CP actually hunker down does not reduce the damage according to my own tests. The sword is a guaranteed hit and won't be mitigated (unless u scored a kill with untouchable)
Everyone is talking about how they one shotted their Assassin's with Grenadiers or Reapers by blowing her up. Meanwhile here I am with an Assassin who evolved to become immune to Explosions ;-;
“You have fought well, XCOM… May you reclaim this world…” **She sharply inhales.** “…FOR YOUR OWN…!!” **She then commits Seppuku.** Never have I actually felt bad for killing a Big Bad.
Turns out she rolled all seeing (or whatever the reveal guys in concealment one is called) and now a horde of lost are playing grabass with your reaper.
Actually, the Lost ended up screwing up the Assasin's invisibility quite a bit during my playthrough. Possibly why she decided to use her sword shockwave attack on a pack of zombies that posed no threat to her instead of getting off another attack on one of my soldiers. The lost pissed her off.
@@peterdavis9760 in my case , the resistance troops always spoted her out on retaliation missions and even manage to cripple some shoots down on her. The best part , NONE of them miss a shoot triggering the bewilder weakness twice and manage to leave it at half health by the time she "try to reach us". And by mean try , she appeared just when i blue move out my spark beside where she was at that moment. That was once and this happen twice during my 1st playthrough and always on those retalations.
@@SenseiRaisen My favorite victories over the assassin are those rare times I figure out where she is by noticing opened doors, broken windows, and the like and reveal her through a combination of observation and luck. Especially when she's in the middle of my squad when I spot her.
Absolutely. She also seems to care about what happens to people, despite her arrogance. She doesn't get off on killing civilians, and she wants the universe to have a chance at surviving whatever it is she seems to know is coming for it.
Her enemy is weaker than her, less skilled in many respects than her, and yet they still stand tall and do battle with her even though they have a VERY strong chance of dying in the attempt. That raw courage can inspire nothing but respect...unless you're an arrogant jerk like her 'brothers'.
@@heartoffire5902 spoiler alert: The Elders are actually trying to incorporate and prepare humanity to together face a greater, another alien threat. Their ways are harsh, but they saw it as neccesity. We'll see what that is in X-Com 3, hopefully.
The Warlock hid behind legions of thralls - in all my games, the moment I most recognize him for is stepping into an overwatch trap only to be unceremoniously deleted by a Repeater. His stronghold? Naught but a speed bump on the road to acquiring his gear. The Hunter provided an annoyance - constantly repositioning to dodge his shots, triggering patrols as I tried to dodge him and only him as I closed the gap to rip him from his perch and perform unto him a beatdown of legendary proportions. Only once was he a threat - early on, when he actually succeeded in ambushing my entire team. It took everything (and a couple restarts) to keep him from absconding with an unfortunate squadmate. But the Assassin? She WAS a threat. Charging in from the shadows to deliver an an almost always lethal strike. Devastating formations I thought diverse and spread with that damned wave attack. Making every damn action an overly-calculated risk - do I do this and expose myself to other threats, or do I pour everything into making sure this witch goes down? Do I use a grenade to expose cover? Is she close enough that a battle scanner will be the turning point? If I move here, will I attract her ire or will I make it out of this place alive? Is setting up this overwatch trap worth it? Is my sniper safe, or is she like a Seeker of yore - ignoring the squad to strike only the exposed and alone? Sectopods come and go, Gatekeepers an entertaining distraction, the Hunter and Warlock mere noise in my ear. But the Assassin alone held my fear and respect.
I do agree at least on base game the Assassin is the deadliest of them all. One thing i do like about the PC version on Steam is how you can get mods to make the other's bigger threats. Not many mods tweak the Assassin because of how good her AI is. But in reality i do feel like the Warlock would be the strongest of the 3 Chosen considering what he specializes in. But these mods thankfully makes him either better or OP lol. But man i do still love the Assassins character, honourable till the end.
Yeah, i just bought and started a campaign of wotc, just by seing the cinematic i knew. That hot purple thing is the only threat, the sniper? Hes gonna be annoying but wimpy by the look of it. That psy guy? He just seems bigger than what he is, just like sectoid and archons. Bear in mind that the strongest people are usually quiet, assassin for example are in most games the deadliest threat you can ever encounter. For reasons as you dont know where the person is, in and out of combat, wich in the end push way more pressure on your shoulder than some fat blind faith psy guy. When you know where your ennemy is, you can prevent, even snipers are usually previsible. But the assassin? Its the ultimate jack of all sneaky deadly in and out combat. Wich is one of the best tactic. I dunno why the psy guy should be the strongest since sectoid arent threat and the avatars wasnt as hard as i tought they would be.
You should try fighting her when she is immune to crits, like I do. She showed up on the mission type that you can't evac from, since it's under ground, and you only get the evac after getting the VIP. But doing so causes reinforcements to drop in for 4 turns until the evac spawns. So I HAD to kill her before I triggered that part. In that biome she has loads of places to hide, she had increased defense+missed shots gives shield, and crit immunity thanks to a mod I'm using. Holy living ballz what a sweaty mission that was. Also, the warlock becomes a REALLY big threat with just a little tweaking to his AI. I've had missions where he was walking all over me like a boss. I fucking love the Xcom modding community.
I had to evac from the warlcok once because he happened to have armor and regen and I didn't have any grenadier with shredder in that mission. He hid behind the crashed UFO summoming thralls and advent troops and I had the "Lost in every mission" dark event. There was too much shit in the field for me.
@@carljohan9265 Mine was immune to sword and can’t tigger Overwatch, and then she can randomly summon not only high soldiers, but freaking robot enemies.
Out of the 3 chosen she is the deadliest and has the best theme and best interactions. They really did an amazing job with her, she's my favorite out of the 3
Charismatic personality, some character development, unique set of skills and a proper difficult level (i didnt play ironman, though). A villian that i love to hate and kill... and the only one who made feel me something in her last scene. Too bad they cant create a compelling boss like this one anymore (chimera squad bosses are regular enemies with different skin and thats it )
Yeah, she was my favorite out of the three honestly. Her mix of arrogance and subtle respect at facing a worthy opponent was really interesting. A shame you could pretty much one-hit her with a claymore every time she showed up.
I like the sniper the most, his personality is the best for me and annoying at the same time. Warlock is just a dumbass. The assassin's probably the most difficult, but my sharpshooter can just gunslinger her in one turn lol.
I liked all of them, I love the assassin for the same reasons you do + she drops dem BEATZ BOI, I like the hunter because he's like a blend between arrogant and downright EVIL and I LOVE it, HE HUNTS HIS SUBORDINATES FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, and I like the warlock because the says when fighting him is just plain scary to me for some reason.
The warlock has the best monologue. Ar the end you are wondering why a third party transform warlock corpse into stone. Still she has the best carácter development.
the Witcher was the biggest asshole out of all, still remember him appearing at the most unfortunate times while i was actually struggling and then 'hope is lost' starts blarring perfectly underlining that you're in deep shit, always out of reach and his psionic abilitys gave me headaches, the hunter was fairly easy for me and the assassin was just really really annoying but warlock deserves to die in a forest fire
Funnily enough, despite being alien, the assassin has several Japanese references: -The sword is named katana -The shotgun is named arashi (meaning storm) -The bit of Japanese flute in her theme -The fact that she commits seppuku in death cutscene
The Chosen were originally human, and then the elders grabbed them and start making genetic manipulation. To me it is clear she was Japanese when she was human. Either that or the thing just liked it.
You know that Reapers have an ability that allows them to "mark" a target just by seeing it, and that any target "marked" by said reaper is permanently visible right?
This is my favorite track from the soundtrack, really set the tone for the mission! Especially if she charges at you with 1:25 in the background, so good.
The perfect counter to the Assassin is a Reaper with the skill that makes any unit spotted by a Reaper permanently spotted. Come to think of it, it's the perfect counter to any of the Chosen.
@@aeureus Yeah I laughed when the sniper-rifle-wielding Hunter, who had the Brittle weakness (extra melee damage received), decided to jump off his extremely high vantage point down to ground level right in front of my three melee characters. He died instantly.
Ouch that sounds rough. My Assassin only really had 1 annoying ability which was immunity to Melee, made it a bitch when I encountered her with 2 rangers and a Templar :/
@@Thomascus187 my mine as well but somehow she also has the one who get more dmg through shortrange attacks. So Rangers with rapid fire chew her like gum.
My Assasin is immune to melee (So bladestorm doesn't work) and she doesn't trigger overwatch. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to have her run in, slash someone and run out, every turn until she's dead, and not being able to do anything about it other than search for her on my turn?
Well the Assassin is the most difficult out of the three and if you've installed the mod wrath of the chosen AI pack which btw give them 3 actions and a hyper intelligent AI which i have then I can rightfully say that you are not the only one. And idk about you but i fucking hate the Assassin.
I noticed that she does a seppuku in her defeated animation. It's a nice touch, it adds more to her character, considering she talked about honour every time I encountered her. So, alien Samurai?
Know I'm like years away from these post (this is an awesome game) buy the seppuku really represents dying with honour and proving that you were innocent in your actions by taking your own life. So maybe the aliens are doing something to preserve earth. Just different mindsets between the aliens and humans
@@terrancestanford2446 I'd say that aliens are more like about preserving their own kind, that's the point of this game, the Elders are dying and they need humans to survive. But your point about dying with honour still stands, she died on duty and with clear conscience, if Aliens believe in it of course.
The warlock and the hunter gave me no trouble when it came to defeating them, but the assassin? The one I killed first? She was by far the scariest and the closest to failing I've been.
A combo of a Reaper with Banish and Ranger with Double Tap and high hit chance (thank you Covert Missions for making some of my operatives OP), I was able to push back the Assassin in most cases. The missions where she caught me off guard were the ones where my top Reaper and Ranger were NOT in that mission.
Paying respects to the Assassin on my recent playthrough. Would've kept her around longer but I met her late game and she had a LOT of perks that were a bitch to deal with. Like revealing my concealed units or *planeswalker.* Also this playthrough she wore a really awesome looking mask, so bonus kudos.
XCOM: A melee character that's immune to Overwatch? Fine, I'll just shoot her after she's gotten a hit off. Assassin: *Bending Reed* "I'm fast as fuck boi"
Ugh. Second time I encountered the Assassin was near the beginning of the Alien Blacksite mission. In a very movie-trope-esque fashion, the bitch took out my medic first from full health, leaving him bleeding out. With a full medkit load of course. One other trooper had a medkit, but naturally it was already used. And since this was the Blacksite mission, I couldn't summon an evac. So my medic's gone, plus his upgraded weapon unless I wanted to haul his ass all the way through the Blacksite map, through enemy lines, to the prearranged evac point. I admit it, I rage-quit and replayed that mission from beginning.
Something more dramatic happend for me My reaper got revealed by a faceless and the assassin stunned her. Since it was a reaper ofcourse she was far away from the rest of the team so she got captured while the assassin gave special dialogue about capturing a reaper
"Oh boy i bet i can just take a vet and rookies and complete a simple escort mission" *few turns later* "oh boy now im surrounded by shitload of advent troopers and all but 1 rookie is dead along with the vet ,the escort and the rest is dead"
Commander Ironman run. I got lucky and researched inspired mag weapons and pred armor quickly. Immediately had reapers find her hidey hole and went in. So anyway I started blasting at everything that moved and soon enough I had her commiting sudoku while praying for our success. She may be hard to deal with at times but I love how honorable she is.
Just got done with researching her katana and shotgun, and by god, these are probably the best weapons I've seen in the entire game. Not only is their damage obscenely high, they're also extremely reliable to use and come with plenty of additional bonuses to your own soldier.
The Hunter's Sniper is probably the best weapon of the chosen. Needs only one action to fire and has four attachments, and free reloads. Perfect for eliminating entire pods.
Yeah the katana is wonderful for using the Ranger's Reaper ability. The damage is so high that it still one-shots a lot of undamaged enemies despite the stacking damage self-debuff.
I took at her first time in long war yesterday. She slew 3 of my hideout guys and grievly injured 2 operatives (with help of alien fodder) . That's the best outcome i've came to. Thrilling. Shit, i don't want to cross chosen ones in longwar again, and it's feels awesome.
@@timm1729 well i didn't choose to fight her). Btw i wrecked her later with reaper. She actualy were easiest of 3 after all my playthrough, even tho she got that trait which stacks up armor if i miss on her. She can be kited all around map without any troubles. Warlock always had burned my guys to the crisp, so they out for like a month (then i assaulted his fortress i took vests and wipe the floor on him). and Hunter was just strait unfair (point-blank shots from pistol, then sniper shot, then repos after every good shot i got on him), my luck i've met him once before the fortress.
Shawnlings like most things, there’s a mod for that that restrict chosen stronghold missions to later on in the story missions (ie you need to finish the ADVENT forge mission to locate the stronghold)
i will have to agree with all the comments the psi warlock, haven't met him in combat yet the hunter, yeah he is definitely annoying the assassin, yes is actually a huge threat, she is always invisible and you don't know where she will be on top of that when she does get out of invisibility she delivers a devastating blow to her target, stunning and severely damaging them plus having shadow-step makes your traps for her coming in completely useless, and after her strike, just like the templars melee strike, show gets an extra movement action and gets away into cover despite being so powerful as she is, her personality, personally, even on the enemy team, she respects her opponent (us) and even gives compliments in such wise words, even tho she adds in the part where she is going to kill your soldiers and capture you. even respects and compliments our actions to helping our comrades. unlike the hunter, she has honor and respect in both combat and to our being itself. if i had to lose to the enemy, specifically to one of the chosen, it would be the assassin.
Scariest looking in the trio imo. I like her design honestly(Not because of the katana). Her face looks intimidating and soundtrack is also my favorite and you know, she's the cover girl.
The most interesting of the Chosen as her dialogue occasionaly shows she seems to somewhat care for humanity, and she even hopes that you reclaim Earth from the Elders upon defeating her. In addition if you kill on of her siblings first the Elder states she feels emptiness. Implying that she mourns or feels some sense of loss. Whereas the other two feel arrogance or satisfaction at the loss of their sister.
This theme song was epic, made my TF2 Squad (yes I actually tried to make the mercs in XCOM) looks even cooler as they fought The Assassin. Battle Logs on how Team Fortress 2 took down The Assassin: - Soldier and Demo once blew her entire cover down and Heavy then mowed her down with Chain Shot. (If god had wanted you to live, he would not have created me!) (Ka-boom!) (Yatatatatatata- kaboom! kaboom!) - Scout managed to outrun her as he chased her and took her down with a Storm Gun critical hit. (I'm runnin' circles around you!) - Spy while concealed grappled in just behind The Assassin and took her down with a sword slash (Sorry to pop in unannounced)
When your soldiers call out Overwatch while this song is playing in the background is pretty epic; to rely on shotguns and melee to make a direct or critical hit and reveal her position with grenades or rocket launchers...
Assassin's honestly probably the hardest of the Chosen to face off against. You've gotta chase her out of wherever she goes and outside of a 1v1 that's really difficult. Warlock meanwhile is almost completely useless if you give your units Mind Shields, and Hunter kinda just forces your Sniper to dash between corners of the building you have them on all mission.
TigerKirby215 I got lucky with Assassin she was shell shocked and I had a reaper that marks her targets so as long as I had explosives and a reaper she was no threat
Of the three siblings she is the "nicest" one, at least. Conceding defeat when finally brought down and wishing you fortune in reclaiming your world. The sniper is the slightly less hostile one, though he will still just as happily kill you as both others. The Warlock is just.. batshit crazy. Out of all the three I still hate the Assassin the most though. Unless you get a free camera move revealing where she stopped before reaching you, you have to wait or just guess that she reaches you in two-ish moves and use the scanner in the direction she came from. Many times, of course, this is not the case and she wanders aimlessly around and can take a dozen rounds to reach you - has happened to me MANY times. Though I have played this game for 560 hours. All in attempts to make it through a game without losing a single soldier on hardest difficulty ironman. Multiple times reached the end mission but failing at the very end.
>Playing Long war of the chosen >So far so good, I have the complete asian bonus and managed to rush magnetic weapons, and the avatar project isn't even started >the chosen start harassing me >"noisy vermin, give me AP so I can be even more OP" >I take one beating after the other, and they're only becoming stronger >Finally I found myself in a lost mission that also has the assassin appearing, she's now 50% resistant to melee, drains health, is vulnerable to explosives and the marauder that could kick her ass is elsewhere. >There is no headshot bonus with the lost, so I can actually get mauled to death if I use explosives. You know, it feels refreshing considering your missions with thoughts like "I should call the skyranger right here, so I can escape as soon as the objective is complete, before the team is butchered"
Imagine if your best soldier bobbed and weaved through the fucking hellscape that is a Chosen fight, especially when you fight them for the last time, making HISTORY! and then they get fucking rekt by a God Damn lost or trooper.
Just played War of the Chosen. I loved it. Xcom people borrowed some mechanics from Darkest Dungeon and Shadow of Mordor. And they executed it perfectly and so professionally.
makes me wonder. what if. what if there is a system where you could spare the chosens and save them. or just dont kill them and finish the golden path mission. wouldnt it be col if we could just liberate the chosen from the grasp of the elders?
Loved her character, but hated fighting her to death. I almost uninstalled WotC because of my first fight with her, I was thinking something like, "Oh my gosh, are all three of them going to be this hard!?" Thankfully I found Hunter and Warlock easier to deal with, but, still.
"I'm telling you, kids, it was a pretty rough fight. First we had to get through the building, filled with Advent soldiers and Aliens. Freaking viper almost got me there. Good thing we brought our Spark unit with us. That thing is literally unstopable, it always saves our asses in a fight. Than we got to fight a Chosen. Again. That bitch just wouldn't die! But it went down eventually. Once more. Thanks to the Reaper and her claymores"
Lets be honest the Warlock may as well be an old cripple when you have a mind-shielded ranger, and for The Hunter is vulnerable to out positioning from classes with high speed or a grappling hook. But every time I face the assassin it feels like fighting unbeatable opponent that you just barely beaten with your team after each was beaten to a pulp
omfg... so recently i started playing XCOM 2 with mods n stuff, kinda put to much on my side that felt cheating so i added new enemy types n shit... STILL had a hard time even rarely seeing these guys. but my lord! the assassin was annoying as hell but still fun as hell and that theme kept me up and about just waiting for her to just naruto dash one of my characters and insta daze them and run off again. But the moments when i finnaly found her and made her eat shotgun lead due to her brittle weakness was like heaven! of course then i had to fight the fucking mecs or berzerkers in the damn map. Edit: if your also wanna know what mod characters i added to fight? Resident evil Nemisis is one of them! he changes as the game progresses from his entire body suit into it falling apart and revealing his face and pulling out stronger weapons! so far i am fighting him with a damn flame thrower.
XCOM: A melee character? No problem, I'll just go on overwatch!
Assassin: Oh really?
"Sgt. Jenkins was killed!"
CP actually hunker down does not reduce the damage according to my own tests. The sword is a guaranteed hit and won't be mitigated (unless u scored a kill with untouchable)
Have a Templar run up to her to hit and provoke then parry, works like 80% of the time
Thepoptropicadude 3 I mean when they are available, of course
Sgt Jenkins was dazed! Sgt Jenkins was captured!
Wtf?! I coulda sworn she missed one of my rangers once with her sword. Maybe i was high as fuck or something...
Everyone is talking about how they one shotted their Assassin's with Grenadiers or Reapers by blowing her up. Meanwhile here I am with an Assassin who evolved to become immune to Explosions ;-;
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Mine evolved to be immune to melee after repeatedly beating her with my rangers :(
Mine STARTED immune to explosions
@@JP1337mod THAT IS ILLEGAL
@@JP1337mod MINE TOO
"I had not expected this battle to be so...exhilarating. You surprise me XCOM..."
You are not the assasin
@@mariqnpetkov1714 Do you not know what quotation marks are?
Heh, easy *Grapple hook behind, use machine gunner to mark, free turn to shoot pistol, fire sniper, get advance teamwork, shoot twice*
“You have fought well, XCOM… May you reclaim this world…” **She sharply inhales.** “…FOR YOUR OWN…!!” **She then commits Seppuku.**
Never have I actually felt bad for killing a Big Bad.
she has a sense of honor in combat, and a sense of respect for opponent who are capable of giving her a battle to remember
Edit: that being us
This is the reason she's my favourite chosen. She isn't a massive wanker like the other two, she just enjoys a worthy battle.
Warlock is annoying yes
But the hunter is annoying enough to even annoy the elders.
Turns out that building you decided to hide in had a reaper in it.
Surprise!
Turns out she rolled all seeing (or whatever the reveal guys in concealment one is called) and now a horde of lost are playing grabass with your reaper.
Actually, the Lost ended up screwing up the Assasin's invisibility quite a bit during my playthrough.
Possibly why she decided to use her sword shockwave attack on a pack of zombies that posed no threat to her instead of getting off another attack on one of my soldiers. The lost pissed her off.
So true!! I thought to put my sniper on the balcony, and once I got there with no more moves - ta daa!! She was there!!!!
Screwed! 😨
@@peterdavis9760 in my case , the resistance troops always spoted her out on retaliation missions and even manage to cripple some shoots down on her. The best part , NONE of them miss a shoot triggering the bewilder weakness twice and manage to leave it at half health by the time she "try to reach us". And by mean try , she appeared just when i blue move out my spark beside where she was at that moment. That was once and this happen twice during my 1st playthrough and always on those retalations.
@@SenseiRaisen My favorite victories over the assassin are those rare times I figure out where she is by noticing opened doors, broken windows, and the like and reveal her through a combination of observation and luck.
Especially when she's in the middle of my squad when I spot her.
Also known as the, "oh fuck" theme.
You sir! Made my day.
pretty much, funny thing. i say that when i see her.
@@pigsaag6915 same
So who do I have to sacrifice to get rid of this.. THING
@@sergueileonardoafonin7950 GRENADIER,reaper,Sparks(robot) or someone that is great mobility
“Take pride, Xcom. Pride that you have come further than any of your kind. Pride that your death this day, honors the Elders.”
Funny coming from you Assassin,knowing even YOU don't believe those words..
I like how she gives respect to Xcom for defeating her. This is why I love Assassin Because she has atleast some honor and respect for the enemy.
Absolutely. She also seems to care about what happens to people, despite her arrogance. She doesn't get off on killing civilians, and she wants the universe to have a chance at surviving whatever it is she seems to know is coming for it.
Her enemy is weaker than her, less skilled in many respects than her, and yet they still stand tall and do battle with her even though they have a VERY strong chance of dying in the attempt. That raw courage can inspire nothing but respect...unless you're an arrogant jerk like her 'brothers'.
@@heartoffire5902 spoiler alert:
The Elders are actually trying to incorporate and prepare humanity to together face a greater, another alien threat. Their ways are harsh, but they saw it as neccesity. We'll see what that is in X-Com 3, hopefully.
@@TheGodTell is that still lore as of xcom 2? I know that's alluded to in 1 but the end of 1 is definitively not canon now.
@@samuellove9619 I think it is. When you fought the Chosen, they will often mention that as well.
The Warlock hid behind legions of thralls - in all my games, the moment I most recognize him for is stepping into an overwatch trap only to be unceremoniously deleted by a Repeater. His stronghold? Naught but a speed bump on the road to acquiring his gear.
The Hunter provided an annoyance - constantly repositioning to dodge his shots, triggering patrols as I tried to dodge him and only him as I closed the gap to rip him from his perch and perform unto him a beatdown of legendary proportions. Only once was he a threat - early on, when he actually succeeded in ambushing my entire team. It took everything (and a couple restarts) to keep him from absconding with an unfortunate squadmate.
But the Assassin? She WAS a threat. Charging in from the shadows to deliver an an almost always lethal strike. Devastating formations I thought diverse and spread with that damned wave attack. Making every damn action an overly-calculated risk - do I do this and expose myself to other threats, or do I pour everything into making sure this witch goes down? Do I use a grenade to expose cover? Is she close enough that a battle scanner will be the turning point? If I move here, will I attract her ire or will I make it out of this place alive? Is setting up this overwatch trap worth it? Is my sniper safe, or is she like a Seeker of yore - ignoring the squad to strike only the exposed and alone?
Sectopods come and go, Gatekeepers an entertaining distraction, the Hunter and Warlock mere noise in my ear. But the Assassin alone held my fear and respect.
I do agree at least on base game the Assassin is the deadliest of them all. One thing i do like about the PC version on Steam is how you can get mods to make the other's bigger threats. Not many mods tweak the Assassin because of how good her AI is. But in reality i do feel like the Warlock would be the strongest of the 3 Chosen considering what he specializes in. But these mods thankfully makes him either better or OP lol.
But man i do still love the Assassins character, honourable till the end.
Yeah, i just bought and started a campaign of wotc, just by seing the cinematic i knew.
That hot purple thing is the only threat, the sniper? Hes gonna be annoying but wimpy by the look of it. That psy guy? He just seems bigger than what he is, just like sectoid and archons.
Bear in mind that the strongest people are usually quiet, assassin for example are in most games the deadliest threat you can ever encounter. For reasons as you dont know where the person is, in and out of combat, wich in the end push way more pressure on your shoulder than some fat blind faith psy guy. When you know where your ennemy is, you can prevent, even snipers are usually previsible. But the assassin? Its the ultimate jack of all sneaky deadly in and out combat. Wich is one of the best tactic. I dunno why the psy guy should be the strongest since sectoid arent threat and the avatars wasnt as hard as i tought they would be.
You should try fighting her when she is immune to crits, like I do. She showed up on the mission type that you can't evac from, since it's under ground, and you only get the evac after getting the VIP.
But doing so causes reinforcements to drop in for 4 turns until the evac spawns. So I HAD to kill her before I triggered that part.
In that biome she has loads of places to hide, she had increased defense+missed shots gives shield, and crit immunity thanks to a mod I'm using. Holy living ballz what a sweaty mission that was.
Also, the warlock becomes a REALLY big threat with just a little tweaking to his AI. I've had missions where he was walking all over me like a boss.
I fucking love the Xcom modding community.
I had to evac from the warlcok once because he happened to have armor and regen and I didn't have any grenadier with shredder in that mission. He hid behind the crashed UFO summoming thralls and advent troops and I had the "Lost in every mission" dark event. There was too much shit in the field for me.
@@carljohan9265 Mine was immune to sword and can’t tigger Overwatch, and then she can randomly summon not only high soldiers, but freaking robot enemies.
Damn. Nothing beats a good boss theme. Love the choir half way through.
Out of the 3 chosen she is the deadliest and has the best theme and best interactions. They really did an amazing job with her, she's my favorite out of the 3
Charismatic personality, some character development, unique set of skills and a proper difficult level (i didnt play ironman, though). A villian that i love to hate and kill... and the only one who made feel me something in her last scene. Too bad they cant create a compelling boss like this one anymore (chimera squad bosses are regular enemies with different skin and thats it )
@C U Next Tuesday I agree Hunter is on par with Assassin, it was the Warlock that got the short end of the stick.
Yeah, she was my favorite out of the three honestly. Her mix of arrogance and subtle respect at facing a worthy opponent was really interesting. A shame you could pretty much one-hit her with a claymore every time she showed up.
I think that's your playthrough man. For me claymores don't do shit.
I like the sniper the most, his personality is the best for me and annoying at the same time. Warlock is just a dumbass. The assassin's probably the most difficult, but my sharpshooter can just gunslinger her in one turn lol.
I liked all of them, I love the assassin for the same reasons you do + she drops dem BEATZ BOI, I like the hunter because he's like a blend between arrogant and downright EVIL and I LOVE it, HE HUNTS HIS SUBORDINATES FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, and I like the warlock because the says when fighting him is just plain scary to me for some reason.
The warlock has the best monologue. Ar the end you are wondering why a third party transform warlock corpse into stone. Still she has the best carácter development.
the Witcher was the biggest asshole out of all, still remember him appearing at the most unfortunate times while i was actually struggling and then 'hope is lost' starts blarring perfectly underlining that you're in deep shit, always out of reach and his psionic abilitys gave me headaches, the hunter was fairly easy for me and the assassin was just really really annoying but warlock deserves to die in a forest fire
“Did you think you can hide in the shadows while I still walk among the living?”
God damn it! My recruits were sent! AAAHHHHHHHHHHH *Scream in insta kill and/or Lost abuse*
Did you want me to give you credit for the idea?
Epic, frenetic, and haunting as all hell.
I always like honorable enemies in games. The Assassin wishing you luck in retaking Earth hits hard.
So many have already fallen... Yet my work is never done!
Funnily enough, despite being alien, the assassin has several Japanese references:
-The sword is named katana
-The shotgun is named arashi (meaning storm)
-The bit of Japanese flute in her theme
-The fact that she commits seppuku in death cutscene
The Chosen were originally human, and then the elders grabbed them and start making genetic manipulation.
To me it is clear she was Japanese when she was human. Either that or the thing just liked it.
@@AnotherFancyUser so she might be a weeb?
Oh god no
@@musicexams5258Weebs From Space. The Elders' most terrifying invention.
out of the three chosen songs, this one is the most intense one
Scanning protocol! Battle scanners! Find that monster ASAP!
more like "THROW EVERYTHING"
"FINALLY! A TRUE CHALLENGE!"
*Starts lobbing grenades until Chosen dies*
"Where's the honour in this?!"
el presidente? ma sei quello dell acecom?
You know that Reapers have an ability that allows them to "mark" a target just by seeing it, and that any target "marked" by said reaper is permanently visible right?
This is my favorite track from the soundtrack, really set the tone for the mission! Especially if she charges at you with 1:25 in the background, so good.
The perfect counter to the Assassin is a Reaper with the skill that makes any unit spotted by a Reaper permanently spotted. Come to think of it, it's the perfect counter to any of the Chosen.
The warlock and Hunter just chase you close quarters regardless...so really only good on the assassin.
@@aeureus Yeah I laughed when the sniper-rifle-wielding Hunter, who had the Brittle weakness (extra melee damage received), decided to jump off his extremely high vantage point down to ground level right in front of my three melee characters. He died instantly.
@@heartoffire5902 it was at that moment that snipey Boi knew, he fucked up
@@heartoffire5902 "I'll take a new approach"
"NEVER FUCKING MIND WHAT WAS I THINKING"
The Assassin in my game gains shielding when avoiding attacks and teleports when shes hit. Please send help
Oh damn. That is not fun right there.
Ouch that sounds rough. My Assassin only really had 1 annoying ability which was immunity to Melee, made it a bitch when I encountered her with 2 rangers and a Templar :/
Wanna swap playthroughs? :3
@@Thomascus187 my mine as well but somehow she also has the one who get more dmg through shortrange attacks. So Rangers with rapid fire chew her like gum.
My Assasin is immune to melee (So bladestorm doesn't work) and she doesn't trigger overwatch. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to have her run in, slash someone and run out, every turn until she's dead, and not being able to do anything about it other than search for her on my turn?
when she appears you know that you are doomed and music starts playing 8:10
Am i the only one who enters in panic when this music starts to play when i am almost killing an specter or other strong enemy, like a avatar?
Well the Assassin is the most difficult out of the three and if you've installed the mod wrath of the chosen AI pack which btw give them 3 actions and a hyper intelligent AI which i have then I can rightfully say that you are not the only one. And idk about you but i fucking hate the Assassin.
I noticed that she does a seppuku in her defeated animation. It's a nice touch, it adds more to her character, considering she talked about honour every time I encountered her. So, alien Samurai?
She *does* wield a katana.
Nah, more like an Alien Shinobi
well. she was about to die anyway.
Know I'm like years away from these post (this is an awesome game) buy the seppuku really represents dying with honour and proving that you were innocent in your actions by taking your own life. So maybe the aliens are doing something to preserve earth. Just different mindsets between the aliens and humans
@@terrancestanford2446 I'd say that aliens are more like about preserving their own kind, that's the point of this game, the Elders are dying and they need humans to survive. But your point about dying with honour still stands, she died on duty and with clear conscience, if Aliens believe in it of course.
The warlock and the hunter gave me no trouble when it came to defeating them, but the assassin? The one I killed first? She was by far the scariest and the closest to failing I've been.
"So many have fallen, but yet my work is never done!"
“Assassin attacks and goes into overwatch” My Ranger with shadowstep: Okay, my turn
0:52 Best Part. So ominous
I swear to god it gives me halo vibes
A combo of a Reaper with Banish and Ranger with Double Tap and high hit chance (thank you Covert Missions for making some of my operatives OP), I was able to push back the Assassin in most cases. The missions where she caught me off guard were the ones where my top Reaper and Ranger were NOT in that mission.
A girl with guts and honour! I like that. But it's a shame you serve the Elders
I understood that reference.
I'LL FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LIGGGHHHHTTT!!!!!!
Paying respects to the Assassin on my recent playthrough. Would've kept her around longer but I met her late game and she had a LOT of perks that were a bitch to deal with. Like revealing my concealed units or *planeswalker.* Also this playthrough she wore a really awesome looking mask, so bonus kudos.
Soldiers getting rid of advent and aliens
Assassin is in the area
Soldier Tom Osis: WHY DO I HEAR BOSS MUSIC
XCOM: A melee character that's immune to Overwatch? Fine, I'll just shoot her after she's gotten a hit off.
Assassin: *Bending Reed*
"I'm fast as fuck boi"
Lol mine had that too. I had high movement Rangers and a Skirmisher though, so thankfully chasing her down wasn't too hard most of the time.
Now the real battle begins, Commander!
lifetime supply of ADVENT burgers says she was a human ranger before she got left for dead and uplifted
1:25 though...
Ugh. Second time I encountered the Assassin was near the beginning of the Alien Blacksite mission. In a very movie-trope-esque fashion, the bitch took out my medic first from full health, leaving him bleeding out. With a full medkit load of course. One other trooper had a medkit, but naturally it was already used. And since this was the Blacksite mission, I couldn't summon an evac. So my medic's gone, plus his upgraded weapon unless I wanted to haul his ass all the way through the Blacksite map, through enemy lines, to the prearranged evac point. I admit it, I rage-quit and replayed that mission from beginning.
Something more dramatic happend for me
My reaper got revealed by a faceless and the assassin stunned her. Since it was a reaper ofcourse she was far away from the rest of the team so she got captured while the assassin gave special dialogue about capturing a reaper
She and the self aware a.i are the best antagonists in xcom.
Self aware AI? you mean the brain on Cydonia? I have to replay the new xcoms.
@@AnotherFancyUser No, he's talking about Julian
"Oh boy i bet i can just take a vet and rookies and complete a simple escort mission"
*few turns later*
"oh boy now im surrounded by shitload of advent troopers and all but 1 rookie is dead along with the vet ,the escort and the rest is dead"
Commander Ironman run. I got lucky and researched inspired mag weapons and pred armor quickly. Immediately had reapers find her hidey hole and went in. So anyway I started blasting at everything that moved and soon enough I had her commiting sudoku while praying for our success.
She may be hard to deal with at times but I love how honorable she is.
My headcanon is she sneaks on board the avenger to leave any rangers you have a bottle of booze
-*huff* *huff* you... have fought well XCOM... Mayby you will reclaim this world... For your OWN.......
My fav xcom soundtrack
Awesome. I really like the ancient, arabian(?) esque motif it employs.
Provoking Perch yeah, especially from the start till about 0:33
It's Japanese. That flute at the start was a Japanese flute, and the Assassin wields an arashi, katana and wakazashi.
Arashi? That's the long-barreled mega shotgun that the Assassin uses (and you do too later).
Dammit, I knew I spelt it wrong and by that time I couldn't find this comment again.
It seems more like Asian-japanese samurai or ninja esque.
bro brought a sword to a gunfight
Just got done with researching her katana and shotgun, and by god, these are probably the best weapons I've seen in the entire game. Not only is their damage obscenely high, they're also extremely reliable to use and come with plenty of additional bonuses to your own soldier.
The Hunter's Sniper is probably the best weapon of the chosen.
Needs only one action to fire and has four attachments, and free reloads. Perfect for eliminating entire pods.
Yeah the katana is wonderful for using the Ranger's Reaper ability. The damage is so high that it still one-shots a lot of undamaged enemies despite the stacking damage self-debuff.
Rapid fire rangers with the arashi and bluescreen rounds *delete* sectopods
I took at her first time in long war yesterday.
She slew 3 of my hideout guys and grievly injured 2 operatives (with help of alien fodder) .
That's the best outcome i've came to. Thrilling. Shit, i don't want to cross chosen ones in longwar again, and it's feels awesome.
Fighting against her pointless if you dont have reaper. She wrecks you hard at the begining.
@@timm1729 well i didn't choose to fight her). Btw i wrecked her later with reaper. She actualy were easiest of 3 after all my playthrough, even tho she got that trait which stacks up armor if i miss on her. She can be kited all around map without any troubles. Warlock always had burned my guys to the crisp, so they out for like a month (then i assaulted his fortress i took vests and wipe the floor on him). and Hunter was just strait unfair (point-blank shots from pistol, then sniper shot, then repos after every good shot i got on him), my luck i've met him once before the fortress.
I always hunted her first. The most threatening of the three Chosen.
Weird how in at least 300 hours she didn't pull out her shotgun even once
When I use mods, my ideal rival to the Assassin is Genji from Overwatch. Chosen Assassin vs Cyborg Ninja is just too awesome for words.
*OR SAMURAI JACK*
Assassin: *gets revealed by a ranger*
The rest of my squad: *AWAKEN INTENSIFIES*
my assasin role has shell-shocked in it..all it takes is one claymore from my reaper lol
Mine was grenade resistant :D
My favorite ost! Sadly, she was the first one to go in my playthrough ;-;
Shawnlings like most things, there’s a mod for that that restrict chosen stronghold missions to later on in the story missions (ie you need to finish the ADVENT forge mission to locate the stronghold)
MinneIceCube As tempting as that sounds, I'd rather take the Chosen out before they get the opportunity to shoot down the Avenger.
i will have to agree with all the comments
the psi warlock, haven't met him in combat yet
the hunter, yeah he is definitely annoying
the assassin, yes is actually a huge threat, she is always invisible and you don't know where she will be
on top of that when she does get out of invisibility she delivers a devastating blow to her target, stunning and severely damaging them
plus having shadow-step makes your traps for her coming in completely useless, and after her strike, just like the templars melee strike, show gets an extra movement action and gets away into cover
despite being so powerful as she is, her personality, personally, even on the enemy team, she respects her opponent (us) and even gives compliments in such wise words, even tho she adds in the part where she is going to kill your soldiers and capture you. even respects and compliments our actions to helping our comrades. unlike the hunter, she has honor and respect in both combat and to our being itself.
if i had to lose to the enemy, specifically to one of the chosen, it would be the assassin.
POV : You lost the mission
Scariest looking in the trio imo. I like her design honestly(Not because of the katana). Her face looks intimidating and soundtrack is also my favorite and you know, she's the cover girl.
'now you're FXXX'ED, XCOM!!!'
if you encounter with AVATAR PROJECT's ON COUNTDOWN, you will be really hate this xxit.
CRANASHANT Good news, that you probably know two years later, mission timers pause while Chosen are active.
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The most interesting of the Chosen as her dialogue occasionaly shows she seems to somewhat care for humanity, and she even hopes that you reclaim Earth from the Elders upon defeating her.
In addition if you kill on of her siblings first the Elder states she feels emptiness. Implying that she mourns or feels some sense of loss. Whereas the other two feel arrogance or satisfaction at the loss of their sister.
Assassin: *Appears*
The Reaper and Sharpshooter:
*_20 DAMAGE CLAYMORE_*
This theme song was epic, made my TF2 Squad (yes I actually tried to make the mercs in XCOM) looks even cooler as they fought The Assassin.
Battle Logs on how Team Fortress 2 took down The Assassin:
- Soldier and Demo once blew her entire cover down and Heavy then mowed her down with Chain Shot. (If god had wanted you to live, he would not have created me!) (Ka-boom!) (Yatatatatatata- kaboom! kaboom!)
- Scout managed to outrun her as he chased her and took her down with a Storm Gun critical hit. (I'm runnin' circles around you!)
- Spy while concealed grappled in just behind The Assassin and took her down with a sword slash (Sorry to pop in unannounced)
My assassin rolled vulnerable to explosions...
Hmmm, Reaper claymores :D
When your soldiers call out Overwatch while this song is playing in the background is pretty epic; to rely on shotguns and melee to make a direct or critical hit and reveal her position with grenades or rocket launchers...
Assassin's honestly probably the hardest of the Chosen to face off against. You've gotta chase her out of wherever she goes and outside of a 1v1 that's really difficult.
Warlock meanwhile is almost completely useless if you give your units Mind Shields, and Hunter kinda just forces your Sniper to dash between corners of the building you have them on all mission.
TigerKirby215 She is the only chosen with guaranteed damage as their primary attack.
TigerKirby215 I got lucky with Assassin she was shell shocked and I had a reaper that marks her targets so as long as I had explosives and a reaper she was no threat
Of the three siblings she is the "nicest" one, at least. Conceding defeat when finally brought down and wishing you fortune in reclaiming your world. The sniper is the slightly less hostile one, though he will still just as happily kill you as both others. The Warlock is just.. batshit crazy.
Out of all the three I still hate the Assassin the most though. Unless you get a free camera move revealing where she stopped before reaching you, you have to wait or just guess that she reaches you in two-ish moves and use the scanner in the direction she came from. Many times, of course, this is not the case and she wanders aimlessly around and can take a dozen rounds to reach you - has happened to me MANY times. Though I have played this game for 560 hours. All in attempts to make it through a game without losing a single soldier on hardest difficulty ironman. Multiple times reached the end mission but failing at the very end.
instant favourite
I think the assassin's armour gets upgraded by late game. because the assassin in my game wears a weird plated face mask i havent seen yet lol
It ranks with the base Advent. When they get upgrades, she does too.
Ah yes little miss “Fuck your Overwatch now you have a sword in your intestines”
"DAMMIT STOP GETTING CHEAP KNOCKOUTS ON MY BOYS THIS IS WHY I ALWAYS KILL YOU FIRST" -players comparing the chosen with another
TIRED OF WAITIN AROUND!
Can't wait.
>Playing Long war of the chosen
>So far so good, I have the complete asian bonus and managed to rush magnetic weapons, and the avatar project isn't even started
>the chosen start harassing me
>"noisy vermin, give me AP so I can be even more OP"
>I take one beating after the other, and they're only becoming stronger
>Finally I found myself in a lost mission that also has the assassin appearing, she's now 50% resistant to melee, drains health, is vulnerable to explosives and the marauder that could kick her ass is elsewhere.
>There is no headshot bonus with the lost, so I can actually get mauled to death if I use explosives.
You know, it feels refreshing considering your missions with thoughts like "I should call the skyranger right here, so I can escape as soon as the objective is complete, before the team is butchered"
Imagine if your best soldier bobbed and weaved through the fucking hellscape that is a Chosen fight, especially when you fight them for the last time, making HISTORY!
and then they get fucking rekt by a God Damn lost or trooper.
When her "Sword" is bigger than yours :O
The only reason why she has a gun is in case she gets any abilities that can proc her to do a reaction shot
Just played War of the Chosen. I loved it.
Xcom people borrowed some mechanics from Darkest Dungeon and Shadow of Mordor.
And they executed it perfectly and so professionally.
At around 10 seconds-ish, why do I think I hear an airhorn
Thanks for the upload , hope u get the views for your hard work mate
I hear this with any of the damn chosen i swear. Game threw Made Whole down my throat and i am suffering
makes me wonder. what if. what if there is a system where you could spare the chosens and save them. or just dont kill them and finish the golden path mission. wouldnt it be col if we could just liberate the chosen from the grasp of the elders?
Loved her character, but hated fighting her to death.
I almost uninstalled WotC because of my first fight with her, I was thinking something like, "Oh my gosh, are all three of them going to be this hard!?"
Thankfully I found Hunter and Warlock easier to deal with, but, still.
Every time i hear this tune... I could ezpz see myself on Advent side... I mean.... Top1 wotc song
Hate her most of them!
I can understand Warlock blind zeal eveb admire it, Hunter is cool and straight psycho, but honor bitch please...
Me: Ummm assassin is quite hard.
Me with hunter: Oh no hunter's here... Let's retreat out of line of site.
When you get sapped.
EDGELORD ACTION!
Squaddie Jenkins died like a bitch!
"I'm telling you, kids, it was a pretty rough fight. First we had to get through the building, filled with Advent soldiers and Aliens. Freaking viper almost got me there. Good thing we brought our Spark unit with us. That thing is literally unstopable, it always saves our asses in a fight. Than we got to fight a Chosen. Again. That bitch just wouldn't die! But it went down eventually. Once more. Thanks to the Reaper and her claymores"
Dance With The Chosen!
when she has the retaliation strength you better hope you don't miss at close range
CLOSE RANGE!?
Kinda disappointed that the base AI never uses the shotgun she has
I've mostly only seen her ever use it if she gets that retaliation ability roll. That thing hurts.
Endboss musik
Hunker down and wait for it
Hunker down doesn't do shit against her, her sword dmg can't be mitigated
It would have been amazing if the chosen assassin actually deflected overwatch bullets with her sword, while she's running at you.
Lets be honest the Warlock may as well be an old cripple when you have a mind-shielded ranger, and for The Hunter is vulnerable to out positioning from classes with high speed or a grappling hook. But every time I face the assassin it feels like fighting unbeatable opponent that you just barely beaten with your team after each was beaten to a pulp
She's the first Chosen I ever faced, and it was a legitimately terrifying experience. Also very exciting though.
Monster hunter vibe
Sound like the halo theme to me.
Slash takes out half her health
Fighting her was scary, but I loved it. The mind-dude was annoying. The Hunter was probably the easiest to deal with.
how come noone claims this is the XCOM waifu? ...She truly is a waifu, dont blame me
Yes that is a good waifu. But the viper is my waifu.
I disagree the true waifu is SPARK-001
Dude i can't believe that you are right
omfg... so recently i started playing XCOM 2 with mods n stuff, kinda put to much on my side that felt cheating so i added new enemy types n shit... STILL had a hard time even rarely seeing these guys. but my lord! the assassin was annoying as hell but still fun as hell and that theme kept me up and about just waiting for her to just naruto dash one of my characters and insta daze them and run off again. But the moments when i finnaly found her and made her eat shotgun lead due to her brittle weakness was like heaven! of course then i had to fight the fucking mecs or berzerkers in the damn map.
Edit: if your also wanna know what mod characters i added to fight? Resident evil Nemisis is one of them! he changes as the game progresses from his entire body suit into it falling apart and revealing his face and pulling out stronger weapons! so far i am fighting him with a damn flame thrower.
I swear I’ve heard this in another game
hot gurl
She a butterface.
@@sentinel8758 I agree now ^^