Can I beat XCOM 2 WOTC when it's a zombie apocalypse?

[@alessandrobresciani1717]

27:50 at this point i find even more interesting how Drifter starts a new challenge just to discover a new type of grenade to throw at civilians, amazing

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

😂

[@riccardocalosso5688]

I feel that the warlock, as in the one chosen capable of summoning zombies, being immune to the zombies' damage is pretty on point. And also the fact that his weakness just beckons more undeads? A true necromancer.

[@HellishSpoon]

Ah... left 4 dead 2: enemy unknown

[@loknathshankar5423]

Been a while, glad that you are back, and do take care of your health)) the challenge looks interesting, I'll grab my popcorn)) Edit : Gotta love the XCOM community, the mods are insane.

[@wardenohellmonday5449]

ho-ly shit.

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Cannot thank you enough for your ongoing support and generosity, mate. I hope you are doing well. 🙏

[@entertheunknown3554]

@TheDriftersBroadcast one step closer to a starlink device >:]

[@softxpandguest708]

When you were talking about the lost's outfits, I distinctly heard you say, "There's police officers, cheerleaders... Even clams!" That one got a double take and a laugh, so thank you.

[@IronBrisingr]

He said clowns unless there is some inside joke I'm missing here?

[@sevenclovers7]

@@IronBrisingr its the accent, same thing happened to me too lol Also with ‘poison clayods’

[@robinvanrossum4522]

If Drifter would do a playable aliens run would he combine them all or would he do Sectoid, Viper, Muton and Andromedon all apart for a dedicated run. If he did that he could even let the patreons vote in what order.

[@Alelip1000]

hopefully Drifter would set some rules as to keep the powercreep balanced, since as we can imagine using only sectoids would be impossible, and only andromedons way too easy. maybe he could try "swapping" some tech research for alien troops unlock ? eg if you research plasma you get andromedons, research sparks you get sectopod, research predator armor you get mutons, and so on

[@456death654]

I want to play as a gate keeper

[@АлексКошкин-д3щ]

​@Alelip1000 I think it would be cool to try and emulate the pods that we (the player) can encouner at this point in the game I.e. initially we can only do captains and troopers, the sectoids roll around, then mechs, vipers, so on Another cool thing would be to obey the sitreps as much as possible. If the sitrep says "mechs only" then we only bring mech units for example The only concern I can instantly think about is unit levelling, since I feel like that would be a huge part of the game, maybe something like pokemon evolutions? I.e. a trooper can evolve into a captain, purifier, priest, etc

[@cornellblok9543]

@@456death654There is actually a mod for that

[@JamesHall-zs7ui]

No one has really done it besides the advent civil war game mode

[@365autorifle8]

At 1:09:45, the reason why Andrey's aim went down was because you didn't have Banish selected beforehand. You were only aiming at the Assassin with his regular shot first, then when you did the free reload, you selected Banish with Banish having a small aim penalty if I remember correctly.

[@mehdilacombe7241]

A stacking penalty, right? Which is why the other shots missed.

[@365autorifle8]

@@mehdilacombe7241 It's only -15 for ALL shots. So the 1st shot was an 87% miss, but with low profile, 67% chance to hit.

[@marekmiarka8550]

You can also see, that after the free reload, the chance to hit on a regular shot is still 100% (It appears for a couple of frames).

[@kuronanestimare]

4:55 YAY! My Skirmisher finally get a chance to shi- 5:00 Oh... Well, RIP I guess. 5:28 Super RIP actually.

[@KFP_Prophet]

Zombies in the Chosen chamber is kinda funny. I like the idea that they somehow snuck in through the vents or something and the Warlock was like "Eh they can't hurt me, might as well keep them as decoration"

[@frozenheartedgiant8330]

Honestly, I feel like with the story missions occurring in important locations for the aliens, even in the mists of a world wide zombie apocalypse, those locations would be zombie free. So I think I am going to take this challenge, but leave the story missions unchanged, and set the threat level to 20 at the games start. Make my strat be throwing zombies at the aliens I have no hope of killing.

[@davidwynn4153]

If Pokemon has taught me anything, if anything is not 100% guaranteed, in only has a 50% chance of success. XCOM clearly understands this universal truth.

[@johnthompson3109]

DerAva in LW2: "Ugggghh I hate lost!! Remove them" Drifter in the last mission: "We are the monsters.." Love you both

[@Wicvho]

Well lost are not liked by the Community

[@Haru-spicy]

episode 289 of a content creator apologizing for sounding weird due to recent sickness only to sound completely normal to everyone else

[@snowyimp333]

I hope you have done this on 288 videoes before this one because that would be really damn funny

[@InsaneFrame]

heck yes! love this idea! going to do necromancer class for halloween :)

[@jacobaurand1672]

I'm going to be honest, I didn't expect to see Insane Frame comment on one of Drifter's videos. You too should play a game of XCOM 2 multiplayer sometime. I'm 90 percent sure that there are mods to get it to work again. I'd love to see something like that. Keep up the great work! Edit - I'm not entirely sure if Enemy Unknown ever had multiplayer cut out but even if it was I'd imagine it'd be much easier.

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Looking forward to it, chief!

[@goldengolem4670]

I am loath to use the term but you really cooked with this one drifter, perfect for spooktober. Cant wait to watch it before bed

[@DragonxFlutter]

Nice to see a run that isn’t a LongWotC Solo Class! If you want another break from those, I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing you break into the Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within scene!

[@DarkCT]

This was an amazing run to see, and i was so waiting to finally watch it go down. I think I'm going to do something similar on my own after seeing how this one shook out. im so glad to see this video released, and glad to see you back, Drifter!

[@Time_Sync]

Different and fun! Thanks Drifter, I enjoyed it! Each campaign takes on its own unique feel, and I'm always learning new things about the game. Thanks for that explanation of the lost lure, that was very helpful.

[@CrabbyGameGuy]

Definitely worth the wait. Entertaining as hell and I learned so much from watching. Great content. Feel better and keep it coming!

[@chevairelame]

Can't believe it's been a year since the necromancers already. Glad to see you're still grinding down the hours on XCOM 2

[@ormtapp6014]

This is crazy. I remeber watching the vods for this playthrough almost a year ago

[@segatv2426]

1:32:14 Funny thing that happened to me on this final mission before I made it to the avatar fight room, I hacked/Mind Controlled a Gate keeper and when the maps changed the gatekeeper was in the void basically still controllable and since Gate keepers fly/hover I was able to bring it all the way from the void into the fight to help me.

[@MofuggerX]

Fuck yes a new Drifter upload, let's rock and roll! Glad to see this one eventually got put on the KZbin. I was worried we'd never see it when 2024 came around.

[@syncmonism]

In the video he states that the Sectopod can only attack once, but one of its unique abilities is actually that it absolutely CAN shoot its main armament twice in the same turn, and, iirc, it actually has up to THREE total actions, though I don't think all three are allowed to be attack actions. It usually seems to engage that delayed attack as its second attack action, which is probably its least effective ability, but it can just shoot its standard gun twice in a row if it wants to, and I've seen it do that before. Trying hacking one and see for yourself what it can do if you don't believe me.

[@syncmonism]

I usually play on Impossible difficulty, so I'm not sure if the Sectopod actually can shoot its main armament twice in a row on all difficulties.

[@LiroRaeriyo]

@@syncmonism it can do that shit on rookie

[@semajniomet981]

In Enemy Unknown and Within it was two action points, but it got a free overwatch after firing.

[@redrobby9939]

This is making me want to play another Xcom run!

[@DoeJam13]

Here we really see the inverse difficulty of the game at work, early on every mission is won by the skin of your teeth but once your soldiers start levelling up the game becomes much easier. It probably was much faster with the amount of extra exp they were getting per mission from the Lost kills.

[@CyberVonCyberus]

I usually run the Lost2Orks conversion because I think the regular zombies are boring, but your setup makes for some very tense missions. Well done.

[@daniel9630]

Class video Drifter! Love to see a new upload on the channel as always, very excited :) Like + subscribed

[@thedarkassasin8316]

Huh, Xcom: Project Zomboid. Very appropriate for Spooky Month, thank you for suffering for our entertainment once again

[@ilikewater1575]

1:00:18 “if I go down you come with me” ahh play 💀

[@Agnus958]

When the world needed Drifter the most, he appears

[@poppy3318]

Jokes on you. The Lost have no soul. Trying to reap them is the equivalent of eating celery to get get fat.

[@evilbob840]

You said early on that lost lures will make the lost focus on things in the AOE for a turn. This is wrong... it's eight turns...

[@Wicvho]

Eight Turns these things are underrated

[@evilbob840]

@@Wicvho Yeah, they are super powerful. Also, as long as even one enemy is marked, you can completely ignore the lost, they will not attack you. The only thing to worry about is hitting your own people with it.

[@Wicvho]

@@evilbob840 well if one of the Soldiers have an Slot free at the Lost World Dark Event i have an Item

[@charlierhodes7271]

Oh my fuck. He unshackled the AI. The madman.

[@quaternarytetrad4039]

Thank you kindly for the content! It was a lot of fun.

[@LoIazors]

Cool run, love what you did with this one

[@Ironica82]

7:52 - Odd, in his current campaign, just had a 98% chance miss while the enemy were hitting him with 37% chances.

[@trippen4819]

Good fun, thanks Drifter!

[@jonathanwilson8951]

10:17 They're good for burning enemy overwatch shots as well :)

[@Mastercheap]

0:40 Nah, that just a couple of lost, I don’t know what your talking about

[@entertheunknown3554]

Didn’t think this would be out so soon

[@ejnorth8040]

It’s been a long time since I commented glad to see you haven’t run out of ideas.

[@Headbanger203]

Drifter's back

[@peterkershaw11]

I was hoping to see the rare crit build Reaper on this run. Basic gist is superior laser sight, talon rounds, and the Soul Harvest passive at Captain rank (+5% crit for every kill made by the Reaper on the mission, maximum of +20%, Lost kills count) Shooting a flanked target with this build is a guaranteed critical if the Reaper has three kills, two if you have Inside Knowledge. That's +3, +4, or +5 damage per tier per shot. If the Reaper also gains Deadeye and his or her aim is high enough, you can land a guaranteed crit for *19-20 damage* using the plasma Shadow Lance! Provided you researched Improved Vector Rifles and Improved Plasma Weapons, that is. Now, it's not as good at shooting targets that are behind or don't use cover, you have to be in *ClOsE rAnGe* to get the crit chance to 100%, and you can't crit while using Banish, but it is by far my favorite way to play with Reapers.

[@retrowarrior803]

Yess this’ll might be your best video yet

[@TeeLanford]

The reason that ADVENT overwatch at 32:28 instead of shoot her to death was because evac zone. In their AI, the enemy that in evac zone vicinity, first enemy will have 100% (or 75%, can't remember exact percentage) chance to overwatch and the second will have 50% chance to overwatch. You can actually abuse this by dropping evac when you want to distract the enemy to not shoot you. Personally, I think it a little bit to gamey to use though but to each their own anyway.

[@vulkarma741]

Xcom vs Zombies 2: the CLOSE RANGE menace

[@Lies-are-Life]

Aeto be like: Senpi died to save me, i shall honor his death" Or smth like that

[@Onebadterran]

Phoenix Point TFTV is finally released, might be worth visiting

[@samcadwallader1561]

good vid for halloween. idea: Can you beat X2WOTC in 100 attacks or less? kinda similar to the 100 nades video but it wouldn't need modding. :) good stuff as usual.

[@shp27493]

Final mission would be impossible

[@j2the3po]

I don't think it's possible, you need to beat at least 15-20 missions to beat the game. That's like 7 attacks per mission and it can take that many on a single gatekeeper or sectopod.

[@stephanwagner6189]

Would Over watches and blade storm count? If so, this could be possible using Specialists, Reapers, Rangers and Templar's. Would be fun to see him being forced to not Alphastrike every time but falling back

[@samcadwallader1561]

@stephanwagner6189 that would be up to drifter to decide. To be honest I say 100 arbitrarily, more like "how few attacks does it take" might be a better way of doing it. Either way could be a fun watch

[@mackenchiez1998]

Me when new drifter video: Hell yeah :)

[@alessandrocanale6189]

14:21 This is a certefied xcom moment

[@ShupMup]

Hey, was wondering when the next one would be coming out. Nice to see it. Edit: now that I’ve seen the rules, this seems like it’s gonna be very fun.

[@legateelizabeth]

"Senpai would be proud" I think you mean 'senpai would have noticed her'...

[@teampyro231]

so glad drifter is doing this xp is easy to grab now

[@vulkarma741]

Hmm you could do any one specific action per mission run (this excludes stuff like items and movement). You can do with the idea however you think the rest of the rules would be and any caveats.

[@Mikimarux]

Yes! Perfect timing.

[@bigalf2320]

HES BACK AND HES BETTER THAN EVER!

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Thank you so much for the generosity! 🙏 Hope you enjoyed this one, chief.

[@Plaine]

1:09:45 banish has an aim penalty but the quick target preview shows the chance for a standard shot not banish. The reload has nothing to do with it. Edit: Also each subsequent banish shot has a lower chance to hit after the first(I think this is still in the vanilla version but that could be wrong) Edit 2: You should use the luck meter mod. I’ve found that it’s such a fun way of seeing just how unlucky you are. Are you really that unlucky, or are you doing better than you think? It often feels bad but the luck meter says you’re not allowed to complain. If you do use it I recommend activating the 350 point calculation instead of the default 100, and also turn on the enemy luck meter and the shot breakdown. You’ll need Mod Config Menu for that.

[@SkeletonAngel_]

EW Sectoid to his friend: they are just civilians، besides they won't come to bite us one day *20 years later*

[@PhiltheuniKoRn]

I did something similar but not a zombie apocalypse per say aliens released a zombie virus and the scp foundation showed up and straight umbrella corporationed some of them to where bio weapons show up at the worst times I was using LWOTC for obvious reasons along with several raider factions the scp foundation its rivals the GOC and Chaos insurgency, the local rebels, reapers, skirmishers, Templars, and some random other human based factions that can interrupt any mission as a 3rd or 4th faction in battles that may or may not be allies (usually not) but any mission that had the word lost were bring rookies to lvl up and 1 or 2 badasses with auto melee if they get close and save alot it's probably crashing... 1 grenade goes off and the wall pour out with lost hordes every turn. throwing a grenade and watching the lost kill one of the chosen is hilarious

[@Bonjairno]

I love these videos, so many zombies lol

[@DylanBeaudry]

40:39 the AI can use melee attacks on the device (when revealed). I've seen a muton do it before.

[@Jaaykoraam68]

Drifter: “This was such a bad play” Me: Already!!?😂😂😂

[@The_Starfleet_Ensign]

I love how you could use everything here. instead of having to restrict yourself.

[@Nycoorias]

I don't think you fully comprehend how strong the lost lure actually is. The tag does not last one turn, it lasts 9!

[@kala457]

Me seeing drifter having plasma weapons and doing the forge mission halfway into the video and wondering what else there is to talk about, when you are already at the end game?😂😂😂😂

[@Alelip1000]

based drifter, hope you're doing good man.

[@mobgabriel1767]

"and then the ranger with blade storm,untouchable and aid protocol gets stuck with the lost" OH NO... Anyway

[@TheBookOfAkersGaming]

Im sas you did not show off a 20+ lost Faceoff. I know that doing the shots individually is smarter, it just would have been Really COOL!

[@xyiux]

Grenadier: sits in sadness

[@SuperMixedd]

Hey, wake up, babe. New drifters video landed

[@hgesler]

I play with the “new” lost since day 1 playing Xcom that I find it strange that he’s discovering these lost. The only time i played without it, was so strange and easy to play against it that i had to restart and active it again.

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

Blast Padding! Let's goooo!

[@brickofbruh1236]

Eyyy, I remember helping come up with this one :D

[@wanaan]

Heeyyyy, Haloween episode! Noisce!

[@Gibbo81]

Great video!

[@alect9278]

1:09:37 I’m pretty sure that banish reduces aim when used just like chain shot… still very bad luck here though

[@mlogan2k2]

It sounds like a team of bladestorm rangers would absolutely destroy this challenge, though that would depend on them being able to take care of all three of the Chosen.

[@nomen6426]

NEW DRIFTER CONTENT !!!!

[@samueltrusik3251]

Rule explanations end here: 4:20

[@stephanwagner6189]

Banish gets an aim penalty, that's why the chance dropped from 100 to 87

[@r.k.5031]

Let's fucking GOOO! For the algorithm!

[@takenname8053]

Happy early Halloween!

[@Lies-are-Life]

Now to do this with lw2.... or with solo class runs

[@Samiska19]

xcom but i control the aliens would be cool

[@SaltyRocksPew]

I just wanna say that all guerilla ops are optional. I still do them early game for the XP but lategame if all the dark events are things you just don't care about and you just did a retalliation mission so all your soldiers are tired, who cares? There's no consequence for skipping guerilla op missions except for the dark events so I usually skip them.

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Skipping missions will cause AVATAR progress to accelerate. You're better off just sending one person in and immediately evaccing, rather than skipping the mission entirely.

[@SaltyRocksPew]

@@TheDriftersBroadcast Fair point but I guess I don't really care when I'm skipping them. When I'm comfortable enough lategame to just be throwing out avatar progress covert actions everytime I see them I don't even blow up the facilities anymore.

[@10011110011]

I had a similar run by accident with a setting where advent events dont go away. Lost word. Played maps for hours. I hated it.

[@kevingarnett1255]

This didnt get reccomended to me until 3 weeks after it was uploaded? Im subscribed, but i never ring the bells. Guss i should do that here

[@kanshor]

Why youtube didnt tell me about this video or the next one 😢 I am going to enjoy this sooo much

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Click the notification bell!

[@lyndsaypeters5981]

11:51 he's been planning

[@dskdev]

cant believe i missed this video youtube notifications suck

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

Click the bell!

[@TheIsopulse]

At a guess every mission is a lost mission

[@thisismykingdomcome8743]

Just a quick question, how did you unshackle the enemy ai?

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I modified one of the game's INI files. Can't remember the details though, sorry.

[@thisismykingdomcome8743]

@@TheDriftersBroadcast thats all right thanks tho

[@Wicvho]

Well they're definitly no longer Lost

[@wispfire2545]

Have you thought of making videos about Phoenix Point? I just got into it and I feel like it could have an audience.

[@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando]

Once you get into it and... Look minor spoiler, the final boss is the worst thing in the entire game and dlc, bring a couple engineers, and overstock your healing supplies when you get into the final mission. Anyways once you get deep into the game try the Terror from the Void mod.

[@wispfire2545]

​@@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrandoYeah, maybe I could have managed without the spoiler, or I could have just taken the L to the chin. Still, you propably meant well and I'll remember to taka a look at those mods.

[@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando]

@@wispfire2545 I really do mean the worst thing in the game though, like well over 1000 health and has a gimmick, so over prepare to the absolute maximum. The playthrough that I won was with the religious zealots, maybe worst or better for others. Good luck, have fun.

[@wispfire2545]

@@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando Bruh, you really start by saying "I really do mean the worst", right after me saying "you propably meant well". XD Anyways, I'll take your word for it. I did start making friends with New Jericho from the beginning, they seem cool. (:

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I would like to play more Phoenix Point, yeah.

[@Justadonkey]

God I wish MSI would hurry up with fixing my laptop I wanna play xcom again... I should of done more research before going with them

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

They're pretty bad when it comes to desktops too. 😥

[@ilikespagett1514]

is there any reason why he almost never does overwatch ambushes? setting everyone to overwatch before breaking concealment to get huge free damage off

[@firetube8288]

Overwatch fire doesnt lead to the extra action of taking down a lost

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

I do use them sometimes, just not often. The reasons are 1) you can't control who your troops target and 2) if they miss (which they will), it gives ADVENT an entire turn to react.

[@andrewsalyer9658]

Which mod was it that increased/added lost to every mission, or did you do it yourself?

[@TheDriftersBroadcast]

The story missions I had to do myself. For the others; [WOTC] Multiple Sitreps 2.0: Guaranteed & Categories.

[@_mati0054]

TWD: drifter edition