best vanilla mod

[Kaiser ☻™]

I have openXcom, what other mods are good to have or overhaul vanilla mod? I am somewhat new to xcom but have seen tons of gameplay

[Mumblez]

Vanillla mod is a BIT of an oxymoron, but I think I know what you mean.

I'd say Final mod pack, OR hardmode expansion depending on your taste. Both are generally in the vein of "vanilla but more". FMP has more content, aliens, guns, ect, while hardmode expansion makes a lot of the game much harder.

[3 Ducks In a Man Suit]

Xcom Files is really great; it contains the entire original xcom and tftd campaigns within it but also adds a bunch of additional enemy factions and storylines and massively increases the length of the game.

You start out as a much smaller organization, sending out pairs of agents in cars armed with handguns to investigate cropcircles/contain zombie outbreaks/capture or kill dangerous cultists/silence witnesses etc. then eventually progress to become a much larger paramilitary organization.

If you like 40k, the Rosigma mod is really great too.