XCOM 2 Review (Hat Collecting Child)
Assaulted the Assassin's stronghold 4 months into the game.
Send only the best of the best, armed with the best equipment, some of it manufactured on the spot.
Two of the six are Franklin Clinton and the Scout from TF2. They're a level 2 bonded pair.
The others are Jane Kelly, Dragunova, and my highest ranking sniper and grenadier.
Clear first base with almost no issue.
Boss fight commences, Several people are on middling health but Franklin's still got 2 medpac uses (I should've made him medic from the start tbh I've got too many hybrid builds)
Double codex flanking her.
Ah shit, here we go again.
Hit crucial shot on her with sniper, lose sniper.
Scout's hurt bad, Franklin's down one medpac.
Dragunova nearly gets got by her. No more medpacs. Codex are long gone but high level ADVENT summons are making my life hell.
B*tch goes down, cue healing phase.
Decide most of my forces are close enough to the sarcophagus to deal lethal damage to it before she fully heals.
Commit like a motherf*cker.
Grenadier eats it. Dodged bullets left and right to chunk that thing. Ran out of luck.
Dragunova bonded with that grenadier. Goes ballistic and kills one of the priests hiding in the backline.
Most people are just barely holding on by the time it's done. Most people, except Jane.
3 of the 4 ADVENT goons are history. Boss respawns at 80% health.
It begins.
She immediately cuts Franklin down. He's bleeding out.
Scout doesn't even have time to react. Last priest has him mind controlled.
Can't land a shot on the priest.
Scout kamikazes Dragunova with a plasma grenade.
It's just Jane.
Jane blows the brains out of the priest.
Survives every attack from the Assassin. It's a battle of attrition.
Finally 12 gauge her back to Hell with 2 health to spare.
Mfw they come back and it's just Jane limping weakly to the front, with nobody behind her.
She's been promoted to Colonel.
Make badass propaganda poster of her following the promotion. With her fellows dead, she's easily the highest ranking soldier left in my barracks.
Memorialize each of the 5 fallen soldiers.
Write 'Remember The Fallen 5!' on every memorial poster.
Mfw I see the poster plastered on a nearby building during next operation.