I just one shotted chosen hunter on my first chosen encounter with a basic frag grenade. He was standing on the roof of a bus right above the engine so he took grenade damage, fall damage, and damage from the bus blowing up. It was funny wish I was recording it. All i wanted to say.

Due to the removal of the 2k launcher. Can I play online without accepting the questionable 2K Terms and Conditions? Or now you're accepting them simply installing the game?

Just curious what other people's experiences are - out of all the enemies, who is it that makes you go "Ah crap, now I have to start dealing with these guys" the most once they show up? And does it vary by difficulty? My money is on Mutons - dealing with them when I'm still stuck on projectile weapons is a hassle!

DAWG i swear to god learn how to put spoiler I just got spoiled and jesus Im mad.

This is my first xcom. I was playing DOS2 it was so rich in lore area, so after finishing act 1. i felt burned. So i picked this one.(i'll definetly go back)

1.gameplay is fun.

2. Ugly characters.

3. Didn't like alien coworkers.

4. Blue blood for life🫡

That's all. I loved it. I finished it. And i'm proud of it. I'll be playing wastelands 3 next. Which other xcom would you suggest?

Hi guys, I have recently bought Xcom on steam and I was very thrilled to start playing it. I have downloaded it but once I click for open the game it always does not do anything Steam icon says updating app and then revert back to Play I have searched all around and seems something normal in these days, but I am guessing how can people plays it, so it is not something that is happening to us all?

I was playing Long war of the Chosen all weekend and for the most part it was going pretty well. I hadn’t quit got the combat armor or plasma weapons yet but all of my soldiers had at least predator armor and at the very least laser weapons. A couple had magnetic. All of my main squad were rank staff Sargent and above. Although I hadn’t made it to master Sargent yet. Anyway I got to a point that I knew would happen eventually, one of the chosen managed to attack the ship with the cannons. UFO missions are Easy, this one is not that. Anyway I went into this mission thinking just kill the pods and progress slowly, taking a little bit out at a time. Oh boy I was wrong. When I spawned in I was greeted by being surrounded by at least 30 or so of various types of enemy. I tried but no matter what the numbers were too much. I was just grazing and they would kill half of my team on their first turn of movement. I saw it was a no win scenario so I rage quit and started a while new campaign lol.

So I just started playing XCOM 2 (all the wonderfull mods got me :D), and after about 12 hours of playing I finally faced and killed my first chosen (the Warlock).

The game is so fun, and at times really intense, I guess I'm just making this post as I was so hyped after the battle I just wanted to share my joy with all you lovely folks who have probably killed the chosen, or finished the game 100x's already!

So the past two missions ive had bugs where a soldier clearly has actions left, its my turn. but when ever i click to move them somewhere they wont. Theyll move for litterally 0.1 of a second then speak the (enemy spotted) voiceline and stop moving. it wont end up costing an action but repeatedly trying to move them doesnt do anything. Ive been having to use console commands to move them but this has now happened multiple times. Any ideas on whats up?

I stopped playing for a few months, I come back and the game needs to load differently and the quality has tanked. I can't even read the over watch symbol. What happened?

The only good thing about them is the engine improvements in WOTC and Grenade Snapping in EW.

Slingshot: Scripted missions that are way too hard going in blind and way too scripted second time around. This exists in base game as the Council Missions but this DLC shares the same problem. I'll name it slingshot phenomenon.

EW: Slingshot phenomenon for newfoundland and progeny missions.

Gene Mods are mid.

MELD timer is interesting but a chore mostly.

MECs are cool but way unbalanced.

They increased the XP requirement for Corporal, so you're basically stuck with Headshot Snipers for the first two months.

I don't like EXALT.

Shen's Last Gift: Slingshot phenomenon for the lost towers.

Alien Rulers: Slingshot phenomenon for alien nest. Introduces "boss enemies." While improved in WOTC, not by much. New weapons are neat but I rarely find use for them.

WOTC: Sewer/Subway and Old World maps are too apocalyptic. I liked the vibes of base game where the aliens are taking over slums and suburbs subtly.

Chosen as boss enemies aren't necessarily hard once you learn them but they're annoying and a damage sink that you have to focus all your guys on, feels more like an RPG than tactics.

It makes the lore more confusing too, why do we have Templars before we have Psi. Why are Bradford and Kelly confused about alien hybrids in the intro when they know about the Skirmishers.

Everybody agrees the Lost are a pain.

The bleaker story of base game is shattered by the chosen's wrestling heel personas and the posters and the radio guy. This is arguably a positive but I personally don't like it.

Does anyone else feel this way?

ITS DONE. I haven't got my grade yet I'll update this when I'm done ty for all the help for all you interested in it I have pasted it below

Hello guys, gals, cats wearing birthday hats, and everyone in between. My name is ____ _________ Today I am here to tell you about the video game that has changed my life Xcom 2

Xcom 2 is a turn-based strategy game developed by Firaxis and published by Two-take Interactive on February 5th, 2016. Placing the player in the position of the commander of a rebellion against the alien oppression of Earth. Xcom is very special to me as it has been there as a way to calm myself if I was ever going through anything, I was introduced to the Xcom series with the first game “Xcom Enemy Unknown’ but I truly fell in love with Xcom 2 when my father got the game for me as a birthday present in 2017 when I was only 8. I now have combined between every platform over 2000 hours played

A great reason why you should play Xcom 2 is the gameplay, Everything is done on a grid including movement, Area of effects abilities, line of sight, and unit location. You control a squad of up to 6 soldiers. You have to guide your squad through maps covered in a “fog of war" that prevents viewing sections of the map your soldiers can't currently see and are full of aliens to complete an objective ranging from hacking a device to saving a trapped civilian to complete extermination. Combat is quite difficult requiring you to make calculated gambles as like your soldiers the aliens have abilities that if not played around can be the difference between life and death, if you play the exciting way and turn on Ironman mode the game saves after every move meaning every action is final but if you are new or like your soldiers to much you can always play without ironman and reload your previous save as there no penalty besides locking a couple achievements or trophies depending on your platform. And that is only half of it outside of mission you have a base builder with resource management where you have to balance research, expanding the resistance, upgrading the Avenger your flying base, and buying upgrades for your soldiers

Xcom is important to me because of the community as they are very kind, dedicated and always helpful, you could ask any question to anyone in the community and they are willing to help To assist with this point I have asked for some testimonials with have been shared with you and what they enjoyed. Most of the replies boiled down to the relationships between their soldiers, the risk-taking, a love for snakes, and the replayability

Xcom 2 is very replayable due to how different each campaign is, this is due to the randomization of your soldier's looks, stats, class, and relationships between each other, however, you can always create your own soldiers, have someone you're mad at? You can always recreate them and get them killed for some nice stress reduction or you can recreate yourself or someone close to you and turn them into an alien-murdering badass

Another reason the community loves Xcom 2 is due to the highly dedicated modding sub-community which makes everything from full AI overhauls to new maps & enemies to basic quality-of-life improvements up to Complete reworks of the progression such as long war or covert infiltration

if you are still unsure if you want to play, there are many ways for you to still experience this masterpiece. If you just want to see some gameplay there are hundreds of videos on websites like YouTube, some of my favourite content creators are “Christopherodd” and “The Drifter’s Broadcast” but that is just personal preference there are 100s if not 1000s of different people with different personalities. If you aren't sure you want to play Xcom due to the price tag don't freet sales come often and often decrease the price up to 90%

My goal today was to convince you to Expressence Xcom 2 the game that has keep me sane and shaped me into to I am today

I love Xcom 2 because It is everything you would want in a strategy game being a tactical sandbox with intense macro and micro while still being able to be played casually

I hope that you trying out xcom 2 is something you might consider doing, because you will be able to truly appreciate this hidden gem of a strategy game with an incredible community and is always cheap for anyone new

Thank you for listening

Hello everyone, I never knew this was possible. I just wanted to share the knowledge in a case someone will replay this fantastic game.

So I just cleared my one drive of over 7k pictures from xcom2 over the course of a few years.

I've looked around I can't turn it off without editing the save file. (I'm not a computer guy) is there a way to make it so it doesn't save the pictures to my one drive?

I've been playing long war of the chosen and I like it (even if I'm terrible at it lol) and I want to play it again at some point without clogging my drives

I have tried everything, running as admin, setting the files to not be read only (it just automatically goes back to read only), reinstalling the game, verifying the game files, reinstalling steam, running the game on legacy, temporarily disabling the firewall.

I have filed a ticket here https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/requests/new please do that too if you have the same issue. Or even if you don't if you just wanna help get this fixed faster, since I know lots of other people have the same issue right now

Update: Civ 5 randomly started working, but XCOM EU still does not.

I just bought the XCOM Enemy Unknown and when I start it up the game simply dont run?! Can someone help me how to fix it

So this is my second long war playthrough, completed one, and am on Feb 2017 of my second playthrough, but this one is on bronze man and dynamic war. I don’t think my campaign has been going terribly, but I am getting hammered with base defense missions. Had one in August, one in November, and now one in February. I have not lost a single mission, have shot down all scouts and raiders and maybe half of destroyers. The aliens had 5 countries but I took down a base and so now they have 4. I have sats up in every single country not controlled by aliens. It seems odd to me that I’m getting base defenses every three months in these conditions. Is there some balancing thing with dynamic war maybe I’m not aware of? I’ve only heard of people getting 1, maybe max 2 base defense missions

I have nothing left for scientists to study I have mechs and fully upgraded team I have psycers maxed I have the purple orb device but says I have no one powerful enough to use it. And all that happens mission after mission is a sneak mission a ufo mission then random missions I have played for hours and nothing is helping me progress I'm a little sick of playing the game atm seems pointless to play, am I missing somthing?

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I'm currently doing a base assault; and I am a bit curious of what is going on below the base. It gives off some lovecraftian vibes.

Anyone have any insights or ideas of what it is?

Just bought the game, installed, and doesnt launch. I hit play, updating executable, and then it just goes back to play and doesnt launch. I have no folders in my games to delete, no saves, and reinstalling doesnt fix it.