
Regardless, by the end of The Lost Towers, I was so happy to simply have survived my first runthrough that I couldn't even be mad. That last one is only a small oversight, but Shen's Last Gift overall needed to use a little more elbow grease in the making. Not to mention that the mission ended, even though I was still taking supression fire from two remaining enemies. Also, two large explosive objects lost the ability for me to target them specifically, even though they were in my soldiers’ lines of sight. I had to reload a previous save before I could target anything again. The final boss-who is boringly and entirely too chatty throughout-hit me with a bug, mid fight. Except in this tower defense, you're the poor saps trying to run past the turrets. Heading up a tower, fighting several levels of bad guys bad guys that keep popping up in pseudo tower-defense gameplay. The Lost Towers mission is something of a Die Hard scenario. And she’s got unique dialogue quips all along the way. Her ROV-R drone unit is top notch, and her hacking skills are peerless. With only a cursory note of caution from Command, her and the rest of your squad are ready for the drop on the errant radio signal the signal originating from The Lost Towers. This is a pinnacle of one of those opportunities. She doesn’t say anything about exacting revenge, per se, but she has always stepped up when opportunities arose to live up to her father’s legacy. She’s in a Kevlar vest, packing an assault rifle, bringing along ROV-R, and she’s brandishing the Shen family tattoo.

You can change up her utility item (I switched from a frag grenade to a mind shield, not knowing what I was getting into, and definitely not wanting my lead protagonist to switch teams on me). She’s bringing her ROV-R drone with her, not to mention her wonderfully overpowered hacking skills. Engineer Lily Shen insists on heading up the away team that's investigating the signal. This DLC for players that've already made it through the vanilla campaign a time or two. It’s too much more to take in, if you're new to the game. Busy, busy.įor those reasons, considering that the overlay map quickly becomes a source of stress, I cannot recommend Shen’s Final Gift for XCOM 2 newcomers.

Oh, yes, that's all coupled with details of the first Dark Events. And now you’re on The Lost Towers mission. Then Central is assigning your priorities. Yes, at first, Shen's content was just the tattoo. Shen’s content hits hard by the time your first in-game report card arrives from the mysterious shadow man. If things seemed busy before Shen’s DLC, they're even busier now. You finally have a combatant that's eye-to-eye with the enemy’s mechanized robots.
XCOM 2 WAR OF THE CHOSEN SPARK MOVIE
Plus, the SPARKs look like Johnny 5 (from the movie Short Circuit) got a beefy exoskeletal upgrade. While SPARK soldiers can’t take cover, they provide tall cover for your human squaddies. They come with rockets, a really big gun, and a serious vertical jump. Even if you skip out on The Lost Towers mission-a banger of a mission, actually-then all the rest of the new gameplay content, including the new soldier class, is still enabled. Shen’s Last Gift: “The Lost Towers” is a mission that goes under Optional Narrative Content when you start a fresh game of XCOM 2.
XCOM 2 WAR OF THE CHOSEN SPARK SKIN
It’s as if his memory is still with us-not only in the form of his daughter, Engineer Lily Shen, but in the form of skin art that’s actually a big middle finger to our xeno overlords. Raymond Shen’s legacy back to the surface. It's a brilliantly understated way to bring the late Dr. But getting it as a tattoo on your own soldiers is new. You might’ve noticed it tatted on Engineer Lily Shen’s arm when she's posted up in the HQ Armory. In the soldier customization screen appears a tattoo of a four-armed alien under a human fist.

The first piece of Shen’s Last Gift DLC content shows up in an unexpected place: on a tattoo.
