XCOM 2 Ironman mode tips and tricks
Welcome back, Commander. You’re about to play XCOM 2 as it’s meant to be played.
Enabling XCOM 2’s Ironman mode when starting a new game means that you will only ever have a single save file. More than that, the save file will be overwritten with every action you make during a mission. Think about that. If you run into a group of aliens at just the wrong moment, you won’t have the option to reload an earlier save. If you wipe your entire squad after making it 10 hours into your campaign, you just have to live with that.
This mode is absolutely brutal, so think carefully before you begin.
As well as the advanced pointers below, it might also be wise to get up to speed on the essentials first; you can read our pages on XCOM 2 best Soldier Abilities, XCOM 2 best early research, XCOM 2 base building techniques and how to unlock the PSI Operative Soldier in XCOM 2. And if all else fails, there’s XCOM 2 cheats, too.
XCOM 2 Tips: Top 5 Tips to Dominate Mission Combat (How to Guide for Tactics)
With all that in mind, here are some Ironman-specific tips you might find useful:
- Play aggressively. More than ever, you can’t afford to be exchanging shots with enemy units for multiple turns. A lucky crit, especially in the early game, and you could permanently lose a soldier you’ve invested a lot of time and resources into. From the moment you trigger a group of aliens, you want to be destroying cover and moving for flanking shots. Every action you allow in the following enemy turn should feel like a failure.
- Protect your assets. Sometimes, things are going to go south. This is an XCOM game after all. You’ll run into multiple groups of enemies and it’s clear you’re about to start losing soldiers. At this point, you do still have one more option: evac. This is available in most mission types and allows you to immediately call in a new evac zone and escape, ideally within the same turn.
There will be consequences on the world map (losing contact with a region etc.), but you can usually recover from that. It’s better to take that hit than losing an entire squad of high level soldiers.
You could see this screen yourself one day.
- Destroying the floor underneath a turret will, in turn, destroy the turret.
- Don’t put all your eggs (soldiers) in one basket (squad). As much as you’ll want to rely on a single team of high-level soldiers for each mission, this isn’t the smart way to play. Ideally, you want at least two full squads of soldiers to pick from, so that when a soldier is killed or injured, you’re not completely handicapped. Keep rotating different soldiers with each encounter and in doing so, you’ll eventually build up a much more reliable roster of troops.
- Don’t forget to hack. Almost every mission will have some freebies up for grabs, if you’ve brought a decent specialist along.
You may not need to disable that Advent scanner to avoid detection, but it’s worth having a look all the same. If you can afford to take the risk, there’s intel, supplies and temporary bonuses to unlock. Also, looking is free! If you take a peek and decide that hacking an object isn’t worth it, this doesn’t use up any actions. - The Grenadier class is your best friend. Eventually, you’ll be able to run a squad of six soldiers, which means that unless you have a SPARK unit (Shen’s Last Gift DLC), you’ll likely need to double up with at least one of the classes. The Grenadier is a fantastic choice here. The reasoning is simple: being able to reliably destroy enemy cover will make your life so, so much easier.
- And finally, you’re probably going to mess this up. Sorry, but it’s the truth. Ironman mode is incredibly punishing and it can feel pretty bad when you lose a campaign after multiple hours of playtime. Our best advice to keep your morale up? If you like to name your soldiers after your favourite characters from Battlestar Galactica, or play around with their armour sets and colour schemes, make sure you do that in the Character Pool on the main menu.
There is nothing worse than restarting a campaign, only to then painstakingly recreate each of the soldiers you’ve just lost.
Is XCOM2 a storyline sequel to XCOM Enemy Unknown / Enemy Within?
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XCOM2 just came out. This time aparantly the game is set 20 years in the future, and rather than playing an organization defending Earth, we’ll play as an organization trying to reconquer Earth.
XCOM EU/EW Spoilers ahead:
In the end of the previous XCOM, the organization has to chose a psionic character and have him in the party that beats the final assault of the mothership.
The thing is, it was all a ruse, merely for Ethereals to test humans to assess ‘our’ strenght. In the end, the mothership flies up, commanded by the psionic soldier and the end of the game comes with a cliffhanger where the ship explodes and several pieces of the aircraft fall on Earth.
Without spoiling the story of this new game, is XCOM2 a sequel to XCOM EU/EW? If not, is it a sequel to any other XCOM game?
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The story of XCOM2 is a divergent future from the start of XCOM: Enemy Unknown — that is to say, the events of players beating the first game are not canon. In the XCOM 2 Universe, the Earth’s governments had abandoned XCOM and surrendered to the aliens by July, just 5 months into the invasion.
I won’t spoil the details, but you do get an implication quite early on into the game that playing (and winning) XCOM EU/EW were combat simulations.
So, depending on how you want to interpret that, either the events of the first game did not happen, or, the events of the first game happened, but «it was all a dream», and the hard, cold, reality is that the Aliens won.
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My impression is that it is indeed a direct sequel to XCOM EU/EW only that the canon ending (from an XCOM 2 perspective) in XCOM EU/EW is you NOT winning the game!
Rather, the canon ending is you losing to the aliens, something which most players experienced at one point or another.
As quoted in PC Gamer, what creative director Jake Solomon said on the matter is this:
We realised that most players lost their initial playthrough of Enemy
Unknown, and we realised there was an interesting and unique
opportunity to have XCOM 2 begin with XCOM losing the invasion.
There is a prequel novel to XCOM 2 called XCOM 2: Resurrection which «bridges the gap between XCOM:EU and XCOM 2».
It’s the official prequel novel, so it’s canon. Unfortunately I haven’t found anyone who’s actually read it, so I can’t tell you what happens 🙂
The novel basically follows a group of resistance soldiers who run into the remnants of XCOM.
XCOM is running their HQ out of an old submarine at sea (a pretty cool idea — similar to the Avenger, but human tech). They actually get the Avenger up and running by the end of the novel and XCOM 2 along with it. A few characters from both games pop up (Dr. Shen, etc…). It’s not bad if you’re a fan of the game’s storyline.
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
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XCOM: Chimera Squad liefert eine komplett neue Geschichte und eine «»turn-based»» taktische Kampf-Erfahrung im XCOM-Universum.
Nach Jahren der Fremdherrschaft hat die Menschheit den Krieg um die Erde gewonnen. Aber als die Herren den Planeten verließen, ließen sie ihre ehemaligen Soldaten zurüc…
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und eine «»turn-based»» taktische Kampf-Erfahrung im XCOM-Universum.
Nach Jahren der Fremdherrschaft hat die Menschheit den Krieg um die Erde gewonnen. Aber als die Herren den Planeten verließen, ließen sie ihre ehemaligen Soldaten zurück. Und jetzt, fünf Jahre nach der Handlung von XCOM 2, arbeiten Menschen und Aliens zusammen, um eine Zivilisation aus Kooperation und Koexistens aufzubauen.
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Willkommen in der City 31, einem Modell des Friedens in einer post-invasiven Welt. Allerdings scheinen nicht alle Erdenbewohner diese Allianz aus verscheidenen Spezien zu begrüßen. Chimera Squad , ein Elitetrupp aus Mensch- und Alieneinheiten, muss zusammen gegen die Untergrund-Bedrohungen kämpfen, die im Begriff sind, die Stadt ins Chaos zu führen.
Deine Einheiten sind einzigartig: Jede von ihnen ist mit besonderen taktischen Fähigkeiten ausgestattet und alle haben jeweils unterscheidliche Motivationen, der Chimera Squad beizutreten. Stelle Team-Mitglieder gezielt auf, um den Gefahren, die in der City 31 lauern, auf den Grund zu gehen und sie zu bekämpfen. Führe die Chimera Squad zu einer neuen Erfahung, die sich innovativ zeigt durch XCOMs «»turn-based»»-Vermächtnis. Wende Strategie, Teamwork und das neue «»breach-and-clear»»-Gameplay an, um deine Missionsaufgaben zu erfüllen.
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Die Zukunft der City 31 hängt von dir ab.
Einzigartige Alien- und Menschen-Einheiten
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Ein automatisches Initiativensystem weist Truppen unterscheidliche Slots in Runden zu und kreiert somit neue strategische Möglichkeiten, basierend auf der nächsten, eingereihten Einheit und außerdem baiserend auf dem ausgesetzten Risiko gegenüber der jeweiligen Truppe.
Spannende Strategie
Manage die Abläufe eines high-tech Hauptquartiers, in welchem du diverse Aufgaben priorisieren, Untersuchungen anordnen und Truppen ein- und anordenen musst — und das alles unter Zeitdruck. Versuche die immer größer werdende Gefahr der Anarchie abzuwenden, die durch die Unruhe in den verschiedenen Stadtteilen der City 31 ausgelöst wird.
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