16% chance to hit? Those are my kind of odds.
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.
To me, XCOM 2 is a game about learning to keep a cool, rational, head while navigating a constant string of self-inflicted failures. The experienced soldier kidnapped before my eyes. The explosive barrel I accidentally ordered someone to stand behind. The shot that misses even though I have a freshly researched gun the size of a house not just pointed at but clipping straight through a birthday-suited sectoid’s head.
To be fair to XCOM 2 I knew the last one wasn’t going to work because the game had pretty much told me so before I gave the order to fire. This is a series that’s been painfully reminding its players since 1994 that a 70% chance to hit—practically a guaranteed shot in most games—is actually a whopping 30% chance to miss.
