I got save scummed by the Chosen.
I'm running a commander Ironman game, and recently had a mission with an appearance from the Warlock.
The mission was tough. Eventually I fought it down to every enemy dead except the Warlock, but burned all expendable abilities (mimic, nades, etc) to get there. The final round I had to reposition my remaining troops (had a bleed out or two) to get a shot on the chosen. My only hope to finish him off this round relied on my ranger hitting a 76% chance rupture.
I take the shot, it hits, rest of team clean up with the damage boost. Get the victory screen, move on to the post-battle promotion screen. I had to step away at this point and forgot about the computer for the next few hours. When I returned to the game it had frozen on the promotion screen. When I restarted, it put me back at the start of the last round.
This time my ranger misses his rupture shot, and I don't have enough damage to kill off the chosen. I chip away with my guys, then he gets to retaliate. In his extra round he kills off a sharpshooter before I'm able to finally finish him off. Luckily it was a lower level soldier, but still annoying since I got through it before with 0 deaths. Eh well, the Ironman run continues!
Posted Jul 31, 2021, 8:24 PM UTC · edited
Sounds like you did something in a different order. Unless you have a mod, Xcom 2 should have saved the random seed. This means that the game has something similar to a list of rolls that it crosses off as they are used. If you take the exact same actions after loading a save, you should get the same results.
Yeah, I had to move my guys at the start of the round each time, but didn't do the exact same setup. That was part of my frustration, because I knew it essentially reset my seed before the rupture, and this time the 75ish% roll failed.
Then cheers for having the willpower to keep going. May you get your revenge on the Warlock, preferably with one of the guys from this mission getting the final killing blow.
This guy savescums.