RETALIATION + CHOSEN = FUN - XCOM 2 WOTC Modded Gameplay - Part 4 - Let's Play Legend Ironman
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- XCOM 2 War of the Chosen Modded Gameplay is here! This is episode 1 of our Let's Play XCOM 2 War of the Chosen with mods. Work with The Reapers, The Skirmishers, and the Templars...! There are two ways to join 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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Should have written on that poster "Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer" XD
First video: "Homer's going to see lots of action this time."
Fourth video: "Homer, you're going on a covert op."
Homer: FFFFUUUUUCCCCCKKKKK!
Decryption Complete: Message from ADVENT High Command.
The day is won! Victory for the Elders! Despite heavy casualties, the pocket of resistance has been wiped out, and XCOM is certainly going to think twice before dealing with us again.
The Assassin also graced us with her presence on the battlefield, in her own attempt to hunt down the location of XCOM's flying base. She has gathered valuable information, and The Commander will soon be back where he belongs, in the embrace of the Elders. We expect to be hearing from the other Chosen in their own attempts to find XCOM. We are to aid them in anyway possible, even if it endangers your lives.
Sadly, no members of XCOM fell during the attack, but two members will be out for a serious amount of time.
All fallen ADVENT will be given the highest awards for bravery in the face of death, and the speaker will personally praise their efforts. This world will belong to us
High Command out
Five civilians survived but the pocket of Resistance has been wiped out. ADVENT logic. :)
Gotta love them. Yus, more than six, victory is ours. We are almighty. Ignore the fact that all our men died
Yep, who cares about those. There's more coming from the Forge anyway.
Odd, she's not getting focus because you only get focus on KILLS. Only later is there a skill where you have a chance to get focus on non-kill attacks
Yup, I'm a knucklehead.
Well, you eventually figured it out anyway lol
I was about to say it.
ChristopherOdd YOU DID NOT FIND THIS OUT WITH MY MAN KLAUS!
Odd, don't forget calling an evac is always an option when a mission is hopeless. The extra will-loss and injuries from fighting when you don't have to can hurt you early-game.
Log: JT “Numbers” Stevens
Date:03/28/2035
Log entry 2
The “retaliation” mission was a failure, and things seem bleaker than ever. Our first encounter went well, with the squad quickly wiping out the first group. Then there was a pillar of purple light, psionic if the Templar is to be believed, and some kind of… monster stepped out. The templars call her “Shadowblade”, one of the “Elder’s chosen”. (I keep trying to ask about these Elders, but nobody seems to know.) regardless, it’s some kind of elite unit that has been killed before, but somehow keeps coming back. A civilian over the radio was the first one to spot her, but apparently she just… dissapeared. Kohlla almost lost her cool, saying they have to bunker down and wait for her to come to them. A team across the bridge started opening fire on their position, and they scattered. She came out of nowhere, plunging her blade into Eternal’s chest. Kohlla went after her while Huntsman stabilized Eternal. An ADVENT priest trapped Eternal in some sort of psionic bubble, and he couldn’t even move. Apparently Kohlla was fighting the Assassin one-on-one, but her suit camera was blinded by some sort of grenade. Raven took out some kind of specialized ADVENT troop before he could fire on our units. The shadowblade struck down Huntsman, before diving behind cover. Raven made sure she couldn’t get away. Meanwhile we all could hear the shots in the distance as they executed civilian after civilian. Huntsman was trapped again, while the assassin blasted everybody else with some kind of energy wave. She went up to Raven as he went down, and… pulled something out of his head. Something about knowledge. It was all just mopping up after that. Apparently there was some sort of… mimic in the mess of civies.
I keep wondering where my students are right now. At least, what remains of them. Could one of them have been one of those monsters? Or could they have just been gunned down like the rest? It turns my stomach.
Apparently in total there are three of these “Chosen” if the Assassin’s messages are to be believed.
I’ve had a few ideas on how to modify this Combat GREMLIN. Huntsman got the engineers to put a stun-plate on his so it can infiltrate enemy lines and deal some sort of damage. I’m thinking I may be able to install a modified medkit applicator with little to no weight detriment. Luckily I was able to req a full fusion torch set with no missing heads. Back in class people used to steal the heads from my set to mess with me. Jackson did it a collective 47 times in three years. That was the record, at least. Anyways, after seeing what happened to Eternal, I think this will be a boon to our forces.
They finished cutting up the Officer, and apparently the head scientist “Tygan” has a crazy idea. They want the engineering team to build an invasive hacking device that can access a commander’s chip before they fully deactivate. Meaning, when they are fresh.
We picked up a couple rookies in an abandoned city block. Could always have a few more hands.
A resistance cells just informed us of a server that is trying to scramble an ADVENT project. Apparently they noticed it before it could finish, se we’re going out to protect it. They’re calling me to the armory now.
Full Log and Discord: docs.google.com/document/d/1NA66buxK1cScL7Bt-BKn8pKsaL1PJJdB9gqgE127vCs/edit?usp=sharing
Christian Coler This ain't the full log already holy skadoodle 😨
When Chris put Homer on the covert op, I literally laughed out loud like a banshee!
That was fun how trooper waked up faceless on 25:06 ^_^ Love XCOM for that
Definetly one of my biggest surprises in this fight.
Log 3: Zoey “Kohlla” Durand
03/20/2035
--- Pre-Mission
Operation Glass Rage is what they’re calling it. Myself and Mr. E are being deployed against ADVENT forces making an attack against a resistance outpost. We’re not alone however, as Commander Odd has deployed two other soldiers, Darksky and Magnusson to aid us. The very thought of having to run this mission disgusts me. Not because we’re the ones who have to do it, but because this is something that no-one would have to do in the first place - protect the Innocent. They shouldn’t need protecting, because nobody should be coming after them. But you can definitely trust the Alien’s pets to sink to a level so low as this, and so I will spare far less mercy than usual in my efforts against them on this mission. ADVENT sickens me, and now they shall see firsthand just where that has landed them.
--- Post-Mission
The mission was a failure, and I blame nobody but myself. I wasn’t ready for what would happen today, because I never believed the rumours. The Chosen. The Assassin. All I had ever heard of her were whispers amongst other Templar Agents. They would go out on missions, that were almost guaranteed victories in and of themselves, but then they would drop out of contact and return only weeks later, barely even able to remember their names. The moment she arrived, things started to go wrong. Magnusson went down in seconds, but it wasn’t his fault, and I don’t blame him for what happened. She got the drop on us, and blindsided him, and with a single slash he was down for the rest of the mission. This “Assassin” speaks of honour, and yet strikes from the shadows only to return to them after her attack is done? What is the honour in that?
With Magnusson fading fast, I knew I had to act, and so let my instincts take control. Much as I had during Operation Gatecrasher, I isolated myself from the group, to try and draw the attention of the Chosen, and much like before - it worked. I got down to business quickly, and began to tear away at the Assassin with a fury I have not felt in ages. Even when we were up against that ADVENT General I still had not fought with such a degree of ferocity, and that seemed to show as my attacks against the Chosen bore many of the fruits of success. The Parry technique that the Commander insisted I learn was invaluable all the same, and I fear that without it, both myself and the squad would’ve been in far direr straits. As I waged my own war against the Assassin, my allies put the heat on both her, and the remaining ADVENT forces, though the latter were far more focused on tearing through the Civilians, until none were left. Despite my hatred of those Alien pieces of scum, there was something I noticed about one of them, whom Central is now referring to as the Priest. Their psionic signature was strong, and irradiated from them with such potency that I could feel it all the way from where I fought my own battle.
It wasn’t long before things got worse however. Cloaking herself, the Assassin fled and I thought perhaps that was it. I turned my efforts towards the remaining ADVENT forces, only for the Chosen to return, and then the next few moments were but a blur. She hit us with something, a wave of psionic energy so vast it dwarfed my own. And as it struck us, I was enfeebled by its power, overwhelmed. Raven was in much the same position, but in the midst of my stupor I found the Assassin doing something to him, and I could feel her doing something to his mind. She was extracting information. And once she was done, she finally exited the battlefield.
I was furious. She speaks of honour and yet uses such cowardly tactics against us. I was fortunate enough that my own rage was enough to snap me back to the task at hand, and my newly ignited anger allowed me to carve through the ADVENT forces, with the rest of what remained of our squad aiding my efforts to do so. But it was at that moment that I learnt once again that perhaps there is truth to the many rumours that echo through the Avenger. A large creature of what seemed to be organic clay revealed itself before me, looming over my form with almost two stories-worth of height. Perhaps it expected me to be afraid, but I was far from it. Huntsman helped me to start ripping into it, and then I struck the killing blow.
As we returned from the mission, which I thought to be an unsalvageable failure, there was some hope. Commander Odd has requested that I learn a technique referred to as the “Stun Strike”. If it proves to be as useful as my newfound ability to Parry, then I will gladly make use of it. My orders now are to join a rookie, Homer Obsquros on a mission to find the “Skirmishers”, former ADVENT soldiers. I have my doubts about them given their origin, but if they are half as useful as the soldiers that I have already met here at XCOM, then they will be a fine addition to our ranks.
*goes to the end. sees him hover his mouse over my character* Me: ":D" Odd: "I don't think I want to bring rookies" Me: "D:" lol. Maybe next time XD
Oh I have no worries. I'm like 2nd in line in the list of rookies right now I think so I don't think my character will have any issues seeing action. I'm just anxious to actually see her in action haha
dont worry, ur doing good stuff in my game o7
An important side note about Covert Ops is that not only do you get an objective/person/item you want, not only do your soldiers get promotions or stat increases, not only do they get actual experience towards promotions. Most Covert Ops also allow soldiers to gain Bond Cohesion or better yet with Bond Training you can Force Bond a whole level that even works people with low affinity. Further Bond training can jump level 1 to 2 and level 2 to 3.
And you can keep loading one or two soldiers up on dodge to make them unhittable late-game.
Well, that's pretty much what happened with Homer Obscuros last season. Chris sent him on tons of covert actions and he ended up getting a bunch of stat bonuses, but he almost never got sent on actual missions to utilize those bonuses.
Indeed I had one of my people up to 66% dodge and wasn't even focusing on them exclusively. (melee class of course)
Log: Alex "DunceCap" Fuentes
Day 2: Western US
Today was not a good day for the Resistance. Advent came out in force, their "Peacekeepers" coming to "Keep the Peace." Geez if only I still didn't have that Hellsing Abridged Anderson in my head that would be quite depressing to hear. Xcom though came in to save the camp, but it cost them alot to do so. Alot of civilians were buried that day, laid to rest with the blood of those who were fighting both with and against us. The one that hit me the most was the one i found trying to help clean the place up, a nameless child holding onto a stuffed bear, fear in their eyes even in death. Just knowing i couldn't do anything about it makes me so aggravated, since had i been there i could have done at least something to help. Apparently the reason why it was so costly was cause a "Chosen" was there. Ref-Il Tessura, "The Assassin" they called her. Apparently she is someone imbued with the Elders Power, preferring to attack enemies so close you can hear each other draw breath. I find it odd how despite having access to some of the most powerful weaponry we know, she prefers some good old fashioned shanking. Though from what survivors told me she is quite well place on the "Honor" side of things, some even stating she is like a ninja/samurai hybrid. Never new that would come to be again in this day and age, guess with "visitors" from another world being here anything is possible.
On a lighter note I hit 39 since the last time i wrote one of these. Hard to imagine i would be this old after the aliens showed up, but it shows how people can find a way to live even without all the comfort we had so long ago. Still not much to look forward to now that i am so old, just reminds me of how much i miss the old days.Being back at home, a little cake for me, some gifts and a good old laugh with friends. How i miss those days.
I think i might need to end it here; this is getting depressing. After all i still have Xcom to look forward to, and i still have my Youth somewhat. And this world is still here, hopefully we can take it back one day. I guess for now i'll head down and practice my reflex draws. Haven't had practice like that for a while but it might come in handy later down the line. This kind of training takes time to hone down again though, so i'll probably need a few days to get back into rhythm since i didn't do this with Xcom yet. Hopefully they carry some smaller targets out here.
End Log:
How quickly Odd forgets you have to kill to gain focus.
I noticed you never use mindshields. If you do the sectoid autopsy it opens that up and prevents stuns, dazes, disorient, panic, mind control... super strong early on until you can get some Psi operatives with Solace. It makes it so when the Assassin uses Harbor Wave, or the Hunter uses his daze grenade, it does nothing and they basically waste the round of combat. It also makes the Warlock pretty trivial since it blocks most of his powers except his zombies. Totally worth it for 40 supplies and a sectoid corpse each.
Skysoldier505 yeah, i never use them it either, because if i don't use it a sectoid may put one of my soldiers into panic Mode, and that mostly means that my soldiers is going to get a free shot on the enemy.
I almost never send out a squad in the early game without at least 2 they saved my ass a LOT in the past from Xcom original up to modern day Xcom 2. Panic is a squad killer. Mind Control is a game killer in the old days. you learned or you lost.
----- Avenger Medical Bay Audio Log #62 -----
----- RE: Connor “Eternal” Magnusson -----
----- 20/03/2035 -----
---- START LOG
This is bad. It’ll be at least 4 more weeks until Magnusson gets back into fighting shape. And even then, the injuries aren’t entirely physical. Heard him talking in his sleep. Mumbling about this…’Chosen’ thing that did this to him. That encounter is haunting him in his sleep, I know it. I just hope he won’t carry that with him into later missions. It could get messy if that thing turns up again. Then again, it’s not like we can be picky about what soldiers we want to take. Our resources are just spread too thin.
I can’t get a full diagnosis until I run more tests, but he’s not in any condition for that just now. Rest and recuperation. He’s got a strong will, though. Not many would have survived a direct assault like that. I don’t even want to imagine how intimidating that Chosen was up close. I’ll need to give my thanks to Huntsman later for getting to him so quickly and stabilizing him under fire like that. If it wasn’t for him, we would already be one soldier down, and that’s just not something we can afford right now.
At the end of the day, we all knew what we’d be signing up for here. Death is a very real possibility. In fact, I’m not expecting everyone to come out of this alive. Not by any means. For now, though, Magnusson is still with us - barely. I’m sure he’ll have a few scores to settle once he gets back out there. If anyone could give them hell after a near-death experience, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was him.
END LOG ----
At the 4:15 mark, it sounded like the Advent Soldier was saying "Get me bottle of wine".
lol it really does sound like that. I guess he wanted one last drink before he dies
Nero Mystyra good point
MVP of the mission, Advent priest.
His squad killed enough civilians for Xcom to fail the primary objective, and he stasis'd the one guy the assassin couldn't daze, thus ensuring that she got the knowledge extraction.
At least your Assassin doesn't ignore overwatch like she usually does! That's the absolute worst thing about her usually.
At this stage though with the soldiers' crappy weapons and aim it's not much help though honestly.
So the aliens don't know who is the faceless either? I noticed the advent shot the civilian and then he morphed.
--- Western Us resistance branch --
Advent is no stranger when comes to showing its force and making examples. Today the lives of Catalina Garcia, Khadija Mansoor, Klaudie Urbanova, Patience Nakombo, Jonas Peeters, Baba Monday, Isidoro Garza, and Magdalina Damyanova were lost. This is a major set back for us. If that assassin didn't show up then maybe things could have been different. The five of us that survived will continue to help the cause. We owe X-com our lives and we wont let everyone's deaths be in vain.
(No longer story)
So I decided to throw my hat into the ring when it comes to writing stories. Hopefully you enjoy. A day late but who cares
My experience is that at least until you have the squad size upgrade, it's best not too revive soldiers dazed by the Assassin. She'll extract knowledge or if you're very unlucky kidnap, but she'll be gone one round later which gives you at least a chance to finish the mission. And in either case the soldier doesn't die. If you revive and don't heal, chances are she'll kill the soldier next. And with just 4 soldiers you have no chance to revive, heal and kill the assassin at the same time.
And SPARKs are great against the chosen as they can't be dazed or kidnapped.
I've even decided to take out only rookies on the first retaliation mission - a Chosen and the hurry-up to get enough civilians typically means I'm almost guaranteed to lose a solider (or at the least have them out for ages), and I'd rather loose a rookie.
The extra ability points are nice, and it's always worth *trying* for the kill - but at this point in the campaign you need ~5 non-critical shots on them to kill them, so you're talking about spending more than a full turn only on them. Meanwhile they can kill or disable multiple of your soldiers a turn. So, try for the kill, but don't go out of your way to stop them from leaving if they want to. Once you've gotten the squad size upgrade, or mag weapons, then make more of an effort.
Assassin isn't always first chosen you encounter and hunter IS NOT easier early on. I got Hunter and it just kept graple-running around my team and taking flanking shots from high cover if I had vision at all. Thank god I had high level medic that didn't got shot or I would have lost half the team. Warlock is probably easier (it uses its abilities pretty strangely sometimes, so hard to tell for sure) but his pathos gets highly annoying quickly
Watching this series in between the uploads of the dark hunter series of midnight suns. Man missed watching your old xcom 2 playthroughs
First time i see the assassin without overwatch immunity.
It's not the mods, she always has Shadowstep (and is always the first to show up) only if you have Lost and Abandoned activated. Otherwise all Chosen have random strengths.
Don't forget to check the terrain type in the top right of the deployment screen... A sharpshooter in the subway isn't going to have the best line of fire :)
Matt Jones was just about to say as much. Unless you're going gunslinger that is. Which mod does that?
WOTC Show Enemies and Terrain - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1183583781
True about the gunslingers though. Mind you, at this stage a squaddie or corporal sharpshooter only has squad sight and maybe long watch (I favour long watch on both types of sniper, it gets more mileage than return fire in my opinion) so they don't have the flexibility or utility of the other classes. Actually, they can be useful on missions with the Lost because they can keep using the pistol to clean out low health and don't have to worry about ammo - even better when you pull "Between the Eyes', then they can just clean the map :)
That was funny he shot the faceless spy. That's gotta be a first.
Best combos for bonding:
Sharpshooter with Reaper. The Reaper goes up front and scouts around while the Sharpshooter stays up high and snipes the targets.
Ranger with Templar. Keep both as straight up melee combatants, and if possible give the Templar the ability to attack foes that get too close. This combo can cut swaths through enemies with ease.
Specialist with Skirmisher. The Skirmisher stays highly mobile, while the specialist uses aide protocol to buff the Skirmisher's capabilities.
Psyker with anything.
Vengeance works with the illusions, early its worthless but after you have something to die for you its nice to use.
Good tactic to know about. Do ya mean the 'Ghost' ability of the Templar? What about mind controlled enemies?
You COULDN'T have anticipated being lined up for the Assassin's wave attack. She moved so she could do it.
You DID get her gender right, though.
BRAVO!!!
The Resistance Radio guy sounds like TJ Miller
Honestly I think the first retaliation mission is probably the hardest early game mission in the game, any of the chosen can one shot basically anybody and it's extremely unlikely that you'll have any decent options so early in the game.
#covert homer
[EXPLETIVE DELETED]. I don't get all the details on the missions. My clearance isn't high enough, and quite honestly, I don't want to know everything. I get stressed out enough commanding the janitors on this flying bucket of scrap, much less going out with gun in hand and tearing into the X-Rays. But I do listen to the Resistance radio. And today, I felt terror and hopelessness like I've never experienced since the capitulation of Earth. The Chosen - that was the reason the mission fell apart. I just know it.
I saw them pull Magnusson into the makeshift medical ward we have until a proper infirmary is up and running. I mobilized a few of my best cleaners to rapidly erase the blood trail. That would have been killer on morale, knowing that one of our own was torn up that badly. I got a good look, and...
Jesus. I'm so out of it, another one of the janitors said I missed seven ADVENT Burger wrappers in the last room. I...I need to take a rest. Afterwards, I think I'm going to go clean the Commander's quarters. He's been through bad missions before. Worse than this, even, if the stories I've heard from the old guard are true. Maybe he's got a few tricks for dealing with the shock of something like this.
-Lex Samreeth, Sanitation Department
Lex Samreeth that should be part of the lore
Kills = Focus. They've only advertised a few many times.
Trial by Fire is awesome. got that my first game. helped TONS.
Best quote of the hunter
"Maybe we can have peace. Maybe we can coexist . . . Nah, we'd probably stuff that up too."
goes something like that atleast.
Double Ability points is great! I got lucky on my extra abilities and ended up with Rupture before I had Plated Armour or Mag Weapons
Even though it was a loss, it was an epic fight and very entertaining. The fun for me in strategy games is working your way out of a setback. Otherwise it's no different than a grind.
War recount 1
Alright Bradford has assigned me to record progress of this war since our recent failure. I guess I should introduce myself, I am Jebediah Primm local refugee here on this ship or plane, whatever it's classified as. I was a "aspiring" writer before the war, also known as not having a job. I've been on the ship doing manual labor for a while now until said failure where Bradford gave me this job. So better get to it then. On a a mission to retaliate to attacks on a refugee camp by Advent which they are calling a retaliation (real original) a lot of stuff went bad. Civilians were being killed left and right and Advent was trading shots with our people until something that the "Templar" as we call her says is a "Chosen" arrived. That's about when you know what hit the fan. People were going unconscious then conscious, hurt to fine, needless to say it was weird. Then it threw or controlled something purple sending it like a wave to our people. It then "extracted" as Bradford and Commander Odd put it knowledge. After that it left, just like that, gone. After a little more fighting a "mimic" as everyone's taking to calling it arrived revealing a weapon of Advents, a spy kinda. Everyone's on edge from the loss, the radio guy was informed to send out a radio message all over. The guys nothing if optimistic, kinda annoying but it helps everyone who's not a realist. I'm done now, still on edge from the mimic, for all we know anyone could be one, the janitor, the cafeteria lady, me.
Signing out now
Jebediah Primm
Billy Terror reminds me a lot of York from RvB
RIP York :(
35:08 That grin though Hahahaha
TBH: I don't understand why you didn't focus on getting the Civilians to safety. You could have spared a man to grab the Civs whilst the other 3 (Including Zoe) fought the Assassin.
Hey, youtube comments, you think Zoey Durand is related to Annette?
Maybe
i guess you are trying something new, but stun strike isn?t the most awesome of the templr skill, overcharge or even pillar seems more usefull.
Right around the 740 mark I'm screaming for Odd to climb the platform tower.
i know right? high ground would have reveled the assasin.
Not to mention better shots on the Advent across the gorge...
Homer sent to do the job he does best.
Odd: Which chosen you get first is Random, just sucks you did get the Assassin for this mission, by far the hardest one to deal with for the first Ret mission
your gernades are being blocked by the buildings your troops are next to. its driving me nuts that you havn't noticed.
I feel you play far too conservatively on these types of missions - you could of got the six if you had gone for the civs instead of getting full cover 1 tile from them etc. Also, on early easy missions you really should always take at least a few rookies or your team is gonna be very thin and you'll end up having to take rookies for much harder missions.
Here's a tip. If you run in to one of the chosen enemy's get your team in a battle line. A battle one is make your team in a square but it had to be small or it won't work and put them in overwatch because if a andvent trooper run in the in the square they may died or no but if the chosen run in to the square they may died or no but it works for me. All most forgot that if a andvent trooper runs in with a chosen you are died because I lose two of my men and two wounded.
I don’t understand what ur sayingf
You don't put them THAT close to each other, just within a half move but all in line-of-sight of each other, it's how I take down the Assassin all the time.
That is exactly why I ALWAYS ignore first retaliation; so don't have to lick my wounds for the next month...
So Odd there's one Problem regarding the Assasins sword attacks and a Templars Parry, templars CAN'T parry the assasins sword attack. I really mean it I've had it several times on my playthrough that the Assasin attacked a Templar that had parry active, so shouldn't hit right? Well wrong it still hit. I've got two possible explanations however.
1: Parry is considered a reaction ability(I've only played with Lost and abandoned so far so 100% shadowstep for Assasin) and Shadowstep does negate it(But this would be extremely silly, in my opinion), would mean that you WON'T have that Problem
2: If it is guaranteed hit(Katana) vs guaranteed Miss(untouchable, parry) the guaranteed hit has priority(I never had her attack anyone with triggered untouchable would need to test that).
I wrote this just so you don't feel to safe about parrying the attacks from the Assasin(at least her sword), because it could backfire. I've also gotten a look in your mod list and i haven't seen one, that i would know of, change anything with this interaction, of course is Parry is just a reaction ability you still ARE safe(because no shadowstep should cause Parry to trigger normally)
I would say its the second one as the assassin odd has does not have shadow step (yet)
We haven't had this happen so far so..
My Templar parried Assassin attack. You can watch it if you just click on my name Ep. 32 Sassy Assassin, time 29:30. I also play without L&A mission...
You're right. So two things remain(the second i simply didn't notice before). Parry = reaction ability, so negated by shadowstep(this means odd is safe, for now). Or I just had a bug, though this would mean that something is wrong with my games files as this happened multiple times to me. But if the Assasin SHOULD get shadowstep for either of you we'll see what is going to happen.
How did you manage to skip the reaper/skirmisher meeting mission?
Homer Obsquros, king of ResOps.
Homer my man !!!I feel you
Why does the title say "Part 4" but the description says it's "episode 1"?
the same description reused. forgot to change it
That trooper shot his own ally. Lawl.
Also I wonder if we will ever see Locksley show up again, I know she was a generated solider in the first campaign, but hey, there's a chance.
they are already foreshadowing the XCOM 2 ending and XCOM 3 enemy in the Chosen scene
My favorite Chosen is the Hunter, easy. Not nuts like the Warlock, and doesn't annoy me like the Assassin.
At 10:54 - You cant hit both Advent with the grenade due to the tree in front of Raven. The shot either paths around the tree or over the tree, not thru the tree.
also, there was no rock below the cliff to bounce it that final bit.
Roses are red,
Save the civilians!
Prepare for more Chosen encounters,
I Expect there to be millions.
It wasn't giving you that grenade placement cause there was nothing to 'bounce' it off of below the cliff on that spot, just water. it needed a single bounce to reach that far.
Everyone here is clamboring to claim being "first" while i am here for Odd's mildly entertaining gameplay
A bit late to the party on this one, but in case you haven't yet, you should get Bladestorm on your Templars. It's MASSIVELY effective against Lost and Chrysalids, which makes them the literal perfect shield against two annoying enemies.
he's not there yet in levels. but he knows that.
Is there a way to get a copy of your current character pool?
check the character submission channel in discord (its in pinned message)
Wow Chosen on the 4th mission, unlucky man RIP
One of the Chosen will always be on 4th mission if you play without L&A. It doesn't have to be the Assassin though (she's the worst).
I have a feeling that you'll regret not picking up squad size upgrade mod.
assassin in my last mission. the entire squad went home wounded and/or unconscious. finished the mission though. Now? stopped mid mission a little while ago. had to run an errand. oh. how GOOD! the fricking warlock showed up. and there's also a spectre and a group of sectoids unactivated yet. *grumble* oh and turrets. how good. guess I'll go see about killing everything without dying, then come back to this
Hi, Can someone tell me, how i can download his characther pool? thanks
I think you have a better chance of getting an answer to that question on his discord server.
it is pinned in the discord channel for character submissions
Chris! What happened to removed Frozen Wild videos? Don't see any mention on Twitter. Everything OK?
he streamed it friday evening, expect vids soon
Thanks, Vinnie. I guess the "removed" videos are just the announcements of the streaming sessions and since no longer relevant they were removed. I was worried that somehow RUclips was censoring videos. All good.
It was one minute video announcement. You didn't lose anything :-)
ah those XD yeah, just 20-30 sec "hey imma stream soon" vids
It's MANGAniello (like in manga, the japanese comics) not ManJaniello ;)
You lost at the beggining
The moment you choose to save the civilian on the right instead of moving forward was a really poor choice
I know I'm late, but at least you can hit the assassin with overwatch
Hey Odd im playing same setup with a few additional mods but on Legend + Beta Strike with robo jumpers 6 squad at start and oooh boy let me tell ya I've been in some of the most intense missions i've ever had playing xcom just did the 1st retaliation mission i save d 3 Civs everyone injured but i'm honestly having such a blast with it ps Sectoid soldiers on mine have 22hp takes around 3-4 turns to deal with pods some real hairy situations i can say that atleast.
I hope timers are either turned off or doubled for such ridiculous extensions of firefights...
The seargent rank of templars is such a waste. Nothing really good there. I usually just get stun strike but I don't think I've ever used it
Odd can you learn the templar the pillar skill. Its come in handy in sticky situations.
Parry only works once. Pillar will provide cover for yourself or another for multiple attacks/turns(depends on focus)
Every time that Odd says "I feel like..." I think in the Kendric Lamar's song "FEEL".
Also where is the resistance?
There are 2 different retaliation missions: "Stop the Retaliation" & "Resistance Haven". Needless to tell where the resistance is. :P
Chris, i have a question 4 u. I want to start a new campaign with "MINT classless" mod + ABA .... but i want to try it with starting squad of 6 soldiers - because in that mod there are no classes. My question is .... is there any mod which will make enemy pods bigger - to compensate 6 soldiers of XCOM. Any suggestions???? Thanks
Shouldn't ABA itself balance the game for 6-8 squad? ABA2 definitely did it.
ABA2 did. butw ABA (WOTC) - i really dont know. there is nothing said about it in description on steam ...
At 15:29, game musta glitched.
Yeet
In this mission I think you spent too much time worrying about the Chosen that you didn't move quickly enough to complete the objective. In the previous campaign you did better on this mission.
My Two Cents
I saw cassie!
it's so hard to watch this...
I feel like Odd gets way to paranoid about Faceless on Retalition missions
Hi, does anyone knows how i can download his character pool?
You can't download characters from this campaign, but you can download his characters from others (including that co-op one, but excluding season 4 for some reason) from his website: christopherodd.com
it is in the discort under pinned messages
I know that he was trying to keep his soldiers safe, but jesus did it get annoying seeing him forgo saving them despite being in easy reach usually.
31:22
looks, like aid protocol effects the parry.
Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer...
Odd save the civilian please, waste a lot of time from guarding asssin
Mission rating, "POOR", enough said.
0:10 Getting used to stream webcam kicking in!
You can probably increase squad size already.
Its hard to do that. Odd haven't built the GTS yet.
Do you upload Darkest Dungeon
how hard is legendary mode because what i see its not hard
crim somreaf5555 I wouldn‘t be so sure of that.
All it takes is one wrong move, a crucial shot missed or a bad damage roll to frack things up.
XCOM is a strategy game. Which means that at the start the missions are just pumped up "a little" compared to the lower difficulty settings.
Once you get to around the level where you have LTs & CPTs and you didn't research enough or developed your soldiers good enough you will be in constant peril.
This is just the 4th mission. The missions are still "managable", but even The Chosen will get harder once you progress.
Focus generates on kills, not attacks. Also, that failed mission should not have been, you had HIGH GROUND with half cover that you didn't bother to use at all. Oh, an one of the best combos for a team is a Reaper and a Sniper.
--You should have titled this video: Focus bug and Bullshit wave
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