@@TheDriftersBroadcast Next : can you beat xcom2 with below sergeant ranks only. (Low profile sitrep throughout the game). You are allowed to use all other type of upgrades, weapons, armour and improvements.
Personally, I would have used the 'Honest Man' card and restarted the mission where the reinforcements teleported through the roof. If YOU can't cheat, THEY can't cheat.
With good planning and some luck a meme beacon forfeited run just means you're out of a contingency plan if shit hits the fan. More dead and wounded, but you're forced to play batter!
I rarely use mimic beacons anymore. Had 3 runs in a row with virtually none and had to learn to not get everyone killed without them. Averaging 5 lost troops a run. Pretty big barracks roster because injuries early on
18:30 Mind Control does not proc the feedback ability. Reason being that once a soldier in Mind Controlled, the feedback ability activates, but since the Mind Controller is considered an ally unit when this happens, and feedback is only programmed to hit enemies, it ignores the proc.
If you havent done it already, i find a good tactic is to equip one psy with the crossbow and blue rounds : it one hits even heavy Mechs. And because you will probably rely more and more on abilities than rifles, even more useful for the times you need to shoot !
Been binge-watching these over the last few days. Getting rid of all the Twitch overlay and border stuff that very few people on TH-cam are going to care about was 100% the right call. I really appreciate the time spent on these videos. Good stuff!
Sniping safely from concealment is unironically one of the most relaxing things in gaming: No turn limit, just shot after shot after shot with no resistance
Hey Drifter. Recent sub, l never knew XCOM before about two weeks ago. Have since bought WOTC. Wanted to thank you for somehow making these videos super informative and fun, but you leave so much for anyone new to playing to discover on their own, I'm really grateful
Imo the best hook for a novel is definitely "it is Important, when killing a nun, to bring an army of sufficient size" which is from red sister by Mark Lawrence
Honestly, I think you jumped the gun by taking on the Warlock assault. The mission can be hard don’t get me wrong, but the long mostly flat landscape and damage based objectives makes sharpshooters a lot more suited for it then taking on box shaped rooms. I do like you uploaded the run though, not knowing if it’ll succeed or not makes it more exciting to watch. Some tips for the Warlock when he inevitably shows up first for you next vid: Mind shields neuter a lot of his abilities, I believe including mind scorch. You can even try and bait psionic attacks by using them on lower willed soldiers. Fire also takes away a lot of his abilities too. Things like dragon rounds have the pro of also helping against other units, but have the downside of not having him potentially waste turns that mind shields give. Also, I know you lost the Shadowkeeper to some frankly bs luck, but it is a good weapon. A lotta people don’t know it grants a passive aim and crit bonus to pistol shots, in addition to its special guaranteed shot. Makes it basically just a better pistol than other weapons in the tier.
This has to be the one run i've been looking forward to the most. Some long range snipers mixed in with Gunslingers. Most of my experience is with vanilla XCOM2, and not WoTC, but i'm guessing 2 snipers and 4 gunslingers for most missions, depending on what secret skills you unlock ofc. Gonna have a blast with this one. Good luck and let's go!
@@Lugghandle Definitely try WoTC! I've recently been doing a Legend/No Ironman run and it's very fun. The new classes are a treat (even if I still don't know how the heck to use Skirmishers), and the soldiers being tired system forces you to diversify your squad, which was my main drawback in other games, where I would have 6 Colonels, 20 Squaddies.
@@Lugghandle wotc is insane 2sharps and a reaver with grenadiers is so op lol any boss? Clip size upgrade instakill upgrade and crit. Hit banish delete map. Serial on sharps to pick off with death from above and then grenadiers to blow holes for them to shoot through.
@@Lugghandle Man, I hadn't beaten the vanilla game or WotC and I have 300 mods installed. Don't know how yall do it. Vanilla Xcom seems so boring to me now. Though there is a kinda nice consistency with like, grenades blowing cover (especially floors to drop them a level) far more often and things to got changed either in WotC or in the common mods I've installed.
Can't win 'em all. Would be a cool crossover to hand the save over to Syken for one of his "Save your disaster campaign" series. Hoping you take another crack at this, endgame snipers are a beauty to behold.
57:25 Always move other soldiers out of the way when you're trying to get somewhere far. It probably wouldn't have saved him, looking at the pathing, but it might have given him that one extra tile to make it to the evac by not having him need to use the ladder. You might have been able to keep the Shadowkeeper by using Lightning Hands on the 4hp guy before moving as well. Hard to say it would have actually made a difference in either scenario, but definitely something to keep in mind going for max range dashes.
@@TheDriftersBroadcast Yea I think for Leeson's scenario it wouldn't have mattered, but for Rat Lorde #1 if the lightning hands rolled well he might have been saved by it. It'd be a sphincter clench of a shot though.
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate you doing this series and posting such well made videos about it, if for no other reason than it has permanently disabused me of the desire to do it myself. In that spirit, thank you for sparing me the unspeakable suffering you have endured on our behalf.
I am so thankful we can watch the action full screen now, thanks for getting rid of the border, and thanks for doing these runs, I know the editing takes time and I really enjoy your content.
One thing I've found useful with the Sharpshooters is to give them Mind Shield that way they don't get mind controlled. Since it takes so long to move your snipers they tend to get cut off from the rest of the squad so if they get mind controlled it can be really bad. You might not be able to get them into flashbang range and a sniper can easily take out someone with a crit. Grenades tend to be useless on them anyway so it's easy to replace the grenade with a mind shield. You should also look for the Deep Learning Templar Order. It gives 10% increased EXP at rank 1 and at rank 2 it gives 20%. It's really good for leveling up soldiers that have classes that level up slowly. If you are doing another Sharpshooter only run I think Deep Learning might make the run a lot easier if you can find it.
I do like that you explain most mechanics on abilities multiple times over the episodes. I have never played any of the XCom games myself, so when I finally get going on the franchise I'm going to kick alien butt! And also avoiding any soldier with Liam Neeson or any variation of it like the plague. I hope to catch a livestream coming Wednessday! Thanks for the content!
beautiful, comprehensive, entertaining, old game, talented youtuber, informative with a taint of humor. i couldn't wish for a better XCOM youtuber, you go drifter!
@@TheDriftersBroadcast by the way, don't beat yourself down for losing, we all make mistakes, however, you should try and abuse kill zone, you can use the lure a person over to your troops strategy with phantom or a concealed unit and lure them to a killzone long watch ambush, it is extremely deadly and you could easily take out 1-2 pods combined, if you put repeaters on them it could be even more deadly. i once took out 2 arcons, a codex, and a heavy mech in one turn because i had 3 snipers with kill zone and long watch and 2 other soldiers (specialist and grenadier) on overwatch and the snipers ahnialated them, i even got a repeater kill on the codex so it didn't even split. all in all, if you do this with 5 snipers (1 with kill zone to assure all of them at least have a chance of getting killed) and then have the 6th sniper pull the troops over with a dash into your troops view (mostly the kill zone view) it is an extremely deadly strategy and i really hope that you use it. also, if you use tactical analysis, maybe they won't even shoot you :>
Something I noticed. A lot of the times you are one tile short, you have another character or enemy directly next to the guy you want to move. This leads to more tiles being needed to go around, so if you are short, make sure you aren’t blocking yourself. The first time if you were able to kill one of the enemies with lightning hands you should have been able to make it. The second time you had a soldier right next to Neeson, forcing him to take an extra few moves to get around him.
Oh boy I was waiting for this! Been binge watching your other playthroughs since the gunners one. I wonder how many times Leeson will miss this time around! Edit: Jesus Christ that was just terrible in the Warlock chamber. I hope to see this run being tried again at some point!
55:26 All Seeing doubles the detection range of the Chosen, which is determined by their vision stat. Because the Hunter is a Sniper, he has a boosted default vision stat and can see the furthest with All Seeing. By contrast, the Chosen Assassin being a stealth/melee unit pretty much cancels out All Seeing on her because she cannot reveal units while she's Concealed.
I've been watching your runs and you really do a perfect job commenting on the important happenings like your build and strategy, progression, etc, and cutting out the rest.
With how many times you start with the warlock and get hit by mind attacks I would have thought you would have seen the immense value of mind shields by now. They still perform the attacks and even suffer the feedback when it’s in place but it wastes their turn. Great item if nothing else for the early game and warlock assault.
I think your main issue was to rush the warlock due to anticipation of something worse happening was what made it a bad move, the most tragic thing is that a conceal unit with a plethora of sharpshooter support is a really effective strategy to deal with the avenger's deffense missions specially when you take into account that the pods (choosen included) really like to hug their highly explosive weapons, the bigger the gun the closer they are
Well shit. That was beyond brutal, but I believe in you and that you'll manage to wipe Warlock's ass next time. This skirmish may be lost, but the battle may yet be won.
The cowboy hat addition deserves a like. Maybe even a sub. Good for you dude. This definitely makes me want to play xcom2 wotc again but maybe just a squad size modded run with every class instead of only snipers.
@@TheDriftersBroadcast its the only thing left after PSI operatives I believe. And I wish you luck with all rookies. I attempted it, and failed, Mostly due to a lack of supplies, making me unable to buy rookies to keep going. But since you are on PC with access to some mods and console commands you might be able to get much further than I was able to. There might be a mod to prevent units from ranking up to make this even easier!
I got to watch you stream for the first time just the other day and you were doing this challenge. And now the video is already out. Really glad I found your channel :)
I hope you take this on again. XCOM rng is always the real enemy. I love these videos. Gives me something to watch or just listen too as I am relaxing. Thankyou.
I’ve loved watching your xcom videos, one of the greatest content creators out there for this game. I play on console but really got to get the game on pc for mods sake
Question; After doing the psi soldier run, would you consider using the SHIV mod for War of the Chosen and as a tribute to SHIVCom from EU/EW do a SHIV only run? That or if you ever feel like using SPARKs again, Mechatronic Warfare is balanced for vanilla but gives them much more flexibility.
I've been binging these since I found your channel, it's crazy to me how I can be so captivated as to watch hours straight of the same game being played over and over but hey, I love this game and I love these videos 😁.
Hey Drifter. I like this video so I hit the thumbs up, subscribed, and am leaving a comment. Your XCOM 2 videos have been a blast to watch and I really enjoy these campaign challenge commentaries you do. Thanks again for the hours of entertainment.
Gunslinger (and the whole Dark Tower series) is one of my favourite fantasy stories, it's great. I never did read that last chapter, I'll have to go back someday.
The barn is a tactical legacy pack map, it shows up if you have that DLC. Hunter is coded to have infinite vision range (that's how he could spam tracking shot across the map), so All Seeing on him is an absolute nightmare. This run went alot better early on than I thought since you were able to play around the class's mobility issues. It did spiral at the end but I think that's also due to the class having a really uneven power spike. Fan fire would have been a game changer but it's locked behind colonel rank. For future ideas, 1. Mindshield completely shuts the Warlock down (it blocks all psi abilities as well as daze, so even if the asassin stabbed someone, they'll only take damage but not be dazed) and would have saved you a ton of grief 2. EMP bomb is amazing and too often under utilized, 10 dmg and possibility of stunning robotics will often give you the breathing room you need on missions
6:15 I'm calling squadwipe on first Faceless encounter 42:00 I had no idea you could uncover Faceless with battle scanners. Hot damn. 46:35 And here I was thinking you would let your entire squad fall a couple of stories from a roof. I think that bad luck might have actually saved you that embarrassment :P Also, Sniper with Shredder? Congratulations, you just won the campaign. Or... not. Wow. That came as a shock.
I’m just starting the video but I can’t wait for the viper suit/chosen sniper combo. It’s deadly Edit: wow this video turned out different than I expected
I personally kinda liked the boarder. It gave your video A LOT of personality. I can see why people did like it but, it's kinda part of your identity (also I like ready chat a lot)
Prediction: This run will be HELL at the beginning but once you get decent pistols and enough good talents it will smoothen out a bit. Still predicting that this will be the hardest solo class challenge. On a seperate note, sharpshooter is my favourite class, the things you can do with death from above, pistol talents and the hunters armor ignoring pistol never seize to amaze me. Been loving these runs and I’m very curious about what you’ll be taking on next though whatever it may be it will most likely be awesome and I’ll be watching it. Keep on keeping on.
I can't wait til you re-try this challenge, I think some better early-game luck would help a lot. Another idea for a challenge run: Ballistic Weapons only.
In one of my xcom 2 campaigns I had the between the eyes resistance buff, and a really good sharpshooter, so whenever there were lost on a mission they would be destroyed
I really like this channel. I have only ever played WOTC on PlayStation. I remember them talking about allowing mods at one point. But to no avail. It's so cool watching you play with all the different mods and scenarios. Keep it up please. I have subscribed to this and the archive channel 🙂
I do really appreciate that you show us the failed runs, by the way. If I knew that you only showed the successful runs, it would take all the tension out of the videos. Plus it makes these challenges look more impressive, seeing how quickly they can go south.
My favorite opening line from a book - "It was the day my grandmother exploded." Ian Banks (The Crow Road). Thanks for uploading the footage to the second youtube channel, I find twitch unusable.
Hey there, I don't normally comment but I hope you don't feel like you have to succeed for these videos to be interesting. I'm here for you, I'm here for XCOM, and I find the whole experience interesting as every playthrough is different. Looking forward to seeing the next run :)
32:59 He didnt throw the nade through the wall The madlad bounced it off of the roof, through the hole that the first nade ripped, right on top of the enemy. Thats some mad throwing skills
a bit late but there is a cool interaction you can learn from this mission. If you have a soldier who needs to get to an evac zone fast but cant reach it, you can just blow up the evac. Now this only works when the evac is on a roof, but destroying the floor under it causes the evac zone to reform somewhere else. Its a trick that does not come in handy very often but a neat trick to know for that one crazy scenario you run into.
The true cowboy ending would have used all his pistol firepower before going down. He would have yee’d his last haw going down back in a blaze of glory.
About the feedback on the sectoids thing, my best explanation would be the feedback does not trigger specifically when mindspin ends in a mind control. It makes almost no sense, but neither does not doing feedback damage on mind control. Edit 1 (doing these as I watch): Yes, the Warlock and other psi enemies will target the lowest will soldier, since it is the easiest target. Think of it as the highest percentage shot. Because of this, it is EXTREMELY effective to give your lowest will soldier a mindshield, as not only will it prevent your soldier from getting battle madness through normal means, but it will also act as a decoy for psi abilities, so long as the enemy has Line of sight. This renders unusable about a third of the Warlock's arsenal. Edit 2: Damn, I recognized from the beginning that the first scenes were a failed attempt, but I kept waiting for the moment you started a new campaign and won, asuming it had happened. Wasn't expecting this conclusion, ironically.
The issue with Feedback and Mind Control is that Feedback activates AFTER the Psionic ability that triggered it, but it doesn't do damage to an ally that used a psionic ability, so the Mind Control's effect of making the soldier consider the Sectoid an ally causes the Feedback to fail.
The Warlock really loves you a lot. This is the 4th or 5th campaing it appears in a row. Honestly, blessing will be if you had the Hunter 1, since getting the hunter's sniper rifle and pistol early on would be the best thing (move and shoot, and has a pistol who ignores armor). Sadly, Sharpshooters aren't made for a long run since as much as gunglister is the move and shoot option, it lacks of the fire power to take things. Its basically RNG in a sense. You got all the posible bad scenarios playing (one soldier get info extracted, one got kidnap and another literally dies because the game decided he rolls low on mobility). Plus you tackle the chamber without a coronel at leas because Coronel sharphotters are made better for case like this. And again for them its better to tackle the Hunter sooner because it give them a massive power spike (basically at top of getting to move with shoot, you can abuse death from above in this way if you had a grapel and an extra turn, or and serial on top)
Can you imagine if some random trooper just shot Central in that opening cutscene and how that would change and effect things. Great video as always Drifter!
I will mention an inaccuracy regarding out of unit range. I have noticed that you keep stating that a unit will be out of range, however in both cases there is either an ally/enemy directly adjacent to said unit. All units have collision with each other. Including allies when it comes to movement. So if you had killed the lancer in the first mission, you will gain that 1 unit space you needed to make the run.
This warlock crossed multiple timelines to find the one where he could abuse XCom the most.
This cracked me up. Cheers.
@@TheDriftersBroadcast Next : can you beat xcom2 with below sergeant ranks only. (Low profile sitrep throughout the game). You are allowed to use all other type of upgrades, weapons, armour and improvements.
@@indiankid8601 maybe you should add a no mimic beacons part because you seem like you want to make him suffer
@@TheDriftersBroadcast what mod do you use to select all your soldiers to the challenge class
Warlock reloaded the save until he got good rolls.
Personally, I would have used the 'Honest Man' card and restarted the mission where the reinforcements teleported through the roof. If YOU can't cheat, THEY can't cheat.
Or even just reload the turn to see if the same effect happens. Could have been a glitch and would still fall under 'Honest Man' rules IMO.
That's what I said. As soon as that happened I'm restarting...
I know right?
Gonna have to agree with this one. No way that isn't a bug.
hes more ironman than honest man but i admire the tenacity to plow through that anyways
I get the feeling a "no mimic beacon"-run would be the most difficult one for drifter
Well, the sparks run had no beacons
With good planning and some luck a meme beacon forfeited run just means you're out of a contingency plan if shit hits the fan. More dead and wounded, but you're forced to play batter!
@@Invizive right, forgot that one
I once did a no beacon run pretty easily
I rarely use mimic beacons anymore. Had 3 runs in a row with virtually none and had to learn to not get everyone killed without them. Averaging 5 lost troops a run. Pretty big barracks roster because injuries early on
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I like how Drifter talks about Warlock while casually making two ~10% crits in a row.
# Just Sharpshooter Things
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Mind Control does not proc the feedback ability. Reason being that once a soldier in Mind Controlled, the feedback ability activates, but since the Mind Controller is considered an ally unit when this happens, and feedback is only programmed to hit enemies, it ignores the proc.
If true, that's bullshit.
@@crosseightyeight It's true, and you can blame a couple abilities for it: Ally Stasis and Inspire.
Yes, that was my understanding as well. Essentially you only get feedback if you fail.
@@Lazarus52980 are you sure
This was an absolute hell run to see live. However, we’re on to Psionics. Good Luck, Drifter, you’re gonna need it.
This isn't even the successful run xD
If you havent done it already, i find a good tactic is to equip one psy with the crossbow and blue rounds : it one hits even heavy Mechs.
And because you will probably rely more and more on abilities than rifles, even more useful for the times you need to shoot !
Aren't psionics super op and this will be cakewalk?
@@GeraldMMonroe no. It's essentially rookies only till psi lab
@@icicle_ai will all rookies have psi potential?
Been binge-watching these over the last few days. Getting rid of all the Twitch overlay and border stuff that very few people on TH-cam are going to care about was 100% the right call.
I really appreciate the time spent on these videos. Good stuff!
Sniping safely from concealment is unironically one of the most relaxing things in gaming:
No turn limit, just shot after shot after shot with no resistance
You go from playing Xcom 2 to what feels like a tower defense game lol it’s great!
It's crazy how quick you can edit together all these VODs into an hour+ videos. Love the content, don't burn yourself out bro
This is the first campaign, not the successful one
@@icicle_ai which was the successful run
@@muhammadsyafimohamadfikri8995 not out yet
Hey Drifter. Recent sub, l never knew XCOM before about two weeks ago. Have since bought WOTC. Wanted to thank you for somehow making these videos super informative and fun, but you leave so much for anyone new to playing to discover on their own, I'm really grateful
You're too kind!
Imo the best hook for a novel is definitely "it is Important, when killing a nun, to bring an army of sufficient size" which is from red sister by Mark Lawrence
Honestly, I think you jumped the gun by taking on the Warlock assault. The mission can be hard don’t get me wrong, but the long mostly flat landscape and damage based objectives makes sharpshooters a lot more suited for it then taking on box shaped rooms. I do like you uploaded the run though, not knowing if it’ll succeed or not makes it more exciting to watch.
Some tips for the Warlock when he inevitably shows up first for you next vid:
Mind shields neuter a lot of his abilities, I believe including mind scorch. You can even try and bait psionic attacks by using them on lower willed soldiers.
Fire also takes away a lot of his abilities too. Things like dragon rounds have the pro of also helping against other units, but have the downside of not having him potentially waste turns that mind shields give.
Also, I know you lost the Shadowkeeper to some frankly bs luck, but it is a good weapon. A lotta people don’t know it grants a passive aim and crit bonus to pistol shots, in addition to its special guaranteed shot. Makes it basically just a better pistol than other weapons in the tier.
I'm really hoping to see a second try eventually
Edit: I spoke too soon we're getting round 2
If there's a soldier in range he will target that one with psi attacks. It's really easy to bait the attacks to mind shield soldiers
Only nerds run mind shield. Ammo upgrades all the way for sharpshooters
@@hanzolos1852 Ammo upgrades should be weapon upgrades anyways, so just use that mod.
@@heirofaniu Other than ammo upgrades, does his run include weapon upgrades? I don't think I've seen him add them?
This has to be the one run i've been looking forward to the most. Some long range snipers mixed in with Gunslingers. Most of my experience is with vanilla XCOM2, and not WoTC, but i'm guessing 2 snipers and 4 gunslingers for most missions, depending on what secret skills you unlock ofc. Gonna have a blast with this one. Good luck and let's go!
Comments posted moments before disaster.
Same. Still haven't tried WoTC. Still haven't beat the vanilla game. 😅
@@Lugghandle Definitely try WoTC! I've recently been doing a Legend/No Ironman run and it's very fun. The new classes are a treat (even if I still don't know how the heck to use Skirmishers), and the soldiers being tired system forces you to diversify your squad, which was my main drawback in other games, where I would have 6 Colonels, 20 Squaddies.
@@Lugghandle wotc is insane 2sharps and a reaver with grenadiers is so op lol any boss? Clip size upgrade instakill upgrade and crit. Hit banish delete map. Serial on sharps to pick off with death from above and then grenadiers to blow holes for them to shoot through.
@@Lugghandle Man, I hadn't beaten the vanilla game or WotC and I have 300 mods installed. Don't know how yall do it. Vanilla Xcom seems so boring to me now. Though there is a kinda nice consistency with like, grenades blowing cover (especially floors to drop them a level) far more often and things to got changed either in WotC or in the common mods I've installed.
Can't win 'em all. Would be a cool crossover to hand the save over to Syken for one of his "Save your disaster campaign" series. Hoping you take another crack at this, endgame snipers are a beauty to behold.
57:25 Always move other soldiers out of the way when you're trying to get somewhere far. It probably wouldn't have saved him, looking at the pathing, but it might have given him that one extra tile to make it to the evac by not having him need to use the ladder. You might have been able to keep the Shadowkeeper by using Lightning Hands on the 4hp guy before moving as well. Hard to say it would have actually made a difference in either scenario, but definitely something to keep in mind going for max range dashes.
Yuh, I did consider that for Leeson, but don't think it would have made a difference.
@@TheDriftersBroadcast Yea I think for Leeson's scenario it wouldn't have mattered, but for Rat Lorde #1 if the lightning hands rolled well he might have been saved by it. It'd be a sphincter clench of a shot though.
I love XCOM, and I love these challenge runs. But your personality is what really makes these videos great! Looking forward to what you put out next!
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate you doing this series and posting such well made videos about it, if for no other reason than it has permanently disabused me of the desire to do it myself. In that spirit, thank you for sparing me the unspeakable suffering you have endured on our behalf.
"I'd like to have fun"
Warlock has joined the game
"Nevermind"
I am so thankful we can watch the action full screen now, thanks for getting rid of the border, and thanks for doing these runs, I know the editing takes time and I really enjoy your content.
I love the removal of the border and like even more that you did it out of an open mind to community response. Easy subscription from me.
One thing I've found useful with the Sharpshooters is to give them Mind Shield that way they don't get mind controlled. Since it takes so long to move your snipers they tend to get cut off from the rest of the squad so if they get mind controlled it can be really bad. You might not be able to get them into flashbang range and a sniper can easily take out someone with a crit. Grenades tend to be useless on them anyway so it's easy to replace the grenade with a mind shield. You should also look for the Deep Learning Templar Order. It gives 10% increased EXP at rank 1 and at rank 2 it gives 20%. It's really good for leveling up soldiers that have classes that level up slowly. If you are doing another Sharpshooter only run I think Deep Learning might make the run a lot easier if you can find it.
Just a week ago I found your channel and binged the rest of the series and almost got mad when I didn’t find the sharpshooter episode but here we are!
I do like that you explain most mechanics on abilities multiple times over the episodes. I have never played any of the XCom games myself, so when I finally get going on the franchise I'm going to kick alien butt!
And also avoiding any soldier with Liam Neeson or any variation of it like the plague.
I hope to catch a livestream coming Wednessday! Thanks for the content!
Im glad to see the overlay absent this video, want to see more of the action!
From a person who watches your videos in bed on a phone - you have my upmost gratitude for the removal of the black bars, Drifter!
beautiful, comprehensive, entertaining, old game, talented youtuber, informative with a taint of humor. i couldn't wish for a better XCOM youtuber, you go drifter!
Thanks!
@@TheDriftersBroadcast by the way, don't beat yourself down for losing, we all make mistakes, however, you should try and abuse kill zone, you can use the lure a person over to your troops strategy with phantom or a concealed unit and lure them to a killzone long watch ambush, it is extremely deadly and you could easily take out 1-2 pods combined, if you put repeaters on them it could be even more deadly. i once took out 2 arcons, a codex, and a heavy mech in one turn because i had 3 snipers with kill zone and long watch and 2 other soldiers (specialist and grenadier) on overwatch and the snipers ahnialated them, i even got a repeater kill on the codex so it didn't even split. all in all, if you do this with 5 snipers (1 with kill zone to assure all of them at least have a chance of getting killed) and then have the 6th sniper pull the troops over with a dash into your troops view (mostly the kill zone view)
it is an extremely deadly strategy and i really hope that you use it. also, if you use tactical analysis, maybe they won't even shoot you :>
@@giakohi1239 killzone should be able to work, even without longwatch
that said, ofc one would always want long watch on their long range snipers
Man, that was a really unlikely set of really unfortunate circumstances.
Sorry man, that was sad to watch.
Something I noticed. A lot of the times you are one tile short, you have another character or enemy directly next to the guy you want to move. This leads to more tiles being needed to go around, so if you are short, make sure you aren’t blocking yourself. The first time if you were able to kill one of the enemies with lightning hands you should have been able to make it. The second time you had a soldier right next to Neeson, forcing him to take an extra few moves to get around him.
finally my facorite class, love your videos, your voice just makes it sooo chill to listen to
Thanks!
Oh boy I was waiting for this! Been binge watching your other playthroughs since the gunners one.
I wonder how many times Leeson will miss this time around!
Edit: Jesus Christ that was just terrible in the Warlock chamber. I hope to see this run being tried again at some point!
55:26 All Seeing doubles the detection range of the Chosen, which is determined by their vision stat. Because the Hunter is a Sniper, he has a boosted default vision stat and can see the furthest with All Seeing.
By contrast, the Chosen Assassin being a stealth/melee unit pretty much cancels out All Seeing on her because she cannot reveal units while she's Concealed.
I've been watching your runs and you really do a perfect job commenting on the important happenings like your build and strategy, progression, etc, and cutting out the rest.
With how many times you start with the warlock and get hit by mind attacks I would have thought you would have seen the immense value of mind shields by now. They still perform the attacks and even suffer the feedback when it’s in place but it wastes their turn. Great item if nothing else for the early game and warlock assault.
Yeah no idea why you did not use mindshield's with all those losses from the warlock all through the mission. but tough run.. phew
I think your main issue was to rush the warlock due to anticipation of something worse happening was what made it a bad move, the most tragic thing is that a conceal unit with a plethora of sharpshooter support is a really effective strategy to deal with the avenger's deffense missions specially when you take into account that the pods (choosen included) really like to hug their highly explosive weapons, the bigger the gun the closer they are
Yessssss, I've been waiting for this one for a while. Snipers are my favorite class both in XCOM and every other game.
Well shit. That was beyond brutal, but I believe in you and that you'll manage to wipe Warlock's ass next time.
This skirmish may be lost, but the battle may yet be won.
The cowboy hat addition deserves a like. Maybe even a sub. Good for you dude.
This definitely makes me want to play xcom2 wotc again but maybe just a squad size modded run with every class instead of only snipers.
So randomly found you as I started my first run on xcom 2. Couldn't help myself and have a watch and listen while I play :)
I can't wait for "Can I Beat XCOM 2 (WOTC) With Only Rookies"!
Plz no.
@@TheDriftersBroadcast its the only thing left after PSI operatives I believe. And I wish you luck with all rookies. I attempted it, and failed, Mostly due to a lack of supplies, making me unable to buy rookies to keep going. But since you are on PC with access to some mods and console commands you might be able to get much further than I was able to. There might be a mod to prevent units from ranking up to make this even easier!
Glad to see recent WOTC content. You are doing a great job keeping that game alive
My favorite class in the entire game.
Those long range high accuracy shots are AMAZING.
Also those pistols with the lightninghands? Love it.
Been loving your content dude, it’s got me back into X-Com.
I caught the tail end live on my pyromance mage account and I want to see how you sum up that seemingly trainwreck lol great content.
I was a lot less salty in this video haha.
Your channel is so underrated, I appreciate how you and your community like to trade knowledge about the game. :)
I got to watch you stream for the first time just the other day and you were doing this challenge. And now the video is already out. Really glad I found your channel :)
I hope you take this on again. XCOM rng is always the real enemy. I love these videos. Gives me something to watch or just listen too as I am relaxing. Thankyou.
I’ve loved watching your xcom videos, one of the greatest content creators out there for this game. I play on console but really got to get the game on pc for mods sake
Man, these videos are treasure for me, never watched one from start to end but it's truly enjoyable!
Question; After doing the psi soldier run, would you consider using the SHIV mod for War of the Chosen and as a tribute to SHIVCom from EU/EW do a SHIV only run? That or if you ever feel like using SPARKs again, Mechatronic Warfare is balanced for vanilla but gives them much more flexibility.
For sure.
I've been binging these since I found your channel, it's crazy to me how I can be so captivated as to watch hours straight of the same game being played over and over but hey, I love this game and I love these videos 😁.
Hey Drifter. I like this video so I hit the thumbs up, subscribed, and am leaving a comment. Your XCOM 2 videos have been a blast to watch and I really enjoy these campaign challenge commentaries you do. Thanks again for the hours of entertainment.
Ever since I had my near naked sniper become a God of destruction, the Sharpshooter's been my favorite class. This is gonna be fun.
At forty eight minutes you have the best squad available game over. I really appreciate the music.
Gunslinger (and the whole Dark Tower series) is one of my favourite fantasy stories, it's great. I never did read that last chapter, I'll have to go back someday.
Hey man I just wanna say thank you for making these videos. They are relaxing and entertaining.
The barn is a tactical legacy pack map, it shows up if you have that DLC. Hunter is coded to have infinite vision range (that's how he could spam tracking shot across the map), so All Seeing on him is an absolute nightmare.
This run went alot better early on than I thought since you were able to play around the class's mobility issues. It did spiral at the end but I think that's also due to the class having a really uneven power spike. Fan fire would have been a game changer but it's locked behind colonel rank.
For future ideas,
1. Mindshield completely shuts the Warlock down (it blocks all psi abilities as well as daze, so even if the asassin stabbed someone, they'll only take damage but not be dazed) and would have saved you a ton of grief
2. EMP bomb is amazing and too often under utilized, 10 dmg and possibility of stunning robotics will often give you the breathing room you need on missions
That Steven King line is crazy insane good thanks for sharing it!
6:15
I'm calling squadwipe on first Faceless encounter
42:00
I had no idea you could uncover Faceless with battle scanners. Hot damn.
46:35
And here I was thinking you would let your entire squad fall a couple of stories from a roof. I think that bad luck might have actually saved you that embarrassment :P
Also, Sniper with Shredder? Congratulations, you just won the campaign.
Or... not. Wow. That came as a shock.
I’m just starting the video but I can’t wait for the viper suit/chosen sniper combo. It’s deadly
Edit: wow this video turned out different than I expected
this was a truly epic episode, and awesome that you'd show and accept the defeat.
That ADVENT spawn through walls should have triggered honestman. No god damn way that isn't bugging out or jank, no way that's honest.
I personally kinda liked the boarder. It gave your video A LOT of personality. I can see why people did like it but, it's kinda part of your identity (also I like ready chat a lot)
I'm glad the border is gone, it put me of this channel for a long time.
Prediction: This run will be HELL at the beginning but once you get decent pistols and enough good talents it will smoothen out a bit. Still predicting that this will be the hardest solo class challenge.
On a seperate note, sharpshooter is my favourite class, the things you can do with death from above, pistol talents and the hunters armor ignoring pistol never seize to amaze me.
Been loving these runs and I’m very curious about what you’ll be taking on next though whatever it may be it will most likely be awesome and I’ll be watching it. Keep on keeping on.
I can't wait til you re-try this challenge, I think some better early-game luck would help a lot. Another idea for a challenge run: Ballistic Weapons only.
I love the removal of the border so much, makes the whole thing feel more focused
In one of my xcom 2 campaigns I had the between the eyes resistance buff, and a really good sharpshooter, so whenever there were lost on a mission they would be destroyed
Great effort! I'd be glad to see you try this challenge again
44:50 just had to show appreciation for the incredible delivery of this line
Great to see the game fullscreen.
Brutal run for sure but still showed your skills
I really like this channel. I have only ever played WOTC on PlayStation. I remember them talking about allowing mods at one point. But to no avail. It's so cool watching you play with all the different mods and scenarios. Keep it up please. I have subscribed to this and the archive channel 🙂
Cheers.
9:50 i have no idea how, but i predicted it'd be leeson, and i had a laughing fit when i saw that cursed haircut once again
Watched the vods but this is so well edited I love it
33:05 when you are so good as sniper that physical mater doesn't bother you lol
I do really appreciate that you show us the failed runs, by the way. If I knew that you only showed the successful runs, it would take all the tension out of the videos. Plus it makes these challenges look more impressive, seeing how quickly they can go south.
I'm very glad I'm not alone in the 'Give every gunslinger a cowboy hat and nickname' crowd.
Lmao, 54:32 firing the sniper rifle one handed like an absolute badass, point blank no less, the Warlock never stood a chance
My favorite opening line from a book - "It was the day my grandmother exploded." Ian Banks (The Crow Road). Thanks for uploading the footage to the second youtube channel, I find twitch unusable.
Man that was a lot of bad luck for your soldiers, also huge props for using FOYF in the ending ❤️
49:35 God I love snipers
Hey there, I don't normally comment but I hope you don't feel like you have to succeed for these videos to be interesting. I'm here for you, I'm here for XCOM, and I find the whole experience interesting as every playthrough is different. Looking forward to seeing the next run :)
Drifter shooting the adromidon at point blank with no fear has got to be one of the most badass things I’ve seen him do
Lets go new video!!! Always excited for your excellent quality content!
Just what I needed on a day where I'm all out of energy and exhausted. Perfect for shooting me back into a better mood
Did you miss, cause that's XCOM Baby.
Good thing I had a stock equipped, always good to stock up on those
38:49 this is the reason why I prefer to take breaks in games like these. You just need a breather to think straight and not make stupid mistakes.
So glad I found this channel, love these challenges!
4:08 - god damnit why did that make me laugh so hard
32:59
He didnt throw the nade through the wall
The madlad bounced it off of the roof, through the hole that the first nade ripped, right on top of the enemy.
Thats some mad throwing skills
a bit late but there is a cool interaction you can learn from this mission. If you have a soldier who needs to get to an evac zone fast but cant reach it, you can just blow up the evac. Now this only works when the evac is on a roof, but destroying the floor under it causes the evac zone to reform somewhere else. Its a trick that does not come in handy very often but a neat trick to know for that one crazy scenario you run into.
The true cowboy ending would have used all his pistol firepower before going down. He would have yee’d his last haw going down back in a blaze of glory.
About the feedback on the sectoids thing, my best explanation would be the feedback does not trigger specifically when mindspin ends in a mind control. It makes almost no sense, but neither does not doing feedback damage on mind control.
Edit 1 (doing these as I watch): Yes, the Warlock and other psi enemies will target the lowest will soldier, since it is the easiest target. Think of it as the highest percentage shot. Because of this, it is EXTREMELY effective to give your lowest will soldier a mindshield, as not only will it prevent your soldier from getting battle madness through normal means, but it will also act as a decoy for psi abilities, so long as the enemy has Line of sight. This renders unusable about a third of the Warlock's arsenal.
Edit 2: Damn, I recognized from the beginning that the first scenes were a failed attempt, but I kept waiting for the moment you started a new campaign and won, asuming it had happened. Wasn't expecting this conclusion, ironically.
The issue with Feedback and Mind Control is that Feedback activates AFTER the Psionic ability that triggered it, but it doesn't do damage to an ally that used a psionic ability, so the Mind Control's effect of making the soldier consider the Sectoid an ally causes the Feedback to fail.
@@alexstewart9592 Yup, read a comment like yours shortly after writing mine. It both makes sense and doesn't make sense at the same time.
I figured this class would either be the easiest or the hardest of these class-specific runs. Well played, as much as it could be at least.
Was waiting for this one! I was imagining how tough this was going to be.
Thanks for the videos they’re really well done and inspired me to finally try to play and beat xcom 2
Hey, Drifter.
These are neat and well done.
Thanks.
Gave a sub after hearing you take on board your viewers opinions
The Warlock really loves you a lot. This is the 4th or 5th campaing it appears in a row. Honestly, blessing will be if you had the Hunter 1, since getting the hunter's sniper rifle and pistol early on would be the best thing (move and shoot, and has a pistol who ignores armor). Sadly, Sharpshooters aren't made for a long run since as much as gunglister is the move and shoot option, it lacks of the fire power to take things.
Its basically RNG in a sense. You got all the posible bad scenarios playing (one soldier get info extracted, one got kidnap and another literally dies because the game decided he rolls low on mobility). Plus you tackle the chamber without a coronel at leas because Coronel sharphotters are made better for case like this. And again for them its better to tackle the Hunter sooner because it give them a massive power spike (basically at top of getting to move with shoot, you can abuse death from above in this way if you had a grapel and an extra turn, or and serial on top)
Damn I got caught out with this one. I am super happy you uploaded this. I really enjoyed it. Hope to catch you on Twitch some time!
Can you imagine if some random trooper just shot Central in that opening cutscene and how that would change and effect things.
Great video as always Drifter!
I will mention an inaccuracy regarding out of unit range. I have noticed that you keep stating that a unit will be out of range, however in both cases there is either an ally/enemy directly adjacent to said unit. All units have collision with each other. Including allies when it comes to movement. So if you had killed the lancer in the first mission, you will gain that 1 unit space you needed to make the run.
Pretty sure Leeson didn't have to run around anybody, so wouldn't have helped in his case.