XCOM 2 Ending Explained: Where Will The Sequel Go

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First-off: for those who may still be confused as to why the aliens had been attacking the planet in the first place, it turns out that the top species of the alien food chain had a problem. While playing XCOM 2 players discover that the alienswere dying, and a desperate search for a cure led them to roam from planet to planet looking for a suitable species to adapt into new host bodies. Once they came to Earth, these aliens found what they were looking for in human


Astute gamers will have realized that Terror From The Deep was set in 2040 in the original canon. Seeing as XCOM 2 takes place in 2035, it looks like Firaxis is poised to continue their tradition of taking the general XCOM timeline and modifying bits and pieces of it. Terror From The Deep already fits into this timeline pretty nicely, and we fully expect a heavy influence from this title in their next g


Why You Should Play It: Quantum Break is an experiment in combining video game and TV series that, while admittedly full of stumbles, offers something unique. It’s gameplay calls back to the days of Max Payne in some fun ways, the time travel story is well thought out, and there are some clever visual flourishes throughout. Those who own an Xbox One owe it to themselves to give the game a try; they might find more than they were expect


Thankfully, Musashi fixed this for replayers with the Still Stop Wasting My Time Mod — updated for the War of the Chosen mod, hence the "Still" — which speeds up all the various animations that slow down the flow of gameplay. Never again will players suffer through the tedious 80-minute holo targeting animation. A nice bonus is that this mod seems to be almost universal, with no major confli


If you’re playing XCom 2 , and you encounter a human-looking enemy that has white hair and a purple visor that covers the entire face, have all your soldiers target that enemy. That is probably the only chance of successfully completing that mission. That type of enemy is called an Avatar, and thankfully they are rare. They have extremely high mobility, armor, and damage potential. To make matters worse, Avatars have powerful psionic abilities as well. Many aliens can mind control the player’s soldiers; Avatars can mind control up to three at one time. This enemy can kill a well-equipped squad by itself if it’s not dealt with quic

A lot of that stuff we’re working through, but with the Avenger, it’s a smaller, compressed space, and it’s named after The Avenger in the original game. UFO Defense, not The Avengers. laughs It’s like I have to point that out. All the people who haven’t played the original game don’t know it’s from the original XCOM. But, the whole strategy side is really cool and something we’re ironing out and going to talk about that a lot later.


The Heavy Floater does not have the toughest armor, or a particularly high damage potential, but its special abilities more than make up for those deficiencies. The most exasperating ability is that Floaters can launch themselves to any location in the battle zone. This is annoying when a Heavy Floater is near death then launches out of range. They can also bombard an area, which usually negates the cover the player’s soldiers are hiding behind. Lastly, when they are airborne, a Heavy Floater can evade incoming fire; which lowers the accuracy of the player’s soldiers by


What do you think XCOM 3 will bring, Ranters? Firaxis may be injecting their own original pieces to the plot, but the series is still heavily intertwined with the original vision from MicroProse. Only time will tell if this influence will help shape the future of the rebooted ser

It was one of those things in Enemy Unknown that we really wanted to do, but there isn’t like another XCOM game out there, so as we were making Enemy Unknown, we had to figure out the game and really figuring out procedural at that point a stone too far for us. So, there were a lot of complications with it and now after Enemy Unknown, we have a lot of metrics, we understand what exactly this is. There are some easy metrics that determine sizes of things and distances, and it allowed us to analyze it and come up with a system that is very robust, so even if we didn’t do procedural, I still would do levels the way I’m architecting them now to save a lot of extra work we did in Enemy Unknown that I don’t think was really visible to the player. But it was something that we felt we needed to do so, we got time of day is dynamic, we got weather, destructible floors and ceilings now, destructible structures. All of that plays into the procedural system.