Xcom dlc

[PhilBowles]

Several sites have reported that new DLC appears likely from the ten achievements added to Steam for this game:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/17/achievements-hint-at-upcoming-xcom-dlc-possible-spoilers/

I wonder what form this DLC is likely to take based on these clues? With the tenuous evidence of some names, I've seen suggestions that it relates to Terror from the Deep, but 10 achievements seems too few for a campaign and there's no way they'd release a brand-name campaign while the main game is still in its honeymoon period, since they can make more money marketing it as an expansion (plus a campaign would take a lot of work to put together).

I suspect this is a new scenario-based play mode, probably available for both single and multiplayer. It sounds as though missions have fixed names, and they're described in the achievements as "challenges".

This could be quite interesting depending on how it's done.

 

[Maniacal]

We have an X-Com thread for this... http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=450739

 

[GoodGame]

Deluge makes me think of HALO. I wonder if they will have a mission to a disc-world or something, inhabited by collectivist aliens.

 

[sherbz]

Any chance someone can post up the achievements? Us poor souls who work in an offcie with an over zealous internet filter can not see anything from any website that has the word "game" in it.

 

[PhilBowles]

Any chance someone can post up the achievements? Us poor souls who work in an offcie with an over zealous internet filter can not see anything from any website that has the word "game" in it.

I'm now wondering if this isn't a series of separate challenges but a completion of the "Second Wave" mode originally planned for the game, which apparently was intended to include a longer campaign. If there are six additional story missions (with the usual intervening UFO missions, abductions, terror and Council missions), that would definitely tie with that, and this achievement list has been released so soon after the game that it makes sense that it will make use of files that were already partially complete. Also, one achievement says "Take your new ally into the final challenge", which could well refer to the final campaign mission. And "Have your new ally volunteer for the most difficult duty" is accompanied by an image that resembles the final Volunteer cutscene in the campaign.

If that's the case, I wonder if this is intended as additional DLC or as patch content?

 

[JtheJackal]

Deluge looks like it has to do with a dam based on those images

 

[PhilBowles]

Deluge looks like it has to do with a dam based on those images

I actually wonder if that one may form a subplot with the VIP mission where you rescue someone who's been investigating the water supply. If the longer version of the campaign - which I still suspect these likely relate to - had intended to make the VIP missions relevant (they don't even count against your score when you fail them, as I found out when having the VIP killed in one mission), that would be great.