When I fought the rulers for the first time, it was sweaty. Your weapons doing dick for damage, the rulers have an armor which you can not shred, and they take turns after you do anything. So seeing them get destroyed is satisfying.
@@Kalenz1234 When I was having to deal with the rulers, it was very early game. I didn't have most of the tech upgrades, and I was losing team members left and right. Took me a lot of blood and sweat to put them all down. This was also on legendary, btw.
This is... Odd to me. I'm playing through the game right now and i'd already killed 2 of the chosen before I ran into the first "ruler". By that point, I also had plasma weapons for more of the squad, though not for snipers because it needs more elerium than I have, but it doesn't matter since I have the hunter's gun.
What others below have said of mega-mind big brain perfect strat. Luck, is pulling off an Execution on a near full health Archon King after blindly stumbling onto it, via an overwatch action shot. This was skill.
I remember that happening to me. Archon King is hyped up to be a real menace, and my ranger just domes the guy with an Execute. I didn't even know which King I killed until I saw the body.
@@Animalace3 I have lost so many soldiers due to those Rulers. I'm not geared up to challenge them in the way this guy is though. I've just barely got the plate armour and Plasma rifles, and I don't have much in the way of other upgraded gear or soldiers of high enough level yet. Lost too many who were high level, now I have to level up new ones. Fun times. And yeah, I've had repeaters on some weapons, and they resulted in some execution kills, but never on Rulers, unfortunately.
I remember berserker queen walking up on my 2 reapers. 1 double claymore, the other 1 sticky claymore, and a banish. That advanced mag really helped seal the kill after claymore destroyed armor and a decent Chunk of life. Reapers really are op
On my last playthrough I sent my b team on a mission and they ran into the berserker queen, my medic had an advanced repeater and executed her with an over-watch shot. It was awesome lol.
I encountered my first berserker queen yesterday. I somehow got so goddamn lucky that after hitting her once before for like, 4 damage, one of my grenadiers got an execution on her and insta-killed.
You're lucky she was isolated, your squad was setup to respond and that you had rupture and shred on your ranger who also got a hair trigger activation. But other then that you handled the situation skillfully and you were well prepared, so it certainly wasn't all luck. One thing that I find very helpful in dealing with rulers is scouting using concealment (with rangers, reapers or battlescanners). If you can let them patrol into you on their turn and have your full sqaud overwatch on a ruler, add some venom and dragon rounds and an acid grenade and you can just mop them up on your turn.
That's why I moved the stun Lancer like I did, I wanted to get her closer so I wouldn't attract anymore potential pods Which was a good plan, cause I found out on my next turn, a sectopod was right around that doorway lol
I got lucky that way. I had set up my squad on overwatch while the Berserker Queen was busy fighting a muton for whatever reason. Once she killed the muton and few civilians, she moved closer to the squad triggering overwatch. Went from 2/3rd health to 4 bars. Then finished her with combat protocol.
The bes tactic against the Queen is basically give her dots with things like Gas bomb and Fire bomb. You can stop her dead in the tracks without give her a single time for move at all. The Gas Granade AoE stop her and for some reason boggles the AI to not move at all and the Fire Granade prevents her to use melee. Combine that with venom rounds or incendiary rounds and Acid bomb and a Templar with Fortress and bladestorm or simply bring everything who has a free action / way to give more than one action (like bonds or a Psy with inspire) and you can literally one OTK (or even take one turn more without retaliation) to kill it.
I once had one of my Specialist have a hair trigger and overwatch and the legend killed Berserker in one shot. I couldn't really comprehend what happened. But after that I save scummed and lost all of it
I am really sad I don't really have footage for this, but I once killed the archon king with a single shoot with the spark, you know the ability that gives you a 33% chance of doing a reaction shoot to any newly spotted enemy, it triggered, it hit and it also landed the 15% chance of execution chance (which I didn't even knew worked on bosses like this), like insane odds. The boss died literally before they could finish his introduction.
@@justanormaltree8951 There's a Skirmisher one that allows for a rebel to join, so if you have both, there's a chance you have both a rebel and an Advent on your team.
I once did that to the Archon king. It was way less simpler, I was getting my ass kicked (already lost 3 of my mans) and after just thinking "fuk it, If we all die I will at least shotgun him to the face". The repeater I had forgotten the weapon my ranger had just kicked in.
@@withergamingcxw1137 Maybe, since he was an early character in my first couple runs and he's been saved in my character pool since then I've got a joke, of all those old character's being actors that just take a new role every campaign, since he was a ranger last time lmao
@@feedthemeat543f hah noice. I keep characters in my character pool just to commemorate them, I never use them again. Like for example: there was this ranger I had called ANARCHY who I gave the hunter weapons to minus the flintlock I gave that to someone named flatline, anyway he was given those plus the viper king suit and frost bombs, as for his look: I made the viper suit with a mutton pattern and gave it dark brown and black colors and then I gave him the skull with horns mask. He single handedly got 3 kills on a mission with like 6. This man represented anarchy to the extreme. He was also Czech
I’m sure this is patched out now but when I first encountered the archon king his pod introduced itself by flying into line of sight with a guy with over watch active. Repeater triggered.
Oh, you wanna hear lucky ruler one turn kill? My first attempt at the Archon King was as to be expected, terrifying, already knocked out my Skirmisher, so I set up an overwatch trap, and what happens? My GRENADIER hits him with a 10% repeater shot and he falls instantly, best part was my grenadier wasn’t even wearing a shirt and his bio states he went insane after the invasion and spent his days hunting aliens. So imagine being one of the strongest units and falling to a shirtless crazy man with a weapon with stupidly low accuracy
I got mega lucky because the queen just showed up and the shittiest sniper had some attachment that had like a 1% chance to instakill something regardless of their health and I was stunned for like an hour.
Quite good considering no reaper. You should really be putting the frost grenade on a grenadier tho, since that gives you a second frost should you need it. You can also use a hilarious strategy of surrounding rulers with blade storm rangers and watch as they kill themselves while defrosting
I had a Superior Repeater on one of my guys weapons and executed the Berserker Queen on one shot as it was jumping out of a train raging. Shit was glorious.
When I first killed the queen she had most of her heath but one of my soldiers had a repeater addiction one shot her i was so dumbfounded I dropped my controller
That was not luck. That was extremely good preparation and execution of action economy and game mechanics. Luck would be one shot with a repeater. Personally what you did was more awesome that getting lucky ( although both are ).
I was very lucky the first time I fought her because accidentally threw a acid grenade where her return portal spawned so she was stuck trying to escape (easiest first encounter with a ruler kill achivement ever)
This wasn't lucky at all, you were more than equipped to deal with it, you has the viper suit, frost bomb, upgraded armor and hell even the assasins shotgun. Sounds more like "hey guys look what I did *insert eating a crayon*" luck would be getting a insta kill at full health which jve done Once and Only once with the highest upgraded stock
00:47 "I have them all" 00:54 "It hit the armor" I think they made a mistake with the Italian voice, what does it do? Does he talk about himself in the third person?🤣 01:27 "missed" all right Captain Obvious
Not really lucky, i've killed 3 rullers at 1 first encounter, useing saving scum at lagendary dif, no frost bomb. 3 times got lucky cos my soldiers were on top of plato, so the rulers couldn't see the actions the soldiers took, so 1 acid granade, and 7 plasma did a good job :). And then OW of specialist is so op, took them all down :)
I'm too slow now to figure it but, WOTC or vanilla? Oh scratch that, you had the Chosen shotgun. You were lucky you got the snake first for that freeze suit (unless you did the missions). PS: Avoid vanilla at all costs, play WOTC and act as if vanilla never existed.
@@JonatasAdoM No this is base console footage He's an idiot that thinks I've modded the game cause he doesn't realize freezing rulers is a mechanic lmfao
@@JonatasAdoM They're talking about how the Berserker Queen didn't get her ruler reactions after being frozen, being convinced that means foul play, not realizing that's how the game works.
Like everyone else is saying, this was not luck, but excellent strategy with a clearly well-equipped and trained squad of alpha operatives performing like a well-oiled machine and you even had some breathing room left over at the end.
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When I fought the rulers for the first time, it was sweaty. Your weapons doing dick for damage, the rulers have an armor which you can not shred, and they take turns after you do anything. So seeing them get destroyed is satisfying.
Repeaters on everyone you WILL get the execution. May take a turn or two but it will happen.
Of course you can shred ruler armours?
Unless you wasted all your grenades already I guess.
@@Kalenz1234 When I was having to deal with the rulers, it was very early game. I didn't have most of the tech upgrades, and I was losing team members left and right. Took me a lot of blood and sweat to put them all down.
This was also on legendary, btw.
yeah i was expecting the frozen timer to go down after each ACTION. like it did for me.
This is... Odd to me. I'm playing through the game right now and i'd already killed 2 of the chosen before I ran into the first "ruler". By that point, I also had plasma weapons for more of the squad, though not for snipers because it needs more elerium than I have, but it doesn't matter since I have the hunter's gun.
What others below have said of mega-mind big brain perfect strat.
Luck, is pulling off an Execution on a near full health Archon King after blindly stumbling onto it, via an overwatch action shot.
This was skill.
I remember that happening to me. Archon King is hyped up to be a real menace, and my ranger just domes the guy with an Execute. I didn't even know which King I killed until I saw the body.
@@Animalace3 I have lost so many soldiers due to those Rulers. I'm not geared up to challenge them in the way this guy is though. I've just barely got the plate armour and Plasma rifles, and I don't have much in the way of other upgraded gear or soldiers of high enough level yet. Lost too many who were high level, now I have to level up new ones. Fun times.
And yeah, I've had repeaters on some weapons, and they resulted in some execution kills, but never on Rulers, unfortunately.
that wasn't luck, that was an ultra mega mind play
So satisfying
That was some awesome handling of skill management and pacing out the uses on the freeze grenades. Very well done!
I remember berserker queen walking up on my 2 reapers. 1 double claymore, the other 1 sticky claymore, and a banish. That advanced mag really helped seal the kill after claymore destroyed armor and a decent Chunk of life. Reapers really are op
On my last playthrough I sent my b team on a mission and they ran into the berserker queen, my medic had an advanced repeater and executed her with an over-watch shot. It was awesome lol.
You knew your team and used them wisely. Well done my friend.
I encountered my first berserker queen yesterday. I somehow got so goddamn lucky that after hitting her once before for like, 4 damage, one of my grenadiers got an execution on her and insta-killed.
You're lucky she was isolated, your squad was setup to respond and that you had rupture and shred on your ranger who also got a hair trigger activation.
But other then that you handled the situation skillfully and you were well prepared, so it certainly wasn't all luck.
One thing that I find very helpful in dealing with rulers is scouting using concealment (with rangers, reapers or battlescanners). If you can let them patrol into you on their turn and have your full sqaud overwatch on a ruler, add some venom and dragon rounds and an acid grenade and you can just mop them up on your turn.
That's why I moved the stun Lancer like I did, I wanted to get her closer so I wouldn't attract anymore potential pods
Which was a good plan, cause I found out on my next turn, a sectopod was right around that doorway lol
@@feedthemeat543f yeah, nice move. Disposable soldiers can be a nice asset
It went so perfectly that it seems like he save sum to get the perfect result.
I got lucky that way. I had set up my squad on overwatch while the Berserker Queen was busy fighting a muton for whatever reason. Once she killed the muton and few civilians, she moved closer to the squad triggering overwatch. Went from 2/3rd health to 4 bars. Then finished her with combat protocol.
Luck was one factor but positioning, strategy and individual goals were on point.
That's great! Almost as good as I one shot a King Archon with The Repeater
excellent
Its nice that you didn't just get a repeater kill. I think repeaters should just give double damage
There's enough clips of lucky repeater kills, I figured no reason to add to that pile
Might as well bully her the old fashioned way
I got an execute against my first berserker queen a few days ago. Was flabbergasting.
Commander: We need to draw the Queen in the open to kill her. YOU LANCER! Thank you for volunteering…
The bes tactic against the Queen is basically give her dots with things like Gas bomb and Fire bomb. You can stop her dead in the tracks without give her a single time for move at all. The Gas Granade AoE stop her and for some reason boggles the AI to not move at all and the Fire Granade prevents her to use melee. Combine that with venom rounds or incendiary rounds and Acid bomb and a Templar with Fortress and bladestorm or simply bring everything who has a free action / way to give more than one action (like bonds or a Psy with inspire) and you can literally one OTK (or even take one turn more without retaliation) to kill it.
Honestly the berserker Queen is the easiest one to fight while the archon king is literal hell to fight.
What happen there 2:16 did the thawing effect trigger bladestorm? I thought it was only supposed to activate if the target actually moved.
That miss on 99% rapid fire is just pure defenition of Xcom 2
You gave the guy with rupture the auto-hit Chosen shotgun. That wasn't luck, that was planning.
What is that weapon you have there involving twin energy blades?
When you get a execution on a Ruler...it's so DELICIOUS!. XD
Good plays. I thought you made a mistake with the inspire but I didn’t realize your guy had blade-master
excellent management, congrats
I got one of these. Nice little repeater execution.
I once had one of my Specialist have a hair trigger and overwatch and the legend killed Berserker in one shot. I couldn't really comprehend what happened. But after that I save scummed and lost all of it
Hey, stupid questiin here, how did you get the avatar on this mission? I thought you do not get thet till the end of the game.
Actually no luck, pure skill! Great job bro!
How were you playing with Elite Lancers?
I am really sad I don't really have footage for this, but I once killed the archon king with a single shoot with the spark, you know the ability that gives you a 33% chance of doing a reaction shoot to any newly spotted enemy, it triggered, it hit and it also landed the 15% chance of execution chance (which I didn't even knew worked on bosses like this), like insane odds. The boss died literally before they could finish his introduction.
Great kill only one question
Why do you have a stun lancer with no psi control effect?
He just looks like he joined Xcom because he wanted too
Resistance order that gives a chance of a random ADVENT unit joining the squad at the start of the mission
skirmisher resistance order
@@feedthemeat543f Ohhhh I had never gotten that order before
@@justanormaltree8951 There's a Skirmisher one that allows for a rebel to join, so if you have both, there's a chance you have both a rebel and an Advent on your team.
@@justanormaltree8951 It's hilarious, cause they aren't that good, but it's still nice having a seventh soldier on your squad.
I once did that to the Archon king. It was way less simpler, I was getting my ass kicked (already lost 3 of my mans) and after just thinking "fuk it, If we all die I will at least shotgun him to the face". The repeater I had forgotten the weapon my ranger had just kicked in.
Axeman. Do you perhaps watch mikeburnfire or did you play the fallout new Vegas mod. Or do you just really like axes.
It's a randomly generated Nickname I think lol
@@feedthemeat543f oh! Within my many playthroughs of xcom I've never gotten [weapon] plus name as a name. You must have gotten lucky.
@@withergamingcxw1137 Maybe, since he was an early character in my first couple runs and he's been saved in my character pool since then
I've got a joke, of all those old character's being actors that just take a new role every campaign, since he was a ranger last time lmao
@@feedthemeat543f hah noice. I keep characters in my character pool just to commemorate them, I never use them again. Like for example: there was this ranger I had called ANARCHY who I gave the hunter weapons to minus the flintlock I gave that to someone named flatline, anyway he was given those plus the viper king suit and frost bombs, as for his look: I made the viper suit with a mutton pattern and gave it dark brown and black colors and then I gave him the skull with horns mask. He single handedly got 3 kills on a mission with like 6. This man represented anarchy to the extreme.
He was also Czech
I one turned ger stacking Reaper claymore's and hitting her with banish. Left her with like half a helf bar. Felt great.
I’m sure this is patched out now but when I first encountered the archon king his pod introduced itself by flying into line of sight with a guy with over watch active. Repeater triggered.
Oh, you wanna hear lucky ruler one turn kill?
My first attempt at the Archon King was as to be expected, terrifying, already knocked out my Skirmisher, so I set up an overwatch trap, and what happens? My GRENADIER hits him with a 10% repeater shot and he falls instantly, best part was my grenadier wasn’t even wearing a shirt and his bio states he went insane after the invasion and spent his days hunting aliens. So imagine being one of the strongest units and falling to a shirtless crazy man with a weapon with stupidly low accuracy
I just take a reaper to banish these guys with a repeater on the gun rather than set all this up. Works most of the time.
I got mega lucky because the queen just showed up and the shittiest sniper had some attachment that had like a 1% chance to instakill something regardless of their health and I was stunned for like an hour.
The voices went from italian to english.
Character had an Italian voice by default, never bothered to change it
When I had to kill the queen, I was ready to give up a couple of my soldiers. A very surprising execution took place instead
That was epic!
Wow very interesting, i love just XCOM 2 👽💚
Nicely done
Quite good considering no reaper. You should really be putting the frost grenade on a grenadier tho, since that gives you a second frost should you need it.
You can also use a hilarious strategy of surrounding rulers with blade storm rangers and watch as they kill themselves while defrosting
Good Work Team Berserker Queen Is Eliminated. That Was Awesome I Want To Play This So Badly Lol
I had a Superior Repeater on one of my guys weapons and executed the Berserker Queen on one shot as it was jumping out of a train raging. Shit was glorious.
How many quick loads did that take lol
Got an execute on both the queen and the serpent king. Only have had like 4 total in a whole campaign lol
Hell yeah my dude(ette).
I wouldn't exactly call that lucky or one turn in the slightest. Definitely impressive though. Good team setup and moves used.
Impressed.
On the first encounter I had, I think I completely lucked out and beat it with one shot from a base sniper with a repeater attachment.
I got an execute with the repeater on my specialist's gun on overwatch on the berserker queen, i had to take a minute to process what had occured.
Amazing!!!
When I first killed the queen she had most of her heath but one of my soldiers had a repeater addiction one shot her i was so dumbfounded I dropped my controller
Is the berserker queen DLC or a mod? I've never encountered her in xcom2
Yeah dlc, it also includes the Archon and Viper King rulers.
@@patrickstar8356 Thanks! I've really missed out! Had no idea, and I love the game.
@@christianzilla np fam, yeah the game kinda feels empty after a while, especially without the war on the chosen.
dude u lure the queen into a kill box
So awesome
Isn't it kinda cheating, if the Berserker Queen or any other Ruler doesn't have every time you make a move a reaction turn?
Not when they're frozen, no. Free actions do not trigger reactions either
@@feedthemeat543f Oh ic, wasn't paying attention lol
Gotta love bullying rulers
1:20 missed a 99% shot
Is this xcom?
an my first playhrough both berserker queen and archon king were executed by my reaper... lucky shots
That was not luck. That was extremely good preparation and execution of action economy and game mechanics. Luck would be one shot with a repeater. Personally what you did was more awesome that getting lucky ( although both are ).
How do you have so much OP stuff this early
Beautiful
that was amazing
I'm getting irritated waiting for the sequel to this game
Love that apm
Extendad mag+repater+reaper banish= one shot
I got lucky and one shot a Archon King. My snipers repeater activated.
I was very lucky the first time I fought her because accidentally threw a acid grenade where her return portal spawned so she was stuck trying to escape (easiest first encounter with a ruler kill achivement ever)
Is there a resource for a good build order in the game? I love this game but I'm awful at it
The thing was frozen and bladestormed to death.
Impressive.
What mod did you get to make the stun Lancer on your side
Not a mod, it's a resistance order
Or a global effect
wow
This wasn't lucky at all, you were more than equipped to deal with it, you has the viper suit, frost bomb, upgraded armor and hell even the assasins shotgun. Sounds more like "hey guys look what I did *insert eating a crayon*" luck would be getting a insta kill at full health which jve done Once and Only once with the highest upgraded stock
Stop arguing everyone there is no skill in this game. Only luck. Bad luck to be specific. This one is just unbelievable. Good job commander.
You call that luck?!?! I call that skill.
Soooooo is no one gonna ask why he has an Advent Lancer under his command???
Double Agent region bonus can give you either a Trooper of Lancer randomly on missions.
I’m never playing this far into xcom. I’m horrendously bad at turn based games
00:47 "I have them all" 00:54 "It hit the armor" I think they made a mistake with the Italian voice, what does it do? Does he talk about himself in the third person?🤣 01:27 "missed" all right Captain Obvious
It was pure skill not luck. 👍👍
Lucky frostbite, but not so lucky on a missed 99%.
Repeaters on everyone would have worked even better.
hah, im very lucky. because i killed berserk in first mission one shot with repeater
Not really lucky, i've killed 3 rullers at 1 first encounter, useing saving scum at lagendary dif, no frost bomb. 3 times got lucky cos my soldiers were on top of plato, so the rulers couldn't see the actions the soldiers took, so 1 acid granade, and 7 plasma did a good job :). And then OW of specialist is so op, took them all down :)
I'm too slow now to figure it but, WOTC or vanilla?
Oh scratch that, you had the Chosen shotgun.
You were lucky you got the snake first for that freeze suit (unless you did the missions).
PS: Avoid vanilla at all costs, play WOTC and act as if vanilla never existed.
.... havnt played WOTC.... but this guys files have been modded.
@@zarthemad8386 But he's playing on console, no?
Unless he's using a controller on PC.
Perhaps Xbox mods?
@@zarthemad8386 You're still at it with that?
Are you just determined to look like a dumbass at this point?
@@JonatasAdoM No this is base console footage
He's an idiot that thinks I've modded the game cause he doesn't realize freezing rulers is a mechanic lmfao
@@JonatasAdoM They're talking about how the Berserker Queen didn't get her ruler reactions after being frozen, being convinced that means foul play, not realizing that's how the game works.
Like everyone else is saying, this was not luck, but excellent strategy with a clearly well-equipped and trained squad of alpha operatives performing like a well-oiled machine and you even had some breathing room left over at the end.
I wish Xcom had a replay mode at the end of the mission like super hot where you could just watch what all you did in one fluid video
gamefile has been modded. ... BQ isnt reacting to every player action like it does normally
You can't modify game files on console m8
And that is because she's frozen.
lol I had a play thru where I got a one shot kill on this guy with a lucky execution, made my day