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#HOW TO PLAY LONG WAR 2 XCOM MOD#
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And this is very, very important because guerrilla operations do not stick around forever each of them has a limited shelf-life of around 8-12 days after which they disappear from the geoscape, and so if your intel gathering is too anaemic you’ll only detect an operation with a single day left before it expires. Checks for detecting an operation happen every six hours so in theory if you just beat that minimum intel threshold you’re going to get a lot of rolls on whether you detect a given operation regardless, but you still want as many rebels on Intel duty as possible because the higher the chance of detection, the earlier you’ll detect the operation in the first place. Each operation has a minimum threshold of regional intel required to even detect it in the first place, and the chances of detection get better the more regional intel that you have. The way this works behind the scenes is that aside from the familiar Intel currency used to unlock more regions, your rebels on Intel duty are also building up a hidden region-specific hoard of intel. Behind the scenes Long War 2 is periodically spawning prospective guerrilla operations around the world – but you’ll only find out about them if you have enough resistance members sniffing around for leads in the region where the operation has secretly spawned. Gathering Intel, again, now means more than just receiving an Intel income. Each haven can support up to 13 rebels, each of which can be put to work scrounging up supplies, slowly recruiting more rebels or gathering Intel. Take the regions, for example: instead of being simple passive resource generators once unlocked, they’re now individual resistance havens staffed with named rebels who you can passively recruit, or – more likely – break out of prison in one of the jailbreak missions on the battlescape.

#HOW TO PLAY LONG WAR 2 XCOM MOD#

I really wasn’t kidding when I said this mod was comprehensive: nearly everything that the base game did with the geoscape has been either jettisoned completely, or else altered so drastically that it’s barely recognisable in its new form.

There’s still an Avatar Project counter along with associated Dark Events that you can counter by doing certain missions.

You still fly around unlocking new regions with Intel.

So, here’s what’s still the same on the geoscape: On its surface Long War 2 is supposed to make the game longer and more intricate, just as the original Long War mod for XCOM 1 did, but what’s impressed me about this sequel is how nearly every single one of its geoscape mechanics embraces the guerrilla concept, weaving it into the game’s structure far more seamlessly than Firaxis managed. The base game tried to run with the idea that XCOM was now a guerrilla organisation that had to work in the shadows to undermine the alien regime, but aside from starting most battlescape missions in concealment it didn’t actually do a whole lot to play to that concept, and in places it was painfully obvious that several of the mechanics (Terror missions, the missions where you can counter one of three Dark Events etc.) were simply hurriedly repainted versions of things that already existed in the first XCOM. Well, no, that’s not quite fair, it does add a fair few new weapons and enemies, but that’s a comparatively low-key change and takes a backseat to what Long War 2 is really here for, which is a massive and comprehensive restructure of the mechanics behind the geoscape and battlescape layers of XCOM 2. With the slightly more relaxed (or less obsessive, anyway) attitude I’m taking this year, though, I have the opportunity to do ridiculous, time-expensive things like reinstalling XCOM 2 along with the recently-released Long War mod for it to see what all the fuss is about.Īs a mod, Long War 2 doesn’t do much in the way of the classic mod approach of adding new assets or enemies to the game.

#HOW TO PLAY LONG WAR 2 XCOM PC#

That might sound a little strange considering the high volume of PC games that I get through, but it’s partly because of the high volume of PC games that I get through: I usually play games with an eye to reviewing them, you can’t review them fairly if they’re plastered in mods, and over the last few years I’ve had little time to revisit games I’ve already played to see how they change.

#HOW TO PLAY LONG WAR 2 XCOM MODS#

I’ve not dabbled with mods for many years.