March 17, 2016

XCOM 2

Date played: March 16th
Platform: PC

I've played 3 missions last night, and honestly, I think all I have left is the final mission, but I'm not 100% sure. In the first mission, I had to attack an alien convoy on a street. My team is now pretty much always the same.
My main team drops into action

  • Samus Aran: Grenadier. 
  • Princess Zelda: Sniper. 
  • Link Inpark, Ranger. 
  • Colonel Mustard: Psionic Soldier
  • Victoria Everglot: Specialist - healing
  • Orion Belt: Specialist - tech

I feel like I've got a very strong team. They are all specialized in exactly the way I want them, and they all have top end equipment. In fact, they are so good that they barely get hit anymore. For example, on the street raid mission, I got a flawless rating, meaning that I've killed everything and wasn't hit once!

The second mission I played had me destroy another alien facility to bring the Avatar project down a notch. It was a bit more difficult than the last one, but I still managed a flawless rating. I used a mimic beacon at a very opportune time to ensure no one took damage.

Finally, I played a story mission where I had to investigate a facility in Europe. The map was obviously custom made and not a randomized one. It featured two narrow bridges that acted as choke points as my team infiltrated the facility. I carefully, methodically advanced and discovered that this was where they manufactured Advent soldiers! I had to recover a prototype, a body, and extract it with the rest of my team for research.

My scientists studied the prototype and discovered that every alien species we encountered had some trace of human DNA in it... We're finalizing the research on the Avatar body I had recovered earlier, and I think that will lead me to the final mission, probably something related to that portal we found too.