"At first, the aliens didn't shoot at her. I think they couldn't quite believe what they were seeing. But that wasn't the really astounding thing. The astounding thing was that after she destroyed the objective... she came back."
(At ADVENT HQ) Adjutant: “Sir, we have downed the Avenger and grounded it with an EMP generator. We already have several squads around the crash site, protecting the spike and moving in on the enemy ship, and we have multiple battalions headed to their locations escorted by several battleships” General: “Excellent. They are outnumbered and outgunned. XCOM ends toda-“ Adjutant: “Sir, I’m getting reports from our field forces that the spike has been destroyed” General: “Wha- how?!?” Adjutant: “Aaaaaand… they’ve taken off”
Bloody hell... Not only did you beat it in 1 turn, but also with basically only 2 soldiers. I did not think you could deal that much damage with a ranger's Rapid Fire, and I also didn't know the icarus armor had a map-wide range like that.
@@thunderstrand Icarus armor is nuts, as long as you can see the landing zone and it isn't under what the game classifies as a roof, you can just go there for free.
@@skell6134 It's meant to happen at some part of the campaing or at any point as a Dark event. In WOTC also if one of the Chosen fills their knowledge bar
The gate to the Avenger has lowered, and the alien army is poised to march over any resistance they may face. The people inside have assassinated one of the Elder's chosen and fielded his own weapons in battle. These same people also have slain the paragons of genetic engineering we have liberated from one of their own labs. Resistance is fierce, and the fighting will be savage, it's safe to say that every one of the Elder's soldiers on the battlefield is prepared for an onslaught. Which is why this one woman's charge through the mob caught everyone off guard. They left the ramp with a dead sprint, one of her friends cheering behind her as ran. The codecies on the front line expected her blade and ducked to cover, the priest couldn't even focus on her position, and even as the muton rearguard prepared for her to start ripping and tearing, it quickly became apparent that she was only interested in getting it done. She jumped off the fence and whipped out her storm gun, let two scattershos rip out of it and through the disrupter, and turned her head to the sky. As the disrupter burst and the same voice cheered "That's my lass!", she shot herself back across the battlefield towards the Avenger. If not for their omniscience, the Elders may not have believed the story of the Avenger landing, being besieged, and getting away without a single casualty from either side.
Amazing teamwork. Reminds me, on how I had the avanger mission fairly early ingame in an anoying nick of time. And because XCOM gotta be XCOM, i not only triggered the Beserker Queen on the first turn, but also had to deal with a Chosen aswell =.= After a bit of reloading, i finally manged to not get absolutly slaughtered
First time I played this mission I had a reaper, so I was a bit more reckless with her movement. She caught sight of the transmitter on her dash and it was... kind of close. I checked and the fucking base turrets were close enough to aim at it. I remember thinking, 'It can't be that easy right?' It was that easy. Two taps from the turret destroyed it. Couldn't finish on turn 1 because my reaper needed to get back, but zero enemy pods activated.
Generally the enemies will either take a shot on discovery, especially if there’s a solider that’s out in the open or being flanked, or take cover. In this case XCOM has the Tactical Analysis resistance order which causes the enemy to lose one turn on discovery so I think the AI decided it’d be smarter to find cover first, then attack
@@taomahNEGEV Its one of the random bonuses that you can get from contacting territories and building resistance towers in specific regions or from using the WOTC faction benefits. It's probably one of the most useful one of those other than improved PCS or improved weapon attachments
Aliens only get to use an offensive action if they discover you on their turn. This entire video takes place on the XCOM turn, so the aliens only get a reaction move to get to cover. The reason for this is that if they didn’t get to move when you discovered them, there would be nothing to stop you gunning them all down in the open. Generally if they discover you on their turn they will take cover, as they will naturally only have one action left (having used the first to move into visual range) but every so often they decide to use their remaining action to take a flanking shot instead.
Holy .... I always have LT's and Sgt's ... and maybe 1 captain when this mission comes up lol. Icarus Armor? Viper Armor? Exo? Defense Turrets? hehehehe
Hahha. Well if this mission starts because of dark event, situation is different. I have video on that one too. It is not that famous. You can trigger this event by doing black site missions, but only if it does not happen as dark event.
@@amixp2745 I just recently started playing again. Chosen are handing my backside to me on Commander (though I have done a couple of missions successfully without having to save scum). Avatar is already at 4 blocks with me being 3 zones away from the 1 site I know about. Assassin is almost at 2 of 4 bars.
@@JedForge Much of game depends on faction you choose at beginning. Always choose reapers. So you can recruit second reaper from 'Hero's Welcome' faction op. Always send reaper first to mark enemies, with 'target definition' ability. And then game becomes easy. I had created 'Defeat aliens by June' commander difficulty guide but that hard disk got corrupted & I failed to upload.
I remember having a showdown in a deserty map in Mexico with hills and low grounds with a withered she'd, shit was crazy I think I lost like 5 or 6 soldiers in that mission one rookie died dramatically slowly becoming limp and callopsing like a deflated balloon slowly his gun slowly slipping out of his arms and life realeasing out of him pretty fucked..crazy battle for me.
"Ok, I see how this is gonna go. Run and gun, rapid fire and then use the extra two moves from teamwork to run back." *the relay is not in range, uses teamwork to move closer* "Hm.. okay, so, maybe something like... implacable... does it even work on the relay? And then the second teamwork? Or maybe hair trigger? But that still doesn't give enough movement, right? Does he have a Psionic with Inspire to get that last action?" *nothing like that happens* "Ok, I have no idea. I think he is just gonna lift and abandon her there." *Sees the Icarus Jump text appear* "Ooooooooooooohhhhhhhh" Anyway, that is a beautiful Defense map. The relay is very close and a lot of open area. In my maps, the relay is usually behind 3 hills and 2 buildings and you need about 3 turns to just reach it. I would love to have a map like this one day.
Mine strategy was also 2 units but in 3 moves.I neded a psyonic and sniper.As psyonic i controled kodex and teleported to generator and shoot it.And by sniper ability i could shoot generator from far distance.
i hacked their elite spark unit and destroyed it with that even brought back the spark to the ramp sadly couldn't keep it dunno if you can even do that otherwise that would have been perfect
You can defeat chosen & just chill for entire game. Avenger mission happens once per game in WOTC. It can happen as dark event, 50% chance to evade with avenger. As soon as you visit second black site this mission triggers. If not then guaranteed after third blacksite.
@@amixp2745 The 50% chance is only if the UFO was spawned by a Dark Event. The UFO scripted to spawn after completing one of the 3 story missions needed to unlock the Avatar Autopsy (the game randomly selects which one at the start of the campaign) is guaranteed to hit you.
Eh, I mean XCOM 2 strategy has always been mitigating the enemy by deleting them as fast as possible, stasising or mimic beacons and the late game has always had XCOM dominating, even in enemy unknown. War of the Chosen does have some really specific overpowered things that I know of like Templars with bladestorm, reapers with banish and repeaters and the hunters sniper rifle. Still, by the time you're running that stuff you'd be pretty overpowered anyway so if anything WotC makes the early to mid game harder to compensate. Chimera Squad's turn order, at least the way I played it was focused on taking out enemies before they could act or moving my guys up the order, so not that different from XCOM 2 strategies of overwhelming firepower
@@maxcompton3482 First two missions are highly unpredictable if you have enabled lost & abandoned. Once you get the reaper, game's difficulty does not remain same. As with reaper's stealth you always know where enemies are. There is also target definition. Even squaddie reaper is invaluable. As for base game without WOtC, it is quite difficult till your soldiers rank up. Rangers are powerful in both versions, especially in base game.
@@amixp2745 I don't play with lost and abandoned anymore, though I have won with it, I just hate how the assassin always has the same strengths and weaknesses and the mission itself is pretty dull. Fair point about the reapers, before war of the Chosen a concealed Ranger was my scouting unit but reapers are just straight up better in that role.
Muahahahahah. Imagine face of the person responsible for that mission in their company. That guy works harf for quality mission and staff, and here we go! Lol
It is clearly a modded game. X-com soldiers didn't miss 3 99%-shots in a row. And something stupid didn't block LoS. So I don't believe it. By the way, it IS possible to miss objects.
When you complete XCOM 2 more than 50 times, even RNG can not stop you. In fact you manipulate RNG in your favour. Very few people know this. Soldiers especially rangers with proximity bonus do not miss objects when they have 20% AIM due to superior scope & bonus aim from faction ops. I have shown 3 methods to complete avenger defense in one turn. Regardless of beacon's position.
This game is just pathetic. It has its flawless but it has many annoying game breaking bugs as well. I got all soldiers alive and extracted to first spawning location to take off but somehow it still said unit in danger and Central dude keep telling me that I left someone behind but my all soldiers are all ready to take off. Wtf is this damn bug?
Seems legit but feels like a cheat. No offense meant, it is a great move, but I am not quite sure if I would have used same tactics for anything except for a speed run
Hahahah. Well, let us see. Advent has unlimited reinforcements & XCOM is outnumbered. If we read human history, any battle won with handful of soldiers against hoard of army is cheat. Like Spartans for example.
@@amixp2745 Spartans didn't win, though. The Athens navy is what really won that war. As far as the tactic goes it's certainly cheese, but Ironman Legend sometimes needs to be cheesed. Personally I feel you're robbing yourself of one of the coolest missions in the game, but I never played Legend myself
If you have a squad of full colonels, level three bonds, all the alien ruler armour, war suits with power weapons and so on then it does become laughably easy. It’s getting to that point that’s the difficult bit.
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"At first, the aliens didn't shoot at her. I think they couldn't quite believe what they were seeing. But that wasn't the really astounding thing. The astounding thing was that after she destroyed the objective... she came back."
Spiers
Through power of friendship, everything is possible
Lol, great quote
Erica "Spears" Cunningham
Didn't come here expecting to see this reference. Incredible work.
I can only imagine aliens' reactions in front of this soldier.
THE SLAYER HAS ENTERED THE FACILITY
Those promised battleships better be here NOW!
(At ADVENT HQ)
Adjutant: “Sir, we have downed the Avenger and grounded it with an EMP generator. We already have several squads around the crash site, protecting the spike and moving in on the enemy ship, and we have multiple battalions headed to their locations escorted by several battleships”
General: “Excellent. They are outnumbered and outgunned. XCOM ends toda-“
Adjutant: “Sir, I’m getting reports from our field forces that the spike has been destroyed”
General: “Wha- how?!?”
Adjutant: “Aaaaaand… they’ve taken off”
xd
😅
Reaper banish and templar ionic storm:😊
My sniper with line of sight and squadsight: 👹
Bloody hell... Not only did you beat it in 1 turn, but also with basically only 2 soldiers. I did not think you could deal that much damage with a ranger's Rapid Fire, and I also didn't know the icarus armor had a map-wide range like that.
Icarus armor is nuts, as long as you can see the landing zone and it isn’t under what the game classifies as a roof, you can just go there for free.
Icarus armor is nuts, as long as you can see the landing zone and it isn’t under what the game classifies as a roof, you can just go there for free.
@@thunderstrand Icarus armor is nuts, as long as you can see the landing zone and it isn't under what the game classifies as a roof, you can just go there for free.
"Master Chief, you mind telling me what you're doing with that spire?" "Sir. Finishing this fight."
i like this misson because xp farming for my soldiers ^^
True. Destroy the spike asap but then overwatch everyone for as long as we want 😅
@@tomassoejakto Wait,which condition you should have to activate base defence ?
@@skell6134 UFO because chosen damage the ship over time
@@imjusttoogood4507 I mean what should happen,i just bad speak english,sry
@@skell6134 It's meant to happen at some part of the campaing or at any point as a Dark event. In WOTC also if one of the Chosen fills their knowledge bar
The gate to the Avenger has lowered, and the alien army is poised to march over any resistance they may face. The people inside have assassinated one of the Elder's chosen and fielded his own weapons in battle. These same people also have slain the paragons of genetic engineering we have liberated from one of their own labs. Resistance is fierce, and the fighting will be savage, it's safe to say that every one of the Elder's soldiers on the battlefield is prepared for an onslaught.
Which is why this one woman's charge through the mob caught everyone off guard. They left the ramp with a dead sprint, one of her friends cheering behind her as ran. The codecies on the front line expected her blade and ducked to cover, the priest couldn't even focus on her position, and even as the muton rearguard prepared for her to start ripping and tearing, it quickly became apparent that she was only interested in getting it done.
She jumped off the fence and whipped out her storm gun, let two scattershos rip out of it and through the disrupter, and turned her head to the sky. As the disrupter burst and the same voice cheered "That's my lass!", she shot herself back across the battlefield towards the Avenger.
If not for their omniscience, the Elders may not have believed the story of the Avenger landing, being besieged, and getting away without a single casualty from either side.
Amazing teamwork.
Reminds me, on how I had the avanger mission fairly early ingame in an anoying nick of time.
And because XCOM gotta be XCOM, i not only triggered the Beserker Queen on the first turn, but also had to deal with a Chosen aswell =.=
After a bit of reloading, i finally manged to not get absolutly slaughtered
Woooow I always wondered (and feared) if both the chosen and alien ruler could appear at the same time
I knew before even clicking an Icarus jump was involved. Love that suit.
6:37 "WTF WAS THAT!?" --- aliens
I actually laughed out loud after watching this video. What an epic strategy! GG!
First time I played this mission I had a reaper, so I was a bit more reckless with her movement. She caught sight of the transmitter on her dash and it was... kind of close. I checked and the fucking base turrets were close enough to aim at it.
I remember thinking, 'It can't be that easy right?'
It was that easy. Two taps from the turret destroyed it. Couldn't finish on turn 1 because my reaper needed to get back, but zero enemy pods activated.
Oh now I learn you can do this after I lost 2 soldiers on one of these
I think you could have shot the transmitter with the Chosens sniper rifle instead of using Advanced teamwork for that.
The more impressive part is that you did this on L/I, I struggle with Commander Ironman or Legend seperately, let alone combined.
It is strange that the aliens just start running around after spotting your brave soldier instead of immediately engaging.
Generally the enemies will either take a shot on discovery, especially if there’s a solider that’s out in the open or being flanked, or take cover. In this case XCOM has the Tactical Analysis resistance order which causes the enemy to lose one turn on discovery so I think the AI decided it’d be smarter to find cover first, then attack
@@bluefisher1744 I see. Thanks for the clarification but what isTactical Analysis Resistance Order?
@@taomahNEGEV Its one of the random bonuses that you can get from contacting territories and building resistance towers in specific regions or from using the WOTC faction benefits. It's probably one of the most useful one of those other than improved PCS or improved weapon attachments
@@bluefisher1744 Thanks.
Aliens only get to use an offensive action if they discover you on their turn. This entire video takes place on the XCOM turn, so the aliens only get a reaction move to get to cover. The reason for this is that if they didn’t get to move when you discovered them, there would be nothing to stop you gunning them all down in the open.
Generally if they discover you on their turn they will take cover, as they will naturally only have one action left (having used the first to move into visual range) but every so often they decide to use their remaining action to take a flanking shot instead.
*laughs in missing advent trooper and hitting the spike from the avenger*
And I'm fighting over 30min on regular difficulty. I got allot to learn😂😅
I mean, you cant pull off that without maxed out soldier bond, colonel rank and the icarus suit. Without any of those you gotta fight
Avenger is down... Its about time to test that new archon armor
Not even the codex could have predicted that in its countless universes
I have to admit, this was pretty cool.
Holy .... I always have LT's and Sgt's ... and maybe 1 captain when this mission comes up lol. Icarus Armor? Viper Armor? Exo? Defense Turrets? hehehehe
Hahha. Well if this mission starts because of dark event, situation is different. I have video on that one too. It is not that famous.
You can trigger this event by doing black site missions, but only if it does not happen as dark event.
@@amixp2745 I just recently started playing again. Chosen are handing my backside to me on Commander (though I have done a couple of missions successfully without having to save scum). Avatar is already at 4 blocks with me being 3 zones away from the 1 site I know about. Assassin is almost at 2 of 4 bars.
@@JedForge Much of game depends on faction you choose at beginning. Always choose reapers. So you can recruit second reaper from 'Hero's Welcome' faction op.
Always send reaper first to mark enemies, with 'target definition' ability. And then game becomes easy. I had created 'Defeat aliens by June' commander difficulty guide but that hard disk got corrupted & I failed to upload.
Overdrive serum+teamwork+Archon King armor=easily done deal.
When reinforcements are coming, get everybody close and put them on overwatch. It becomes an ADVENT slaughter.
Knowing xcom you’ll probably miss every shot though
@@super-zw3epI've seen it happen too. All too true lol
Icarus Jump allowed me to complete the Network Assault mission in four moves.
I remember having a showdown in a deserty map in Mexico with hills and low grounds with a withered she'd, shit was crazy I think I lost like 5 or 6 soldiers in that mission one rookie died dramatically slowly becoming limp and callopsing like a deflated balloon slowly his gun slowly slipping out of his arms and life realeasing out of him pretty fucked..crazy battle for me.
Mutons watching in pure horror as two humans effortlessly transcend space and time
Cool strategy!
I knew this was going to involve the Icarus armour. Still impressive though.
"Ok, I see how this is gonna go. Run and gun, rapid fire and then use the extra two moves from teamwork to run back."
*the relay is not in range, uses teamwork to move closer*
"Hm.. okay, so, maybe something like... implacable... does it even work on the relay? And then the second teamwork? Or maybe hair trigger? But that still doesn't give enough movement, right? Does he have a Psionic with Inspire to get that last action?"
*nothing like that happens*
"Ok, I have no idea. I think he is just gonna lift and abandon her there."
*Sees the Icarus Jump text appear*
"Ooooooooooooohhhhhhhh"
Anyway, that is a beautiful Defense map. The relay is very close and a lot of open area. In my maps, the relay is usually behind 3 hills and 2 buildings and you need about 3 turns to just reach it. I would love to have a map like this one day.
Eitherals and Advent: wait that's not fair you can't use power of teamwork!!!
Xcom:Teamwork goes wosh!
Erica just went out to get groceries idk why everyones so concerned
Mine strategy was also 2 units but in 3 moves.I neded a psyonic and sniper.As psyonic i controled kodex and teleported to generator and shoot it.And by sniper ability i could shoot generator from far distance.
That was glorious.
2:21 Oh cool, my Templar was generated by the game and also given the Scorch nickname, but her real name is Camille DuPont.
i hacked their elite spark unit and destroyed it with that even brought back the spark to the ramp sadly couldn't keep it dunno if you can even do that otherwise that would have been perfect
That's nuts. How did you avoid the UFO till this late in the game? Or is this a 3nd avenger defence mission?
You can defeat chosen & just chill for entire game. Avenger mission happens once per game in WOTC. It can happen as dark event, 50% chance to evade with avenger.
As soon as you visit second black site this mission triggers. If not then guaranteed after third blacksite.
@@amixp2745
The 50% chance is only if the UFO was spawned by a Dark Event. The UFO scripted to spawn after completing one of the 3 story missions needed to unlock the Avatar Autopsy (the game randomly selects which one at the start of the campaign) is guaranteed to hit you.
I see they have added soo much classes and abilities now. You can't seem to fail. Is this why Chimera Squad have a different turn order?
Eh, I mean XCOM 2 strategy has always been mitigating the enemy by deleting them as fast as possible, stasising or mimic beacons and the late game has always had XCOM dominating, even in enemy unknown. War of the Chosen does have some really specific overpowered things that I know of like Templars with bladestorm, reapers with banish and repeaters and the hunters sniper rifle. Still, by the time you're running that stuff you'd be pretty overpowered anyway so if anything WotC makes the early to mid game harder to compensate. Chimera Squad's turn order, at least the way I played it was focused on taking out enemies before they could act or moving my guys up the order, so not that different from XCOM 2 strategies of overwhelming firepower
@@maxcompton3482 First two missions are highly unpredictable if you have enabled lost & abandoned. Once you get the reaper, game's difficulty does not remain same. As with reaper's stealth you always know where enemies are. There is also target definition. Even squaddie reaper is invaluable.
As for base game without WOtC, it is quite difficult till your soldiers rank up. Rangers are powerful in both versions, especially in base game.
@@amixp2745 I don't play with lost and abandoned anymore, though I have won with it, I just hate how the assassin always has the same strengths and weaknesses and the mission itself is pretty dull. Fair point about the reapers, before war of the Chosen a concealed Ranger was my scouting unit but reapers are just straight up better in that role.
X-Com 2 has a very unusual difficulty curve. On Legend with 7 squaddies in month 2 - this level is basically impossible.
Its possible just expect to lose soldiers in the beginning. If you can make it to magnetic weapons and predator armor it gets a lot easier.
well, if it is available for us to use, why not do it?
im just soo impressed, wow
During the cutscene I instinctively clicked the screen to skip the cutscene 💀
Step 1: take cover
Step 2: don't miss
Awesome
война против инопланетян была бы недолгой, если бы в бой выходили не 6 6ойцов хком, а все сразу))
speed *run* be like
Muahahahahah. Imagine face of the person responsible for that mission in their company. That guy works harf for quality mission and staff, and here we go! Lol
How People get that pulse riffle for every class where do you find the item for it?
looool well played!
WTF kind of god like team do you have
Continue button not apear for me after this mission😢
Enyone know why? Please help if you know i love this game
Operation doom mask
It is clearly a modded game. X-com soldiers didn't miss 3 99%-shots in a row. And something stupid didn't block LoS. So I don't believe it.
By the way, it IS possible to miss objects.
When you complete XCOM 2 more than 50 times, even RNG can not stop you. In fact you manipulate RNG in your favour. Very few people know this.
Soldiers especially rangers with proximity bonus do not miss objects when they have 20% AIM due to superior scope & bonus aim from faction ops. I have shown 3 methods to complete avenger defense in one turn. Regardless of beacon's position.
In the xbox one doesn’t work ...period
Whoa
they should have general rank
0/18 aliens killed xD so it was a pacifist run?
OMFG................
I have single Xcom2, no dlc s (
What the hell is Icarus jump?
Icarus Armour special ability.
that was impressive 😂
🤣 Brilliant!
what did i just watch
This game is just pathetic. It has its flawless but it has many annoying game breaking bugs as well. I got all soldiers alive and extracted to first spawning location to take off but somehow it still said unit in danger and Central dude keep telling me that I left someone behind but my all soldiers are all ready to take off. Wtf is this damn bug?
Seems legit but feels like a cheat. No offense meant, it is a great move, but I am not quite sure if I would have used same tactics for anything except for a speed run
Hahahah. Well, let us see. Advent has unlimited reinforcements & XCOM is outnumbered. If we read human history, any battle won with handful of soldiers against hoard of army is cheat. Like Spartans for example.
@@amixp2745 Spartans didn't win, though. The Athens navy is what really won that war.
As far as the tactic goes it's certainly cheese, but Ironman Legend sometimes needs to be cheesed.
Personally I feel you're robbing yourself of one of the coolest missions in the game, but I never played Legend myself
아니 시발 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 이게 이렇게 된다고?? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Читер. )))
What a horror. This is not Xcom game. Too much powerfull those magics. Lost fun. That is not have value, doing this way.
Hahaha the game designers who made this game are so bad.
If you have a squad of full colonels, level three bonds, all the alien ruler armour, war suits with power weapons and so on then it does become laughably easy. It’s getting to that point that’s the difficult bit.