Soldiers in the squad can be permanently killed by enemies however, their bodies can be carried back to extraction to keep their equipment should the player deem it necessary to abort the mission. When a soldier was injured or about to bleed out, medkits can be used to stabilize their conditions.
Ranger wields a melee weapon that slashes enemies, Grenadier is equipped with a grenade launcher and explosives that can destroy enemy cover, Specialist commands a drone that improves the team's defense and health, Sharpshooter serves as the team's sniper, and Psi Operative, unlocked later in the game, utilizes a variety of telepathic and psionic powers.Įnemies from the franchise, including the Sectoids, returned, while Firaxis introduced newcomers including the Vipers, a snake-like enemy who can drag soldiers out of their cover. The game features five different classes, with each having their own Soldier Ability. Each squad member can only perform a limited number of actions before the enemy takes their turn, and players can choose to end their turn early. Alternatively, they can also reload, remained in overwatch to shoot any moving enemy who is in their line of sight, hunker down, and hack into enemies' mechanical weapons like turrets and temporarily shutdown or control them for themselves. The game will inform the players of the possibility of landing a successful shot and the amount of health the enemy will deplete. Enemies programmed by artificial intelligence will attempt to flank, and if a soldier is exposed, they will sustain heavy injuries from hostile attacks due to the lack of any defense.Įach turn, players can attack their selected targets with firearms. Squad members can hide behind different environmental objects to avoid being shot. Fog of war hides the aliens and their actions from view until the player's soldiers are in range and have line of sight on them.
They can position their troops to plan their battle and ambush enemies. The game also features a one-versus-one multiplayer mode in which players received a fixed number of points to build a squad composed of both Advent and XCOM forces, and attempted to eliminate the opponent's squad in the battlefield.Īt the start of most missions, the player's squad will be concealed and will not be detected by any enemies. Campaign, class and enemy types can be created by users and can be shared through Steam Workshop. In the mode, the player's save file will be overwritten whenever the player performs an action, meaning that it would be impossible for players to import an earlier save after making a wrong decision. The game offers four distinct difficulty settings: Rookie, Veteran, Commander and Legend.Īfter players complete the campaign, they can start a new game with the "Ironman" mode enabled. Maps are procedurally generated to create a wide variety of levels, in which every map features different terrain and buildings in each playthrough. Many of the missions are timed, requiring players to complete it within several turns. Played from a top-down perspective, the game is a turn-based tactics title in which players issue commands to a squad of one and six human soldiers to eliminate all aliens in a map and dependent on missions, complete secondary objectives. XCOM 2 casts the player as the commander of the eponymous military organization, now reduced to a resistance force opposing the ongoing alien occupation of the planet. The expansion XCOM 2: War of the Chosen was released in 2017.
Taking place 20 years after the events of Enemy Unknown, it follows the continuity that XCOM, a military organization trying to fight off an alien invasion, has lost the war, and is now a resistance force against their occupation of Earth and their established totalitarian regime and military dictatorship. The game is the sequel to 2012's reboot of the series, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. XCOM 2 is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in February 2016, and for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in September 2016.
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