The Council (Long War)
In Long War you receive funding from all countries at the start of the game, regardless of whether you have satellite coverage or not. Their funding will increase if you give them satellite coverage, but establishing satellite coverage is no longer as important for your income as it is in vanilla. If a country leaves the project it will cease funding you.
On the other hand, having satellite coverage now gives you tangible bonuses under the form of one starting bonus and many satellite coverage bonuses. Also having full coverage over a continent grants a specific bonus, much like in vanilla, but the bonuses have been shuffled around and changed.
Continent-wide bonuses
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| North America | Air Superiority | Aircraft and aircraft weapons cost 25% less to purchase and maintain. |
| South America | Power to the People | Power facilities cost 30% less to build and maintain. |
| Asia | New Warfare | Foundry projects have cash, alloy and elerium cost reduced by 25% percent. |
| Africa | Architects of the Future | Laboratories and Workshops cost 30% less to build and maintain. |
| Europe | Wealth of Nations | Monthly XCOM funding increased by 20%. |
- Unlike the vanilla game, in Long War you no longer acquire your starting continent's bonus from the start. To acquire any bonus you require full satellite coverage of said continent.
Country starting bonuses
Hence beta 15, the XCOM newly commissioned commander can chose the country where the primary base will be built. This choice entails a certain starting bonus, or not, depending on your choice. This bonus does not stack with the satellite coverage bonuses from the same country. Currently most starting countries have 2 or more starting bonuses to chose form, giving you a wider replayability for future campaigns.
If you do not want to have a special starting bonus, you can chose On Our Own available for some starting countries.
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South America | Patriae Semper Vigilis | All soldiers receive +5 will. | ||||
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Asia | Per Ardua Ad Astra | All soldiers receive +5 ability points for stat rolls upon recruitment. | ||||
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South America | Jungle Scouts | Early armors (Tac Vest and Tac, Kestrel, Phalanx and Aurora Armors) receive an additional small item slot until Tactical Rigging is developed. | ||||
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South America | Expertise | +15% bonus to research credits from interrogations. | ||||
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South America | On Our Own | No unique bonus. | ||||
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North America | Advanced Preparations | XCOM HQ starts with a Laboratory and Workshop already built. | |
North America | Cadre | Start with four corporals in the barracks, one of each supraclass. |
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Asia | Wei Renmin Fuwu | Start with a Workshop and Repair Bay already built. | ||||
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Asia | Xenological Remedies | 100% bonus cash from alien corpse and wreck sales. | ||||
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Asia | Deus Ex | 50% reduction in genemod meld and cash cost and modification time. | ||||
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Africa | Gift of Osiris | Fatigue from psi powers, genemods and officer ranks reduced by 50%. | ||||
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Africa | For the Sake of Glory | Start with Advanced Repair foundry project, which grants faster repair time for aircraft, mechanized units and damaged soldier gear. | ||||
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Europe | Quai d'Orsay | Country item requests occur 40% faster; fulfilled requests provide 40% additional defense, and intel scans cost 40% less. | ||||
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Europe | Foreign Legion | Start with 20 additional soldiers in the barracks. | ||||
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Europe | Skunkworks | XCOM HQ starts with the Foundry already built. | ||||
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Europe | Baumeister | Facility construction time reduced by 33%. | ||||
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Europe | NeoPanzers | 50% reduction in cash, alloy and elerium required for MEC and SHIV primary weapons. | ||||
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Europe | On Our Own | No unique bonus. | ||||
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Asia | Jai Jawan | Start with 2 additional interceptors in your home base and Elerium Afterburners foundry project, granting extended interception time. | ||||
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Asia | Ring of Fire | XCOM HQ has 3 additional Steam Vents. | ||||
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Asia | Ghost In the Machine | SHIVs receive +10 aim, and you start the campaign with two SHIVs in the barracks. | ||||
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Asia | Kiryu-Kai Commander | Start with a Master Sergeant of a random class on your roster. | ||||
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Asia | Robotics | +5 bonus aim for new SHIVs and MEC troopers. | ||||
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Asia | On Our Own | No unique bonus. | ||||
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North America | Wealthy Benefactor | Start with 500 bonus cash. | ||||
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North America | Ancient Artifact | Start the campaign with an Illuminator Gunsight small item. | ||||
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North America | Legacy of Uxmal | 20% bonus to psionic training chances. | ||||
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Africa | Pax Nigeriana | All soldiers receive +1 mobility. | ||||
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Africa | The Old Path | 50% reduction in psi training time. | ||||
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Africa | On Our Own | No unique bonus. | ||||
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Europe | Sukhoi Company | Start with Enhanced Avionics foundry project, granting +10% to hit during air combat. | ||||
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Europe | Roscosmos | Start with an additional satellite uplink, and all satellites cost 50% less to build. | ||||
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Africa | Resourceful | Start with Alien Metallurgy and Advanced Salvage foundry projects (bonus alloys and weapon fragments). | ||||
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Africa | Survival Training | All soldiers receive +1 hit point. | ||||
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Europe | Special Air Service | All soldiers receive +3 aim. | ||||
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Europe | Their Finest Hour | Start with Penetrator Weapons foundry project, granting interceptor weapons increased armor piercing capabilities. | ||||
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Europe | Sandhurst | 33% reduction in ranks required to unlock Officer Training School projects. | ||||
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North America | Special Warfare School | Officer Training School Projects cost 90% less. | ||||
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North America | Cheyenne Mountain | XCOM HQ starts with all elevators already built, and excavation costs are reduced by 50%. | ||||
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North America | We Have Ways | 75% reduction in time to complete autopsies and interrogations. | ||||
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North America | On Our Own | No unique bonus. | ||||
Country satellite bonuses
These are secondary bonuses that you acquire by having a satellite orbit a country. Some of them have an identical effect with one of the starting bonuses for that country, but have a lesser impact as well.
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South America | +1 Engineer | Bounties | 20% bonus cash from abductions. |
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Asia | +1 Engineer | Army of the Southern Cross | +2 bonus aim for newly promoted gunners and rocketeers. |
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South America | +1 Scientist | Expertise | +10% bonus to research credits from interrogations. |
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North America | +1 Scientist | Task Force Arrowhead | +2 bonus will for new engineers and medics. |
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Asia | +1 Engineer | Xenological Remedies | 34% bonus cash from alien corpse and wreck sales. |
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Africa | +1 Engineer | Call to Arms | 25% reduction in fatigue from genemods. |
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Europe | +1 Scientist | Cyberware | 20% reduction in meld required for MEC primary weapons and tactical subsystems. |
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Europe | +1 Engineer | NeoPanzers | 15% reduction in cash, alloy and elerium required for MEC and SHIV primary weapons. |
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Asia | +1 Engineer | Jai Vidwan | +5% research bonus for each lab adjacency. |
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Asia | +1 Scientist | Robotics | +2 bonus aim for new SHIVs and MEC troopers. |
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North America | +1 Engineer | Legacy of Uxmal | 10% bonus to psionic training chances. |
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Africa | +1 Scientist | The Old Path | 20% reduction in psi training time. |
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Europe | +1 Scientist | Spetznaz | +1 bonus HP for new infantry and assault soldiers. |
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Africa | +1 Scientist | 1st Recce | +2 bonus defense for newly promoted snipers and scouts. |
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Europe | +1 Scientist | Cadre | 15% reduction in ranks required to unlock Officer Training School projects. |
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North America | +1 Scientist | We Have Ways | 25% reduction in time to complete autopsies and interrogations. |
Council interaction with Xcom
Panic works significantly differently. Panic is now a smooth continuum from 0 to 100, rather than 5 discrete levels. Rather than vanilla abductions, the aliens will mount missions to destabilize a country. This will happen regardless of whether you detect the UFO or not. Shooting down a UFO, or assaulting it on the ground if it lands will prevent it from completing its mission and panic won't increase. If you allow a UFO to complete its mission, even if you never saw it, panic will increase. This makes establishing satellite coverage important for panic control, since defending countries with no coverage is difficult.
Countries will frequently make requests of you for materials and resources, likely more than you can fulfill. By giving them these resources you will improve their ability to resist the aliens' influence on their own. The resistance level of a country is visible in the Council screen by the shield icon next to a country's panic level. It ranges from 0-100, with the amount filled determining the percentage chance that a country will 1) Reduce panic from any source by half, and 2) scramble satellite hunters, preventing them from locating a satellite over that country.
Unlike in the vanilla game, XCOM can continue fighting as long as a single country is still in the project. In the first few days of the game a single country will side with the aliens and leave the project, even though its panic level is low, this is normal. Countries that leave the project will have an alien base built in their borders, and assaulting that base will cause the country to come back to XCOM. Conversely, aliens with high resources can expend them to send overseer ships into countries following a scout and transport ship mission, taking the country instantly.
Funding
| Country Funding by Continent | ||||
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| North America | South America | Africa | Europe | Asia |
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| Normal | Classic | Brutal | Impossible |
| 50% | 40% | 33% | 25% |