Utilize the perfect strategy in new regular one-shot community challenges to claim the top spot on the global leaderboard. Advanced campaign options allow for finer adjustments to game length and difficulty. The SITREP system dynamically adds new modifiers to the tactical layer to make sure every mission provides a unique challenge. Soldiers can develop bonds with compatible teammates for new abilities and perks. Soldiers, scientists, and engineers can now be deployed for Covert Actions that award supplies and boost faction favor if successfully completed. Employ new Resistance Orders to prioritize your personal strategy. Manage XCOM’s relations with factions and counter The Chosen’s operations from the Avenger. NEW ENVIRONMENTS AND MISSION OBJECTIVESĮngage in tactical missions across new environments from abandoned cities devastated by alien bioweapons during the original invasion, to underground tunnels and xenoformed wilderness regions. Adopt new tactics to counter it as well as the explosive attacks of the ADVENT Purifier and the psionically charged ADVENT Priest. NEW ALIEN & ADVENT THREATSĪ deadly new alien known as the Spectre, capable of creating dark copies of XCOM soldiers, has snuck onto the battlefield. Find and raid the Chosen’s strongholds to defeat the enemy for good. The Chosen can also invade the strategy layer and ravage XCOM’s global operations. The Chosen are on the hunt for the Commander and will kidnap, interrogate, and kill XCOM’s soldiers to complete their objective.
The Chosen are the most cunning enemies XCOM has ever faced, each with unique strengths and weaknesses that will be introduced with each new campaign. These factions provide powerful hero class soldiers to aid in missions and new opportunities for the strategy layer. Three additional factions have emerged to strengthen Earth's resistance – the Reapers, Skirmishers and Templars – each with its own unique abilities and contrasting philosophies. This expansion includes new Hero classes to counter the “Chosen”, new enemies, missions, environments and increased depth in strategic gameplay. In response, a new enemy, known as the “Chosen,” emerges with one goal: recapture the Commander. XCOM® 2: War of the Chosen adds extensive new content in the fight against ADVENT when additional resistance factions form in order to eliminate the alien threat on Earth. About This Content XCOM® 2: War of the Chosen, is the expansion to the 2016 award-winning strategy game of the year.