Poison in War of the Chosen

[joebruce185]

A few weeks back I experienced something with poison that I had not seen before in playing non-WotC Xcom 2. Actually, two somethings.

First, a soldier got poisoned by a viper. In vanilla, sometimes that soldier only takes the poison damage for that turn; this means they can sit there in the poison cloud and wait for it to dispel so they do not get re-poisoned However, in this WotC instance, the soldier took one damage, became not poisoned, and then got re-poisoned all before my turn started. So to me, it looked like "they" "fixed" the poison mechanic so if you are in the cloud you get poisoned. Also, I'm pretty sure this soldier took more than 3 damage from the second poison (after I include the 1 point lost from the "first" poisoning). Can poison do more than 3 damage now?

Second, after moving that first soldier out of the poison cloud, I positioned a different soldier in an adjacent tile to the first at the end of the turn. When the next turn started, this second soldier also became poisoned (although they were not in the cloud and no new poison attacks were made). Is poison in WotC contagious?

Any thoughts or experiences on either of those scenarios?

[Zelandia]

I don't remember much from vanilla XCOM 2 as I haven't played that for 3 years.

However, from my experiences in WotC, poison does 1 damage to units per turn (friendly or otherwise) regardless of source EXCEPT when they get critically hit from said source, (e.g. Gas Grenades/Bombs with the "Biggest Booms" GTS perk for Grenadiers) then they would take 3 damage per turn.

I have never gotten someone "pass on" poison to another soldier. It might be a glitch as there were rare cases of me positioning a soldier near a poison cloud but clearly out of range visually yet still getting poisoned or times where the cloud seemed to have subsided yet passing through that area still got my soldiers poisoned.

[KRON]

I'm pretty sure poison was contagious since XCOM EU.

[Zelandia]

Not sure about EU/EW but you're right, just tested it and poison is indeed contagious in XCOM 2. 2000+ hrs and I'm still learning new things about this game