The Great Filter - XCOM Unpossible Episode 2
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- The Great Filter theory states that for there to be no observable advanced life, some phase of the evolutionary process that is hard to surpass must exist. Whether it is ahead of or behind us we don't know. For XCOM that phase is April, the Great Filter is real, it wears a blue suit with yellow shades and drinks your rookie tears from a goddamn mug.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Mission 6
04:30 - Mission 7
10:16 - Mission 8
13:34 - Mission 9
19:33 - Mission 10
Music Used:
Main Menu* - X-Com: UFO Defense Soundtrack
Flirt With Bomb - Yakuza Kiwami Soundtrack
Combat Music 4* - XCOM: Enemy Unknown Soundtrack
Ruby Delusions (Eggman Boss 1) - Sonic Mania Soundtrack
Boss 2 - Donkey Kong Jungle Climber Soundtrack
Won't Stop, Just Go! ...for Green Forest - Sonic Adventure 2 Soundtrack
Deep Woods - Sonic and the Black Knight Soundtrack
Destroyed Skyworld - Kid Icarus Uprising Soundtrack
Combat Music 8* - XCOM: Enemy Unknown Soundtrack
Glimmering Gift (Super Transformation) - Sonic Mania Soundtrack
Sanctuary Guardian - Earthbound Soundtrack
*Unofficial name
The music used list is only the overdubbed music, some in-game soundtracks are not listed.
Q: Where's the enemy files segment on Outsiders?
A: When one of them actually puts up a fight.
Q: Thin Me-
A: Holy shit, Salt Induction: Maximum does not begin to explain why Thin Men are the stuff of nightmares. Six HP is a ton for April, the first thing that's guaranteed to oneshot them besides rockets are Plasma Rifles, good luck getting those before August. And unlike Floaters, they aren't suicidal enough to think that flying is a decent substitute for high cover and have more than enough aim to start killing troops even without going for the crazy flanks they're known for. Tanking a hit without armour is unlikely, and even with armour a crit, a second shot or poison damage can send you to the morgue in an instant. This is why you need tac rigging or lasers the moment April rolls in, you will not have the damage output to consistently kill them otherwise. Thin Men truly are the great filter of both the tactical and strategy layer in Impossible.
Q - Battlescape: How do you not squadwipe in general?
A: Mitigate as much risk as possible at all times. Have a grenade ready to finish an alien off if the kill isn't guaranteed. Hunker down in high cover for +80 Defense if your odds to hit are poor and you need another turn to rocket or something. Low cover is +20 and should only be used if the other option is staying in the open. Retreating out of line of sight is preferable to taking shots in low cover. Count your aliens and see how many are on each mission type with ufopaedia (the XCOM fandom wiki is trash, don't use it). And don't forget the law of large numbers. Given enough 30% shots, there is a 100% chance one of them will hit. Whether it'll hit you or the ayys is another question entirely.
Q - Battlescape: Handling Terror missions?
A: Terror missions are easier than regular missions as long as you're well equipped. Sure, you're on a timer due to the civvies but this isn't Long War, as long as one person survives you've passed.. The only aliens you'll encounter in April terrors are Floaters, Chryssalids and Zombies. Even in June and August you won't be running into anything that doesn't show up on a regular abduction, it's only at the tail-end of a campaign where you really need to be careful on these.
Q - Geoscape: What to do in terms of construction?
A: While most people swear by doing a satellite rush, building a second uplink in March and launching four satellites, I found it far too damaging to my tactical layer/battlescape to even try. Failing a mission because your soldiers weren't equipped is going to counteract any geoscape panic gains you could've made from launching a satellite most of the time. Building the uplink on April before the 15th (With three sats ordered before the 10th) is fine, as you should be able to start mitigating an outright loss with most of your launches. However, having more sats will snowball pretty hard into having more income in the later months, and maybe even continent bonuses. Losing a lot of countries early can seriously hamstring that. Foreshadowing.
Q - Geoscape: Why Egypt/Argentina/Brazil over France?
A: France gives mediocre money, the continent bonus was locked out last month, and both Africa and South America have very good continent bonuses for the early-game. All-In increases all monthly council funding by 30%, while We Have Ways makes interrogations instant. With the highest-paying countries of the continent, Russia and the UK, being lost there's not much incentve to go for Europe anymore except to prevent a game over. 
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I can’t stop laughing at the 3 different guys missing one seeker bit, was a pure XCOM moment
Dude I’ve had seekers sit invisible, on overwatch, In a corner, only to one shot one of my dudes when they walk past. Easily my least favorite alien
@@Viperzzzzzz If you want to do something cheesy you can use your soldier's movement squares to figure out where the seekers are. It can be done by moving your mouse around all the squares and 1 may appear empty, that's your target, hit it with some kind of explosion and you reveal it
works cause the seeker is taking up that square so it doesn't light up in the grid effect you get by moving your mouse around in the soldiers move zone
@@trevorpeterson1941 yoooo sick, thanks so much man
“Well that’s XCOM”
@@trevorpeterson1941Not sure why this should be considered 'cheesy' ... It's actually a feature because with the gamepad, the spot with the hidden alien lights up yellow.
The cards for new aliens/equipment are well done. Last 6 minutes were near perfect decision making.
Bless floaters. They’re kinda cute. Like an aggressive Pit Bull puppy.
A thin man is like a meth head with a rusted blade in hand, breaking your bedroom window. It’s already a maximum threat.
Seeing this has taught me that hunker down is far more useful than I thought.
Still don't know what that ring means.
Always remember that 30%=100%, there is a 100% chance that eventually, a 30% shot will hit you. Cover is deceptively useless at stopping you from getting murked cross-map unless you hunker, the odds are like 1/2 against low cover and 1/3 against high cover for most early aliens.
@@MJRSoap the line of sight you retain while hunkered, it gets cut down to a few tiles
17:09 YOU CAN GO UP THERE? I never knew. I never even CONSIDERED.
Real shit, this is as high quality as it comes. Thank you for giving us this window into your struggle.
I really appreciate the little touches in the editing, like at 12:00. You have quite the talent for it.
You forgot to mention how Seekers can sometimes go for their pistol shot instead of choking. Idk why it happens but when it does it's super dangerous since I play with absolute criticals, and it gives 100% crit on your team as well if they flank you.
Lovin this new series.
These are so tightly edited, and each mission feels like a whole lotta awesome content. Amazing to have this to watch.
Man.. How did I only find this video in September 2021? This is amazing! Spectacular editing. =D
The Seekers have a ranged attack? Fucking what? I have hundreds of hours in this game and I've never seen that
Yup, they have a dinky little Plasma Pistol just like Sectoids, but that shit *hurts* on month 2! I've only seen it a couple of times, and from what I can tell, it only happens when they have no way of choking somebody any time soon _and_ have a good flank shot.
That and in Long War.
@@kierany9 God, in some ways you almost wonder why they have it, it's so rare XD.
Bet it's caught people out before. I wonder how many runs were ended or at least slowed by a random Seeker shot when it wasn't expected
Honestly suprised laser weapons aren't rushed sooner. IIRC you can, with a bit of luck, get them by the end of month 1.
Also any chance of doing this but with long war? Want to see you suffer through the 60+ chrysalid missions.
You can, but in my experience getting Tac Rigging by the end of march is way better than getting lasers that early, mostly because rookies can't aim and grenades can't miss. On classic, lasers are a guaranteed oneshot on Thin Men and Floaters if it hits but Impossible it's a one in three chance, at that point you're likely going to need to shoot it twice, so why not use something that's guaranteed to hit.
I do want to play LW1 at some point, though I don't know if I'm insane enough to make episodic content out of that behemoth of a mod.
@@kierany9 Well on the plus side you do start out with a squad size of 6 at least. and can raise it up to 8. Lost nations also aren't as debilitating in LW1 since you can recover them through what is basicly a supped up terror mission. You've already lost 4 nations 2 months in.
16:05 Weird coincidence is that this is the map where I found out Seekers can just shoot you instead of choking... After that I'm afraid of Seekers even though before I thought they were a joke
Dude this series is great!
Ayyyy, the editing! Amazing as always
Subbed for well-edited concise content
I have to say this is some great production value
Love the music selection
Superb editing
Nearly Entire EU leaving Xcom Project makes me sadge
Just found this playlist, amazing that you ain't got more views, this shit is great.
Good stuff
Awh. No intro for the seekers? Musta been personal.
EDIT
You DID do one just not when they first appeared. Spicy! Now I'm on my toes.
I always build MEC's from snipers
Top tier music pick at 20:00
This is hilarious.
the half-life 1 soldier voice at 13:12 brings me immense joy, and this whole video is edited so well. good stuff
Lol nice squad size 🤣😂😅😓
8:00 lol@ picking snapshot on impossible ironman :D
Bro i hate this map. Im always stuck by the bus 😢
snapshot lol
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Welcome tu non-toxic Taimo main Taimo sutuream!!1
WARNING: THIS COMMENT IS EXTREMELY LONG (But I'm asking for tips on my problems since you seem to know the game so well and most of this is just telling you my problems and context so you don't give me incredibly obvious tips, and also so you can help me more since you will know the specifics, sorry for it being so long, Also I do not have any dlc period.)
I feel like I've learned a lot from this, I've played this game since 2016. I used to be bad at strategy games, but in the past year or two I've gotten far better at them, but I still struggle with xcom. Everything you did in this video either had me scratching my head in confusion, because I would never do that, because I think it's too risky, or it had me thinking, "That's genius," and "how did I not think of that." do you have any tips for me? For context last year when I finally got good at strategy games I, (SPOILER DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT) finally beat the alien base but an in-game month later I rage quit. I remember I had so much trouble with the mind control aliens (because until recently I mostly ignored technology, because a while ago I researched plasma weapons and used the pistols, thought it was the rifle and never tried it again until I saw a walkthrough showing its power, I of course use it now) but back to the point, I'm literally too afraid to go to the base now, because I know they'll become an enemy afterwards. But besides that I've fixed the vast majority of my problems, but I have a new one, due to all this I have trouble getting money, and I don't know what is safe to sell or in what quantities on the grey market. I have 6 satellites over a wide array of countries, but due to my strategies, while I rarely lose soldiers, or fighter craft, an in game month for me, is like an irl year. So it ends up not mattering because it takes so long for me to get the large funding, and even when I do get it, I spend it wisely, but I also spend a lot, so I'm almost bankrupt again in a couple in-game days. Also in the walkthrough I saw mind control defense, but I can't figure out how to get to it. Also due to my funding issues I don't get to use my foundry that much, I only have two upgrades from it. I have plenty of Scientists and engineers, so research is fast, but despite this items still cost a lot. I have 38 scientists, and 48 engineers. Also despite all my efforts most of the countries are always on high panic levels, I'm able to keep them from withdrawing, but it keeps me from getting good rewards from missions as I have to focus on whoever has the highest panic level.
Most of the risks I take are one of these four things: I know they'll work, I have a backup plan, I'm willing to accept the consequences (remember that missing/getting hit a lot more likely than you think, law of averages, the 90% _will_ miss at some point so have a backup) or I have no other option. If they aren't one of those then it's a mistake. For random tips, the video descriptions have a lot of them, and UFOPaedia has a lot of good general game knowledge that'll help you calculate risks better.
Sectoid Commanders only ever show up as the command pod of an UFO (a.k.a. the aliens in the cockpit that never leave it) unless you have the DLC, they aren't that scary as long as you can get into position and kill them so just clear the outside of the map before going into an UFO. Usually I have plasma by the time I go for ayybase so they die in 2 hits on normal, or 2-3 on Classic/Impossible, if you only have lasers then they might be a bit of trouble, especially on Classic, but that's why you save your rockets. You don't need mind shields, again, just kill the sectoid commanders faster.
You only _really_ care about ammo conservation from the foundry without then Enemy Within DLC. SHIVs are good, everything else is just nice to have. The only reason I rush foundry is because EW gives the Tactical Rigging upgrade which is ballin'.
If your panic gets unmanageable, just deploy more satellites. You can cancel abductions entirely if you cover all-but-two countries still in the council, it means less missions and rewards but also less risk and geoscape panic.
You can mostly sell everything except alien alloys, weapon fragments and elerium, selling those is _okay_ but you need a lot of them for research. Better to sell them than to lose the campaign now though. If you like buying the plane consumables, leave 3 of each corpse per consumable that they use, and some research needs corpses but like 5-10 max so you can sell the rest.
Hope that helps, format your posts better and mention what ingame month and difficulty you're on next time.
@@kierany9 Sorry for the long question (again.) It's literally just me asking how to deal with Sectopods and giving you details. Thank you for the advice. I ended up all of my problems, besides the panic one (I added another 3 satellites. And assaulted the alien base to reduce worldwide panic by 2. But I'm well aware it's a temporary fix.) I just have one problem now (besides that,) SECTOPODS, how the actual fuck am I supposed to deal with them? (I play on easy, because after 17 playthroughs I swallowed my pride and started playing on the lower difficulties.) I usually deal with them, by using my highly experienced, decked out snipers, and heavies, and distracting them with supports. While I have not sustained casualties this way, I have almost had experienced troops die this way repeatedly. Do you have any tips?
@@legion2.047 your troops didn't die so you're handling them just fine. Jokes aside, Sectopods only appear on Terror missions and large UFOs, and you're limited to 2 sectopods per mission (1 in september, 2 in october+) unless you're on Impossible, so you'll usually know when to expect them. Bring HEAT ammo and shredder rockets, and just throw everything you have at them.
Since you're playing on easy you might also want to know some basic movement tactics so you don't get caught out of position - the kind of stuff that's kind of a prerequisite to playing above Normal but isn't taught in the tutorial.
1. Don't double-move until you're in combat with aliens. Blue move all your soldiers, then overwatch. If you run into an alien with one soldier, you still have one move to get your soldiers into cover, fire, or hunker, and some soldiers may still have a full turn to act. If you'd double moved, you'd have a soldier stuck in a terrible position that is going to get hit on the alien turn for sure.
2. Make the riskiest moves first. You ideally want the aliens to run into you when on overwatch so that they don't get to shoot you on their turn, you get your overwatch shots off, and then having a full turn to act but failing that, you want to have as many actions as possible. Move your soldier that's furthest forward first, and then you're very likely to not activate any aliens. (This one also applies in combat, if you run into more aliens with your last guy then you're SOL but if you run into them with your first guy, you have some options)
3. On that note, move Heavies and Snipers last out-of-combat. Rockets and Headshot can get you out of a jam, but don't work if they've moved before.
And in combat, remember that 30% = 100% (Risk it enough times, and there is a 100% chance that a 30% shot will land, whether it be on you or the aliens). Don't take risks that can backfire if you have a better option. Half cover sucks, it's still a 50/50 chance to get hit by most aliens, but is better than nothing.
@@kierany9 thanks for the tips, although I knew 90% of that lol I used to play on higher difficulties, and I did pretty well I just got tired of losing, it turns out 90% of my problems in my old playthroughs were because I assumed plasma weapons were bad because I used light rifles and pistols not knowing that they were the worst ones, and just never used them again.
@@kierany9 Last question, I’ve fixed every single problem, but HOW THE FUCK DO I DEAL WITH ETHERIALS?
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