However, enemies will have similar access to MECs, highlighted by the Mechtoid, a Sectoid alien foe that "comes back with huge firepower and survivability increase," Gupta says. Players can create Genetics labs to physically augment their capabilities to make them faster or more accurate.
Traditional classes such as snipers or heavy troopers won't be left flat-footed. "It's a very dominating, powerful unit on the battlefield," says Gupta. The expansion introduces a new class, the MEC trooper, that boasts a Mechanized Exoskeleton Cybersuit with enhancements from grenade launchers to flamethrowers. "This is the same alien invasion that you confronted in XCOM: EU, but you have a whole bunch of new stuff," says Ananda Gupta, executive producer of Enemy Within. The game features new maps, weapons and combat upgrades as players follow a story told during the events of the 2012 game. Find help in the documentation or learn about InClass competitions. Video game studio Firaxis announced it will launch XCOM: Enemy Within on November 12. Grow your data science skills by competing in our exciting competitions. XCOM: Enemy Within, announced at Gamescom nearly a week ago, launches on November 12.Brace for a whole new set of tactics when the expansion to hit strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown arrives. It was either deliver it this way or not deliver it at all." "These things are tied deeply into Enemy Unknown so we wanted to release as sort of the ultimate edition, with all the previous DLC on this one disc. We couldn't simply just patch it in."ĭeAngelis added that Enemy Within includes so many changes to the base XCOM: Enemy Unknown experience – new unit types, upgrades and even skill changes – it necessitated an entire re-issue of the game. If we wanted to deliver the same content to the console players, we had to do it this way as a standalone expansion on a disc. "But when it came to the consoles, it was too big. "For the expansion on the PC, it was fairly straightforward," Garth DeAngelis, senior producer at Firaxis Games, said during a PAX Prime interview.
The reason for issuing the Commander's Edition is because Enemy Within is simply too large a file to patch into the console game as DLC. XCOM: Enemy Unknown's expansion, Enemy Within, will be issued as DLC on PC and Mac for $30, but the only way to get it on consoles is through a new Commander's Edition – a retail re-release that includes the XCOM: Enemy Unknown game, the Slingshot and Elite Soldier add-ons, plus the Enemy Within expansion.
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