Failure to defend your bases will mean destruction of and damage to many of your aircraft. Most maps will now have start zones and escape LZs in new places.Īliens will now sometimes attack your interceptor bases, using a map previously available only to MP games. The complete feature list can be read on the next page. If you’ve been playing with an earlier version of Long War you won’t need to restart your campaign but it is recommended. You can download Long War from Nexus Mods but keep in mind you’ll need Enemy Within to play it. This means they’re then unavailable till they recover. Now, after a mission, “soldiers need to rest for several days to recover from the intensity of combat and exposure to strange alien chemistry.” You can still send them into combat if you must but they will automatically receive a light wound if they get back from the mission. If things are going south then you can try and retreat.Īnother significant change is a new system fatigue. To give players an out in this instance the modders have added escape zones to most maps. They aren’t simply responding to what you’re doing but “gathering resources and conducting research and going on other missions not directly related to XCOM’s operations.” This means that you’ll sometimes come across a large alien force in the middle of a big operation while you’re still woefully under equipped to deal with it. The modders have made it so the aliens have “an active strategy”.