If you sat there and passed time, all these things would happily go on under the hood until you eventually lost the game and got carted away to be turned into Advent burger.
The important thing to remember is that Advent are running their campaign irrespective of what the player does missions are being generated throughout the world, troops are being moved around and the Avatar project is being researched. This where the meat of the changes occur, with the infiltration mechanics especially being a key to getting winnable missions. So here’s a dump of all my hard-won experience it might help you survive a few months longer…. There were loads of things I’d wish I’d known before I started that would either have made it easier or made some of the choices I was making clearer. Lots of failure and knuckle-biting near misses meant it’s taken me a while to win a campaign.
All that experience didn’t make winning at Long War 2 (a semi-official full-conversion mod for the game) any easier though.
I love XCOM 2 and have got pretty good at it over the years.
