• The Long War 2 mod is a must-play reinvention of XCOM 2
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[url]http://www.pcgamer.com/the-long-war-2-mod-is-a-must-play-reinvention-of-xcom-2[/url]
Is the balance as trash as long war 1?
[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;51693905]Is the balance as trash as long war 1?[/QUOTE] What's trash about the balance in long war 1?
[QUOTE=Kristviljan;51694304]What's trash about the balance in long war 1?[/QUOTE] Air game is near impossible without modding it further. At least for me. Without downing Ayys saucers you cant get the materials you need to build better equipment and the overly aggressive AI tech advancement quickly puts you in a hole and starts filling it with plasma. There also some major balance issues with powerful Ayys showing up very early in the game or in massive force, like a pod of multiple cyberdisks each with at least two drones.
[video]https://youtu.be/hgP-y6X1PC0[/video]
[QUOTE=Kristviljan;51694304]What's trash about the balance in long war 1?[/QUOTE] Other than the entire balance scheme is "get fucked"?
They put a lot of power, control and fleshed out factors in the player's hands to an absolutely ridiculous degree. And then made ADVENT and the aliens complete and utter terrors in compensation, especially since while you can bring larger squads (up to 12 people) to a mission now, if your group's infiltration leading up to a mission is foiled, you have no choice but to abort the mission because continuing with it puts you up against such obscene amounts of pressure that you might as well of sent your squad to their deaths. Even if you do infiltrate a mission area successfully and the enemy is on low defenses, you can expect a dozen or so enemies with reinforcements and large areas to have to cover in the process. I get the feeling the people behind Long War are trying to bring back some of that extreme sadism of the original games.
[QUOTE=Kristviljan;51694304]What's trash about the balance in long war 1?[/QUOTE] Pods with 4 berserkers and 5 muton elites
[QUOTE=Ericson666;51699471]Pods with 4 berserkers and 5 muton elites[/QUOTE] sounds like you didnt use your MECs.
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