What's the most terrifying thing that can happen to you? Cover is suddenly ripped out from you. 'Let's look at the foundation of XCOM,' DeAngelis proposed. Once combat does start, the increased destructibility of cover means that you’ll be in more danger-but some interesting tactical opportunities could also arise. You can do some unique stealth things with them.' We'll be able to push on that with some later-game abilities that we're not talking about yet. 'You want to turn the tide of battle and take out that first group as efficiently as possible, and then the alarms go off, and they know you're there,' DeAngelis adds. Some enemies will follow patrol routes, and you can remain hidden if you're behind full cover when an enemy looks in your direction and walks past. Instead, a smaller detection radius surrounding enemies allows you to sneak closer and assume advantageous positions without alerting them. They begin the mission in a state of concealment, which means enemy units aren't immediately hostile when they enter your line of sight.

Because XCOM is bringing down a corrupt alien-government alliance, your soldiers need to infiltrate enemy territory. One new system that isn’t based on stats is the concealment phase, which DeAngelis says allows the player to 'take on the role of the invader'. 'And we're going to release the gameplay source, so you can do partial edits to existing abilities and stats.' 'We're going to have Steam Workshop support, and the Unreal editor so you can do total content conversions,' says DeAngelis. But that customisation was limited, and now that XCOM 2 is PC-only, the modding support this time around is going to be more fully-featured.

Players of XCOM: Enemy Unknown have found ways to customise their soldiers’ stats in the form of gameplay mods. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

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