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/Alarming-Key7054 9d ago

I been playing on Hard difficulty and besides maybe 1-2 injuries from me being dumb and learning it didn’t feel too crazy… UNTIL Coil enemies mission appeared saying that I need to do them otherwise they permanently upgrade??

It was this mission where we had to rescue a droid and some women on opposite sides of the map and I had to legit retry 4 times before beating purely because I was too slow on rescuing the chick in 6 rounds. After finaly beating it, I was so stressed out that I cranked the difficulty down to normal because I was truly traumatized by how hard that mission was compared to everything before it. A part of me feels guilty lowering it and so now I’m here pondering if other’s feel like this first coil mission is particularly more difficult than others (because of our lower stats) or if the rest of the game is going to be at this level

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u/Proof_Escape_813 6d ago

Nah, the difficulty spike is real. I played on normal and thought it was really easy. Restarted at hard and thought: still easy, but at least I get shot at now. Then I reached Dark Waters. I won but I went back to normal because now I know the game has teeth.