Spent most of my time getting the mods to work the way I wanted them to.

It has worked very well for me, but the fact that he and I play nearly opposite and 3 other friends play it a lot and ALL play very differently and are successful tells you it is a well thought out strategy game, and Long War just makes it better. He uses a lot of cover fire, smoke bombs things like that, whereas I go for snipers and shotguns mainly. Me and Darrel have spoken at length about our tactics in this game, and we are VERY different players. One other thing for people who have not played XCOM or not played it heavily, is this game does not in ANY way pidgin hole you into a specific play style or set of tactics. Enemy is better at flanking than before also there are MANY new maps. Also, they upgrade their gear as well, a ThinMan is not always going to be a 3hp mob, I just captured a person from Advent and Thinmen already hit harder AND have 5hp. Difference between the last 2 difficulties normally is just you have less HP, they have more armor and hit WAY harder, tactics do NOT improve at all.

Far more difficult than the original, and not just in the areas of more mitigation and whatnot. It is still technically a beta and I admit I do **some** 'save scumming' however that is because I have some odd effects that I find bugs with, aside form that I try to play it with as little excess saving as possible. I have been using it for a bit, so far it has REALLY upped the difficulty but I like that, it is a lot more unforgiving.

Long war meld mod