Beyond sentimental reasons, this is critical for keeping the soldier’s gear, because if you extract from a mission without taking a soldier’s body you lose all the gear they had. While this at first may appear pointless, it serves a very important function by allowing you to extract your dead trooper. When a squadmate dies, you can order another soldier to pick up his body. (Note: It was actually a terrible moment.)įor similar but different reasons, you need to look after your own dead as well. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Predator Armor requires 12 Trooper corpses to build! Ha ha, what a great moment.

I made the mistake of selling all my Trooper corpses early on, because as previously discussed, the black market is awesome. That means a dozen ADVENT Trooper corpses for your supply of plated Predator armor, and then handfuls of ADVENT Trooper or Stun Lancer bodies for each EXO Suit or Spider Suit, respectively. As morbid as it may be, your first sets of upgraded armor must be built using scavenged ADVENT plates. They’ll pay you back with a lot of dead aliens every mission.ĭead bodies are very valuable in XCOM 2, both yours and the enemy’s. In general, though, soldiers who can hit their targets save you a lot of headaches in XCOM, so invest early and often in ways to increase their aim. A Ranger may value speed or health over precision, and a Grenadier who focuses on explosives has less need for reliable accuracy. There are cases where aim is less important. Perception sims are more important for these classes if you want to improve their effectiveness, ensuring accuracy no matter what weapon is used. The difference is important-a Gunslinger who uses their pistol won’t gain aim from a scope that’s attached to their sniper rifle, nor will a Ranger be more accurate with their machete just because you duct taped an optic to their shotgun.

Scopes improve the aim of all attacks made with the weapon you attach it to, while “Perception” personal combat sims grant flat aim to everything the soldier does. Aim is one of the most important stats for your soldiers to develop, and while it grows naturally as they gain promotions, there’s plenty of other ways to bolster it.

There’s a lot of upgrades and attachments to use in XCOM 2 that increase all sorts of important stats, but in general, one truth should guide your focus-you can’t kill them if you don’t hit them.

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