That means it's easy to end up overestimating how safe it is to use a SPARK to trigger Chryssalids, where the expected result of triggering three Burrowed Chryssalids is to get hit 1-2 times for a total of 4-6 damage and whoops you were spectacularly unlucky and got hit three times for 15 damage and now your SPARK is dead or will die to a stiff breeze when they really, really ought to have been fine.Īnyway, Burrow is surprisingly threatening. There's also the consideration of Armor to keep in mind a SPARK with an Anodized Chassis will normally take 2-3 damage from a Chryssalid Slash. Chryssalid crit damage is only +2, admittedly, but Burrow is still notably more dangerous than you might expect. except minus the part where Overwatch normally can't crit and suffers an accuracy penalty. This does not suffer Overwatch penalties.īurrow is basically melee Overwatch. If an enemy approaches the Chryssalid while it is Burrowed, it will immediately un-Burrow and perform its standard melee attack on them. While Burrowed, area-of-effect attacks will only do half damage to the Chryssalid. The Chryssalid may Burrow, becoming invisible. This is particularly pertinent to Retaliation missions, where it's not unusual for them to decide to attack a civilian instead of the soldier right in front of them. Don't be planning under the expectation they'll attack a soldier they start next to. Like Stun Lancers and Berserkers, Chryssalids are perfectly happy to go haring off after far-distant targets.
(You can't check enemy abilities in XCOM 2, not without mod support, so it wouldn't be obvious to a player why a Chryssalid randomly stopped adjacent to one of their troops and just stared at them instead of attacking) except when the stars happened to align so that somebody was just barely out of reach, where it would randomly protect the player for no clear reason. For another, it would likely in practice have been basically the same as the current model, aside a lot of dumb edge-case jank, in that likely Chryssalids would just need the one use of move-and-melee, and after that be close enough to viable targets consistently enough that a lack of move-and-melee wouldn't cost them anything. Since enemies will rarely live for even two turns, if the player is playing decently well, a 3 turn cooldown would be indistinguishable from having a single charge. Probably for the best that this got dropped, if so: for one thing, XCOM 2 is too oriented toward everything dying really quickly for multi-turn cooldowns to be particularly meaningful on most enemies. Interestingly, the SoldierSkills config file has a 3 turn cooldown listed under the Chryssalid ability set for a 'charge_and_slash' ability, suggesting that at some point move-and-melee behavior was a special attacking action, instead of move-and-melee being the game's default for melee attacks.
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