and that's still fundamentally a random offering, where you just get to choose to either reject whatever is on offer or burn Covert Op time on actually acquiring it.Īnyway, the way Resistance Orders work goes thusly: when you make contact with a Resistance faction, you're immediately provided 2 random Resistance Orders from that faction. Notably, the majority of your Resistance Orders are thrust upon you at random as you make contact with Resistance factions and hunt the Chosen down the only extent to which you have control over whether to acquire a given Resistance Order or not is that Covert Ops can provide an opportunity to grab Resistance Orders. You have to adjust your strategy as you go based on which Resistance Orders are provided to you in that particular run. In particular, in practice Resistance Orders primarily serve as another way to improve the replayability of the game there's a lot of Resistance Order cards, and a given run will generally get considerably less than half of all of them (I'd guesstimate it at, like, an eighth of them), so you can't remotely count on reliably using a specific Resistance Order. In practice many Resistance Orders are recycled Guerrilla Tactics School upgrades or base-game continent bonuses, neither of which gels all that well with the supposed concept of Resistance Orders, and most of the fully-original Resistance Orders are still pretty strange in that framework.įortunately, the mechanics are sufficiently strong and interesting I'm largely willing to let slide how they don't hook up that well to the supposed concept.
I like the idea of this in principle, though unfortunately, the mechanics of Resistance Orders are only distantly connected to this idea. In concept, they represent you leveraging impressing resistance groups and getting them to help in their unique ways in the background. Check out the trailer for the new expansion below:Įxcited to delve back into the realm of XCOM 2? Does War of the Chosen look like it will scratch that itch? Let us know in the comments below.Resistance Orders are yet another impressively ambitious mechanic added by War of the Chosen. Polish those rifles and outfit your team. It is coming for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on August 29th. XCOM 2: War of the Chosen will not take long to release. Here, they must fend off massive swarms of these creatures in order to try to take back the planet and fight off ADVENT and the other, new threats the team will face. The population has been decimated, and have become a group of zombie like creatures known as “the lost.” They are weak individually, but the new mission type will send players into the cities. In addition to the new bosses, these new classes will need to be powerful to fend off what are known as “the lost.”īe careful of treading into spoilers here for those who have not finished XCOM 2. These classes are the reaper, the skirmisher, and the templar. There are also a few new classes for players to choose from, which are going to be some of the most powerful and versatile yet in the XCOM universe. These alien superbosses will surely test your patience (and the strength of your keyboard – don’t get too frustrated), and will supposedly adapt their abilities to your playstyle. The Chosen are a trio of alien “champions,” each with different abilities that the player must contend with multiple times throughout the playthrough. Entitled XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, it looks to be a huge addition to an already massive game.
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XCOM 2 has been teasing a new expansion announcement coming at E3, and that expansion led off the PC Gaming E3 showcase.