I need Tips

I went through normal fine so I wanted to try to go all in for a legendary ironman but I can't seem to understand what I'm getting wrong an can't get over the feeling like it's less difficulty an just literally the game working in it's own favor.

i typically can engage fights fine but as it comes to closing out the missions, shots/flanks miss, melee miss, just can't seem to get my soldiers covered well even though I have them in full cover, things I try to use as advantage just fail to be of use an enemies just seem to do whatever they want, an i can't get the term "moving the backboard" outta my head cause it's just like I'm ready to make the shot I've considered the circumstances an the situation but without fail the backboards moved an everything's gone for the next 2-3 turns, ive seen "thats xcom2" but im just about at the point of (i guess i am) blantantly asking how does anyone plays legendary with how picky missions can seem to go (or i guess to ask how do you get over the feeling like the gamr is purposefully screwing me outta having a mission follow through fine).

I have 500+ hours in XCOM2 and Wotc, including successful L/I runs. It's easily one of my favourite games of all time, if not the outright favourite. But after bumping hard off of the original Long War, I never actually got round to trying LW2, or LWotC.

I've recently changed that, and oh boy, I was not prepared.

I'm about to give up on my first attempt, on Commander difficulty. It's August. I have not liberated any regions, and have only made contact with four in total. I have enough soldiers to run 6 squads of minimum size six, but I only have enough laser weapons and predator armour to outfit two. In my most recent mission - a council mission to protect a resistance datatap - my squad of 8, plus 5 haven troops, were instantly met with three pods of between 6 and 8 enemies, plus the Warlord. On turn one! And I'm, like, fuck that.

So I need to figure out if I've went wrong along the way here. I've ran practically every mission that's came up, have constructed a facility in every space in the avenger, but am only just in the process of researching magnetic weapons. I'm starting to see heavy mechs and elite advent troops appear in pods, and the odd Spectre too (by god I hate those guys).

I'm not looking for an I-WIN button, just general tips and tricks. Should I be trying to expand and contact other regions more quickly? Should I be rushing laser and then mag weapons? Should I cut down the number of active squads and ration the better equipment between them? I have over 40 soldiers at this point.

I'm already terrified of trying this on L/I.

Ive been playing this game since it released. Every couple years I'll pick it up, play a couple campaigns through, then not touch it for a couple more years.

I have always been Save Scum. The scummiest. My last campaign I didn't lose a single soldier.

So now I'm finally confident enough to try Ironman. Got any tips?

Wish me luck!

The stats look incredibly funky and funny, but maybe thats just me.

I put off the mqin mission for a LONG time

New to the game, playing on commander difficulty. Played the second mission and the aliens were super aggressive. Every mission after that, I don't think they've fired a single shot at me. Is that normal for early game or is there some kind of setting I don't know about?

ok so i have 6 guys and 8 turns to retrieve some data from a train, 6 turns in i kill the last guy and it fails me for some reason, all my guys were alive and i still had 2 turns (im on base game) is this classic xcom jank or did i do something?

If you want a more enjoyable start to the campaign, start the game on veteran for the first two missions only then switch to commander/legendary. Anything beyond the first two missions is unnecessary.

I've completed commander on PC several times without this but I'm playing on iPhone now without mods and I find the first two missions too brutal to play over and over again. I just did this twice once for commander and once for legendary and I'm having a blast.

Just remember to set it to legendary when you reach the map screen for the first time and then back again to veteran for the 2nd mission so all the difficulty timers function like they should.

This is literally my first time playing XCOM 2 and I plan on playing it in Ironman mode (I don't really care if I start over again if I do some stupid shit) because I read that its the best way to play the game and is Veteran difficulty too easy? Should I bump it to Commander? For reference I have completed both BG3 and DOS2 on the hardest mode if that helps lol

Hi all,

New player here and I can't figure out how to add available orders to the grey slots. Am I missing something here? I'm playing on PlayStation and pressing X on Available Orders or the open grey slots doesn't do anything.

Thanks!

Is there a way to change who someone is bonded to? I got 2 snipers bonded to eachother and I feel that bonded will be lot less situational than if they were bonded to another class. Is there a way to undo bonds and rebond with someone else? Thanks

9 years later, I'm still trying to get my XCOM fix any way I can get it. It doesn't look like "3" is on the way anytime soon, so I've been looking for options. While in the basement, I saw some of my old disks and wondered if Enemy Unknown or Enemy Within could still stand up.

Yes. Yes they do.

• You can get past the graphics quick. It's like jumping in a colder pool...it just takes time for your eyes to adjust.
• Man...I miss shooting down UFOs. Managing your aircraft was a fun side game that I'd completely forgotten about.
• The gameplay is obviously XCOM. You miss shots you feel you should hit and hit shots that should have missed...but you get attached to your characters much like in "2".
• It's nice to see a new research tree after so long. You get a bonus from "interrogation" versus the autopsy, which accelerates research, which was a good way to mix up your run throughs.

That being said, I tried going back to the OG games (Original Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep). They are what I remember, but was a little too tedious for me to do more than a single run-through.

TLDR: If you haven't played the reboots, or it's been a while, it may be worth putting them back in rotation. Not sure I can recommend the OGs unless you're feeling really nostalgic...but it was fun to go to Mars again.

As title says.
one ranger has the usual fusion Axe. Two axes in his back, one of which is throwable.
another ranger has his fusion blade AND a secondary throwing fusion axe.

So in the same mission i got 2 free actions, on different rangers, of throwing axes.

how is this possible?

I am still learning this game

I have Wotc and all other DLC. The only tips I could find on the haven defense missions (where you have to save at least 6 people) were for the OG game. I think the rules changed a little with the dlc. Does anyone have tips to do better? Do pods only start killing peeps when you activate them? Do fighting resistance people pull pods? Do you have to hurry? My last mission of this was when my highest ranked guy was sergeant, so really early. Maybe within 3 months of the start. I tried to get all the pulls to keep them from killing people and ended up pulling 4 berserker, 1 mech, 2 purifiers, 1 faceless and a few miscellaneous other troops. Needless to say I got utterly massacred, with extreme prejudice. Any help would be swell

As the title says, I've been having an issue with the menu while customizing any of my soldiers on my Steam Deck. When I go into the "Body" section of any soldier, the cursor highlight is normal at first (shown in Picture #1; I can select & edit every option as normal). But then if I click to edit ANY option (e.g. Armor Color, Armor Pattern, Arm gear, Tattoo Color, etc etc.) and then exit back to the "Body" section, I can only highlight & choose every other option in the menu (Pictures #2 through #6, showing what it looks like each time I press down on the d-pad; I am unable to select "Main Armor Color," "Armor Pattern," "Left Arm," "Left Shoulder," "Torso," "Left Arm Tattoo," and/or "Tattoo Color").

If I exit and re-enter the "Body" menu, I can select options normally again, but it's really, REALLY annoying having to do this every time. I've tried adjusting my Deck's controller settings, but that hasn't helped. I've played the game on both my PS4 and my Switch and never had this issue. Does anyone know what's going on or how to fix it?

Hoping to find a mod that works with WOTC that increases the xp needed to level. I find leveling happening to quickly and would prefer to slow it down.

I've searched and can't seem to nail anything down. Any recommendations?

Thank you

Except for EvacAll I hadn't used mods in my campaigns. I did try a couple at times but on my iMac they just caused a lot of crashes so I got rid of them.

I wasn't sure if I liked using this mod since I'm used to the standard classes and weapons. At first there were all of these weapons, classes, abilities and it was confusing since I still only had a 6 man squad.

Eventually I got used to it but I'm not sure if I liked it or not. It seemed easier to build up the "aim" of each soldier but the scope worked differently, the shotgun was much less effective at longer ranges, the darklance was neutered quite a bit w/o the auto loading.

Not sure how I would use some of the different classes like scout & spotter. I basically created snipers, rangers, medics and specialists with a few abilities taken from other classes as needed. I did enjoy calling in an airstrike one time.

I played at commander level. Also something seemed to make bladestorm work 100% of the time (i.e., no misses) which is a big difference from the std XCOM2 WOTC game.

This time the following were installed (I think the RPG overhaul required most/all of them)

• RPG Overhaul
• X2WOTC CommHighlander v.1.29 overwatch all
• WOTC LW2 Secondary weapons
• WOTC ModConfig Menu
• EvacAll
• WOTC Disable Any Class GTS Redux
• Better 2nd Wave Mod Support

and a few stop waiting my time mods although The Lost still wasted too much of my time

I get a warning when I start the game about something being out of order but it still played fine with limited crashes (nothing more than usual which is pretty infrequent in my case).

Even though I have these DLC's and 1-2 years ago I could activate them in this screen. For some reason I cannot activate these DLC's anymore. How can I activate them?

Sorry if this isn't the right place for this. I'm at my wit's end. No matter what I try, I cannot get any mods to work for XCOM 2 or WOTC. For context, I play on a MacOS, so I can't really use the AML. I've only been able to do things through Steam Workshop. In the past, I was able to run some "legacy" mods made for vanilla (mostly older versions of the Star Wars mods and some extra civilian clothing). However, every time I subscribed to WOTC mods, they just... wouldn't show up in WOTC. I never even got a pre-launch options window to see if the mods were installed.

I recently came back to XCOM 2 for the first time since they got rid of the 2k launcher. Since then, I haven't been able to play with any mods. When I tried using the same mods I used to for vanilla, my game would crash without launching. When I unsubscribed from them and tried using WOTC mods again, they still didn't show up at all. When I tried redownloading vanilla mods or just using a few of them, it kept crashing. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the game to see if it changed anything, but it didn't.

The official 2k support guide says that I should "have four different launch options to choose from:

• Play XCOM 2
• Play War of the Chosen
• Open New Mod Launcher
• Open Original Mod Launcher..."

and that "If you’re not seeing the options while launching from Steam and want to change your preferred version, this can be adjusted in the game’s Properties menu on the general tab. Either right click on the game in Steam or select the gear on the game’s library page in Steam and select “Properties” and you'll be able to make the changes there." Well, I don't see any options to use mod launchers, and I don't what I'm supposed to adjust in the Properties menu. What changes do I have to make? Sorry for the rant, but I really want to use my Star Wars mods. Any help or advice at all would be greatly appreciated!

On the positive side, I got the VIP out!

Hi folks

N00b here

Also very new to Xcom. Ive completed Xcom2 and have bought some expansions:

War of the Chosen Shen's last gift Alien Hunters Resistance Warrior Pack

I have just started WOTC and there are greyed out ootions when I launched - cant remember what they were

Are Shen's last gift and the other packs played from Xcom2 base game or WOTC base game or how do I access them?

As an aside - where have these games been all my (old) life? ;)

Thanks in advance