Rangers can get up close and personal with brutal sword attacks whilst your specialists are armed with flying Gremlin drones which operate as flying hospitals or death machines depending on the skill tree options you decide to make.
Luckily your roster of recruits have access to a plethora of new techniques, weapons, and abilities to fight back and, across the five classes of fighter available, the new abilities on offer feed beautifully into the fast-paced, cut and thrust nature of combat here. Proper, studious use of cover and overwatch tactics are essential to survival here. Leave a squad member open to attack and the advent aliens will strike and make you pay the price. Don’t take the time to move your soldier into proper cover? You’re toast. The Advent constantly and consistently show an impressive level of intelligence during encounters flanking you, outmaneuvering you at every opportunity and punishing you for the smallest mistake. Everything about XCOM 2 is soaked in urgency. Missions that may have been a slog, a slow progression forward, are now infused with excitement, you need to take the initiative and be decisive, it adds a whole new layer to the game and eradicates much of the tedium of the old way of playing. It may sound awful, timed missions generally are and especially in a game where you are already completely stressed dealing with everything else, but, amazingly, it changes the game entirely for the better. The ebb and flow of battle, whilst still recognisable, takes on a different tempo entirely, aided further by the second major addition to the gameplay, timed objectives.Ī majority of the missions in XCOM 2 will see you forced to succeed in your primary objective in a set number of turns or your mission instantly fails. It’s an exciting addition that immediately makes this sequel feel unique.
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Concealment ends when any one of your four-man squad step on an indicated tile, break windows or doors, attack the enemy, or get flanked, and then, with a hideously guttural roar, Advent forces will rain all manner of hot shit down upon you. You’ll more often than not begin missions in a state of concealment, hidden from the enemy, albeit briefly, giving you a chance to manoeuvre your squad into flanking positions, set up beautifully choreographed ambushes and utilise that all-important overwatch to ensure that when you’re spotted, you can at least begin an engagement with the upper hand. Indeed striking from the shadows is the order of the day here, working itself as it does into the very heart of the gameplay through one of the biggest changes to XCOM’s action, Concealment.
You’re no longer part of a stuffy, government funded war machine with all manner of military hardware at your disposal here you’re a desperate and scattered network of rebels working from the shadows against a vastly superior alien machine. The underdog premise of XCOM 2 makes for an immediately more engaging setting than the previous entries in the series. As Unification Day celebrations and speeches get under way, XCOM, now a rag-tag bunch of freedom fighters, take the opportunity to launch an explosive attack against Advent forces, which serves as your opening and tutorial here. Spamming the airwaves with their propaganda, Advent have cemented the notion that they came to earth in peace, to better the lives of humans, and that attacks against them from the now guerrilla XCOM are very much based on old prejudices. It’s been twenty years since the events of Enemy Within and earth is now completely in the hands of the aliens under the guise of Advent. I’ll keep fighting though I’ll keep sending terrible celebrities into the combat zone until one day that prize is mine. I sent my best crew, New Kids on The Block, to their deaths, they came home in body bags after Donnie Wahlberg screwed up trying to skulljack an Advent officer, he got his band-mates killed, all of them, even wee Joey. I don’t have the tactical wherewithal to even know where I’d start and, believe me, I’ve tried. Beating this game on its hardest setting in Ironman mode feels like it’s beyond me. Sometimes I think I’ll never unlock XCOM 2’s Valhalla achievement.
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