Necro post of all necro posts, but it would've been nice if he use energetic warhammer. Having that available a lot to just shove away anything you don't wanna deal with sounds pretty damn good. Heavy load + bombs is also great, it means you carry 2 bombs lvl1 to a max of 3, pretty much saving you a whole 8-4 gold for an upgrade.

Viking commander: "This is gonna be an easy invasion." The sure footed pike squad waiting at shore: 😗 The energetic infantry with a war hammer: 🥱 The heavy weapons command ring archers at the corner: 😛

I like to call the "dual wielders" barbarians

I think they should add the chin turret on the B17 like the G variant . ( correct me if I am mistaken)😁

I like the mods, but checking which one is giving problems is a pain. Almost 800 mods and the best I can think to do is try to open the game after clicking each and every one.

I think you should go back to the bad north. Yes, I know you've done everything, but I think it would be fun.

Hey,i love your content bro. But please can you make another playlist on bad north

I know this is a bit of a cheat, but I hate how tight the timed missions are so I always play with the timer tweak mod to give myself two extra turns on any timed mission.

In the latter part of the game you are hitting two islands per turn in order to keep two sets of archers fully upgraded Would it be equally good to hit just one island per turn, get half the coins, and just upgrade one set of archers?

Fleet of foot should at least be B. It is *THE BEST* trait for Pike men. Not only does it help them reposition better, it also helps them prop their spears forward faster which reduces the likeliness of them dancing awkwardly when they are late in a fight. Though that's pretty much it, It's a very bad starting trait as it has flat value meaning it doesn't get better as the game progresses. It's pretty nice to have, but not essential for a run.

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popular+ring of command

Bro what offering did you make to the RNG gods whatever I play, I get absolutely Molly whopped

7:32 and free all the idiot 😂,they really idiot absolute right

#8 happened to me recently on Veteran in fairly early game. I had a very hard double pod discovery near the device destroy mission and with about two very tanky berserkers. Even though I was surviving, the absolute prick Warlock chosen shows up and just made things an absolute nightmare. Finally, I get the Warlock down to 1 HP, go in for a kill shot and miss like an 80 percenter. The combination of missing the shot and going "all in hail Mary" as you put it meant the next turn the Warlock mind controlled my best squad member and we got wiped. Like, squad wiped, mission failed. I actually restarted the entire campaign on that one

As a newish casual player, I recommend going down the Gunslinger tree for Sharpshooters and circle back around. Most missions are going to have you needing to dash to the objective or to an evac and if your sharpshooter is in the back snipping you might have to leave them behind. Sniper rifles are always going to do decent damage if they hit, but pistols are much more mobile. also, gunslingers go through Lost like a knife through butter

I don't know if I agree with your overwatch is overrated statement. If you do it properly, you can use an overwatch ambush to catch them out in the open. If you take a shot without overwatch and then react they will go into cover first.

The best way is to save on the last move of the last character and immediately load the save.

I implemented a system in my XCOM 1 mod where post-mission stat gains are inversely proportional to in-mission luck. This means that poor luck during a mission increases the probability of stat gains post-mission, while high luck decreases it. RIP "Thats xcom baby".

Holy shit, but templars with bladestorm are really powerful

Alright. Return fire is arguably better than long watch if you going to use a close range sharpshooter. And honesty depends on the misson. Im not bringing a sniper to a evac mission unless im evac at the same point

i want to advocate for continuing campaigns that experience squad wipes rather than restarting. learning to play from behind, from a losing position, prepares you and teaches you so much. im currently in an incredibly scuffed ironman campaign, just lost my first major after 14 missions. im scrambling, learning new tactics and synergies and techniques just to get by. that's going to help tremendously on my next run, but i actually think im on course to win. you just have to persevere

i found out that quiting as soon as you fail you dont lose stuff

I usually only level pikemen to veteran, forget about my archers, and pour everything into a few infantrys

I played xcom for 2 times, and then i tried xcom 2, the most frustrating for me was the campaign mode, i just didnt like the always moving mechanic. I didnt finish this one because of that and many frustrating issues you mentioned (which i didnt find that frustrating in the first game)

Some reasons are justified some are i Skill issues 1. Percentages kinda suck, this isn't coming from a guy who mostly get 100% shot accuracy. Some times you hit a 28% while failings a 95%. Think tactically, if you going to flank a enemy pick the right class, rangers got 100% chance to hit with a flank shot (if the enemies can't dodge). Anything can happen it it isn't 100%, heck I was hacking a door and got a facility lead even tho it was 5% 2. Activating a pod might cost you the mission at worst the run. Mostly can be solve with a scout. I had some fun wiping pods using reaper claymore and a grenade especially early game where you are weak 3. Missons timers, depends on the mission. They make you shift your goal. Normally you want to fight and kill all enemies slowly and carefully. It forces you to use basic principles from the tutorial, use grenade to make a exit. The misson timer does punish you if you forget or don't proactive attempt to complete the objective. The timer is there for a reason for evac mission because the advent can prevent firebrand or skyliner from evac or the advent complete their goal thus the mission is useless 4. This Is Xcom, they shoot at anything that move first even a random trooper on the otherside of the map, best bet is suppression (grenadier ability that I think you can learn in training center or get from AWC), overwatch is mainly for not wanting to take a 1% shot. Or ambushes. 5. Missing blade attacks is fairish as the lancers can miss too but it annoying so either use an aim pcs (not sure if it work on blades) or katana on wotc, missing blank point shot kinda make sense as blank point isnt the most effectiveness range for combat. The whole point of guns is to maintain distance while shotguns and the pistols do specialized in cqc the others do fall off a little 6. Sharpshooter aren't the best. Their action economy sucks, they need 2 actions for their rifle, squad sight get penalty for aim and their rifle aim fall off with close range. Some abilities are weird like death from above only returning one action point even tho the rifle need 2, their upgraded weapons take extra Research and stuff. The game works agains them 7. Yep can't argue with this one. 8. Never really have a problem with chosen. Only problem I would have if a sectopod or another high priority target comes. You often cannot kill both and a solider might die. Especially with warlock if he mind controls a unit and a pod active you lose dps and get either equal or outnumber with the enemy 9. One of the 2 reasons I dont play iron man. 10. Yeah, you have to manage supplies and stuff and often rely on luck. Essential unit may die early game forcing you to train more to take the fallen place 11 (what I hate about the game) mission failure requirements and what happens if you fail them. The game doesn't make it clear on what make a failed or a successful mission. For example the crate tagging mission you dont need to kill all the enemies meaning you can evac, there should be optional and required objectives so the player know what they can and cannot do. Knowing when You can evac is good. ALSO how failing a supplie raid cause the local resistance to stop existing

I love this game just wish they didn’t show horn us into the bad ending for the first game when I beat the first game 6 times including dlc feels bad to be told you lost because I say you did

Early game I stopped bothering with hacking as I could have very high chances and always failed pissed me off when I’m winning a fight and misses has a 65 percent chance to succeed gloriously fails

Also never underestimate the value of a ranger sure their sword gimmick but when built right they’ll hold enemies in melee and give your sniper time to line up a crucial shot

True pain is when your rangers 3 feet from someone and has a shotty 80 percent chance to hit misses and I watch everything around the guy dissapear took a fat dab after he of course didn’t miss on his next turn

ゴミゲーかつ運ゲー。最終マップの地形にもランダム性がある運ゲー。デタラメな二刀流兵軍団や四方八方からの巨人弓軍団が連続でするパターンはほぼ不可能。逆に運のいいマップや兵種のバランスならば楽勝となる。糞以下の運ゲーゴミゲー。

I made the power rangers and only 2 died in combat for the whole run

Xcom2 is brutal,been playing and restarting for three weeks,guerilla tactics,check, 5man squad check,and then the reality,just cant have enough supplies in the beginning.😢

Obi-Wan Kenobi: ‘Hello there’ - the perfect start! And a very enjoyable video, sir. Thank you!

Please another campaign of bad north with the mountain trait and mines. The challenge is you can only use animal traits on very hard.

Nah mountain trait with mines is op it’s easily an s

Ty

The worst "timers" are on the protect device missions. Advent is surrounding the device, and taking pot shots at it while you need to cut your way through the interfering pods. Worst case, some high damage enemy is camping the device.

Missing 85% shots so often is likely balanced out by the fact you'd make more sub 50% shots if you bothered trying them... but we don't because we try to find solutions with better odds. So you only see the high percentage misses and not the low percentage hits.

The first one already has that solution mechanic on the lower difficulties, you do get better chances on your next shot. Game doesn't tell you though so the frustration part still happens and makes it feel even more unfair if you know about this and still miss three 85% shots in a row. The timers issue, I get. Especially with the hack a laptop on a train mission when the specialist never seems to get a line of sight on the objective even when it feels like they clearly should. Although you can still evac on those so you just have to take the failure on that one without losing soldiers. Meanwhile the council missions where you get everyone captured after the timer runs out usually have really long timers that aren't much of a problem. As for misclicks they should have had an extra "are you sure?" pop-up if you click a square out in the open in close proximity to enemies when only an insane person would do that purposely.

Only did this one time in my XCOM life 😅 Good kill, nice tactics!

I became an XCOM 2 fan watching your vids, man, feels so good seeing you talk about it again!!!

Also there's another tip especially for Elite priests who are pesky with their stasis. You'll needa a ranger with bladestorm skill and (blademaster/ assassin's weapons) then you position them beside the priest do once they move out of stasis your ranger will chew them up. Another tip is to always have the ability that allows you to one shot the lost, that way you can use your Sharpshooter's pistol to get rid of them all without wasting either bullets nor action points. Also, if you can, always have a S.P.A.R.K. unit with you as they can tank damage and their B.I.T.s (Gremlin's rounder siblings) can repair your mech unit and use heavy weapons such as shredders which I heavily recommend. I would recommend also using the SPARK for missions against the Warlock chosen as it cannot be mind controlled, and both Reapers and Rangers. Try to complete as many Covert OPs as possible as they increase your soldier's will, health, speed, hack, agility and even promotes them and creates bonds. Oh yeah about bonds, having a level 3 bond is extremely useful as it allows 2 of your soldiers to attack the same unit together if it's in both of their lines of sight as well as you can increase their action points twice and remove debuffs if they're adjacent to each other. Hmm what else... Oh yeah, about the PSI operatives, try training them to the max or at least till you have 5 good abilities, including lance(which gives you an unobstructed line to damage your enemies and can even cause insanity), domination, fortress (which makes your operative immune to explosions, acids, burning and even poison, as well as another ability that protects all of your units from mental debuffs and even domination if they're close to your PSI operative.

Hey, usaaf doesnt stand for united states of america air force. It stands for united states army air force. (Its supposed to be united states army air corps to be historically acurate) anyways love the vids keep it up.

How do you voice crack so much

Thats xcom baby, sorry had to do it. Nearly threw controller through TV on first mission when i surrounded the last remaining bad guy who was on 2 health. All of my team point blank around him missed. He then missed his shot. As Christopher Odd says, the numbers dont even matter.

here's my own personal ranking S: Ring of Command, Warhammer A: B: Jabena, Mines, Philosopher Stone, Warhorn C: Bomb D: Holy Grail Imo there is no item that is above average that doesn't fundamentally break the game. Warhammer works with any unit, no matter the trait or profession. and ring of command works with all unit types as well, I absolutely love the RoC and rousing speeches combo with infantry. absolutely cracked. or RoC, sharp weapons and pikes. the bomb and holy grail are simply underwhelming. the rest are balanced and work with a small set of traits or with a certain unit type without being extremely versatile or powerful. also just FYI your math is wrong for the philosophers stone. it takes 2.5 islands for the level 2 upgrade to pay for itself and 3 islands for the level three upgrade to pay for itself (assuming the collector trait isn't combined with it - which it would then change to 1.5 and 1.66). you don't have to go to 9 islands to pay for it. assuming efficient spending it would take 5.5 islands to max out - and probably seven islands it you need a few coins to upgrade something else. considering any given unit can easily visit a couple dozen islands in a campaign, even if you get the item mid-way it can bring a decent profit.

Man y Waste last year about 200hours in xcom and now i bought the xcom 2 and i say "thats be easy" Y lost 45hours losing 4 times bescuse ive done all bad i hate this fuking game (false i love xcom)

late to the game and the community here - but here's my ranking S: Heavy Weapons, Ironskin, Sure-Footed A: Collector, Mountain, Skillful B: Fleet of foot, Heavy Load, Rousing Speeches, Sharp Weapons C: Energetic, Popular D: Fearless I think Energetic is way overhyped (from what I've seen of other bad north players), it only affects a select few items which isn't what you want, with the few items it synergises with it does well. And as for the mountain...the early game is free, the mountain is so good with infantry units, and I'd say this even if the trait didn't scale up with the squad. and the mountain commander is very good at combating other brutes, leading to overall fewer losses for the squad. Love the content man❤

id love to see the achievement runs for this.