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It also won the award for 'Best Expansion' in PC Gamer 's 2017 Game of the Year Awards and was nominated for 'Best Strategy Game' at The Game Awards 2017, and for 'Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year' at the 21st Annual D.I.C.E. Readers and staff of Game Informer voted it for 'Best Strategy Game'. For research, breakthroughs and inspirations are made to increase the speed that researchers work at, sometimes instantly being able to complete a project.Įurogamer ranked the game 46th on their list of the 'Top 50 Games of 2017', while Polygon ranked it 17th on their list of the 50 best games of 2017. Other new features include a revamped strategic layer and the 'Bond' system, in which pairs of soldiers develop special abilities that are accessible when both are deployed during a mission, and when bonded soldiers are killed, their partners enter temporarily in a 'berserk mode', ignoring orders but with a great boost in their stats. Each faction also provides covert ops missions in which soldiers can be deployed to obtain extra resources, delay the Avatar project, or gather info about the Chosen's strongholds, including other benefits. The game also introduces three rebel factions that antagonize each other, but grant special hero classes once their allegiance is earned the Reapers, specialized in sniping and stealth, the Templars, who developed unique psionic abilities and the Skirmishers, former ADVENT soldiers with exclusive equipment and tactics.
