How to kill Yugothian?

[Muton]

The yugothian has these leaves that protect it from damage and I cant aim at it.. Also it has extremely high HP and acid resistance so in order to damage it I imagine I will need to cluster my guys around it for many turns (assuming I can hit it) and each guy will take damage from it when they're clustered within 5 squares...

[kiloromeo]

One of the Leaves is always down.
Mark of Death. Aim for the eyes. Rageburst Defender/machinegun...
No overwatch/reaction-shots do not trigger.
Turrets if you have - it can't damage those.
Only one Phoenix soldier needs to survive....

[kiloromeo]

Bring lots of First Aid kits and ammo ...

[Muton]

wow that was an insane tough mission, and i brought my B team.

[EvilJoshy]

After you clear the first area move everyone to the entrance of the 2nd zone. Snipers should kill anyone past the gate. Then I recommend a priest with the frenzy head to close the distance in the shortest amount of time. Snipers stay back while everyone else charges. Spread out when someone is marked with void. I also suggest an assault/tech and a technician/assault with a few laser turrets each. When they get close toss them all around the Entity. Next turn use remote control and light up the eyes. Any heavies should be using rage burst. Snipers use mark for death. Bring lots of medkits and ammo. In fact I would bring the beefed up medkits for this part of the battle. Ancient weapons do wonders but I cleared my first play through without them.

[Muton]

What does killing the eyes do? How do you know which guy had Void on him?I had a Tech with Field medic but I couldnt figure out how to use him to repair wounded limbs on another guy

[Currann]

Originally posted by Muton:

What does killing the eyes do? How do you know which guy had Void on him?I had a Tech with Field medic but I couldnt figure out how to use him to repair wounded limbs on another guy

When using manual aiming you can see what disabling a body part will do. The eyes, when disabled, will give -900 max HP. Its basically a bonus 900 damage when shooting one, as long as you disable it. Which isnt too hard since they only have 100 HP.

As for mark, you can see it as a status effect on the affected soldier. It looks a lot like the Master Marksman indicator, but with a number next to it. You can also inspect any of your soldiers if you're unsure if they have it, and check the status affects list.

[Muton]

I dont recall seeing any Void marks on any of my soldiers during that battle

[Faernix]

Void marks show as similar to the marksman mark. If you have multiple marks there is also a number against them.

* Spread your 9 man squad around so you have multiple angles across the front.
* Each turn identify anyone who has a mark on them and make sure you separate from the rest of the group at least 5 spaces
* Turrets are very powerful, drop a few in front of the shields
* Technician very useful for healing if a soldier is close to death, but I find them better for extra turret attacks on open shield side
* Watch out for the spawning arthrons which have shadow tar and will create an umbra when killed, either disable their pincer arm, or firebomb them
* Fill your inventory with spare ammo for your main weapons, (each of my soldiers has 2 main weapons)
* Bring AR and Shotguns on your assaults - end-game each assault can carry both easily
* Bring Deceptor and another heavy weapon, plus Destiny II on each of your heavies
* Each soldier should have 1 medikit
* Snipers can bring both Gugnir and Raven
* Spider drones are very helpful to spread aggro early on, but become void spreaders once past valley area so leave them behind.
* Be aggressive, spend your will and unload when the shields are open on your side
* Recover will when shields are not open
* Heavies with biochemist and Deceptor racks up virus on the YE really easily
* Use the Assault Onslaught ability on soldiers who have good angle LOS to enable them to shoot more
* Close range the range with heavy and rage burst with deceptor

[GeneralGonzo]

This mission is a joke ! Just did it with a cheat (1 shot enemy), but even with that, it´s so hard. If you manage to survive the 1st wave with 2 Scyllas, 3 artillery and ten more enemies, you facwe second wave, with mind control snakes, artillery and more. If you manage to survive, you get near the boss, he damages you every round with mind damage, you can´t resist and you can´t hit him with normal weapons!

YOU NEED (!!!) a mind damaging character. I played with the exalted, who do 100 mind damage. But with the hitpoints the boss ghas, this mission is really a flawed joke to every honest player !

[EvilJoshy]

Originally posted by GeneralGonzo:

This mission is a joke ! Just did it with a cheat (1 shot enemy), but even with that, it´s so hard. If you manage to survive the 1st wave with 2 Scyllas, 3 artillery and ten more enemies, you facwe second wave, with mind control snakes, artillery and more. If you manage to survive, you get near the boss, he damages you every round with mind damage, you can´t resist and you can´t hit him with normal weapons!

YOU NEED (!!!) a mind damaging character. I played with the exalted, who do 100 mind damage. But with the hitpoints the boss ghas, this mission is really a flawed joke to every honest player !

When I first played the mission I failed and looked up solutions. There used to be a way to block Mark of the Void. The priest has a bubble that blocks mind control and stuff. That used to work on MoV but then the final boss was super easy. So they changed it.

[wei270]

and the item that was suppose to give 50% damage reduction from psy attacks too is not working at the moment. but the only source of psy attack at the moment is mark of the void and priest level 7 skill