There’s alo a new brain driving ADVENT, which will also tailor its organizational efforts to each region, and new ways for players to take back the planet from the alien forces occupying Earth. Such micro-management tends to get pretty complicated (and time consuming) as you make contact with each new section of the globe.

Players will have more to do on a regional level, with recruiting and research efforts now tied to specific zones. Of course, if you’re somehow coming to Long War for the first time, it’s also making XCOM 2 much more difficult than it was the last time players sat down with the game.Īs we learned earlier this week, Long War 2 makes substantial changes to the core XCOM 2 experience. It emerged less than 24 hours after 2K published a basic outline of its features and has already become one of the most popular XCOM 2 mods listed on Steam. Long War 2, the follow-up to one of the most popular XCOM mods of all time, is now available for download from the Steam Workshop. One of the best strategy games to emerge in 2016 just got better.

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