Special Task: Stealthy Approach

[Yaldabaoth]

So this special task popped up "Start combat with [Character] in stealth and kill 2 enemies before the end of the first turn." I set up overwatch to kill even 3 enemies on the first turn, with the character participating or not, it always fails. What am I doing wrong?

[Takichi]

I think the Moment you end your Turn, first Turn is Over.
I believe the Game counts Turns as Change between Factions not as "Both Factions got 1 Action Sequence".... So you need to kill them with Stealth Kills, before Combat initiates i think

[Liquid ID]

Are all of your merc in stealth mode when you start? Im thinking maybe youre only considering the merc who takes the first shot. Try all mercs in stealth mode if they werent.

[Wolfenguard]

mhh trow a grenade? :)

[Yowie]

I struggled to get this one right too. The first type of attack does no matter, but you need the enemies to be "Surprised", for surprise state, they can't spot you, they can't see someone die. When this happens, you carry on the turn, enemies can't move.
I got the task in cacao dock being raided, I sat 2 snipers, hidden, high on a building, took first shot on a dude away from the rest of the baddies, and then second shot in the pack, both scouts, one shot each.

[Dr.Acula]

This task is just stupid to be honest. I tried it quite a few times now with different approaches:
- shooting them with the shotgun from stealth
- melee attack from stealth
- even using flash grenade to surprise them

The problem is that even if I land a hit or kill right away it switches to the enemy repositioning turn which counts as "my turn has ended" apparently immediately failing the task.

I can easily kill 2 or more in a single turn but I have no idea if or how I could reliably trigger a surprise status. Also the problem in my case is that it is an intercepted raid group meaning they are all bunched together into a big group and there is no way to single out one or two of them.

[Necroscourge]

Oh just ignore that crap, all it does is get you a tiny scrap of money.

[Onyx]

@Dr.Acula
Try to use "Fox" in your team for that, if she initiates combat, it counts the enemy as surprised first, hope it helps 8)

[Dr.Acula]

Originally posted by Onyx:

@Dr.Acula
Try to use "Fox" in your team for that, if she initiates combat, it counts the enemy as surprised first, hope it helps 8)

In that particular case I didn't have her with me and Mouse was supposed to be the initiator. I tried over and over giving her various options and nothing worked out unfortunately...

[Onyx]

I´m sorry to hear that Doc, but hiring "Fox", if you want that so badly, is the only thing I can think of, sorry :(