Facilities (Long War)

HQ facilities

The XCOM Headquarters is made up of numerous facilities that are responsible for managing and supplementing the base's important strategic and research functions. The headquarters in Long War are mostly the same as in vanilla, with pretty much every facility performing the same or a similar function as in vanilla.

When needed, facilities can be built more quickly than normal, by selecting the option when building the facility. This will cause the facility to cost considerably more cash and some Meld.

The XCOM Headquarters, often referred to as the "Ant Farm", due to it's side view, is separated in two sections. The top half of the base consists of static facilities that are already available at the start of the game and are the same for every individual game. The bottom half of the base starts out mostly empty, with room to build various facilities, once enough space has been excavated.

Static facilities

The top half of the base contains several crucial facilities that are automatically available from the start of the game, and remain static throughout the game.

Mission Control

The focus of XCOM engagement. Features a rotating hologram of Earth (referred to by Bradford as a 'hologlobe'). In this room you can scan for incoming alien contacts through XCOM's satellite network (allowing for the passage of time), and missions can be launched from here.

Research Labs

The research team, headed by Dr. Vahlen, can be found in this location. The laboratory allows players to research upgrades and can be improved to increase research speed. In this room players can also peruse the research archives, detailing previously completed projects.

Engineering

This facility, managed by Dr. Shen, allows players to build a wide variety of items that have been researched by the scientists in the labs or designed by the engineers in the Foundry.

Barracks

In the Barracks, players can manage their soldiers, including equipping and customizing the troops, managing their skills and hiring new soldiers. There is also a Memorial Wall dedicated to those who have lost their lives in the line of duty. Players can also access the Officer Training School and the Psionic Labs through the Barracks.

Hangar

The Hangar allows players to manage their aircraft, including purchasing new Interceptors, transferring craft between continents, and changing their weapon load-outs.

Situation Room

The Situation Room has two primary uses. The first is monitoring the panic levels the individual nations of The Council and launching satellites to help mitigate that panic and provide additional coverage against alien UFOs. The second is managing XCOM's finances and resources; in the Situation Room you can see your monthly expenditures and incomes, sell items via the Gray Market, and review any Pending Requests from The Council.

Additional facilities

Dozens of additional facilities can be purchased and built into player bases, bestowing certain benefits. These locations are housed in the base underneath the existing static locations. Most cave locations will require excavation before new facilities can be built in them.

Most of these facilities grant an adjacency bonus, giving nearby rooms of the same type particular benefits, such as rebates on building materials or increased power from power generators. Rooms in the same category give these bonuses, so placing a Satellite Nexus next to a Satellite Uplink will grant a bonus. It's also worth noting that these bonuses go both left and right and up and down, so the most efficient placement for four facilities that can grant bonuses with each other would be putting them into a square shape.

Each of these additional facilities require maintenance, which costs a fixed amount each month. The maintenance cost can be reduced by employing additional engineers. With limited resources, players will be unable to build all available facilities simultaneously.

Adjacency type: When 2 facilities with the same adjacency type are build adjacent to each other (either horizontal or vertical), you gain the adjacency bonus in addition to the bonus from both facilities. Each facility can provide the adjacency bonus more than once. A line of 3 facilities provides the adjacency bonus twice. A block of 2x2 facilities provides the adjacency bonus 4 times. A block of 3x2 facilities provides the adjacency bonus 7 times.

Upkeep: The cash part of the upkeep is paid for at the start of each month, during The Council Report. The power part of the upkeep is a continuous requirement. You cannot build any new facilities if that would cause the total amount of power required for all your facilities to exceed the total amount of power generated.

Build Quickly: Facilities can be build quickly, which increases the cost by 50% (cash, Alloys and Elerium) and 10 Meld, but halves the duration.

Base Facilities (Long War)
Image	Name	Effect	Adjacency type	Prerequisites		Cost				Upkeep
					Other						Power
	Access Lift	Must be built in the center column. Each base level requires an Access Lift before excavations and other constructions may be performed at that base level.	None	None	None	100	0	0	7	5	1
	Laboratory	Increases research speed by 20%.	Laboratory (+10% research speed)	None	10 scientists per Laboratory	200	0	0	21	30	4
	Genetics Lab	Allows Soldiers to be Genetically modified.	Laboratory (+10% research speed)	Xenogenetics	None	200	0	0	18	30	4
	Psionic Labs	Allows Soldiers to discover and develop latent Psionic abilities.	Laboratory (+10% research speed)	Xenopsionics	None	250	0	10	18	25	6
	Officer Training School	Unlocks increases to squad size and Officer training programs.	None	None	1 Soldier at Corporal rank	200	0	0	7	10	1
	Workshop	Reduces item cost by 10% and gives a 10% refund on materials. Multiple workshops Workshops have diminishing returns and discounts and refunds cannot exceed 50%.	Workshop (+5% discount/refund)	None	10 engineers per Workshop	200	0	0	21	30	4
	Foundry	Allows the research of Foundry projects.	Workshop (+5% discount/refund)	None	None	200	0	0	18	25	6
	Cybernetics Lab	Allows the production of Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuits, and allows Soldiers to be augmented into MEC Troopers to wear them.	Workshop (+5% discount/refund)	Alien Biocybernetics	None	300	0	0	21	35	6
Image	Name	Effect	Adjacency type	Prerequisites		Cost				Upkeep
					Other						Power
	Fission Generator	Supplies 8 power, which is needed to run new facilities.	Power Generator (+3 power)	None	None	120	0	0	10	20	0
	Thermo Generator	Power Generators supply the power needed to run new facilities. Supplies 25 power, but must be built over steam vents.	Power Generator (+3 power)	None	None	350	0	0	21	35	0
	Elerium Generator	Power Generators supply the power needed to run new facilities. Supplies 35 power.	Power Generator (+3 power)	Alien Power Systems	None	400	30	30	25	25	0
	Alien Containment	Provides a secure environment to house the Alien captives, allowing you to interrogate them in the Labs. Without an Alien Containment, Aliens captured with an Arc Thrower will be killed.	None	Xenobiology	None	200	10	0	14	30	10
	Satellite Uplink	Allows a team of engineers to monitor the transmissions from 1 XCOM satellite, increasing the maximum amount of satellites in orbit by 1.	Satellite Uplink (+1 maximum satellites)	None	10 engineers per Satellite Uplink + 20 engineers per Satellite Nexus	200	0	0	21	20	8
	Satellite Nexus	Allows a team of engineers to monitor the transmissions from 2 XCOM satellites, increasing the maximum amount of satellites in orbit by 2. Costs an UFO Flight Computer in addition to the other costs.	Satellite Uplink (+1 maximum satellites)	Alien Computers	10 engineers per Satellite Uplink + 20 engineers per Satellite Nexus	300	25	10	21	30	12
	Hyperwave Relay	Allows the detection of Special UFOs, and shows extended information about UFOs when they are detected.	None	Alien Communications	None	600	50	30	28	100	15
	Gollop Chamber	Allows a Psionic Soldier to use the Ethereal Device, which unlocks the Temple Ship Assault mission.	None	Alien Command and Control	Ethereal Device	1000	50	30	28	200	35