XCOM 2 thread of the game

[noiseredux]

made a lot of progress over the weekend. I'm at like 25 hrs now. The clock is ticking down on the Avatar Project, so I'm getting pretty nervous there. But I managed to survive the mission where the UFO shoots you down with a pretty weakened crew. It took forEVER though. Also the most triumphant moment I've had in this game was successfully hacking a Sectopod. Anyway, I really hope that I can pull off some good stuff in the next few game days else the doomsday clock runs out.

[MrPopo]

Are there any active enemy blacksites? Taking those down will reduce the Avatar counter by a number of boxes equal to the number of boxes on the icon. And like you probably saw several story missions reduce the Avatar counter; the later missions will reduce by 2-3 boxes.

[noiseredux]

Are there any active enemy blacksites? Taking those down will reduce the Avatar counter by a number of boxes equal to the number of boxes on the icon. And like you probably saw several story missions reduce the Avatar counter; the later missions will reduce by 2-3 boxes.

I'm actually on a blacksite mission now. Like, I saved my game in the middle of it.

BUT - will it reduce the Avatar counter if the boxes are already full and now there's a countdown clock happening?

[MrPopo]

Yes it will. You currently have a 10 box counter that's hidden behind the ticking clock. So if this blacksite has two boxes on its icon then when you finish you'd be down to an 8 box counter and the clock goes away.

What tech level are you at? What's the latest new alien you've run into? You mentioned Sectopods; there's a couple new ones that you may or may not have seen depending on how the game rolled the enemy forces.

[flash1987]

Yeah hitting the blacksites buys you a good bit of time to build and seems to be an indicator of a campaign getting on track.

[noiseredux]

um, most recent aliens I've seen are the Muton-likes that charge at you, and also one of those robo-soldiers that are red and shoot missiles like a Sectopod. And um, those flying dudes. (I'm terrible w/ names.)

[MrPopo]

The Muton-likes that charge at you, do you mean the Berserkers? Then you've got the Advanced MECs that drop into overwatch when discovered rather than run to cover/closer to your guys and the Archons (flying guys). So you've still got a few more aliens to discover. Have fun with that <evil cackle>.

[noiseredux]

OH! I forgot, there was a new one on the map I'm on now actually. He's kind of like a Codex in that he keeps sort of teleporting all over the place. Though he doesn't seem as deadly as a Codex.

[MrPopo]

Are you sure it isn't a Codex that's teleporting around? The only other one I can think of that can teleport around is a special one-off that triggers from a story objective.

[noiseredux]

Are you sure it isn't a Codex that's teleporting around? The only other one I can think of that can teleport around is a special one-off that triggers from a story objective.

it's not a Codex. I just looked through my achievements. It was an Avatar.