Recently lost an ironman campaign and don't have the will to start a new run right away. I was looking for Xcom like games, and these 2 popped up. Both are on sale on Steam right now, which should I try? Or both? Heard Midnight Suns has some cringy writing but I might just skip most of the dialogue of that's the case.

I've been replaying the different levels (except for rookie) and just finished Commander level campaign (no mods) again.

The final battle (the 2nd half of the final mission where you fight the 3 avatars and a bunch of other enemies) is pretty easy with high level soldiers, chosen weapons and special armor. I took out the first avatar on the first turn he showed up, then 2 turns for the next avatar (couldn't find the avatar on the first of the 2 turns), and then one more turn for the final avatar so 4 turns.

Usually when I play this mission I use 4 soldiers, one from each class, then a psionic solider and the 6th one varies. This time it was Mox.

Sharpshooter - With darklance/dark claw, Serpent armor and AP ammo.

Specialist - Nothing special here with the std Warden armor, the rifle that comes with the superior aim and repeater, medikit and bluescreen ammo.

Ranger - Icarus armor, Arashi gun with Talon ammo, katana sword, emp grenade, PCS +12 on aim.

Grenadier - Double EMP grenade, single Acid grenade, bluescreen ammo, +20 aim (due to mods),

Psonic soldier - Had the RAGE armor suit, blaster, disruptor with AP ammo

Mox - Upgraded weapon with better aim and superior reloader, also given aim boost PCS with dragon ammo.

Moving slowly allows the abilities to recharge since the your commander's avatar's dimension rift power is so strong you want to use it as often as you can. The sharpshooter is just a killing machine with death from ammo and if others (like the rift ability) can weaken the enemies the ss can just wipe out a bunch of enemies in a single turn. Really too powerful with all of the free reloads.

I just couldn't bring myself to use the Templar on this mission. I guess I should just to see things work differently but being able to shoot from longer distance is what you need. The templar's pistol is useless although the "ghost" and ionic storm are good.

The strongest items are the darklance, Icarus armor (I usually use it on a ranger and jump a couple of times to get flanking shots on enemies), and the dimonsion rift power at the end. Death from above ability is great to have with any soldier if you get the chance to buy that ability. Untouchable is another good one to have.

Next I'll either try Commander level Ironman again or just try the legendary campaign again.

Sup everyone, I've finally installed and played this game, got some cosmetic/weapons and class mods and I gotta Say it's really kicking my ass even in veteran.

My main problem Is that nomatter what, a squad wipe Is a restart, and I'm at the 7th try.

The Mission I failed the most so far Is the "download data from the train" where, like MOST other deaths, I over extend and then Is a cascade.

Getting midly salty ngl, I know that MOST deaths are my fault and I'm garbage at strategy stuff in general. How many attemps did It take you all? (I'm not playing Ironman officially but I never reload regardless, I'm sort of the type of guy that I'd uninstall the game cause I either do It First time or stop)

I tried out XCOM 2 when it released and didn't like it, bought it again this sale, subscribed to a few mods and it crashed after the tutorial ended, it didn't let me save and it didn't auto save. This is likely caused by one of the QoL mods I subscribed to, but I didn't realize they were already enabled. Most games I play let you look at your list of mods before launching the game, am I supposed to use some mod manager..?

Hi everyone,

I've been banging my head against a wall last few days. I've got a modded ironman game going, I've had a few small issues but nothing to horrible, until I got this avenger Defense mission.

I've got no idea what's causing it, but Everytime without fail when I end my turn, it'll just freeze and crash. I've disabled some mods, but there's quite a few and I'm not sure if I remove something if it'll break the rest of my game.

Does anyone have any mods or console commands they can recommend to get past this mission? I don't care about cheating to get it done, I just don't wanna lose my progress lol.

Cheers guys.

Every time I try to load into the mission to rescue Mox the game crashes out. I recently reinstalled the game after not playing it for years. I even tried making a new save and still had the same issue at the exact same point. Any help would be amazing. I've got the following mods:

Evac All WotC

stop wasting my time WotC

X2WOTCCommunityHighlander v1.28.1

[WOTC] Community Promotion Screen

[WOTC] faster reload animations

[WOTC] Gremlin revamp

[WOTC]LW2 Secondary Weapons

[WOTC] Less Overwatch Lockups!

[WOTC] More Psi Abiliities

[WOTC]New Target Icons

[WOTC] Proficiency Class Pack

[WOTC] The Hive

[WOTC] Better Grappling!

[WOTC]Gtocha Again

[WOTC] Mod Config Menu

Not sure what mods I should download so I wanna hear what y’all think are good ones. I know long WotC is a good one but I wanna keep playing base WotC till I feel confident enough.

Hey guys I just recently installed this game on my PC and I’m having a graphical bug I don’t quite know how to fix I googled it a little and didn’t find anything so I’m turning to here.

The problem is that my skybox just does not exist whenever the camera pans up to the sky to look at drops ships for example there are massive graphical glitches and streaking of existing textures until it pans back down

Is anyone familiar with this problem?

I was wondering why my superior aim was now +20 instead of +15 and realized it was due to now using the "order" of enhanced PCS. It is funny how you can play this game a ton of times and some things you just don't pay attention to and in the past I would go "wow, +20 instead of +15 that is nice" and never wondered why. Duh :)

Has any one else been having all there shots ending up being graze. Even my 98% hit with flanking are just 4 point graze. I do have LW2 but WTF?!?!

Hi,

I'm playing WOTC via AML with mods such as covert infiltration, a better everything and some other QOL mods, but for some reason the imgs of the laser weapons are missing. I checked if any dependencies were missing, but everything is there. I tried downloading some laser weapon packs e.g. long war laser pack as I was figuring maybe that would fix it, but when trying to start the game with that activated, it becomes unresponsive and I have to close it.

Anybody having an idea what the issue is/how to check it etc?
Tried to look where the weapon assets or related settings files are but could not find them.

Thank you!

I want to clear up space in my avenger. It will be a while, before I get Powered Armor. So until that point, I don't need Proving grounds.
If I delete the Proving Grounds, will I lose Plasma Grenades, Bombs, etc?

Hey all,
I'm getting acquainted with this mod but for the life of me cannot figure out what the console commands are for either the rare, epic or legendary lootboxes, or the lootbox keys.

Would anyone happen to know the commands for them? I've tried searching through the comments in the steamworkshop section for the mod but no dice.

I got the game and wanted to know if there was anything I had to do to play the game with mods (or without them)

I know that there are some issues with the launcher but I don’t really know anything beyond that, I just want to play the vanilla game without having to worry about crashes or stability issues before playing with mods.

I also hope that it’s fine to just use the workshop and not nexus mods cause I don’t really want to deal with Vortex.

You've probably heard this a million times, but the avatar project is literally impossible to beat. I'm playing on commander difficulty, and all was going well, I had fewer deaths than ever before! The avatar project finishes, so I hit the black sight, nearly perfect success. Then I send a covert action to reduce it, now the avatar project is down by 3. Five freaking days later, it completes again. I obtained 2 facility leads in that time (useless peices of junk, apparently) and made contact with another region (the only region without a facility). I was just about to kill the warlock too, which doesn't reduce the avatar project and that also doesn't make sense. Why is there so little to do against the advent calendar? ☹️

I'd like to have more of good quality (and possibly funny, but not... too much so) voice packs (WOTC-comaptible), any recommendations?

I currently have Adam Jensen, JC Denton and Freeman's Mind

I just realized I can EVAC the raisen zombie but seems like my soldiers kicked it off from the Skyranger. I wished to keep it as a pet in my Avenger :/

I also hoped to EVAC the gatekeeper as well XD

(Sorry I have to add NSFW tag because my mod makes the characters look.... spicy)

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I’m on PS5 playing vanilla with all DLCs except WOTC which I’ll play on my second play through. Right now I’m very confused on what armor I should put on the various classes. I just unlocked power armour and the amount of available choices is overwhelming me.

All I know is that snipers should get Spider armor but I’ve built a Serpent armor for my sniper cuz I’ve read that’s basically a better version. As for the rest, I’m clueless.

I'm on top of the objective but no hack option is showing up.

So I doing this hack mission (wherein one of my best units almost got killed) and when I got to the objective I found it wrecked like this with no option to hack. I'm playing on Ironman. So, what now? Seems like not much I can do except evac at this point.

I feel guilty when I do it. Thoughts ??

I finally finished my first save scumming playthrough of WOTC, and I'm still hopelessly addicted to this game. So I decided, why not try Ironman mode?

The thing that really throws me off about it, and I know this is salt speaking, is I'll have ONE shot at like 94%, and I know if I miss this shot the whole mission will be lost.

And despite it being super high, I miss the shot and of course I hopelessly fail the important mission.

Everything in my body just wants to shut the game off and try again. How do you Ironman players deal with that?

How come there isn't a Legend Ironman achievement?

I finally completed my first full playthrough. After failed attempt after failed attempt, rage quitting, uninstalling, reinstalling, reloading autosaves, etc. I FINALLY made it through thanks to the tips, posts, and advice found in this sub. Once the game play/research tree clicked and I learned that the countdown timer means basically nothing I made real progress. Thanks for the research tree, SkyRanger build, and squad progression tips. I'm going to do another playthrough on a higher difficulty before playing the expansions. Thanks for all the help!