No release date has been given yet for the mod. “Each of those missions will be played individually.” “Additional changes include the ability to deploy multiple squads simultaneously to infiltrate several enemy targets at once,” Pavonis wrote in their post. Pavonis Interactive and Firaxis Games/2Kįinally, Pavonis has teased a new tactical option for players that harkens back to the original 1994 classic. Players will need to carefully monitor their allies in the field, and will have the opportunity to embed XCOM scientists and engineers to help boost their performance.Įnemy mechs that you capture can also be repurposed to help garrison individual regions. They’re taking XCOM 2’s light worker management-style gameplay and expanding it down onto every region on the map. The team has detailed how they’re expanding the game’s world map, called the Geoscape. XCOM must extract those Resistance members.
Rendezvous – A Faceless disguised as a member of the Resistance is detected as it goes to meet with its Advent handlers and XCOM must hunt it down.Īdvent Supply Raid – XCOM must defend a supply convoy and its Resistance personnel from Advent attacks.Īdvent Intel Raid – Advent attacks a Resistance listening post and XCOM must repel the attack.Īdvent Recruiting Raid – Advent forces attack Resistance recruiters within a region. XCOM must destroy a psionic relay that summons continuous reinforcements, then eliminate any remaining forces. Invasion – Advent attempts to retake a liberated region by assaulting a city center. Haven Defense – A variation on Retaliation missions where XCOM must defend Resistance members against an onslaught of Advent forces until the Skyranger can get into position for extraction.ĪDVENT Base Assault – XCOM must deploy to and overtake a well-defended regional military headquarters. Success increases the strength of the Resistance in that region. Jailbreak – XCOM must infiltrate an Advent jail and rescue key Resistance members. Pavonis says they’re adding at least eight new mission types that will be for the mod.