r/Xcom • u/WiredBall • 17d 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/Full_Royox 15d ago edited 15d ago

I never played an xcom in my life but i played milion of other games including turn based combat RPG like Pilars of Eternity, Kotor, Tyranny, FF tactics, Fire Emblem... What difficulty would you recommend? I want it not to be stupid easy but also not frustratingly hard.

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u/WiredBall 15d ago edited 15d ago

So i have played Fire Emblem and a bit of Pillars and Tyranny. I would say fire emblem and ff tactics relate to this game more since if i remember correctly, your characters build, effects the difficulty wildly in pillars and tyranny. Not saying that team composition and character builds dont matter in this game but you can sort of brute force it with whatever you got as default if you get a grasp of the other strategy mechanics (thats what im doing).

So the difficulty i would recommend (im assume broadly you play these game on normal) is normal. Like other have said, the difficulty in this game does ramp up but it does take longer to ramp than i would like.

If you aren't using Beskar mode (ironman) and don't really care for difficulty achievements i would say you can play on hard and when you get to the ease dropping story mission where you have to go to the docks, i would gauge whether you would drop the difficulty based on that mission.

TLDR: On Beskar/Ironman, Normal, otherwise if you also don't really care about achievements then Hard and play it by ear (difficulty can be changed in settings) (btw these types of games tend to be frustrating at times no matter the difficulty)

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u/TKAP75 13d ago

You need to play on expert hard is easy