Shen's Last Gift roof fight ** spoilers **

[specialfred099]

Any ideas how to win this fight? Im getting waxed on normal consistantly no matter what I do. Im trying to kill the sectopod as quick as I can but Shen or the robot always get killed first ending the game.

[easytarget]

Take bluescreen ammo with you.

[Hydrorox]

try grenades+combat protocol on him, and aid protocol+high cover on yourself

and to do the mission with magnetic weapons.
and a grenadier wiht shreder.

[specialfred099]

dont have the ammo yet. still pretty early in the game when the mission triggered. I have one sgt. and the rest are ranked below that. Its so early in fact I havent been able to build a proving grounds. I take it its something to do later in the game even if its triggered early?

[easytarget]

You can opt not to take the mission till you have it.

[specialfred099]

Thanks for the responses. I will prolly have to sit on the mission until im better equipped. I was afraid it would dissapear or something. Thx.

[Rez Elwin]

Throw any and all grenades at it, try to outlast it, Shen can use battle protocall every 2 turns(or 3) which does 10-11 damage, that makes short work of it. I did this mission with the max rank of Sgt. while on normal. Also make sure to stun it, the two turn stun is invaluable, Shen should have a near 70% chance to stun him. Use Sparks overdrive when able, even with the reduced accuracy you should get at least two shots off.

[easytarget]

Originally posted by specialfred099:

Thanks for the responses. I will prolly have to sit on the mission until im better equipped. I was afraid it would dissapear or something. Thx.

Yep, that's what I did. And what I'm doing with hunters, which I've not triggered yet myself.

[DeadEyeMaster1]

I finished the mission just at the very begginning of the game, literally I only have 4 squad members, and one of them is Shen.

Use wisely of Shen, she's very powerful agianst robotic enemies, the last sectopod was killed by her just using those haywire and combat protocol by me. And the frost bomb and all that wepons from alien hunters DLC, it's very powerful at the early game, use them wisely. The bolt caster can shutdown powerful enemies as well as the Axes.

And after the joining of SPARK, use him as a meat tank, let him attract the sectopod's fire, and simply focus all your firepower at the sectopod, once it's down, every other defence robots are down.

[MrT]

I think my highest rank was cpl... I just took high ground early on and basically sniped, shocked, and at one point hacked enemy robots to my side to decoy and help kill it... eventually it just nvr seemed to die until I blew some generator next to it... I have taken to playing with alien health hidden so I have no idea really what I used for most my damage... I just got lucky?

[Mays]

Did this before contacting first region. Shen is everything in this fight. Hack sectoid to get control of meks! blast everything with ROV-R

[learnedhand]

If you got to the roof you should be able to handle the boss, unless you lost lots of troops along the way.

Basically stay in good cover and make smart use of Shen's spells. All of them have their uses.

[km_md60]

I did it with 5-man squad and balistic weapon (+1 heavy with shred), use Shen and Spark smartly. Hack to stun Julian, combat protocol, capacitor discharge, and overdrive Rover + heavy shredder taking out the armor should do the job.

Freeze grenade, Boltcaster, and Hunter axe are convenient if you do Ruler compaign.

[Dracon]

Do wirehack on it and shut it down ;) - or use the alienhunter frostgrenade :). A very successful hack lets you control all Mecs on the field, bar Julian, use them to surpress the new incomes or attack julian.

[Cypher]

I did it early, with a 4 person squad. Didn't have any weapon upgrades or fancy gear. I used those big round, bulging things on the ground to remove the secto's armor quickly. When he walks near it, your guys can target it and blow it up. It removes tons of armor. And basically spam Shen's combat aid. It does loads of damage. It can also be helpful to hack one of the bots and have it spam supression. I lost once, and succeeded the second time, though barely.

[Khan, Binary of None]

Shen has Combat Protocal abilities, use them. They nuke mech units.