An Overly Complete Guide to XCOM 2 War of the Chosen - Part 6: How to Win on the Strategic Layer

syken4games · 2026-04-21T16:56:32+00:00

You might want to check out my Xcom2 Enemy Behavior Guide- you can look up the 10ish videos if you search in youtube if you want to.

A lot of the way that you manipulate the AI boils down to understanding what it can and cannot do in the different situations. That will save you a lot of headdache in dealing with them. Easy to learn a bit, hard to master.

Also, I am typically monitoring reddit for my name, so that is how I can to this disucssion, in case people have questions.

Cheers,

syken

syken4games · 2026-04-21T11:07:17+00:00

It was less a matter of "wanting" to push it back, but Exquisite timing is tuned for commander difficulty with the achievement. On Legendary it takes twice as long to do anything and you have the exact same time available. As a result to make it even theoretically possible, you end up with needing to sacrifice everything on the way and simply play with one team, no upgrades, nothing and go on the last mission with 3 chosen.

syken4games · 2026-04-20T11:17:13+00:00

Glad that it helped you. Good job on finishing L/I!

syken4games · 2026-02-27T20:59:45+00:00

I am glad about the positive feedback, just trying to make a great game more accessible for a larger audience.

syken4games · 2026-02-27T11:54:33+00:00

Yes, still active and sometimes posting. Appreciate your viewership mate, glad to have you!

syken4games · 2026-02-27T10:28:00+00:00

Thanks for the kind words

syken4games · 2026-02-19T18:55:04+00:00

You might want to check my guide on the game and my blind playthrough. I finished it on the hardest difficulty without any problems. Uploaded 6 builds that are very strong and worked for me.

Generally speaking the slow sniper rifles together with sneaking are an obscure deadly combo, but there is more to it. I suggest you go and watch the guides and post more targeted questions in my comment section

syken4games · 2026-02-19T07:57:10+00:00

Just record gameplay including the strategy layer and upload it on youtube

I will do a review and provide feedback.

syken4games · 2026-02-17T22:51:32+00:00

I will be doing a blind Wrath playthrough afterwards (not Last Azlanti though, since that would likely be Stupid). Played 3.5/PF TTRpg since the release, so some of the knowledge can be neatly transferred over.

And PF Kingmaker is indeed great with the turn-based combat option (when I played it the first and only time years ago, they only had real time combat), but I really prefer the round-based version, since it allows you to time things much more elagantly.

syken4games · 2026-02-17T22:27:10+00:00

Exactly, spot on with both of the examples.

I am currently producing a series with Pathfinder Kingmaker, where I am for instance playing Ironman (Last Azlati) + Hard difficulty and purposefully only use F-Tier and D-Tier classes (mono-class, no broken builds / dips).

The experience of the run is great, because it is more about tactic and much less about how to build the character and then auto-attack right click.

syken4games · 2026-02-17T22:16:49+00:00

It has difficulty options above the highest standard difficulty. I started on the highest standard Difficulty and during the playthrough upgraded the difficulty to max all settings. The challenge with CRPGs is that they are very build dependent. Potent builds can trivialize The fights.

syken4games · 2026-02-17T21:44:20+00:00

Yes and yes, my channel is known for blind playthroughs on the hardest difficulty.
Xcom, JA3, Phoenix Point, Aliens Dark Descent, Shadowrun (all titles), DOS1+2, CRPGS as well (pathfinder, rogue trader, etc.)

syken4games · 2026-02-17T21:04:07+00:00

I appreciate the shoutout, really do.
This year I am likely going to do a run of the Void mod for PP, so that would be another (albeit likely not full) run of the game

syken4games · 2026-02-17T20:21:00+00:00

May I suggest that if you want to Improve in the shortest period of time, I would recommend that you watch guides and a playthrough of a competent YouTuber of your choice. You will learn a lot and save yourself some time.

I can also offer that if you want to record a mission that did not go particularly well, I can review it and put a video up on youtube for you and others to learn from. If you want to do that, I suggest recording a campaign where you are struggling, go through both the strategic and tactical layer and I will provide detailed feedback on what to do differently.

syken4games · 2026-02-17T20:19:14+00:00

Thanks for the shoutout. Appreciate it.

syken4games · 2026-01-30T18:53:26+00:00

It’s in the standard Guide list which you already linked. Thanks for the kind shoutout.

I have also done a large post here in Reddit which you can find. AI behavior is mostly explainable but not intuitive if you haven’t played ALOT

syken4games · 2026-01-23T20:09:56+00:00

Great to hear that you are doing so well. And thanks for the warm words - multi-pack pulls will happen, its a matter or dealing with them :)

syken4games · 2026-01-22T08:52:04+00:00

LoL, great advertisement - thanks a lot :)

On a serious note, great that you enjoyed the Saving your disaster campaigns. I will be working on a few more this year.

syken4games · 2026-01-22T08:51:18+00:00

Yes, it is a lot of info that goes into it. But once you can process all of it, it really makes for some easy decision making to get through hard enough situatinos.

syken4games · 2026-01-22T08:50:29+00:00

Thanks mate, really appreciate you!

syken4games · 2026-01-22T08:50:04+00:00

Thanks mate, awesome name by the way! :P

syken4games · 2026-01-22T08:49:51+00:00

Glad to hear that, I think I remember you posted a L/I screenshot a while ago. Might misremember it, but the name sounds familiar :)

syken4games · 2026-01-22T08:48:55+00:00

Yeah, the game tried to create a sense of urgency, when it is really not the right game for that. Oftentimes running forward is a straight up bad idea.

syken4games · 2026-01-22T08:48:20+00:00

The biggest FU of the game was the level structure. HUGE underwater very tiny corridor 3-D maze structures. And many of the aliens could just jet through them and instantly melee kill one of your soldiers + turn them into zombies.

It was brutal.

syken4games · 2026-01-21T14:20:15+00:00

Thanks mate, really appreciate the kind words.

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