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[EnigmaticHat]

Nearing end of the game.  Could I have answers to my questions with as few spoilers as possible?

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Is the team I take to the ADVENT tower the one I take to the final mission?

Is there anything left to spend intel on after I take the mission, or should I just take all the options?

Is there a consequence for not taking the mission immediately?

[Chiefwaffles]

Spoiler: Answers (click to show/hide)

You get to take a different team (with your actual squad size) to the final mission, which can include members (I'm pretty sure you can take wounded) of the ADVENT tower team. But you have to do the final mission immediately after ADVENT tower, so plan accordingly.

You can only spend intel on the ADVENT tower mission, and not the final mission.

I don't think so. I believe I waited a couple days afterward to let my team heal before doing the ADVENT tower mission, and you still get the monthly reports and all.

[Darkening Kaos]

     A subtle hint from the game.  Three missions in a row where a hackable asset has rewarded my two specialists with permanent +20 to their hacking skills... ...
    My sergeant Specialist now has 96 Hack, while the corporal is at 75.

[EnigmaticHat]

Just encountered the weirdest fucking glitch in the last mission: my sharpshooter couldn't throw a flashbang more than an inch.

Reloaded as a result; not really a fair thing to happen when someone is mind controlled...

Edit: Actually just savescummed like a wimp.  Three times.  Flashbangs don't even work on the purple dudes.  I wasn't going to let myself lose at the last stretch.

WTF Soloman.  That final mission... I'm going to be afraid of it on all future runs.  That or bring nothing but maxed out psi operatives.  I thought I would have things to say but I'm just blown away.  That was so hard compared to everything else in the game.  Although I didn't quite understand how the final fight worked and made some super crap calls as a result.  I also discovered that blaster launchers do not, in fact, have infinite range and thus wasted a great asset.

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I think bringing mind shields on all soldiers would be the way to go.  Non-cancelable mind control is incredibly brutal and there's no reliable way to take out an Avatar in one turn.  Grenades are normally top tier items but this level is so drawn out you can't rely on them.  I also think in future runs I'm going to switch out the specialist scanning upgrade for the +medikit upgrade soley because of the final mission.  Do mind shields grant immunity to psi attacks, or just insanity and its knockoffs?  Also, can capacitor discharge disorient an Avatar?

Edit: Apparently I earned more supplies from the black market then from supply drops 0.o

[Lightningfalcon]

Jumping back in to this, and kinda wondering whether I'll be able to pull off a win on this first run.  I'm playing on Veteran, and it was honestly kicking my butt.  It's June 10 and I have 26 dead, I can't keep skilled soldiers alive. 

Avenger: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=628108019
Geoscape: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=628107809

Possibly because I still don't have plated armor.  I have magnetic weapons, but I just can't kill the enemies as fast as apparently most people can (it's a little frustrating to hear these tales of trivial success on Commander).  I suspect my biggest mistakes have been trying to sneak past enemies (then sacrificing my people to do an objective while hopelessly surrounded), and letting myself be rushed by the frustratingly short mission timers.

I kinda think I can win this, but it's frustrating that there are 5 pips that I can do nothing about.  And that's after defeating the first codex.  There's a base in Africa, too, which I'd have to *really* push to reach.  Should I?

Sounds like psi troopers are useful, too, so maybe I should research them after I get basic armor.

I can handle faceless, Advent, sectoids mostly, vipers tend to fuck my guerilla tactics, mutons aren't too bad, and codexes are bs...  No respect for turn economy, sure just teleport a duplicate behind me.  My squaddies don't have the near guaranteed hits that most players apparently have, so that's super painful.

Haven't even seen archons or andromedons yet, much less gatekeepers.

Do you have the proving grounds up yet? If so immediately research some grenades. Every single grenade can do wonders for turning the tide of battle. Group of sectoids or vipers? Instead of flashbanging them, hit them with an incendiary. Won't decrease their aim, but it does extra base damage in the explosion, and then you have the 1-4 burning damage per turn for two turns. So if one has only one health, it will be a guaranteed death at the beginning of the alien turn. On top of that, burning prevents enemies from using ANY of their special abilities. So no mind control, or tongue grab. Group of stun lancers or regular troopers? Hit them with a gas grenade. Poison will slow them down, lower their accuracy, and do 1 damage per turn. Plus it has a giant area of effect, even more when you get advanced grenade launchers and volatile mix. High amount of armor? Hit them with acid. Will shred extra armor vs a regular grenade, and do damage over time. Just remember to always give them to your grenadiers, who you should have at least two of per mission.

[EnigmaticHat]

Does burning have the same effect as disorientation on MC using psi enemies?

[Lightningfalcon]

Does burning have the same effect as disorientation on MC using psi enemies?

Don't know. Its more of a preventive measure then anything else. Plus, with most enemies, it won't matter because they will just die.

[EnigmaticHat]

Yeah, I had so many happy fun times with my main grenadier and her incendiary grenade that she doubles.

...I didn't actually know it prevented abilities, I just liked lighting aliens on fire.

[crazysheep]

You can get incendiary grenades? I kinda stopped experimental grenades after getting acid bombs.

[BFEL]

Just encountered the weirdest fucking glitch in the last mission: my sharpshooter couldn't throw a flashbang more than an inch.

Just to let people know, that ISN'T a glitch.
Final Boss has massive grenade-proof aura.

[Aklyon]

Shouldn't be chucking grenades at it anyway, grenades are for clearing the enemies it brings with it. Chuck null lance and void rift and blaster bombs at it instead. Also sniper shots help, covering fire overwatch, other things.

[BFEL]

Well I presume they did that because 3 flashbangs would pretty much end that entire fight before it started

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

I finished off the final boss with a gas grenade though... I did notice I couldn't shoot the grenade that far, but I just moved and the grenade went back to normal.

[Jopax]

Just lost one of my best grenadiers to carelessness. He got chrysallided but I figured he would tank trough the poison, and the six pack of the bugs was focusing my ranger anyways. Then a gatekeeper appeared and void rifted the place, killing him and zombifying him, while also spawning a cocoon. And as it turns out if one of those things happens, not sure which, you don't get to pick up the corpse. So I lost an EXO suit, some good upgrades for the gun and my bluescreen rounds. Plus the bugger was major rank so it stings extra bad :C

Still, the MVP of the mission was the ranger, he got aggroed by every damn chryssalid that was on the map. And he had bladestorm, and fusion blade. And was on top of a cliff. So you'd have one of them run up, leap into the air, freeze, get cut down, then another would do the same, then another. Two made it trough but they were on fire so they kinda dropped dead immediately afterwards. In the end this small cliff had five bug corpses littered around the spot the ranger was in XD

[Flying Dice]

And that right there is why Assault Rangers are good to have.