Stuff learned about X-Com 2 (vanilla)

[Martin]

The game-over movie for X-Com 1 (20xx) with the sectoid MC-ing the council dude is canon.

Just like in Ufo:Aftershock.

I’d say nuXCOM oves more to Ufo series than to the original games. Tiny squad size, simplyfied base building, talking heads, weapon mods...

[Ethereal_Medic]

Simplified base-building and the lack of air-combat leaves the whole focus on Squad-Training and Tactical Decisions.

[Martin]

Beaing limited to a maximum of 6 soldiers really hurts the squad training aspect of the game.

[Ethereal_Medic]

Beaing limited to a maximum of 6 soldiers really hurts the squad training aspect of the game.

In terms of the vanilla game it's a bit odd of a choice considering the quickly exploding pod-sizes and aim-bot of ADVENT troops hitting people in high-cover like they're flanked.
Playing "Long War 2" mod atm and you can deploy 8 dudes from the start. Big Squads hurt the infiltration timer leading to much more resistance.