Poll of the Day > Is it just me or is Xcom 2 much harder than the first game?

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I'm constantly having to reload because my people keep dying. I rarely had to reload in the first one.
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It's not just you, it's a much more difficult game than the first one.
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Goddamn it, my heavy guy just got unconscious and I can't do anything about it. He's like the only one that can do some serious damage to the giant robots. They should've gave an option to wake them up if you're adjacent to them. Jesus Christ, this game is frustrating.
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What difficulty you playing on? If you feel like the timer for missions is too short I thinkt there's an option to extend it by a few turns I think
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joemodda posted...

What difficulty you playing on? If you feel like the timer for missions is too short I thinkt there's an option to extend it by a few turns I think

I'm playing on the default difficulty, and I'm losing people and/or getting them injured very frequently. It just seems like the aliens do so much more damage and hit so much more frequently in this game than the first one. I played through the first game on the default difficulty with very few problems.
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I've had it with this game, I think I'll just break my personal rule of video games and go down to the easy difficulty. This game just broke me.
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It's supposed to be harder due to the plot, wouldn't make sense if you were decimating the aliens. Also you should stop reloading and maybe let some people die, the game has dynamic difficulty and gets harder/easier the better or worse you do. It also kind of goes agaisn't what the devs intended. You're not supposed to win every mission.
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Cruddy_horse posted...

It's supposed to be harder due to the plot, wouldn't make sense if you were decimating the aliens. Also you should stop reloading and maybe let some people die, the game has dynamic difficulty and gets harder/easier the better or worse you do. It also kind of goes agaisn't what the devs intended. You're not supposed to win every mission.

I'm not reloading every time someone dies, but when it gets to the point where almost everyone is either dead or injured and I have to take all rookies to the mission, that's a problem.
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