Newfoundland mission... oh god...

[arthasbg]

Rest in peperoni my dear sniper. I totaly forgot that after a certain amount of time an increased amount of Chryssalids spawn. 2 of them were stupid enough to target the sniper twice which made it possible for my support (which took 6dmg hit and ended up wounded for 3 days which is really lucky) to escape with the rest of the squad. And this was on easy. And this was with laser weapons and carapace armor. Anyone else had bad experience with this mission?

[Dashiell]

I had this mission first time today, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I shouldn't whine that normal missions aren't challenging anymore. Played on normal btw.
I had only 5 soldier squad with lieutenant being the highest rank and one 0 missions rookie tagged along, carpace armor for everyone but sniper, standard weapons.

Beginning went quite easy but then entering the ship was nightmare, constant battle for survival trying to move a bit forward, reload while not giving them opportunity to two shot my soliders and then surprise, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ countdown to escape!
Are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me?
My assault was left behind as he was the one to activate ship, I was only dashing with him as far as possible with 3 chrysalids after him using port way, the rest of the team went upper way with sniper next to shark and yeah you know what happened, damn chryssalid waited whole game to spawn right at the end, here I had extreme save scumming because my soldiers literally missed 97-99% hits 7 times ofc I had sniper focused on covering assault because he had only 5 hp, in the end I had to use rocket to weaken them then finish off with the rest, then somehow I managed to run into escape point on last turn.
All of them survived, rookie with one hp, rest 3-5 days wounds.


I think this mission is a bit too early in game or spawning multiple chryssalids is a bit cruel at that point, when they designed that unit I don't think they had zerg rush in mind because without ammo conservation constant flow of them can put even more advanced team in problematic position.

[Maj. Crimes]

Never any issues on any difficulty really. The first time i had this mission my soldiers already had decent enough equpiment to deal with the chryssalids. Support with sprinter ability went for the beacon while the rest of the team provided covering fire.
After that i always sacrificed a rookie to go for the beacon while the rest of my troops retreated back to the evac zone.
The panic decrease reward is a tad badly balanced, should be at least a continent wide panic decrease. It just useless when you already deployed satellites in canada or entire north america.

[Mhblis]

ahh Site Recon.

It seems to be either super easy or or super hard for people..

The trick as with any council mission is move slowly, wipe out all activated aliens before you move on. And the most important one listen to instructions.

But yes once you have seen it once it will be easy easy as of now. Good fun though.

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And as a side note I see everyone mentions the spawning. Bradford clearly tells you to run. you don't need ot kill anything that comes from the ship itself.

This is why most people struggle on the mission especially early game. Just run to the switch, activate it and then run to evac. No need to fight all those waves.

[Dashiell]

Originally posted by Mhblis:

The trick as with any council mission is move slowly

You really can't here or you will get pinned bown by infinite spawn Chryssalids. This is completely different from these crappy push overs with thin dead man.

Originally posted by Mhblis:

And as a side note I see everyone mentions the spawning. Bradford clearly tells you to run. you don't need ot kill anything that comes from the ship itself.

This is why most people struggle on the mission especially early game. Just run to the switch, activate it and then run to evac. No need to fight all those waves.

That's another problem, if you don't fight you die, spawn is constant, 2 Chryssalids every other turn, if you run you can't fight (excepting assault every 3rd turn) and you need 2 good hits per Chrysallid or one Sniper's crit, this is what makes this mission quite hard if you want all soldiers back alive.

[User27445]

Thing about Chrysalids is that if you dash, they have to dash to catch up. If they dash, even if it's only a single space, they can't attack you. Your man can be surrounded by Chrysalids on 7 sides, as long as he dashes directly away from them, none of those Chrysalids will hit him.

Keep a sniper on a roof near the evac to shoot any Chrysalids ahead of the group. You're going to want a shotgun assault, maybe with reaper rounds if you don't have a scatter laser yet, with Close Combat Specialist. Keep people moving and don't look back. A MEC with a flame thrower can be fun too.

The rules are simple: If it's chasing you, it's not a problem. If it's in front of you, it's your snipers problem.

[My Epic System]

oh ♥♥♥♥ that mission... i'm starting a new campaign rn because of that mission...
THEY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ KILLED SQ WOOD, MAN
FFS MAN
FOR ♥♥♥♥♥ SAKE

[yuri simp]

Site Recon is wonderful because of how the game handles Council missions and new EW content in general. If you have not played EW before, the game will try to push newer content (Progeny, Site Recon, and new or updated EW maps) on you before returning to stuff left unchanged from EU (Bomb Disposal and old EU maps).

What this tends to do is push Site Recon very early on the schedule, which is the worst time to have it. Not to mention that ignoring it will cause a panic spike in Canada, so you really can't afford to ignore it either.

Slow and steady rocks the first part of the mission. Cover is useless and will block vision at worst, so don't take any. Melee units ignore cover anyway. Explosives are very useful here, since you actually don't have anything to lose - no loot is obtained from this mission, not even the piles of Chrysallid corpses you would get otherwise. Melee units are also incredibly dumb and will bunch up in their mad pursuit, so bomb away.

It is possible to clear the boat of bugs before activating the transponder. Chrysallids will stop spawning after a certain point before you activate the transponder, so you could just camp out and take them out, ensuring a easy way to the transponder. This is how I usually do it, since it also means extra XP (and speaking of XP, more on that later) and an easy walk to the transponder.

Once you activate the transponder, dash back to the extraction point. A Chrysallid's attack range is shorter than your soldier's dash range, so you'll be able to outrun them. Don't put all your guys in just yet though - wait out the timer and kill as many bugs as possible. If they look like they'll overwhelm you, bug out. Until the timer hits 1, rack up as many kills as possible for good XP. Site Recon is one of the best grinding missions early-game, provided you handle it right.

Of course, once you beat the mission (or not) once, it's no longer new content, and Site Recon is no longer prone to spawning early, so yeah.

[Mhblis]

See there again thats your mistake. As I clearly said anything that spawns in the ship does not need to be fought. The Crysalids shouldn't be spawning and causing problems there until the turn before you hit the button if you are using a rookie with starting move.

If you cleared everything else on the map you should have the distance on your move after hitting the button that this same rookie can just dash to the evac and be safe.

Crysalids still can't move twice and attack. So even if you don't just move in straight line you may have to kill one or two to save said rookie. Or you could just sacrifice that rookie and have the rest pull out.

@hinge has pointed it out as well.

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Lastly it is not infinte there is only 40 that spawn. Plenty of people have triggered it early just to farm the XP.

[red255]

Its 40 total kills. not 40 that spawn. not counting the ones that spawn after you push the button and get out of dodge. IF you have at least lasers it should be a breeze.