The Classes in XCOM: Enemy Within & XCOM 2: WOTC, Ranked
Firaxis Games and Feral Interactive present the second and wildly popular entry to the XCOM franchise. XCOM 2 is the classic alien-fighting turn-based strategy game where players control a squad of talented soldiers with different skills on dangerous missions against an exoplanetary enemy threatening to rule mank
Regardless of how victorious players were in XCOM: Enemy Unknown , Firaxis Games continued down a canon storyline with XCOM 2 that assumed players had ultimately lost the fight against the technologically superior SLG Advanced Strategies alien invaders. This more or less sets the tone for the new War of the Chosen expansion: there are some fights you just can’t win, and the impressively deep expansion pack for XCOM 2 piles on the signature pain that strategy fans have come to embrace in almost masochistic fash
A mix of great utility and free damage makes the Specialist one of the best classes in the XCOM series. The Specialist doesn’t suffer the drawbacks the Support Class does when it comes to healing, plus the Specialist gets the Gremlin which can do free damage and h
The Lost add an entire new layer of strategy to missions, as players need to tread carefully lest they find themselves boxed in a back alley surrounded by swarms of ashen zombies on all sides. They’re not a huge threat compared to the ADVENT, but they certainly throw a wrench in otherwise routine missions. That’s likely why Firaxis Games has introduced unique mission modifiers called sit reps, which can fill a map with volatile explosives or require that only low-ranked soldiers be sent on certain missions. It’s all about a variety of added challenges, and War of the Chosen provides this in spa
Beyond this, players can bolster their own forces with a few clever additions to the original formula. Soldiers can now gain ability points for performing tactical moves, like flank shots or ambush kills, and spend them on additional skills to use in battle. While the original menu of two skill options still exists, a few seemingly random third skill slots are available for purchase now, making each soldier’s respective skill tree even more unique. Soldiers can also bond with squadmates they spend time on the battlefield with (a la Fire Emblem ), and commanders will even be able to rank up these skills so that bonded soldiers can utilize unique combat moves in battle. Soldiers also require rest after each mission lest they become fatigued and more susceptible to developing fears that can impact them in bat
A great, well, support class. Smoke grenades and extra medkit uses help the Support Class keep the other soldiers in their squad alive for longer. They get a lot of great utility to buff allies and debuff enem
It was funny. We had a lot of ideas for where we’d go with two while we were developing Enemy Unknown, and after the game came out and all the fans were posting stuff, it was amazing the metric for how many people lost. Face planted and lost multiple times. So it seemed, the strange part about XCOM is that people would lose and restart entirely, unlike a lot of other games where you just don’t do that. So it seemed like a really natural place for us to go to take more of an alternative history approach instead of a much more linear narrative. It felt like something most players would relate to having like “wait a minute, the first time I played it I lost. As if, after I played and I lost, now I’m playing the sequence of the game I lost.” It was something we honestly didn’t think many people had done. It’s so easy to do a linear path, and we wanted to take more of an alternate history approach to see what would happen.
The truth is, XCOM still exists, though it’s become a shadow of its former self after world leaders and bases either surrendered or were destroyed. Reduced to a covert guerilla military operating in cells around the globe, this new “Resistance” has more than the standard aliens of the original game to contend with. Those monsters are back and scarier than ever, along with entirely new creatures – but it’s the humans who serve the aliens – known as the ADVENT – that pose the most insidious threat. The odds seem insurmountable, and fight failing until resistance intelligence locates, then extracts their secret weapon: the Command
The Heavy Class can dish out a ton of damage to several enemies in a cluster because of the number of explosives the Heavy class can take. When they hit colonel, they could have access to five explosives in one mission, which is two more than the Grenad
There was a time when the revival of the science fiction franchise XCOM by Firaxis Games was seen as simply a small-scale, back-up title to the main event. But long before the squad-based shooter disappointed many, the traditional, turn-based strategy XCOM: Enemy Unknown had been launched to near universal acclaim, not only doing the brand justice, but reinvigorating the genre as a whole. The expansion Enemy Within doubled down on the fiction and gameplay – but it was **XCOM 2 ** that had the anticipation in its fa
