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Beginner's Luck achievement in XCOM 2

Beginner's Luck

Beat a mission in June or later using only Rookies

Beginner's Luck0
04 May 2017 - 1 guideOffline Mode - These achievements require play in game modes that do not necessitate a connection to any online services.Single Player - These achievements can be obtained by a single player.Missable - These achievements can be missed.Time/Date - These achievements require you to play the game or perform actions at certain times, within a time limit, or on specific dates.
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How to unlock the Beginner's Luck achievement

  • UlrandUlrand40,829
    19 Jun 2016 19 Jun 2016
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    Difficult Achievement, but a bit easier if you have the Alien Rulers dlc because of how strong its unique weapons and armor are with their "free abilities" that don't use action points. You have to use rookies who will have poor aim, but you can equip them with whatever gear you have on hand. If you have the shadow chamber up and running it will tell you on your mission briefing what enemies will be present in the mission. I chose to do this on a timed hacking mission because there were less enemies and and the hardest enemy for the soldiers to hit was a stun lancer. Rookies with the right gear will have an easier time dealing with a Sectopod than with Archons.

    Gearing up your soldiers is whats important, try to have as many soldiers as you can in War suits or alien ruler armor. The heavy weapons in the powered armor don't miss if you aim them right, most are aoe, and some strip armor or remove cover, this will help in situations were enemies are bunched up or if the pod is alerted but you have little chance to hit. Mod their weapons, try to Give their weapon's Scopes to boost their poor aim, and stocks so even when they do miss they'll do some damage, or try to get lucky with repeater/hair triggers. If you see a lot of robotic enemies, especially a Sectopod, try to put bluescreen rounds on some soldiers. EMP grenades would guarantee a hit but a lot of the time you'll be out of range. Bluescreen rounds will devestate robotic enemies. If you see a group of enemies on a rooftop hit them with explosives so they take the initial explosive damage and the fall damage. Don't bother with medkits, you just need to complete the mission, most of your soldiers can die so long as you complete the mission objective.

    Advance cautiously and try not to activate too many pods at once. Save your powered armor's weapons/Ruler weapons and armor abilities for situations where you have more than one pod popped. Focus on taking out the weaker enemies first, so that there are less chances for your soldiers to be killed or incapacitated. If you encounter a sectopod, mec, or andromedon try to spread out so their aoe doesn't take out multiple soldiers.
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