Big scooba is just the chosen soldier from the first game that casted stasis on himself before the ship exploding. After years they managed to recover both commander and him
@@InsaneFrame Or, because X-Com never got far enough to blow up the temple ship in xcom 2's timeline, the chosen soldier from the first game was trying to contact the commander through the simulation advent put him in to train advent's soldiers (that's what the first game is) and this playthrough is the chosen soldier finally getting to the commander.
The repeater proc'd the first time I met the viper king in my first ever playthrough, giving me frankly unrealistic expectations about how those fights go.
31:03 Missed opportunity for Big Scuba and Bigger Scuba. This premiered just as I was watching your Enemy Within one soldier run so that was comedic timing. Love the challenge runs mate
@@InsaneFrame I wouldntve guessed. A new setup and environment only slowed you down, not stopped you. On a side note, it may be a good idea to take advantage of youtube's horrendous "shorts" feature to give channel updates? A simple next-up can go a long way for potential subs. Anyway, keep at it! Look at everyone flocking to their notifications -- 1000 views already!
Thankyou so much you are a generous person very much appreaciate your kind donation! I got sent to a hospitla for a few weeks and can saftley say I have recoverd for the most part and everything is fine now back to making videos on the channel :)
Amazing, dude! I love these hour long videos you make! I enjoy having them in the background as i do other things. What is the next xcom challenge you're gonna do? Maybe something modded like a beating xcom2 with a single viper?
Welcome back into the fray my lord frame. As many have likely said before no need to apologise your health should be first and foremost so your able to fight the good fight in the most insane of ways!!
Hey man, nice to see your content is as good as ever! Really enjoyable stuff, time barely feels like passing by when watching. It may take a while, but you will rebuild your audience with content as good as that!
Theres me struggling on legend to get past the first few months without loosing a lot of guys, and yet here you are one level down destroying with 1 person 😂 love all the series on this - very interested in watching a full series play through so i can steal some tips
@@SilentNinja1x 3 things, 1. Action economy how much can you get done from each soldier each turn 2. Line of sight if you can waste the enemy's turn finding you do so (helps to take one pod at a time) and movement is OP for this 3.Some abilities solo are very powerful (return fire being a prime example) the opposite is also true for groups synergy is key a sharp shooter/ranger is a very strong combo add in some good equipment your rolling! Lastly keep at it the fact your playing legendary is phenomenal it gets really hard as you probably know resources are essential on legendary also skirmsher HQ is very powerful on legendary
I have no idea why TH-cam recommended this channel, but I'm glad it did. I have binged your X-Com series. ..... any hope of the blade master or templar seeing some love? :)
@@InsaneFrame Cool. I did not think that running with one soldier was even remotely doable. I think the soft ironman thing you have going strikes the perfect balance. Anyway, glad I found you.... and remember to do videos that make you happy rather than catering to randos like me on the interwebs.
suggestion for a challenge: beat xcom chimera squad only using androids The rules: you have to use androids as soon as possible. you cannot attack via operatives after the androids have been deployed. to get to use the androids you WILL need to get an operative downed which is allowed since they are used only at the first battle. normal difficulty.
7:36 Why train inspire here? Get VIPs out of places faster in the early game? Edit: I guess it works with domination or mind controlled enemies even early when you just have insanity. Still surprised it was picked up early, depending on what it appeared next to Edit 2: Is it possible at all to do any of these on Legendary? I noticed the sniper one had been on Veteran and that this one had moved up to Commander-- Do you think it'd be even possible to make the leap to legendary or is it too harsh? (I've been doing my first playthrough of the game on Legendary and I cannot imagine soloing this is possible, but if anyone'd know it'd probably be you lmao)
Xcom 1 veteran here, played xcom 2 vereran diff on my first run and didnt even know u need to specifically train a psi op to get a psi soldier and play throught the entire game thinking, when will i get a psi soldier other than our MC avatar at the last mission
Took me a while to get around to this video but I never miss one of these! The difficulty must have been insane, although Psi-Soldiers are luckily overpowered as can be. I don't think this would've been doable with any other class. What do you think?
It is very difficult but it is very good i will say this was the hardest run for the chosen as they were not easy by any stretch and took alot of tries (they got very good abilities)
Could you please increase bit rate while recording? I understand that uploading in 4k give 1080p screen better quality picture. Problem is that with low bit rate on the original video, no amount of avoiding compression will be helpful.
Someone commented when I was recording this so next video bitrate will be 5,000 rather then this video at 2,500 but rest assured aware and going to record at least 5k from now on
I like the videos I’ve watched of yours so far, but the music got a bit too loud and overpowering, especially around the 21 minute mark… take it with a grain of salt though, i watch everything at x2 speed so it could be just an issue at that speed
My deepest apologies 🙏, I'll take the criticism on board and dial down the sound to lower levels in editing in future videos Once again my deepest apologies
You can't have Psi Operatives until you build a Psi Lab and train a Rookie into being a Psi Operative. And it's quite late in the game. So, what are you even talking about? Showind on the video as if you had a Psi Operative as one of youe soldiers after the first mission.
Big scooba is just the chosen soldier from the first game that casted stasis on himself before the ship exploding. After years they managed to recover both commander and him
This THIS IS NOW CANNON!!!!
@@InsaneFrame Or, because X-Com never got far enough to blow up the temple ship in xcom 2's timeline, the chosen soldier from the first game was trying to contact the commander through the simulation advent put him in to train advent's soldiers (that's what the first game is) and this playthrough is the chosen soldier finally getting to the commander.
A developer apparently wrote on twitter that the volunteer from XCOM:EU/W canonically survived. Which also makes everything from XCOM:EU canon too
@@obtuse186 jorgen from my original playthrough is still out there as hero confirmed!
Take a shot each time a psi attack is used.
Everyone will be on the floor lots of psi attacks
Aaaand I’m dead
last thing i remember was watching this video, i woke up and the doctors said it had been 36 days,
2/10 cannot recommend
Are you trying to die? Because that's how you die?
*Dies of liver failure*
The repeater proc'd the first time I met the viper king in my first ever playthrough, giving me frankly unrealistic expectations about how those fights go.
@@johnnysea9921 its good when it happens but its still a chance but never zero :)
31:03 Missed opportunity for Big Scuba and Bigger Scuba. This premiered just as I was watching your Enemy Within one soldier run so that was comedic timing. Love the challenge runs mate
Thanks man took some doing
Right back at it! Good to see a run of this length and scope, man. Editing, pacing, and quality. I can't wait for more!
Thanks man had to polish off alot of rust!
@@InsaneFrame I wouldntve guessed. A new setup and environment only slowed you down, not stopped you.
On a side note, it may be a good idea to take advantage of youtube's horrendous "shorts" feature to give channel updates? A simple next-up can go a long way for potential subs. Anyway, keep at it! Look at everyone flocking to their notifications -- 1000 views already!
Happy to have you back, hope you recovered
Thankyou so much you are a generous person very much appreaciate your kind donation!
I got sent to a hospitla for a few weeks and can saftley say I have recoverd for the most part and everything is fine now back to making videos on the channel :)
Amazing, dude! I love these hour long videos you make!
I enjoy having them in the background as i do other things. What is the next xcom challenge you're gonna do? Maybe something modded like a beating xcom2 with a single viper?
Probably going to do all the classes so the next one im thinking is a ranger or a grenadier maybe a specialist
Love these challenges! Glad to have you back❤
thankyou it's an uphill battle but you guys make this channel so its an absolute pleasure
Welcome back into the fray my lord frame. As many have likely said before no need to apologise your health should be first and foremost so your able to fight the good fight in the most insane of ways!!
Thanks man love that your doing great
happy to see you back! hope everthing its going good for you, cant wait to see more of your videos.
No worries man got a fallout 4 video coming out on friday
Great to see you back man loved this video and can’t wait until the next one
Glad you enjoyed it
Underrated channel, love the Xcom runs, fallout too!
good news going to be uploading another xcom challenge in a couple of days :)
also forgot to say but thankyou for the lovely comment!
@@InsaneFrame No problem homie, I appreciate the work and time you put into your videos!
Nice to have you back man!
Good luck on your next projects!
Thankyou very much appreciate it :)
Hey man, nice to see your content is as good as ever! Really enjoyable stuff, time barely feels like passing by when watching. It may take a while, but you will rebuild your audience with content as good as that!
thanks man 7 months off is really hard but will keep going!
neat video, seeing this made me realize I haven't actually seen a lot of the late game xcom 2 cutscenes when I thought I had
It's pretty cool didn't want to give the full whack of what happens or spoil it too much but it's pretty cool
so glad youtube started reccommending a bunch of smaller channels, love your videos
Thats really nice to hear thanks
Awesome! Like you never left. Welcome back man!
Glad to hear it man felt a bit rusty but turned out great
This is where the fun begins
Lots of psi abilities being used
Theres me struggling on legend to get past the first few months without loosing a lot of guys, and yet here you are one level down destroying with 1 person 😂 love all the series on this - very interested in watching a full series play through so i can steal some tips
@@SilentNinja1x 3 things,
1. Action economy how much can you get done from each soldier each turn
2. Line of sight if you can waste the enemy's turn finding you do so (helps to take one pod at a time) and movement is OP for this
3.Some abilities solo are very powerful (return fire being a prime example) the opposite is also true for groups synergy is key a sharp shooter/ranger is a very strong combo add in some good equipment your rolling!
Lastly keep at it the fact your playing legendary is phenomenal it gets really hard as you probably know resources are essential on legendary also skirmsher HQ is very powerful on legendary
This is very cool- your patience is unreal
Welcome back, its good to see you again!
Thankyou sir
@@InsaneFrame You are most welcome
Feels great to have you back
Its good to be back :3
It's great to see you back I.F, I've been waiting patiently for your return, I also can't wait for the fallout 4 vid!!
Oh yes Fallout 4 as a doctor should be out by friday hopefully :)
Glad you are back making videos again.
currently doing fallout 4 as a Vault doctor
Nice one ! Glad to have you back on my feed !
Cheers man really glad your enjoying it
Omg Vergil reference 😂 never thought I would catch one in x2 video
when you know you know!
Funny idea, take a drink every time the warlock tried to mind control big scuba
Stay hydrated, stay psionic
THE RETURN OF THE KING!
Oh yes you know it
I am getting addicted to these videos omg
This video was really entertaining and I was shocked seeing how low the views were. Consider me a fan!
Thankyou that means the world
Fun playthrough, but I wish the music was a bit quieter compared to the voice over.
Sorry to hear you have been un-well.
Hope you are doing better :3
Yep got a video going up today at some point
Great video as always! What's the name of the song you use at 53:40?
Awesome
Thankyou
Glade to have ya back
Thnaks glad to be back buddy :)
"fooli-...who the hell are you." [danta.] "......welp might as well kill another heratic. Wait where's he from?" pulls out a b o o k. "..oh. OH NO"
I have no idea why TH-cam recommended this channel, but I'm glad it did. I have binged your X-Com series.
..... any hope of the blade master or templar seeing some love? :)
Saving that playthrough for a very good episode (ranger hard counters the assassin)
@@InsaneFrame Cool. I did not think that running with one soldier was even remotely doable. I think the soft ironman thing you have going strikes the perfect balance. Anyway, glad I found you.... and remember to do videos that make you happy rather than catering to randos like me on the interwebs.
suggestion for a challenge: beat xcom chimera squad only using androids
The rules: you have to use androids as soon as possible. you cannot attack via operatives after the androids have been deployed. to get to use the androids you WILL need to get an operative downed which is allowed since they are used only at the first battle. normal difficulty.
Oooooo this challenge looks fun sure thing
This the time Big Scuba was the Zodiac killer, who would have guessed!?
I'd love to see an attempt with a skirmisher!
great vid though!
Don't worry every class will have time to shine in this series!
7:36
Why train inspire here? Get VIPs out of places faster in the early game?
Edit: I guess it works with domination or mind controlled enemies even early when you just have insanity. Still surprised it was picked up early, depending on what it appeared next to
Edit 2: Is it possible at all to do any of these on Legendary? I noticed the sniper one had been on Veteran and that this one had moved up to Commander-- Do you think it'd be even possible to make the leap to legendary or is it too harsh? (I've been doing my first playthrough of the game on Legendary and I cannot imagine soloing this is possible, but if anyone'd know it'd probably be you lmao)
Its what the game gave us kind of a meh ability
Awesome video ! Subscribing !
He's baaack!
Indeed get the tea and biscuits :)
THE RETURN
Indeed and having another video up today
24:19 Dr. Sam Powell sweet I'm an engineer :D
@@sampowell9093 that makes two of us :)
Xcom 1 veteran here, played xcom 2 vereran diff on my first run and didnt even know u need to specifically train a psi op to get a psi soldier and play throught the entire game thinking, when will i get a psi soldier other than our MC avatar at the last mission
@@MajorMasonGaming xcom 2 it's optional well worth doing in vanilla but wotc not so much unless your struggling on ability points
How did you start with a psi lab? It always takes a while for me to get one.
I stated at the start of the video the reason why I started with one similar to the spark run
ONE HOUR!
cool I don't mind
hope you're doing alright
Yes sir one hour Xcom is long indeed with one soldier
literaly what i did cause i couldnt beat the fucking doomsday timer fast enough
Great video, music was too loud compared to your voice, though
Im sorry bit rusty on the editing front
Music was fine for me but I wasn’t watching with headphones but I do like the choice in music fits the psi theme
@@InsaneFrame dw bout it man you good, just wanted to point it out in case you hadn't noticed. Great to have you back :)
Are you gonna play Punch Club 2? I'd love to see a "no attacks" on it like the first game
I might do probably do a single stat run in that game its just grindy as hell
I always wanna play xcom but god i suck. Even on normal difficulty i just snowball downhill so quickly. Idek why.
focus on damage and when you reach tier 2 weapons get predator armour and have a squad Alpha and then a backup squad Bravo you'll get there
@@InsaneFrame dang responding to a comment on a 4 month old video. Really cool of you
@@arnifenrenso2940 but of course always willing to help those needing guidance with xcom
I thought you were going to say Big Scuba's cousin was Big Sky. A distant uncle of his, perhaps?
Im sure the two are related somehow a bit of secret lore for big scuba
As far as I know, on "kill all enemies" missions, Lost don't count and will keep spawning until you kill all the Advent.
you have to kill the last lost otherwise its counted as a loss however you will still counter the dark event if the objectives are completed
Took me a while to get around to this video but I never miss one of these! The difficulty must have been insane, although Psi-Soldiers are luckily overpowered as can be. I don't think this would've been doable with any other class. What do you think?
It is very difficult but it is very good i will say this was the hardest run for the chosen as they were not easy by any stretch and took alot of tries (they got very good abilities)
So you ended 2 campaigns with the last kill been done by a gatekeeper? xD
correct they target the area to raise the most zombies so a cheap trick is to damage an avatar to low health let the gatekeeper do the rest!
Well done!
Now beat xcom 2 without doing any resesrch thats not absolutly required to progress the story.
Who needs tygan achievement we'll be doing this eventually
Awesome!
Thanks man means alot
Could you please increase bit rate while recording? I understand that uploading in 4k give 1080p screen better quality picture. Problem is that with low bit rate on the original video, no amount of avoiding compression will be helpful.
Someone commented when I was recording this so next video bitrate will be 5,000 rather then this video at 2,500 but rest assured aware and going to record at least 5k from now on
Also thankyou so much for highlighting the problem would never known otherwise
Loved it, in the future you should turn down the music it's a bit difficult to hear over it
no worries man I've got someone working on some new music so it'll be easier to get that stuff sorted thanks for letting me know
if you get mind controlled, isn't it game over?
Yes hence mindsheild is essential but you can be panicked and carry on
Why do you say your will is reduced upon seeing but not killing enemies?
When seeing enemies if outnumbered your soldier takes a will hit
Howd he get a psi op straight away??
the voice over is too low and the music volume is way too high. Case in point: 06:30 -ish
are you spiffing brit's brother?
No I'm not but I can say we have similar accents
Wait...no mods, but you were able to find a way to start with a psionic soldier???
took it like the spark run and stated it in the video as well! :)
@@InsaneFrame Ah, hadn't seen that video yet, and must've missed that remark. Thanks!
I like the videos I’ve watched of yours so far, but the music got a bit too loud and overpowering, especially around the 21 minute mark… take it with a grain of salt though, i watch everything at x2 speed so it could be just an issue at that speed
Its okay I appreciate the feedback I'll reduce the music volume in future
My dude... Your constant is great but the background music is WAY too loud... I quit after 10 minutes of watching since is unbearable
My deepest apologies 🙏, I'll take the criticism on board and dial down the sound to lower levels in editing in future videos
Once again my deepest apologies
You can't have Psi Operatives until you build a Psi Lab and train a Rookie into being a Psi Operative.
And it's quite late in the game.
So, what are you even talking about?
Showind on the video as if you had a Psi Operative as one of youe soldiers after the first mission.