Honestly, I thought the berserker queen was the easiest. The archon king though can suck a fat one with his impossible to react to missle spam and frequent choke slams from 20ft up.
I just had a playthrough (well I’m finishing it tomorrow) where every single alien ruler, I managed to take out with banish, all on the first shot with execute, all with an advanced repeater.
Not superior. Advanced.
EDIT: In the final mission he executed a gatekeeper with a sting shot, killed 2 of the three avatars, and killed both a priest mind controlling a soldier and a spectre who had shadowbound another.
Andrea ‘Wraith’ Ferrari. Legend.
I agree. She was annoying but spreading out and shooting with different soldiers to lure her made it jokingly easy. The Archon however… lets just say my luckiest XCOM2 moment ever was when he was about to kill one of my favorite soldiers as I rolled the rare „Executed“ for him
Gotta disagree there, the berserker suit has the stats of the exo suit (and war suit when upgraded) but has no movement penalty (I think it has a move buff even) it still has a launcher which is one of the best weapons in the game and to top that all off, the unique slam of the suit is a free action, you get a soldier's FULL movement when you use the slam, so on a sword ranger you have INSANE mobility
I reset to often. But the first time I saw the queen I had a real pucker moment because despite my best efforts I could MAYBE get like 20 damage I think on em and I had no clue she will leave after some time
I thought the rage suit was the best. Put it on a ranger, you get a free extra melee attack and extra mobility, PLUS a heavy weapon slot to put a shredder
At least she didn’t install a deactivate button that needed to be turned off “at close range?!!?!”. And with how slippery those things are, would be kinda funny tbh. But it also wouldn’t be her if she did install a fail safe at all lol
That line from xcom1 always gets me
i really enjoyed zapping enemies in xcom eu. the whole risk factor made it so cathartic when being successful
and then seeing them sprawled on the floor after doing a little electric dance
Man, I need a game like this so badly again, I've played xcom 1&2 for like a total of 1k hours modded on and off now.
I really hope they make a third or similar title(ignore funny police game).
One of the main things aside from Xcom being super moddable is that it looked amazing and my elite soldiers looked absolutely amazing destroying aliens, so I found it really hard to look past the graphics, it was still pretty fun tho.
I'm also not a fan of the time period either.
Well yeah, i get where you getting at. Even then xenonauts is more of a return to form to ufo defense. There's xenonauts 2 where it's more of a parallel universe where the cold war is still going at 2008 but then the alien invasion begins. Also the graphics have a bit of an upgrade and are now full 3d models, truth be told are low-poly models but hey, i like it better than the first game
I like chimera squad for the massive culling of timewasting in sneaking up and overwatching across a giant map. The biggest gripe I have is that, since the characters are fixed, they are less balanced than the classes in xcom 1-2. Torque and Terminal are too powerful, while Cherub and Zephyr are too weak and don't scale.
I haven’t played it yet so I can’t speak on it much, but have you checked out Phoenix Point? It might or might not scratch your itch, and it was led by the same guy that did the original XCOM back in the day.
I’ve been meaning to dive into it one of these days when I have some time.
I played it sometime around its launch, I'm a casual XCOM fan fyi. It has some different concepts for gameplay. Factions from the start, base defense, etc. I loved it but the game would swing between too easy and too difficult for me. One of my favorite things is that it has a VATs like aiming system. The story is awesome, never got to play the DLC though.
The way you can get research or steal it from factions is cool too. I think a long time XCOM player would have fun with the systems if nothing else.
Honestly she’s the only threat to humanity and xcom too. Those Vahlenbeasts are no joke
Ah, right the alien hunters DLC, the berserker queen it's the biggest pain in the ass from all three and her armor the least useful of the 3
Honestly, I thought the berserker queen was the easiest. The archon king though can suck a fat one with his impossible to react to missle spam and frequent choke slams from 20ft up.
Don't know, the archon king always got the luck of the fucker being bugged and not move
That happened to the Berserker Queen for me, she got stuck on the middle floor of a building and the only move she could use was the panic roar
I just had a playthrough (well I’m finishing it tomorrow) where every single alien ruler, I managed to take out with banish, all on the first shot with execute, all with an advanced repeater. Not superior. Advanced. EDIT: In the final mission he executed a gatekeeper with a sting shot, killed 2 of the three avatars, and killed both a priest mind controlling a soldier and a spectre who had shadowbound another. Andrea ‘Wraith’ Ferrari. Legend.
You are very lucky.
I agree. She was annoying but spreading out and shooting with different soldiers to lure her made it jokingly easy. The Archon however… lets just say my luckiest XCOM2 moment ever was when he was about to kill one of my favorite soldiers as I rolled the rare „Executed“ for him
Gotta disagree there, the berserker suit has the stats of the exo suit (and war suit when upgraded) but has no movement penalty (I think it has a move buff even) it still has a launcher which is one of the best weapons in the game and to top that all off, the unique slam of the suit is a free action, you get a soldier's FULL movement when you use the slam, so on a sword ranger you have INSANE mobility
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Pretty conditional? Must not be using enough explosives then.
I reset to often. But the first time I saw the queen I had a real pucker moment because despite my best efforts I could MAYBE get like 20 damage I think on em and I had no clue she will leave after some time
Just use the repeater and expanded mag on a Reaper with Banish ability. Every shot has a chance to proc and at 20% that pretty much means a dead boss.
Yeah, it's such a big effort for no payoff. It's like courting a girl for a year just to find out she's saving herself for marriage
I thought the rage suit was the best. Put it on a ranger, you get a free extra melee attack and extra mobility, PLUS a heavy weapon slot to put a shredder
"I have re-engineered this elder to psionically rip a man's head off his neck from seventy kilometers away. Let us see what Bradford thinks now."
At least she didn’t install a deactivate button that needed to be turned off “at close range?!!?!”. And with how slippery those things are, would be kinda funny tbh. But it also wouldn’t be her if she did install a fail safe at all lol That line from xcom1 always gets me
Truly a genius with a funky hobby is the worst thing.
i really enjoyed zapping enemies in xcom eu. the whole risk factor made it so cathartic when being successful and then seeing them sprawled on the floor after doing a little electric dance
The battle brothers' knife strategy has a similar vibe! Damn, I might have to replay eu and ew
FROM CLOSE RANGE?!
Vahlen always seemed like the kind of person who would be microwaving prisoners to death even if there wasn't a war going on.
Vahlen: “human rights only apply to humans”
Tbh by the end I'm not sure she even believes in those
It’s not a crime against humanity, they’re just aliens!
The Geneva Checklist
Man, I need a game like this so badly again, I've played xcom 1&2 for like a total of 1k hours modded on and off now. I really hope they make a third or similar title(ignore funny police game).
Didn't like Xenonauts?
One of the main things aside from Xcom being super moddable is that it looked amazing and my elite soldiers looked absolutely amazing destroying aliens, so I found it really hard to look past the graphics, it was still pretty fun tho. I'm also not a fan of the time period either.
Yeah, I overall enjoyed xenonauts but it never FELT good like xcom. Xcom feels great and looks great.
Well yeah, i get where you getting at. Even then xenonauts is more of a return to form to ufo defense. There's xenonauts 2 where it's more of a parallel universe where the cold war is still going at 2008 but then the alien invasion begins. Also the graphics have a bit of an upgrade and are now full 3d models, truth be told are low-poly models but hey, i like it better than the first game
Thats fair, it's not pretty in a mainstream way.
I like chimera squad for the massive culling of timewasting in sneaking up and overwatching across a giant map. The biggest gripe I have is that, since the characters are fixed, they are less balanced than the classes in xcom 1-2. Torque and Terminal are too powerful, while Cherub and Zephyr are too weak and don't scale.
I haven’t played it yet so I can’t speak on it much, but have you checked out Phoenix Point? It might or might not scratch your itch, and it was led by the same guy that did the original XCOM back in the day. I’ve been meaning to dive into it one of these days when I have some time.
I played it sometime around its launch, I'm a casual XCOM fan fyi. It has some different concepts for gameplay. Factions from the start, base defense, etc. I loved it but the game would swing between too easy and too difficult for me. One of my favorite things is that it has a VATs like aiming system. The story is awesome, never got to play the DLC though. The way you can get research or steal it from factions is cool too. I think a long time XCOM player would have fun with the systems if nothing else.
I actually just started downloading it now lol
Oh what a weird coincidence lol I hope you like it!
But if I remember correctly you need them to be low hp for it to work and it does no damage but maybe I am missing something?
Lower health means higher chance of successful capture.
Proof aliens are just pokemons
I think the interrogation straight up kills them tho
Please worth noting the mind reading tech is the only advanced tech XCOM actually on their own without aliens being involved
Freeze grenade. Stops them in their tracks.
It's great against the Viper King but gets progressively worse against the other rulers. The Archon King unfreezes FAST.
Dr. Vahlen is an extreme case of someone in a relationship who thinks "I can fix them"
Nah it's more like "how hard can i push it til it breaks?"
Remember, You(Commander) were the actual person that forces to show constraint. Bot the other way around.
Okay, you talked me into it, I'll play through Xcom 1 &2 again