r/Xcom

Ok I realize this is a delusional pipe dream but just hear me out.

What if.... since Jake Solomon's cancellation of his game and shutting down of his new studio.... he decided to go back to Firaxis. I mean he knows what he's good at, right? Where his strengths lie. Why not go back to the basics and back to what made him a big name in the industry in the first place?

What if, secretly, he was offered a job back at Firaxis (by Sid himself) and was immediately put to work on a new XCOM 3 - to redeem himself and get his career back on track? JUST WHAT IF GUYS!? Humor me plz

Been trying to win campaign on Legendary+terminator, but it’s always same story. I’m being lucky and no one gets oneshotted or everyone gets oneshot through high barricade and with “duck and cover”. Are there any tips and tricks for this difficulty? Maybe i have to befriend every xcom and care about them? Like some mental game))))

To give some insight on how I failed: it was that goddamn Avatar project, and managing the avenger side of the game.

Sure, the missions themselves were getting really hard (that Advent Blacksite mission took hours to beat, [why were there two Codexes?] and I lost two good units from it.

After that mission, and a few of the previous ones, 6 out of my 8 available units were wounded and 1 was training.

I had to skip missions (which I know is a big no-no, but I literally couldn't do any with only 1 unit (non-dlc, btw. Don't have them).

So yeah, I suck at Xcom but I love the abuse and am thinking of picking up the DLC's. So please give me advice, so I don't get screwed again.

Archived copy of an X-COM tabletop RPG campaign using TSR's Top Secret/S.I. ("Secret Intelligence") rules. Campaign ran around 2000-2001. Originally located here.

I basically only done one Ironman run on hardest difficulty on EW and somehow pulled it off. This was about 2 years ago.

Do you think i should start on vanilla xcom2 or straight to WOTC?

Ok the month is July and I’m finally feeling ready to take out the assassin chosen.

Basically i beat EU on ironman hardest difficulty 2 years ago. I played a campaign on hardest difficulty first about 20% through to get the basics then went ironman. The major thing in eu was getting as many satellites up as possible or it would be game over.

My question is, are there any things in xcom2 that are as completely necessary to do quick as the satellites in EU? Not looking for general tips, just if there are any must do's. Thanks

Ofcourse I'll be getting zero company but I've always felt that the Terminator franchise fits the Xcom gameplay better.

The human resistance fighting against the machines, gradually building up their tech so they can defeat skynet, at the same time Skynet is advancing their own tech.

The story begins at the point where the human resistance is starting to organise and has won a few key victories and Skynet has predicted the outcome where it is defeated. In order to counteract this, it begins a secret project akin to Xcom's avatar project, the time machine project. Now the victory conditions could go one of two ways: the resistance could defeat cybernet and destroy the time machine project creating an alternate reality happy ending or to keep in canon, the project cannot be destroyed but Skynet units are always increasing in strength and it is up to the resistance commander to decide when they are strong enough to complete the final mission and send Kyle Reese back in time.

Skynet could have all sorts of units, the hunter drones, the bike drones, the huge metal terminators the classic t-800s the t-1000s and so on.

What do you think? The Terminator franchise is ripe for interesting gameplay but I think it is underserved.

I've tried to beat Xcom 2 for years, on and off, but everytime I get blocked by my own need for perfection and refusal to let even a Rookie die. How do I get past this? I really want to finally beat the game 😅

I feel like I'm going to need to make 30-50 characters before I get started and it would be nice to get it done before release.