You don't need to watch the hundreds of hours he's poured into it, just watch the first episode or two of his 'XCom: War Within - Live and Impossible' playlist. is THE go-to source for information about the nuts and bolts of XCOM, XCOM 2, and multiple other games.įinally, there is a youtuber named Beaglerush that has videologs of his Long War gameplay. This goal could easily take a year or more to achieve because Long War requires a different mindset and approach to the game.) Beating the game on Ironman Impossible is a very worthy goal that any strategy gamer worth the name is well advised to pursue. The easiest difficulty level on Long War is roughly equivalent to Hard on vanilla EW, with the depth, strategy, and intensity of your decisions dialed up to 11. XCOM: EW - Long War (This is considered the hardest and most immersive way to play the game. XCOM 2: Chimera Squad (a lot of people think that it's not all that great, play for the lols if nothing else) XCOM 2: WOTC (adds cool extras, kind of the same way that EW added extras to EU) XCOM: EW (adds some very cool extras that make XCOM more tactically diverse and immersive) XCOM: EU (play a couple of hours to get a feel for the playstyle and ruleset because there's a lot of complexity, then start a new campaign in EW) WotC gives you more options to handle the enemy research project timer so you have more options in your progression, it changes the Mission timers to basically be only on certain mission where a timer makes sense storywise(and it has it balance adjusted to compensate), and it opens up more outlandish abilities for your squadmates. Certain play styles just don't work in X-com 2 vanilla because the timers don't allow it and if you turn the timers off or extend them the balance of the game falls apart because it was balanced around timers. There is a very strict enemy research project time limit you had to deal with. Mission had hard turn limits after which you failed. X-com 2 vanilla also had an obsession with timers.

Thats not bad per say, but coming off of the damn near super hero style shenanigans of Enemy With it was quite an adjustment. X-com 2 vanilla is a much more grounded 'realistic' game than Wotc or Enemy Within.

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