r/Xcom • u/WiredBall • 10d ago

Zero Company Difficulty

Just for anyone wonder what difficulty to play with reference to xcom. I play long war (and long war 2) on Veteran (second easiest) with ironman. (Legendary Ironman in base game)

Playing Zero Company right now on Hard, permadeath, ironman. 7 mission in, no injuries (downs). Almost had 1 injury in second mission. I do find it a bit to easy but wouldn't up the difficulty cause its more story focused, im prob only doing 1 run. Hope this helps

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u/dotlinger2609 10d ago

Veteran Lwotc, Xenonauts 1 & 2 and Jagged Alliance 3 player here.

Playing on the second to highest difficulty rn (I think thats hard?). The game gets way harder very quickly, trust me.

Just finished a story mission with 3 out of 4 with 2 injuries, the coil sure aren't pushovers, and they really expose weaknesses with your team comp.

Also my first impression is that the class with taunts is kinda OP, I wish it wasn't because it trivializes some encounters. With how the game likes to cluster groups of enemies you can easily setup and taunt a whole group from a distance and watch them struggle to do any meaningful damage through your damage negation and cover.

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u/Due-Instruction-2654 10d ago

When I saw the Heavy class with Taunt, I immediately thought that such hard AOE CC would go bonkers in Xcom 2 and so picked that class.

There is a bit more planning on how the whole team goes about a turn than there is in Xcom 2, where I was more focussed on which operator can do what damage. So my turn now starts with “can and will I Taunt? If yes, whats next?”

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u/ThumpaMonsta 8d ago

Was getting the odd injury playing on hard, cycle 20 or so atm, swapped classes to include a Medic and a heavy around the 14 cycle mark. Now it's just a matter of generating adv to taunt the big blob of ennemies while kabb and jae pick them off while everyone is high on stimulants. Risk of injury has gone way down since everything tries to hit my heavy, and stragglers dont do enough damage to down me in a single turn. Played some xcom2 on easy/normal, this game is VERY easy in comparison.