The Warlock is one of the titular three Chosen, nine-foot-tall purple elite aliens imbued with the power of the Elders whose only purpose is to stalk, goad, and sabotage XCOM at every turn both in mission and on the world map in an effort to reclaim XCOM’s Commander (you). Not only did those two enemy troops have the drop on me, but the Warlock decided to join the party, out to prove a point after my team had soundly beaten him the last time we’d met. I’d need a miracle, what I got was a chaotic massacre that dovetailed with some quick, risky tactical thinking. Triggered by my poorly thought out entrance, the duo scattered to take a tactical advantage. Then, with the last move of my turn, I moved just one tile too far, leaving a soldier exposed to a previously unseen duo of a shapeshifting Spectre and a mechanised unit. Having sent my squad into a fairly routine mission to mess up communications for alien overlords Advent, apart from taking the odd bit of minimal damage, things were going swimmingly, with the target in sight and the patrolling troops mostly dispatched with plenty of time to spare. If you had to pinpoint the reasons as to why XCOM can be thrilling, brutal, captivating, upsetting, and panic-inducing in the space of just three turns of a mission, then XCOM 2’s meaty expansion, War of the Chosen, provided me with just the sort of snapshot you’re looking for. These should be fixable, and given that previous issues, such as load times, got sorted in time, there’s every chance these could be rectified, but given that the release was delayed, I’d expected it to run a lot better. Then you have occasional cut scene repetition and minor text bugs. Then there’s some audio bugs, causing voices to needlessly overlap. For starters, there’s stuttering framerate, which seems to have gotten a touch worse with the introduction of this expansion. Before I do that, I’m going to get the criticisms out of the way, as all of them are related to technical issues that seem to have snuck in with War of the Chosen, but somehow, the sheer strength of War of the Chosen’s additions make them somewhat tolerable.
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