So last night I lost my entire best squad in a mission on X-Com 2

[Black Sands Entertainment]

I am only the one save mode so i couldn't do shit. Furthermore, I basically killed myself. I had the perfect opportunity to scrape by a disastrous mission when I went full on derp mode.

 

Here is what happened. First, there was a got damn MECH on the root of a 4 story building. I had no specialist so i couldnt hack it... Couldn't use explosive cause it was too high... It took out 2 of my dudes alone with its 100% accuracy.   

 

So i got 3 dudes left and my ranger has 1 hp. 2 of the civilians i have to save turn into giant goo men with tantacle rape written all over them. My ranger is going straight ham trying to "luckily 1 shot" people with sword strikes. I got one of the goo men. I know if anyone hits my ranger, he is dead. My sniper is panicking because a psychic messed him up so he is being retarded. My base sniper just got mindcontrolled. 

 

At this point it was up to my 1 hp ranger of the gods to do his job. Kill the got damn psychic before my snipe blows our brains out. 

Instead of running up to the psychic and chopping his head off. I hid around the corner with run and gun so i can shoot the fuck from a distance. The problem? The game says that location won't give me a line of sight to my objective. Now I can't kill the psychic this turn and my snipe is about to blow away some allies....

I get enraged because i can't even go back a turn due to this line of sight bug. I then hope that the psychic will move into my line of sight so I overwatch...

 

This is where the funny shit ensues. My snipe decides to not shoot dead my other sniper form his position, but instead run across the battlefield. Incoming 50 meter range shotgun blast that crits for 8 damage from my overwatched ranger....Dead full hp sniper....

 

FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!

 

Then the psychic goes behind me since I used my overwatch and put 2 lasers in my asshole. Followed swiftly by the tantacle beast shoving a couple up my panicked sniper's ass.


I wanted to quit so bad but I am pressing on. That was one of the most depressing losses I ever had.

[Arcadeotic]

That seems quite horrible

I've played my fair share of X-COM and I've never experienced anything like that

Well, the good thing is that the only way from rock-bottom is up

[Black Sands Entertainment]

Just now, Arcadeotic said:

That seems quite horrible

I've played my fair share of X-COM and I've never experienced anything like that

Well, the good thing is that the only way from rock-bottom is up

forgot to mention this was xcom 2. 

[Funnerific]

1) Get soldiers stuck in the air on a collapsed roof with no cover. While it's not difficulty-related, I never got it the first time I played through the game.

2) Have your soldier eat a crit from a muton at max sight range while hunkering down in full cover on the same level (so no high ground bonus). Why did they remove the crit immunity, again?

3) Four soldiers miss 75-80% shots at one turn, and during the enemy turn a new enemy pack strolls into my line of sight. Meanwhile a muton knocks out one of my guys, in trying to save him I waste the entire turn taking 60-70% shots at the muton and missing, then pretty much lose my entire team the next time the aliens make a move.

And that was just the commander difficulty.

[SilverLi]

Guys, we can summarize this: We all love RNG and XCOM2 <3 

[Deep Blue]

I love when I'm 2 feets away from the enemy with a freaking shotgun have 95% chances of hitting and I miss...twice! Those are the things I don't understand, the chance prob should not be applied in some cases because is dumb as shit, is like I won the lottery in the missing prob xd 

[Black Sands Entertainment]

Just now, Deep Blue said:

I love when I'm 2 feets away from the enemy with a freaking shotgun have 95% chances of hitting and I miss...twice! Those are the things I don't understand, the chance prob should not be applied in some cases because is dumb as shit, is like I won the lottery in the missing prob xd 

the problem with the game is that is doesnt roll on the margin. All the rolls for the entire match are done the second it starts. So if you rolled shitty rolls, no amount of accuracy will help you.

 

On the margin rolls are better because it takes turns into factor. So if an alien skips a turn or whatever, someone else gets that roll, randomizing the process more.

[Deep Blue]

1 minute ago, Black Sands Entertainment said:

the problem with the game is that is doesnt roll on the margin. All the rolls for the entire match are done the second it starts. So if you rolled shitty rolls, no amount of accuracy will help you.

 

On the margin rolls are better because it takes turns into factor. So if an alien skips a turn or whatever, someone else gets that roll, randomizing the process more.

I didn't know that, it seems really stupid :/ 

[Nightmare799]

I raise the glass of my finest soda in the name of your fellow soldiers, who sacrificed themselves in the line of duty.

 

 

 

Keep fighting, you can do it. Pick yourself off the ground and pay them tenfold.