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Coyote

(Banned) May 28, 2016 @ 12:45am

Alien rulers are too hard

We need a patch to fix them because they get to move whenever your soldiers move and they are clearly overpowered...
I was fighting 2 sectopods and then a ruler showed up! He killed one of my soldiers!
I save scummed over and over and over and over and he kept ending up killing one of my soldiers! This is not acceptable!
I am the best at video games and this is clearly overpowered broken mechanic.
Rulers should be like normal enemies and not be special at all.. They should not be able to do anything except take 1 turn and then shoot at you like all the other normal enemies do.
I hate special enemies that force me to change tactics... My tactics are too good to change.

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similarly

May 28, 2016 @ 12:51am

Just as a note: if your soldier gets killed, you quit and reload: your soldier will always be killed. That's because the numbers used for hits are generated at the BEGINNING of the mission to PREVENT save-scumming.

What you need to do is: do something different. Take an action that causes those numbers to move to other actions. If you're just reloading and doing the same things, you'll get the same result.

"my tactics are too good to change": uh ... no. "Good tactics" are tactics that fit the situation. If your tactics (that usually work and are usually good) don't work (on the new aliens), then they're not good for those aliens. Use new tactics.

Hunker down. Spread out to get crossfires. Overwatch so that YOU get the reaction shots. If they shoot every time you move: don't move. Slowly retreat and try to draw THEM into YOUR fire.

Coyote

(Banned) May 28, 2016 @ 12:58am

Originally posted by similarly:
Just as a note: if your soldier gets killed, you quit and reload: your soldier will always be killed. That's because the numbers used for hits are generated at the BEGINNING of the mission to PREVENT save-scumming.

What you need to do is: do something different. Take an action that causes those numbers to move to other actions. If you're just reloading and doing the same things, you'll get the same result.

"my tactics are too good to change": uh ... no. "Good tactics" are tactics that fit the situation. If your tactics (that usually work and are usually good) don't work (on the new aliens), then they're not good for those aliens. Use new tactics.

Hunker down. Spread out to get crossfires. Overwatch so that YOU get the reaction shots. If they shoot every time you move: don't move. Slowly retreat and try to draw THEM into YOUR fire.

Wow that is really stupid! what is the point of saving the game then? I should be able to reload saves if i want to if the broken game makes me miss 70% shots. Those are IMPOSSIBLE odds to miss.

Its like the game creators dont know what they are doing... I can make a better game.
Lets see... First of all people would actually never miss.. And second of all enemies can only go after i killed them.

Hunkering down is really good advice.

Starwing

May 28, 2016 @ 1:52am

I'm sorry you lost a valuable soldier. If you have an earlier save, you could play the mission again and hopefully deal with the sectopods separately, and avoid taking injuries prior to the Ruler encounter.

No tactics are too good to change--if you played EU/EW, or the original X-Com series, then you've already had to change your tactics at least once. You will find a way to do it without losing your soldiers--especially now that you know how Rulers behave.

It is possible to survive every encounter with Rulers, but you do need to make every single action matter--so it takes good tactics to beat them. You can't run in with a mimic beacon on everyone, for example, which had been a favourite tactic of so many in the XCOM player base. That tactic may have worked for them before but will turn them into minced meat in a hurry now.

It's not the end of the world to have to learn better tactics.

Sexual Tyrannosaurus has XCOM 2

May 28, 2016 @ 1:54am

Wow you guys are not the brightest beings, aren`t you?
fireborn, good job!

Null

May 28, 2016 @ 1:57am

Wow almost got me for a seccond. xD

Starwing

May 28, 2016 @ 2:10am

I don't know the OP, and how can we tell anymore? This type of rant is commonplace and the general people who post them are drop dead serious.

Humour can help most situations, but when it isn't clear that you're joking, don't throw gasoline on the fire.

drake_hound has XCOM 2

(Banned) May 28, 2016 @ 3:11am

Originally posted by fireborn:
We need a patch to fix them because they get to move whenever your soldiers move and they are clearly overpowered...
I was fighting 2 sectopods and then a ruler showed up! He killed one of my soldiers!
I save scummed over and over and over and over and he kept ending up killing one of my soldiers! This is not acceptable!
I am the best at video games and this is clearly overpowered broken mechanic.
Rulers should be like normal enemies and not be special at all.. They should not be able to do anything except take 1 turn and then shoot at you like all the other normal enemies do.
I hate special enemies that force me to change tactics... My tactics are too good to change.

hahhahaa Sarcasme much, how can you be the best at Video Games if you need to savescum LOL

I am suprised nobody really read posts.