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What is a reaper

I think I know what happened with the reaper not being spotted by the assassin there was no way the assassin couldn’t have seen him so there’s only one explanation because she was invisible it’s possible her character model wasn’t rendered into the map therefore wasn’t capable of spotting anything till after she’s revealed

This is the perfect example of why the hunter is not only the weakest chosen but worth less then potentially even the regular advent troopers in the standby phases the hunter either 1 grapples and moves and does nothing or does the very easy to avoid tracking mark effectively doing nothing to apply pressure compared to the assassin near immediately dashing to your location and the warlock summoning guys every other turn he doesn’t do much at all in comparison and his combat phase ain’t much of an improvement he just does standard sniper stuff sniper rifle and pistol shots and the only thing unique about it is that they apply bleed which is the weakest damage over time effect in the game not only can it not outright kill your guys it takes a long time for it to kill you over time in fact like snipers and unlike the other chosen there’s a not insignificant chance that the main weapon will just straight up miss none of the other chosen have that problem the warlock mains it’s psionic attacks and the assassin’s blade never misses and speaking of those 2 they can daze potentially half of your squad using there abilities and the hunter doesn’t even get that what were they thinking designing the hunter

Forgot how insanely OP Templars are in the base game compared to their heavily nerfed version in Long War of the Chosen. THey're still good there, mind you, just... not as insanely broken.

I can tell that your color coding your classes in there attire not much for cosmetics eh

Not going to mention the fact that you ended the mission without being able to pick up that item does it mean anything or does it not matter

If you play legendary the spark is too expensive to upgrade fast enough. Its only for casual players imo.

I had a map with only MEC & Codex patrols, on a convoy raid. Two pods without firing a shot, from stealth. Oh how I love that ability.

I never really liked sharpshooters myself, one time I had three of them on a squad because everyone else was wounded and since I avoided playing as them they were low leveled, that was a rough mission

Deadeye is there so you erase Sectopods and Mechs. If the regular accuracy goes above 100% (which most of the time does with sharpshooter since they have the highest accuracy of any class in the game), with some attachments and covert op bonuses, you can have a ~90% chance with deadeye at later levels. Wish I had my screenshot where my sniper's Deadeye crit netted a 32 damage against a Sectopod, it was awesome.

Yeah, It was literally my third mission playing X-Com 2 for my FIRST TIME. I had no idea it is a DLC. After like 4h and lots and lots of reloads i managed to finish it with everyone at either one or 2 HP left. Oh, and i did not notice that Shens abillities do not have a limited use until Julian fight... yeah, it was fun.

If the aliens heard true voice it'd be over, no more secret intel

Question: why does sometimes sharpshooters use pistol when clearly shooting longrange, is it because of the type of cover?

Restoration is kinda useless I'd rather just get cd

Target dev for the assassin

28:36 So do you just not bother with bonds at all? Why'd you send the ranger without a bond with Alexsandr instead of the one that did?

First time playing Xcom ever was xcom 2 collection. "Guy with sword, in gun game? Never gonna work" 2 play throughs in, "I think I'll do a play through using only templar, rangers and 2 specialists"

It's a shame you don't make videos anymore. It was very interesting and I learned a few things.

I know you probably don't make videos and won't reply to this coment, but you missed the fact that a ranger with bladestorm and the chosens katana can for example solo an andromedon and a good ranger can kill 10+ enemies in a single turn, take for example: you shot a granade at a group of enemies and activate reaper, you can just go to each one and kill them, and if you accidently find new enemies you're soldiers can shot u the rest and the ranger can just cut trough them + if you have High mobility and dodge you can run trough Anything and simply cut trough + if There is an advent trooper with 12 health and you deal 6 damage a hit you can just cut him once and bladestorm him the next turn + if you have untochable with impacarable you can run to an enemy soldier kill them and run to other enemy soldier and kill them the next turn with a bladestorm (i Beat xcom 2 on legendary with a team containing: 4 rangers, 1 sniper and 1 heavy) in my opinion the ranger is the top class and takes the throne [ BTW no hate towards you and i like seing that some xcom content creators existed❤️]

Here's how to build a SPARK in terms of skills: - spend these XCOM points you keep hoarding and unlock EVERYTHING. It's points well spent, making it incredibly durable and flexible in action. Plus as the video points SPARK units have no downtime between missions (even if damaged) so it's a reliable fighter that will be available at will as much as you want

Actually annihilate works great with repeater. Having 20% change to execute a target it is quite likely you'll get a 2 or more kills

Don't underestimate Guardian ability, if your Specialist has somewhat decent aim including Cool under pressure he can be a monster during overwatch. I've had my Specialist shoot 4 times during the enemy's turn.

Sharpshooter is very weak early on, you need a lot of investment in him, but it's totally worth it when he starts getting 80%+ aim across the map. Always give him superior scope and Perception.

on a note about Homing Mine: make sure the enemy you put it one isn't going near a Ranger, Templar or Skirmisher with a Bladestorm Ability. it doesn't end well

How you doin mate?

I love Sparks

Sacrifice should be changed so that when it dies it just powers off and isnt useable for the rest of the match not making it kia

Good tutorial, very helpful tips. The electronic text-to-voice makes a lot of things funnier for some reason, like the "Now we have two Troopers remaining but only one grenade." comment.

Just a note for anyone finding this video, he doesn't explain that you can chain kills on the lost. That's why you see multiple soldiers kill 2-3 lost in one turn. This makes the lost MUCH easier to deal with, and the only drawback is ammo consumption. Keep this in mind.

My main templar went on covert ops so he could get a shitton of will and health, and I'd use him as a psychic wrecking ball. He had a mindshield for most of his service but I swapped it out for the Hellweave later down the line. Bonus Fun Fact: The Feedback resistance order only triggers if the psi-attack if it doesn't take control of the target

It should be noted that gremlin upgrades also improve aid protocol and hacking protocol. It increases the defense buff and shutdown/control duration respectively

Hate fake robo speech. Almost subbed. Damn

An extremely niche use for Suppression that I’ve found is locking down Gatekeepers. If you suppress one, it just keeps cycling it’s offensive and defensive stances, before ending it’s turn. I doubt it’s intentional, but it saved my squad in a pinch

i expected everyone does this mission with base weapons i just have Shen carry super hard 😅

A very useful interaction for the Avenger attack missions (whether the UFO or the chosen ones) is that you can combine the stealth of the Reapers with the platoon view of a sniper and destroy the beacon from the starting point.

Nope. That voice can go into the trash.

Thank you

Channelling field plus specialist tier 3 aid protocol make that enemy miss the spark it also help when your spark is the target to get shot by literally everyone. Because of that if it your turn you can practically one shot some late game enemy

Covering fire is useful when together with ever vigilant because if you move your specialist to dashing you can have a survival chance and also help mitigate chance's allies taking damage because even with the penalty enemies that can be killed in a single shot trying to attack will die. So even tho the chances is low it better than nothing plus advent officer have their abilities to marked so troopers have a good chances to hit their shot and shooting them first before they shot a marked allies and risk taking damage is a good thing also if you have a specialist with superior scope it become the chance of hitting like you normally would when shooting

The devs seem to have over estimated the power of the skirmisher’s single-use-per-mission abilities. Some of them would be pretty eeeh if they just had a cooldown. Having one measly charge on Interrupt sucks. Manual Override is the one ability where having a single charge could have allowed it to be cool. If it was a free action that reset all your cooldowns to 0 with a single charge, it would be much better.

Nice guide. I usually pick up Heavy Ordinance at the same time as Holo Targeting, with saved AP. Being able to use double frost bombs and a frag/plasma or the other way around is too good to pass up. (Or have two ‘nades and experimental ammo, mimic beacons or whatever)

I just recently reinstalled XCOM 2, my favourite game, and immediately revisited all your videos. Incredible, precise and well edited work, my friend.

this TTS voice has more humanity in it than some people do

I've been meaning to ask this for a while, what is the mod you use that let's you see a pod activation indicator on the tiles ?

Thanks for the guides, I always return to your vid’s whenever I play xcom

Old video but the first source after 45m of googling that had the charge amount and if it restocks on the bomb volleyball/repair buddy skills. TY for that!!!

They forgot to nerf bladestorm in wotc because with blade master you can insta kill the lost

nice guide, just like the rest

nice, thanks

Templar is my favorite class in the game. But they have a big drawback and that is they only become good after they have a bunch of levels. Early game they suck because they are a one trick pony (rend/parry) that can pull an extra pod and wipe your team. Unfortunately the early game is the hardest part by far of any campaign and by the time the Templar naturally comes online you don't need him anymore as you are stomping everything anyway. They are similar to the sniper variant of the sharpshooter in that they rule the late game but people tend to not use them because with or without them late game you have it easy anyway. The most valued classes are the ones that pull you through the early game - rangers, grenadiers and reapers. Templar might be the strongest class in the game but it's strongest when it doesn't matter anymore. The trick I use for playing a Templar is to promote him via the Resistance Ring as often as possible and don't bring him on difficult missions early. If he gets Bladestorm early as a additional skill he is great for Ring missions with a ambush chance as he is guaranteed three hits on the reinforcement pod if you park him right on the red dot and he can deal with the rest of the enemies and the lost basically all by himself. The lost die to Bladestorm (all lost in the ring missions are normal no brutes or dashers so they have low hp and are one shot by Bladestorm) and rend/parry takes care of the rest of the aliens since they are all single unit pods. Once Mutons show up this doesn't work anymore so be aware of that. If you manage to speed promote your Templar to major you are going to have a good time and he is going to be a big help during the second difficult phase of the campaign - late middle game - when your troops are not yet high level but the enemies become elite, the avenger defense/avatar management missions start popping up which tire/wound your soldiers and can cause a death spiral that ends your campaign. This strategy has great synergy with researching powered armor first before plasma lance or even plasma weapons altogether. While it is tempting to go for the damage the problem is the aliens will get a very big boost in health/damage around that time and upgraded weapons alone won't cut them down fast enough to clear a pod in one turn. For that you need plasma and high level troops and you won't have those for a while. Getting the armor first is what I do and it saved my ass many, many times. P.S. All this advice is for Legend difficulty. The game is a joke on everything else. Also if you don't get Bladestorm on your Templar use him as a mimic beacon and wait for the ring to give you another one. It literally doubles his single target damage in most cases, it's way to good to not have it on him.