So how exactly does Serial work?

[CMDR Shven]

I cannot for the life of me get it to trigger after about half a dozen times where it presumeably should have. I kill an enemy with my sniper, first move of the turn, full ammo, multiple enemies in LOS. Sniper's turn is over, unless I was on higher ground, in which case I get a move. But I have not ever gotten another shot. Am I fundamentally misinterpreting what should have been a pretty obvious perk description or is my game just completely out of whack?

[Gaz]

Did you activate the skill on your action bar? It is not a passive ability.

[CMDR Shven]

Derrrrrrrrp wow. Did not catch that bit. Thought it was esentially a reworking of Double Tap. Thanks.

[deathmasterl]

All you have to do is use Serial before you fire, Fire at an Enemy and kill it, then you will have the option to fire again or use a different ability. That's it. My Sharpshooter just took out 5 1/2 targets using it + Extended Mags.

[Star Paladin]

You pour it into a bowl, and put milk on it. Eat it with a spoon. It's easy.

[DeVore]

Unashamed humble-brag (and a little demo for any one googling this thread).

My sniper outputting 103 damage in a single action (in fact, not even an action as it refunds the last shot too at the end!).

Ahem... Snipers OP and broken :)

https://youtu.be/ja-A_F7cJkU

[Abrakadabra]

Originally posted by DeVore:

Unashamed humble-brag (and a little demo for any one googling this thread).

My sniper outputting 103 damage in a single action (in fact, not even an action as it refunds the last shot too at the end!).

Ahem... Snipers OP and broken :)

https://youtu.be/ja-A_F7cJkU

Haha....its not snipers that are broken. The skill serial is.

Serial is one of the most powerful skill in the entire game. Specially combined with armor shredding greandiers and their very good cannon dmg, and also combined with aim stacking and superior mags, that skill will put the hurt even on huge armies.

Serial + high or even max aim + high mobility is one of the reasons why very late game is imba in xcom 2.

Dont think anything in the game is as powerful as a greandier with max aim, icarus armor and superior mags that has serial. Those soldiers just destroy anything. No matter if single high health target or a huge number of enemies.

[DeVore]

True that! I guess the reason I like snipers for this is the Squad Sight lets them support a camoflaged team mate (in the video I used a Reaper who are particularly good at it).

You can put the sniper on Kill Zone and then bomb them with the Reapers bomb ability and when they scatter, its night night!

It feels so OP to just sit back having a smoke picking off aliens. I almost feel sorry for them! :)

I hadnt really thought about putting it on anyone else, but yeah...Grenadiers with it would be OP as hell haha...

The 3 free reloads on a sniper rifle with 6 shots is also sick... basically 18 shots if you can kill them each time. Makes The Lost pretty straightforward :)