Which dark event would you counter?

[Taffey]

UFO hunt or Chosen have no weaknesses?

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Chosen have no weakness, easily :)

You definitely need to trigger the "Avenger Defense" mission ASAP because it only gets tougher the more alien species you unlock. If ever possible I'd suggest getting shot at before or after Mutons first appears in your campaign.

[IvantheFormidable]

Definitely counter the "Chosen have no weaknesses." Exploiting those make them a lot easier to deal with.

[JaegerBane]

Depends on your base.

No chosen weaknesses is normally the one to counter out of those two but you ideally need to have a Defence Matrix up if you’re leaving UFO up and running.

It depends really. Some chosen weaknesses are less effective than others.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Originally posted by JaegerBane:

you ideally need to have a Defense Matrix up if you’re leaving UFO up and running.

Not exactly, the Defense Matrix is a nice bonus but not necessary to win the Avenger Defense especially when you deal with the mission very early on.

[red255]

neither dark event is particularly hard to deal with. I generally never counter UFO hunt though, because it enables Landed UFO supply raid types.

[Taffey]

I countered the UFO in the end because I got all types of enemies already even Archons showed up so I think the defense mission would be hard af. So far I havent been exploiting the chosen weaknesses so I took a chance with that hope it wont bite me in the ass later :D

[Eyal]

If you have a Reaper or Phantom Ranger the ufo defense is rather simple really. You send the concealed unit to scout the alien jammer and you take it out with sharpsooters. Meanwhile you just defend the landing area with the rest of the team. You won't even trigger half of the groups this way.

I'd have gone with countering the chosen weakness one. Sometimes they have very annoying strengths, practically making them immune to some of you squad members, so the weaknesses balance that out.

[JaegerBane]

Originally posted by Cahos Rahne Veloza:

Originally posted by JaegerBane:

you ideally need to have a Defense Matrix up if you’re leaving UFO up and running.

Not exactly, the Defense Matrix is a nice bonus but not necessary to win the Avenger Defense especially when you deal with the mission very early on.

As I said, ‘ideally’. It’s not necessary but essentially guarantees that you’ll win the mission, which you must as its game over otherwise.

You can get away without it but in this situation it depends on how good the weaknesses actually are. Explosive weakness is amazing, groundling? Eh. No point making an absolute-must-pass mission harder just for the sake of weaknesses that won’t make any difference.

[JaegerBane]

Originally posted by red255:

I generally never counter UFO hunt though, because it enables Landed UFO supply raid types.

Good point. Didn’t think of that.

[Ragic]

Originally posted by red255:

neither dark event is particularly hard to deal with. I generally never counter UFO hunt though, because it enables Landed UFO supply raid types.

this. though if the choice is between those 2 dark events i probably would consider other factors, like the reward or sitreps.

[Aranador]

I let the 'chosen have no weaknesses' one complete in my current game - because I had just murdered the last of the chosen. But if those SoBs were alive, I would def counter it.

[phillip_lynx]

Choosen ...

Avenger Defence Missions are fun :). Especially the standard ones.

And with Grim horizon (my current LP) even more :). Would not like the choosen to have no weakness for the rest of the Campaign.