They had absolutely horrible AI combined with the worst marksmanship of the aliens in the original game, as bad as some of your rookie troopers.

Adaptational Badass: The aliens' designs have been revamped and made generally more menacing.

Then again, the plasma rifle research notes do say that reducing the weapon's size so a human could comfortably hold it was troublesome in the project. This doesn't apply to interceptor armaments, meaning a regular plasma rifle now costs about four times the price of a heavy ship-borne plasma cannon.

Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: In Enemy Within, the prices of constructing plasma weapons have been jacked up to encourage capturing them from the aliens.

Enemy Within introduces a unique female unit in Annette Durand.

Action Girl: Lots and lots of them from every corner of the globe.

Please add all character- and class-specific tropes there! It was first released in 2013.Ī Sequel, XCOM 2, was released on February 5, 2016.Ī character page is under construction here.

The XCOM: Long War Game Mod adds significantly more content to the game. Finally, it added a second mission chain like Slingshot, and indeed it had originally been designed as one. Unlike the aliens, EXALT resorts to cloak and dagger tactics, such as increasing panic and stealing XCOM's resources, forcing the player to use intel gathering and counter intelligence ops to bring them down. It also introduces a new enemy faction: EXALT, a human paramilitary group acquiring alien technology to Take Over the World. It added new enemy types, maps, items and customization options, the ability to genetically enhance XCOM troopers, a new XCOM unit called the Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuit Trooper and a new alien resource called Meld. It added 16 previously Dummied Out difficulty modifiers, including options that make the game more like the original X-COM, or even more extreme.Īn expansion, XCOM: Enemy Within, was released in November 2013.

Second Wave, was released in January 2013 for free.

It added additional soldier customization options, a series of inter-connected Council missions in China with a unique soldier, and earlier access to certain technologies/upgrades.

Slingshot, was released in December 2012.

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