Great to see XCOM2 still getting the attention it deserves. It's simply one of the most replayable games ever made with the incredible modding community still updating to this day.
I would like to suggest two more mods that I consider an absolute must have. First is the one you're using already - Unit Flags Extended or any of it's alternatives. Vanilla XCOM 2 unit info presentation is lacking and seeing an actual HP number instead of "pips" is a massive QoL improvement. The other is a mod I would genuinely refuse to play without, the brilliant Gotcha Again Redux. With how wonky and outright unpredictable lines of sight are and how easy it is to unintentionally break concealment and activate additional enemy pods, Gotcha Again Redux is an absolutely essential fix that provides information that should have been there to begin with like if you are going to trigger reaction fire or break concealment by moving.
I'm a little disappointed Long War hasn't been displaced or at least met an equal after all this time. But then again, they really set the bar up there.
My new loved mod is Covert infiltration (similar to Long War). Huge overhaul, i like it. There are some great playthroughs on YT using it so everyone get a look at it, to decide if it suits you. For classes i also can recommend Amalgamation, saw ChristopherOdd using it, a class pack of 252 classes with mostly randomized perk trees. So not only you make them different using from the same options but different things are offered too.
It's going to be up to the modders to keep this game alive. We're probably not ever getting a new Xcom game again with how things turned out for the devs
Yeah that tends to decide the longevity of most games I'd say, I'm sure we'll get another XCOM game eventually, just a matter of if it's as good or not since most of the team has changed
@nimblemonster The good news is that Xcom 2 is already good. We've got mods galore and modders we can donate to, to show our appreciation. So no matter what happens, at least the community is still working together.
Gdamm i recently played the mobile version, reallly good btw, but all of this looks like a big DLC that ive never experienced on the mobile ver. Thank you mate
Also dont forget to add that Long War quadruples the game difficulty across the board and requires another 100 hours put into the game before you even begin to understand whats going on.
I've been getting into youtube more recently and have been struggling on deciding what content to make other than some fantasy games I like and Helldivers, but do lots of tiktok for HD2. Anyway, I played Xcom 1 Long War last year and just loved it. Would this be up my alley all things considered with these mods?
I would say that if you enjoy it, you should make videos about it. Doing TH-cam is really easy to burn out on, but if you're doing it about things you enjoy it becomes a lot easier to make higher quality videos
@nimblemonster oh for sure, I used to stream on Twitch and am partnered there. Got burnt out. Life stuff. All of that. Really liked X1 LW so really just seeing if it's as fun or thereabouts.
@@DubbleLime I think it's an absolute blast with X2's personally, sometimes even more difficult somehow but in that glorious painful way that xcom always is lol Definitely recommend giving it a try!
@@nimblemonster awesome, ty! Setting up mods rn. It was $10 for everything on sale today! Lol. I HAD to get it. Watched your mod installation tutorial and recommended mods here and giving those a whirl and whatever suits my fancy. Haven't played MGS (I know, I know) so skipping that one for now. I'll play them some day I'm sure.
i will add 2 more: The mods who can signaling you when a non concealed unit will be revealed by the enemy. Also the mod of a conceal unit won't be reveal if step on line of sight of the enemy through peeking out from a corner and enter in "detection zone". That only happen if the enemy still through the fog of war before show in sight.
i'm pretty sure pavonis didnt work on lwotc, they did work on lw2 but lwotc is a community project of a lot of modders already famous in the modding community working together
Correct, LWoTC is an entirely community driven port/enhancement, as Pavonis wasn't paid to do it. LW2 got me into the game originally, and LWoTC got me into the modding scene and able to give back myself through work on it, the Highlander, as well as some standalone stuff
Making one-off unique characters from other franchises in the character pool is great but I wish there was a way to limit their cosmetics. It's cool going out and finding commander Shepard but it's not so cool getting recruits with random bits of N7 armor. I don't wanna scroll through all that stuff when I'm customizing either.
There's a mod to limit any and all customizatios from showin on NPCS. Also one that forces them to use your charactwr pool first before starting to gen new dudes
I'm surprised some talented modder out there hasn't created a new Chosen. I'm thinking a Chosen who's a tech specialist with multiple advent gremlins that each have different functions the Chosen uses for both offensive and defensive purposes. With AI technology advancing every year, I'm sure a talented modder could achieve this.
Top 5 class mods (Just going to guess here) Iridar's Jedi Class Mod (Vanilla & WOTC) Rescue Denmother (Adds an interesting perspective to WOTC) Mods that change a character's voice Mods that makes psi operatives stronger Mods that gives ADVENT new classes
@@nimblemonster I’m playing with mods while watching the video. It slightly stutters on max settings at 1080p on 15 w performance mode. Currently playing it on high/medium settings. Probably runs smooth on 25w extreme, but I prefer not to max out the fans.
I have played XCOM 2 on switch and DONT. 5 minutes to load in and out of a mission. 30 seconds to go into next turn. You will wish to play XCOM 2 vanilla.
Those stats (damage, number of health, aim) above the soldier's health bar, which mod can I use to display in my game like exactly in your video? Thanks in advance!
@@nimblemonster I'm playing long wotc installed via steam workshop and never try long war 2 before, so I don't know whether there is any difference between these two or not :(
Chimera Classes should work with WOTC (double check in the mods desc), but the XCOM 2 classes are truly pretty great already, good to experience both imo
Excelentes videos, este juego es uno de mis favoritos lo he jugado muchas veces, y estoy comenzando una partida nueva despues de tanto tiempo de haberlo acabado, quiero recordar viejos tiempos, pero tengo una duda y no sé si me puedas ayudar, como puedo saber que mods me están causando problemas ya que cuando voy a eliminar a los jefes no puedo avanzar y no sé que mod me está causando este problema, y el juego todos los reconoce sin errores. Gracias ojala me puedas ayudar
The intro had a scene that looked like a breach mission, what mod is that? Is it similar to a Chimera Squad breach or just an alternate load up screen to dropping in from the Skyranger?
It's an alternate loading screen (as cool as a Breach implementation would be!) It comes with the Long War of the Chosen Mod, as they add new types of missions that have different loading screens.
@@nimblemonster Aaaah, Ok Thanks. I was thinking that it would require a total overhaul to the play style to fit the small room dynamic of Chimera squad. XCOM2 has no respect for walls you can demolish your way through buildings without using any doors😂
@@nimblemonster hear me out. Full black high tech knight like armor with a great sword formed of burning red and black plasma, with 20 points of health a 5 armor. Oh yeah and there’s built in middle launchers
Question though, I'm doing long War of The chosen right now but I have not been able to do a single lost mission. And I don't get any missions that allow me to reduce the avatar project. Also my first mission I started with a skirmisher in my crew. Is that normal? I didn't get any of the missions that introduced The Lost
When you start up your playthrough there's a few tickboxes you can check that will alter the game such as "Start allied with the Skirmishers" which could have led to you having one off the bat. For the lost missions, I don't know. I know it's possible to skip the first reaper+skirmisher rendezvous mission
I'll be completely honest, Long War kicked my a$$ back in Enemy Within even in the "easiest" difficulty, thus, tbh I'm hesitant to try it here as the vanilla game is already a bit much for me. Is there an actual easy option for Long War WotCH? Other than that, the QoL mods are truly needed for sanity. Would love to see which mod you have to see the HP bars and numbers alike
Gotta agree with Nimble here. The long war only increases complexities on both the tactical map and the strategic side of things. What are you getting your ass kicked from?
Is there a mod to get all the NPCs like Central, The Chosen, and the Resistance leaders to stop talking? It's a minor thing but after a while it gets annoying and I really want all of them to shut the hell up.
There are definitely still mods not for WotC, they will be labeled in the description very often. And many of the mods on this list are also applicable you just have to find their non-wotc variant.
I am usually not the type of guy to tell people off on grammar, but since you seem to put a great deal of effort in your scripts I just want to remind you that when you say the word "amount" you mean the word "number". An amount isn't countable, like an amount of money or water. An "amount" of skins is countable making the right word to use "number" and "amount" wrong. I liked your video a lot and I am definetely gonna be picking up some of these mods.
Super appreciate the correction! While I do think "amount" is still an applicable word, I definitely agree "number" would have worked better. Glad you liked the video still! Hope you enjoy those mods :v
@@nimblemonster Do check the cambridge or oxford dictionary because "amount" really can't be used for something countable. Although it's up to you what you say of course!
Really? Long war 2? That's pretty disappointing tbh, I feel like that mod is extremely over-hyped and overrated, it's one of the few overhauls that I don't think deserves the praise it gets. It just sucks the fun out of the game by making everything super punishing and unfair, constantly forces you to retreat and takes away all the feeling of being a badass that makes xcom so fum, it's also a compatibility nightmare with a lot of mods since you need to hope that the modder actually wants tyo make a long war compatible version. Plus, the team's stance on difficulty (the original ones, not the folks that ported it over to wotc) is/was extremely bullheaded and arrogant "oh no, It's not the found of our poorly balanced mess, *you* are just bad!". Anyways I think number 1 could have been a lot of other mods that are simpler but also way less unfair, like the Proficiency Class Pack or Iridar's Five Tier Weapon Overhaul
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Great to see XCOM2 still getting the attention it deserves. It's simply one of the most replayable games ever made with the incredible modding community still updating to this day.
It really is one of the best of its kind and I doubt that will ever change
Been playing this game off and on for years now! one of my favorite games ever not gonna lie!
Gotta defend against those ufos
@@nimblemonster the only way it would change is if they release XCOM 3 lol
"I will be milking this franchise forever." Instantly subscribed and turned the bell on hard.
lol same!
Always happy to see xcom still getting the love it deserves
Modding Xcom 2 changes EVERYTHING! Cannot recommend enough. Also, cheers buddy! It was fun to zone out and help you out with a video :)
Thanks again for the help! And yeah modding XCOM 2 is top tier for sure
@@nimblemonster I want Xcom 3
I would like to suggest two more mods that I consider an absolute must have. First is the one you're using already - Unit Flags Extended or any of it's alternatives. Vanilla XCOM 2 unit info presentation is lacking and seeing an actual HP number instead of "pips" is a massive QoL improvement.
The other is a mod I would genuinely refuse to play without, the brilliant Gotcha Again Redux. With how wonky and outright unpredictable lines of sight are and how easy it is to unintentionally break concealment and activate additional enemy pods, Gotcha Again Redux is an absolutely essential fix that provides information that should have been there to begin with like if you are going to trigger reaction fire or break concealment by moving.
I've been playing the mobile version of xcom2 at work and it comes with Evac/overwatch all funnily enough lol
I'm a little disappointed Long War hasn't been displaced or at least met an equal after all this time. But then again, they really set the bar up there.
I'm just glad we have something of its quality to be entirely honest
one of the best mods i love to play with is "Playable Aliens" or the Playable Viper mod
My new loved mod is Covert infiltration (similar to Long War). Huge overhaul, i like it.
There are some great playthroughs on YT using it so everyone get a look at it, to decide if it suits you.
For classes i also can recommend Amalgamation, saw ChristopherOdd using it, a class pack of 252 classes with mostly randomized perk trees.
So not only you make them different using from the same options but different things are offered too.
It's going to be up to the modders to keep this game alive. We're probably not ever getting a new Xcom game again with how things turned out for the devs
Yeah that tends to decide the longevity of most games I'd say, I'm sure we'll get another XCOM game eventually, just a matter of if it's as good or not since most of the team has changed
@nimblemonster The good news is that Xcom 2 is already good. We've got mods galore and modders we can donate to, to show our appreciation. So no matter what happens, at least the community is still working together.
Gdamm i recently played the mobile version, reallly good btw, but all of this looks like a big DLC that ive never experienced on the mobile ver. Thank you mate
Also dont forget to add that Long War quadruples the game difficulty across the board and requires another 100 hours put into the game before you even begin to understand whats going on.
All this love for the game and yet only limited to pc, while Console players can only watch and dream.
This was the first game I downloaded when I got my pc
More Nations and Names for WoTC for us from the smaller countries that tend to be left out
I've been getting into youtube more recently and have been struggling on deciding what content to make other than some fantasy games I like and Helldivers, but do lots of tiktok for HD2. Anyway, I played Xcom 1 Long War last year and just loved it.
Would this be up my alley all things considered with these mods?
I would say that if you enjoy it, you should make videos about it. Doing TH-cam is really easy to burn out on, but if you're doing it about things you enjoy it becomes a lot easier to make higher quality videos
@nimblemonster oh for sure, I used to stream on Twitch and am partnered there. Got burnt out. Life stuff. All of that.
Really liked X1 LW so really just seeing if it's as fun or thereabouts.
@@DubbleLime I think it's an absolute blast with X2's personally, sometimes even more difficult somehow but in that glorious painful way that xcom always is lol
Definitely recommend giving it a try!
@@nimblemonster awesome, ty! Setting up mods rn. It was $10 for everything on sale today! Lol. I HAD to get it.
Watched your mod installation tutorial and recommended mods here and giving those a whirl and whatever suits my fancy. Haven't played MGS (I know, I know) so skipping that one for now. I'll play them some day I'm sure.
@@DubbleLime hell yeah, hope you have a blast! 10$ is a damn good deal fs
i will add 2 more:
The mods who can signaling you when a non concealed unit will be revealed by the enemy. Also the mod of a conceal unit won't be reveal if step on line of sight of the enemy through peeking out from a corner and enter in "detection zone". That only happen if the enemy still through the fog of war before show in sight.
i'm pretty sure pavonis didnt work on lwotc, they did work on lw2 but lwotc is a community project of a lot of modders already famous in the modding community working together
Ah, super good to know thank you! My bad for assuming it was them on the project :p
Correct, LWoTC is an entirely community driven port/enhancement, as Pavonis wasn't paid to do it. LW2 got me into the game originally, and LWoTC got me into the modding scene and able to give back myself through work on it, the Highlander, as well as some standalone stuff
a bit late but cigars and cigarettes are vanilla :(
Making one-off unique characters from other franchises in the character pool is great but I wish there was a way to limit their cosmetics. It's cool going out and finding commander Shepard but it's not so cool getting recruits with random bits of N7 armor. I don't wanna scroll through all that stuff when I'm customizing either.
There's a mod to limit any and all customizatios from showin on NPCS. Also one that forces them to use your charactwr pool first before starting to gen new dudes
Interesting stuff. Will try some mods.
I'm surprised some talented modder out there hasn't created a new Chosen. I'm thinking a Chosen who's a tech specialist with multiple advent gremlins that each have different functions the Chosen uses for both offensive and defensive purposes.
With AI technology advancing every year, I'm sure a talented modder could achieve this.
Thanks for the suggestions, love your videos
Thank you so much :0
Top 5 class mods (Just going to guess here)
Iridar's Jedi Class Mod (Vanilla & WOTC)
Rescue Denmother (Adds an interesting perspective to WOTC)
Mods that change a character's voice
Mods that makes psi operatives stronger
Mods that gives ADVENT new classes
Thank you for posting fam, awesome vid!
Glad you liked it!
Gonna Rock Star wars mods
Hell yeah
Thank you for the video! :)
I’m not a filthy brained fellow I swear
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Check out Christopher Odd - his Xcom2 playthrough last year had a whopping 300+ mods in it, including one that changes the game quite a bit.
Yes! He's quite excellent, I found him pretty recently and it's been a blast to watch his stuff
Love playing XCOM 2 with mods on ROG ally.
Ah man, I'm kinda tempted to grab one, runs good?
@@nimblemonster Yes. Get the extreme not the cheaper one.
@@nimblemonster I’m playing with mods while watching the video. It slightly stutters on max settings at 1080p on 15 w performance mode. Currently playing it on high/medium settings. Probably runs smooth on 25w extreme, but I prefer not to max out the fans.
I have played XCOM 2 on switch and DONT. 5 minutes to load in and out of a mission. 30 seconds to go into next turn. You will wish to play XCOM 2 vanilla.
Those stats (damage, number of health, aim) above the soldier's health bar, which mod can I use to display in my game like exactly in your video? Thanks in advance!
I believe that comes bundled into The Long War mod, but I'll have to double-check to be certain which mod it is specifically :p
@@nimblemonster I'm playing long wotc installed via steam workshop and never try long war 2 before, so I don't know whether there is any difference between these two or not :(
Badass Video
I just started another campaign on the hardest difficulty ironman and its going surprisingly good so far
I wish you luck soldier 🫡
Is LwotC compatible with Chimera classes? Or are the classes included already good enough so I dont need chimera?
Chimera Classes should work with WOTC (double check in the mods desc), but the XCOM 2 classes are truly pretty great already, good to experience both imo
Excelentes videos, este juego es uno de mis favoritos lo he jugado muchas veces, y estoy comenzando una partida nueva despues de tanto tiempo de haberlo acabado, quiero recordar viejos tiempos, pero tengo una duda y no sé si me puedas ayudar, como puedo saber que mods me están causando problemas ya que cuando voy a eliminar a los jefes no puedo avanzar y no sé que mod me está causando este problema, y el juego todos los reconoce sin errores. Gracias ojala me puedas ayudar
Let's say I'm in the middle of a campaign on my second playthrough. Can I just install LWOTC? Or do I need to start anew?
You'll have to start a new one :/ trust me I learned that the hard way too lol
@@nimblemonster In that case I'll leave it for my next playthrough. Thanks
COOL VID AND good to know will be trying mods now caps lock opps
So glad you liked it!
The intro had a scene that looked like a breach mission, what mod is that? Is it similar to a Chimera Squad breach or just an alternate load up screen to dropping in from the Skyranger?
It's an alternate loading screen (as cool as a Breach implementation would be!) It comes with the Long War of the Chosen Mod, as they add new types of missions that have different loading screens.
@@nimblemonster Aaaah, Ok Thanks. I was thinking that it would require a total overhaul to the play style to fit the small room dynamic of Chimera squad. XCOM2 has no respect for walls you can demolish your way through buildings without using any doors😂
@@StevetheMartin very true lmao
is there a star wars mod ? ;)
i would like to see the mandalorian taking-off and firing a bunch of missile !
@bidet1515 there is! Poke around steam workshop and you'll find a bunch of great options
I still need to finish a run with LWOTC
Me wanting a mod that makes one soldier basically the anime main character
I looked around for one and didn't find it 😔 but that is a great idea lmao
@@nimblemonster hear me out. Full black high tech knight like armor with a great sword formed of burning red and black plasma, with 20 points of health a 5 armor. Oh yeah and there’s built in middle launchers
@@AwakeNonVal with Mushashi RPGO and some submods you could try that
Samurai class mod
4:56 Read my mind there bud. Finally I can ogle Quiet for a morale boost when the going gets rough!
We need what we can get with how traumatizing this game gets lmao
i still like using hyper dimension neptunia class mod.
A great pick too tbh
are there any mods to disable photo and posters? i find it very annoying constanly being asked if i want to take a picture ore make a poster
I haven't seen one, but I haven't really looked as I personally love the feature. If they don't have it on Steam Workshop you could check on Vortex
alright, thanks for the reply@@nimblemonster
Question though, I'm doing long War of The chosen right now but I have not been able to do a single lost mission. And I don't get any missions that allow me to reduce the avatar project. Also my first mission I started with a skirmisher in my crew. Is that normal? I didn't get any of the missions that introduced The Lost
When you start up your playthrough there's a few tickboxes you can check that will alter the game such as "Start allied with the Skirmishers" which could have led to you having one off the bat.
For the lost missions, I don't know. I know it's possible to skip the first reaper+skirmisher rendezvous mission
>not the Dead or Alive outfits
DISREGARDED
I'll be completely honest, Long War kicked my a$$ back in Enemy Within even in the "easiest" difficulty, thus, tbh I'm hesitant to try it here as the vanilla game is already a bit much for me. Is there an actual easy option for Long War WotCH? Other than that, the QoL mods are truly needed for sanity. Would love to see which mod you have to see the HP bars and numbers alike
For Long War I'd definitely say it only increases the difficulty, since it just adds more complexity in general
Gotta agree with Nimble here. The long war only increases complexities on both the tactical map and the strategic side of things. What are you getting your ass kicked from?
Cigar is already in vanilla
Is there a mod to get all the NPCs like Central, The Chosen, and the Resistance leaders to stop talking? It's a minor thing but after a while it gets annoying and I really want all of them to shut the hell up.
I feel that completely, not one that I've seen sadly, but somebody should definitely make that for sure lol
Narrative Control and Hush Little Chosen...It shuts both of them up as well as a couple extra things
Bad taste is also taste.
what if i dont want wotc? can i even have any mods?
There are definitely still mods not for WotC, they will be labeled in the description very often. And many of the mods on this list are also applicable you just have to find their non-wotc variant.
All my console people hurt more and more every day
M I S T !
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I am usually not the type of guy to tell people off on grammar, but since you seem to put a great deal of effort in your scripts I just want to remind you that when you say the word "amount" you mean the word "number". An amount isn't countable, like an amount of money or water. An "amount" of skins is countable making the right word to use "number" and "amount" wrong. I liked your video a lot and I am definetely gonna be picking up some of these mods.
Super appreciate the correction! While I do think "amount" is still an applicable word, I definitely agree "number" would have worked better. Glad you liked the video still! Hope you enjoy those mods :v
@@nimblemonster Do check the cambridge or oxford dictionary because "amount" really can't be used for something countable. Although it's up to you what you say of course!
How about videos on XCOM 1?
I'm ngl I'm considering doing a full series retrospective
All Long War does is prolong the game and make it painfully slow
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"omg I can't say badass", that's so stupid lol
Your content would be more enjoyable but for the use of blasphemous exclamations.
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Really? Long war 2? That's pretty disappointing tbh, I feel like that mod is extremely over-hyped and overrated, it's one of the few overhauls that I don't think deserves the praise it gets.
It just sucks the fun out of the game by making everything super punishing and unfair, constantly forces you to retreat and takes away all the feeling of being a badass that makes xcom so fum, it's also a compatibility nightmare with a lot of mods since you need to hope that the modder actually wants tyo make a long war compatible version.
Plus, the team's stance on difficulty (the original ones, not the folks that ported it over to wotc) is/was extremely bullheaded and arrogant "oh no, It's not the found of our poorly balanced mess, *you* are just bad!".
Anyways I think number 1 could have been a lot of other mods that are simpler but also way less unfair, like the Proficiency Class Pack or Iridar's Five Tier Weapon Overhaul
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