Fast forward to today and the full sequel has arrived on iOS devices in the form of XCOM 2 Collection ($19.99) as a premium and very demanding release. Of course this doesn’t include the missions where you can only select 1 of 3 options, but the resistance missions you get when the advent strikes back.The fantastic tactical RPG XCOM Enemy Unknown surprised a lot of people when it hit iOS a long time ago not just because of the port but also the price point. But if you want to really put your squad through the gauntlet, complete all of the optional missions on the map as you can before completing the final story missions. The optional missions never stop coming in XCOM 2 so you won’t get some sort of in game achievement for completing them.
Try to Complete All of the Optional Missions Stick with the 1 st gen armor and 1 st generation weapons and/or don’t use your characters high level skills, call game over when of your squad dies. Limit yourself to only 4 squaddies when completing missions, or squaddies of one class. If you’re one of those tactical geniuses who breeze through even the toughest scenarios, why not make up your own challenges as you go. A plethora of emotions awaits those who become attached to their squaddies. You’ll cheer when they land a lifesaving kill, you’ll cry when you lose a long standing member. Personalizing your team makes everything more intense. Spin your own narrative into the game and make your squad members the main characters of the story. You name them, take them out on their first missions and even choose how they look and what they wear. Your squad becomes your family in XCOM 2. Train half in pistol combat and the other in ranged and you’re set! Make up a New Story for Your Squad Play styles and abilities between the classes are very different, and while some may argue the merits of bringing a little bit of everything to a fight, why not see how you do with an army of sniper wielding bad asses. During my second go, I’m going to switch it up and compose a team with 50% rangers and the rest sharpshooters and see where that gets me.
Change Your Squad Makeupĭuring my play through I pretty much stuck with the same configuration of class’s right up until the finale. Lose a squaddie on the enemy turn, and their gone for good. Instead there are saves at the end of every turn. Iron Man mode is particularly brutal, because it doesn’t give you the option to save and load at your own discretion. Be sure you’re up for the challenge (and the inevitable frustrations). The difference between normal and hard is quite large. XCOM’s difficulties are not to be trifled with.
How To Compress KEYS (Logic Pro X) - MIX and MASTER IT Yourself! You’re not truly experiencing XCOM 2 until you’re painstakingly planning every footstep across the map. Maybe your next play through will be using a squad made entirely of Marvel characters, the choices are almost endless.Īssuming you haven’t just beat the game on the highest difficulty setting, why not crank it up a notch to give yourself a real challenge. Add a new class to the game, a new character, a new set of voices, and even all new missions can be added to the core game with ease.
No matter what aspect of the game you want to change or add to, there is probably a mod for it.
The selection of Mods available for XCOM 2 right now may be somewhat small in comparison to a game like Fallout, but the number and quality of the mods is growing at a rapid rate. XCOM players are lucky to have a game with such a robust modding community around it. Even playing through on the same difficulty again will present a new challenge each mission.Īlthough the story will always stay the same, there are other ways you can spice up your 2 nd, 3 rd, or even 4 th time through the game. With XCOM 2, the replay factor is upped even further with the introduction of randomly generated battle maps, complete with random enemy placement. A major part of why people love the XCOM games is because they have a massive amount of replay value.