You’re not alone in facing the Chosen, however. Moreover, populating the strategic layer with more agents that can mess with you adds a charming level of personality to a part of the game that previously felt more sterile than the tactical level. When they jump into your missions it always creates an exciting tension for how you will deal with them on top of whatever other objectives you’re already pursuing. Just as Mordor‘s nemeses gave a fantastic amount of narrative color to an otherwise endless orgy of orc murder, so to do the Chosen bring a lot of life and specificity to your struggle against Advent.
#XCOM 2 WAR OF THE CHOSEN HUNTER HOW TO#
If anybody knows how to make a proper video game expansion, its Firaxis. Their harassment extends to the strategic layer as well, messing with you by clamping down on regions in retaliation, reducing their income, or stealing unused upgrades from the Avenger. Your nemeses acquire more strengths as time goes on, forcing you to adapt your tactics. The stealthy assassin in our game could avoid overwatch shots, and was immune to melee damage, but was susceptible to explosions, ensuring that we brought an extra grenadier whenever we expected the Assassin to be there. Taking a cue from Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis system, each of the Chosen has randomized strengths and weaknesses that inform how to best take them down. They do everything from summoning reinforcements and taking area-of-effect shots, to knocking out or even kidnapping your soldiers (though that may lead to you mounting a rescue operation later).
When crashing a mission, the Assassin, Hunter, or Warlock, take a moment to announce their presence, mock you, then make a single powerful move. Where the rulers of Alien Hunters could feel frustratingly powerful, taking actions in response to every move your soldiers make, the Chosen are tough, but fair. The Chosen are a richer execution of the same concept.
War of the Chosen introduces three elite Advent units called The Chosen (top) and three independent resistance factions (bottom). In principle, they’re similar to the elite enemies from XCOM 2’s Alien Hunters DLC - ultra-powerful units that can jump in and complicate your life during any mission. The largest, sweeping additions to the base game are the eponymous Chosen three unique, elite Advent units that show up and harrass you on your missions as you attempt to bring down the Avatar project. War of the Chosen makes an already-great game really sing by achieving a critical mass of variety in XCOM 2‘s sandbox. Without changing the basic shape of the game, War of the Chosen adds variety with new allies, enemies, and missions, as well as even more ways to give your soldiers personality and memorable stories. With the time finally here for our XCOM 2: War of the Chosen review, we are happy to report that it more than delivers on that promise. When we spoke to XCOM 2 lead designer Jake Solomon at E3 about its upcoming expansion, he gave us the impression that War of the Chosen would indeed be that full, Firaxis-style “add-in” we’ve been craving. Civilization V and XCOM: Enemy Unknown were both solid games at launch, but it was only with the addition of packs like Gods & Kings, Brave New World, and Enemy Within did they become modern masterpieces.
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