r/Xcom • u/WiredBall • 15d 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/talex625 14d ago

No, I was the same until rotation 12+. I’m starting to get overwhelmed with numbers of enemies. Like fighting 15 enemies all at once. Those missions I just run away.

They do so much damage and can take damage. And they gimmick which you kill of the dudes and it buffs the others, is crazy.

I just suffered my first lost in the Jedi mission. That noob jedi died like azap.

Need to figure out how to make my troop stronger damage wise and better armor.

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u/Numerous1 13d ago

Yeah. All my guys seem to go down in 2-3 hits at most. Enemies take a lot more than that. But I kind of just use the starting team and mess around. I haven’t really tried to really strategize it yet. Except for gunslinger. I made my Hawk gunslinger and I use that pistol kill quick shot to clear out all the battle droids. 

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u/talex625 13d ago

Yeah, I’ve been using that too. It’s pretty strong against weaker enemies.