These appear in missions set in abandoned cities and are attracted by explosions and gunfire. Effectively zombies, the Lost are humans adversely affected by those green alien pods dropped all over the globe at the start of Enemy Unknown. There are also new ADVENT troop types (including a flamethrower soldier and one with psi abilities) and a new, neutral faction called the Lost. This has a whiff of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System, a great game mechanic I'm surprised more titles haven't stolen. With the help of the new rebel factions, however, you can also track down each Chosen's lair, eventually mounting an assault to finish them off once and for all. Fail to do so and they become stronger, eventually amassing enough knowledge to assault the Avenger directly. Defeat the Chosen and they gain weaknesses (such as a fear of explosives or greater vulnerability to snipers). The Chosen can be driven off (but not killed, yet) and they can also achieve their own objectives (usually knocking one of your troops out and scanning them to learn clues to tracking down the Avenger, XCOM's mobile headquarters). Doing missions in one of those regions can see the Chosen intervening in the battle, giving you a mini-boss to fight. There are now 3 powerful special alien characters who are each given control of one-third of the globe. The aliens, of course, can also bring more friends to the party. The factions are also fun in the sense that they had distinct characters to the game, voiced by veterans of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The rewards - more intel, more Resistance contacts (allowing you to contact new regions without having to build more comm rooms) and even sabotaging the Avatar Project - are impressive and powerful.
These operations also allow you to level up your soldiers outside of the traditional missions. Winning the trust of each faction requires some work on the map screen, and in turn getting their support means you can aid them through covert actions, joint operations where XCOM and the factions work alongside one another in off-screen adventures. The original generic Resistance faction has now split into three distinct groups you can ally with: the Reapers, an elite squad of ninja-like sharpshooters the Skirmishers, a group of ADVENT soldiers who have escaped alien control and rebelled and the Templars, a group of humans who have embraced the aliens' psionic powers. War of the Chosen certainly solves the biggest problem by giving you much more to do on the world map.
This left XCOM 2 as being a huge step forward over its predecessor in one area and a huge step back in another. However, the strategic metagame was messier, less focused and less interesting than that of the original game. The turn-based combat section of the game was altogether more polished, more interesting, more varied and just plain more fun than that of the original game and its expansion. The vanilla edition of XCOM 2, released in 2016, was a fine game but also a slightly frustrating one. In this game's case, it was more sorely needed. Just as XCOM: Enemy Within (2013) completely updated and revised XCOM: Enemy Unknown(2012), improving every element of the game until it shone to perfection, so War of the Chosen attempts to do the same thing for XCOM 2. War of the Chosen is a huge expansion for the strategy game XCOM 2.
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