Theres a strategy that uses Skirmishers that The Reddest of Goats has a great video on. You use a skirmisher with return fire + hunker down and 3 specialists that all cycle using aid protocol on the skirmisher. The skirmisher is then free to run into as many pods as possible and cause chaos without fear of getting hit or taking fatal damage.

51:05 honestly that sounds like most of these challenge runs 😂

"The man may be a walking war crime, but none of us are perfect" hahahahha

Becker was obviously evil, he was the only prominent white male on your ship's crew while everyone else is a black woman. Thankfully he also gets replaced by a black woman so you know it's all gonna work out from there!

Activate quickburn, Rush with technical, use firestorm, most likely than not every single cover near you is gone. Mix with WAR Suit ability+smoke skill and suddenly no one shoots you despite being in middle of a field

I am technicaling so hard rn

Comment for the algorithm. Is rookies only even possible? Also CLOSE RANGE

Now to do RPG overhaul, one of every class there...

This was the last LW2 class! Imagine that? When should we expect the LW2 campaign? In about 5 months I'd bet.. my personal advice on two fronts, if you can just do standard LW2, LWOTC is even more brutal and slightly less balanced than standard, plus ambushed cannot be avoided. And if you DO insist on WOTC, make sure you keep initial squads 4 or less for maximizing xp gain because part 3 of finding the chosen requires 3 max level troops AND if you know you won't outpace their knowledge gain MAKE SURE you get coilguns and predator armor, their force level is nearly doubled for those missions and you need both the damage and armor pen. Good luck drifter, can't wait to get salt for pennies on the dollar when you're done

55:02 Honestly this map has been responsible for some of my worst tactical encounters in the entire game. It is so small that all of the enemies spawn right on top of each other, and there’s ALWAYS turrets on the train. My last encounter on this map my soldiers had plated armor and magnetic weapons and two of the 4 pods (not including 2 turrets) had Andromedons, and the third pod had a Muton. Oh, and did I mention the Berzerker Queen was there too? Plus it was my B Team. Fortunately I had a sharpshooter from my A Team filling in and she was the only reason we completed the mission, albeit with one unconscious soldier and another on bleed out.

27:23 The…Sewer-cide Squad?

It's people like you, that remind me that XCOM is still a funny game, that's XCOM baby.

Combatives is extremely good in Long War just because of the extra dodge alone. Also LW2 Gunner with Combatives is one of the best Resistance Hub (unique to Long War) Soldiers. They can bait out melee attacks and survive while also delivering good damage or fire support without a high rank or equipment.

Lw2 ranger still have implaccable so let them stand to shoot, after target death, use bonus action to move to another position. In a way they are less mobile skirmisher

You could call them Vipers, they way they became *hiss*tory

Not using SPARKs against the lost seems so sad tbh… Terminators are so nice

(finding Nemo s dad) you're really cute, but I don't know what you're saying. I've been playing XCOM enemy within for years. I recently got this game and highly disappointed. Yeah more storyline more graphics but intensely more challenging. Not fun. The best part of XCOM is and was you can create characters to be named and look anyway you desire and then go out and play them on a battlefield. I don't want to spend time creating lovable characters only to throw them into a everyone does death mission. And what's up with that doomsday clock. Clearly there are 2 types of XCOM players those who like this and those who say take all the cool advancement you made in this game and bring back fun playability like the games of old. If this is the direction XCOM is going from now on I'm out. I'll be finding a new game to play

Ghost skill with mentally awake upgrade will make your templar with 2 focus summon a ghost with full focus

Will you ever do a run with a conversion mod like Advent to Galactic Empire around May the 4th? I use it every time I play cause I'm a star wars nerd.

17:49 I'd buy them just to save that character in the character pool.

"This man is handing out one-shot crits like he's a shield bearer." The soldiers may not be hitting alot of shots, but Drifter's commentary never misses.

how do I add loss to every mission.

56:00 the hardest build up and pay off I have ever seen in a challenge run. "go forth my undead minions."

C L O S E R A N G E?!

Leeson just wanted to get made a Gunner instead of the other classes, that's why he was good this time.

*Sees Blue wiping out everything.* I LOVE YOU

I love this series.

Seriously i've been overlooked Firestorm Ability because rapid fire are same tier promotion abilites.

I remember Xwynn absolutely dominating a mission with 2 Sectopods and multiple Muton/Berserkers with basically 2 Sharpshooters and a few soldiers as scouts. It took over 3 hours but I believe it even was a flawless mission.

The Duke Nukem as the first character was perfect

Definitely agree with you about missed potential with hacking. Part of my issue is not just the limited range for cool shit, but how difficult it is to actually successfully pull of cool shit. I mean one of the most amazing hacking abilities is the one that lets you take over the technological enemies and afrually use their abilities against your enemies. It provides such a cool tactical advantage, yet is limited by a time of access, so you have to be really creative and mindful of how you use it, which is great! That's fun gameplay to me! What'a NOT fun is having to chance each time whether or not a hack actually pulls that off for you, when 99% of the time RNG says NO. I've taken over an enemy mech, in my 7 years of playing XCOM a grand total of ONCE. And that was by ACCIDENT because there's no way to pull it off purposefully. I don't know how you would balance it if it wasn't chance based (minus the hacking level obviously), but it'd be nice not only to have more options, but to have at least a little more control over gaining those options. Maybe that's just me though.

Hey. I have a question. How did you replace all rookies with sparks? A mod? I would love to use that too!

One step closer to Long War Templars. I've reconsidered my position since last time; the reason I find the Templars in Long War useless, has likely more to do with the fact that I play Long War with them, and not that they're inherently worse for Vanilla*. (Insert Forgot About That Willem Dafoe GIF)

My First campaign in XCOM2, I didn't get the Base Defence, so I was a bit confused when it happened to me later in subsequent campaigns.

The scatter mechanic was basically someone thinking that explosives were not XCOM enough.

Your narrating and content has gotten sooooo much better. Lol I've binge watched like everything in 2 days

I know I’m late, but I always enjoy your vids. I always put these on my phone while I’m doing a gaming session on my pc. Something about your voice as background noise makes me actually want to keep on trucking in whatever game I’m playing. So yeah, keep up the good work!

Squad wipe......that was rough.

1:41:40 on my second playthrough I experienced that, the ufo just kinda... ignored me? I don't know what happened but it was pretty stressful. Like someone had an axe right up to my neck the whole rest of the campaign.

Merry Christmas and happy new year, Drifter. I remember seeing the 100 grenades video 2 years ago (I can't believe it's been 2 years). All the best for the next year and I can't wait to see where you take your channel next.

i love all the foresahdowing with "i'd hate to post a christmas video where santa dies"

Shell shocked, i will allways remeber that moment in my last playthrough. The warlock had shell shocked and weakness to reapers, he took cover on a truck, my reaper had remote start, the warlock got one shot killed

Drifter, any plans to make a heavily modded run? With like 300 mods it can be a different game, and much harder at that, meaning more fun! If you thought Archon King is tough - try fighting an Exalted Custodian. Or Purge Archbishop. Or Berserker Omega.

Making more unique units with capture trick is annoying so I use console command to spawn them in. Changing classes into them can cause bugs later

wheezing at drifter in the first minute and a half holy moly

Excellent video

1:03:26 As I work in Service Academia, I'm a horrifically jaded, pessimistic and cynical person. It can always get worse.

It's time for playable aliens mod, commander. 'Can you beat xcom 2 with only sneks?' when it gonna happen!?

If you are looking for further chalenging classes: there is a buccaneer class in the workshop with a sword and a sawed off shotgun. That should be very interesting.

I really dont know why but I really love your videos. Ive been rewatching all the challenge runs and still these are one of my favorite videos to chill to :)