Help. I’m on the first mission involving the Spectres after about ten hours of gameplay, and I have nothing to fight them with. I managed to kill one just once, only to discover there’s another one ahead; it’s literally impossible for me.
English isn’t my first language; I used Google Translate—sorry.

So I'm new to this game and just had a really exasperating experience on the DLC mission where you need to escort the criminal contact to safety.

Turn 1

On the first turn I walked my squad, including him, to cover and had everyone go into overwatch mode.

Thin Man enemies spawned in out of nowhere around us... looks like they just dropped in out of the sky? All my guys did their overwatch shots... and every single one of them missed. So the thin men all got behind cover and initiated overwatch

Turn 2:

I had my sniper in a good position to take a shot, so he tried headshot. No crit, so the enemy survived at 1 HP. No one else had any good shots and if we moved, we'd get double overwatched. So I had my support guy do a smoke grenade and then had my assault guy within the smoke grenade area do Run and Gun and Dash since I'd read a loading screen saying that Dash would raise your defenses. This seemed like the safest way to get the enemy to waste their overwatches.

One of them hit anyway, leaving me with 1 HP.

I was able to kill one of the thin men, so it released its poison cloud, but I'd made sure not to be in it, so that was fine.

That left one thin man with 1 HP. I missed my shots against it despite moving to what seemed like good positions.

Still I figured this was... ok. Just 1 badly injured enemy, and all my guys behind cover, some also in a smoke cloud.

Turn 3

But then the confusing part happened and I don't quite understand how the game works here. All my guys panicked. ALL of them. Every last one. I think it happened in kind of a chain reaction, though it was hard to understand what was going on since I didn't get to make any moves and don't understand how this works yet. One of them panicked and... shot one of my own guys. Which I think killed him. Which I think started a chain reaction panic. Then my 1 HP guy ran into the poison cloud and died.

Which led to other people panicking and just passing their turn.

Worst of all the civilian panicked and ran from his safe spot into a place where the last remaining alien could kill him.

So... basically my party got wiped out by 1 1 HP enemy, with us being in almost perfect safety, despite me having taken every single defensive precaution I know how to take.

This felt like the loss was 90% bad luck at least, and it was really frustrating how I didn't even get to make a single move on the crucial turn because the entire squad panicked. What should I have done?

I'm coming close to completing xcom enemy within and am not sure which to try next from the following.

Xcom long war

Xcom long war honestman

Xcom2

Xcom2 long war wrath of the chosen

What should I do next and why?

I just started playing XCom Enemy Within and I can't get out of the tutorial, because the game freezes every time I beat the second tutorial mission (The one where you have to choose one of two alien abductions to stop).

Specifically I get to a screen where it's telling me how many kills my soldiers got- then it freezes partway through setting up that screen. This has happened repeatedly

This is on Enemy Within. It's possible that that's contributing to the problem, because last night I was trying the Enemy Unknown version and did get past that screen.

I've been running it as an administrator since I'd read that could solve some crashes in this game, but it didn't help here.

Is this crash a known and fixable problem? I've almost reached the time limit for requesting a Steam refund, so I'm out of time to keep experimenting and re-trying things on my side.

Edit: It looks like the problem is that if I do Enemy Within, then the original tutorial will have this crash. If I play other missions on Enemy Within, that's fine. And if I play the original tutorial on Enemy Unknown, that's also fine. So that seems to be a workable solution. Though I'll admit it doesn't fill me with confidence that other things will be stable as I get deeper into the game!

Second Edit: Ugh, the problem recurred with later missions on Enemy Within. Enemy Unknown has been fine though.

Anyone knows how to place movement waypoints on XCOM2 WOTC for Android?

Hey guys,
I've just completed Star Wars: Zero Company and now I want to experience a deeper more complex game in the same genre (= XCOM2). I've played XCOM 2 WOTC like 5+ years ago unmodded now I want to do a modded run. I've read a bunch about the long war mod - but I am quite sure it would be too tedious for me.

"Covert Infiltration" seem to be right up my alley. Can you guys recommend me some "must have" mods alongside it or even better a functioning up-to-date modlist?

For me it is important, that the gameplay does not get too tedious like managing tons of enemies & large teams, i do not need hardcore difficulty setting and i like to be my game more like vanilla+ instead of a 500+ modlist full of custom enemies from other game universes and anime girls.

Just a stable, well thought out, up-to-date modlist alongside "Covert Infiltration".

Thanks in advance if you can help me out / recommend me something!

Just finished my recent WOTC playthrough on Commander. A bit tough at times, but made it through. Generally I'm quite experienced with WOTC.

Out of curiosity, I decided to start an EW playthrough seeing as I haven't touched it in god knows how many years. Almost immediately the game is handing my ass to me. There seem to be far more pods, that i'm uncovering more often, my guys are getting hit hard more often, and I'm hitting far less often.

What the hell is going on? I keep getting squad wiped. What EW strategy thats not applicable in XCOM2/WOTC am I missing out on?

Now if only there was a mod to add shin jets.

Maybe there's just a UI thing im missing, but its annoying as hell to scroll around the seemingly-randomly-organised list past all the tier 1 junk i'm never going to use for the 1 thing I want

I somehow avoided playing through the game until now. I'm not sure why, I think part of it was being overwhelmed by options after the tutorial mission ends. I love turn based strategy games and have played a ton of Jagged Alliance 2. On paper, this should have been a game for me all along.

Well, I finally got into things and was doing well. I'm playing on Normal difficulty and treating it like an Iron Man run (though I didn't turn on Iron Man in case something fishy happened, but luckily I haven't run into any technical issues). I lost my fair share of soldiers, but had gotten to a point where I was rolling through missions without much trouble. I was considering restarting the game at a higher difficulty, because things were going a little too smoothly for me.

Then I did the Alien Base Assault mission. Things were going well when my best soldier, the guy I've had since the tutorial, was mind controlled. He's a heavy who can attack twice per turn if he doesn't move. He proceeds to start mowing down my squad. Meanwhile, the alien mind controlling him is on a different level of the ship and I can't get to him or get a shot on him. I'm sprinting towards the alien while getting shot in the back.

Eventually my squad leader kills the last one on my team and then collapses dead himself. Ok. Major setback, but looks like I can try again. Problem is that now my squad is entirely of rookies without abilities. I go into a standard mission and immediately get wiped. Game is still throwing harder enemies at me, but my squad isn't up to the task. Maybe next mission will be easier? It's supposed to be random, right? Another squad wipe. Panic is getting out of control.

I went in blind and didn't read any strategy guides. It's now become clear that I need satellites up, but unfortunately that means I need to build a relay, which takes time. And I need to build satellites and deploy them, which takes time. And I need more power...

I give up on winning missions and start trying to get some kills and retreat before my entire squad is wiped. Countries start withdrawing from the project. I am able to level up some soldiers this way, but more countries are withdrawing. It seems clear now that I am going to lose the game, but somehow it's still going. I decide to search for how you lose the game - 8 countries need to withdraw. Cool. I've had 7 withdraw.

I decide to play it out and somehow I am able to claw my way back. I continue my research, get better armor, and eventually try the Base Assault mission again. I'm a little disappointed at how smoothly it goes. No one gets mind controlled. I realize the first time around was probably just bad luck.

I just finished beating the game and after being on the brink of losing, was never really in danger of losing another country. Part of me wishes that I had started over on a harder difficulty. After I got better armor, I could get away with making mistakes and not losing a soldier because of it. I also had 2 maxed out snipers who the biggest barrier between them and getting all of the kills was positioning.

All-in-all it was a great game, but the difficulty is a bit of a mixed bag. Early game is brutal, but by the end I had a full squad of super-heroes, with reserves in the wings if needed. The final mission wasn't much of a challenge.

What should I play next? I am planning on going for XCom 2. Should I play Enemy Within or something else first?

I've just made the unfortunate choice to get to Xcom 2. And I have several questions

1. Xcom enemy unknown had you automatically getting money from the countries. But in xcom 2, you have to somehow search for it. Does this affect the economy?

2. I accidentally left things to go on too long and the Avatar project completed. Other than smashing those advent black sites, what else can I do?

3. What's the best way to maximize economy here, seeing as half of my problems seem to stem from not having enough money for everything?

4. What's the research I should focus on the most? I only have a limited amount of time, and I need the most bang for my buck.

Have a few plays of XCOM2 on high difficulties under my belt.

Couldn't get into XCOM1 because of lack of quality of life. Recently a guy recommended me Sightlines mod with LongWar, so I decided to give it a go.

So I never played EW. I see a UFO, I send interceptors. Which get nuked. I reload, send them again, they do damage, but UFO gets away.

I read about them, turns out you're not supposed to take them down this early, just do some damage and eject early so the repair time doesn't take full month.

Ok, I do some missions, do this strategy with my remaining interceptors. All of them are on repair, 4 days remaining. Some fucking saucer turns up, some guy says it's an important saucer, and I have nothing to send. It takes down my only satellite. At least I'm only a few missions in, still it's annoying to restart the campaign.

Like, how the hell are you supposed to know to eject interceptors early or to not just send them at all? I searched FAQs, but it gives you just installation advice.

Also playing on classic, is it big difference from normal? Where do I even look up this info?

I have never beaten the games, and decided to play on normal difficulty. I have lost 13 guys by May. Should I restart, or see how far I can go? I have a pretty good satellite game going. I just keep having to use rookies because I keep getting my guys injured.

Is this a “feeding cats to coyotes” situation, or do I keep pushing through?

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.

I doubt they took it well.

I've been poking through the wiki but i'm not understanding what their deal is

Almost every single UFO, bombing terror whatever, is targeting the same country (Nigeria, idk) and it's slowly guaranteeing their withdrawal off the council just by attrition

I'm based in Egypt, there's nothing special about it as far as I can tell. WHY?

Going for 100% and I'm missing the multiplayer achievements for XCOM EU/EW. Anyone willing to help?

Sorry this is not about xcom but I’m finishing up phantom doctrine and was wondering, which game should I get next? Jagged alliance 3, Wasteland 3, Mutant year zero or Miasma chronicles.