After my 1000+ hours in Xcom EW i am terribly afraid of german people, because each time they speak it sounds like they are gonna lecture me about not exploding the aliens
And then go on to conduct morally questionable experiments on aliens and create "rulers" who break out from the lab and massacre its personnel and anyone else who gets in the way.
I'm so glad I discovered your channel. I don't watch streams, but your edited challenge runs are great and this type of content is something I enjoy greatly as well. Keep up the great work!
pick you poison 1. commander you may want to instruct your man to exercise restraint when using explosive 2. Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar project.
I choose 1 every time. I hate the Avatar project bs timer. I just hate timers in general. Let me play the game at MY pace. I am playing the game to relax, not have more stress that I shouldn't have.
Man, I forgot just how CHUNKY this game is with its UI and weapons and everything. It feels so basic compared to XCOM2's aesthetic, but after spending so many hours with it, it's kind of nostalgic. Hell, that combat music is burned into my brain. It's cool seeing the elements introduced in XCOM1 and especially EW, and comparing them to how they were updated and refined in the sequel and WotC. Like instead of enemies just falling on your lap, they have the dropships with marked flares so you know just where and when reinforcements are about to pile on.
This was the first time I caught your streams, i only caught one and wasn’t there for long but I love your content so much. EW for all its issues has a special place in my heart
This is great content, i hate twitch so I can’t really watch live, and like 4-5 hour streams are too much of a commitment for me to to so casually, but I always love curated vids like yours. So it’s nice to have like a stream highlights sort of vid alongside scripted curated vids.
Vahlen's Speech about Explosives certainly triggered some flashbacks for me! Wish I could've been there for the streams but they're during the night for me so these videos are a blessing keep up the good work!
Yeah, I'm just at the moment, where you shot down the large UFO and I just want to remember you, that ship-upgrades are super strong. NEVER sleep on them ^^
Xcom EU/EW is really good, used to play it all the time and have sleepovers with my friend playing it. Great game! I’d download it and play it if you liked Xcom 2, I’m sure it’s not expensive
I bloody love this game to the point that I get it out every couple of months just to scratch that itch... must be closing in on a hundred "playthroughs" by now. Sure it's janky unrefined and a bit broken. But the joy of it is that it let's you make your squad broken too. Jetpacks, invisibility, four shot snipers, the mary-poppins grenade bag, the Max level offensive psychic power which is basically a rechargable tactical Nuke. The guided plasma rockets that hover over cover to blow up enemies. And of course S.H.I.Vs that start as portable walls but end up as cute little gunships floating around blasting aliens with a plasma cannon right in the face. I'm looking forward to Drifter's challenge videos so much.
So glad to find someone new for x-com vids and can’t wait to see some enemy within challenges can see them being so much harder then x-com 2 challenges
Main purpose of satelites is to cover all countries in region, not only granting bonus, but preventing like 90% of nasty alien abduction missions in this region. Therefore reducing its control only to air and terror. In theory if you cover 2/5 continents, you can keep panic from abductions from ever going over critical.
I feel your editing really improved as this video progressed. Good stuff. Maybe there's a balance to be struck between hindsight narration and in-the-moment reactions, but just stream highlights like this works really well too!
I love seeing darkhawk's fascination with the special punch animation haha. I don't mind this type of content in the least for the record! Keep grinding c:
The sequel improved on a number of things (not stability) but I just like that you aren't doing missions with a turn limit half the time in this one. Also the music in this one slaps
1:00:36 it's been a long time since I first played xcom ew but man I remember that mission so vividly from the first time. I didn't have Laser weapons unlocked and didn't know what I was getting myself into. Ended with zero casualties though because I played overly defensively. But man that was such an intense mission. Really wish xcom 2 had something similar. Here's hoping xcom 3 will.
@@lifefindsaway7875 What about stealth archers in Skyrim? Stealth in general is a very powerful tool, there is nothing different about how it is used in EW compared to any other game.
@@GeorgeMonet stealth is, indeed, a popular game mechanic. I’m making the assumption that they built off successful elements of the first game when designing the second game .
That glitch at the end is pretty common all you have to do is reload a save right before the fight and it fixes it. If the mutons are invisible it's glitched. Sucks if you don't know that and have to do the whole mission again because you never saved.
Fun fact: MECs would benefit greatly from a SHIV that has the repairing upgrade, as the SHIVs only need to wait out a timer to heal up a MEC or another SHIV.
I don't know if you're heard of XCOM ironman Impossible, but it was a series here where "Commander Beagle" played this game on Impossible difficulty with Ironman enabled. He had a legend on his team...Oakley, the worst sniper in existence. I wonder if she and Turk are related somehow XD
1:26:40 WAIT WHAT?!? Thats how teh mimic beacon works?!? I always though it was used to lure pods into overwatch i didnt know it worked on the activated units
Any thoughts on phoenix point? Recently played the game myself, it's pretty fun, especially the part where they remove all the percentage based combat bs. Although the geoscape part is a lot more tedious.
I'm pretty sure that the nanite technology you said it doesn't exist in xcom2 is what then led to the creation of the biotechnology used to create advent troopers. So, technically, it does exist in xcom2, just on the opposing side.
Not necessarily. There is no indication that the advent troopers are the product of anything but genetic engineering. Specifically manufacturing genetically engineered embryos to grow at an accelerated rate.
If the aliens have some kind of self-destruct device in their weapons, it would be cool to design a 'hacking' class ability that blows up aliens' guns without hurting the aliens (maybe a little dmg). and then the sectoids have to run at you with a knife or something.
There's a theory that Zhang dropped his handgun because he's a Heavy, and they don't use pistols. Or because VIPs in this game don't get weapons. In-universe, maybe that was his last bullet.
Wait, THAT'S what the the Mimic beacon does? I thought it would only attract enemies who aren't aware of you yet, so you could draw them into your overwatch position or something. That... didn't seem to do anything when I tried it, so I never bothered with these things again. I mean, why would aliens that already know we're there let themselves be distracted by some noises, right? Them actually attracting the enemies that are already in combat is so much better...
At 43:50 when that heavy took the double shot and missed that's why I rarely take bullet swarm because I swear it seems like the first shot is scripted to miss and the second follows the chance to hit. Prefer holotargeting now that I understand what it does. +10 is better than 2 shots where 1 always misses and second is based on hit chance. I'd rather take one shot based on hit chance and give everyone else an easier shot on the target. Only time I see bullet swarm work where both shots are 100% to hit
@@TheDriftersBroadcast it was weird. I played the game for the first time recently (after a few hundred hours in xcom 2) and had the game crash repeatedly during the end cinematic. It happens just after the ship explodes. No other problems, though, and it was really fun. I shouldn't have slept on ew for so long
oh wow... the way you build your base is really... satelly-galley 😅 thank you for the video, very nice run! you made me replay this game again. I already miss having a blade with my ranger. and that fishing village... I didn't know you could blow up the sharks. will use that in my gameplays!
This is a great video thanks drifter! Had many fun hours with EW. Have you tried xenonaughts? (Spelling maybe wrong) Be cool to see your thoughts on it ^^
I also got back on Enemy Within, got thin men on the second mission, I missed 6 times in a row with 50%, missed a 90% rocket launcher, while the Thin Man insta-killed 2 of my soldiers with a crit in half cover
Drinking game: take a shot on every use of "bro." Congratulations, you're dead about as quickly as some iterations of Cannon Fodder! In all seriousness, love the content.
I would recommend Xcom unpossible it has alot of good advice and it’s very entertaining with a good sense of humor I just want more people to know its a thing
And remember Xcom Enemy Unknown and enemy within aren't cannon, because in xcom 2 they told us that earth losses against the alien invasion and xcom gets destroy within the first month
I wish any rookies that you got kills with in the base defense were turned into actual soldiers because I’ve had some really clutch guys that I wanted to use again.
Really should of given my star soldier the second heart gene mod. Got crit for 15 twice in full cover and bled out just one turn away from finishing the mission :(
Alright. It may just be because I wasn't there at the time, but I feel like when XCOM 2 and especially XCOM2-WotC came out, everyone just stopped talking about Enemy Within specifically. People still talk about Enemy Unknown insofar as it relates to the sequel, but not its expansion/overhaul. Maybe that's because the Meld Mechs were replaced with SPARKs and the Genetic Manipulation was just dropped altogether? IDK. Point is: it's cool to see this brought back to the spotlight for a bit.
I'm really glad you picked up pokemon, it may not look like it I sounded a little mean towards gen 2 before. Playing it is very similar to XCOM, your soldiers are your pokemon and they grow on you. But please play a more recent game, gen 2 is too ancient, is abysmally different from the games of gen 4 onwards, the old games don't even have the Physical/Special move split. Also you can have the same class challenges, as can I beat Pokemon using only Dark Types, or Normal types, seeing different Pokemons being used that people ignore but you are forced to try for the challenge is interesting.
It's nice to be more *close ranged* to the normal streams
After my 1000+ hours in Xcom EW i am terribly afraid of german people, because each time they speak it sounds like they are gonna lecture me about not exploding the aliens
(with german accent) Comander you may instruct your man to ecerxize restraint when using exploxives
And then go on to conduct morally questionable experiments on aliens and create "rulers" who break out from the lab and massacre its personnel and anyone else who gets in the way.
I'm so glad I discovered your channel. I don't watch streams, but your edited challenge runs are great and this type of content is something I enjoy greatly as well. Keep up the great work!
Same
I agree
pick you poison 1. commander you may want to instruct your man to exercise restraint when using explosive 2. Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar project.
I choose 1 every time. I hate the Avatar project bs timer.
I just hate timers in general. Let me play the game at MY pace.
I am playing the game to relax, not have more stress that I shouldn't have.
I like that in this game the action cam means the shot hit
It provides a very nice feelings. Like, after so much guessing, when that kill cam comes up, you know you're in the clear
I turned off the action camera so I could feel suspense from every shot. I’m a bit of a masochist
The devs deliberately changed it in XCOM 2 to make it more unpredictable.
Man, I forgot just how CHUNKY this game is with its UI and weapons and everything. It feels so basic compared to XCOM2's aesthetic, but after spending so many hours with it, it's kind of nostalgic. Hell, that combat music is burned into my brain.
It's cool seeing the elements introduced in XCOM1 and especially EW, and comparing them to how they were updated and refined in the sequel and WotC. Like instead of enemies just falling on your lap, they have the dropships with marked flares so you know just where and when reinforcements are about to pile on.
If I recall the music's composer is the same guy behind Deux Ex: Human Revolution/Mankind Divided.
If you think this is basic, play the original XCOM from 1994.
1:23:30 the reason you didnt deal 5 damage is because Exalt Laser Heavies have an ability that reduces all incoming damage by 25%
most dangerous enemy award goes to "exploding cars"
Let us take a minute and appreciate that the assault trooper's name is Ho Smash.
This was the first time I caught your streams, i only caught one and wasn’t there for long but I love your content so much. EW for all its issues has a special place in my heart
39:57
"That ship is now a fish-"
Criminally underrated content man, I love your challenge runs, keep up the good work 👏🏻
This is great content, i hate twitch so I can’t really watch live, and like 4-5 hour streams are too much of a commitment for me to to so casually, but I always love curated vids like yours. So it’s nice to have like a stream highlights sort of vid alongside scripted curated vids.
Always a good day where drifter uploads
Vahlen's Speech about Explosives certainly triggered some flashbacks for me!
Wish I could've been there for the streams but they're during the night for me so these videos are a blessing keep up the good work!
1:22:58 Tier 2 EXLT Heavy(meaning laser weapon) has a damage reduction, that is why it does less
Yeah, I'm just at the moment, where you shot down the large UFO and I just want to remember you, that ship-upgrades are super strong. NEVER sleep on them ^^
I do really appreciate the simplicity of XCOM:EW. I shy away from complicated games these days.
you tried the original; xcom? not that complicated in terms of mechanics, but it punishes you for trying to do anything.
after picking up xcom 2 having watched your vids, i have wondered what the previous games have been like. very cool
Xcom EU/EW is really good, used to play it all the time and have sleepovers with my friend playing it. Great game! I’d download it and play it if you liked Xcom 2, I’m sure it’s not expensive
I bloody love this game to the point that I get it out every couple of months just to scratch that itch... must be closing in on a hundred "playthroughs" by now.
Sure it's janky unrefined and a bit broken. But the joy of it is that it let's you make your squad broken too.
Jetpacks, invisibility, four shot snipers, the mary-poppins grenade bag, the Max level offensive psychic power which is basically a rechargable tactical Nuke. The guided plasma rockets that hover over cover to blow up enemies. And of course S.H.I.Vs that start as portable walls but end up as cute little gunships floating around blasting aliens with a plasma cannon right in the face.
I'm looking forward to Drifter's challenge videos so much.
So glad to find someone new for x-com vids and can’t wait to see some enemy within challenges can see them being so much harder then x-com 2 challenges
Also quick note about the whale. It does have a limit of how many it can spawn iirc, so you can farm it until emptied out
Main purpose of satelites is to cover all countries in region, not only granting bonus, but preventing like 90% of nasty alien abduction missions in this region. Therefore reducing its control only to air and terror. In theory if you cover 2/5 continents, you can keep panic from abductions from ever going over critical.
I feel your editing really improved as this video progressed. Good stuff. Maybe there's a balance to be struck between hindsight narration and in-the-moment reactions, but just stream highlights like this works really well too!
any variety of videos is good for me, pokemon challenge runs, XCOM challenge runs, full playthroughs with no script, ur channel is that good
I love seeing darkhawk's fascination with the special punch animation haha. I don't mind this type of content in the least for the record! Keep grinding c:
Hey thanks for doing one of my comments I love enemy within !! It’s great
Such a long video, but so worth it. You're a very fun content creator to follow
The sequel improved on a number of things (not stability) but I just like that you aren't doing missions with a turn limit half the time in this one. Also the music in this one slaps
I just redownloaded Xcom and Xcom 2 been playing them both again. Two amazing games
Honestly, I like this format just as much as the scripted challenge vids.
1:00:36 it's been a long time since I first played xcom ew but man I remember that mission so vividly from the first time. I didn't have Laser weapons unlocked and didn't know what I was getting myself into. Ended with zero casualties though because I played overly defensively. But man that was such an intense mission. Really wish xcom 2 had something similar. Here's hoping xcom 3 will.
Great to see your stuff as always!
If you didn't knew, the first soldier you test for psionic is sure to be, it's nice to know, like that you can prepare a soldier for that
Ah enemy within, the birth of a hero: Cannon Fodder the third
1:23:00 Exalt elite heavies have an ability that reduces all damage by 25%
The really wish the damage preview accommodated this.
Huge drifter content
it was fun watching this live
Some days are hard. And other days, Drifter posts.
Definitely tip for enemy within: rush mimetic skin so hard. It is amazing
I would always abuse the stealth mechanic. I bet mimetic skin’s popularity is the reason stealth became a main feature in XC2
@@lifefindsaway7875 What about stealth archers in Skyrim? Stealth in general is a very powerful tool, there is nothing different about how it is used in EW compared to any other game.
@@GeorgeMonet stealth is, indeed, a popular game mechanic. I’m making the assumption that they built off successful elements of the first game when designing the second game .
That glitch at the end is pretty common all you have to do is reload a save right before the fight and it fixes it. If the mutons are invisible it's glitched. Sucks if you don't know that and have to do the whole mission again because you never saved.
2:36 Don't forget y'all, 100% chance to hit in XCOM: EU/EW *does not mean 100% chance to hit*
1:05:15 - this mission was always terrifying. you are never quite prepared enough for it
1:28:18 - those too. but it's different
hold on there were mimic beacons in ew, since when
I had forgotten about them too lol.
I really wish we got more lore for Vahlen.
tbh I don't remember much from her outside "don't blow up aliens" and "crazy german woman who made the most annoying enemies (rulers)"
Fun fact: MECs would benefit greatly from a SHIV that has the repairing upgrade, as the SHIVs only need to wait out a timer to heal up a MEC or another SHIV.
I don't know if you're heard of XCOM ironman Impossible, but it was a series here where "Commander Beagle" played this game on Impossible difficulty with Ironman enabled. He had a legend on his team...Oakley, the worst sniper in existence. I wonder if she and Turk are related somehow XD
I spent many hours watching that series haha.
1:26:40 WAIT WHAT?!? Thats how teh mimic beacon works?!? I always though it was used to lure pods into overwatch i didnt know it worked on the activated units
Doesn't seem to work all the time though, so I'm not really sure.
Any thoughts on phoenix point? Recently played the game myself, it's pretty fun, especially the part where they remove all the percentage based combat bs. Although the geoscape part is a lot more tedious.
He's doing a run right now, catch up on his Archives channel.
@@Markyparky56 thank you
Wait, there's no percentage bs? What's the point of the game then!?
@@ConnorLinley It's all about line of sight and lines of fire, if something is in the way of the target, you will hit what's in the way instead.
Oh~, that tank explosion was MEAN.
How about some content on the proficiency classes for xcom 2? Or phoenix point
Can't wait for the next EXALT barbeque
this was great video
Zhang shall be forever memorialized
57:27 If it makes you feel better, I missed a 100% shot. It wouldn't be a true Firaxis game if that wasn't possible.
I'm pretty sure that the nanite technology you said it doesn't exist in xcom2 is what then led to the creation of the biotechnology used to create advent troopers. So, technically, it does exist in xcom2, just on the opposing side.
Not necessarily. There is no indication that the advent troopers are the product of anything but genetic engineering.
Specifically manufacturing genetically engineered embryos to grow at an accelerated rate.
Today i had an Xcom moment in Xcom 2 with a miss on 99 percent. Xcom baby.
Great video!
If the aliens have some kind of self-destruct device in their weapons, it would be cool to design a 'hacking' class ability that blows up aliens' guns without hurting the aliens (maybe a little dmg). and then the sectoids have to run at you with a knife or something.
You sound so much more like a bogan in this video compared to the challenge run ones I saw, and I love it.
There's a theory that Zhang dropped his handgun because he's a Heavy, and they don't use pistols. Or because VIPs in this game don't get weapons.
In-universe, maybe that was his last bullet.
Nah it's just because he thought handguns were "so uncivilized">
Wait, THAT'S what the the Mimic beacon does? I thought it would only attract enemies who aren't aware of you yet, so you could draw them into your overwatch position or something. That... didn't seem to do anything when I tried it, so I never bothered with these things again. I mean, why would aliens that already know we're there let themselves be distracted by some noises, right?
Them actually attracting the enemies that are already in combat is so much better...
At 43:50 when that heavy took the double shot and missed that's why I rarely take bullet swarm because I swear it seems like the first shot is scripted to miss and the second follows the chance to hit. Prefer holotargeting now that I understand what it does. +10 is better than 2 shots where 1 always misses and second is based on hit chance. I'd rather take one shot based on hit chance and give everyone else an easier shot on the target. Only time I see bullet swarm work where both shots are 100% to hit
Zhang vip gang
That lunch break upload
MECH RUN MECH RUN MECH RUN MECH RUN!!!! IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!!!!
SIIIIIIIUUUUUUUUUUUU new video
Did you get the crash during the final cinematic or did you remember to lower your resolution, lol
Don't think I got a crash. Can't remember what the settings were.
@@TheDriftersBroadcast it was weird. I played the game for the first time recently (after a few hundred hours in xcom 2) and had the game crash repeatedly during the end cinematic. It happens just after the ship explodes. No other problems, though, and it was really fun. I shouldn't have slept on ew for so long
oh wow... the way you build your base is really... satelly-galley 😅 thank you for the video, very nice run!
you made me replay this game again. I already miss having a blade with my ranger.
and that fishing village... I didn't know you could blow up the sharks. will use that in my gameplays!
So many missed shots at the end! Prob Zhang brought some Jaeger Bombs to celebrate on the ship.
Just run over to your local construction site and take the aliens they’re free
I love this can we have more of this?
When we get these challenge runs?
It's on the list.
@@TheDriftersBroadcast can’t wait man. Keep up the good work
This is a great video thanks drifter! Had many fun hours with EW.
Have you tried xenonaughts? (Spelling maybe wrong) Be cool to see your thoughts on it ^^
I also got back on Enemy Within, got thin men on the second mission, I missed 6 times in a row with 50%, missed a 90% rocket launcher, while the Thin Man insta-killed 2 of my soldiers with a crit in half cover
That is horrific.
SUPER NICE
Never actually the 1st Xcom be beaten
6 months ago I did a run 100% mech (funny :o)) and then a 100% assault mimetic-skin (god mode)
You should play long war after you've exhausted vanilla challenge runs!
_Close Range?_
Drinking game: take a shot on every use of "bro." Congratulations, you're dead about as quickly as some iterations of Cannon Fodder!
In all seriousness, love the content.
Only drink responsibly!
I would recommend Xcom unpossible it has alot of good advice and it’s very entertaining with a good sense of humor I just want more people to know its a thing
Aight, maybe I'll look it up
I second this, Unpossible was a god tier series
Was that intentional getting a soldier named “Ho Smash” / “Smash Ho”?
It was, wasn’t it?
Genuinely wasn't lol.
What!? You didn't make Zhou the first mech?
HERESY!
24:00 one of the utmost annoying missions on highest difficulty... You literally get swarmed straight into the hospital. IF you're lucky
And remember Xcom Enemy Unknown and enemy within aren't cannon, because in xcom 2 they told us that earth losses against the alien invasion and xcom gets destroy within the first month
39:57 that ship is now a fish
I wish any rookies that you got kills with in the base defense were turned into actual soldiers because I’ve had some really clutch guys that I wanted to use again.
I think that was a mechanic in the Long War mod.
assaults with no lightning reflexes oh god oh man oh god what have you done
It was at this moment Drifter knew...
Have you played Battletech?
I figure you'd quite enjoy it.
I haven't, but it is in my backlog.
I think that Xcom 2 campaign is harder than Xcom EW, but not as hard as a rookies only run (wink, wink)
What about playing Phenix point?
Stay tuned. :)
Hey I think this was a good idea and you should take your time when making videos
Really should of given my star soldier the second heart gene mod. Got crit for 15 twice in full cover and bled out just one turn away from finishing the mission :(
hey drifter I thought id say but if you start doing solo class runs of this I'm definitely most interested in the mech troopers they're so coool
SHIVs only?
The Backlogs actually did that one already.
It might seem cruel but I'm a little glad valhen did not make it to XCOM- 2.
Why?
If anything I would have axed Bradbury.
Technically, she does appear in the Alien hunters DLC. 😭
Alright. It may just be because I wasn't there at the time, but I feel like when XCOM 2 and especially XCOM2-WotC came out, everyone just stopped talking about Enemy Within specifically. People still talk about Enemy Unknown insofar as it relates to the sequel, but not its expansion/overhaul. Maybe that's because the Meld Mechs were replaced with SPARKs and the Genetic Manipulation was just dropped altogether? IDK. Point is: it's cool to see this brought back to the spotlight for a bit.
Who knows in three years... after all the LW2 class runs... after LW2... we might get a LW1 playthrough... maybe? Pleaseeee
"a few highlights" = 2 hour video
To be fair, I said "some stream highlights". 😋
I'm really glad you picked up pokemon, it may not look like it I sounded a little mean towards gen 2 before. Playing it is very similar to XCOM, your soldiers are your pokemon and they grow on you. But please play a more recent game, gen 2 is too ancient, is abysmally different from the games of gen 4 onwards, the old games don't even have the Physical/Special move split.
Also you can have the same class challenges, as can I beat Pokemon using only Dark Types, or Normal types, seeing different Pokemons being used that people ignore but you are forced to try for the challenge is interesting.
Gens 1-3 are honestly my favourites. 😅