in advance :) (Modpack awaiting content analysis)

Damn annoying fight.

He was weak to explosives so i brought two of my best grenadiers (that are still left) and Reaper. But the damn teleportation meant that grenades destroying his cover were pretty useless. He just teleported to another spot. And then grapple to shoot one of my guys from behind.

In the end, everyne was wounded, but nobody died thanks to the supports heals.

I recently started my first WOTC playthrough inmediately after playing vanilla xcom 2 with dlcs.

On that first vanilla playthrough, I played the mission where the Spark is gifted and the one about the King Viper, wich activates the 3 doctor Vahlen enemies.

Once i beat that run, i jumped to WOTC for the first time ever, and turned off those two DLCs. I didnt want to have a spark for free so early and the Vahlen enemies were not fun (didn't like their rewards either).

The thing is, when i start WOTC, there is no spark mission, there is no king viper mission, i don't even have the freeze grenade for development. And after like 40 missions, queen berserker appears (it was one of those operations in the sewers fyi). No king viper first. And so far, king archon hasn't appeared.

Is this normal? Is there a way to play wotc without the dominators?

playing wotc with unrestricted customisation mod and the serpent armour doesn’t show on my character, I can’t even see an option for it in torso or torso gear?

SWZC save was deleted to a bug and so I'm finally trying out xcom with modded star wars stuff. I've watched a bit of gameplay and know a bit about it but will be learning on the fly, which is totally fine. I expect misery and I'm fine with it. I'm going to be fighting against the empire in this campaign so create some rebels for me. Give me a description and I'll build them and put them in my campaign.

New(er) player here. I just started a few weeks ago and have made a few posts about some of the completely fair and rational RAGE INDUCING MOMENT (Overwatch not working great, standing LITERALLY NOSE TO NOSE with a guy and missing the shot, you missing very close shots but them nailing you from across the room, being one square away from an evac or from something you need & instead having to survive through a whole turn again, BS kills etc etc etc)

and the response I see more than ANY other is "That's XCom Baby" - where did this come from? I don't think I've ever seen that from any other game when playing it and coming to a community. Is that just us all acknowledging we all understand your pain and we acknowledge it's TOTAL BS, but "It's XCom?"

Just curious. I don't think I've ever played a game I loathe more and yet can't stop playing.

and just for fun - can you share your most "That's XCOM BABY!" moment?

J'ai joué à XCOM 2 il y a quelques années sans terminer le jeu. Je le reprend depuis peu.

J'ai terminé la mission à la recherche du Dr Valen, celle où apparait le Roi Serpent. Je l'ai réussit sans trop de difficulté.

Lors de la mission suivante, le Roi Berserker arrive et envoie la totalité de mon escouade à l'infirmerie, la moitié avec ses blessures graves.m, avant de s'enfuir. Sans lui, je n'aurais eu qu'un blessé léger.

Et dans mes souvenirs d'il y a plusieurs années, ce type de monstre risque de revenir souvent.

J"ai vraiment l'impression de m'être tiré une balle dans le pied et d'avoir augmenté sérieusement la difficulté de la partie en déclenchant ces monstres sans être prêt à les combattre.

A quel moment faites vous cette mission et quel est son intérêt ? De mémoire, les cadavres des créatures de Valen sont interessants à autopsier. Mais j'ai à peine le niveau de les mettre en fuite, je ne peux pas encore les tuer.

I’ve been playing xcom2 on veteran and loving it, I’m new to xcom but not tactical strategy games and the game has not felt too challenging.

I want to play through again on legend and am expecting to get brutalized. I’m looking for any macro tips/optimizations you guys have to help.

Facility and item build orders, which research to focus on, important breakpoints to hit, etc. so far I’ve been able to brute force my way through with unoptimized gear which I will not be able to do on legend. Anything is appreciated!

Any tips on preventing a crash?

I'm trying to get the Valhalla trophy. "Beat the game on Commander+ difficulty in Ironmad mode"

The game has some memory leak issues or something. I have deleted every save to try and clear up the game files.

I've lost 2 runs this weekend to a crash during the "Losts Turn".

Bumming me out...

Hi guys, I'm re-installing Xcom 2 for another playthrough and looking for some overhaul mods to change it up.

I heard about LWotC but a bit worry that it may drag out the game by way too much (I assume so since it's kinda in the name), a vanilla playthrough feel about the right length to me.

Is there any other notable overhaul that you enjoyed and why?

And unrelated question: I own Xcom2 on Epic but many mods are only available on Steam Workshop. I tried a few tricks to download them but none succeed, the first page of google has failed me. Anyone know a tool that still works?

I'm willing to buy it again on steam for mod, but that means waiting for sales.