


If you’ve always wanted to take a slower approach to XCOM 2 and savor its rich tactical flavors over a single winner-take-all campaign that could very well span hundreds of hours, this is the mod for you.īy default, you have no control over any of your soldiers’ career paths-you just have to hope that your rookies randomly evolve into the class you want when they level up. You absolutely must plan far ahead, try to account for every possible variable, and train up at least a half-dozen squads of high-level experts to have any chance of success. That’s where infiltration missions come in-you can send a pair or a small squad of soldiers into an area before attempting a mission there, and over time, they’ll reduce the enemy numbers and awareness to manageable levels (or they might get themselves killed, that’s always a risk).Īs its name suggests, Long War 2 is all about the long game. Combat in Long War 2 is extremely lethal, and if you just barrel head-first into a mission, you will find yourself hopelessly outnumbered every single time.
