Can I beat XCOM 2 WOTC with only primary weapons? (Ep. 17)

[@Nasrudith]

Task Manager knocked unconscious? I believe the correct phrase is "Task Manager is not responding."

[@matthewjones39]

You’re telling me shrimp fried this rice?

[@youmukonpaku916]

*the paperclip reveals*

[@JamesHall-zs7ui]

this is such a dad joke it left to go get the milk

[@Shark_Puppy]

At this point I think a dev watches your streams and hand picks the worst chosen for your challenges

[@SirEel5]

I bet there also a Patreon so they can see what he said to arrange the next combat

[@rcblazer]

Hard Viper is the guy who you go to when Solid Snake isn't available.

[@luckystarlmao420]

thanks,you made me die of literal laughter.

[@agenticex]

Rigid Reptilian

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Pretty sure he was made to be an actual parody of Snake haha.

[@Baiswith]

Priest: "Avatar, you SOB, keep me alive or we're both going down!" Avatar: ... "That's not how this works."

[@TheSpartan451]

The civilian with the messed up detection is a pretty common bug. Units end up visually appearing in the wrong place, while a "ghost" with their actual statistical/mechanical position exists somewhere else.

[@42meep13]

I had a time this happened to me, with my own troops, and advent, basically every move. This is fixed by re-loading, but the bug popped up again EVERY TURN for THREE MISSIONS STRAIGHT. I abandoned that campaign out of exasperation.

[@MagraveOfGA]

These soldier names are amazing. Though this run was clearly cursed... If anyone wants to die of alcohol poisoning, take a shot every time the soldiers miss an 80%+ shot.

[@dustygamer6304]

Godemi

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Only ever drink responsibly!

[@SIRslipperyasp91]

@@TheDriftersBroadcast Hey Drifter, would you consider doing a ballistic weapon only run? Rules: you can't upgrade to mag weapons or plasma, +1 damage and Modular upgrades are ok, so are all other game machanics like armor upgrades. Maybe you could call it the halo run or something idk.

[@Wikitiki3]

@@SIRslipperyasp91 or in that same vein, a kevlar only run. no armor upgrades or armor items

[@buttknuckles8590]

I kiss you

[@EduardoSanchez-qz9xv]

It sounds easy enough at first but when you think about it, it really does take away a good chunk of options.

[@GreenSwordsman1]

Yeah it's killer (written before watching)

[@kindatim]

Bet special ammo hard carries a run like that

[@duncanquan5471]

The existance of this run, implies to me that we might get another run(if it hasn't already been made), that's just this, but inverted, no primary weapons allowed. *shudder* sounds tough.

[@foxyelpirata6698]

Sounds impossible, to much health in most soldiers and the only viable units would be ranger, psy op and gunslingers. And honestly I feel it would be so useful to just get gunslingers and at that point it would be a sniper only run but easier.

[@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando]

Yeah that would be the secondary only run :) I'm not kidding.

[@randorookie8587]

Definitely doable definitively brutal and he’s gonna have to either be aloud primaries in the first mission or have to start with non rookie units

[@lifefindsaway7875]

Grenadiers could throw grenades again

[@darkhawk2463]

This is currently going on on stream. It’s BAD

[@J0k3R32100]

You should use the playable aliens mod and beat the game using only aliens

[@Velociapcior]

That onr for sure will be banger

[@captainelebelge6142]

^^^ I love this drifter plz

[@SirEel5]

1:17:47 you said the avatar isn’t going to be as useful as usual and I was like “don’t you like never use him?”

[@tafferinthedark]

7:36 "Why is it always the assassin?" - A few episodes back "Why is it always the warlock?" Haha

[@ForgedinPrint]

Watching the cinematic of the faceless made me realize how mimic beacons work. You just can't ignore something that is that dummy thicc.

[@kindatim]

Old comment, I know, but my headcanon has always been that the blue holographic look of the meme beacon is for player's visual clarity, and for enemies it actually looks identical to the real soldier. Now, why do they just accept that there are 2 of the same dude and the second one has appeared out of thin air is a different question XD

[@ForgedinPrint]

​@@kindatimin the chaos of combat, it can be quite difficult to identify that is the case. The ones immune to it like the chosen probably figured out that it's a mimic that's playing as a soldier. And I figured that's how it worked, but I just wanted to make a bad joke.

[@kindatim]

@@ForgedinPrint it's a funny joke, that's all that matters

[@addisonjoy3491]

bro kudos to you for bearing through this run, that was frustrating even from my side lmao, sometimes XCOM really hates all of us.

[@edwardbuott9270]

It was an absolute pleasure to watch some of this insanity live!

[@Da_Shark]

I will once again be recommending the "gear is personal" challenge

[@randorookie8587]

Can you elaborate cause that sounds very interesting

[@lertik3898]

@@randorookie8587 I presume it's using the mod that makes it so every gear/weapon upgrade must be bought individually instead of a squad upgrade

[@randorookie8587]

@@lertik3898 maybe

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Basic idea is when you equip an item on that soldier, no other soldier can use that particular item for the rest of the run. It's a cool idea.

[@twinodoom]

1:26:16 The game has a short list of enemies Holy Warrior isn't allowed to kill. Mainly, Rulers, Gatekeepers, and in this case the Avatar.

[@kanshor]

55:38 Central actually using evasive manubers

[@theteleportedbread8803]

That quiet a suprice

[@vegeta002]

The benefits of not being hamstrung by the script.

[@twinodoom]

The Hunter ufo is the only UFO with an actual chance of being avoided

[@vegeta002]

@@twinodoom Aye, the storyline one is scripted to always catch you and can only be "avoided" by completing the game before it catches you. Kinda wish they'd put a bit more of a show into it though, not just "take one step and wait for the plot".

[@twinodoom]

@@vegeta002 I think the storyline one can also be circumvented by having the Hunter one active when you do the mission that triggers it, but that's probably a bug from the game not being able to process multiple UFOs existing simultaneously

[@thedarkassasin8316]

Yeah I was thinking about this challenge and it really shows how important the utility items are also the templars and Grenadines really came in clutch great work on this

[@Onebadterran]

It would be interesting to start seeing some modded runs. For example, the Heal Bomb could have provided long-range healing via grenadier. You could, theoretically, have your own Steam Mod Packs as collections of mods based on different runs you did so folks could go to Steam, download the mod pack, and try the run themselves when you put up the videos (community engagement).

[@aquabard6095]

you would think the best tank in the game would be the class that gets armor as one of its level ups but no, its the jedi I mean the templar class.

[@lifefindsaway7875]

That delivery at 10:20 is the humor I come to this channel for

[@_mati0054]

Im honestly impressed with You drifter, Tou are able to complete these crazy runs, while im struggling with normal legendary run.

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Legendary is brutal.

[@tomkelly00]

I have yet to get through veteran

[@AchanCham_]

This campaign was an absolute roller coaster. Congratulations on sticking with it and winning! Great video as always.

[@Timelord79]

One comment on the Spark use at the 20:00 minute mark. You used overdrive before starting to shoot them, lowering the aim on consecutive shots. If you rely on 100% kills first you get your action refunded as usual and without aim penalty. you can still activate overdrive at any time for multiple sots on tougher targets or less secure kills later.

[@Lordbowser666]

That avatar is definitely giving the middle finger to that priest for using holy warrior on it

[@Tacoaloto]

Hey Drifter, at 1:01:57, the UI being finicky can be avoided by pressing the "Enter" key to avoid any additional mouse movement. Super useful for grenade and heavy weapon use, too

[@LAZERAK47V2]

I'm pretty sure that the Hunter UFO mission is a one time thing, so if you roll it in a Dark Event, you can safely ignore it because you'll successfully evade it should it get a lock on you.

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I think this is right, but I still get nervous on the chance it's not right haha.

[@AdmiralOrca]

So far in every play through of WOTC I’ve only ever started with the assassin

[@gyny2358]

Somehow, with the tens of hunter UFOs I've encountered, I've never seen the avenger avoid it successfully when that "Interception imminent" pops up. This is the first time I've seen the avenger avoid the ufo with its dodges

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I think the chance to avoid can only occur if you've already done one UFO defence mission. That's just a guess, though.

[@victorcaldera249]

yep that’s exactly right if you have done at least one UFO defense mission if there are anymore then you have a chance to avoid it but don’t count on luck as you know Xcom’s going to Xcom

[@JustinYacob]

Just commenting to boost algorithm

[@Draven-13]

can confirm: Advent priests that go into stasis while on the lift off pad results in the end of your campaign.

[@evilbob840]

Oof, that sucks.

[@antoniotrivelloni8191]

That's bullshit. That just screws you over through no fault of your own.

[@yuumahiroto3560]

Drifter trying to have a nice time Civilian: oH No xCoM

[@craigrussell7542]

Now that's a challenge! Wild.

[@LOVEMUFFIN_official]

Hey: at least it wasn’t the Warlock…experience demonstrates that you have a 33.3% chance of getting the Warlock and the other 66.6% chance is…also the Warlock.

[@wanaan]

This is even more intense than usual.

[@modest_soup]

What did I learn from this video: the rng gods can be very hateful

[@NotDalesDeadBug]

I just picked this game up. I haven't played it in like 4 years and it was on sale. I came up on a pod with a purifier right next to a couple civilians. After watching these videos I had to drop a claymore. I also had to throw a grenade on top of that. Needless to say the pod went down, but there was a few civilian casualties.

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Bless you, friend LOL.

[@alect9278]

41:00 the very definition of that Xoom baby

[@Garf7]

A glorious run, thanks for another one in the bag

[@dagnaldblumbf1882]

I'm starting to think drifter is a masochist after all these runs he endures for our enjoyment... I'm still grateful for the content though, cheers.

[@TrueLawbringer]

This’ll be a rough one, I predict some sniper usefulness as a lot of their skills are for buffing the sniper. Good luck drifter!!

[@mikoajciemiega8018]

I'm playing long war of the chosen now and I can't wait to see you jump into this beautiful mess

[@jerometruitt2731]

They need to hurry up with XCOM 3

[@DarthKrytie]

On the Avenger defense missions, the negative number happens when bonus soldiers appear. So, whatever you start with is what the game registers as the number you need to have return. But, if Babeford sends out more soldiers to help, however many show up cause the number to go into the negative.

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I think there's more to it. I've had extra soldiers show up plenty of times, but don't remember ever getting this glitch before.

[@tomkelly00]

I honestly felt mad FOR you. I raged at this game by proxy. To be clear I love this game but I get the kind of luck displayed in this video and as a result I haven’t played in a long time.

[@Winasaurus]

1:05:31 Getting revealed by the civs and then hard-cutting to the next soldier and there's now a flaming crater where the civilian was stood was even funnier than showing the grenade throw tbh

[@Sacredsnow2]

(For context: this is a plant x4 charge mission with a small compound in the starting area and a large compound with the x4 target, with a large no man’s land in between. The first 2 pods consisted of a heavy mech, an elite trooper, 2 codexes, and an andromedon. I killed them by hacking and controlling the heavy mech and just raining grenades and missles and a couple bits on gunfire to mop up.) After this I set my whole squad up on top of the building in the starting compound and ran the heavy mech across the no man’s land to bait the remaining 2 pods back to the starting compound because there was a full health berserker queen and I wanted to abuse LOS with snipers. Well the mech got off a hit on a priest before it died and the queen starts charging across no man’s land. The priest runs out WITH NO COVER AND HALF HEALTH AND USES HOLY WARRIOR ON THE FULL HEALTH QUEEN. My snipers took out the priest and the queen died without ever getting shot 😂😂😂

[@overlordtycon564]

wow this sounds like a tough one Good luck Drifter

[@IchBinUbermensch]

Excellent content

[@raikaria3090]

That Preist at the end fighting for the other team.

[@BlackTempleGaurdian]

38:30 had me have to stop the video to recover from laughing.

[@loki4687]

"It's times like this when I think about dedicating my channel to a different game" lol

[@loler1565v2]

Drifter, I watched you video on how to use the starting soldiers mod and wanted to try and use it. I noticed that in generated any soldier other then the Sparks ( only they dont work) and wanted to ask you what you did to get them to be generated from the start for your Spark only run. For the line in the starting soldiers file I have "+CHARACTER_INFO=(SoldierName="Spark-666",SoldierClass="Spark",SoldierRank=2)" .

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

The Spark has to be in the character pool, otherwise the mod won't generate it. Also, some people told me they got it to work by replacing the '+' at the start of the line with a full stop.

[@jasonfox6932]

Using grenades on civilians is the same as not even bringing them for gameplay purposes.

[@elianas1121]

I wonder if Milo Murphy is a random gen or a submitted character referring to Milo Murphy’s Law? The theme of “anything that can go wrong will” certainly fits with XCOM…

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Pretty sure he's a viewer submitted character.

[@christophervanoster]

13:26 see i knew I wouldn’t let you down

[@henriquemontalvao8492]

Damn, I think I missed this one. Good thing it's not the rookies only run.

[@Toei-Rei]

Nice one - btw there are classes that you could mod in and do 'only %class' runs; I saw some used on a different stream, but I never really saw how good they really were (guys with shields)

[@UtterlyShagged]

Might be spartans from halo.

[@kanshor]

40:52 DAMM you archon because of you we could not have more XCOM

[@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando]

Well now we never have to think about single weapon type runs ever again. Until the secondary only run coming out whenever it does

[@chan742]

Drifter you madman!

[@RevolverOcelotMGS1]

I believe The first stronghold mission is guarantied to have crysilids so they spawn regardless of game progress.

[@1forge2rulethemall88]

I usually keep my rangers at mid distance and let advent come closer before using swords so I rarely give them shotguns. Plus you dont have to research the shotgun upgrades, but maybe I havent given them a fair shake.

[@lalalalalalalalalala-js5xl]

Julian is really lore accurate

[@YourFunkiness]

Let's be honest, the RNG god of the XCOM franchise is an angry god, easily angered and prone to devious vengeance.

[@kevindoyle1884]

you should narrate audio books your voice is so soothing

[@JonatasAdoM]

I think you should have allowed items like Sustain Sphere. It only triggers if your soldier is downed. Without healing it isn't really impacting the mission, only the campaign. You can also could gave just committed to not using that soldier and turned it into a "wounded soldier moving towards MEDVAC" After all the Wraith suit gives you extra dodge It's crazy how you played this run closer to my weird playstyle. I love primaries. You see the target, you shoot the target. I need to watch the stream to see how you've managed to get the hack objectives without gremelins. I don't think I'd have sticked to the game if I had to be up close like I used to do when I started playing. PS: How is a priest even able to holy warrior their elder overlord? They're supposed to be their gods. They are powering them. Hey, at least the game acounts it isn't a normal human unit!

[@hotik196]

I have an idea for your future run. Using only DLC classes (Reapers, Skirmishers, Templar and SPARKs)

[@kbassi777]

A lot more difficult than it appears to be.

[@evilbob840]

I've seen that negative soldier count bug on the Avenger defense mission too. No idea what caused it though. It does seem to be both super rare and harmless (as long as you know if you really still have soldiers outside the zone or not).

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

That was my biggest fear - that I'd forget someone and leave them behind.

[@protonicprotogen6304]

Cant wait for Cannon Fodder the fourth

[@RaineAsteria]

Fascinating!

[@bauma9015]

i'd suggest using spacebar to confirm abillities instead of m1 because klicking can slightly shift your target area as seen at 1:02:00

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Cheers.

[@Lugghandle]

Not using a Specialist's Gremlin...... I don't think I could bare it.

[@ivomollov3073]

This was the most satisfying rule break I've seen in your runs. Shame you didn't show the second grande

[@qberrygamz7049]

So what if you did a convsntial weapens run. Your allowed to use anything I currently military may have a few examples being. Experimental grenades such as fire or gas grenades Heavy weapens such as rockets. Flamethrower or shredder guns All the weaves are available. The big thing is you cannot upgrade to magnetic or guase weapens All the ammo are fine since l all have a modern equivalent. No restrictions on armor as this run would already be brutal as is. You should gicd it a shot though

[@jerometruitt2731]

Primary weapons only....I'd only run snipers and grenadiers

[@Max-sz9ez]

But what about those juicy shotguns?

[@jerometruitt2731]

@@Max-sz9ez those are good too, but snipes and nades would be more fun

[@Kirbycrasher2746]

this should be titled "can i beat XCOM 2 WOTC while missing every shot"

[@matril328]

Would it be possible to beat the game without firing a gun? Everything would be allowed except guns. That would mean you can’t take out chosen as there is no way to damage sarcophagus (unless I’m missing out something) and the late game would probably be hell and bladestorm cheesing

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I have been thinking about this one.

[@mister-no1418]

What song do you use for your openings? Think its great and id love to listen to the full song

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

What Can Never Be by The Tunnel.

[@nater6265]

I'm actually getting mad watching you miss all these shots, typical xcom

[@TheWanderingLPer]

I wonder if the negative numbers in the Avenger Defense mission had anything to do with you getting an Advent Defector on that mission? But that wouldn't explain why it went to -2, so I dunno.

[@sparkydl289]

A bit late but it seems he had the bonus to get an extra resistance rookie during missions later which would explain the -2. It could be that drifter just forgot to tell us.

[@mobgabriel1767]

Holy shit this is going to be a hard one

[@theclone9123.]

for sure Btw are you on twitch often? just wondering Because i reconogize your name (Im Datopreativeboiozzy or "dato" as ive been nicknamed in the chat)

[@mobgabriel1767]

@@theclone9123. not that often but i appear in some streams of the king of skill(and If i manage to remenber i should appear in the drifter's streams too

[@theclone9123.]

@@mobgabriel1767 ah

[@darkhawk2463]

Drifter knows that this bad RNG is nothing compared to what comes next. Still waiting for Darkhawk to show up again

[@socratesfe6616]

How about a NO RESEARCH run? Only story research is allowed, and you can use whatever comes from that. But no optional research allowed, including weapon upgrades.

[@freddiepearson3434]

Now we wait for secondary’s only

[@freddiepearson3434]

Ain’t no chance this guy does it he like the comment

[@victorcaldera249]

38:27 this is the only situation where utility items are allowed

[@Wolfeson28]

Another great run, pushing through despite all of the frustrations. Some of those missed-shot streaks were insane! I'm sorry though, I can't help but cringe at some of your concealed scout placements that get you revealed due to "pure bad luck".

[@Kangorg21]

Id be interested to see the average hit chance of shots you took compared to the percent of shots landed or grazed

[@JonatasAdoM]

Steve is back! : (RIP Steve) No! You said Civilian wasn't ADVENT! You can't commit war crimes. That is either a collaborator or a xeno (maybe your soldier had a debt to settle) You've also ignored that Specialists have Guardian Since I don't have cash, I will give you a sub on twitch for all these amazing edited videos. In the words of KZbin survey "They have changed my life✅"

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Thanks very much. You're too kind. :)

[@akix4163]

i honestly think RNJesus is better than RNGods the reason being in REJesus you hear the G in RNG but you don't in RNGods. still i think your xcom 2 challenges are insane

[@luggy9256]

Personally I would allow any passive utility items, they would really compensate for lack of grenades.

[@TheGunblade911]

Nice Vod! But are you sure you are reading the chance to hit and not chance to miss? i bet this is just a typo ;) Keep it up \o/

[@casuscnactus4864]

Hey, just wanted to tell you that I enjoy your niche XCOM channel. The crazy challenges are very entertaining to watch. Maybe this is the way to enjoy the game for the longest of times, because I tried to beat it regularly on legendary difficulty and found you could not do it all the time since so much luck is involved to survive the early game with kevlar armour. What are your thoughts on this guys?

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I really don't enjoy legendary. Everything just takes too long and I end up getting bored.

[@casuscnactus4864]

@@TheDriftersBroadcast I can hardly believe that coming from a man who has completed the game hundreds of times :P

[@casuscnactus4864]

@@TheDriftersBroadcast But jokes aside, I can understand that. The moment you notice you have outdone the AI is the moment the enjoyment fades away.

[@dooomninja]

why don't you make use of overwatch ambushes? there are a couple of time i would have thought breaking concealment with overwatches would have cleared out the whole pod, but instead some get away and almost throws the mission

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

There's a chance the enemy will shoot at you if you break concealment on their turn. So it can be risky.

[@syncmonism]

Having basically no healing does make the game a lot less forgiving

[@JonatasAdoM]

Hey, Shotgun + Bluescreen Rounds= Shockgun? Also, I don't think having Julian turn coat was a coincidence at all, if you catch me Drift.

[@lokieleven2694]

Can anybody please tell me how his XCOM normal classes have the expanded skill trees??

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

It's the promotion screen mod I'm using. It's either called something like New Promotion Screen by Default or Community Promotion Screen.

[@giacomomeluzzi280]

I'm like, 90% positive the hidden aim buff activates after the second miss, not the first one.

[@RevolverOcelotMGS1]

I had a 100 chance shot once and my guy missed. I reloaded cause that's bs and they missed again but the third times the charm. I assume this is xcom2 saying to me that they do a little bit of trolling.