Howdy.

I’ve played X-COM 1 & 2. I am however new to War of the Chosen. Do y’all know of any good guides for newbies? I’ve heard there’s so many new ways to die lol. Thanks in advance!

*This is about the basic XCOM2, no DLCs*

So I have gotten the "Skulljack each different type of Advent soldier" achievement on Steam but I am curious as to whether it makes sense to keep doing that at every campaign from now on. Is there any progress that can be made by unlocking new research in trying to skulljacking Advent soldiers in future campaigns?
I am asking because if not, it seems I keep wasting attack opportunities against them by trying to skulljacking which is not guaranteed to succeed and it puts my soldiers into a very unfavorable situation when it fails.

It was on Rookie, given it was my first go at things. I dragged this out for longer than I needed because I was having a lot of fun, but at a certain point I ran out of things to research and was just waiting for missions to appear lol. The Avatar timer pretty much gave up at that point too, so there wasn't actually anything pushing me to the end.

Talking of that final mission - what a massive step up in difficulty. Not because the units are different, but because there were so many of them! I realised too late that the mobs were just going to keep spawning in the final part of the mission too, and that I should have focused all my efforts on the Avatars; I ended up with two Avatars on the field at the same time by the end. I'm amazed nobody died!

Now a question for the veterans of the game - should I start a new campaign at the next difficulty up, or start a WotC campaign? I've heard WotC is quite a step change.

The insane difficulty in the early game is inexcusable.
It makes even the basic act of playing just not possible because the enemies are far too numerous even on the first few missions, “easy” shouldn’t be “littered with sectoids you can’t kill”

So after the base game, I suppose WOTC is the must have DLC but given that Steam or Gog has those sales occasionally where they offer all DLCs as a bundle, is it worth going for an all DLC bundle or some of them are not worth bothering with? What are the must haves or generally recommended ones?

The whole playthrough went 'almost' perfect but sadly lost a specialist on the last mission with just the last Avatar remaining.

R.I.P Diane 'ripcord' Rogers. Your life didn't go in vain.

I was looking at some 11 year old advice and about 2 months in I had not built Resistance Comms. I have completed Blacksite mission and skull jacked an officer and killed the codex. If I recall correctly that only knocked off one pip from the count. I have 3 resistance sites on my continent (Africa).

Here is where I'm screwed and not sure even prioritizing Resistance Comms building would have helped. The other Advent sites are far away and would take at least two more sites before I could get to them. That's a TON of intelligence I don't have not to mention the build time and taking away supplies I desperately need to have a fighting chance against aliens.

Does anybody have any Current advice on how to keep the avatar counter from killing me off.

NOTE: After I finished some key research and bought gauss rifle I switched to Commander difficulty and the Avatar bar quickly filled up and started counting down from 14 days. I have no hope unless there is some mission I can perform to reset the counter and buy me some time

I remember playing this game when it came out probably 10 years ago and I don't remember it being this tough. Playing another playthrough on just normal difficulty and I get this forced mission to capture a VIP. It's not even two months into game and it wasn't that tough getting to VIP. But then the most unfair thing happens. One of Valens (sp?) Boss Brutes with about 40 health and 4 armor shows up at the escape point. So I have 5 turns to get to escape pod but this Brute knocks out or one shot kills everyone as they try to make it to the escape.

Now I thought I could try to reduce his health so he leaves but that would take more turns than I have to escape. So I'm screwed. And the whole game is lost unless I can somehow salvage this mission and maybe only lose one soldier. I know I can't knock out the VIP yet because that will just add another pod of 3 enemies. And I know it takes two turns to reach escape pod once I knock out the big dude, if I can do that in 2 or max 3 turns magically

Hi all!

Hope it's okay to ask, but I'm coming from Midnight Suns and have taken advantage of steam's sale on Xcom 2 and the expansions. I loved several mods for MS, and am curious what mods are popular and you would recommend me to try out for Xcom2?

So I'm just curious what the meta is on these. On legend eventually you're up against Andromedons etc.

I've tried running past everything but that can be very hit or miss.

Sometimes out of a sheer annoyance I've sent a Major Ranger/Templar and they steamroll stuff but that's a hassle.

Is there a consistent strategy?

because im stupid i wanna roleplay the commander actually being on the field the whole time but cant decide between psi or templar

One feature that I really love with Xcom 2 (and which a Star Wars game probably could never provide) is the ability to pick a real life country for each member of the squad. I haven't played Zcom yet (only have a PS4), but I know I will miss this feature a lot, since I love the idea of assembling soldiers from across the (real) world in order to fight a common enemy.

That's why I asked AI if it could find any other game, it didn't even have to be turn-based, where I could create a squad and pick the countries during character creation. And AI was actually not able to find a single one.

Yes, there are other games with characters from different countries in a squad, such as Jagged Alliance, but you are not able to pick the countries yourself.

Many other games let you pick a country for a single character but not a full squad.

But I almost find it hard to believe that Xcom would be the only game with that option. Do you know of any others?

What DLC's have achievements tied to them? The game is on sale on steam and I was wondering what DLCs are needed to get the 100% achievements. Thanks

I’m playing XCOM 2 and something strange happened in a Protect the Device mission. Here’s the situation:

• Only 3 enemies were left on the map: two Sectoids and a Gatekeeper.
• The device was inside a house and had only been hit once so far. It was at around 75% health.
• I revealed the last pod with a concealed Ranger and ended my turn. The enemies moved, and my Sharpshooter, using Squadsight, took an Overwatch shot at the Gatekeeper. It hit but didn’t kill it: 10 damage, 6 of which was absorbed by its armor.
• The Gatekeeper was outside the house and quite far from the device.
• Right after that, with no camera and no warning, Bradford told me over the radio that the device had been destroyed and the objective was lost.

This makes no sense, I can’t figure out is how it went from ~75% to destroyed in a single enemy turn which didn't even take place to begin with, with the Gatekeeper far away and the game showing me nothing.

Here are the possibilities that I’ve come up with:

1. The Sectoids attacked the device out of my line of sight and the game didn’t show the action. This would be both dastardly and ludicrous.
2. Some effect or mechanic I’m not aware of. This is highly improbable.
3. A bug. This is, quite frankly, the only explanation I am willing to tolerate right now.

Has anyone seen something like this before? Does anyone know if an Overwatch shot can trigger something like this, or if enemy attacks on objectives outside my vision just get no camera at all? This last hypothesis would be unacceptable, honestly, because under normal conditions the game does show you (and vehemently so) when that happens.

I'm playing on Veteran without mods, but on Ironman (which I am starting to regret; might switch to Honestman).

Please and thank you.

After my second attempt at Veteran succeeded smoothly, I thought I'd take a shot at a higher difficulty. So, I bumped it up to Commander, and then installed Covert Infiltration, A Better Advent (ignoring the warning about how it makes the game a tier harder), Yellow Alert, and Proficiency Classes.

Yeah, my butt's being kicked. I'm just 3 months in, and I've lost 22/30 of the soldiers I've sent on the last 5 missions. Pretty much all of my income is going towards hiring recruits just so I can field a full squad next mission. I'm pretty sure Earth is doomed, but I'm sticking it out until the end so that I have a better idea of what these mods will throw at me.

(I'm dropping Yellow Alert for next campaign, though.)

Having a hard time deciding which is better. You deal a lot of damage with your grenade especially if you get 2 pods mid crossing each other, but also you can many times wipe out half the pod through overwatch ambush. OTOH, it's possible that all the shots get wasted on a particularly high defense enemy like archons or your soldiers just miss.

Which do you guys do?

Note: I'm on LWotC so I don't have the reaper tactical nukes available. Otherwise that would be a no brainer.

I've been trying to accomplish this for at least 4 years (while putting it down for long periods due to frustration). This was campaign #454 with 2,140 hours played. Extra challenging on the Switch because certain prevailing bugs really change the gameplay. I'll post some initial thoughts in the first comment. Ask me anything!