It wouldn't be an Odd mission without some kind of own goal! ;) I have to say though, overall, this was a really efficient/proficient mission. Nicely done!
That was such an easy stronghold lol I think Oscuridad took out three enemies by herself at one point. Her build is really broken. I'd have laughed if that Ray of Life healed the Assassin.
Yes! Finally, we get to see what kind of trouble the mod team can get the Commander into :D ... Methinks the team did not expect the Commander to wait until episode 130 to get here :/
--- WotC Season 9 Scoreboard #23 (through Ep. 130) --- The Assassin may have been born in the shadows, but she was no match for the true Daughter of the Darkness. Dacnis "Knightfather" Joyeuse’s seemingly insurmountable 20-kill lead from 15 episodes ago has vanished, with Ines "Hija de la Oscuridad" Contreras putting up an astonishing 36 kills over her last two missions to surge into the lead at 118. "Hija de la Oscuridad" also put up 732 damage across those same two missions, setting the single-mission damage record twice in a row and culminating with 432 in the Assassin’s Stronghold. This puts her at 2462 Total Damage, nearly 450 ahead of second place, where John "Old Man" Smith became the second soldier of the season to break 2000 damage. "Hija de la Oscuridad" also finally dethroned her bondmate for most hits (246) to go along with the title for most shots (302), though her roster-worst EAS continued to tumble to -6.49, just barely beating out Future Gift Farms "Cybernetic" Hitman (-6.43) in the race to the bottom. In the Accuracy column, some new faces have appeared at both extremes. Iolani "Kia'i" Kainoa managed to reach the exact minimum number of shots for eligibility on this scoreboard, allowing her 92.31% to snatch the top spot away from Blanka "Duchess" Meszaros…at least until tomorrow. At the other end, Future Gift Farms "Cybernetic" Hitman has also just barely moved past the eligibility threshold, allowing his 67.65% to finally relieve Halx "Caerbannog" Xakkes of the basement. Blanka "Duchess" Meszaros retains the lead for KPM (4.94) as does Lyusa "Snow Queen" Kuznetsov for DPM (105.33), although "Hija de la Oscuridad"’s charge and a lack of prime missions for themselves may soon endanger their titles. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MEfLH7i1aA_s64smLJQLgOz3yULjJem-HfnwObtMqME/edit?usp=sharing
That felt incredibly easy. Felt like in WOTC 2022 playthrough stronghold chambers would have like 8+ enemies all spawn at the same time. It wouldn't matter because that was the OP sparks season but yeah this one looked toned down.
When I used your modlist I always got the Chosen spawning in the Ascension Chamber together with a whole bunch of enemies. And the first group spawning in the final chamber after triggering the Chosen was always three full pods. That made these mission quite tough, not to say campaign-ending. I take it you've had some adjustments made, thankfully.
i say the adjustments took away from this, i was so looking forward to a really long chosen mission where things got really harry. Instead it seemed very bare bones and he crushed it
About the overwatches not happening around 58:30, typically a unit can't go into overwatch when on fire. Despite the icon showing up, the game still considered the overwatch unavailable because Oscuridad was burning. As for why nobody shot the Assassin when she appeared in the middle of the group, she was just revealed, she didn't move.
"Generally, Commander, it is unwise to group up against a Chosen let alone the Assassin but you decided to take it one step further. After grouping up you proceeded to sing Kumbaya around a fire with the Chosen and then attempted to heal said Chosen. Let me be perfectly clear Commander there shall be no negotiation or peace with the Chosen or the Elders under any circumstances. Congratulations on a mission well completed with little damage to personnel and the death of one of the Chosen but from now on please remember we will be watching you." -A former council member.
26:38 Imagine you Start the mission with an Advent enemy running away from you to activate a Stronghold ALARM that wake up all those Mechs if you fail to kill him fast, like the find & kill commander missions, but instead of escaping he just makes the mission harder LOL
As a viewer the most difficult part of this mission is trying to not be too annoyed by the Assassin's dialogues, lol! Jokes asides, this was absolutely awesome!!! Lots of thanks for each episode of this amazing series, I'm so hyped by the fact that we're getting into the more epic encounters here!!!!! 😁
After playing through with the Season 8 mod list this was super tame. The stronghold mod in that pack was a bit too much but this was way too little lol. Maybe up the challenge before the next two?
Obligatory "That was Ray of Life, not Null Lance Commander!" comment. I too think that was not challenging enough. No one is accusing Obsuridad or Caerbannog of being OP when a Legate or Mechapede stomps in (though im not actually suggesting either of them be allowed in the final chamber). A requium Andromedon or two, a handful of specters, some mechtoids, a gatekeeper, armoured Beserkers, that Viper that counters Snipers, any of those would have had a significant imapct on your mission if they had spawned in rather than things like a rocketeer. Additionally, in the field we saw Prelate summon in multiple requium Archons, but in here she got 4 basic priests, maybe its luck, maybe the stronghold changed what she could spawn.
Cyclic fire is a clutch ability for sure!!! So many times the combo of him, carebear doing 20 dmg on average per shot and then you got obscuridaddy doing her thing shooting 100 times a turn and cybernetic disabling or controlling everything else. Just God dang!!!
Maybe slightly over prepared for this one and not nearly as hard as I thought it would be, look forward to seeing some real challenges to come hopefully
If you're going to buff the chambers, I recommend increasing the quality of the enemies before you increase the quantity. A billion little enemies will just be annoying to watch. Harder enemies will still increase the difficulty but keep the number of threats in the range where it's easy for viewers to mentally categorize them.
I don't know .. I played season 8 modlist and strongholds were hell on earth. Not just the final chamber, the continue reinforcements in the prev area too. This looked kinda disappointing but hey, Assassin's gone for good
Compared to the last Season this Chosen Chamber was kind of underwhelming. I don't think Populated Chosen Chambers was working properly or at all. The first reinforcement pod contained an Advanced Rocketeer and a Codex. This is my personal observation, as i played this game for hundreds of hours, with your modlists aswell. Thank you for making these playthroughs!
that mission got nerfed. it's missing 3 or 4 pods that would come in before you enter the chamber and you had to kill the assassin there the first time and then a second time in the chamber! that was a month or 2 ago
Finally!! The Assassin has been a pain in the neck throughout the campaign, especially levels 3 and 4. We're finally rid of her. All the good guys and girls who died for her and her summons have been avenged. The Warlock is still missing. And the Hunter is now huntable, but I still think the latter is the least dangerous of the 3.
You know, I was just thinking that based on vanilla XCOM2 - WotC alone, which I happened to replay a while ago. I didn't see a ton of modifications having been done to the chosen based on this episode, but could they mod the Hunter to be a bit more of a menace?
@jussikout1n I don't know about modding, but in this campaign with mods the Chosen were very broken. The Warlock kept spamming enemies while putting up a barrier that made him invulnerable to all damage as long as the summoned enemies were not eliminated, hiding and then casting psionic powers. The Assassin moved a lot, did a lot of damage, regenerated by doing damage, also spammed enemies and also hid after attacking. In itself their base skills are not the problem but the mods made the Chosen do a lot more damage and on top of that they spam enemies from the mods which are also a nightmare for low level units. They had to nerf them since they had killed several soldiers due to how abusive the damage ratios were. The Hunter in my opinion is the weakest but also in the last tiers he also did a lot of damage if he shot, but obviously nobody moves or they move immediately, and he also summons wild units but not as strong. I think the hunter can get stronger, but that depends on how long Odds left him alive in the remaining campaign.
No to populated chosen chambers, you are already having enough trouble as it is, if there would be one aditional soldier every reinforcement wave you would be hard pressed.
I think we should just forget about that ray of light usage on the chosen thinking it was a null lance or searing lance
haha
Yeah, I was wondering why he is trying to heal the chosen as well I thought he is gona heal the shield bearer.
It was "free" though
It wouldn't be an Odd mission without some kind of own goal! ;) I have to say though, overall, this was a really efficient/proficient mission. Nicely done!
It's just a shame the chosen was full heatlh, imagine how adorably confused Odd would be, had he actually healed the assassin.
DISPATCHER: Muton 911, please state your emergency
MUTON ELUE: There are armed insurgents in my bedroom. One of them is wearing devil horns.
Assassin's Shotgun for Duchess!!! Let's go baby ~
Bam, baby!💥💥
1:16:51 Boss that's uh... that's psionic line beam that heals 😅
I see you're trying the Psionic Equivalent of the healing truncheon there - trying to Ray of Life the Chosen to death. @1:16:50
Big win, Commander!
I expected it to be way harder, yet you crushed it!
That was such an easy stronghold lol I think Oscuridad took out three enemies by herself at one point. Her build is really broken.
I'd have laughed if that Ray of Life healed the Assassin.
XCOM felt bad about destroying assasind healing thingy so they tried to recompensate the losses a bit. Commander is a true gentleman.
All that prep paid off
Yes! Finally, we get to see what kind of trouble the mod team can get the Commander into :D
...
Methinks the team did not expect the Commander to wait until episode 130 to get here :/
--- WotC Season 9 Scoreboard #23 (through Ep. 130) ---
The Assassin may have been born in the shadows, but she was no match for the true Daughter of the Darkness. Dacnis "Knightfather" Joyeuse’s seemingly insurmountable 20-kill lead from 15 episodes ago has vanished, with Ines "Hija de la Oscuridad" Contreras putting up an astonishing 36 kills over her last two missions to surge into the lead at 118. "Hija de la Oscuridad" also put up 732 damage across those same two missions, setting the single-mission damage record twice in a row and culminating with 432 in the Assassin’s Stronghold. This puts her at 2462 Total Damage, nearly 450 ahead of second place, where John "Old Man" Smith became the second soldier of the season to break 2000 damage. "Hija de la Oscuridad" also finally dethroned her bondmate for most hits (246) to go along with the title for most shots (302), though her roster-worst EAS continued to tumble to -6.49, just barely beating out Future Gift Farms "Cybernetic" Hitman (-6.43) in the race to the bottom. In the Accuracy column, some new faces have appeared at both extremes. Iolani "Kia'i" Kainoa managed to reach the exact minimum number of shots for eligibility on this scoreboard, allowing her 92.31% to snatch the top spot away from Blanka "Duchess" Meszaros…at least until tomorrow. At the other end, Future Gift Farms "Cybernetic" Hitman has also just barely moved past the eligibility threshold, allowing his 67.65% to finally relieve Halx "Caerbannog" Xakkes of the basement. Blanka "Duchess" Meszaros retains the lead for KPM (4.94) as does Lyusa "Snow Queen" Kuznetsov for DPM (105.33), although "Hija de la Oscuridad"’s charge and a lack of prime missions for themselves may soon endanger their titles.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MEfLH7i1aA_s64smLJQLgOz3yULjJem-HfnwObtMqME/edit?usp=sharing
I think by looting more we can help our meld game.. *leaves loot behind*
That felt incredibly easy. Felt like in WOTC 2022 playthrough stronghold chambers would have like 8+ enemies all spawn at the same time. It wouldn't matter because that was the OP sparks season but yeah this one looked toned down.
Yeah felt very lackluster.
mimic beacons can really help with controlling the effects of reactions
I think he's not using those on purpose to avoid it being too easy.
When I used your modlist I always got the Chosen spawning in the Ascension Chamber together with a whole bunch of enemies. And the first group spawning in the final chamber after triggering the Chosen was always three full pods. That made these mission quite tough, not to say campaign-ending. I take it you've had some adjustments made, thankfully.
i say the adjustments took away from this, i was so looking forward to a really long chosen mission where things got really harry. Instead it seemed very bare bones and he crushed it
About the overwatches not happening around 58:30, typically a unit can't go into overwatch when on fire. Despite the icon showing up, the game still considered the overwatch unavailable because Oscuridad was burning. As for why nobody shot the Assassin when she appeared in the middle of the group, she was just revealed, she didn't move.
"Generally, Commander, it is unwise to group up against a Chosen let alone the Assassin but you decided to take it one step further. After grouping up you proceeded to sing Kumbaya around a fire with the Chosen and then attempted to heal said Chosen. Let me be perfectly clear Commander there shall be no negotiation or peace with the Chosen or the Elders under any circumstances. Congratulations on a mission well completed with little damage to personnel and the death of one of the Chosen but from now on please remember we will be watching you."
-A former council member.
22:22 what the heck is this room, assassin?!? i know you are cool with murdering people but why is their mood lighting and beds?
And skeletons...
And vending machines selling what I can only assume is alien amphetamines and viagra...
And condoms. Don't forget the condoms
Death by snu-snu?
26:38 Imagine you Start the mission with an Advent enemy running away from you to activate a Stronghold ALARM that wake up all those Mechs if you fail to kill him fast, like the find & kill commander missions, but instead of escaping he just makes the mission harder LOL
As a viewer the most difficult part of this mission is trying to not be too annoyed by the Assassin's dialogues, lol! Jokes asides, this was absolutely awesome!!! Lots of thanks for each episode of this amazing series, I'm so hyped by the fact that we're getting into the more epic encounters here!!!!! 😁
1:18:25
"she has really good chances here!"
- misses everything
After playing through with the Season 8 mod list this was super tame. The stronghold mod in that pack was a bit too much but this was way too little lol. Maybe up the challenge before the next two?
Obligatory "That was Ray of Life, not Null Lance Commander!" comment.
I too think that was not challenging enough. No one is accusing Obsuridad or Caerbannog of being OP when a Legate or Mechapede stomps in (though im not actually suggesting either of them be allowed in the final chamber). A requium Andromedon or two, a handful of specters, some mechtoids, a gatekeeper, armoured Beserkers, that Viper that counters Snipers, any of those would have had a significant imapct on your mission if they had spawned in rather than things like a rocketeer. Additionally, in the field we saw Prelate summon in multiple requium Archons, but in here she got 4 basic priests, maybe its luck, maybe the stronghold changed what she could spawn.
1:30:21 Petrol be like 😬+ 🕶(but, you'll have to imagine the beard)
Cyclic fire is a clutch ability for sure!!! So many times the combo of him, carebear doing 20 dmg on average per shot and then you got obscuridaddy doing her thing shooting 100 times a turn and cybernetic disabling or controlling everything else. Just God dang!!!
every time odd brings up the quadmire gem, my brain expects him to go, "giggity" afterwards.
oh snap, 4k from the get go! thanks for the early upload
Assassin: **Plans to raid the avenger**
ChristopherOdd: "I am four parallel universes ahead of you."
Assassin: "What?!"
Old Man might not be the main character, but he sure is the main supporting character and i love him more for it.
The ultimate troll was trying to heal the Assassin before killing it for the last time 😂
Maybe slightly over prepared for this one and not nearly as hard as I thought it would be, look forward to seeing some real challenges to come hopefully
I've been having nightmares of the redlight Quad 4 poster room in the stronghold for decades.
What a lit gameplay
Assassin be like, "Well, hello there."
hype hype hype hype hype
1:16:50 Damn, Rapier really waited for the right moment to reveal that he's secretly working for EXALT
popcorn and coffee is pretty good together ngl.
Sentinel is the best amalgamation class change my mind.
it should be removed
In the words of a certain sniper :
It’s about damn time!
If you're going to buff the chambers, I recommend increasing the quality of the enemies before you increase the quantity. A billion little enemies will just be annoying to watch. Harder enemies will still increase the difficulty but keep the number of threats in the range where it's easy for viewers to mentally categorize them.
Oh no the blue screen of death ☠
Well for us. it was the black screen of death
For the oddgorithm
I don't know .. I played season 8 modlist and strongholds were hell on earth. Not just the final chamber, the continue reinforcements in the prev area too. This looked kinda disappointing but hey, Assassin's gone for good
If you have a mission you think 1 of your main guys can solo. Please bring a few rookies with him, give them a chance to lvl up.
finally some action mission not another grinding one
ok that was too easy
He used the hp regen ray on the assassin without noticing.
Compared to the last Season this Chosen Chamber was kind of underwhelming. I don't think Populated Chosen Chambers was working properly or at all. The first reinforcement pod contained an Advanced Rocketeer and a Codex. This is my personal observation, as i played this game for hundreds of hours, with your modlists aswell. Thank you for making these playthroughs!
Yea, Ive seen way more intense reinforcements from "recover the resistance operative" where you have to defend for 4 turns
You should consider snow queen for the final mission. She is a beast!
At about the hour mark, was anyone else talking to their screen, telling Odd to use the Rage Strike to reposition Tribal Chief?
Great episode. Maybe next time use null lance and not ray of life.
what the hell the gate room, didn't have infinitely spawning enemies?!!!! My season 8 playthrough sure does
Oh well we are only taking the vip in the next mission i suppose, no one to resurrect or carry the guard. 1:31:55
I stand corrected I spoke too soon lol 1:32:55
I feel like with the modlist chosen actually make thr missions easier since they pause the timer hahahhaa
that mission got nerfed. it's missing 3 or 4 pods that would come in before you enter the chamber and you had to kill the assassin there the first time and then a second time in the chamber!
that was a month or 2 ago
In xcom 3 I would like to play the aliens 🙂
Wow what a stomp. Bit of a let down tbh, seemed super easy.
Please take Dai Red Dragon out for your loyal Welsh contingent!!!
They got rid of the never ending spawning waves?!?!
lol - "let's get more loot" - then runs away from loot on the ground one click away .... pls never change commander ;-)
I want to suggest a poll or a trial run of no action-camera shots. Maybe it’ll help performance. And it’s something different.
@1:13:00............. 5 dollar??? 😂
Finally!!
The Assassin has been a pain in the neck throughout the campaign, especially levels 3 and 4. We're finally rid of her. All the good guys and girls who died for her and her summons have been avenged.
The Warlock is still missing. And the Hunter is now huntable, but I still think the latter is the least dangerous of the 3.
You know, I was just thinking that based on vanilla XCOM2 - WotC alone, which I happened to replay a while ago. I didn't see a ton of modifications having been done to the chosen based on this episode, but could they mod the Hunter to be a bit more of a menace?
@jussikout1n
I don't know about modding, but in this campaign with mods the Chosen were very broken. The Warlock kept spamming enemies while putting up a barrier that made him invulnerable to all damage as long as the summoned enemies were not eliminated, hiding and then casting psionic powers. The Assassin moved a lot, did a lot of damage, regenerated by doing damage, also spammed enemies and also hid after attacking. In itself their base skills are not the problem but the mods made the Chosen do a lot more damage and on top of that they spam enemies from the mods which are also a nightmare for low level units. They had to nerf them since they had killed several soldiers due to how abusive the damage ratios were. The Hunter in my opinion is the weakest but also in the last tiers he also did a lot of damage if he shot, but obviously nobody moves or they move immediately, and he also summons wild units but not as strong. I think the hunter can get stronger, but that depends on how long Odds left him alive in the remaining campaign.
@10:28 someone please clip that "annoying!".
Bluescreen seems weird, should just have been a software crash. Perhaps a checkup on the ram might be in order.
I hope they werent testing what I think they were testing in that room... weird
No to populated chosen chambers, you are already having enough trouble as it is, if there would be one aditional soldier every reinforcement wave you would be hard pressed.
Wrong. Are you watching the same videos as me? His top soldiers can each erase a pod on their own.
22:00 why does the assassin have a harem chamber in her fortress…?
Was the assassin in this version of the X-Com 2 multiverse having her own harem? That room 20 minutes in looked very sus.
That was way too easy. Seriously, some of these builds are literally broken. You could have taken 3 people in here and won.
Boring Chosen stronghold as always...
FINALLY SOMETHING HAPPENED
I SKIPPED THE LAST 30 EPISODES CAUSE LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPENED AND IT GOT SUPER BORING
and then you watched this and realized, it was too easy, right?
@shayliakara yeppp
There were plenty of tense fights before this.
How would you know what had or hadn't happened? You skipped the last 30 episodes. You must have a hell of a psy-grade
@@TuhljinTampergauge oh, 100% some intense epic missions. This was just too easy for all the hype. They changed some settings, I am sure.
CABBAGE HAS BEEN AVENGED