Can you beat X-Com 2 with only 1 reaper
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Hello Everybody today we try and tackle X-Com 2 with only one reaper so let's see if we can beat the campaign with our first heroic class in the game so strap in because calymores and remote starts are aplenty!
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Ahh yes. XCOM content in 2022, I love it.
Xcom 2 is always awsome gotta love melting alien faces!
@@InsaneFrame yeah, fuck all xeno
why they never make X------com like enemy unknown and terror from the deep its first 2 x coms but they are one of the best, i also liked interceptor but it was very short
@@InsaneFrame Why is this commander? Do a Veteran like Sniper run, please?
It never stops
I don't know why it happens but sometimes the advent troops just act like concealment isn't a thing and go straight for you even though they shouldn't. I personally consider that a bug. The video was still entertaining and Binnie was an absolute mad lad!
You can usually work around it but my word is it annoying
I don't actually think it is a bug, it is to stop players from exploiting concealment.
Xcom 1 had a lot of issues with players exploiting things hard. Xcom 2 cracked down on potential exploits by just outright cheating. A very interesting one you can see is breaking line of sight for everyone with a large wall.
The AI will, if the AoE can hit, often throw it at all the wall despite having 0 vision of anyone behind it. It is very spiteful if the player attempts to outsmart it.
It's not a bug, it's to prevent players from cheesing the game with concealment. The way it works is that one pod will always move between you and the objective to block your path, closing in more and more the longer you stay concealed to eventually force you out.
@@tazamane9705 That is very interesting and good to know if true, thank you.
@@tazamane9705 well thats silly. Why build the concealment mechanic into the game, if you're going to punish players who use it effectively...
The number of executions this man got is insane
Lets just add little bit of fun story to this one.
Lets say this is the reaper that found the commander and when seeing the tank gave him a flurry of inspiration and decided to say fuck it and took on the entire alien occupation on earth.
this is cannon now!
@@InsaneFrame whole shit that was fast.
I really appreciate that you tried failed and still posted! We don't get enough, "no really this challenge is actually impossible"
Ahhh, nothing sucks more than getting bad luck on a hard challenge. Looking forward to the next video!
Yeah the broadside in fallout 4 going to be fun :D
The Dark Event that adds the lost to missions just makes me chuckle. They are far more dangerous to the aliens than the Commander. They have literally only ever made missions easier, its comical to watch them just plow through alien squads
That dumb execution mechanic was the MVP.
I think they removed the AI cheat in Long War, so despite Long War being much harder, its possible to do a solo stealth mission because the pods will NOT know where you are until they are alerted.
Well you didn't necessarily need to do the assassin stronghold. You could just fight her once on leviathan.
Yeah not really keen on that with all the sectorpods and gatekeepers about no no...
This was a fantastic attempt and fun to watch. Excellent job! I hope you continue doing this for as long as you enjoy it!
thanks man it's really nice of you to say appreciate it!
I always get angry seeing others play xcom2 and how lucky they get. So many execute hits. Meanwhile I'm constantly getting critically hit in full cover by enemies half the map away.
it took alot of attempts as had to get the stars to align with tactical rigging
Quality as always.
Never an easy one
Reapers simply don't have the firepower so its a tough one
I wonder if this challenge could be won using a single reaper per event, but only 1 reaper per mission. Could allow you to avoid some more dark events/ retaliation missions but would keep some of the same challenges like dealing with bosses like the assassin.
The most important stat early game is will letting you do more missions so GTS is amazing for the PCS slot
I hd no idea remote start didnt break stealth, thats a game changer
Remote start is really powerful but very situtional you can net some nice group kills with it though
@@InsaneFrame true, also does shooting a claymore reveal the shooter (a reaper)?
@@burningtank160no
ah yes "Reapers"
The sneaky secret agents of Volk/Xcom
The warlock getting bullied so hard like that me crying laughing, poor guy can't catch a break in any run
Reaper with extended mag, scope, repeater and some fun ammo with banish can kill pretty much all enemies in one go.
The Reapers really do brake the entire game :D
they struggle to dish out the damage solo as a team they are quite something!
Honestly the 'Hunting' thing that the enemies do in Xcom 2 genuinely makes me wonder why they bothered with the concealment/stealth mechanics at all.
The game just straight up makes the enemies head for your exact location if you've been in concealment too long, so it doesn't MATTER if you're in stealth or not, they WILL find you and they WILL reveal you. Why even bother putting stealth mechanics in the game in the first place if you're then also going to do that??
its good for scouting and ambushes but they really don't want to let you remain in concealment granted this class relies on it and the playthrough is for a single unit but totally agree let us do a stealth playthrough
Any chance you can do a new series on legend but you have only two units. The ranger and the sharpshooter?
Oh its happening for sure we'll do all the classes first and then take each class on legendary difficulty for a season 2 of sorts! (also will do a tier list once all the classes are done)
The anti stealth "Line of play" mechanics is awful. Basically, yeah, AI knows where you are even if you're stealthing. There's some "center of the mass" mumbo jumbo workaround it, so you can generally work your way around it by using 2 more soldiers and setting them up in the corner of the map while your reaper does the job, so the ai will lock on the 2 poor fools. The devs shoved it into the game so the players won't be "exploiting" stealth. And even if it's an exploit, there's nothing wrong with it, because stealthing the mission is in the spirit of the goddamn game!
totally agree if your using stealth that's fair if the enemy have a "rough estimate" to where you are but if your in shadow a upgraded form of stealth it should be until your revealed or the enemy hone in on the sound or something!
I'm not sure, beating the game with solo class run, but I'm 100% confident to destroy the entire Alien Facility with Reaper alone.
I like seeing these challenges fail. Too often you see the title pose a question you already know the answer to.
At the very start I thought: I wonder what is he going to do with assassin’s always hitting and stunning attack? Turns out you don’t.
I think this video pretty much explains Reapers. It's all about the insane Remote Starts and Claymores
Why did you use a console command to reveal yourself during that fight with the Warlock?
Probably to get the Overwatch procs.
Seen a guy do this with a full squad of reapers, don't know how hard it'll be with just one. Good luck.
Edit: that was a great run, xcom is very nearly impossible with a single soldier but you held on long and stayed strong. Don't be disappointed by how it ended even runs with full teams can end that way, in the future you may be able to pull it off.
A fan of drifter are you? If so, his vods exist on the drifter's broadcast (his second channel). Honestly, worth watching if you want it on in the background 😁 ps. No shade to this channel, just directing people who enjoyed this to a channel that literally does only this xD
@@yann9915 yes I like drifter, but insane is fun and brings a new look to the game, I also don't like to name the other guy unless asked because I don't want someone trying to get their channel recognized to have to compete with more established channels
@@ruthlesace i appreciate and respect and also do the no-naming-others thing, but i felt it was okay to do so as this channel does this for a bunch of different games and was hoping if someone liked the xcom stuff in particular and wanted more of it, they can head to drifter, or otherwise continue to follow this channel for the variety that he offers 😇
Time to go back and get even more hours in XCOM 2. Let's kill some bloody aliens!
Most excellent!!!
I’ve yet to try XCOM 2 I’ve only played EU and EW so far and I absolutely love them.
Enemy within has got to be my favourite so good :)
I never saw so many executed kills
hmmmm
Honestly I get so skeptical with these videos because he's sort of "too lucky" so many crits too right???
@@ethanblackwell9660 yes, but
1. It's a supercut, we don't always see the other shots
2. We don't know if resistances bonus and radio tower bonus were active
3. How many time he tried.
Even if you have just a 30% execute chance, if you only shoot with one weapon, that 30 seems like a lot compared in a regular playtrough. The die is more often thrown.
He didn't even succeed the challenge. That would be strange for cheating.
Yeah it's kinda sketchy, but we don't see enough to say it's cheating
Would love to see a challenge run of only one SPARK. I'm sure a squad of 4 SPARKs would be ez pz, but 1 would be more of a challenge. They got a lot of what you would ever want from a soldier... health/armor, high damage weapon and surefire damage heavy weapons, innate armor shred, an ability that lets you shoot *three* times, no need to protect against mind control, no will debuffs, better mobility when going to the high grouind... I guess the only thing that would be bad would be the aim, but aim can be crutched by scopes in WotC.
Another more fun challenge would be to use WotC soldiers only, so you can only use Skirmishers, Reapers, and Templars. Very doable on Commander, but might be a good challenge on Legend since you can get 3 early but they are kinda hard to come by later.
Edit: Thought they didn't have jump jets until late, but apparently any SPARK comes equipped with them.
Yo, just making sure you found out that the run did in fact happen.
good stuff! looking forward to more xcom! have you considered doing any other strategy games too?
oh absoultley going to try phoenix point some time in the future!
7:44 it’s still a coin flip on reveal though isn’t it?
I would watch a xcom full play through
Kinda unrelated to the video, but I just realised I've never seen a xcom 2 video where people don't kill all 3 chosen and face them in the last mission.
it is possible to face all 3 with a team but with a solo soldier its simply not really a thing you can do :)
Yeah, that would be the definition of a suicide mission.
I didn't know it was possible... I always kill them individually.
" The light Has left him"
30:14 does the assasin cheat or did they have the locate concealed units strength?
since it's a solo run they go to the closest unit and since we only got one solo unit they can spot us
holy shit, i didnt know The Narrator could take days off :D i love u
nice! Trying to do your run beating Xcom as sharpshooter
Bit of advice get deadeye, lightning hands and quickdraw along with a mindsheild asap and you'll soon be doing great also hunter chosen pistol the dark talon is busted :)
My algorithm did not do anything to deserve this.
17:13 how are you wining so many coin flips in a row without revealing
That repeater got some work done holy crap
Why did i struggle to find the reaper on the thumbnail
what reaper?
Pretty sure every reaper gets tactical rigging at least I have never seen one without.
"Which is amazing".
You got probably the best Resistance Orders in the game. I was just thinking you were missing the one to reduce avatar progress .. and then you got it too!
Yes the resistance orders were fantastic they were superb!
What did you learn from this video: claymore
Are the XCOM abilities on resistance faction randomized
yes they are random, the best ones are from the reapers the resistance rising and the one that doesn't start the timer and the feedback and will recovery form templars are fantastic mid to late game
fair play, you gave it good go! was interesting and entertaining vid :)
i thought im watching the spiffing brit
Thankyou ill take that as a compliment :)
Personally I enjoy skirmishers more.
If you want a barrel of laughs try 2 skirmishers on highest difficulty.
I say 2 because of the skills that affect squad mates allowing some hilariously long turns.
I'm trying to complete this dlc for 5th, and you complete this with one stealth unit. Wow
Well... yes and no (spoilers I failed) the reapers can't output enough damage
@@InsaneFrame Were you doing this on ironman?
@@piotr3580 no I don't because single soilder challenges are pretty tough as they are especially facing chosen
@@InsaneFrame Ok, but how to get such a huge execution chance?
mate, that is not how my repeaters work, even a superior one won instakill this much :O
@several webms well, you can do this by reloading a lot, I play heavily moded xcom so I know that can be a thing. In my games it's sometimes necessary since things like to get stuck from time to time
@several webms its a supercut of his entire run. The warlock mission alone was 10 tries if you didn't catch that part, it's not cheated, just showing the best parts.
You can still win this game.
It's not strictly neccesary to kill any of the chosen in their strongholds. Any chosen you don't take out will simply show up in the first chamber of the last mission. With some luck (execute) you should be able to take them out there and hopefully finish the run.
problem here of course is that it adds an extra timer in the shape of teh Avenger Assault. If you think the stronghold is, tough, that one might be impossible with a single reaper.
@@Timelord79 I do believe the big gun can be shot with collateral damage. And the small ones really don't pack much of a punch. Not sure if you can loose this one if Aliens reach the ramp though. That would be an issue
Love the videos
I’ve discovered a mad lad today
Love it when rulers get executed XD
Hmm... How about Chimera Squad using only 1 character? Not sure who. Maybe the Shield guy?
New idea: Can you beat FNV while only completing each quest with a single weapon, and never again? (Name pending)
Basically you can only use 1 weapon per quest, and then check that weapon off the list and never use it again. (I.E. using a 9mm for the goodsprings gunfight, clearing primm/ bison steve with a single shotgun, clearing the Mojave outpost ants with a shovel, etc. etc.
I'm pretty sure there's more than enough weapons to complete the game.
Yup..with reaper shits easy like cakewalk...specially when ur at commander difficulty.
Let's go!
Oh yeah :)
Hey man, how you been?
Hear me out. Saints Row 4. If you can, of course. I have it on my PS3 and its so goofy, but it makes it so fun. We can talk about it, but I just wanna know if you have it first.
Hope you're doing great man. Also, got me a new and remastered pfp!
Nope I dont sorry
@@InsaneFrame
Dammit man. I'd gift you it if I had money. Well, my birthday is coming up, October 15. of course, I'm asking from a early happy birthday. Other than that, I'll just keep watching this content. Thanks for uploading man
I never had those 5 more abilitys, is that chance for get it or we have to do someting for getting them?
Its a random chance to get 3 - 5 abilities you also need the training centre if you have xcom soldiers faction soldiers auto get that training style
@@InsaneFrame no ı mean, ım play on mobile and my reaper dont have skills like "Kill zone" or skill that let him carry item etc. I think mobile is kinda sucks
Dont mean to be rude, just a small pet peeve of mine. Perhaps consider taking the microphone a bit further away. Can be a couple of unintentional "mouth sounds".
Love these xcom challenges, turn based is my jam. Would love to see you check out divinity original sin 2, or baldurs gate 3. Anyways, cheers!
Are these mod or is there something i just can find
Now I must buy XCom 2 😄
Isn’t it easy to break stealth, just path through something that needs opening like a window or door, though console revealing is aight
I cant get this game to run without constant crashes
I believe they did hotfix it perhaps im wrong but it took me a while to get it to work properly
I would love to love xcom 2 but im really not a fan of the fact so many levels that start a turn timer that fails you if you play things slow and methodical like i do. It really turned me off of it. speaking as someone who preordered it, played when it first came out but then never touched it after the first hr or two of play. its been years since then
There's an option before you start the game to increase the mission timers! No one will fault you if you need to use it. I've used it a couple time when I was doing chill runs and there was maybe one mission where I was lazing about that the mission timer got within 3 rounds before failing.
@Apple Chips i actually started playing it yesterday because of this series. I simply used a mod to turn them off when applicable lol.
You didn't need to try i knew that it wasn't posible 😅
i love your video
might ne late on this, but next time get an expanded clip instead of free reload. that way you can get more out of banish
Ayy where you get that piano music from bro ;)
This does not work in ironman mode
it can but you'd be doing too many attempts on a campaign but in the future I do have an idea that will use ironman mode
I might missed this but how can you deal with tiredness? I wanna do this kind of run too.
Try going to bed at the same time every day, limiting or stopping your screen use half an hour before bed, and drinking more water.
Reaper's weapon is NOT weak. It has low base dmg, yes, but it's crit modifier is highest in game. So we take skills:
1. One that increases armor piercing from stealth.
2. Extra crit chance for each kill.
3. All skills for Claymore.
4. Car/explosives detonation.
5. Ideally would be to take extra utility slot skill and any double shot skill but it's totally random. In extra utility slot we take Talon ammo.
6. Hair trigger and laser sight upgrades.
BAM! We got Reaper that kills Andromedon in one attack without even unstealthing.
is it just me or does it kind of seem like you were meant to do solo reaper
Well I did do solo reaper it's tough really tough
@@InsaneFrame ya maybe a team of reapers would be easier
Are you planing on doing more xcom:ew?
Yes of course i am
Music?
Audio library from youtube of all places!
But why did you need to beat the assasin? Just leave her be, no?
If you don't beat the chosen they all show up in the final mission or get a chance to capture you
@@InsaneFrame well, you are reaper - it will be in a final mission but you maybe can sneak past it?
@@InsaneFrame But you only need to kill the Assassin once in the final mission!
@@sad_yorick No, WotC changed the map layout, so you now have to beat every enemy on the map before being auto loaded into the final chamber. Where before the chamber was connected to the rest of the map but no stealth unit was stealthy enough to sneak past because of higher detection radius.
So you modded the repeater to guarantee proc during the Stronghold? Or just save rolled each shot until it proc'd?
U know what .. i love this class right up until the late game
Claymores good not great
Stickys pointless
And the environmental explosions u can do are awsome but situational
U cant throw an environmental explosive then trigger it with the skill that sets off environmental explosives which seems abit shit
Claymores only get 1 upgrade threw the skill tree
And even after setting off a claymore all of the enemies by late game are still standing ok they cant see u great
So u Claymore them again
There all dead if they are all still grouped together
Thats just 1 pod ...
Now what ...
U fucked
The class as i said was awsome early mid by late u would of been better off with any other class and its a shame
Because the was the reapers gel with squads is awsome but theres simply not enough claymore or explosives in general to get them viable
Not when i can use a sniper for massive damage on multiple targets
Or gunslingers
Or rangers
Like i said any other class for huge damage that i cN use more than twice
Such an awsome class for 2 3rds
For the last mission ur just better off training a pcy operative instead
pretty much summs up all the pros and the cons of the class in one comment right there I have nothing to add
Commander difficulty no ironman?
Shameful, unless its legend ironman then it's not even xcom