Council members without satellite coverage grant 50% of their maximum funding.Council members with satellite coverage grant 110% of their maximum funding.More elerium is recovered from UFO Power Sources.UFO missions grant 40% more Alien alloys.More weapon fragments are recovered after missions.Drones, Floaters, and Heavy Floaters have -5 defense.Aliens also advance their research faster, granting them extra abilities, stats and stronger alien types earlier in the game. In general, higher difficulties cause you to have less resources at your disposal, while there are stronger and more numerous Aliens present on tactical missions. There will be a lot of UFOs to assault, so if you don't shoot some down or fail to assault them there will be many more. You're expected to have dozens of soldiers on your roster, so losing your highest ranked sniper isn't the end of the world. You can get countries back if you lose them and you can keep fighting as long as even one country supports you. Take heart though, Long War is balanced around winning some and losing some. You can and will see Supply Ships and Battleships in March or April and you're not intended to beat them.
You are not intended to win every mission, and in fact if you do you'll have a very imbalanced game. I'm having to save and load lots to win all my missions
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The other difficulties are just harder versions of Normal feel free to move up when you get a handle on all the new mechanics.
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