Well, it IS an old game 
Finally took down my first Chosen. I gotta say though, I donāt know that itād be possible to do on a legendary Ironman run on your first try, with no spoilers about tactics and such. Had a full team wipe the first time I tried it, and I was being cautious and using one of my better teams. Let me know when you take one down too @BoJima404 - Iād like to compare notes!
I might just go for it. It seems like a great steal for the deluxe.
Lol. Why are you still up bro!? You sent a message like two hours ago, so I know itās not just you being an early riser 
Iām so happy this game is back. The strugglesā¦ however my biggest struggle is of a different nature:
The only thing being taken down is my GPU by overheating. My worst fear as I knew from the original game how graphically intense things can get (including some optimization issues with the game itself). Just took out my gfx card, cleaned fans, reupdated drivers, and now going to try again. Havenāt found the best display settings yet :(
The chosen cannot beat me in-game, I guess 
Iāll let you know once everything is stabilized and manage to take one out.
That sucks man. This one is actually optimized quite a bit better I feel like than the base game. That one chugged up my system pretty good for not much reason at all; in War of the Chosen everything loads pretty quickly and doesnāt have too many hitches.
I will say though, Iāll be really glad when some of the QoL mods get created for this thing. Color coded action tiles and evac all are sorely missed right now. 
Will also be glad when someone takes it upon themselves to streamline the upgrade treesā¦REALLY wish everyone just used the expanded tree that you have to go into a separate menu to access.
Yes, it runs really smooth.
Btw, Iām playing veteran, of course no ironman. I feel like Iām cheating though. But I just want to do a āquickā run before putting mods on 
Iāve been tuning settings in-game and to decrease the strain on my GPU. Iāll get the right configurationā¦ eventually.
I would love to see that if I could.
Watching people play on Veteran with Ironman is so hype
Why are you still up and liking my ā ā ā ā posts? lol
Long story, trust me. Lol.
Dragon Ball FighterZ hype! 
Not sure what I did worked but GPU running smoothly now at 50-60 degrees Celsius, with fan speed kicking in at 90% if hitting 65 degrees.
Iām so tired of tweaking my PC for XCOM itās time to relax and play Dragon Ball Fighterz, lol.
ā¦and then there were no more spots available in the beta. Back to Gwent ladder then.
Lol. Gwent is mad fun though
Man, the Chosen are seriously no joke in this game. In any big mission where Iām forced to tangle with them, my first attempt goes bad and I wind up having to retry or be content with having a nearly full team wipe. Which Iām not, so I just retry
Granted, this time the encounter is complicated by the fact that my best soldiers are either wounded, away, or in Bond Training (really? You donāt think that maybe the ONGOING ASSAULT on our base and home is worth stepping away from your nice-nice time with your partner? No? Just checking), but still, these battles are tough. Forty something total enemies (that last pod about broke my heart), no high ground or concealment advantages, and an endless wave of assholery from the Chosen himself to put up. My team held together well for most of it, but it went pretty spectacularly to pot there at the end 
Lost two majors, had a promising up and comer get shellacked into needing to use my only medkit to stabilize her, and a rando squaddie died, but I was making it. Gritted my teeth and fought for every inch of the map, steadily working my way to the final goal. Get there, set up the perfect āblow this Popsicle stand and runā formation, and then the last pod activates itself and marches its way right in the middle of my team. Wind up losing my best colonel and my last on-mission major taking the objective, and then everyone panics and I find out that apparently I have to beat the Chosen, and canāt just bravely run away. Full team wipe incoming, I just decided to cut my losses and go to sleep.
Round 2 incoming
These moments are the best. It is what makes the game so thrilling.
Itās going to thrilling when I use my save-scum to absolutely crush these SOBās tonight. Wonāt be accidentally waking 3 pods in the same damn turn this time
Hahaha. But finishing a walkthrough with two or three soldiers that make it through to the end is a wonderful feeling. Even if it means keeping your best soldiers āartificiallyā alive through save scumming hehe
Yeah. I remember the names of all the soldiers Iāve managed to do that with, in both this and the XCOM and Enemy Within games. Assault people seem to do the best interestingly enough, followed by snipers (for whom it makes more sense). Amusingly, the ponytail chick from the Gatecrasher mission has made it all the way through both of my playthroughs for XCOM2 - Iām curious to see if she can make it through this one as well. She has a great set of perks, so definitely not out of the question 
I think thatās actually my only gripe about War of the Chosen outside of nagging UI issues - the additional faction classes are so insane (and all have such high combat intelligence) that it makes it a lot less important/desirable to grind your way through with soldiers at rock bottom all the way to Colonel. The fatigue and bond mechanics kind of compound this, since you have so many ārotationsā of squads that it becomes something of a chore to keep track of everyone. My other XCOM playthroughs have seen me creating custom call signs and dressing up favored rookies as I try to level them up and make them amazing. In War of the Chosen I just kinda pick at random among the troops who arenāt hurt or on mission or tired.
Thatās actually why I was so upset about nearly losing my up and comer - sheās just about the only rookie soldier who Iāve sat down with and intentionally tried to make into a great soldier.
I always create this awesome looking marine straight out Predator or some other movie but he or she usually dies heroically during the final three turns of their second (not even twentieth, no second) ā ā ā ā ā ā ā mission. Itās usually some randomly generated, uber generic looking soldier is who ends up staying around the longest. Lol.
Lol. That happened to one of my first XCOM2 edited characters. Had a super cool looking character that I kitted out and gave awesome mods to and the works, and then one of my colonels got mind controlled and blew her to bits on her fourth or fifth outing
Another of my favorites (seriously, this soldier was a monster) wound up getting left behind on an extraction mission. I was soooo tempted to reload the save to try and recover them, but wound up letting it go. Thatās the soldier that I had to drop the difficulty one time on the ABA mod, because on the rescue op there was literally no way to beat the 6 (yes, 6) pods of enemies that all chose to patrol the same damn block of the street at the same damn time, which coincidentally happened to be right next to the van I needed to break into to recover the soldier
Itās all good though - once I got her back, she got like 4 kills a mission all the way until I beat the game 
