They really did sparks dirty, without the ability to use the training center. They're so much better with that one simple change, this was probably the only mod I was running. Also the amount of intimidate procs you've got is just insane, I can barely proc one per mission
I'm so mad about how bad SPARKs are, especially after how good MECs & SHIVs were in EW. I think it's inarguable that SPARKS in 2 are the most bottom-of-the-barrel unit. No training center. No items. No bonds. No covert op skill improvements. No PCS's. It's not even like they're unusable. You can beat the game with them, but everything they can do the human classes can do better. They're mediocre in everything. I tried an all-SPARK run on legendary. I beat it, but man they SUUUUUCK.
where shivs a thing though? I never bothered since they don't level up and mechs were only a late game fancy, gene modification seemed easiest as you simply take your already leveled soldiers and make them even more broken@@BreakdancePeach
@@maxmustermann-zx9yq Having an upgraded SHIV party on I/I straight up feels like cheating. Gene mods were cool with the right setups (there's a particular OP setup I could quickly describe), but MECs are straight up fkin Gundams - 1) Get a Col. Sniper. 2) Turn into MEC. 3) Take *_only_* the combat-oriented abilities and MEC upgrades. 4) Become as gods I actually beat Classic once using only a squadsize of 2 - the 2 setups I mentioned, with a SHIV as a decent stand-in for one of them getting wounded. It was hard as balls at the start but hilarious by the end. The ayy lmaos can't handle 2 juiced up freaks of nature. They were goddamn amazing.
that was really fun to watch, seeing the spark punch enemies is enjoyable. i wouldn't mind seeing a another video with a 2 sparks, i assume it could be done a duo of sparks.
The Long War mod really makes these guys better, simply because of how many troops you need in that mod, plus they heal faster than people, and work as cover, which is useful when a wounded unit turns into a real issue
Wish there was a mod where you could put sparks in a workshop and they get there other abilities similar to the psi-ops class it would fix so many problems
Last time I was excited to have the Hellfire Projector, it was because I needed it to get the achievement for killing enemies with every heavy weapon and I kept getting the other heavy weapons more frequently.
Good videos, I enjoy the run attempts. Both the reaper and the Mech are doable, but they need a different strategy. You did a good job in the attempt, however brute-forcing it was not a possibility on commander difficulty. Anyways, keep up the good work.
yeah the real difficulty with the mec was action economy which was difficult and with the reaper just simply not enough damage but both really fun non-theless
@@InsaneFrame Like I said, both are doable, you just need to adjust the tactic a bit more. The reapers damage is not the problem, you just need to approach it differently with more defensive stats. As for the Mech, I am pretty sure you can rush it faster and simply accept the chosen in the final mission, which should be easily doable on commander. If I have time in between my current content, I might produce a fast solution for both runs. Like the idea of the challenge.
@@krzysztofchlebio8513 I have already beaten Legendary / Ironman with a single soldier. But admittedly the reaper and spark challenge are interesting. If enough viewers are up for it, I can certainly do it.
This video shows a big difference between “The Backlogs” and “Insane Frame” right at the start. One bends the rules so they can make a run possible with as little semantics needed, while the other uses mods and does a very theoretical run with almost no rule bending.
Biggest issue would be the auto-counter mutons do against melee attacks, but you could allow guns for mutons I suppose. I personally went a heavy close range build once that was very fun, especially with the Templars.
@@ZeroX-py5yx hahahahaaa im doing templars and sparks only right now (with playable chosen as a fun reward) and im so lucky to not get that, but mutons are an annoyance
@@joshuagreen8995i dont know if this is in vanilla (play LWOTC mostly) but concentration is am XCOM perk that makes grazes into hits, the muton counterattack only works on grazes (it just makes the first melee VERY high graze chance) so concentration counters that perfectly and enables rangers to melee them 100% of the time
Honestly this might be the most vipers I've ever seen in a campaign ever (ironically in a spark only.) I'd say it's rare for me to see more then like 5 total
7:05 I personally think you should’ve gone with wrecking ball as upon my experience intimidate works like 2 out of 10 times if I’m lucky I dunno if I’m just super unlucky or if you are really lucky but in my opinion bad move.
thought I give this video a Watch. I think the Spark are cool and there are some good mods on the PC for this game also that makes them look even cooler and some that five them other cool tech
You've got much further than one could expect, this is pretty bunkers. What about repeater/ hacking sectopods? If you allow to reload anywhere/any time you can try to get through on just insane luck
The number of saves and retries must have been insane. I'm trying it on normal difficulty and it's a huge pain trying to keep every one alive. You have to play so perfectly 😑
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many successful spark over watches let alone regular troopers. (My current play through I’ve had the worst luck with OW I would say the average hit/miss is 45/55 lmao
This seems to be impossible on Commander, possibly on Veteran, too. What if you were only able to use 1 Spark and up to 2 psy ops? That would give a power up to the late game if you can survive until psy ops are being trained.
I give you props man LOL I kind a cheat and make a big game outta my play throughs cause I use a modified text I put in the ini files and I play with 12 xcom soldiers it helps soo much when aliens send so many troops but I have my own ;) but the game tends to be longer more actions
I always edit the SPARK to use training center & at least 1 utility item. I also use Commander's Choice to add/change training center abilities to give it Blast Padding & Rupture. Wait, does Rupture stack?
@@InsaneFrame Thanks, never knew about the audio library. The song in question though sounds really similar to something from a TV program I used to watch. Unfortunately I cannot remember what it was called.
@@jasonmarines6106 well, I'm not 100% sure since the spark doesn't get access to the training center I may reattempt it with a mod a round 2 if you will
I'm not sure if this is just me, but I think the background music in this video is way too loud. It's not so loud that it overpowers your voice, but it's loud enough to grab my attention away from the narration.
Wait a second, this was commander difficulty? You tried to beat commander solo with the **worst** unit in the game? That takes some balls, but it's even weirder that you did this after sharpshooter solo (one of the best units) on normal mode. That's an insane leap in difficulty!
@@InsaneFrame That's still nuts lmao. Serious props for getting this far. I wish you included the failures in the reel so we could see just how bad it was. Seeing how things go wrong is just as interesting. BTW, have you ever tried this challenge on XCOM EW classic? I have, and it felt ridiculous. Normal was fine, but classic was pain. I even tried bumping up to two soldiers, and I still barely did it by the skin of my teeth. The first four months were unbearable but became easier after that. I think I used a heavy and a sniper? I really leaned on rockets and the OP mimetic skin+In The Zone combo.
The fact that the Chosen Assassin was ultimately killed by an advent officer with a bad grenade throw is beyond hilarious to me.
Panic makes the enemy do weird and wonderful comedy :)
The final boss in the sniper only made me chuckle as well
That's XCom, baby!
He was a 40K Comissar executing the Assasin for such a bad display.
I love the idea of obliterating a bunch of high-tech aliens with what's probably an M2 Browning in the first part of the challenge
definitely it's pretty hilarous!
I like to play the game and think to myself "we lost to these guys?"
@@icehoofIkr? Real advanced intelligent life forms on display
@@icehoof*looks at chryssalids*
*looks at average machine gun team success rate*
“How the fuck you lose to this?”
@@blazingsummit
Screw a machine gun team, look at one dude with a sword in Xcom2, at some point I start feeling bad for the aliens
They really did sparks dirty, without the ability to use the training center. They're so much better with that one simple change, this was probably the only mod I was running. Also the amount of intimidate procs you've got is just insane, I can barely proc one per mission
The intimidate stacks with the armour by tier 3 it's actually quite reliable :)
I'm so mad about how bad SPARKs are, especially after how good MECs & SHIVs were in EW. I think it's inarguable that SPARKS in 2 are the most bottom-of-the-barrel unit. No training center. No items. No bonds. No covert op skill improvements. No PCS's. It's not even like they're unusable. You can beat the game with them, but everything they can do the human classes can do better. They're mediocre in everything. I tried an all-SPARK run on legendary. I beat it, but man they SUUUUUCK.
where shivs a thing though? I never bothered since they don't level up and mechs were only a late game fancy, gene modification seemed easiest as you simply take your already leveled soldiers and make them even more broken@@BreakdancePeach
@@maxmustermann-zx9yq Having an upgraded SHIV party on I/I straight up feels like cheating.
Gene mods were cool with the right setups (there's a particular OP setup I could quickly describe), but MECs are straight up fkin Gundams - 1) Get a Col. Sniper. 2) Turn into MEC. 3) Take *_only_* the combat-oriented abilities and MEC upgrades. 4) Become as gods
I actually beat Classic once using only a squadsize of 2 - the 2 setups I mentioned, with a SHIV as a decent stand-in for one of them getting wounded. It was hard as balls at the start but hilarious by the end.
The ayy lmaos can't handle 2 juiced up freaks of nature. They were goddamn amazing.
@@maxmustermann-zx9yq you can pretty much beat xcom enemy within with only shivs. RUclipsr Backlogs did it
I'm still blown away by the timing of the executions, that was absolutely insane jfc
The berserker queen execution was amazing just wanted armour damage and to book it
that was really fun to watch, seeing the spark punch enemies is enjoyable. i wouldn't mind seeing a another video with a 2 sparks, i assume it could be done a duo of sparks.
A duo spark team is actually one of the better duos you could do as their abilities complment each other really well
We definitely need more challenge videos for XCOM.
In the process of xcom enemy within with a single mec then... some very brutal challenges
Xcom 2 wotc videos every day on my channel! Check it out!
@@InsaneFrame and here I am just barely scraping through on a legend run with 4 soldiers...
@@munky342Here I am just barely scraping through an easy run with 12 soldiers....
@andyandnoah3571 😂 That's XCOM, baby! Wouldn't have it any other way. If you're not suffering, then you probably forgot to turn the TV on.
The Long War mod really makes these guys better, simply because of how many troops you need in that mod, plus they heal faster than people, and work as cover, which is useful when a wounded unit turns into a real issue
Wish there was a mod where you could put sparks in a workshop and they get there other abilities similar to the psi-ops class it would fix so many problems
Yall sleeping on the sparks. I played a legendary campaign where I managed 6 sparks onto the last mission and it was a breeze.
Sparks are good in a squad but they lack solo play since they are specialised but they do have their strengths in no down time so yeah!
I really love these type of video! Recently I finished XCOM 2 WotC for the first time :D
ahh it's an awsome story and well done congradulations!
His Chanel is underrated
Extremely kind of you to say thankyou very much sir!
Fact
Think this is THE first time I've heard a player of XCOM 2 be pleased about getting a flamethrower. Neat.
Flamethrower for the win sir!
Last time I was excited to have the Hellfire Projector, it was because I needed it to get the achievement for killing enemies with every heavy weapon and I kept getting the other heavy weapons more frequently.
Good videos, I enjoy the run attempts.
Both the reaper and the Mech are doable, but they need a different strategy. You did a good job in the attempt, however brute-forcing it was not a possibility on commander difficulty.
Anyways, keep up the good work.
yeah the real difficulty with the mec was action economy which was difficult and with the reaper just simply not enough damage but both really fun non-theless
@@InsaneFrame Like I said, both are doable, you just need to adjust the tactic a bit more. The reapers damage is not the problem, you just need to approach it differently with more defensive stats.
As for the Mech, I am pretty sure you can rush it faster and simply accept the chosen in the final mission, which should be easily doable on commander.
If I have time in between my current content, I might produce a fast solution for both runs. Like the idea of the challenge.
@@SykenPlays I think that 1 soldier runs should be your next challenge run
@@krzysztofchlebio8513 I have already beaten Legendary / Ironman with a single soldier. But admittedly the reaper and spark challenge are interesting. If enough viewers are up for it, I can certainly do it.
@@SykenPlays it would be definitely interesting to see u dismantling advent with a single class throughout the game
This video shows a big difference between “The Backlogs” and “Insane Frame” right at the start. One bends the rules so they can make a run possible with as little semantics needed, while the other uses mods and does a very theoretical run with almost no rule bending.
Great video, the background music kept making me think Discord was ringing haha
Considering the punch on the Spark, the Mindjack, the Ranger, and the Skirmisher, Melee only is sounding as a VERY interesting challenge.
Biggest issue would be the auto-counter mutons do against melee attacks, but you could allow guns for mutons I suppose. I personally went a heavy close range build once that was very fun, especially with the Templars.
All fun and Games until you get that Chosen that's Immune to Melee.
@@ZeroX-py5yx hahahahaaa im doing templars and sparks only right now (with playable chosen as a fun reward) and im so lucky to not get that, but mutons are an annoyance
@@joshuagreen8995i dont know if this is in vanilla (play LWOTC mostly) but concentration is am XCOM perk that makes grazes into hits, the muton counterattack only works on grazes (it just makes the first melee VERY high graze chance) so concentration counters that perfectly and enables rangers to melee them 100% of the time
That 29 days without doing a single mission went by real quick and easy.
To be honest I actually edited it out
Your channel is underrated
thanks man just lucky to have you guys here :)
Haha thanks again for the great release, keen to see the next video :))
No worries thankyou
I need to play this game again.
I suck at it but it is such fun.
Great content, as always!
No worries thankyou for watching :)
Alien: We got a massive army, hyper tech weaponry and unfathomable loyalty from our soldiers
Xcom: We got 1 irish robot
We got a droid with a machine gun from the trash let's go!
Amazing work, so much effort went into this and really appreciate the time you spent on this, new sub good sir!
Thankyou sir that means alot you are most welcome!
You've inspired me to play XCOM 2 again.
Thats awsome to hear man!
Poor Warlock, only had two weeks untill retirment and the last thing going trough his head is a Mcboaty boathook! Poor fella
I'm absolutely amazed how far you went with just 1 spark. Fantastic 😲
thanks man it was tough I had to concede as there was no way we were taking out sectorpods and stuff
Another quality run, no matter the end 👍
Ahh good to see you gafers and thankyou!
ah a fellow sparkchad
27:43
the elders are gonna execute that advent officer
he just blew up his own ally, and that ally is the Chosen
Superb work, awesome vid. The desync on the voiceover/gameplay is a bit annoying at places tho
Thankyou for your kind words man, appreciate the feedback buddy!
10/10 vid got so much further than I expected
Not the result I expected but it was one heck of a ride :)
man, the music is distracting. I hope you improve with the background sound choice. I rather prefer how Backlogs does things.
Fair enough the backlogs is an excellent youtuber highly recommend him, also inspired these challenges
Honestly this might be the most vipers I've ever seen in a campaign ever (ironically in a spark only.) I'd say it's rare for me to see more then like 5 total
Music was a little too loud but otherwise absolutely loved the vid.
Ah yes my phone wacked up on the video I've been waiting for
But
LETS GOOOOO
Most excellent!
These videos do a good job of really making me want to play XCOM again. Too bad my PC ventilation is still broken.
First one I've seen where you cant beat it! Nice!
Yeah if you want another the reaper playthrough is similar
It is currently on sale for 10€ on steam (whole package).
I used to play on PS4 but could not resist owning it on PC aswell.
ayyy i'm early for the first time great content as always
Ah master yoda of gaming you are most excellent sir!
The head looks like Johnny 5 from short circuit 😂
I cannot unsee it now it's so true
7:05 I personally think you should’ve gone with wrecking ball as upon my experience intimidate works like 2 out of 10 times if I’m lucky I dunno if I’m just super unlucky or if you are really lucky but in my opinion bad move.
thought I give this video a Watch. I think the Spark are cool and there are some good mods on the PC for this game also that makes them look even cooler and some that five them other cool tech
I did think about allowing mods for the training centre but thought we'll take the base spark from the game
@@InsaneFrame worked enough for a fun video that is for sure.
you get my like just for the name.
I salute you sir!
Yay new Xcom vid! Can't wait :)
welcome welcome :)
You've got much further than one could expect, this is pretty bunkers. What about repeater/ hacking sectopods?
If you allow to reload anywhere/any time you can try to get through on just insane luck
it was incredibly difficult and the fact that the enemies just caught up to us was definitely a kick in the teeth
@@InsaneFrame but what about "retry hacking sectopod until success"?
Frame ur haasically just spiffing brit but xcom ur awesome lmao
Ah thankyou a huge compliment indeed
That was an amazing run! I think there are not too many classes that can solo X-COM 2: WOTC.
Johnny Five sure got jacked.
The number of saves and retries must have been insane. I'm trying it on normal difficulty and it's a huge pain trying to keep every one alive. You have to play so perfectly 😑
Its very difficult the amount of campaign retries (x3) and map reloads it can become a test of patience
On easy mode I think I finished with like 80 something saves
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many successful spark over watches let alone regular troopers. (My current play through I’ve had the worst luck with OW I would say the average hit/miss is 45/55 lmao
13:10 why is the viper attacking a civilian in a non-terror mission?
sparks are immune to poison and grappling from vipers hence the odd targeting since that's the priority for the viper unit
This seems to be impossible on Commander, possibly on Veteran, too. What if you were only able to use 1 Spark and up to 2 psy ops? That would give a power up to the late game if you can survive until psy ops are being trained.
I would say a second spark but sharing 1 rank ie max between 2 sparks would be better and possible due to having more actions
Man I love this game so much I played maybe 200 hours on my Xbox and the only reason I stopped is my game crashes everytime I finish a mission
This is an insanely replay-able game
See if you can beat the game with a single Skirmisher. They have lots of abilities to help action economy, and great manoeuvrability.
we will have skirmisher in future don't worry ;)
I give you props man LOL I kind a cheat and make a big game outta my play throughs cause I use a modified text I put in the ini files and I play with 12 xcom soldiers it helps soo much when aliens send so many troops but I have my own ;) but the game tends to be longer more actions
I always edit the SPARK to use training center & at least 1 utility item. I also use Commander's Choice to add/change training center abilities to give it Blast Padding & Rupture.
Wait, does Rupture stack?
New xcom video? SIGN ME UP!
good stuff sir!
I'm not sure if you would ever do this but you should try beating arks Extinction map with only corrupted creatures
Can you beat Xcom 2 with Sparks Only 😈
We'll I tried with one failed but we can try a whole team for sure ;)
What's the song that plays on the first terror mission?
its music from the youtube audio library just typed in sci fi and picked what sounded good :)
@@InsaneFrame Thanks, never knew about the audio library. The song in question though sounds really similar to something from a TV program I used to watch. Unfortunately I cannot remember what it was called.
Awsoem try
I think.my best chosen kill was an accident
Spawns in for the second time half health and successfully panicks my soldier who shoots it 🤣
it was a tough attempt but the spark is by far the weakest xcom 2 class unfortunately shame because in vanilla xcom they are one of the strongest
3:54 Does that optional objective say "Extract the VIP's escort?" I've never seen an escort. How does that work?
they usually have extra soldiers with them that then join your team
Can you beat Skyrim using Dwarven Power Suit and Spaceship (The Aethernautics Mod)
okay that sounds amazing!
please tell me what mod you used to start with a spark? this seems super fun!!!
I love the xcom videos!
Seeing Xcom 2 without lags is so weird to me but also satisfying because i play on my shitty laptop
Im surprised you attempted on Commander difficulty, i cant beleive you made it as far as you did. Do you think its possible on normal?
@@jasonmarines6106 well, I'm not 100% sure since the spark doesn't get access to the training center I may reattempt it with a mod a round 2 if you will
@InsaneFrame if you do i can guarantee I'll watch it.
Currently watching binging your content lol Im lovin your work brother
Can you do a can you beat fallout 4 using only x-01 power armor run?
looked all through nexus mods and could not find any mod that let you begin with a spark. What mod did you use?
here you go :)
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1132346898
Could you not use a repeater to get execution on the avatar? I mean the powered up viper and berserker have to be more difficult?
Literally ultrakill
W
I'm not sure if this is just me, but I think the background music in this video is way too loud. It's not so loud that it overpowers your voice, but it's loud enough to grab my attention away from the narration.
This guy
This was amazing!!!!!!
Thanks man really awsome of you to say! :)
Good morning
good morning sir!
24:13 check out that operation name lmao
@textontelegrm_techtesseract I've already claimed your mom, I don't need a PC
How do you get mods to work on xcom2 wotc id love to know
Steam workshop my friend
but what about 2 mechs?
don't worry it will happen might take a while though
why give up when you could add another mech
The challenge was with 1 spark and the high end enemies well... they kicked boat's butt
@@InsaneFrame why not make it into only sparks with an s
Left hook?
You mean Anchor
The spark can heal?
Yes it has a skill to allow so :)
@@InsaneFrame 😑 well at least I know now. Been a few missions I wish I would have known that lol
Yes, just use mods to make it op.
How about 4 mechs
Will do this in future
Really WOTC is hard.
Wait a second, this was commander difficulty? You tried to beat commander solo with the **worst** unit in the game? That takes some balls, but it's even weirder that you did this after sharpshooter solo (one of the best units) on normal mode. That's an insane leap in difficulty!
Wanted to dip my toe and get comftable with xcom then turned up the difficulty
@@InsaneFrame That's still nuts lmao. Serious props for getting this far. I wish you included the failures in the reel so we could see just how bad it was. Seeing how things go wrong is just as interesting.
BTW, have you ever tried this challenge on XCOM EW classic? I have, and it felt ridiculous. Normal was fine, but classic was pain. I even tried bumping up to two soldiers, and I still barely did it by the skin of my teeth. The first four months were unbearable but became easier after that. I think I used a heavy and a sniper? I really leaned on rockets and the OP mimetic skin+In The Zone combo.
Now show us all the save scumming you did
Music is to loud
Gib more fallout 🥺
First one
welcome early squad!
Dang dawg
Missed opportunity t9 call bpaty mc boat facw
JOHNNY-FIVE
Why the aliens shoots civilian in a mission that's not Retaliation?
If there panicked they will shoot random targets as it's essientially a percentage chance what they choose
I can't even beat the game with a fully kitted squad, Fucking Project Avatar
The avatar was a little too much for boaty