

Firaxis has made this part of the game much more involved now, and you’re constantly presented with decisions that have a huge bearing on the war and how it plays out. These cells are the key to winning the war, as you can only attack enemy bases in a part of the map with which you’ve already made contact.

Because your base is now mobile, you can move it around the world map to perform time-based scanning missions that net you much-needed resources and staff, as well as make contact with resistance cells. In true XCOM fashion, this struggle plays out in two distinct fashions.įirst, there’s an overarching strategic layer in which you build and maintain a base (this time a giant repurposed alien battleship), recruit and train soldiers and other staff, research technologies and build better equipment.
