Image: Firaxis Games/2K Games Lesson 4: Keep moving forward Get the goods into Firebrand - along with whatever troops are still standing - and get out of Dodge.
But if the objective is portable and your troops are starting to get picked off, there's no shame in cutting your losses. Most of the time, once you've secured the mission objective you'll be assigned a new task: Kill all the aliens on the map. All you have to do is get your troops inside the nine-square grid and hit option three on the action bar, and they're out of harm's way. Making things even more interesting, roping out of the combat zone is a free action. Just hit the button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and call down Firebrand to pick you up. Unlike previous iterations, getting to the choppa has never been easier than it is in XCOM 2.
When your troops are being overwhelmed, sometimes a tactical withdrawal is the best option. My personal preference is only to attempt hacks once concealment is lost, and even then I only attempt hacks on robots and turrets. Blowing a hack can lose concealment and sometimes even call in reinforcements. Thanks to the specialist's drone familiar, if you can see it you can hack it. But once you uncover them, once they step out of the fog of war, you'd best be ready for a fight. Once you've dealt with that first cluster of enemies, don't expect the rest of the aliens on the map to come running. Your percentages to hit are much higher when you're not taking a reaction shot, and special abilities often do more damage than a standard attack. Have a few in overwatch, ready to fire when the aliens take cover. But it wouldn't be a bad idea to use a sharpshooter sometimes - especially at higher ranks.įor best results, stage the rest of your squad with good lines of sight into the kill zone. I like to use my grenadier to kick things off, launching a grenade into a cluster of enemies and doing as much damage as possible.
Often the best course of action is to plan a hasty ambush. That means that if you're quick you can slip right past them, but it's much harder than it looks. If you stay in one place, best-case scenario is that you've got three turns before the aliens reach you. So long as you stay outside of their field of vision, you can maneuver without drawing aggro.īut the aliens will react to the sound of your troops moving, eventually zeroing in on your location. Most of the time when your troops enter the battlefield, the aliens won't react to them right away. XCOM 2 introduces a new mechanic called concealment. Be sure to check out our review, where we said that XCOM 2 might be the best XCOM game ever made. Spoiler warning: I've tried to keep things spoiler free, Commander, but if you feel that getting your nose bloodied in your first few games is the best way to experience XCOM then it's best you stop reading now. Without skilled troops, humanity is doomed, so here's my best tips for keeping them alive. This turn-based tactical game is a meat grinder, and the soldiers you throw against our alien occupiers just happen to be both your most valuable and your most vulnerable assets. The XCOM franchise isn't known for pulling punches, and XCOM 2 is no different.
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