Sometimes they harvest them for information instead. When the Chosen take your soldiers down in battle they don’t always kill them. Their legacy lives on in the sequel, and you should at least get to know them a little before you get started. Watch it all to learn about Central as well as Dr. In fact, here’s a link to all of that first game’s cutscenes, including the Enemy Within DLC.
Unless you’re really excited about the backstory in Enemy Unknown you don’t need to have played it to understand what’s going on. XCOM 2 fundamentally builds on the systems present in Enemy Unknown, and War of the Chosen bolts onto that framework and expands it. I’m here to tell you that you should skip both of these earlier games and go straight to this new DLC.
My Twitter feed has been clogged with people asking me if they need to have played the original XCOM: Enemy Unknown or XCOM 2 to understand or even be good at War of the Chosen. Skip the original and start with this DLC Here’s what I wish I’d known going in, and a few tips for stepping off on the right foot. There are new features like Ability Points, new enemies like the Spectre and the Purifier and a couple of entirely new systems that aren’t terribly well explained. But it also throws a few wrinkles into the classic formula. Disclosure: Beagle’s YouTube content has occasionally been sponsored by 2K Games, the publisher of XCOM 2.XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is here, and by all accounts it’s the best version of XCOM ever made. You can watch his XCOM and other gaming videos on his channel, /beaglerush. There are also mission types where calling in extract is not possible, often missions such as VIP Rescue where your main objective is reaching an evac zone and placing it next to your squad would be a little too easy a solution.īeagle is a staunch opponent of alien invasions. Extracting an unconscious soldier requires a squadmate also extract with them, removing another valuable trooper from your mission. There are caveats to this maneuver, of course. This is also helpful if a soldier is set on fire, poisoned or otherwise afflicted and you have no way of curing their status simply extract them before they die and they’ll take no further damage. In XCOM 2 you have another option, as your soldiers can pick up unconscious squadmates and take them to the LZ, extracting them to the Skyranger before they bleed to death. If you didn’t have a kit, that soldier was doomed unless you quickly finished the mission before they expired. In EU, soldiers who were downed but not outright killed would enter a ‘bleeding out’ state, where you had a few turns to stabilize them with a medkit. It serves another equally important purpose, though-CASEVAC, or casualty evacuation. This serves an obvious purpose: letting you get the hell out after your mission has turned pear-shaped. On most missions in XCOM 2, your soldiers can call in the Skyranger’s landing zone to any location near them, allowing for an immediate extract of any soldiers inside the LZ. Unless you don’t mind losing all that expensive stuff they were carrying. Winning a normal mission doesn’t require you to extract, of course, but on missions that force you to extract such as VIP rescue operations, manually taking your bodies home is necessary even if you win. Beyond sentimental reasons, this is critical for keeping the soldier’s gear, because if you extract from a mission without taking a soldier’s body you lose all the gear they had. While this at first may appear pointless, it serves a very important function by allowing you to extract your dead trooper. When a squadmate dies, you can order another soldier to pick up his body. (Note: It was actually a terrible moment.)įor similar but different reasons, you need to look after your own dead as well. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Predator Armor requires 12 Trooper corpses to build! Ha ha, what a great moment. I made the mistake of selling all my Trooper corpses early on, because as previously discussed, the black market is awesome. That means a dozen ADVENT Trooper corpses for your supply of plated Predator armor, and then handfuls of ADVENT Trooper or Stun Lancer bodies for each EXO Suit or Spider Suit, respectively. As morbid as it may be, your first sets of upgraded armor must be built using scavenged ADVENT plates. Dead bodies are very valuable in XCOM 2, both yours and the enemy’s.