Classes (Bureau)

There are 4 classes of agents available on The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, plus Carter, which belongs to a unique class (Leader). Each class has 5 levels of abilities, with the player choosing between two abilities in some cases.

• Commando

Commandos are your main combat class. They use regular rifles as weapons and have the highest durability of any class.

m14 rifle, laser smg, laser pulser rifle, rotary plasma cannon

Rank	Ability Tree 1		Ability Tree 2
Level 1	Deniable Ops		Taunt Commando insults targeted alien, drawing them out of cover.
Level 2	Pulse Wave Commando unleashes a wall of TK, causing damage, and shoving them out of cover if applicable. Lighter enemies stumble for a significant amount of time.
Level 3	Tunnel Vision Damage bonus to Taunted enemies.	Machine Gunner	Endurance Adds another bar of health.
Level 4	Personal Shield Casts one shield, can be used on Carter or either other Agent.	Plasma Field AoE attack: continuous damage to any alien that is inside or enters the Plasma field. Does not affect XCOM Agents.	Resilience
Level 5	Peak Conditioning Adds another bar of health.	Wave Amplification Increases damage from Pulse Wave.

• Engineer

Engineers are a class that mainly focuses on battlefield control. They use shotguns as weapons. Their Mine-laying ability can be used to "prep the field" before ambushes, if you know one is coming up after activating a panel or door: you can lay down up to 6 mines (spread them out), then activate the alien ambushes, softening the attackers.

m1897 shotgun, scatter laser, plasma assault cannon

Rank	Ability Tree 1		Ability Tree 2
Level 1	Grease Monkey		Scatter Engineer throws a device which causes burning irritation in enemies, forcing them to leave cover.
Level 2	Mine Engineer throws a proximity mine that will remain untill detonated. Does not affect XCOM Agents.		Endurance
Level 3	Demolitions Expert Decreases cooldown on Mine ability.	Shotgunner
Level 4	Rocket Turret Deploys turret that slowly shoots slow-moving but powerful Plasma shots.	Gun Turret Deploys turrent that rapid-fires mid-strength laser shots.	Endurance
Level 5	Fortified Turrets Turrets deploy with shields.	Monkeywrench Increases damage against Mechanical targets.	Heavy Metals

• Recon

m1903-a4 Sniper rile, plasma sniper rifle

Recon are your anti-personnel soldiers. They use sniper rifles, with abilities focusing on hitting enemies hard and on being able to get into good flanking positions. A feature of the Critial Strike ability is that is effectively "terrain-peircing": a targeted enemy will be hit, regardless of location, or intermediary objects.

Rank	Ability Tree 1		Ability Tree 2
Level 1	Endurance Training		Critical Strike Recon Agent focuses to perform a powerful Headshot for a guaranteed critical hit.
Level 2	Hard to Kill	Sniper	Eagle Eye
Level 3	Cloak Makes agent invisible for a time.	Diversion Recon casts a holographic image, in a manner similar to a turret (including having independent "hit points"). Diversion causes no damage. It is not subjected to Cover rules, so aliens attacks will prioritize it.	Endurance Adds another bar of health.
Level 4	Crack Shot Reduces cooldown on Critical Strike.	Armor Piercer Critical Strike now does heavy damage to armor and shields.
Level 5	Fire Mission AoE Attack. Calls down an artillery strike that damages friend and foe alike.

• Support

Support class soldiers wield pistols, and focus mostly on defense and improving your other squad members.

z-62 machine pistol, laser pistol, heavy plasma pistol

Rank	Ability Tree 1		Ability Tree 2
Level 1	Officer School		Combat Stims Grenade-like device: boosts defense and accuracy for allies.
Level 2	Shield Sphere A "shield grenade", it can either be used to cover agents directly, or be placed between agents and aliens to intercept shots.		Endurance Adds another bar of health.
Level 3	Disrupt	Weaken
Level 4	Medical Breakthrough	Guardian Angel Agent takes greatly reduced damage while on a Revive order.	Helping Hand Reduces all ability cooldowns for entire squad.
Level 5	Savior Greatly increases bleed-out time for units in squad.	Mirror Shield Sphere now reflects shots to attackers.	Endurance Adds another bar of health.