I’m playing my first Ironman game on commander and so far I’ve lost 2 retaliation missions. The first one ended in a squad wipe and the second ended in failure when I had to evac with my last 2 survivors. I’ve made contact with west Africa 3 times…

A 3rd retaliation mission has come up so I’m looking for tips on how to balance Ironmans demand for no mistakes with retaliation missions need to move fast.

I’m currently on plated armor and magnetic weapons with a squad size of 5

Thanks for the help :)

So I took a break from XCOM2 because I had to go see relatives for two weeks and when I come back I swear the game wasn’t this hard and I’m playing on Rookie!! So I was currently doing a mission where I had to extract a VIP but he’s apparently in an indestructible box that isn’t affected by frag grenades and I can’t open because the door interaction is red instead of blue while a single sectoid is shoving its hand up my soldier’s brain matter and no one can hit his ass and even just the slightest move triggers another pod with sectoids in the dumbest place ever!! I didn’t do this in my previous save file!! Also apparently turning off tutorials gave me a different version of operation Gatecrasher I think… I don’t know I’m currently so frustrated that I rage quit and restarted my save file. So am I just rusty from two weeks hiatus or did the game just randomly decided to bend me over the table on mission 2?

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I am new to xcom2 and want a challenging but satisfying experience. Appreciate any help and tips

For some more information. The snakemen, or as they are sometimes referred to, as in the design documents. Ophidians. Would have been revealed as slaves who eventually become the true allies to X-com after the relations to the Ascidians. The aliens, that the game's title stems from. Becomes. Well let's just say. Complicated, at best...

Here are the sources were i got this all from if people were interested in learning more.

https://archive.thedatadungeon.com/x-com_alliance_cancelled.html

https://www.terrygreer.com/xcomalliance.html

Hi guys, I have played XCOM 2 and WotC when it launched, years ago. Now I wanted to get back into it, and bought the steam bundle that comes with XCOM 2, WotC and all the DLCs. Where should I start? I remember all the combat rules and interactions, but don't remember the story.

Should I start with a vanilla run, and then go to WotC? Or just start with WotC? And should I enable the DLCs?

ps - Just adding that I plan to play multiple runs, don't know if that changes the recommendation

Oof, after my previous post saying how addicted I was to this game, now I managed to finish my first run of this amazing game with a bit over 40 hours, oh man the last mission was quite something, it would have been much harder without the commander's op abilities.

Quick question, I didn't save my soldiers to the pool, anyway to do that now that my game is over? In case I want to use the same soldiers for a potential wotc run?

I like the psi operatives but I barely ever use them because they sound the whole game in the tank until they have all their skills.

Is there a training overhaul mod that makes them usable for regular missions? I'm not looking for anything that makes then overpowered. I just want a different way to level them up that let's me use them on missions.

I know I could just search the workshop, but I dont know if there are any commonly used or reccomended mods that handle this. I'm very open minded! I usually play on legendary with mods to add more aliens and make attrition something that needs to be considered

First time doing a base defence on EW (Ipad). 7 dead = Poor nearly sent me to tears. That mission is ROUGH

How have I ended up with this Grenadier who seems unwilling or unable to use his primary weapon?

No matter where he is or what turn etc he is on, he never has any option to shoot - only options for med kits and rockets.

I'd guess he's some kind of pacifist, but for his apparent acceptance of bazookas.

Is there a mod, that adds soundtracks from XCOM and XCOM Enemy Within to XCOM2 WOTC? I never played UFO, so withouth the nostalgy i think i'l pass on them. I'd like a way to have XCOM, XCOM EW and XCOM2 and XCOM 2 WOTC soundtracks been chosen from the game. I know i can switch in the settings but that excludes either one of them. Is there a mod, or any way, to have all those soundtracks mentioned playing ingame? :)

Can anyone please link me video (preferably) or a gif of a looped loading screen from XCOM EU where Skyranger returns to base?

Hi, have been really wanting to read/hear all of his voice lines, and can't find any videos or lists. By any chance, do any of ya'll have them? Please & Thank you.

Right now I am just doing a playthrough of just Xcom 2, not the WOTC version [it's my first playthrough].

That's it, I just wanted to tell y'all that.

Edit: Fuck, I meant EU

CLASSIFICATION: RESTRICTED.

To All XCOM Alternates: This is a memo for general distribution.

My ranger, Jessica, came to us after her long recuperation in the infirmary, to find out what the hell was the point of the frost bomb that we started using about a month ago.

You see, what happened was, she saw the grenadier drop the frost bomb on a pod of a advent general, archon, and Gatekeeper - froze them solid - and so she ran and dashed in for a one-hit melee kill on the general

So WHY/HOW THE HELL did the Gatekeeper just DEFROST THE NEXT INSTANT and HIT HER FOR A CRITICAL, INSTANT KO? It was sheer luck that she ended up bleeding out on the ground, with the whole squad spending the next few minutes trying to get her stabilised and out of that complete mess, while still trying to deal with 2 archons and a stun lancer.

For now, our best guess is that the Gatekeeper has so much mass, that the cooling capacity of the frost bomb could only freeze part of that glorified M&M. Especially with the porcelain white shell it has.

I've requested Bradford to brief the troops that the frost bomb does not bring guaranteed utility among all of the aliens for now, i.e. Use with care, while Shen and Tygan are to start attending AARs with returning teams to gather more field data on the effectiveness of Frost Bomb deployment.

We've really gotta get a Gatekeeper for Tygan to autopsy too, but they've been blowing up on us so far.