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One of the most important parts of forming strategies is to know your enemy. This holds true even for XCOM 2. XCOM 2 has a large variety of unique enemies that will challenge you and test your ...
The Chosen are a trio of persistent enemies that will haunt you across your XCOM 2 campaign. Inspired by Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System, these enemies will morph and react to you ...
Commander in XCOM 2 is the game’s third difficulty setting that features tougher enemies, longer research times, and more. This guide details everything you need to learn about Commander ...
Today at a panel during its annual Firaxicon event, Firaxis took the wraps off of two new enemies coming to XCOM 2: the Archon, and the Advent Shieldbearer. Shacknews was on-hand to talk with the ...
Here’s how it works. The timeline of XCOM 2 assumes that your XCOM: Enemy Unknown playthrough didn't go well. After all, the odds on chances are that it didn't. I mean, who'd have thought ...
Here’s how it works. What on Earth happened between XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM 2? The canon fiction says that the player loses the Enemy Unknown campaign and the aliens take control of the planet.
XCOM 2 doubles-down on the difficulty of the tactical and strategic halves of the game, and the increased risk may help players form even stronger relationships with their soldiers than in Enemy ...
It’s difficult to please both new and old fans alike when rebooting a beloved franchise, but in 2012, Firaxis pulled off a game-development miracle when it successfully revived the legendary but ...
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In fact, XCOM 2 will pretty much assume that XCOM: Enemy Within never happened. Talking to PC Gamer, senior producer on XCOM 2 Garth DeAngelis explained: "It's funny, because we talk about lore in ...
XCOM 2 launched this past February alongside three mods from Long War Studios, the developer behind popular XCOM: Enemy Unknown mod Long War. Now, the studio is working on five more mods for the ...
But one of XCOM 2’s biggest strengths how it resists your efforts to fall into repetitious patterns. By comparison: after the first real-world month or two of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, it became ...