#FORT TRIUMPH FACTIONS SERIES#
The only way to stop the Chosen is to enlist the aid of the three resistance factions, and through a series of dispatch missions (which I use my B and C grade units to level them up) the fight will be taken to their strongholds. Go figure that my biggest criticism of the first XCOM was no base defenses, and now with this, after my campaign was over, I ended up defending the Avenger FOUR TIMES! Like Vahlen’s creations during the Alien Hunters expansion, they can warp in on any mission whenever they feel like it just to put a twist into everything.Īnd the harassment doesn’t end when back on the Avenger, they will do whatever they can to locate you, and when they get enough intelligence, they will even lead an assault on the Avenger. There is the Assassin, a master of hit and run tactics, the Hunter, a long-range predator who tranquilizes his prey to capture them, and the Warlock, whose psionic attacks can even summon fellow ADVENT to work alongside him. Summoned by the Elders to return the Commander to ADVENT’s grip, these three mercenaries will turn into the bane of your existence. Other new units include the Spectre, who as their name says can turn into smoke, sneak up to an XCOM operative, and use the Shadowbound ability to make a clone of him while rendering your character unconscious. Priest units are also in force, as they are a cross between a Sectoid and an Officer, casting psionic attacks and even going into a period of stasis when near death.
Originally designed to fight back against the Lost, they are armed with flamethrowers that are not only deadly in use, but also as a last-second defense mechanism as they can explode on impact, doing damage to anyone close by, including the XCOM who killed them. Troopers are now upgraded with the Purifier unit. Personally, I ended up using the Reaper the most because of their rifle proficiency but all three units provide good advantages in different situations.ĪDVENT has also increased their variety of units. The Reaper is a modified version of a Sharpshooter class with the huge advantage of being able to use their rifle, even if moving on the first turn (which removes my biggest excuse of not using sharpshooters,) Skirmishers are armed with SMGs and are trained for close range combat, while the third faction, the Templars combine psionic skills using “Focus” as their power with momentum based melee attacks. The meeting takes place in a now ghost town, one of the cities that was destroyed during the initial invasion and is swarmed with zombie like creatures known as “the Lost.” At the end of the mission, the Reaper joins XCOM, but the Skirmisher is taken prisoner by ADVENT and needs to be rescued.Įach of these new factions bring their own class of soldier into the fold. It turns out there are three alien based factions that despite being against ADVENT, have strong animosity towards each other, and during a mission, Volk’s Reaper plans to meet up with a member of the “Skirmisher” faction for a possible cease fire and alliance with XCOM. From there we start off on what looks like the original XCOM 2 as a majority of the game plays almost the same.Īnd then we are introduced to Volk, the head of the “Reaper” faction. War of the Chosen starts off looking like a new game, as you start off playing a character we eventually know as a “Reaper,” one of three special faction soldiers that I will mention later, in a mission that leads up to the events of the original game and its “Avatar” campaign.
#FORT TRIUMPH FACTIONS FULL#
So I’m sure it comes as no surprise that when I heard that Firaxis announced a full expansion called War of the Chosen, I couldn’t have been any more excited than I was, and even after completing it, almost 40 hours later, I feel that I can easily play both this and the original game over and over again. It is a game that I’ll be more than happy to keep going back to, and with all the games in my library, that’s almost a rarity.
#FORT TRIUMPH FACTIONS PC#
(Yes I know, I played both Forza Horizon 3 and DOOM 2016 on PC but they first started on Xbox, and XCOM 2 eventually made it onto Xbox, but I never played that version.) On my Steam account, I clocked in just over 200 hours of gameplay. In fact, I loved it so much that I rated it as the best game I played exclusively on PC last year. Let me get this out of the way right now.
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