AVATAR AND BERSERKER QUEEN - PART 61 - XCOM 2 WAR OF THE CHOSEN Gameplay - Let's Play
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2024
- XCOM 2 War of the Chosen Gameplay is here! This is episode 61 of our Let's Play XCOM 2 War of the Chosen. Work with The Reapers, The Skirmishers, and the Templars to take down the Assassin, the Warlock and the Hunter who represent the Chosen. Thanks to 2k for early access! There are two ways to join the character pool:
1) Leave a comment below with the soldier name/biography info and I will select random comments to be added into the game as needed! Due to the fact that I'm manually creating all characters, I will handle much of the visual look. If you want to leave a defining characteristic I will try to work that in.
2) I setup a Patreon tier here: / christopherodd If you choose to join through Patreon, you will have access to a special discord channel where you can submit a very detailed character build and you will be guaranteed added to the character pool!
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XCOM® 2: War of the Chosen adds extensive new content in the fight against ADVENT when additional resistance factions form in order to eliminate the alien threat on Earth. In response, a new enemy, known as the “Chosen,” emerges with one goal: recapture the Commander. This expansion includes new Hero classes to counter the “Chosen”, new enemies, missions, environments and increased depth in strategic gameplay.
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XCOM 2 War of the Chosen Details:
The Warlock
The Assassin
The Hunter
The Reapers
The Skirmishers
The Templars
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And Chris' issues with genders continue as he refers to the Berzerker QUEEN as a 'he' throughout the mission.
Never change Odd, we love you the way you are! ;)
I told you, man.
I told you.
But you still have to learn Wrath, Skirmisher could stun two enemies for two turns in single turn with Wrath/Justice/Reckoning.
And when Skirmisher has two action point, the Reckoning could do a dash distant attack but just cause one action point, make you could use Wrath or Justice to stun other guys.
And you can stun Sectopod, Gatekeeper, Codex, Spectre, Andromedon, MEC, ADVENT, Chryssalid, Berserker, Archon, Rulers...... But not The Chosen, Avatar and The Lost.
It feels good, finally see Odd uses ripjack after 60 episodes.
All he needs to do is upgrade the ripjack to the alien version and Mox will ascend to Doomguy status
+YeOldeWhapgoblin Upgrading the ripjack to the alien version is bad because the guaranteed stun turns to a guaranteed burn and stun>burn.
Next playthrough, Odd should get robojumper's mod that gives Fusion the stun in addition to burn.
It is really is so funny when people cry havoc about how OP Reapers are, when the ionic ripjack/retribution allows Skirmishers to effectively lock down most enemies, not even taking into consideration wrath/justice.
+YeOldeWhapgoblin Upgrading the ripjack to the alien version is worst, fusion ripjack's burn effect is useless, and Skirmisher dosn't need the +2 little damage boost.
Chris, if you are going to shoot with any Sniper that has the Darklance and also the ability to use a pistol without it ending the turn if it's the first action, then do that. Then you get both a pistol shot AND the Darklance. Add then that you can do Lightning hands, then Pistol shot/Ability and then Darklance.
I need to give the that hunter equipment to my sniper with all the pistol skills. As much as I like the shadowkeeper, the passive ap pistol with a bluescreen and a darklance shot is too good
If my understanding of the interaction is correct, you can use your grapple to get to the position you need, then use lightning hands, then use fan fire, then fire your darklance. It's potentially a solo sectopod kill with bluescreen I believe, although it might be a little short due to the armor. At the very least it's a sectopod kill with some shred from another guy which is just 1 action worse than banish+shred vs sectopod instkaill
I just got war of the chosen (I know, bout time) but I got a resistance order that makes it so that I can make contact instantly and it's amazing!
My swordmaster ranger is kind of scary. I gave her the rage suit and the assassin weapons and I have been giving her covert actions that increase her dodge. Four enemies and a sectopod can't hit her when she's in no cover. Funny that her nickname is Terminator haha
I have a specialist with around 230 hacking, working him up to guaranteed sectopod hacks.
Dear god
eagles980 I think he means she just can't die
I have been getting more misses than actual dodges with her. However, eagles980 is right on that. I don't know; whatever it is, she's just stupid unless she gets shadowbound or mind-controlled
Way to make our soldiers even more OP. Love the DLC though. There's only like two things I don't like. First, I can't bond with SPARK. Second, how War of the Chosen merges with the Alien Hunters and Shen's Last Gift; I liked those little story missions in the last two dlcs and kind of sad that it was removed in this one.
lol mox just punched a ruler into submission
He beated his rubbish mentality into submission!
Mox ish more stronk than puny berserker queen
when you fight a ruler with mox, use warlord
Oh yeah, thats hell :D
what about those Resistance Settlements? Ill mark em your map!
I don't think that works.
havent tried but .. its per enemy per turn soo id think it ll be the same as bladestorm/reckoning
Battlelord only works on Alien Turn. It doesn't work on Chosen or Ruler Reaction turns
It almost looked like Hájek isn't gonna get hurt
You are a far better Xcom player than I'll ever be but you make some... strange decisions sometimes.
Damn it Odd, when you said "...from Syria" I almost choked and died.
How sweet at 26:07, Rocket-launcher decorated with red harts.....
The moment you realized that Mox and the other Skirmishers needed a nerf...
Is it just me or the mid-to-end game is WAY easier than the early game? at least in this DLC?
Or am I just talking out of my ass and ODD is making it look too easy? because you could upgrade the rulers' armours to at least match the Warden armor's stats whilst these ruler armours have special abilities and give you high mobility. and stacking them with the Chosen's weapons which are OP. and also putting some hunter weapons to some soldiers that don't have the Chosen's weapons because you CAN upgrade the hunter weapons but ODD still didn't notice it. PLUS using the AP system to double back and get other skills to the classes which make the game EVEN easier than before.
Basically Mid-End-game is in my opinion easier that in vanilla. But it has also been so in Alien Hunter: Advantages for XCOM in order to defeat the new threat. Once threat is down -> XCOM keeps advantages which are not hardly quite OP.
yes the Alien Hunter weapons and armours are not nearly as OP as I could otherwise said. I would've loved if the XCOM devs make the game consistently difficult at least in legend. especially when you factor in the DLCs that make the game EVEN more difficult in the early game and way way way easier in the Mid-End-game. but that means they need to add tons and tons of enemies. and add a lot more classes.
this is true until the day that there are a TON of mods that you could use to add extra classes. plus Long War 2
I feel like overall they gave a ton of ways for xcom/allies to surpass advent far to easily. Dropping sectopods and chosen in one turn, consistently doing 20+ damage with rangers. and their should never be 100% shots imo 99% sure. Granted Odd is one of the best Xcom players out there but they need to add better advent A.I or have them upgrading their units behind the scenes or some mixture of both
XCOM 2 is badly balanced. Mid game when you reach have decent access to facilities and weapons isn't that hard, and by plasma there is literally no way you can lose.
That is a bug that happens but rarely. It causes animations to slow down by like 95% I had the bug happen to me during a zombie resurrection scene from Undying Loyalty. If you let the animation complete it works just fine after that. I tested it by zooming in and watching the process of a zombie coming to life for about 20 minutes. I didn't want to restart just in case for the worst.
I think it was because of the 'Clone' trying to appear in the middle of the slow-mo cinematic. Have had that issue a few times.
a hint for those having problems with the superaliens. Bladestorm..Bladestorm willl help a lot. I had mox, a templar and a ranger with bladestorm. Finished the berseker queen in a single mission
If I don't remember wrong Mox have combat presence use it , it a very helpful skill
Slow-mo overwatch with speed speaking was funny :).
I love Chris's commentary when the soldiers clearly aren't shooting in the right direction.
Chris,
You are aware that you can take your PsiOp during trainning? It doesn't slow the progress in any way :)
...and start using 'Stasis' on him - best ability ever - you can pick a high DPS enemy and just stop himm from doing anything for one round - saved my ass a lot ;)
Unless they get wounded. THAT slows the training cause it kicks them out of the Psi-lab into the infirmary and ya have to manually place them back in when they heal up.
Any bladestorm, including Mox’s, only triggers once on the same enemy standing next to you. It won’t trigger a second time unless you move away and close with them again.
Someone has no doubt already said it, but in WOTC rulers only get their free single move, if they have LOS on the unit moved.
^single reaction move.
19:00 (ish), I was surprised about the stun. I thought you had one more "stunned" reaction move to work with. A single good overwatch would have done for her. But 20:20 hindsight makes anything easy. Keep up the great work Commander. Your play is genuinely an inspiration to us re-load grunts.
Crash-wise, ask the devs. You try to play it out honestly, and that's keeps my immersion solid. Again, respect Commander.
39:00 - Overall, a good mission. A lot learned on ruler reaction moves with regard to "stunned" effects. The overall ruler reaction move trigger is Line Of Sight though. See Marbozier's encounter with the Berserker Queen, where he (somewhat accidentally) exploits this new game mechanic in WOTC. With squadsight, and the Queen unable to see you. She basically bends over and just takes it from your sniper(s) until she dies. Rulers don't even make a run for it if you trap them like that. You just need a Reaper to do your spotting, and your squad out of range of the leader's LOS. It's a bit dirty, but that's XCOM.
^Ruler, not leader. My thoughtful typing diminishes after drinking! Loving the series though, and don't mind admitting how tactically inept your plays make me feel at times!. I,d love to see a squad on squad online multiplayer between yourself, and a couple of other XCOM RUclips/Twitch/Etc content providers. That'd be really cool to watch, with the two videos edited together post game to keep the mutual drama going! Have Fraxis/Y2K spoke at all about the possibility of online multiplayer XCOM2/3?
Chris. I've just realized, why you don't put the assassin weapons on the other rangers when Darkwood is resting?
that happens when you don't bring a frost granade.
Chris, the ruler is the archon king, and you get the icarus armour
why don't yu make a wraith suit? i mean it has a bit more of hp. and some dodge. plus you can cross wall and still has the grapple. so why don't you make it?
Well, thanks for the shout-out. ;-)
The way you always attack exploding enemies from within their blast radius :/
Blade storm can only trigger once per enemy for every turn of the soldier.
18:27 developers- gentleman I can say without certainty that we have engineered this game to be 100% fair for both sides
Me- you guys have a problem (shows scene)
Developers- 😳 ffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu##########
28:00 you had a free reload with the rifle, gotta remember to check that.
It's been a long time since I heard the chipmunk voice.
"The avatar, rise up and join them" that's some alien propaganda right there
What about using the Serpent suit?
And I think Prophet is max rank and neither tired nor injured, right?
Chris you can fire the pistol and still fire the darklance because only costs one AP
Can you all imagine Mox's frustartion at 36:20 ? He fought like hell for his freedom from the Elders only to fail taking his revenge on one when he had the opportunity to do so...Poor little Skirmisher.
Wow, Chris STILL doesn't understand how "make weapons available" button works!
MrSh1pman he is specifically not using make weapons available because it also removes customized weapons
TheMax1087 it doesn't remove anything, it just makes it available. If you don't grab the weapon, it stays with its previous owner.
Chris can you cast restoration on Luckless?
Thanks Odd!
Really enjoyed this video :)
I think the plural of codex is codices. Like how index is indices.
Beserker, a living weapon... is given weapons.
Don't put fireball on the fire.
The DLC power-creep hasn't been kind to the Avatar. Now it looks like the Elders need to ask the Avatar project admins some hard questions about where did all the effort and resources go, if after all these years they can't even make something that is on par with the Chosen, especially the Warlock :)
yeah, compared to the choosen the avatars are rubish. If three more DLC's with newer, stronger enemies are made, the avatars would by then probably be cannon fodder along the lines of advent troopers.
@@taln0reich To be fair, this is an in-universe "incomplete" Avatar.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 it still should be a major spike in difficulty.
Which mod is it that shows the yellow triangle with "!" indicating where the Xcom soldiers will be spotted after they are "revealed"?
Thank you!
so the way retribution works ChristopherOdd, it procs once per normal turn, and cant be reactivated until ur next normal turn. Meaning it cant be activated for godlike stuns per action of a rulers, great combo though is having 2 skirmishers melee to get 4 stuns, and then once he does a action thats 4 more stuns ontop of that.
The 100% stun chance with the ionic tier skirmisher weapon can't have been intended (it was even nerfed by a modder to 25% chance). Even though i really liked this expansion, i feel that the devs were a bit lazy in some areas. Not enough new story cut scenes, some inconsistent dialogue and some strange balancing issues etc.
There will be season 2? AWESOME!!!!!!!!
My covert action expert is a Ranger code name "Smile Gang" got him from the pool so hilarious
That cinematic glitch is annoying as hell, had it happen to me a few times, most of the time it figured out what was going on and broke out of it. but...sometimes..nope.
The reason you couldnt Stunlock it with retribution is that it activates only once per enemy in any turn. So you went up to him stunned him with slash. when he got unstunned he went to move retribution kicked in re stunned him but then he couldnt be re stunned for a third time By mox at least.
He needed to move someone with Bladestorm next to them first.
Its codices.
Lincoln Noronha it's codi
Hitman300hawk Nope... it's really codices
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/codex
Hahaha, 10:04 nice Helium dude ;)
I love the Rulers. Either shoot them or draw them towards you. Defensive players get real problems.
Can’t wait for more and more and more
If the Titel wouldn't tell me that an AVATAR and BERERKER QUEEN would be in here. that would be great.
Those melee things like retribution only works when they move onto a tile near you, not away from it
bladestorm works both ways.
I think the retribution gives random stun duration or no stun. And every hit changes the status. So if it is stunned 4 turns and retribution triggers, you might hit it with 1 turn stun. And then you might hit it with no stun and then it gets move.
Odd just a tip Langley has a negative trait Catious which is very bad (hunker down chance after the first move of the turn)
I wish he would fast forward everytime he takes his time on one fucking turn
atleast we get to have a good look at peraxis' arm
I wonder if he remembers that he equipped the card that allows him to put in lightly wounded soldiers into the missions. He wouldn't have to waste a revitalize that way.
he was also tired so it was double bad to take zhao in that way.
Did u see how berserker flied at minute 15:00? HAHAHAHAHAHA
Rulers still king of the hill. Chosen are jokes! Rulers give me that "shit just got real" feeling
They should add a cool cinematic for revitalisation.
amost kill another one in the mission where appears. Sadly , flee with only 10 HP left. Good news is: the next time it shows up , it will only need a good old crit to the face for finished her off.
I love your videos but I need to watch them in 2x speed.
Archon Leader !
Love this bell
Chris or anyone out there, do you guys know what mod or why Christopher has a kill count thingy when he goes to the armory, the board that shows the heads of enemy advent and numbers under them showing the kill count, I want that in my game looks cool :\
It's the Alien Hunters DLC.
Mox still has to make a hit roll for his Bladestorm equivalent, I think he just missed that last one is all.
could be. it just had too many other messages so it got lost in the shuffle.
I don't get it. Why does he go and remove weapons manually? Why not used the Make Weapons available button?
Wants everyone to keep their modded weapons.
you do if you do it from inside the soldier 'edit' screen but not the squad screen. And it was because his Covert ops people were having their weapons removed by it because of 'glitch'.
DID u make a character pool for this series ?
Chris you gotta play more darkest dungeon! I loved when you were doing it and all you've been posting is XCOM give us a little bit of something fresh! Love your channel but throw a little spice on it :D
Chris, the next time you do a modded playthrough of XCOM, you should get the XCOM: Prosthetics mod and its addons: it basically allows you to put prosthetics on soldiers that are taken straigh out of EW and they all look pretty badass. Theres even an addon that allows gravely wounded soldiers to have a chance at getting a prosthetic installed (implying one of their limbs got fucked up)
I think bladestorm triggers when they move towards the soldier, but once it has triggered, it doesn't trigger again if they're moving away from the soldier.
It may have changed by now, but Bladestorm seems too powerful to me. Maybe it should only trigger if an enemy attempts to attack you, or perhaps only allow it to trigger once per turn, or have it be an advanced form of overwatch that must be manually activated with a cooldown.
Hi Christopher, a quick question. How do you know the avatar is female? Is it part of the lore?
according to the lore(if im not mistaken) it doesnt have a gender, but odd also calls zhao a she sometimes so try to ignore it
Did he use the new gun from the chosen?
Talking about the different Resistance Orders and Region bonuses for a moment, could a player potentially trigger Double Agent AND Volunteer Army on the same mission?
Collux13 speaking from my own campaign yes. Yes you can. And missions can have them both kick in.
David F so if you have the right abilities and soldier classes, through out a normal Gurilla Ops mission you can start with 8 soldiers and during the mission control 14 units? (1 Psi-Op with Domination and 5 Specialists suceeding in using Haywire Protocol control on robotic enemies)
Man I have one the best snipers on my team she reminds of Locksley, she's got the same hair but it's white and the android mask plus blacked out armour
anyone can explain to me why would anyone use gas over acid nades?
Acid got more dmg both do DoT s but acid works on both mechanical and organic while gas is organic only
Gas also prevents some abilities, like melee attacks?
Not sure, though.
Another way to keep the ruler you could have gased the gate
Chipmunk Odd best Odd
he could have killed that ruler right there with battlelord, Mox can take an immediate action depends on the number of enemies insight. gee, what a waste.
Isn't the avatar a guy
*Internalised oppression*
It is a artificially constructed biological life form so it probably doesn't have a gender
Same as whoever is the commander, I assume.
It's meant to appear androgynous.
did u assume its gender?
I’m pretty new to xcom 2 and the berserker queen showed up and
I don’t know what happened but i took one shot with my sniper and the queen died in one hit
you probably had a repeater hit. 'Executed' would show for the damage message. either that or it was previously damaged and it only had the much health left from a previous encounter...
do you know what i think a cool thing they should do is that it could be multiplayer like local you and your friend probably and one is xcom other is advent
Zach E. always thought this. Would be great 👌
I thought the same thing thought it could play similar to but the same as galactic conquest from Star Wars battlefront 2 you can upgrade and unlock units for your side and capture/rescue continents for money and the winner is who captures/rescues the world
When the avatar use to be hard. Laughing at that now
Hey, what happened to Divinity: Original sin 2? Really like that game and want to watch more of it. But the videos just stopped coming so now I'm sad
Alfadas fire Pretty sure the guy he livestreams/plays it with has been ill recently so they haven't been able to play it.
Q: What mods do you have active??
why dont you use assasins weapons
I may be wrong but isn't OLE OLE OLE OLE Spanish I should know this since I live in Portugal
Zephyr Dogma yes it is( I'm from Spain)
Zephyr Dogma XD i thought it was an Aussie thing (Im from New Zealand)
Super late, but, it's a chant that fans of the Montreal Canadiens (hockey team) have adopted from football. That's why he said "for the Canadiens" a second time, now referencing the team as opposed to his reference of the nationality the first time!
@@07jerminator ahhh super late but enlightening
I'm back Odd and you better not be hiding anymore that much! The chosen are down and I'm still looking to kick ass with Homer, Mox and others!
Name: Mikael 'Fort' Franss
Gender: Male
Nationality: Finland
Defining characteristic: Aviators, always.
Color scheme: Anything blue-ish and white. Doesn't matter in the end.
Biography: Once the part of the Private Military Corporation (The name is top-secret for an unkown reason) in Costa Rica that was destroyed by an unknown military organization, right before the invasion Franss moved back to his homeland Finland as a mercenary looking for a job. As the first reports of invasion came to the country he currently made his living in, Franss joined the Finish Defense Forces to give his support to them.
His medical skills and noted marksmanship back in Costa Rica went long way for Franss. Not to mention he wasn't afraid of forcing enemies into close quarters or vice versa, boxing in his teenage years really paid of when he had to take down a rampaging Berserker to safe his brothers in arms. Sure, Franss didn't come out unscratched - having most of his bones broken in right side of his body - resulting in long stay in infirmary. The company gave him the Nickname 'Fort' for "his reckless and unyielding defense towards the slap of steroided alien meat". A man who only wanted to do his job only as a medic in the Anti-Armor forces, ended up as a trainer to teach close quarters tactics against aliens to convicts.
After the fall XCOM, Franss was forced into hiding in the deep forests of Finland, living a life of a guerrilla soldier, hunting wildlife and avoiding contact with Advent. Once the word about XCOM reforming reached Franss, he only knew one thing to do - dig up the old equipment of his and travel the globe and it's battlefields to find the XCOM forces.
Give JayLow the Serpent Suit.
not sure why but non of the adverts triggered correctly during this video. video just paused slightly then carried on. just thought you should know as it may effect your income for this video.
23:40 after soo many dlcs and they still haven't fix their buggy game.
stuns and frost grenade counter the rulers cuz of WoTC upgrades done to em
When u say season 2 u talking bout xcom3???
2070 views, 0 dislikes. Only Odd.....
I was going to say Chris, but since my name is Chris, it would've been a little... Odd. I'm sorry.
Dude you need to take advantage of whiplash. It's a free action, free 6 points of damage if it hits. No point in taking it with you back from the missions...you haven't used it in a while.
Banish without reload...
Anyone's sound go weird about 24:15?
Odd found it took too long so he fast forwarded it
Chipmunk Odd is back...
Wheres your Divinity series