Celebrate six years of warfare with XCOM 2’s Tactical Legacy Pack, free at launch

Six years in the past, Firaxis pulled off the unimaginable with XCOM, re-envisioning a DOS classic – subsequent week, they’re celebrating this feat with the Tactical Legacy pack for XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen. It’s pure fan-service of the less-sexy sort (until Carapace armour turns you on, wherein case fly your freak flag excessive), that includes outdated favorite gear and environments utilized in a brand new collection of tactical mini-campaigns and extra. Better nonetheless, it’ll be initially free to house owners of War Of The Chosen. It’s out subsequent week, October ninth. Check the reveal trailer beneath.

The DLC will add a brand new essential menu possibility – the Legacy Hub. There you’ll discover Legacy Operations (4 brief mini-campaigns – all ways, no technique), a Skirmish mode that permits you to arrange customized battles, plus offline variations of War Of The Chosen’s hundred problem missions. Legacy Operations are set between the tip of XCOM 1 and the beginning of XCOM 2, telling the story of how Bradford and friends bought the band again collectively. They’ll function outdated and new gear to fill in blanks within the timeline, and a few acquainted remixed environments.

Because Firaxis are additional good, all the brand new gear and map segments launched within the Legacy Operations can even be built-in into the War Of The Chosen marketing campaign as soon as the brand new ops are accomplished. More methods to shoot aliens, and extra locations to shoot them in – it’s all good. Last of the options is the choice to select from three totally different soundtracks. XCOM 2, XCOM 1, or a brand new soundtrack ‘inspired’ by X-COM: UFO Defense. From the little clip of it we hear within the trailer, I’m nearly actually going to be choosing the third – heroic sci-fi motion synths for me.

This is a beautiful little send-off for XCOM 2 and I can’t wait to dive again into the game to play by the brand new missions. The solely factor I’ve left to grouse about is that Firaxis by no means introduced again Pavonis Interactive to adapt their Long War mega-mod to War Of The Chosen, though maybe modders have already labored that out – I’ve been out of the commander’s chair too lengthy.

The Tactical Legacy Pack launches subsequent Tuesday, October ninth, and shall be free to anybody with XCOM 2’s War of The Chosen enlargement earlier than rising a price-tag later. Firaxis have dumped a couple of extra particulars on Steam here.