Also suppression confers aim debuffs and removes overwatch. To me, its utility has always been more like a repeatable flashbang than anything that actually puts bullets into ayys. Their poor aim plays into that as well. Their role is more about laying down covering fire than getting the squad's kills... which doesn't lend itself well to an all-gunners run.
If I had a dollar for every time Drifter had a hard time with a solo-class run that primarily uses cannons, I'd have 3 dollars. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice. Also, Leeson bringing the good fortune after the first 2 bungled runs he did his best to sabotage is the perfect character arc for him. It all goes full circle.
To be fair to the Warlock, I'm pretty sure the whole point of Mimic Beacons is that the enemy doesn't know they're a hologram, to them it's supposed to look like an actual soldier standing unprotected in the open, which is what makes them want to attack it.
@@TheDriftersBroadcast it prob still works as a target but they dont have the buff of wanting to attack it so it prob used it on purpose to hit drifter
@@10011110011it's a shame honestly, I really like hour formatted videos as even if I don't pay full attention to it I can still just play them as though they're a podcast or something similar in the background.
As people already pointed out already. His videos are entertaining. I enjoy the hour or so videos and the challenge run aspect because I have spent a vast number of hours in XCOM. That said, average gamers don’t care about challenge runs because they don’t play challenge runs, and the average viewer doesn’t like stick around to watch one hour videos. That said, if you want an XCOM movie (like a 3+ hour video), look up Beaglerush Frag’s Finest. It’s XCOM, no mods, hardcore, alien battleship assault and he’s got no upgrades at all because it’s a landed UFO. Beaglerush was one of the first (if not the first) to put XCOM on the radar of gamers, and his gameplay is impeccable. Grab some popcorn and give the video a watch. It’s an old one from Enemy Within, but it’s a damn good showcase of how he pushes through a ridiculously hard mission and despite all the odds, actually wins to score a massive, early haul of materials to jumpstart his campaign. I just wish he still did his old format of edited videos for XCOM cuz they were funny as hell. Now he just streams via Twitch and uploads the entire thing to TH-cam time to time. :/
Hello Drifter! Could you consider doing a 2 class run with the Xenozoologist and Monstermaster mods? They’re a really fun pair of mods that add two very weird classes to the game, and I’d like to see how you handle them. There are a few issues I’d like to warn you about if you do this: - I don’t know if minions carry over through things like the chosen stronghold elevators or the transition to the second part of the final mission, so you might need to double the amount of uses for the summon abilities - The zombies spawned by one of the Xenozoologists top path abilities don’t die when the xenozoologist evacs, and can’t evac themselves. If you get them on a mission where you’re required to evac, you need to kill them to end the mission - I recommend using either the more grenades or dedicated pistol slot mod if you do this run, because the xenozoologist and monstermaster don’t actually have any way to deal damage without their minions besides grenades
This run feels like a story plot. At first the gunners could barely adage a mission without losses and by the end. They were death machines. And Leeson had his character arc story. Well done on this run
Combatives is actually insanely OP to have on one soldier. If allows you to Perma-stun/kill any melee unit (including Mutons). XCOM enemies are coded to prioritise melee when they can, and so if you park your soldier next to a Muton, the muton will keep stabbing it, and then getting stabbed back, preventing it from doing anything. Doesn't work as well on lancers though, since they have a lot of range and will sometimes go further than your bait soldier.
I think for what happened with some of the weird ai abilities like warlock panicking a memebeacon and the codex disabling one soldier is because of lacking ability range... So what could have happened with the warlock would have been that he has spell casting higher priority over shooting the mimic beacon but he didn't have the range for any of the soldiers so he did the next best thing... He cast a spell on the beacon in hopes of hitting one of your troopers and I think it's pretty sneaky...
Zero to hero! Leeson is one of my favourite soldiers in your challenge runs. You will never know how happy I was to see him return like a force of nature and save the day! Almost like he has been a super solider all along but was pretending to be bad cause he was lazy and didn't want more work, but when the chips were down, he stepped up!
fuck yeah, drifty boy is back with another one! also reposting my run idea again: "" So, you know how in Long War the soldiers start "not made equal", and sometimes you end up with snipers with dreadful aim and very slow assaults, and so on. Maybe you could do a run where the important and not important stats for a class are, respectively, really bad and really good IE a sniper with very high health or mobility and very low aim or a "scraping the barrel" themed run, in which your soldiers start with the lowest possible stats (as dictated by the long war stat randomizer, ofc having 1 health, 10 aim, 2 mobility would be silly) probably the second one is easier to set up and be consistent with ... and more painful! ""
may the algorithm bless you with more views! a pleasure to watch and a welcome distraction from some unpleasant events going on in life at the moment. all the best drifter and thanks for all the videos!
Wow, that was a heck of a recovery after the squadwipe. The trajectory of this Gunner campaign makes sense from what I can recall seeing in actual LW2. Iirc, the Gunner is really not a big damage-dealer in the early game. Their role early is much more of a supporting class, using their arsenal of suppression-type abilities to keep the hordes of LW2 enemies in check until other classes in their squad can take the enemies out. As you saw, they start to really hit hard once Chain Shot/Rapid Fire/Cyclic Fire/Traverse Fire open up, but those are all in the upper ranks.
I think the Warlock attacked the Mimic Beacon in order to spread the attack to your other troops, which is actually a pretty smart move come to think of it
This class is just painful, having the strengths of Grenadiers, Sharpshooters, and Rangers. Yet a weapon which undermines all of this and that knife which only serves to make them even weaker still while undermining their unique focus. A focus which means if an enemy does shoot you the actual dangerous Crits won't be impacted. If you get enough Ability Points for training and learn most of their abilities they become incredibly powerful. I assume this works in LONG war where the game goes on long enough to let this happen leading to a much better balance and makes them one of the better classes as you have 4 high damage shots near unavoidable while lowering enemy accuracy. So congrats with winning with this class on effectively ultra hard mode!
In standard Long War 2 Cannons have 5 shots by default, so they need to spend a lot less time reloading. You also have larger squads, and Gunners serve a support role where they use Suppression on dangerous enemies to effectively remove them from the fight for one turn. That Cannon also has an aim penalty under 5 tiles distance, the knife is supposed to give them something for close range. Ability Points also weren't a mechanic when LW2 originally released (they were introduced with the War of the Chosen DLC), they were meant to have only one perk from each row, so no ultra-lategame farming.
Idea: Primary fire only run. You can only use the fire weapon and overwatch abilities to deal damage. Abilities that fire your gun like rapid fire arent allowed but passives like shredder and run and gun are. Damaging grenades and all other damaging abilities are of course not allowed.
Welp, time to reinstall XCOM after watching this You motivated me to go test my custom classes and see if they're this episode's Leeson, or just Leeson.
I really don't know why units that are bleeding out at the end of a mission aren't stabilized and captured. Not only would it be a better chance for advent to get info on your army, but it would also make the jailbreak missions more common, since they currently hardly ever appear
After playing a few of the Avenger Defense missions, I kinda get why the mod always adds a hill in the middle. The Defense Matrix turrets can get squadsight. Destroying the Disruptor/Siege cannon at range renders it trivial. (Also, I made my own version of Leesen and he turned out to be my best sniper. Was also a very popular guy, given that everyone wanted to bond with him, including every single one of the faction units.)
I was going to subscribe to help out Uncle Leeson but then I thought to myself, "Hell no! Leeson doesn't deserve that. And besides, I'd have to unsubscribe first."
I noticed something real weird about the first avatar at the end there. The avatar had 30 health and 3 armor, and since your guy had shred, it should have removed all of that armor with the first shot, HOWEVER, cyclic fire instead treated it like the avatar had 3 armor on ALL 3 of the shots, which is facinating, almost like it rolls all 3 shots at the same time and factors in the armor of a target with each shot, regardless of if the other shots would have shredded it all away, which is actually quite a significant damage loss and downside with that ability. No idea if it's because it's the LW2 class in vanilla, or if it's a weird thing with the coding. Quite facinating to see though
I have a suggestion for another XCOM 2 challenge: Try it with modded classes. There was one in particular called Musashi's Jedi class. He made two versions: One for vanilla XCOM (Which is completely broken because their lightsabers are OP) and one for WOTC (Which has been nerfed and only starts with a sparring saber that does minimal damage) So if you want a decent challenge with one of the best classes, I would suggest the WOTC version. For an even greater challenge you may decide to limit the usage of their force abilities, but that's completely up to you.
pretty sure for the gatekeeper mission, just deploying mimic beacons before chrysalids pop actually lures them out of barrow to attack it from like ridiculous distances, not sure if it's been fixed
I think the LW gunner is my favourite class, maybe the ranger sneaks in. The gunner offers so much power, but if you bring a squad of all rangers you'll be fine, if you bring a squad of all gunners... Well you know what happens.
Just thought about this. In the options you can select "anti save scum" and what it does is makes it so the same actions do the same result. Might be helpful in the misclick or glitch department.
Looks like Cyclic Fire is pretty much useless after you unlock Traverse Fire, as soon as Rapid Fire/Chain Shot + Traverse Fire does the same, but is much more flexible
For the soldier rescue missions i usually bring 1 dude with a wraith suit and a grenade Walk through the wall grab the soldier blow out the wall call evac go home. Simple
I would like a multiplayer-only run. You know how multiplayer has that 10k point limit? Only being able to have 10k points in each squad, with aliens and soldiers and advent all available to choose, as long as you can beat the mission in that 10k point limit.
I began a Long war classes sharpshooter run like these you are doing. It really is hell, almost every mision one men dies. And in the first lost mision i lost concealment the moment Bradfort saw the lost. I don't know if that is scripted.
Yea these guys are not good in the early game, but come into their own later for taking out big targets. I don't recommend cyclic fire, since traverse fire + rapid. fire will shoot 3 times anyway.
Ah yes, the gunners, by far the class I use the least in LW2, excluding the psi-operatives mind you, I never use them because they take so long to get But yes, the gunners, the most... Situational class of LW2 in my opinion, their abilities are good, until the AI smartens up and realises it can move a tiny bit to remove the suppression and then shoot you, because the aim of suppression is really low and you can only fire once most of the time I'd much rather have Shinobi or Grenadiers instead of gunners, in fact, I'd rather have 4 shinobi teams rather than having a single gunner, they are bad, considering the swarms that LW2 sends against you
You aren't necessarily supposed to suppress all the time Gunners' main use is their multishot abilities allowing them to do huge damage to single targets easily and repeatably
I can't remember sorry, but it will be listed in the end credits of the video. I'm pretty sure I sped it up a bit though and the original is a slower beat.
You can't do a rookie only run, at least with your normal rule system. You'd have to go to the rookie difficultly setting to stand a chance, or mod the game where it lets you dispatch 8-12 rookies at a time.
Not that big. By the midgame I assume a squad which gets sent on a mission would be halved on their return. The good thing about a rookie run, is they're all very replaceable. Edit: I suppose you'd have to invest in a couple of super-rookies with stat buffs from the resistance ring.
@@TheFlamingRedExtreme the problem is. As you lose units you lose firepower. And firepower is the only way to kill your way through the map. And you are going to have to keep recovering dead bodies for your hero beacons, freeze bombs, blue screen ammo and other. And every codex will split. Because you are going to lack damage every single encounter. And you don't have specialist slots for extra throwables, or damage reduction abilities or anything!! Actually wondering if we could take a rookie Hero of each type to give you a small amount of utility. But no abilities above tier 1 may be chosen.
A £25 rookie is kinda like a mimic beacon anyway :D. The Bolt caster, freeze grenade, War amour, chosen weapons and elite unity armour would be more of a thing to try and recover if you go that route. But yes, the entire economy will be on rookie recruitment, with only the mag/plasma rifle and armours to grab. My thought being a 12 roster would hopefully make up in spread and firepower for the complete lack of health and utility of a single class. Several missions may well end up being a suicide rush to an objective to hack, hoping one of your swarm makes it there. Very much a 'A lot of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make' zerg mentality. Much like the necromancer undead - only living rookies. Should also suggest a larger recruitment pool. I chose 12 thinking that two rookies could equate to one soldier, but I am probably wrong in the end game assessment of that. There exists a number where this kind of run is possible, but I don't know what that number is. My assumptions is that it must be greater then 6 though.
So something I learned is that Xcom actually has a hidden mechanic where it secretly alters your actual chance to hit based on how many shots you've hit already so you have a roughly 50% hit rating overall. THAT's why your missing all these seemingly high chance shots. I've seen a few of these runs and seeing these 95+ percent misses knowing about that mechanic sends a tear down my eye, there's a mod to remove it so the game dosn't lie to you. I'd highly recommend it, especially after 99% to hit missed. It's just unfair bs
4:16 well thats becouse in LW gunners have standart magazine of 5 not 3 like in vanilla
Also suppression confers aim debuffs and removes overwatch. To me, its utility has always been more like a repeatable flashbang than anything that actually puts bullets into ayys.
Their poor aim plays into that as well. Their role is more about laying down covering fire than getting the squad's kills... which doesn't lend itself well to an all-gunners run.
I remember Leeson’s first appearance where he failed a 80% shot at point blank getting someone killed then drifter did the drifter “AHHHHHHH” meme lol
For leeson boys.
If I had a dollar for every time Drifter had a hard time with a solo-class run that primarily uses cannons, I'd have 3 dollars. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice. Also, Leeson bringing the good fortune after the first 2 bungled runs he did his best to sabotage is the perfect character arc for him. It all goes full circle.
To be fair to the Warlock, I'm pretty sure the whole point of Mimic Beacons is that the enemy doesn't know they're a hologram, to them it's supposed to look like an actual soldier standing unprotected in the open, which is what makes them want to attack it.
It's not supposed to work on Chosen, though.
@@TheDriftersBroadcast it prob still works as a target but they dont have the buff of wanting to attack it so it prob used it on purpose to hit drifter
@@TheMaddestMan1Maybe Warlock can mind control trough computer screen. SCARY!
I'm not sure what's worst, having Leeson as your enemy or having IT as an ally.
As your enemy, IT comes after you.
As your ally, IT lives with you.
how the hell is it possible you only have 18k subscribers? It's criminal. Legit one of the most entertaining youtubers out there
1 hour format.
Modern audiance dont have the required attention span
@@10011110011it's a shame honestly, I really like hour formatted videos as even if I don't pay full attention to it I can still just play them as though they're a podcast or something similar in the background.
XCOM2 Challenge runs are also a very niche audience, especially long videos like this.
@@10011110011also xcom is not so popular videogame :(
As people already pointed out already.
His videos are entertaining. I enjoy the hour or so videos and the challenge run aspect because I have spent a vast number of hours in XCOM.
That said, average gamers don’t care about challenge runs because they don’t play challenge runs, and the average viewer doesn’t like stick around to watch one hour videos.
That said, if you want an XCOM movie (like a 3+ hour video), look up Beaglerush Frag’s Finest.
It’s XCOM, no mods, hardcore, alien battleship assault and he’s got no upgrades at all because it’s a landed UFO. Beaglerush was one of the first (if not the first) to put XCOM on the radar of gamers, and his gameplay is impeccable.
Grab some popcorn and give the video a watch. It’s an old one from Enemy Within, but it’s a damn good showcase of how he pushes through a ridiculously hard mission and despite all the odds, actually wins to score a massive, early haul of materials to jumpstart his campaign.
I just wish he still did his old format of edited videos for XCOM cuz they were funny as hell. Now he just streams via Twitch and uploads the entire thing to TH-cam time to time. :/
Leeson to the rescue?? What strange universe did I wake up in?
One of my fav LWotC classes
Long war maps can have a lot more enemies than vanila and massive aoe supression working as reusable flashbang is amazing
also lwotc cannon has 5 ammo slots base
Hello Drifter! Could you consider doing a 2 class run with the Xenozoologist and Monstermaster mods? They’re a really fun pair of mods that add two very weird classes to the game, and I’d like to see how you handle them. There are a few issues I’d like to warn you about if you do this:
- I don’t know if minions carry over through things like the chosen stronghold elevators or the transition to the second part of the final mission, so you might need to double the amount of uses for the summon abilities
- The zombies spawned by one of the Xenozoologists top path abilities don’t die when the xenozoologist evacs, and can’t evac themselves. If you get them on a mission where you’re required to evac, you need to kill them to end the mission
- I recommend using either the more grenades or dedicated pistol slot mod if you do this run, because the xenozoologist and monstermaster don’t actually have any way to deal damage without their minions besides grenades
Sounds interesting!
Here we go boys, back to some good old xcom with Drifter! Yeah Boi!
But you know what the problem is? The War wasn't quite Long enough...
This run feels like a story plot. At first the gunners could barely adage a mission without losses and by the end. They were death machines. And Leeson had his character arc story. Well done on this run
Combatives is actually insanely OP to have on one soldier. If allows you to Perma-stun/kill any melee unit (including Mutons). XCOM enemies are coded to prioritise melee when they can, and so if you park your soldier next to a Muton, the muton will keep stabbing it, and then getting stabbed back, preventing it from doing anything. Doesn't work as well on lancers though, since they have a lot of range and will sometimes go further than your bait soldier.
Honestly can't wait until someone makes a mod just so you can run the campaign with only the Commander's Avatar.
I think for what happened with some of the weird ai abilities like warlock panicking a memebeacon and the codex disabling one soldier is because of lacking ability range... So what could have happened with the warlock would have been that he has spell casting higher priority over shooting the mimic beacon but he didn't have the range for any of the soldiers so he did the next best thing... He cast a spell on the beacon in hopes of hitting one of your troopers and I think it's pretty sneaky...
You did also mention that your troops were having trouble moving up and casting abilities or attacks...
Zero to hero!
Leeson is one of my favourite soldiers in your challenge runs. You will never know how happy I was to see him return like a force of nature and save the day! Almost like he has been a super solider all along but was pretending to be bad cause he was lazy and didn't want more work, but when the chips were down, he stepped up!
Another great vid. didn't even remember i was in this one. But then again, i was watching vods for this run.
fuck yeah, drifty boy is back with another one!
also reposting my run idea again:
"" So, you know how in Long War the soldiers start "not made equal", and sometimes you end up with snipers with dreadful aim and very slow assaults, and so on.
Maybe you could do a run where the important and not important stats for a class are, respectively, really bad and really good IE a sniper with very high health or mobility and very low aim
or
a "scraping the barrel" themed run, in which your soldiers start with the lowest possible stats (as dictated by the long war stat randomizer, ofc having 1 health, 10 aim, 2 mobility would be silly)
probably the second one is easier to set up and be consistent with ... and more painful! ""
yes
a fast tanky sniper with shit aim sounds like a perfect holotargeter officer candidate
This sounds like it could be funny.
may the algorithm bless you with more views! a pleasure to watch and a welcome distraction from some unpleasant events going on in life at the moment. all the best drifter and thanks for all the videos!
Hope you're going alright, mate.
Wow, that was a heck of a recovery after the squadwipe.
The trajectory of this Gunner campaign makes sense from what I can recall seeing in actual LW2. Iirc, the Gunner is really not a big damage-dealer in the early game. Their role early is much more of a supporting class, using their arsenal of suppression-type abilities to keep the hordes of LW2 enemies in check until other classes in their squad can take the enemies out. As you saw, they start to really hit hard once Chain Shot/Rapid Fire/Cyclic Fire/Traverse Fire open up, but those are all in the upper ranks.
the "honest meyyn" at the beginning of a video is how you know it's gonna be another drifter banger
Wohoo, drifer is back!
Something different you say? Guess we'll have to wait for the climax of Phoenix point a bit longer then!
I think the Warlock attacked the Mimic Beacon in order to spread the attack to your other troops, which is actually a pretty smart move come to think of it
I love and hate this channel. Whenever I see an xcom run I get the urge to play it again.
In my first playthough I had the "alucard" voice pack from Hellsing Ultimate abriged. Alucard was a gunner. He loved his cannons, and made me love em
Been watching your vids for a year or so now. It was already worth it, but Leeson’s performance in this run makes it even better.
Never in my days have I seen such a recovery in the early game battles. Leeson isn't just a hero this campaign; he's forever a legend.
Cool to see your abilities and confidence in editing grow over these 24 videos
Vinny was not able to dodge the bullet this time.
My boy should have never forget:
"No aliens or vegans"
Always a joy when there's a new Drifter upload. Cheers mate!
can't wait for LW2 technical run. SMG flamethrower boys running around and torching everything
sounds like fun, though with the limited abilities i could see this becoming more difficult then expected
This class is just painful, having the strengths of Grenadiers, Sharpshooters, and Rangers. Yet a weapon which undermines all of this and that knife which only serves to make them even weaker still while undermining their unique focus.
A focus which means if an enemy does shoot you the actual dangerous Crits won't be impacted.
If you get enough Ability Points for training and learn most of their abilities they become incredibly powerful. I assume this works in LONG war where the game goes on long enough to let this happen leading to a much better balance and makes them one of the better classes as you have 4 high damage shots near unavoidable while lowering enemy accuracy.
So congrats with winning with this class on effectively ultra hard mode!
note:
in long war, cannons have much larger magazines by base
so you can use your chain shot/cyclic fire/rapid fire a lot more
In standard Long War 2 Cannons have 5 shots by default, so they need to spend a lot less time reloading. You also have larger squads, and Gunners serve a support role where they use Suppression on dangerous enemies to effectively remove them from the fight for one turn. That Cannon also has an aim penalty under 5 tiles distance, the knife is supposed to give them something for close range.
Ability Points also weren't a mechanic when LW2 originally released (they were introduced with the War of the Chosen DLC), they were meant to have only one perk from each row, so no ultra-lategame farming.
Thanks for another one of these,
Looking forward to that new things you're hinting at
Nothing says Xcom more than missing a shot that had a 99% chance to hit.
Welcome back dude, missed you and your videos!
Previously Leeson was missing in action
Now he is the biggest hit on the avenger
Tis going to be a good day. Drifter has brought us more WOTC!
Idea: Primary fire only run. You can only use the fire weapon and overwatch abilities to deal damage. Abilities that fire your gun like rapid fire arent allowed but passives like shredder and run and gun are. Damaging grenades and all other damaging abilities are of course not allowed.
Appreciate your content mate! Love ya!!
Welp, time to reinstall XCOM after watching this
You motivated me to go test my custom classes and see if they're this episode's Leeson, or just Leeson.
39:16 I recently learned that Between the Eyes works also with Bladestorm
I love your videos! Happy to see a new one :)
New Drifter. Hell yes.
The constant one shot crits is basically my entire life in xcom 1
Awesome vid man! Thanks more making Xcom2 content!
For the longest time i couldve sworn you had like 100k subs you absolutely deserve more subs
Glad to see another challenge run!
Amazing as always.
Medic got that "bad medicine".
Alternatively Medic as sniper, call the rifle his "medicine stick".
I really don't know why units that are bleeding out at the end of a mission aren't stabilized and captured. Not only would it be a better chance for advent to get info on your army, but it would also make the jailbreak missions more common, since they currently hardly ever appear
39:00 Between the Eyes works with any damage directly caused by an XCOM soldier, Double Agent, or the Resistance Volunteer.
Jupiter One mentioned? I love when you make references that like three people understand lmao
Drifter I would love to see a using advent soldiers moded run keep up the good work
After playing a few of the Avenger Defense missions, I kinda get why the mod always adds a hill in the middle. The Defense Matrix turrets can get squadsight. Destroying the Disruptor/Siege cannon at range renders it trivial.
(Also, I made my own version of Leesen and he turned out to be my best sniper. Was also a very popular guy, given that everyone wanted to bond with him, including every single one of the faction units.)
I was going to subscribe to help out Uncle Leeson but then I thought to myself, "Hell no! Leeson doesn't deserve that. And besides, I'd have to unsubscribe first."
The game setting a evac point on that rescue mission is a pre scripted event 2-3 turns after going loud sets a auto evac point
I noticed something real weird about the first avatar at the end there. The avatar had 30 health and 3 armor, and since your guy had shred, it should have removed all of that armor with the first shot, HOWEVER, cyclic fire instead treated it like the avatar had 3 armor on ALL 3 of the shots, which is facinating, almost like it rolls all 3 shots at the same time and factors in the armor of a target with each shot, regardless of if the other shots would have shredded it all away, which is actually quite a significant damage loss and downside with that ability. No idea if it's because it's the LW2 class in vanilla, or if it's a weird thing with the coding. Quite facinating to see though
I have a suggestion for another XCOM 2 challenge: Try it with modded classes.
There was one in particular called Musashi's Jedi class. He made two versions: One for vanilla XCOM (Which is completely broken because their lightsabers are OP) and one for WOTC (Which has been nerfed and only starts with a sparring saber that does minimal damage)
So if you want a decent challenge with one of the best classes, I would suggest the WOTC version. For an even greater challenge you may decide to limit the usage of their force abilities, but that's completely up to you.
pretty sure for the gatekeeper mission, just deploying mimic beacons before chrysalids pop actually lures them out of barrow to attack it from like ridiculous distances, not sure if it's been fixed
I think the LW gunner is my favourite class, maybe the ranger sneaks in. The gunner offers so much power, but if you bring a squad of all rangers you'll be fine, if you bring a squad of all gunners... Well you know what happens.
Just thought about this.
In the options you can select "anti save scum" and what it does is makes it so the same actions do the same result.
Might be helpful in the misclick or glitch department.
He’s Back boys
Uncle leeson is the definition of the ' goofy ah uncle '
True
Looks like Cyclic Fire is pretty much useless after you unlock Traverse Fire, as soon as Rapid Fire/Chain Shot + Traverse Fire does the same, but is much more flexible
Unless the other abilities are on cooldown, I think you're right.
Great video!
For the soldier rescue missions i usually bring 1 dude with a wraith suit and a grenade
Walk through the wall grab the soldier blow out the wall call evac go home. Simple
I would like a multiplayer-only run. You know how multiplayer has that 10k point limit? Only being able to have 10k points in each squad, with aliens and soldiers and advent all available to choose, as long as you can beat the mission in that 10k point limit.
Yes, been waiting!
I love gunners, suppression abilities are extremely useful in LWotC
Its funny, despite being Gunners, it seems they have been the ones who got gunned down, quite frequently.
Losing soldiers to one shot crits constantly is how every single one of my runs goes.
Leeson was always meant to be a gunner
Great vid as always !
i have a question, is a mod for star with a concrete class the gamo or how works?
Starting Soldiers mod.
Your challenge videos are always so sick dude. Cheers brother 👍
What did I learn from this video: turns out leeson isn't as useless as we thought he was
it's finally here the cursed run
I began a Long war classes sharpshooter run like these you are doing. It really is hell, almost every mision one men dies. And in the first lost mision i lost concealment the moment Bradfort saw the lost. I don't know if that is scripted.
Good run
The Legend of Leeson.
I guess the lesson is to keep Leeson away from the grenade launcher
So, i was playing xcom 2 today and had the Warlock spawn in on a guerrilla op that had the horde sitrep. Is.. that supposed to happen?
Yeah, I've had that scenario a few times.
Does anyone know the mod he is using? I wanted to try a solo class or hero run but I can't seem to find it
Starting soldiers.
Yesyesyesyesyes the drifters back!
Leon is streaming Frostpunk? This man is a legend and got my sub. On that note, why not stream it here too Drifter?
Too many games and too little time, sadly.
Drifter has never really liked suppression, so this should be a fine train wreck
Yea these guys are not good in the early game, but come into their own later for taking out big targets. I don't recommend cyclic fire, since traverse fire + rapid. fire will shoot 3 times anyway.
Leeson just wanted to get made a Gunner instead of the other classes, that's why he was good this time.
Any chance you'll continue these with the LW ranger class? Those guys are awesome!
Yeah, I plan to do all the LW2 classes.
So basically Leeson has a version of easy mode build into his character
Ah yes, the gunners, by far the class I use the least in LW2, excluding the psi-operatives mind you, I never use them because they take so long to get
But yes, the gunners, the most... Situational class of LW2 in my opinion, their abilities are good, until the AI smartens up and realises it can move a tiny bit to remove the suppression and then shoot you, because the aim of suppression is really low and you can only fire once most of the time
I'd much rather have Shinobi or Grenadiers instead of gunners, in fact, I'd rather have 4 shinobi teams rather than having a single gunner, they are bad, considering the swarms that LW2 sends against you
You aren't necessarily supposed to suppress all the time
Gunners' main use is their multishot abilities allowing them to do huge damage to single targets easily and repeatably
Sharpshooters already fill that role of single target elimination and frankly do it better and more reliably
So, I've been wondering,
What does LW do? I'm on console so I don't know what changes there are
It's a total overhaul mod. Changes a lot of the game's systems and overall makes the game much harder (and longer).
Whats the song that plays when leeson arrives?
I can't remember sorry, but it will be listed in the end credits of the video. I'm pretty sure I sped it up a bit though and the original is a slower beat.
What's the rapsong at the near end?
NEFEX - The Itch 😊
7:40 that map mod did you mean?
I think it was called "Even More Maps" or something like that.
Sectoids on their way to resurrect a mimic beacon like:
Hello. Will you try Chaos Gate Deamonhunters?
I have streamed it, but I do want to give it another try at some point.
Oh no. Does LW2 make rookies any better, or will you have the misery of the early psionics only run?
Not actually, tbh.
It's annoying seeing someone beat Long War so (relatively) easily. I've got to work on my game!
It's not actually Long War, he's just using the classes from it
You can't do a rookie only run, at least with your normal rule system. You'd have to go to the rookie difficultly setting to stand a chance, or mod the game where it lets you dispatch 8-12 rookies at a time.
12 rookies with terrible aim
Unless we gene mod the lot
That's going to be a massive barracks
Not that big. By the midgame I assume a squad which gets sent on a mission would be halved on their return. The good thing about a rookie run, is they're all very replaceable.
Edit: I suppose you'd have to invest in a couple of super-rookies with stat buffs from the resistance ring.
@@TheFlamingRedExtreme the problem is. As you lose units you lose firepower.
And firepower is the only way to kill your way through the map.
And you are going to have to keep recovering dead bodies for your hero beacons, freeze bombs, blue screen ammo and other.
And every codex will split. Because you are going to lack damage every single encounter.
And you don't have specialist slots for extra throwables, or damage reduction abilities or anything!!
Actually wondering if we could take a rookie Hero of each type to give you a small amount of utility. But no abilities above tier 1 may be chosen.
A £25 rookie is kinda like a mimic beacon anyway :D. The Bolt caster, freeze grenade, War amour, chosen weapons and elite unity armour would be more of a thing to try and recover if you go that route. But yes, the entire economy will be on rookie recruitment, with only the mag/plasma rifle and armours to grab. My thought being a 12 roster would hopefully make up in spread and firepower for the complete lack of health and utility of a single class. Several missions may well end up being a suicide rush to an objective to hack, hoping one of your swarm makes it there. Very much a 'A lot of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make' zerg mentality. Much like the necromancer undead - only living rookies. Should also suggest a larger recruitment pool.
I chose 12 thinking that two rookies could equate to one soldier, but I am probably wrong in the end game assessment of that. There exists a number where this kind of run is possible, but I don't know what that number is. My assumptions is that it must be greater then 6 though.
That's what ADVENT wants you to think!
So something I learned is that Xcom actually has a hidden mechanic where it secretly alters your actual chance to hit based on how many shots you've hit already so you have a roughly 50% hit rating overall. THAT's why your missing all these seemingly high chance shots.
I've seen a few of these runs and seeing these 95+ percent misses knowing about that mechanic sends a tear down my eye, there's a mod to remove it so the game dosn't lie to you. I'd highly recommend it, especially after 99% to hit missed. It's just unfair bs
Game only changes to-hit modifiers in your favour.