15 Essential Mods To Make XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen Even Better

Breath of the Wild 's artistic cover gives players a glimpse at the game's beauty, making them want to explore the world being shown and venture to the ominous castle that Link's body language clearly shows has his full attent


Most maps will have a hacking opportunity. If players can do so safely, they should attempt to take advantage of these opportunities as they will often reward players with supplies, intel, or even combat advanta


Julian Gollop wanted to make a sequel with an isometric view. Since MicroProse was publishing the hit Civilization at the time, they asked if Mythos Games could implement more strategy elements to the game. This is how the foundation of XCOM's strategy layer was born. Firaxis paid tribute to Laser Squad as well by imitating the game's cover art for XCOM: Enemy Unknown's box


Before embarking on a mission, players should carefully plan. Any mission that requires hacking, for example, will greatly benefit from at least one specialist who can hack from a distance. After building the Shadow Chamber, mission previews will show exactly the types of enemies that will be encountered on a mission. Any unencountered alien XCOM enemy will appear as Unkown . As players amass resources and options, preparing accordingly for each mission will have a major impact on its succ


Terror From The Deep was a sequel to the original X-COM. At this stage in that game's plot, the alien forces had been defeated, but sent out a signal before their ultimate destruction. This signal awakened a dormant force of aliens who had been in stasis under the sea for countless years. Their awakening forced XCOM to adopt new strategies in order to defend humanity once again, developing new weapons and armors capable of taking the fight to the aliens in an underwater battlegro


This would be especially effective if particular characters weren't locked behind single decisions, rather than chains of choices that would encourage the player to experiment with their choices and greatly enhance replay value through tangible assets that are only available under certain conditi


The worst thing for any RPG is for its combat to grow mundane, bland, or repetitive. As a tactical RPG, Triangle Strategy has the opportunity to feature numerous ways to spice up combat, from interesting map variety to differing win conditions that change from battle to bat


In the heat of war, especially war against terrifyingly advanced alien overlords who have already taken over the world, injuries will happen. In the base game, soldiers could sleep them off. Not with the Augmentations mod , which adds another layer of depth to soldier upkeep. This mod makes it so that grave wounds cannot be healed without cybernetic augmentati


The helmets in particular allow players to use any part of any headpiece and mash them all together to create truly individual looks. The combinations are endless. Some can be silly, some can be fierce. It’s all up to the player and their boundless imaginat


A soldier with a fully loaded assault rifle could potentially attack eight times in one turn, and players would have to manually activate every attack. Thankfully, Musashi thought of all the suffering gamers out there and made this simple UI change that adds a Lost Autofire option , permanently, to the action bar. Sit back and relax as hordes of Lost are cleared out with two simple cli


Engineers and Scientists are the most valuable rewards players can get in XCOM 2 and should be prioritized over any other. After unlocking the Black Market, it is important to check every month whether any can be purchased. These purchases cost Intel, which makes it a valuable resource in XCOM 2 . Scientists dramatically increase the speed of any research. Engineers are key to upgrade and maintain almost everything at HQ. Players should also aim to have at least one Engineer clearing debris for more rooms at all ti


Rebooting a beloved turn-based strategy franchise is no small feat. Firaxis did a fantastic job streamlining the original UFO Defense with XCOM: Enemy Unknown without compromising on moment-to-moment strategy. It took almost the entire development cycle to get here, howe


Needless to say, the game's development was a nightmare . The main issue was a development split between MicroProse wanting to create the visuals of the game while Mythos Games developed the other systems. Since MicroProse didn't understand the isometric view the title was going for, however, the two teams ended up harming each other's progress towards finishing the g


The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is the black sheep of the series , being a third-person shooter instead of a strategy game. Even though the game's overall setting and systems reflect a typical third-person shooter, The Bureau was originally a horror-themed FPS title under the name XC


Announced during the most recent Nintendo Direct, Triangle Strategy is an upcoming tactical JRPG being developed by Square Enix. Though the SLG Game news has a visual style similar to that of Octopath Traveler , the game's gameplay appears to be more akin to that of games like Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre , and Fire Emb