XCOM 2 updated by Feral to support Long War 2

YES.....YESSS!!!! finally, love feral

Man, I am having trouble with just getting a vanilla campaign going, I can't imagine the ramped up difficulty in the Long War mod :O

I would just play LongWar on Normal, while I like a challenge, I dislike restarting a game 5000 times to get past 1 mission.

The Long War sounds awesome, but I don't know if I'll ever play it simply because vanilla XCOM 2's end-game remains a mythical realm that I may never see with my own eyes. But I still love XCOM 2. I don't think anybody has ever made a game that is so much fun to lose.

The difficulty I've had with XCOM 2 is getting mods working again. They used to work for me, but something went wrong.

end-game remains a mythical realm that I may never see with my own eyes.

Don't worry, your not missing much at all. Did you finish the first game, then boom that's your ending, you kill a horde of Aliens then haft to beat the 1 or 2 bosses at the end. It hints at XCOM3 being about underwater terror from the depth but I dunno if that will happen...

Why are so many people complaining about difficulty of XCOM 2? It's really not that hard, especially on normal difficulty.

Maybe I am just daft at these things but XCOM2 makes me feel like I have to rush towards everything. I get that there is a time limit (the Avatar project) and that the XCOM group is not the same as it was in the previous game but I still feel like I have to go towards a certain path in research or whatever or otherwise I will be completely underpowered.

Also, for me at least, the difficulty is in the fact that rather early on you get the following:

a) an alien that can clone itself and teleport without triggering overwatch
b) the snake aliens whose tongue has a long reach, never misses, and wholly incapacitates the soldier while in the snake's grip
c) sectoids who can mind control AND animate the dead and control both at the same time
d) constant incursions against you that you can't delay for a day at the very least. This gets annoying when you are 1 day away from completing research on something important that could help make things slightly easier.
e) missions where you 8-12 turns to do something so no playing defense but you get to be swarmed with hostiles all over the place who rarely miss.

I played XCOM 1 on Normal and it was a different ballgame.

I find the best route for XCOM2 is to research and buy items to buff your soldiers such as armors and addons. The Soldier survivability is pretty important because once you loose half your team in a mission it becomes very hard to finish it with just 2 guys left. (upgrade the squad number at some point also I guess).

Why are so many people complaining about difficulty of XCOM 2? It's really not that hard, especially on normal difficulty.

Maybe I am just daft at these things but XCOM2 makes me feel like I have to rush towards everything. I get that there is a time limit (the Avatar project) and that the XCOM group is not the same as it was in the previous game but I still feel like I have to go towards a certain path in research or whatever or otherwise I will be completely underpowered.

Exactly, which is why mods are a must-have for me. I didn't like some of the changes they made from EU/EW, so I need my mods to make the gameplay enjoyable again.

For those timed missions I got the mod that only allows the timer to tick down once spotted, so you could move in and surround the target before it even started to tick down. Still was hard but made some sense?