XCOM 2: War of the Chosen - Inside Look: The Skirmisher
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ABOUT XCOM 2: WAR OF THE CHOSEN
The fight against ADVENT continues 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 to the 2016 award-winning strategy game of the year includes new Hero classes to counter the “Chosen”, new enemies, missions, environments and increased depth in strategic gameplay. Requires XCOM 2 to play.
ABOUT XCOM 2
XCOM 2 is the sequel to the award-winning strategy game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Twenty years have passed since humanity lost the war against the alien invaders and a new world order now exists on Earth. After years of lurking in the shadows, XCOM forces must rise and eliminate the alien occupation. Join the resistance. Available now on PC, Mac, Linux, PS4 and Xbox One.
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What's your favorite feature of the Skirmisher? Will this unit be in your squad in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen?
I'm guessing these come into conflict with the other factions simply for being former Advent at all?
This guy will definitely be in my squad, a shock grapple to stun mechanical enemies AND more attack opportunities? Count me in!
wow this class just like use assassin's creed hidden blade tech and titanfall armour. I like it!
Wait wait wait, if they get action every time enemy gets action, DO THAT MEAN ITS 1v1 VS RULERS?!
Think about it, some 1 takes action, then ruler moves, but to that, skirmisher also gets an action, to that, ruler gets an action, thus creating cycle of constant back and forth between skirmisher and ruler
I want it! For my channel & stream! )
okay... im waiting to see the scene where one of those advent stun lancer spin his stunlance and yell at our Skirmisher "TRAITOR!!!!"
Yeah, but what is the nickname going to be? They probably number each troop. Elders: " Yes trooper 33333, kill xcom, kill them now." Trooper 33333 "I shouldn't" Elders: " do it"
They are possibly not merely clones but former Earth's ex military who willingly went through genetic modifications, with clones only coming in when volunteer pool became more scarce. Psionic chips was added for insurance measure, to make sure loyalty is insured.
This is basically reverse Star Wars storm trooper scenario (originally Galactic Senate having no standing army, massively boosting their forces with clones and then slowly wean those forces with ordinary humans through Galactic Empire time) and would provide much more reasonable belief why the rest of Resistance hate them so much. Clones at least created and have no choice in the matter to fight or not, since its their lot in life. Collaborators willingly submitting to genetic modification to ADVENT soldier, after Earth's defeat, when they was supposed to protect Earth from aliens will draw much ire for being sellouts who willingly even after Earth' defeat in first XCOM surrendered and joined with genocidal enemy.
actually, they're very likely early ADVENT clones. thing to remember is you as the commander were jacked into the Psionic Network for two decades. it wouldn't be surprising that some ADVENT troopers would get chunks of your personality and will to defend humanity.
mean, hell, ever since Jsleezy's mod came out with the ADVENT faces, i've had a bunch of defected ADVENT anyways with precisely that backstory.
1) That takes a lot of resources to create that many "Chunks Of You" when there plenty of surrendered manpower already available, trained and experienced for warfare. That would take significant amount of time to breed global army the size of ADVENT. To control Earth you need army in Millions (or way more - billions). Cloning one guy, even if he/she is the best soldier in the world, even with perfected cloning would take decade at least and centuries at most. - Even if there was some kind of giant mother ship with cloning bays.
2) Even that is easy to refute for the fact that ADVENT was "Formed" out of human collaborators who went under alien ruler ship umbrella and thus they required to supplement their own military forces to ADVENT. This would of been really shitty secret or no secret at all if giant millions (billions) numbered clone army would suddenly appeared from the thin air to serve ADVENT or even slowly pushed in, especially Dr. Tygan not being the only rogue professor out there working for ADVENT. - You rescue a lot of ADVENT defector scientists and they would of easily known by that point.
3) Commander was jacked, but it wasn't for his individual fighting ability but for strategic, tactical kills ("Commanding"), and apparently high psionic potential. Also you are forgetting the fact that ADVENT does recruit actively into its ranks from human population (if they catch high psionic to turn into goo material for Elders being side benefit and those that are not sent to rank and file with psionic chip planted in their head), in fact some of them come not even gene modified (the ones you can recruit at Black Market). If you play missions in city slums, you will notice ADVENT posters plastered all over the place. Bradford also mentions ADVENT mutiny at one point or another. Captured ADVENT trooper in one of the leads, who dies after interrogation also shows independence not akin to a clone trooper.
There are just way too many hints to refute" They are All Clones", but we'll only known when Firaxis says something about it.
Caliell one small thing, most clone troopers from Star Wars actually did show some form of independence, they customized their own armor and gave each other nick names.
Some even broke away and became mandalorians pursuing their heritage from Jango Fett after they got their chips out.
They had varying levels of individualism, personality, independence, etc.
Probably the same for the non controlled skirmishers that got their chips out, they're all special snow flakes.
"This rifle is most effective at close range"
CLOSE RANGE?!
You can't miss when they're sucking off the barrel
Zetsumi Ravencroft It's Xcom of course you can miss point blank.
Ssh, you'll worry the rookies if they hear that
No
'Find out what they want'
NOE
"CLOSE RANGE?!
And what happens when that doesn't work?"
"Can pull enemies out of cover"
*Get over here!*
Grifflez Thank you for giving me the perfect nick name for my Skirmisher.
Roadhog 1.0
Nice Scorpion [Mortal Kombat] reference, man! :-D
Man that is some sexy armor. I never knew I needed a fur collar in XCOM until now.
"Hi, I'm Stealy, and I'm a Skirmisher.
Looks like we've got some nice stuff here:
- Use the hook on enemies after using the hook to climb; that's 2 grapples.
- Actions when you get shot at; that's 3 grapples.
- Battlelord that's nice; that's... 6 and a half grapples"
Excellent rick and morty reference is excellent
It's like having your own personal Ruler alien, taking actions whenever the enemy does. Finally, revenge will be mine!
Skirmisher Berserker Queen fight!
Im just thinking of the berserker quenn just taking actions and then my skirmisher taking actions et. cetera
I wonder how will an Alien ruler vs. Skirmisher work? will they keep getting reactions from each other, essentially making it a one turn brawl between the two until the ruler tries to escape? or only one reaction?
Makes me wonder what happens if they fight each other? Non stop attacks?
Haos51 My thoughts Exactly
*Reaper trailer* - "Wow, these stealthy guys seem neat. They could be a cool option to put in your team."
*Skirmisher Trailer* - "The only way these guys could be better was if they instantly killed all enemies upon entering the level."
Tygan: We removed Advent implants from the subjects with only minor behavioral problems.
Commander: What do you mean by minor?
Tygan: They have an odd obsession with things like cloud programming...
Former Advent officer playing Galaga in the research lab: The Cloud!
Flopping Advent trooper on autopsy table: The Cloud!
Former Advent trooper standing guard: The Cloud!
Commander: Goddamnit.
Reminds me of the 3 Clone Troopers in Rebels who removed their chips in their head too. I'm totally making one that looks like Captain Rex.
+Autistic Torchic
they're all hybrids. How can you make a sectoid hybrid that looks like Rex? Unless he'll never take off that modded helmet...
TheArklyte I'm guessing he means white and blue paint job for the armor like Rex.
+Jacob Malone
yeah, I guess so. But I'd still be glad to watch somebody make a bearded sectoid:\
Jacob Malone if I had the know how I'd create a Republic commando skin for them
TheArklyte thanks for those I only just started a playthrough of xcom 2 and I'm keeping things vanilla. that's including the use of cosmetic mods but those two are going on my list for my second playthrough
"They've figured out how the remove the chip that kept them under ADVENT's control."
So kinda like Captain Rex in Star Wars Rebels.
grapple!
...missed!
*Wilhelm scream as he hits the ground*
That or they bodyslam into a Advent soldier or a alien.
김주호 *loads save before grapple*
give your skirmisher superior perception. increases aim of all abilities.
Central: Commander, we found rulers you can control. Commander: O_O
That's brutal, going through half a head transplant just to look more human. (And to remove the psionic control chip in their brains.)
But would using battleborn against an alien ruler make an infinite chain of actions hmmmm
BentoBox No it would just extend the turns by 2 more actions.
One for battle lord, one for ruler reaction to battle lord.
Also they made it were rulers don't react to everything. Small actions like reloading won't trigger a ruler action. I think it's now mainly firing or movement that will trigger.
Nope, just until someone dies... after a miss.
According to dev posts, Battle Lord only procs off the first action a Ruler makes.
I played Battleborn and I wouldn't recommend it
The F2P model didn't even save it.
297 Peak Players, 146 Online Now.
Yeah, but ally Vipers.
I love the sexy slither of a lady snake. Oh, baby.
Chimera squad made our dreams come true
@@larrisAWSOME I dunno man, Codex got me acting up.
So good guy Advent Soldiers that took the grappling hooks and made it so that they can channel both Scorpion and the Predator? Already liking them.
If you're a fan of ST TNG, the new characters are voiced by alumni of the show:
Johnathan Frakes (Riker) as Volk, leader of the Reapers.
Michael Dorn (Worf) as Pratal Mox, a veteran Skirmisher.
Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) as Elena "Outrider" Dragunova, a veteran Reaper.
Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) as Betos, leader of the Skirmishers.
John de Lancie (Q) as Geist, leader of the Templars.
I love the idea of Aliens that abandoned advent, it opens up a whole new realm of possibility. I hope we also get the ability to recruit traitor factions of Vipers and Mutons, and maybe berserkers (Doubt it would be possible, especially since the berserkers would butcher the stealth mechanics of the game since they are anything but stealthy, but I can dream dammit).
So they can shoot a lot, they can take more actions, they're good at melee, they can grapple.... what are they bad at?
EDIT: At 238, the number of likes on this comment have passed the number of hours I have put into the game. Here's hoping Long War 2 gets a quick compatibility update for this expansion, folks.
stalhein61 I think they're mostly there to counterbalance some new big bad?
There are 3 of these OP classes, (2 revealed right now) and it seems like you can only choose 1.
They dont have squadsight only :D
low range
Rare as hen's teeth and can get tired.
You can have at least one of each new class if your relation with respective resistance group is high. Getting a second takes a lot of resource.
Kinda reminds me of the clone wars series where Rex and a few other clones were able to remove their chips which made order 66 ineffective once they removed them
I'm just glad they didn't wash their hands clean and moved on to XCOM3 after the 3 DLC.
Firaxis/2k typically release a major expansion about a 12 to 18 months after the main game. So this not really surprising.
Firaxis/2k has a pretty well established pattern of how they do games?
Major releases about every 5 years with 1 or more expansion packs in between.
Xcom Enemy Unknown released Oct 2012
Xcom Enemy within expansion Nov 2013
Xcom 2 released Feb 2016
Xcom 2 War of the Chosen expansion Aug 2017
Civilization 5 released Sep 2010
Civilization 5 Gods and Kings expansion Jun 2012
Civilization 5 Brave New world Jul 2013
Civilization 6 released Oct 2016
Xcom3 2020?
It would be nice to move on to Unreal Engine 4 instead of continuing use of this weird 3.5 hybrid that screws up my hard drive.
It was more 2 dlc and 2 customization packs. Of the dlc 1 sucked ass as it spawns mid to end game bosses early game. Then the customization packs 1 is a preorder item that barely adds anything if you didn't preorder (cost isn't worth it) and the other pack makes your soldiers look like they are cast members for the Purge movies.
So this is where Shaq went after the Cabal destroyed the Tower. Decide to help the resistance with their Alien Invasion.
So, Shaxx is a reborn Free ADVENT? ^^
So what you developers are saying is, our original troops are gonna lose their jobs.
Eckskalibur Yep our beloved troops are gonna be janitors.
Former Xcom soldier: They took our jerbs!
Unless you mod your game, you get one of each at the start and then it's up to RNG whether you get more. I've only had one reaper joining to me during my first game, and I've completed close to 50 missions.
@@Ruosteinenknight glad they did that. These units are way too OP to be mass produced
@@Red-qk7hv There is ways to make it bit more easier. Sometimes they might rarely just join out of nowhere (as in you get contacted by one of the leaders and they say they have a soldier who wants to join X-com).
Second, slightly more complicated but more quaranteed is way is to do resistance covert ops. The trick there is that you have to have fairly high influence with factions(raised by completing chosen related operations). Then, it's up to RNG whether you get "recruit faction soldier" ops, though likelyhood of course rises when you've got three on high influence.
Personally, I only recruit them unless my original faction hero has been killed. I much rather use my time trying to sabotage Avatar project, Doomsday counter really is a bitch in commander+ difficulty.
Looking at these different factions/classes and my first reaction was, "Holy crap! My team is going to be incredibly OP!" Then I got to thinking......"Wait.....if XCOM is going to be getting these incredibly OP units......then what the hell is ADVENT going to be getting?" I'm scared now. lol
the Chosen and a flamethrower unit and a metric ton of upgrades
They got Chosen who can summon reinforcements, can be immune to certain attacks and are utter monsters to deal.
They got Purifiers, who use flamethrowers and risk exploding upon death, so melee is no-no.
They got Priests, who use psionic powers.
They got Spectres, who knock out your troopers and create temporal clone of them to fight for ADVENT.
"Advent will be lucky if they can get a single shot off on this soldier." Oh, believe me, they'll manage.
So a skirmisher is basically an Alien Hunt boss, working for XCom. Are they hard to get or is it something like Shen's last gift?
How on Earth does this have 9 thumbs up already? It was announced only about a minute ago at time of typing!
After watching the video, it's hard to blame 'em. I'm practically salivating from the potential of these magnificent soldiers.
Here's what I want to know: Since Skirmishers are fully-fledged ADVENT hybrid soldiers, does that mean they could pick up and use ADVENT's magnetic rifles and use their transport ships? Because I recall that those are biometrically-locked and booby trapped to explode if humans try to use them. But an ADVENT soldier with their DNA... he might open up some really neat opportunities for XCOM to expand their airforce and armory a little bit...
Setokaiva Well Advent may have upgraded their security so that you need a working psionic chip
so our own alien king? sign me up
2000 years ago a skirmisher met a Viper lord on the battlefield. They are still taking turns shooting at each other and missing to this very day while the entire force on either side is waiting for the turn to end to get back their action points.
💀
Skirmisher looks like a titan straight from Destiny
You see Skirmisher, I see Spiderman!
with Scorpion GET OVER HERE
minhdng0904 I see Lord Shaxx.
minhdng0904 roadhog
Oh shut up and take my money!
Btw, will they have multiple customization options potentially applicable to human XCOM operatives?
Yes, customisation for the 3 new factions has been confirmed.
HighOn Tea I want some better teir 3 helmets like the ones in EUs operation slingshot. without mods it all looks like power rangers gear
their customization will be unique and not applicable to other XCOM. However, Reaper and Templar are gettingn new faces that you can also apply to regular soldiers. Source - dev post at reddit
New soldier attitudes and new armor possible
Nothing a mod can't fix! Thanks for the info repost, man
As awesome as this is. im taking the reaper first and going to nickname her "Cheeki Breeki" and theres nothing you can do to stop me
Shadow Kitsune Cheeki Breeki Comrade!
"Get out of here ADVENT"
The Plasma rifle the female skirmisher uses at 1:22 looks awesome. Could "KAL-90" be reference to something?
It's the upgraded Bullpup
i wonder how the skirmishers managed to remove their control chips while under the control of ADVENT? maybe some
other resistance fighters figured it out? that's a question i would really like to know
Skirmishers are part of a faction. All of these are.
I'm liking this expansion more and more!
I really hope the changes would create endless opportunities for multiple playthroughs and it seems like it's heading to that direction
*TRAITOR!*
Kraksaad. ADVENT Puppet. Vox Tala for Ten.
I'm liking the new classes and all but I think I'm really going to be investing more time and resources into spark units because they got a upgrade in the aiming department and I don't think they will get fatigued or have a mental breakdown and try to hide in the infirmary for weeks like I know some of my soldiers will be doing lol.
yeah robots kinda can't get tired
it sounds like that a high ranking/ high levelled Skirmisher will be a beast of a close range fighter/defender. This expansion is looking very cool. Can't wait to play it.
Once had a full 6 man squad of Battlelord Skirmishers.... Brutal
I can see a little of destiny's titan in this one and I frigin love it! I hope there a suprise in the expansion they don't tell us
snek defector when?
Playable aliens mod.
Snek defectors NOW. Go Chimera Squad!
Titans in Destiny + Rebellious Aliens + Scorpion = Skirmishers. I'm in love already!
"Colonel Pratal "Mox" Mox'
Well, at least we know ADVENT hasn't been putting R&D into better nicknames.
Star war names
At 1:00 you can see the information for the Reflex ability. In some Let's Plays that I am watching the perk has an additional 'This can only be triggered once per mission.' This version (in this video) is much better, so which is in the final release of the game?
Wow this looks like it actually looks like it adds stuff to the game instead of cut content. What year is it?
I am so glad that you actually make an ADDON instead of more fast food dlc, something almost forgotten nowadays.
Fanfic authors to your stations!
New Mass Effect 3 multiplayer DLC looks awesome...oh wait
Steel Bear
Dammit, I laughed at that more than I Should have XD.
These new classes remind me of the Titan, Hunter, and Warlock.
so that's why Lord Shax never takes his helmet off.
"Battlelord gives them an immediate action after each enemy takes theirs"
Does it really, though?
If the skirmishers were once advent soldiers that had there chips removed does that mean we are use using an enemy to kill his friends.
It will be interesting to see how Battlelord interacts with the Leader ability... If both the Skirmisher and the alien Leaders get another action after each action the other side takes, will it just be a non-stop race to see who kills the other first? Or does it only activate once per turn, for each enemy unit you can see?
REALLY want it to be Vahlen as their leader
EDIT: Ok not their leader but at least the one who takes out the chips
now this is awesome, futuristic soldier people break the chains of their old army to join the resistance. Nice!
"I'll spare you the details but they figured out how to remove the chip that kept them under ADVENT's control." WHAT? Weren't they under strict mind control or something? I'd really like to see that explained.
DiePoopable well, we did seriously screw up the Psionic nexus that kept them under control when they pulled the commander out. think of it like this, the Elders were the source of the signal, the Commander acted as a relay for them to boost their range and control, you remove the commander and you end up damaging the signal, and the elders signal still reach a lot of the advent, but some of them dropped out of range and were released from the Signals control. but holy hell... these guys did brain surgery on themselves to remove their damn chips, and then they decided "fuck those asshole aliens that mind controlled us, time to start stacking fucking bodies"
But wouldn't that mean that the skirmishers were born only when the commander was pulled out? I thought the insurgent groups in the expansion were seasoned rebels like xcom
Well think of it like this. Even the alien systems have glitches. They are prone to mistakes just like us. Whos to say that one chip didnt work and the first solider didnt like being cannon fodder. Whos to say that it was an xcom attack that damaged the chip in a commanders brain sending him out.
whos to say that they where deamed Imperfect and tossed away only to have a few come back. pissed.
To me. this dose show something. A new race for humanity. (I mean. they where ment to look more human than the other solders. whos to say that an old gene therapy was not commended to give them sexes. and new organs.) and also a middle ground where if we ever do meet aliens again. We are not total fucked
That would be supper cool actually. meeting the other controlled races from advent. the rebels from them. and joining up. Ironically replacing advent at the same time.
It's called asspull. Don't think too much about it
Maybe they were really strong willed and overcame the mind control long enough to have the chip removed, or maybe they were captured by resistance forces and they took it out or maybe or maybe the chip was damaged and they did a runner before anyone noticed there's loads of options and all of them probably didn't defect in the same way.
Close range!? (Sign me right the fuck up boy it's been too long since I have been"CLOSE RANGE!")
HOOOOLY CRAP THE SKILL TREES ARE AMAZING.
I can't wait anymore. I've been waiting forever now, watching playthroughs and I just want to play this game again..
I think the bullpup should be a crit based weapon. So maybe a from med-long to long range the crit chance would be 0 but once u start to close the gap the crit chance goes up all the way to 60 or 70% within around 3 tiles. Also they should have a base crit damage increase of 2 or 3.
his helmet is so cool it makes him look like the arkham knight
I can't wait to see what the Templars are capable of.
And there is still coming new content! I love this game. Love the devs and also the long war devs! Best game in the universe.
I'm sure if aliens would swarm our tiny world they would love this game too :D
So we get our own version of the Viper tongue pull? lovely!
First I was like: I can't trust these guys, then I was like: HOLY SH*T I need me one of these!
Favorite skill: Take an action after eac enemy action, my own personal Alien Ruler, baby!!!
This is the only game that managed to get me hyped up enough to raise the money for this expansion! Nice job!!
SKIRMISHER UNIT:
>Extremely mobile
>Can launch self at enemies to give them a melee beatdown
>Effective at close range
Rating?
*"WE CALL THIS A DIFFICULTY TWEAK."*
Modding community, please add a Cloaker voicepack.
I am so in love with the Xcom franchise. I recently immortalised myself by adding my name to the player roster for Julian Gollop's Phoenix point (2018) and can't wait to play WoTC. Long live Xcom!
These guys rebelled against Advent? Welcome to the revolution
If this skill tree will be our soldier build possibilities, I'm already sold.
Looks cool :) Still very excited for the Templars though! But one question, will we get to have all three new classes at once? It's been made clear that the 3 groups dont like eachother. Does this mean we will only get to choose 1 or 2 at most, or will we be given ways to make all three groups be able to coexist and get along so we can have a Reaper, Templar, and Skirmisher on our roster?
Heavy armor? Cool grapples? YES YES YES
"Ex-Advent", I knew from that one video they looked alittle too advanced for a human group! 😂😂😂
Just COM 2, coming soon to a Steam server near you.
Now my Avent rebel character have a real class!
These guys will be best friends with Rangers with that ability to "Get over here" enemies
Now I am really interested in the background of the templars...
I just enjoy hearing Bradford saying "Bullpup". Cool DLC btw great job
Sheldon: Rico! Why are you joining XCOM?
Rico: ...
Rico: Just Cause.
Definitely my favorite faction so far.
Do you only get one hero soldier per faction or can you get multiple ones from each if you invest more resources and time?
jayo multiple
You can get multiple, but they've stated that it gets increasingly difficult with each special soldier you bring on. So what I take from those statements is - the price goes exponentially.
Gonna be an awesome to have this character and the sniper that can stay unspotted to clean house a mission
Colonel Pratal "Mox" Mox
Shit guys, who brought Mox Mox here?
0:54 AYY
So this is what a free advent trooper can do...Man, Central was right when he said that the mind-controlled troopers were dumb.
Interesting how Advent rebels were first proposed as a mod not long after the game came out. Looks like Firaxis was listening.
So 1:14, the skirmisher can get a skill that gives him an immediate action after each enemy completes theirs. But the alien bosses from the Alien Hunters dlc also have this. If it isn't coded right you might end up with just those two in an infinite reaction loop to each other.
Either way, super excited about this game.
by that point its just gonna be a 1v1
@@alvinvalentino5797
Ngl that’ll be pretty cool to have a powerful unit that can be forced in a duel with the boss
*skirmisher reaction*
Stun Lancer worst nightmare
Oh hello Worf, nice to see you again.
Is there something to mitigate how massively OP Battle Lord sounds? How is this just not the best class?
I like how well the text is written in this one, it's not right in your face game tutorial. Noice.
Release this now! Looking forward to it.
SUCH A LUST FOR EXPANSION....WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Junior Jester A Weapon to Surpass Advent
inb4 people port metal gear rex in as a (controllable) sectopod
This seems to be my second favourite class, always wanted to have advent troops
Is it just me or do their faces seem more human than the regular Advent clones? Earlier generation Perhaps? Or does it have something to do with the scars that seem to imply they removed *their entire face?*
Goraka91 Earlier generation by my guess look at his face more closer. and I see some implants in there too! and face
0:39 Wait..... There's Chryssalids? *Nooooooooooo!!*
Definitely the class I'm looking forward to the most. An Overwatch-oriented build seems very powerful.
Wait, did I hear right or did he just say they can take an action after EACH enemy takes theirs?! my god