XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware. Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area • You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC Then we have the lack of transparency in data processing, data transfers to third countries, dubious consent by minors, no purpose limitation, profiling and to top it all of - insufficient justification for data use. Collected Data Types as per the EULA, it's a generalisation for anything and everything 2K related, this list includes more than just what the game collects. It includes everything they want to collect through their services, from you. • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

EULA change.. too scared to use mods now on single player gaming.. so it has become garbage.

This expansion about matches the base content in that it's pretty decent, but still unremarkable. It definitely does make the game better, and I wouldn't want to play without it, but, like XCOM 2, it's not fantastic or ground-breaking. I like what it does to make classing a bit more in-depth. It improves somewhat on how one-dimensional and boring it is in the original by adding three new factions that each can give you a unique soldier and adding some additional talents to individual troops in your roster. That being said, it's definitely an attempt to salvage a pretty bad system, so while it improves on it, it's still not great. I see what they were trying to do with the bond system, and I like it in theory, but in practice it doesn't come that much in handy. The abilities you unlock through soldier bonds were kind of weird/poorly explained and rarely kicked in for me, meaning I only ever really used the bonus action ability. (Even that one has limited usefulness, because it takes an action from the user.) The trait system is basically a direct ripoff of Darkest Dungeon's and doesn't really work. I only ever saw it kick into effect maybe 5 times and a soldier developing a trait usually just meant I'd send them to the med bay for a few days to have it removed. The Chosen are actually pretty fun to fight. They're annoying as hell over comms, but that just made it so much more satisfying to kill them and I liked each of their death scenes. They give you some cool, incredibly OP weapons when they die, too, which is kind of fun, but also feels kind of cheap. The Lost are another addition that's just sort of meh. They were more of an annoyance on most missions than an actual obstacle and having to sit through a dozen discovery cinematics for each group of them got old fast. They have that obnoxiously slow walk that every strategy game gives zombies, too, so you spend a lot of time just watching their, usually unimpactful, turns. The resistance faction soldiers are fun to use though, and I like the covert ops system which lets you undertake some passive missions and adds some new strategy to the game. Between using or not using this expansion, I'd say use it (although it isn't worth $40).

I am one of the best, beat both enemy unknown and this one on X-box legendary. Let me say these bosses will give you a run for your money, the counter play and composition with the new classes and kept this as a classic. I have amassed 72 active soldiers with their own backstories, 472 official dead all in the archive of my notes. This single game has inspired more writing potential than any other turn based game I have played, the open ended nature of the story allows you to slot in any head cannon you desire. I have nothing but love and frustration for this game, all the add mods make this any difficulty of experience you can ever want. There is personal attachment which grows with every play through where it feels like my own directed series with death looming for the main cast of now bitterly aged hero's watching the new generation give their last efforts in my Long War play-through being the "Final season" of the past decade plus of moments, thanks from the bottom of my heart. All these backstories follow me to other games and vise versa, allowing me to experience my own decisions and consequences through game play. Vigilo Confido and glory to mankind, may ADVENT feel 95% hit chance victory. We both known the game was rigged from the start.

Great game, but now it's malware/spyware.

Good game. Rate 88/100

Instead of getting a job I play this

Xcom 3 when?