How fast can I beat XCOM 2 WOTC? (Ep. 15)

[@BreezeTheCat]

Honestly fair enough drifter. There is a limit to saying “That’s Xcom baby” and just restarting and you have found it.

[@LiroRaeriyo]

that is probably the first time ive ever seen spectral zombies be an actual threat, and it took the game literally cheesing you out of the ability to react to be dangerous

[@jacktessler5797]

In the spirit of your Sanity for future challenges: i'd say if you are thrown against something uncounterable like this bs ever again, just Release a Save from before the mission. Thst will give you a 'new' Mission with a different layout and you wont have to restart a run, while also not giving you an unfair advantage since you are not replaying the same mission

[@chevairelame]

Game: "I'm going to mess up your challenge through complete BS." Drifter: "It's driftin' time."

[@chanm01]

First, I'm blown away by how you've managed to keep this series interesting. I don't know how many times I've watched you play through this game, but the editing and the commentary help a lot. Keep it up! Second, the evolution of the 'Rules' slide has me dying. 😆

[@evilbob840]

I've seen a mod for that friendly fire frustration, so obviously other's have had the same problem. It makes it so resistance fighters are unable to target spectral zombies or mind controlled XCom soldiers. It doesn't work with mods that change the resistance fighters though. Edit: I looked it up again: [WOTC] Don't Pull That Trigger

[@peaoui165]

22:30 - I had a faceless reveal and attack civilians on my first retaliation mission. Said civilian was in a group and cowering next to something explosive. It took out 7 civilians in one swipe and I lost the mission. This was on recruit difficulty as it was my first game.

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

That's awful.

[@goldengolem4670]

No bloody idea why they allowed advent to target civilians with AOE attacks

[@thatonedude]

I had something similar in my most recent run, a faceless swung at a resistance with civilians next to him and all surrounding a car. 7 things died in some glorious ass attempt at being a living bomb.

[@ruthlesace]

Universal constants according to drifter That pod inside the building The sun rising in the morning Bethesda games having glitches I died at that last one

[@RoadRager1904]

oh man, that retaliation was totally unfair. I'm surprised you didn't just reload the mission, while technically breaking honest man, the game wasn't very honest in that situation either.

[@LivingNihilism]

I see what you did there. Killing the chosen except the Warlock just to get some sweet revenge in the final mission.

[@dread7693]

I LOVE THE SCRIBBLES AT THE START OF EVERY EPISODE AND THE FACT IT JUST COVERS MORE AND MORE LMAOO

[@riccardocalosso5688]

Yeah, it's hilarious!

[@pizzacatiscute3658]

What about a “no squad size upgrade” challenge. The challenge is self explanatory, as playing the entire game with only 4 deployment slots vastly lowers your ability to kill enemies.

[@DunCakes]

It's even a built in achievement

[@iamnotjcook]

He could obviously do it considering he beat the game with one soldier

[@randorookie8587]

I almost did that once because I could not for the life of me figure out how to upgrade my squad size

[@beebee4639]

I almost completed my first playthrough of base XCOM 2 without any squad size upgrades because I didn't know about the GTS

[@randorookie8587]

@@beebee4639 good job

[@PeriodicallyRational]

I love the painted over rules.

[@Da_Shark]

3rd time commenting this A "gear is personal" run Not allowed to hit the "remove gear" button and once someone has something you can only upgrade or swap it out from something just as good or better You can swap things and give "hand-me-downs" but it's an honor system thing that stuff "belongs" to each individual soldier

[@SimonBanquillo]

It took me like 9 tries to get this achievement, if anyone wants to try and get this achievement I suggest starting at reapers base and building a laboratory as the first facility

[@awesomesauce980]

The whole build up sequence of 25:00 gives some real John Wick vibes. Like XCOM murdered Drifter's puppy.

[@antoniotrivelloni8191]

Ooh. This achievement is difficult. I’m interested.

[@modest_soup]

What did I learn from the video: when xcom gives you bullshit you give it bullshit right back

[@MarktheRude]

I love the never-ending evolution of the Rules-picture.

[@ForgedinPrint]

I love how in the first few missions, there was the sectoid that tried to mind control your guy, the guy freaks out and shoots the sectoid killing it.

[@Drave_Jr.]

21:10 There's a mod that prevents militia from shooting them, but I don't know if it's in the spirit of the challenge.

[@incompetencelogistics8924]

Considering that the militia shouldn't be killing xcom, I think it's fair to make the resistance soldiers less stupid

[@Wolfeson28]

I can never see that scenario without hearing a frustrated Marbozir yelling at the Resistance fighters, "Don't shoot the Primes. DON'T SHOOT THE PRIMES!" 🙄

[@Drave_Jr.]

@@Wolfeson28 Marbozir had ABA enemies and the Resistance targeted the Primes? Is there a clip of this?

[@Wolfeson28]

@@Drave_Jr. I've tried going through his various playthroughs, but I haven't been able to find it. I can hear his voice shouting it like it was yesterday, but sadly I can't find the clip.

[@PrimroseParadox]

Kicking the game's ass with OP mods can be very cathartic

[@charlierhodes7271]

Would love to see another go at this challenge

[@dashcubeseven5719]

Btw for future runs if you get near the end of a mission and see a soldier has low will you can get them to take minimal damage and then they will be wounded for a couple days and have their will fully restored, doesn’t really work before you get plated armour but it can be really useful after

[@LiroRaeriyo]

i think i just found a use for gas grenades...

[@marcus4424]

You should give yourself a single heart ❤️. What I mean being a break-glass-in-case-of-xcom-bs extra life. A single reload that you can do whenever you want with whatever reason no questions asked, but you only get the one. If you already used it you'd restart like normal. I think that would be a good idea as these challenges get more..... exotic....so to speak. Idk just a thought. Maybe ask your twitch chat how they feel about something like that. Or members. Anyway, love the vids man. It's so great to see the XCOM games get some love from YT and the like, it's a seldom covered game series imo and you're doing gods work with it, thank you.

[@digitaldevil696]

I don't care that this achievement was earned by modifying game files, watching advent being stomped was so satisfying and I honestly feel it was justified. There's only so much XCOM BS one can endure.

[@Totally_Jazzed]

20:44 really feeling you vis a vis the resistance AI here, i once had them kill a high-rank mind-controlled skirmisher, rather than the warlock who was on about 3HP

[@Miresskaa]

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villan

[@darkhawk2463]

That first run is why you don’t leave me behind

[@kazekamiha]

Drifter: Things are going mostly well. Warlock: And I took offense to that.

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Wow, that was a real "f*ck you and a saucer you rode in on" there at the end.

[@friendlyfire3412]

XCOM 2 But just game greatly created for Just "Fuck you"

[@willbrolley262]

This is one of those few achievements that I've yet to accomplish. Good luck, Commander.

[@seanvucich]

Tough run Bro. I know you said that you were over this challenge. But I look forward to your guilt (over bending the rules) and subsequent retry on your own time. Thanks for the content.

[@Pyr0r6]

When life gets you down, just send out 6 colonels to smash some aliens for ya!!

[@maxhocks2006]

Bladestorm, fortress,run and gun, and reaper?!?!?! That’s a monster Templar.

[@yuumahiroto3560]

The retaliation mission in the warlock's territory had me laughing

[@henriquemontalvao8492]

Yeah, I can say with confidence that this is probably faster than a rookies only run. No, I am not giving up on my quest.

[@yann9915]

Honestly, i think this should come as standard. What kind of idiots prepare to overthrow their alien rulers for YEARS but spend a day training their soldiers how to shoot xD Like, the first 4 soldiers at least should start a little higher than rookie but heyo, ggs either way mate :D

[@BiteSizedProduction]

Challenge: How fast can I watch this video?

[@fletcherjones3931]

Currently my time is 32:14... think I can do a quick frame glitch alongside a subsequent bunny-hop to shave off about 5 seconds.

[@brickofbruh1236]

Did you use the sneaky sweaky button mash conbo?

[@misspurdy27288]

Using the gear-glitch I was able to get it down to 16:07

[@ChosenUndead32]

@@misspurdy27288 Do you think the magical sub 10:00 is possible? Even with TAS?

[@misspurdy27288]

@@ChosenUndead32 Since the current rules state no skipping segments, it’s impossible unless we can find a faster gear-bug than 2x.

[@Titan-nh7ue]

You missed the chance to release this video on the 15th

[@The2wanderers]

I always play allowing a reload to before the mission if I get squadwiped. It's tough to find a good balance because the slippery slope ends in reloading for bad rng, but I'm not sure losing your whole run to a crummy mission is the right balance either.

[@sfbismarck9537]

Oh also. I was really surprised to hear "The Assassin has dazed Bismarck" and i thought wait i have not submitted a character yet.

[@MiTaReX]

"Oh no, I can't reload because I play on Honestman, so my solution is filling my new barracks with colonels."

[@ethangarofolo8170]

That’s a tough break. Fwiw, still made for a great episode, as always.

[@JustSome462]

The Assassin had exactly that combination of traits in my last run (although she was weak to reapers instead since i started there) honestly her having Groundling just looks like a cruel joke because even finding her is hard enough, and it's not like you have a godlike sniper early game to exploit it (Though kudos to you for actually managing to exploit it, she always gets me on her turn)

[@beebee4639]

Those spectral zombies are so annoying. I can not tell you how many times I have had one reveal my Reaper just by walking by them.

[@aaronantwine6782]

After hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours of going through hell, it is cathartic to see a max rank ass-kicking.

[@Slywyn]

Hahaha I bet that ending montage was cathartic to make! But now it makes me wonder about a challenge: Colonels only. Restrictions: You can only use soldiers that are of Colonel Rank(*meaning you can start the game with them using your mod) and you can only use Researched Items that are available at the beginning of the game. Barring what you need for story progress. I bet it would be trivially easy at the start but pretty difficult at the end, which would probably be a change from how the game usually ends up being!

[@AusernameBAM]

There’s an achievement for doing the final mission with, uh, rudimentary is the wrong word… whatever, without weapon upgrades. It might be all the gear? definitely the weapons though so that’s basically this idea. It’s called “who needs tygan” 😂

[@abd-animation-22]

I am really enjoying this series

[@AfroChef]

Always have fum watching these. I use starting soldiers to get sergeants for early squad size so no shame on you for having all colonels it's a well earned stress relief run

[@adz108]

When u do these play threws I was wandering what research is paramount? An absolute must right off the bat get this done first type stuff U seem very consistent with ur play throughs So whats ur research strategy ?

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I honestly don't do much research at all. I've played the game for about 2000 hours, so the knowledge is just there lol.

[@AusernameBAM]

@@TheDriftersBroadcastbut like what do you have Tygan research first? 😂

[@NovaTheAngel]

I love the revenge cheat. It was such bull what the game pulled on him, not fair at all, so I think it was well deserved!

[@victorcaldera249]

let the fun begin. que the destruction music: 25:00

[@Btobebone]

I remember my first run of war of the chosen. first chosen was the assassin with the ability to ignore overwatch and immunity to explosions. my poor rookies had almost no way to hurt her or even keep her pinned down to set up good shots

[@Adi-nl1ne]

There is a Mod that makes the Resistancefighter ignore those Zombies and if the Warlord has one unit mindcontrold they also ignore it.

[@kbassi777]

Yes! Can’t wait to watch this!

[@devalk_]

Ah a speed challenge, gotta watch this at 2x playback speed to keep on theme

[@wispfire2545]

Bruh, that ending was a little petty... but a whole lot deserved on Xcom's side. (X

[@will1myers]

That thing with the Spectral Zombie happened to me the second time I faced the warlock, taught me to fear that ability quite a bit.

[@jadenprice1463]

I see a leeson in that thumbnail. I am expecting hilarity!

[@Plaine]

I have returned for another xcom challenge run after a while, I like the new credits.

[@thenut55555]

About warlock use his gun target civilian in one of my campaign he even decide to shoot vip on stranded expedition on his first active turn (i haven't reached vip yet). A lot people said assassin chosen was biggest threats but warlock always cause biggest burh moment in xcom.

[@chan742]

I wonder if Drifter routinely used SPARKs prior to doing these challenge runs. I've always thought of them as a decent early game unit that fell off too much in the endgame, and cost lots of resources, but the last few runs have made me think I've grossly undervalued them.

[@energyipad5566]

Sparks are legit. The only reason I never really use them much is because I obsessively get a medkit on every soldier and they don't benefit from that.

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I didn't use them very much in the past. The last few runs have given me a new appreciation for them.

[@Lunaraia]

When the world throws you bullshit, bullshit back.

[@robguerra4058]

I've been replaying enemy unknown recently and I've completely forgot how nice it feels to send the same squad over and over

[@kanshor]

That templar that you got its the definition of OP

[@Ironica82]

24:00 into video...wait, there's still a lot left of the video 25:00 into video...ohhhh...hehehe

[@lockretvids]

Nah, this is valid in my books.

[@Richard-zu3gz]

My understabding of the concept leaves another concept on the board, the fewest turns.

[@nathanbrady2704]

Is it possible to do the opposite of this run? Perhaps not doing the final mission or any chosen assaults til you have contacted the entire globe

[@brickofbruh1236]

Can you do XCOM with only Akimbo troops? (The Akimbo mod)

[@ilikewater1575]

I remember when I’d play xcom on my Nintendo I’d always get the Assassin as my first chosen with shadowstep as one of her abilities so much to the point that I thought it was the default/ how the game was supposed to go

[@flatrising9212]

Suggestion: can you beat xcom2 with a squad of only aliens on each mission

[@TeeQueueSA]

It's not reloading. It's Multi-Save Drifting.

[@rafaeldeoliveirafran]

World record. Congratulations on the video.

[@takenname8053]

NICE speed run

[@sfbismarck9537]

One may even call this "how fast can i kill?"

[@spinlin113]

Beating XCOM WotC using only Rookies. Alternative title: Xcom but everyone is cannon fodder. :)

[@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando]

Don't you dare slander his name

[@spinlin113]

@@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando Oh I just really wanna see how it would play out!

[@unethicalbagel]

22:24 It looks like the faceless was targeting the resistance operative with the gun and decided to get more bang for its buck with the range of its swing, I think it's kind of like the behavior that causes gatekeepers to angle Gateways to hit corpses that they can't even revive. So it probably wasn't targeting a civilian directly, still a big yikes though lol

[@АндрейБулкин-г9ф]

I see you finaly started to understand SPARK supremacy idea XD.

[@ArtStyleJ]

As one of the people that has this achievement... it is not easy to get to say the least

[@sacredcoil]

Liking these challenge runs. Thoughts on a "Melee only" run? (rangers, templars, skirmishers, and sparks)

The problem is the Sarcophagus, how do you take them down with only melee? Syken did a melee + psykics only run.

[@sacredcoil]

@ they can be the only thing you can shoot (only because you cannot melee them). didn't consider that at first, honestly. whoops.

[@danilomoura9663]

I made this achievement, I had to try like 10 times. I lost several games with several hours. The Sparks saved my run.

[@ryuhanja3415]

next finish campaign without any researching anything but mission objectives

[@Liam-xo5ec]

This is probably the best place to ask. Is it normal that the assassin has 35 health 2 shield and 1 hits my soldiers in the 5 mission of the game, I am playing on veteran difficulty so it's not a difficulty thing, and I have no mods downloaded so it isn't an issue with a mod, please help!

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

No, mate. That is definitely not normal. Something has gone wrong with your game, I think.

[@dennisleibkuechler254]

Dame this Intro musik is nice! What song is that?

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

What Can Never Be by The Tunnel.

[@dennisleibkuechler254]

Thank you Drifter. Love your xcom 2 content btw. Please keep up the good work @@TheDriftersBroadcast

[@imperialspacemarine1539]

Wow the blacksite RNG rose to xcom 1 levels. No Idea how they fucked RNG in Xcom 2 but damn you was lucky

[@Volcarion]

can you beat X-Com WotC without hunting down and killing the chosen?

[@hanzolos1852]

I did an exquisite timing run and ignored the chosen and holy crap. They come in at full power at the end. Particularly the assasin and warlock. Its hella hard considering I only had mag weapons and barely got plated

[@deniskuth9493]

What about beating Xcom with conventional weapons only?

[@thenut55555]

i think because you choose contact warlock region on after guerrilla ops (or not choose guerrilla ops in warlock region) it's cost you campaign because let chosen guarantee appear it later mission (obvious retaliation) will be more frustrated.

[@shantanugupta4442]

Next time do : beating xcom wotc with only secondary weapons

[@DarkCT]

so... I tried this achievement, and.. I lost because the final mission completed ON the 15th and i didn't notice it. so i lost by a few in game hours... I almost feel like just getting revenge.

[@Mike-ut5do]

😂 I bought this game yesterday and playing for the first time and on legendary... I had a tough time. I thought It was just me that keeps getting bad luck 😂

[@JonatasAdoM]

Machinima videos are not dead and this is proof

[@TheVindicar]

How about a run where you only fight Chosen at the end? As in, when they show up earlier, you don't fire upon them specifically (collateral damage from exploding something else is fine).

[@riccardocalosso5688]

So, he has to abandon every mission a chosen show up?

[@TheVindicar]

​@@riccardocalosso5688 well, the question is how kiteable the chosen is. If its impossible to distract/kite them, then yeah, this challenge won't work.

[@riccardocalosso5688]

@@TheVindicar the problem is that most missions require you to kill all enemies unit, and the chosen is considered as such. Also, their walking distance is almost double yours, so not really kiteable.

[@TheVindicar]

@@riccardocalosso5688 yeeeesh... right, I've forgotten they can run accfross the map.

[@Fosuya]

I liked the revenge story

[@eduel2005]

I've been playing xcom for quite a while now and even on veteran, sometimes the game push some bs on us. I admit, looks like people that love this game (me included) are some kind of masochist.

[@alessandrocanale6189]

He dosent care a true chad

[@granatmof]

Eh, I always play for enjoyment rather than preference, soo use a few game breaking mods my favorite shares experience with units not on mission. The default is 25% but it means hunting zombies is a huge boon, and have Lost missions usually end with 100+ units killed. Also I don't like how soldier rank from recruit to colonel. It makes no sense. Imho it would be best if you had to send soldier to officer training to be able to rank into officers, with additional command abilities, but you could only send 1 or 2 officers per mission and can only have so many of each rank officer. It annoys me because a collection of all squaddies or all colonels doesn't have a command structure.