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[GiglameshDespair]

Not a ADVENT trooper!

[Orb]

For reference to people complaining about turn timers, you can extend the turn time by two turns (or more for higher level officers) if you have an officer. It costs 10 intel, which isn't much.

I haven't had an issue with turn timers but I tend to play a fast and dangerous play style.

Also, if people are struggling, you really want to have 4+ squads, preferably 5 unless you plan on sneaking. You also want above 100% infiltration, boost if you have to or skip it.

[Flying Dice]

Huh, okay, I actually really like what they did with the resistance advisor-led missions. I figured it wasn't important and shoved a squaddie sharpshooter into it, then the mission popped and I've got them and a smattering of folks in clothes with random gear, no turn limit, and two pods of enemies in a forest with a road and abandoned factory. Fun stuff. Just wish you could choose to recruit one or two of the resistance fighters as a reward for winning the mission.

[Neonivek]

I should find it funny that the Xcom expansion is completely non-canon

At least I haven't yet seen any references to it...

[GiglameshDespair]

Most of the first game isn't canon in Xcom 2. That's kind of the point of it, one could say.

At least I haven't yet seen any references to it...

One of the bandannas you can choose for your squad is the EXALT one.

Though to be honest, XCOM got rekted in xcom2 canon long before any of the stuff from XCOM EW came into play.
I do wish that the robosquid things had been revamped and added to 2, though. They would have fitted in better with the multi-species pods and time limits of 2.

[scrdest]

Most of the first game isn't canon in Xcom 2. That's kind of the point of it, one could say.

At least I haven't yet seen any references to it...

One of the bandannas you can choose for your squad is the EXALT one.

Though to be honest, XCOM got rekted in xcom2 canon long before any of the stuff from XCOM EW came into play.
I do wish that the robosquid things had been revamped and added to 2, though. They would have fitted in better with the multi-species pods and time limits of 2.

Also, Shen's MEC prototypes are mentioned in the Advent MEC autopsy, and Durand's fellow psions can be found in an event, albeit not alive due to the alien containment protocols.

[Chiefwaffles]

I forget where I saw it exactly, but Shen's Last Gift explains the Advent MECs are derived from Shen's MEC prototypes that the ADVENT found when they were occupying Julian's tower.

[Culise]

I think Julian himself also started life as the base AI who you hear in the help menus in XCOM 1 (he announces himself, albeit not by name, when reading Shen's bio).  He was reinstalled in the ADVENT tower facility after the base fell, when he was captured and broken by ADVENT. 

[Mephansteras]

*sigh* I think I may have to abandon my current campaign. Too many mods have changed, I think. Stuff is certainly messing up. Almost every single one of my high level troops has abilities that aren't showing up, including armor abilities like grappling hooks and heavy weapons. They're good enough that I'm winning missions anyway, but it is frustrating. And I'm not sure I'd be able to beat the final mission hamstrung like this.

[The13thRonin]

*sigh* I think I may have to abandon my current campaign. Too many mods have changed, I think. Stuff is certainly messing up. Almost every single one of my high level troops has abilities that aren't showing up, including armor abilities like grappling hooks and heavy weapons. They're good enough that I'm winning missions anyway, but it is frustrating. And I'm not sure I'd be able to beat the final mission hamstrung like this.

That'd be all the mods updating to Long War 2.

Go play Long War 2.

[SharpKris]

Why is meld not a thing anymore? i liked mutating my soldiers in xcom 1

[Neonivek]

Why is meld not a thing anymore? i liked mutating my soldiers in xcom 1

Meld served the meta of the first game... As that game tended to boil down to camping.

This game is more about mobility.

[Aseaheru]

 Also, why would you want to become human-alien hybrids like ADVENT?

[Rolan7]

Yeah Meld was replaced, mechanics-wise, by straight-up evac timers.

I don't think there's any good explanation for why they were landing meld canisters in XCOM1:EU.  Obviously EXALT used a lot, but even critically damaged alien ships always dropped a few canisters a few dozen meters away.  I don't know that there's any explanation for that.

And even EXALT was only, very marginally, working toward alien interests.  Maybe they seemed like candidates for the Ethereal experiments...  But based on one mission (the dam, I think?) they were definitely fighting against the aliens.  They just happened to be fighting XCOM also, and somehow exceeding Vahlen in transhumanist zeal.

Also, why would you want to become human-alien hybrids like ADVENT?

....
I don't understand the question, why would you not

Spoiler: Actual XCOM 2 spoiler I think, don't open reflexively (click to show/hide)

Though I've finally reached the endgame, and that is apparently not even what's happening.

[Neonivek]

There is a reason I originally thought the Meld was the aliens attempt to win by sending meld back in time to hopefully change the outcome.