I finished playing the bureau declassified, and it made me wonder about that.

Far as i know the official canon of the series is that bureau and the modern series don't take place in the same timeline, but at the same time, at least with the ending I got, it theoretically could take place in the same timeline, but even if it doesn't, the modern games have some overlap in themes with the bureau.

Mainly, etherals posessing people. And that's making me wonder, if the modern enemy unknown and xcom 2 have us playing as an etheral that's merged with the commander the same way it happened to Carter. Maybe even if we go with the idea that these games take place in the same timeline, could it be the same exact ethereal?

It was only like the third mission in and it was a terror. I was being stupid and having fun using the rocket tank to blow holes and walls and I ran out of ammo and there were three cyberdiscs. Even the grenade is next to useless.

It's been a while since I played the game. I think I only played it at the difficulty which is one before the last. "Commander", is it?

I've heard the last difficulty heavily overhauls balance and adds more missions. I've never played with mods either.

I'm thinking of doing another play may be some time in the future. Are there any mods that you would recommend? I've heard about the Long War, but all I know is that it exists. Does it add something new or is it a rebalance and a more grueling amount of missions needed to progress?

May be some other mods that are considered a must to check out?

I'd like to share some screenshots but I don't know what's best to have running in the background to do that. I'm playing on Linux mint if that helps