Xybia Character Showcase: Genestealer Cult Magus Comes to Tacticus

[@pokiefeg]

Jada Pinkett Smith looking mighty powerful, gotta see how does the whole faction complement each other with the Invasion gimmick from the cults

[@bluemilkalienmonster522]

“Keep my magus’s name out yo f-ing mouth!”

[@nickgarnero9843]

Haha ​@@bluemilkalienmonster522

[@jmmangulabnan6710]

Keep her name out of your mouth or she'll summon Will Smith in ambush

[@pumpkinsoul12]

man I had some work done on my tooth and laughing abruptly at this comment made it hurt like a bitch worth it

[@bdm0352]

Naw Xybia looks more like Okoye from the Black Panther movie, even the outfit is similar.

[@matthewacker7796]

The first character to wear all of the faction-specific upgrades on its model.

[@joaoguilhermeassim]

So true!!!!

[@jdurthu4304]

Is it? I see a lot of upgrades on other characters, like SWolves

[@aloser8703]

So excited to use the existing nids along side these two Gsc. The four armed emperor embraces all

[@V3n0mXIlI]

I hope with the addition of GSC we get a "Biophagus" that can fill the role of a healer for Xenos.

[@angelotomasi9413]

This comment aged well lol

[@sqocks8254]

I really like her tool kit and she definitely seems like a character fitting for my preferred play-style. ^^ It's nice to have more characters where positioning genuinely matters for their gameplay mechanics. Also; I absolutely love the clothing for this character model.

[@sqocks8254]

The only thing I dislike is Xybia's body. Gene-Stealer (especially Magi) are established to have pale skin colouration (with possibly a bluish, purplish or greenish tint), which reflected their alien heritage really well. Snowprint got this down excellently for the Neophyte Hybrids, but Xybia doesn't seem to have any alien features going aside from the forehead.

[@thebraveguy9808]

Thanks Nandi for using all the tools in the dev kit to show the intricacies of Xybia's abilities. It was very helpful in finding out how she works.

[@ishalamboo6446]

I like that Snowprint is trying to recreate the cult ambush from tabletop, but it sounds very very fiddly in Tacticus, with very limited movement, summons that prefer the same hexes as the ambush tokens do and ofc the Forgefiend that can take out up to 3 adjacent tokens each turn.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

My forgefiend has taken out upwards of 8 or 9 summons in a single round before. 3 tokens per round is a lil bit of an understatement.

[@ishalamboo6446]

@@LordCrate-du8zm I was thinking of the fire from passive replacing tokens, but if the active kills them too it's even worse.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

@@ishalamboo6446 I think they can be targeted by the primary. If Volk's ability can then I think the Forgefiend might be able to.

[@CJNoU]

Excellent video as always, Nandi. Thanks for your in depth content.

[@JakecJax]

For the many handed emperor!!

[@vegladex]

Very excited to see/hear more about the GSC! Aberrant feels like a sure thing for a third character, so that leaves two. I think the Kelermorph is too iconic not to have, and he would probably have a similar passive to Imospekh. As everyone says, a Biophagus would be GREAT to have too, as a Xenos healer. He'd also have a passive that buffs adjacent allies, or an active with a strong, maybe permenant buff. It's also worth considering that they could add a Nexos, Clavamus, or Iconward with stronger summoning capabilities, or maybe a Primus to complete the trifecta of Cult Leaders. I struggle to think what his abilities might be though. As a general "leader" he could do practically anything! Lastly, a Jackal would be cool for a fast-moving attacker, maybe with a move-shoot-move like Calandis.

[@TheGabb3r]

That genestealer can steal mine aaaaanytime! Joking aside, I'm really curious about the new faction's core dynamics and synergies, can't wait to try them out

[@SamwellFuqua]

Very robust video Nandi! You covered a lot of angles, which I appreciate. Now, I just need to collect this shiny unit, so that she can collect dust until later. 🍻

[@aethlast6180]

Thanks Nandi! Love your vids

[@GabrielRamirez-qj4wy]

Cuidados muchachos, hay Xenos entre nosotros

[@ChazWalser]

This’ll be interesting to see happen

[@Persianbond]

This seems like a very unique model.

[@supsley]

Maybe decoy act like money stash, cannot be targeted but can be swooped by multitarget active like Volk.

[@joshy7759]

Evil twin of Sibyll 😂

[@markpreston6345]

God I need to get my act together!

[@Dweliv]

ty bud !

[@Daniel-s7r7v]

Genestealers hopefully going to mesh well with Neuro and see psyker teams revive!!

[@Joey-cj5rf]

Does it stack with Roswitha active?

[@RobDagger]

G.i. Jane 2 - cant wait to see it 😂

[@jmmangulabnan6710]

THE ASCENSION IS NIGH BROTHERS AND SISTERS!! 😈

[@King0fAkkCalamities]

Thanks for the info Nandi! She seems so niche, like i can only view hervas a gimmick in TA and Guild War, but a gimmick nonetheless.

[@Para-GR]

The elephant in the room remains the fact that there are simply not enough resources any more. Adding characters makes the, already pitiful reward systems, diluted even further. Paywalls such as Orbs have hardened. Random shard drops have become meaningless with so many characters. Even paying for the Premium pass and extra black stone leaves one stagnant now (how could it not, with the premium pass giving bonus rewards such as… 10 raid tokens). It has become 100% pay to play, let alone pay to win. By all means though, keep promoting the new characters… PS: still no campaign for many of the ever increasing factions…

[@colonelturmeric558]

Plus the mercy system is crap and ineffectual. We still have req drops where you can get a measly 5 shards or 3 uncommon orbs which are useless midgame as new common characters dont exist, seriously how stingy can snowprint be

[@Para-GR]

@@colonelturmeric558correct. In the meantime, they launch broken new features. The last TA is utterly broken. Not only does Redemption not work (which is a known bug), but it’s also not crediting wins properly. Shambles.

[@Thecommentator-hc1fz]

@@Para-GR That's exactly what I said. A quick money grab while they should focus on NEW campaign. They are just lazy.

[@sergiobarrachina3330]

@@colonelturmeric558Here a servitor that scores 4 orbs + 3x 5 Shards + 2x 10 Shards + Imospekh the other day :-/

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

I did a 10 req drop and got one new character (Darkstrider, I think his name was), the rest was pitiful amounts of blackstone, coins and raid tickets

[@mightyblowstudio]

Not particularly excited about this character. What with a severe lack of resources and legendary xp books ive got a backlog of more important characters to work on.

[@sergiobarrachina3330]

I am thinking that she could potentially work on a Psychic team for LRE spawning summons and taunting the enemy into Typhus (kind of tanky char) or even into a summon. I personally have never seen the Neurothrope very optimised for LRE, so maybe she could replace it in a slightly different concept of psychic team.

[@ostrowulf]

She could be fun with Brother Jaeger. You could have two folks taunted to him at once as he keeps bonking whoever tries to hit him.

[@MoEl-sayed]

Got a question Nandi will the genestealer be considered as an ally to the tyranids like how chaos has the thousand sons world eaters etc

[@IRBitterSoB]

Would be cool if they added a tyranid/genestealer campaign

[@edsonsantos9081]

And who would be the enemies? Blood angels or dark angels?

[@sergiobarrachina3330]

@@edsonsantos9081 I would love to see Devastation of Baal Campaign ❤

[@DakkaScrappa]

maybe one of the next genestealer cults will be a healer

[@thebraveguy9808]

Seriously. Two years in, and xenos don't have a single medic character. What are we doing in the space fantasy game that none of the aliens can heal each other unless they're robots?

[@cathal8618]

Based on what I've seen I don't think she'll see much use unless the synergy with the rest of the GSC is really strong. I have 2/3 other Xenos I want to level up and this one isn't worth the resources over any of them.

[@selerson]

Good job😅

[@thesilliestgoose5990]

If only they decided to make more campaigns with the literal dozens of factions they have

[@frotex9648]

I am excited for the first black woman character in tacticus... Sad that she is so squishy though, but I'll find a use for her anyway

[@Corusame]

She'll become much more effective as we get more GSC characters. The 3rd new GSC is a game changer.

[@sheevpalpatine2128]

More xenos? Great im already extremely short on xenos orbs. Legendary of course.

[@MidnightHozz]

Never fear! $25 USD now gets you NINE *random* Legendary Orbs instead of just six.

[@thebraveguy9808]

Seems like the fix for that would be introducing better chaos units that can run Onslaught for Xenos rewards. Problem there is that the amount of chaos legions you can put in before you burn through all the main legions seems very limited compared to the other factions.

[@ethanslocum9932]

"Madea Goes To Space"

[@thebraveguy9808]

Madea goes to space, and gets liposuction

[@gaetanlebarbenchon1423]

I can't use the code how can i do it

[@kuhvacako]

WO shes paper

[@DakkaScrappa]

so basically ambush is raid eldryon gimmick but revives instead of dmg reduction

[@jonathanhaynes9914]

Hey there.

[@joaoguilhermeassim]

I wished her forehead thing was purple, woud be more in tone with the OG model

[@sonarchy5158]

From what I can see, every Magus model as painted by GW has a forehead thing the color of their skin

[@joaoguilhermeassim]

@@sonarchy5158 Ourple dome tho :(

[@generalwoe359]

​@sonarchy5158 that's because they're closer to neophytes than acolytes, so they're more human in appearance with small hints at their xenos blood (Gsc player here)

[@MrsNandi40k]

The coolness of her character is inversely proportionate to her usefulness it seems

[@lechateaudecartes9969]

Will the Genestealers be considered Imperials or Xenos for Onslaught/LRE/etc ? That's the first time this question arise (and wait till the introduce Alpha Legion).

[@svnwukong]

They are xenos

[@bigmatthews666]

Its pretty obvious dude

[@francisanthonyanana7590]

Who is a better psyker damager, Roswitha or Tjark?

[@colonelturmeric558]

Roswitha gets more anti-psyker dmg from her passive but tjark has more hits and raw dmg, plus he reduces incoming psychic dmg and cuts smite to one target

[@thebraveguy9808]

Yeah, that's been what I've noticed. Usually, Roswitha ends up doing more damage overall and is a glass cannon, but Tjark has the damage reduction from psykers, and is decently tanky. Usually with raid bosses though, Ros does at least a few thousand damage more per attack though, at G1.

[@eeriedemonble8414]

And I thought Abraxas was squishy. She will die as soon as someone looks at her.

[@lewishorsman2219]

Not a huge fan. The decoy thing being destroyed when stepped on doesn’t make sense, if anything that character/unit should be trapped like a GSC would work with ambushed

[@brumbz513]

Ok so niche potential use, otherwise crap, got it!

[@jamesdeaville6033]

Bosses can't have damage reductions, they are immune

[@Corusame]

Xybia's mind control works on bosses because immune doesn't affect damage reduction.

[@MrSzwierzak]

Her toolkit sounds very complicated. I dont like psykers so Im not hyped for her. I want fifth Tyranid. Where is my fifth Tyranid?

[@MrKuragari17]

A few months out probably

[@MrSzwierzak]

@@MrKuragari17 sad tyranid noise 😉

[@sergiobarrachina3330]

At least we already know it won’t be a Legendary one (sadly)😢

[@Ruethless676]

First!!

[@Thecommentator-hc1fz]

IMO this is uncessary when we don't have enough campaign to gather the necessary items. Another quick money grab.

[@LayronPK]

Another stone 1 character for the collection... She's definitely not worth the resources to upgrade her

[@JamesC117]

Yawn, no Xenos healer, so I won't use my limited resources on her. Come on, Snowprint, we need a Xenos healer....

[@sergiobarrachina3330]

Maybe an Ork Painboss? 🤔

[@thebraveguy9808]

At this point, I don't care what it is, as long as it's halfway viable, and it has the medic trait.

[@Daniel-qr6sx]

she looks worthless, takes to long to set her up, i will add her to the not worth the time investment pile

[@ozmanoshe]

Man she sucks for dealing direct damage. Completing her missions is a chore.

[@bigmatthews666]

Some Knockoff Wakanda Forever character 🥱

[@eddielee3928]

Can you please do a video on this so called "mercy" System? Snowprint told me it's working as intended, and it's supposed to give a lot more "good" streaks, but "bad" streaks will occur. Well since the system launched, i've had over 20 "bad' streaks, where 40% drop rate items wind up being only 1 or 2 out of 10, whereas before the system, it'd consistently be 3-5 hits out of ten. I honestly hate the new system, as it's horribly inconsistent and clearly has more negative than positive results.

[@ChivalryJay]

Snowprint made the geneSTEALERS black 😂 what did they mean by this?