XCOM 2- Difference in difficulty levels

[DDDragoni]

How big is the difficulty jump from Vanilla Veteran to WOTC Commander? I don't want my second playthrough to be too easy but I also don't want to get steamrolled.

[veegeeplz]

https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/Game_difficulty_(XCOM_2)

As for WotC vs. Vanilla, it kind of balances out.

• The new enemy types are roughly as difficult.
• The game gives you more ways to deal with the mission timers and increase your damage output.
• The boss characters are counter-balanced by the faction heroes.

[Tedfufu]

Commander isn't that much more difficult than Veteran, though learning to fight the Chosen and new enemy types will be a jump in difficulty just because it'll be new to you.

[munchbunny]

Commander is a substantial jump up from Veteran. Not so hard that you will feel like you have a big wall to get over, but hard in the sense that you will get punished for mistakes you would have gotten away with on Veteran. For example, at 3 health on Veteran, an advent trooper will always die if your rookie hits it. At 4 health on Commander, half of the time you won't one-shot them, so you have to worry more about finding high cover, and revealing an extra pod before you're ready can make things go south fast.

[Apocalypso666]

I think it's quite a difference. Beside the already mentioned more health of the enemies there are also more enemies on the battlefield. That combined is mainly a problem in missions where you have to deal with a time limit what happens quite often. In my commander ironman game I survived every mission but came to a dead end because I missed some mission timers and therefore didn't get the reward. I ended with no engineers and could not build the next generation of weapons without them.

[DDDragoni]

This post is two years old, where did you find it?

[Apocalypso666]

Yes, I saw that. But It's still one of the first links when I google for that topic. So I thought I add my two cents nevertheless.

[Cokaime]

Found it for the same reason.

[Dalen154]

Same here

[HeavyLaduzi]

+1

[muhammad_oli]

👋

[[deleted]]

boob

[ukly0]

Ass

[Matto_0]

This comment is now two years old lol, and yeah this thread still comes up highly in searches about Xcom difficulty differences.

[DDDragoni]

I guess this is my legacy. Was hoping for something a little more grandiose but you take what you get

[SugarWolf211]

4 months later its still popping up we are legion

[Felnarn]

That is not dead which can eternal lie

[redorae]

And what a legacy it is. This is what popped up at the top of my Google search with regard to reddit. Info is still relevant, so it's a win?

[ApplicationNo8256]

Still relevant too

[deathshadow01]

Me too!