XCOM 2

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XCOM 2: In front of the inside Avenger base is a plaque showing the names of the heroic soldier’s sacrifice.

The war is not over yet, but does it make sense to remain in a war where we are almost certain to lose?

XCOM 2 started with a small hope.

After the failure of XCOM 20 years ago, Earth is now completely dominated by alien forces through the rulers of the ADVENT leadership “puppets.”

XCOM is now only a name that exists in the past. Still, the resistance forces continue to quietly pursue their revolution inside the Avenger flying fortress and seek all the support resources worldwide.

That is not just a war anymore, this is a race against time, and you – the commander of the new generation of XCOM forces, holding the future of all humanity and the entire planet.

The frontline balance has now changed.

In XCOM 2, guerrilla warfare will occupy most of the game’s focus, and a quick attack and escape strategy (“hit-n-run”) will be the main premise among the 90s of battles in the game.

The pressure of time causes the pace of XCOM 2 to be pushed higher by many factors: in addition to completing main missions, communicating with resistance forces in countries around the world, players also have to restrain the development of the scale of the Avatar Project, if you do not want to receive the final defeat.

Nearly half of all battles in the game are limited to a certain number of turns, forcing players to develop strategies and formulate attacks/defenses quickly.

The pressure of time, the pace of XCOM 2 are pushed up to a very high level when all the player’s calculations. Both inside and outside the battlefield can affect every factor in the game to be done. A battle where the team members are safely returned and healed for the next two weeks is still quite a good achievement for any strategist.

The turn-based strategy in XCOM 2 still carries the spirit of “challenging” the player if he has missed sticking with any soldier for too long.

The percentage is the level of success (or catastrophic failure) of a player in which a correct decision plus a little luck can bring about huge success or a loophole move. With a high level, soothing will cause a few keyboards to be thrown into the trash without mercy.

When to make use of the “abilities,” how to set up the Overwatch “watch” mode properly, or how to move to take advantage of the terrain that brings your benefit. All brought moments of suffocation, heart-pounding until the roar of contentment roared after seeing his strategy execute could not be more perfect!

The tactics in XCOM 2 are extremely diverse because of the randomness that never makes the player feel unfair.

The game does not allow any “reusable” strategy but forces you to adapt to each situation you face in every battle.

Concentrate all of the firepowers on the Sectopod, temporarily neutralize it for two turns and take out the “cries” next to it first?

Proactively attacking the target or waiting for the enemy to enter an area that has been set Overwatch before?

Destroy all the ADVENT forces occupying around the target first, then perform the mission, or find a private way into the target and quickly retreat, limit fighting with the enemy?

In any such situation, the player’s choice will affect the mission’s outcome even more because if the XCOM forces suffer heavy losses, it will be worse than the mission!

However, not every choice is up to the player’s preference because the dice the outcome of the dice it occasionally points the middle finger at me and laughs and says, “That’s XCOM, baby!” so.

Don’t be too dependent on the gun in your hand; take advantage of all the explosives you have, from the conventional explosive grenades to the Exo Suit’s Acid, Plasma, or grenade launcher, all ready to take. Any solid construction period becomes normal.

They work to destroy the enemy’s hiding area and create a balance on the front when the soldiers are staked in the position of “Death from Above” lightly land.

Contrary to the “dagger” factor above, XCOM 2 introduces players to a new mechanism but extremely important to the concept of guerrilla war – Concealment.

In the first turns, the player can direct the party members to move out of sight of the patrol without causing alarm.

The concealment mechanism helps and forces players to take risks in the first turns because it is also a great time to set up Overwatch. Still, players will also need to scout to locate the enemy and manipulate them in the absence of the Specialist class’s Scanning Protocol.

If successful, the player will witness a beautiful moment when the opponent is pinned down during slow-motion could not be more refreshing.

And of course, after each turn of Overwatch is when the player has to determine which enemies are still alive because some units can cause a lot of damage or even shake the situation in just one turn.

Unlike XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the player will not build any additional bases in XCOM 2. Still, all operations outside of battles are performed inside the mobile fortress Avenger and on the map world.

Starting in a random country, players will have to fly to other areas on the map, search for resources, survey information (intel), and contact rebels worldwide.

Things looked pretty good at first, but as the player field expanded the field as much as possible, destroying the barracks and key areas of the ADVENT, they also began to respond with “Dark Event” activities to make it difficult the XCOM forces.

For example, increasing reinforcements, cutting off resources, or speeding up the operation of the Avatar Project.

On the player’s side, because the XCOM force cannot grow and solve all problems simultaneously, so the player’s choice, from the expansion of new areas within the Avenger. In order, prioritizing the critical issues going on outside of XCOM headquarters is extremely important, not only for its influence on ADVENT but also for the benefit of itself XCOM.

The player must always find a way to stay one step ahead of ADVENT, and victory is won by the side that finishes first in the race against time.

A character customization system is the next bright spot of XCOM 2.

Although not as detailed as allowing “face” editing like many role-playing games, nobody selection is permitted, and some hat and glasses styles are still quite limited. However, they are still “enough. using “, changing the names and appearance of the characters and creating a battalion or” unlike anyone “(or something to mean to you) will create a new look for the members in a group.

More specifically, players can store the characters they edit in the “Character pool” and share or reuse for other characters; even the game allows assigning characters to the role. Target in VIP assassination or rescue missions.

Character customization will be just a small “gimmick” mechanism, nothing more or less unless the player has a more “personal” view of the soldiers.

For me, it’s not just about watching them step by step completing a mission and getting to a higher level but also memorizing their equipment type, armor, and their position before entering the battle.

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On the battlefield, we desire to complete the mission and hope that they return completely.

The “old” must always fulfill their role perfectly; the “recruits” must find ways to prove their abilities; the captain must always be at the center and lead his teammates. The first one is always ready to “fire” when seeing the enemy’s shadow; the supporters who follow must always side by side, those who fall are never left behind.

The story of XCOM 2 stops at the missions of XCOM forces and exists inside the battlefield, where a thin line only separates the boundary between life and death.

While the Avenger was trapped in Brazil and the entire XCOM forces had to fend off the onslaught of ADVENT, the writer has never seen such a heart-pounding 30 minutes before.

All 12 soldiers entrenched in front of the Avenger fortress and distracted the enemy while Major Clara “Tapper” McGregor found his way to destroy the magnetic magnet that disabled the Avenger.

In turn 15, the mission was completed, but Tapper was stuck at the foot of a small bridge surrounded by two ADVENT MEC.

All 12 people were ready to withdraw, but Corporal Chen Li decided to approach a MEC and take it down with just one sword line, and the other was defeated by the gunner standing in the withdrawal position.

Tapper fled safely, but a nearby ADVENT Officer shot down Chen Li in Overwatch mode.

Sergeant Connor “Butcher” Kennedy got out of position with the remaining enemies wiped out, brought Chen Li’s body back, and the entire XCOM forces returned safely, except for one.

It was just one of the dozens of random missions in XCOM 2, and perhaps only us – the commanders on the front, could sense it.

Every shake of our head when we lose a member is a reminder: in war, a loss is inevitable, but whether we can accept it and move on, it is also an in the countless difficult decisions in the game that players have to make.

The larger the scale of the game, the more likely it will be to get bugs.

With XCOM 2 becoming an exclusive PC game, finding errors is even more difficult for Firaxis because, during the first 30 hours, the writer encountered dozens of errors from normal to… bullshit.

Why does the Ranger very often use melee attacks to attack the enemy through the wall?

Why is the Stun Lancer capable of attacking through the ceiling?

Why is the Sharpshooter so good raising the air and shooting but still causing damage, or holding a sniper rifle with … one hand like a pistol and then shooting?

And yet, those are just visual flaws and don’t affect the game experience much, but what about the ridiculous delays that the game generates after each character’s action?

Why does the screen go black sometimes when it’s the opponent’s turn?

Then there are times when the character gets stuck in a stationary state and moves by “teleport” to a certain position, is there any answer to these problems?

However, these errors are not the biggest question for the writer because XCOM 2 even “gave” the player the problem of frames is too … weird that should never appear in a PC-focused game!

For some reason, any level of anti-aliasing, including FXAA, will “chew” on FPS like “chew the cake” even on “super” configurations.

And the most ridiculous, weirdest, most absurd thing is why the frame on the Avenger base is only … 1/4 of the number of frames in battle, and why on the world map sometimes game completely frozen in seconds?

Is XCOM 2 programmed based on the top-secret technology of ADVENT, so human computers do not have enough “program” to function properly?