+Ignoring Reality This is why there needs to be a project to equip a captured UFO modified to operate as an unmanned drone with heavy alien plasma weaponry. Nuking it from orbit (or, rather in this case, an altitude of 1km) really is the only way to be sure! I mean, maybe you could only do it once per mission, and this could be justified on the ground of the aliens becoming aware of your UFO and intercepting it if you try to do a second bombing run. Then, once the UFO is done, it cloaks (so the aliens couldn't just follow it and discover your base's location) and returns to the avenger.
+Your Name Goes Here in previous games that may have been possible but even the smallest ufos are 2-3 times the size of a demon interceptor not to mention the fact that maintaining any kind of an Air Force would be ungodly expensive and if downed would require another dangerous mission and vast amount of time and resources
ryan wiley Well, maybe they could, err, refit on of the ayy's satellites to scramble their communications network for a turn or two, sorta like with exalt in XCOM:EW, It probably wouldn't take too much effort or resources to design a network worm that breaks the aliens' communications. I think it was mentioned in the first game's ending that humans were the most technologically advanced species they'd tried to conquer so far, so naturally they probably wouldn't design their systems with security in mind. Even after 20 years of occupying Earth and dealing with human hackers, they probably would rely as much on video footage to discover suspected hackers as anything else, let alone XCOM hackers inserting malware that automatically infects networked devices into the firmware of satellites. After all, you can't exactly expect to track down suspected cybercriminals in a world where the TOR project, or it's fictional equivalent, has been augmented by alien technology and developed by the resistance movement for 20 years. Hell; they probably can't reasonably track down resistance members through the internet at all, and instead rely on satellite imagery and moles within the resistance to coordinate retaliation missions.
+Valikdu Lol, in most circles that will not win you any friends. But I had considered the same thing. Metal Gear has the nuclear option, but is not unmanned. I wonder what the alien equivalent to a nuke is?
I was gonna basically say kiting and hope it's the last pod triggered. If cars explode when it walks through, maybe direct it to walk though some. The explosions should also strip some armor of it while dealing damage.
I was able to take control of one in the final mission with my Gremlin Mark III. Earlier in the game I was able to temporary shut one down with a Gremlin Mark II. So best strat is with the first turn use a specialist to take control or stun. Then focus all fire.
First time I ran into this thing. Two things happened. 1: I immediately start freaking out there was a damn chicken walker in the game with such a HUGE life bar and powerful guns that immediately killed my "turned" enemy I gained from a hacking bonus. One fucking shot was all it needed. 2: Thankfully a lot of my soldiers had the Spider Armor to shoot grappling hooks which was key for the mission to retrieve the P.O.W of ours who was kidnapped. So we start rushing out, taking shots when we HAD no choice but to. Some of my soldiers nearly died and trust me there WAS close shaves. I felt a HUGE amount of dread as I saw it walking THROUGH the building after my soldiers in that mission. Thinking a simple rescue mission had quickly turned to a fight for survival. I was lucky to be able to save my soldiers from being wiped out from that first encounter. That damn Chicken Walker truly makes me think of getting Blue Screen rounds more than ANY other enemy.
Bmobmo64 My colonel specialist has 80 hack and gremlin mark 3 gives me a 83% chance of stunning a sectopod and a 39% of hacking. I usually stun them and light them up but ive hacked one twice. The 2 moments where ive felt like a god... BUTT the first encounter was a massacre. I did well not spoiling the game for myself when it standed up i got intimidated and when it rekt 3 of my soldiers i became salty but i managed to kill it :D
I can already see it... "Fuck it, Sectopod here, multiple Stun Lancers incoming, one guy bleeding out and 3 panicking, its all over anyway, might as well try to hack the pod!" *Hack succeeds, Sectopod taken over* "....hehehe...hahahaha...AHAHAHAHHAH.AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!"
+Marcel Ebert "soldiers stop panicking and watch as the sectopod walks around fucking shit up and start cheering" *hack wears off* "RUUN LIIIKE HEEEELL" soldiers get one shot and results in mission fail.
I already thought enemies like Mechs, Mutons, Andromedons, etc. were already tough armored units, but the first time I ran into a Sectopod, my heart dropped and I said, “XCOM 2 added a fucking AT-ST from Star Wars into this shit?!” (Because I didn’t play the first game) One or two turns later, I then almost yelled, “DID IT JUST GET TALLER?!?!”
From the beginning of tge game i power level my specialist by finding hack objective that give a perminant +20 to hack. By the time i meet a sectopod ive got a 100% chance to deactivate and roundabout 50% chance to take control. You can also freze it, stun it use blue screen or probably the most fun but least practical equip a repeater and cross your fingers.
If you have enough high level rangers. You can slash them down. I have a squad I take on advent missions because they usually have a lot of tough units. But 6 rangers with swords just run around slashing everything.
I played a shanty defence mission today, and I came across a faceless. My guy was up in a tower, and it just broke the tower down, killing them instantly. Never again
Stack your armor shredding abilities, and get a sniper with bluescreen ammo. I suppose this monster is why you're able to buy bluescreen ammo and emp bombs straight and not through experimental ammo/grenade
When I first saw a sectopod, it was immediately hacked by my specialist, had it kill 2 advent, and shot it to death while it was still hacked and laughed
I'm not too frightened at what this thing will be capable of in the vanilla Xcom 2 version... But what does give me sleepless nights is what will the Long war Devs do with this monstrosity when they get there hands on modding... which I actually just read this morning that is exactly what they are doing right now. RIP my master sergeants!!!
Shredder grenadier chainshots its armor off (even better if you have salvo and open with a 'nade/heavy weapon first), then everyone hits it the best they can. Snipers loaded with AP ammo can take off significant chunks as well (Fanfire is amazing with AP ammo), and talon rounded shotguns can bring the pain (rapid fire o' course), armor or no. Last but not least, a capacitor discharge from a specialist can really ease it up. These are all late abilities/items-based, but you should have some of them by the time you're encountering sectopods.
I will have my psi operative mind control an enemy and use it as a distraction while I retreat and quit the mission if I don't think I can focus it down in a single turn.
I usually use psi operatives to stun it with the force field thing and take out the smaller guys first. and you CAN use some psi attacks on it like psi lance
phantom ranger for scouting. at least 2 snipers taking long range shots. 1 grenadier for shredding. 1 specialist for hacking. psy unit to provide protection while grenadier or specialist are in visual range of the Sectopod. Hit and run plus kite tactic.
Yeah psi units are hardly useless against machines since there are three offensive attacks unrelated to whether the victim is bio or mech, a move to give a teammate a yellow move, and a move called stasis to contain an enemy for one turn.And if that fails you can mind control another enemy as a meat shield/target/extra gun.
Two/Three Rangers - AP rounds, laser sight (+10% critical) and rapid fire. One Specialist - Combat protocol. This should take care of Sectopod quite nicely
Easy PZ-EMP: Few options (In order of effectiveness): 1) Throw EMP bomb (50% chance shuts down all ennemies in the large blast radius for 2 turns and enormous damage ignoring armor+deactivates any shields) straight at it went it is spotted and two-shot it with sniper, ranger, or heavy gunner with bluescreen rounds. 2) Hack shutdown or control with a combat hacker 3) Mimic beacon decoy 4) Phantom Ranger that spots it for your snipers 5) Use combat protocol/capacitor discharge or heavy gunner/spark to ignore its armor and destroy it with multiple concentrated attacks.
I'm curious as to how many can be around at once in any map, everybody has memories of those days back in Enemy Unknown where you could really fck up and be staring straight at three of these Sectopods in one shootout (oh that was great fun, only had two men still standing by the end of that, thankfully it was my Revive Medic (and the Squadsight Sniper), but he only had enough meds left for two....the other two I had to abandon for the greater good....) Things could get hilariously messy if we can get more than three in one map.
+Farkas Tibor Snipers have been nerfed. Headshot has been replaced with dead eye, which increases your crit chance at the cost of accuracy. Long ranged shots take substantial penalties to accuracy. Disabling shot no longer exist. Damage reduction on mechs appears to be universal. It's not all bad though.The gunslinger tree is now a much more rewarding, allowing you to get many shots off on multiple targets in a single turn. The new version of Opportunist lets you lay down a cone. Anything that moves in, or enters this cone triggers a reaction shot until you run out of ammo or you next turn. They have actually released all the class data about the X-com classes, if your willing to look into it.
While I do greatly enjoy the Xcom games I`m always thrilled to go in not knowing what`s expecting me. If what your saying is true then it just gets me more hyped to try out some new crazy combos :). Thanks for the great feedback.
Seems like best would be just shot everything we got on it. Every bulet, every laser, magnetic round, (maybe) plasma, explosive.... everything from it (and maybe more) find its new home within this monstrosity. It worked with all previous Sectopods.
and here's a fun fact you would like to know did you know that the long war dev team have gotten early access of the modding tools and will know be making a long war mod on release.
+Waheed Naeem I have not heard that. I know that the long war team started their own studio, and are working on their own game. But this is news to me. Thanks man.
My method is usually to hack and disable it - this buys 2 turns where everyone in the squad has a 100% chance to hit the stationary Sectopod... that is usually enough. However, as a backup I have my get out of jail Mimic grenade as well - which will buy a turn as the Sectopod lumbers after the hologram (remember that the mimic will only distract units that can see it so throw it carefully!). Basic tactics of shredding armor first are incredibly important as these are some of the more heavily armored targets.
I kinda like the Enemy Unknown Sectopods the most, tbh. Not because it's easier to beat, but because of it's design - the compact structure and big, powerful legs just screams agility. I don't feel like the new Sectopod should've replaced the old one, since their different designs make them good at different things. Instead, they could've kept both and upgraded the old one and had it tailored towards mobility instead of power. Both of them are already well beyond any unit, anyways.
Actually a lot easier than in the previous version, support unit can hack into it, shut him down... One of my heavy guy even "one shot" one... Now those Andromeda hulks are a real pain ...
Uh...try to hack it I suppose, then if that doesnt work, hit it with a few explosives? And if its still either panic and lose control of the situation, or unload and hope something happens..
As I did before, mindcontrol mutons, use them as a meat shield, and attack the shit out of this from range. And explosives, ofc. Even in that case, I BARELY had enough damage to kill it in 1 turn in EU on terror mission. Jeez...
Does the CQC lazer activate even if the Ranger has the ability to not provoke Overwatch? After that it's a question of how much damage it deals. The Wrath Cannon looks nasty if he can aim it again after charging.
If it shows up in the same mission as a bunch of other enemy units, Imma gonna have my Psi Operative brainwash one of them and have it attack THEM, while the rest of my team shreds it and then pummels it with rockets and grenades. I don't think they said it was immune to ACID... I think there's an acid grenade in this game...or is that the same as posion?
posion wont work on mechanicals. but i would much rather the devs increase squad size or give us an equivolent unit or both. how long to you think the mind controled enemy unit would last against THAT?
it would be "realistic" to have massive squads (origional xcom games/sanity) and equivalent units (symetrical warfare stratergy/asymetrical warfar stratergy) but knowing devs and watching this game being played, it is post longwar (a slightly ghoulish EW mod the devs took a licking too.) things are going down hill for this game franchize. mission timers and sniper only pistols are my personal linch pin gripes. this universe has/had so much potentual. but it seems only the aliens get to have mechs this time around? the sectopod should get a sheild and the jump ability both alien and human mechs had respectively, and shiv repair. and sonar... it should be a "monster" but you should get an equivalent of a XCOM gundam to fight it with. not infinate body bags, high ranking troops and high teir equipment with an easily explotable weakness. that's cheap.
With units like this walking around, I think we can consider ourselves lucky that killing all enemies won't be a requirement every single mission anymore. Because holy assballs as soon as I spot this thing I'll be running the hell away.
Tbh the sectopods in EW are harder to deal with than XCOM2. In 2 you have specialists, gremlins, hacks, blue-green rounds, combat protocols, shadow chamber warnings, and plenty of other fun gadgets to take them down. The ones in EW just sit and shoot you twice in a turn and can't be killed in less than 3 turns when you first fight them
+imdefender It can be hacked, it was already done by some french journalists. I would have show you the video but it has been changed to "private". Here's the link of the article thought. www.millenium.org/xcom-2/xcom-2/actualites/xcom-2-ennemis-guide-advent-alien-pouvoirs-strategie-chrysalis-ethere-archon-andromede-berserker-mtj-138646?page=17 - That was the second video. From what I remember the Sectopod had like.. 120 at tech score and I guess the specialist reach its best when he's promoted to corporal. I doubt he'll be able to exceed 120 so there's still a luck notion. By the way I would like to say that you can't disable it but can take control of it for the two of three next turns. Hope I helped you in your thinking.
Step 1: Acid Grenade. Step 2: Gunslinger Sniper (Fire Pistol, Lightning Hands, Tripple Shot) To be honest, if you have armor-stripping capabilities, the 5-shot-combo a gunslinger can pull off combined with pretty much any equipped ammunition of your choice dispatches Sectopods maybe a bit TOO quickly. They're pretty quickly taken out if you get a turn on them, on the other hand if they get to make a turn against you, you're pretty screwed. Personally, i found the Gatekeeper to be a more challenging enemy because of the very hard to overcome 6 armor on it.
Really? Honestly sectopods and gate keeps were total jokes for me, the aliens most advanced psionic unit can be easily permanently mind controlled by a psi op with domination, and late game sectopods just get obliterated by the sheer amount of firepower you have. I was kinda disappointed that the enemies can't keep up with the operatives in the late game, and the final mission was a joke. (Provided I was playing on rookie, I'm doing a new playthrough on commander to see how it goes)
Just use some grenadiers to take out the armor, then blow it up with your rangers and specialist. Mimic beacon might be handy to keep it occupied if you can't take it out in one round, No problem. But i never use psi units in xcom 2, since all "heavies" are robotics..
The old Sectopod and Chryyssalid were bad enough, now we have these mothertruckers, thanks Jake Solomon thanks a bunch, I'm gona go lay down and cry now.
If you can, avoid combat with it. Easier to just try and stealth your missions as far as you can and then do a fighting retreat to extraction point. I've only ever brought down 1
Honestly Gatekeepers are worse with their built in 40 defense. Bluescreen rounds. They're awesome at solving problems. I always run a two man grenadier core speced with shredder packing bluescreens. You can also run a well speced sniper equipped with bluescreens. Using Deadeye with the bluescreens they can easily pull 20 plus damage on a Sectopod.
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I will simply lie down, try now to panic and then lose control of the situation
+Erik Teddy Garim why are you scaring me
+Erik Teddy I only bring the truth man.
+Ignoring Reality This is why there needs to be a project to equip a captured UFO modified to operate as an unmanned drone with heavy alien plasma weaponry. Nuking it from orbit (or, rather in this case, an altitude of 1km) really is the only way to be sure! I mean, maybe you could only do it once per mission, and this could be justified on the ground of the aliens becoming aware of your UFO and intercepting it if you try to do a second bombing run. Then, once the UFO is done, it cloaks (so the aliens couldn't just follow it and discover your base's location) and returns to the avenger.
+Your Name Goes Here in previous games that may have been possible but even the smallest ufos are 2-3 times the size of a demon interceptor not to mention the fact that maintaining any kind of an Air Force would be ungodly expensive and if downed would require another dangerous mission and vast amount of time and resources
ryan wiley Well, maybe they could, err, refit on of the ayy's satellites to scramble their communications network for a turn or two, sorta like with exalt in XCOM:EW, It probably wouldn't take too much effort or resources to design a network worm that breaks the aliens' communications. I think it was mentioned in the first game's ending that humans were the most technologically advanced species they'd tried to conquer so far, so naturally they probably wouldn't design their systems with security in mind.
Even after 20 years of occupying Earth and dealing with human hackers, they probably would rely as much on video footage to discover suspected hackers as anything else, let alone XCOM hackers inserting malware that automatically infects networked devices into the firmware of satellites. After all, you can't exactly expect to track down suspected cybercriminals in a world where the TOR project, or it's fictional equivalent, has been augmented by alien technology and developed by the resistance movement for 20 years. Hell; they probably can't reasonably track down resistance members through the internet at all, and instead rely on satellite imagery and moles within the resistance to coordinate retaliation missions.
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear.
There. I said it.
+Valikdu Lol, in most circles that will not win you any friends. But I had considered the same thing. Metal Gear has the nuclear option, but is not unmanned. I wonder what the alien equivalent to a nuke is?
+Ignoring Reality those bombs in EW?
+Ignoring Reality the uber ethereal.
pokecrafter88 Might actually be an uber Ethereal. I could absolutely see them splicing themselves with human to increase their physique.
+Ignoring Reality the blaster launcher with bigger bombs =)
If it can't be hacked then it's back to the old tactic of "Blow it up with as many explosives as possible then run the fuck away."
+prosyndication21 This guy gets it
I was gonna basically say kiting and hope it's the last pod triggered. If cars explode when it walks through, maybe direct it to walk though some. The explosions should also strip some armor of it while dealing damage.
+Xeran King. yep, if i can't hack it then i chuck EMP and plasma grenades at it until it goes boom
Sorry Preston! But this settlement can take care of itself!
Specialists gonna hack.
+animadruga Well knowing Firaxis this thing is probably gonna have a crazy tech score.
Zenith Wills
I hope so.
animadruga What is it with XCOM fans and wanting to suffer?
Zenith Wills
Yes. When the game is dificult and fair, is best to play and replay. It's like chess.
animadruga True.
Thanks XCOM developers
I was able to take control of one in the final mission with my Gremlin Mark III. Earlier in the game I was able to temporary shut one down with a Gremlin Mark II. So best strat is with the first turn use a specialist to take control or stun. Then focus all fire.
they did it... the weapon to surpass metal gear.
*THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE!!!*
Love the Satan joke. And these enemies are just getting ridiculous.
+Zenith Wills The scarier the better man. I want this game to really push me.
Ignoring Reality Yeah. I think the Ethereals will really be op.
Zenith Wills Agreed. Prolly the most op of all of them. I hope anyways.
Ignoring Reality Yeah I mean the void attack they had in the last game.
I just paused the trailer the moment I saw that Pharaoh looking bastard flying and shooting a dozen rockets
First time I ran into this thing. Two things happened.
1: I immediately start freaking out there was a damn chicken walker in the game with such a HUGE life bar and powerful guns that immediately killed my "turned" enemy I gained from a hacking bonus. One fucking shot was all it needed.
2: Thankfully a lot of my soldiers had the Spider Armor to shoot grappling hooks which was key for the mission to retrieve the P.O.W of ours who was kidnapped. So we start rushing out, taking shots when we HAD no choice but to. Some of my soldiers nearly died and trust me there WAS close shaves. I felt a HUGE amount of dread as I saw it walking THROUGH the building after my soldiers in that mission. Thinking a simple rescue mission had quickly turned to a fight for survival.
I was lucky to be able to save my soldiers from being wiped out from that first encounter. That damn Chicken Walker truly makes me think of getting Blue Screen rounds more than ANY other enemy.
It's a robotic enemy, so it might be hackable. if you can disable it, gg. If not, then the spread out and focus fire tactic is what I will use.
+Bmobmo64 Fail a hack, get buffed stats on this monstrosity. GG, RIP, have a good time.
+NyronGT Tht would be an evac scenario.
Thomas Duponti Aye, it would.
Bmobmo64 My colonel specialist has 80 hack and gremlin mark 3 gives me a 83% chance of stunning a sectopod and a 39% of hacking. I usually stun them and light them up but ive hacked one twice. The 2 moments where ive felt like a god... BUTT the first encounter was a massacre. I did well not spoiling the game for myself when it standed up i got intimidated and when it rekt 3 of my soldiers i became salty but i managed to kill it :D
@@NyronGT rather try EMP-bombs has a chance to shut down and guaranteed hack debuff
I can already see it...
"Fuck it, Sectopod here, multiple Stun Lancers incoming, one guy bleeding out and 3 panicking, its all over anyway, might as well try to hack the pod!"
*Hack succeeds, Sectopod taken over*
"....hehehe...hahahaha...AHAHAHAHHAH.AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!"
+Marcel Ebert "soldiers stop panicking and watch as the sectopod walks around fucking shit up and start cheering" *hack wears off* "RUUN LIIIKE HEEEELL" soldiers get one shot and results in mission fail.
Marcel Ebert So... Fucking... True.......... Man i love xcom
I already thought enemies like Mechs, Mutons, Andromedons, etc. were already tough armored units, but the first time I ran into a Sectopod, my heart dropped and I said, “XCOM 2 added a fucking AT-ST from Star Wars into this shit?!” (Because I didn’t play the first game)
One or two turns later, I then almost yelled, “DID IT JUST GET TALLER?!?!”
From the beginning of tge game i power level my specialist by finding hack objective that give a perminant +20 to hack. By the time i meet a sectopod ive got a 100% chance to deactivate and roundabout 50% chance to take control. You can also freze it, stun it use blue screen or probably the most fun but least practical equip a repeater and cross your fingers.
It also mixes a mean Martini. One part Gin, one part Vermouth, one part player tears and garnished with the remnants of their self-esteem.
+John Doe I have tasted this drink before, on the longwar. It did not go down smooth. Lol.
Ignoring Reality
It's the bitter aftertaste that gets you.
If you have enough high level rangers. You can slash them down. I have a squad I take on advent missions because they usually have a lot of tough units. But 6 rangers with swords just run around slashing everything.
No to mention it has 3 turns and it can shoot on all of them using a sniper accuracy, minimum of 10 damage laser beam
I will lock myself in the bathroom scream WHY MEEEE! at the top of my lungs and then lose control of the situation
I played a shanty defence mission today, and I came across a faceless. My guy was up in a tower, and it just broke the tower down, killing them instantly. Never again
Stack your armor shredding abilities, and get a sniper with bluescreen ammo. I suppose this monster is why you're able to buy bluescreen ammo and emp bombs straight and not through experimental ammo/grenade
My plan: keep a change of pants handy when playing this game. :P
Oh father who art in Hell, Bless me with powers of Savescuming to defeat this monstrosity
LOL!!! may thy divine temporal rewind deliver us all from the pride of gaming integrity and the horrors of firaxis & 2k gaming studios.
The Dark master lol I think you meant temporary, although I did beat the sectopod with bunch of acid grenades so it works too!:D
that moment when you thought you had a chance of beating this and then saw a sectopod
indeed. because EW sectopods wern't rediculous enough.
When I first saw a sectopod, it was immediately hacked by my specialist, had it kill 2 advent, and shot it to death while it was still hacked and laughed
Step 1: Hack.
Step 2: if step 1 fails, find God.
That happened to me yesterday. Can confirm this is basically how things went down. Almost lost my maxed out ranger
Sectopod can help you with that god part😂
And it's Berserker that got introduced as an unwanted sight...RIP first badge of troops that will face this mobile elevator.
My plan? Grab myself a jaeger ASAP!
+World Of Thought If only man, if only.
I've found that stasis can buy you a turn if it uses wrath cannon. It's still gonna shoot when it gets a chance
Stasis, suppressive fire and bluescreen rounds.
I'm not too frightened at what this thing will be capable of in the vanilla Xcom 2 version... But what does give me sleepless nights is what will the Long war Devs do with this monstrosity when they get there hands on modding... which I actually just read this morning that is exactly what they are doing right now. RIP my master sergeants!!!
And here i was thinking that the gatekeeper was hard enough for us... but wait there's more!
My first encounter I successfully hacked it, and my first encounter was on the avatar base with the two bridges and the valley type thing underneath.
So can it walk through a wall and destroy a roof, causing fall damage to anyone or thing on top of the roof? If so, then gg aliens.
+TransformAndConquer Yup, the more you think about this thing the worse it get. I love it.
Shredder grenadier chainshots its armor off (even better if you have salvo and open with a 'nade/heavy weapon first), then everyone hits it the best they can. Snipers loaded with AP ammo can take off significant chunks as well (Fanfire is amazing with AP ammo), and talon rounded shotguns can bring the pain (rapid fire o' course), armor or no. Last but not least, a capacitor discharge from a specialist can really ease it up.
These are all late abilities/items-based, but you should have some of them by the time you're encountering sectopods.
Bluescreen rounds...
Bluescreen rounds with a deadeye sniper
Grenadier, Bluescreen rounds, shredder, chain shot. Dead
@@ASavageSandwich 2x Emp grenades with the ability that doesnt end your turn when you lob a grenade. +Specialist with a gremlin mk3
Shred armour. AP ammo. Grenadiers with shredder. High explosives. Burn it down from range. Keep falling back.
I will have my psi operative mind control an enemy and use it as a distraction while I retreat and quit the mission if I don't think I can focus it down in a single turn.
I usually use psi operatives to stun it with the force field thing and take out the smaller guys first. and you CAN use some psi attacks on it like psi lance
phantom ranger for scouting. at least 2 snipers taking long range shots. 1 grenadier for shredding. 1 specialist for hacking. psy unit to provide protection while grenadier or specialist are in visual range of the Sectopod.
Hit and run plus kite tactic.
Yeah psi units are hardly useless against machines since there are three offensive attacks unrelated to whether the victim is bio or mech, a move to give a teammate a yellow move, and a move called stasis to contain an enemy for one turn.And if that fails you can mind control another enemy as a meat shield/target/extra gun.
Two/Three Rangers - AP rounds, laser sight (+10% critical) and rapid fire. One Specialist - Combat protocol. This should take care of Sectopod quite nicely
I plan to attack it from multiple directions and hope I don't activate any more pods while doing so.
Easy PZ-EMP: Few options (In order of effectiveness):
1) Throw EMP bomb (50% chance shuts down all ennemies in the large blast radius for 2 turns and enormous damage ignoring armor+deactivates any shields) straight at it went it is spotted and two-shot it with sniper, ranger, or heavy gunner with bluescreen rounds.
2) Hack shutdown or control with a combat hacker
3) Mimic beacon decoy
4) Phantom Ranger that spots it for your snipers
5) Use combat protocol/capacitor discharge or heavy gunner/spark to ignore its armor and destroy it with multiple concentrated attacks.
I'm curious as to how many can be around at once in any map, everybody has memories of those days back in Enemy Unknown where you could really fck up and be staring straight at three of these Sectopods in one shootout (oh that was great fun, only had two men still standing by the end of that, thankfully it was my Revive Medic (and the Squadsight Sniper), but he only had enough meds left for two....the other two I had to abandon for the greater good....)
Things could get hilariously messy if we can get more than three in one map.
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CLOSE/MID/LONG RANGE??
Well, equip everyone of your squad with superior repeater. Piece of cake.
5 snipers , 1 specialist. Bring it Mr. Sectopod. He`ll be buttraped before he can even react to anything.
Worked in Xcom EU should work fine in 2.
+Farkas Tibor
Snipers have been nerfed.
Headshot has been replaced with dead eye, which increases your crit chance at the cost of accuracy.
Long ranged shots take substantial penalties to accuracy.
Disabling shot no longer exist.
Damage reduction on mechs appears to be universal.
It's not all bad though.The gunslinger tree is now a much more rewarding, allowing you to get many shots off on multiple targets in a single turn.
The new version of Opportunist lets you lay down a cone. Anything that moves in, or enters this cone triggers a reaction shot until you run out of ammo or you next turn.
They have actually released all the class data about the X-com classes, if your willing to look into it.
While I do greatly enjoy the Xcom games I`m always thrilled to go in not knowing what`s expecting me. If what your saying is true then it just gets me more hyped to try out some new crazy combos :). Thanks for the great feedback.
explosives, maybe hacking if able, status effects if able, not sure whats being put in this game, cant wait to play it
I was fortunate enough to not lose a single man the first yime encountering it, but man did it nearly make me fail the mission
Seems like best would be just shot everything we got on it. Every bulet, every laser, magnetic round, (maybe) plasma, explosive.... everything from it (and maybe more) find its new home within this monstrosity. It worked with all previous Sectopods.
Bluescreen Gunner with chainshot and that doesn't leave much else to do
Bluescreen rounds on sniper. Adds a repeater weapon mod for additional hilarity.
1st: 2 or 3 grenadier that can shred armour and have chain shot giving as much damage if hit.
and here's a fun fact you would like to know did you know that the long war dev team have gotten early access of the modding tools and will know be making a long war mod on release.
+Waheed Naeem I have not heard that. I know that the long war team started their own studio, and are working on their own game. But this is news to me. Thanks man.
Ignoring Reality no problem
Well... what I do everytime i find myself in a battle with a sectopod, is of course to stay calm...
and FIRE EVERYTHING!!!
My method is usually to hack and disable it - this buys 2 turns where everyone in the squad has a 100% chance to hit the stationary Sectopod... that is usually enough. However, as a backup I have my get out of jail Mimic grenade as well - which will buy a turn as the Sectopod lumbers after the hologram (remember that the mimic will only distract units that can see it so throw it carefully!). Basic tactics of shredding armor first are incredibly important as these are some of the more heavily armored targets.
I kinda like the Enemy Unknown Sectopods the most, tbh. Not because it's easier to beat, but because of it's design - the compact structure and big, powerful legs just screams agility. I don't feel like the new Sectopod should've replaced the old one, since their different designs make them good at different things. Instead, they could've kept both and upgraded the old one and had it tailored towards mobility instead of power. Both of them are already well beyond any unit, anyways.
I know! Let's take the Sectopod and push it somewhere else.
"Psi Guys Watch out"
Me: Stasis
Why does it remind me of a machine from 9?
Oh sweet mother of mercy
Actually a lot easier than in the previous version, support unit can hack into it, shut him down... One of my heavy guy even "one shot" one... Now those Andromeda hulks are a real pain ...
Explosives. Lots and lots of explosives. Grenades, missiles, everything. Then shoot it with gremlin lightning and bullets.
*Panic* I want to go home , i want to go home right now !! Evac where is the evac....
well this seems like an easy answer bring lots of explosives and keep retreating till it's by itself
I believe you shall find that a sufficient quantity of grenades will solve this issue quite handily
If it's just this thing? do as much dmg as possible and throw a stasis on it if it survives and kill it on the next turn
Uh...try to hack it I suppose, then if that doesnt work, hit it with a few explosives? And if its still either panic and lose control of the situation, or unload and hope something happens..
As I did before, mindcontrol mutons, use them as a meat shield, and attack the shit out of this from range. And explosives, ofc. Even in that case, I BARELY had enough damage to kill it in 1 turn in EU on terror mission. Jeez...
Does the CQC lazer activate even if the Ranger has the ability to not provoke Overwatch?
After that it's a question of how much damage it deals.
The Wrath Cannon looks nasty if he can aim it again after charging.
+Snake PT That is a good question man, I have no idea.
If it shows up in the same mission as a bunch of other enemy units, Imma gonna have my Psi Operative brainwash one of them and have it attack THEM, while the rest of my team shreds it and then pummels it with rockets and grenades.
I don't think they said it was immune to ACID...
I think there's an acid grenade in this game...or is that the same as posion?
posion wont work on mechanicals. but i would much rather the devs increase squad size or give us an equivolent unit or both. how long to you think the mind controled enemy unit would last against THAT?
The Dark master Heh, that would RULE.
(Also since you can PERMENANTLY control an enemy with mind control on a fully-leveled Psi-Op oh man)
it would be "realistic" to have massive squads (origional xcom games/sanity) and equivalent units (symetrical warfare stratergy/asymetrical warfar stratergy) but knowing devs and watching this game being played, it is post longwar (a slightly ghoulish EW mod the devs took a licking too.) things are going down hill for this game franchize. mission timers and sniper only pistols are my personal linch pin gripes. this universe has/had so much potentual. but it seems only the aliens get to have mechs this time around? the sectopod should get a sheild and the jump ability both alien and human mechs had respectively, and shiv repair. and sonar... it should be a "monster" but you should get an equivalent of a XCOM gundam to fight it with. not infinate body bags, high ranking troops and high teir equipment with an easily explotable weakness. that's cheap.
Blue screen rounds. Emp grenade. Rapid fire. Laugh.
With units like this walking around, I think we can consider ourselves lucky that killing all enemies won't be a requirement every single mission anymore.
Because holy assballs as soon as I spot this thing I'll be running the hell away.
You Can Hack It
Tbh the sectopods in EW are harder to deal with than XCOM2. In 2 you have specialists, gremlins, hacks, blue-green rounds, combat protocols, shadow chamber warnings, and plenty of other fun gadgets to take them down. The ones in EW just sit and shoot you twice in a turn and can't be killed in less than 3 turns when you first fight them
EMP-bomb+bluescreen rounds+ 2 grenades with shredder=profit it will last 2 rounds at most
i woder if it can be hacked ....
+imdefender It can be hacked, it was already done by some french journalists. I would have show you the video but it has been changed to "private". Here's the link of the article thought.
www.millenium.org/xcom-2/xcom-2/actualites/xcom-2-ennemis-guide-advent-alien-pouvoirs-strategie-chrysalis-ethere-archon-andromede-berserker-mtj-138646?page=17 - That was the second video.
From what I remember the Sectopod had like.. 120 at tech score and I guess the specialist reach its best when he's promoted to corporal. I doubt he'll be able to exceed 120 so there's still a luck notion.
By the way I would like to say that you can't disable it but can take control of it for the two of three next turns.
Hope I helped you in your thinking.
+imdefender Indeed you can once you've unlock the skill...So you better have one specialist ready for when you meet one, and hope the hack works :)
yeah, a specialist with high hack is a must,and armor piercing rounds are life savers
+reyzon mateo (rezonpokemon) late game is pretty much won with Armor Piercers which is kinda a shame since it makes all other ammo types useless
Step 1: Acid Grenade. Step 2: Gunslinger Sniper (Fire Pistol, Lightning Hands, Tripple Shot)
To be honest, if you have armor-stripping capabilities, the 5-shot-combo a gunslinger can pull off combined with pretty much any equipped ammunition of your choice dispatches Sectopods maybe a bit TOO quickly. They're pretty quickly taken out if you get a turn on them, on the other hand if they get to make a turn against you, you're pretty screwed.
Personally, i found the Gatekeeper to be a more challenging enemy because of the very hard to overcome 6 armor on it.
Really? Honestly sectopods and gate keeps were total jokes for me, the aliens most advanced psionic unit can be easily permanently mind controlled by a psi op with domination, and late game sectopods just get obliterated by the sheer amount of firepower you have. I was kinda disappointed that the enemies can't keep up with the operatives in the late game, and the final mission was a joke. (Provided I was playing on rookie, I'm doing a new playthrough on commander to see how it goes)
Just use some grenadiers to take out the armor, then blow it up with your rangers and specialist. Mimic beacon might be handy to keep it occupied if you can't take it out in one round, No problem. But i never use psi units in xcom 2, since all "heavies" are robotics..
Bluescreen rapid fire, one shot
Hacked my first Sectopod today! My life is now complete.
AP rounds on sniper, bluescreen heavies, and laser sights and repeater on rangers. Should be enough.
Also, specialist with hack.
FOR GOODNESS SAKE COME ON REALLY DEVS
We are gonna have to use some much cannon fodder to kill it
My plan is simple
SHOCK AND AWE
With hope i don't die
I'll use the ranger as a bait,m specialist will try to hack it,if fails,my sniper and my other soldiers will try to take it down.
I'm going to bring a bunch of Red Shirts and let them do the distraction while i gonna land some deadly blows with real Firepower ^^
Gimme a Quake rocket launcher with a ton of rockets. I'll send that mech to the scrap heap...
The old Sectopod and Chryyssalid were bad enough, now we have these mothertruckers, thanks Jake Solomon thanks a bunch, I'm gona go lay down and cry now.
+Richard Lane You are not alone in that thought. Jake is a harbinger of Evil. and I love him for it.
OH FOR GOODNESS SAKE COME ON REALLY DEVS
it's gonna take hundreds of men ti kill it
+ShadowTwister 4, actually :P strip the armor with a grenade and hope for crits to take down the 30+ HP
sectopod is very hard, but if i my sniper with a superior repeater i can kill it with one shot
*Caustically add the tank mod to my aserneal*
If you can, avoid combat with it. Easier to just try and stealth your missions as far as you can and then do a fighting retreat to extraction point. I've only ever brought down 1
All of the explosives, right here, right now.
+Styrkur Yep. Grenades to wear down it's armor, missiles to blast it to bits. HEAT/ap ammo as well.
WHEN IT GETS DIFFICULT ? JUST RAISE THE DIFFICULTY, ARE YOU THAT GOOD, OR YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT SEEING SOLDIERS DIEING
Honestly Gatekeepers are worse with their built in 40 defense. Bluescreen rounds. They're awesome at solving problems. I always run a two man grenadier core speced with shredder packing bluescreens. You can also run a well speced sniper equipped with bluescreens. Using Deadeye with the bluescreens they can easily pull 20 plus damage on a Sectopod.
Better whip out them bluescreen rounds
Yo man a quick tip from a random guy on the internet with a maior in comunication. Your vídeo is awsome, has it is now. You should just focus more on your voice projection and tone, that way your voice wont be has monotonous. But keep going you will get there :)
+Adriano Tavares Thanks man. Even after all these videos i have done, I am still pretty uncomfortable in front of the mic. I am trying to get better, so I will take all the advice I can get. Thanks for the tip man. I appreciate it.
The bigger the beast, the greater the revard. I´m ready:-)
Bluscreen rounds makes them a joke
AP sniper rounds + Shred go brrr
I'mma have to go with the orks on this one.
MOAR DAKKA! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!