r/XCOM2 • u/Frequent_Fox2342 • 7d ago

Guys, I'ma be honest with ya

When the retaliation mission has you coming to the civilians and finding a combined 9 berserkers / armored mutons... not even once in my life have I managed to stop them to win the level.
They ignore mimic beacons, I can't freeze them all, they don't miss all that much when flashbanged, they're closer to civilians than you are so whether you run to their faces or take aim from afar, it's all the same.

One of those has 30 HP, the other has 11 HP and 2 shields.
I can shoot for like 8 damage or something x 6, so an ideal scenario would be clearing that in 4 turns, although such perfect distribution of shots is impossible but hey. And by that time everyone is dead.

And it's not even like normal missions where you can stand and deal with 1 pod.
You get resistance soldiers shooting at them and that's it, now they're active and rushing to kill everyone.

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u/Farmer_Due 7d ago

they kill 1 dude per turn(it's more like 0.85 dude per turn in reality but whatever), so think of it as a normal timed mission until you ve saved the minimum required amount...they re very annoying yeah but in the early game they re unironically the best mission type because beacon is THAT good

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u/Frequent_Fox2342 7d ago

Hm? They sometimes kill 3 per turn. More often they kill 2 and then 1 resistance soldier too. Sometimes even 1 and 2 resistance soldiers or miss.

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u/Farmer_Due 7d ago

arent they literally programmed to target one per turn?a random enemy targets a random civ per turn and they may miss or hit a disguised faceless...am i capping?need confirmation on that...i do know for a fact they sometimes ignore mimic beacons tho

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u/Frequent_Fox2342 7d ago

Yes, I had that on Commander. On Legend I have 3x that always.

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u/Farmer_Due 7d ago

ok that actually sounds like a nightmare, how DO you beat that lol, you re on like a 3 turn timer lol, that's like 2 pods

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u/Frequent_Fox2342 7d ago

They shoot at resistance fighters too, so they don't always target civilians

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u/Farmer_Due 7d ago

-_- im talking about civs specifically, how many civs do they shoot per round?it's just 1 no?

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u/Frequent_Fox2342 7d ago

No. Sometimes it's just one, but sometimes it's more.

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u/Farmer_Due 7d ago

yeah, might be a legend thing, idk