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Chosen Assassin being in the bottom of e tier is a crime

Dark events tier list? Could be pretty cool

90 minutes!? Are you serious? He starts out sounding bored AF. Who would watch this all the way?

EMP grenades with volatile mix and biggest booms are OP against Codex, you can kill them in one hit. Also Sectopods and Gatekeepers are pretty easy to kill, as they only take like 2 grenades and sometimes they get stunned too.

I’ve always said that sharpshooters are an investment. It’s definitely the weakest class starting out, but my sharpshooter colonels usually end up with the highest kill count by the end of the game.

A very long but good analysis. My experience is some of the abilities also depends on difficulty and early, mid, late game analysis. Haywire protocol as an example really can help out when meeting the first mec's and still having terrible dmg. Also some are super effective as bonus abilities like Bladestorm for Templars. On that note my personal experience is that more importantly than anything is to get the relevant bonus abilities. Getting Shredder, Holo, Chain etc for a Ranger and Skirmisher just makes them insanely effective. Ranger abilities for Templars etc. Specialist abilities for Sharpshooters and so on.

I believe due to a bug special ammunition only applies to the first enemy in a multihit like faceoff

so if someone tosses the mine down on a strong pod, then a reaper tosses their claymore, a grenadier can launch their shredding grenade, which triggersthe claymore, for a BIG boom, then whatever survives runs for cover triggering the mine for a secondary boom. and what.e you just ambushed is done, if its say a ruler who in turn survives the squad sighted sniper on overwatch will def finish them off with ammo to help. bit of an investment for a true ambush, but i bet its fun to watch go off lol

imo one time use items are E tier haha 100% trash

I didn't even know what Archons did for a couple playthrough because I always killed them too fast.

GRENADIER > Squaddie < - Launch Grenade (0:05-1:20) > Corporal < - Blast Padding (1:21-1:22) - Shredder (1:23-3:10) > Sergeant < - Demolition (3:11-3:13) - Suppression (3:14-4:55) > Lieutenant < - Heavy Ordnance (4:56-5:32) - Holo Targeting (5:33-6:13) > Captain < - Volatile Mix (6:14-7:14) - Chain Shot (7:15-8:20) > Major < - Salvo (8:21-9:59) - Hail of Bullets (10:00-11:17) > Colonel < - Saturation Fire (11:18-12:47) - Rupture (12:48-14:03)

I think the way the proximity mine is worded you can also use it on a personal stealthed ranger to throw the mine, pod activates but he does not lose stealth vs if he threw another kind of mine

how is AP rounds so low, my rangers and sharpshooters absolutely bulldozer with them. Grenadiers are good just for the shred but i often bring 2 sharpshooters with serial and ap rounds, since with those rounds grenadiers lose a bit of their reason to be brought.

when the chosen extracted knowledge on mission 8. is it just a chance for them ti kidnap soldiers or are different chosen programmed to kidnap? i had an assassin kidnap a guy, never actually seen the chosen extract knowledge before as i always wake up dazed soldiers if i can and the only other time was a kidnap. thanks for the videos, kinda making me want to play xcom 2 legendary again. last time i won but i had double avatar project option turned on as it was my first run and wanted to not just ramp up the difficulty to legendary to only lose halfway through the campaign to the project.

Started playing a few months ago and this is very close to my perception as well. A few minor reflections. 1. Chryssalid arrives at sort of same time the ranger gets katana and bladestorm. They can be annoying but most of the time they go down without using actions. I would rate them lower. 2. Sectopod is almost always behind or in buildings ei you often need to activate them and if you're a bit too aggressive they punish with one move, tower up and two attacks. 3. Archon is harmless in turn one as shieldbearer. I find them relatively easy. 4. Stunlancers are a pain early but after katana/bladestorm they are non issues but highly effective if using dominate. 5. Specter really is annoying as anything. They require you to prioritize them and ignore bladestorm and overwatch - and their shadow-bind doesn't miss. 6. Andromedon is about the same as red mec. Brings tough health/armor and AoE, but once it is just the armor then it's a non-issue. I would rate it A. I would in general rate enemies with long range AoE attacks as pretty high together with the sectopod and Gatekeeper (A). So far the single most annoying enemy is the chosen assassin. When you meet it you're early game and it can run through a team fast. Most situational annoying enemy is warlock in retribution settings but only because the damn resistance fighters will kill any team member that is dominated...

Had technical issues that cut the stream off prematurely, couldn't get a new stream going, so I'll pick it back up next stream

The devs did a poor job balancing all these things. Too many are so worthless that they should never be considered. For example the vest that gives only one health - absolute garbage. They should have made it give two health, and then slightly increased the cost. Smoke grenades also need to be buffed in some way - maybe allow two, but increase the cost. Maybe cause it to release a healing gas or something - anything to make it not shite. I also think they should have been creative with more methods to heal. Med kits are really good with specialist and pretty bad with everyone else. They should have been more creative. Regular grenades become pretty weak in later game - only good with the grenadier. Some kind of 2-grenade pack could have been cool that all classes could use. Maybe give it some cost, to justify its extra goodness.

My list seems to be the opposite of this 😂. The main concerns are enemies that limit your turn optimisation. Anything that soaks ammo or neutralises your soldiers. Codex, sectiods, shield bearers etc. All these waste your teams time and time + combat = death. Damage doesn't matter if your team is neutralised.

I never once used bluescreen rounds. Unless that +5 is gonna kill that Sectopod: why shouldn't I just have my Skullfucker-equpped Specialist shut it down entirely? Or anyone with a Repeater one-shot it? Most importantly: the SKullfucker guarantees that the Advent Pedophile doesn't use Sustain. Codexes? "It's hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh nooooooooooon~" Mindshield is meh, when you can just kill the psi enemy. The rest I more or less agree with, save the proximity mine: always fun to set Overwatch traps with. Maybe all the vests a little lower, I just never used them.

I just replayed XCOM 2 and its funny how a lot of threat from enemies are gone when you get the Darklance. Id consider killing that chosen first.

Hey Edwino, what mod do you use for selecting your starting soldier class? Love your xcom stuff, keep it up :)

Can't agree more about Sectopods, by the time they show up you have BSR and strong weapons on the go. Even if you don't manage to kill it in the first turn you can simply mimic beacon it, and it will likely start walking erratically before it does anything, and the beacon is set for at least 2 hits from the sectopod. My first playthrough of the game was just a slaughterfest, my sniper would just perch on the other side of the map while my stealth ranger gave them squadsight. BSR made most robotic units pretty weak, actually.

Your list is not really that good to be honest with you, I'm talking about this as an L/I completionist. 1. Frost bomb and Mimic Beacon should be S tier. These are broken as hell; 2. Medikit and Improved one should be A tier, it cures poison, it let soldier recover quickly after mission and it's rare that you don't use it on higher difficulty. It's like a must in many cases; 3. Skulljack is definitely S tier. Not just because it gets 20bonus to hacking, but also because you can 1 shot full health and full armor Advent like Shieldbearer, Priest (thus preventing the annoying Sustain), and even the Purifier cannot explore because of this kill. The cheery on top? you get to get some intel or cache of alien goods for a successful skulljack. If you got a specialist, this is a no brainer thing to bring in any mission with her, along with the medikit. 4. Mindshield being A tier? Excuse me? In what way are you lacking means to disrupt an enemy mind controlling your soldier? Frost bomb the enemy? flashbang? Bonded teammate? Psi Ops? Or better yet, just kill the damn bastard. For other effects, that's where the Specialist Revival is for, and it's not even turn ending action. This Mindshield is so useless that is actually probably F or D best.

Can you do this list for LWOTC?

Hey Edwin, loved the video. Small question: How does the Mind Shield item work? Do psi capable enemies prioritize the targets wearing it or is it random and you have to have everyone wear to guarantee efficiency?

1 Use case for the proximity mine wasn't considered: Reinforcement pod. You know in advance where it's gonna land. Not a game changer by any means since it's somewhat rare, but it can be nice.

So, why not evac when you saw that everything went to crap with the second pod activation? You said "you need to be able to handle it" which I agree with because you handle it by cutting your losses to the one MC'd guy and evac everyone else instead of losing everyone and all their stuff.

Sectiod when i hack it:😧

The first time i fought a andomedon i killed it after losing a guy then it came back. Then i quit

I only finished X com 2 for the first time recently. On my first attempt the Archon ruler made me rage quit about 6 years ago haha. His pinion attack is just ridiculous.

😭😭😭😭 That second Pod was brutal. Hopefully catch the next stream and you'll be able to recover. Sleep well.

Great content, as always! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

You put flash bang in C

My first encounter with the Chosen Hunter was him bragging about his perfect aim, proceeding to miss a point-blank shot, and effectively saying "Shit" before he grappled as far away as he possibly could. He didn't kill anyone in my entire run, but he almost killed me irl by making me choke on my drink. He is the most dangerous enemy, for sure.

The way you described Heavy MECs softening your team up for everyone else to take them out is basically what Gatekeepers do to me. That huge AoE brings everyone down low enough for all the other enemies to pick them off. They don't kill soldiers often, themselves, but man. They cause a lot of deaths indirectly.

The implication with Spectre/Codex being weak to Bluescreen but not Combat Protocol... is that they're not JUST machines, right? They're some kind of bio-machine. You can overload their brain but not fry them with electricity.

I can't believe this video is 1.5 hours long... We definitely have too much data storage capacity.

Truly the age of neckbeards

Watching your lists is making me want to play XCOM 2 again, good content

I agree on most of these but one question Why is Andromedon the only S tier and also higher than Gatekeeper? Gatekeeper is harder to kill imo. And more punishing if you dont kill him.

it would be tight af if someone timestamped each item

Bladestorm my beloved

My first ever templar was the best unit in the game for me, she had blade storm, reaper and fast hands, mixed in with how op her melee abilities were she took out entire pods on her own

I am very surprised that the Assassin is lower tier than the Hunter. I've never had any issue with the Hunter at all in any playthrough. The Assassin has outright killed some of my ironman runs.

Did you consufused the cap of the trashcan for a mine? Bro is cooking with the stove off 😨😨😨

The one saving grace about the Smoke Grenade that people always forget is that it doesn't actually count as a "Grenade" slot item (unlike, say, the Flashbang Grenade). Since you can (typically) only carry one Grenade plus a second non-grenade item, you could have both a Frag and a Smoke grenade on one unit, but the Flashbang would have to *replace* your Frag grenade. I still agree that the Flashbang is better than the Smoke Grenade, but the fact that you can take both a Frag and a Smoke with you does mean I usually buy a Smoke to fill an empty non-grenade slot. It's like what you said about the Nanoscale vest, buying it to fill a non-grenade slot item slot... The Smoke Grenade can be used in the same way.

There's a mod which allows you to use psi ops as normal soldiers (they level up normally, get their psi tree abilities as normal soldiers), if you wanna use it for this challenge. Psi lab becomes a utility for an amp bonus (?) I think, not a requirement for learning psi abilities. You can level up psi ops from the get go and they learn the psi talents with promotions with that mod.

King Baldwin IV will be proud of this run.

Sustaining sphere has use for late game rank ups too. If you want to give some corporal a better chance at ranking up later in the game it's a helpful tool Not enough to bring it up a tier, but worth considering for that edge case

I understand that ppl don't like the lost but the little dopamine hits I get from killing them is enough to make me like them. Also I have some mods that make for absolutely chaotic missions with Lost, Chosen, Resistance, Alien, & XCOM turns