Can you beat Xcom 2 WOTC with only 1 spark? 

Panic makes the enemy do weird and wonderful comedy :)

The final boss in the sniper only made me chuckle as well

That's XCom, baby!

He was a 40K Comissar executing the Assasin for such a bad display.

definitely it's pretty hilarous!

I like to play the game and think to myself "we lost to these guys?"

​@@icehoofIkr? Real advanced intelligent life forms on display

The intimidate stacks with the armour by tier 3 it's actually quite reliable :)

I'm so mad about how bad SPARKs are, especially after how good MECs & SHIVs were in EW. I think it's inarguable that SPARKS in 2 are the most bottom-of-the-barrel unit. No training center. No items. No bonds. No covert op skill improvements. No PCS's. It's not even like they're unusable. You can beat the game with them, but everything they can do the human classes can do better. They're mediocre in everything. I tried an all-SPARK run on legendary. I beat it, but man they SUUUUUCK.

where shivs a thing though? I never bothered since they don't level up and mechs were only a late game fancy, gene modification seemed easiest as you simply take your already leveled soldiers and make them even more broken@@BreakdancePeach

@@maxmustermann-zx9yq Having an upgraded SHIV party on I/I straight up feels like cheating. Gene mods were cool with the right setups (there's a particular OP setup I could quickly describe), but MECs are straight up fkin Gundams - 1) Get a Col. Sniper. 2) Turn into MEC. 3) Take *_only_* the combat-oriented abilities and MEC upgrades. 4) Become as gods I actually beat Classic once using only a squadsize of 2 - the 2 setups I mentioned, with a SHIV as a decent stand-in for one of them getting wounded. It was hard as balls at the start but hilarious by the end. The ayy lmaos can't handle 2 juiced up freaks of nature. They were goddamn amazing.

@@maxmustermann-zx9yq you can pretty much beat xcom enemy within with only shivs. RU-vidr Backlogs did it

The berserker queen execution was amazing just wanted armour damage and to book it

A duo spark team is actually one of the better duos you could do as their abilities complment each other really well

In the process of xcom enemy within with a single mec then... some very brutal challenges

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@@InsaneFrame and here I am just barely scraping through on a legend run with 4 soldiers...

@@munky342Here I am just barely scraping through an easy run with 12 soldiers....

@andyandnoah3571 😂 That's XCOM, baby! Wouldn't have it any other way. If you're not suffering, then you probably forgot to turn the TV on.

No worries thankyou

Extremely kind of you to say thankyou very much sir!

Fact

ahh it's an awsome story and well done congradulations!

Thankyou sir that means alot you are most welcome!

Flamethrower for the win sir!

Last time I was excited to have the Hellfire Projector, it was because I needed it to get the achievement for killing enemies with every heavy weapon and I kept getting the other heavy weapons more frequently.

Biggest issue would be the auto-counter mutons do against melee attacks, but you could allow guns for mutons I suppose. I personally went a heavy close range build once that was very fun, especially with the Templars.

All fun and Games until you get that Chosen that's Immune to Melee.

@@ZeroX-py5yx hahahahaaa im doing templars and sparks only right now (with playable chosen as a fun reward) and im so lucky to not get that, but mutons are an annoyance

thanks man just lucky to have you guys here :)

Thats awsome to hear man!

We got a droid with a machine gun from the trash let's go!

Fair enough the backlogs is an excellent youtuber highly recommend him, also inspired these challenges

To be honest I actually edited it out

Ahh good to see you gafers and thankyou!

No worries thankyou for watching :)

thanks man it was tough I had to concede as there was no way we were taking out sectorpods and stuff

Not the result I expected but it was one heck of a ride :)

Thankyou for your kind words man, appreciate the feedback buddy!

yeah the real difficulty with the mec was action economy which was difficult and with the reaper just simply not enough damage but both really fun non-theless

@@InsaneFrame Like I said, both are doable, you just need to adjust the tactic a bit more. The reapers damage is not the problem, you just need to approach it differently with more defensive stats. As for the Mech, I am pretty sure you can rush it faster and simply accept the chosen in the final mission, which should be easily doable on commander. If I have time in between my current content, I might produce a fast solution for both runs. Like the idea of the challenge.

@@SykenPlays I think that 1 soldier runs should be your next challenge run

@@krzysztofchlebio8513 I have already beaten Legendary / Ironman with a single soldier. But admittedly the reaper and spark challenge are interesting. If enough viewers are up for it, I can certainly do it.

@@SykenPlays it would be definitely interesting to see u dismantling advent with a single class throughout the game

Ah master yoda of gaming you are most excellent sir!

Yeah if you want another the reaper playthrough is similar

Most excellent!

I did think about allowing mods for the training centre but thought we'll take the base spark from the game

@@InsaneFrame worked enough for a fun video that is for sure.

welcome welcome :)

I salute you sir!

Ah thankyou a huge compliment indeed

it was incredibly difficult and the fact that the enemies just caught up to us was definitely a kick in the teeth

@@InsaneFrame but what about "retry hacking sectopod until success"?

Sparks are good in a squad but they lack solo play since they are specialised but they do have their strengths in no down time so yeah!

I cannot unsee it now it's so true

I would say a second spark but sharing 1 rank ie max between 2 sparks would be better and possible due to having more actions

Its very difficult the amount of campaign retries (x3) and map reloads it can become a test of patience

On easy mode I think I finished with like 80 something saves

its music from the youtube audio library just typed in sci fi and picked what sounded good :)

@@InsaneFrame Thanks, never knew about the audio library. The song in question though sounds really similar to something from a TV program I used to watch. Unfortunately I cannot remember what it was called.

it was a tough attempt but the spark is by far the weakest xcom 2 class unfortunately shame because in vanilla xcom they are one of the strongest

Thanks man really awsome of you to say! :)

we will have skirmisher in future don't worry ;)

here you go :) steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1132346898

good stuff sir!

okay that sounds amazing!

Steam workshop my friend

they usually have extra soldiers with them that then join your team

The avatar was a little too much for boaty

good morning sir!

We'll I tried with one failed but we can try a whole team for sure ;)

@textontelegrm_techtesseract I've already claimed your mom, I don't need a PC

don't worry it will happen might take a while though

Yes it has a skill to allow so :)

@@InsaneFrame 😑 well at least I know now. Been a few missions I wish I would have known that lol

The challenge was with 1 spark and the high end enemies well... they kicked boat's butt

@@InsaneFrame why not make it into only sparks with an s

Will do this in future

Wanted to dip my toe and get comftable with xcom then turned up the difficulty

@@InsaneFrame That's still nuts lmao. Serious props for getting this far. I wish you included the failures in the reel so we could see just how bad it was. Seeing how things go wrong is just as interesting. BTW, have you ever tried this challenge on XCOM EW classic? I have, and it felt ridiculous. Normal was fine, but classic was pain. I even tried bumping up to two soldiers, and I still barely did it by the skin of my teeth. The first four months were unbearable but became easier after that. I think I used a heavy and a sniper? I really leaned on rockets and the OP mimetic skin+In The Zone combo.

welcome early squad!

If there panicked they will shoot random targets as it's essientially a percentage chance what they choose