I shot then I missed, then my partner missed, then our robot missed, and then the guy with the machine gun missed.....and then the Archon missed.....and that's how we'll save the planet
And then we fired again and then we missed then the Archon fired. It hit something but it wasn’t it’s target, so I guess it missed. And then we reloaded and then we fired and we missed again.
The multiverse theory states that every time your dude misses his shot in X-Com, it creates an alternate reality. At the end of the day, you have 100 alternate realities. None of them hits the target.
@@inf3cted194 Supressive fire works by the suspicion that you're gonna get shot at if you leave your cover. It doesn't matter if it's all a lie: As long as you believe it, it works on you.
well, if there is 15 % chance hit and 15 % to crit and they roll over 85, they got crit automatically. That's why I use EU aim rolls where crit and hits are separate rolls.
@@AdolfHitler-pm3lc Long War is designed to destroy all the joy in the world. Literally the only reason I play with LW2 is that you get to use a lot of your character pool at the same time instead of like 20 soldiers tops in vanilla
@@steelbear2063 That's another management nightmare. Since the pool is different for every playthrough, I don't mind the small numbers but rather cherish them.
No, A's right. The bleed out timer is much more common in LW2 than the base game, and your troops are less likely to be 1-shot early game because of the 2 ablative hp. It's harder in general, but has less of a luck spike factor.
redshirt: how tough are the Scottish? Blue shirt: you tell me. redshirt: one survived on board the Enterprise and outlived there iterations of the ship, having served on tow of them. Blueshirt: I don't see that as likely. Redshirt, and he was the chief engineer.
I also like it when you mind control an enemy and when you control them, they deal out a pittance of damage compared to what they do to you when the A.I. is in control.
I still remember when it took 3 turns to kill an archon who was out in the open with a full squad. Sniper kept missing with 95 percent everyone else kept missing except for chip damage from stocks Edit: now that I think about it Stocks are about the most useful attachment in game
Funny thing about xcom. I started to do the reverse. Try and take the unreasonably low % shots. That one rookie with 35% hit chance? If I can't get a better shot, I learned to take it anyway. I literally won the toughest missions on the hardest difficulty with flawless ratings because I knew that 95% can miss three times in a row, yet that one bozo will absolutely hit. Most important lessons in XCOM: Make has the best aim + weapons. Make sure you always have a healing unit on every mission and try to make sure that everyone in your team can at least survive a single hit from the strongest enemy you are fighting. I finished this terror of a game in Iron Man on the hardest difficulty with no cheese quit-loads (after 28 tries...). I've learned to assume that everyone will miss everything always. So when you hit those weird low percentage shots, generally you are not just fine, but really happy.
Thank you for your service! The world needs more honorable veterans like yourself that keep the memory alive and teach the next generation sound values so they can avoid degenerating into quit-loading weaklings. May the sun shine in your face and the wind be at your back.
@@Aquelanter This comment makes me wanna write a book about a world where video games are the new 'War' and Quit-loading is synonymous with 'War Crime'.
It's also worth noting that because of how seeds are generated, whether you hit or miss a shot is already decided before you even take it. So the way I see it, every single shot in the game is a 50% chance.
I just started playing so I'm having time management issues on the bridge, however I learned to adopt this sort of mindset very early. The missions on almost any difficulty are easy as hell with this sort of mindset, maybe just past experience from Fire Emblem though. Always assume the worst will happen and victory is far easier to achieve.
"So I fired my gun, and I missed. So I fired and I fired, and I missed. I missed both times. This went on for several hours. so I fired again. I hit something! But It wasn't what I was goin for. So I guess I missed. Then I had a popsicle. Then I passed out in the snow. I had a dream that I was fireing at something. I missed."
I have come back to watch this like once a week for last month.... You have captured and embraced the essence of Xcom 2: the reality of missing a 5% chance 30% of the time.. lol plus the Christian Bale pic is spot-on!!!
I made a run at the Beginners Luck achievement, set up an overwatch ambush, and cried tears of joy when 3 out of the 5 rookies actually hit their shots. Meanwhile, in the same session, my Colonel rank Sharpshooter missed a 97% Lighting Hands. Just XCOM things.
in my playthrough ive met at least 300 archons and they landed 2 shots. one of them killed my rookie, the other was an overwatch shot from high ground. im starting to think archons were ex xcom ops
At least in that Xcom your soldiers did not routinely miss 75% hit chances. From what I understand there are "hidden" modifiers to your hit% that you do not see,,, which makes the entire point of showing the commander a hit percentage absolutely useless.
The minigun becomes a laser beam when they miss, but when they actually hit the target the animation shows like 55% of the bullets missing the alien standing still in the open
Slightly? I had a guy at point blank range just do a 180 and shoot his gun in the exact opposite direction. My exact reaction was that one Jim Carey scene where he spots out his water while yelling “oh come on!!”
@@Drako2k0 I saw one with a point-blank assault rifle shot, where the soldier's aim snaps straight upwards and shot into the sky. If the alien doesn't kill you, the bullets coming back down will.
This was the same with enemy unknown, here's something that happened to me, I made a new game and was doing some assault with 0 rank soldiers, I was right next to a guy at a corner, 100% chance. MISSED
Well, when the chance is somewhere above 99.5 percent hit chance it shows you it as a 100 percent. The only thing I can say about it is That's XCOM Baby!
I can confirm, using hacked/mind-controlled aliens or soldiers with an invulnerability turn so that even if I have a shit RNG, nobody on my squad dies is XCOM 2 strategy in a nutshell.
This happened to me last night: Squad concealed and on overwatch (1 sniper, 1 grenadier, 2 specialist), SPARK unit launches a missile at a group of 2 troopers and 1 officer, blow thier cover to shit, shred their armor and they disperse, both troopers die to sniper and grenadier fire, only officer left ... both of my specialists miss their mark. Almost threw my controller out the window of how pissed I was!
The battle lasted 4 days. There were no casualties.
Wuwarrior 2917 that made laugh more then it shouldve
are you talking about a Canadian war
No if it was Canada it would've lasted half an hour before everyone apologized and watched Hockey together.
Happy Rabid Duck While eating pancakes with maple syrup
As a Canadian I find this very offensive. True....but offensive.......sorry.
Unrealistic. The Alien should have gotten a crit and instantly killed your robit. That is the true Xcom experience.
About107Gnomes Unrealistic. The robot should've then exploded and it's fragments launch into the neck of it's squadmates killing them all instantly
The Wolf-God with the ordinance flying back to your base to kill your funding and all your elite soldiers.
heres another...the rebel alliance getting blown up magically
The only reason it didn't hit because it was a hacked enemy robot.
I used to think that, too, but then I got the Perfect Information mod. Now I see aliens miss 95% shots all the time.
Who else lost it when the Archon missed too?
thats x-com baby
That is the only moment I actually laughed at this.
yes
I was like alright he's got to one shot him isn't he...
NOPE
Joke: How do Archons score?
Answer: They don't. They always miss.
I shot then I missed, then my partner missed, then our robot missed, and then the guy with the machine gun missed.....and then the Archon missed.....and that's how we'll save the planet
Noble Evolution Then I get popcicle
And then we fired again and then we missed then the Archon fired. It hit something but it wasn’t it’s target, so I guess it missed. And then we reloaded and then we fired and we missed again.
@@Gamer88334we passed out in the snow and had another popcicles
@@mrrandomnessfin Long story short.
M I S S E D
In XCOM, the word "AIM" should stand for:
Absolutely
Idiotic
Morons
Nobody won here.
Everyone lost.
TF2 Administrator: You're ALL losers!
A win in my book.
They all became Friends and laugh it off.
That's the hidden ending of the game nobody knows about 😂
Chimera Squad.
@Huey is that who i think it is
@The One, The Only, The Official Mr. Troll Face Watame did nothing Wrong
@The One, The Only, The Official Mr. Troll Face Ohh, be more toxic. i am enjoying the salt i am getting
The multiverse theory states that every time your dude misses his shot in X-Com, it creates an alternate reality. At the end of the day, you have 100 alternate realities. None of them hits the target.
*Existence* Missed!
Xcom actually breaks the multiverse theory because there exists no universe where you’re lucky
I'm pretty sure I've spawned over 100 thousand realities then. 😁
Casually pauses mid-alien turn.
Mouse casually approaches the exit button.
All the veteran soldiers missed.
But thankfully the Archon shat himself from the hailstorm of bullets, so he panicked and missed too.
#XCOM2
That'd actually be a cool feature where multiple shots fired at a single enemy caused or had a chance to cause a panic state and reduce their accuracy
@@parkeralan19 I actually thought suppressive fire worked like that.
@@inf3cted194 Supressive fire works by the suspicion that you're gonna get shot at if you leave your cover.
It doesn't matter if it's all a lie: As long as you believe it, it works on you.
This is indeed one part of xcom 2... The other part is getting hit/killed by a crit from a flashbanged, suppressed enemy through full cover!
skynet091287 that and you hunkered down and have that defensive drone on you i swear that happened to me once that's the super rng experience
ahhh... The curse of XCOM is legendary...
well, if there is 15 % chance hit and 15 % to crit and they roll over 85, they got crit automatically. That's why I use EU aim rolls where crit and hits are separate rolls.
it has playe din my favour once... 30% chance to hit... and i critted the enemy
While covered by a smoke grenade
(at the same time)
Aliens: "Well, this is awkward."
Humans: "Well, this is awkward."
Elders : "WTF?! What are we paying you guys for?"
@@daedalus4748 Aliens: "You don't pay us..."
Humans: "You guys are getting paid?"
the reinforcement that appear with a zero interval timer: hello there
@@henrypaleveda7760 General Kenobi!
Wait, wrong franchise...
At least, he missed too.
Xen Deadeye yep, it's great when the aliens are just as terrible 😜
I would've just stopped after that.
If i'm on ironman and my squad dies from that I'll just delete the damn save.
Nuclear bomb detonation - missed.
In Dune II 1992, this was possible.
Lmaooo
@@ronin6548 that makes zero sense
@@whyarewestillhere8562 The launch site who delivered the bomb: "I know, right?"
Bad news: You can't hit them.
Good news: They can't hit you.
So it's a stalemate then?
@@Maxi-Gonz.Exactly
'shot failed to connect'
I always loved that line, like it is somehow the bullets fault for missing.
Yeah, kinda like Xcom soldiers went to the same training program than Stormtroopers
You forgot the part where every single squad member gets crit killed and dies with no bleedout time.
Spyrocrab Havent had that happen. Even with 2000 hours in with Lw.
Agent Indiana From my understanding long war was actually supposed to increase the likelihood they bleed out rather than outright die
@@AdolfHitler-pm3lc
Long War is designed to destroy all the joy in the world. Literally the only reason I play with LW2 is that you get to use a lot of your character pool at the same time instead of like 20 soldiers tops in vanilla
@@steelbear2063 That's another management nightmare.
Since the pool is different for every playthrough, I don't mind the small numbers but rather cherish them.
No, A's right. The bleed out timer is much more common in LW2 than the base game, and your troops are less likely to be 1-shot early game because of the 2 ablative hp. It's harder in general, but has less of a luck spike factor.
Soldiers: BATTLECRY
*Miss*
Alien: “You incipient pitiful fools!” Attacks
*Miss*
Alien: ...well thats down right embarrassing
Storm Troopers versus Red Shirts; one can't hit shit, but the other dies anyway.
Storm Troopers only miss if you have a name. Red Shirts only die to someone with a name. :P
@@chrisgregory3955 neither one of those things is true
I'm going to guess based on the other part of this side of xcom 2 that xcom is the redshirts
redshirt: how tough are the Scottish?
Blue shirt: you tell me.
redshirt: one survived on board the Enterprise and outlived there iterations of the ship, having served on tow of them.
Blueshirt: I don't see that as likely.
Redshirt, and he was the chief engineer.
I keep hearing "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" but I'm pretty sure it's just "you miss 100% of the shots"
Expected the Archon to crit for an authentic XCOM 2 experience.
The real question I have is why are you fighting the wingmen with tier 1 weapons?
+Domenick boucher I relied on the tier 3 shotguns and sniper rifles, the other guys mostly use their skills, but not weapon
I don't even use Gauss weapons and Plate Armor. I go straight from Tier 1 to Tier 3.
Domenick boucher Isn't there an achievement for beating the game with the base equipment?
Only in final mission
@@fafnir4ik Interesting. So your strategy was to avoid the upgrade cost of higher-tier machine guns by using explosives almost exclusively, instead?
I also like it when you mind control an enemy and when you control them, they deal out a pittance of damage compared to what they do to you when the A.I. is in control.
to be fair the AI gets a lot of 1-2 hit kills.
that's why i like hacking. robots have missiles and explosives don't miss. plus it's saves on soldier explosives.
I still remember when it took 3 turns to kill an archon who was out in the open with a full squad. Sniper kept missing with 95 percent everyone else kept missing except for chip damage from stocks
Edit: now that I think about it Stocks are about the most useful attachment in game
stonks
The only attachment where a 3% chance to hit becomes a 100% chance finisher.
Unless your fighting codexses
Stocks📈📈📈
Funny thing about xcom. I started to do the reverse. Try and take the unreasonably low % shots. That one rookie with 35% hit chance? If I can't get a better shot, I learned to take it anyway. I literally won the toughest missions on the hardest difficulty with flawless ratings because I knew that 95% can miss three times in a row, yet that one bozo will absolutely hit. Most important lessons in XCOM: Make has the best aim + weapons. Make sure you always have a healing unit on every mission and try to make sure that everyone in your team can at least survive a single hit from the strongest enemy you are fighting. I finished this terror of a game in Iron Man on the hardest difficulty with no cheese quit-loads (after 28 tries...). I've learned to assume that everyone will miss everything always. So when you hit those weird low percentage shots, generally you are not just fine, but really happy.
That is both cool and weird.
Thank you for your service! The world needs more honorable veterans like yourself that keep the memory alive and teach the next generation sound values so they can avoid degenerating into quit-loading weaklings. May the sun shine in your face and the wind be at your back.
@@Aquelanter This comment makes me wanna write a book about a world where video games are the new 'War' and Quit-loading is synonymous with 'War Crime'.
It's also worth noting that because of how seeds are generated, whether you hit or miss a shot is already decided before you even take it. So the way I see it, every single shot in the game is a 50% chance.
I just started playing so I'm having time management issues on the bridge, however
I learned to adopt this sort of mindset very early. The missions on almost any difficulty are easy as hell with this sort of mindset, maybe just past experience from Fire Emblem though.
Always assume the worst will happen and victory is far easier to achieve.
Is this about missing a shot?
No, it's about missing every shot.
"So I fired my gun, and I missed. So I fired and I fired, and I missed. I missed both times. This went on for several hours. so I fired again. I hit something! But It wasn't what I was goin for. So I guess I missed. Then I had a popsicle. Then I passed out in the snow. I had a dream that I was fireing at something. I missed."
where's thet quote from? I know I have heard it before
@@fernando47180 Game Grumps
That would be from Justin Bibero's "Barely Alive" Overwatch parody, I think?
I am not sure if it is the original though.
@@alexanderxue1761
Uh... no... it's game grumps
I guess that the one I listed was not the original, then. Thanks for the info!
That's X-COM, baby!
I could feel my bloodpressure rising with each successive miss.
For once, Commander, we and the aliens are finally fighting on equal terms
In a real nutshell would be that the archon's hit connects, and a gatekeeper some how shows up out of nowhere and kills everyone. Restart.
And to add insult to injury it turns them to zombies too.
"Is this it then? Are we to be two immortals; locked in endless combat 'til judgement day and trumpets sound?"
"... Or you could surrender."
"Gah, C'mon!"
Took the word right outta my mouth.
OK I'm here! what did i miss?
(ba dum crash)
ITS TIME TO STOP!!!!!!!!!
Don't worry. You're just like these guys and missed everything.
This is popping up on my suggestions recently. I do not regret it.
The Archon's attack was disrupted by it's own laughter.
I have come back to watch this like once a week for last month.... You have captured and embraced the essence of Xcom 2: the reality of missing a 5% chance 30% of the time.. lol plus the Christian Bale pic is spot-on!!!
Dad got me XCOM 2 for my birthday a while ago.
All he heard was "HOW DID THAT MISS??" for a week, basically.
Everyone miss, everyone happy btw XD
I swear those SPARK units have half the accuracy that it says they have.
and they wondered why this war taking so damn long
that sound about right.
I made a run at the Beginners Luck achievement, set up an overwatch ambush, and cried tears of joy when 3 out of the 5 rookies actually hit their shots. Meanwhile, in the same session, my Colonel rank Sharpshooter missed a 97% Lighting Hands. Just XCOM things.
HAHAHAAHAHAH
Something about all that leading up the archon missing is so funny.
The elders watching wondering how anyone won the first war.
It's always hilarious when the Muton Berserkers miss their aoe ground pounds
Each time I see this game on sale I go watch these vídeos because they help me save my money.
in my playthrough ive met at least 300 archons and they landed 2 shots. one of them killed my rookie, the other was an overwatch shot from high ground. im starting to think archons were ex xcom ops
The enemy not one-shotting that mech at the end of that abysmal OW failure completely ruined the immersion.
When you build a storm trooper training facility instead of a training facility
I can't be the only one sat here smiling calling miss before every miss because I knew exactly what would happen.
This is why I like sword bois because they actually hit stuff
On this day, the combatants realized the futility of their struggles, gave up and put their differences aside.
An authentic Xcom experience is a sectoid tossing a grenade into your skyranger and blowing up 8 of your 10 soldiers...
Whoopse,,, wrong Xcom :-)
At least in that Xcom your soldiers did not routinely miss 75% hit chances. From what I understand there are "hidden" modifiers to your hit% that you do not see,,, which makes the entire point of showing the commander a hit percentage absolutely useless.
They had us in the first half..
They all missed each other very much, that's nice.
I felt my blood pressure rise just watching that
Fucking Archons feel like I'm shooting at Fortune from MGS2
Lol, even the Archon muttered, "That's Xcom"
XCom2 in a nutshell:
Soldiers(3) with 80% accuracy shot. Missed the shot.
"They are the best of the best of the best"
They're all stormtroopers in their hearts
True XCOM is Archon insta killing your hacked robot.
The most amazing part of this video is that you’re using ballistic weapons late enough in the game to encounter Archons and Heavy Mechs.
The amount of times I saved and loaded during my first and only playthrough because of missing 99% shots point blank was too high
Breathes
*Missed!*
Kids with asthma; "I feel that bro"
*Missed!*
90s Trailer Voice: In a world where percentages matter, one man must- oh, hello, Commander. I was just talking to myself.
That's XCOM, baby!
Oh hey, an old video I watched yrs back got recommended to me again. Sweet!
All for there archon just to fucking miss too XD
I felt this way too hard until the Archon missed. My SPARK would have been dead for sure.
The archon missing was the plot twist nobody was expecting.
I always love how the grenadiers miss every single shot with a freaking minigun.
The minigun becomes a laser beam when they miss, but when they actually hit the target the animation shows like 55% of the bullets missing the alien standing still in the open
@@scooote9478 😆 😆 😆 exactly!!
Nevermind the fact that sometimes, a miss involves your character turning slightly and not even firing close to the enemy xD
Slightly? I had a guy at point blank range just do a 180 and shoot his gun in the exact opposite direction.
My exact reaction was that one Jim Carey scene where he spots out his water while yelling “oh come on!!”
@@Drako2k0 I saw one with a point-blank assault rifle shot, where the soldier's aim snaps straight upwards and shot into the sky.
If the alien doesn't kill you, the bullets coming back down will.
That’s XCOM, baby
I kinda expected the alien to destruct your droid
But this was even funnier
This was the same with enemy unknown, here's something that happened to me, I made a new game and was doing some assault with 0 rank soldiers, I was right next to a guy at a corner, 100% chance. MISSED
Well, when the chance is somewhere above 99.5 percent hit chance it shows you it as a 100 percent. The only thing I can say about it is That's XCOM Baby!
Trying to post a witty comment *missed*
K33p3r99 *hits the cancel button instead of send for [insert witty comment here]*
i like to imagine all those missed shots hit another alien in the background we just dont see
I can confirm, using hacked/mind-controlled aliens or soldiers with an invulnerability turn so that even if I have a shit RNG, nobody on my squad dies is XCOM 2 strategy in a nutshell.
Miss Markers like candy on Halloween
Impressive, very nice. Let’s see Paul Allen’s hit chance
Id love to see these guys fight some stormtroopers
Well the air particles sure got menaced
I call these the Missing Rounds
*presses like button*
*misses*
That’s probability, baby!
This is why I love the butstocks
That's enough misses to staff a nunnery. Well played, sir.
That's XCOM Baby.
There are two kinds of Xcom2 memes:
Missing stuff
And this joke.
"Oh Come On!"
Very true AI
Very true!
This is why you make sure 1 soldier has a stock weapon upgrade.
That... Is XCOM baby
That's X-com Baby.
Certified bruh moment right there.
LMFAO that alien missing was cup on the cpaeke
It spreads.... The stormtrooper aim
That's Xcom baby!
It's always the worst with gunners.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'MISSED'? I CAN SEE THE BULLETS HITTING"
This happened to me last night:
Squad concealed and on overwatch (1 sniper, 1 grenadier, 2 specialist), SPARK unit launches a missile at a group of 2 troopers and 1 officer, blow thier cover to shit, shred their armor and they disperse, both troopers die to sniper and grenadier fire, only officer left ... both of my specialists miss their mark. Almost threw my controller out the window of how pissed I was!
I got to the point where I even got angry when the archon missed.
When the squad all missed I thought the joke was over. The joke was the archon all along!