>Long War 1>Is one of the best strategy games in its style ever made, despite Johnny Lump's interference and being stitched together with some bubblegum and twine via .exe edits>Adds an ungodly amount of content to the game>Long War 2>Is literal dogshit on a plate despite having the blessing of the devs and actual modding tools>Adds practically nothing except badly-designed classes that overlap in function and more weapon/armor tiersHow did they fuck it up THIS BADLY?
Probably because the devs were working on their cure to insomnia called Terra Invicta
>>2357313Probably the good talent modders got a real job and could work on LW2
Long War 2 was blatantly rushed, instead of leaving it blatantly unfinished they did what they could with the time they were given and the result is what it isLong War of the Chosen is the actual sequel to long war 1 and that's the one that you should be judging
>>2357313the entire premise of xcom 2 is ass so that's why
>>2357313How can you even write this with a straight face? LW1 is just bloat with low effort content, like merely stretched out rifles, which doesn't add anything of value to gameLW2 fundamentally reworks strategy layer, actually making it a thing, since it basically doesn't exists in nuxcom 1&2.It's LW2 which actually adds actual mechanics and honestly game is unplayable without it.
>>2358127the premise is great, the execution is awful
>>2357313>LW1>we're gonna fit 50 enemies into maps designed for 10, now kill 'em all>LW2>just run away from everything and exfiltrate, bro =)It's like your favorite pizzeria turning into a kebab shop overnight. Even if the kebab was good (in this case it isn't) this wasn't what you were here for.
>>2357313they half assed it cause they were out the door already making their own game.that and xcom 2 is a worse game from the start
>>2359690Quiet, Johnny Lump! Get back to work on more Terra Invicta slop patches that don't add a single piece of content to the game before I crack the whip against your back again!
>>2359784>LW2>just run away from everything and exfiltrate, bro =)Only happened sometimes. LWOTC2 only sucks if you think you have to take /every/ mission. For autistic ADHD completionists, this is awful. XCOM2 has you playing the role of a guerilla group, and LWOTC2 does not deviate from that feel one bit.
>>2357943This is what I think considering what Terra Invicta looks likelong war 1 apparently had to do some kind of hacky bullshit inserting code using hexedit and the code replacement had to be the same length or shorter than what was originally compiled or it wouldn't run. I refuse to believe the same person who programmed long war 1 was also behind terra invicta without having a lobotomy in between
honestly all of these alien invasion games would suck less if they stopped trying to reinvent XCOM for the 100th time and looked to the European colonization and subsequent decolonization of Africa as an example of what aliens would actually do>some aliens just want the resources under your soil and pay off the local government to take it>sometimes these resources are slaves that are taken back to the home world to work in the spice mines>some aliens try to convert you to xenianity>the smallhat aliens emigrate you to rival nations on the home planet to become a minority in an alien nation they want to undermine>the united alien council gives you food aid to try to increase Earth's population to 100 billionand so on...
>>2362215It have no sense.If ayys want rss, they can take it by force or trade it for glass balls. The same for slaves. Not to mention about reasonableness of dragging rss from gravity well, when they have shittons of rss flying in space.Preachers probably just freaks w/o any real power behind them, so no1 care.For be minority need to have rights at first. No reasons for ayys grant any rights to humans. The same for humanitarian aid.
>>2358127xcom the second, when the first was greatwhat a shitty premise indeed
>>2357313I don't like LW1 as much as I like either of its spinoff mods. The long war part is actually the worst of it.
>>2358127This is why I left for modded 1994 x-com and never looked back. Graphically its a downgrade, but og x-com had far better mechanics on multiple fronts anyway, and modded takes it even further.Openxcom extended hasn't disappointed me like xcom 2 did
>>2362215Save it for your social studies fagtron
Terra Invicta made me retroactively hate these stupid fucking mods more than I already did
>>2365158Looking at it briefly, I don't even see an option for ground combat so what even is this comparison??
>>2357313>despite Johnny Lump's interference?
I seem to recall there was an XCOM mod that was like "long war but short"does anybody remember what I'm talking about
>>2357313>LW1>Is one of the best strategy games in its style ever madeAnon... Please, you are killing me here
