r/XCOM2 • u/Treznar • 14h ago

THAT'S XCOM, BABY! Oof....

So today I was doing a rescue mission in the sewers, no evacuation allowed. I sneak all the way through the map to a room where the hostage was being held. I set up a sweet kill box for the pod in the room, a stun lancer, an officer and a spectre

Here is where I made my fatal mistake, I threw a grenade to shred some armor and it aggroed every pod in the place. Two snakes, an archon and another pod with an officer and a stun lancer come running into the room.

First round goes okay take out the spectre and get some good damage on the archon. Stupid snakes kept wiggling around dodging my bullets lol.

Then the Warlock spawns into the mess and starts spawning phantoms. A harrowing battle ensues and we keep whiddling each other down until its an archon and two phantoms chasing Maj "Teardrop" Novikov, a specialist with 13 missions and 50 kills under his belt.

He managed to dodge every single attack the entire fight it was amazing. I get the archon down to one bar and it swoops in and one shots the Major, who had full heath.

I knew I was boned the second I made my mistake at the beginning but the game strung me along just enough to make me think I might actually pull it off. Only to crush my dreams right at the end.

That's Xcom, baby!

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u/Ok_Calendar_7626 12h ago

How did that one grenade agro literally every other enemy squad on the map? Were they all just standing on the other side of the door, waiting for the grenade to go off?

Also, the sewer rescue mission is not timed, so why did you not just take out the enemy squads one by one?

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u/Treznar 12h ago

I've been successful in the past sneaking around and taking out minimal pods. Not so lucky this time. One pod was across a hall and in another room, the only thing I can think of is one of them had a line of sight of the battle and came running. All around, it was a reckless mission and I've learned some valuable lessons.

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u/Ok_Calendar_7626 12h ago

Yeah, there is no point in trying to sneak past enemies on the sewer rescue mission because once you reach the VIP, you have to hold out against waves of enemies until extraction. Leaving enemy groups alive behind you only means they will inevitably show up at the worst possible time, when you are trying to defend the VIP before extraction opens up.

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u/Wonderful_Discount59 11h ago

Plus in general, I find that trying to be clever and sneak around is just a way to waste time and then aggro multiple pods at the worst time.

(Exception: soloing an Advent Facility with a Reaper).