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This video is unavailable. If XCOM chooses the right country, a base assault mission becomes available to eliminate the threat once and for all. A successful Covert Operations mission lowers the panic level in the country it takes place in. This can be a useful method of lowering panic if the player has not yet developed the resources to launch a large number of satellites. Its about 90-110 hours for a Long War 2 campaign, from start to finish. This includes only one campaign attempt, but most people end up restarting multiple campaigns as they learn the LW2 mechanics. Tags: guide long war 2 LW2 strategy xcom 2. Saving the world ain't easy. It takes strategy, preparation, determination and more than a little luck. So don't be thinking you can just fire up XCOM: Enemy Unknown and see alien corpses.

I have started 67 XCom 2 campaigns. I have won 2, lost 1 and aborted 63. Probably 40 of the aborted campaigns were abandoned in-mission during Gatecrasher after suffering unacceptable losses (not wanting to start campaign behind the 8-ball).

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That leaves about 20-25 campaigns where I finished Gatecrasher and got back to the Avenger. Of those, my starting region has been in North America twice and Africa once. Every other time I have started in Asia, more often than not in New Artic. I have never once had a starting region in Europe, South America or Oceana.
Is this by design?