Beat the game completely without Gene Mods

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I was playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown on Classic Ironman and so I want to do for XCOM: Enemy Within. Since the Genemodded Armor looks stupid I want to completely neglect gene modding my soldiers. Will doing it without gene-mods make the game much more difficult?

Best Answer

It should be fairly doable.

Note that you're already setting yourself up for the second most difficult challenge level, so I make no guarantees of your ultimate success, but consciously foregoing all gene mods should mean you have a nice supply of Meld to build your MECH troopers' battlesuits with.

Just bear in mind that as long as EXALT is a going concern you'll be fighting people who /do/ have gene mods on a regular basis.