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r/Xcom•
Dongo666

What is this 3 soldier mission crap?

I've played through X-com 2 like at least 10-15 times but today I saw a new thing! You know those green missions where you get to pick one out of 3 missions and what reward you get?

Well I picked "Neutralize Field Commander" and when it started it said something like I could only have 3 soldiers. I went along thinking it was gonna be light resistance, since I had only 3 guys.

This is on Legend difficulty btw. 17 mothercunting enemies! including one of those white beach balls which had like 5-6 armor due to a dark event!

Fucking 17! :O

I was really lucky as my specialist one shotted the beach ball with his plasma gun with a repeater. Also another lucky break was 2 gigantic propane tanks, the kind that have very large radius and kill everything near them. My reaper killed 6 guys like that.

Have you guys ever seen this? how do I not pick 3 man missions any more, is there a way to avoid them?

Posted Jan 31, 2020, 4:34 AM UTC

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NatsumiRin•

Cough cough..Just going to leave this here...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1319707742

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Dongo666OP•

Thank you!

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septichem•

If you’re on PC, then you can install some mods to make the surgical/fire team sitrep more manageable

Surgical SitRep Fix

Sitrep Team Size Cap Mod

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Dongo666OP•

Thank you very much!

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FeebleWarrior•

Yes, the number of enemies in missions with Surgical Sitrep is not adjusted which is a bug. One way is to fix it, one other is to align XCOM with The Program.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1500499606

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In this mod you can earn favours with The Program. This is a new facton with Heroes that will give you quite powerful strategy cards. Once in a month The Program lends you a squad of three Heroes for a mission that replaces your squad entirely. So that's a three man team for that mission. Very nice for a surgical sitrep that is not fixed, because they will be up to the task.

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The downside is, the longer and the stronger you align with The Program, the more the Templars will be pissed off. There is a reason for that. The tradeoff you get is intriguing though.

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not_a_deserter:Commander:•

Cool. I didn’t even realize there are faction mods

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MakawaTheGreat•

It is not a new thing! Someone already gave you a mod fix, anyway the mission is not impossible. I also prefer to skip it if alternative is viable.

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Dongo666OP•

It was just really weird that I have never seen this before.

Seems everybody here had them besides me!

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AulisVaara•

Those white beach balls always have six armor... well, unless they are open.

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Dongo666OP•

They are frigging hard to kill.

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