Finally! After over 500 hours of attempts I have finally, Finally managed to beat... Commander on Ironman.

Not even sure I want to contemplate Legend. Pretty sure these are abysmal stats but I did it none the less!

I am waiting to get a elerioum core to do the revitalize thingy in hopes it unbugs it, or maybe its not a bug and I did something wrong, idk.

Relatively new to the game so I’m not sure if the Xcom abilities are randomized, but I knew an opportunity when I saw it. I gave that sucker Arashi and watched it gunned down a family of 6 mutons as they funneled through a doorway in the final mission. God I wish I clipped it.

Curious what other busted builds you’ve made with outside of class abilities.

I will never be able to play Ironman because I instinctively tap 2, 2 when I want one of my soldiers to go into Overwatch. I’m so sick of watching my idiot Templar shoot at the default target instead of doing what I intended.

Am I alone in this? Maybe I should just stop using Templars altogether.

I prefer vanilla over mods, but is there a mod that will protect me from myself?

Can you recommend any cosmetic mods—like armor sets—that don’t feel out of place in the game? I’ve tried mods based on *Halo*, *Gears of War*, and *Titanfall*, but they felt jarring while playing *Long War of the Chosen*. I’m not sure if I’m explaining this well, but they just didn’t give me the feeling that I was leading a resistance group.

Can you recommend any cosmetic mods—like armor sets—that don’t feel out of place in the game? I’ve tried mods based on *Halo*, *Gears of War*, and *Titanfall*, but they felt jarring while playing *Long War of the Chosen*. I’m not sure if I’m explaining this well, but they just didn’t give me the feeling that I was leading a resistance group.

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?

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

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 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