Employ new Resistance Orders to prioritize your personal strategy. Manage XCOM’s relations with factions and counter The Chosen’s operations from the Avenger. Adopt new tactics to counter it as well as the explosive attacks of the ADVENT Purifier and the psionically charged ADVENT Priest.Įngage in tactical missions across new environments from abandoned cities devastated by alien bioweapons during the original invasion, to underground tunnels and xenoformed wilderness regions. Find and raid the Chosen’s strongholds to defeat the enemy for good.Ī deadly new alien known as the Spectre, capable of creating dark copies of XCOM soldiers, has snuck onto the battlefield. The Chosen can also invade the strategy layer and ravage XCOM’s global operations. The Chosen are on the hunt for the Commander and will kidnap, interrogate, and kill XCOM’s soldiers to complete their objective. The Chosen are the most cunning enemies XCOM has ever faced, each with unique strengths and weaknesses that will be introduced with each new campaign. These factions provide powerful hero class soldiers to aid in missions and new opportunities for the strategy layer. Three additional factions have emerged to strengthen Earth's resistance – the Reapers, Skirmishers and Templars – each with its own unique abilities and contrasting philosophies.
