Its time to start new campaign.

I never finished my first before I uninstalled this garbage.

>>715878382 (OP)
>Commander, the Elders...
>The Elders commader...
>THE FUCKING ELDERS! commander..
>and no i wont stop calling you on your phone at all hours of the day

Last time my Ironman playthrough got locked because some bug. Fuck that shit.

WE DID IT COMMANDER, WE SAVED STAR WARS

>>715878382 (OP)
Which class overhaul should I use this time? Amalgam or Proficiency?
>>715878561
KILL IT
KILL IT NOW

>>715878460
Which fight filtered you?

It was Chosen Assassin, wasnt it

Probably went something like
>WTF?? this mission is already impossible for me and now THIS BITCH is ALSO here?!!?!?@

>>715878641
It being shit with only one real solution to each map "filtered" me. Guess that's the curse of having good taste.

I only ever played this game once without the dlc and thought it was really difficult but I did finish it. I still think the sectopods were really difficult even with hacking and grenades. I had the foresight to allow reloading and I was right because it constantly crashed.
Was there something I was missing with the difficulty, is the dlc good / help with the crashes, and does the game still crash a bunch after all these years?

>>715878849
I've played Xcom 2 a lot with hundreds of mods and I don't remember the game crashing
And yes War of The Chosen is very good, the rest of the DLCs not so much
I highly recommend trying it again because considering mods Xcom 2 is the most replayable tactical strategy ever

>pair every male (and the female) soldier with an emotional support viper

>>715878382 (OP)
you didn't beat the game if you didn't finish first eu/ew with lw, before jumping to the sequel.

>>715878382 (OP)
I only wish you could play the vanilla campaign with the performance optimizations from War of the Chosen.

Holy shit does the vanilla game run like cheeks.

>>715878382 (OP)
Beat vanilla 1st try without losing anyone on hardest. Played dlc and got raped 5 missions in

>>715878641
Not that guy but I quit when I got softlocked with a bug that got me stuck looking at the bottom of the base. I was already skeptical with the surprisingly immense filesize and the shit bug just makes it not worth my time

>>715878382 (OP)
I'm not sure I can be brought back again.

>>715878382 (OP)
i was going to buy but the whole spyware thing put me off

>>715878382 (OP)
But I didn't even beat the first game.

>xcom 3 never

>>715884316
>instead of giving Chimera Squad an actual budget and a reasonable amount of time it was booted out the door for a fucking Marvel game
>this killed the series

>>715878382 (OP)
I beat Long War 1 and 2 on the second hardest difficulty and now that I went back to LW1 Rebalanced everything fucking changed. You get daily cash, you get DR you get stealthed sectoids.
I'm lost I need a guide for Impossible.

>>715878382 (OP)
I finished a LWOTC campaign a few months ago. The mod got updated mid-campaign and added pretty good animations for the reaper throwing knives. That was cool.

>>715884316
Looking at chimera squad it might be for the best
XC2 still receive decent modding content to this day

>>715886990
But chimera squad was pretty good. Even that marvel slop game they made was pretty good

>>715884316
Its called Xpiratez

>>715878382 (OP)
wait those aren't skulls?

i didnt care for it

Finished Xcom 2 when it came out years ago, but never played WotC. Is it good? The bosses look like edgy deviantart characters

>>715885992
>how do I beat "impossible"?! could it be...IMPOSSIBLE?

>>715888095
marvel tier

>>715888095
>The bosses look like edgy deviantart characters
Yes

>>715878641
Jesus my last playthrough with the "better AI mod", run forward, 1st terror mission, activate assassin, two soldiers, one cap and one sectoid. one guy gets mind controlled, another gets dazed. nope, nope nope.
The mod is supposed to give pods bigger search zones and only move in reaction to close sound, but ends up just pooling them into the same area.

>>715888153
it's very possible, people had to make a new difficulty called "pain" because impossible is too easy

>>715888229
that means they should spend less time on a game and more time on family, friends, work, new experiences and life
being insanely "good" at a game is not impressive, its embarrassing

With Long War of the Chosen

>>715888273
sounds like something an Indian would say

>>715888095
yeah, it's very good

>>715888365
oh you wish

What are some essential mods?

>>715889118

>>715889118
Evac all and stop wasting my time. Also mods that fix bugs like communityhighlander and deck refresher.

>>715889118
snek sniddies

Is Long War as good as people say? Just the name "Long War" screams tedious slog to me, but I never got around to it in XCOM 1

>>715891489
The developers called their own game a tutorial for Long War. That's all you need to know.

>>715891489
It tries to change the modern XCOM games and make them more like the original XCOM at least on the strategic layer, Long War does indeed indicate that a playthrough is long, much longer than the base game but everything is also a lot more in depth.

>>715878641

>>715891489
It's been almost 10 years now and no other SRPG has scratched the same itch for me. The learning curve is steep, but once you're there the level of build variety and strategies blows most other games in the genre out of the water. The campaign itself is highly customizable. I never play the vanilla length. The dynamic war second wave option significantly cuts the length down without ruining the balance.

>>715878382 (OP)
I've tried multiple ironman runs on WoTC but my autism will not let me lose my hard earned soldiers through bullshit when there's just seemingly no end to the sectoids, officers, and snakes grabbing me through walls from a million miles away

>>715891489
long war is shit. it makes the already-tedious game much, much more so.
XCOM already doesn't have enough mechanical depth, stage variety, or progression to support its own runtime and long war just exacerbates that to a comical degree.
you have to have genuine aspergers to enjoy it, the kind where you don't blink an eye at spending 5,000 hours playing a single game.

>>715893281
>mechanical depth

Sure name a tactical game with more mechanical depth