Can you beat Xcom 2 using only 1 Ranger? 

Did youtube just randomly recommend me Spiff's brother? I mean, I like it, XCOM challenge runs are fun as hell. I'm just surprised I was dropped into someone (else) casually saying "I love Yorkshire Tea" out of nowhere. I even did a double take to make sure there was no stockphoto going alongside that line.

I always love throwing my ranger with Bladestorm into a massive group of enemies and just hacking and slashing

Sorry for the late upload had an appointment to upgrade the internet that got mismanaged so had to upload the old fashioned way which took from monday till now so really sorry about that but the video is here! hope you all enjoy!!!

I wonder how Ranger vs. Templar is going to compare. At first glance I thought this video would be quite hard, as I usually treat Templars as a straight upgrade to Rangers, but wow have I forgotten how broken many of the Ranger abilities are. No access to shredder and rapid fire is going to make it so much harder for them, even with the Templars ridiculous survivability and ghost. And many of their best abilities being random extras.

Man, seeing this video in my subscription feed instantly made my day

How lovely, a new X-Com challenge! Missed opportunity to name your one Ranger who does all the work Ramirez though lol

This reminds me of my crazy ranger that went absolutely nuts in one of my playthroughs. They got Serial as a cross trained skill, and that allowed them to manage 22 kills in a single turn by running from pod to pod and deleting them with shotgun shots and blade kills (shotgun had the maxed out quick reload attachment), ending on dropping an Avatar with Rapid Fire. That turn is still the single most satisfying moment I've had in XCom 2 to date.

He is back and he is even more insane in this frame

Always good to watch IF teach aliens some manners!

Love to see an xcom challenge run. Good to see you're back in your stride too man.

I love these videos, your commentary is always so fun.

It'll be a great Thursday with a fresh Insane Frame video. Thank you Insane Frame!

Dude I loved your Sniper episode so I went to your channel and now watched this. These are so cool. I love watching you brag about how good you are at Xcom when I try so hard and just get dunked on constantly. I try so hard but just get trashed constantly. Maybe I can pick up a trick or two from you

First time ive watched your videos, they're great! I can definitely hear the Spiffing Brit influence also!

17:42 better to be that than to be a dastardly box of breakfast cereal

tried this today, good lord early game is super hard. tried a mission nearly 8 times w/ my corporal. wasn’t easy but got it eventually. you sir are a trooper!

I like how you do the same challenges as Drifter except you make them more interesting and challenging, and execute them with more style and less whining

Each of you videos adds like 3 weeks to my lifespan

Babe, wake up. New Insane Frame challenge dropped.

51:30 Yorkshire Tea is pretty powerful

Cool video as always, I love some XCOM. Keep it up mate

I have done this with a Ranger too. I am always astounded at how broken Rangers are in this game. Amazing vid as always!

Glad youre still doing wel! And you're sounding healthy still! And therewith mic setup sounds great

27:23 perfection. I got a good laugh from that. I've been thinking about getting back to this game as it definitely has been a minute, I might want to try this challenge. Been on a Skyrim binge as of late with a permadeath run, been at it for nearly a month in a half and had too many close calls. Also, beautiful mohawk, very majestic! Got my mercenary character in Skyrim rocking one too. I called him Mordus Kull, based off a fighting game for the N64 and his weapon his a Nordic Mace.

I would absolutely love to see a trooper Joe only run. You just have to make a red ranger as a companion for him to use in guerilla ops.

This perfectly demonstrates why the rangers are my favourite class

An hour long X-com video? You spoil us Insane Frame! 😊

Trooper Joe deserves his day in the Spotlight!

my man did the thing finally. sweet

I’m looking forward to the sharpshooter video though I know it’s going to be difficult so good luck

you sound like The Spiffing Brit but very good video keep it up

Excellent content from a small channel. Won't be long until you're huge

An excellent challenge vid. One might even call it... Spiffy.

I can feel the spiffing brit vibe, love it

Very epic video!

The mans is back

I’ll be watching this in about 3h

Insane run

amazing!

Amazing, also bladestorm

22:38 Love the reference lmao

Was that a spiffing brit reference. Lol. You have exquisite taste

amazing video, i always knew a ranger could have taken over the world XD

An impressive show.

3:50 NO WAY is that where trooper joe from the skirmishes video is from?

Just tried to get back to Xcom after a year and failing to do so because god rng hates me. This gives me confidence lmao, thanks😂

Go go slashy slashy ranger!🎉

I wonder sometimes if anyone at 2k ever pointed out that bladestorm would become stupidly broken after they introduce the Arashi.

Unbeleavable.... :)

As an aussie myself this makes me happy.

Yes, we want run of that trai-... I mean skirmisher! I bet it would be even funnier to see than by Ranger run❤

I once had a Ranger with both Serial and Reaper. Now they were a one man army and then some

respect

i feel like black or silver would have been a better call tag since those are the power rangers that tend to be lone wolfs.

U remind me of someone Who also loves Yorkshire tea Who also loves to be stupidly over powerd Who also refers to us as ladys and gentlemen Uve earnt urself a sub my friend well played sir well played 😂

Well Done Bladestorm.

Can you do it with only squaddies? You would have to have at least one soldier level up but this soldier cannot be used for anything but covert ops once leveled

Can you try a run where you have access to the Commander's Avatar from the beginning, just to see what it'd be like?

fun drinking game, take a shot everytime he says "bladestorm"

Alcool challenge each time he said blade storm you drink a shot best way to get wasted

I like to imagine this soldier was personally doing all the excavating, research, and engineering. Also you always have the most impressive challenge runs. If this was most people, I feel like they would've picked easy or normal difficulty with 1 soldier, but you went straight for the second hardest lmao. Did you at least allow yourself to restart a mission if the ranger died? The early/mid game sounds nearly impossible without it.

2 minutes in when I'm typing this so be aware. As someone who just beat X2 with only rangers and rookies, I imagine you'll be stocking up on grenades or Armour-piercing/shred equipment to get through the middle to late game like I did but I'd love to see a different approach

Sorry, I’m new to Xcom 2. Enjoying the video. Are there different tutorial levels??? The beginning of your game is different to mine!!

Love it. No big deal but 'implacable' (rare word) is pronounced 'im-PLAK-ubl'.

Solo guy one man arming winning the war

I’d love a skirmisher run, personally

Ooh more xcom i wonder if you can beat the game with one templar

I decided that when I got this game, I hated it, couldn't understand the point, to be fair I was 7 and I did the same thing with dark souls 3, which we got because my mom thought it was darksiders 3, I got past Ludex Gundyr then couldn't get past the sword master. Then as a new person stuck in covid with nothing to do I decided to do as I did with dark souls, add a challenge to make it interesting! I was gonna get one person with savant and then go through the entire game with only that person, normal mode, save scumming as much as possible, got one, a red haired Australian ranger, forgot her name, but she was awesome. Bunch of stuff happened during that run, got assassin first and then in a very hard fought sword duel, managed to kill her, then the warlock and finally my nemesis the hunter, who I beat, then somehow revived in response to me rescuing a great spy operative from one of his prisons, all this in the snake king armor (grappling hooks are the best). I like to think that after the game ended she had a nemesis relationship with the hunter and fought him for the rest of her life, but became friends somewhere along the way and now they hunt aliens together. When all is said in done, I still don't get the game, but I have quite the appreciation for it now, this brought back good memories, thanks! PS sorry if this is weirdly worded or hard to read

As an Australian, I approve 😊

whoah

Love the run! But I really wish we could see more of your own personality instead of Spiffs!

Should have downloaded Mjolnir, Doom Marine, or Space Marine armour, really look the part.

You should include the fact this is commander difficulty in the title

Reactions to these be like.. Only 1 ranger in that game: 😁 Only one ranger in tower battles: 😓 Only one ranger in tdx: 😨 Only one ranger in destiny 2: 💀

I loved the video, but I just want to giggle at "implace-able"

Wow Very powerful but ey he got the Australian buff I wonder how he would face of against the emu's

A Trooper Joe solo run would be pretty cool ngl

HE IS BACK ! also why im no longer subscribed ?

26 shots of bladestorm

Is he The spiffing Brit’s long lost brother??

Why not 60 FPS? BTW. Game have hidden option to have DirectX 11 that means if you google it you can have 20% boost performance

Now do chaos gate😂😂😂😂😂

Ranger is easily the best class

Can you do a Templar

I’m not gonna sugarcoat it; Bladestorm = 12-15 free damage

Im-plakk-able

skirmisher run pls

Fun drinking game: take a shot every time he says bladestorm edit: AHHAHAHAHDHAHAHAHAHA HE SAID IT

Red wouldve made the raven guard proud

When you started was it from the dlc start?

"Hello Mr. Berserker" Fun fact, Berserkers are ladies

If I cheat, I can finish XCOM 2 with any character but only using one character (no matter the class) without cheats is pure suicide for me. You're on another level, I'm impressed.

Why watch the spiffing brit when we can watch his wannabe?

Great content but I find the "poundland spiffing brit" performance a little grating. It's unflattering and I hope you can develop your own style before too long.

Are you a friend of Spiff's? If you don't have permission from him then you might want to be careful about using his character. If you start getting more views then it may result in problems for you.

Immejhitly or Immediately?

@45:00 THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!!!!!

I like this video and all but it really sounds like you're trying to be the spiffing brit. Like you took your normal script and told chat GPT to make it sound like the spiffing brit

Trying to copy the spiffing Brit is not working out well.

sorry for the correction my man, but it is not implaSable, but implaCable, Pronounced like implaKable