XCOM 2 War Of The Chosen: one ridiculous turn
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2017
- The XCOM 2 expansion is ridiculous, in a good way. Here's an example of how crazy even a single turn can be in XCOM W War of the Chosen.
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You haven't seen a crazy turn till you have 4 soldiers with 75-95% accuracy all miss and you end up dying
charles Eames-Butcher this.
That's Xcom, baby.
Bit late but that's NOT ridiculous.
That's just XCOM being XCOM.
The "crazy" in this situation ends up being your state of mind, and not the turn tho
Yeah, the turn itself in that case wouldn't be crazy because 75-95 *isn't* 100%, anything that isn't 100% can miss, considering the amount of turns people will have spent overall in XCOM 2 this is bound to happen to a ton of different people, probably multiple times each.
I can only imagine that this must of looked like some anime-level stuff from advent's point of view.
One guy charges silently into the base, dressed in robes made from a giant snake. No one can believe there would be a X-com soldier so bold. They surround him anyway, all guns trained on his position. There's a pause...He stops for one second...
Suddenly; he's slaughtering everything in sight with gun and blade.
he also had implacable so he wouldnt have taken damage from the archon anyways bucause that was the first one whou chose to go after him
Implacable gives him a free move, untouchable I think is the one you are thinking of.
You're absolutely right.
*teleports behind you*
Nothing personnel...kid.
meanwhile the lost are like "...hey... why is our food moving so fast... I can't eat that... no faaaaiiiir..."
XCOM should put in a Superhot like feature of replaying the battle in real time. Imagine how this would look
Y E S
The Badass Bassist Excellent idea
i think they have a feature like that in some dev command somewhere. I remember the trailers for the game having something similar
+tetsuya no yoroi Would be amazing to rewatch in real time.
The Badass Bassist answer you will lose a lot but hit a lot of shots
Amazing what some words of encouragement and a ton lot of drugs can do
T Jex. Haha
"We crushed up some berserkers to inject straight into your bloodstream and through the power of friendship you should be a lot faster."
A positive variant of "that's XCOM baby"
That's bullshit baby!
Edward Geeves misses shot from target 1 space away
THATS XCOM BABY
The Advent got a taste
That's bullshit, where was the 100% miss?
"Sir the enemy is outnumbering us 30 : 1"
"Those 30 poor bastards never had a chance".
Best comment ever!
To blatantly repurpose Eninem, "Throw me to the wolves and lock the gate up; I'm afraid of what'll *_happen_* to them wolves when the thought of being thrown into an alligator pit, I salivate at it."
"I'm not surrounded, THIS IS JUST A TARGET-RICH ENVIRONMENT"
The most remarkable part of this is someone actually used overdrive serum
The single use items I usually ignore. After seeing this video I am now having second thoughts.
@@joezilla29 Of the single-use items Overdrive Serum is far and away the best, and the buffs make it legitimately useful in a clutch.
It would be nice if the OS wasn't removed from your inventory after use, but it was costlier to make.
@@HalNordmann Oh gods, it's a single use item? It doesn't work like medkits? That sucks. I just started playing. I'll make sure to keep that in mind if I start using OS.
@@noodlekeeper5150 honestly the single use items can be pretty game changing and you don't have to worry really because if you can make it, that means you'll be getting the resources to make more. I can't tell you how many times Overdrive or the Refraction field have turned the tide of a battle in my favor.
Here is one of the dumbest encounters I’ve ever had:
-My squad is surrounding a sectoid and 2 advent priests slav squatting next to a car like the gopniks they are
-The priest at the back buffs the priest in the middle, the priest in the middle buffs the sectoid in front and the sectoid mind controls my gunner. They have literally made a conga line of buffing.
-My squad takes turns at consecutively missing 80%-90% shots on the sectoid
-The sectoid gets a crit on my ranger, instant death. One priest miraculously misses, the other casts stasis on my specialist. My mind controlled gunner takes a pot shot at my sharpshooter, he misses but he accidentally heavily damages the car adjacent to the alien conga line.
-It’s finally my turn again. I’ve basically accepted my fate as my specialist lost their turn to stasis so only my sharpshooter is left, I aim for the priest at the back of the conga line and it hits, but it’s not enough.
-The sectoid and priests finish off my specialist and my mind controlled gunner does what he normally does, he misses but damages the car again.
-Then as the alien turn ends, the car explodes which kills the priest at the back of the conga line and sets off a chain reaction. The priest buffing the sectoid was being buffed by the priest in the back so he dies and since that priest was buffing the sectoid, the sectoid dies as well.
*RNGesus giveth, RNGesus taketh away*
Why Are You Reading This that’s XCOM baby
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Imagine the gunner’s confusion after waking up from the mind control being the only one alive
Ha-Mon, starter, TESTIFY
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XD
The reason he's not showing the next round is because he's used up all his favour with our lord and saviour RNG
RNGesus
also, encouraging your team mate for extra moves is a one time deal only; adding the reaper ability required cool down, that soldier is stuck behind enemy lines.
meh, he could save it, after all the lost is an enemy for both sides, i hav to thanks the lost for killig the chosen more than one time. it was hilarous, and i have the sound granades x2 to boot. very damn funny. i just have to wait and be careful , plus i have the instakill on the lost cuz the order, add a face of and a reverser from templar and you can't lose.
not really, very less RNG there, everything he did was 100% chance, the katana cannot miss or be dodged. The only variance was shooting the lost where he missed his ~60% shot but got lucky with his 15-20% free action (considering 4 shots total it was going to happen atleast once).
+Yijuwarp No RNG? What about the HAIR TRIGGER.
But no wonder the %s he's getting. That soldier will need to go to a rehab after using so many thongs at once.
And I'm just sitting here trying to find the best sweater mod for Central.
A pretty good one came out recently.
*when you send multiple support characters with your overleveled glass cannon*
András Fogarasi rangers are quite tanky though
*16 hp 5 armor*
"glass cannon"
@@dud5606 maybe it was armoured glass?
@@elgurkus6885 plexiglass
i personally enjoy cleaning out an entire horde of about 40 lost in one turn with a templar that has reaper and the psionic wave...
add the mod that makes mellee attacks count for headshots and you can just dance through the lost.
JockeTG Have your templar get bladestorm and put him in the middle of a horde of lost while having the 'between the eyes' card and bada bing bada boom
sadly he doesnt have bladestorm as one of his abilities ... also i have not gotten the between the eyes card
My first Templar rolled Bladestorm as one of his random abilities (the XCOM tree) and he absolutely wrecks face.
now i got a templar with reaper, bladestorm and faceoff ...
If that wasn't a Leroy, I don't know what is
Leo Durocher its LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ROOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIINSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! Not leroy
technically its "Leeroy", double E. But I get your points :)
can't be a leroy move it actually worked.
up there with john cena, leeroy is
the point of a leeroy is that doesn't work so... nope-
The power curve in XCOM has always been inverted, your rookie squads are meat on a good day in the first three months, but six months later the aliens can't even get a shot off.
BTW that 'tactical analysis' thing is a faction power, it cuts the actions of exposed enemies by one if you reveal them in your turn. It's broken and easily the best power in the game.
Maybe "Long war" could fit your request?
@Charmiskit long war 2 is exactly what you want.
Fully agree, starter!
That saved me so many times in my first run .. until AVENGER DEFENSE
* *Quiet **_"that's XCOM, baby!"_** in the distance* *
A minute into the video and this man has unleashed a force of nature the world was never prepared to handle.
Aliens: PLS MAKE HIM STOOP
Most ridiculous combo I've found so far is Icarus armor plus Sharpshooter with the Darklance and High Ground ability. Infinite shots with the most damaging weapon in the game, basically. Had a UFO shoot me down and my Icarus sniper pretty much soloed the entire map in 2 turns while a Reaper ran forward to spot the generator. No damage taken and 20+ enemies dead by the time everybody had made it safely back to the Avenger. None of my other soldiers even fired a shot :P.
GaldirEonai love this combo
That's why serpent ranger & icarus sniper bond is essential
You can just run two of the long range blaster missiles with a spotter and beat the avenger defense in two turns if I recall correctly.
I just beated the final mission with that combo. That mofo kill everything, the others soldiers just over-watched him
Honestly I love this. I know strategy game fans tend to be obsessed with balance, mostly thanks to the [ugh] multiplayer scene.
But when a strategy game just throws caution to the wind and introduces an overpowered element to the game? To allow the player to do something ridiculously powerful? It's fun! And sure, obviously the game shouldn't spoonfeed you that power from the start. But XCOM War of the Chosen made me feel genuinely rewarded for killing the Chosen. Now I have a soldier with a katana that pierces armor and never misses and a powered suit with a jetpack, who can easily murder an entire pod of aliens in one turn by themselves. It's a unique cathartic feeling that you don't usually find in modern RPGs and Strategy games.
For so long, you fear the alien.
Now, you're the reason that they can't sleep at night, because you might be there...
Watching...
Waiting.
I find myself agreeing
The reason why they didn't slaughter him is because Tactical Analysis makes enemies unable to move and attack on enemies' first combat turn.
Notice how the archon runs up to him, but then doesn't even attack.
Specifically, they lost one action. AI moved in but had no AP to attack after!
should have had the resistance order which allows instant kills on Lost if you so much as scratch them, could have racked up a few more kills
Necaradan666
That is so useful, it makes gunslingers the perfect lost exterminators
And nothing is better than going face off for the expedience while having quick draw
I want that, with my templar who has faceoff, on a mission where there is a Horde sitrep just get in the middle of the map have my reaper remote detonate a car or two then KILL EVERYTHING like I'm freaking chuck norris
I think there is it's called "between the eyes"
@@juanpablomontalvo4715 Jesse McCree, eat your heart out.
"This must be a short video if its only one turn"
*looks at the video length*
"oh"
Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series.
that was awesome. tactical analysis is one of the resistance orders, the one with which the enemies have one action less the turn after activation.
There is a resistance order?
I got it as continental bonus
That's a continental bonues?!
Cranor its both. I got both in my run.
Figured it was both considering the two gentlemen that mentioned it above! But thanks for the confirmation
Resistance order and continental bonus share the same pool, any item there can show up in both.
Damn, wish I could have seen the end of this mission!
you think that ranger is alive? he has a gate keeper and like 3 other top units after only him... you need like 2 decoys and aid protocol AGAIN just to have a chance
And he can literally run out of that entire mess. He's one move away from where he made his first super move to. He can easily regroup with the squad, away from the Gate Keeper without a lot of fuss. The Spectre and Andromedon are far more threatening in that position, but that's before leveraging anything else.
@@antiMatterDynamit he could just evac the ranger
XCOM is always such an amazing journey, at the endgame your squad are living gods melting through alien hordes like the red right hand of death, and you think back to those early missions when they had a 45% chance to hit an Advent soldier who was three inches from their face.
That was great to watch! And I enjoyed your gentle narrative too! Good work!
"And now no damage, and it's turn two-"
*The game sudden freezes and crash.*
"... Damn it..."
Seriously, as much as I am loving this game, being a lot better than the first (except for there being so many timed missions and the Avatar project progress thing. That'd be my only real complaint), it is rather buggy, at least on the Xbox One version. It tends to crash at the start of a new round or loading a map up. I think it does that whenever it tries to autosave, since my game has it set to save after every round for some reason .
Same on ps4... It's an ashaming porting....
That's not XCOM, baby!
I have a story of my own: and I know it's a mod so you can argue it doesn't really count, but it's not usually an overpowered mod. With Grimy's loot mod I got a ridiculously unbalanced sword. What it does is it increases damage by 2 every reaper kill instead of reducing it by 1. Lost mission comes up: my guy dances through the lost one slice at a time killing about 10 lost adding 20 damage to the sword. Then multiple alien pods activate, they run towards him making a horrible mistake as his sword is completely overpowered by now. After killing some humanoid aliens and some more lost on the way one slice sectopod kill. He did take some damage from the blast, but it was totally worth it. Meanwhile, the rest of the team just stands back a long ass way watching the unbelievable carnage. His teammate needed to give him another action point to cover some ground, but he alone in one turn took down most of the enemies.
The katanas are picking up dust back at the avenger
I was waiting for the templar to activate Reaper and go full-scale apeshit.
honestly though. a templar reaper with a ranger reaper just shreds everything. one well-placed snarpshooter with faceoff and now that everything has
Tactical analysis is an order that you can choose by the way. Makes it so that when you reveal a pod, then only get 1 action point on their turn. Really useful for this strategy
_logs into steam_
i love the expansion because it gives you some safety net options when you fuck up with the companions
and this isn't as insane as the sniper is in xcom one a high level sniper could kill every player in sight if posistioned right
I'm glad they found a way to make the already insanely overpowered Rangers even more overpowered...
Although, i also found the sharpshooter to be amazingly powerful now. Give them the Hunters rifle, Icarus armor and bluescreen rounds, jump them to a roof right in the middle of a group of enemies and watch the show unfold! With some careful planning, i have had my sharpshooter take like 6-10 killshots against regular Advent in one turn, as the rifle gets free reloads, only needs one action to fire, AND the sharpshooter gets the benefit of Death from above!
When they said the Chosen weapons were powerful, they weren't kidding...
That's actually Quiet disguised in the Viper suit.
Avit Kori yeah but she doesn't use a shotgun or sword
Damn that was cool. Thanks for posting and its perfect to me!
11:44 *sees "Amy Lee killed"* HOOOOOW CAN YOU SEEEEE INTO MY EEEYES LIKE OPEN DOOOOORS
if you had death from above you could have potentially wiped the whole map in one turn
"3 blobs of shield"
>Armor points
>"Blobs of shield"
What?
the ability that the advent shieldbearer has gives a shield above the health bar, not armour
Ah. I missed that he was referring to the shield.
Am dumb.
damn i was so invested in this i wanted to see the mission finish
The player could also activate the objective on that same turn, if I'm not mistaken. If the trooper is not the last to move, they can still activate an object after using up the moves.
If this was in real life, his movement speed would be inhuman.
That was absolutely incredible.
Remote start my favorite tool for destruction. 1 shot levels the entire screen
Mindblowing! WOW!
with a psi operative with stasis and inspire this becomes more op
stasis = no punishment for your madness + inspire = 1 more action
This was incredibly cool!
so that was basically the turn based equivalent of "Ninja anime guy cut everything in half at the speed of light"
This is pretty much how I beat War of the Chosen. 3 rangers with support bond mates. Wraith armor and Reaper... total destruction.
sharpshooter with face-off and between the eyes order. yeet
nah. bladestorm with between the eyes means you can just leave a ranger entirely unprotected in the middle of a horde of lost and they'll break on her sword like water on rock
this was positively awesome!
Tac analysis is a continental bonus that deprives the aliens of an action point if their activated on XCOM's turn
Commander Critic also a resistance order
Your voice is surprisingly soothing, and I approve
And I'm continuously missing 97% shots... I love this game!!!
Tactical analysis is a resistance order that gives them only one action
Great video brother have a safe and amazing night! God bless!
I remember cornering the king viper with 3 bladestorm rangers and mox with retribution. Every ruler action it made it got minced. Fastest ruler kill I ever made
*FATALITY*
welcome to xcom2!
You can either:
A) die instantly because of RNG
B) use a single soldier to murder half the enemy team!
C) die instantly because of RNG
*SO TRUE*
$5 well spent! (eShop sale is my religion).
XD
You gotta turn your audio up!
this guy is playing 3d chess while we’re playing checkers
I glanced at this and thought... ehh... clickbait maybe. After watching the first 50 seconds and was not disappointed at all. I'm trying this now :D
Best I've had so far is a pair of snipers cleaning 3 pods in X-Com2 (All expac accept WotC)
Only Mod I had was bigger pods.
4 Archons
2 Codex's (= 1 Pod)
6 Ravagers (The ones that ate you in X-Com enemy within and turned your soldiers into zombies before they exploded making more)
A red robot, and a bunch of others.
2 Snipers, 20 targets down.
Both had death from above, both had serial, and both had the advanced stocks (2 free reloads) And one was a gunslinger with Faceoff.
Wish I had recorded it as it was Epic.
And yes Blademaster is great along with Reaper, you can get some REALLY cool stuff to happen.
Spot an enemy Patrol while in stealth, Run ya ranger right up to whichever is a guaranteed kill, slice there face off, they become immune, pod triggers and they all try to run away, Blademaster procs on em all :D
you gotta give him the berserker queen armor. extra move distance and a free melee attack
Nicely done.
What a great first turn
Last mission I had my Templar on reaper and used rend with a Shockwave that killed 4 ppl allowing me to run him to the back of the map in one move. His mobility was 20 cause I sent him only on mobility increasing covert actions
Positively Rabbid, I'd say...
Demiath I see what you did there...
lol if this was in real time he would be moving at the speed of sound or smth, flashing all around the map and slashing aliens down
*teleports behind you*
the slack notification at 1:41 gave me a damn heart attack
The mission isn't over once you hack the workstation, you still need to kill all enemies on the map
I like how they call the squad "menace one five" = M15... Or Miss.
The squad is Menace 1, Menace 1-5 refers to the squad leader. Menace 1-6 would be the commander, and Menace 1-7 would be Central.
Reminds me of the Eversor assassins from Warhammer 40k.
I really wanna see this as narrated by Videogamedunkey....
Phoenixon If only Dunkey didn't dislike turn based games.
I got serial on one of my rangers, so all kills give him actions, got the arahashi early so he can solo most missions.
You could also use inspires on him to break the combo even more ridiculus point. (At most 3 use since skirmisher, bondmate and the main dish already clamps 3 slots)
that was impressive
This is like a gunslinger on steroids, this made me wanna buy the dlc
What is the mod that skips the animation of each enemy pack when you encounter it for the first time in the mission?
Or: ADVENT's very bad no good day
The craziest turn for me is when I one-shotted a Chosen using Mox's bullpup. Equipped with a Superior Repeater of course 😆
Mine was when one of my snipers one-shotted the berserker queen with a normal repeater with 20% of probability of hitting the target... So sad and angry for not recoeding it though.
Got Serial on my ranger today, you can imagine what this would be like with that ontop of it all
Cranor I believe it's the Sharpshooters the ones that have Serial.
You can cross-train them with random abilities from other classes, remember?
Indeed you can, having your ranger run around shooting everyone down and getting back their AP is amazing.
thst's someone wet dream. assuming the RNGod didn't curse you.
Just realised how bloody difficult this game is. ^^
Full Throttle on Skirmishers grants +2 mobility per kill on your turn. "Your turn" includes bladestorm kills during the Lost/Aliens turn. Throw on a Speed PCS, a few covert ops that give +1 Mobility, Combat Serum, and you can cross the entire map on a blue move.
The funny thing? I discovered this by accident on a Lost Supply crate mission.
wait what the fuck. any video recording?
wut? it works, what the hell, that's one long ass move, you turned my stoorm troopers on olimpic runners.
One man with a shotgun, a sword and a dream
so this is how warframe would look if it was turn-based strategy game
I really want that to happen now... imagine playing as one of the enemy faction small leaders you kill, that’d be a great way to provide story and bring more remembrance to a forgettable character
If you wanted you could have added a psi-operative with stasis and some other nice things to ensure your yolo-ists survival
I once got serial on a ranger so I could reaper everyone and then serial them all to death
Have done something similar several times, cause both my sniper and my ranger have the death from above perk, which means every kill grants a free shot, and if that shot kills, another free shot. Chosen sniper only requires one action and can be fired as this free shot. Free movement on high ground is granted by snake and archon suit, and the rest of the team only have to provide shred and rupture, and supply action points.
death from above reduces shot action cost to be 1 and non-turn ending it shouldn't be giving any free actions.
That's where you are wrong. Yes on paper it says "only cost one action and does not end your turn", but in reality it is achieved by refunding 1 action point after the kill shot, same way as implacable or momentum. Try it with the chosen sniper or find another class who gets the ability from training center, you'll be surprised.
omae wa mou shinderu
Nani?!
Sanger Zonvolt would be proud.
What? No Metal Gear Solid song for the Snake man?
i wholeheartedly agree...
Not sure if this works but if you run and gun shoot/slash on the turret before giving him the second advanced teamwork, you could have killed it with a second slash and keep reapering.
Is that right?
There's no denying that this game is fun as hell. But I find a lot of the systems and mechanics to be extremely cheesy. It feels more like a game than believable sci fi world. This video is a perfect demonstration of how silly it gets.
"War of the Chosen isn't gimmicky-"
11:49 - Gatekeeper straight up kills Evanescence. And them brings her to life lol
When all aliens got killed in X-COM, there were still plenty of them in UFO2Extraterrestrials for your rifles ;-)
I've done a few missions myself in a single turn. It takes a lot of thinking, planning and using sleek combination of skills but it's very possible.