In XCOM 2, such a scenario is no longer possible. These weren't terribly realistic scenarios, sure, but they were possible. Or even back to Conventional, if you'd sold/lost all your Laser-tier weaponry and couldn't afford to build replacements of those! In the prior game, you could theoretically suffer a squad wipe, thus losing Plasma weapons your troops were carrying, and thus be set back to Laser weaponry until you captured/built replacement Plasma-tier weapons. This means that, even more so than the previous game, you're basically never going back a tier. That is, you start the game with unlimited copies of Conventional Rifles, and when you purchase Magnetic Rifles you suddenly have unlimited copies of those, too. (Ignoring DLC, anyway) Instead, unlocking a weapon type gives you free, unlimited copies of the base form of that type/tier. There can exist individual copies of weapons via the Weapon Attachment system, but you never pay for an individual weapon. Related to this, there's no individual production of weapons. Weapons in XCOM 2 have some key differences, compared to its predecessor.įirst of all, there is no capturing of weapons.
