Current supplies and monthly supply income displayed on the top right of the screen
Supplies are a resource used as general currency in XCOM 2. Supplies have a wide range of uses, including:
- On the Avenger:
- Building, upgrading, and spending monthly upkeep for Avenger facilities
- Constructing equipment at the Engineering facility
- Purchasing Guerrilla Tactics School upgrades
- Producing Proving Ground projects
- Recruiting soldiers at the Armory
- Negating some Covert Actions risks
- On the Geoscape:
- Purchasing resources and staff at Resistance HQ (in vanilla XCOM 2 only)
- Building Radio Relays
The Avenger retrieving a monthly Resistance supply drop
The Resistance provides XCOM with a monthly supply drop on the Geoscape; XCOM can retrieve it by flying the Avenger to the drop location and scanning. The amount of supplies dropped is increased by contacting more regions, building Radio Relays, and in War of the Chosen by the Popular Support I and II Resistance Orders and by undertaking Helping Hand Covert Action. The amount of supplies given at the supply drop can be reduced by the ADVENT Rural Checkpoints Dark Event and by Chosen Brutal Crackdown actions against the resistance in regions.
Other sources of supplies include:
- On the Avenger:
- Clearing alien debris and alien machinery on the Avenger
- In War of the Chosen, the Supply Run Covert Action
- On the Geoscape:
- Scanning specific resistance rumors sites on the Geoscape
- Selling items at the Black Market
- Completing certain story progression missions
- On the missions:
- Supply Raid missions rewards
- Guerilla Ops mission rewards
- A hacking reward
- In War of the Chosen, opening loot chests on the missions with ADVENT Loot SITREP and contacting civilians on the missions with Resistance Contacts SITREP
XCOM starts the campaign with 175 supplies at all difficulty levels.