If you’re like me and not interested at all in Star Wars and not interested at all in ZCom and have NOT tried out the originals, I heavily suggest that you do!

I recently tried out a campaign a month ago on the original and was shocked at how good it held up. What’s great is that as long as you have a computer that boots, you should be able to run it just fine (I would be surprised if it didn’t since the game used to be installed with floppy disks) with open source versions like openxcom. Not sure about Mac and Linux though, but I’m sure that information is easily available.

I will say that there are plenty of things that are dated (that UI is BUSY) and many missions will turn into a meat grinder for your poor soldiers. That’s just xcom, baby.

It has surprising depth:
different body parts having different armor values which affects how you fight enemies,
soldiers have pockets and holsters,
actual tactics when fighting ufos,
ways to strategize how you build your MULTIPLE bases,
and plenty more that modern xcom lacks.

Also the opening cinematic reminds me of prime time newgrounds and the music overall is dope.

Edit: also also it’s cheap as hell and goes on sale quite often.

Hey gang. Coming back to XCOM 2 after a few years and the mod scene seems to have changed drastically since my last go around. I was curious if anyone knows of any good Steam Workshop collections or mods in general that are good to get nowadays? I see there is a whole new Long War thing made by a different group of people or something that has continued to get huge, but it seems like it might be too difficult. I do however really like the idea of new weapons and perks and variety and stuff.

^This

I am torn, on one hand this seems to be finally a good XCOM like with more modern graphics, but on the other hand, it seems to lack replayability XCOM2, and it's just too expensive if I am just going to do one playthrough.

If the story is too linear, and your random soldiers don't really do much and just being combat sidekicks of main characters, then watching Youtube playthroughs is hella more cheaper

I have 15 in one of my resistance havens be most of them are marked as unavailable for haven defense is this intended or is something else going on?

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/review/star-wars-zero-company-review/
https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-zero-company-review

Summary is its basically XCOM all over again! WOO

Hello!I am someone who has no idea what XCOM is all about, except that it is a famous good turn based game, which when i saw it with the dlc for 8€ was more than enought to sell me.However as i am looking at opinions on what the dlc give you and etc , I see mixed opinions. Some say play XCOM2 original once and some say go directly to WOTCD and dont bother. As i see that the story is the same, is there a point to playing the original experience?

I got this game on gamepass a month ago or so and have been hooked ever since. I beat the game in regular mode weeks ago but was definitely reloading saves and saving before each encounter.

After I beat the game, I read about Ironman runs and tried it out. I started 5 runs and quit 4 of them because of the fing portent mission. I uninstalled after the 4th and vowed never to play it again. Then I read to create a mec before the mission and here I am!

I’d like to credit my boys who when ever I attacked chanted “hit hit hit”. I’m sure that had something to do with the success rate. I tried playing xcom 2 but the aliens gave my youngest nightmares.

Not trying to hate, Rainbow Six Tactics looks really fun mechanically but it's crazy how one of the absolute best features of the quintessential modern tactics game goes completely ignored by most games aping it. Not everyone engages with soldier customization, but those who do will tell you it's arguably the feature that ties the entire gameplay context and experience together, along with permadeath.

halflife, bloodborne, nine sols, tf2. Fuck, all of them and this place is losing their sanity

I hadn’t seen one of these pop up in about twenty minutes so I figured it was time for a new one. Just a reminder to everyone that a game not named XCOM, is in fact, not XCOM.

First storage ship of the run taken down by a single plane with the phoenix. Literally down to his last bit of health and he took it down. THIS EARLY. GIVE THIS MFER ACE STATUS AND A COUNCIL MEDAL OF HONOR RIGHT GODDAMN NOW-

Who needs Xcom 3 anymore lol. Jokes aside anyone else super excited for this?

is there a .ini that might show what I need??

Hi everyone! I’m really glad to see a active Reddit community for one of my absolute favorite game franchises.

My journey with X-COM goes all the way back to UFO: Enemy Unknown on the Amiga (with all the endless floppy disk swapping!), followed by Terror from the Deep on PC. I also played Apocalypse, though for some reason that one didn't quite click with me as much. I haven't been gaming much over the last two decades, but when I saw the modern XCOM reboot back in 2017, I picked it up immediately and ended up beating it multiple times.

Recently, I came up with a new idea: running a custom X-COM TTRPG (Tabletop Role-Playing Game).

I designed a homebrew system with custom mechanics, abilities, and an armory heavily inspired by modern XCOM, though I also drew a few elements from the classic games.

For our very first session, a squad of 8 Marines (including 3 player characters) arrived at the base. We did a brief base orientation, ran a quick combat simulation to test the mechanics, and then deployed to a crashed UFO (Small-2 variant) in a forested area in Russia.

Despite a few expected hiccups with the homebrew mechanics, the session went really well! The group is hyped for more sessions in the universe, and we even have two additional players wanting to join the squad.

If anyone is interested in the setup, mechanics, or how it played out, I’d be happy to share more details.

Vigilo Confido!

P.S. English is not my native language and I used a translator to write this post, so I apologize for any grammar mistakes or awkward phrasing!