You know, I think I actually figured out Adrenaline Rush by the end of the campaign but the wording really confused me and made me think it wasn't working so I often ignored it.
For two guys who are at times borderline stoics, their reactions and commentary lets us know how cranked up the difficulty is due to the added new enemy abilities and health pools. Good series from both channels.
You forgot to assign the engineer you got from the mission! Also, I believe the missions you get don't instantly disappear if you ignore them, they stay for 24 hours or so. So it's totally possible to wait for an hour to get the reaper healthy. In fact he might get healthy in the time it takes you to fly there.
Some of the modded enemies feel cheapish. Ethereal ignoring mind shield, the enemy skirmisher getting a cheap pull on reveal turn, those raptors from previous mission getting 3 shots a turn. And it's probably even a bit tougher for you than for Syken, as it's the first time for you with these new soldiers, so you're not used to their new abilities like using adrenaline rush for a free heal.
The ethereal is hard core! That said, Syken had played with them before and he was the one who added that mod to the list for this campaign so don't feel too sorry for him!
Rao: "Guys! The Andromadon is coming straight at me! What do I do!" Yamada: "Don't Panic, remember he's got a mean right hook so you gotta Dodge LEFT" *Andromadon approaches and prepares to swing* Rao: "Got it, Dodge his Left" Yamada: "No wait-" *Andromadon punches Rao thru a wall* Yamada: "Your other Left" *Rao groans* Yamada: "Oh that's gotta hurt, you still alive?" Rao: "The wall broke my fall" Yamada: "You think we could dodge it just once" Seriously tho that's the second Andromadon to punch out guys, they always miss on my campaigns, I don't know why our luck is so bad
I had a bad experience yesterday against the warlock. I picked my squad for an extraction mission, went to bed, woke up and sent the squad out forgetting to equip them. Such very sloppy mission planning from me. Their generic weapons were only good enough to get them all alive to the extraction zone. I uncovered the last 2 pods at the same time (2 archons, 2 mutons, an elite officer) with 4 rounds on the timer, confronted the warlock on the last turn when some of my team 2 turns away from the extraction. I hurt the warlock enough for him to go into spectral army mode twice while my shitty squad limped their way to the exit, tanking the spectral stun lancers with nobody able to remote revive and heavy MECs. It was a damn close call and any chance to kill the warlock was likely to have meant leaving soldiers behind as he was very far from the zone and I even forgot to bring grenade launchers to the mission.
That's brutal, I feel your pain... but at least you kept your head and got your squad out alive. That's the single most important goal in any mission as far as I'm concerned.
Wow, with the mods it is becoming more and more difficult to say the least. Syken in #36 had an enemy (I forget which type) that was able to fire 3 times in their turn!!!
Man, the animation for those shots completely fooled me into thinking he was so much farther away than he actually was. I could have gone up there way sooner!
Looks kinda like you had a greater need to soften up the enemy and less effort on killing them. This is, what, 4 missions in a row that put you thru a new and previously unsuspected wringer? Respect for your patience. Good vid
@@wurstebub My bad, I missed the word "free" in your comment. So I read "please use heal..." and basically thought "did you watch the damned video, what the hell?" I get it now! The bad news is that I had no idea that such an ability even existed so don't expect to see me using it. 😢
Very seldom. Our hacking skill sucks. The best I could hope for, even with the blue round bonus, would be a one-turn shutdown. I'd rather just get the kill in that situation rather than spending an action on the hack that's only serving to put off the action I still need to take... shooting the thing. Obviously, if you just have too many enemies to deal with, then the shutdown hack can become more of a necessary evil.
You've probably realized by now the marksman, Jessica Hughes, has an ability that gives them concealment even if the squad has none. That is until she takes an action. In this case, when she deployed the mimic beacon. I think you missed out by not moving her to high ground on the building where you had the VIP. This may have given you eyes on the Spectre. Also, Bradford said you had no concealment at the beginning of the mission. I'll give you a pass on that, as I think you've mentally turned him out, owing to his garrulous nature. 19:12 "I think what I need to do here. First, get out of the path of death and I'm not going to try and hack this guy. Our chances just aren't good enough." You proceed to shoot the mech with blue screen rounds, get an onscreen notification that the mech's hack defense is decreased and don't follow up to determine how much your probability to hack had increased. You killed the mech, so I'll call it six to one, half-dozen to another. Congratulation on the Talon rounds, I know you've been looking forward to that. Considering the increased difficulty you two are facing with the Better Advent mod, kudos on your performance. Frustrating as it is to take wounds both of you have avoided your soldiers being killed. Well, except Syken and that was very early in the campaign with a squaddie.
It's not just that I tune out Bradford. I have the sound from the game way down while I record and it's hard to hear him even if I'm trying... which I'm not. Regarding the hack, I'm not all that big a fan of using an action to shut down MECs unless I feel like I really need that 1-turn boost. Otherwise, I'm just putting off the action I really need to take, which is shooting the thing to put it down for good. So once I decided I didn't want to go for the hack, I didn't care enough to revisit the issue, I just wanted to get the job of killing it done.
Wow, this is a hard campaign. Syken fought three pods at the same time on his last mission. Did you forget about the Guerilla Ops scanning site or did you leave it on purpose because there were too many wounded and tired soldiers? Maybe you should remind Syken if you want to do the mission in your next video, because he overlooked it completely.
I didn't forget the Guerilla Ops scan, I didn't want to do it. Honestly, we've had so many wounds and tired soldiers that taking on more missions right now didn't seem optimal.
You know it's going to be one of those missions when a couple of turns in you're like "this might be a mimic beacon turn..." 😁
Lol, you're right that really is a good indicator of how things are going.
Hey Tap if you adrenaline rush before you heal the healing is a free action! The more you know!
Right on!
You know, I think I actually figured out Adrenaline Rush by the end of the campaign but the wording really confused me and made me think it wasn't working so I often ignored it.
For two guys who are at times borderline stoics, their reactions and commentary lets us know how cranked up the difficulty is due to the added new enemy abilities and health pools. Good series from both channels.
"I am JUST gonna soften him up"... BOOOOM😂
" I'll just soften him up." KABOOOOM. Love it!
The specter with the most health is known as the "Phil Spector", a highly volatile and murderous creation that is extremely dangerous.
Ouch!
Oof that initial pod reveal…I know that feeling😂
My goodness that first reveal: pod after pod after pod. Harrowing!
For real!
At 17:32 and 17:44 you can actually see the Spectre. If the game doesn't play by the book with you, you don't have to either😊
You forgot to assign the engineer you got from the mission! Also, I believe the missions you get don't instantly disappear if you ignore them, they stay for 24 hours or so. So it's totally possible to wait for an hour to get the reaper healthy. In fact he might get healthy in the time it takes you to fly there.
Some of the modded enemies feel cheapish. Ethereal ignoring mind shield, the enemy skirmisher getting a cheap pull on reveal turn, those raptors from previous mission getting 3 shots a turn. And it's probably even a bit tougher for you than for Syken, as it's the first time for you with these new soldiers, so you're not used to their new abilities like using adrenaline rush for a free heal.
The ethereal is hard core! That said, Syken had played with them before and he was the one who added that mod to the list for this campaign so don't feel too sorry for him!
Rao: "Guys! The Andromadon is coming straight at me! What do I do!"
Yamada: "Don't Panic, remember he's got a mean right hook so you gotta Dodge LEFT"
*Andromadon approaches and prepares to swing*
Rao: "Got it, Dodge his Left"
Yamada: "No wait-"
*Andromadon punches Rao thru a wall*
Yamada: "Your other Left"
*Rao groans*
Yamada: "Oh that's gotta hurt, you still alive?"
Rao: "The wall broke my fall"
Yamada: "You think we could dodge it just once"
Seriously tho that's the second Andromadon to punch out guys, they always miss on my campaigns, I don't know why our luck is so bad
I often have them miss too, I guess my RNG bill with them came due in this campaign.
I had a bad experience yesterday against the warlock. I picked my squad for an extraction mission, went to bed, woke up and sent the squad out forgetting to equip them. Such very sloppy mission planning from me. Their generic weapons were only good enough to get them all alive to the extraction zone. I uncovered the last 2 pods at the same time (2 archons, 2 mutons, an elite officer) with 4 rounds on the timer, confronted the warlock on the last turn when some of my team 2 turns away from the extraction. I hurt the warlock enough for him to go into spectral army mode twice while my shitty squad limped their way to the exit, tanking the spectral stun lancers with nobody able to remote revive and heavy MECs. It was a damn close call and any chance to kill the warlock was likely to have meant leaving soldiers behind as he was very far from the zone and I even forgot to bring grenade launchers to the mission.
That's brutal, I feel your pain... but at least you kept your head and got your squad out alive. That's the single most important goal in any mission as far as I'm concerned.
Those are missions that we love it to hate! Thanks TapCat!
Great mission!!
Wow, with the mods it is becoming more and more difficult to say the least. Syken in #36 had an enemy (I forget which type) that was able to fire 3 times in their turn!!!
There were some relatively tough new enemies earlier in the campaign but you're right, it's really getting nasty now!
The spectre is on the rooooooooooooof! 😅
Man, the animation for those shots completely fooled me into thinking he was so much farther away than he actually was. I could have gone up there way sooner!
Looks kinda like you had a greater need to soften up the enemy and less effort on killing them. This is, what, 4 missions in a row that put you thru a new and previously unsuspected wringer? Respect for your patience. Good vid
We've had a rough stretch, no doubt about that!
Throw an auto loader on the reaper so you can be sure and take full advantage of banish opportunities when they present.
Expanded magazine will give us 7 shots for banish, I'd much rather have that than a guaranteed 3 shots.
pls use the free heal ability of your healers
I used the hell out of it in this mission.
i dindnt mentioned that you didnt healed. there is a free action in the skilltree. It could save you one action wich is nice@@TapCat
@@wurstebub My bad, I missed the word "free" in your comment. So I read "please use heal..." and basically thought "did you watch the damned video, what the hell?" I get it now!
The bad news is that I had no idea that such an ability even existed so don't expect to see me using it. 😢
Do you ever shoot a mech and then check your hack chance? To use it as a mimic beacon?
Very seldom. Our hacking skill sucks. The best I could hope for, even with the blue round bonus, would be a one-turn shutdown. I'd rather just get the kill in that situation rather than spending an action on the hack that's only serving to put off the action I still need to take... shooting the thing. Obviously, if you just have too many enemies to deal with, then the shutdown hack can become more of a necessary evil.
You've probably realized by now the marksman, Jessica Hughes, has an ability that gives them concealment even if the squad has none. That is until she takes an action. In this case, when she deployed the mimic beacon. I think you missed out by not moving her to high ground on the building where you had the VIP. This may have given you eyes on the Spectre. Also, Bradford said you had no concealment at the beginning of the mission. I'll give you a pass on that, as I think you've mentally turned him out, owing to his garrulous nature.
19:12 "I think what I need to do here. First, get out of the path of death and I'm not going to try and hack this guy. Our chances just aren't good enough." You proceed to shoot the mech with blue screen rounds, get an onscreen notification that the mech's hack defense is decreased and don't follow up to determine how much your probability to hack had increased. You killed the mech, so I'll call it six to one, half-dozen to another.
Congratulation on the Talon rounds, I know you've been looking forward to that. Considering the increased difficulty you two are facing with the Better Advent mod, kudos on your performance. Frustrating as it is to take wounds both of you have avoided your soldiers being killed. Well, except Syken and that was very early in the campaign with a squaddie.
It's not just that I tune out Bradford. I have the sound from the game way down while I record and it's hard to hear him even if I'm trying... which I'm not.
Regarding the hack, I'm not all that big a fan of using an action to shut down MECs unless I feel like I really need that 1-turn boost. Otherwise, I'm just putting off the action I really need to take, which is shooting the thing to put it down for good. So once I decided I didn't want to go for the hack, I didn't care enough to revisit the issue, I just wanted to get the job of killing it done.
Wow, this is a hard campaign. Syken fought three pods at the same time on his last mission.
Did you forget about the Guerilla Ops scanning site or did you leave it on purpose because there were too many wounded and tired soldiers? Maybe you should remind Syken if you want to do the mission in your next video, because he overlooked it completely.
I didn't forget the Guerilla Ops scan, I didn't want to do it. Honestly, we've had so many wounds and tired soldiers that taking on more missions right now didn't seem optimal.